Inside the Intelligence Room.
[Kaeya: Good lord, what kind of skill is this?
It’s way too powerful.
I’m officially jealous!]
[Xingqiu: I want one too!
Anyone who uses this would love it!]
[Arataki Itto: Th-this kind of skill…
If I had it, wouldn’t I never have to worry about getting caught?]
[Kujou Sara: Someone who uses a bow, thank you!]
[Yoimiya: Someone who uses a bow, thank you!]
[Amber: Someone who uses a bow, thank you!]
[Yanfei: Someone who uses a Catalyst, thank you!]
[Chongyun: So, judging from this, dealing with Paimon shouldn’t be that difficult.]
[Xingqiu: Don’t talk about whether it’s difficult yet.
Just tell me—do you want it or not!]
….
[The Hide-and-Seek game has ended.
Players may choose whether to leave the game space.]
[Next activation: three days from now.
Estimated maximum points: 500,000!]
The system’s voice rang out.
Only then did everyone realize that the Hide-and-Seek game had already ended!
When they heard they could leave, Jean and Kamisato Ayaka immediately disappeared from the game space.
To them, this place was practically a nightmare.
The sooner they could leave, the better!
Seeing his sister like this, Kamisato Ayato knew that he probably wouldn’t have an easy time after returning home.
He gritted his teeth and followed them out, intending to go home and placate his sister.
Venti glanced at Fang Yue.
He seemed to want to say something, but Fang Yue shook his head, stopping him.
“The Intelligence Room is still open.
If you want to expose yourself, I have no objections!”
Only then did Venti realize what was happening.
The game had ended, but the Intelligence Room was still there.
Most of the others had already left.
When Fang Yue saw that La Signora still hadn’t departed, he knew that he had successfully intimidated her.
“Is there something you want?”
La Signora took a deep breath and walked over to Fang Yue.
“Sir, I apologize for my previous attitude!”
Her attitude was extremely humble.
After witnessing Fang Yue’s terrifying power, she didn’t believe that even her Tsaritsa could protect her.
Apologizing was the best choice she could make right now.
She only hoped Fang Yue wouldn’t hold a grudge against her.
She still had many things left to accomplish!
As for La Signora, Fang Yue actually had rather complicated feelings toward her.
In the past, she had become the Crimson Witch of Flames and sworn to burn all monsters to ashes.
Setting aside her motives, she had at least helped resist the invasion of the Abyssal monsters.
“Don’t let it happen again!”
After saying that, Fang Yue didn’t even wait for La Signora’s response before leaving the game space.
He genuinely didn’t know what else to say to her.
He had bragged so ridiculously earlier, and now that La Signora had lowered herself and apologized, what else could he do but accept it and move on?
Was he really supposed to go provoke the Tsaritsa?
He’d probably lose his life!
Back at Starsnatch Cliff, Fang Yue began counting his points.
He had earned a total of 400,000 points from the previous game.
After spending 200,000 points himself, and then deducting the 80,000 points given to Paimon, he now had a total of 1.12 million points remaining.
“I need to keep 500,000 points for the next game.
That means I can use 620,000?”
He opened the shop and took a look.
The treasure chests were divided into tiers of 100,000 points each.
After thinking for a while, Fang Yue decided to draw one 200,000-point treasure chest and one 400,000-point treasure chest.
As for why he didn’t simply draw a 600,000-point treasure chest…
Although the best items inside a 600,000-point treasure chest were better than those in a 400,000-point chest, the number of troublesome items inside was just as high.
Fang Yue was afraid that he might pull some completely useless piece of garbage.
If that happened, wouldn’t all his points have gone to waste?
After purchasing the two treasure chests, Fang Yue immediately opened the 200,000-point chest.
A flash of purple light appeared, revealing a small card.
“Purple again?
Can’t you give me something gold for once?!”
Fang Yue picked up the card and glanced at it.
The card depicted a person swinging a sword, looking quite imposing.
But the description below nearly made Fang Yue spit blood.
[Passive Skill: Hundred Percent Empty-Handed Blade Catch.
Whenever the host swings a bladed weapon, the target will have a one-hundred-percent chance of using Empty-Handed Blade Catch, ignoring all factors within the host’s field of vision!]
Was this skill powerful?
Actually, it was very powerful.
But after using this thing, he would basically be incompatible with weapons for the rest of his life.
No matter how strong he became in the future, anyone could catch his attacks with their bare hands.
What was the point of playing like that?!
“Forget it.
I’ll just fight in close combat from now on!”
Fang Yue still decided to use the skill.
The more bizarre a skill involving laws and concepts was, the more likely it was to have some unexpected effect.
He looked toward the 400,000-point treasure chest.
Inside, Fang Yue silently prayed.
Whether I get to eat meat or survive on vegetables from now on depends on this one gamble!
The treasure chest opened.
A golden light appeared.
“Whoa!
Golden rarity!”
Before the light had even faded, Fang Yue reached out and grabbed the card.
The moment he saw it, his expression became extremely strange.
“This fucking works too?!”
[Skill: Divine Art of Equal Standing.
After the host says to the target, “This person’s strength is not inferior to mine,” the host will ignore the difference in strength between both sides and forcibly fight the target to a draw!]
“What kind of ridiculous skills are these?”
Looking at the skills he had obtained, Fang Yue didn’t even know how to complain anymore.
You could say this skill was bad, but it could allow him to fight the Geo Archon to a standstill.
You could say it was good, but it could also make him fight a Hilichurl on equal terms.
“What a damn rip-off.”
Fang Yue cursed and directly closed the shop.
He had finally figured it out.
Whenever he opened a treasure chest, there was absolutely no chance of getting anything normal!