Chapter 1 The Beginning

Nie Yan summoned the Golden Land Dragon. Following the Niuren Tribe players in front, the Golden Land Dragon charged towards the Zhan Dao Shi Xue side. Streams of Dragon Breath sent the Zhan Dao Shi Xue people flying.

Countless spells swept across the sky, like a grand fireworks display.

Shuise Yantou took the lead, charging into the ranks of the Zhan Dao Shi Xue players. Rampaging fearlessly and killing like mowing grass, he instantly threw the Zhan Dao Shi Xue people into chaos.

"Boss, the people from the Garan Shrine and the Holy Roman Empire are here." Knight's Elegy said beside Nie Yan. "And all the players above level forty from our five branch guilds."

"How many people did they bring?" Nie Yan asked. In such a large-scale guild war, even a master could be overwhelmed by sheer numbers, so the size of their forces was also very important.

"More than fifty thousand from the Garan Shrine, more than seventy thousand from the Holy Roman Empire, and about fifty thousand from our five branch guilds. The War God Tribe and the Kuang Zhan Alliance have also sent some elites, about five thousand or so."

"What about the Mage Alliance guilds? Are they making any moves?" Nie Yan asked. The Mage Alliance and Holy Guardianship wouldn't be willing to let their elites be buried here.

"The Triumph Empire finally couldn't hold back. It seems they want to fight us to the death. They've gathered all the remaining seventy thousand or so high-level players in the guild and are nervously contacting Holy Flame of Light. The Mage Alliance and Holy Guardianship have also assembled large forces. The exact numbers aren't known yet, but the two guilds combined have about sixty or seventy thousand. They've teleported to Roland Town on the Scarlet Dream Plains," Knight's Elegy said. The scale of the war was growing larger and larger, involving more and more people.

Nie Yan analyzed the current situation. After holding back for so long, the Triumph Empire was about to be squeezed out of Carol City by the Niuren Tribe, so they were definitely unwilling to give up. Finally encountering such an opportunity, they naturally staked everything on one last desperate gamble. However, the Triumph Empire didn't know that Holy Flame of Light had been acquired by Nie Yan. They actually contacted Holy Flame of Light, which was simply an act of courting death. Holy Flame of Light received news from Guo Huai and cooperated silently with the Triumph Empire's actions, waiting for Nie Yan's instructions.

The Mage Alliance and Holy Guardianship weren't willing to dispatch their troops, so they hadn't taken any action before, because the victory or defeat of Zhan Dao Shi Xue wouldn't have much impact on them. If Zhan Dao Shi Xue was defeated and disbanded, their subordinates would be incorporated into the Mage Alliance and Holy Guardianship, which would actually strengthen their power. However, they had been subjected to pressure from Cao Xu, so they had no choice but to take action, sending a portion of their elites over and preparing to join the battle.

With so many guilds joining, the war would be a full-scale melee.

As Nie Yan was thinking, more than a thousand elites from Zhan Dao Shi Xue and the other four guilds had already charged up and were engaged in a chaotic battle with the Niuren Tribe's thousand-plus elites.

Among them were no shortage of Grand Magisters, Great Swordsmen, and other first-tier classes after job advancement. Their combat power was also extremely strong. The two teams were evenly matched, and they immediately fought fiercely, with both sides suffering heavy losses.

Nie Yan looked around and noticed a Great Swordsman wearing a level sixty Dark-Gold Blood of Darkness set charging over, his sword light flickering, killing five or six Niuren Tribe elite players who hadn't changed jobs in the blink of an eye.

"That's Holy Guardianship's Xie Huang Ba Jian!" Knight's Elegy said solemnly. That Xie Huang Ba Jian was a rather famous player, and his combat power was quite astonishing, only slightly inferior to Shi Xue Kuang Dao.

Watching the Niuren Tribe's brothers being killed one by one, Knight's Elegy became anxious and cast "Aura of Invincibility" on himself before charging up.

Nie Yan controlled the Golden Land Dragon to open its mouth and spew out a Dragon Breath, the flames shooting straight towards Xie Huang Ba Jian.

Seeing the Golden Land Dragon's Dragon Breath spewing over, Xie Huang Ba Jian quickly cast a golden shield on himself. With a "bang," the golden shield trembled, and the flames dissipated in the air.

Xie Huang Ba Jian retreated under the siege of several Niuren Tribe players, and several people from the Mage Alliance immediately came up to assist him.

At that moment, Knight's Elegy charged up.

Divine Judgment!

The two fought together. Xie Huang Ba Jian used a Tendon Break, slashing towards Knight's Elegy's waist with decisive and ruthless strikes.

Seeing that he was about to be hit, Knight's Elegy cast a Holy Light Protection on himself, enduring the slash, but wasn't crippled.

Xie Huang Ba Jian used a Shove, and Knight's Elegy quickly retreated back.

Neither side gained any advantage.

Under Nie Yan's control, the Golden Land Dragon prepared to attack, but a Great Swordsman charged over and used Intercept to hold the Golden Land Dragon back.

Three Great Swordsmen from the Mage Alliance surrounded Nie Yan's Golden Land Dragon, constantly using Shield Bash. The intervals between their attacks were very short, and every time the Golden Land Dragon cast a magic attack, it would be interrupted, making it unable to display its combat power at all. However, the Golden Land Dragon's Counterattack Storm also made them very strained. If there hadn't been healing from behind, they would have all fallen to the ground long ago.

