Chapter 134
Chapter 134
“SHRRIP…”
After activating Forbidden · God of Blazing Flames, Zhou Ming’s strength skyrocketed. He exerted his power, and the wind dragon’s energy was instantly devoured and dissolved by the flames.
-1,005!
A less-than-ideal damage number appeared.
Submit and Perish’s ultimate attack had been neutralized by the power of Heavenrend and dealt only four-digit damage.
“Huh?”
Submit and Perish was dumbfounded.
My ultimate was crushed in his hands?
“Skills with cooldowns longer than ten minutes were banned during Pinnacle Showdown. Fighting under those restrictions was suffocating!” Zhou Ming felt utterly liberated. Wrapped in raging flames, he charged at the mass of players. “Today, this Zhou will fight every last one of you!”
Everyone: “…”
Suffocating?
He had been so “suffocated” that he won the Eastern Region championship?
Was that something a human being could say?
“BANG! BANG! BANG!”
Zhou Ming seemed to transform into a god of fire as he plunged into the crowd, his fists striking like dragons.
Admittedly, hacking enemies into fragments with a weapon was brutally satisfying, but landing every punch directly against flesh brought a different kind of exhilaration.
It felt even more real!
Like a wild beast freed from its cage, Zhou Ming reduced more than a dozen players to charred corpses in the span of a few blinks, sending them flying across the battlefield.
“Ding!”
[System Notification: You have successfully killed the adventurer [There Goes Your Dignity]. Current-Level EXP +6.51%, Crime Value +1!]
“Ding!”
[System Notification: You have successfully killed the adventurer [Still Eating? I’m Here for You]. Current-Level EXP +8.42%, Crime Value +1!]
…
Zhou Ming: “!!”
Even Zhou Ming was astonished by the system chimes in his ears.
Killing players gave EXP?
What was going on?
He suddenly thought of something. While continuing to beat the players senseless, he opened his skill list and checked the skill connected to Crime Value.
[Blood Sacrifice] (Rare S Rank)
Description: One whose sins reach the heavens can no longer turn back.
Skill Effect: When you gain Crime Value, there is a chance to receive additional benefits.
…
Blood Sacrifice was a skill he had comprehended on his own when his Crime Value achievement reached one hundred thousand points.
That had happened near the end of the siege of Juyan City. Afterward, the Demon Gods had trapped him inside, so he never had a chance to learn Blood Sacrifice’s true effect.
Now he finally understood.
This was a divine skill that let him farm players as if they were monsters!
“Whoosh!”
Golden light suddenly rose, bringing Zhou Ming to Level 36 and restoring his HP to full.
“How did he level up?” a player asked in disbelief, unable to understand.
The battlefield was chaotic, however, and Zhou Ming was surrounded so tightly that not even water could pass through. For the moment, the change drew little attention.
“Brothers, don’t be afraid! Pile on him!” Bawang still refused to believe it.
Zhouyou Shijie remained terrifyingly powerful, but that was only because an ultimate skill had granted him an absurd boost.
This state could not last forever!
Once enough time passed and his skills entered cooldown, his strength would fall dramatically!
Besides, looked at another way, Zhouyou Shijie’s decision to use a forbidden spell from the very beginning was itself a sign of fear. He had obviously felt enormous pressure!
“You’re still not leaving?”
How could Zhou Ming fail to see their plan? His expression changed slightly, and he shouted, “A word of advice: leave now while you still can!”
“What, are you scared?” Submit and Perish sneered.
“Listen to me!”
Like a humanoid beast, Zhou Ming rampaged across the battlefield, and no one could stop him. “If you don’t leave, something terrifying is going to happen later!”
“Bullshit!”
Submit and Perish had no intention of believing his bluff. “Brothers, I don’t need to explain the benefits of taking Zhouyou Shijie’s head. May the best man win!”
Bawang grew vicious as well. “Ever since this game launched, Zhouyou Shijie has hogged the spotlight! Brothers, let’s teach him a lesson!”
They pushed harder!
They were still pushing!
“Kill!!”
The players seemed pumped full of adrenaline.
