Volume 5, Chapter 39 – Ever More Chaotic

Grievous wound…

When it came down to it, Grievous wound was not a term Tianyin did not understand. On the contrary, she understood very well in her heart what it meant.

However, this talk of grievous wounds… judging from Samael’s tone alone, Samael herself did not seem all that certain either.

『Power of Greed… Wuu, is it really just a grievous wound effect?』

Tianyin still felt doubt in her heart.

After all, Wrath could increase her power after she was injured.

And Gluttony could devour power during battle.

Yet Greed was just about grievous wounds?

「Xiaoyin, I know you are very confused, but in the battles before, I never used the power of Greed either…」

『Wuu… so that is how it is… then Samael, why did you not use it?』

「Because I am not you, Xiaoyin. You can use the Seven Original Sins with ease, but I cannot… so when it comes to the power of Greed I am not very sure either…」

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『Got it.』

Tianyin nodded in understanding.

『Since that’s the case, then I have another goal from now on, which is to learn how to use the other traits of the power of Original Sin… but speaking of which, Samael, for the power of Original Sin that is Greed, how did you even figure out that its trait is grievous wounds?』

「It is very easy you know.」

In her mind, Samael’s voice sounded soft.

「Xiaoyin, think about it. Back then, that Throne-tier from the elves and the Throne-tier from the Academy were both heavily injured by Undead Grand Duke Sargus, right? In theory, even if they were badly injured, as Throne-tier they should have had ways to heal themselves… but according to the latest information, you should know this too, their condition is that both of them are on the brink of death, right?」

『Mm… Sister Xiaomu did mention these things… Wuu, I get it. Because Sargus used to be the host of the power of Greed, those two Throne-tier who were heavily injured by him using the power of Greed… because of the influence of the power of Greed, they cannot heal their own wounds at all?』

「Mm… at least that is how I see it… but Xiaoyin, the existing traits of the power of Original Sin are also something you need to explore for yourself…」

Although Tianyin had more or less grasped what kind of trait the power of Greed had, Samael still reminded her that the urgent task was to learn how to use the powers of Original Sin, including the power of Greed.

「Xiaoyin, let us work hard together from here on. We will aim to gain control over the three Original Sin powers in the shortest time possible, then defeat Fortress Emperor and obtain the power of Sloth.」

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『Mm-mhm, I know.』

After this conversation, Tianyin also had a very clear direction in her heart about what she needed to do next.

……

As the days passed one after another.

Under Samael’s guidance, Tianyin made clear progress in her control and use of the power of Original Sin.

Not only that. In her everyday battles against the Fortress Emperor, Tianyin also slowly formed a battle style of her own.

Of course, while Tianyin was at Fortress fighting for the power of Sloth, in the Main World, as the days after the game update went by, earth shattering changes were also taking place in the Main World.

Ever since Yunchou became the new King of Knights and took over the Storm Kingdom’s throne, players had truly begun to step onto the world stage.

After Yunchou, who possessed Throne-tier strength, seized the Storm Kingdom, the other NPC nations within the Kingdom began to unite against him.

However, under Yunchou’s manipulation, aside from a few early victories, those NPC nations of the Kingdom soon fell into a string of defeats.

As the coalition army lost on the frontal battlefields, the player lords in the Kingdom who had been attached to the NPC nations also began to rebel.

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In the end, after a period of chaotic fighting, the ruling class of the Kingdom was completely replaced, and the group of players led by Yunchou began to rule the entire Kingdom Faction.

Of course most of the Legendary in the Kingdom also fell to Yunchou’s ruthless hand. Aside from a small number of Legendary Paladins who were still hiding within the Kingdom, most of the Legendary had already been killed by Yunchou.

Relying on the Legendary Templates dropped by these dead Legendary, Yunchou drew in a large group of players to serve under him.

However, after the chaos, the Kingdom had been left in tatters, since during this same struggle the Arcane Empire founded by the Academy in the east had also sent troops to swallow up the Kingdom’s territory.

Once the Arcane Empire launched war against the Kingdom, the strength of the Academy that had always remained neutral was finally revealed before the world.

The armies of the Arcane Empire were not just a bunch of Arcane mages who only knew how to cast spells. In the Arcane Empire, although part of the army was made up of Arcane mages, most of it consisted of alchemical constructs whose nature was hard to grasp.

Not only that. The Arcane mages of the Arcane Empire had also made contact with countless small planes scattered throughout the endless void.

Within those small planes they enslaved and controlled countless unknown races to replenish the armies of the Arcane Empire.

As the war of invasion against the Kingdom unfolded, the Arcane Empire’s formidable war strength began to show itself to the world. Furthermore, the current emperor of the Arcane Empire, the player Andrew, was also a powerful Arcane mage with Legendary strength.

After Yunchou had once again reorganized the entire Kingdom Faction, the Arcane Empire that represented the Academy did not abandon its invasion. So once Yunchou pacified the other NPC nations, he immediately marshaled his armies and directly clashed with the forces of the Arcane Empire.

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This was not only a war between factions. It was also a war between players.

As the war between the Kingdom and the Academy began, some players started copying the actions of Yunchou and Andrew.

In the already declining Stronghold Faction, players began organizing huge coalitions, intending to wipe out the Stronghold that was already on its last legs and take its place.

However, what those players never expected was that after the Beastmen of the Stronghold saw that the few resistance efforts they organized could not stop the endless player armies, they directly chose to join the Dawn Faction.

So under the assault of the player coalition, the Stronghold’s last bit of territory did not fall. Not only that. Once the Stronghold announced it was joining Dawn, Dawn’s army also, under Xingyu Muxi’s orders, began to join forces with the Stronghold’s Beastman troops to fight against the player coalition.

At the same time, while the Main World was now engulfed in war, the struggle over succession for the Throne-tier in the Nature Plane was also growing ever more intense. As the conflict over who would inherit Throne-tier power grew, the Nature Plane slipped into internal chaos sparked by the scramble for power and profit.

With the Nature Plane falling into civil strife, the Elven Empire in the Main World directly announced that it was throwing off the control of the Nature Plane.

With the Elven Empire becoming independent, the ones in power within the empire also began to reveal ambitions they should not have had.

As the Main World grew ever more chaotic, a full month and a half had already passed since the day Tianyin arrived at Fortress.