Evil God? My servants are players!

The players and the Frost Adventure Team spent half a day applying the "Sha" (a type of internal energy), but it didn't cause much damage.

If damage were quantified, Sasha and Phase Rush would likely deal the most damage.

One inflicted considerable piercing damage with an armor-piercing arrow, while the other simply had a large enough sword to deal significant damage.

An ordinary sword might be a toothpick to a bishop, but the phase man's sword is more like a small utility knife.

Even so, the bishop remained energetic and lively, while the expeditionary force was generally listless.

Although the raiding team was in relatively good condition thanks to the full support of the players, the prolonged battle caused their concentration to drop rapidly.

More than a dozen players have already been swept away and executed by the tentacles due to momentary carelessness.

Meanwhile, more support arrived, and some of the replaced high-ranking officials from Hamlet Town also appeared here.

Although they weren't as strong as the bishops, they continued to summon tentacles to disrupt the expedition's operations.

The expeditionary force was now walking on thin ice; one mistake could cost them all their lives.

After narrowly dodging the bishop's attack, half-hanging precariously, he shouted towards the muscular man in the phase:

"This boss definitely can't be fought like this! Phase Guy, think of a way!"

"What can I do if those level 50 NPCs are so useless?!" The Phase Man said, smashing a tentacle with his sword.

It's all about smashing them. After intense battles, apart from players who are really willing to spend gold coins to upgrade their weapons, the durability of other players' weapons has basically been exhausted.

The Phase Warrior's greatsword has also become a bladeless greatsword, and Quan Xianbangua is also using the guards' weapons.

At this moment, the bishop's tentacles set their sights on another target: the priest!

Just as she tried to dodge, it was too late; the tentacles were already in front of her.

Suddenly, a figure appeared and shoved the priest aside, but this figure was also grabbed by the tentacles—it was a warrior!

Seeing this, Sasha instinctively reached for the quiver, intending to shoot an arrow through the tentacles to rescue the warrior, but she found nothing.

After a long battle, even the quiver imbued with spatial magic was empty.

"Warrior!!!" the priest cried out in alarm as he realized what was about to happen.

The warrior might be squeezed out of his entrails, just like the knights before him, and then discarded aside.

Just as the priest was feeling hopeless, the sound of breaking glass suddenly rang out, attracting everyone's attention, even the bishop was stunned for a moment.

Then, a beam of light pierced directly through the bishop.

It's Veronica!

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Not long ago, Veronica arrived in Hamlet.

Looking at the rising magical city defense array from afar, Veronica felt a sense of foreboding.

Veronica then sped off towards Hamlet Town.

During the journey, Veronica approached several nearby officials and asked them if they knew what had happened in Hamlet.

But no one knew what happened inside. All they knew was that a magical protective barrier suddenly appeared in Hamlet Town, and then the town was cut off from the outside world.

Although some officials reported the matter to the Empire, the Empire has not responded.

"Damn it!" Veronica cursed under her breath, then abandoned the official and ran towards Hamlet Town.

Through the magic circle, Veronica saw the guards constantly patrolling the city walls.

The guards also saw Veronica, but they didn't seem to welcome her arrival, instead pointing their massive city defense weapons at her.

Without even a warning, the city defense weapons fired instantly, but against Veronica, these level of city defense weapons were still somewhat lacking.

After casually deflecting the attack, Veronica questioned the soldiers on the city wall.

"What are you doing?! Can't you tell who I am?! Open the city gates right now! I need to get in!"

But the soldiers remained silent, continuing to fire.

"What's wrong with you all?! You're not even listening to my orders anymore?!"

The soldiers' strange behavior intensified Veronica's bad premonition.

After all, Veronica had been running the town for several years, so the soldiers should have been able to recognize her.

But the soldiers acted as if they no longer recognized Veronica.

Seeing the soldiers continuously firing their defensive weapons at her, Veronica could no longer tolerate it. At this point, she fully understood that something terrible must have happened in the town.

So Veronica decided to destroy the city's defensive magic circle, but just as she was about to do so, she hesitated.

As mentioned before, Veronica had run Hamlet Town, and she knew that destroying the town's defensive magic would mean an enormous loss.

But with things having come to this point, Veronica had no choice but to grit her teeth and draw the sword from her waist.

Veronica relentlessly bombarded the city's defensive magic array under the soldiers' attacks with their defensive weapons.

The city's defensive magic circle did not last long under Veronica's bombardment. With a sound of shattering glass, the magic circle broke apart.

Veronica also sensed the situation inside the city.

For a moment, Veronica's hand holding the sword trembled slightly; the butler was absolutely right.

Veronica's father, the Earl of Hamlet, had not recovered from his madness; he had simply found something else to satisfy his insane desires.

Hamlet was deserted at this moment, without even a patrolling guard, like a dead city.

Fortunately, Veronica could still sense that most of the townspeople were not injured.

They are still hiding in their houses, waiting for the "savior" to come and rescue them.

Veronica breathed a sigh of relief after noticing that the residents were alright; at least she hadn't let her neighbors down.

But Veronica was quickly drawn to the commotion in the Sain Underground Plaza; after all, the bishop's enormous size was hard to ignore.

"Goddess, come back up! What is that thing?!"

Veronica let out the same exclamation as the priest.

Although I don't know what that lump of meat is, judging from the smell it's giving off, it's not a good thing.

Then, Veronica temporarily ignored the strange occurrences in Hamlet and rushed straight toward the bishop.

Veronica decided to deal with the abominable creature in front of her first before dealing with the strange occurrences in the town.

However, Veronica did not notice that as she entered Hamlet Town, a more robust and strangely enchanting protective magic circle slowly rose up.

This magical barrier seems to be able to block all prying eyes; even the gods of this world cannot see through this magic circle.

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Inside the castle in Hamlet at this moment.

The Earl of Hamlet had turned into a mass of boneless flesh that was constantly writhing.

Only the exposed, constantly rising and falling lungs can prove that this mass of flesh is still alive.

As the lungs expanded and contracted again, a broken sound emerged from the lump of flesh.

"Veronica……………"

It seemed to want to say something, whether it was a pang of conscience trying to persuade its daughter to leave this place of trouble, or it wanted to find someone to tell about its 'evil plan'.

But its body prevents it from speaking a complete sentence.

After those four words were spoken, the only sound in the castle was the count's painful breathing.

Only the 'Pollution Core' created by Shen Yuan was spinning continuously in the Earl's laboratory.