Chapter 2882: Hundred Forest Society
As soon as the "Mirror Space" opened, Xu Huo directly kicked the three people who had surrounded him out of the hotel. Walking onto the balcony, he said to those who had emerged outside, "Convey this to the president of the Hundred Forest Society: I will be paying a visit shortly."
The members of the Hundred Forest Society had no idea what he meant. The next second, they saw him vanish into thin air. Their expressions shifted, and they immediately rushed back to the Hundred Forest Society while notifying the others within the organization.
The Hundred Forest Society had arranged three waves of personnel. If today's ambush failed, they planned to lure Xu Huo outside the city to kill him. Unfortunately, they didn't receive good news—only an urgent notification from their fellow players: "He's heading to the headquarters!"
The vice president of the Hundred Forest Society was also confused. "Who's coming to the headquarters?"
"That Yu guy!" the person on the other end of the terminal shouted. "He left as soon as we showed up, saying he was coming to pay a visit..."
Before the words could finish, the next second, the villa area where the Hundred Forest Society headquarters was located began to tremble. It wasn't due to an earthquake or some other force—the villa buildings themselves were collapsing!
Not just the villas, but the ground supporting this area was also sinking and caving in, as if it had suddenly lost its support!
And that was indeed the case. This villa area was built over flowing water, so many of the foundations were constructed with metal. Now, all those metal structures had vanished, along with the villa buildings themselves, causing the entire area to collapse!
The Hundred Forest Society players living in this district emerged one after another. When they saw the man who had just been placed on their kill list walking in so brazenly, they were furious.
Xu Huo looked at those moving at high speed across the ground or through the air, took out the "Authority" seal, and pressed it downward in front of him. "Stay put!"
The effect of the "Authority" seal, combined with the gravity of the bone ring, instantly forced all the Hundred Forest Society players back to the ground or into the water. Their released items slowed down due to the gravity suppression, and were eventually blocked by Xu Huo's defensive items.
As for traits, Xu Huo didn't use items to sever traits this time. Instead, he stacked several defensive items around him and used the two newly acquired instruments to boost his speed, reaping three Hundred Forest Society members in quick succession.
But soon, he was restricted by a trait, trapped inside a massive triangular barrier.
"Ding!" He pressed the "Little Dog Bell" and said to the several Hundred Forest Society vice presidents attacking from both sides, "Today is a lucky day—fortune is not on your side!"
The attacks of the vice presidents were reflected back along their original paths. Two of them were hit by their own items and rolled away, while the remaining three launched another assault.
"Honest Confession!" one of them shouted. The defensive barriers surrounding Xu Huo all dissolved. At the same time, several streaks of dim light and invisible forces struck from different directions. The re-risen "Star River" barrier blocked most of the attacks, but two still came straight for his face!
At that moment, white spiritual power flowed beneath his feet. The rising fine threads swept out, blocking these two attacks and capturing one of the bamboo-leaf-shaped items.
Without putting the item away, as the spiritual power reeled it back, Xu Huo dealt with the incoming attacks while reaching out to touch the item. The bamboo leaf item instantly shattered into several pieces!
The Hundred Forest Society members couldn't afford to feel the loss. The players on site formed three layers of offense and defense, surrounding Xu Huo with various items, instruments, and trait effects so densely that it was almost airtight.
But Xu Huo's A-grade defensive items and instruments were all of high quality and numerous, capable of blocking a large portion of the attacks. The rest were defended against with the bone ring, space barriers, and spiritual materialization. Even so, he still managed to kill several players from a distance using the "Time Ring."
Of course, the Hundred Forest Society could also find gaps to break through his defenses. Often, there was an extremely brief window between the activation of one defensive item or instrument and the next. During these short gaps, Xu Huo was injured a few times. However, under the effect of the "Protagonist's Halo," he always managed to avoid the worst by sheer luck, ending up with only superficial wounds.
After three minutes had passed, Xu Huo used the "Time Ring" again. The time-freezing effect covered the entire villa area. But because many players were wearing space-type items or instruments, only two were accidentally frozen by the time power. However, before he could act, the other Hundred Forest Society members had already protected their companions.
Seeing this, Xu Huo simply pulled countless space ray blades into the air and used "Authority" to command everyone present to "lie down." In an instant, over a dozen people were injured, and one died on the spot.
The result wasn't ideal, but the next second, he had no more spare movements—his hands and feet went inexplicably numb, completely losing their strength.
Unsure whose trait this was, the Hundred Forest Society members saw him frozen in place and intensified their assault, shattering the barriers around him in no time.
Stacking "Righteous Halo" and "Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe," then releasing his spiritual world, Xu Huo instantly killed the three players closest to him and controlled the two behind to shift positions. These five people blocked the nearest attacks for him. Then, the spiritual gate opened, and every player near him was thrown high into the air, only to be slammed back down by the bone ring!
In this situation, the players wouldn't die from the fall, but several who were already seriously injured broke their arms or legs upon landing and couldn't get up.
Xu Huo clenched his right hand, and space tangents spread evenly through the air, shredding the ruined buildings and lush flowers and trees, while also killing a batch of B- and C-grade players.
At that moment, several beams of rainbow light surged toward him. The outermost defensive barrier shattered on contact. He stopped fixating on killing and instead sped away.
The rainbow light chased after him. Everything he passed was ground to pieces, and as the rainbow light's shredding increased, its range grew larger and larger.
Xu Huo turned and ran toward the area where the Hundred Forest Society members were concentrated. But the player controlling the rainbow light quickly curved around and cut him off!
Locking onto the target, "Fate's String" took effect—unlike ordinary time items, "Fate's String" was unaffected by common space items, so this Hundred Forest Society player was frozen in place.
A space tangent lightly flicked through the air, and a head flew off.
"Brother Zhong!" two young players shouted in grief and anger, but it couldn't change the fact that the man was dead.
The faces of the Hundred Forest Society's vice presidents were as dark as water. After fighting for so long, even though they had the advantage in numbers and the disadvantage of not being able to use items effectively, Xu Huo had only sustained minor injuries under their siege, while they had lost over a dozen people!
"What grudge does the Hundred Forest Society have against you that you have to kill so many of us?" a young player shouted resentfully.
The colorful barrier of "Star River" flowed around Xu Huo. He looked at the people opposite him expressionlessly. "Ask yourselves. Since you didn't intend to stop even after leaving the instance, didn't it occur to you that someone might fight back?"