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

In the No. 3 mining area of ​​Yunshan City, the flag of the Tianzhao Guild fluttered in the night wind.

Although it was late at night, the sounds of digging could still be heard from inside the mine.

The resources that refresh in the mine each day are fixed, and if not all of them are mined, they will not be retained for the next day.

Therefore, each mine is excavated 24 hours a day without interruption.

On the watchtower outside the mining area, two Sky Sign Guild professionals on night watch were smoking.

"The fog seems thicker tonight."

"Hmm, the field of vision is only about 100 meters now."

"Luckily, there are sensors around, which will trigger an alarm if someone gets too close."

"Who would come here so late at night, especially in the wild? Aren't you afraid of those monsters with doubled stats?"

"Hey kid, watch out. Lots of people steal from the mines at night. And none of the other guilds are pushovers."

"Hahaha! Don't worry, I heard that things are quite chaotic in the city lately. The top leaders of several major guilds are all busy, so they shouldn't be launching any battles to seize the mining areas in the next few days."

"You mean the bandits causing trouble in the mental hospital, right?"

"These bandits are really something. They're all low-level, but their ability to cause trouble is top-notch. Not only did they rob the world bosses of the eight major guilds, but they even dared to expose the Zhao family's black market activities. They're a bunch of incredibly audacious people."

"I think they're a bunch of reckless lunatics. I heard they'd just blow themselves up like that. It's best to stay away from them."

The two were chatting and smoking when a warning light suddenly lit up and a piercing alarm sounded.

"What's wrong?"

"There are people approaching, and there are a lot of them!"

"Which guild doesn't uphold martial ethics?!"

"They don't look like people, they're monsters, and there are way too many of them!"

"Stop pretending, I've already seen it..."

Using the high-powered searchlights near the watchtower, one could see a large group of terrifying-looking monsters rushing towards them through the thick fog ahead.

Some of them had exposed white bones, others had black pus and blood flowing from their bodies, and still others dragged their broken bodies.

Like a group of walking corpses, they looked even more eerie in the night.

Among these undead creatures are some bouncy monkey monsters, creating a highly inconsistent style.

They came in droves, covering the mountains and plains, surging in like a rising tide.

These were, of course, the products of Ghost Brother and Monkey Brother's day's preparation.

The battle cry has been sounded in the mining area.

The group of night watchmen were awakened from their sleep. They quickly put on their equipment, grabbed their weapons, and went to the outskirts of the mining area to prepare for battle.

"What's going on?! Is it a monster disturbance? Or an attack by the Gem Guardian?!"

"It doesn't look like it at all! None of the monsters around here look like this!"

"I didn't see the Gem Guardian either!"

"No, undead monsters, plus monkey monsters... this combination looks kind of familiar, doesn't it?"

The group of people looked at each other, seemingly having figured something out.

"Damn it! They're bandits!"

Speak of bandits, and bandits arrive.

Wearing mahjong-patterned headbands and various colored Taoist robes, the bandits stood on the monsters in the middle of the monster horde, surrounded by undead creatures and monkeys.

They raised their weapons high, swinging them wildly above their heads, shouting incoherent slogans.

"Celestial Sign Guild! Your Emperor has returned!"

"Demacia!!"

"For the Horde!!"

"Wow, wow, wow! Speedy, steamy, silver! The best in the universe!"

"I'm going to rob your mines in the name of the moon!"

The professionals of the Celestial Sign Guild organized a defensive line.

The first to be activated are the barrier-type formations.

A huge pale blue light curtain covered the entire No. 3 mining area.

Ghost Brother's undead summons and Monkey Brother's monkey offspring crashed into it, creating a cacophony of squeals and screams.

"Defense tower activated!"

Defense towers are large-scale professional resources that can be built by logistics and construction professions.

Energy crystals are used as an energy source.

Once the enemy enters the turret's warning range, it will launch attacks in a regular pattern.

There are many types of defensive towers.

There are offensive defensive towers such as arrow towers, cannon towers, fire towers, and lightning towers.

There are also special defensive towers that inflict negative status effects on enemies, as well as those that increase the health and resistance of nearby friendly units.

The benefits of defensive towers are self-evident; they offer extremely high cost-effectiveness.

On large-scale battlefields, high-level, high-quality defensive towers can be enough to sway the course of the battle.

The only drawback is that it cannot be carried or transferred; it only functions wherever it is built.

"BOOM BOOM BOOM!!"

Black shells bombarded the monster horde, blasting up plumes of flame and black smoke.

The summoned creatures suffered heavy casualties.

The defensive towers of the Tianzhao Guild are all turrets, which suggests that one of their guild's construction professionals is skilled at building turrets.

Defense towers generally have a slow attack speed, taking several seconds to attack.

The problem is that these defensive towers are all built inside the barrier formation, so the bandits' attacks can't reach them, but the attacks from inside can still reach them.

"Hahaha! What bandits? Nothing special!"

"This bunch of noobs dare to trespass into our mining area! They have no respect for the Celestial Sign Guild!"

"It seems that defensive towers and formations are enough to take them down."

"That's it? They actually managed to steal a world boss? I think our second-job class could wipe them all out."

The professionals of the Celestial Sign Guild didn't notice.

One bandit, having evaded all the turret attacks, arrived in front of the barrier under the protection of his summoned creatures and monkey minions.

He placed one hand on the surface of the barrier, his expression beneath the hood resolute and dignified.

"Brothers! Let's fuck them!!!"

"boom!!!"

After the loud bang.

A mushroom cloud rose into the sky.

The bandit's classic move—self-destruction.

This self-destruction was extremely powerful.

Because the one who just revealed himself was a level 20 clone.

He didn't level up by leveling up; rather, he's a clone that Song Gua recently created.

The power of self-destruction is only related to level. The power of a level 20 professional's self-destruction is enough to make a second-job professional tremble.

A gap was blasted in the barrier of the mining area.

The summoned creatures and their monkey offspring filed in, and once inside, they wreaked havoc everywhere.

They're dismantling towers, tearing down walls, and stripping people of their clothes.

The formation was only breached by the explosion; the entire formation was intact and is being repaired rapidly.

The bandits outside the barrier attacked the edge of the breach, slowing down the repair process.

"Holy crap! These bandits are a bunch of lunatics!"

"No wonder they were able to steal the world boss! Who else is as reckless as them!"

"Stop fucking shocked! Go plug the breach!"

The professionals in the Celestial Sign Guild, while not necessarily highly trained, at least cooperate to some extent.

In addition, there are quite a few second-job professionals here.

These summoned creatures alone are far from enough to match it.

The summoned creatures that rushed in are being quickly cleared out and are retreating steadily.

Seeing that things were not going well, the bandits outside began to retreat.

Seeing the bandits about to run away, someone shouted.

"Charge out! Capture the bandits alive and claim the reward!"

One after another, the mine defense squads rushed out from the barrier formation and chased after the bandits.

Just then, an urgent report came from another direction in the mining area.

"The June Green Guild has broken in!"

"What?!"

"They brought formation masters and stopped our northern barrier formation! The northern defensive towers are almost completely destroyed! We need reinforcements, we're too few people here!"

"Damn it!! These bandits over here are drawing fire! Quickly go support the north!"