"How can it be this terrifying?!"

The Dwarf King was horrified.

He had originally thought that the human brat before him was, at most, nothing more than a small fry.

Even if John could hold back the army for a short while, he still should not have been a match for him and the Giant King.

But after one exchange, he finally realized something was wrong.

"Roke, we need to join forces against this human. Otherwise, if this continues, he’ll break us down one by one!"

The Dwarf King’s intelligence was somewhat higher than that of the giants.

He quickly realized that John was far from simple.

He immediately planned to team up with the Giant King to deal with him.

"I’ll climb onto your shoulder in a moment. Throw me out, and we’ll use our combined skill, Giant Axe Strike.

"Roke, where are you?"

But halfway through his words, the Dwarf King suddenly realized that the Giant King had not responded at all. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

He abruptly turned around, and what he saw instantly chilled him to the bone.

One after another, John’s clones were stabbing their daggers into different parts of the Giant King’s body.

They clung to him like ants swarming a giant elephant. The sight was utterly horrifying.

Meanwhile, the Giant King kept slapping his massive palms against his own body, trying to crush John’s clones.

However, before he could land each slap, those clones would use Phantom Blink and instantly shift somewhere else.

No matter how fast the Giant King was, he could not keep up with the speed of their blinks.

As the clones stabbed him again and again, crimson damage numbers kept rising above the Giant King’s head.

[-400,000!]

[-400,000!]

[-400,000!]

Damage numbers appeared one after another, and the Giant King’s HP rapidly dropped.

The pain drove the Giant King completely mad, yet there was nothing he could do.

"Have you watched enough?"

While the Dwarf King was still terrified, a cold voice suddenly sounded behind him.

He whipped around, only to see a red dagger rapidly enlarging in his field of vision.

The Dwarf King’s expression changed drastically. He hurriedly raised his giant axe to block.

Crack!

The giant axe, which only had 10% durability remaining, instantly shattered. Yet the dagger’s momentum did not decrease at all as it continued stabbing toward his chest.

The Dwarf King had nowhere to dodge.

The dagger pierced directly into his chest.

[-3.57 million!]

A terrifying fatal damage number erupted.

The Dwarf King’s HP was instantly reduced by half.

He spat out blood and quickly retreated.

But John clung to him like a bone-deep curse, following him like a shadow.

Another stab descended.

The Dwarf King’s HP was completely emptied. His body instantly turned into a withered piece of wood and scattered on the spot.

A notification sounded beside John’s ear.

[You have killed platinum-grade BOSS Dwarf King Lv. 70. EXP +100 million, gold coins +1 million, Fame +1 million!]

[You have plundered SS-grade talent: Daylight Slash!]

[You have plundered S-grade equipment: Divine Greataxe!]

After killing the Dwarf King, John did not stop for even a moment. He immediately charged toward the Giant King, who only had a sliver of HP remaining.

At this moment, under the siege of his clones, the Giant King was already exhausted and no longer had any strength to resist.

John did not hesitate and delivered the final blow.

The Giant King’s body instantly turned into piles of enormous withered stones, crashing all over the ground and filling the entire area. At the same time, they stabilized the tree-stump foundation that had been on the verge of collapsing.

The moment the Giant King died, notifications rang beside John’s ear one after another.

[Congratulations! You have killed platinum-grade BOSS Giant King Lv. 70. EXP +100 million, gold coins +1 million, Fame +1 million!]

[You have plundered SS-grade talent: Berserk Gigantification!]

[You have plundered S-grade equipment: Titan Breastplate!]

[Congratulations! You have stopped the World Tree from collapsing. A zone-wide announcement will now be made.]

John withdrew his clones and looked at the tree-stump foundation that had not fallen. He finally let out a breath of relief.

The next moment, a notification rang beside the ears of every player in the zone.

[Player John of this zone has completed the ruins mission. The World Tree has been successfully protected, and all human main cities have been spared the fate of becoming ruins.

As the primary contributor to this mission, John will receive all rewards.]

[Congratulations to "John" for obtaining control over the middle and lower spaces of the World Tree Ruins.]

[Congratulations to "John" for obtaining EXP +100 million, gold coins +1 million, Fame +1 million!]

Three consecutive announcements rang out.

The Zone 5 players who were still rushing over immediately froze in their tracks. Looks of disbelief appeared on their faces.

"What’s going on? Boss John solved everything by himself?"

"They called it a zone-wide mission, but it only needed one person?"

"What else is there to say? Everyone, turn back."

"No way. I have to go see the battlefield for myself!"

At this moment, every player in the zone gained an entirely new understanding of John’s combat power.

He had single-handedly cleared a zone-level mission.

How was that any different from taking on the entire zone by himself?

...

Inside the World Tree dungeon.

The instant John killed the Dwarf King and the Giant King, the dwarves and giants that had been continuously surging downward suddenly stopped their attack.

Panic and fear appeared on their faces.

Because all of them had sensed the death of their kings.

Without the existence of their two kings, they were like soldiers who had lost their beacon.

They had no idea what to do next.

At this moment, only one thousand human warriors remained.

In the battle just now, they had paid the price of more than nine thousand lives.

Philia, the Assassin Mentor who had led this army, had also died long ago. No one even knew where her bones had fallen.

After the dwarves and giants halted their assault, the human warriors finally got a moment to catch their breath.

Both sides fell into an eerie stalemate.

Until John’s figure appeared on the battlefield once again.

His cold gaze swept across the dwarf and giant warriors.

"Leave none alive."

The moment his voice fell, John’s clones appeared once more.

They instantly charged toward the dwarf army and giant army, whose kings were now dead.

After losing their backbone, the dwarf army and giant army no longer had their previous fearless momentum.

They abandoned their armor and weapons, retreating one after another toward the middle space.

Unfortunately, the control over the middle space was also in John’s hands now.

With a thought, the middle space immediately sealed shut, cutting off all escape routes for the dwarf and giant armies.

The human warriors also reacted at this moment and followed John’s clones into the slaughter.

Severed limbs flew everywhere. Blood flowed like rivers.

John’s clones had completely gone berserk.

Notifications kept ringing beside his ear.

[Your Clone No. 1 has killed Dwarf Mage Lv. 60. EXP +10 million, gold coins +100,000, Fame +100,000!]

[Your Clone No. 2 has killed Dwarf Mage Lv. 60. EXP +10 million, gold coins +100,000, Fame +100,000!]

[Your...]

Only when the final giant died beneath John’s blade did everything finally end.

The entire wooden tree stump and the bottom of the lower space were already piled full of corpses.

John’s Taiji Fist Stance erupted with a massive burst of dragon flame, burning all enemy corpses to ashes.

As the corpses were incinerated, the bodies of the human warriors and Philia were finally revealed.

The moment John saw Philia’s corpse, his eyes reddened.

"Bastards!"

As his second class mentor, John had always respected this NPC greatly.

He had never expected her to die at the hands of the dwarf army and giant army.

"Wait. Don’t I have a way to resurrect her?"

At that moment, John suddenly remembered the talent skills he had previously plundered from the Treant King and the Life Sprite.