Zhang Yong jumped through the gate, but he was not greeted by a green land. On the contrary, it turned out that the gate opened in the middle of the sky.
His breathing was quickening as the pressure around him decreased. Falling into this vast expanse was frightening, as if time had congealed in his barely audible scream. With his heart pounding in his chest, he quickly realized that he had to protect himself. Zhang Yong tried desperately to spread his wings, but they did not work. His soul energy is not activated
He always wanted to free fall, but not to the point of dying. His eyes narrowed in the face of the wind and he turned around, searching for something, anything to save himself. He did not realize what had happened until he fell to the ground. Dust was rising in a curtain around the place where he fell.
When the dust settled the area was in ruins, with a crater the same size as a human in the middle
He slowly extended his hands, placed them on the sides of the hole he was lying in, and lifted himself up
"What the hell happened?"
Zhang Yong got up from the hole. The hole was two meters deep. However, when he lifted himself out of it, the ground pushed him up. The ground was like a spongy mass and pushed him upwards. The ground repaired itself. Zhang Yong then gently landed on it.
Zhang Yong touched the ground several times but it was solid
"How did this happen? Uni where are you?"
(No need to call me, I'm here)
The sound came out behind Zhang Yong, and when he turned around, in front of him was a large, human-like figure with a translucent blue color and long hair, but his appearance was closer to a girl.
(There's no need to keep staring like this. This is my new appearance after the most important thing is..... Did your eyes have fallen thirty centimeters below my face now)
Zhang Yong scratched his head and turned it the other way with a little embarrassement "Sorry, but I'm just a little impressed like this."
The figure sighed and snapped his fingers, then a window appeared in front of Zhang Yong and with it a small tower a meter and a half tall rose, and above it floated a ball radiating pure blue light.
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Difficulty: S
Description: Battle of the Defense Tower
Required:
Protect the small tower from destruction by waves of monsters under the following conditions:
No soul energy
No skills
No treatment
No supernatural weapons
Duration: none
Equivalence:???
Failure: When the ball is destroyed, the host and his soul will be automatically erased from existence
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"This is very easy. Are you sure this will work for me like you said?"
Yuni nodded her head in confirmation, from their conversation last night, Zhang Yong was complaining about his weakness so Yuni came to him with a solution and so far he did everything she asked.
Zhang Yong smiled lightly at the task and then a dagger was thrown beside his foot
"What's up with this dagger?"
(This is what you will use. Time here passes faster here than outside. Three months here are equal to one month abroad. When you finish the challenge here, you will be automatically transferred to a different place, and the type of wave in each place varies according to the region. Even if you die, you will be automatically returned next to the ball, and therefore you Almost immortal as long as you don't destroy the ball, you have ten seconds to prepare)
As Yuni said her words, a counter appeared in the area above Zhang Yong, it was counting backwards
"Just wait like this, what do you mean I'm moving to a different place?"
But Yuni did not answer him, but rather disappeared from the place. Zhang Yong bent down and picked up the dagger with his right hand.
"Since the mission is like this, all I have to do is complete it."
As the timer was about to expire, Zhang Yong assumed a fighting stance
3...2....1
Time ran out, and blue gates appeared as far as the eye could see surrounding him
Green creatures resembling humans, but with a rotting, toxic smell, began to emerge. They were carrying swords in their hands, yet they were walking slowly.
Zhang Yong smiled as he looked at them, "This will be easy."
Zhang Yong raised his hand and yet nothing happened
"Oh shit, I forgot that spirit energy doesn't work here."
With that, Zhang Yong held the dagger in his hand and quickly took off
He had stabbed ten of them at once, and even without spirit energy his stats were already more than enough to deal with them
He looked behind him and was shocked by what he saw. The monsters he had stabbed were still walking towards the ball. Zhang Yong turned around but was stabbed in the waist by a sword.
However, he rushed and hit the bodies with his fist, throwing them away. However, they rose as if nothing had happened
"Can't these bastards die?"
Zhang Yong took the sword from his waist, carried it, and cut the three of them in half. However, the sword broke into fragments, leaving only the hilt in his hand.
Zhang Yong dropped the handle and grabbed the dagger in one hand, holding his wound with his other hand as he bled out
Zhang Yong looked at the monsters he had cut off. They were still crawling and reassembling their bodies. One of the monsters approached the ball
"no!"
Zhang Yong threw the dagger at the monster's head, moved his foot to run towards the ball, and one of the monsters he cut stabbed his leg muscle, causing him to limp.
"F*ck"
Zhang Yong continued running on one foot towards the ball
He approached the monster falling on the ground and was amazed at what he saw
"He's dead, that means he's not dying, or rather I'm not hitting his weak spot, the head."
