Zone 3.

As a region that had once clashed head-on with John, this zone had no small number of players.

When the demon race invasion event dungeon began, the players of Zone 3 had confidently arrived at the various main cities and started defending them.

After all, before Zone 5 and Zone 4 merged, their player population had been the largest.

Sometimes, strength in numbers was not just an empty saying.

Relying on their numerical advantage, Zone 3 had indeed achieved tremendous results in the early stages.

If Zone 5 had not had John, perhaps the first boss kill would have been taken by Zone 3.

Even though they had later been crushed by John all the way, among the remaining Zone 4 regions, their progress was still among the fastest—almost on par with Zone 1.

And this time, in the demon race invasion dungeon, they had entered with the goal of securing second place.

However, when the demon race army truly charged against the human main cities, the players of Zone 3 were horrified to discover that these demon race creatures were not merely strong in an ordinary sense. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

In terms of numbers, the demon race army far surpassed all the players of Zone 3.

In terms of combat power, the average level of the vast majority of Zone 3 players was not even comparable to that of the demon race.

If not for the human NPCs helping them resist, the players of Zone 3 might have already collapsed by now.

But even so, facing the endless demon race army, the players of Zone 3 still felt waves of exhaustion washing over them.

...

Roar!

A demonic dragon descended from the sky, carrying boundless demonic flames as it pounced toward Zone 3’s Thunder Main City.

At the same time, demon race bats crashed one after another into the main city like raindrops, causing the durability of the main city to rapidly decline.

Not only that, even the corpses of players and NPCs who had died in battle were corrupted by Demonic Aura, transforming into mindless demonic corpses that still possessed 50% of their former combat power.

Even more terrifying was the fact that an endless stream of monsters was still pouring out from the rift!

Every sign proved one thing: the demon race creatures could not be killed off!

At this moment, the leadership of Thunder Guild was on the verge of breaking down.

Within this demon race army, there were not only gold-grade and platinum-grade bosses, but also all kinds of special existences.

For example, there were creatures like demon souls, which could only be harmed by true damage.

Hidden within the tide of demon race monsters, they were almost impossible to attack.

And once a player was possessed by a demon soul, they would involuntarily attack the teammates beside them.

This made every player in Zone 3 feel insecure, causing their teamwork to deteriorate drastically!

As one side weakened and the other grew stronger, waves of Zone 3 players were sent to the resurrection point one after another. Even though their resurrection time during this event only took a few minutes, after reviving and seeing that they had dropped several pieces of equipment and lost some levels, the Zone 3 players no longer had the courage to climb back onto the city walls and continue resisting.

"Can this demon race army really be killed off?"

"I really don’t want to resist anymore."

"Who doesn’t feel the same? If the demon race army didn’t have so many abnormal monster types, I could still grit my teeth and hold on."

"My god, why did the demon race invasion have to break out at this exact time?"

"I haven’t even finished killing the targets for my Hidden Quest yet."

"Stop standing around here. Hurry up and get back onto the city walls to resist them. If the city falls, forget Hidden Quests—even the most basic missions will be gone."

The players of Zone 3 looked at the demon race creatures that had already appeared on the city walls. No matter how unwilling they felt, they could only grit their teeth and climb up to resist.

Although the players of Zone 3 had already developed fear toward the demon race army, the number of monsters they had killed was still extremely high.

Below the city walls, countless mountains of monster corpses had already piled up.

Some players, wanting to encourage themselves, could not help but open the Points Ranking to take a look.

But in the next moment, they were all dumbfounded.

[Demonic Tide Invasion Points Ranking]

[First Place]: Zone 5 John — 10.9 billion points

[Second Place]: Zone 5 Alan — 10.98 million points

[Third Place]: Zone 5 Evelyn — 10.42 million points

[Fourth Place]: Zone 5 Anna — 90.41 million points

[Fifth Place]...

Looking across the ranking, almost all of the top ten spots had been occupied by players from Zone 5.

It was exactly the same as before. Whenever there was a ranking, Zone 5 players almost always held the upper hand!

What frightened them even more was that John, who occupied first place, had actually reached a terrifying 10.9 billion points!

If each monster provided 10 points, then John must have killed at least more than one billion monsters!

Such a terrifying number of points was something all the players of Zone 3 combined probably could not reach, right?

At this moment, instead of receiving any boost to morale, the players of Zone 3 suffered a deep blow.

"Can someone tell me exactly how John is killing them?"

"We’re all players. Why can he crush everything like he’s from a higher dimension?"

"One billion monsters! Even if he had a clone technique, there’s no way he could kill that many at once, right?"

"He’s cheating. He’s absolutely cheating."

"Sigh. Say what you want, but if only Boss John were in our zone."

After being stimulated like this, the strength of Zone 3’s resistance noticeably weakened.

The guild leader of Zone 3’s Death Guild watched this with burning anxiety, but there was nothing he could do.

As the highest-level player in Zone 3’s Death Guild, Sukkar had already done everything in his power to arrange tactics and resist the demonic tide invasion as much as possible.

He stood inside the guild headquarters, gazing at the defensive line that had already been torn open, and a trace of fear rose in his heart.

"With this many monsters, once they enter the city, everything we’ve worked so hard to build will be destroyed!"

At this moment, Sukkar felt as though his heart were bleeding.

Just then, a large number of surrender messages suddenly appeared in his guild channel.

"We can’t hold it. We completely can’t hold it anymore. Let’s just surrender."

"I’m really tired. We might as well surrender early."

"So many monster armies have already pushed all the way to the fountain. There’s no meaning in continuing to fight."

"Die as soon as we revive, die as soon as we revive—who can stand this?"

"I don’t want to fight anymore."

The players’ complaints surged in like a tide.

Watching them, Sukkar felt extremely irritated.

"Surrender, surrender. The moment anyone opens their mouth, it’s surrender. The problem is, does this event dungeon even have a surrender button?"

With the situation deteriorating to such a rotten state, Sukkar, as the leader, naturally understood that there was no longer any possibility of resisting.

But the problem was, where were they supposed to surrender?

Were they supposed to simply let the demon race flatten the main city?

Then they would lose their only resurrection point.

Just as Sukkar was complaining, a notification suddenly sounded beside his ear.

[Because 70% of all main cities in the current Zone have been destroyed, Zone 3 players have obtained surrender authority!]

[Do you choose to surrender?]

[Warning: After surrendering, you will lose your human identity and fall into the demon race. Please choose carefully!]

"There’s actually a way to surrender?"

When Sukkar saw this option, disbelief first appeared in his eyes, but it was quickly replaced by excitement.

In his view, there was nothing bad about giving up his human identity. Joining the demon race would open up an even broader world!

With this thought, he decisively posted an announcement in the guild channel.

[Sukkar] (Guild Leader): "Everyone, surrender and join the demon race!"