The players were overjoyed, practically ready to pop champagne in the chat room.

Right at that moment, an ill-timed message cut in.

[49 Zhu Yan: I know you're all excited, but hold your horses. If all the monsters are dead, why hasn't the game ended early?]

This statement instantly silenced everyone.

Some of the bolder players started venturing out to check.

...

The Five Fortunes Golden Toad Door opened its massive maw and sucked in all the dropped loot, letting out a soft, satisfied burp.

"This big toad is seriously useful," Cao Yaxuan said, grinning from ear to ear.

She used to find collecting loot fun, but after doing it so much, it had become routine.

"So much stuff! There must be hundreds of types, thousands of items, right?" Xu Xiaomeng exclaimed, opening the storage space of the Five Fortunes Golden Toad Door. A grid list resembling a backpack interface popped into her view, making her cover her mouth in surprise.

The items were neatly sorted from highest to lowest rarity, making everything clear and convenient at a glance.

"Thirteen Excellent-grade items, and nine of those are high-grade Excellent! Xu Lang, we've struck it rich!" Cao Yaxuan laughed.

"Really? No Legendary items at all?" Xu Lang raised an eyebrow.

Many players had said the drop rate for high-quality loot in the Mad King Building was much higher than in other dorm buildings.

And with this game's difficulty being so high, there wasn't even a single Legendary item.

"Legendary items are inherently rare—no, *extremely* rare. They usually only appear in dorms past the tenth cycle," Xu Ruyan explained.

"Lang Ge, that big boss is still alive. Maybe he has a Legendary item on him!" Tong Qi adjusted the surveillance camera's position and spotted Harlan along with his Sorcerer Corps.

...

"There are still monsters over there, no wonder the game hasn't ended!"

"Holy crap, a level 15 leader monster!"

"Bro, are you sure it's a leader monster? Leader monsters have a chance to drop Legendary items. A level 15 leader monster might drop a level 15 Legendary item, something you could use all the way into the late game!"

"Late game?"

"Uh, that would be after the tenth cycle or so. A player's life is brilliant yet fleeting like a summer flower, haha!"

"Translated to the Mad King Building, a level 15 Legendary item might be obsolete by the tenth cycle."

"That's too exaggerated, bro!"

"I'm not joking!"

At this moment, the total player death toll for this round had already reached one-third, yet the players present could still laugh, the atmosphere relaxed.

The reason was simple.

They were still alive, and that was reason enough to smile.

Moreover, with Xu Lang here, this BOSS shouldn't be a major concern!

If the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up.

Harlan saw the disdain in these players' eyes, but his expression remained impassive. He merely raised his hands.

Instantly, black robes billowed, flapping loudly in the fierce wind!

Dozens of sorcerers from the Sorcerer Corps also raised their arms!

Eerie, solemn, monotonous, and lengthy incantations began to pour from their mouths.

"O Weaver of Darkness into Ladders, Child Nourished by the Rotten Moon!"

"Let the weft threads be steeped in the blood of triple betrayal!"

"Let the door crack open beyond the bounds of cognition!"

"Open wide, stars above the desert, doors amidst the stars!"

"Burn the pages of the old days as the guide, sacrifice countless bloodied corpses as the anchor, summon the servant of the abyssal fire—thy name is the shackle, arrive bound by the laws of the four directions!"

At that moment, the wind ceased.

A drawn-out melody drifted from the void, only to be muffled by an endless curtain, leaving behind a sigh of regret.

The power of this sigh materialized before the Mad King Building, causing the flesh and blood of all the monsters to evaporate into yellow smoke, which ultimately coalesced into a giant figure of yellow smoke.

This yellow smoke giant stood about twenty meters tall. It had smoke but no feet, a broad and powerful upper chest, and wielded a solidified bolt of lightning. Upon appearing, it immediately bowed to Harlan.

"Go and annihilate everyone in that dorm room!" Harlan raised a hand, pointing toward Dorm 200, a profound gleam flashing in his eyes.

The twenty-meter-tall giant had a chest as high as the second floor of the Mad King Building.

The Mad King Building was far larger than ordinary dorm buildings, but this giant's size was nothing to scoff at either.

Many players' megalophobia was triggered, and they scrambled back into their dorms in panic.

The Yellow Smoke Giant showed no intention of attacking these people. Clouds of mist billowed beneath its feet, and its entire body began to float. It finally arrived outside the tenth floor and, with immense force, hurled the lightning in its hand!

...

[Yellow Smoke Giant]

[Type: ???]

[Level: ???]

[Skills: ???]

[Description: A summoned creature of a certain summoning sorcerer, at the cost of sacrificing all Rakshasa Country soldiers]

[Nightmare Eye - Yellow Attendant: A projection of a projection of an attendant serving a certain Yellow-robed Venerable One, possessing the power of mist and lightning. Will dissipate on its own after ten minutes.]

Seeing the situation turn sour, Xu Lang and the others didn't greedily try to deal damage by moving their turrets to the guardrail to fire first. Instead, they had been waiting inside the dorm all along.

Now, seeing the Yellow Smoke Giant show itself, Xu Lang controlled the Great Barren Dragon's Gaze to fire the first shot.

Boom!

The Dragon's Gaze Bolt shot straight for the Yellow Smoke Giant's head, instantly piercing right through its forehead. This caused its form to flicker and grow slightly translucent, as if it had taken damage.

"We can hit it!"

Xu Lang felt a flicker of pleasant surprise.

If they could hit it, they could defeat it. Judging by this Yellow Smoke Giant's imposing manner, if they had to tank its attacks for a full ten minutes, the monetary losses would be unimaginable.

He wasn't willing to tank for even three minutes, let alone ten.

At the same time the Dragon's Gaze Bolt struck the Yellow Smoke Giant, the lightning in the giant's hand also hit the Five Fortunes Golden Toad Door.

"Ribbit!"

The golden toad atop the Five Fortunes Golden Toad Door let out a croak from the impact, clearly in discomfort.

"Hurry, use the turrets to attack the Yellow Smoke Giant!" Xu Lang urged.

Only by manually controlling the turrets to attack could they extend their fire beyond the automatic attack range.

Cao Yaxuan and the other women quickly came over to help.

The nearby dorms weren't idle either, all controlling their turrets to assist.

In an instant, nearly twenty turrets were aimed at the Yellow Smoke Giant.

Boom boom boom boom~~~

Both sides dropped all pretense, engaging in the most naked contest of strength. You blast me, I blast you.

Several minutes later, the Yellow Smoke Giant was teetering on the verge of collapse, while the Five Fortunes Golden Toad Door remained completely intact.

This scene utterly dumbfounded Harlan, who had at some point arrived in the corridor.

For ordinary players, the game difficulty of the Rakshasa Ancient Kingdom was Nightmare-level. But for Harlan, assaulting Dorm 200 was Hell-level!

"Destroy those turrets first!" Harlan ordered, casting spells alongside his trusted sorcerers toward the turrets.

Terrifying sorcery surged forth. Before long, Xu Lang's Electromagnetic Rail Crossbow and Blood Bat Nest were completely destroyed, leaving only the Cannon, the Void Fissioner, and the Great Barren Dragon's Gaze.