Chapter 160

Chapter 160: Attack of the Protagonist (12)

Translator: Sigma Editor: Sigma

And now we turn back time a little bit earlier, in the Kingdom of the Dead Souls, inside the vast desert…

A blurry black shadow and a red figure were moving at extremely high speed . The battle between them was fast, energetic and dangerous . It could be described like murderous aura permeated everywhere and each step they took was frightening .

BOOM… Powers collided .

K3’s body was sluggish, taking several steps back in just a blink . This was the first time he wore the somber expression on his face . Scarlet light flashed on his right arm, and all of a sudden, a dragon’s roar echoed in the air when a red dragon-shaped energy burst out .

Vahiru, which scattered in the air just now, gathered again to form his humanoid body . His purple face was filled with fear . He then crossed his arms, using a violet spiritual energy to shield his body, waiting for this tremendous attack .

The two of them had been fighting for long, but their strength and speed were constantly increasing . With better skills, K3 apparently gained the upper hand, and gradually, Vahiru couldn't hold it for more . This strike was the attack K3 thought he could use to determine the result .

The red dragon flaming fist was dashing forward with the aura that seemed to want to destroy both earth and firmament . Vahiru’s defense was like a dead trunk that could be uprooted at any moment in the strong gust .

"You’re worth praising for your endurance up to now . " Although his strike wasn’t finished, K3 had retrieved his murderous intention . In his eyes, this battle now ended . "Anyway, that’s all you have . "

Vahiru didn’t leave any last words, and he also couldn't make K3 feel any surprise . In the end, he couldn't bear this formidable attack as his whole body was struck by the scarlet power, turning into a scattering black smoke, which then immediately transformed into dust, fell and became a part of the desert .

K3 brushed his hands indifferently . All of a sudden, he looked at the vast area in front of him and said, "You’re hiding there long enough . Even if it’s due to your courtesy, you should come out and greet me . "

A dark area in the sky suddenly distorted and slowly moved just like someone pulled down a giant veil . A giant skull appeared at that spot and opened its mouth to let out a dry voice . "If you think it’s necessary…" he answered K3 .

When K3 saw his face, he confirmed the other’s identity . "Turns out it’s the leader . No wonder why you got here that quick . "

Under the Dark Abyss Benighted King were the nine henchmen whose levels were lower than the Four Divine Pillars . They were called ‘The Dead Souls Nine Chiefs’ . The massive skull in front of K3 was the leader of the Dead Souls Nine Chiefs – Soul Seizer .

"Harrumph… Seeing one of your kind got killed, but you didn't even bat an eye?" K3 smiled .

"He’s not my kind . You know this," answered Soul Seizer . "You and I are more like one kind . "

"Oh right, after all, we are the data with uniqueness . " He snorted coldly then pointed at the black dust Vahiru had left behind . "That idiot didn't understand the rules and righteously killed one of my Level 4 brothers," said K3 .

"I’m so sorry," said Soul Seizer, "but Vahiru wasn’t wrong . In his point of view, that’s what he should do…" Soul Seizer sighed . "Each of us has our own age and missions, and Vahiru was just like a fleeting flame . Me myself and my master are the candles which will soon burn down . And you…" he paused for a moment, "you are a very great existence, far greater than us . If you have the capacity, you will have a chance to enter the ‘Other World’ . The data that can reach there can make its cycle of life unknown . "

"The Other World isn’t an eternal peaceful place," said K3 .

"Compared to the group of data, which can see the end of their life at every second, it’s not bad at all," said Soul Seizer . "To us, ‘Unknown’ is the most precious . What’s called ‘Life’ is something uncertain . And, the ‘answer’ set up beforehand from the essence of mathematics is the sadness we will never get rid of . And the most tragic thing is… we are not even programmed to have the emotion called ‘sad’ . "

"I think it’s good, too," said K3 . "That’s why you can be calm to face what just happened . That’s how you can perceive the past and the future, things that happened and what will come at the end . "

"Well, perhaps…" Soul Seizer didn't continue this topic . "Now you need to return to another place… Let me open the space channel and send you away . "

"Then… thanks for your trouble," answered K3 .

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From the other side, Feng Bujue’s team took not more than ten minutes to get to the shrine in the mountain . Under the state in which they weren't affected by the illusion, they just mounted normally, and their speed was quite fast . With their capacity, it shouldn't be a problem for this group of six to be able to chase after the bus for three hundred miles . Thus, ten minutes was enough to climb the mountain, which didn't have a steep slope .

There was no story without coincidences . Right after they had just passed through the torii [1], a red light soared up from the Aggrieved Well . A dark, incomparable oppression that they found it hard to describe with language rippled from the well .

Everybody, including the GMs, was like they were rooted on the ground, unable to inch forward . This wasn't an effect of any skill or something that could be explained by physics .

Such experience that went beyond their five senses could have never been seen in any game before . The six people here, as human beings, now felt the ‘murderous aura’ in a virtual world connected to them by nervous system connection .

K3 – Hematite jumped up, standing on the well, looking at the different expressions from people standing down there . The right arm under his sleeve had been completed . A tattoo of a giant red dragon around his arm from the shoulder to the wrist was shimmering . The invisible aura surrounding him also had a faint ruby hue .

"Oh?" K3 counted the number of his opponents and suspiciously muttered, "The players didn’t teleport…"

"You should have waited until we’ve updated the next step of the Main Quest to take action . " Feng Bujue was the calmest among the six of them . He answered the other with a completely cool tone .

"It’s so," said K3, "anyway… as things have come to this, it's okay though . " He gently descended . "Ah, although I have to bear some particular restraints here, you are so… pathetically weak . " He eyed his right arm . "Moreover, thanks to Vahiru, I’ve warmed up . "

Galileo's face suddenly tensed up . "You guys…The situation's changed . Please give us a hand…" Apparently, he recognized that this was a Level 3 Derivative .

"If you say so, I have a perfect plan," answered Feng Bujue as if he had foreseen the case . While the others hadn’t had time to react, he had stepped forward, threw his fists into the air, spread his legs and shouted, "The Pirate King! I’m on the top!"[The Protagonist’s Halo has been transferred . ]

[Player Feng Bujue – is the current holder of the Protagonist’s Halo . ]

Right after the notification arose, Feng Bujue said, "You guys can go now . I want to play one on one with him . "

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[1] A gateway of a shinto shrine

[2] (Luffy’s line from One Piece – TL)