Chapter 222: It's Over, I Can't Get Out (Begging for Monthly Tickets)

Hearing the Earth-Read Evil Spirit say it would imprison him forever, the God King immediately couldn't hold it together.

That was simply more unbearable than being killed.

He remembered the forum had once hotly debated a topic, roughly four months ago.

Someone had started a discussion on the forum: what are the players' weaknesses?

In the thread, many players gave examples of various "weaknesses" that their own side possessed.

For example.

The players were a new force in Monster World, having only entered the game a few months ago; compared to those powerful races, there was still a gap that couldn't be easily overcome in a short time. One could only say the mechanics were strong, but their actual combat power was genuinely worrying.

Any one of the famous forces on the forum, pulled out at random, could beat the players senseless.

Except for the two big bullies of the Starter Village.

The Ancient God Race, Soul Return Race, Within Shu Yan, Ascension Race, Bliss Race… no matter which force, any one of them could easily take down the players.

So the short development time was the players' greatest weakness.

Some players also said that the players' greatest weakness was simply that their skill was too poor.

The various races of Monster World completely outclassed the players in combat technique, and growth in this area required time to accumulate.

There were many other viewpoints as well.

Not enough Shou Shou Jili to spend, overconfidence, reliance on walkthroughs, and so on.

But in the God King's view, these statements could only be classified as problems, not weaknesses.

Until one player raised a viewpoint that sparked heated discussion, put this way:

The players' greatest advantage at the current stage was not their rapid growth after hunting, nor the rule-power boosts brought by Star Vein combinations, Painful Painful Minghun grades, or Body Tempering grades. In truth, the greatest advantage was the ability to revive without loss after death, and only after that came the combat-power boosts from rule abilities like Star Vein combinations.

Suppose there were no death-and-revive mechanic boost; even if other abilities were doubled in strength, they still couldn't withstand the pressure from the various powerful races.

The players would absolutely be beaten into shutting themselves in by the two big bullies of the Starter Village, and wouldn't even dare to step out of the Imperial Tomb Village space.

This was the bottom-line mechanism at the source, guaranteeing that the players explored Monster World with an "invincible" posture.

So the players' greatest weakness was: being restricted from reviving.

If one wanted to restrict the players' revivals at the source, the various forces of Monster World certainly couldn't do it.

Unless a character from the game descended into reality, then pulled out the Star Net's cable, and shut down the Eclipse Race's game server.

But this hypothesis clearly couldn't come true.

There was only one feasible method: imprison the players.

On top of the imprisonment, three conditions had to be met.

The first condition: restrict the players' movements, preventing them from dying through self-harm or similar means.

The second condition: maintain the players' vitality, preventing them from dying of hunger or disease.

The third condition: restrict the players from being rescued by external forces, or have the place of imprisonment be somewhere no player could set foot.

With the help of these three conditions, in theory the players would be like Meng Yuan Chu, the "Wishing" monster imprisoned in the Ghost Departure Race's underground cavern.

Can't escape, can't die, no hope of returning to the village.

Most other games generally had a setting called "Force Disconnect"—when a player fell into some kind of immobilized situation, or got stuck in a scene bug, they could use Force Disconnect to return straight to Huicheng.

But Monster World didn't have a Force Disconnect mechanic, so being imprisoned by a hostile force was the players' greatest weakness.

When the God King read that reply back then, he felt it made a lot of sense.

He had even fantasized about what he would do if he fell into such a desperate situation.

The fact was, with no outside help to call on, and unable to kill himself to leave the field, this kind of predicament simply couldn't be broken.

But what he hadn't expected was that the predicament hypothesized in the thread had actually come true for him.

The Earth-Read Bully actually wanted to imprison him, rather than killing him outright like the previous two times.

This made the God King immediately sense that things were going very badly.

He was afraid he had no way to get away, and from now on he'd have to stay by the Earth-Read Bully's side, playing the role of an eyesore accessory.

"Bully, let's discuss something."

"No." The Earth-Read Bully hovered in midair, not even bothering to look at the God King, its consciousness continuing to manipulate the Black Tide to devour resources.

"Bully, you really think I can't get away?"

"I'm imprisoning you here precisely because I want to see exactly how you'll try to escape. Feel free to use whatever hidden ability you have to leave at any time—I'll be watching with great interest."

Hearing this, the God King sighed listlessly in his heart.

It's over, he's really become the Earth-Read Bully's accessory.

Staring at the Earth-Read Bully, still manipulating the Black Tide, the God King gritted his teeth in hatred.

He decided to try to make the Earth-Read Bully actively kill him.

Having formed the idea, he immediately summoned the Star Vein interface and decisively purchased the Spirit Shock Painful Minghun and the Taunt Painful Minghun.

