I have an Apocalypse City

Chapter 549: Epic Level Task

“Only NPCs in the game refer to players as God’s Chosen, players among themselves don’t use this term, deeming it somewhat embarrassing;

The game’s natives have always held a reverence towards these god-chosen players who can disappear without a trace and possess massive growth potential.

“My apologies, my Lord of the God’s Chosen, we were incredibly rude just now!” Anna quickly apologized to Song Jian.

“God’s Chosen?” Solando’s eyes lit up. He immediately took the short sword hanging from his waist and shouted loudly at Song Jian, “God’s Chosen, I have a task for you – if you can escort me safely out of here, this precious Elf Sword is yours.”

System: The son of the City of Sin’s Lord, Solando, has issued you an escort task. Task Requirements: Successfully escort Solando to a safe area. Task Reward: Elf’s Sword, 500 points of goodwill from the City of Sin, Task Failure Penalty: None;

Solando may be somewhat dissolute, but he is incredibly smart. He knows what a player values most.

It seems like Anna has quickly understood as well, and she looks at Solando appreciatively.

Song Jian gave a cold chuckle, and without even giving it a glance, he flatly refused.

Solando and Anna were stunned as they watched Song Jian’s ice-cold figure retreat and escape into the distance.

Hearing the faintly resonating high-pitched screams from behind, Song Jian sighed slightly in his heart;

The strength of the Shadow Teeth was far from ordinary. Song Jian had no confidence in escorting Solando and the others to safety. Against a beast with formidable defense or attack, Song Jian could still try his luck. But against the speedy Shadow Teeth, it’s already a challenge for Song Jian to escape by himself, let alone protect such a large group of people.

Another reason was that the Elf Sword was nothing more than a piece of silver-quality equipment. It was nothing compared to the dangers Song Jian was about to face.

Just as Song Jian was about to leave, he suddenly received a red system prompt;

System: You have obtained an epic level task – Rescue; Task Content: Protect Anna Katerina and escort her to a safe place; Task Reward: Receive Anna Katerina’s gratitude, raise goodwill to Friendly; Task Failure Penalty: Anna Katerina dies, task fails, attribute points decrease by 5, do you accept?

The dark red text sparkled in front of Song Jian’s eyes.

“Epic level task?” Song Jian was immediately excited. You see, getting an epic level task in this game is very difficult and the rewards are always substantial, containing at least one epic level item.’

Just like the task Song Jian accepted earlier, he obtained a complete set of gold-quality equipment that could combine to form an epic level set;

Such a task is a rare opportunity, even if it presents some risk to Song Jian’s life, it must be accepted and completed!

“The task reward is just Anna’s goodwill, but the failure penalty is 5 attribute points. The reward and punishments are utterly disproportionate. Could it be that this epic level task is part of a quest chain?” Song Jian wondered.

After carefully reading the task content, Song Jian chose to accept it, then turned around and walked towards the group of people;

At this moment, a 10-minute countdown appeared before Song Jian, he didn’t fully understand it, but he knew he needed to reach Anna as quickly as possible;

One by one, Solando’s escorts were brought down and killed by the Shadow Teeth, leaving only Anna and the middle-aged knight, Kalen.

“We will all die here…” Solando’s face was as white as a sheet, despair evident in his eyes. The Shadow Teeth in front of him seemed like Death God’s pet, constantly reaping the lives of the escorts.

Furthermore, with the strength of the Shadow Teeth, it could kill all of them, but it patiently took them down one by one, playing with the remaining people like a cat toying with a mouse.

Fear loomed in everyone’s hearts. The Shadow Teeth slowly came down from a corpse. It had only eaten the victim’s heart, unlike the first guard where it ate everything;

Looking at the bloody face of the Shadow Teeth and its threatening fangs, Kalen gritted his teeth, firmly held his knight sword, and shouted without turning his head, “Young Master, Miss, run! I’ll hold it off!”

“Kalen!” Solando’s face turned pale, full of regret. If he hadn’t insisted on adventuring in the Shadowfang Mountain Range, he wouldn’t have ended up in such a dangerous situation.

What’s worse, Kalen was the City of Sin Lord’s trusted aide, and was assigned to protect him. If Kalen lost his life because of him, his father would be furious.

It needs to be known, Solando isn’t the only son of the lord of the City of Sin. If Solando falls out of favor with his father, he will have no future.

“Solando, run! Don’t let Kalen’s sacrifice be in vain!” Anna picked up the almost crumbling Solando and shouted loudly into his ear.

At that moment, Shadow Teeth glanced at Kalen, its eyes brimming with mockery. It roared at Kalen and charged as swift as lightning;

Whoosh~

Kalen only felt a gust of wind brushing past him, it seemed like the Shadow Teeth had vanished from sight.

Roar~

A low growl came from behind. Kalen’s face changed dramatically, he quickly turned to see that the giant black Shadow Leopard had suddenly appeared in front of Solando and Anna, blocking their escape;

“It wants to keep us all here!” Kalen’s face turned ghostly pale, instantly understanding the intentions of the beast.

Anna tightly held her short sword and positioned herself in front of Solando. Even though she was terrified and nervous, she knew that if Solando died here, even if she safely returned to the City of Sin, the city’s Lord would still be furious with her.

“Using courage in the face of death, to fight for hope of survival!” Anna murmured to herself, the short sword in her hand began to glow brilliantly.

Just then, a dazzling golden light burst forth in the distance, slashing towards Shadow Teeth;

Light Strike!

The dazzling golden Sword Qi tore through the sky. As it was about to reach Shadow Teeth, the black Shadow Leopard let out a large roar and spun around fiercely, swiping a claw towards the sword qi from behind. A sharp sonic boom suddenly sounded; Claw Clash glimmered with ferocious light, even leaving traces in the air that lingered for quite some time;

Thump!

With a muffled sound, the Shadow Teeth let out a painful howl, its massive body was lifted and thrown like a ripped bag towards a Shadow Tree;

“Boom” – The back of the Shadow Teeth collided with the tree causing a clear breakage sound and then tumbled onto the ground.

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