Chapter 1 The Escape

Hearing Shi Feng's anxious tone, the Zero Wing members knew that this matter was definitely not as simple as they had imagined.

Since Shi Feng had already said so, the others naturally wouldn't disobey, and they all fled towards the exit of the Blood Hand Society's headquarters.

The combat power of the Mechanical Annihilator was truly terrifying. Not only could it release area-of-effect destruction skills, but even level 50 Tier 1 NPC guards were instantly killed, let alone a group of level 20-plus players like them.

If it were just a simple area-of-effect destruction skill, that would be one thing, but the key was that ordinary attacks could instantly kill guards with over 100,000 HP. There was no way to fight it, it was a complete massacre. Players at this stage simply couldn't compete.

"Guild Leader, be careful," Fire Dance said, clenching her small fists, feeling somewhat unwilling.

"Mm," Shi Feng replied casually, unable to be as relaxed as before.

Because the enemies in front of Shi Feng were not just the Mechanical Annihilator, but also the Mechanical Guardians.

Previously, these Mechanical Guardians had been chasing after the group out of the vault, but after the others escaped, these Mechanical Guardians ran back to deal with Shi Feng.

He had to both restrict the Mechanical Annihilator's movements and dodge the attacks of eight Mechanical Guardians.

Shi Feng was, after all, only a level 24 Tier 0 Swordsman. He could only use all his survival skills to barely avoid being killed, but at this point, he was already at the end of his rope.

"How detestable, I'm clearly helping you guys, but you come to deal with me. Since you want to die, I'll grant your wish!" Shi Feng, looking at the Mechanical Guardians that only attacked him, couldn't help but become enraged. He stopped using the Intermediate Ice Grenades to restrict the Mechanical Annihilator's movements and immediately turned to throw them at the Mechanical Guardians, immobilizing the rushing Mechanical Guardians.

"I'm not playing with you guys anymore."

Shi Feng took out an Acceleration Scroll from his backpack. With the boost from the Acceleration Scroll, Shi Feng's speed soared once again, and he charged straight towards the vault door.

"You will all die!" The Mechanical Annihilator went berserk after being unfrozen, letting out a mechanical roar that shook the entire vault.

After the roar, the Mechanical Annihilator took a big step and charged towards the fleeing Shi Feng.

However, the frozen Mechanical Guardians blocked the Mechanical Annihilator's path. Without saying a word, the Mechanical Annihilator swung its sword. With just one sword, a clumsy Mechanical Guardian with a height of over 6 meters was sent flying. After eight consecutive strikes, all eight Mechanical Guardians were imprinted on the wall.

"What terrifying damage. Truly worthy of being an Aberrant," Shi Feng thought as he saw the true damage of the Mechanical Annihilator.

It was just an ordinary sword strike, but the Mechanical Guardian with 1.5 million HP lost over 300,000 HP.

In other words, a level 30 Lord-ranked Mechanical Guardian could be easily killed with just five strikes.

Being this strong, it could easily annihilate a newbie town.

"Looks like I can't go to the town," Shi Feng estimated the combat power of the Mechanical Annihilator and couldn't help but frown secretly.

Aberrants are a special existence in God's Domain, completely outside the Three Realms and Five Elements. They generally mutate from monsters, and their appearance rate is as ridiculously low as obtaining a Lucky Stone in God's Domain.

These Aberrants are not restricted by the system and are completely free creatures. They can act in any area and will attack any creature until they are destroyed.

Every appearance is a disaster for God's Domain, just like various natural disasters in reality. It's simply not something that individual players can handle.

They generally exhibit a significant increase in intelligence, almost on par with high-level NPCs, as well as a great increase in combat power. This increase is not ordinary, but geometric.

In his previous life, Shi Feng had seen an Aberrant that had mutated from a level 80 ordinary monster, and that Aberrant directly killed Tier 2 level 75 players who were grinding monsters.

If a Tier 2 level 75 player had good skills, they could entangle with a level 80 Lord for a while, and there wouldn't be any problem escaping. But being instantly killed by a level 80 ordinary monster, of course, part of the reason was that they weren't paying attention, but being able to instantly kill them was enough to show how terrifying the strength of an ordinary monster was after mutating.

Afterward, this mutated ordinary monster became a nightmare for the players.

By the time everyone realized it, over 10,000 players had died at the hands of that Aberrant, and with the increasing number of kills, the Aberrant's strength was also increasing.

This attracted the attention of many large guilds. As everyone knows, the better the monster, the better the weapons and equipment it drops. This is the iron law of God's Domain, and even mutated monsters should not be an exception.

Mutated monsters are so strong, with strength far exceeding that of high-level Lords, so the rewards must be very rich.

Therefore, major guilds sent out armies to crusade, with the total number of troops exceeding 100,000, all above level 70, including many Tier 2 experts.

That battle was earth-shattering, and a newbie town was completely destroyed.

Although they finally killed the Aberrant, the result was heavy losses, with less than 3,000 of the 100,000 players surviving...

The Aberrant in front of him was an Aberrant mutated from a High Lord monster. Shi Feng couldn't imagine what level the Mechanical Annihilator had reached. The current Mechanical Annihilator was just newly born, when its strength was at its weakest. He couldn't imagine what it would be like if it grew up.

Previously, an ordinary level 80 monster could eliminate more than 90,000 of a 100,000-strong army after mutating, and these players included Tier 2 experts. Everyone's level was similar to that of the Aberrant. Although the Mechanical Annihilator was only level 50, there wasn't a single player who had reached level 40 yet, so there was no way to fight it.

In the short time it took Shi Feng to escape from the vault, the eight Mechanical Guardians were killed by the Mechanical Annihilator, and it charged straight towards Shi Feng.

"So fast!" Shi Feng quickly threw out an Ice Grenade.

However, this time the Mechanical Annihilator was no longer fooled. It lightly moved its feet and dodged the Ice Grenade thrown by Shi Feng.

"Damn it, it's all those Mechanical Guardians' fault," Shi Feng thought angrily. At the beginning, the Mechanical Annihilator had just awakened and its intelligence wasn't high enough, so it couldn't dodge. Moreover, once it was frozen, as long as he had enough Ice Grenades in his hand, he could freeze it indefinitely, but that wasn't possible now.

Seeing that the Mechanical Annihilator was about to swing its saw-toothed greatsword, and this passage was just a single path, there was no way to dodge. A direct hit would be certain death.

Shi Feng could only try his luck and pointed the Abyssal Bindings at the Mechanical Annihilator.

Abyssal Binding!

Suddenly, nine dark and cold chains emerged from the ground, instantly binding the Mechanical Annihilator.

"Aooo!"

The Mechanical Annihilator struggled frantically, and in an instant, one of the chains snapped. Then two, then three, began to break.

The unfailingly effective Abyssal Binding was now as fragile as paper...