Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 92: Heaven’s Guardian VS Supervisor (13 more, ask for monthly tickets and subscriptions!)

Chapter 92: Chapter 92: Heaven’s Guardian VS Supervisor (13 more, ask for monthly tickets and subscriptions!)

Tooth Decay felt very confused; he controlled his current character to walk two steps, everything was normal.

Then, he pressed the attack button, and a blazing holy light shot in the direction he was facing!

"Holy crap!"

Tooth Decay was startled because if he were in his original player body, his attack should have been a Tortoise Fist gesture.

Had he actually obtained the full set of Heaven’s Guardian equipment? He even got the weapon!

But how on earth did such a bizarre BUG come about? Nothing had happened the first time he logged in, right?

With a head full of fog, Tooth Decay headed towards the construction project being built by other players.

At this moment, Liang Chun was temporarily away; he had brought many stones and wooden blocks as building materials and was looking for higher ground around Divine Realm.

Because the height of Heavenly Kingdom’s High Wall was constant, and the terrain outside varied, the higher the ground where the Stairway to Heaven was built, the less material it consumed.

But the other Manual Laborers didn’t have the "escaped" status; they were still just Manual Laborers, so they could only carry bricks and build structures.

Only after more and more Flame Thieves gained escaped status could these laborers be gradually "whitewashed."

Li Wenhao sighed while carrying bricks.

"Why wasn’t I chosen to be a Flame Thief this time!!

"Is this selection mechanism targeting me?"

Initially, Li Wenhao didn’t want to be a Flame Thief at all; he just wanted to be a builder. But the system kept picking him time and again.

Now that he knew about the escape operation, Li Wenhao couldn’t wait to successfully escape and freely build with Liang Chun; he had even planned out the design of the "Stairway to Heaven," but the system didn’t give him this chance!

This made it very hard for him to keep his cool.

Just then, as Li Wenhao turned around inadvertently, he nearly jumped in fright.

"Hey! There’s a BUG! Why are there monsters spawning outside the Divine Realm? Heaven’s Guardian! There’s a Heaven’s Guardian!"

Everyone else was also panicked; anyone who had entered Divine Realm knew how terrifying a Heaven’s Guardian could be.

However, just as everyone was huddling together in fear, the Heaven’s Guardian spoke.

"Guys, it’s me, Tooth Decay!"

Li Wenhao was even more stunned, "Crap! This BUG is pretty serious, not only has a Heaven’s Guardian run out to the outside of Divine Realm, but it’s also gained the Lost Ones’ ’Voice Mimicking’ feature!

"They won’t even let my brother rest in peace after death, this development team is really corrupt!"

Tooth Decay was speechless, "Cut it out, I really am Tooth Decay! You don’t believe me? It’s 11:23 right now."

Li Wenhao glanced at the system time, and it indeed showed 11:23 PM.

Looking at the player list in the game, there were indeed 16 people online, and "Brother Diabetes Caused My Tooth Decay" was also in online status.

"What’s going on?" Li Wenhao was perplexed.

Tooth Decay was equally at a loss, "I have no idea! Everything was fine when I first logged in, then I turned into this the second time!"

Li Wenhao enacted a "pondering" motion, "Hmm... then I suddenly have a bold idea.

"Who is more powerful, you or the Supervisor?

"If you can take him down, won’t we be able to gain freedom without escaping?"

Tooth Decay got excited, "Hmm? You make sense! Let me try!"

As he said this, he controlled his glittering character and strode towards the Supervisor.

The Supervisor was still vigilantly watching over the Manual Laborers, but obviously, it did not consider Tooth Decay as an enemy; evidently, Tooth Decay’s identity was no longer that of a ’Manual Laborer’.

But thinking back to how he had been oppressed by the Supervisor ever since he started playing the game, Tooth Decay’s anger surged, and he wickedly lifted the Divine Staff and struck the Supervisor!

"Swoosh!"

The terrifying and intense Holy Light landed on the Supervisor!

The Supervisor didn’t move an inch, there was no reaction of being hit, no screams or bleeding or the like.

But a health bar appeared above its head, and it had clearly dropped by about a third!

"Holy crap, this bastard has so much health?"

Tooth Decay was surprised because the holy light of Heaven’s Guardian was instant death to players, a one-shot kill. And considering the fragility of players, it was likely that the damage would have surpassed their total health by far.

Unexpectedly, the Supervisor had such hefty health, probably ten times that of a player!

After being attacked, the Supervisor snapped to and picked up its whip, attempting to strike at Heaven’s Guardian.

