99: Chapter 99: The Problem is Tricky

The Border Wall

Outside Nanchui City, the Ice Wall stood majestically.

Many Xia Nation experts, led by the Nation-Guarding Level Expert "Ice God" Han Beichuan, were currently standing atop this thousand-mile-long Ice Wall, overlooking the scene below with grave expressions.

At the foot of this magnificent Ice Wall, which radiated a biting chill... thousands upon thousands of Epic-Rank Monster and legendary-grade monsters had gathered into a sea that made one's scalp tingle.

They roared, rammed, and used various innate abilities to attack this giant barrier that blocked their advance.

Colorful energy beams, corrosive acid, and physical claw strikes landed on the crystal-clear Ice Wall, but could only leave shallow marks, completely unable to shake its foundation.

After all, this was the "Ice Wall" formed by a forbidden spell.

These monsters, generally between levels fifty and eighty, had high grades, but their absolute power level was far from sufficient to destroy a forbidden spell creation.

However, the problem was that even forbidden spells had a duration.

According to Han Beichuan's estimation, this "Ice Wall" could only last for about two days at most before it naturally dissolved due to energy depletion.

Yet, the cooldown time to cast a forbidden spell of this scale was as long as seven days.

In other words, if the tidal wave of monsters below the wall could not be completely cleared within the next forty-eight hours... then the southwest border of the Xia Nation would face this terrifying torrent of monsters head-on.

The nearest city, Nanchui City, had already begun emergency evacuation of its citizens.

At the same time, many young talents from the local and surrounding areas who met the level requirements had spontaneously or been recruited to come and assist in killing the monsters to alleviate the pressure.

Unfortunately, the number of monsters was simply too great!

"How exactly is India managing things over there? How could they let so many Epic-Rank Monster and legendary-grade monsters escape and gather into such a scale?" A middle-aged general in military uniform frowned, his tone filled with suppressed anger.

Beside him, a bespectacled, scholar-looking Class Transferee pushed up his glasses and analyzed in a deep voice: "Their domestic order has always been very chaotic.

After many secret realms are cleared, they don't organize effective cleanups at all, leading to monsters breeding and gathering in the wild, forming nests.

Over time, it's not strange to have so many high-grade monsters."

"What's hateful is that they can't solve it themselves, so they actually used such despicable means to drive them toward our side!" A hot-tempered, burly man clenched his fists so hard they cracked, with faint lightning flashing around his body.

"Damn it, if it weren't for the old geezers sitting on the other side, I would really want to charge over right now and slaughter all those bastards!"

"Calm down.

Attacking across the border changes the nature of the situation entirely and could easily trigger a full-scale conflict.

In the end, it would be the citizens of both countries who suffer."

The experts discussed in low voices, their words filled with anger and disdain for India's actions, yet they also felt a sense of stifled frustration.

The other side had clearly calculated that the Xia Nation would be afraid to act rashly.

Some had also considered whether these monsters could be driven back.

But this thought was quickly rejected.

The reason was that the person stationed at the border for India this time was their Chief Court Archmage, a legendary figure extremely skilled in mental control and mind manipulation.

He had even mastered a rare type of forbidden spell for mental control!

Ordinary mental control skills naturally couldn't handle so many Epic-Rank Monster and legendary-grade monsters.

However, the power of a forbidden spell could, to some extent, temporarily break certain rule restrictions.

It was precisely that Archmage who had imposed large-scale forced mental commands on this group of monsters, making them charge toward the Xia Nation regardless of everything, which formed the current unstoppable torrent of ten thousand beasts.

This behavior was undoubtedly a serious provocation and destruction of the Xia Nation's national security.

But the key point was—there was no concrete evidence!

The Xia Nation side highly suspected, and was almost certain, that it was the work of that Indian Archmage, but they could not produce irrefutable evidence to convince the international community.

The other side could completely deny it, claiming that this was a spontaneous migration of monsters or some unknown phenomenon.

