Volume 5, Chapter 60 – Tianyin’s Way Of Handling Things

The knight sword in her hand slashed toward the player who had his eyes closed.

However, the moment the strike should have landed on that player, Tianyin was surprised to discover that she had cut into what felt like a clump of air.

Swoosh—!

A crisp sword cry rang out. At the same time, in Tianyin’s line of sight, the knight sword in her hand seemed to have hit nothing at all and passed straight through the player with his eyes closed.

“Mm… what is going on?”

This sudden situation left Tianyin staring blankly for a moment. As her eyes widened, she quickly reacted and realized what was happening.

That was… this player had run away.

Although she did not understand what skill this player had used, Tianyin could still judge that this player was definitely no longer standing where he had been.

“Damn it… he actually ran away right under my nose…”

Running away right under her nose like that could be said to be something Tianyin was experiencing for the first time.

「Xiaoyin, it should be a skill similar to a substitute technique and concealing breath. However, after using that kind of skill, that outsider definitely cannot have gotten far. Next you just need to carefully use the power of the Seven Original Sins to sense, and you will be able to find him.」

『Wuu… got it.』

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Tianyin was very much in agreement with Samael’s suggestion in her mind. After nodding and giving a brief reply, she stopped looking at the “substitute” player in front of her who did not really exist at all, jumped straight up into the sky, then picked a direction and flew off.

After Tianyin left, the player figure that she had decided must be a “substitute” did not move in the slightest.

About half an hour later, Tianyin’s figure suddenly appeared in the sky overhead. Right after that, without saying a word, she swung a fierce slash at that player figure.

Bang—!

The blood red sword light instantly pierced through that player’s body, then fell straight down to the ground.

As a massive booming sound erupted, with that player as the center, roughly a hundred meters of ground sank down, then began to crack apart in all directions.

“Eh, so it really was fake?”

Up in the air, Tianyin sounded a bit helpless as she sighed. After shaking her head, she picked another direction and flew off again.

After another ten-odd minutes passed, Tianyin’s figure appeared in the sky once more.

“…”

This time, the instant she appeared in the sky, Tianyin again slashed without saying a word… no, to be precise, she swung several times.

Boom—!

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Boom—!

Boom—!

The blood red sword lights continually pierced through that player’s figure. Only after blasting what had originally been perfectly flat ground into a massive pit over a hundred meters in diameter did Tianyin let out a small sigh.

“Honestly… to think I actually let that guy get away. Forget it, I’ll go back…”

After carefully observing the player figure down in the deep pit and seeing that there did not seem to be any change, Tianyin finally murmured this under her breath.

She fell silent for a moment, then turned and flew toward the main city.

Judging from Tianyin’s actions, she should have given up on the idea of continuing to hunt this player down.

About a few minutes after Tianyin left, a gigantic blood red sword light swept straight across from the sky, then smashed directly into the center of the huge pit.

Rumble—!

The ground sank again, and as it sank, that player figure was also shrouded in the swirling dust that had been raised by the blood red sword light.

As roughly two hours went by, neither Tianyin’s figure nor the blood red sword light appeared here again.

After another several dozen minutes, the player who was supposed to be a “phantom”, the one named Yushan Lunjin, suddenly moved.

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“Pu—”

A mouthful of fresh blood sprayed violently out of his mouth. As Yushan Lunjin spat out that blood, dense cracks began to spread across what had still been an intact body, and then a large amount of blood seeped out along those fissures.

In just a few seconds, Yushan Lunjin had turned into a “blood man” in the truest sense.

“So ruthless, that little girl… or should I say, as expected of the battle instincts of a Throne-tier…”

If there had been other players present, they would have found that Yushan Lunjin’s HP bar was already infinitely close to empty.

“Mm… is this game really a game, or is this kind of pain…”

Letting out a groan of pain, Yushan Lunjin slowly took out a scroll from his System Inventory, one that was already dim and without luster.

When he saw this scroll that was practically on the verge of falling apart, a look of lingering fear flashed in Yushan Lunjin’s eyes.

“Good thing Boss Yunchou had told me in advance that this one from Dawn would be coming back and prepared a countermeasure for me ahead of time. What a pity, though, this is the one and only Pseudo-Divine Scroll in all of game time that can save my life…”

Shaking his head with a bitter smile, the scroll in Yushan Lunjin’s hand slowly turned into points of light. Those points of light gradually covered his body, and then the HP bar above his head began to rapidly recover at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Once his HP returned to the one third mark, it stopped moving. Even so, for Yushan Lunjin, who had already recovered a third of his HP bar, that state that had been infinitely close to death just now was gone.

“Next… I need to leave this place. According to Boss Yunchou, all the players over here are lapdogs of those aristocratic families and financial conglomerates, their deaths are not worth pity.”

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Muttering this to himself, Yushan Lunjin finally left the spot as well.

A few seconds later, in this huge pit, not another person could be seen.

At this time Tianyin seemed not to know that Yushan Lunjin had already managed to escape from her clutches. After carefully searching the surroundings for a while, she still came to the conclusion that the Legendary player had already run away.

“Ah… honestly, this is the first time I have ever seen an outsider manage to escape from my hands. Since when did Legendary outsiders have this kind of weird method?”

On her way back, Tianyin could not help grumbling.

Of course, it was only natural that Tianyin would be angry over this matter. After all, having an outsider run off right in front of her was something that, for Tianyin, was enough to make her question her whole life.

However, Tianyin was not the kind of person who collapses and cannot get back up after a setback. After grumbling at Samael the whole way, aside from a bit of frustration, her mindset had already returned to normal.

「Pft… but back to the point, Xiaoyin, why did you keep running back there over and over, you did not happen to think that phantom was the player, did you?」

Listening to Tianyin’s complaints, Samael’s voice in her mind felt to Tianyin as if she was covering her mouth and laughing in secret.

『Wuu… I don’t know either, I just instinctively decided that figure was very suspicious, so I swung at that figure several times… I just had that kind of feeling…』