Chapter 406: Chapter 393 Network Disconnection (1st Update)

“I’ve arrived at the scene, but the Heart Stealer was killed by another,” Black Ash shouted in the voice chat.

“But he also killed that Heart Stealer,” Zhao Mingwei said, looking at the last frozen frame of the livestream, where his light gun had penetrated the Heart Stealer, dealing 14,000 damage.

Under the erosion of the light gun, the Heart Stealer instantly turned to dust, but as this Heart Stealer’s original body disappeared, Zhao Mingwei also finished off his own Heart Stealer clone.

“What? A Heart Stealer for a hundred thousand merit? That guy just jumped to the seventh spot on the leaderboards; it looks stable now,” Black Ash noticed the merit reward in the last scene of the livestream.

“Stop being envious of others! The boss itself has appeared.”

Suddenly Delicious White Snake shouted in the voice chat, and Zhao Mingwei flicked his fingers quickly to enter White Snake’s livestream, where Denghis Xisi was standing quietly before him.

‘The Core Consciousness of Black Tide Island * The First, Level 65, Lord-level creature, HP 150000/150000.’

Merely 150,000 HP, which resembled that of an elite monster. Even the healers among them could take it down alone, provided that the elite monster didn’t have a brain of its own.

Clearly, Denghis Xisi was not this type of brainless elite monster.

“White Snake… I’m… nearby! Hang in there,” Juan Canyun shouted in the voice chat, and Zhao Mingwei also ran towards the coordinates where White Snake was.

“Are we finally going to fight the final boss?” Lu Wei was currently sitting… on that Heart Stealer transformed into a laughter, and as Lu Wei stood up… that Heart Stealer turned into ashes and disappeared.

“Keep up,” Zhao Mingwei cast Wind Breath on the two of them, paying attention to the confrontation between White Snake and Denghis Xisi in the livestream as he ran towards White Snake’s coordinates.

Denghis Xisi definitely wouldn’t wait for everyone to gather before dealing with White Snake; the battle was imminent as soon as he appeared before White Snake.

Although White Snake wasn’t a professional player, he was an old scholar of magic; although he preferred crafting equipment to fighting, all the equipment he crafted was made for PvP.

The moment Denghis Xisi charged at him, White Snake’s hands released a burning bottle and an acid rain bottle in quick succession, covering the narrow room’s air and ground with lava and acid rain clouds.

But this couldn’t stop Denghis Xisi’s progress, and suddenly an ice drill appeared over White Snake’s head.

White Snake didn’t choose to get on the drill; instead, he directly used it as a bomb and threw it towards Denghis Xisi.

However, Denghis Xisi’s figure instantly disappeared before White Snake, and a split second before disappearing, White Snake saw a spectral ghost appear behind Denghis Xisi.

Ghost Shadow Flash!

By the time he regained his senses, it was already too late: White Snake’s body stiffened in place, and Denghis Xisi had already appeared behind him.

“Hey, hey, hey! Getting killed instantly as soon as you enter is really not a good look, right?” Black Ash yelled in the voice chat.

White Snake tried to trigger the Scarecrow but realized he hadn’t taken any damage; not only had he not taken damage, but a +7813 appeared over his head.

What’s going on? This boss’s skill doesn’t reduce HP but actually heals instead?

As White Snake turned around, intending to hit Denghis Xisi with a broom that looked like a chainsaw… Denghis Xisi was faster, bending down and placing his hand on White Snake’s abdomen, releasing Inner Strength!

This hit sent White Snake flying backwards, crashing into the wall behind him, displaying a -142 for collision damage from above his head but the next second a +5152 healing value jumped out from his head again.

At this moment, White Snake was sure! Not only did this boss not reduce his HP, but it also healed him?

What’s going on? Is there a bug in the game?

The instant White Snake stood up, Denghis Xisi charged at him again, only this time, in White Snake’s eyes, Denghis Xisi’s movements seemed much slower, while his own seemed much faster.

What’s going on here?

White Snake couldn’t bother with that anymore; he summoned the Lava Furnace planning to blow up the entire room.

But the moment the furnace appeared, even White Snake himself got a shock–the furnace was twice the size of the one he had summoned in the wilds, and standing in front of his own furnace, he looked almost like a dwarf.

But he didn’t remember having skills that enhanced the furnace’s attack range, did he?

But he was already too late to hesitate any longer, as the furnace spewed out large chunks of scorching magma that instantly destroyed the surrounding room.

