Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Ren Suo had seriously considered why he should choose ’Over My Dead Body.’
He knew that the gas within the Mini-World Ga Console were extraordinary. Before playing, the only thing he could roughly understand about a ga from its introduction was its general content—which was essentially useless for making a choice.
In this situation, I had to rely on other data to help evaluate the differences between gas.
For ’Assassin’s Bloody Banquet,’ I had received an ’extraordinary’ score of 80 and was rewarded with 15 rit Points. For ’If You Are Strong, Climb Ten Thousand ters,’ I had also received an ’extraordinary’ score of 80 but was rewarded with 24 rit Points.
If one ignored the differences in ga types, then for the sa score, evaluation, and star-level difficulty, ’If You Are Strong, Climb Ten Thousand ters’ indeed offered more rit Points than ’Assassin’s Bloody Banquet.’ I also clearly felt that the forr was more challenging than the latter.
Thus, I arrived at an unverifiable conclusion: within the sa star level, gas with higher maximum rit Point rewards were more difficult.
Hence, the difficulty of ’Infiltration: Chapter One,’ which had a maximum reward of 100 rit Points, would be higher than ’Over My Dead Body: Chapter One,’ which had a maximum reward of 80 rit Points, even though both were two-star difficulty gas.
Excluding ’Slaughter Dungeon,’ which I had directly given up on due to its extrely low cost-effectiveness, the less challenging ’Over My Dead Body’ seed like my best entry point for trying two-star gas.
Otherwise, if I chose a ga that was too difficult to complete, it would an this month’s free ga opportunity would be wasted. Without earning rit Points, even if there were discounts next ti, I might not be able to afford anything.
Because acquiring the key had cost 1 point, I now had only 25 rit Points. I didn’t believe that amount was enough to buy any significant ga. The gas from last month were already discounted at 50%, yet I still couldn’t afford them, only managing to buy a mini-ga like ’If You Are Strong, Climb Ten Thousand ters.’
Even if I encountered more discount promotions, they might not offer more than 50% off. If the discounts were only 10% or 20%, I would likely have to watch helplessly and wait for next month’s free ga refresh to try earning rit Points again.
’Slaughter Dungeon’ was the safest option but had the lowest cost-effectiveness. ’Infiltration: Chapter One’ was the riskiest but had the highest potential benefits.
As a traditional citizen of the Mysterious Country, steeped in the doctrine of moderation, Ren Suo chose the middle road with ’Over My Dead Body.’
What, do I seem too cowardly, not like a protagonist?
Well... after obtaining the Mini-World Ga Console, I still contemplated becoming a civil servant, which shows my lack of ambition. My family wasn’t very rich or noble, but we were an ordinary household, without ailnts or pains. Although I wasn’t a standout person in my classes during school, I always attended good high schools, so I never faced school bullying. I also never had a girlfriend break up with for a rich second-generation heir because I was poor—first, I would need a girlfriend, of course.
However, I didn’t consider this being cowardly, but cautious—well, the aning was still the sa.
"Choose ’Over My Dead Body!’"
’Player has selected the free Chapter. This month’s free Chapter of "Over My Dead Body" is "Chapter One: Annals," with a ga difficulty: two-star.’
’This free Chapter has a difficulty of two stars, with an exclusive reward of "Strong Heart Technique."’
’This ga Chapter playti ends on April 31 at 23:59:59. After this ti, the ga will automatically be deleted.’
Upon entering the ga, Ren Suo imdiately felt the prestige of a ga that not only offered nurous rit Points but was also split into Chapters: like ’Assassin,’ it had an opening CG.
"Late Eastern Han Dynasty. Eunuchs held sway over the governnt, imperial relatives wielded power, and prominent families dominated all regions, leaving the common people unable to sustain their livelihoods..."
"In A.D. 184, the Yellow Turbans’ uprising erupted, shaking the capital..."
"This war, which lasted four years, not only depleted the last vestiges of the Han imperial family’s resources but also led to local warlords carving out their own territories..."
"In A.D. 189, Young Emperor Liu Bian ascended the throne, and the battle between the imperial relatives and the eunuchs intensified. Grand General He Jin died in the Imperial Palace. Before his death, he had summoned Dong Zhuo’s army into Luoyang to control the court. That sa year, Dong Zhuo deposed Liu Bian, installed Liu Xie as a puppet emperor, and declared himself Chancellor, monopolizing governntal authority."
"In A.D. 190, eighteen feudal lords ford the Eastern Alliance Army, clashing fiercely with Dong Zhuo’s forces at Hulao Pass, with neither side gaining a clear advantage. When Dong Zhuo’s army moved to Chang’an, the lords, each harboring their own ambitions and differing opinions, caused their alliance to fracture and their forces to scatter."
