Overgeared

“H-Hold on! Don’t back down!”

Most cultivators had a clear advantage over players. The cultivators’ shields neutralized most attacks, so the players didn’t deal any damage to them.

A shield was created by concentrating spiritual energy. It was so simple to create one that it was hard to classify it as a technique.

Every cultivator took their shield for granted. This was why low-level cultivators could fight in the front lines.

But—

“Hngh!”

“Uwah....”

Shields weren’t unbreakable.

Shields consumed spiritual energy every time they blocked an attack, and there was a limit to that. The cultivators were very vulnerable if an army of tens of thousands launched long-range attacks toward them. The color of the spiritual energy varied according to the technique that the cultivator had learned. So when the colorful protection of the cultivators was broken one by one and scattered like stars...

“Good! We’re breaking through!”

The Overgeared Guild’s elite forces succeeded in breaking through the shields of the cultivators. Disgusted, the cultivators tried using mystical arts, but to no avail. They were almost out of spiritual energy. Even if they completed a mystical art, it wouldn’t deal enough damage to threaten the elites of the Overgeared Guild.

“Destroy all visible formations.”

The elites of the Overgeared members weren’t in any rush to enter the Full Moon Fortress. Following Jishuka’s orders, they went around the fortress and focused on destroying anything that looked remotely suspicious, such as mysterious rotating mystical texts, unknown stone statues, a forest that shouldn’t be floating, and soaring waterfalls gushing upside down. All of these collapsed following the Overgeared Guild’s involvement.

“N-No...!”

The cultivators’ faces paled. The things the Overgeared members were destroying boosted the strength of the fortress. Some were traps that would harm enemies, some were shields that blocked attacks, and some were power sources that would devour the enemies and turn them into spiritual energy, but now they were either malfunctioning or destroyed.

The secret arts provided by each sect to protect the last bastion were now gone.

“That girl...! Get rid of that red-handed girl first!”

The cultivators looked at where Jishuka was as they dodged the arrows and magic bombardment of the empire’s soldiers and magicians. She was a legend and a Transcendent. She had acquired a bit of King Daebyeol’s divinity, so her firepower stood out even among the elites of the Overgeared Guild. Every time she fired her bow, the formations set up by the cultivators collapsed disastrously. She was a top priority target.

“Protect Jishuka!”

Of course, being an archer had clear disadvantages. Jishuka had a wide field of view and powerful attacks, but low survivability skills. This made fighting solo almost impossible. This was why Vantner was almost always by her side.

“Be careful.”

shadow spread out like a curtain and swallowed up all the projectiles. This was the use of the skill Greed. Before he knew it, Faker had

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be trapped in the Tomb of the Gods along with the high-level cultivators, would suddenly

moved according

escaped from the Tomb of the Gods at the same time that Jishuka died. He had moved to where Knight was and melted into

idea using Knight’s ability. There is a reason that arrogant

best, I am just a pinch

of high-ranking cultivators escaping the Tomb of the Gods was increasing one by one. Jishuka, who was

before then,

to protect Jishuka by himself. The skills of the

nodded and sent a

command of the front

to destroy

young master, who used to only

as she recalled the time she first met Chris. She suddenly became proud of Grid. It was because of Grid’s help that everyone

this is your guild. Please rest assured

of this level to his

expanded her field of view and prepared for the final

area. However, Jishuka had a satellite-like vision and sniping-related passive skills. Once Jishuka used

like machine guns at the

damn girl is attacking us even

but they couldn’t do anything. Faker used the shadow movement technique and escaped the battlefield with

***

had been raining for hours now. The rain droplets had been

was matted, and he was lying lethargically on the sofa. He

care of himself by meditating and exercising, but he didn’t even lift a finger today. He even

been in a lot of pain while fighting Hanul and Garam, and he became very afraid of the prospect that reality might change soon. Would he have to endure this type of pain in real life? Mortal flesh

this. Because his mind was restless, he couldn’t afford to take care of

“...Ow.”

he was about to get up, pain flashed through his body as if he had been stabbed. He was experiencing pain in all the areas

a single scratch on his skin. It wasn’t

experiencing some sort of

was having. He was used to all types of pain while fighting against strong enemies,

to him. This was like confessing that

all. The vague uneasiness that the world will change is

focused on calming down. He analyzed the source of his trauma, and his anger

ate. He turned on the TV and saw the

cultivators appeared in the game. If the last two Full Moon Fortresses failed

game world would go back to normal, but the history and techniques of the cultivators