265: The battlefield belongs to the undead monarch

At this moment, Zhao Qian, who had recently fished up an S-Class Skill, was engaged in a fierce battle with several other S-Rank Hunters against a fifty to sixty-meter-tall Stone Statue Demon, hoping to defeat it through cooperation.

In the half hour since the Stone Statue Demon appeared, more than half of a county town area had been razed by it, turning into ruins.

Compared to it, the tall buildings in the city seemed incredibly small, as if they had shrunk.

Even if there were tall buildings comparable to it, they had long been smashed by the Stone Statue Demon with a single slap.

Its destructive power was astonishing!

Zhao Qian raised his hands, condensing a large ice cone in one hand, aiming at the Stone Statue Demon's feet.

Boom! Boom!

With a forceful swing forward of both hands, two large ice hammers immediately locked on, as if using auto-aim, hitting the Stone Statue Demon.

Upon contact with the Stone Statue Demon's body, the ice cones instantly shattered, turning into cold air.

After covering it, the cold air quickly froze.

Zhao Qian had tried several times before to directly attack the Stone Statue Demon using freezing spells, but all attempts ended in failure.

Now, he could only change his approach, planning to freeze the Stone Statue Demon's legs.

Even if he couldn't completely freeze them, delaying it for even one second was better than nothing.

Reinforcing Hunters were still arriving in a steady stream.

However, no matter how much the number of people increased, how varied the attack methods became, or how grand the scene was, they were consistently unable to inflict even the slightest damage to the Stone Statue Demon's body.

It truly suffered no damage at all, making people unable to help but doubt and complain, "Is this giant really made of stone, not the latest synthetic metal? It's way too hard, isn't it?"

"No way! Even after slashing him several times with my S-Rank swordsmanship, I could only barely leave a scratch less than fingernail deep."

"This guy's combat power and defense are far beyond S-Rank. How could the system rank it as S? Are you sure it's not SS? Or even SSS?"

"I've been attacking for half the day, and my spiritual energy is down to less than a third, but it has no effect on it at all. It's quite demoralizing."

"If the Undead Monarch were here, we wouldn't have to struggle like this."

"No choice. The Undead Monarch is probably still participating in that... Huangquan Ghost Realm instance like everyone else?"

"Speaking of the Netherworld Ghost Realm, so much time has passed, and there's still no news at all. Could it be..."

"Bah, bah, bah! Don't jinx it! Can't you say something good?"

Those who should block were blocking, those who should contribute were contributing, and those who should chat were also chatting.

Otherwise, the atmosphere would be too oppressive, making it easy to lose the will to fight.

"Bad! Run! Its eyes are starting to glow again!"

At this moment, someone shouted.

Although the engagement time wasn't very long, they had managed to summarize some experience.

"How is the civilian evacuation going?" Zhao Qian asked while dodging, condensing an even larger ice cone with both hands and shooting it towards the Stone Statue Demon's mouth.

After the ice cone shattered, the hidden cold mist within immediately spread out, freezing the Stone Statue Demon's entire mouth, covering it with a thick layer of blue ice.

The effect was there, but it didn't last long at all.

The Stone Statue Demon only needed to keep opening its mouth wider, and the thick ice layer wouldn't be able to withstand it, shattering and falling off on its own.

"Damn it! No effect...?"

Zhao Qian looked at the nearby communicator, who was immersed in fear, and asked again, "How is the civilian evacuation going?"

The communicator immediately reacted, "Reporting, Commander, three minutes ago, I received news that all civilians in the entire Lancheng County have successfully evacuated under the military's arrangements."

"Very good. We also need to find an opportunity to leave and see if repeated bombing with artillery shells can take care of this guy." Besides this, Zhao Qian couldn't think of any other way to deal with this stone giant.

Using artillery shells would definitely be much more efficient and safer than sacrificing lives.

Boom!!

Following that, he heard and saw a blue-white, lightning-like laser beam shoot out from the Stone Statue Demon's mouth, sweeping around erratically without any pattern.

Wherever it passed, buildings and metal were all melted into lava.

Because it was impossible to predict, countless professional Hunters died from this move.

The number of casualties was rapidly increasing.

Seeing this made Zhao Qian's heart ache and his flesh hurt.

The professional Hunters he had painstakingly gathered and recruited were being slaughtered so easily by the stone giant, as if it were just a game.

Zhao Qian truly couldn't accept this.

He didn't understand how much longer it would take for the balance of power between humans and monsters to shift if things continued like this.

For humans to hunt monsters, instead of monsters hunting humans.

He could only say that the road ahead was long and arduous.

Zhao Qian wasn't sure if he could wait, or rather, live to see that day.

"Commander Zhao, you, you have an extra person next to you!" The communicator, who had originally wanted to say something else, suddenly noticed a woman appearing beside Zhao Qian.

There was no warning; it was as if a person had suddenly appeared.

Zhao Qian hadn't paid attention, but he still subconsciously turned his head to look.

After clearly seeing her face, his expression changed drastically, "You, you are Mr. Chen's subordinate, Miss Qin Hongyue, right?"

"Mm." Qin Hongyue hummed in response.

Towards everyone except Chen Ming, her Master, Qin Hongyue was always a woman of few words, not wanting to have too much contact with them.

'Qin Hongyue?'

At first, seeing Zhao Qian, the Commander of the Great Xia Star Alliance, being so polite to a woman, the communicator didn't understand.

But upon hearing the name Qin Hongyue spoken by Zhao Qian, he instantly understood everything.

Putting aside her relationship as the Undead Monarch's subordinate, Qin Hongyue's performance in the Trial Tower that day alone still left the communicator greatly shocked to this day.

The communicator specifically took out his phone, opened Ten Thousand Realms Fishing, and then opened the Trial Tower's ranking page.

As expected, all the leaderboards and records were still dominated by the name Qin Hongyue!

"You all leave, I will handle this." After speaking, Qin Hongyue instantly vanished.

"Commander Zhao, what should we do now? Should we listen to her? Or should we continue with the original plan? Use artillery bombardment?" the communicator asked.

"If you attack her, wouldn't that mean starting a war with the Undead Monarch? Do you want that?" Zhao Qian countered the communicator.

The communicator immediately shook his head in denial, "Your subordinate absolutely has no such intention."

He didn't even dare to provoke Chen Ming's subordinate, let alone Chen Ming himself, who was the Master and rumored to possess an Undead Army of tens of millions, even over a hundred million.

Just thinking about the scene of tens of millions of Undead Army pressing down made him involuntarily feel a chill, sending shivers down his spine.

Cold! Very cold!

Nowadays, Chen Ming's power as the Undead Monarch was beyond doubt throughout the Great Xia.

His power was unquestionable! Truer than pearls.

"In short, first notify everyone to retreat. Do not engage in prolonged combat with the monster," Zhao Qian issued the order.

"This battlefield is no longer one that people like us can participate in," he accepted reality.

"Yes!" The communicator nodded in agreement, quickly took out his equipment, and followed his instructions, notifying all Hunters to stay away from the monster.

The battlefield belonged to the Undead Monarch.