Seeing their skills hit the target, they suddenly realized that standing at a higher elevation could increase their attack range.
These players thought to themselves: The guild leader truly lives up to being the top-ranked player; he can even calculate this.
At this moment, these players felt a little more convinced of their guild leader.
Fueled by excitement, they unleashed their skills as if they were free.
The team below was caught completely off guard. Although their equipment was decent, they couldn't withstand the concentrated fire from over fifty ranged players.
More than a dozen players dropped instantly, and with a clatter, their dropped equipment scattered everywhere as these red-named players died.
Just as the players next to them prepared to pick up the loot, all the equipment inexplicably vanished in an instant.
"Bad... we have rogues cleaning up the battlefield!" a player from Youyue'er's team shouted.
The commanding Sharpshooter was startled: "Have all priests capable of casting Holy Light cast Illuminate without regard for rules, and catch those rogues!"
"Th-there are no priests left. All the ones who died were priests, except for Sister-in-law!" another person stammered.
"We're finished!" the Sharpshooter thought to himself. They had completely fallen into the opponent's rhythm and could only hope their guild leader would arrive quickly for support.
Looking at the enemies charging from the left and right flanks, along with the skills constantly flying from the city walls.
He gritted his teeth: "Charge towards the direction of the miscellaneous troops, stay away from the town!"
Waiting for rescue now was utterly futile. Without any priests, they had no sustainment ability and couldn't afford to wear down the enemy!
They could only rely on their level and equipment advantage to break through and meet up with their guild leader.
Youyue'er, in the middle of the crowd, was a little stunned. As everyone turned, they charged towards Luo Luo's direction.
As the approaching enemies drew nearer, Luo Luo's hand, gripping the longbow, trembled slightly; she was still quite nervous.
The task Chu Tian had assigned her was to calculate the enemy's distance, as she was the only level eight player in their team and a Sharpshooter with the Eagle Eye skill.
Eagle Eye was a unique passive skill for Gunslingers and Sharpshooters, allowing them to estimate target distance and increase their skill accuracy. Once upgraded to advanced, Eagle Eye could also increase attack range.
90 meters... 80 meters... 75 meters... Now! "All Sharpshooters, Gunslingers, at a thirty-five-degree angle, fire normal attacks at no target, unleash a barrage of arcing shots, don't stop!" Luo Luo shouted.
"All Mages, Warlocks, at a forty-degree angle, cast instant low-damage skills with no target arcing shots, unleash a barrage! Once within range, chant your area-of-effect skills. Target: the players at the very front of their team." Luo Luo's voice trembled slightly, unsure if it was from excitement or fear.
Under Luo Luo's rapid coordination, Youyue'er's team was still seventy meters away.
They were met with the first wave of normal arrows from the archers, with damage numbers in the single digits appearing above them, even some forced minimal damage.
Sharpshooters and Gunslingers without the Eagle Eye buff had a range of only sixty meters. However, due to firing at no target, their range extended by an additional ten meters. But this method was only effective in large-scale battles like this. Even so, many arrows and bullets hit the ground without striking their targets.
The Gunslinger's eyes lit up, and he shouted, "The enemy's miscellaneous troops have no damage, let's charge through!"
At this moment, they were solely focused on breaking through and didn't notice that the warriors and paladins on their left and right flanks were already less than a hundred meters away.
They pressed forward under a hail of arrows and bullets. Although the damage was minimal, the impact caused their movements to falter slightly with each hit.
Those who were hit fewer times gradually broke formation and moved to the front.
Those who were hit more times fell behind the group.
What was originally a cylindrical formation gradually stretched into an oval.
As they advanced another ten meters, instant magic spells cast by mages and warlocks descended from the sky.
Fireball, Ice Spike, Shadow Bolt, and even Priest's Smite rained down on their heads.
Although the damage was still single digits, the impact of the arcing magic projectiles was stronger upon descent.
They were all staggered by the hits. Those struck by Ice Spike suffered even more, their bodies covered in frost, reducing their movement speed by 20%.
"Sister-in-law, dispel the slowed targets, let's charge through quickly!" the Gunslinger called out to Youyue'er.
Youyue'er blinked, thinking: How dare he yell at me. Just wait until we see the guild leader; I'll show him how to deal with you.
This Sharpshooter had no idea that his attempt to protect her would only earn him her resentment.
She glanced left and right. The enemies on the flanks were still ninety meters away. Their own team was less than sixty meters from the miscellaneous troops, so they should be able to meet the miscellaneous troops before the enemy could encircle them.
With the opponent's low-level players and trash equipment, it wouldn't take five seconds to tear open a path and escape.
The players at the front of the formation had already lost one-sixth of their health, but they didn't care, simply pushing forward relentlessly.
By now, they were all enraged. At the beginning, they had also tried to arc a couple of attacks like the opponent, but their aim was poor.
Even when two skills flew towards the crowd, the opponent scattered instantly, and there was no damage.
These people were all prominent figures in real life, including many professional gamers and wealthy individuals.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to afford such high-quality equipment and pay the five silver coin membership fee.
They were already reluctant to be dragged into killing low-level players today, but after being promised certain benefits, they had agreed.
However, being suppressed and attacked like this was unbearable. Now, all they wanted was to charge forward and defeat the enemy.
55 meters... 50 meters... 40 meters...
The few ranged players at the front, seeing that they had finally entered range, raised their staffs, preparing to attack.
But what they didn't expect was that the opponent had already unleashed area-of-effect magic spells first, with a boom...
They were annihilated directly. The concentrated group attacks of over a hundred people all landed on them.
Mages' Explosive Fire, Blizzard, Warlocks' Rain of Fire, Gunslingers' Cannon Bombs, Sharpshooters' Arrow Rain!
From a distance, countless skills merged together, forming a brilliant ball of light.
But the twenty-odd players being attacked couldn't appreciate this beauty.
The instantaneous searing pain made them cry out in agony. They wanted to turn and flee, but it was too late. The impact from the numerous magical attacks directly pinned them to the ground, unable to get up.
Hundreds of spells, most of them sustained attacks, although they all dealt a mandatory 1 point of damage.
The sheer number of them was overwhelming. In less than five seconds, those twenty-odd individuals were annihilated, turning into corpses.
"Everyone maintain area-of-effect attacks, use magic to cover the equipment. No one stops until I say so! All melee, split to the flanks, rendezvous with our Warrior and Knight teams, and kill!" Luo Luo gritted her teeth, continuously casting Arrow Rain skills.
The abundant top-tier equipment scattered across the ground made everyone's mouths water.
"Quickly go and retrieve the equipment!" Youyue'er shouted.
"Don't..." Before the Gunslinger could finish speaking, more than ten people rushed into the magic cluster.
"Ah... ah..." Those dozen or so people were instantly engulfed by the magic. By the time they realized their health was plummeting, it was too late. They all turned into corpses, becoming piles of equipment.
Youyue'er, about to scold the Gunslinger for trying to contradict her order, was stunned by what happened next: "Wh-what do we do now?"
The Gunslinger glanced at the warriors and paladins on his flanks. Due to the delay, they were now only thirty meters away. He thought, "We're done for!"
Just as he thought, they truly were finished.
Boom... Two torrents directly crashed into their formation!