Chapter 100

Zhou Tian had been waiting all along, believing that the doll maker would not be content with just this failure. As long as the doll maker's mindset did not change, she would surely come to him one day. With Zhou Tian's strength increasing every day, the gap in power was gradually closing. The doll maker naturally could not hide in the shadows forever.

Zhou Tian deliberately exposed various weaknesses, and the doll maker did not want to miss any opportunity to defeat him. Even if the doll maker knew that the weaknesses Zhou Tian exposed were traps, in her haste, she still took action against him without hesitation.

One day, while Zhou Tian was hunting players in the beginner area as usual, his body suddenly paused for a moment.

"Has she come?" The doll maker was not stupid, so Zhou Tian knew that if his defensive forces were too strong, she would not risk attacking him, no matter how much she hated him.

Therefore, apart from a few valued orcs, Zhou Tian did not have many troops around him. However, although Zhou Tian gave the doll maker a chance to attack him, he was not going to do nothing. He had arranged many informants around him.

It was because Zhou Tian suddenly sensed that his informants nearby had lost contact one after another that he was sure the doll maker had finally taken action. After all, whether it was an NPC or a player, while they might have the ability to kill those ordinary orcs, it was impossible for them to do so so quickly. There were many beings with such strength, but after much thought, Zhou Tian concluded that the only one who could be near him was the doll maker.

"Come out! I know you're here. I didn't expect that even after being so severely injured, you still have the nerve to come find me. It seems I won't have a moment's peace until I get rid of you."

Hearing Zhou Tian's words, the doll maker, for some reason, really came out from her hiding place.

"It seems your strength has increased a lot recently! You're so confident that you dare to leave the protection of the army, thinking I can't kill you?"

"Compared to that, I'm more confident that I can kill you here."

"Confidence is good, but being too confident is arrogance. Don't think that just because you beat me last time, you're that great. Last time it was because I was careless, but this time I won't give you any chance." After saying that, the doll maker launched an attack on Zhou Tian.

Her fingers moved, and suddenly, countless black shadows burst out from the ground where Zhou Tian was standing.

When the black shadows landed, Zhou Tian saw that they were all the dolls under the doll maker's control. In terms of numbers, they might not match the orcs, but in the current situation, Zhou Tian and his guards were undoubtedly surrounded.

"Has the situation reversed?" Zhou Tian's current situation was very similar to the doll maker's at the time. Both were heavily surrounded by the other's forces, and both had their trump cards. The only difference was that Zhou Tian did not have the absolute advantage in strength that the doll maker had at the time. However, since Zhou Tian dared to make such arrangements, it meant he had a way to ensure his own safety. Otherwise, no matter how great the benefits, without the assurance of his own safety, Zhou Tian would never take such a risk.

"Kill him!" The doll maker knew the situation of the orc race well. If they could not quickly kill Zhou Tian, they would be surrounded by many orcs. Given the current strength of the orc race, even the doll maker knew that she would face certain death.

The doll maker, who needed to end the battle quickly, did not waste time. However, Zhou Tian would not easily be dragged into her rhythm.

So, as the dolls charged at them, Zhou Tian calmly led his few orc subordinates to defend against their attacks.

"Clang, clang, clang..." The dolls immediately launched a series of ranged attacks on Zhou Tian. In response, Zhou Tian's orc subordinates suddenly raised several large bone shields to protect him. In a series of clanging sounds, the dolls' attacks were all blocked by the bone shields.

Although the dolls' attacks were blocked by Zhou Tian's orcs, it did not mean that the attacks were over. On the contrary, as soon as the orcs blocked the attacks, the dolls quickly launched new attacks.

The ranged attacks being ineffective, the melee dolls appeared near Zhou Tian, each wielding a weapon, and quickly attacked him under the doll maker's control.

The continuous attacks of the dolls posed some threat to Zhou Tian. The bone shields held by his orc guards were already cracking under the attacks. If nothing unexpected happened, it was only a matter of time before the bone shields in the hands of the orcs were destroyed by the dolls.

However, although Zhou Tian did not intend to immediately decide the outcome with the doll maker, he could not keep taking hits passively. So, as the dolls continued to press his orc subordinates, Zhou Tian gave the order, and his orcs immediately launched a counterattack.

The orc archer who had been following Zhou Tian quickly drew his bow and fired three arrows in quick succession, shattering a golden doll into pieces.

Three arrows, just three arrows, to kill a golden doll—this was something that would have been unimaginable in the past. Even if the orc archer's strength was very high, it was impossible for him to have such a decisive advantage. This showed that the orc race's strength had undergone a tremendous change compared to before.

The doll maker, of course, could not fail to notice the change in her opponent. However, at this point, even if the orc race's strength was very powerful, she could not back out. To achieve her goal, the orc archer's performance did not scare her away; instead, it made her control the dolls to perform even better than before.

As a result, while the orc archer killed five or six golden dolls with several consecutive attacks, the doll maker successfully broke through the bone shields with her dolls.

Although the orc guards under Zhou Tian's command, like the orc archer, had greatly improved in strength, the dolls themselves were very powerful. The destructive power the doll maker could unleash through the dolls was something Zhou Tian had seen with his own eyes. Given that destructive power, even if the orc race's members were several times stronger, they would not dare to guarantee they could withstand such attacks.

As a result, except for a few members who dodged quickly, most of the orc guards who were holding the bone shields were cut into pieces by the dolls controlled by the doll maker.