Help! The mushrooms are getting eaten!

After their souls drifted out, these female players were on the verge of tears, watching what was happening to their physical bodies.

At this point, they finally recalled what their guild and friends had told them not long ago: that the people from South Korea suddenly coming to recruit members must have ulterior motives, but they didn't believe it…

The Warm Ocean Guild's stone ship was advancing in reality, and also advancing in the game.

Ahead was an endless ocean, with surging tides beneath the surface, where monsters could ambush or environmental disasters could erupt at any moment.

Since Cui Zhengzhe and his group dared to sail out to sea, they must have made some preparations, but…

Just as they finished dealing with the recruited female players, a giant black dragon suddenly appeared in the sky ahead. The dragon, like a small mountain, flew towards the stone ship, casting a shadow like dark clouds over a city!

It was precisely the black dragon that Osirio had looked down upon before—'Mother of Destruction · Koreya'!

Previously, this dragon was taken as a mount. Considering that players at that time would find it very difficult to truly subdue such a Mythic BOSS, this black dragon was given to his mother, Virginie, as a mount.

And this was already a well-known fact in South Korea.

At this moment, upon seeing the appearance of Mother of Destruction · Koreya, the dragon, Cui Zhengzhe and others from the Warm Ocean Guild all changed their expressions.

"Quick, quickly bring those women back!"

Cui Zhengzhe gave the order, and the middle-aged man controlling the bees immediately commanded his summoned bees to act, instantly killing the helpless women.

Within a few seconds, these women all revived inside the stone ship's cabin, looking as if they were asleep.

Immediately after, with a loud bang, the black dragon descended from the sky, and a black dragon breath swept forth, instantly destroying the surrounding defensive barrier!

What followed was a pair of dragon claws directly pushing against the bow of the stone ship, causing the entire ship's forward momentum to be abruptly halted with a crash.

The confrontation between massive objects and the sudden stop of the giant stone ship caused tens of thousands of players on board to stumble and fall.

Even stronger combatants like Vice-Guild Leader Cui Zhengzhe almost fell to the ground.

Cui Zhengzhe quickly held onto the railing, and amidst the violent shaking of the stone ship, he looked up ahead and saw the Moon Goddess standing on the black dragon's back with a cold expression!

She wore a moon-white magic robe, her long hair was tied up, her eyes were indifferent, and most importantly, she was bathed in moonlight, as if she could devour someone at any moment!

"W-wait!"

"Moon Goddess, our guild has already left South Korea!"

"Now on our ship, there are many members from Great Xia. You should know what this means!"

Cui Zhengzhe immediately shouted.

When he shouted these words, everyone in the Warm Ocean Guild on the ship became tense.

They knew that the next moment could very well decide their lives or deaths.

However, the Moon Goddess, who seemed indifferent in their eyes, coldly said, "Let your NPC come out."

This request surprised Cui Zhengzhe and the others a little.

NPC?

Although they didn't know what the 'Moon Goddess' wanted to do, they certainly didn't dare to refuse. They immediately invited two NPCs to come out from the ship's cabin.

These two NPCs were a human elder and a mushroom person; the latter belonged to a player of an alien civilization.

The mushroom person was only 1.2 meters tall, his head was like a mushroom, supporting an umbrella-like cap, and he had no limbs, floating completely in mid-air.

This fellow also had no facial features; his perception method was through hundreds of slender tentacles under his cap, which possessed three types of perception equivalent to human sight, smell, and hearing.

"Equipment Enhancer?"

Virginie first looked at the human elder, frowning.

Virginie, of course, understood what an 'Equipment Enhancer' was. The NPC's function was to help players enhance equipment, similar to the effect of a 'Reinforcement Stone,' but the cost was much higher than a Reinforcement Stone.

When players didn't have enough Reinforcement Stones, this NPC was still somewhat useful.

But clearly, Virginie was not here for this fellow.

She looked at the mushroom person:

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[Mushroom Engineer · Xuanzhuan Balulu (Lv50)]

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"Mushroom Engineer, it's you."

"Come with me."

Virginie looked at the mushroom person, raised her hand, and released tendrils of moonlight, surrounding the mushroom person.

As Virginie, whose NPC template had been removed by Qin Feng, she was no longer restricted by NPC limitations. With her full combat power unleashed, she was naturally much stronger than this mushroom person.

Unexpectedly, the mushroom person actually began to struggle.

"Help! Help!"

"Human, where are you taking me!"

"Don't go to Great Xia!"

"Don't go to Great Xia!"

"I heard! Great Xia humans eat fungi!"

"Mushrooms will be eaten!"

???

Upon hearing this, Virginie immediately fell into thought.

She asked, "Who told you that?"

The hundreds of tentacles on Mushroom Engineer · Xuanzhuan Balulu floated up, pointing directly at a yellow-haired youth—it was Cui Zhengzhe.

"He's lying to you."

Virginie glanced at Cui Zhengzhe, not putting him in her mind at all. With a raise of her hand, she brought the mushroom person onto the black dragon's back: "Shadow doesn't eat mushroom people. Join us and do well."

As soon as these words came out, not only was the mushroom person dumbfounded, but everyone on the stone ship was also stunned.

Shadow?

This Moon Goddess is with Shadow?

"W-wait, we have Great Xia people on our ship…"

Cui Zhengzhe still tried to save himself.

But Virginie gave him no chance. With just a raise of her hand, countless moonlight blades descended from the sky, instantly cutting the entire stone ship into hundreds of pieces. Immediately after, the moonlight blades exploded, killing all the players on the ship and also plunging them into a state of Whispers!

The stone ship sank.

All tens of thousands of players on the entire ship were killed within half an hour by Virginie, who cycled their lifespans to zero, leading to their complete deaths!

"Harvest: One mushroom person, lifespan of 470,000 years."

Virginie rode Mother of Destruction · Koreya, carrying Mushroom Engineer · Xuanzhuan Balulu, soaring all the way to the horizon…

All of this was witnessed by the female players from Great Xia who had drunk the 'Soul Wandering Water.'

They never expected that this Moon Goddess, who had swept through South Korea, was actually allied with Shadow?

In other words, now South Korea… everyone was working for Shadow!

Some of them had originally thought they were saved, but it turned out the Moon Goddess was attacking indiscriminately!

Compared to Cui Zhengzhe and others who were completely cycled to death in a 'Whispers' state, these female players could be said to be even more despairing, because they watched helplessly as they were killed again and again, and as souls, they could do nothing.

In their final moments of life, they deeply understood that…

Death is not terrifying.

What is terrifying is the process of waiting for death!