The Outside World.
Since they couldn’t see what was actually happening on the battlefield, the people outside could only stare at the map.
They watched as a small red dot sped toward the green dot outside the southern gate. After flickering once, the red dot vanished completely.
“What the hell was that? Why would someone just throw their life away the moment they entered?”
“I’m guessing he was some kind of expert who wanted to challenge Liu Xuan to a one-on-one fight, only to get killed instantly.”
“What a clown. You think you’re worthy of challenging Liu Xuan? He’s the Blue Star’s Number One Warrior.”
Quite a few people cursed at Ikeda Masato, especially when they saw green dots approaching the southern gate from all three other directions. They were practically jumping with impatience.
“What are they waiting for? Hurry up and attack! Why bother with one-on-one duels?”
“I bet the guy who went in to die was Japanese. They’ve watched too many Chinese Three Kingdoms stories. Whenever two armies are about to fight, their generals have to duel first.”
“Baka! Don’t smear us with that nonsense. Someone that stupid obviously can’t be Japanese! He was either Korean or Indian.”
“Getting defensive, are we? If he wasn’t Japanese, I’ll drink a cup of Ganges water!”
“Enough, enough. They still have nearly thirty thousand people against one. As long as they move quickly, they can still win.”
The people on the battlefield thought the same thing.
When they saw Ikeda Masato get killed instantly, they were slightly surprised as well.
He had died far too quickly. The moment the thunderbolt came down, he was already gone.
From their vantage point, it looked as though Ikeda Masato had simply been struck to death by lightning.
“Damn, that idiot bragged for so long, and he was gone in one move?”
“Didn’t he have a shield that could block one attack?”
“Maybe that lightning dealt damage in multiple stages?”
“My guess is that it’s a passive skill. Anyone who gets close to Liu Xuan automatically gets struck by lightning.”
“Ikeda Masato had all those buffs on him, and he still got killed instantly. That lightning hits hard.”
“What’s there to be afraid of? With so many of us attacking together, how many people can he possibly strike down?”
Chen Weijie waved his hand. “Don’t panic. Let me test his strength first! My unit is a Sharpshooter. I can attack him from here.”
His face was full of smug satisfaction. With Ikeda Masato dead, it was time for him to put on a show.
Even if he couldn’t deal enough damage to kill Liu Xuan, being able to attack him from such a long distance would still let him show off in front of tens of thousands of people.
No one else objected. The distance was so great that if he wanted to attack, they might as well let him.
Thus, under everyone’s watchful eyes, Chen Weijie nocked an arrow, drew his bow, and took aim at Liu Xuan in the distance.
“Enjoy striking people with lightning, do you? Let’s see how you’re going to hit me from this far away!”
He released his right hand. A blue magical arrow shot toward Liu Xuan at incredible speed.
The moment the arrow left the bow, Chen Weijie even turned around without bothering to look at the result.
Crossing his arms over his chest, he said confidently, “My arrow is locked onto Liu Xuan’s brow. Just watch carefully, everyone. This is what it means to blow someone’s head off from eight hundred meters away!”
But as soon as he finished speaking, a burst of black energy exploded from his body. The special effect of [Fear] had been triggered.
Liu Xuan: Sorry, but the passive effect that reflects my attackers’ damage also ignores distance restrictions.
Chen Weijie was still standing there with his arms crossed when [Fear] killed him instantly. His entire body then “exploded.”
“-4,050,000!”
With the multiple boosts from the equipment effect of [Golden Wind], [Money Offensive], and several other passive abilities, the damage dealt by [Fear] exceeded four million!
Immediately afterward, [Corpse Explosion] was triggered!
At that moment, Chen Weijie was standing right in the middle of the nearly thirty thousand attackers.
Starting from Chen Weijie, an invisible shock wave rapidly spread outward.
The attackers died in waves as the shock wave continued propagating farther and farther through the crowd.
Many of them didn’t even have time to understand what was happening. The people in front of them suddenly exploded, and in the blink of an eye, they themselves had also arrived in the standby area, where they stared blankly at the others already there.
“How did I die?”
“Who killed me?”
“Damn it, where did all my equipment go?”
“The items and money in my backpack are gone too!”
“I just leveled up! Why did I get knocked back down?”
“The death penalty in this promotion defense battle is this severe?”
“That’s not right! The rules never said our equipment would be completely destroyed! I want to file a complaint! The rules are unclear! You’re a cosmic-level mastermind, and you still designed such an unclear set of rules? If you’d told us this beforehand, I never would have participated!”
The standby area was filled with complaints. Even more terrifying was that the number of people inside continued to increase at an astonishing rate.
Every time they blinked, another dense crowd would appear.
At last, someone realized what was happening.
“Wait... Were we all wiped out in an instant?”
“How is that possible? We were nearly a kilometer away from the city wall!”
“Does this battlefield have missiles or something?”
“Damn it, no way! If that’s the case, what’s the point of even playing?”
Only Ikeda Masato, after hearing their discussion, vaguely guessed the truth based on his own experience.
“Did someone here attack Liu Xuan?”
Thinking about the way he had died, he became convinced that Liu Xuan possessed an extremely powerful damage-reflection ability.
“No. We were too far away. How could anyone have attacked him?”
“No, someone did attack him!”
Everyone’s gaze shifted toward Chen Weijie. His heart lurched.
“Why are you all looking at me? I attacked him from nearly a kilometer away. What’s the problem? You can’t blame me just because you died!”
There were tens of thousands of people present, and it was impossible for all of them to be idiots. Someone quickly figured it out.
“I was standing farther back, but now that I think about it, the people in your direction were the first to die. Then it spread outward and blew us up too.”
“That’s right! He must have attacked Liu Xuan, died from the reflected damage, and triggered some special mechanic that caused the damage to spread. He got all of us killed!”
“Damn you! Why did you have to attack him while standing in the middle of everyone?”
Chen Weijie’s face reddened with panic. “If I didn’t attack him, wouldn’t we all have been killed by his reflected damage anyway? What difference would it have made?”
“Damn it! At least if we’d attacked together, I could’ve seen what Liu Xuan looked like before dying! Instead, I got killed without even seeing him because I was standing at the back. Doesn’t that make me look like some useless underling?”
“Heh. Tens of thousands of people were wiped out instantly. What else could you be but an underling?”
“We’re all underlings!”
As they watched everyone start arguing, Ikeda Masato suddenly felt a sense of comfort.
Although he, too, had been killed without knowing what was happening, at least he had seen Liu Xuan’s face. That made him one of only two people who had truly fought Liu Xuan face-to-face.
......
The Outside World.
Everyone watching the battle on the sky-screen was left completely speechless.
Perhaps to highlight the actions of long-range classes, when Chen Weijie fired his arrow, the sky-screen even thoughtfully displayed a red arrow pointing from Chen Weijie toward Liu Xuan.
It was easy to understand at a glance that someone had attacked Liu Xuan.
Then, after the arrow was fired, they watched as the red dots representing the attackers rapidly vanished, starting with Chen Weijie.
It was as though an invisible circular halo was constantly expanding, swallowing every red dot it touched.
It was also like a massive bomb being thrown into a crowd, its shock wave erasing every living thing nearby.
Thirty thousand people—wiped off the map at the speed of light.
After a long while, someone beneath the heavens finally swallowed hard.
“I finally understand what Liu Xuan’s troop type means. So he’s actually a Nuclear Pacifist after all...”
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
