Gina and her brother at the back of the group were completely dumbfounded.
That young man called Liu Xuan was practically a natural disaster in human form—wherever he went, death followed.
What was more, as the number of pheromone stacks on his body continued to rise, more and more Destroyers were drawn to him, making the spectacle increasingly astonishing.
Destroyer after Destroyer swarmed in from every direction, only to be slaughtered in great waves.
It was as if they had come specifically to throw away their lives.
Gina suddenly remembered how, when Orenburg was conquered during her childhood, she had watched the soldiers defending the city charge forward like this, only to be massacred by the monsters in wave after wave.
But this time, the roles had been reversed.
Watching the Destroyers charge in as if they were committing suicide, only to fall in droves, was unbelievably satisfying.
So they had their day, too!
Gina tugged on her brother’s arm. “Big brother, is this what you meant by a god descending to the mortal world?”
“I... I don’t know either.”
......
Soon, everyone arrived near the first teleport portal. Without Liu Xuan needing to say anything, a group of people voluntarily stayed behind.
Most of them were only Level 12 or 13, while the monsters were Level 20. They would definitely be under some pressure, but holding out for a while was not a problem.
Liu Xuan had already instructed them beforehand: Don’t worry about dealing damage. Equip your strongest survivability gear.
He had an idea he wanted to test—the “grand plan” he had previously mentioned to Zhang Meng!
He wanted to see whether the passive skill Destruction Aura could synergize with the title Light of Orenburg.
At present, this passive provided only a limited boost to him personally.
Put simply, the monsters’ armor was currently too low, while his damage was too high.
Take a monster with 100 armor, for example. Even if its armor decreased by 10% every second, after a full minute it would only have lost 500 armor.
To Liu Xuan, that merely meant 500 additional physical damage—completely negligible.
But for everyone else, it was an entirely different story.
Most people could only deal two or three hundred damage with a basic attack, while even their stronger skills dealt only six or seven hundred.
For them, reducing a monster’s armor from 100 to -500 meant that their basic attacks went from dealing only one or two hundred damage to dealing seven or eight hundred.
That was undoubtedly a massive, qualitative improvement.
With this effect, they could completely take down the Destroyers.
So why did Liu Xuan want to test whether Destruction Aura and Light of Orenburg could work together?
Because he had thought of a rather sneaky trick.
Under normal circumstances, when you formed a party with someone, if the two of you were far enough apart, entering combat would not cause your teammates to enter combat as well.
Likewise, if your teammates entered combat, you would not enter combat.
Even if both sides were fighting monsters, once you killed all the monsters on your side, you could leave combat even if your teammates had not finished theirs.
That was because the two sides were too far apart. You had neither affected nor damaged the monsters your teammates were fighting, so the aggro was completely independent.
However, once Liu Xuan entered combat, the area of effect of Destruction Aura would continue to expand.
Each trigger increased its range by five meters.
If ten monsters were affected at the same time, its range could increase by fifty meters every second.
This meant that even if Liu Xuan was far away from his teammates, as long as he was fighting monsters and his teammates were fighting monsters as well, then once the aura’s range expanded far enough to reach them, the monsters they were fighting would also be affected by Destruction Aura.
In other words, at that moment, Liu Xuan would have joined their battle.
Therefore, even if all the monsters on his side were killed afterward, he still would not leave combat.
Destruction Aura would not disappear after he left combat. Instead, it would continue to take effect and keep expanding.
And here came the most important part.
Because of the effects of the title Light of Orenburg, Liu Xuan had made every single person an ally.
As long as someone was in combat and the aura covered their position, it would be equivalent to Liu Xuan joining their battle, allowing the aura to continue growing.
When that happened, could Destruction Aura cover the entire city? Maybe an even larger area?
The entire battlefield, perhaps?
As long as someone was fighting monsters, would they be able to benefit from Destruction Aura?
Of course, they would have to wait for the test results.
If it really worked, Liu Xuan could only say that these two things together made for a completely heaven-defying combination!
That was why, when he reached the third teleport portal, he sent a message to the people stationed at the first one.
“How is it? Are the monsters’ armor and magic resistance decreasing?”
The people on the other end were extremely excited.
“They are! They keep dropping! The first batch of monsters lost so much that we’ve already killed them. As soon as the new ones spawn and we engage them, their armor and magic resistance start dropping immediately!”
