Chapter 7 (2/2)

The unfortunate Wretched Mother was flung out with a swirl, but the Crusader wasn’t able to press on the attack. Multiple undead were now waddling toward her, blocking her path.

A chance!

Seeing the Crusader halt, Fang Zheng let out a breath. If it had been the Crusader who burst down the Wretched Mother’s head with her meteor hammer, the setting mission would naturally be a failure. He didn’t have much time, but it was enough!

Good job, Wretched Mother!

Glad that the monster managed to hold down the Crusader for a bit, Fang Zheng charged with Frostmourne on the path that the Crusader made. Soon, he encountered the unlucky Wretched Mother, who was trying its best to climb back on its feet.

This was his chance. His eyes lit up. The Crusader was still busy with the undead, and fortunately for him, he’d made it in time to take the kill.

With that, Fang Zheng charged over immediately. He didn’t have the big impact attacks like the crusader, but the Wretched Mother had been blasted to an empty field. It didn’t take much time before he came out of the trees.

With Frostmourne in hand, he lunged…

Crusader’s Strike!

Just as Fang Zheng’s sword sliced through the air, the Wretched Mother lifted its head from the ground all of a sudden, opened its mouth at Fang Zheng and splurted a pile of messy, blurry, and rancid vomit!

Damn!

Fang Zheng instantly cancelled his ability in shock before rolling to the side. With a soft slap, the vomit plodded onto the area beside Fang Zheng, a weak glow of inky green coming from it. Fang Zheng could even see bubbles in it as the ground began to sank around it. One could imagine the ending of anyone who got sprayed with that.

This thing tried to give him a surprise attack!

This pissed Fang Zheng off quite a bit. This Wretched Mother was seconds away from dying because of the Crusader, and now it still tried to take him down. Did he look like an easier target or something?

Wielding Frostmourne, he swung at the monster once more. It opened its mouth as he approached as if trying to scream.

But this time, Fang Zheng struck his blade into its mouth before any sound could come out…

Crusader’s Strike!

An explosion of holy light and the Wretched Mother’s head split before him. Lines of cracks appeared on its skin and more pure light poured out from those cracks in a brilliant burst, ending with a final explosion as the Wretched Mother’s body scattered into tatters, burning into ash under the divine light.

At the same time, the system message appeared in lines once more.

Setting mission – Defender, progression two, complete

World points +1

Soul points +70

Crusader’s Strike, improved to C class.

Crusader’s Strike is now an AOE ability.

“As I thought…”

Seeing the message, Fang Zheng rolled his eyes as he opened the system menu again. As expected, the progression bar under the Crusader Strike ability was now one-fifth of the way lit in an orange tone.

Fang Zheng was speechless at this point. He’d already put in this progression system in the designing process in the first place, with the ability growing stronger as it was used. This was meant to attract the newbies and veteran players so that they would cash in real money. After all, you either grinded or you paid money for points and while it was true that your strength increased after progressing the progression bar, the average player wouldn’t have enough World Points to use. As for the veteran player who used real money… The problem was just how much they’d be paying.

This was the typical shamelessness of video games. It was just that Fang Zheng never thought he’d be on the victim side. Was this bound to happen eventually to him after entering the industry?

But fortunately, the mission this time was comparatively simple. Just killing a Wretched Mother gave him a World Point. If the missions were that easy, then…

A ding sounded before his thoughts finished, more messages.

Setting mission: Guardian III

Looking at the corpse in front of him, he sincerely felt that the Diablo game in front of him was not as easy as it seemed. You felt that feeling of inevitable fate coming at you and all you could do was use the best of your strength to try and change things. (Change your fate. Mission rewards: World points +3. Mission failure will result in forced locking into this world. Time limit: 48 hours).

“…”

Seeing this message, Fang Zheng had only one thing in his heart to say.

He shouldn’t set up red flags for himself!