Seeing all the team members leave, Nie Yan recalled the Huang Quandi Long and then dashed away stealthily.
Even without using a random teleport scroll, no one could stop him! Moments after Nie Yan and others left, Kuang Fa and Crow arrived at the scene, which was now a sight of devastation. The Mage Alliance team was in chaos, with bodies scattered everywhere on the ground. Kuang Fa felt a pang in his heart. So many elite players had been killed, each losing five levels and three pieces of equipment. He felt as if his heart was bleeding.
“How many of our people have been killed or injured?” Kuang Fa asked Xiao Yao Feng Tian Dao beside him.
“About more than two hundred. The total casualties so far have exceeded five hundred,” Xiao Yao Feng Tian Dao replied. They hadn’t even encountered the Bull Man Tribe yet, and they had already lost a sixth of their forces. The Bull Man Tribe’s advantage was growing. If they suffered more losses, the Mage Alliance might as well surrender.
Crow furrowed his brow and asked, “Didn’t you say that Kuang Zei Nie Yan stayed in that castle and didn’t come over?”
“Could it be that our intelligence was wrong? But my people saw Kuang Zei Nie Yan five minutes ago, and he would need at least fifteen or sixteen minutes to get here from there. Could it be… teleportation?” Kuang Fa’s heart trembled.
Crow nodded. It was possible! Probably using something like a group teleport scroll. The Mage Alliance players’ hearts sank. The Bull Man Tribe had successfully launched a surprise attack and might use the same method again. If Kuang Zei Nie Yan could pull off a few more surprise attacks like this, by the time they reached the Bull Man Tribe’s castle, they wouldn’t have the strength to confront them directly anymore!
Just as Kuang Fa was racking his brain on how to deal with the Bull Man Tribe, the thieves sent by the Mage Alliance were already approaching the Bull Man Tribe’s castle.
Thirty top-level thieves were divided into six teams, each trying to stealthily approach the castle to cause some trouble for the Bull Man Tribe players.
According to the information Kuang Fa provided, there were some traps set outside the castle, and the Bull Man Tribe players were sitting around outside the castle grounds in small groups, with very lax defenses.
A few traps wouldn’t stop their group of top-level thieves. The Bull Man Tribe must have thought it was too simple.
However, what happened next was their nightmare.
Five thieves were advancing through the jungle, with sunlight filtering through the dense canopy above.
Among the five, three were from the Mage Alliance, one from Sacred Guardians, and one from Blood Slaughter. The three Mage Alliance thieves were more familiar with each other, the Sacred Guardians thief was somewhat isolated, and the Blood Slaughter thief was cold and indifferent, not talking to anyone.
This thief was Ming from the Blood Slaughter’s top five. As he walked, he kept in contact with the other four.
“Since the Bull Man Tribe dared to send people to attack the Mage Alliance, they must be prepared. Kuang Fa might have missed something. Everyone be careful,” Ming said in the team chat to Lie and others, watching the four thieves ahead with a cold gaze, deliberately staying far behind.
The Sacred Guardians thief watched the three Mage Alliance thieves chatting and laughing, snorted coldly, and walked toward a side path lined with dense shrubs.
He pushed aside a branch blocking his way when suddenly he seemed to sense something, his gaze turning to a small crossbow set on a branch in the distance, a thin line stretched out and tied to some shrubs.
When he moved the shrubs, the line was tugged, and the small crossbow clicked, firing a bolt toward him.
A flash of cold light.
His eyes suddenly narrowed. It was a trap! But such a simple trap wouldn’t kill him. The Bull Man Tribe must have underestimated their group.
He took a quick step, dodging the bolt and moving aside.
He thought that was the end of it, but everything had just begun! The bolt shot into the shrubs, hitting a stake.
The stake happened to be inscribed with an ignition rune. When hit by the bolt, flames whooshed up, igniting an explosive rune on a nearby tree. With a bang, the rune exploded, sending a shockwave sweeping through.
It was a chain trap! His expression shifted as the explosion set off additional traps. Arrows poured down from every direction—boom, boom, boom—one explosive rune after another detonated.
The five thieves immediately scattered in all directions. The combined explosion power of countless runes and offensive totems was more powerful than any movie special effects. Two Mage Alliance thieves barely dodged some explosions but still died from the shockwaves, not even having time to drink potions.
