In Dragon Nation’s stream.
Viewers who had just hopped back from the Sneaky Nation feed were startled by what Jing Yuan did.
From who-knew-where he produced a rarely seen greatsaber—gripping a hilt longer than most—and walked straight toward the crystalline lifeform…
[Holy—where’d Little Jing get that blade?
I was peeking at the Sneaky Nation and missed it… Big-brains, explain!]
[I missed it too, but real talk: that sword looks sick!]
[It’s so cool I can only afford one glance—’cause a second one and I’ll—]
[Wait, why are you all drooling over the sword?
Shouldn’t we be worried he’s in danger?!
(stunned.jpg)]
[Right… I don’t want our Trailblazer ending up like the neighbor…]
If Trailblazers in the Zone could read the chat, Dragon Nation’s viewers would have spammed the screen to high heaven.
Too bad— the Zone didn’t have that feature.
Their worry didn’t last long.
Inside the Zone,
Jing Yuan lifted the blade one-handed, closed on the frost-crystal construct—and spun.
As his body turned, the saber reversed to true; he brought it down on the construct at a slant.
Riding the blade’s momentum, he switched hands, right to left, and slashed again.
The twin cuts crossed into an “X” and fell before the construct could react—square on its “head.”
In the next breath, the construct shattered—powder on the wind.
“Hoo—”
“Been a while since I swung.
Not too rusty~”
He exhaled, wiped nonexistent sweat from his brow, putting on the look of someone who’d gone all-out…
[Successfully emulated Jing Yuan’s attack.
Role-Play Progress +1%.]
His mouth tilted up.
He hadn’t expected that culling a small fry would advance his role-play.
A pleasant surprise.
Feeling the subtle surge in strength, he eyed the crystal lying in the snow.
“Drop material?”
He bent and picked up the dark-blue shard.
The system chimed again.
[Hoarfrost Crystal: the power core of a crystalline elemental lifeform; it contains energy from the Rift.]
He blinked.
So the system would now explain things for him too.
“Guess it only goes full-feature once you’re inside the Zone, huh?”
He tucked the crystal into a pocket, then flicked his fingers at the hilt.
The long blade broke into motes of gold and sank into his body.
Its name was Flint-Dream— the Arbiter-General’s own saber.
When his system first awakened, the blade had appeared in his sea of consciousness.
At 10% progress, he’d learned to summon it with a thought and hew down the strong.
He’d simply had no chance to use it before entering the Zone.
That done, he stuffed both hands in his pockets and kept strolling as if window-shopping…
Oblivious to the fact that Dragon Nation’s stream had detonated.
[Huh?]
[Huh??]
[HUH?!!]
A flood of “huhs” blanketed the feed, so thick you couldn’t see unless you hid the barrage entirely.
Not only the chat.
In Yanjing’s command center, General Zhang and the others traded looks.
“Didn’t you say that was everything in Jing Yuan’s file?”
“Then… how do you explain this?!”
The old general stared at the officer who’d pulled the file.
The man swallowed, recovered from his shock, and gave a pained smile.
“Sir, that really is everything.
I fetched it from the archives myself—no way I missed anything…”
Zhang studied him a beat.
The man had followed him for over a decade—careful, thorough, not one for sloppy mistakes.
Which meant…
The general’s brows lifted.
He snorted a laugh.
“Seems the kid hides deep.”
Clean, decisive bladework.
Retrieving a weapon from thin air.
Not things an ordinary person does.
The only explanation: Jing Yuan carried secrets even the state didn’t know.
But the old general wasn’t displeased.
He was delighted.
The stronger Jing Yuan was, the better their odds of dodging a national fate penalty.
As he’d said: the nation and the boy were bound together now—rise together, fall together.
Jing Yuan’s strength was a blessing.
“Should we dig deeper?” the officer ventured.
“No need.” The general shook his head.
“Whatever you dig up, he’s Dragon Nation.
That’s enough.”
The man nodded and fell silent.
Zhang returned his gaze to the feed, eyes soft with pride for the youth on the screen.
With a Trailblazer like this, how could Dragon Nation not thrive?
The Forbidden Zone— would be their chance to overtake Eagle Nation.
In the stream, the tide of “huhs” took minutes to ebb, and viewers’ emotions gradually leveled…
[My lady boss asked why I was kneeling to watch the stream.
Now she’s kneeling with me OTL]
[Respectfully thirsting for lady boss (doge.jpg)]
[Coach, teach me that!!]
[Good grief ~ too handsome!
Does Jing Yuan have a girlfriend?
If not, I’m applying!
(flower.jpg)]
[Hmph, women only slow Little Jing’s draw speed.
Boyfriend is the truth!
(tsundere.jpg)]
[I just saw the Sneaky Nation guy get chased three blocks by that same mob.
I was sweating for our Trailblazer… and then this?
(lol.jpg)]
[Jing Yuan: not “mob too strong,” just “Sneaky too weak.” (doge)]
[Chief, could you please explain—scientifically—how he grabbed a sword from thin air and then stored it in his body?]
On cue, Bingbing asked what the chat asked.
“Chief, could you, from a scientific perspective, explain how Jing Yuan produced a longsaber out of nowhere—and how it turned to light and entered his body?”
The Chief: “…”
Science?
What science!
One more person told him to “believe in science” and he’d blow a fuse.
But as a veteran of on-air chaos, he rallied with a chuckle.
“As we all know—the end of science is metaphysics.”
The line had Dragon Nation rolling.
Sneaky Nation trolls used auto-translate to send sour grapes…
[Cheating!
Must be cheating!!]
[Dragon Nation’s cheating in the open!]
[We used a machete and couldn’t hurt the mob.
Why can he kill it with a sword unless he’s cheating?]
[Exactly!
Dragon Nation must answer for this!]
They hardly needed the three hosts.
Hundreds of millions of Dragon Nation viewers opened fire and blasted the trolls back…
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