MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

The Western Throne-claiming War was much more peaceful than the Invincible Continent’s. The Windcloud family just stood by the sidelines as the two sides, Undefeatable Legends and Reigning The World fought back and forth.

The Western Continent’s Throne-claiming War lasted for three days and three nights, eventually ending with the failure of Reigning The World’s Throne-claiming campaign.

Reigning The World did not have any tanks, and Undefeatable Legends’ interference meant that it took them two days just to get past the Arrow Towers. On the other hand, defeating the 500 spirit knights did not take them much time at all, since Night Moon had prepared a group of Light Priests who could use Holy Word beforehand so they managed to defeat the 500 spirit knights with relative ease.

However, when it came to fighting the King’s Soul, Reigning the World hit a hard wall.

Under usual circumstances, the King’s Soul would constantly have a debuff that increased its ATK and DEF the more players were around it.

Night Moon chose to force her way through, but under the leadership of their Vice Guild Master, Undefeatable Legends pulled a nasty trick by having all their members die in the Imperial Palace Hall. That way, the King’s Soul received a constant boost in attributes until finally it could kill any survivors in the Hall with just one hit.

If no one tried anything fishy like that, the King’s Soul was still beatable with numbers. Unfortunately, as long as someone was trying to sabotage the challengers, the King’s Soul became very hard to defeat.

Night Moon did not ask Li Yi for help because this was not within the terms of their agreement.

Their agreement was only targeted at the Southern Continent, so when Arthur launched an attack, Night Moon would offer a hand to help. If the Southern Continent dared to set foot in the Western Continent, Li Yi would also send reinforcements.

As soon as the Western Continent’s Throne-claiming War ended, the Southern Continent’s Throne-claiming War began as well.

Unlike the Western and previous Eastern Continent, the players of the Southern Continent were very united. There was only one large alliance, Arthur’s Empire, and the others were little individuals who did not pose any threat at all.

If no one stopped him, Arthur’s first Throne-claiming attempt was sure to succeed.

Unfortunately, Li Yi was never going to let him do it!

As soon as the Southern Continent’s Throne-claiming War began, Li Yi personally drive his purple tank to the Southern Continent’s Celestial Capital.

When the Throne-claiming War began, Arthur’s Empire was tense and ready for trouble. Arthur already knew that Li Yi would interfere, so he made prior preparations by having Defiantly Tyrannical bring out his troops to stop Li Yi’s army at the Abyssal Canyon.

Defiantly Tyrannical went to the frontline despite his illness and gathered the members of the Three Major Alliance once more. He wanted to avenge his previous loss, but no matter how he waited, he did not see any signs of Li Yi making any moves.

The Iron Alliance’s higher-ups were all either running dungeons or grinding levels, showing no intention of regrouping. Defiantly Tyrannical and his men waited for a day and a night, only managing to kill about a dozen Iron Alliance players who wanted to cross the borders. As for the Iron Alliance army, there was no sign of them whatsoever.

Just as Arthur and Defiantly Tyrannical were jumping at shadows, Li Yi snuck into the Celestial Capital. He had the Divine Looking Glass with him, which meant that even the aggro system could not pin him down. Also, he had only brought Jiaojiao, Fire Ice, and Little Elf from the Magical Realm with him this time.

Jiaojiao had been acting cocky lately, riding the King’s mount, the Crimson Emperor Warhorse, around the major cities whenever she had the time. Since she was the Queen, her Patrolling special skill allowed her to teleport to any of the major cities in the Invincible Continent whenever she wanted.

The King’s personal mount was the Crimson Emperor Warhorse, and it was just as showy as the Holy Light Warhorse. The former also had a special skill, Regal Aura, which forcefully dismissed any nearby mounts that were below Epic Level.

Once a mount was dismissed by force, it could not be summoned again for some time. That was why the Crimson Emperor Warhorse was even stronger than Brother Windcloud Nine’s Cerberus. Its only flaw was probably that it could not fly.

Li Yi and the other three broke the surface in the middle of a Southern Continent lake.

By now, the Throne-claiming War had heated up, and Arthur was leading his followers into a full-on assault on the Arrow Towers.

“Guild Master, can we stop Arthur from becoming King with just the four of us?” Fire Ice was deeply concerned.

Jiaojiao, on the other hand, was far more relaxed. “Don’t worry, Perverted Wing definitely has a plan.”

Li Yi smiled slightly and took out the purple tank, inviting the three women to board.

“Forget four people, I alone should be enough. I only asked the three of you to come along just as a precaution in case of unforeseen circumstances.”

Li Yi explained as he drove, but he did not say a word about how he was going to prevent Arthur from becoming King.

The purple tank drove into the crowd of Arrow Towers. Arthur’s Dynasty moved very quickly, and within a mere half an hour, they had already taken down 5 Arrow Towers. At this rate, they would not even need 5 hours. It was a foregone conclusion that they would be able to pass the Arrow Tower area.

The Southern Continent’s players were united and Arthur’s Empire had a monopoly, so the total number of participants here at this Throne-claiming War was over 60 million.

Li Yi braved the hail of arrows, driving on until he finally stopped in the center of the Arrow Towers.

This was a blind spot situated amongst several hundred Arrow Towers that nevertheless could not be attacked by a single one.

Li Yi handed Jiaojiao the wheel and jumped off the tank. He then took out the Undead’s Necklace of Natural Disaster that he had obtained from the Dwelling of the Undead.

Since the corpse energy from the Southern Continent players constantly dying was flowing ceaselessly into the Undead’s Necklace of Natural Disaster, the pitch-black hue of the necklace’s surface became even eerier, emitting a black smoke and even crackling occasionally.

