Magic, Evil Gods, and the Fourth Calamity

Two seconds after the player rushed out of his hiding place, the bronze-level orc guarding the church entrance reacted.

They quickly locked onto the rapidly approaching player, and several war priests even unleashed divine spells.

The divine art of war, accompanied by blood and madness, materialized into countless crimson weapons that rained down from the sky, locking onto and falling toward the player.

The player neither dodged nor used any skills in response.

He simply adjusted his posture and used his lower body to catch the attacks, while his upper body, propelled by inertia, slid past the feet of the orc guards and into the war church.

On the verge of death, he slammed his remaining right hand onto the ground, gave the orcs a victorious smile, and then breathed his last.

"..."

The beastmen looked at each other in bewilderment, wondering what this mad human was up to.

Until an orc stepped forward, intending to throw the half-corpse out of the church.

But as soon as he arrived next to the player's corpse, the corpse instantly disintegrated, and then a strange magic circle appeared with a bright light.

The player, who should have been dead, emerged intact from the light, holding a package that was sparking and spewing foul-smelling white smoke.

Under the astonished gaze of the orc guards, the player shouted excitedly and stuck out his tongue at the orcs in a mocking manner.

"My art is explosion! I am the Jade-Faced Hand..."

boom!

Before the player could finish speaking, the package in his hand burst forth with a blazing fireball and shockwave, instantly filling the entire church.

That was a large amount of gunpowder that the players had amassed, which unleashed terrifying power under the rules of the entire world.

Flames and shockwaves raged through the church, attempting to destroy everything, and even the idol worshipped by the orcs in the center of the church shattered in the impact.

The power of faith contained within the statue was forcibly released and, under the influence of the flame impact, even joined in.

A massive black mushroom cloud rose higher and higher with the impact, rising from the orcish church, which was at least a thousand years old, tearing it apart without mercy and sending the remains into the sky!

At the same time, countless players who were eager to fight outside Sogoria launched their charge towards Sogoria without hesitation after seeing the dark mushroom cloud rising from the city.

They didn't think there was anything wrong with the mushroom cloud; they just knew that the war had begun!

They charged forward fearlessly, but suddenly felt that it would seem foolish not to shout something.

So they started shouting incoherently.

"Kill them!"

"Charge!"

"For all of humanity!"

Until someone shouted out this slogan, which instantly infected the surrounding players.

"For all of humanity!"

The players' voices echoed like thunder, drawing the orcs' attention back from looking back due to the violent turmoil in the city.

The dense horde of humans rushing towards the city startled the orcs on the city walls.

However, they quickly realized what was happening and immediately mobilized the defensive equipment on the walls, preparing to attack the players.

However, several ranger players who were suicide squads had already arrived at the foot of the city wall, pried open a gap at the corner of the wall, stuffed the last bag of gunpowder into the gap, and lit it.

boom!

The terrifying explosion did not break the thick city wall, but it left it covered with countless cracks.

Many orcs were knocked unconscious by the terrifying impact.

On the city wall, far from the explosion site, an orc guard captain witnessed this scene, and his originally green face instantly turned black.

"What is that! Silver-level magic?"

The orc captain didn't know what had happened, but the power was undoubtedly something only a Gold-level expert could cause!

He didn't understand where the silver-level powerhouses came from, but he knew that he and his companions had to fight.

"Everyone, stop those guys! Don't let them break into the city!"

The orc captain tried to rein in the orcs who were thrown into chaos by the violent explosion, but he felt a terrifying aura lock onto him, causing his body to tremble uncontrollably.

He suppressed his inexplicable fear and looked in the direction of the aura, only to see the last scene of his life.

A square formation of a thousand bronze-level mages is simultaneously casting the same spell.

Countless blazing fireballs, manipulated by magic, hurtled towards the city walls, eventually converging and merging into an even larger fireball.

boom!

The blazing fireball exploded the moment it hit the city wall, knocking down the already cracked wall.

Then, an endless torrent of fire erupted, engulfing and burning all the orcs that were affected.

Damn it, how can there be so many magicians among humans!

When did humans become so powerful?!

This was the last thought of the orc captain. As a bronze-level orc, he was powerless to resist the combined spell and could only watch as the terrifying flames devoured him.

Of course, this terrifying power came at a price for the players. All one thousand bronze-level mages were rendered incapable of fighting after unleashing the entire spell.

Their MP instantly dropped to zero, and their SP cap was reduced to the minimum due to the fatigue buff.

It will take them five or six hours to recover their bronze-level combat strength.

But it was all worth it. That single fireball that killed a thousand people crippled all the orcs blocking the players' siege, and more than ten thousand players poured into the city like jackals and tigers.

"Four Gu, that was amazing! How did you know that this move would trigger a magical resonance buff?!"

The wind from behind the pig's mouth couldn't help but sigh to Gugugugu, while the latter shrank its head and weakly said, "It seems that during the closed beta 0.1, when I was playing that official character, I instinctively learned a lot about magic."

But those understandings were not very obvious, so I didn't pay much attention to them...

"An official character!"

Upon hearing this, even the wind on the pig's mouth couldn't help but sigh, reminiscing about that brief but invincible time.

He didn't know if his current character could reach that level, but that brief trial period did give him a different perspective and vision on the Ranger class compared to other players.

"I don't know how this game manages to do this, it can actually cram knowledge directly into the player's brain. If it could be used for learning, that would be a game-changer!"

The wind above the pig's mouth sighed, but Hua Kai Fugui, who was observing the battle from the side, joined in the conversation: "It's unlikely. This knowledge wasn't something we memorized; it was something the game helped us memorize!"

I asked about the principles behind IE, and he said it's called the Dream AI Super Brain. It's an auxiliary function specially launched to help ordinary players adapt to their increasingly powerful bodies, providing different computing power for players of different skill levels.

Because we experienced Gold-level combat power, our accounts are assigned Gold-level computing power by the Dream AI Super Brain. However, upon returning to reality, we will be disconnected from the Super Brain.

By the way, don't spread this information around carelessly. IE says it's their company's confidential technology, and leaking it will result in legal consequences!

The explanation of "flowers bloom and wealth arrives" left Pig Mouth Wind completely bewildered.

What kind of sci-fi setting is this?

Although brain-computer interface technology is now very mature, the human brain still cannot directly borrow the computing power of a mechanical brain as in science fiction stories.

Isn't this a mechanical prosthetic brain?

Depend on!

Oh, I remember now! The game company behind "Otherworld Online" has always been very mysterious and has never revealed its name online!

His name isn't Araban, is it?