Absolute Death Game

Chapter 162 - 144 Falling into Darkness

Li Jian still didn’t understand how things had developed to this point.

As the spirit leader of the White Tiger team, he held an authority that was on par with Wang Yifan. Gaining such prestige was not without cost. As the team leader, Wang Yifan had a natural advantage in vying for a voice in the group, which forced Li Jian to put in even more effort and pay a greater price to earn the team’s following.

While others were sound asleep in their dormitories, he was tirelessly practicing his professional skills and killing Minor Monsters for experience night and day.

When others were still cautiously completing daily tasks, he was already hunting down rare elite monsters alone in the wilderness.

By the time others had started to form teams to hunt rare elites in the wilderness, he had already assembled his core team to start tackling some of the lower-level dungeons.

Compared to ordinary team members, his Basic Attributes were exceptionally high, with almost all of them around 30 points, and his Strength and Physique were an astonishing 35 points—without even counting his equipment. His equipment was also the best in the group, with both of his axes being silver-rated weapons.

For the stepchild that was the White Tiger team, this was no easy feat, all thanks to his relentless daily practice in boss battles.

Today, he was doing tasks as usual until midnight. Despite being far from towns, there were still opportunities to practice his Professional Skills in the military camp. Just when it was time to sleep, he unexpectedly received a forging task in the camp. The task required him to forge thirty Steel Swords, with the reward being a blueprint for a deep blue weapon.

For him, with a Forging level of 10, this was not a challenge at all, and he was about to obtain the precious blueprint.

But due to an unexpected delay in the delivery of iron ore, he was still online at nearly three in the morning. Being a perfectionist, he insisted on not sleeping until the task was completed. And just at that moment, the Demon Clan suddenly appeared.

Truth be told, Li Jian had anticipated that the Demon Clan might launch an attack. Since the news from Xiao Buli had spread within the group, he had been pondering the intentions of the Demon Clan. Gathering such a massive force undoubtedly indicated major action, and the camp would be first in line to be attacked—it was almost inevitable.

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However, he hadn’t expected the attack to come so swiftly, coinciding exactly with his own involvement.

"Why have things developed to this extent?" Looking at the dark mass of Demon Clan soldiers swarming in like ants, Li Jian lamented internally.

The battle had been going on for quite some time. At first, he was able to fight easily with the cover of the NPCs, but as the NPC soldiers around him fell one by one, he began to have to face the onslaught of the Demon Clan directly. There was no room left to conserve his strength, and without realizing it, he had been fighting with all his might.

"Damn it! How did it come to this?" Li Jian swung the two battle axes in his hands, desperately hacking at the groups of Demon Clan soldiers that surged forward. Berserk had been activated, the will to survive had been triggered, the damage taken was reduced to a minimum, but his Rage was actually increasing. The Rage fueled various fierce attacks, striking down the monsters in front of him.

A commotion in the front caught his attention. It was General Huwei (An Shixiong) leading a group of soldiers who were desperately trying to break through. It seemed he had activated some kind of Aura Skill, and the soldiers around him were shining with golden light, making them much more resistant than regular soldiers.

However, the number of Demon Clan soldiers assaulting him was even greater, and their combat strength was stronger; they were about to be overwhelmed.

"Every man for himself!" General Huwei suddenly yelled and was then cut down by countless Demon Clan soldiers, his fate unknown. The soldiers who lost the aura’s protection instantly reverted to their ordinary state and were slaughtered in the blink of an eye.

Li Jian quickly rushed in the opposite direction. The colossal Abyssal Flame Demon Lord was a hundred meters or so behind him, its towering flames illuminating the entire night sky. He didn’t have the courage to fight it, even though his character had gone Berserk; behind the screen, however, he remained as calm as ever.

("They actually want to tackle such a powerful BOSS? The higher-ups must have their heads kicked by a donkey.") But complaining was useless now. The only thing Li Jian wanted to do was to break through the encirclement.

But there were simply too many members of the Demon Clan. These monsters seemed to spring out of nowhere, as if they could never be completely eradicated.

Whirlwind Slash! Li Jian finally used this move, which was very powerful but equally costly in terms of Rage. Like a meat grinder, he pushed forward more than ten meters, depleting his previously full Rage.

No choice, he had to use his Ultimate Skill. Just as a Swordsman has the Heart of Mysteries, a berserker has the Heart of Rage; although the names differ, their functions were similar—to unleash Ultimate Skills.

As a seasoned berserker, Li Jian had three Hearts of Rage and rarely used them, but now was undeniably the best time.

Ultimate Skill—Rage of Chiyou! His body suddenly swelled, growing larger by a size, reminiscent of a Terminator. All his Attributes increased across the board, and Rage surged like free-flowing tap water, rapidly increasing.

Ultimate Skill—Endless Whirlwind! He spun once again, but unlike Whirlwind Slash, Endless Whirlwind was even more powerful, lasted longer, and sent flesh and armor flying. Li Jian was facing such a crisis for the first time, and it was also the first time he had used this combo of Ultimate Skills.

Charging and grinding his way through the relentless waves of Demon Clan soldiers, they fell in heaps, and he left a trail of corpses in his wake.