So, Zhang Yi bypassed the Golden Skeleton King and headed straight for the Undead City.

At this moment, the vast Undead City was empty. Except for those who had died and returned directly, all the other players had gone back to the Safe Zone.

The saying goes that the most dangerous place is the safest. The people from King's World probably never expected Zhang Yi to return to the Undead City to level up.

Of course, even if they knew, they wouldn't have the time to bother with Zhang Yi right now. King's Glory was certainly trying every possible way to land the final blow on the Boss.

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Just as Zhang Yi stepped into the Undead City, an area announcement sounded—

"Ding~ The God of Death, Golden Skeleton King, has begun invading the Safe Zone. From now on, the protection system of Safe Zone No. 886 is canceled. Players within the Safe Zone are allowed to PK and die, monsters can enter, and from now until 10 PM tonight, all players within 1 kilometer of Hope Town will receive special protection from the System: dying within the protected area will not consume a revival chance, and items will not drop, only 10% of current level EXP will be lost, the Red Name system is canceled, and players will not gain Sin points during this period!"

"Ding~ All players in Zone 886, please note: If the Safe Zone suffers damage exceeding 70% from the Golden Skeleton King, all players in that Safe Zone will face a death penalty. Please protect your home and work together to hunt down the Golden Skeleton King!"

Zhang Yi, unhurried, headed straight to the third-level area of the Undead City, picked up his Flame Staff, and started farming the level 19-20 skeletons and undead around him.

Meanwhile, at Hope Town, the Golden Skeleton King had already dragged its giant sword to the gate of the Safe Zone. Countless players gathered at the gate, standing guard to prevent the Boss's invasion.

"Brothers, charge! Don't let the Boss enter the Safe Zone!"

Amidst the crowd, someone shouted. Thanks to the System's special protection mechanism, the players who were already prepared fearlessly charged at the Skeleton King.

If this had been before, knowing it was a real death game world, these players would never have wasted precious revival chances fighting the Boss. But now, within the specified time and area, the penalty for death was merely a 10% EXP loss.

Calculating rewards based on output, this was the reason players were willing to risk their lives.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Boom boom boom!

Countless arrows and magic balls were launched from the hands of the large group of mages and archer players in the rear, directly bombarding the massive Skeleton King, as large as a giant mountain, causing a large area of damage to appear above its head—

-12!

-19!

-7!

-1!

-22!

All the damage was minimal, with some even being single digits and not breaking through defenses. This result was expected, after all, the Golden Skeleton King was the first level 20, 1-star Boss in the Apocalypse world!

Besides the mages and archers who had already started their long-range attacks, melee classes like Warriors, Knights, and Assassin players also surrounded the Skeleton King, wielding their weapons to stab and slash. The damage they could inflict on the Boss was similar to that of the mages and archers, only a few points to a dozen points.

This was even after the Boss's attributes had been weakened by 9.55%. You could see that when the Skeleton King first arrived near the Safe Zone, after accounting for the minor consumption along the way, its health bar percentage was only about 90%.

And the concentrated attack from so many melee and ranged players in Zone 886 only managed to chip away 0.1% of the Skeleton King's health!

According to the data detected by players at level 17 and above using the Detection Skill: the Skeleton King's total health reached 1.25 million points!

The players' damage of ten points or even a few points per hit was negligible to the Skeleton King.

At this moment, after several rounds of fierce attacks from the players, the Skeleton King began to counterattack.

"Roar!"

With an earth-shattering roar, the Skeleton King raised the golden giant sword in its right hand and slashed it down, hitting dozens of players in the area covered by the giant sword.

Accompanied by a series of screams, the players hit by the giant sword had extremely high damage numbers popping up above their heads—

-1536!

-1498!

-1613!

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!

More than a dozen white lights lit up simultaneously, and over 90% of the players hit by the Skeleton King were instantly killed!

With an average damage of 1500 points, even the Warriors on the field were one-hit kills! So the only ones who survived were the tough-skinned Knights.

Immediately after, the Skeleton King lifted its left foot, and the massive skeletal foot stomped down, instantly crushing a dozen players in a large area into white light!

The crowd was in an uproar.

"This Boss's damage is terrifying, getting hit is basically instant death!"

"Instant death is fine, what's there to fear? Dying only costs 10% EXP, so let's contribute as much output as possible before getting killed. The more rewards we'll get when the Boss is taken down!"

Thus, the players fearlessly continued to use a swarm tactic against the Boss.

The Golden Skeleton King's power was indeed terrifying, with almost every move capable of wiping out dozens of players!

Although the players' attacks were insignificant, the accumulated damage was slowly but surely reducing the Skeleton King's health bar.

Of course, the main reason was that not all players in Zone 886 could participate in the battle simultaneously. Due to the non-overlapping player body mechanism, only a few hundred players within a 50-meter radius could attack the Skeleton King. Those outside this range, due to being out of effective range, couldn't even reach the Boss, not even the mages and archers.

So while it seemed like a ten-thousand-player Boss battle, in reality, only two to three hundred players were actively participating at any given time. Only when players in the circle died could those outside have a chance to squeeze in and fill the gaps.

If all over ten thousand players in the Safe Zone could attack the Skeleton King, this Boss battle would be over in a matter of minutes.

After all, even if each player could only deal 10 points of damage to the Boss, with so many players attacking in one round, they could inflict 100,000 damage on the Boss.

While the Boss battle was fiercely ongoing at the Safe Zone, Zhang Yi, who was farming skeletons in the Undead City, opened the live stream interface to check it out and found that someone was indeed live streaming the Boss battle!

So, Zhang Yi entered the live stream room to see how the Boss battle was progressing.