After leaving the team, the adventurer ladies regretted it deeply

Then, in a short time, the Red Armored Crab King adapted to its body, and its strength surged dramatically.

The White Dove Adventure Group, embroiled in a bitter fight.

Fortunately, the Scarlet Adventure Group from Red Heart City arrived swiftly upon hearing the news and joined the battlefield.

With the cooperation of the two top-tier adventure groups, the tide of battle quickly turned, putting the Red Armored Crab King in jeopardy.

According to the experience of Mayor Adel, within twenty more minutes, the monster presiding over Breeze River Beach would be vanquished.

Although there were some irregularities...

But, the scales of victory were indeed tilting towards the adventurers.

By noon, this battle could probably draw to a close.

At this moment, on the banks of Breeze River Beach.

Battle Qi flickered, and magic roared.

The earth-shaking roar of the monster manifested as a physical shockwave, sweeping across the vicinity.

The soil, like the surface of water, was lifted in waves.

More than twenty high-level Star-ranked adventurers were besieging the massive Red Armored Crab King.

"I never thought we'd cooperate one day."

The leader of White Dove, Mind's Eye Abner, was slightly panting.

He thrust forward, moving behind the Red Armored Crab King, leaving a deep sword mark, and arrived beside Dawen from the Scarlet Adventure Group.

The deputy leader Dawen had led the team to Breeze River Beach.

"This monster is ours, no one else should come close, right?" Dawen's excitement was unmasked.

A level 35 high-level Magical Beast, he hadn't encountered such a strong opponent in a long while, feeling his blood boil with eagerness to fight.

Abner understood what Dawen implied, referring to the Specter Adventure Group and the Solid Rock Adventure Group.

"No one can snatch this monster from our grasp." Abner's tone was calm, radiating an indisputable confidence.

Dawen nodded in satisfaction, "Good, one of my team members is not in the best state, I've sent her nearby to keep watch."

"Not in the best state?" A flash of a silver-haired maid crossed Abner's mind. A few years ago, in a fight in the Great Mystery Continent, she had made a lasting impression on him.

If he remembered correctly, the maid's name was Tasya.

An adventurer whose strength was not inferior to his and Dawen's.

"Mhm. Tasya has some heart issues."

Remembering Tasya's 'condition,' a trace of melancholy flickered through Dawen's eyes.

The fervor of battle seemed as if doused by a bucket of cold water.

They had planned to join forces today and fight a fierce battle against the monster.

But Tasya's old ailment had flared up again, preventing her from participating in such intense combat.

Dawen could only arrange her at the perimeter of the battlefield, as a scout.

If other Steel Level Adventure Teams appeared, she was to come inform them immediately.

And to stop certain overconfident Rock-level Squads — like his sister Lia, that fool.

Indeed, just as Dawen thought, Snow Goose was actually stopped by Tasya and then sent away.

At that moment, Lia was leading her team to fight the Black Shell Crab General in another area, honing their combat teamwork.

If Dawen saw that scene, he would probably feel relieved.

...

...

"What do you mean by saying the White Dove Adventure Group will be annihilated?"

Kafni followed Lin Da, who was sprinting, her face full of confusion.

"With Abner's strength, even fighting a fully-grown Red Armored Crab King shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"Indeed so," Lin Da nodded.

"Then why...?"

"In the same territory, only one monster ruler appears."

Lin Da's eyes turned cold, "If the Red Armored Crab King appears here, then what is the monster that the White Dove Adventure Group is fighting?"

Kafni was stunned, her mouth dry, "An Epic Demon Creature?"

"That's the only possibility,"

Lin Da said.

In the game, a Murderous Crab frenzy erupts at every server's Qingfeng River Beach.

In a very few servers, the final boss is not the Red Armored Crab King.

But rather an Epic Demon Creature known as the 'Thousand-Change Demon' from the Demon Lord's Army.

The Thousand-Change Demon is among the upper ranks of the Demon Lord's Army.

Its most distinctive feature: constant transformation.

It can disguise as any monster it devours.

The Red Armored Crab King Lin Da encountered was just a seven-meter-long juvenile.

The adult Crab King has likely already been devoured by the Thousand-Change Demon.

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It disguised as a regular high-level Magical Beast luring Steel Level Adventure Groups to their doom.

As Kafni said, for the White Dove Adventure Group, eliminating a fully-grown Red Armored Crab King is no issue.

Everyone was so sure of that.

But, what if the assumed Red Armored Crab King was actually the Epic Demon Creature, the Thousand-Change Demon, in disguise?

The Thousand-Change Demon's strength among Epic Demon Creatures isn't the strongest, primarily relying on cunning tactics. The most nauseating aspect about it is its innate skill "Resurgence."

Resurgence: Activated when health points drop below 20%; if not killed within 10 seconds, it enters a cocoon state, untargetable during this period, and after 10 seconds, it resurrects with 100% health.

Simply put, it's like a phoenix turning into an egg.

For example, in a game, when you tower dive Anivia, she turns into an egg while you get severely damaged by the tower and Anivia revives at full health.

If you are not aware that the Magical Creature you are fighting is the Thousand-Change Demon, nearly all adventure teams of the same level will be overturned by this annoying skill!

When [Resurgence] is triggered, there are no special effects; by the time adventurers see the Thousand-Change Demon cocoon and turn into an unselectable state, it's already too late.

The Thousand-Change Demon fully revives, while the adventurer team is substantially drained.

