Although the free world allows players to delete their accounts and practice again, there has never been anything like character inheritance or character reincarnation in the game settings. Even the most advanced ones, who possess god-level equipment and skills,
I have not received any preferential treatment in terms of deleting my account and retraining. Xueling Huanbing at this time is a perfect example. She has lost all weapons, equipment and skills and now has no relationship with a first-level newcomer in the novice village.
The only difference that remains on her is probably the character image that she has never changed, and the name of the ID on her head.
And this ID name has now become the most important thing she owns.
"...Who are you?"
"Oh, you probably don't know me. Anyway, I'm just an unknown person from a popular party. Unlike you, a big celebrity, there are a group of people who hear the news wherever you go..."
"Are you from Wings of Liberty?"
His eyes gradually became cold and sharp, and Xueling Huanbing, who was still sitting where he was, slowly spoke out in a cold voice: "Did Liangchen Meiyu send you here?"
"How could we be related to that kind of shabby guild?" Duzui Duxing shook his head with a grin: "Long before you guys started fighting around in the Sky City, I was already
He was sent to this place where nothing matters, and besides..."
"We have been here for so long, and we have never seen anyone from the Wings of Freedom come here." He looked at the woman's face with contempt: "You Wings of Freedom didn't seem to be doing much business here before.
That's right, the former ice and snow goddess."
"How they develop that guild has nothing to do with me." Xueling Huanbing's eyes became much clearer: "It has nothing to do with me now."
"Oh? Then why did you appear here...for some other reason?" Duzui Duxing, who was lying outside the window, raised his eyebrows above his eyes: "For example...a disk or something like that?"
"
"I do know what you are talking about."
Seemingly mentioning some eye-catching topic, Xue Ling Huan Bing's originally tense face gradually revealed an inexplicable smile: "And I can tell you that the disc has been taken away."
"If your mission is to capture the disk, you can give up now."
The silent silence lasted for a moment as the two people's eyes met outside and outside the window. The smile on the player named Duzui Duxing's face slowly disappeared. He looked at the woman's cold face as if frozen.
After a long while, he lowered his head and wiped his mouth: "Even if you have changed into what you are now, you are still as sharp and powerful as ever, Your Majesty the Dark Witch."
"That's not the case now." The woman sitting there tugged at the corners of her lips: "If you want to avenge someone, now is the best opportunity."
"I don't have any grudge against you, I just heard of your name." Duzui Duxing waved his hand in vain: "I heard that you have made some achievements with your bloody exploits.
...I don’t want to mess with you casually."
"..."
"Okay, okay, you can't talk nonsense, right?"
Looking at the other party's eyes that suddenly became cold again, Duzui Duxing stopped lying on the window sill: "The disk is gone, and there is no need to ask about the trial. You..."
"Just think of him as a drunkard who has been talking nonsense."
The staggering footsteps followed the player who claimed to be an alcoholic as he gradually left, and continued to extend deeper into the village road in the distance. Finally, together with the players who were still going in and out of this place, they disappeared into Carlo Village.
In the darkness, Xue Ling Huan Bing, who had been staring in that direction, then withdrew her extremely cold eyes, and at the same time, her shoulders gradually slumped: "Alas..."
"It seems you are in a lot of trouble."
"Hug, sorry."
The body shrank slightly, and the woman with white hair and shawl looked in the direction of Duan Qing with shrinking eyes: "I, I didn't expect it to be like this."
"You should follow my example and change your name."
Reluctantly placing the last crystal glass bottle in his hand on the alchemy table, Duan Qing clapped his hands and turned around: "It doesn't matter what you look like. At most, familiar people can recognize you, but
Things like names... By the way, how did you come up with the name of the Dark Witch?"
"..."
As if an unpleasant topic was mentioned, Xue Ling Huan Bing's expression began to become lonely. Duan Qing, sensing something was wrong, scratched the back of his head, but his desire to find a topic was blocked by the next moment.
Interrupted by the smile that appeared in front of him: "It's okay, it's just some small things. It's not easy to meet you, these are not important anymore..."
"Really?" Duan Qing blinked his eyes slightly embarrassed: "How about changing your ID now?"
"What if I change my ID and you don't recognize me anymore? I will call you by this name!"
"Okay then, let's... uh... I've finished sorting it out, and now I need to find a place for you to live..."
"Isn't it possible here?"
"Of course not—well."
Looking at the other person's watery eyes that had been looking at him, Duan Qing swallowed back what he just wanted to say: "Well... how about you sleep on the bed, I'll sleep on the floor."
"Yes, is it okay?"
"What's not allowed?"
"I-I mean...I wouldn't mind if the two of us squeezed in."
"Cough, cough, cough!"
The sound of a violent cough that was choked by saliva then sounded from the window of this small room. As Duan Qing staggered back, his figure gradually reflected on the other side of the window. He kept waving his hands and then retreated away with an embarrassed look on his face.
From the farthest place on the wooden bed, he looked at this woman whose temperament seemed to have changed drastically with extremely shocked eyes: "Well, it's better to go to bed quickly. It's been a hard day today."
"Even if I don't die from exhaustion, I'm afraid I will be scared to death by you in the end."
The sound of gradually becoming heavier breathing spread around the room as the two people turned their backs to each other, accompanied by the embarrassment that arose when the two people didn't know what to do and gradually turned into reality.
Silent and with a red face, Xue Ling Huan Bing finally took the lead to walk to Duan Qing, who had been sitting in the corner, and slowly put the quilt belonging to him on the bed on his body. The humility of pushing back and forth followed.
The sound echoed faintly in the night sky of the village, which was gradually becoming quiet. At the same time, there was another ambiguous fight between men and women. As a woman and a first-class trumpet, Xue Ling Huan Bing finally
Under Duan Qing's insistence, he slowly lay on the bed with the bedding set: "Well, let's talk about it tomorrow. I will definitely find a replacement set tomorrow..."
