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It was only a matter of time before Bai Liu’s promotion ranking dropped.
With the Kings’ Guild deliberately surrounding and suppressing his small television, Bai Liu falling into the [Unnamed Area] was practically inevitable.
Queen of Hearts stood directly in front of Bai Liu’s screen.
Her misty gaze rested lightly on Bai Liu’s pale, sweat-soaked face displayed on the television, as though she were admiring a painting of death hanging in a gallery.
There was even the faintest trace of regret in her eyes.
Whether she regretted the death itself—or regretted that she personally caused it—was impossible to tell.
She tilted the brim of her wide hat upward slightly before turning toward the guild members behind her.
Still wearing that calm, regretful expression, she delivered an even crueler order.
“Go to the Grave Dancing Area and continue suppressing Bai Liu.”
“Do not withdraw until he falls into the Unnamed Area.”
—
Inside the game, Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi had also reached a desperate situation.
If they failed to eliminate the refugees soon, the poison required to protect themselves from the ever-growing horde would continue increasing exponentially.
Even under Liu Jiayi’s extremely precise control, eight bottles of poison were nearly depleted.
The flower field had already become a sea of parasitic refugees and grotesquely overgrown tentacles.
They piled together, roaring and writhing like a monstrous tidal wave from the deep ocean, forming a towering wall of flesh at the edge of the narrow ridge path.
At this stage, the only things holding the monsters back were Liu Jiayi’s poison and Bai Liu’s whip.
That the two of them had managed to survive this long was already unbelievable.
The poisonous mist had condensed into strands so thin they were nearly invisible, weaving continuously around Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi.
Liu Jiayi’s face had gone deathly pale.
This level of high-output skill usage had drained her to the point she could barely remain standing. Holding the nearly empty poison bottle in her hand, she bent forward, breathing heavily.
Yet the instant the dense mass of twisting tentacles lunged toward them again, Liu Jiayi abruptly tightened her grip on the bottle and jerked it upward.
A massive net woven from poisonous threads descended.
Every tentacle trapped inside was instantly sliced apart, severed ends hissing as they dissolved into blurred, corroded flesh beneath the toxic ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) fumes.
Liu Jiayi swayed violently.
The metallic taste of blood surged into her throat, but she forcibly swallowed it back down.
Only a shallow layer of poison remained at the bottom of the bottle.
At that moment, a single tentacle slipped through the net from behind her.
Its sharpened tip shot directly toward Liu Jiayi’s chest.
CRACK!
A snow-white whip lashed out like lightning, smashing the tentacle aside before it could even brush her face.
Several more crisp cracks rang out in rapid succession.
Every “fish that escaped the net” lurking nearby was immediately swept away by Bai Liu’s whip.
Although Bai Liu’s movements remained frighteningly precise, his condition was clearly terrible as well.
His face was even paler than Liu Jiayi’s—so pale it almost matched the bone-white whip in his hand.
And the hand gripping that whip trembled faintly.
“Your cooldown’s almost over, right?” Bai Liu asked, glancing sideways at Liu Jiayi, who was half-kneeling behind him to recover.
Liu Jiayi struggled to raise her head.
“...Less than a minute.”
“Then all we need to do is survive this final wave.”
Bai Liu looked toward the horrifying wall of refugees he had deliberately piled together over the last hour.
“After that...”
“We harvest.”
The severed tentacles regenerated instantly.
Countless writhing tendrils surged toward Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi from every direction, leaving virtually no openings.
Yet Bai Liu did not raise his whip.
He merely stood there calmly, watching the roaring mass of twisted corpses and intertwining tentacles crash downward like a tidal wave.
It looked as though he were simply a tourist standing on the shore, waiting to be swallowed whole by a tsunami.
A rotating Rubik’s Cube suddenly appeared in Bai Liu’s hand.
[System Notification: Player Bai Liu has used the item (Magic Space). The selected range is limited to the flower field directly ahead. (Maximum spatial range reached. Duration limited to 5 minutes.) Any refugees already inside are prohibited from leaving.]
[System Notification: Space construction complete.]
In the next instant, the collapsing “wave” slammed violently into an invisible transparent wall.
A deafening hum reverberated through the air, shaking the brain itself.
The giant wall of flesh-colored tentacles smashed helplessly against the unseen barrier before slowly collapsing back into the flower field.
The trapped refugees stared greedily at the roses scattered across the ground, their expressions filled with hatred and hunger.
