The air was so silent that heartbeats were audible; the familiar warmth vanished abruptly, and for the first time, the shadow of death loomed with terrifying reality.
A few girls' screams shattered the frozen atmosphere, and only then did everyone realize that what they were seeing was not a dream.
Panic and fear filled every corner as the formation broke apart, yet one person performed an action completely contrary to the rest.
Buze Kritov suddenly drew his longsword and, with a fury beyond words, slashed at the monster that looked exactly like Grinya Loran.
Grinya's body underwent a twisted transformation, turning in the blink of an eye into a slender, hideous banshee that let out a piercing shriek.
During the moment Buze Kritov froze, two sharp claws were about to tear him apart!
Buze Kritov's expression turned grim as his white Life Star shone with light; the wind mingled with crimson flames, forcing back the aggressive banshee.
"To be able to freely change into human form, and use a shriek to temporarily incapacitate others..." Buze Kritov said through gritted teeth, "You are a Shapeshifting Banshee!"
Buze Kritov's words exploded like a clap of thunder among the freshmen.
"A Shapeshifting Banshee!"
"Isn't that the final boss of Wuxin Island?"
"Are we going to die too..."
No one knew who whispered that last sentence, but it plunged the group into a dead silence.
"Young Master Buze, can you win?" someone asked.
Buze Kritov stared intently at the Shapeshifting Banshee, his golden eyes radiating a majestic and holy light as he vowed:
"I will win!"
A small magic circle erupted from his palm, and in the center of the circle was a character radiating brilliant light.
Life Crown title: "Truth"!
Under the influence of the Life Crown, a golden boundary rose from beneath Buze Kritov's feet, enveloping both him and the Shapeshifting Banshee within it.
Inside this domain, Buze Kritov could maintain his peak state indefinitely, feeling neither fatigue nor pain.
This was originally his trump card prepared for Grinya Loran, but since the strength of a Shapeshifting Banshee could not be underestimated, Buze Kritov was forced to display this boundary named "Glory."
Within this boundary, he possessed absolute confidence in defeating the Shapeshifting Banshee!
After all, both he and the Shapeshifting Banshee were level 10, and there was little difference in their various attributes; at this time, the domain of the Life Crown would be enough to decide the outcome!
And seeing this golden boundary rise, the Shapeshifting Banshee indeed became flustered.
Buze Kritov felt somewhat fortunate that he was only facing one Shapeshifting Banshee.
In the past, when seniors reached the core of Wuxin Island, they had to face two level 10 banshees, but now he only needed to deal with one, which was undoubtedly much easier.
Furthermore, he had heard that the most difficult part of dealing with two banshees was that they had to be killed simultaneously; otherwise, the surviving banshee would evolve.
Although the evolved state only lasted for ten minutes, an evolved banshee could reach level 20, which was absolutely insane.
As his thoughts drifted further away, Buze Kritov shook his head to focus his attention back on the banshee.
The banshee's aura was steadily rising, and golden lights of "leveling up" began to continuously sprout from its body.
He froze for a moment.
"Am I seeing things?"
He rubbed his eyes in disbelief and looked at the banshee again.
The evolved banshee's temperament had become completely different; even though Buze Kritov was human, he could feel the nobility and perfection it involuntarily radiated.
This motherless thing actually evolved!
Buze Kritov's face stiffened as he turned his head slowly to look at the group of freshmen who had placed all their hopes on him, and then he slowly spat out two words:
"Run! Fast!"
...
"How did you guess?"
Buze Kritov's expression was dull, his voice raspy and low, yet filled with intense confusion and resentment.
She had obviously disguised herself so well, so why did this woman hesitate for not even a second before drawing her sword and severing her head?
Could it be because the human she disguised herself as had a grudge against her?
The banshee couldn't understand.
Grinya Loran still felt a lingering fear; she really hadn't expected that the Buze Kritov before her had been transformed from a banshee.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, the Great Evil God had acted decisively enough; before she could even react, the Evil God had already raised the sword and struck the enemy's vital point with a single blow!
A mere Shapeshifting Banshee actually dared to think it could deceive the eyes of a god?
How laughable.
Grinya Loran kept mocking the banshee's naivety in her heart.
"How did I guess?"
Lu Xun silently repeated the banshee's final words, then slowly raised his gaze to the head of the banshee's corpse.
There was a health bar that was nearly emptied.
When someone with a bright, obvious health bar over their head swaggered right up to my face and then asked me how I guessed they were an enemy...
Do you think I'm blind!
After killing this level 10 banshee, the Peerless Fencer's level finally reached level 10.
"Why did the experience only increase by such a small amount?"
Lu Xun looked at the experience bar in the upper right corner, which hadn't moved, his face showing confusion.
Curious, he opened the character panel and found that the character could no longer level up; in its place was a "Breakthrough" button.
Without a breakthrough, the character would not be able to level up regardless of how much experience they gained.
He remembered the NPC named Zephu Kano mentioning that when a character faced a level breakthrough, they had to gain the recognition of the Original God before a Life Crown would descend.
So he had to find the Original God to break through his level?
Lu Xun frowned, but soon relaxed.
He discovered that the character's breakthrough didn't require any recognition from the so-called Original God at all; it only required spending 60 Primogems.
As for what these Primogems were?
It certainly wasn't the kind of thing where you top up 648 to get 6480.
Lu Xun suddenly remembered that there seemed to be an item called Primogems for sale in the character shop.
He opened the shop and took a look.
Sure enough, they were for sale—white quality, 20 Source Crystals each, basically the same price as other potions.
If he needed 60, that would be 1200 Source Crystals.
Damn, that's expensive; it would use up more than half of his assets in one go. Luckily, he hadn't bought all experience potions earlier for the sake of convenience, or he would definitely be left high and dry with a bag full of experience potions right now.
After purchasing 60 Primogems, his account balance was down to only 500 Source Crystals.
He clicked on Breakthrough.
The character panel updated, and various statistics were significantly improved.
【True · Peerless Fencer: Grinya Loran (LV10)】
【Human · Female · 18 years old】
【Talent: 65】
【Life Star: Air-Piercing Sword Dance (Purple): The Peerless Fencer becomes untargetable and transforms into sword qi to continuously slash nearby enemies.】
【Innate Talent · Peerless: When the character enters 1v1 combat, all attributes increase by 20% (scales with character level breakthrough).】
【Life Crown Talent 1 · Duel: When the character enters 1v1 combat, they can identify the enemy's vulnerabilities; hitting a vulnerability deals double damage and increases movement speed (scales with character level breakthrough).】
【Background: ...】
The increase in various basic statistics aside, the appearance of the new Life Crown talent truly took Lu Xun by surprise.
Identifying vulnerabilities, hitting them to trigger double damage and increased movement speed...
This Peerless Fencer was simply the god of duels; not only were her values high, but even her mechanics were this insane.
This person named Grinya Loran was quite the stat-monster!
It was a pity that she was a bit demanding in terms of mechanical skill.
But it didn't matter; Lu Xun loved playing high-skill-cap heroes the most.
The satisfaction of engaging in a hearty battle with an enemy after frantically pressing three keys, and then typing "outplayed" in the public chat—some people would never understand the value of that.
Rate on N.U.
