【The safe zone is shrinking】
As the Fire Thief's voice sounded, the black wall surrounding the island shrank its range further.
The location of the Holy Grail Church was already near the edge of the black wall. By the time the safe zone shrank next, it would be swallowed.
At this moment, in front of the church, the first team to arrive was momentarily stunned by the dense crowd of living dead at the entrance.
As the team closest to the church, they had rushed over immediately upon receiving the news to see if there was any chance to snatch it.
They didn't believe the team that obtained the Holy Grail was necessarily very strong; it was likely just good luck, having stumbled upon this hidden treasure, the Holy Grail.
For this, they devised a plan: to grab the Holy Grail and immediately run towards the black wall! That's right, they planned to take the Holy Grail to the edge of the black wall and threaten the pursuing strong teams.
"If you dare attack our team, we'll immediately throw the Holy Grail into the black wall, and no one gets it! If you want the Holy Grail, trade it for points! Have people from your team come out to be killed and eliminated by us. Once we get enough high points to secure a ranking, we'll give you the Holy Grail!"
Using this method, they might just be able to leverage a small force against a larger one. Even as a weak team, they could rely on points to enter the top ten and get rewards.
The plan was beautiful, but the first step—"snatching"—ran into problems.
"Boss, am I seeing this right? Why are there so many living dead here?"
"Are they guarding the church?"
"...Probably more likely that someone inside the team has some item or skill that can summon these things."
As soon as the captain finished speaking, one teammate accidentally entered the 30-meter alert range of the living dead. Instantly, one led to many; the living dead all roared and frantically charged toward them!
"Holy crap!"
"Boss, should we retreat?!"
"ROAR!!!"
For a team of average strength, dealing with one or a few living dead individually was still easy. But facing the attack of hundreds of living dead simultaneously was extremely dangerous.
The group immediately considered retreating. However, after turning around and not running far, they discovered the living dead weren't pursuing them anymore. They all seemed to receive some command and returned to the church entrance.
"Just as I thought!" the captain said. "My guess was right! These living dead must have been summoned by someone from the Holy Grail team and obey their commands!"
"Listen, we need to formulate tactics. One person goes to lure the zombie horde away, and the remaining four seize the opportunity to..."
Before this captain could finish speaking, he suddenly noticed his teammates weren't moving.
He glanced at the team list. The names of his four teammates, other than himself, had all turned black, making him completely freeze.
When did this...
"Hmph, a team with this little strength also comes to join the fun? Truly overestimating yourselves."
A disdainful female voice sounded from behind. Before this captain could turn around, he felt a sharp pain in his neck. A delicate, small dagger silently slit his throat.
Having wiped out an entire team single-handedly, the petite woman twirled her dagger and turned her head, saying, "My assassination skills aren't bad, right?"
However, the next moment, she also froze. Because standing not far behind her weren't her teammates, but five strangers with blurred faces.
In the team list, the names of her several teammates had also turned black.
"Those who overestimate themselves aren't just them; the same goes for you."
One of the five said. The woman holding the dagger gritted her teeth, turned, and fled. But she had only run two steps when she felt a sharp pain in her chest, as if something had been shot into her body.
A bullet? The other side has firearm items? And suppressed ones at that!
The woman reacted fairly quickly, but it was already too late. The next moment, a bullet hit the back of her head, and she was immediately killed and eliminated.
One of the five was holding a suppressed pistol. The person next to him praised, "The captain, as expected of a national shooting champion, your accuracy is still as reassuring as ever!"
"Alright," the captain holding the pistol said. "Don't get entangled with those living dead guarding the door. Xu Wei, go lure them away. We'll charge in immediately to seize the Holy Grail."
"Yes!"
The woman called Xu Wei quickly rushed into the zombie horde's alert range, then ran toward one side of the church, luring them away from the entrance.
The remaining few, led by the captain, immediately rushed to the entrance, but they promptly encountered newly emerging living dead.
"Still appearing endlessly? Old Tie, clear the way."
"Leave it to me!"
The man called Old Tie took out his Mind Power weapon—a giant hammer nearly as tall as a person!