The Undead’s Necklace of Natural Disaster’s attributes could not usually be seen. This strange necklace would only reveal its attributes after it absorbed a large amount of corpse energy.

[Undead’s Necklace of Natural Disaster (equipment quality unknown)]

[Equipment Level: 50]

[STR −8000]

[END −8000]

[WIL −8000]

[AGI −8000]

[ATK SPD decreased by 500%]

[Undead Corpse Poison (Special Skill): Absorbs corpse energy and releases trapped souls, turning every corpse in a 1000-yard radius into controllable Undead.]

[Note: This necklace is full of evil…]

…

The Undead’s Necklace of Natural Disaster reduced the character’s attributes to the barest minimum. When Li Yi wore it, his HP dropped into the negatives. Forget putting up a fight, he would die if anything so much as touched him wrong.

The necklace’s negative effects were very powerful. In other words, if it were not for its special skill, this necklace would be a piece of trash only good for pranking people with.

When the necklace absorbed enough corpse energy, however, its Undead Disaster special skill would be activated.

“Undead Disaster!”

Li Yi raised the Undead’s Necklace of Natural Disaster high above his head and unleashed the special skill!

“Whoosh-whoosh—”

Waves of black smoke shot out from the necklace in all directions, darting into the corpses of the dead players.

“Woooo… Cackle-cackle-cackle…”

Bone-chilling wails rang out around him as the countless corpses crawled unsteadily to their feet before attacking the live players around them…

“Ding-ding-ding-ding!”

It was as though they were struck by an X-Cross Cut, and a bloody curtain rained down!

The corpses reanimated by the Undead’s Necklace of Natural Disaster were nothing like the players they had been when alive. Instead, they had all transformed into the zombies and skeletons from the Dwelling of the Undead.

Blademaster skeletons and God-Chastised Paladins…

Each Undead had more 100,000HP, and their ATK stats were through the roof. Moves like the Blademaster skeleton’s Blade Veil and the God-Chastised Paladin’s Heavenly Punishment practically mowed down players whenever they were unleashed.

Jiaojiao and the other two women who were watching from aboard the purple tank had long since been stunned speechless.

Li Yi was confident that he would be able to single-handedly prevent Arthur from claiming the throne precisely because he had the Undead’s Necklace of Natural Disaster, the ace up his sleeve!

The necklace was usually useless, but when there were more corpses, this necklace would become nothing short of a divine weapon!

Li Yi raised the Undead’s Necklace of Natural Disaster above his head and continued to use the special skill. If someone were to stop him now, the effect of the Undead Disaster would end as well. However, he was in the blind spot between several hundred Arrow Towers. Aside from Jiaojiao and the other two girls, who could harm him?

“What’s this? Where did all these Undead come from?”

“What kind of Undead are these? Why are they even stronger than bosses? I’m Level 58, but I can’t even take one hit.”

“Ahh, this ain’t right, what’s happening???”

The countless Southern Continent players swore loudly, but none of them could have guessed that these tens of thousands of Undead creatures were all a result of Li Yi’s own handiwork.

Li Yi’s current position rendered him completely invisible to them.

The more players died, the more Undead clambered up from the ground. The Undead Army’s numbers swelled drastically, swarming from the entrance of the Celestial Capital all the way to Resurrection Points No. 1, No. 2, and No.3…

Millions of Undead moved together as one, causing hell for the Southern Continent players. Arthur and some other pivotal members of the guild could no longer get up from the ground, so the situation spiraled completely out of control.

This must be Dark Wing’s doing, it has to be Dark Wing. The only question was just what did he do?

Arthur lay on the ground and thought it over for a long time but never came up with any ideas.

Although he was a closed beta player, he had only been allowed to play the closed beta until he reached Level 90. Besides, he only tested the Arcane mechanics in the closed beta, so his knowledge of all the other content was extremely limited. He had heard of the Dwelling of the Undead, but he had no clue about the Undead’s Necklace of Natural Disaster.

Before Arthur could find out the truth, Li Yi had already returned to the tank.

Thanks to the activation of Undead Disaster, there was an Undead Army consisting of Blademaster skeletons and God-Chastised Paladins. He no longer needed to continue using the special skill.

The players who were killed by Undead would also become Undead, but the only difference was that they would not turn into Blademaster skeletons and God-Chastised Paladins, so their combat power would be slightly weaker.

In the tank, the three ladies surrounded Li Yi, so astounded that they were tongue-tied.

He had managed to single-handedly stop a large guild of more than 6 millions members from claiming the throne. It seemed like an impossible task, but Li Yi had accomplished it, all on his own.

“Oh my god, is this for real?” Little Elf from the Magical Realm was beside herself with shock.

“Of course it’s real. It’s just me, even you guys can do it. The only question is who’s wearing this necklace.” With a smile, Li Yi showed the Undead’s Necklace of Natural Disaster to the three women.

“What a trashy necklace, but what an OP special skill.” That was Jiaojiao’s review of the Undead’s Necklace of Natural Disaster.

Actually, countering Undead Disaster was by no means difficult. The Undead that he summoned would only last for three to five days. Aside from waiting out the time limit, they could also simply kill Li Yi, and the millions of Undead would drop dead on the spot.

After the Undead Army that Li Yi had summoned killed every living thing outside the Celestial Capital, they remained where they stood, motionless.

This was one of Undead Disaster’s flaws, in that all of the Undead could only stay within a certain range of the Undead’s Necklace of Natural Disaster.

“Let’s go!” Li Yi started up the tank and drove it toward the outskirts of the Celestial Capital.

“Where are we going?”

“To pick up equipment!”

When the Undead along the way saw the purple tank, they all made way for their master!