“Do you guys feel like my skills have gotten stronger?” White Snake looked around at the completely destroyed room, a sense of accomplishment rising within him.

However, Denghis Xisi appeared in front of him once again, this time directly unleashing a martial arts awakening skill, Martial God Strong Kick!

The kick landed on White Snake’s chest, and a +71352, exceeding the health recovery, popped up. By the time White Snake reacted, he had also summoned a giant fly swatter and slammed it onto Denghis Xisi.

A -103125 massive damage popped up from Denghis Xisi, a damage so high that even White Snake himself was shocked.

“What the hell? A fly swatter dealing a hundred thousand damage, White Snake, are you cheating?” Black Pot Stew also loudly questioned the unreasonable damage from White Snake, as the fly swatter was not considered a damaging skill for a magic scholar.

“Are there cheats in this game ‘Holy Spirit’? But I feel like I can solo this boss! Sorry, I’m taking this kill!”

The surge in strength sent White Snake into an extremely inflated state, but his breathing in the voice chat became more and more rapid, and his heartbeat also began to speed up quickly.

White Snake felt the surrounding sounds gradually diminish, and this adrenaline rush did not seem to him to be a problem.

“White Snake! Run!” Zhao Mingwei’s voice suddenly shouted into his ear.

“Why run, Brother Smile, the next skill hit and I will kill him instantly…” Before White Snake could finish his sentence, the world before his eyes suddenly turned pitch black, with countless eyes opening in the dark space, staring closely at White Snake.

Dark Sky Wave Eye! The Magic Swordsman’s full-screen awakening skill, at this moment White Snake had nowhere to hide.

But White Snake didn’t plan on hiding; this boss had a bug where the damage healed him instead of reducing his health.

Just as the surrounding black space was about to shatter, White Snake also directly released his own awakening.

“I’ve got the kill!” White Snake shouted excitedly while looking at Denghis Xisi close at hand, but the next second a despairing warning popped up.

‘Your network connection has been interrupted…’

“White Snake? White Snake why did you disconnect?” Juan Canyun’s voice still echoed in White Snake’s ear.

“Probably triggered some bug and got detected by the system? You got killed in one hit by Denghis Xisi, don’t worry, leave the rest to us.” Black Pot Stew mocked mercilessly.

Why now, of all times? White Snake frantically removed his VR helmet attempting to reconnect, but he realized at some point he had started bleeding from the nose… His body also felt heavy as if his hands and feet were filled with lead.

What on earth… was going on? White Snake wondered, while in the Holy Spirit’s battlefield.

Jiang Qiao used Earth Spirit to defend against Denghis Xisi’s awakening, while, due to the disconnection, the hungry White Snake’s game character stiffened in place, not moving at all.

When Jiang Qiao opened White Snake’s attribute panel, his intelligence and spiritual power had both reached over ten thousand, a level surpassing the current player cap, where the highest spiritual power among all players was about four thousand.

From the game’s perspective, White Snake indeed encountered a bug — this boss named Denghis Xisi didn’t reduce their health but instead increased their buffs.

But to Jiang Qiao… It appeared Denghis Xisi had discovered a troublesome method… one that could directly attack the players’ physical bodies in the game.

The players’ attributes had an upper limit to sustain, leveling up was a process for them to exercise their bodies and souls. But even at max level, they had an upper limit to endure, especially the weaker aspects such as spirit and soul.

When Zhao Mingwei had his strength boosted to 7000 points in the battle with Black Ash Knight, he suffered a comminuted fracture in his left arm due to incapacity to bear it. With such a tremendous boost in spiritual power, if White Snake were to release one or two more skills, he might inflict permanent damage on his own brain.

So, Jiang Qiao simply kicked him offline!

‘You have been banned for two hours for malicious use of game bugs.’

Jiang Qiao also added this notification.

“Just this level, and the body in the so-called reality can’t bear it?” Denghis Xisi’s left hand flashed with a ghostly imprint, and his right hand bore the emblem of Holy Light. After murmuring to himself, he turned his gaze to Jiang Qiao.

“I’ve been thinking… how to deal with you, Holy Spirit, to inflict permanent, irreversible damage on you, just like the death of my apprentice. Maybe I can’t do it in the real world, but this is the Spiritual Domain of Black Tide Island.” Denghis Xisi said quietly, “Do you know how powerful the forces gathered in the Spiritual Domain of Black Tide Island are?”