Emperor Tomb Mountain Range.

Another round of fierce battle was erupting.

The system-matched opponent was still the same old acquaintance.

Every time the United Battle Group led by Divine King clicked "match" in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, the Earth Thought Bully would arrive on schedule and make its appearance.

Occasionally they could even match into the special guest "Combat Insect Clan."

This time the United Battle Group's guilds had expanded to 18, with a total of 210,000 people participating.

The players gathered into an iron flood that rolled over the scorched earth. Divine King stood at the very back of the central line of the formation, holding a white feather fan that could amplify spiritual recovery effects, looking exactly like a think tank calmly plotting in the rear.

He raised his hand at this moment, pointing straight toward the Evil Eye Tower, and shouted harshly in the warband channel:

"Brothers, kill the Evil Boss, break the Tower, snatch the Evil Eye, charge in, victory will ultimately belong to us."

The "snatch the Evil Eye" that Divine King spoke of was not a joke.

After all, they'd been bitter enemies for two years; he knew very clearly the gap between himself and the Earth Thought Bully, and one part of that gap was that the Earth Thought Bully possessed powerful war-support abilities provided by the Evil Eye.

And in the Player System, there just so happened to be a miraculous Life Soul that could borrow the power of external objects: Controlled.

Theoretically, as long as he used Control to brand a Rule Imprint onto the Evil Eye, he too would have a perfect war support.

Although a Controlled Evil Eye would sever its connection with the Black Tide Node, losing abilities such as accessing the information database and even communicating with the Evil Eye.

But the Evil Eye's own ability was terrifyingly strong.

With this Controlled pet, his battlefield command ability would increase exponentially.

Hearing Divine King's shout, the warband channel instantly became incredibly lively:

"Divine King said it, kill the Evil Boss, sleep with the Evil Eye. I don't know why Divine King wants to sleep with the Evil Eye, but I support his decision, charge!"

"Since the boss wants to use Controlled Life Soul to Control the Evil Eye, then I'll use Controlled Life Soul to Control the Earth Thought Bully as my mount, have it drag me around the map every day. Turning a former opponent into a mount, I'll be the most dazzling player in Monster World."

"Stop talking crap, just charge and that's it. Today either the Earth Thought Bully dies or we die. We have to burn through all our reserve Potion."

On the other side, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit stood atop the Tower. Hearing the players' ghost-wailing and wolf-howling shouts from afar, its emotions surged with them:

"This bunch of small fry, if I don't kill them until they quit the game, I'm not called Earth Thought Bully." 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

The Evil Eye added a gloomy jab beside it:

"You were never called Earth Thought Bully to begin with, that's just a nickname the players gave you. How did you start taking it seriously, got used to being called that?"

Earth Thought Evil Spirit: …

"Shut up!"

The Earth Thought Evil Spirit, enraged and embarrassed, suddenly waved its hand. The black mist surrounding the Tower immediately surged and billowed, pouring down toward the player army like floodwater.

Dense Evil Spirit silhouettes rapidly condensed within the black mist, dropping down like dumplings.

The first to appear were Catastrophe Series Soldiers: Gold-Eroding Giants.

They stepped out of the black mist with earth-shaking strides, forming a Sky Disaster City Wall at the very front to greet the Player Corps.

Behind them, Dead Disaster Series soldiers: Curse Weavers were generated right after.

They floated in midair, their bodies wrapped in tattered cloth strips. Pale fingers formed within the black mist, and with every wave, pitch-black curse Runes were carved into the air.

Next came Surge Series Soldiers razors, Plague Series Soldiers Corruption Balls, Destruction System soldiers Severed Kill… and finally, making their appearance, were the Tide of Suffering soldiers that existed independently of the Black Tide System.

Sobbing Girl, Furious Skeleton, Funeral Bell Monk, Regret Spider Mother, Throat of Fear—these five Pain Series soldier figures broke through the mist. Their entire bodies shed the Black Tide System's pitch-black color and changed to blood-red as the main color tone.

These were also the soldier types that gave players the biggest headache.

In the players' eyes, the Earth Thought Bully really wasn't acting like a human being… though it wasn't human to begin with.

The soldiers of the Tide of Suffering system didn't have high killing power, but their disgusting level far surpassed that of the Catastrophe Series Soldiers.

It was like placing a gigantic spiritual pollution emitter on the battlefield, one that specialized in stabbing soft knives into the players' hearts.

Under the mounting emotional torment, affected players would either drop to their knees sobbing, hug their heads and tremble, or fall into a frenzy of rage, swinging their weapons wildly at friend and foe alike.

As for the players' built-in safety threshold of their spiritual defenses.

It had long since been completely researched by the Earth Thought Bully. As long as the intensity met the standards, it would absolutely not increase it, and it had even proactively weakened the generated Tide of Suffering soldiers for this very reason.

To counter the Earth Thought Bully's Tide of Suffering, players of the United Battle Group could only collectively give up one Star Vein Slot and socket in a Resistance Soul.

Especially Magic players, socketing this Life Soul was purely for dealing with the spiritual damage inflicted by the Tide of Suffering soldiers.

The trait effect had no other use whatsoever.

(PS Indomitable Soul effect: After releasing an ability, consume Qi-Blood to offset all kinds of negative statuses on yourself (including spiritual negative statuses). The effect is influenced by the intensity of the negative statuses—the stronger they are, the more Qi-Blood is consumed.)

As the Tide of Suffering took the field, before their strike range even covered the battlefield, the players had already put on Pain Masks in advance.

The chat channels of each sub-squad were filled with players' snark and complaints.

"Crush them." At this moment, the "White Feather Fan" in Divine King's hand slashed down through the air.

The Damage Absorption Teams of the eighteen guilds activated simultaneously, forming a moving wall as they charged toward the Evil Eye Tower.

In the rear, a hundred thousand Magic players released their Life Soul Characteristic at the same time, lighting up the entire battlefield as bright as day.

The Earth Thought Evil Spirit stood atop the Tower's peak, its five fingers suddenly clenching.

The Tide of Suffering army let out shrieks, and emotional damage turned into tangible blood-colored ripples that Swept across the battlefield.

This time, the Indomitable Soul on the players all erupted with golden light at once.