Chapter 4: Hah, you're the challenger!

「I'll give you one last chance, okay? Are you sure you want this 【Merciless Evil Smile】? 」 Lilith emphasized again and again:

「Seriously, to reward your successful cross-level challenge just now, I can change this reward to an orange one—an orange greatsword. How about it? That's a very powerful melee weapon. This is the Goddess's special favor to you. Quick, say thank you, Goddess~」

「If you're willing to say two more words, thanking the great Goddess Lilith, 」 Lilith pouted her lips into an "O" shape, making the kind of exaggerated expression only seen in gag manga: 「I can make an exception and give you two top-tier orange weapons, just this once~」

Top-tier orange weapons were extremely rare relics in the early game!

She had already figured it out: Li Cheng was sick, treating this place as a game world. Since that was the case, she would go along with his thinking and correct him step by step! To save this child's soul from falling into depravity, Lilith resolved to pay the price!

This absolutely wasn't to regain the Goddess's dignity in front of Li Cheng!

Absolutely not!

Absolutely not!! Absolutely not!!!

Lilith firmly believed that as long as Li Cheng had the most basic judgment, he would know what to choose between an orange weapon and the trash 【Merciless Evil Smile】.

So she stepped forward, took Li Cheng's hand, and smiled even more exaggeratedly: 「Come on, Li Cheng, quickly, quickly call me your great Goddess Lilith. Once you do, you get a weapon, an orange weapon~」

Li Cheng looked at Lilith and couldn't help but frown.

This broken system, why so much talk.

And because of the immersive experience, it was like an artificial intelligence that didn't understand the word "skip."

Besides... wanting to give himself an orange weapon? No matter how strong early-game orange weapons were, they were only usable for now.

And those test-version skills were not only incredibly powerful right now, but with constant upgrades, they could even touch the ability of concept-level domains! 「... 」

A black death qi that almost condensed into substance rose from Li Cheng's body, and he looked at Lilith with an expressionless face.

「? 」

This, this was killing intent! The air froze instantly, and Lilith, stared at by those calm eyes, felt she couldn't breathe smoothly.

Wait, the Goddess doesn't need to breathe! 「Li, Li Cheng, is there something on my face? 」

「System, your name is Lilith, right? 」

「Y-yes. 」

Li Cheng moved close to Lilith, staring into her eyes, word by word: 「You want to replace 【Merciless Evil Smile】 with an orange weapon. Are you questioning my judgment? 」

「Or do you think I don't know strategy? 」

The killing intent that condensed like substance made Lilith instantly sweat profusely and bristle.

Without a moment's hesitation, she bowed and kowtowed: 「Sorry, Big Boss! I definitely won't do it again. 」

The speed of her bow was faster than when seeing her own mother.

But just as she bowed, Lilith regretted it.

Wait!

I'm the Goddess, he's the Savior!

It's always the Savior begging the Goddess for blessings. I've never seen a Goddess begging the Savior to accept equipment! I'm giving him equipment, what's wrong with that!

It's completely backwards again! Lilith's face fell again, and she glanced back.

Only to see Li Cheng had returned to his cold expression, as if nothing had just happened.

He even shook his head and patted his own shoulder:

「Fine, why would I be angry with you? You're just a system anyway. Anyway, I've already come up with a terrifying school that no one has ever walked, and 【Merciless Evil Smile】 is an essential puzzle piece. 」

Lilith:???

What terrifying school? A trash white-rank skill like 【Merciless Evil Smile】 has nothing to do with the strongest school! Ahhhhh, I can't understand his operation at all!

Am I really a system?

No, I'm the great Savior Goddess Lilith! 「Huff... don't be angry, don't be angry, he's sick in the head, I won't argue with a patient. 」 Lilith kept patting her chest.

「Alright, give me the Book of Magic. 」

「Here, here, here! 」 Lilith threw the Book of Magic over angrily: 「I'm warning you, don't think about using this ability with magic to strategy the Dungeon's Master. 」

「The bottom layer of the Witch's Dungeon is a magic-ban area! 」

That's right. As the Savior Goddess, Lilith already knew some of the information needed for salvation before entering this world.

So she already knew magic had little use in the Dungeon.

Not only that, Lilith also knew that many places in this world had magic-ban properties, and there were many powerful enemies who simply didn't have the concept of "Face."

Just like 【God's Gift】 is ineffective on creatures without the Nursing Concept, such as Stone Men and Lava Giants, 【Merciless Evil Smile】 is useless against enemies without the Face Concept.

So she thought 【Merciless Evil Smile】 was a trash skill.