If the Xia Nation were to initiate an armed conflict because of this, they would fall into a passive position in international public opinion and diplomacy, and might even invite joint pressure from other countries.

Therefore, for now, the Xia Nation could only temporarily adopt a defensive stance.

Regardless of how subsequent negotiations or claims proceeded, the most urgent task right now was to eliminate the threat under the city wall.

Originally, this move by India could be described as killing two birds with one stone: it both cleaned up the "trash" that was difficult to deal with domestically and created huge trouble and losses for a neighboring country.

But they probably didn't count on... the Xia Nation producing a Lin Muyang!

And since Lin Muyang had decided to intervene, he would absolutely not be satisfied with just cleaning up these monsters.

No evidence to prove that you drove them?

Fine, I can also let you taste the bitterness of "no evidence."

On the way to the border, Lin Muyang had already roughly planned his goals for this trip.

The monsters definitely had to be completely cleared; this was related to the harvest of boss soul.

As for India, he also had to leave them with a profound lesson.

If it were the Lin Muyang from half a month ago, perhaps he wouldn't have had this ability and confidence.

But now, as long as he made the corresponding preparations in advance, he was confident in making India suffer a loss in silence, unable to voice their grievances.

At this moment, on the Indian side of the border.

About a hundred Class Transferees dressed in distinctive Indian military uniforms were gathered on a small, slightly elevated hill.

Their levels were generally in the eighties or nineties, counting as elites in the army.

At this moment, these people were looking from afar at the Ice Wall in the Xia Nation that connected the sky and the earth, pointing and gesturing with relaxed expressions, even carrying a bit of mockery.

"Tsk, this 'Ice God' of the Xia Nation certainly has some skills.

This Ice Wall really looks intimidating." A bearded officer took a swig of alcohol and grinned.

"What's the use of being intimidating?" A tall, thin person beside him scoffed.

"No matter how high the level is, can he kill those darlings down there with his own hands?

When this Ice Wall melts in two days, hehe... it'll be time for the Xia Nation people to have a headache!"

"This is all thanks to the brilliant strategy of His Excellency the Archmage!

Of course, it's also thanks to the Archmage's heaven-defying strength; if it were anyone else, how could they drive so many high-grade monsters?"

"The best part is that this method of mental control is intangible and formless; the Xia Nation can't find any handle on us at all and can only stare helplessly!

Hahaha!"

"Watching that group of Xia Nation people jumping in anxiety with no way to deal with it is truly satisfying!"

These people had no sense of tension, as if they were watching a grand performance that had nothing to do with them.

They sat on the hill, drinking and eating meat, chatting and laughing, forming a sharp contrast with the tense atmosphere of preparation on the other side of the Ice Wall.

Meanwhile, inside the Xia Nation, at the foot of the Ice Wall, the battle had already begun on a small scale.

Talented Class Transferees who were urgently drawn from all over the country, as well as those local to Nanchui City who met the criteria, formed battle teams.

Since the maximum number of people for an external party was fifty, the common configuration was about forty-five main damage dealers with levels between fifty and seventy, paired with five to six powerful support classes with levels over one hundred.

These high-level supporters were responsible for applying various powerful buff states, providing healing and protection to the young talents, leading them like a precise scalpel to carefully clear and nibble away at the monster horde at the bottom of the Ice Wall.

If the monsters were scattered and attacked in waves, clearing them would be time-consuming but much less difficult.

But right now, tens of thousands of monsters were densely packed together, and many monsters came with their own epic-grade Aura effects (such as damage reduction, damage reflection, recovery, attribute debuffs, etc.) that overlapped and influenced each other, making the combat environment in this area exceptionally complex and harsh, greatly reducing the efficiency of clearing.

At this moment, even some young Class Transferees with A-Rank Talent local to Nanchui City, as long as their levels were appropriate, had bravely joined the defensive battle.