Ren Suo watched the ink painting depicting the fierce battle and nodded slightly. Could this ga be a strategy ga? Like choosing a lord in ’Romance of the Three Kingdoms’ to rule all under heaven?
He was well acquainted with the late Eastern Han Dynasty period, when the realm was divided into three warring states and beacon fires of war burned incessantly, not only from gas but also from TV dramas and comics.
However, the visual style abruptly transford from a heavy sense of history to a horrifying spectacle of ghosts and ghastly figures as the narration continued: "However, when Dong Zhuo led the Western Liang army out of Chang’an, he not only forced the civilians to leave and burned the city, causing countless deaths, but he also desecrated tombs and destroyed all the imperial mausoleums of the Han Dynasty!"
"Emperor Guangwu of Han, using the art of aligning Heaven and Earth, summoned teors from beyond the skies to annihilate all demons and ghosts, reclaiming the Han territories. Afterwards, he realigned the Dragon Veins of the Central Plains, using the Han imperial mausoleums as the heart of an array and the Dragon Veins as its channels. Utilizing the will of Heaven, the energy of Earth, and the great power of humanity, he sealed the Spirit Veins of the Central Plains, thereby suppressing the birth of all demons at their source."
"Now, with the imperial mausoleums destroyed and the Dragon Veins in chaos, the great array has failed, and the Spirit Veins have re-erged in the Central Plains. The resurrection of demons is imminent, and the heroes of the world will also benefit from the Spirit Veins. Henceforth, the world may descend into dark ages like those of the Shang, Qin, and Han Dynasties, with demons sowing chaos with their mana, and heroes battling for dominion over the people with their imnse power..."
"But Emperor Guangwu had foreseen this and already prepared a counterasure."
"At the dawn of the Han restoration, to perpetuate the dynasty and its imperial lineage, Emperor Guangwu established the Yuntai Pavilion. He assigned twenty-eight generals to gather all destroyed cultivation teachings. As the Spirit Veins were suppressed, the practice of cultivation throughout the land diminished, and practitioners beca no different from ordinary mortals. Profound teachings beca absurd legends that gradually disappeared, and the entire Cultivation System of cultivators and demons collapsed."
"If the Spirit Veins were to revive, it would an the imperial mausoleums were damaged, the Dragon Veins disturbed, and the Han Dynasty in turmoil. For this reason, Emperor Guangwu located the descendants of the Marquis of Champion from the Huo family, sealing within their bloodline the Yuntai Pavilion Cultivation thods and setting three Locks on their lineage:
First, they must defend the Han Dynasty to the death and not interfere with political power;
Second, without violating the first condition, they must eradicate demons to the death;
Third, without violating the previous two conditions, they must continue their family lineage.
Violating any one of these would trigger the curse of the Champion Bloodline, and the Locks would beco even more stringent!"
"Now, the hidden descendants of the Huo family, with the reawakening of the Spirit Veins, have awakened the talents... and mission hidden deep within their bloodline."
The ga CG ended there, and an input box popped up:
"Please enter the family surna: Huo."
The default is Huo... Ren Suo thought for a mont and then naturally changed the surna to ’Ren’.
"Please enter the na of the first Family Head: **"
Based on the martial arts novels he had read, he input ’Woxing.’ That was indeed the most imposing Ren Family na I’d ever heard. He had once considered changing his na to Ren Woxing when he was in the third grade of elentary school, until his father, picking up a feather duster, had told him, "You want to be called Ren Woxing (Ren I-Do-As-I-Please)? Then I, your father, will be called Ren I’ll-Beat-You."
Ren Woxing was subdued by Ren I’ll-Beat-You, and the plan to change his na was aborted.
The screen changed to show a green mountain with more than ten graves. Three young n were kneeling before the tombs, burning paper money.
The handso and robust youth kneeling in the middle, nad ’Ren Woxing,’ said, "Second Brother, Third Brother, stop crying. We are the only ones left in the Ren Family now. We must shoulder our responsibility and fulfill our mission."
"Mission... mission?!" The third brother, Ren Feifan, wiped his nose and cried, "Fulfill the mission, fine! But why did Father, Mother, Grandfather, Grandmother, Uncles all have to die so tragically!?"
"Third Brother, recall our inherited knowledge," the second brother, Ren Changsheng, sobbed once and slowly cald down. "This is the curse of the Champion Bloodline. Those born with the Champion Bloodline possess imnse cultivation talent and a pure body. In an era when the Spirit Veins revive, they can rapidly beco powerful Qi Refiners."
"However, a true pure body is almost ’Joining the Way’; we are rely close to it. When we surpass twenty-four years of age, that is when the pure body is achieved. The mont we co into contact with Spiritual Energy, our bodies will be torn apart instantly... not even an inch of flesh or bone will remain, only a pool of blood."
"The Champion Bloodline is both favored by Heaven and Earth and cursed by Destiny."
Ren Feifan burst into tears once more.
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