He then fired a Spirit Shock at the hovering Earth-Read Bully.

The Earth-Read Bully, in the middle of manipulating the Black Tide's movements, didn't even look at the God King, immediately raising a hand with a wave. A translucent spirit barrier formed before it, easily withstanding his Spirit Shock impact.

Seeing that the spirit impact didn't work, he decisively switched to the Taunt trait.

The Taunt domain spread out, beginning to assault the Earth-Read Bully.

The Earth-Read Bully's body merely trembled, then it opened its eyes, looking at him with an expression of mild curiosity.

"I remember this ability. Back then, your players' clan used this very ability to rescue that Reverse Tide new-generation warrior from my hands."

"Will you let me go or not?" the God King asked again.

"I told you—if you have the ability, then escape. Asking me to let you go on my own initiative? Impossible."

After speaking, the Earth-Read Evil Spirit moved its consciousness up to the clouds to run, letting the Evil Eye take over control of its body in its place.

The Taunt trait was released once more.

But this time, it was the Evil Eye that took the hit.

All sorts of affectionate greetings toward his mother kept appearing in the Evil Eye's memory scene, lasting less than one second before dissipating into nothing.

But these woven memory images had no effect whatsoever on the Evil Eye.

"Earth Thought, its memory-weaving rules have a distance limit. You could have just hung it outside Gao Tower—why make me take the hit?" the Evil Eye asked, thoroughly puzzled.

"I wanted to know if you have an emotional weakness. His ability is perfect for testing that."

"Oh." The Evil Eye nodded solemnly.

At that moment the taunt trait struck again, but it was still the Evil Eye who took it; the Earth Thought Evil Spirit was completely unaffected.

After many repeated attempts, the God King finally couldn't hold it together.

Neither of these two Painful Painful Minghun could deal effective damage to the Earth Thought Bully—continuing to try was pointless.

He summoned the Star Vein interface, opened the Painful Painful Minghun shop, and began searching for a Painful Painful Minghun trait that could save him.

Before long, the God King's gaze locked onto the "Blood Burn" Painful Painful Minghun.

This was the only Painful Painful Minghun in players' hands that could deal damage to oneself through direct release.

Without hesitation, he decisively opened another Star Vein slot and embedded the Blood Burn Painful Painful Minghun.

To maximize the effect, he temporarily abandoned the Eagle-Head Demon Painful Painful Minghun, feeding all the evolution points from its decomposition back into the Blood Burn Painful Painful Minghun.

In an instant, the Blood Burn Painful Painful Minghun reached level 67.

He took a deep breath, then decisively released Blood Burn on himself.

The level-67 Blood Burn effect instantly ignited the blood within his body.

The blood vessels on his skin's surface bulged instantly, like a string of lit fuses — crimson light roamed wantonly through the vessels, as if the blood would burst through the skin's confines and spray out.

The God King's eyes rapidly filled with blood, the eyeballs covered in blood vessels, then gradually covered over by a blood-red hue.

At the same time, his muscles swelled rapidly as if being inflated, and beneath the taut skin, the muscle lines became clearly visible, like coiled dragons resting.

His bones, too, could not bear the strain, emitting a muffled "crack-crack" of bursting sounds, as if a marrow-washing, bone-forging remolding were taking place inside his body.

His health bar also kept dropping throughout this process.

The Blood Burn trait's intensity was too high — using it as a main Painful Painful Minghun was simply burning through one's lifespan.

But this was precisely the effect the God King wanted to see.

Barely more than ten seconds after releasing the Blood Burn trait, his health bar had already dropped below 50%, and was still plummeting fast.

Just as the health bar fell to 20% and the God King thought he was about to be free, a jet-black tentacle suddenly latched onto his forehead.

Under the Evil Eye's control, the Black Tide energy was converted into a pure life energy, pouring ceaselessly into the God King's body.

His damaged body began healing at a speed visible to the naked eye; his nearly depleted flesh and blood received the nourishment of life energy and gradually filled back up.

The God King's complexion also shifted from pallor to a healthy flush.

Amid the God King's expression of despair, his health bar also rose at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"No, let me die!" The God King decisively applied the Blood Burn trait to himself again, but Blood Burn could not stack — there was simply no way to intensify the blood-burning speed.

Unless he upgraded the Blood Burn Painful Painful Minghun so it could burn through all his blood within a few seconds.

After the Blood Burn effect ended, the God King decisively released it again.

But this time was no exception — his health bar was firmly held by the Evil Eye, fluctuating between 95% and 100%.

Opening his eyes, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit stood with arms crossed over his chest, watching him with a playful look:

"Go on. Maybe you can try using this method to drain my energy reserves."

Hearing that, the God King decisively gave up.

