Seeing all the team members leave, Nie Yan summoned the Golden Earth Dragon and sprinted away in stealth. Even if he didn't use a random teleport scroll, no one could stop him!

It was only a moment after Nirvana Flame and the others left that Mad Magic and Raven arrived. The scene was a disaster. The Mages Guild's team was in chaos, and corpses were scattered everywhere. Mad Magic's heart twitched. So many elite players had been wiped out, losing five levels and three pieces of equipment. He felt his heart bleeding.

"How many casualties did we suffer?" Mad Magic asked Ease Maple Heaven beside him.

"About two hundred. So far, the cumulative casualties have exceeded five hundred," Ease Maple Heaven said. They hadn't even met the Ni Ren Tribe yet, and they had already lost one-sixth of their forces. The Ni Ren Tribe's advantage was expanding. If they lost more, the Mages Guild might as well admit defeat.

Raven frowned and asked, "Nirvana Flame and the Golden Earth Dragon appeared just now. Didn't you say that Nirvana Flame was staying in that castle and hadn't come over?"

"Could the information be wrong? But my men saw Nirvana Flame five minutes ago. It would take him at least fifteen or sixteen minutes to get here from there. Could it be... teleportation?" Mad Magic was shocked and said.

Raven nodded. It was possible! He probably used a group teleport scroll or something. The Mages Guild players' hearts sank. The Ni Ren Tribe had succeeded in a sneak attack and might use the same method again. If Nirvana Flame attacked them a few more times like this, they wouldn't have the strength to confront the Ni Ren Tribe head-on when they reached the Ni Ren Tribe's castle!

Just as Mad Magic was racking his brains on how to deal with the Ni Ren Tribe, the thieves sent out by the Mages Guild were approaching the Ni Ren Tribe's castle.

Thirty top-tier thieves were divided into six teams, each using their own abilities to sneak closer to the castle, preparing to cause some trouble for the Ni Ren Tribe's players. According to the information Mad Magic gave them, some traps were set up outside the castle, and the Ni Ren Tribe's players were sitting idly outside the castle in twos and threes, their defenses lax.

Did the Ni Ren Tribe really think that a few traps could stop this group of top-tier thieves? However, what happened next was their nightmare.

Five thieves were moving through the forest, sunlight streaming through the dense shade of the trees.

Among the five of them, three were from the Mages Guild, one from Holy Guardian, and one from Blood Fiend. The three from the Mages Guild were more familiar with each other, the Holy Guardian thief was somewhat isolated, and the Blood Fiend thief had a cold expression, ignoring everyone.

This thief was Ming, one of the five from Blood Fiend. As he walked, he kept in contact with the other four.

"Since the Ni Ren Tribe dared to send people to attack the Mages Guild, they must have prepared something. Mad Magic might have missed something. Everyone be careful," Ming said to Lie and the others in the team chat, coldly watching the four thieves in front of him, deliberately lagging behind.

The Holy Guardian thief watched the three Mages Guild thieves chatting and laughing, snorted, and walked towards a side path, with dense bushes on both sides.

He brushed aside a protruding branch. Suddenly, he seemed to sense something and looked towards a tree fork in the distance. A small crossbow was set up on the fork, and a thin thread was stretched out, tied to some bushes.

When he moved the bushes, the thread was pulled, and the small crossbow clicked, triggering the trigger. With a whoosh, an arrow shot towards him.

A cold light flashed.

His eyes suddenly narrowed. It was a trap! But did the Ni Ren Tribe really think that such a simple trap could kill him? They were underestimating this group of people too much.

He used Gale Step to dodge the arrow and hid to the side.

He thought it was over, but it was just the beginning!

The arrow shot into the bushes and nailed into a wooden stake.

The stake happened to have an ignition rune carved on it. After being hit by the arrow, a flame burst out and ignited the explosion rune on a nearby tree. With a bang, the rune exploded, and the shockwave swept over.

It was actually a chain trap! His expression changed drastically. The moment the explosion rune was detonated, he pounced to the side. However, what happened next was even more terrifying. His actions triggered more traps. A dense rain of arrows shot towards them from all directions, and boom, one explosion rune after another was detonated.

The five thieves immediately scattered in all directions. The combined power of countless explosion runes and offensive totems exploding was even more impressive than special effects in a movie. Two Mages Guild thieves barely dodged some explosion runes, but still died in the shockwaves of the explosions, unable to even drink a potion in time.