The person before them could change their destiny if they managed to claim his head. Who could resist such temptation?
Zhou Ming was more than happy to oblige. His fists seemed forged from steel and could even shatter some players’ shields.
In only three minutes, golden light rose around him once again.
“Ding!”
[System Notification: You have leveled up!]
Zhou Ming: “…”
He had still misjudged his leveling efficiency!
He had thought it would take at least one day to fight his way back onto the Level Rankings. Now it seemed half a day would be enough!
“Why can he level up?” Gaibang Laoda frowned.
Their plan had always been to drag the fight out for half an hour until the forbidden spell expired. But having Zhou Ming repeatedly level up during that time was truly disgusting.
“Zhouyou Shijie left the Light Faction and dared to make enemies of the gods and Demon Gods. Even with death closing in, he still killed Flame Giant King. I wouldn’t believe it if he didn’t have a few special abilities!” Submit and Perish took it in stride.
As a hidden-class Dragon Soul Mage, he held a lofty position in the Dragon Domain and naturally knew more than other players.
“What did you say?!”
Bawang and Gaibang Laoda nearly thought they had misheard him. “He killed Flame Giant King?”
At Submit and Perish’s reminder, they hurriedly opened the Demon God Rankings, which had long since been made public.
1. Slayer of All Beings · Wu Xing
2. Abyssal Sword Demon · Cangxuan
3. Undead Archmage · Eric
4. Sovereign of the Seas · Watt
5. Mind Enchantress · Betty
6. Mystic Ice Demon Dragon · Leng Xin
7. Windwalker · Balen
8. Blood Elf · Amy
9. Goddess of Enchantment · Alice
10. Twilight Walker · Locke
…
The eighth Demon God, Flame Giant King · Rod, had truly vanished without a sound. The two Demon Gods behind him had moved up, while another powerhouse had replaced the former tenth Demon God.
“So that line in his Panel Description wasn’t just him talking big?” Gaibang Laoda looked at Zhouyou Shijie with an exceptionally complicated expression. “He really slew a god?”
In truth, Gaibang Laoda had entered the game brimming with ambition, eager to accomplish something great!
But then a freak like Zhouyou Shijie appeared out of nowhere and overshadowed every player in the Eastern Region. Gaibang Laoda was no more than a firefly drowned out by the brilliance of the moon.
“Don’t make such a fuss!” Submit and Perish added. “Zhouyou Shijie had four god-tier powerhouses helping him. What’s so strange about him finding a chance to kill one?”
“So that’s how it was!”
The players around them understood at once.
“…”
Watching everyone visibly relax, Submit and Perish’s eyes flickered, but he said nothing more.
In truth, he had asked his own god-tier mentor about it. His mentor had said that in a one-on-one fight, with enough time and no outside interference, Zhouyou Shijie might genuinely not have lost in the state he had been in then.
But saying that aloud would have devastated morale.
After all, no one could understand how a current player could defeat a god-tier BOSS in the face of such an absolute disparity in Level and strength.
“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”
Elsewhere on the battlefield, Zhou Ming’s Level continued to soar.
The forces from every side were growing terrified under his slaughter. If they had not been counting on Zhouyou Shijie’s forbidden spell ending after thirty minutes and his strength plummeting, they would probably have retreated long ago.
In only a few dozen minutes, corpses covered the Breezewind Plains faster than the system could refresh them.
Even Zhou Ming could not say how many people he had killed.
“The forbidden spell should be ending soon!”
Submit and Perish, Bawang, and the three brothers of the Gaibang Guild watched the passing time closely, waiting anxiously.
“Ding!”
[System Notification: The duration of your skill [Forbidden · God of Blazing Flames] has ended!]
At a certain moment, Zhou Ming returned to Level 50. The power of Forbidden · God of Blazing Flames gradually dissipated, and he entered a 30-minute Weakened state that halved all his Attributes.
“Now!”
Submit and Perish, who had waited so long for this moment, immediately activated Wood Dragon Entanglement, attempting to immobilize the severely weakened Zhou Ming. He roared, “Give me…”
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