Shen Huai bought an account and logged into the game. A dashing female assassin appeared on his character selection screen. The female assassin looked way cooler than the male one, dressed in a black, midriff-baring outfit, with long, slender legs in high heels, and her flowing long hair tied up high, revealing a red ribbon hidden among her locks from the back.
Shen Huai really liked this chic and cool female assassin look and planned to keep it for a night before changing gender the next day.
Sair Weicheng was the first major server of “City of Despair,” where all the clubs initially led their teams to settle in, so it was also called the “Professional Zone.” Later, because there were too many professional players, many players came to join the fun, causing the server to be overcrowded and registration channels to be closed several times, which made Shen Huai perfectly miss out on this server.
Shen Huai found Song Xueyang’s ID—Sui Xue—on the Gunner profession leaderboard and sent a friend request. As Zhou Ning said, Song Xueyang was not online, and Shen Huai’s friend request went unanswered.
He controlled the little assassin to the main city’s warehouse to check the items. The original account owner’s warehouse still had some unbound rare materials, probably used for upgrading other equipment on the body, and there was also a million gold coins.
Gold coins and rare materials were tradable, but the account’s warehouse was very messy, giving Shen Huai a feeling of a hasty account sale. Even more strangely, the account owner’s friend list was completely wiped clean.
Shen Huai was busy organizing the warehouse and didn’t notice a few pairs of eyes watching him from the shadows.
Once he had sorted out most of the items, he headed to the wild. Although the account’s weapon was an upgraded golden double blade, the rest of the equipment was still old, with the necklace being a relic from two seasons ago, not keeping up with the current game environment. Shen Huai planned to go to the wild to farm rare materials dropped by bosses to upgrade his equipment.
In the game, almost all bosses drop equipment materials, and there are two types of public bosses in the wild. One type only rewards the final killer, while the other type drops materials as long as there is damage output, though the drops are relatively small.
Since it was getting late, Shen Huai didn’t form a team and went to the wild to farm a public boss. This boss was a sand monster wielding a giant axe, which could stun and daze players. Every time a layer of the boss’s health was depleted, it would turn into sand and disappear, causing surrounding players to lose a percentage of their health.
When Shen Huai arrived, players were already engaging the boss. This was a boss where anyone with damage output could share the materials, so Shen Huai immediately joined in to help.
A few figures rushed from behind. Shen Huai thought they were also there to fight the boss and didn’t guard against them. Unexpectedly, the leading Sorcerer instantly activated combat mode against him, starting with a silence spell, followed by an Ice Mage casting Ice Shackles to immobilize him, and a Gunner rolling out from behind a wall to fire at him wildly.
—Chain Explosive Shot!
The heavy gun in hand spewed fierce flames, with cannon fire as big as a human head shooting at Shen Huai. The Ice Mage even readied the ultimate “Blizzard,” with biting ice on one side and crazy cannon fire on the other. Just then, the boss’s giant axe struck down, and other players dodged, leaving Shen Huai controlled in place, getting smashed into the ground and dying on the spot.
The Gunner in the distance swaggered over, her ID was Zui Xue, with a golden title hanging below—Sair Weicheng’s First Queen. This title was a reward for being voted the number one beauty player in “City of Despair” across the server recently, showing she was quite famous in this server.
Zui Xue placed her gun on the ground and typed in the current channel.
[Current][Zui Xue]: You scammer finally dared to come online?
Just as she finished typing, the female assassin who was lying on the ground suddenly got up!
There are two ways to revive after dying in the wild. One is to revive at a resurrection point, where the system transports the character to the nearest main city, and the other is to revive on the spot in a weakened state, but this method is very uneconomical, almost no one chooses it, as it costs 100,000 gold coins and the revived state only has 10% health.
So Zui Xue never expected Shen Huai to revive on the spot in a weakened state right in front of the three of them, wasn’t this courting death?
The Assassin class doesn’t have a mana bar, and 10% health was just right for Shen Huai.
He used a thrust to dash behind the Sorcerer, starting with Soul Capture. The Mage tried the same trick with Ice Shackles, but Shen Huai easily dodged it, simultaneously executing a high-speed combo under the Death Mark.
This combo would be too much for the fragile Sorcerer, and even the ace player Xiao Zhang couldn’t withstand it. The Sorcerer was immediately left with a sliver of health.
The group was dumbfounded. They had never seen an Assassin with such high burst damage. In the current version, only Qi Masters and Swordsmen could take out half a person’s health in one combo, but an Assassin weakened by the version?
Excuse me? Can Assassins kill too? Aren’t Assassins just a class for changing outfits and taking screenshots on scenic maps every day?
The battered Sorcerer immediately retreated ten meters and unleashed the ultimate “Doomsday Chant,” summoning five ghostly elders holding magic books, instantly forming a pentagram, silencing all enemies in the center of the formation.
Almost as soon as the five ghostly elders appeared, the Assassin who was just in the formation suddenly vanished.
The Sorcerer frantically shouted in the team, “He’s gone invisible! Protect me!”
Before the words were out, the black-clad Assassin suddenly reappeared, the gleaming blade striking the Sorcerer from behind. A combo not only took the Sorcerer down but also left the Mage who came to the rescue with a sliver of health!
“Kill him!” Zui Xue and the Mage charged together, but the Assassin was nimble, dodging and weaving, causing the Mage to miss two consecutive ice snowballs.
Shen Huai suddenly turned around while running, startling the two who were chasing him. Before they could react, they were hit by Shen Huai’s frontal combo, and this time it wasn’t just about losing health; he also unleashed the skill Arcane Blink.
