Chapter 104

Having seen both of the players turn into a white halo and teleported away, Yan Guiren’s countenance slightly changed. All of a sudden, he turned around and saw a figure standing a few meters behind him, where there was not a single shadow just recently.

That man was wearing a black suit. He had a brown hair outline, and a handsome face with a pair of sharp eyes. A wild and imposing aura was emitted from his body.

“God of War from Hell, we meet again,” said Yan Guiren.

“You shouldn’t show yourself to them,” said Simon.

“You’ve sent them away?” asked Yan Guiren.

Simon didn’t answer him as if he only minded his own business. “Whether you have done that on purpose or without a purpose, if I find out again that you’ve intended to reveal anything that they shouldn’t know… at that time, they’ll not be the only ones who need to leave.”

“Your true body’s in a strange world that’s even higher than the Heaven Realm.” Yan Guiren turned away, avoiding the other’s eyes. “You and them are the same, just projected images. So, do you really want to fight with me?”

“Stupid question.” Simon was always arrogant and didn’t respect anybody. “At least my projection is not weaker than the one who has borrowed the Sacred Demon Primeval Fetus to come here.”

“Is it?” Yan Guiran wore an indifferent visage, then turned around with his halberd.

The two of them were in the state of mutual hostility. The air was tense between the Plight’s God of War and the Hell’s God of War.

“Muah, ha, ha, ha, calm down, you guys.” A despicable laughter intervened them as a man wearing a black suit appeared between them all of a sudden. White light flashed from Woody’s glasses when he smiled. “Warrior Yan, please understand, we all have jobs to do.”

After Yan Guiren had seen Woody, he didn’t say anything further. He turned away and silently left, as though he didn’t want to say even one more word to the other two.

After waiting for seconds until he left, Woody continued to smile. “Simon, you are the referee, you can’t come here randomly just because you want to fight with the strong warriors –”

“It’s you who let Feng Bu Jue enter this world even if he’s still at such low level?” Simon interrupted, “Or, the ‘system’ you have set up has become more unlikely to control?”

“Oh, hey… ha, ha… It’s like I’m wrong, huh,” Woody answered, but it wasn’t the answer people would expect to hear.

“You want the one you have chosen to get the Spiritual Ability faster than the one Vincent has bet on, don’t you?” Simon didn’t need Woody’s answer either. He snorted coldly. “Harrumph, clever play with trivial matters.”

“If you’ve seen it through, I don’t need to explain anything.” Woody shrugged. “Thanks for your trouble to come here.”

“If I see you doing little tricks again, I will slaughter you just like the other trash.” Simon had never been someone who liked to joke if he had said so.

“Mua, ha, ha, ha. Thanks for your mercy.” Woody smiled. “Hey, yeah, the boy that you’ve appreciated, Valliant Ghost Devouring Heaven, he’s now fighting against some hotshots in the Killing Game also. Although you are a referee and you didn’t bet… muah, ha, ha… do you want to check it out?”

“No thanks.” Simon glared at Woody and didn’t turn his head. “Such level of fighting isn’t even a cricket fight.”

At the same time, in another scenario of Killing Game playing mode.

In a ruined city, a fierce battle had already started between the current strongest forces in Thriller Paradise.

This was a game of three versus three. One side included the three Gods of the Four Great Gods from The Immortals, namely, [Vishnu], [Brahma] and [Yama]. On the combat ranking list, they were ranked from #3 to #5 respectively.

The other side was consisted with players from Order Studio: #8 in the combat ranking list [Fearless Hero], #9 [Zen In Scary Dream] and the player who had topped the ranking list, [Valiant Ghost Devouring Heaven].

The three from The Immortals were at level 26. They were wearing the same uniform, which looked like military officer uniforms in deep blue and dark gray colors. The badge of ‘The Immortals’ was placed on the outer edge of their left arms. It had a design of a partial solar eclipse. The words ‘The Immortals’ were prominent in the front of the design.

Vishnu was a man who was a little bit over 20 years old with short hair, medium height, and proportional muscles. His appearance wasn’t just ordinary. His title was [9-faced Magic Armor].

Brahma looked some years older than the former. He got long hair that scattered behind his back, and a beard; his build looked much similar to Longao Min. His title was [Seize The Sun And Moon].

However, Yama was an ID of a female player with a slender body, who didn’t look much older than her teammates. Her blue hair draped on her forehead and neck, covering half of her face. A side of her face, which was not covered by the blue hair, was as beautiful as a jade, accompanied with tender facial features. Her title was [Punishment Rope].

From the Order’s side, their badge had depicted a white balance weight scale over a blue sea background. Their uniform was just a white suit vest, and the players could dress themselves with whatever they liked. This white suit vest was quite special. Originally, the back of the vest had the word ‘Justice’ written in traditional Chinese characters. After the players had purchased this item, they could change the default writing once, which was limited to four words max. Moreover, this garment didn’t occupy the ‘upper body’ slot, since it was considered just an ‘accessory’. This was because it could only be ‘draped over the shoulders’, and players couldn’t ‘wear’ it.