A war couldn't exhaust the Earth Thought Evil Spirit's resources; the drain of a single Blood Burn Painful Painful Minghun was like a single drop of water in the ocean to the Earth Thought Evil Spirit—it simply didn't care.

If he really kept draining like this, even if the Earth Thought Evil Spirit didn't send the Black Tide out to plunder resources, he probably couldn't exhaust it in a hundred years.

He had some self-awareness in this regard.

"Why'd you stop?" The Earth Thought Bully raised an eyebrow.

"Stop my ass — hurry up and let me go. What's the point of keeping me here?"

"There is a point. In the future when I fight the player faction, if I'm in a bad mood I'll beat you to vent. Don't worry — you definitely won't die."

"You f***ing %*#~￥…."

Faced with his cursing, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit paid no heed, closed his eyes, and continued controlling the Black Tide's expansion.

The God King cursed and grumbled for quite a while, then realized the Earth Thought Evil Spirit really wasn't going to pay him any more attention, so he had no choice but to summon the Painful Painful Minghun library of the Star Vein interface again.

He scanned through Painful Painful Minghun after Painful Painful Minghun, still not finding a single trait that could help him escape.

So he thought of using the Star Shift Painful Painful Minghun to interfere with the Earth Thought Bully.

But this attempt also ended in failure.

The Earth Thought Bully didn't even need to seal his eyes—his formidable physique simply couldn't be shaken by a level-40-something Star Shift Painful Painful Minghun.

After several failed attempts, the God King was on the verge of a breakdown.

He felt this account of his was probably ruined — he simply couldn't find a way to escape.

"Forget it, log off!"

After choosing to log off, a countdown appeared in his vision.

When the God King's figure abruptly vanished, the Earth Thought Bully also opened his eyes, unable to hide his surprise:

"Hm? Where'd he go?"

At that moment the Evil Eye extended a tentacle, waving it through the air, trying to sense the God King's aura — even spatial teleportation ripples.

"Can't sense him. He really disappeared."

Hearing the Evil Eye's answer, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit was instantly dumbfounded.

From the player-faction commander's reaction just now, it was clear the other party obviously couldn't find a way to leave.

If there were a way, why would one need to toss and turn repeatedly?

"Di Nian, there is a possibility. This method of departure requires a considerable price. Having tried every method to escape without success, he could only choose this way to leave."

Just as Di Nian Evil Spirit and the Evil Eye were utterly shocked, the God King logged off, and his body was automatically stored within the space of the Guide Avatar.

Before long, a help request post appeared on the forum.

【Brothers, something huge has happened. I'm really on the verge of depression this time.】

Poster: God Hall - God King.

Content:

The Newbie Village War is over, everyone has scattered, but does anyone remember that I was captured by the Di Nian bully?

The situation now is that the bully does not intend to let me leave and plans to imprison me forever.

So, how do I get out of this?

I have tried every method, but none of them work.

Even if we organize a player army of hundreds of thousands to rescue me now, the Di Nian bully won't let me go. How do we break this situation?

Comments section:

Hand-Pressed Lemon Tea: Hahaha, God King, you are too miserable. You are essentially a dead save file now. I suggest you delete this save and start over... but the Monster World has no delete account function. You are completely done for.

Beichen: How to break this? I think it's impossible to break. You know the Di Nian bully's strength better than anyone. What ability do we have to save you? Let's just wait a year. After a year, we will definitely have the strength to rescue you.

Want Shou Shou Jili, Not Life: This scene seems like the plot of a Dragon Quest story. The God King is the princess, the Di Nian bully is the dragon that kidnapped the princess, and we are the heroes preparing to challenge the dragon to save the princess. The current situation is that the heroes are still growing and developing. I suggest the God King wait another three to five years. The Di Nian bully is not easy to deal with. Stay on the forum regularly from now on. Good luck.

Zhe Liu: Hahaha, the God King is truly done for this time. I simply cannot think of any way to help you return. I feel like you can't even die.

Cola Without Ice: I declare that we have successfully sent a spy into the enemy nest, and our spy has successfully approached the enemy boss. The plan is a perfect success, and a decapitation strike can be launched at any time.

Strong Luck Appears: Spread the word. Our main general single-handedly charged into the enemy camp and successfully captured the enemy main general. We did not lose the Newbie Village War; in fact, we have already won big time.

Upon learning the news that the God King was imprisoned.

The players burst out laughing.

Because this was not the first time the God King had been captured.

As our main general, he was often captured and taken to the Xie Yan Gao Ta.

This time was even worse; he actually couldn't come back.

During this period, players also came up with various methods to escape.

But these methods were unreliable, including a plan to self-resolve using the Blood Ignition trait.

The God King had tried every seemingly feasible method, but the Di Nian bully was completely unaffected, with absolutely no possibility of escape.

