Chapter 278: Speaking of the Devil...

Hearing the words of Hand Rubbing Diamonds, Wangzai Little Buns immediately spoke up: "Although none of us are mages and can’t sense magic waves.""But we can sense the aura, and can clearly detect that all those auras are gathered in one place."

"If nothing goes wrong, I fear the boss hiding behind summoning War Tree Men to ambush is also over there."

"The pressure on the other side should be quite substantial now, given that the other three sides are definitely advancing toward that direction."

Upon hearing Wangzai Little Buns’ words, Wipe Your Mouth and Run immediately nodded in agreement: "I think Sister Mantou makes a lot of sense, we should head in that direction right away."

Upon hearing this, the other players immediately joined forces, smashing the War Tree Men blocking their path one by one.

Although War Tree Men are rather troublesome, in front of so many top-level players, they are still hard to withstand.

At most, they merely slow down the players’ advance.

Meanwhile, Rukaini, who was staying with her clansmen at the center of the island, was already sweating profusely.

This is because her high-intensity continuous use of wood magic to summon War Tree Men caused excessive spiritual power consumption.

She now feels fatigue in her spirit, even having difficulty concentrating.

There is no choice; the undead creatures are too numerous and formidable.

To hinder them, she can only frequently use wood magic to replenish the War Tree Men.

Otherwise, there’s no way to impede those undead creatures.

However, at this moment, she was somewhat puzzled.

Because through the trees and plants, she observed with magic that those undead creatures did not kill Ored and Sarlin.

Sarlin was knocked unconscious and has been carried by an undead creature all along.

Ored was stabbed and knocked out, afterwards an undead creature took out a small bottle of powder and poured it on Ored’s wound, shortly Ored’s bleeding was stopped.

This makes Rukaini feel quite incredulous.

Are these undead creatures capturing the living? Why do they want captives? Is it a directive from the Necromancer behind them?

But isn’t it that for the Necromancer, only corpses have value? What do they want the living for?

The mysteries in her heart grow, the more puzzled she becomes, leading to increased anxiety inside Rukaini.

Because she thinks these undead creatures capturing the living might be for something even more terrifying.

Especially since they’ve stayed on this island for so many years without incident, and now they’re suddenly targeted by a bunch of undead creatures.

There’s no way to think this will have any good outcome.

So she began to desperately replenish the number of War Tree Men.

If they can buy some more time, so be it.

Though she knows doing this is futile, she doesn’t want those undead creatures to come over and capture them.

At least she’s tried her best now.

As those undead creatures draw nearer, the exhausted Rukaini begins to feel her spirit drifting.

This is a sign of spiritual power nearly depleted.

Additionally, her magic power is also quite low. Despite constantly using mana potions and demon crystals, it’s still hard to keep up now.

At this moment, the War Tree Men to the west were the first to be breached; 40 top-tier undead creatures broke through from there.

Soon, they set their sights on Rukaini.

Because no matter how you look at it, only Rukaini is casting magic now, and the surrounding Southern Beastmen seem to show great respect for her.

The players aren’t foolish and immediately identified Rukaini as the boss casting War Tree Man magic.

The next moment, the players directly moved against Rukaini.

The nearby high-tier knights and mages tried to stop the players, but how could they succeed?

Perhaps the cute appearance of the beast-eared girls with their beast ears and tails hit the players’ sweet spot, so this time the players didn’t go on a killing spree.

The Southern Beastmen blocking them were quickly knocked out by the players.

Soon, the players approached Rukaini, and Rukaini, already dazed, could barely cast a defense magic on herself, but it was quickly shattered by a dozen players who approached.

After the magic was shattered, Rukaini’s spiritual power was nearly exhausted, and she couldn’t hold on anymore, directly fainting.

Seeing the fainted Rukaini, the players who had just shattered her defense magic were stunned.

Wipe Your Mouth and Run was a bit incredulous to see the unconscious Rukaini and then spoke: "What’s going on? How come she just fainted after her defense magic was broken?"

"Could it be she knew she couldn’t beat us, so she pretended to be unconscious?"

Hearing his words, Wangzai Little Buns on the side replied crossly: "Does she seem to be pretending to you?"

Wipe Your Mouth and Run leaned his big head closer, then extended his paw to lift Rukaini up for closer inspection.

"Judging by her pale face and extremely weak appearance, she certainly doesn’t seem to be faking it. No, why is she like this?"

Hand Rubbing Diamonds on the side spoke: "If all those War Tree Men were summoned by her, just think how many she has summoned? Is there a possibility that her consumption is too great?"

At this moment, players from the other three sides came closer as well and joined with the players from the west.

Swinging in the Wind glanced at the large crowd of Southern Beastmen gathered here, then said: "Wow, why are there so many beast-eared girls here! This is really unbelievable, I didn’t expect this exploration mission to have such surprises."

"What do you guys say, how should we handle these beast-eared girls?"

Hearing the words of Swinging in the Wind, Mountain Tiger spoke: "Swinging, what do you want to do?"

Swinging in the Wind immediately replied: "I want to take a beast-eared girl home as a wife, I wonder if that’s possible?"

Hearing Swinging in the Wind, Mountain Tiger couldn’t help but roll his eyes: "Swinging, could you please recognize yourself? You’re a bone dragon now!"

"What could you do? Honestly, you could only carry a beast-eared girl around in flight, letting her ride on your neck every day."

Hearing this, Swinging in the Wind couldn’t help but smack Mountain Tiger on the head with his paw: "You cheeky fellow! You really know how to press the wrong buttons, it’s infuriating."

Wangzai Little Buns on the side spoke up: "I think, why don’t we leave half the players to watch over these Southern Beastmen, and take the rest to carry these bosses back to Mage Fang Ka to seek his advice."