However, the Heaven’s Guardian’s Divine Staff recharged quickly, and before the Supervisor could use its whip, a second blast had been fired.

"Swoosh!"

"Snap!"

With a single hit from each, the Supervisor’s health dropped by another third, and the Heaven’s Guardian’s health dropped by about a fifth.

"It seems that even Heaven’s Guardians have a health bar?"

The Manual Laborers, watching from a distance, were hugely shocked, much like mortals beholding a fight between deities.

Previously, everyone thought that Heaven’s Guardians were invincible like statues or Holy Spirit Cupids, but clearly, that wasn’t the case.

This also made sense, as in the game, typically only mechanic-based monsters are invincible. Normal monsters like Heavenly Hunters and Heaven’s Guardians usually have a health bar.

It’s just that Supervisors and Heaven’s Guardians have such substantial health that players couldn’t possibly kill them by normal means.

"Swoosh!"

The third beam of Holy Light struck and directly made the Supervisor disappear on the spot, without even a death animation.

"Are we... free??"

Li Wenhao was still finding it hard to believe this was really happening, so he quickly picked up a brick and casually constructed a small step on the ground.

Indeed, the Supervisor did not resurrect and certainly couldn’t take up a whip to lash him again!

The Manual Laborers erupted into an uproar of jubilation!

"Holy shit, we can actually kill the Supervisor!"

"So now can we build whatever we want?"

"Quick, everyone grab some stones and find Liang Chun, let’s work with him to get the Stairway to Heaven built up first! It’ll make escaping so much easier!"

"Wait, now that we’re all free, why bother with escaping?"

"It’s not the same! Escaping allows us to take Flame Thief’s skills with us, and it will be easier to lead Lost Ones out, not to mention Tooth Decay’s bug is most likely related to escaping too!"

"Right, let’s go then!"

The crowd, surrounding Tooth Decay, each carrying a stone, headed towards the small hill Liang Chun had found.

Liang Chun was busily hacking away at building steps when he suddenly turned to see Li Wenhao and others escorting a Heaven’s Guardian towards him, which gave him quite a scare.

"What’s going on here!"

He almost thought these players had rebelled.

After hearing a brief explanation of what had happened from Tooth Decay and the others, Liang Chun once again fell into deep thought.

"This bug seems to be related to my previous escape actions..."

"And it seems related to the mechanism for generating Lost Ones as well.

"I’ve got it!"

Liang Chun, being a game designer, was quick thinking in this area.

"The Lost One that I caught was precisely the one that Tooth Decay transformed into inside the Divine Realm!

"Then that Lost One merged with a Heaven’s Guardian, and I inadvertently brought it along when I escaped.

"Although the Heaven’s Guardian has a health bar, it’s not susceptible to fall damage, so it stayed alive outside of the Divine Realm.

"Normally, if Tooth Decay hadn’t logged in again, that Lost One would have stood guard under the Heavenly Kingdom’s High Wall forever, since all its AI is linked to the environment inside the Divine Realm and it couldn’t find a way back once it left.

"But after Tooth Decay logged in, the system apparently resurrected him inside the Lost One that had merged with the Heaven’s Guardian!"

Tooth Decay made a confused "scratching the head" gesture, which looked rather comical in the body of a Heaven’s Guardian: "But when I first logged in, nothing happened, right?"

Liang Chun nodded: "Right! That’s because of the Lost Ones’ refresh mechanism!

"If a player doesn’t log in for several hours, the system will mark them as a Lost One. After that, when the player logs back in, the Lost One outside the Divine Realm temporarily disappears, showing up again only after an hour.

"This means that your back-to-back logins within a short time span accidentally triggered a bug!

"The first time you logged in, the Lost One representing the Manual Laborer outside the Divine Realm was still there, so you were reborn in it.

"But after you logged out, the Lost One disappeared for an hour.

"Under normal game mechanics, you should have appeared directly. But it seems the system’s code prioritizes player rebirth in a Lost One, and at that very moment, another bug occurred. The system identified the ’escaped’ monster that had merged with a Heaven’s Guardian as the Lost One outside the Divine Realm, and so, resurrected you in that Lost One!"

Everyone listened, utterly baffled: "That’s possible?"

Clearly, the mechanism was complex, but there in front of everyone, Tooth Decay stood clad in the Six-God Armor, confirming that indeed some strange bug or hidden mechanism had taken effect!

Tooth Decay looked at the gleaming golden armor on himself: "So, if I can enter the Divine Realm now, won’t I be invincible??"