Chapter 44 (1/2)
Chapter 44: Sacred Souls Combat System
Jiang Qiao started browsing the post carefully, and the first thing he saw was a screenshot of a knight in maroon armor carrying his greatsword on his shoulder.
The knight’s expression was blocked by his helmet, but Jiang Qiao could somehow feel that the disappointment of the knight towards the player who took the screenshot.
TeaLeaf: ‘A bunch of NPCs appeared outside the Tower of Trials, and a new quest to PK with them was issued. I was the first to discover this so I tried my hand at it, but control skills don’t seem to work well on this fellow! I’ve already been defeated three times, and this *sshole keeps on saying things like “You sacred souls aren’t all that.” And keeps on provoking me, but I can’t defeat him no matter how hard I try. Waiting on my knees for a PK boss to help me beat this guy up!’
Backup: ‘An NPC PK mission? I got one back in Hawktalon City, but NPCs are so horrendously bad at fighting that I got finished in ten minutes. The guy above is probably too weak…’
DragonBoatKing: ‘What rewards are there if you win against this NPC?’
TeaLeaf seemed to be refreshing the page rapidly, and if there were any new replies they would reply immediately.
TeaLeaf: ‘I don’t think there are any rewards.’
DragonGodBreath: ‘Then why waste your time? Better spend your time on grinding levels.’
TeaLeaf: ‘But this NPC seems to look down on us, and keeps on provoking us that sacred souls are weak and useless, waiting for a boss to help me out!’
SpittingCurses: ‘I’ve never played Sacred Souls before, but judging from this NPC’s equipment it’s a character somewhat like a heavy-armor class. TeaLeaf seems to be a swordsman, and I’ve seen a livestreamer that uses this class… Wouldn’t he be able to defeat him with a simple Dual-Wielding Skill?’
Woah, a cloud player 1!
Cloud players could defeat countless enemies using only their keyboard!
Jiang Qiao finished reading all the replies on the post and then logged into the game, teleporting to the Tower of Trials through a transportation gate.
A whole bunch of native NPCs had appeared in front of the Tower of Trials, and they were all natives from Aquaflow. Thirty-two of them were knights, while twelve of them were mages and scholars. They were probably all here to check on the Tower of Trials’ current condition, as well as come into contact with the so-called saviors of the world.
One of the ways to do so was by testing their battle ability.
And so, they sent out their strongest knight to challenge the players one-on-one.
There were only thirteen players idling outside of the Tower of Trials at the time, while the rest were still in the starter village or exploring dungeons.
TeaLeaf was one of the players within the aforementioned thirteen, and it was his fourth time standing in front of the native knight.
Jiang Qiao came to the side of the arena, and there were three spectators that seemed to be TeaLeaf’s friends.
Jiang Qiao threw an inspection spell onto the native knight on the arena out of habit.
[Name: Solar]
[Level: LV40]
[Class: Warrior type]
[Description: A native of this world, Honor Knight]
A Level 40 warrior-type enemy…TeaLeaf who was fighting against this knight was a Level 33 Swordsman.
He was actually considered a high-leveled player in this game, but because there were seven levels between the two, Solar wasn’t using his full strength against him.
Even still, TeaLeaf was still at an absolute disadvantage because of two reasons: The first was because TeaLeaf activated the Battle Support System.
It wasn’t common for the regular player to know how to wield swords or guns, and so they would need the help of the Battle Support System to help them with the corresponding movements required to release a skill.
This method was useful, but at the same time there was a great flaw, which was that it was too rigid and inflexible! These skill movements that were supported by the system didn’t have variation or flexibility, and could only be used to defeat monsters or NPCs with simple intelligence.
But the enemy in front of TeaLeaf right now was an extremely experienced knight!
More deadly was the fact that this native knight didn’t quite play by the rules of formal combat, not to mention that he wasn’t confined to the rules of the Sacred Souls combat system.