I have an Apocalypse City
Chapter 1138 - Chapter 1138 Chapter 1140 History_1

Chapter 1138: Chapter 1140 History_1 Chapter 1138: Chapter 1140 History_1 The sky was filled with flying swords, their blades ablaze with dark crimson flames. They crashed into the approaching Abyssal Claw Beasts like a torrential downpour, followed by incessant explosions and screams.

The Claw Beasts fell like rain, plummeting from the sky; some were killed instantly, some struggled, but after the onslaught, fewer than twenty remained alive, and all were injured.

Although the Karmic Fire Red Lotus Sword Array hadn’t been activated, the mere three hundred-plus Spirit Swords were too much for these Level 60 common monsters to withstand.

The NPC Guardians weren’t too surprised, but the players looked at Song Jian with disbelief, hardly trusting their eyes. They had likely never seen such a terrifying skill before.

“How, how is this possible…” a player muttered softly.

A glow surged around Song Jian; the experience from the Claw Beasts was substantial, allowing him to gain a level. However, his combat experience was already on the verge of leveling up, so for him, this had been expected.

At level 61, Song Jian had already saved up five skill points. With no skills to enhance at the moment, he naturally continued to save them.

On one hand, this was because Song Jian had few skills to begin with, and on the other, because the levels of his current skills were so high that increasing their proficiency wasn’t easy.

“What are you staring at, attack!” Song Jian glanced at the other players and shouted. By now, the NPC guards had already begun their assault, but the players were staring at him as if they had seen a ghost.

Now that the Claw Beasts were weakened, it was the perfect time for harvesting kills and gaining experience. They couldn’t let the NPC city guards reap all the benefits.

This shout awakened the players from their stupor, and they began to use their ranged attack skills to pummel the vulnerable enemies. Under the fortress, the Claw Beasts hadn’t even approached before being pounded into mush.

Seeing that the danger had passed, Song Jian couldn’t help but ask a nearby player, “How often have Abyss monsters been invading lately?”

Next to Song Jian stood an archer wearing scale armor, holding a silver longbow that shimmered with light. The arrows shot bristled with various energies: scorching flame, icy cold, lightning sparks, and so on, indicating a Magic Archer.

“It’s been alright, about two or three times a day, not too many, about the same as today–fifty or sixty at a time…” The Magic Archer scratched his head and recalled carefully, “But the level of these monsters is increasing. Before, the monsters that came were Level 40 or 50, and Level 60 monsters like today, it’s their first time!”

“Has there been any BOSS appearance?” asked Song Jian.

He observed that there were only sixty to seventy players guarding the fortress today. If a Level 60 BOSS appeared, these people would likely be unable to defend it.

“Not yet!” the Magic Archer answered, “But it wouldn’t matter even if a BOSS did appear. If we encounter monsters we can’t handle, we’ll signal for help, and there are a few elite squads in the alliance specifically for support!”

Song Jian nodded. The Protection Black Mist was the first line of defense; these border fortresses were the second. In the event of a large-scale invasion, they would allow people to enter the main city well in advance, where they could rely on the tall city walls and the formidable city defence machinery to deal with the invading monsters.

The Abyss invasion was a sumptuous feast for Abyssal Hell, but for the players in the game, it was also a rapid shortcut to leveling up and increasing their strength. The experience and loot from combatting Abyss monsters were exceptionally generous. Most importantly, there was no need to search for them in the wilderness; as long as one stood guard here, the Abyss monsters would continuously emerge.

One by one, the Abyss Claw Beasts were slain. Song Jian no longer had to lift a finger, and in a short while, all the Claw Beasts had been reduced to corpses. Inside the fortress, two or three players even leveled up, prompting a wave of exclamations from around.

After the Abyss invasion, the leveling speed of players in the City of Hope increased significantly. On average, it was more than double the efficiency compared to before. This caused even more players to stay within the city, guarding the various fortresses along the city’s edge, waiting for the arrival of the Abyss monsters.

This was all thanks to clearing all the Abyssal Instances around the City of Hope beforehand, which significantly reduced the number of attacking Abyss monsters. Otherwise, if there were two or three Abyssal Instances evolved into Abyss Fortresses surrounding the City of Hope, Song Jian and Wang Qi would have a daily headache figuring out how to destroy the Abyss Fortresses.

It’s important to realize that an Abyss Fortress, once activated, could let tens of thousands of Abyss monsters enter the game world daily. As time passed, the Abyssal Passage would stabilize further, and the grade and level of the emerging monsters would continue to rise. Eventually, there would come a day when hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of Abyss monsters would siege the city.

Song Jian quickly returned to the City Lord Mansion. His visit to the Goddess of Dawn Temple this time had been of great assistance. He learned much about the history of the game world and uncovered many secrets beyond the reach of ordinary people, leading to a deeper understanding of the Sword Sect.

Even now, recalling the records about the Sword Sect in the Dawn Temple, Song Jian was still deeply stirred.

At that time, the Sword Sect was a super sect. With over ten Legendary Tier powerhouses and a membership exceeding a million, they controlled a territory beyond imagination, including two countries with an area of over ten thousand square kilometers each and several hundred scattered states of varying sizes.

A conflict arose between the Sword Sect and the God of War, the details of which were now lost to history. After the God of War’s followers killed several elite disciples of the Sword Sect, the sect was enraged, sending out a Legendary Tier elder who completely destroyed dozens of the God of War’s temples, eventually drawing out the God of War himself.

After the God of War projected his will thrice, only to be slain each time by the Legendary Tier elder of the Sword Sect, the God of War became utterly despondent, retreating to the Starry Sky Divine Country and dared not emerge.

Yet the relentless Legendary Tier elder simply cut through the void with a sword, charged into the Divine Country of the God of War, and slew the God of War there. He obliterated the Divine Country, seized all the godhood and Divine Flame, and placed them in the great hall of the Sword Sect for all to see.

This was the first incident in history where a mortal had slain a god, causing immense shockwaves. This also resulted in widespread panic and rage among the gods.

Over the next few hundred years, nearly all gods banded together, rallying their followers and projecting their divine wills to conduct a grand war of annihilation.

This war lasted for over a hundred years, eventually breaching the Sword Sect. All nine Legendary Tier elders and the Sect Leader fell, but the gods fared no better. Each deity had to project their divine will at least thrice, and after the great battle, over eighty percent of the deities entered into eternal slumber. The number of their followers was reduced to less than a third of what it had been before. Even today, many deities remain in slumber, resulting in their powers not fully recovered for a long time. New gods began to rise, attacking these weakened deities time and again to seize their godhood and divine rights. Some new gods failed, but others succeeded in overthrowing the old gods, taking their divine rights and godhood.

This nearly ten-thousand-year period came to be known as the Lament of Divine Rights, marking the weakest moment of the gods’ power and their weakest control over the human world. Humanity took advantage of this time to develop rapidly, creating a glorious civilization. It’s just a pity…

Song Jian sighed, standing in the City Lord Mansion, looking up at the roiling clouds above, feeling an inexplicable emotion stirring within him.

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