"Get the hell out of my way!!!"
Old Tie roared, swinging the giant hammer and spinning, smashing all the living dead surging out of the entrance away.
Then the group charged into the church together, only to immediately discover the church was filled with white smoke, visibility was terrible, and they couldn't see anything clearly.
"Immediately use reconnaissance drones to locate the enemy."
"Yes!"
Several drones flew out simultaneously. The scan results were all consistent.
Other than them, there was only one person inside the church!
"The Holy Grail team actually only has one person?!"
That person was in a corner of the church. The captain immediately drew his gun and fired in that direction. Several shots were fired, but there was no reaction, unsure if they hit or not.
But the next moment, a teammate with special reconnaissance abilities shouted, "Careful! I sense an attack approaching!"
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
As soon as the words were spoken, continuous explosions erupted around them. None of the four expected the enemy to instantly create such a large-scale, artillery-like attack. One person was instantly blown up, and the other three simultaneously used defensive items to barely survive.
The captain, a shooting champion, changed expression slightly. His suppressed pistol with unlimited ammunition was already considered a very powerful firearm item. What did the enemy have?
"Careful, the enemy's attack is coming again!"
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
Another massive wave of explosions erupted around them. This simple yet devastating bombardment instantly cost the group a total of seven or eight expensive defensive items.
"Charge over for close combat!"
The captain took the lead, and the group charged toward the scanned location. But before running more than a few steps, they were blocked head-on by a black wall.
"What is this?!"
"I'll break the wall!" Old Tie roared, swinging his giant hammer and smashing it toward the black wall. A strange scene immediately unfolded.
The "black wall" seemed soft. The spot hit by the giant hammer dented inward before rapidly returning to its original shape.
Before Old Tie and the others could be shocked, similar black walls rose up around them—front, back, left, right, above. Light was instantly completely cut off, and their vision immediately plunged into pitch darkness; they couldn't see anything.
"What the hell is this?!"
"Quick, use—"
Before they could finish speaking, countless spikes emerged from those black walls, completely piercing through the bodies of the four. Then the black walls fell, and all four were killed and eliminated.
"Such rare luxury..."
After the four died, not far from them, Guan Tong's figure emerged from the fog.
Continuously making the Shadow switch between Substantial-Ins substantial states like this, plus the consumption after large-scale physical manifestation, averaged several dozen points of Mind Power consumed per second. Without the "Infinite Mind Power" buff, he could never afford to be this extravagant with abusing the Shadow.
"In just over a minute, several teams have come and gone... These are just the ones nearby. More teams are on their way. Among them, there should be quite a few stronger than this one."
Guan Tong thought, glancing at his 【Wordless Book】. He had already added characters on the first page once.
Originally "Transformation Physical Form Guan Tong," he had added two more characters in front: "Five Senses," changing it to "Five Senses Transformation Physical Form Guan Tong."
That's right. The reason Guan Tong could hide in the smoke himself yet accurately control the Shadow to attack the team charging into the church was because he had already, through adding characters, granted the Shadow the ability of the five senses.
Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch.
With this ability, after the Shadow materializes, it can fully or partially utilize sensory abilities according to Guan Tong's will.
Guan Tong had just activated the Shadow's visual senses, sharing the images seen by the Shadow with himself, thus enabling him to see others even in the fog.
This, combined with Silver Hunt's Type 4 smoke grenades, meant unless the enemy had the ability or items to see through fog, or a way to disperse the heavy fog, he held the initiative in most battles.
Apart from "Five Senses," he also tried writing more powerful words like "Indestructible," "Teleportation," "Invisibility," etc., but all were ineffective.
Guan Tong believed this was likely related to his insufficient Mind Power Upper Limit. Even if he could rely on Infinite Mind Power to write the words, due to the Upper Limit restriction, he couldn't transform them into reality.
So he turned back to pursuing some practical, currently usable enhancements.
Now, noises came from outside again. More and more teams were arriving. Guan Tong had already sent the Shadow, transformed into an eye shape, to hang on the bricks at the church entrance to monitor the situation outside.
