Super Righteous Player
Chapter 32 - 31: Sea of Fire_1

Chapter 32: Chapter 31: Sea of Fire_1

In fact, very few players were able to gather without any injuries.

After all, this was not a game controlled by keyboards, mice, or controllers.

Even the legendary players, who were said to have killed Gandalf with a chicken drumstick in twenty-two seconds, would have panicked for a moment the first time they engaged in actual life-or-death combat with real weapons.

And they were on the side with fewer people.

Hesitation leads to defeat.

Those who did not decide to charge head-on from the start—and those who did but lacked the necessary skills—were all hit at least once or twice by the robbers who had reacted. The one with the worst luck respawned twice right in the midst of the enemies and was now on his third life...

But this did not mean the players were unskilled.

If we were only to calculate the output, there were already five players who had defeated more than ten enemies—after realizing that killing enemies would grant them experience, the players killed all visible enemies like mad dogs.

Just like Lin Yiyi...After each person defeated their first enemy, they immediately realized that their current strength and agility were overwhelmingly superior to the robbers.

The number of enemies they defeated depended solely on how many they encountered...

The most difficult of the three special tasks was not the third, but the second—how to remain unharmed.

"They didn’t give me a shield, nor a roll skill; it’s really hard to stay unharmed..." said a player who wished to remain anonymous.

In the end, it turned out that only three people had managed to maintain an unharmed status up to this point:

A retired professional player with great luck, who hadn’t encountered a single enemy on his way here, "The Roaming Child";

the card game streamer with fluid swordsmanship, who was a full armor combat enthusiast in real life, "Delicious Wind Goose";

and Lin Yiyi, who was simultaneously reckless and skilled in her maneuvers.

Moreover, they each had chosen Charge, Basic Swordsmanship, and Parry, and coincidentally represented the agility, strength, and strength-agility attributes respectively, perfectly serving as both control and pioneering groups to test whether the rewards differed according to individual preferences under the completion of the three tasks at 100%.

Because unharmed players were so precious, such dangerous experiments could not be conducted on them.

It was a good thing indeed that they were aware of this.

After paying the price of three lives, the players figured out how to use the Black Fire:

Just throw it far away.

"This fuse is a lie! Either that or somebody shortened it... Anyway, once lit, there’s absolutely no way to get away in time!" the resurrected test subjects said with lingering fear: "This stuff does too much damage."

Once the Black Fire encountered an open flame, it would explode immediately, igniting a huge blaze that stretched at least five meters in radius... Upon contact with a person, it would stick and burn until death.

However, if the Black Fire was subjected to impact, the liquid inside would only start burning slowly upon contact with air. While it was still dangerous, at least it wouldn’t hurt the user.

Moreover, the enemies killed by the Black Fire were still counted as individual kills and could indeed increase one’s kill count—Annan had indeed set the criteria for individual kills solely based on damage contribution.

Of course, to prevent players from devising insane methods to farm experience, any enemy that took more than 30% damage from traps would not yield experience.

A player suggested a possibility: "Say, could this be a magical game?"

The players immediately began to discuss in low voices:

"That’s possible..."

"Although it was just a quick glimpse, I saw Tan Juan slap that guy, and he immediately fell to the ground in agony."

"Don’t say that, the guy could have been faking it..."

As they were discussing, the three selected players had already started using the Black Fire to begin the task of "farming kills."

Throwing out the Black Fire allowed watching the kill count increase. The only regret was that by killing enemies in this way, they could not gain any experience.

They were supposed to find and kill these individuals to maximize experience. But as more than half of the thirty-minute limit had already passed, the players were starting to get anxious.

After Lin Yiyi and her group completed the third task, the other players also began to transport the Black Fire, throwing it into every possible hiding spot.

But even after they had almost used up all the Black Fire, covering all possible hiding spots with flames, they were still two kills short:

[Main Mission: Ordeal of the Black Fire]

[Task Requirements: Kill all Roth Fort mercenaries within thirty minutes (112/114), destroy or control all Black Fire (50/50).]