Suddenly, three more Assassins appeared, surrounding the two, and all four Assassins used the skill—Imprisonment, forming a square matrix. The Assassins swarmed, instantly knocking the two to the ground.
Zui Xue couldn’t believe it as she fell. They had ambushed one person with three, yet they were counter-killed by someone with a sliver of health? And that person was playing the weakest class, Assassin!
The Assassin, left with a sliver of health, squatted in front of their corpses and typed, “Who are you people?”
The Mage was about to vomit blood. This person didn’t even know who they were and just killed them first?
Shen Huai was like this. Although he seemed quiet and easy to bully, he was never someone to suffer in silence. These three attacked him without a word, so of course, he had to kill them first and then ask what was going on.
Zui Xue angrily said, “You scammer! Give back the money you cheated from me! Or I’ll make sure you die every time you go to the wild!”
The latter half of the sentence obviously lacked conviction, but Shen Huai couldn’t ignore the first half.
“This account scammed your money?”
“Stop pretending. With your equipment, how could you beat the Gunner Queen Sigel? The weapon you’re holding is mine!”
The Gunner Queen Sigel was a newly released world boss in this version update, guaranteed to drop high-level materials for upgrading equipment, and with a small chance to drop golden equipment directly.
Shen Huai’s account equipment wasn’t great, except for a weapon, most of the equipment was purple, with few orange pieces, not looking like it could beat a world boss.
But Shen Huai didn’t believe her words either. The weapon was now bound to him, which was the strongest evidence.
“You just said I scammed your money, and now you say the weapon is yours. If the weapon is yours, how did it end up with me?”
Zui Xue quickly typed, “I sold it to you, but you only paid a 1 million deposit and ran off, that’s how you scammed my money!”
“If you only paid a deposit, why deliver the goods first?”
“Am I stupid? I trusted you and delivered first, who would have thought you’d be so untrustworthy!”
Shen Huai found this reasoning completely unconvincing, so he didn’t bother arguing, “This account has changed hands. If you can provide evidence that she scammed your money, send me a screenshot, otherwise, don’t come looking for trouble.”
Zui Xue: “Heh, you think you’re a big shot, just wait!”
The three corpses turned into a golden light and disappeared, a sign of reviving near the main city.
Shen Huai checked Zui Xue’s profile and found she was an elder of the Xiaolang Guild, with a personal declaration of “Snow God fan! Hohoho!”
Snow God referred to Song Xueyang, whose game ID was Sui Xue, and his name also contained the character “Xue,” so people often called him Snow God.
Shen Huai felt the character relationships were a bit subtle, like something was off. He wanted to ask Song Xueyang, but not only was Song Xueyang offline, Zhou Ning was also offline.
Shen Huai sent a screenshot of his account purchase transaction to Zui Xue via email. He had a good impression of the Xiaolang team and didn’t want to make enemies with the guild over some misunderstanding.
After sending the email, Shen Huai logged off. Before sleeping, he checked his phone, and to his surprise, the entire Weibo forum was flooded with posts about his duel with Xiao Zhang.
Hot topics: #MaleGod’sAltAccountLiveArenaEncounterWithAssassinMaster?#, #MaleGodVSCangYu, EpicAssassinDuel!#, #WhichAssassinTechniqueIsBest?CangYuMasterTeachesYouHowToFight!#
The forums were also filled with broadcasts of the duel, with attentive netizens even recording the live video and posting it online, quickly reaching over 100,000 views.
[Cang Yu Master is really amazing, can’t deny it, even Xiao God couldn’t beat him.]
[Heh, some fans of a certain Yu are really good at bragging, did they put all their skill points into boasting? The Male God mainly plays Qi Master, and the War God team doesn’t allow using the main profession for live broadcasts, didn’t you know? What’s there to show off about using your main profession against someone else’s secondary profession? Cang Yu can only play Assassin, after all, there are too many masters in other professions, can’t mix in.]
[Front row watching the red-eye disease! What’s wrong with Assassin? If you have the ability, you also get a profession first! What main profession, secondary profession, I just know Yu God defeated a professional player, it’s that simple, isn’t your Male God only good at playing Qi Master?]
[Although the Male God lost, he sincerely asked Cang Yu for advice, but your Yu God is too shameless, even saying ‘Welcome to join the Assassin camp,’ really think the Assassin profession has no successors?]
Shen Huai didn’t expect the fans of both sides to be fighting so fiercely. Xiao Zhang had the support of the team and an official fan club, so when fans fought, they were very organized and disciplined. But what surprised Shen Huai was that Cang Yu’s fans were not to be outdone either. Even though they were unorganized scattered fans, they showed great unity when facing haters attacking their idol.
It was just a match that happened by chance, neither side showed their full strength, and in Shen Huai’s view, who won or lost didn’t mean much.
He casually clicked on the last link posted by a forum user, which was a recording of Xiao Zhang’s live broadcast. He listened to Xiao Zhang’s words from start to finish and couldn’t help but frown.
Although Shen Huai’s acting skills weren’t great, he had been in the entertainment industry for so long that he was well aware of the treacherous nature of people. Xiao Zhang’s words were so obviously leading fans to attack him that it wouldn’t even make it to the stage in the entertainment industry. As soon as he opened his mouth, Shen Huai could tell he was inciting fans to criticize him.
With this, the fierce fan fight could be explained.
Shen Huai couldn’t be bothered with him. The fans would make a fuss, and it would pass. He just didn’t expect the ace of the War God team, Xiao Zhang, to be such a narrow-minded player.