"The Naga have retreated!"

The squad members, who had just joined up with the dwarven forces, received news from the human officers about the front lines.

Instantly, the entire fortress erupted in jubilation. Many human soldiers were moved to tears, roaring with excitement as they looked up to the sky, unable to contain their emotions.

The team could understand the excitement of these NPCs. For them, this battle was a victory of "defending their homeland," and winning against overwhelming odds was something the whole country should celebrate.

Jia Zhengyi smiled and said, "This is perfect timing. We don't need to go all the way there to cause them any trouble."

“These Nagas are very intelligent.”

Su Lin pondered for a moment before speaking, glancing at Xiao Linlin, who agreed: "That's right. The Naga know their own strengths and weaknesses on the battlefield and cannot sustain a prolonged land battle. The other allied forces have been driven back one after another. If they don't leave soon, they will suffer even more losses."

"Hopefully, the next phase of the mission won't put us in direct combat with the Naga. We don't have any effective naval warfare tactics yet."

Xiao Linlin was worried, a stark contrast to Jia Zhengyi's cheerful demeanor.

Just as the group was talking, a new mission notification appeared in front of Su Lin.

[Congratulations player! You have completed stage 9!]

[Since you completed the task in less than half the required time, it is considered a "perfect completion," and an additional reward is being calculated!]

[Congratulations, player! You have received an additional reward for this stage of the quest: the difficulty of Stage 10 has been reduced by 20%, and the final stage reward has been increased by 20%.]

[Now, we will announce the details of Phase 10.]

[Current Phase Task 10]: Please accumulate more than 100,000 kills for each of the three different races on your own (without team or NPC participation) (calculated from the start of the game), with a time limit of three months; if the current task expires, the progress of the phase task will be reset and all rewards will be cleared.

[Completing phase 10 will reveal the restricted escape locations.]

Phase 10 is out!

Fortunately, the Naga were not mentioned.

Unfortunately, this task is calculated separately, only judging the progress of each individual survivor, without recording the help from teammates or NPC factions.

In other words, Sulin must kill more than 300,000 enemy units on his own, and this must involve at least three different local war races!

To put it bluntly, Mission 10 truly lives up to its reputation as the "last" mission before the escape points are opened; it's far too challenging and an extremely difficult task for any survivor to complete.

"Hiss~! As expected of an escape mission in the [Hard Mode], they're practically treating the survivors like they're not human!"

Jia Zhengyi also saw the notification and couldn't help but gasp: "What, does the system think all survivors are superhuman? Do you think we have to kill so many enemies and involve so many races? Even Homelander would be exhausted by now!"

If you don't want us to escape, just say so. Why go through all this trouble?

Jia Zhengyi was indignant, but seeing the expressionless and calm faces of the people next to him, he was taken aback.

Aren't you worried?

Jia Zhengyi looked at Su Lin, then at Xiao Linlin. Xiao Linlin shrugged helplessly: "This mission looks quite difficult, but we seem to be almost done... You need to look carefully. Although it requires [individual survivors], we are not survivors."

"We are just my brother's followers, part of the 'individual' group. My brother has always participated in the escape game as a 'lone wolf'."

"And the kill requirement for the mission is calculated from the start of the match, so we should have killed enough already. After all, you know how powerful Lyanna's arrows are."

"Even if the kill requirement isn't calculated from the start of the match, it's just that Lyanna will have to use up a little more magic."

Xiao Linlin's explanation made Jia Zhengyi suddenly realize the truth, and he silently made plans in his mind.

"Orcs, half-orcs, dwarves... Ah, perfect! Exactly three!"

"You've miscalculated. There are still humans, in Blackrock Town before the game started..."

Xiao Linlin subtly reminded them that the team's kill count had already exceeded the target, and that 80% of the kills were provided by Lyanna.

There's nothing we can do about it; Su Lin just happens to have a combat follower with a wide-range, high-output form.

Almost as soon as the conversation began, the information notification in front of Su Lin changed rapidly, with the new information overriding the previous ones.

[Congratulations player! You have completed stage 10!]

[Since you completed the task in less than half the required time, it is considered a "perfect completion," and an additional reward is being calculated!]

[Congratulations, player! You have received an additional reward for this stage of the mission: the difficulty of subsequent stage missions will be reduced by 20%, and the final stage reward will be increased by 20%.]

[You have been granted access to information about restricted escape routes and will be provided with a map (this will not be provided if you already own a map).]

The locations of restricted escape routes and escape requirements are marked on the map.

[You can also choose to continue with the phased mission. Upon completion of phase 15, you will learn the location of the standard escape route.]

[The restricted escape locations will only exist for 365 days, after which they will disappear.]

[Subsequent phased tasks will only exist for 365 days and will be automatically cancelled if there is no progress.]

Upon successful escape, the final reward for the current stage of the mission will be automatically calculated and received.

The final message notification appeared, indicating that the team had completely achieved their escape objective and obtained information about an escape location!

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