Inside Demon Lord’s City.

At this moment, nearly all of Zone 3’s high-end demon race players had gathered here.

Mixed among them were also massive numbers of demon race monsters.

The entire Demon Lord’s City was engulfed in soaring Demonic Aura. Not even the slightest trace of its former human presence remained.

Outside the city, countless Zone 5 players were advancing layer by layer.

Ordinary monsters could not stop their offensive at all.

However, the players inside Demon Lord’s City were not panicking in the slightest.

At this moment, ninety percent of their players were concentrated around the Revival Spring.

Aroka led the group of temporary leaders who had been elected on the spot, organizing the demon race players inside the city and arranging their battle formations.

"Mages and archers, you will be responsible for dealing damage. But don’t attack yet. Hide yourselves inside the city for now.

"As soon as John appears, you must pour every instant-cast attack you have onto him, no matter the cost.

"Then, once you have unleashed your first wave of skills, immediately choose to sacrifice yourselves and offer your bodies to the damage-dealing teams behind you.

"That way, you can free up offensive positions while also ensuring maximum burst damage."

A sharp glint flickered in Aroka’s eyes as he issued his commands.

"As for warriors, assassins, and priests, the three of you will be responsible for preparing the mages and archers for their attacks.

"No matter what, you must stop any enemy who charges forward and guarantee the safety of the backline damage teams.

"If there are any gaps, we high-combat-power players will fill them in for you.

"In this battle, we must keep John here.

"No matter how strong the people from Zone 5 are, they will all be buried here in our Zone 3!"

Their main objective in this battle was only one thing.

John.

As long as they could kill John once, even if the entire Demon Lord’s City was destroyed, it would not matter.

After all, John was their true target.

Once John died, Zone 5 would naturally lose morale and fall into chaos, deprived of its pillar of support.

At that point, they could rely on the strength of the demon race monsters to completely scatter and annex Zone 5 in one decisive move.

In that case, their Zone 3 would emerge victorious from this war and become the strongest among the five zones.

Aroka had calculated everything perfectly. His expression was filled with excitement as he looked toward the Zone 5 players drawing closer and closer outside the city.

"Come on, then. Let me see just how capable you really are."

...

Under Aroka’s command, the players of Demon Lord’s City quickly divided themselves into clearly separated major legions.

After its corruption, the territory of Demon Lord’s City had expanded enough to accommodate nearly ninety million demon race players.

The only drawback was that it was not wide enough, so their formations had to be adjusted.

Large numbers of ranged damage dealers were divided into dozens of legions and stationed at the rear.

As soon as John appeared, these damage-dealing players would unleash their skills wave after wave before sacrificing themselves.

They would transform into Demonic Aura and attach themselves to the next wave of damage-dealing legions.

This was an extremely cruel yet highly efficient method of offense.

Thanks to the talent of the demon race, this behavior allowed these players—who should have been lagging behind Zone 5—to unleash damage output that could rival Zone 5 head-on.

...

At the same time, in the other demon race main cities of Zone 3.

Since most of Zone 3’s high-end combat forces had already gathered in Demon Lord’s City, the scattered players in these other cities could only seek help from the demon generals stationed in the various demon race main cities.

But even with the help of the demon generals, they were still no match for the Zone 5 players.

Aside from Demon Lord’s City, the Revival Springs of the major demon race main cities were breached one after another by Zone 5 players.

Every time they captured a Revival Spring, Zone 5 gained another coordinate point inside Zone 3.

Large numbers of demon race players were killed, and their springs were seized.

When they revived again, they naturally had no choice but to revert back into human players.

In less than an hour, more than five million players had been purified back into humans.

In a short period of time, Zone 5’s advantage surged dramatically!

At this moment, John stood atop a tall peak outside Demon Lord’s City, silently watching as message after message appeared in the guild channel, reporting the capture of other demon race main cities.

His expression remained calm. He did not care about these reports at all.

For the Zone 5 players whom John had personally trained, such progress was not surprising.

The reason he had not made a move immediately in this battle was precisely because he wanted to see the results of the training he had given them during this period of time.

From the current situation, they could barely be considered qualified.

"It’s about time I go in and take a look. I might as well harvest a wave while I’m at it."

John muttered inwardly.

Whoosh!

The next moment, his figure vanished into thin air.

When he appeared again, he was already inside Demon Lord’s City.

When the Zone 3 players below saw him, they immediately cried out in alarm.

"John!"

"He’s here!"

"Focus fire! Follow the plan!"

The players inside Demon Lord’s City shouted one after another. They quickly raised the bows and staffs in their hands, preparing to focus all their firepower on John.

However, in the very next moment, all the demon race mages and archers froze.

They saw John’s figure slowly flickering again and again.

With every flicker, one more clone of him appeared.

In just a few seconds, John and his clones had multiplied to nearly a thousand!

Moreover, the aura of every clone was exactly the same as the main body. It was completely impossible to tell which one was real and which one was fake.

This scene instantly stunned the demon race players below who had been preparing to attack.

They had no idea which one they should strike.

But very soon, Aroka’s announcement arrived.

[Aroka] Vice Guild Leader: "Everyone, whether they are clones or not, kill them all!"

After receiving the order, the demon race players below no longer hesitated.

The skills they had been charging for so long erupted in an instant.

"Kill him!"

"Kill John! For the glory of Zone 3!"

"So what if he has so many clones? I refuse to believe he can withstand the focus fire of so many of us!"

Boom, boom, boom!

Buzz, buzz, buzz!

Tens of thousands of arrows and skills erupted at once.

The skies above the entire Demon Lord’s City were almost completely covered by them, forming a vast, dark mass that blotted out everything in sight. It was terrifying beyond measure.

All the attacks came from every direction.

They indiscriminately struck at every John and every clone.

This terrifying momentum even made the Zone 5 players feel their scalps go numb.

"Can Big Boss John withstand that?"

"There are so many attacks that I can’t even see the color of the sky anymore."

"John is definitely strong, but the accumulated damage from this round of attacks must be calculated in the hundreds of millions, right?"

However, right at that moment, nearly a thousand Johns in the sky raised their hands at the same time.

In the next instant, over a thousand terrifying streams of Law of Sealing power condensed in midair.

"Spells are forbidden in this place."

"Shooting is forbidden in this place!"

"In this place, forbidden is..."

All kinds of sealing rules surged forth.

In an instant, every force within this stretch of heaven and earth was sealed completely!

Suddenly, all the attacks in the sky lost their brilliance.

As soon as John’s voice fell, those attacks landed on him.

But under the influence of the Law of Sealing, every single attack became completely invalid.

[-0! Sealed!]

[-0! Sealed!]

[-0! Sealed!]