Of the remaining three, Ming escaped first. The power of these explosion runes shocked him. The explosive power of a single explosion rune wasn't much, and with their skills, they could easily dodge it. But such a powerful chain explosion was difficult to dodge. Ming was lucky. He was walking in the back, and when he saw that the situation was not right, he easily slipped away. Two of his four teammates, the two Mages Guild thieves, were blown to death, and the other two thieves were running around like headless chickens.

Seeing that the situation was not right, the Mages Guild thief drank a bottle of intermediate instant recovery potion and jumped towards an open space. Suddenly, the hard mud under his feet turned into a patch of sand, trapping him firmly and slowly sinking him.

He suddenly realized that the entire area within thirty yards was a quicksand trap!

This was an advanced quicksand trap! And it was so large! He had seen items for setting up quicksand traps in the NPC shop. Each item cost nearly a hundred gold coins. The Ni Ren Tribe was really willing to spend money!

He desperately tried to pull his feet out, but his body still sank involuntarily, and he could only sink little by little in despair, finally suffocating to death in the quicksand.

If someone had pulled him out, he might have been saved. The Holy Guardian thief in the distance saw this scene and didn't dare to come over. He turned around and ran, found a stream flowing downstream, and plunged into the water, thinking that he should be fine now. The Ni Ren Tribe wouldn't place explosion runes in the water, would they?

With a splash, water splashed everywhere.

He swam underwater for a while, listening to the explosions above, and breathed a sigh of relief. But before he could relax, a muffled explosion suddenly sounded underwater, and a powerful shockwave swept over, hitting him hard in the abdomen. He felt a sweet taste in his throat, and a mouthful of blood gushed out. His body was numb, and he sank downwards.

He had triggered a goblin sea mine in the water!

Immediately afterwards, the vibration of the goblin sea mine detonated something at the bottom of the water, and a green liquid spread from the bottom. After he came into contact with this green liquid, a strong burning sensation came over him. Damage values floated above his head, and his body froze. Before long, his skin turned purplish-brown, and he became a corpse.

The thieves sent by Mad Magic had tasted the power of the traps set up by Nie Yan. Nie Yan had spent about 500,000 gold coins just setting up these traps. Ordinary traps could be easily dodged by thieves, but these traps were interlocked, making them not so easy to dodge. Once they triggered one of the links, they would just have to wait and enjoy the storm of attacks. Even with good skills, they could easily be ambushed by these ubiquitous traps.

Almost all six thief teams encountered similar situations. In the end, only eleven out of thirty people escaped in a disheveled state. The traps set up by Nie Yan left them with an indelible impression. It was the first time they had seen traps arranged in such a way.

Nie Yan was extremely particular about setting up traps. He had specialized mechanics calculate the data of each trap, as well as the critical point for triggering the explosion, and effectively combine each type of trap to increase their power by hundreds or thousands of times. Of course, this was an expensive endeavor, and probably only Nie Yan dared to spend so much money to set up such luxurious chain traps.

Mad Magic received the messages sent back by the thieves and was dumbfounded. In his inertial thinking, ordinary traps were ineffective against top-tier thieves. Thieves had extremely high Reflex Save attributes and were not easily ambushed by traps. Even if they were hit by a trap, they would take less damage than other players.

However, of the thirty thieves he sent out, only eleven returned. Most of them had died before even seeing the Ni Ren Tribe's people. What was going on? What kind of traps did the Ni Ren Tribe set up? How could they have such great power!

Mad Magic didn't know what to do. Nirvana Flame seemed to have calculated every step, waiting for him to fall into the trap. Mad Magic carefully recalled the entire process. From the moment they entered the Realm of Death and the Ni Ren Tribe's 20,000 elites rushed towards Moonlight City with ironclad catapults, they had already been led by the nose by the Ni Ren Tribe. The Ni Ren Tribe could slowly delay the time and send top-tier thieves to wear down their strength, everything was under control. On the other hand, the Mages Guild wanted to fight a decisive battle as soon as possible but couldn't find the main force of the Ni Ren Tribe, and they were also suffering from the Ni Ren Tribe's sneak attacks. Therefore, it was a tragedy.

What should Mad Magic do in this situation? Everything seemed to have fallen into an unsolvable dilemma.

The gradually increasing casualties made Mad Magic somewhat anxious. Was this battle in the Realm of Death destined to be a tragedy for the Mages Guild? If it was just because of insufficient strength, he would have accepted it, but he was a little unwilling to lose like this.

Nirvana Flame, dare to fight a fair fight?