The whole nation is trying to survive on the cable car; I'm choosing one of three options at ea

The backup arrow turret stood unharmed on the other side of the cable car, its shell intact and its firing rhythm steady, as if the destruction just now had nothing to do with it.

The Pear Garden Demon Princess raised her hand again.

The backup arrow tower's durability jumped from 100% to 80%, then to 60%, then to 40%, and finally, with an even more muffled cracking sound than before, it broke off from the side of the cable car, fell, and disappeared into the thick fog.

Su Mu stared at the direction in which the two arrow towers had fallen, watching the parts tumble, disintegrate, and be swallowed by the darkness in the fog, his eyes filled with rage.

Those arrow towers were not just his weapons.

That was the fruit of his life in Ash City... two level-five arrow towers, built step by step from scratch with over three thousand Ghost Crystals. It was proof of every bit of his accumulation in this world, something he had salvaged from those ruins and pools of blood. And just like that, it was gone. Sweeped off the cable car like trash by that thing.

Su Mu lowered his hand from the windowsill.

His golden bloodline suddenly expanded, and a golden halo exploded from the surface of his skin, as if something within him had been completely ignited. His eyes turned pure gold, with fine, flame-like patterns dancing around the edges of his pupils.

He no longer needs to hide.

"Guild weapons, united we stand."

His voice was low, but every word seemed to be squeezed out from the deepest part of his chest.

The moment the command was entered, a crack appeared in the space above the cable car.

The crack extended from an angle he couldn't see, as if an unseen hand had torn a hole in the void. Dark red light surged out from the crack, growing brighter and brighter, like a giant beast that had been sealed away for too long slowly opening its eyes.

The Pear Garden Demon Princess sensed something.

It abruptly turned around, facing the direction of the dark red light. Its silk threads rapidly wove in front of it, forming a dense shield. That shield was thicker and denser than the one it had used to defend against the bats' attacks; clearly, it had used all its strength.

But Su Mu had already pressed confirm.

A dark red beam of light shot into the sky from the top of the cable car.

It rose so high that it pierced through the fog, so high that it became a straight red line in the moonlight, before exploding hundreds of meters in the air. In that instant, the entire sky was dyed dark red, like a pot of boiling lava churning in the night sky.

Then the beam of light exploded.

Countless fine beams of light shot out in all directions from that point of explosion, like a rainstorm of light, each beam carrying scorching, destructive energy.

They precisely covered every inch of space within a one-kilometer radius around the cable car.

When the beam of light fell on the group of monsters, the lower-level monsters didn't even have time to react. Their bodies evaporated, disintegrated, and turned to ashes instantly, just like pieces of paper thrown into a furnace.

Those level 5, 6, 7, and 8 monsters struggled for half a second or a second in the beam of light, and then shattered as well. The dark purple liquid vaporized in the high temperature, leaving not even a residue.

The location where the Pear Garden Demon Princess was located was hit by three beams of light simultaneously.

The silk shield began to shatter the moment the first beam of light made contact, the silk threads breaking apart, curling, and carbonizing one by one like broken strings.

The second beam pierced through the already riddled shield, striking it directly in the chest. The magnificent costume burst into flames within the beam, the embroidery and tassels peeling away from the edges, crumbling, and turning to ashes.

The third beam of light landed on its head.

The pale face twisted and deformed in the light, and the heavily made-up eyebrows and eyes dripped down like wax melted by the high temperature.

Its mouth opened, emitting a silent shriek... Su Mu couldn't hear the sound, but he could feel the vibrations pounding wildly inside his skull, as if someone was drumming inside his head.

[Pear Garden Demon Princess's HP: 70% → 10%]

As the beam of light dissipated, the dark red glow in the sky also faded rapidly.

The Pear Garden Ghost Princess floated in the night sky, her costume tattered and carbonized from the shoulders to the waist, revealing her dark purple body that was bleeding.

The silk shield had shattered completely, leaving only a few strands hanging limply in the air. Its posture was no longer elegant and composed, but rather like an actor who had been dragged off the stage, thrown into the mud, trampled on, and then barely managed to get up.

But it did not die.

Just as the beams were about to completely engulf it, the inside of the costume suddenly lit up... A layer of extremely brief but extremely intense dark purple light surged out from its body, as if something had burned for a moment deep within its core, offsetting most of the damage from the three beams.

Su Mu could see the costume disintegrating. Starting from the neckline, the exquisite embroidery curled, tore, and peeled off like paper burned by fire, revealing the lining underneath. That protective layer was clearly disposable; once it was gone, there would be no second layer.

The Pear Garden Demon Princess's silk threads reassembled a few times, and then she turned and ran away.

The movement was incredibly fast, so fast that it was completely unlike its previous composed demeanor... Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, it arched its body, sprang forward, and rushed towards the densest area of ​​the monsters, trying to use the bodies of those lower-level monsters as cover to escape the area.

Su Mu did not hesitate.

He saw that the Pear Garden Ghost Princess's health bar had stopped at 10%, knowing that the united efforts had taken away most of its life. But it wasn't completely killed; the protective mechanism of the costume had blocked the subsequent damage. If they didn't pursue it, and it escaped into the depths of the monster horde, they would never have such a good opportunity again.

He took the strange yellow object out of his backpack.

【The branches of the scarlet vine (yellow)】

[Type: Curiosity/Consumable]

[Effect: Upon use, a vine domain with a radius of 1 kilometer is generated centered on the user. The vines within the domain will automatically attack all hostile mobs.]

"attack"

The thick fog below the cable car exploded in that instant.

Countless thick vines surged from the void, their deep red branches with dark green veins growing wildly, extending, and intertwining like giant pythons, weaving a huge net covering an area of ​​one kilometer in just a few seconds.