Knowing now what he had to do, he picked the dagger from the monster's head and shot him as the living dead
"Here I am"
Zhang Yong threw his body forward as if he was about to fall, and in an instant he pressed his foot to the ground and lunged, breaking through two heads at once.
He took out the dagger from the two heads and proceeded to pierce the heads in a straight line, leaving the crystal behind him
Before he fell to the ground, one of the undead walked over Naoto's injured foot, causing the foot to become infected with poison in a direct way and hitting a nerve in Zhang Yong's head in pain, causing him to let out a pained sound in the place. Suddenly, the monsters changed their path, and instead of the ball, it headed towards Naoto.
"Now you're running towards me."
Zhang Yong stood on one foot. His foot had now turned green and was in severe pain. Naoto held his dagger forcefully and began to cut with difficulty before it turned around and dropped him to the ground again.
He felt something pierce his thigh, the feeling of his flesh being scratched to the bone.
At the same time, Zhang Yong felt other teeth all over his body, now, through the pain he felt, he screamed and a wave of undead pushed him onto his back while his throat trembled. Immediately, the undead were tearing him apart. His screams rose everywhere. Zhang Yong tried to push away the undead, but it was difficult. Every wound on his back and the back of his body had been torn and rotted by the poison. He screamed and cried, but that only made more of the undead. They jump on him, seeking a bite of his flesh
As a last attempt, Zhang Yong hit one of them in the head and managed to flip over onto his back and began crawling away on his back, kicking his foot away from them.
"No!...Go away."
As his crying screams grew louder, he crawled on his back before more of the undead crawled onto his body. The monsters sank into his stomach, tearing at his skin and flesh until Zhang Yong could see his intestines and entrails being devoured. He felt a sharp pain that nearly severed his connection to reality. The loss of blood was making him lose his senses. Awareness, but the pain makes him wake up again. The monsters did not focus only on the intestines, but rather expanded to include the rest of his body
Zhang Yong's neck and face were bitten off, and the monsters burrowed their way into his lungs and digestive system. All of his organs were devoured, leaving Zhang Yong as a pile of minced meat, drowning in a pool of blood.
Zhang Yong couldn't understand why he was still alive yet, but all he felt was pain. He had been eaten whole and his right eye had already been gouged out and the skin on his face had been peeled off and his bones had been necrotic. The last sight he saw was the scene from inside the mouth of the living dead devouring his left eye.
.
.
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With his left eye being devoured, darkness filled the place around him and he felt a few seconds of tranquility. When he opened his eyes, he was sitting, leaning on the small tower, while watching the gathering of monsters in front of him.
Zhang Yong grabbed his throat and chest and began to search his body
"I...I'm still alive."
He was dripping with a cold sweat and the dagger was still in his hand. He held his shoulders with a terrified look on his face.
"That feeling..."
Zhang Yong looked terrified. Even the shock from the giant ape was not worth any of this. This was death. Zhang Yong was human, and like any human, he was afraid of death. It was the end of everything. Fearing death is one thing and experiencing death is another thing.
Seeing the undead coming in his direction, he stood still and held out his dagger
His thoughts were scattered, but he had already realized that if he did not want to experience this feeling again, he had to end this wave quickly
Zhang Yong rushed towards them and stabbed their heads one by one. He was jumping and dodging the attacks, and began to understand a little the pattern of their attacks, but he could not dodge all the attacks. His shoulder was pierced by a sword from behind. He turned towards the monster that hit him and stabbed its skull.
"Fuck"
Zhang Yong cursed as he took out the sword from his wound. He was angry and as he unleashed his anger, the monsters once again turned to him and attacked him. They were more than he could handle, so he was devoured again and died.
He reappeared next to the small tower. He leaned on the tower and stood still, wiping the bottom of his chin from the sweat as he panted.
"It is difficult to avoid attacks from behind without soul energy or even a single skill."
Zhang Yong tightly grabbed his dagger and charged back towards the monsters
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Although time passes faster in this world than outside, the cycle of day and night still operates
Evening came quickly. Zhang Yong was standing exhausted, his back bent forward and his arms hanging towards the ground with the dagger. There were only three living dead left in front of him.
He quickly advanced and extended his arm and pierced the head of the first while the second stabbed that arm. Naoto kicked him away, jumped over him and stabbed his skull while the third was advancing towards the ball. Zhang Yong threw his knife and pierced his neck.
Standing up, Zhang Yong slowly walked towards the small tower and sat down under it, leaning his back on it and catching his breath
"Damn, I never thought it would take this long."
Zhang Yong cursed as he took a quick breath and heard Yuni's voice again
(The first wave has been successfully cleared, since it is night time you will be given three hours of rest)
Zhang Yong looked at the window and couldn't help cursing, thinking, or even speaking anymore. He was exhausted, so he issued the order through his thoughts.
