Chapter 30: Rule of Skill (2/2)

To ordinary magical beasts, the damage that normal Players who reached level seven or eight could deal against them was already impressive.

The Skull King Spider, struck by a downpour of sword qi, arrows, and other random skills had its outer shell knocked off, and retreated deeper into the miasma of the Valley of the Tragic Dead.

Meanwhile, the remaining four frontline Players entered the miasma, finding the blob which was once Marni.

After seconds of silence mourning for their companion, they continued forward.

Interestingly, while the deadly miasma appeared to be a purple wall of mist from the outside with nothing inside visible, the miasma thinned considerably after Eleena’s group entered with the torches. It was as if they had violet filter lenses that allowed them to see a dozen meters around them.

Hence, tracking the signs the Skull King Spider left behind, the party of four gave chase and found it nearby, trying to dig a hole into the ground!

In the instant the Players saw the HP bar above it, they moved without hesitation and the battle started.

Ever the warrior, Joe rushed ahead without even drawing his sword, grabbing the creature by its legs and throwing it in a suplex.

Anyone from a different church would have been laughing and thinking that Joe was an idiot who did not know his limits.

Rationally speaking, Joe’s strength would not have been enough to throw the Skull King Spider—the creature itself and its bone armor were more than five tons! Not to mention that Joe was not even as tall as any single one of its joints!

And yet reality would have left anyone from other churches gaping, because Joe did manage his suplex move on the Skull King Spider!

That was where the Players differ from normal humans in terms of combat.

Though this fantasy realm came with supernatural powers, divine arts and magic, there was no unified system for those abilities.

In other words, the world itself did not have the thing called ‘skill’.

That was a loophole Xi Wei could use.

Using his all-encompassing Divine Order as the God of Games, he directly wrote up a new law: The Rule of Skill.

Although the programming of the Rule was not significant and has no effect against gods, Legendary champions or Epic creatures, it would remain as rule no matter how low-tier it could be!

In accordance with the Rule of Skill, anyone would be knocked into the air with Sword Skill: Air Launch or burnt by Hellfire. In short, even Godzilla would get hit with one almighty german suplex with the Suplex skill…

Naturally, that rule still remained in the bounds of other rules such as skill damage and immunity. For example, if it had been a huge muscular man who launched a german suplex on the Skull King Spider, it would probably leave the arachnid in ragged pieces and bent legs.

On the other hand, this Skull King Spider was only left confused for a moment after Joe threw it and not really hurt. That was because the skill damage that the suplex caused on its HP was not critical.

Furthermore, after getting to its feet after Joe’s throw, the Skull King Spider was briefly Immune—preventing players from chaining their control moves such as unlimited suplexes, cutting down the enemy’s HP when facing someone they could not defeat.

In reality, Xi Wei did not actually establish the Immunity setting when he created the new rules. It was the world that partially adjusted it when the rules took root, cutting off an assured backdoor to victory for the Players and leaving our protagonist very regretful…