Chapter 141: Engagement
Li Wen didn’t quite understand why, every time she met Bailu, the other party seemed to be rolling on the ground, utterly pathetic.
Perhaps this was the value of the Strategy Team’s logistics department head.
Not taking the player in front of her seriously, Li Wen turned her gaze to the third person besides Bailu and the other.
Edward also looked at her. His weak gaze did not diminish his ferocity. He had originally thought that by hiding here, he could survive for a while longer, but now it seemed he was too naive.
Before he knew these people’s backgrounds, relationships, or goals, he didn’t act rashly.
After all, judging by the current situation, these people seemed to be about to fight.
Bai Xingyishi, who was ignored by Li Wen, felt a little annoyed. It was clearly a sneak attack that gave him the advantage, but it made it seem like his own strength was great, and he looked down on others. He didn’t realize that a moment ago, he was also in this position.
Bai Xingyishi had no martial virtue or magnanimity. He looked at Li Wen’s back, his thoughts stirred, and with a sword in one hand, he swung a sweeping attack tentatively.
As long as victory could be achieved, any method that did not violate the rules could be chosen. This was the mentality of a professional player.
As if she had eyes in the back of her head, Li Wen dodged the attack and, at the same time, threw a Prayer in return.
The divine ability landed on Bai Xingyishi, instantly turning into a Dark Word Curse.
He felt a burning sensation in his chest, his life slowly draining, and the world in front of him was pitch black, making it difficult to see.
A curse with blindness? This level was only Stage One.
Bai Xingyishi immediately understood the type of spell. When he was doing background work for the Lagovin Family during closed beta, he had encountered some decent wild curse masters. He had some experience dealing with them. Fighting Stage Two against Stage One, wasn’t that easy?
For a former professional player like him, blindness was not a fatal debuff. He focused his attention on the surrounding sounds, his movements did not slow down at all, and he swung his greatsword towards the opponent’s position from memory.
The sword blade did not touch any obstruction, indicating that this attack had missed. Bai Xingyishi’s heart was calm, and he immediately activated the ability Gale Strike.
Invisible Mana covered the sword, and it was swung out along his movements. The surging wind blew away the debris within tens of meters in front of him, and those too close were even directly shattered.
However, such a sure-to-hit attack still missed. At least Bai Xingyishi did not feel the feedback of hitting a flesh and blood body.
Did she go behind him?
Bai Xingyishi was slightly confused because he hadn’t heard any movement.
At this moment, the blindness effect just ended. There was no one in front of him. He quickly looked behind him, only to find that there was no one behind him either. Bailu and Edward were each in a corner.
No…
Bai Xingyishi’s pupils shrank, and he immediately reacted. However, it was already too late to react now.
Li Wen descended from the sky, her amber pupils devoid of emotion, clearly having entered Witch Form. Not only that, but beyond her Emerald Star Cloak, brilliant radiance faintly lingered in the air, the effect of “Devotion to Light and Fire.”
The Raven Feather Dagger, from its blade to its shaft, was enveloped in pure white light, drawing beautiful and dazzling arc-shaped afterimages in the air, stabbing down towards Bai Xingyishi.
At this point, it was too late to withdraw his weapon to block. Bai Xingyishi could only raise his left hand, and the wristguard on his arm turned into a small but solid bone shield.
Li Wen plunged the dagger directly into the bone shield. The immense force generated at the moment of contact made Bai Xingyishi’s arm go numb. However, what was even more shocking was that the bone shield only resisted for a moment before crumbling due to the subsequent arc light, not only that, but Bai Xingyishi’s arm was also severed by the arc light, leaving a perfect cross-section.
Before the slight burning pain could even reach Bai Xingyishi’s brain, his eyes were filled with dazzling arc light. Just as he was about to be decapitated by the arc light, a pull from behind helped him escape the range of the arc light’s slash, narrowly saving his life.
Bai Xingyishi saw the pale arc light leave an incredibly deep mark on the ground, cold sweat streaming down his back. He admitted that he had been careless and almost wasted his first death after the open beta here.
Bai Xingyishi, who had used magic to help Bai Xingyishi avoid death, also breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, they arrived in time, otherwise, if their Guild Leader was killed in front of them, they would definitely have their salaries deducted.
Seeing that the opponent had survived by a fluke, Li Wen was not angry and timely dispelled Witch Form to prevent it from going into cooldown.
“Devotion to Light and Fire” did not have such a skill. It still needed to cool down, but it only required a minute of cooldown before it could be used again, so it wasn’t too much of a hindrance.
She looked at the other group of people who had entered here. It was this group of people who had saved that Stage Two player, and it was clear they were a group.
Li Wen already had a rough idea of these people’s identities. They should be the “top Bai Xing” game studio stationed in Leicester.
This was not a small studio, but it was still far from top-tier.
If game studios were divided into two categories, one would be ordinary workers who treated the game as work and diligently studied it, with strength and understanding of the game generally exceeding ordinary casual players. They were also the backbone of the game studio industry. The other category would be the celebrity players who were often talked about. They would be top-tier players in a certain type of game, young and ambitious, with some achievements, possessing specific fan bases, and their strength and game understanding were beyond ordinary people.
The most crucial point was that they were usually supported by the entire studio, team, or guild, enjoying the resource investment of the entire team.
And the celebrity players in top studios usually numbered in the dozens or even hundreds. In short, there were many masters and strong players, and they could even monopolize the upper-level resources of a certain game with their own power. If the Strategy Team was a similar game group, then it should be among the top-ranked in top studios.
As for top Bai Xing? It was just so-so. In the entire group, only the studio leader could be considered a celebrity player.
Li Wen withdrew her gaze. From the brief engagement with Bai Xingyishi, she could see that even the top players at this stage were not very strong. Let alone encountering someone like Li Wen, they would have to put in a lot of effort to deal with native orthodox Transcendent beings of the same level.
If the unlimited revival and experience upgrade mechanisms were excluded, players were definitely not as powerful as native Transcendent beings with orthodox knowledge inheritance.
This might be due to various reasons. Perhaps one side viewed everything in the world as a game, while for the other side, this was their life. Or perhaps it was because players habitually followed “game rules.” For example, as described in Li Wen’s Poem of Paradise, “affecting everyone except oneself,” players would think that this ability could not be used on themselves, falling into such a misunderstanding.
In other words, although players seemed to have the advantage of revival and upgrades, which was a dimensional attack on local natives, maintaining a player’s mentality and identity conversely became a restraint.
The moment she understood this, Li Wen’s back chilled.