"It’s precisely at times like these that I feel the game being too real isn’t great," Delicious Wind Goose complained. "I want a mini-map or at least some enemy markers... this fire’s making my eyes blur."

"No, no, I prefer this level of realism..." Lin Yiyi retorted; "Such an awesome game, what could you possibly be dissatisfied with? Besides, even if you were given a mini-map, you might not necessarily find that last person..."

"We are the chosen ones," The Roaming Child repeated a phrase he’d said before.

"Could they have already escaped?" Jiu’er asked in a worried whisper.

"Impossible."

A player answered decisively: "My spawn point was on a high platform, so I could see clearly that we were herding the robbers towards the center. We spawned all around them."

"That’s very strange..."

"...They can’t see those two people, can they?"

Annan narrowed his eyes slightly.

He could see them clearly from the Creator’s perspective...

The remaining two people were crouching not far from the crowd, shivering in place, not daring to move.

Listening to the dozens of people happily chatting and discussing how to kill them cleanly, the two exchanged terrified glances, their spirits evidently on the verge of collapse.

They were no more than five or six meters away from the nearest player.

But not a single player could see them.

...Was this some sort of invisibility ability?

"Good, it’s time for me to make an appearance..."

Annan murmured softly.

He was leading a group of militia on the night shift, riding towards the direction of the flames, and would soon arrive.

Yes, the flames—

These players clearly hadn’t realized one thing.

In a situation where complete environmental destruction was allowed, the spread of fire was very difficult to stop.

By the time they realized it, it was already a bit late:

"Wait a second, are we surrounded by fire?"

Lin Yiyi felt the air getting hotter and immediately shivered.

She quickly interrupted the conversation, "The fire is getting bigger!"

"Now that you mention it..."

"Let’s get out first! Don’t worry about the people. Move those black fires under control out first—this stuff should be valuable! I think even if we can’t sell it for money, it can at least improve our mission rating!"

"What if they explode when they get close to the fire pile?"

Someone shouted, "This stuff explodes upon contact with fire!"

Delicious Wind Goose replied decisively, "Then we must move them out! Run one by one! Don’t go out together! If the fire really surrounds us, these black fires will explode sooner or later here!"

Having said that, he picked up two barrels of the black fire, one in each hand, and took the lead in charging out.

After that, he did not hesitate and quickly ran towards the outer edge of the unenclosed sea of fire.

The other players also quickly came to their senses.

Next was Lin Yiyi who had discarded her scabbard, needing one hand for her sword, so she could only carry one barrel of black fire.

The players orderly and rapidly moved the black fire outside.

It was after the seventh person passed that the two barrels of black fire suddenly exploded.

The bursting flames immediately engulfed the player, who had no chance to scream before he completely disappeared into the fire.

For the first time, the other players witnessed what it was like when a player died:

It was as if the entire person turned to burning ashes, collapsing and disintegrating downwards before being scattered by the explosive wind.

And with his death, the sea of fire finally closed. The black fire could no longer be moved out... However, there was still a narrow gap in the flame sword, large enough for a person to get through.

There were still over thirty players inside—along with another player who had just resurrected and clumsily tumbled out of the void.

"...Couldn’t get out in time?"

He clearly seemed disappointed.

The others also called out to each other, preparing to evacuate.

At this point, the players could no longer afford to look for and kill the last two bandits.

However, those inside the sea of fire suddenly heard the exclamations of the few players who had already run outside:

"Huh!"

"This person is..."

"—Young Master Tan Juan!"

This was Lin Yiyi, who was more sharp-witted.

She directly interrupted the others and shouted as loudly as she could.

Hearing her voice, the players inside who had just become tense suddenly came to a realization.

And Lin Yiyi had also shouted to warn the players inside, urging them not to say anything out of place in front of the "important NPC"... akin to how a student by the classroom door shouting "Hello, Mr. X" might warn others of the approaching teacher during a chaotic class:

"Young Master, we are back! The Viscount is trying to murder you... This is the black fire they brought! There are more people trapped behind by the fire!"

"I understand. I’ll go rescue them."

Inside the sea of fire, people heard Tan Juan Geraint’s cold yet youthful voice, "Yiyi, take good care of my horse."

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