Now confined within a square, invisible prison, the refugees writhed frantically against the transparent walls.
They crawled over every surface like countless human-faced serpents tangled together, looking as though they might break through and devour Bai Liu in the next second.
But they would likely never get that chance.
Behind Bai Liu, Liu Jiayi slowly rose to her feet while drinking a stamina recovery agent.
The “crop” they had painstakingly accumulated had finally matured.
Calmly, she looked toward the flower field that no longer resembled a flower field at all and slowly raised her hand.
Then she glanced sideways at Bai Liu and waved him farther away.
Bai Liu immediately retreated without hesitation.
[System Warning: Does Player Liu Jiayi wish to activate her explosive personal skill (Poison Fountain)? This skill inflicts indiscriminate delayed damage on all targets within range. After activation, Player Liu Jiayi’s stamina bar will be fully depleted. Confirm usage?]
[Confirmed.]
Dense black smoke erupted from Liu Jiayi’s sleeves.
The poison surged into the sealed [Magic Space], instantly flooding every corner.
The sizzling sound of flesh dissolving under corrosive chemicals echoed continuously through the enclosed space.
Then came the screams.
Shrill.
Piercing.
Endless.
Occasionally, twisted tentacles slid limply down the transparent walls before collapsing into the poison below.
One minute later, the final tentacle lost its grip and fell.
At the same time, Liu Jiayi’s body gave out as well.
Before she could collapse fully to the ground from exhaustion, Bai Liu caught her steadily in his arms.
Her stamina bar had already bottomed out. She could barely move.
Although she clearly didn’t want to lean against Bai Liu, she had no strength left to resist and could only close her eyes, panting weakly against his shoulder.
Of course, Bai Liu himself was hardly in any better condition.
Not long afterward, he slumped onto the ground as though all the bones had vanished from his body.
Liu Jiayi: “... = = Then why did you pick me up just now?”
Bai Liu reached out and brushed aside her sweat-damp bangs with a smile.
“I saw other parents encourage kids like that when they did something impressive.”
“So I wanted to try it too.”
“You were really cool just now, Little Witch.”
Liu Jiayi lay silently against his chest for two seconds before turning her head away.
“...I’m the number one Rising Star.”
She muttered quietly:
“Isn’t that only natural?”
As the black mist inside the [Magic Space] gradually dispersed, the heavily corroded corpses of the refugees continuously burst apart into clusters of roses.
At the same time, system notifications exploded endlessly across Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi’s interfaces.
[System Notification: Congratulations to Player Liu Jiayi for killing the monster Refugee. This Refugee had stolen 1.5kg of Dried Leaf Roses, now acquired as spoils.]
[System Notification: Congratulations to Player Bai Liu for trapping and killing the monster Refugee using an item. This Refugee had stolen 0.3kg of Dried Leaf Roses...]
[System Notification: ...]
The ground that had once been completely buried beneath refugees was now covered entirely in Dried Leaf Roses.
Supporting Liu Jiayi against him, Bai Liu slowly sat upright and looked over the mountain of rewards.
The corners of his lips lifted slightly.
“Not bad.”
“That’s quite a harvest.”
“Tonight wasn’t a waste.”
—
In the game lobby, the Kings’ Guild audience standing before Bai Liu’s small television stared blankly at the endless stream of reward notifications appearing on the screen.
Just moments ago, they had mocked Bai Liu for possessing a powerful card like the Little Witch yet not knowing how to use her.
Now they finally realized—
It wasn’t that he didn’t know how to use her.
He had pushed a healing-type player like Liu Jiayi to produce maximum AOE lethality.
Before today, everyone’s impression of the Little Witch had been simple:
[The game’s only healing player.]
No one had ever imagined Liu Jiayi’s poison abilities could possess such terrifying offensive power.
Yet in Bai Liu’s hands, through the use of a Magic Space item, an A-rank player like Liu Jiayi and a mere C-rank player like Bai Liu had successfully held back an entire wave of A+ monsters in a Level 2 game.
It was practically a miracle.
And Bai Liu had actually pulled it off.
This was the same newcomer who, only two games ago, had nearly been killed by a single A+ monster.
His growth rate was simply monstrous.
The Kings’ Guild player who had previously mocked Bai Liu for riding off the Little Witch’s popularity now muttered blankly:
“...Our guild’s Little Witch... was actually this strong?”
“She can wipe out an entire wave of Level 2 monster mobs by herself?”