After sharing vision, he could see that the teammate from the earlier team who entered the church, the one responsible for luring away the zombie horde, had already escaped, probably scared off after seeing the entire team list turn black.
Not long after she ran away, several teams, dozens of people, arrived outside the church. But these people didn't attack the church. Instead, they fought among themselves first to compete for the "right to enter the church"!
Guan Tong watched, feeling somewhat amused. But it was good they were killing each other; it allowed him to focus on continuing enhancements. Otherwise, facing too many people in a group attack, even if he could handle it, he would be distracted, slowing down the enhancement speed.
Just like him converting Reserve Mind Power through the 【Wordless Book】's third page—this process required a certain degree of concentration.
"I have currently held the Holy Grail for 3 minutes, with 27 minutes remaining. If I use all that time to convert Reserve Mind Power, with my 132-point Upper Limit, according to the 10:1 conversion ratio, the conversion process takes 3 seconds, converting 13 points every 3 seconds... Without interference, 27 minutes is enough to reserve 7020 points of Mind Power!"
This number was undoubtedly exaggerated, but Guan Tong knew it wasn't very realistic. First, 27 minutes without interference was impossible. Forget 27; with more and more teams coming, having a total of 10 minutes undisturbed in the remaining time would be pretty good!
Second, compared to simply reserving Mind Power, making more enhancements on the 【Wordless Book】 seemed more important to him. Now the "Shadow" had gained five-senses ability. "Silver Hunt" definitely needed further enhancement too.
"BOOM!!!"
Just as Guan Tong was thinking about enhancements, a tremendous noise suddenly came from the church roof. Someone was actually attacking from above!
Accompanied by a large amount of shattered bricks falling from above, a larger figure also descended from the sky, landing with a heavy thud in the middle of the church.
Guan Tong focused his gaze and was immediately greatly surprised.
The one breaking through the roof wasn't human, but a light-white humanoid mecha over three meters tall!
There was actually such an item? Was this person a mecha movie fanatic?
"Zzzzt—!"
There was clearly a human pilot inside the mecha. Accompanied by a crackling electric sound, a lightsaber-like weapon appeared in the mecha's right hand. Simultaneously, a mechanical voice transmitted from the mecha.
"Person hiding in the fog, listen up. Hand over the Holy Grail, and I'll spare you!"
"..."
Guan Tong looked at the mecha. Regardless of your this and that, he raised Silver Hunt and blasted several dozen Type 3 rounds at it first!
"BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM—!"
"It seems negotiations have failed. Then don't blame me for taking it by force! Super Energy Shield, activate!"
Hum—
A layer of light purple shield covered the mecha. The Type 3 high-explosive rounds blasted against it were all neutralized.
Although Guan Tong was somewhat surprised, he wasn't flustered at all. Because he clearly understood that such a powerful mecha must have enormous Mind Power consumption per second. The pilot didn't have the Infinite Mind Power buff and absolutely couldn't last long.
"Power Sword Combo Slash!"
The mecha pilot let out a low shout, quickly moving, swinging the lightsaber in hand to slash at Guan Tong!
This mecha can also lock onto my position in the smoke?
Although Guan Tong had Shadow Armor covering his body, he still shot out the grappling hook, hooking onto the wall, and quickly left his original spot to avoid being hit.
The mecha turned to pursue, but the next moment, a large amount of Shadow "climbed" onto it. Although it couldn't invade, it clung tightly, pulling at it, preventing it from moving easily.
"What are these black things? So disgusting! Get them away from me!!!"
Guan Tong heard the disgusted voice coming from the mecha, thinking the pilot was likely a young girl.
He immediately targeted this weakness, making the Shadow transform. Instantly, all sorts of disgusting shadow shapes like feces, tentacles, etc., were smeared all over that mecha!
This move actually worked. He heard the pilot shouting "Get away from me, ahhh!" while swinging the lightsaber to cut the shadows restraining it, then directly charging out of the church, seemingly completely forgetting she came to seize the Holy Grail.
Seeing this, Guan Tong couldn't help but feel speechless. "...What a weirdo."
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