Those with levels below fifty were not allowed to participate because their damage was insufficient and it was too dangerous; while those with levels more than three levels higher than the monsters were limited by the rules and struggled to cause effective damage—this was precisely one of the root causes of the chaotic order in many regions around the world today.

Otherwise, every country would only need to cultivate a few top-tier experts to be worry-free.

In an inconspicuous corner of the Ice Wall, a full fifty-person team was engaged in a fierce battle with a small group of Epic-Rank Monster.

Leading them was none other than Wang Jie, who possessed SS-Rank Talent.

Several S-Rank Talent individuals who had previously cooperated in secret realms were also in this team.

Because it was external combat, the team configuration was even more luxurious.

In addition to Wang Jie and the other forty-four young main forces, there were six top-tier support class professionals accompanying them.

These supporters continuously applied powerful buff states such as attack enhancement, attack speed increase, cooldown reduction, and critical hit probability to the young people, causing their overall combat power to soar by more than two or three times!

With such enhancements, when facing a lone Epic-Rank Monster, they could kill it relatively quickly under concentrated fire.

But once they encountered monsters bunched together, or if there was a legendary-grade monster leading the group, they had to choose to temporarily detour or fight while retreating, and the clearing efficiency remained low.

Even Wang Jie felt somewhat strained at this moment.

His arrows hitting the monsters sometimes only caused a few dozen to a hundred points of damage, while some monsters possessed an Aura that recovered a percentage of health, so the team would fight for a long time, yet the opponent's health would increase instead of decrease, which was incredibly frustrating.

"Whew... I wonder if that person will come this time." Wang Jie took a short breath and whispered to the companion beside him, "If she came, dealing with these guys would probably be a different scene."

In his heart, that mysterious talent who could solo an epic-level secret realm might have the ability to change the current deadlock.

However, some other talents in the team who had rushed from other places or had slightly lower levels expressed skepticism about this.

"Brother Wang, you have SS-Rank Talent!

In our eyes, you are already the top of the top!"

"Yeah, you alone dealt nearly thirty percent of the team's output; that's already ridiculously strong!"

"How could there be a talent even more amazing than you?

Isn't SS-Rank Talent the highest talent?"

"The number of monsters right now is just too terrifying; it feels like it would be difficult for anyone who came... Brother Wang, you have already done extremely well, no need to be too anxious."

Among these people, there were S-Rank Talent individuals who had rushed from nearby cities, as well as A-rank elites local to Nanchui City, with ages ranging from twenty to forty.

After the past few hours of collaborative combat, they were all shocked and admired the terrifying output ability Wang Jie had displayed.

SS-Rank Talent was indeed worthy of its reputation.

Yet Wang Jie actually said there was someone stronger than him?

This made them find it hard to believe.

If such a person really existed, what did the efforts of all of them count for?

Just as the members of Wang Jie's team were having mixed thoughts and continuing to contend with the monsters... counting from when Lin Muyang set off, only fifteen minutes had passed.

Spanning a vast distance of over eight thousand kilometers, his figure had already appeared in the clouds directly above the Ice Wall!

The Power of Wind Control Aura, strengthened by "Yamas Fate Alteration," provided a terrifying speed bonus.

This allowed Lin Muyang's extreme speed to reach nearly thirty times the speed of sound, truly lightning fast, traveling a thousand miles in an instant!

When he arrived above the Ice Wall, he did not greet anyone, nor did he reveal his figure.

His gaze swept over the foot of the wall below, that massive monster horde surging like a black tide and radiating all kinds of dangerous Auras...

A trace of undisguisable joy flashed across Lin Muyang's eyes.

"Now, the little ghost girl can have a good feast." He thought to himself.

With such a number of Epic-Rank Monster and legendary-grade bosses, how many boss soul could they provide?

This was simply a super-rich mine waiting to be mined!

Without hesitation, Lin Muyang moved his mind slightly, and while in the state of Divine Concealment, he began to take the few young girls beside him and quietly descended toward the area where the monsters were densest.

The true harvest was about to begin.