Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first?-Chapter 369 - 167: One-Hit Kill

"Peggy, move forward. Mia, fall back."

"Storm Suppression."

"Medea, stabilize the flames, and block off the left street. Don’t let any monsters through."

"Peggy, don’t stop the plague. Green Skins have poor resistance to disease."

"Miel, no more headshots. They won’t die from that. Switch to automatic assault mode and shoot their shoulders to prevent them from wielding weapons."

"The Green Skins are charging from the right, Eleanor, hold them off."

"Freeze with the North Wind Axe! Follow up with an Unstable Flame!"

Sigrdrifa’s North Wind Axe drew a huge arc across the air, encasing all the Green Skins charging from the right in ice.

Then came a burst of fire that shattered these ice statues.

However, more Green Skins were pouring in, one after another, relentlessly pressing forward, stepping on the corpses of their comrades and charging while shouting the incomprehensible war cry "WAAAGH."

"Aske!" Thira spoke urgently over the Mind Channel, "These Green Skin monsters... have you noticed that many don’t even have weapons, and they don’t look like professional soldiers either?"

"They might be the citizens of old Stuttgart!"

"Even if they were once citizens, they have now become mindless monsters!" Sigrdrifa roared as she swung her Battle Axe, lightning and cold air surging to deter the approaching Green Skins. "Their only fate should be to be killed!"

"That’s not what I mean!" Thira quickly continued, "Didn’t Eleanor say before? Stuttgart had over a hundred thousand citizens..."

A hundred thousand citizens? The girls glanced towards the swarming Green Skins in the distance, a thought flashing subconsciously in their minds.

A hundred thousand Green Skins...

If all the citizens were transformed into Green Skins, the problem was no longer whether they could defeat them. The priority should be to escape before getting surrounded and slowly exhausted to death.

"This exaggerated spectacle isn’t meant to cope with us, is it?" Medea mentioned on the channel, "I guess this guy is planning to use this massive number of Green Skins to drive back the Demigod hunting for him!"

With the current Magic Tide Level Limit at Lv.10, and not being able to use High Rank abilities, a Demigod isn’t much stronger than a maxed-out Lv.10 Transcendent.

Facing a large number of Green Skins who are fearless and unrelenting in battle, unless willing to perish together, unleashing abilities that will obliterate an entire city, a Demigod would have no choice but a disgraceful retreat.

Even the members of The Azure Longsword, who had an excellent mutual understanding, could only hold out for a little while longer under these circumstances than a Demigod could.

Hmm, there’s an odd sense of being a BOSS surrounded and pummeled by players.

"Don’t panic." Aske calmly reassured everyone, "Look at the way these Green Skins are attacking. It’s clear someone is manipulating them from behind."

"That means, even if the Manipulator isn’t on the scene, they must be using some method to supervise this area."

"Nora, open up your Spirit Body Ability, and scan the surrounding area."

Nora did as instructed and activated her Spirit Body vision, quickly scanning the area.

Typically, unless it’s a deserted place, there are always a few Spiritual Bodies lingering about.

However, at this moment, Nora saw no Spiritual Bodies around; it’s as if the souls of all deceased were imprisoned within the strong Flesh of the Green Skins, being puppeteered by the Manipulator behind the scenes.

Suddenly, she saw a pale face plastered against the shop window across the street, staring intently in their direction.

"Found it!" Nora quickly pointed and called out, "In the shop window!"

Before her words finished, Aske had already dashed out, using the Ilanian Instant Step to reach maximum speed in an instant, and had darted into the store across the street.

Spiritual Bodies possess the Talent of invisibility to the naked eye, and Aske didn’t have a similar Sequence, so there was no sign of anything in the vicinity to the rest of them.

However, he drew his Longsword and spun around, slashing in a circle.

Star Nine Forms. Soul Shattering.

His swordsmanship severed Spirituality, rendering all the Talents and Abilities of the Spiritual Body ineffective, and the semi-transparent figure fell from the air.

Aske grabbed its throat, as though he had seized a piece of slippery raw meat, and before the creature could recover from the stunning blow to its Spirituality, he hoisted it up and dashed back across the street.

"Soul Search!" As she dropped the Spiritual Body to the ground, Aske quickly gave the order.

Medea and Nora activated their Mind Power at the same time. Medea was responsible for forcibly suppressing the Spiritual Body’s own resistance to Mind Power, while Nora, taking advantage of her familiarity with the mental state of the Spiritual Body, quickly browsed through its Memory Fragments.

