Volume 2, Chapter 25 – One Slash 99999999

“She’s gone!”

The instant Tianyin disappeared, the player at the very front of the formation shouted in alarm.

“What happened?!”

“Where is she?!”

“Where did she go?!”

Panic spread through the crowd as voices overlapped, players frantically looking around in all directions, trying to find Tianyin’s figure.

And then, in the very next second, Tianyin appeared behind their formation, standing right in front of a mage.

“Y-you, you, you’re—”

The mage, stunned at first by Tianyin’s unbelievably cute face that had suddenly appeared before him, finally managed to react.

“She’s here, over here!”

At those words, Tianyin tilted her head slightly, one of her eyes gleaming blood red.

“Good reaction, big brother~”

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Then, she swung the Victory Golden Sword in her hand. The elegant strike took less than a thousandth of a second, and by the time the sword was withdrawn, it was already over.

Pshh—!

Only after she had sheathed her sword did the sound of the blade piercing flesh echo out.

According to the game’s settings, when players were struck by sharp weapons like swords, they felt no pain, nor did any blood appear. Even so, the simulated sound effects of battle were astonishingly realistic.

And the moment that sound was heard, a large, bright red number appeared above the mage’s head.

-99999999

Just a single ordinary slash from Tianyin had dealt an astronomical 99,999,999 damage.

“Y-you’ve gotta be… kidding me…”

The mage clearly didn’t want to believe the number he saw, but it was the truth. As those broken words left his mouth, his body turned into white light and vanished… He was dead, entering the waiting-for-respawn state.

The moment that mage fell, the other players noticed Tianyin as well.

But the problem was that her speed was simply too fast. Before anyone could react or take action, the mage had already been one-shotted by Tianyin’s blade.

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All they could see was that floating number in the air: “-99999999.”

“The damage overflowed that much!?”

“What the hell, she killed him in one hit?!”

The moment that blood-red number appeared, chaos erupted among the players.

“This is a blue-tier NPC?! Who said that? Come out and get smacked! That’s a Throne-level boss!”

A few players’ faces turned ashen.

But most of them just felt their hearts sink into ice.

“It’s over… how are we supposed to fight an NPC that can deal that absurd damage in one hit?”

“We’re dead. She’s way too fast, and our attacks did absolutely nothing…”

It was unimaginable. Tianyin had only killed one player, yet that alone shattered their fighting spirit completely.

And who could blame them? Even with infinite respawns, if there was no hope of victory, struggling was meaningless.

Better to just die early, respawn, and make up the lost levels later…

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But no matter what they thought, Tianyin had no intention of letting them go so easily.

“Victory Golden Sword!”

Tianyin softly called out the name of the knight sword in her hand. As she did, the sword began to glow with radiant golden light.

That light gathered and burst forth as a dazzling beam. The moment Tianyin swung her sword down, it shot forward like a cannon shell.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

A series of deafening explosions rang out from ahead, and everywhere the beam passed, the players’ heads filled with crimson numbers, each reading “-99999999.”

The air filled with a dense cluster of blood-red digits, mixed with flashes of white light from the players dying one after another.

Those who hadn’t been hit yet could only stare, their scalps prickling with dread.

And at the center of the now-cleared battlefield stood the silver-haired little girl, sword in hand.

“So weak…”

Tianyin’s small mouth parted slightly, her gaze filled with disappointment.

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「Oh my, oh my, Xiaoyin, you can actually say something like that now?」

Samael’s voice echoed lightly in her mind.

「For a girl who only knows how to act cute, when did you start saying stuff like ‘they’re all so weak’ with such confidence~?」

Hearing that, Tianyin’s face, which had been serious from battle, turned bright red.

『Y-y-you— what are you saying! They really were weak, weren’t they? I just swung my sword a little and they all died instantly… I’m just stating a fact…』

『Besides, so far I’ve only used one of the Blood Knight’s dispelling skills… and the sword’s built-in attack skill, Victory Golden Sword… and that already wiped out almost all of them. How can you say they’re not weak?』

「Yes yes, Xiaoyin’s really amazing now~」

『Hmph… of course! I’m not someone to be underestimated anymore~』

After saying that, Tianyin’s small face returned to its focused expression once again.

『In that case, let’s finish them all off in one go~』