Traveling through the game world

Lian Yang was exhausted and desperately wanted to rest, but the frenzied Dark Elf guards attacking from afar clearly had no intention of letting him off the hook and giving them a break.

Nicholas rubbed his forehead and said helplessly, "I knew it. That intense battle just now wasn't a good thing. I want to rest for a while!"

Even without Nicholas saying it, the Heroes' Tomb is essentially a winding, twisting underground cave, but this cave is very complex, somewhat resembling an anthill in structure.

Those adventurers from earlier were alright in melee combat; they were taken down in no time. But their ranged units used both magic attacks and artillery bombardments, and the sound could probably be heard clearly from several kilometers away on the ground.

And within this deep tomb of heroes, the dark elves, who were frantically attacking everything in the distance, had clearly also received the fluctuations emitted during Lian Yang's battle.

"Phew! Looks like no one can rest!" Arthur said helplessly after giving everyone buffs and switching back to his scythe.

Although the physical exertion was minimal due to the medication, practically negligible, the medication could not restore mental energy.

So, although they still had plenty of energy, everyone was exhausted after the series of battles. But there was nothing they could do; the dark elves, corrupted by the Black Nightmare, didn't care how tired they were. Any creature not corrupted by the Black Nightmare was their enemy.

"Tap...tap..." The incredibly dense footsteps rang out clearly, and Alice's expression changed drastically. Having come from the Celestial Army, she habitually began to lie prone on the ground, gathering intelligence on the enemy's numbers.

"Damn it!" Alice, who was lying on the ground listening intently, said with a headache, "Our battle is too intense. It seems that several dark elf guards have gathered together. There are probably several hundred of them! And there are some crazed dark elves on their way from afar."

Alice had barely finished speaking, and the dark elves hadn't even arrived yet, but in the instant everyone was facepalming, a dense barrage of arrows rained down on them like a storm.

"Your intelligence is a bit late!" Lian Yang teased as he parried the arrow with his sword.

"Shut up!" Alice said angrily, her flamethrower blazing as she hurled the incoming arrows. "I'm already being kind by gathering intelligence for you, and you dare complain that my information is late! I'll sleep with you if you don't!"

Arthur's Holy Light Shield made deflecting the arrows much easier. Hearing Alice's threat, he feigned panic and teased, "I'm so scared! Don't sleep with the boss, sleep with me instead!"

"Shut up!".

As the arrows became denser, Lian Yang and the others could clearly see the countless dark elves swarming in the relatively narrow underground palace.

The crazed dark elves charged frantically towards Lian Yang and his group of five, relentlessly firing arrows as they charged. Whether it was a universal law of the world or not, the dark elves' archery skills were as superb as those of elves in fantasy novels, so their main force was usually composed of archers.

"Charge!" As a melee fighter, Lian Yang lacked ranged attack methods. Now that he had spotted the enemy, he decisively charged into the oncoming crowd.

The dense swarm of dark elves easily dispersed Lian Yang and his group of five. Indeed, the five hadn't intended to fight in a circle, given their automatic potion-using system. While the number of these level 40 dark elves was large, they weren't enough to threaten their lives, but they were bound to be more mentally exhausted.

Lian Yang's battle was naturally extremely fierce. As the enemies around him fell one after another, Lian Yang even had the aura of an ancient fierce general who was invincible.

However, the intense battle still drew Lian Yang's full attention. He was completely unaware of the threat lurking behind him.

"Thud!" A sharp and vicious dagger plunged into Lian Yang's neck, instantly depleting his already low health. The assassin, having landed a successful blow, vanished in an instant.

During the battle, Lian Yang suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head, and everything went black before his eyes. The next second, he found that his HP was only 30%. Then, with the help of the automatic medicine system, he was instantly restored to full.

But Lian Yang was still filled with lingering fear. He knew he had been successfully assassinated once. If it weren't for the resurrection potion, he might already be dead.

The sense of superiority brought by the automatic potion-recharging system vanished instantly, because even the most powerful automatic potion-recharging system has a cooldown. And if one is instantly killed, the automatic potion-recharging system is useless.

Once he calmed down, Lian Yang shouted, "Attention! There are assassins lurking on the battlefield! Keep your health up!" Lian Yang was certain that he was the assassin's primary target, but Baron and the others were definitely secondary targets as well.

Sure enough, just as Lian Yang finished shouting, a dark figure appeared behind Nicholas, ready to attack.

"You're asking for death!" He turned around and unleashed a spider web, accurately trapping the assassin within.

Seeing the assassin captured by Nicholas, Lian Yang immediately said, "Kill him!"

The situation on the battlefield was extremely urgent. It was unclear whether this was the only assassin drawn by the previous battle, and there were also dark elves attacking relentlessly nearby. There was simply no time to interrogate the assassin; killing him was the best course of action.

Originally, due to mental exhaustion, the group's attacks, though still fierce, consisted of ordinary attacks and relatively simple skills. However, with the appearance of the assassin, despite still being very tired, the group opted for some wide-range skills.

In the midst of a chaotic battle, it's really hard to have the energy to deal with assassins who can suddenly appear on the battlefield, but wide-range skills can combine the assassins with the corrupted dark elves for a joint attack.

Sure enough, as the group bombarded the area, some members of the team were killed by the high-damage area-of-effect attacks, causing some fear to creep in. The Dark Elf's berserk attacks had kept everyone's health around 70%; if the assassins were at the same level as the previous two, they could have instantly killed anyone in the team.

Wide-range attacks were indeed effective against local assassins, but as basic attacks transformed into elaborate, large-scale skill bombardments, the number of enemies around Lian Yang and his companions was rapidly decreasing. However, the greater commotion also attracted enemies from further away.

However, Lian Yang may or may not know these things, because although the speed of clearing out the berserk dark elves has increased, the number of enemies is also gradually increasing. Now it's a contest of whether Lian Yang and his team can kill faster or whether the enemy reinforcements arrive faster.

Because in this Hero's Tomb, which buries countless great heroes of the Dark Elf history over thousands of years, who knows how many guards are actually there? Keep in mind, Dark Elves are not a small race. The best course of action is to quickly kill those in front of you, then run away and find a place to rest.

The battle raged on, and the shift in attack methods from muskets to cannons would undoubtedly soon force Lian Yang and his companions out of the fray. However—just as Lian Yang and his group were about to breathe a sigh of relief, a vast and heavy aura clearly emanated from the depths of the Hero's Tomb.

Sensing this aura, Lian Yang's expression changed drastically, and he said solemnly, "It seems that the fierce battle has attracted the resurrected dark elf heroes from the depths."

Arthur nodded and said, "That's right. This sacred, luminous, and fearless aura can only be possessed by a great hero, while we can sense a strong, familiar scent of a black nightmare. It seems that the black nightmare has corrupted this place."

The dark elves in Dark City were not very familiar with the Black Nightmare, but Lian Yang and the others were extremely familiar with it, especially Nicholas. The moment he sensed the aura emanating from the distant hero, he immediately felt the Black Nightmare resonating within him.

Baron shouted, "Stop researching and get to work! This big guy is very strong, and it will be troublesome when he's working with these crazed dark elves!"

Berserker Baron always prefers to do more than talk, especially right now. No matter how thorough the analysis, the problem still needs to be solved through combat.

Knowing that Baron was right, everyone's attack frequency kept increasing. The crazed dark elves fell in droves, and finally, when only a handful remained, the figure of the ancient dark elf hero appeared before them.

"It's him!" Lian Yang's heart skipped a beat when he saw the hero appear before everyone.