"He’s appeared in the middle!"

"Quick, focus fire together!"

The survivors immediately changed direction, unleashing all kinds of skills in a storm that came crashing toward John.

However, John’s speed was far beyond their imagination.

Even though his Agility had been cut in half, he still possessed a movement speed ordinary players could never hope to match.

With every step, he shifted position. His figure weaved through the battlefield, and not a single attack was able to hit him.

[MISS!]

[MISS!]

[MISS!]

A continuous string of dodge notifications popped up above John’s head.

The survivors were dumbfounded.

"No way. Why is his dodge rate so high?"

"Damn it, he’s too fast! We can’t aim at him at all!"

John raised his hand slightly, and the Dragonflame Staff and Staff of Death appeared at the same time.

He did not use any skills. He merely activated the staffs slightly.

In an instant, a burst of deathly flames erupted and engulfed the survivors completely.

[-3,870,000!]

[-4,120,000!]

[-3,980,000!]

[-5,070,000!]

The HP bars above those survivor players’ heads instantly bottomed out. Before they could even let out a scream, they turned into countless streaks of white light and were eliminated from the event.

After a single move, John directly wiped out more than four hundred players!

The entire valley fell into a deathly silence.

Whether it was Alan, who was hiding nearby and watching the battle, or the surviving players, everyone was stunned.

Gabriel had already collapsed to the ground in terror.

He looked up at John, his lips trembling. "You... are you cheating? Why do you still have such high damage after your attributes were cut in half?!"

John sneered. "Heh. Why don’t you guess how high my attributes were before they were cut in half?"

As soon as he said this, everyone’s expression changed drastically.

They suddenly realized a terrifying problem.

Everyone had been discussing how John would become weaker after his attributes were halved.

However, from beginning to end, no one actually knew what John’s true attributes were.

Judging from the damage he had just dealt, even after being halved, his damage was probably close to one hundred thousand!

And the strongest among them, Gabriel, only had attributes slightly above ten thousand. Even after receiving a 30% boost, he only had around thirteen thousand.

One hundred thousand versus thirteen thousand.

The result was still a completely one-sided crushing.

After realizing this, the entire survivor team instantly collapsed.

"Run! Run!"

"Don’t kill me! I was wrong!"

"John, spare me! I didn’t even attack just now!"

Over a hundred players had been completely scared out of their wits by John and began fleeing madly toward the valley entrance.

But how could John possibly give them that chance?

He lifted his foot and gently stomped on the ground. With him as the center, towering ancient trees rose from the earth one after another.

A natural barrier instantly enveloped the entire valley.

As soon as the natural barrier activated, the survivors felt as though their legs had been filled with lead. Their running speed instantly slowed down.

"Since you’re already here, don’t leave."

The next moment, John’s figure turned into a bolt of black lightning, madly flashing through the crowd.

Holding his dagger, every slash he brought down took away the lives of dozens of survivors!

In just three short minutes, all five hundred survivors had been slaughtered to the last man.

On the points leaderboard, John rapidly climbed to first place!

From beginning to end, those eliminated survivors had not even managed to touch the hem of John’s clothes.

...

Behind the massive boulder, Alan and the others appeared one after another.

They looked at John, their expressions filled with shock.

"Is... is he even human?"

"So this is the boss’s true strength?"

"From now on, if anyone dares to badmouth the boss again, I’ll be the first one to fight them!"

Among the group, only Alan and a few other players who had once seen John fight in the Zone-wide Dungeon could still be considered calm.

Even so, their fists had already clenched unconsciously.

In truth, the combat strength John had displayed today had far exceeded their expectations as well.

He was still this ferocious after having 50% of his attributes cut!

He was simply a monster!

Just then, John walked over and announced an outrageous decision.

"Next, all of you hide well. Don’t let the survivors discover you.

"I’ll deal with the rest by myself."

What?

Everyone thought they had heard wrong.

Alan swallowed and asked, "Guild leader, are you really planning to challenge five hundred thousand survivors all by yourself?"

"Relax. Didn’t you just see my strength?"

Once John said this, no one could refute him.

After all, that battle just now had been far too shocking!

Since their own strength was limited, they could only watch as John left.

For the time being, they would all remain in stealth and avoid being discovered by other survivors.

After all, the strong one was John, not them.

After leaving the valley, John casually opened his Warden vision.

On the minimap, five hundred thousand red dots densely covered the entire island.

Quite a few of those red dots had already gathered together, forming clusters of red light.

"That works too. Saves me the trouble of looking for them one by one."

John’s gaze quickly locked onto a flat area roughly ten kilometers away from the valley.

At this moment, there was already an especially large cluster of red dots there.

Judging from the density, there were at least thirty thousand people.

"Thirty thousand people."

A sharp gleam appeared in John’s eyes. "Thirty thousand points. I can’t even imagine how many things I’ll be able to get later!"

He licked his lips. With a flash of his body, he disappeared into the night.

...

In the flat area.

Just as John had expected, this place had gathered elite-grade players from the four major zones, numbering more than thirty thousand in total.

Edward, who had once been killed by John, was standing on a temporary platform and delivering an impassioned speech.

"Everyone, this will be our only chance to turn the tables!

"As long as we kill John, he’ll suffer a death penalty.

"When that happens, our Zone 4 will have a chance to rise!

"You don’t want to be trampled under John’s feet for the rest of your lives, do you?"

"No!"

Edward greatly enjoyed the feeling of being the center of attention.

Ever since John had plundered everything he had, Edward had lost his position as the guild leader of Glory Guild.

Fortunately, the new guild leader was willing to give him another chance.

He had been given another set of equipment and a B-grade talent.

At the very least, he would not be treated like a stray dog on the roadside.

And this event had given him a chance to prove himself!

As long as he could lead these players to kill John, then even without his former talent and equipment, he could still make a comeback!

"Kill John!"

Edward roared.

The players below echoed him one after another.

"Kill John!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Thirty thousand people shouted in unison, shaking even the ground around them.

A smile appeared on Edward’s face. "Very good. Then next..."

Halfway through his sentence, an indifferent voice suddenly came from behind him.

"I heard you want to kill me?"

Edward’s heart instantly turned cold. He suddenly pulled away and turned around to look.

After seeing the person clearly, the panic on Edward’s face instantly vanished.

He shouted loudly, "He’s John! Kill him and split the drops together!"

In his view, John, whose attributes had been cut in half, was nothing to fear.

Besides, he was currently leading thirty thousand players!

With thirty thousand people, even if each person only dealt thirty points of damage, that would be enough to kill John!