The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

"This is bad, Yunshan City has relaxed its vigilance."

Let alone today.

On the very day he left the city to enter the illusion, Song Gua could sense that the defenses on the city walls had become extremely lax.

On this last day, everyone probably thinks the world boss won't spawn anymore.

If the world boss's siege cannot be stopped, it will bring its subordinate world bosses, dungeon bosses, and countless other monsters, and rampage into the city, causing endless destruction until it is destroyed.

News of a world boss massacring a city is nothing new!

"Why now? I just cleared the illusion realm, and the world boss has already spawned. Is it a coincidence, or is there some connection?"

The voice of the great sage rang out.

"Boss, the world boss is here! Let's use our teleportation ability to go back to town and hide!"

"World bosses always drop legendary items, the delivery's already on its door, aren't you going to take it?"

"You wouldn't be thinking...?"

"Guys, let's apply the skins!"

Song Gua and his clones all changed into bandit attire.

Once the hood is on, I don't care about anyone!

……

The global announcement echoed in the ears of all citizens of Yunshan City.

Red clouds drifted across the sky, a sign that the world boss was about to arrive.

Between heaven and earth, a faint crimson hue lingered.

The mayor's phone at the Yunshan City Government building has been ringing off the hook.

"A level 60 world boss, accompanied by four level 60 world boss guards!"

"The monsters in the light and medium fog areas have all gone berserk and are converging on the four main gates of Yunshan City!"

"The vortex at the entrance to the first dungeon area has reversed, and dungeon monsters and bosses are being released in waves every hour!"

"The East Gate has fallen! The East Gate has fallen! All heavy weaponry has been destroyed, and the professional defenders' line has been pushed back one thousand meters!"

"The West Gate has fallen! The West Gate has fallen! The professional buildings have been destroyed, and the casualties are heavy!"

"South Gate..."

"North Gate..."

Less than two hours after the World Boss announcement.

All four city gates of Yunshan City have fallen.

The heavy firepower that should have been built near the city walls and gates was all destroyed.

Even some formations and defensive towers that are usually maintained, built by these professionals, have lost most of their resources.

This should have been a battle fought from the city walls, relying on a large number of defensive towers and formations to launch a counter-offensive.

However, due to the laxity of the Yunshan City defense forces, these fixed assets were given away right at the start.

Fortunately, the combat formations of the Professionals' Association and the Twelve Sequence Branch Associations quickly arrived at the city's border using a large teleportation array.

Together with the city defense troops who also rushed to the rescue, they formed a resistance force and temporarily held off the monsters that had invaded the city.

The first wave of attacks came from a group of agile, fast-moving monsters.

The highest level is only the leader level; there is no boss.

It's not difficult to stop them.

But without defensive resources, the battles to come are destined to be difficult.

What the frontline is doing now is using the firepower of a large number of professionals and city defense troops to hold off the monsters' offensive.

This allows the logistics-related professions to rebuild the defense line.

"Damn it, why did the world boss respawn on the last day...?"

"Those bunch of good-for-nothing bastards in the city defense army! They must have thought it wouldn't refresh and started slacking off a long time ago. Now... we're doomed..."

The mayor slumped in his office chair, no longer wanting to answer the phone.

Not a single piece of good news.

"Mayor, don't give up!"

The chairman of the Yunshan City Professionals Association and the director of the Yunshan City Special Affairs Bureau entered the mayor's office.

"Our Yunshan City is just a small third-tier city."

There aren't even any level 70 professionals living locally, and the top professionals aren't strong enough to handle world bosses.

Not to mention that the city walls have now been destroyed and the defensive line has been moved back.

Once the BOSS-level monsters arrive, it will probably quickly turn into close-quarters combat. That's it, it's really over.

We're about to be...massacred!

A professional's level is not the same as their combat strength.

Equipment quality, equipment enhancement, equipment gems, gem level, skill quality, skill level, rally core bonus, mount bonus, pet bonus...

Even whether the amount of spiritual dew consumed on a daily basis meets the standards, whether one possesses any secret treasures, and whether those treasures are effective.

All these factors combined equal a professional's combat effectiveness.

To fully cultivate talent in all aspects, the amount of investment required is considerable.

Even the heads of the four major families in Yunshan City dare not say that they have maxed out everything in every aspect.

Even world-class experts would curse the probability-based enhancement and gem upgrade systems as a rip-off.

Maximizing it is not that easy.

Yunshan City is a small place, which means that the average level of resources is very low, and the combat power of the top experts is definitely not as good as that of people in big cities.

Big cities have to take a good beating when facing the world's boss.

Moreover, Yunshan City.

The mayor must have felt desperate.

He couldn't escape even if he wanted to.

World bosses are all quite strong against aerial attacks.

If you try to escape by plane, you'll most likely be shot down, and if the plane crashes, you'll die without a doubt.

The association president calmly stated, "It's not time to despair yet. This is just a level 60 world boss. As long as we hold out until reinforcements from the administrative region arrive, defeating it won't be a problem!"

The director of the Special Affairs Bureau also said, "Our investigation team has now been integrated into the combat force. With everyone working together, we will definitely be able to hold out!"

The mayor shrugged. "I've already contacted the district head's office to arrange reinforcements from the nearest second-tier city, but that will take ten days to arrive. How can we hold out?"

The so-called reinforcements refer to members of professional associations in various regions.

In the face of this crisis, professional associations are at the forefront among professionals.

Joining the Professionals Association comes with many benefits and privileges, and the obligation is to protect the city and its citizens in times of danger.

Similar to soldiers.

Intercity teleportation arrays exist in this world.

However, such a large teleportation array requires the construction of teleportation anchor arrays at both ends.

There are no formation professionals of this level in Yunshan City to maintain such a large-scale formation.

Even if one were built, there wouldn't be enough high-quality energy crystals to power it.

Therefore, the reinforcements had to travel over.

The director of the Special Affairs Bureau thought of something.

"We also have a powerful ally!"

"Who?"

"Yue Sheng, Captain Yue!"

"He just left yesterday."

"He should have received the global announcement by now and is definitely on his way back."

The mayor said with some concern, "Will he come back to help? If there's no transfer order, he won't be held accountable even if he doesn't come to help."

"He will definitely come back. Yunshan City is his hometown. Besides, there is Song Gua here, a talent he values."