"Has the signal been sent?!"

Qin Ming stared fixedly at the giant stone door, cold sweat seeping from his forehead.

The heavy footsteps echoing from deep within the stone door made it hard for him to breathe.

"Vice Guild Leader, Big Sis Jasmine and the others can arrive in ten minutes at most!" the communicator beside him shouted through gritted teeth.

"Ten minutes... too slow!"

Qin Ming drew the Epic-grade dagger burning with dark red flames, pointed the blade forward, and roared, "Hear my command, everyone! Aside from the Shadow Assassins scouting the perimeter, all the remaining seven hundred people, get your asses up there! Shut that door for me again!"

"Move! If you don't want to be swallowed alive, give it everything you've got!"

Orders were absolute.

The members of the Evernight Guild did not hesitate, abandoning their original exploration formation and sprinting toward the stone door that stood dozens of meters tall.

Back then, to push open this stone door, they had mobilized all the strength-type Classer in the guild, expending an immense amount of effort just to barely force it open.

Now, trying to close it in such an emergency, the difficulty could be easily imagined.

"One! Two! Three! Push——!"

A Cheng stood at the very front, his eyes turning bloodshot from excessive congestion.

His brand-new Epic-grade heavy armor scraped against the stone door, producing a piercing screech.

"Ahhhh! Move for me!"

Seven hundred high-tier Classer successively activated their own buff skills.

"Berserk Roar!"

"Blessing of Strength!"

"Power of the Earth, Bestow!"

Lights of various skills lit up among the crowd, everyone turning red in the face with veins bulging, putting all their strength into their shoulders and arms.

Fortunately, having undergone the baptism of the previous national war, coupled with this set of top-tier equipment just bestowed by Zhou Huai, everyone's basic stats and strength values had achieved a massive leap forward.

"Rumble..."

Under the unreserved joint pushing of the seven hundred people, that stone door finally emitted a muffled groan.

The two huge door panels, accompanied by a teeth-aching scraping sound, began to close toward the middle.

Ten meters... five meters... three meters...

Seeing that there was only a narrow gap less than one meter wide left between the two door panels, many people let out long sighs of relief.

"Almost there! Hang in there, brothers! It's about to be shut completely!" A Cheng shouted excitedly, continuing to exert force while drenched in sweat.

However, right at this very instant.

"Step, step, step..."

Grand, uniform footsteps, mixed with a horrifying sound of bone collisions, surged out from that final crack in the door!

Immediately following was a shrill and piercing warhorse neigh!

"Neigh——!"

That sound didn't sound like something a living creature could produce at all, piercing straight into everyone's eardrums.

The hair all over Qin Ming's body stood on end.

This posture, this sense of oppression, was not as simple as ordinary undead skeletons!

"Audacious——!!!"

Just at the moment when the stone door was about to close completely, a thunderous, wild shout came from inside the door!

This furious shout was mixed with mental impact, stunning the dozen or so Eternal Night members closest to the stone door, causing their ears and noses to bleed, and their hands pushing the door involuntarily let go.

"Bang!"

A pale-faced, skeletal horse hoof kicked fiercely out from the gap in the door, forcefully jamming the closing stone door!

Following closely, a terrifying figure violently slaughtered its way out from the darkness!

That was an undead warlord riding a tall skeletal warhorse!

It was more than three meters tall, clad in a layer of tattered bronze heavy armor that emitted a cold, dim light.

Beneath the helmet, there was no flesh and blood, only a skeletal skull.

In those hollow eye sockets, two pools of dim blue soul fire were frantically leaping and burning!

"Die!"

The Skeleton Warlord's hollow jawbone opened and closed up and down, emitting an angry voice.

It didn't give anyone any time to react at all, and the three-meter-long, rusted halberd in its hand that exuded a thick aura of death swept violently outward with a piercing screech of the air!

"Not good! Raise shields! Quickly raise shields!"

A Cheng's eyes split open in anger, instinctively raising the Epic-grade tower shield in his hand to block in front of him.

"Bang——!"

With a loud crash.

That rusted halberd, carrying a destructive might, swept fiercely against the shields of the seven or eight heavy knights in the front row!

"Crack!"

The Epic-grade tower shield actually emitted a painful groan, and a deep crack was directly cleaved into the shield's surface!

As for those Level 40 Classer hiding behind the shields, they were swept flying along with their shields!

"Puff!"

"Ah!"

Amidst the screams, several people slammed heavily onto the stone pillars behind them, spraying blood wildly from their mouths, their sternums shattered, health points hitting rock bottom with only a sliver of health left, instantly heavily wounded and on the verge of death!

Just a single move! A casual sweep!

It had beaten several Level 40 defense Classer wearing top-tier equipment to the brink of death!

Qin Ming stood in the rear, his heart terrified to the extreme.

"So strong!"

Decisive on the spot, without any hesitation, he changed his tactics.

"Forget that damned door! Retreat! Everyone retreat twenty meters!"

"Shield-armored warriors, get right in front for me and form a defensive battle array! Priests, immediately heal the wounded, fast!"

Qin Ming waved his dagger and commanded at the top of his lungs.

"Prepare for battle! We must never let it disrupt our formation!"

"Yes!"

The members of the Evernight Guild possessed extremely high caliber; though inwardly horrified, their movements did not hesitate.

The front-row warriors quickly abandoned pushing the door and retreated backward. Amidst the clanging sounds of metal collisions, dozens of tower shields slammed heavily onto the ground, forming an indestructible steel defense line.

"Ants."

The Skeleton Warlord sat atop its warhorse, forcefully squeezing out from that narrow door gap.

Its pair of dim blue eye fires swept across the battle array before it, its halberd pointing directly at Qin Ming, possessing quite an invincible aura of a single man holding the pass against ten thousand.

"Kill!"

The warlord kicked the horse's belly, and the skeletal warhorse shattered the ground with its four hooves, launching a death charge toward the defense line of the Evernight Guild!

"Hold! Hold the line for me for dear life!"

A Cheng wiped away the blood from the corner of his mouth, roaring as he propped the tower shield against his shoulder.

"Boom!"

The Skeleton Warlord, along with its horse, slammed fiercely into the shield array.

The impact force caused the first-row warriors to retreat three steps collectively, plowing deep trenches into the ground.

But they gritted their teeth and forcefully withstood it!

"Well done! Brothers, this old antique has great strength, but don't treat it like a god! The equipment on our bodies was bestowed by the Lord!"

Qin Ming shouted loudly.

If it were before, this impact would have caused the defense line to collapse.

But now, their strength was already vastly superior to the past.

"Light-element mages! What are you waiting for?! Use Holy Light to purify it for me!"

Qin Ming pointed at the Skeleton Warlord, issuing the most lethal command.

"Holy Light Baptism!"

"Divine Sanction!"

"Purification aura!"

The twenty-some Light-element mages and priests hiding in the rear of the team instantly raised the staff in their hands high.

In an instant, dazzling golden Holy Light lit up within the ruins!

Dozens of light pillars containing divine power smashed fiercely down onto the body of that Skeleton Warlord!

"Hiss, hiss, hiss——!"

The Holy Light came into contact with the Skeleton Warlord's layer of death aura, erupting into a violent reaction.

A large amount of thick black smoke gushed out from the gaps in its tattered armor.

"Roar——!!!"

The Skeleton Warlord emitted a shrill, painful roar.

Under the restraint of the divine attribute, its originally indestructible bones actually showed signs of melting, and the dim blue eye fires shook violently along with it, growing much dimmer.