Another player answered numbly:
“...I remember she couldn’t...”
“It’s tactics.” A more experienced mid-level player finally spoke, his expression complicated and grim. “Bai Liu’s tactics maximized the Little Witch’s offensive value. Not a single drop of poison or skill usage was wasted.”
“He used the Siren’s Bone to herd all the monsters together while Liu Jiayi’s poison restricted them. Like driving ducks into a cage.”
“Then he sealed the entire area and let the Little Witch wipe everything out in one burst.”
The player paused before continuing heavily:
“We never tried developing the Little Witch’s offensive capabilities before.”
“But Bai Liu used his own crowd-control abilities to amplify her strengths to the absolute limit.”
“And he deliberately stalled until her poison skill cooldown ended.”
“This way, they accumulated enough refugees to maximize reward drops, then instantly cleared them all. Even if stray monsters attacked afterward, the Little Witch’s cooldown had already refreshed.”
“What Bai Liu designed...”
“...was the perfect strategy for maximizing the Little Witch specifically within this game.”
Some lower-level players still refused to accept it.
“Tch, what tactics? If I had his weapon and the Little Witch cooperating with me, I could do the same thing.”
“Exactly. Isn’t it just gathering monsters, using an item, then having the Little Witch clear them? How is that some brilliant strategy?”
“You’re oversimplifying it.” Another mid-level player sighed. “Do you still remember Mu Shicheng? The Rising Star player Zhang Kui from our guild kept hunting?”
Everyone paused.
Naturally, they remembered.
After all, Zhang Kui had died horribly at Bai Liu’s hands.
The atmosphere instantly became much quieter.
“...What about him?”
“Mu Shicheng never had any chance against Zhang Kui,” the player explained seriously. “Several times he nearly got completely controlled.”
“But after Bai Liu obtained Mu Shicheng as a card—during only his second game ever—do you remember how Zhang Kui ended up?”
The speaker took a deep breath before continuing.
“Once Mu Shicheng pinned Zhang Kui down, Bai Liu counter-killed him.”
“Zhang Kui was burned alive inside the mirror.”
“Before Mu Shicheng met Bai Liu... could any of you have imagined him counter-killing Zhang Kui?”
No one answered.
Because nobody could have imagined it.
Back then, everyone had believed Mu Shicheng was nothing more than prey waiting to be slaughtered by Zhang Kui.
The crowd slowly turned back toward Bai Liu’s television.
And for the first time, many of them felt genuine fear crawl up their spines.
Because they suddenly realized something terrifying—
Bai Liu had used someone fundamentally weaker than Zhang Kui to overwhelmingly counter-kill him.
And at that time, the game had not even reached the halfway point.
Despite being only a newcomer...
Despite being merely C-rank...
Despite not even possessing top-tier intelligence stats...
Bai Liu somehow continued controlling entire battlefields effortlessly and defeating stronger opponents with weaker pieces.
The player analyzing Bai Liu stared at the television with growing dread.
“This is what makes Bai Liu terrifying.”
“He never starts with the strongest cards.”
“And his tactics themselves aren’t overly complicated.”
“But his level of coordination and utilization is absurd.”
“In The Last Train to Explode, his cooperation with Mu Shicheng achieved zero-error execution.”
“And in this game, his cleanup coordination with the Little Witch was flawless.”
“He personally handles every part of the strategy where mistakes are most likely to occur—the parts everyone else ignores.”
“And he executes them perfectly.”
The player exhaled slowly, expression complicated.
“Even though this is clearly their first time cooperating, Bai Liu acts as though he has already fought alongside these people thousands of times.”
“He can always bring out the maximum potential of everyone around him.”
“It’s almost like...”
“The moment Bai Liu formulates a strategy...”
“...he has already seen the ending.”
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“Bai Liu’s tactics have never failed.”
“He himself never makes mistakes.”
“And once he deploys someone, he believes with absolute certainty that they won’t make mistakes either.”
“With that nearly insane confidence...”
“...he turns the cards in his hand into killing power beyond anything we could imagine.”
The more the player thought about it, the colder he felt.
His gaze toward Bai Liu’s screen hardened completely.
“Let’s go.”
“Queen ordered us to suppress Bai Liu here and force him into the [Unnamed Area].”
“Otherwise...”
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“...our guild is going to have endless problems.”
At that moment, Bai Liu’s small television suddenly went black.
Following the system’s transfer process—
Bai Liu had officially fallen into the [Grave Dancing Area].