Combining spells or prayers with 【Merciless Evil Smile】 was only useful for mowing down small fry; its practicality was far inferior to an orange greatsword! She rolled her eyes at Li Cheng, already impatient to see this sick-in-the-head Savior make a fool of himself.

Thinking about him discovering this ability wasn't nearly as good as he imagined, and then coming to her for help, the corners of Lilith's mouth couldn't help but curve into a smile. Wait and see, you ungrateful bastard, I'm waiting for you to shout "Lilith Adult, Lilith Adult save me."

Hehehehe, hehehehe... by then, hehe...

Tears unconsciously flowed from the corners of Lilith's mouth.

Li Cheng glanced at this constantly face-making stupid fellow, then learned 【Merciless Evil Smile】, hooking the corners of his mouth into a "√."

As a high player who speedran 《Tian Ming Chu Sheng》, Li Cheng knew the difficulty of the Witch's Dungeon all too well.

The Witch Prison was the headquarters of the game's important NPC, the Abyssal Eye Witch, but she was currently heading to Full Moon Academy to start the plot, so she wasn't here.

And the one staying here to guard the door was her loyal believer, the Abyss Dancer.

This boss was a humanoid creature made of Abyssal Energy, without the concept of childbirth, so 【Stare and Pregnant】 was useless against her.

And the bottom layer where the Abyss Dancer was located had also been placed under an Anti-Magic Prohibition by the Abyssal Eye Witch.

It could be said that if you wanted to defeat this boss, you could only use physical attacks to slowly kill her.

But the most outrageous part was that the dancer's Physical Attack Attribute and Physical Defense Attribute were both extremely high, and she was Level 30, while the level cap for players in the Witch Prison area was Level 20.

That's right. In 《Tian Ming Chu Sheng》, the player level cap would be slowly unlocked as the game was explored.

According to the Game Producer, this was to prevent some players from farming the lowest-level Goblins and becoming the Ten Li Slope Sword God, causing the game to lose its challenge.

After all, "Heavenly Fate's First Rise" is a Souls-like open world game.

That is to say, for ordinary players, defeating the Abyss Dancer boss is fundamentally impossible.

The correct way to clear the game should be to use the Universal Key to escape the prison, leave the Witch Prison, wait until leveling up and plot advancement, then return to deal with the Abyss Dancer.

Of course, Big Boss was never among ordinary players.

He would use rich combat experience, precise walking position, parry technique, to deal physical damage bit by bit, forcibly overlevel by 10, and kill the dance teacher.

But the past is the past, and now is now.

After obtaining 【Father's Sorrow】, Big Boss's thought opened, and he found the most terrifying faction/school in this game.

And the other key skill composing this faction/school was right in front of him.

Thinking this, Big Boss's gaze looked toward the prison cell corner where he had just squatted.

The prisoners locked in the prison cell merely trembled and curled up to one side after he glanced at them.

Those prisoners who had mocked him even directly lay down on the ground, began head banging, and several were directly scared into mental disorder.

"Adult, spare our lives!"

"We were wrong, we don't want children!"

"Please, let us go!"

They even dared not ask Big Boss to open the prison door and let them out.

No way, just now Big Boss's demon-like figure had already left them an indelible memory.

They were all old men, they certainly didn't want to bear dragon-phoenix twins! But Big Boss had not looked at those few people from beginning to end; for speedrun players, unimportant NPCs are not worth wasting a drop of saliva.

His gaze always stared at the mage curled up in the prison cell corner.

Oh no, it should be a blood clan mage, the fallen Red Moon Princess—Miss Ratania.

The tattered mage cloak could not conceal her impressive body, the dirt all over her face could not conceal her beauty that could topple a city... well, actually it could conceal them.

But Big Boss had seen her standing illustration countless times, so his memory of her face and figure was deep.

And even more memorable was Miss Ratania's nickname—Natural Self-Destruct Holy Body.

The self-destruct here is not "self-exposure" in internet memes, but self-destruct in physical meaning.

As the last pure-blood vampire, Miss Ratania possesses magic talent rare in the world.

Whether it is the lowest level Fireball Technique, Lightning Technique, or advanced Raging Flame and Void Storm, all the magic she developed are more than one time stronger than conventional magic.

Even more terrifying is that these magic also have extremely strong additional effects, such as 【Father's Sorrow】, 【The Clown Is You】, 【I Have No Opinion】 and other effects that sound very powerful just by name.

Not only this, her magic can even be immune to anti-magic effect, and can be used even in the Abyss.

But such a genius, yet not a single player chose to kill her and drop her gold coins.

Even among high players who did her side quest, there were not many.

The reason is no other, just because...

All the magic she developed have a DEBUFF—

The probability of skill hit on own body is hundred percent.

Natural Self-Destruct Holy Body, terrifying indeed.

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