The other two pieces of equipment, a shoulder armor and a belt, perfectly replaced the Black Iron-grade [Turtle Shoulder Armor] and [Gnoll Belt]. With these three pieces equipped, plus the 5068 points to all attributes from Jiang Hao's Immortal Heart, his health reached a certain level, his agility reached a certain level, and his maximum attack speed reached 20 attacks per second. Calling him a walking Gatling gun wouldn't be an exaggeration.

Jiang Hao headed south, where green grass began to appear on the ground, and the sandstorms subsided.

"Wang Weng, Wang Weng, Wang Weng." Three beastly roars came from ahead. Jiang Hao looked closely and saw a tiger, about 2 meters tall, roaring towards a certain direction to the south. Jiang Hao looked at its tail, which swayed from side to side like a steel whip, and felt a chill in his heart. Just as he was about to draw his staff, he saw the mournful howls of ferocious beasts coming from in front of the tiger.

It turned out that a dozen or so silver-level tigers were attacking a group of gnolls. However, the gnolls were all well-equipped, and their various classes coordinated perfectly, making them no less formidable than the guards of Jinling City.

Jiang Hao was somewhat surprised. In some games, to save computing power, monsters often coexist peacefully. It's as if they've already designated their own territories, specifically prepared for players' adventures.

However, in the Spirit Ruins, the gnolls seem different from other monsters. They are not only hostile to players, but also to all other races. Their behavior appears almost identical to that of the players.

Could it be that gnolls are also a type of player?

Can gnolls wear gaming helmets?

Or does each wolf sleep in a game pod?

Jiang Hao almost laughed at his own idea.

Isn't this ridiculous?!

Among the dozen or so gnolls, a full complement of various classes were present. With two priests providing healing from the rear, the two warriors displayed an invincible aura. Assassins and archers focused their fire on the tigers held by the warriors, causing them to scream in agony. Two mages controlled the battlefield, casting spells to prevent the other tigers from providing aid. A summoner's minions were also there to harass the remaining tigers.

Although the dozen or so tigers were stronger than the gnolls, they did not gain any advantage.

Jiang Hao noticed something amiss, raised his staff, and brought it down on one of the mages.

The mage who was busy controlling the situation vanished from his spot in an instant. When he reappeared, he was already under Jiang Hao's staff.

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A white damage number floated above its head. This level 25 Silver-rank mage, with only a third of the health of a Silver-rank warrior and a total of 450,000 HP, couldn't withstand Jiang Hao's 3 million+ true damage even with the priest's stamina aura. Combined with Jiang Hao's 4979 attack power, the skeleton mage's health bar was instantly emptied, its body went limp, and it collapsed to the ground.

The surrounding gnolls hadn't even noticed the gnoll mage's disappearance.

With one less mage controlling the battlefield, four tigers instantly joined the fray. The health bars above the two warriors' heads began to drop rapidly, and the two priests behind them immediately felt a significant increase in the pressure to heal.

Seeing the gnoll team frantically adjusting their formation, Jiang Hao raised his staff once more.

This kind of sneaky sabotage can be somewhat addictive.

This time, Jiang Hao pointed his staff at another mage.

After the initial panic and adjustments, the gnoll team had realized they were missing a mage. However, they were currently locked in fierce combat and couldn't afford to be distracted. Seeing the Gold-ranked Tiger King still standing on the sidelines, their doubts deepened, but they also felt relieved. As long as the Tiger King remained in the fray, they could fight and retreat simultaneously.

They had only taken two steps back when the gnoll squad noticed something amiss again. Another mage had vanished!

It's the kind of disappearance that happens right in front of you, then suddenly vanishes, leaving you nowhere to be found after scanning around.

It's a ghost!

Without the mage's crowd control, the other tigers instantly joined the attack on the two warriors. The warriors' health began to drop rapidly. The two priests behind them were shocked, frightened, and anxious; in their panic, they no longer cared about controlling their mana consumption, and soon their mana was depleted.

The two priests quickly took out a potion to restore mana and drank it down. Once their mana had recovered somewhat, they discovered that the two warriors were gone.

Yes, the warrior responsible for tanking the monsters has disappeared.

On the battlefield, a dozen tigers, as if freed from their shackles, charged towards the gnoll ranks' assassins, archers, and summoners. How could anyone heal them then? They simply couldn't keep up!

In the chaos, the assassin vanished into thin air. The archers leaped back a few meters, intending to turn and flee. Their summoned beasts, under their masters' commands, ran to their sides, ready to carry them away. Only two priests, with their short legs, were surrounded by more than a dozen tigers in the middle of the battlefield. In the critical moment, the priests quickly cast shields on themselves to protect themselves from damage.

In reality, how could the two remaining priests possibly see anything? The assassin's stealth disappeared under Jiang Hao's staff, the archer's backward leap landed under Jiang Hao's staff, and the summoner, who had flipped over and mounted the summoned beast's back, also landed under Jiang Hao's staff.

The moment the collapse began to take shape, more than a dozen gnolls had already fallen under Jiang Hao's staff.

Decisive and swift, he knocked down a child with a single blow of his staff.

Then, Jiang Hao pointed his staff at the level 40 Gold-level Tiger King who had been standing to the side.

The Tiger King, with over 10 million HP, was slightly stronger than all the jackals. It withstood three of Jiang Hao's attacks before finally collapsing and dying.

Two lowly gnoll priests, watching the tigers that had been attacking them disappear one by one, were overjoyed and immediately looked around. Then they saw a human mage approaching them. With each swing of his eerie blue staff, a terrifying tiger appeared beneath his staff, its health instantly emptied, its body collapsing to the ground.

His eyes were expressionless. With each step he took, he would swing his staff, and one after another, ferocious tigers would appear beneath it, their health bars emptied, and they would finally fall to the ground dead. That eerie blue staff, leaving an eerie blue afterimage, took away one vibrant life after another, just like the Grim Reaper's scythe.

This kind of body language is universal. Even gnolls can understand it. The two gnolls trembled and struggled to retreat, one step, two steps, three steps. They used all their strength to retreat, as if they could escape the scythe of death if they retreated just one more step.

Fourth step: All the tigers around have disappeared.

In the fifth step, one of the gnoll priests disappeared, and the other gnoll turned to run away, but then its body also disappeared.