92: Chapter 92 Challenge! Guardians!

It was the dead of night, and everything was silent. Apart from the soldiers still on patrol, everyone else was basically asleep.

Bang!

The sealed Abyssal Rift suddenly opened, and a disheveled figure rushed out from the abyss.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

"Baiye City is attacking the fortress inside the abyss! Go reinforce them quickly!"

As soon as that shout finished, the previously quiet Luofeng Fortress sprang into action.

Although this was a surprise attack by Baiye City, it was still child's play in front of the Daxia soldiers who were capable of absolute obedience to orders.

"Company, assemble! Enter combat mode!"

One soldier after another woke up from their sleep, entering combat mode immediately.

The scout battalion also mobilized at once; Zhang Lianqi strapped on his twin blades and cleanly and efficiently led his team into the Abyssal Rift.

"What's going on?"

Chen Mo, who had been sleeping groggily, lifted his head, looking completely out of it.

"No idea?"

"Should we go help too?"

"Attention, candidates! Attention, candidates!"

Just as Chen Mo and the others were confused, the large loudspeakers in the fortress blared.

"Attention all candidates! New mission issued! Immediately proceed to the family quarters to provide protection. Every candidate who participates in this operation will receive 100 points as a reward!"

At the same time, the system in Chen Mo's mind rang out.

[Challenge mission issued!]

[Guardian!]

[Mission objective: Minimize casualties in the family quarters. Rewards will decrease as the number of casualties increases!]

[Rewards: Free attribute points × 150, skill level × 20!]

"Huh!?"

Chen Mo's eyes instantly lit up, his previously hazy brain clearing up in an instant.

Wait!

Seemingly realizing something, Chen Mo did a kip-up and sat up.

What did it mean that there would be casualties at the family quarters?

Wasn't Baiye City's attack inside the abyss?

Hadn't that thing been destroyed by him?

Why would this situation still occur?

But the situation was urgent. Chen Mo didn't have time to think too much; he dragged Lin Ye and Shen Zhou up and ran towards the family quarters.

By the time Chen Mo arrived, there were already seventy or eighty candidates standing in the courtyard.

One of them was an acquaintance of Chen Mo, none other than Zhao Tiezhu, who had fought his way in as an Ascetic Martial Artist.

He was holding a massive, silver-white shield; just one look was enough to tell how heavy it was.

"What's going on?"

The three of them, including Su Qingyue, rushed over, looking at Chen Mo with confused expressions.

"Something happened. Be ready to face the enemy at any time."

Chen Mo's expression was grave. He deeply suspected that his plan had failed and that the Abyssal relic had not been destroyed.

"Mm."

After a month of getting along, a tacit understanding had formed between them. Without Chen Mo needing to say more, they all took their positions.

"Oi!"

Seeing Chen Mo arrive, Zhuo Jida immediately brought his team over.

"Why so serious? Isn't everything fine?"

"The fortress probably just thought we were hard to manage, which is why they sent us to the rear."

"The family quarters are over a hundred kilometers away from the abyss. With Luofeng Fortress's combat power, crushing Baiye City is a piece of cake."

Seeing that Zhuo Jida didn't take this attack seriously at all, Chen Mo couldn't help but frown.

"Get ready. I have a bad feeling about this."

Chen Mo couldn't explain that his system had issued him a mission, so he could only offer a subtle warning.

Wang Jun, not far away, became immediately vigilant upon hearing this.

Things turned out just as Chen Mo had expected.

Just after about seventy percent of the troops inside Luofeng Fortress had left, random rifts appeared on the ground and in the air.

Countless Abyss Warriors clad in armor poured out from the random rifts, and for a moment, they actually suppressed the remaining forces inside the fortress!

"Hahahaha!"

A disheveled Venerable Bai Ye crawled out from a random rift, appearing utterly disheveled.

"Didn't expect this, Archduke of Imaginary Numbers!"

"Your plan has fallen through after all!"

Crack!

A spatial rift appeared, and Commander Shen, carrying a battle axe, slowly walked out from it.

"Just you?"

Commander Shen sized up the Venerable Bai Ye in front of him, wondering where he got the confidence to attack Luofeng Fortress while he was stationed there.

Did he not know that he was an Eighth-Grade Martial King who could crush a Venerable like him to death?

"That's right, just me."

Venerable Bai Ye gave a sinister smile, and a long spear composed of white light appeared in his hand.

"I alone... am enough to deal with you!"

Commander Shen did not let his guard down; he didn't believe that Bai Ye would really dare to face him alone.

This guy definitely had a backup plan; he just didn't know what it was yet.

"Die! Archduke of Imaginary Numbers!"

"Today, I, Bai Ye, will slay you, Archduke!"

Venerable Bai Ye didn't hesitate in the slightest, grabbing the long spear in his hand and charging at Commander Shen.

Commander Shen didn't speak; he just slightly raised the battle axe in his hand and slashed down at the empty air in front of him.

Splat!

Blood sprayed out. Venerable Bai Ye, whose body had been split in half by the battle axe, spat out a mouthful of blood, his face full of horror.

Is this what an Archduke is?

Even he, as a Venerable, couldn't take a single strike?

But this distance...

Venerable Bai Ye had researched Commander Shen's combat style before acting; his previous actions were not just throwing his life away!

"Goodbye, my dear Archduke of Imaginary Numbers!"

Sensing that something was wrong, Commander Shen immediately tore open the space beside him, intending to retreat, but the skull in Venerable Bai Ye's hand did not give him enough time.

"Be banished! By the time you return, you will only see ruins!"

"Hahahaha!"

Accompanied by a flash of thick, viscous blackness, Commander Shen's figure vanished, and the skull in Venerable Bai Ye's hand shattered into fragments.

"Hehehe, hehe..."

He gently stroked his wound with his palm, and the gash that had almost pierced through his entire body began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Now..."

"The massacre begins!"