Niuren Tribe players nearby wanted to relieve the Golden Land Dragon's siege, but they were unable to do so for the time being.

The number of job-changed players from the Mage Alliance, Holy Guardianship, Zhan Dao Shi Xue, and Angel Dominance guilds was three or four times that of the Niuren Tribe, so the Niuren Tribe couldn't gain any advantage at all.

Nie Yan went into stealth and approached a Grand Priest from the Mage Alliance from behind. He used Intimidate, causing the Grand Priest to be unable to move, and slashed at the Grand Priest's back of the head with the Sword of Zennarde in his hand.

The Grand Priest was concentrating on healing the Great Swordsmen of the Mage Alliance in front of him. Suddenly, he felt something was wrong behind him, and his throat moved, letting out a shrill scream. Fear Howl!

This was a priest's habitual life-saving skill.

At that critical moment, Nie Yan used the Mental Exemption skill on the Badge of the Ten Holy Knights. The piercing sound stung Nie Yan's eardrums, but it didn't have any effect.

Nie Yan slashed down with his sword. Muffled Hit, then a Backstab!

-1536!

Nie Yan dealt extremely high damage, but he found that the priest's health reached more than 2300. After the priest changed jobs, both his defense and health increased a lot.

At that moment, a Grand Magister nearby discovered Nie Yan and waved his staff, casting an Ice Burst at Nie Yan.

Ice Burst had a freezing effect!

An ice ball shot towards Nie Yan.

Seeing that he hadn't killed the Grand Priest, Nie Yan took advantage of the stun effect caused by Muffled Hit and used Eviscerate on the Grand Priest's back, directly knocking the Grand Priest down.

Windwalk!

At the moment when the ice ball was about to hit Nie Yan, Nie Yan disappeared from their sight with a Windwalk.

With a "Pa" sound, the ice ball created a sonic boom in the air.

"It's Crazy Mage Nie Yan!" the Grand Magister exclaimed in the team chat. Nie Yan's quick takedown of a Grand Priest surprised them.

Nie Yan found it a bit difficult to fight against these players who had changed jobs, because such a group of top players gathered together had a very tacit understanding, making it difficult to find flaws. However, he was still able to find time to kill one or two of them.

Sun, like Nie Yan, became a ghost on the field. Their occasional appearances could cause fatal damage to the enemy.

Sun retreated to the edge of a grove of trees and looked at the field. The Niuren Tribe had already suffered very heavy losses. Zhan Dao Shi Xue and the other four guilds had too many first-tier classes, so players who hadn't changed jobs couldn't exert much combat power against them.

In such confrontations between top-tier players, few mages could cast high-level magic, because mages' high-level magic required more than twenty seconds of chanting time, while paladins' Silence was instant, and the skill cooldown time was only twenty seconds.

So if someone cast a group attack magic or a high-level magic, someone would usually rush up to silence them.

Looking at the field, he found that Xie Huang Ba Jian in the distance was suppressing Knight's Elegy. A Holy Knight's frontal combat ability was ultimately a bit worse than a warrior class.

"Not good, danger!" Sun noticed some of Xie Huang Ba Jian's small movements. The hand holding the sword changed direction, and he immediately felt something was wrong.

Just as he was watching, an Elven Thief pounced on Sun, the dagger in his hand flashing with a cold light as he stabbed towards his forehead.

Sun dodged the Elven Thief's attack with a Windwalk.

The Elven Thief was stunned for a moment and activated Elven Vision, but Sun had already disappeared and couldn't be found.

A hundred yards away, Knight's Elegy used Parry to block Xie Huang Ba Jian's Shove.

"Die!" Xie Huang Ba Jian roared in a gloomy voice, his great sword piercing through Knight's Elegy's chest.

A damage of over 800 floated above Knight's Elegy's head, and he fell into a stunned state.

Just as Xie Huang Ba Jian was preparing to follow up with another sword, a cold light flashed behind him.

Xie Huang Ba Jian was shocked. He immediately cast a Shield of Holy War on himself, keeping Knight's Elegy within two yards of himself, and turned around to slash at the figure behind him.

"Thief," Xie Huang Ba Jian sneered. He mixed in the wild battlefield, and what he feared the least was thieves. He had encountered several thieves before. Even if he was stunned by them, he could stand there and let them hit him. They wouldn't be able to cause much damage to him within ten seconds. Swordsmen's defense was too high, and it was generally difficult for thieves to bite through it. If a thief was hit by a Swordsman's Tendon Break, he would basically be crippled. A class like Thief was only fit to bite through cloth-armored mages.

Xie Huang Ba Jian slashed down with his sword and hit!

He revealed a disdainful expression, but unexpectedly, the figure twisted. It turned out it was just an illusion!

A sharp cold light struck straight towards Xie Huang Ba Jian's forehead.

Shove!

Xie Huang Ba Jian removed the cooldown on Shove and used Shove. The attack range of Shove was two yards. At this time, Knight's Elegy was about to wake up, and a powerful force swept across his body, causing him to step back and fall into a stunned state again.

Xie Huang Ba Jian thought that he would be able to hit the thief this time, but he found that the thief had disappeared again.

So fast!

Xie Huang Ba Jian's heart trembled. He put away his contemptuous attitude and ignored the thief. He waved his great sword and pounced towards Knight's Elegy. He would kill this Holy Knight first!