Of course, such costumes were expensive. This one cost 500,000 coins, which was beyond the prices of armor costumes. By the way, the consumption of this sort of garments was still high. First, the Order Union’s members had equipped themselves with this suit vest after changing the word ‘Justice’ to ‘Order’ and made it their unique uniform. Next, there were many players who wanted to hurt their balls (apparently, they were all male players); they bought this item just for fun. Even though they were wearing their newbie costumes, they wanted to drape this kind of vest on and change the writing to something like ‘Only Me-The Supremacy’ leaving others half laughing and half crying.

Now, we are going back to the three players from Order Studio. Fearless Hero was wearing a white suit under his coat. He was a tall, outstanding-handsome guy with short hair. His title was [Spear Chivalry]. Although he was the first player who had reached level 20 in Closed Beta Stage, in the Open Beta stage, the Studio didn’t give him quests to level up anymore. So, currently, his level and the other three were the same, which was level 26. And, another event that was worth mentioning was his rank on the combat ranking had declined from #6 to #8 within the first day of Open Beta.

Zen In Scary Dream was 25 years old with a medium build, not fat, not thin and an honest face. He got a draping hairstyle, which was divided with the ratio of 3:7 on his head. His level was 21, coming along with the title [Stern-faced Killer]. He was one of the key professional gamers that Order Studio had sent to the game when the Open Beta was released. Martial World Studio had the well-known combination called ‘Saber Sword Smile’, so did the Order Studio, which people called ‘Born in Dream, Die in Intoxicant’. Zen In Scary Dream was one of them.

His level was an obvious evidence to show the intimidation of the Order Studio in gathering information. With the assistance from the triple crucial supports, namely, Items, Finance, and Information, top players from Order had just taken 24 hours in real time to catch up with that 48 hours of the Close Beta stage.

However, besides the suit vest that Union had provided, Zen In Scary Dream only had the default costume of the newbies. This gave others a feeling that this player was in a horrible financial shortage. At the same time, he had some unnecessary consumable goods (similar to the potato chips that Little Tan had bought, just to satisfy players’ needs virtually) in his hands, including a cigarette in his right hand and a beer in his left hand.

As you have read till this part, surely you got it clear that Zen In Scary Dream had three big interests: smoking, drinking and making his hair curly.

If you want evidence, there is a crooked son who wanted to do things like: Learning to be immortal, riding the crane to the heaven; turning stone to gold. Smoking, drinking, curly hair, nothing is better. ~ (2)

And now we finally talk about Valiant Ghost Devouring Heaven. He was the youngest superstar professional gamer since the beginning of Order Studio, a true innate fighting genius.

In this world, everybody can be good at anything, but none of them could have a chance to promote what they are good at. This is a matter of luck. Taking Feng Bu Jue as an example, if he had been born at the time of the Republic of China (3), perhaps he could have mingled with the Ministry of Education or in the worst case, at least he could have been an editor for some newspaper. Then, he could have written something about holding grudges for a lifetime, delivering some stunning speeches that could make other speechless. If something happened, he could have criticized the whole bureaus or other people just like they were his grandsons. Furthermore, he wouldn’t have been worrying about his clothing or feeding himself. Moreover, he would definitely be admired by some female artists, and he could have married to two of them. The first wife should be a typical lady-like, and the other was one of his student, someone who was 10 years younger than him. Apparently, these are just hypotheses. Unfortunately, Feng Bu Jue was born at the time of a flawless legal system and institutions, a harmonizing society, such an outstanding era of effective spiritual civilization construction. Thus, he could only write some novels to earn a living from loyalties.

With the same theory applied on Valiant Ghost Devouring Heaven, it would have happened the same. If he had been born in a world of swordsmanship and magic, Taoist technique or airbending, he would absolutely become a peerless hotshot with an unimaginable future. Too bad, he was born on Earth in an era of peace.

Thus, slashing or killing somebody should be done in a virtual game.

Currently, Valiant Ghost was at level 22. Although he had been forced to take a day off on the second night of Close Beta and the server had been closed the next morning, he didn’t lose much time on playing the game.

When the Open Beta was released, he was at level 15. Since it was almost twenty hours in real time, his level right now was considered reasonable. In fact, as a professional gamer, a star of Order, the leveling up of Valiant Ghost could be considered ‘Passive Playing’. Compared to such players like Zen In Scary Dream, who had been at level 1 when Open Beta was released and was now at level 21, Valiant Ghost, at level 22, seemed to be lacking.

However, even though his level was four levels lower than the other’s, Valiant Ghost had been ranked #1 on the combat ranking list, and he had been there for quite a long time. This spoke up many things.

In the game, he had modified his hairstyle to a long flame-red colored hair. Under the white suit vest was a set of black camouflage costume covering a slim and not too tall body. His build and that of other teenagers who weren’t 20 years old yet weren’t much different.

Anyhow, the system had judged him, on the basis of pure fighting capacity, as the strongest player. Moreover, he got a title that people would hardly forget just at the first glance: [The Fear Disseminator]

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(1) From a short story called ‘The Taoist Priest of Lao-shan’. For more information, check the link below https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/primary-sources/204

(2) Mingou: Republic of China (1912-1949), used instead of reign name by the nationalist government, then by Taiwan.