Super Righteous Player
Chapter 633 - 174: Behold My Merciful Strike!_1

Chapter 633: Chapter 174: Behold My Merciful Strike!_1

"...Hmm, right."

Lin Yiyi stared intently ahead, whispering softly into the air.

In fact, she had already disconnected the call with Longjing Tea.

To avoid alerting the enemy with any sudden movements, she continued to maintain the appearance of being on a call, to prevent startling the assassin.

—She had to concentrate all her attention on her surroundings to faintly perceive their movements.

In a place hidden from sight...

The silver bracelet concealed in Lin Yiyi’s left sleeve was already beginning to shimmer with a gentle, lake-like azure glow.

Right below the bracelet was a gem-studded leather wristband, fitting closely together with the bracelet, shielding it and preventing it from slipping off easily.

Deep blue spell runes were silently seeping out from the vessel... staining the wristband. Chain-like runes illuminated each gem.

"Yes. Hmm, that’s right..."

Lin Yiyi continued to respond in a low voice, pretending she was on a phone call.

Meanwhile, she relaxed her shoulders and half-closed her eyes.

As one of the cat’s eye stones in her sleeve crumbled silently, a golden-green ring slowly emerged at the bottom of Lin Yiyi’s pupils.

—Decree School, "Comprehensive Scan".

...Good, I’m starting to feel them.

After Lin Yiyi closed her eyes, what was originally a pitch-black ordinary view was slowly painted with a light grey base.

It was the three-dimensional model of the room she was currently in.

Within the light grey 3D model, four red humanoid figures were moving slowly towards Lin Yiyi.

Yes, there were four in total. Just like the players, they comprised a swift assault team...

Among them, Lin Yiyi sensed one as the most vague—their dark red trace was extremely faint. It seemed that the strange force field capable of completely shielding their presence was emanating from that person.

Is this... Mom Ship? And it can make people invisible around it...

Without a doubt, that person should be the core of this four-person team.

So, for the sake of argument, let’s assume that the person who can release the stealth field knows the most information.

Apart from him, it’s best to leave one more person for cross-reference of information. Otherwise, when it comes time for interrogation, Lin Yiyi and the others wouldn’t know if he’s just making things up.

The third batch of players entered the game slowly, unlike the rush of the first two phases. There’s still only one person among the current players who has adapted to Soul Reaping, Thirteen Spices.

And he’s currently with Longjing Tea, preparing to enter the advanced nightmare while learning spells.

After cultivating him to the silver rank, he should be useful...

Lin Yiyi hadn’t forgotten how terrified they were when they first entered this world and encountered a Soul Reaping wizard of the silver rank.

—At that time, Lin Yiyi was the first to be controlled!

As for the others...

Lin Yiyi slowly opened her eyes, another clear crystal in her cuff exploded. The stored spell within transferred into Lin Yiyi’s body through the runes.

"...Yes, that’s right... ’Blindness’."

While still pretending to be on the phone, she unexpectedly uttered the activated Decree spell.

—Decree School, "Enhanced Blindness".

Brilliant light surged from her body, and the four individuals instinctively shut their eyes, shielding them.

But shielding was useless—by the time they realized it, it was already too late.

With the excess of light flooding their minds, a powerful sense of dizziness unbalanced them.

Lin Yiyi promptly stood up from her chair.

She then grabbed the solid iron rod by the bed and spun it into a flourishing twirl.

Clang clang!

The four attackers, dizzy, had shot crossbow bolts at her just moments before.

Yet Lin Yiyi easily parried and deflected these arrows from a distance of less than five meters.

A flash of brilliance in her eyes, she kicked the chair flying, knocking the nearest person to the ground.

—This was her new skill she acquired after advancing, "Versatile Combat Technique"!

After activating her skill, all the "interactable" items in her eyes turned highlighted.

In an instant, Lin Yiyi felt like she had turned into Jackie Chan in a furniture store—feeling like she could reasonably and efficiently throw anything.

But considering this was an inn and damaging too much might require compensation... Lin Yiyi restrained the urge to wreak havoc.

With incredible swiftness, she thrust out her long staff, swung it with full force—and smashed it directly into someone’s temple, splattering their brains out.

This made Lin Yiyi feel somewhat nauseated; she unconsciously pulled her punches a bit.

However, her following backhand strike still snapped another person’s neck with a crisp crack.

At this moment, the leader, "Momma Ship," was about to recover from dizziness. He staggered backwards while struggling to swallow something.

—Was it poison? Or a potion to cure negative conditions?

No matter what he intended to do.

Lin Yiyi already extended her left hand towards him, with her palm facing him.

As a tiny sapphire shattered, Lin Yiyi’s words once again became stern and solemn:

"’Freeze’!"

In the instant the "Lesser Human Paralysis Spell" took effect, the man’s body immediately stiffened.

But Lin Yiyi only needed that brief moment.

She, like playing pool, deftly caught her returning staff between her thumb and index finger and slid forward swiftly.

With a thud, the staff precisely poked the man’s forehead.

The man immediately passed out.

As he fell unconscious, that strange force field that prevented Lin Yiyi from sensing them instantly dissipated. This confirmed her suspicion—that person was indeed the source of the force field.

This was another of Lin Yiyi’s skills, the level three "Merciful Strike"—with this skill, Lin Yiyi could gauge how much force she could use without killing someone, both in her mind and in her hand.

Although from the perspective of a game, this skill seemed somewhat foolish.

But based on Lin Yiyi’s personal tests, it was currently her most useful ability—without exception.

After all, in this world, enemies that "cannot be killed" are in the majority. And with this skill, Lin Yiyi didn’t need to worry about accidentally killing someone by exerting too much force while holding back or being killed in return because she held back too much.

At level three, this skill could subdue an unresisting ordinary human enemy with a single blow. However, it couldn’t be used during dynamic combat or rounds where full force was necessary.

In other words, it was a skill akin to "hitting with the flat of a blade."

Lin Yiyi estimated that if she leveled this skill up to seven, she might be able to swing her staff hard enough to break an opponent’s arms raised to protect their head and still hit them on the crown without being lethal—even in that case.

These three blows were all delivered in less than five seconds.

The assassin who got knocked down by the stool she kicked earlier, seeming to have a concussion, still hadn’t gotten up from the ground.

She quickly did the same thing again, lightly tapping the back of the head of the still-downed assassin with a "Merciful Strike."

With that, she had subdued all four assassins.

"...Huh?"

Lin Yiyi couldn’t help but let out a light gasp.

At a glance, she discovered that the "Momma Ship’s" skin was actually red.

That Momma Ship.

Is this... a Fallen One?

She was about to tie them up when she suddenly remembered something.

...Wait a minute.

If she was being attacked for no reason, then the others might be in danger too...

"Save me, Ah Gang—"

An urgent friend message suddenly flashed before Lin Yiyi.

It was from Jiu’er.

...Unbelievable, how could you be losing to these scrubs?

Right after that, she saw Jiu’er add:

"—There’s a gold-tier beating me up!!!"

"...Huh?"

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