Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 153 Ignite the Earth, Nightmare Threat

The newest member of the ten-man team, [Zhi Zhong Shi], was the first player to emerge from the teleportation tunnel. When the other teammates saw him, they all raised their hands and greeted him. Everyone chatted briefly in the team chat, recognizing each other's faces.

This new teammate was a thin young human male, wearing a thin black tactical spacesuit and a protective helmet with a transparent glass front. He held a spherical gyroscope in his hand, and brass-like clock hands kept spinning in his pupils, a sign that he was influenced by the power of cosmic order.

He is clearly a chronomancer.

The new teammate's means of transportation is an eight-legged steel spider self-propelled robot with an open-air cockpit on the back and a black imitation leather sofa chair that looks very comfortable.

[Zhi Shi Zhong]: Hello everyone, I am willing to serve you.

[Gun Bullet]: Brother, your mechanical design is really tasteful, but your tone of voice is too formal.
[Swift Shadow Beast]: Brother Magic Cannon, you don't understand. This is called having style. Actually, I have style too. As the captain of the royal guard, I usually speak with an accent. It's just to fit in that I have to pretend to be cheerful and easygoing.
His teammates didn't believe that this dark-fearing Echo Knight was some royal guard, and they all started to joke and laugh.

Lin Bo checked the information board on the Zongwang website and confirmed the prompt affix for the time and space anomaly in this instance. [Nightmare Invasion] was not unfamiliar to him, as he had encountered it when he was playing [Sea Spirit Altar].

With this affix, the dungeon space will periodically encounter invasions from the nightmare level, randomly placing nightmare monsters near the player or generating trap terrain.

Nightmare monsters will be randomly generated according to the dungeon environment. They may be a group of strengthened soldiers, or strengthened elite monsters, or even mutated leader monsters, or they may be resurrected corpses that can be found everywhere in the environment.

This nightmare monster's weakness is its vulnerability to light damage. It's not very resistant to fire and lightning, but it's quite resilient to cold, acid, and thunder damage. Furthermore, it has no vital parts and will simply dissipate due to severe injuries.

As time goes by, the intervals between nightmare invasions will become shorter and shorter, and the enemies released will become stronger and stronger. If you fail to clear the dungeon quickly, you will be trapped in an endless wave.

After Lin Bo explained the situation in the team channel, his teammates looked worried. Except for [Zhi Zhong Shi], this was the first time for all of them to challenge the affix copy.

The Chronomechanic folded his arms and sighed deeply beneath his helmet.

[Knowing the Clock]: I once ran a Mutation Affix map with my teammates in another dungeon. The "Resurrection Surge" spawned, where monsters resurrected as undead after death. After clearing the dungeon, only half of the team remained. "Nightmare Invasion" is obviously more difficult, so please be prepared to die.
There was silence in the channel.

Lin Bo looked around at everyone, and everyone focused their attention on the magician, comforted by his calm demeanor.

[Lighthouse Guest]: This affix is ​​a bit risky, but it has a 6x return. Don't worry, I will help you through it.
[Gun Bullet]: I say there is nothing to be afraid of. If we really can't beat them, we can use some evil and dirty tricks.

The mage spoke briefly, but everyone's spirits were lifted. The cannoneer's words also gave his teammates, who had been lost in thought, a sudden burst of enlightenment.

[Astrology Fan]: Indeed, if you don't consider brushing up your actual combat proficiency, you only need to pay enough props and equipment resources to pass the level.

[Desolate Spin]: Hehe, we must win

Everyone prepared their weapons and called for helpers and reinforcements, including Master Song the White Gorilla, the self-propelled turret of the Mage Artilleryman, and the twelve self-propelled robots that the Time Mechanic took out of his backpack. They were shaped like light machine guns with spider legs.

Melee units unceremoniously drew their guns and cannons, each armed with a blue-quality "Detonator" jet flamer. Even the child and the female dwarf slung their flamethrowers on their shoulders. The weapons were longer than their height, and paired with their serious expressions, the image was quite humorous.

At the current difficulty level, Garden No. 1 has become a sea of ​​vampire vines. They not only wander on the ground and lie in ambush in the soil, but they also disguise themselves as ordinary plants, hanging on the walls and hanging from streetlights. All seemingly harmless environmental elements become dangerous.

[Lighthouse Operator]: There is no time to distinguish them one by one, that would take too much time. You start to light the fire, and I will open an escape route for you later.
Lin Bo put on the appearance of a wizard, pointed his sword with one hand, and flew into the air.

His teammates didn't quite understand his command at first, until the Tiefling Warlock smiled in understanding, picked up the flamethrower and fired a high-temperature plasma jet onto the lawn.

Orange rays surged out, licking the long grass, drying out the moisture in just half a second and leaving a burning trail.

Looking down at the earth, Lin Bo whispered his real name.

"(Mantra) Fire."

The fire snake on the lush green ground suddenly moved, twisting its body continuously, covering more vegetation, turning the grass and trees along the way into fuel, and its scorching body continued to expand.

