Volume 1, Chapter 75 – Bingxue’s True Power

In the camp, the green-skinned goblins held their crude wooden weapons, wandering around aimlessly.

Because this place was a special area designed by the System for players to grind monsters and level up, the goblins inside, aside from a few leaders and the boss, all had extremely low intelligence.

You could say they were basically just puppets moving according to pre-set routines.

For that reason, when Tianyin followed behind Bingxue and Mengyao, sneaking their way to the entrance of the camp, none of the patrolling goblins noticed them.

Well… although it might also be because their heights were a bit too short…

“Wuu… ah-leh…”

Seeing how the goblins inside were scattered all over the place, Tianyin frowned with a troubled look.

“Xiaomengyao… the monsters are too spread out… if we attack like this, won’t we end up aggroing all of the goblins at once?”

Although hearing an NPC use professional gaming terms like “aggro” was surprising, for the carefree Xiaomengyao, this kind of thing wasn’t something she cared about at all.

“Master, there’s nothing I can do about that either… how about Master just go bait yourself a bit, pull all the aggro, and then just crouch with your head down to defend?”

That plan didn’t sound bad. After all, the EX-rank defensive divine skill, Hug-Your-Head Crouch Defense, was no joke. In a sense, even conceptual erasure-type skills couldn’t judge Tianyin as dead while she was using it.

So in other words, these green-skinned goblins couldn’t possibly break through Tianyin’s absolute defense while she was in Hug-Your-Head Crouch Defense.

“Eh… Xiaomengyao, aren’t you looking down on your Master too much? I’ll get mad, you know! I’ll really get mad!”

“Uu…”

The loli disciple gave her Master, who was puffing up like an angry kitten, a meaningful look. Her expression said it all, anyone could understand what she meant without words.

Meanwhile, Bingxue, who had been silently watching the two of them, turned her gaze back toward the goblin camp. After staring for a few seconds, she walked out from their hiding spot and headed straight toward the camp.

Yes.

The undead girl, Bingxue, just walked straight out expressionlessly.

“Waaahhhhhh—!”

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After Bingxue stepped out, the goblins, though stupid, weren’t so dumb as to ignore the undead girl who suddenly appeared in their sight. The nearest goblin let out a series of shrill gibberish cries, raised its messy weapon, and charged toward her.

“Eh-eh-eh-eh-eh, Xiaomengyao, Xiaobingxue… when did she run out there?!”

Because Tianyin had still been puffing up in anger, she hadn’t noticed Bingxue’s movements. So it wasn’t until the goblins started to get noisy that she finally realized what was happening.

“Master… are you an idiot? Xiaobingxue literally walked right past you just now, didn’t you see?”

“Eh? Really? Did she? Why didn’t I notice?”

At that moment, Xiaomengyao once again realized one of her loli Master’s biggest traits.

That is, while Tianyin was puffing up, she might look adorable, but she also unconsciously ignored everything happening around her.

In simple terms, she was too focused on whatever made her upset and subconsciously ignored all irrelevant things.

“Well, whatever. Anyway, Xiaomengyao, hurry and cover Xiaobingxue! She doesn’t even have a weapon right now, she looks super vulnerable!”

That was true. In Tianyin’s understanding, no matter how strong someone was, without a weapon, there was no way they could win against opponents who had them.

“Got it, I’ll go protect her now. But Master…”

“What?”

“If it gets dangerous, remember to hug your head and crouch, okay~”

“So-so-so naggy…! Shut up…! none of your business!”

“Pfft, Master’s puffing up again!”

Smiling, Xiaomengyao drew the sword hanging from her waist and ran toward Bingxue’s direction.

By that time, the closest goblin had already reached Bingxue. In Tianyin’s eyes, the undead girl merely opened her sky-blue eyes, blankly watching the goblin swing its weapon at her.

“Wuu… really… she’s not even defending… but fine, at this level, Xiaobingxue should be able to endure it. I’ll just heal her afterward…”

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Tianyin muttered to herself, already picturing the outcome. But just as she was about to finish her sentence, the undead girl moved.

Her arm, which had been hanging low, slowly lifted. Despite her movement being so slow, the goblin’s attack never landed.

Then, in that small, pale hand, a flower bud made of ice and snow formed quietly in her palm.

“This is…”

Seeing the icy flower bud in Bingxue’s hand, Tianyin instinctively felt a suffocating pressure, a chill that made her heart tremble.