As the Spiritual Body was seized, the siege of the Green Skins outside intensified suddenly.

Everyone retreated into the interior of the building, with Eleanor holding up a large shield to block the entrance. Under the relentless assault of countless Green Skins, her figure nearly wavered, and Sigrdrifa hurriedly supported her from behind.

Seeing that they couldn’t break through the front door, the Green Skins began to tear down the walls, causing them to tremble and dust to fall from the ceiling.

Outside, one of the Green Skins who was furiously battering the wall suddenly coughed up black blood.

Like a chain reaction, the surrounding Green Skins also collapsed to the ground, bleeding from the nose and mouth, their bodies burning hot.

The plague that Peggy had spread earlier had finally taken effect. Although it was only a Level I Plague and the incubation period had been excessively long, once triggered, it was still immensely powerful.

The Green Skins surrounding the building began to fall sick in droves, and the pressure on Eleanor and Sigrdrifa, who were defending the main entrance, decreased sharply, allowing them to finally catch their breath.

"Two kilometers to the south, at Poppsar Mountain! The mobile signal tower on the summit!" At last, Nora found the Manipulator’s location from the memories.

"Upstairs! To the rooftop!" Aske shouted.

Meanwhile, in the room at the top of the signal tower, a giant flower violently ejected a young man.

"Damn it!"

He truly had not expected that in a matter of mere minutes, they would manage to find his location.

As a Life Songster whose Bloodline had reached Completion, he used his High-Rank Spirit Body Ability to disperse Spiritual Bodies that served as spies, monitoring every corner of the city.

At the same time, he leveraged High-Rank Life Ability and specialized viruses to infect these citizens, turning them into fearless Green Skins who massacred all living creatures in sight. Furthermore, the plants’ vines would suck the Flesh and secrete spores with strong reproductive capabilities, rapidly spreading the activities of both plants and Green Skins.

This tactic should have had no flaws.

Had the pursuers been members of the Spiritual Body Sect, with most of their Spirit Witch Bloodline abilities being control type, they would have struggled to survive the overwhelming siege of the massive Green Skin horde.

If they were from the Life School, even if they could fend off the frenzied attack of the Green Skins by relying on plant growth and Healing Skills, they would not be able to find his watching Spiritual Bodies and would ultimately succumb to attrition.

Unless it was a collaboration between both factions... How could that be possible? If the two Transcendent Sects could truly set aside their prejudices and cooperate, then why would he need to be instructed by the Spiritual Body Sect to steal the Life School’s High-Rank formulas? They could simply trade formulas among themselves, and directly cultivate a new "Life Songster" from ancient times, couldn’t they?

Despite racking his brains, the young man could not conceive that the invading Mercenary Group outside also possessed both "Life" and "Spirit Body" Abilities. And among them, there was a member whose lineage progressed along the long-lost bloodline of the "Life Songster."

In fact, in the game world Aske came from before crossing over, it was the completion of this mission instance that reintroduced the ancient "Life Songster" Bloodline, bringing it to players’ attention for the first time.

Then Aske found out about it.

After coming to this world, he then passed this Bloodline to Nora.

Ultimately, the presence of Nora, a "Life Songster," in turn affected the mission in this world... An intricate nesting doll scenario, such are the unpredictable whims of Fate.

The young man pressed his hand on the vine, and the plant withered rapidly, its Life Force rapidly drained by him.

After absorbing enough Spirituality, he quickly rushed out of the room. His Spirituality stretched towards the ground, where a thick vine was breaking through the soil, rising to meet him like an elevator.

Suddenly, a low, piercing scream rang out.

A large hole opened in his temple before he could even feel the severe pain because the bullet had already devastated his brain.

Instinctively, his body activated his High-Rank Life Ability, attempting to heal his severely damaged brain and skull, yet another precise sniper shot from a great distance pierced through his neck, almost severing it completely, with only some flesh on either side still connected.

His body toppled and fell from the edge of the signal tower’s platform, plummeting to the ground.

"Mission accomplished." Two kilometers north, in the city, Miel, lying on the rooftop, lifted her head from the sniper rifle scope and spoke.

Before her words even faded, the Green Skins attacking the group below collapsed en masse, as if their souls had been ripped away in an instant.

The Spiritual Bodies controlling them dispersed with the Death of the Manipulator.

These creatures instantly returned to a comatose state, though their bodies remained abnormally healthy and Strong.

However, due to brain death, they would no longer have the ability to stand again.

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