The teammates followed suit and started to light fires everywhere. Swelling fire snakes swarmed across the ground, connecting together to form a terrifying and majestic wall, emitting heat waves that made people sweat profusely.

The ten-foot-high wall of fire resembled a confluence of snakes, countless serpentine bites lunging forward like waves crashing against the shore. The entire wall of fire shifted a distance, leaving behind a scorched, blackened expanse of earth. All the vampire vines along the way, whether lurking or wandering, were not spared, struggling and writhing in the raging flames until they died.

The wall of fire devoured all the green grass and slowly swallowed up the buildings. The metal street lamps melted like candles, and the doors and windows of the houses spewed flames. There were horrible explosions everywhere, and thick smoke rose into the sky and gathered under the glass dome, forming a lead-gray cloud.

Breathable air dwindled, and all living things met their doom. The elite monster leaped through the bushes in an attempt to escape, only to be swallowed by the surging flames. After struggling for a moment, it fell silent.

There was a burst of screams in the team channel.

[Swift Shadow Beast]: Master, it’s so hot! It’s so hot!
[Gun Bullet to Take Soul]: Brother Mage, please think of a solution quickly, we have no way out!
As players set fires everywhere, Park No. 1 was completely engulfed in flames. The high-temperature, toxic atmosphere continued to spread, and there was no safe place to stay in any direction.

[Lighthouse Guest]: Knight's 12 o'clock direction, everyone go full speed ahead

Echo Knight looked up and saw a scorched earth, ravaged by wildfires, directly ahead of him. It was a dead end. He gritted his teeth, mounted his warhorse, and tapped the horse's belly to urge him forward.

The war horses were terrified and stopped moving, and the other animal mounts were also afraid of the fire.

"Ga!" A white bird circled in the air and chirped. It swooped down like a feather arrow and rushed into the sea of ​​fire first.

The blazing wall of flames parted before it, and the bird's wings shone brilliantly, without a single spark on them, as it waded through a safe path.

"Charge!" Echo Knight lashed his horse's rump with his scabbard, and the warhorse neighed and trotted, following the seagull's wake. Wargs and cheetahs activated their lightning bolts, while white musk deer and ponies, unwilling to be outdone, also gave chase. Motorcycles roared, wheels whirring as white gorillas strode forward, dragging their turrets. The chronomancer's mechanical spiders stretched their long legs, and small self-propelled cannons darted between their iron feet like spiderlings.

The group quickly passed through the burning Garden No. 1 and entered the glass corridor. When the mage came, the female orc hurriedly pushed the gate and closed the door.

Each of them was a bit dusty and covered in a smudge of black ash. The experience of escaping the fire in just a few minutes was quite hazy. Looking back, the glass dome of Park No. 1 was illuminated with the orange-red of the setting sun. A fire in such an enclosed space would devour all living things, so there was no need to worry about any monsters escaping.

The sound of explosions continued to come from behind the door. The group had already passed through the corridor filled with explosive airbag fruits and arrived at the entrance of Garden No. 2.

[Gun Bullet Soul Stealer]: I didn't expect a speedrun like this. But Garden 2 is all wetlands, so this trick won't work for me, right?
Lin Bo took a whale oil potion and a vitality decoction.

[Lighthouse Guest]: Then let’s try another approach.

In Garden No. 2, a large number of simulated vines are lurking in the ruins of the bridge and road in the water forest, and they are as good at hiding their tracks as chameleons.

A green parrot sang loudly, startling the lurking simulated vines. A green shadow flew past, and living vine monsters jumped out from their ambushes one after another, trying to catch the noisy flying bird, but they were all a beat too slow and failed. They could only wander on the road.

After losing their stealth, the players' firepower attacks came head-on, rolling over the ruins of the bridge and road like a bulldozer, burning and smashing all the soldiers along the way.

The trickster looked at the mage with strange eyes, because usually he was responsible for attracting these lurking monsters, and his efficiency was more than a little low.

[Wu Yingji]: The illusions you create are so real, not only with light and shadow, but also with singing. The illusions I create always seem a little weird.
[Lighthouse Guest]: Imitate the form, give it spirituality, be good at observation, and empathize with the illusion like an actor
[Wu Yingji]: I understand, thank you, Master.

After killing the elite monsters in Garden No. 2 as quickly as possible, the group had no time to rest before the surrounding environment quietly changed.

Cracks in space and time, resembling cracks in glass, opened up around them, and purple-black mist seeped out from them, the thick fog outlining twenty illusory human-shaped shadows.

While the nightmare invasion was not yet complete, all players quickly adjusted their positions.

Just six seconds later, the first batch of invading nightmare creatures appeared in front of the players. They were covered with a translucent black film, like creatures shaped like bubbles. It could be clearly seen that these human-shaped nightmares were wearing heavy combat uniforms and equipped with various technological weapons, such as jet flamethrowers, sepak takraw net guns, dragon breath shotguns, and so on.

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When they raised their weapons, a strong sense of threat came like a hurricane.

(End of this chapter)