Just as the God King felt despair over this, a dialogue box arrived from Night Is Coming.

Night Is Coming: God King, you are awesome. You caught the Di Nian bully (Qidi's Arrogance. jpg).

God King: Stop messing around. I'm worried to death right now. I simply can't get out, okay? Number One Tourist seems to have logged off too. I wanted to ask him for advice, but I can't contact him.

Night Is Coming: Hahaha, actually, it's not that complicated. There is a function in the player system to assist with escape.

God King: Is there? How did I not know? (Dumbfounded. jpg).

Night Is Coming: Of course there is. You obviously forgot an item in the Enlightenment Shop (Screenshot. jpg).

【Positioning Teleport】:

Effect: Can set a teleportation origin point at any location. Activating the Enlightenment Divine Seal again will teleport you to the origin point (Usable only once, no time cooldown).

Purchase Requirement: 1000 Enlightenment Information Orbs.

Night Is Coming: This is a rule-based teleportation. You don't need to worry about the bully interrupting it. You just need your guild's manager to buy one, set the exit of the Di Zha Village as the teleportation origin point, and then trade the Positioning Teleport Divine Seal to you. Then you can teleport back.

God King: Holy crap, savior! No wonder you are a big shot who studies the settings every day. Thank you so much. I'll treat you to Spirit Wine when I get back.

Finally obtaining a reliable method to escape, the God King was like someone grasping a lifeline and immediately contacted the guild manager.

The manager, who was also trying to find a way for the God King, learned of the situation and immediately opened the trading hall to start sweeping up Enlightenment Information Orbs.

There was no need for guild players to help at all. By consuming the guild's stored Shou Shou Jili, they quickly gathered 1000 Enlightenment Information Orbs.

Then, following the God King's instructions, they exchanged for "Positioning Teleport" in the Enlightenment Shop.

And set the teleportation origin point at the exit of the Di Zha Village.

Everything was in place, and the God King decisively logged on.

After a brief sensation of weightlessness, the God King appeared on the Gao Ta platform.

Looking up, the Di Nian Evil Spirit was still controlling the Black Tide and seemed not to care about his disappearance.

Sensing the God King's aura appear again, the Di Nian Evil Spirit decisively opened its eyes.

The two stared at each other, eye to eye.

"You went back?" the Di Nian Evil Spirit asked curiously.

"Yes, but I'm back again. I came back to curse you, and I'll have to leave again in a moment."

Hearing this, the Di Nian Evil Spirit's expression was spectacular.

Of course, it would not believe what the God King said.

But what made it curious was how this player race commander managed to conceal his aura and hide, to the extent that even the Evil Eye could not perceive any trace of his existence.

Just then, the voice of the Evil Eye rang in its mind.

"Di Nian, it shouldn't be concealment. I lean more towards an independent space. It must have hidden inside an independent space just now and has now come out from within. But for some reason, I did not perceive any spatial fluctuations."

"I see." Upon learning that the player race commander was hiding inside an independent space, a ferocious smile appeared on the Di Nian Evil Spirit's face:

"It seems you ultimately still cannot escape my control. Stay here for the rest of your life."

The God King said nothing, but a transaction prompt rang in his mind.

【Challenger Alert: Player "Right Hand of God" requests a trade. Do you agree?】

Upon selecting agree, the trade panel floated before his eyes.

After completing the trade, a golden divine seal appeared in the God King's backpack.

Analysis revealed the seal's origin point was located at the exit of Di Zhai Village.

Yet he did not rush to use it; instead, he sat aside, planning to wait until Di Nian Bully entered the state of controlling the Black Tide again.

To increase the margin for error and avoid having the seal snatched by Di Nian Bully immediately after retrieval.

"Leaving no more?" Di Nian Evil Spirit asked with a hint of provocation.

"I'll sit for a while before leaving. I go when I want, I return when I want; none of your business."

"Do as you please." With those words, Di Nian Bully once again entered the state of controlling the Black Tide.

Several minutes later, confirming it was safe.

The God King quickly retrieved the location-based teleportation from his spatial bag and used it decisively.

Instantly, a golden stream of light enveloped his body; even before Di Nian Bully could react, he vanished from the spot in the blink of an eye.

After the God King disappeared, Di Nian Evil Spirit opened his eyes, gazed at the spot where the God King had just been seated, and wore a puzzled expression.

"Disappeared again?"

"He must have hidden in an independent space again, but he will eventually come out. If he could escape, he would have done so long ago."

Hearing the Evil Eye's reply, Di Nian Evil Spirit nodded:

"Next time he comes out, I'll beat him up good; he won't stop."

Believing the God King had merely hidden in an independent space again, Di Nian Evil Spirit prepared for their next meeting.

And planned to deliver a beating from the Black Tide Warrior.

(End of Chapter)