When gaming, Lin Da had once been defeated by the Thousand-Change Demon.

However, once you know the characteristics of the Thousand-Change Demon, you can easily handle it.

Every member holds on to their Ultimate Move; within 10 seconds of the Thousand-Change Demon activating its innate skill [Resurgence], they just need to finish it off in one go.

The biggest challenge lies in how to determine when the Thousand-Change Demon's health drops below 20% and activates [Resurgence].

This skill shows no signs or external effects; whether adventurers use their naked eye or spiritual power, they cannot detect anything amiss.

But Lin Da's skill [Eye of Truth] allows him to see both damage and recovery numbers.

When Resurgence activates, the Thousand-Change Demon slowly regenerates health.

Once green numbers appear above its head, it's time for everyone to unleash their Ultimate Moves and focus their attacks!

Lin Da knew time was pressing.

If the White Dove Adventure Group acted too swiftly and pushed the health of the Thousand-Change Demon to 20%... it would be too late.

He charged through, arriving at a raised hill.

Beyond there, another five thousand meters ahead, was the midsection of Breeze River Beach.

He was about to cross the hill.

Suddenly, a powerful aura of Battle Qi forced Lin Da to stop in his tracks.

The Wind Battle Qi transformed into energy bullets, which with a series of clicks, lined up in front of Lin Da, marking a straight line like a dead zone.

On the hill, a silver-haired maid stood indifferently.

Her long maid's dress fluttered in the wind, revealing only a glimpse of slim legs wrapped in white stockings.

Her skin was a rare tan color, filled with an exotic sense of mystery, and she held a magic cannon reminiscent of a Gatling gun.

The woman's features were as delicate as a game CG, with faint, thin eyebrows and a pair of cold, indifferent eyes, thin lips as sharp as a knife, looking like a foreign Snow Lotus growing amongst thorns.

Beautiful, but surrounded by dangers; any closer approach would turn you into a meat sieve under the magic cannon, like the riddled ground.

Lin Da looked at the silver-haired maid on the hill, feeling a surreal blur as fantasy seemed to step into reality.

When a two-dimensional paper person materializes into a real person, it's almost a 100% restoration!

Whether it's the mean look like someone who despises trash, or the indifferent yet irresistibly alluring charisma, it's all exactly like in the game.

[Storm] Tasya.

One of the first four-star characters that Lin Da had kicked out of the team!

"Madam, what is the meaning of this?"

Lin Da looked ahead at the straight line formed by the magic cannon and asked calmly.

Now, he was equivalent to leaving the Original Adventure Team without a word, mysteriously disappearing for three years, only to become the leader of another adventure team.

His strength was also much weaker than during his Dark Shadow period.

What would the higher-leveled Tasya think now? She wouldn't, like Lulu, have turned her good feelings into hatred, preparing to mutilate him...n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Thinking this, cold sweat beaded on Lin Da's forehead.

"Captain?" Monica, who recognized Tasya as the socially awkward Big Lolita who always stayed in the warehouse, knew not many team members realized she was part of them.

Kafni also felt Lin Da was a bit off, seemingly familiar with that imposing maid?

"A Star-ranked adventurer's support must be really sweet! I didn't realize you had such connections!" Kafni teased, patting Lin Da's shoulder a bit too forcefully.

Click, click, click!

Suddenly, magic-guided bullets came their way again, and Lin Da and his companions dodged the bullets clumsily as if dancing.

Luckily, Tasya was just threatening and didn't really intend to harm them.

Still, Lin Da and his team were quite embarrassed.

The clumsy Monica, like a sloth, clung to Lin Da's back, while Kafni, furious, jumped about, cursing vociferously:

"You damn woman, are you out of your mind? Can't you see our White Dove City adventurer's badge on our chests?"

Tasya's gaze remained cold: "Any team is the same. Leave, or die."

Only then did everyone notice on Tasya's prominent chest a Steel Level Adventure Group badge against a red heart background.

"Red Heart City's adventure team?" Kafni realized and said hastily: "With the Monster Tide approaching, aren't all city adventure teams supposed to be allies? We have urgent business, so please let us through!"

Tasya remained unmoved, holding the magic cannon with emotionless eyes.

"Dawen entrusted me with preventing anyone from crossing the hill," she said indifferently.

During her year away, Dawen had still sent her full compensation without fussing over the breach of contract.

Tasya remembered this kindness.

Even if the Specter Adventure Group arrived here, she would stop them with all her might.

"We have important news that needs to get through," Lin Da said gravely. "Alternatively, you can take the message there yourself."

Tasya stood still.

"My duty is to stop anyone, that's all."

Having said that, she turned back into a statue. It seemed that as long as the members of Luanwei didn't cross that line, whatever they did didn't concern her.

Kafni, eyes red with urgency, exclaimed: "I see you really are sick! The Thousand-Change Demon, that Red Armored Crab King, it's a Thousand-Change Demon! Both the White Dove Adventure Group and your teammates will be overturned!"

Expecting these words to grab the attention of the silver-haired maid enough to change her attitude by one hundred and eighty degrees, and honor them as distinguished guests,

Kafni couldn't believe that Tasya's facial expression turned into a chilling indifference, her thin lips parting slightly, the tone and wording as if she was discussing people she completely detached from:

"—If everyone died, what does it have to do with me?"

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(ps: Still short by ten words to reach 2200 words, yeeyee, no free-riding allowed)