"No need, just take care of yourself first."
"This, this is taking care of yourself! And I also need to find a set of clothes of my own, and I also have to go out to do quests and level up... By the way, how did you become a magician? Do I also have to practice magic with you?
Teacher?"
"Practice a basket and go to bed first."
Slowly closing his eyes, Duan Qing, who was sitting next to the alchemy table, looked at the white-haired woman lying quietly on the bed with gentle eyes. The arm holding his chin with his hand then became heavier and heavier.
The feeling became skewed, and finally he fell on the wooden table filled with glass bottles as his consciousness gradually fell into sleep - sleep in the free world is one of the necessary survival steps for players, and for a long time
Characters who have not rested will gradually fall into a state of drowsiness under the forced simulation of the system. Forcibly waking up the spirit will not bring any benefit except bringing a series of abnormal negative states to the player character. On the contrary, it will accelerate this process due to the accumulation of fatigue values.
As soon as the simulation process was carried out. After careful preparation the night before, and leading a group of novice players to play a copy for a day, Duan Qing, who had not rested for a long time before, also became a victim of this setting.
, he was knocked down on the table by the system's forced sleep at the first time. Usually this time is used by players as a time to go offline and rest, but players who are forced to sleep may feel as if they are really asleep during this time.
Generally speaking, the player enters an unconscious state, and if he wants to wake up from this state, he can only rely on the player's own physical attributes and potential willpower: "Woo..."
"Woooooooo..."
"I-did I fall asleep? What time is it now?"
"Woooooooooooo..."
Low sobs that did not belong to him gradually echoed in his ears. Duan Qing slowly opened his eyes. His mind, which was not very clear due to falling into a deep sleep, swayed back and forth in his blurred vision.
Finally, it suddenly became clear as a certain picture caught his eye: "You, how did you..."
"Woooooooooooo..."
"You, why are you crying?"
Taking two steps to the edge of the wooden bed, Duan Qing slowly placed his carefully stretched out hands on Xue Ling Huanbing's tear-stained cheeks: "Didn't I tell you to sleep well? Why did you..."
"me..."
Shrinking her shoulders towards the bed, Xue Ling Huan Bing looked at the man in front of her with her shining teary eyes: "I'm afraid."
"What are you afraid of?"
"I'm afraid you'll leave."
Her body twitched twice as she cried, and Xue Ling Huan Bing rarely showed a weak expression that she had never shown before: "I'm afraid that when I wake up, you, you will be gone... I'm afraid that this is all
A dream, I'm afraid..."
"Didn't I tell you that I wouldn't leave? Why don't you believe me..."
"I'm afraid you're going to leave me again."
After sobbing and saying this, Xueling Huanbing pulled Duan Qing, who was still comforting herself, to the bedside: "I have always been alone...alone...I'm afraid...
That day...that day...wow ah ah ah!"
The sudden loud cry echoed around the room with the final burst of Xue Ling Huan Bing, and then became dull as she buried her head in Duan Qing's arms. He had not moved for a long time and was so expressionless.
Patting the other person's back expressively, he let the crying sound that kept passing through his soul gradually spread into the distant night sky.
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"Since that day you abandoned me, I left Wings of Freedom."
The passage of time, which seemed to last like a year, became much faster as the sky became brighter. At the same time, the crying that kept ringing in the ears gradually stopped, and Xueling Huanbing, whose mood gradually returned to stability, also relaxed.
Holding each other's hands tightly, lying in Duan Qing's arms, he said quietly: "Of course the same goes for Tianxiang Company, and so does the Chu family."
"After something like that happened, I can no longer trust them." Her voice still contained the calmness after crying: "So... I moved back to the room we lived in before."
"...Those devices are still there?"
"I convinced league officials to keep the equipment for me."
Gently sniffing his nose, Xueling Huanbing continued in a low voice: "But under the circumstances at that time, it was inevitable for me to quit the guild and the team, so the subsequent League Cup and other professional leagues
, and I will not participate again."
"...Giving up another championship? The alliance has made another fortune."
"If this can be called earning."
The corners of his eyes curled up slightly, and Xue Ling Huan Bing looked up at the bright sky outside: "After what happened in Sky City, not many players will pay attention to that qualifier. Everyone is
They flocked to the city floating in the sky, trying to catch a glimpse of the highest level of magic during the ancient magic empire."
"The Sky City...is open now?"
"Of course, just after the big version change."
Eyelashes covered with teardrops brushed twice in the air, and Xue Linghuan Bing, who was nestled in Duan Qing's arms, twisted her body: "Because of your activity, the Tower of Tyran finally disappeared, and the Council of Mages finally became that
Master of the city, and declares it... to be a neutral city open to all."
"Maybe it's because the plot changed too quickly, and then the free world went through a server shutdown update." She paused slightly when she said this: "The outage lasted for a long time, probably lasting for nearly three months.
About a week later, the game world was reopened, which is now the Grand Master Era."
"The Era of the Grand Master?" Duan Qing asked in confusion, "What is that? Is it the name that the Council of Mages came up with while patting their foreheads?"
"No, the players named it themselves." Xueling Huanbing shook her head and replied: "Because...since that version update, many players have found that it has become very easy to learn skills and learn magic.
The skill of integrating sword energy and magic has become less difficult than before, and it is no longer a high-end skill that only professional players can master."
"An era in which masters emerge in large numbers and everyone knows martial arts is called the era of great masters."
Xue Ling Huan Bing, who stopped her sobbing forcefully, raised her head and looked at her with serious eyes: "You are the one who caused all this to happen..."
"You should know what caused it, right?" (To be continued)
This chapter has been completed!