Liang Chuan's eyes widened the moment he saw the talent skill.
"Gale Step? That Gale Step?!"
He hurriedly opened the details.
[Gale Step]
Enter invisibility for 10 seconds.
The first attack breaks invisibility and deals 200% damage.
Cooldown: 60s
Cost: 10% spirit
"It really is that skill!"
Liang Chuan couldn't help grinning.
With this, he no longer needed to worry about dying.
Surrounded by abyssal Hilichurls?
Just pop Gale Step and disappear into the wind!
He immediately borrowed Throat-Severing Slash's ability.
His own skill bar now had three skills—and finally, a real lifesaver.
With an escape option secured, Liang Chuan's kiting became much more relaxed.
At that moment, the three players came running over wielding the axes and pickaxes taken from Hilichurls, looking like improvised warriors.
Liang Chuan waved them off:
"Leave me alone—just move the abyssal Hilichurl corpses to the Terminal!"
The players obeyed instantly.
Truth be told, they preferred doing delivery-boy missions.
Facing abyssal Hilichurls head-on?
That was the quickest way to get sent back to the login screen.
Soon, the system spammed Liang Chuan's mind:
Converted abyssal Hilichurl: +9.9 bio-energy
Converted abyssal Hilichurl: +9.9 bio-energy
Converted…
Three messages in a row.
His bio-energy total reached 40.59.
Without hesitation—
he summoned more players.
30 bio-energy burned.
Three players descended.
And then—
Liang Chuan nearly spat blood.
All three were Elemental Mages.
All three were fire mages.
Their logic?
"Mage is always meta."
"Water mages heal."
"Wood mages control."
"Fire mages burst the hardest, obviously the correct pick."
The kind of "veteran gamer logic" that doomed early-game parties everywhere.
Now he had:
4 Fire mages
1 Tank
1 Assassin
Liang Chuan wanted to curse.
"Is this a party composition a human being would make?!"
He immediately asked the system:
"Can I specify player class when summoning?"
System: You can specify class types or exact classes.
But specifying exact classes drastically increases response time.
"Class type is enough!
From now on—give me tanks, archers, and supports.
Supports lowest priority.
If no tank or archer responds, then send a support."
System: Settings updated.
Good.
Early game mages with no real offensive skills were useless.
Better to form a "tank + ranged" spear-formation lineup, then sprinkle in supports later.
As for the four fire mages…
They could just play around.
With six players wielding axes and pickaxes, they could still fight.
A single abyssal Hilichurl couldn't last long under multiple improvised weapons.
If it retaliated—
Beef, the tank, would eat the hit.
He'd howl in pain, but the others would finish the monster off.
After converting another four abyssal Hilichurls, Liang Chuan's bio-energy rose to 50.19.
He spent 40 points at once.
Four more players arrived.
This time, the lineup finally matched his settings:
1 Guardian
1 Bodyguard
2 Archers
Perfect.
He immediately absorbed their talents:
Guardian –[Fortified Base]
All attributes ×150% within base territory.
Bodyguard –[Proxy Shield]
Bind to a player, absorbing 25% of their damage.
Archer –[Marksmanship Expertise]
Increases hit rate.
The Bodyguard skill was useless to him,
but the other two were a massive boost.
Inside the base, his attributes jumped to:
Constitution: 48
Strength: 19.5
Agility: 16.5
Spirit: 15
With stats like that—
he could literally rip an abyssal Hilichurl apart bare-handed.
After a round of conversions, Liang Chuan now commanded a ten-player squad.
Facing abyssal Hilichurls no longer felt hopeless.
For the first time—they had real fighting strength.
But just as they were preparing to counterattack…
A massive silhouette appeared near the base.
A towering Hilichurl Berserker—
wielding a giant battle-axe.
And on the global map, its icon glowed black-red.
A Void-tainted Abyssal Berserker.
Liang Chuan's face tightened.
A normal Berserker was already terrifying.
Abyss-corrupted?
One swing and half his team would be paste.
"Yeah… we're not winning that fight."
He exhaled slowly.
"Luckily I have Gale Step.
Otherwise I'd really die here."
He looked at the players.
"Everyone ready?"
"Ready!"
the ten players shouted in unison.
"Good, then—"
Before they finished blinking—
Liang Chuan turned around and sprinted in the opposite direction of the Berserker.
Leaving behind ten utterly dumbfounded players.
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