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

Wu Ge transforms next to Huo Zi Ge.

His body vaporized, sometimes turning into a goldfish, sometimes into a squid, and sometimes into a tuna.

"Brother Huo, do you think I'm changing fast?"

Huozi glanced at him.

"I'm starting to miss Nanfeng... What's next?"

"We've gone astray, we're getting further and further away from the mainland, and we've already entered the Pacific Ocean! If we keep going, we'll be at the southernmost city in the China region, which, coincidentally, is Ye Chen's Nanshui City."

"What?! Why didn't you say so earlier! All you ever do is change things up!"

"The old thief said, 'Why don't we just cross the Pacific and travel around the world? We can leave our brothers in all six administrative regions, that way we can go wherever we want!'"

"I don't want to be Magellan, I want to fight the world boss!"

……

January was an agonizing month for cities around the world that hadn't yet broken the world's top rankings.

In the tense waiting day after day.

On January 25th, a global announcement for the World Boss Siege War appeared in the China region.

World Bosses are spawning around Shangjing City!

The World Boss Siege Battle is about to begin! Please prepare your defenses in the capital city!

During the World Boss battle, return scrolls will be unavailable, teleportation functions will be disabled, dungeons will be inaccessible, all monsters will evolve into elite monsters, level up, and enter a nighttime berserk mode!

Before the people in the China region could react, another notification appeared.

World Bosses have spawned around Southwater City!

The World Boss Siege Battle is about to begin. Nanshui City, please prepare your defenses!

[During the World Boss battle...]

Double yolk egg!

Two world bosses spawned on the same day!

One is in Shangjing City in the north, and the other is in Nanshui City, an isolated island in the South China Sea!

The situation in Beijing is much easier.

As soon as the announcement of the World Boss was released, all major forces and official institutions in the city immediately sprang into action.

In the military buffer zone, a large number of defensive forces were in place more than a month ago.

Everything was proceeding smoothly, awaiting only intelligence from the city defense forces' reconnaissance teams, informing them of the world boss's exact spawn location.

The attack from the World Boss will be defended by the high-end combat forces of the three major clans and the Federation government.

The other three directions were left to the five major guild alliances to lead, with countless other guilds, families, and official combat personnel joining forces to resist.

Big fish eat big shrimp, small fish eat small shrimp.

Every year, the capital city hosts a world boss siege battle, and everyone there is extremely familiar with it.

They even started live streaming.

One after another, aerial drones took off, and heavily made-up frontline reporters stood in front of the camera, holding microphones and smiling.

It was as if what was about to begin was not a life-or-death battle, but a sports meet.

But Nanshui City is in dire straits.

This isolated island city has never had a world boss spawn from a thousand years ago to the present!

How small is this city?

The land around him was not even enough to support the formation of a moderate fog zone.

The leveling map for grinding monsters only goes up to level 20.

There is no second job advancement dungeon area.

There are no restricted areas.

Beyond the isolated island lies the vast ocean.

There are higher leveling areas and second job advancement dungeons in the ocean.

However, unless you are a professional who is good at naval combat, going into the water is not about fighting monsters, but about being fought by monsters.

That's why the professional workforce in this city has never been able to develop.

Unexpectedly, the world boss has been refreshed this year.

For a long time after the announcement, the citizens of Nanshui City were completely bewildered.

Because the city is so small that building city walls would be pointless, there are no defensive lines here.

The entire city gates were wide open!

The world boss spawned directly on the edge of the island, a flat plain, and led the wild monsters and dungeon monsters it commanded to sweep through!

The only good news is...

The world boss also commanded the monsters in the sea.

After the sea monsters came ashore, they couldn't adapt to the new environment and piled up on the shore, which weakened the monster army a bit.

But for Nanshui City, what difference does it make whether it's weakened or not?

Even if the world boss is a lone commander, he is enough to slaughter the entire city.

In the three-story office building of the Nanshui City Public Security Bureau, Qi Xuan, who was using crutches, almost collapsed.

But he knew that he couldn't afford to fall now.

The vice mayor, who was forty years younger than Qi Xuan, collapsed to the ground after realizing what had happened.

"Why, why would a world boss appear in a small city like ours? Isn't this blatantly an attempt to wipe out our city?"

Qi Xuan's voice was calm.

"Don't panic! Immediately organize the entire city's manpower to resist the world boss. Don't worry about other directions. The key is the direction from which the world boss is attacking!"

Also, contact the city of Kyoto. We need support. Please arrange for the nearest reinforcements to arrive as soon as possible!

At the same time, contact the nearest third- and fourth-tier cities to see if they can immediately allocate manpower!

Everyone else present was trembling.

"Is...is it still of any use, Mayor Qi?"

Qi Xuan slammed his cane down hard.

"As long as people are alive, there is still hope!"

The deputy mayor, who was slumped on the ground, had already started crying.

"Why is our Nanshui City so unlucky? We finally produced a genius, only to have him arrested by the Special Affairs Bureau. They said he used forbidden power, and now, not long after, the World Boss is here..."

Qi Xuan reached out and helped him up.

"Being discouraged won't help. Cheer up and do what you can!"

Qi Xuan's composure and calmness in the face of danger gave the municipal bureau leadership a strong boost of confidence.

Although everyone knows that Nanshui City, with only a handful of people even having completed their second class change, is no match for a world boss that is at least level 60, they certainly cannot withstand it.

But as city leaders, they cannot be the first to fall.

The people of Nanshui City are very united.

After confirming the World Boss announcement and the war mobilization notice issued by the city leaders, all citizens rushed to the north, the direction where the World Boss spawns.

The city's defense forces, equipped with firearms, and combat professionals were at the forefront.

Behind them were all the citizens in their prime.

Many of them are life skills practitioners. Although they are equipped with weapon-type equipment that does not provide any benefits, they have borrowed weapons from combat-type professionals and are holding them in their hands, ready for a bloody battle.

The entire city was united, forming a wall of life to protect their fragile hometown.

The underground shelters in the city house children, the elderly, and pregnant women from Nanshui City.

The shelter was dark and sparsely populated, with cockroaches and rats crawling everywhere.

The children were terrified and cried incessantly, calling for their mother.

The elderly people held the children, whose parents they didn't even know, and kept comforting them.

In the north of the city, that enormous figure appeared.

He walked slowly, even gracefully.

A chilling black wand, reflecting the light of the seawater.

Lv60, Dark Archmage: Thorne!