Is the person you sculpt as cute as me?

Unruly, inconsistent, and anxious.

Is it because the leader is not here?

Or is it because - the boss that they were supposed to defeat was casually defeated by someone who came out of nowhere, and they are annoyed?

It doesn't matter.

As the moonlight diffused, a team of a hundred people rushed in from outside the gate without any disguise.

A group of elite players whose strength was obviously higher than the previous team came into Yu Man's sight.

Just by glancing at them, Yu Man took in everyone in the "strategy team": their equipment, expertise, level of preparation... as well as their concentration and reaction speed.

The person leading the team is... the deputy leader. The team is not very convinced, but is everything alright for now?... Many people want to show themselves off. This is a self-confident and arrogant idea.

The deputy leader immediately issued instructions: "Be careful, observe the boss type first, then retreat to make a plan, and then build the camp."

The defensive tank stood in the front row, ready to conduct a simple monster attack and test the boss mechanism.

but--

"The boss is... eh?"

"Do you have an ID?"

"It's a player!"

The crowd immediately became noisy.

This should be the boss room, but it is empty with only a few traces of battle.

And a strange girl was standing in the center of the entire showroom.

"Eel... Yeah, it's an eel!"

"Hey, it's really her..."

"——Hello." Yu Man said casually. He was obviously looking out, but his eyes seemed to be looking down.

The deputy leader looked confused, but temporarily lowered his guard. "Friends, did you guys kill those two eighth-level bosses? What about the boss in this room? And the monsters along the way... We were very quiet all the way."

It was obvious that we encountered players, and there were only a few of them left alone.

But the entire "strategy team" instinctively felt incredibly nervous.

They vaguely knew this feeling, and often felt this instinctive tremor when encountering a boss that spanned too many levels.

But—where is the Boss?

In the strange, sharp silence—

"An eighth-level boss? I didn't notice the difference between it and the monsters."

Yu Man spoke and shook his index finger.

The index finger suddenly stopped.

Then point to yourself.

"But—you can consider me the boss here. This is an illegal area, you should understand, right?"

198 A bleak ending

It's ridiculous.

There are a hundred elite soldiers here... and... they are the elite among the elite, a hundred people carefully selected from the public recruitment.

There are less than five of you, why do you dare to say such things?

The deputy leader's instinct was roaring.

But what came out of his mouth were completely opposite words: "We... have a misunderstanding?"

"No? Don't you guys just beat up everyone you see? I want to do the same, and then take on all the bosses. By the way, before we get to the final boss... I'm just using you to test my damage."

The deputy head was silent for a while, then suddenly remembered.

The player in front of you with the ID "Eel" is a very famous ice mage since the server was launched. He also established the first guild and became famous for a while.

But later it faded from people's sight and no more stories about it were known.

After many players tried their hand at the Frost Mage class, they discovered it to be difficult, with low damage output, fragile characters, and flawed only in its ability to control enemies. It could be slightly annoying in PvP situations, but that was about it.

Until a few days ago, when the "Strategy Group" was conducting open recruitment on the forum, Eel applied to join the team.

However, it was rejected due to insufficient output.

"Six and Seven Flowers...the healer who quit the team is also here..." The deputy captain saw someone in the corner.

Okay, there is a grudge, and the deputy leader understands.

But I still didn't quite understand: "You... three people... want to fight our team?"

"No." Yu Man shook her head.

"Sure enough, there are people hiding there... It seems to be the AS team and Southeast Asia... and that company." The deputy team leader's brain worked quickly, listing the teams that had lost their trace but had some strength one by one.

But it doesn't look like there's a place where a hundred-man team can be hidden.

Yu Man was also very calm: "Those two are just watching, you don't have to worry about them bullying the minority."

“…Ah?” The deputy captain didn’t understand at all.

What is she... talking about?

"Okay." Yu Man stopped talking.

Instead, he gently opened the magic book and revealed the power within.

The deputy leader also gave up thinking: "Dismantle her equipment, we'll talk later, everyone - attack."

Although they were hesitant, the entire team rushed into the room and started to attack Man.

The subconscious formation is very good, much stronger than the previous enemy.