They had no idea how Liu Xuan had accomplished this. All they knew was that the effect was ridiculously powerful.
One of the spellcasters cast Blizzard. The first hit landed for less than 100 damage—after all, everyone was wearing gear focused on survivability and sustain.
But by the time the spell finished channeling, the final hit was dealing two or three hundred damage.
The increase was absurd. No matter how tough the monster was, it could not withstand having both its defenses reduced like this.
After hearing their response, Liu Xuan nodded, though the test was not over yet.
Before reaching Orenburg, he had deliberately left several people behind in Yellow Ox Village, which was roughly two or three li from Orenburg.
As more and more groups took over the various teleport portals, an increasing number of Destroyers in the city entered combat, and the range of Destruction Aura began expanding faster and faster.
Liu Xuan estimated that, as long as the aura had no upper limit, its range should have reached Yellow Ox Village by now.
He immediately sent a message to the people he had left there.
“You can start pulling monsters.”
“Understood!”
The party stationed there immediately lured one of the monsters from the village over.
To make the test easier, the tank stepped forward and struck it with a basic attack.
“-30!”
As soon as they entered combat, they noticed that the monster had gained a debuff that reduced both its armor and magic resistance. As time passed, the number of stacks continued to increase.
To be safe, the tank struck it again.
“-60!”
It worked!
They hurriedly sent an excited message to Liu Xuan.
“The ace, it works! The monsters here can have their defenses reduced too! This is incredible. It works even from this far away!”
“Good. Thanks for your hard work. You can come back now.”
“Why would we come back? If the city isn’t under much pressure, we’ll just level up here. There’s no danger in fighting monsters above our level anymore.”
All they needed to do was put on a sufficiently tanky set of gear, and even they could casually fight these high-level monsters.
As for dealing damage, they only had to leave that to the ace’s defense reduction.
“All right, then. Be careful.”
After ending the conversation, Liu Xuan sent another message to Zhang Meng.
“It works. Get ready to bring everyone on the entire battlefield into the party.”
Zhang Meng already knew about Liu Xuan’s so-called “earth-shattering grand plan.” Even so, he could not help but be astonished when he heard this.
“It really works? Everyone on the entire battlefield can benefit from the effect?”
“Yeah. As long as someone joins my party, no matter where they are, the physical and magical resistance of any outdoor monsters they fight will start to drop. If they’re farther away, though, they’ll have to wait a little for my aura to spread over there.”
As long as even one person was still fighting somewhere on the battlefield, the aura’s effect would not be interrupted.
On a battlefield with several thousand people, keeping that condition met was incredibly easy.
From now on, everyone on the entire 2468 battlefield could fight outdoor monsters without worrying about damage output at all. They only needed to focus on maximizing their survivability.
And ideally, they should fight monsters above their level whenever possible.
After all, the higher a monster’s resistances, the more resistance the aura would reduce.
A monster with 100 defense would lose 10 each time.
A monster with 1,000 defense would lose 100 each time.
Even a healer could hit hard enough with a staff once the monster’s defense had been worn down.
Of course, at this stage, there definitely weren’t any monsters with 1,000 defense out in the wild yet.
There was one minor issue: the aura didn’t work inside dungeons.
If Liu Xuan entered a dungeon himself, the aura would also be interrupted.
But those were only minor problems. At worst, he could come back out and refresh it. It wouldn’t take long.
After hearing this, Zhang Meng couldn’t help sucking in a sharp breath. This was an aura that covered the entire battlefield!
“You’re seriously a freak.”
“Thanks for the compliment.”
“By the way, during the defense battle three days from now, when we fight those people…”
“Of course it’ll work on them too. Why else do you think I tested it? I prepared it for them from the very beginning. Hehe.”
After hearing that, Zhang Meng started chuckling along with him.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
transmigrates into the role of a villainous rich second-generation kid in an urban fantasy novel, and gets bound to a god-tier choice system. Right at the start, he catches the female lead stealing exam papers! This triggers the villain's choice options! [Choice 1: Pretend you didn't see anything] [Choice 2: Loudly call her out, drawing everyone's attention] [Choice 3: ...] And thus, a twisted villain is born. To avoid getting killed by the protagonist, he has no choice but to take down all the protagonists first. Jiang Che: Nobody understands being twisted better than me!