At the same time, Xiaomengyao, who saw the same scene, showed a surprised expression, though she didn’t seem to feel that crushing pressure at all.

And in that very moment when the flower bud appeared, the goblin in front of Bingxue, whose weapon was mid-swing, suddenly stopped moving.

Yes. It stopped completely, motionless, as if time itself had come to a halt. Everything around them seemed to pause in place. The entire world appeared utterly still.

The eerie sight made Tianyin stare blankly at Bingxue, while Xiaomengyao, who had been rushing to help, halted in place as well.

The other goblins in the camp, too stupid to understand what was happening, kept charging toward the undead girl even as their frozen companions stood motionless.

Then, the surreal scene unfolded.

Bingxue’s long, sky-blue hair slowly turned into icy blue. Her clear, pure eyes,  as bright as the sky, also shifted into the same cold hue.

Frosty air swirled gently above the flower bud in her palm, and Bingxue simply stood there with her head lowered, gazing quietly at the flower as if she wanted to watch it bloom.

Around her, more and more goblins stopped in place. Some held their weapons mid-swing, some stared wide-eyed in terror, and some were even caught mid-leap, motionless in the air.

“…That’s… time stopped?”

Seeing this, Xiaomengyao’s face was full of shock, staring blankly at the dreamlike scene before her.

Not far away, Tianyin suddenly remembered something from the System’s documentation, time couldn’t be stopped in the game.

Yes, the System had clearly stated that even EX-rank ultimate forbidden spells couldn’t conceptually halt time. Time could not be stopped. But space… could be frozen.

So, the scene before her…

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“Bingxue… Xiaobingxue actually froze space itself?”

Unbelievable.

In Tianyin’s understanding, the seemingly dull, clueless Xiaobingxue possessed the power to freeze space itself.

That was… even more unbelievable than her own transformation into a loli.

“Wuu… so… so amazing…”

Muttering to herself, Tianyin couldn’t help but voice her honest feelings.

Yes, she didn’t even think about why Bingxue had such a bug-like ability. She simply felt, instinctively, that Bingxue was incredibly powerful.

Within just a few minutes, almost all the goblins in the camp had gathered around Bingxue, and all of them were stopped in place.

Bingxue’s icy blue eyes shifted slightly, and at that moment, the ice flower bud in her hand slowly bloomed.

Though it was made only of frost and snow, not real petals, the instant it bloomed it was more breathtaking than any real flower in the world.

All eyes were drawn to the flower in Bingxue’s hand, watching it open slowly.

None of them noticed that around Bingxue, snowflakes had begun forming out of thin air, gently drifting down onto the oblivious goblins.

Little by little, the flower finished blooming.

And at that very instant, Tianyin finally noticed that aside from herself, Xiaomengyao, and Bingxue, everything within sight had been frozen solid.

In other words, the moment Bingxue’s flower fully bloomed, everything in existence, except her allies, had been frozen.

“Wuu…”

The flower in her hand, which had bloomed so beautifully, also began to wither just as quickly. As it did, cracks began forming on the icy petals.

And as the flower cracked, everything that had been frozen, the goblins, the stone houses, the weeds growing in the corners, all began to crack as well.

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At first, only thin fractures appeared, but soon they spread outward like spiderwebs.

With a loud boom, the next instant, everything in the camp, except Tianyin, Xiaomengyao, and Bingxue, had vanished, leaving only barren ground and fragments of shattered ice.

“So… so… so amazing…”

In just a short moment, the monster nest the System had prepared for players was reduced by the undead loli Tianyin had picked up a week ago into nothing but…

Ice dust.

It looked like this monster nest had been annihilated… without leaving even a trace behind.

Author Note

3000 words. One 3000-word chapter per day from now on.

Translator Note

Uh… The author’s notes above… he meant there will be at least 3000 Chinese words per chapter starting from this chapter. If the chapter is translated to English, it would be around 1400-1600 words, like this chapter.

So… There might be no more short chapters less than 1000 words…

Usually it was only about 600-800 words, or rather, I just noticed it was short like that for the first 50 chapters only… No wonder I felt like I was getting slower in translating even though I was working with the same pace… I didn’t notice the total words per chapter had increased until the author brought it up in this chapter…

So, uh, the point is… more words means it would take more time and effort for me to translate…

But no worries, the price will remain the same 2 KitKats/chapter. However, the updates might slower than usual.

Thank you for your understanding.