Chapter 408: Chapter 395: Disconnect Attack! (Third Update)

Denghis Xisi released a Holy Light Spear to block Zhao Mingwei’s Fierce Tiger Earthquake.

But Caramel had already circled behind him, launching a complete Breaking Army Slash. Denghis Xisi was uncontrollably suspended in mid-air.

However, Denghis Xisi was not the kind of puppet boss that could be manipulated at will; he adjusted his posture and collided his longsword with the Moonlight Sword in Caramel’s hand.

The Sword Qi from the Moonlight Sword pierced through Denghis Xisi’s longsword, scratching his cheek, while another invisible sword in Caramel’s hand swung back towards Denghis Xisi’s neck.

Denghis Xisi’s life points relied entirely on various Healing Magic to recover, but that was the end of it.

At this moment, the recovery of Denghis Xisi couldn’t keep up with the output of the Beheading Squad; his mere 150,000 life points were not enough to withstand their assault.

Caramel brushed past Denghis Xisi, her invisible sword slashing directly across his neck, while on the other side, Juan Canyun suddenly charged out, piercing Denghis Xisi’s heart with his longspear.

Denghis Xisi’s life points dropped to zero in an instant.

But at the moment it hit zero, dark fog swept over Denghis Xisi’s entire body and then burst violently.

Juan Canyun was blown away by this gust of fog, and Zhao Mingwei quickly caught the mid-air Juan Canyun, supporting him with a hand on his back.

“Are you okay?” Zhao Mingwei asked.

“Senior, I feel fine, my health is no issue,” Juan Canyun replied.

Zhao Mingwei wasn’t asking about that… he wanted to know about Juan Canyun’s physical condition in reality.

During their fight with Denghis Xisi, Juan Canyun, Caramel, and other members of the Beheading Squad were hit by Denghis Xisi’s skills several times.

During this time, Zhao Mingwei was also monitoring the attribute status of the team members; both Caramel and Juan Canyun’s spirit and intelligence had been rapidly rising, but now, for some unknown reason, they began to decline just as rapidly.

The decline was very quick, and their spiritual power and intelligence attributes finally plateaued at the threshold of five thousand.

“It seems the Devouring God has been assisting you from behind.”

After resurrecting from the black mist, Denghis Xisi’s left arm was partially covered in dark scales, and his voice, no longer gentle, was laced with a tinge of fury.

The Black Tide Island was gradually taking over control of his body.

“The second stage?”

“Kid! Get out of the way quick!”

Juan Canyun was still prepared to observe any changes in Denghis Xisi’s second stage of combat, but the voice of the Lady of Calamity rang out from behind. It was too late… Denghis Xisi had thrown a dark spear.

This spear was so fast that it was imperceptible to the human eye, but Juan Canyun still managed to dodge to the side. As he dodged, however, the spear hit the ground and instantly exploded into dark flames, enveloping Juan Canyun. When he tried to leap out of the range of the flames to distance himself, a deep purple ghostly apparition suddenly appeared on him.

This deep purple ghostly apparition clung to Juan Canyun, slowing him down during which the Titan Squad’s healer cast a Holy Shield on Juan Canyun, blocking the subsequent damage.

“A combination of the Dark Spearman and Ghost Cry’s skills?” Zhao Mingwei created a Telekinesis Energy Shield to buy time for Juan Canyun’s recovery, but for some reason, Juan Canyun had fallen to the ground, his eyes devoid of life.

“Tang Wen?” Seeing Juan Canyun unconscious, Zhao Mingwei immediately called out his name.

But there was no response. Juan Canyun’s body lay rigid on the ground, as the Lady of Calamity rushed into Zhao Mingwei’s Telekinesis Energy Shield…

“What’s wrong with him? Hey! What happened to you!” The Lady of Calamity pinched Juan Canyun’s cheek. His life points and MP were full, but Juan Canyun’s body was rigidly immobilized on the spot.

Zhao Mingwei feared a terrifying possibility, but then he heard Juan Canyun’s voice in the voice chat.

“Senior, I’ve been disconnected; there seems to be a problem with my VR headset…I don’t know what happened, I’ll log in on a different machine,” said Juan Canyun right away.

In this critical moment, Caramel and Qi Junzi took on the burden of the confrontation with Denghis Xisi, and Juan Canyun regained consciousness in less than twenty seconds.

Subsequently, Denghis Xisi freed himself from the skirmish with Caramel and Qi Junzi.

“Twenty seconds, huh? Holy Spirits…maybe the Devouring God can protect your bodies, but your connection to that power seems more fragile,” said Denghis Xisi, whose left arm covered in dragon scales had been gathering some kind of power since a while ago.

Shit! What’s the point of fighting a boss that causes disconnects!

Zhao Mingwei felt the pressure now, as he was using a net cafe’s VR equipment to play and was even considering logging out to use his phone.

But what if the phone also malfunctioned?

Juan Canyun was at the Jumping Nucleus training base which had some backup machines; even if they were damaged, the owner wouldn’t be heartbroken.

The key was that during the time spent switching to another machine, the game character would be like a puppet, vulnerable to slaughter.

