Published: February 12, 2025
Ye Zhongming dodged an attack from the ninth-level mud monster, but didn't account for the other several eighth-level ones. He was struck by a sticky yet powerful clump of mud, briefly losing his balance and sliding far away in the swamp.
A tingling sensation surged through him, but it quickly faded. Looking down, he noticed that his battle armor was damaged in multiple places from the toxic mud hitting him.
Without much thought, Ye Zhongming relied on his physical resilience to mitigate the poison's effect. He rolled to evade the subsequent attacks and continued charging toward the ninth-level mud monster.
Not only did Ye Zhongming know that getting close to this ninth-level mud monster would lead to victory, but the mud monster itself was aware that once this human approached, it would be its demise. Thus, as soon as Ye Zhongming entered its 500-meter range, it began consciously summoning its minions to assist it.
The entire battlefield was originally centered around the Cloud Summit team, with the mud monsters surrounding the humans and attacking. Even as the Cloud Summit members began to disperse their attacks, they did not concentrate on any single individual.
Until now.
Ye Zhongming had become the only target worth attacking in the eyes of all the mud monsters. Even with nearly a thousand Cloud Summit members still slaughtering them, the mud monsters felt no fear and all rushed toward Ye Zhongming. As soon as the King of Cloud Summit entered their range, they would direct their attacks at him.
The Cloud Summit warriors naturally noticed this situation and continued to attack from behind, but there were just too many mud monsters. No matter how hard they tried to kill them, it was impossible to wipe them all out in a short time.
Even if Ye Zhongming was powerful, he could not withstand the combined attacks of so many monsters.
The warriors of Cloud Summit were extremely anxious, unleashing all their powerful moves.
The number of mud monsters was rapidly decreasing, but the attacks directed at Ye Zhongming couldn't be immediately dispelled.
During his charge, Ye Zhongming continuously dodged using his speed, and when he truly couldn't evade any longer, he activated the teleportation skill of his space equipment. However, when he was about 300 meters away from the ninth-level mud monster, all his teleportation skills had entered a cooldown period.
During this time, Ye Zhongming even stopped trying to dodge the attacks from the fifth and sixth-level mud monsters.
Moving forward another thirty meters, the King of Cloud Summit suddenly sensed something was off.
The ninth-level monster hadn't attacked in a long time; according to the previous attack frequency, it should have struck about two minutes ago.
While dodging, Ye Zhongming glanced at his greatest opponent and found that the mud monster was eating.
It wasn't eating anything else but the smaller mud monsters surrounding it!
A bad feeling surged within Ye Zhongming. He knew this ninth-level creature was either enhancing its own strength or preparing for some special attack.
Indeed, after devouring an unknown number of its kind, the ninth-level mud monster's body expanded significantly. It puffed up and began to spray mud in Ye Zhongming's direction.
There were still many mud monsters between it and Ye Zhongming, and this spray was a straight shot. The first to suffer were its own kind.
Faced with the Overlord's attack, the mud monsters couldn't hold on and were instantly annihilated. Some of the mud was lost, but what remained continued to roar toward Ye Zhongming.
With a vast area of effect, Ye Zhongming knew he couldn’t dodge it. He quickly took out the Staff of Nature, inserted the highest-level water gem, and prepared to use the Shield of the Water Bottle to block the attacks for himself.
Countless clumps of mud crashed against the energy barrier. The originally extremely resilient energy shield’s brightness rapidly diminished, indicating that the Shield of the Water Bottle wouldn’t hold for long.