The remaining three, Ming escaped first, the power of these explosive runes truly shocking him.
The explosion power of a single rune wasn’t much, and with their skills, they could easily dodge. But such a powerful chain explosion was difficult to avoid.
Ming was the luckier one. He was at the back and, seeing the situation ahead was wrong, easily slipped away.
His four teammates, the two Mage Alliance thieves were killed in the explosion, and the other two thieves ran around like headless chickens.
Seeing the situation was wrong, the Mage Alliance thief heard explosions everywhere in the forest, drank a mid-tier instant recovery potion, and jumped onto an open area. Suddenly, the hard ground beneath him turned into quicksand, trapping him and slowly pulling him down.
He suddenly realized that within a thirty-yard radius, it was all quicksand traps! This was an advanced quicksand trap! The range was huge! He had seen the tools for setting quicksand traps in an NPC shop before, each costing nearly one hundred gold coins. The Bull Man Tribe really splurged!
He desperately tried to pull his feet out, but his body still sank uncontrollably, slowly disappearing into the quicksand until he suffocated and died.
If someone had pulled him, he might have been saved. The Sacred Guardians thief saw this scene from a distance, too scared to come closer, turned around and ran. He spotted a stream flowing downstream and dove into the water, thinking this time he would be safe. The Bull Man Tribe wouldn’t set explosive runes in the water! Splash, water splashed everywhere.
He swam underwater for a while, listening to the explosions above, sighing in relief. But before he could relax, a muffled explosion suddenly occurred underwater, sending a powerful shockwave that hit his abdomen. He tasted blood, spewed out water, his body went numb, and he sank downward.
He had triggered a goblin underwater mine!
Immediately, the vibration from the goblin underwater mine triggered something underwater, and a green liquid spread out from the bottom.
After contacting this green liquid, he felt an intense burning sensation. Damage numbers floated above his head, his body became stiff, and soon his skin turned dark purple, and he became a corpse.
The thieves sent by Kuang Fa had tasted the power of Nie Yan’s traps. Setting up these traps alone had cost Nie Yan about 500,000 gold coins. Ordinary traps were easily avoided by thieves, but these traps were interconnected, making it not so simple to dodge them.
Once one part was triggered, they would have to endure a storm of attacks. Even with great skills, they were easily caught by these omnipresent traps.
Almost all six thief teams encountered similar situations. Out of the thirty, only eleven managed to escape in a battered state. Nie Yan’s traps left an indelible impression on them. It was the first time they had seen traps set up in such a way.
Nie Yan was extremely meticulous when setting up traps. It required specialized engineers to calculate the data for each trap and the critical points for triggering and detonation, effectively combining each trap to multiply their power hundreds or even thousands of times. Of course, this was a costly endeavor, and probably only Nie Yan would dare to spend so much money setting up such luxurious chain traps.
After Kuang Fa received the message from the thieves, he was stunned. In his habitual thinking, traps were usually ineffective against top-level thieves. Thieves had high reflex saving throws and were not easily caught by traps. Even if hit by a trap, the damage they received was much lower than other players.
However, out of the thirty thieves he sent, only eleven returned. They had lost most of their numbers before even seeing the Bull Man Tribe. What was going on?
What kind of traps had the Bull Man Tribe set up? How could they have such tremendous power! Kuang Fa didn’t know what to do anymore. Kuang Zei Nie Yan seemed to have calculated every step, waiting for him to fall into the trap.
Kuang Fa carefully recalled the entire process. From the moment they entered the Land of Death, the Bull Man Tribe, with their two elite forces and iron catapults heading toward Moonlight City, they had been led around by the Bull Man Tribe. The Bull Man Tribe could slowly delay time, sending top-level thieves to wear down their strength, everything under their control.
Meanwhile, the Mage Alliance sought a swift decisive battle but failed to locate the main forces of the Bull Man Tribe, all while enduring their ambushes—ultimately leading to their tragic downfall.
In this situation, what should Kuang Fa do?
Everything seemed to be an unsolvable puzzle.
The steadily increasing casualties made Kuang Fa somewhat anxious. Was the battle in the Land of Death destined to become a tragedy for the Mage Alliance?
If it was just a matter of insufficient strength, he would accept it. But to lose like this, he felt deeply resentful.
Kuang Zei Nie Yan, dare you fight a fair battle?
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