'Yoni, can't you at least give me food?'
(Have you not noticed, host, that you do not feel hungry, because you will never feel it? When you die, you will return to the same state in which you entered. The thing that will not change is your fatigue and your knowledge)
'Still.....at least give me the box.'
With Zhang Yong's request, he attended to the box that Yuan Ling had provided. Zhang Yong unwrapped the handkerchief and opened the box, and was amazed at what he saw.
"Dumpling? And also baozi and rice mixed with vegetable and meat broth. She must have gotten the recipe from my mother, but when?"
Zhang Yong looked at the napkin and there was a phrase written on it, "Thank you."
Naoto smiled at this act of kindness and started eating the food
"Foolish, but I think she knew I was going to be gone for a while."
Unexpectedly, it was simple. It wasn't like his own cooking, but it was somewhat acceptable
He raised his gaze to the sky and smiled. He felt that his life had meaning, different from his previous life. In this life, he had parents, friends and brothers, and he was able to achieve something that he had wished for in his previous life. There was nothing he lacked now, and all What he felt was happiness, but to protect that happiness he had to become stronger, stronger than anyone
After the meal was over, he collected the box and put it back in the storeroom
"Now that we have eaten, I must now understand what I gathered during this day. I have already died more than fifteen times, according to my observation. When I get angry, I become afraid, or even in pain. The monsters change their direction and target me, which raises two possibilities. Either they sense danger when I react, and the other possibility is that they feed. On feelings, which attracts them to me. Putting that aside, I take a long time fighting them. When I stab their skull, I take a long time to extract the dagger, which makes me put in unnecessary effort. Since they are going to die, their necks are injured. What if instead of stabbing, I change to wounding?
"I think this is effective."
Zhang Yong started to yawn, now that his stomach was full and he was exhausted, he slowly closed his eyes and fell into sleep easily.
Suddenly he felt wind hitting his face. He opened his eyes and there was a living dead person in front of him. The strange thing was that the color of his skin was red, different from before.
He grabbed the dagger and hit his neck with it, killing him. He quickly got up and was already surrounded by a large number of the same type of monster. He quickly rushed in and started cutting their necks one by one until he had finished the area near him.
'This is difficult, even if it is easier to kill them this way, this is like restricting my movements.'
He was penetrating all of their throats and yet it was as if the movements were in his mind but his body was not responding
Suddenly an arrow pierced his shoulder from behind. He turned around and there was a row of green living dead with eyes shining like jade, carrying a bow and a bag of arrows. One of the monsters grabbed the arrow from his holster, mounted it quickly and shot an arrow towards Zhang Yong's head. Zhang Yong moved the dagger vertically and tried to cut off the arrow, but The arrow crossed next to the dagger and the arrow pierced Zhang Yong's head, killing him
Zhang Yong returned to the starting point, held his forehead and started
Rolling back and forth on the ground while screaming from the pain of the injury
After the pain eased a little, he stood up again, and this time he held the dagger in reverse, with the blade pointing outward, like murderers and assassins
"This way I can move more smoothly."
He cut their necks, and unlike the previous time, his movement was flowing like a river and rushing like a tiger. Within a few hours, he had already eliminated many of them, and all that remained was the lone archer now. With the morning light shining behind him, he was standing, his body thick with wounds and blood dripping from it, and ten... Arrows hung inside his body, covering his back, chest, stomach, and feet. The monster threw an arrow at its head, and Zhang Yong threw his dagger at the monster's head, and both of them hit their target.
Zhang Yong returned to the side of the tower and sighed as he caught his breath
(The wave has been completed successfully. You have an hour to rest. Take another dagger with you)
As Yuni said her words, a dagger fell on the ground next to Naoto, similar to the first, an ordinary dagger without any features, with a wooden handle.
"Impossible"
Zhang Yong lay on his back, breathing hard, and the daylight was shining on him. He was unable to move
"I've died more than twenty times more than this and I might really go crazy, even when I'm at rest they're mobbing me, well just in case I'll engrave my name on the pillar, in case I end up going crazy."
He grabbed the dagger and carved his name. He carved the name "Heigai Naoto" on the pillar. Then Zhang Yong thought for a moment before getting up again, "I have one hour. I can't keep dying like this indefinitely. I'm human and I can't get used to death, but I can ignore it."
As he said these words, the last word rang in his mind
'I found it... Ignore him, they attack when I show any emotional reaction, so the best option is to ignore those emotions.'
He picked up the dagger, crossed his legs, and closed his eyes, trying to clear his mind and achieve the state of mental stability required to control his emotions.