“You should have experienced it already, this power ultimately is borrowed from someone else,” said Denghis Xisi, pointing at Zhao Mingwei from afar. “Better to return to your reality and realize that truly powerless self, Holy Spirits.”

…

“Damn! How can this BOSS still cause frame drops with its attacks? Is my 5080TI really that disgraceful?”

The voice of a member from the Beheading Squad came through to Jiang Qiao’s ears.

Jiang Qiao was in a cybercafe near the Number One Hospital area in the inner world, the same cybercafe where Zhao Mingwei was.

After dying in the instance, Jiang Qiao went straight into the inner world… The relationship between the inner world and the real world is just like a sheet of paper away.

So, Jiang Qiao built the interior of the cybercafe in the inner world and directly devoured that part of the… overloaded power Denghis Xisi had injected into Zhao Mingwei’s body.

Members of the Jumping Nucleus Club and other members of the Beheading Squad were taken care of by Hai Lan’s and Jiang Qiao’s summoned creatures.

As for the players who went online in other cities, Jiang Qiao could only choose to force them offline when their bodies exhibited symptoms of overload.

But luckily, everyone’s skills were strong enough. Denghis Xisi’s combat skills were far from matching Thorne, that devil; his difficulty was in being able to copy all holy spirit skills.

Yet now, every so often, Denghis Xisi could call out a member of the Beheading Squad and make them disconnect directly.

As a dog planner himself, Jiang Qiao thought… What kind of devilish BOSS mechanic is this? Messing around?

“Holy Light game optimization is really good, isn’t it?” The question in the voice made Jiang Qiao want to cry but have no tears.

Holy Light’s optimization is considered the best in the world because even with the poorest graphics card, the lousiest CPU, you can run Holy Light at full effects.

The game Holy Light doesn’t consume any configuration, but Jiang Qiao, wanting to be reasonable, set the full effects configuration of Holy Light astronomically high, barely allowing cybercafe computers to run Holy Light at medium graphical effects.

But these details wouldn’t be noticed by the players… The only requirement for players to connect to Holy Light is internet connection, and Jiang Qiao placed the most important part of entering Holy Light inside the Heaven Palace Number Thirteen.

Those VR devices are just like a connecting channel, and then Denghis Xisi used a powerful mental pulse from Black Tide Island to blow up the channel.

After handing part of his body over to Black Tide Island, Denghis Xisi could inject stronger spiritual power into Holy Light, but all of it would be devoured by Hai Lan. So, Denghis Xisi changed his target of injection, which became the medium that connects players with Holy Light.

“Jiang Qiao, what should we do? I don’t know how to fix these computers of the Holy Light,” Hai Lan said with a pitiful tone to Jiang Qiao.

“If one login medium gets blown up, then build several more, hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands,” Jiang Qiao said as he touched the VR machine that Zhao Mingwei was using.

“How?”

“Remember the ‘Holy Light * Cloud Player’ version I mentioned to you before? The release date might have to be rushed forward.”

After communicating with Hai Lan, Jiang Qiao sent a very untimely pop-up to Zhao Mingwei that wouldn’t affect his state.

“Congratulations, the ID of player Happy Gaming Player has been selected as CG promotional character. The Holy Light live broadcasting room has been opened, and you will be the first player to participate in the broadcast. Are you willing to accept? YES/NO.”

NO!

Zhao Mingwei saw the prompt pop up, punched Denghis Xisi, and directly clicked NO on the option.

“Official broadcast promotion? Now? Forget it… Laughing Man, why did you refuse?” Other players in the Beheading Squad could also see the option, but Zhao Mingwei didn’t think twice before choosing NO.

“I have a non-compete contract; I can’t broadcast,” Zhao Mingwei said, just as he happened to land next to Qi Junzi.

“You could rejoin the team now…” Qi Junzi still thought about getting Zhao Mingwei back to Supreme Heaven, at least to finish the World Championship before leaving.

“Ah? What breach of contract? Oh! I remember now! Laughing Man, won’t you join our Titan team?” Lu Wei took the opportunity to poach without any hesitation.

“I regret to say that I have to decline your invitations,” Zhao Mingwei said.

“I still… want to know why.”

While Qi Junzi spoke, Denghis Xisi had already found an opening and lunged at her, but Qi Junzi wasn’t easy to provoke. Her ice longsword swiftly cut off the arm Denghis Xisi extended toward her.

But this was just a clone of Denghis Xisi. On the other side, Denghis Xisi’s actual body found an interesting target, which was Wenna.

“Holy Light, I am curious… Do you care about this enemy?” Denghis Xisi said from afar, looking at Zhao Mingwei and Qi Junzi.

“I knew that NPCs would be captured by the BOSS!” Qi Junzi complained while lunging towards Denghis Xisi with her sword.

Why?

As Zhao Mingwei watched Qi Junzi’s retreating figure… a minor reason was that the current Supreme Heaven no longer needed to rely on him for victory, or to put it another way, the players of Supreme Heaven no longer needed his protection.

But the world of Holy Light was different…

That system prompt popped up again, and as Zhao Mingwei saw it for the second time, he felt something. He didn’t refuse and directly clicked the YES option.

Upon clicking YES, a number appeared before him, a number known as the viewer count, which currently was still… zero.