Many people even took potions for ice resistance, and maxed out their support, healing, and fire-related operations.

It can be said that even with only one enemy, this centurion did everything they should do and acted without any contempt.

but--

"Command—the door is frozen shut, there's no escape route."

"What's the point of retreat? Go up and chop—huh?"

The first attacking tank to rush forward sensed the intense danger and did not attack rashly.

But when he wanted to attack from a different angle, Tank found that... his movements were very slow and his reactions were very slow.

"...Negative status? Frozen? Fire mage, dispel the cold! Heal me."

The attack tank just shouted this.

But soon, the same request continued to be heard.

Every plea for fire magic to dispel the cold, for cold-proof potions, for cold resistance—

All so slow, so trembling, so weak.

The deputy leader then noticed that the entire room had become extremely clean, and it seemed that only the ice element existed.

They silently spread the coldness to every corner, interweaving horizontally and vertically, and everywhere.

"It's simple. I'm not planning on launching any offensive. I'm just going to slowly lower the temperature in the room until you all freeze to death. Until then, you can attack me as much as you want... Or rather, if you attack me to the death, there's still a chance."

Instead of being like this now——

"Fire, what is the fire method doing?"

"Requesting means to combat the cold."

"It's all done, it's done!"

Everyone's voice seemed stretched and frozen.

Just by breathing, my body is constantly damaged.

They desperately tried to continue moving, but they found that the temperature was getting lower and lower, and their bodies were becoming less and less obedient...

Even - I gradually no longer feel the cold.

The sounds of quarreling faded a lot.

Instead, there was a clear and pleasant sound like a bell.

"Ah... my ear fell off." someone said.

But that was just the beginning.

The sound of shattering rang out one after another, and everyone who was still alive watched their bodies tear apart and their vision tilt. Parts of their bodies froze to the ground, but the impact shattered them into more pieces.

Until death came so easily.

Until there is no more sound.

?

"Ah..." Xiaolu hugged Xiaobing, "Eels are more vindictive than I thought...or rather, more terrifying than I thought."

"... Fortunately, I quit the team, thank God..." Liu Tong Qi Hua's teeth felt sore, and he covered his ears and closed his eyes for a while.

Thanks to Xiaobing, who was in the state of "dying", she communicated with the surrounding ice elements, so that the surrounding area was not affected by the rapid drop in temperature.

All the corpses turned into magic power and returned quietly.

Only the spoils were left on the ground, piled up on the former snow tomb.

Yu Man gently closed the book.

All elements return to freedom and gently dissolve.

"Ah—Captain." Liu Tong Qi Hua suddenly remembered something. "When the strategy team was recruited, they said they had to pay for two or three sets of equipment of the same tier. They will definitely be able to return to the battlefield... and they should be targeting the Frost Mage."

"They won't be coming." Yu Man shook her head and calmly wrote a period, "Their journey ends here."

……

The death and resurrection of hundreds of elite players caused wisps of magic to flow into the darkness like silk threads.

To be more precise—it was the "fictional truth" hidden behind the scenes, and the ritual vessel in her hand.

"very good."

……

Main city, cemetery.

Hundreds of people were resurrected at the same time, but there was deathly silence.

Someone reached out a trembling hand... and touched his ear. The thing that had shattered before his eyes... was still there.

Some people even forgot that their arms had returned and were startled when they subconsciously raised their hands.

Someone squatted down to look for the broken ice fragments on the ground, which used to be his head.

It wasn't until much, much later that they remembered how to speak.

"Who refused to let that ice mage join the team?"

"...Captain...right?"

These two sentences created a huge ripple, deeply shaking each of them.

Some people remembered that they had several sets of special equipment in their warehouses, and they could also go to the trading house to buy some cold resistance potions... No, they still couldn't. No one wanted to face it again and get smashed again.

"I'm leaving." Someone said this.

"……I also."

"I should stop playing this game. Does anyone want the inheritance?"

"I want to book a ticket to somewhere sunny..."

"I'm going to stay up all night, have a few drinks, and celebrate my precious life."

There is no blaming, no shifting of blame, and no ifs.