Chapter 801 - Return of a Hero (1/2)

It was before dawn when Rhode woke up.

He felt two warm, soft sensations on his elbows. He slowly sat up on his bed and through the slight glimmer from the window, he admired the two fair young ladies laying beside him and their fragrant scents. Marlene and Lize clung onto his elbows in their slumber. He gazed at their calm sleeping faces and found it unimaginable how wild they were last night. He shook his head helplessly, extended his arms, and caressed their long hair. Ever since the three of them experienced their first night together, Marlene and Lize had been making advances on him as a duo and Rhode always dealt with them effortlessly. To the contrary, Anne was a totally different case, which was why he never agreed to Anne even though she had always tried to join in their fun. If Rhode were another man, he would be thrilled to spend the night with three gorgeous young ladies at the same time. But he didn’t think of it as something great because he only needed a few hours to handle Marlene and Lize. If Anne were to join them, who knew when he could finally get some sleep.

Rhode shook his head at this thought. Then, he got off the bed without waking them up, changed his clothes, and left the room.

“———!”

Rhode brandished his sword. The burst of blade air streamed across the night sky in trails of starry radiance. Then, the shimmering trails coalesced into silver rays that weaved across one another into a large net. Rhode took half a step forward and thrust his right hand—a shadow clone emerged and retreated from his body simultaneously. Rhode opened his eyes and flicked his wrist.

In an instant, the sacred white blade in his hand was dyed in dark colors and he lashed it forward like a black whip. Along in his movements, the huge net of silver blade rays that he had brandished slithered in all directions before him like vipers. Then, almost instantly, the net shattered and vanished into thin air.

“Tch.”

Rhode grunted and shook his head helplessly.

The experiment failed again.

Ever since he created the ‘Fantasy Daybreak’ swordsmanship with a sword creation point, his new form of entertainment was to master it. After all, all players desired having their unique swordsmanship. Even though they could modify their swordsmanship in the game, it was ultimately others’ swordsmanships. Now that Rhode finally had his very own swordsmanship, he definitely wouldn’t let this opportunity slip, especially after experiencing the sweet taste of success.

Rhode had seen small successes with his experiment earlier on. He deployed an attacking style that was similar to the ‘Internet lag’ in the game and created this shadow clone that was effective against individuals or a range of opponents. After he transcended into the Legendary Stage and gained the enhancement of the legendary attribute, the ‘Fantasy Daybreak’ was especially effective against the Undead Army. But it still wasn’t enough.

From the start, he had hoped to create three ‘lag’ shadow clones to coordinate with his attacks. This would allow him to maintain a battle with three clones of himself, which meant that the enemies would be facing four of him simultaneously. The difficulty of this technique was whether the time of execution and remaining time could be perfectly connected, but this wasn’t a huge challenge for him. Not only could he easily create a shadow clone anytime, but the shadow clone would also possess equal strength and defense as him. In other words, the shadow clones wouldn’t be shattered easily anymore. When he faced lower-level enemies, he could simply defeat them by releasing the shadow clones.

However, Rhode wasn’t satisfied with this result. After achieving successes, he came up with a new idea.

He held four holy sword cards, namely Star Mark, Succubus, and Gracier and Madaras as a set and could switch around with three unique sword skills continuously in battles. Star Mark could unleash powerful attacks while Succubus’s chain sword could deploy mid-range ambush. Gracier and Madaras were useful for close-combat battles. All this while, his shadow clones were only able to release a sword skill that he released on the spot. So, how could he make them cast other sword skills too?

In other words, for example, he wanted to summon a shadow clone that attacked using Star Mark while summoning Succubus, Gracier, or Madaras from the rear to launch an ambush.

Or perhaps he could go much deeper by turning the sword skills into unique identities which allowed him to use two summoning cards at once. But this was only a thought.

If it were a regular sword skill, Rhode surely wouldn’t have such wild thoughts. But since he had created the ‘Fantasy Daybreak’, he dared to imagine the impossible. Anyway, the later stages of ‘Fantasy Daybreak’ hadn’t been developed yet, so he might as well test it out at this phase. He had even considered summoning a dozen shadow clones at once, where the leading shadow clone would be the main tanker while the shadow clones at the back would summon different cards simultaneously. If that were possible, the instant burst of attack would surely be enough to take on an army even if Rhode were alone in battle!

But the experiments weren’t successful because as soon as he switched his weapon, the shadow clone that he summoned would vanish into thin air immediately.