Damn, this save file seemed ruined!
"My class is Proof of the King." Chu Ke improvised a class. "As my level rises, I can become immune to the vast majority of negative status effects."
"Huh?" The Priestess covered her mouth in surprise. "What a powerful ability. It really suits the image of a Hero."
Reality was not a game. Many negative status effects could stack and combine. Take the most basic example, poisoning: different toxins could stack together to produce a new poison that even the person who administered them might not be able to cure.
Not to mention that the Wasteland Continent, where the "Demon King" resided, was filled with decay everywhere. One might unknowingly suffer several negative status effects after taking only a few steps.
And when fighting powerful demons, one would also be afflicted with a potent negative status effect known as Malicious Curse.
Once those negative status effects could be ignored, the difficulty of defeating the Demon King would drop countless times over.
However, there was something the Priestess did not say.
The ability is indeed powerful, but it still can't compare to the utterly unfair Time Hero.
"Then, once I report this to the Holy Church, your title will most likely be King's Hero." The Priestess clapped happily. "Congratulations! Oh, I haven't even asked for your name yet."
"Chu Ke." Chu Ke gave his real name.
So they could actually grant a title like King's Hero? It seemed the Holy Church held far more power than the royal family.
"That's a special naming style. Easy to remember." The Priestess nodded and handed Chu Ke a heavy cloth pouch.
"There are twenty gold coins inside. According to the Divine Decree, this is the most assistance we can offer a Hero. Please set out upon your legendary journey!"
Chu Ke opened the pouch and looked inside. It was filled with gold coins slightly larger than one-yuan coins, each stamped with a wheat-ear pattern.
"However, not every Hero is the true Hero from the prophecy." The Priestess suddenly became serious. "Next, please head west to a place called Lake of Truth. On an island in the middle of the lake, there is a sword that only the true Hero can draw."
"May the Goddess bless you, Hero." The Priestess stepped aside gently and extended a hand toward the temple gates.
Mm, a classic test to distinguish the real Hero from the fake one. Chu Ke was not too surprised.
The next moment, all the priests and nuns came forward, reaching out to lightly touch the corners of Chu Ke's clothes. It was a ritual that symbolized lending him their courage and strength.
Surrounded by the crowd, Chu Ke struggled his way out of the temple.
The Priestess watched Chu Ke's departing figure and let out a sigh of relief.
He had finally left. If he stayed any longer, she really wouldn't be able to hold it together.
What was that thing? Something that could rebuke the Goddess's authority—was he really human? She should resign as soon as possible. It was too terrifying. She was going to be traumatized.
After leaving the gates, Chu Ke looked around.
This was a small medieval-style city-state, with cooking smoke drifting through the air and people coming and going. Everyone was busy with what they needed to do.
"Hmm, no one came to welcome me. Does that mean ordinary people don't care much about the prophecy of the Hero and the Demon King? Or are they simply not qualified to know about it?"
Based on his experience playing RPGs before, Chu Ke quickly found a blacksmith's shop and picked out an iron sword.
Along the way, he also bought some supplies, such as a map, water, food, and a backpack.
He spent forty silver coins, or 0.4 gold coins, which meant those twenty gold coins had considerable purchasing power.
After asking around, Chu Ke walked for about ten minutes before leaving the city. Worth mentioning was that the soldiers guarding the gates saluted him.
So people of this social class knew about the Hero?
Outside the city gates, vast grasslands stretched alongside the broad carriage road, and the breeze sent waves rolling through the grass.
"Time to get to work." Chu Ke took a deep breath of the sweet air of another world and called out, "Deep Light Red, come out!"
A panel similar to the one from before appeared out of thin air. The only difference was that a small gray plus sign had appeared after every attribute and skill.
That included Demon King's Mercy, which was already displayed as max level.
The description of his cheat said that he could gain points by defeating enemies and use them to add points to himself.
Chu Ke drew the sword he had just bought and turned toward a patch of grass not far away. There, a strange jelly-like sphere the size of a basketball kept bouncing about, with a grape-sized "core" floating inside it.
Different worlds might change, but slimes were eternal.
He just did not know whether there would be goblins too.
Chu Ke took three steps forward. Although he was on a fresh account now, his knowledge had not disappeared.
Facing the charging slime, Chu Ke swung his sword almost instinctively. The martial arts he had deduced before instantly became second nature.
The gleaming blade slid effortlessly into a tricky "weak point," splitting the "core" cleanly in two.
The next moment, the slime burst apart like a water balloon.
Slimes killed: 1 Available points +1
"Not bad. About the level of an ordinary adult male from Earth." Chu Ke nodded and added the point to his constitution.
In an instant, Chu Ke's constitution, including his strength, speed, and defense, doubled.
"I'm getting stronger pretty quickly. I just don't know what everyone else's stats are like. I have nothing to compare them with." Chu Ke lightly clenched his fist. "When I have time, I should learn some appraisal magic or something."
This world's attributes were probably level-based. As levels rose, attributes would increase as well. That slime just now had been no more than level one or two at most.
Thinking of that, Chu Ke grew excited. He had not expected to experience such a classic shonen-style journey in another world: leveling up, fighting monsters, making companions. Pretty cool!
"Let's see where I'm going next." Chu Ke casually stabbed his sword into the ground and was about to take out his map.
Ants killed: 177 Queen Ants killed: 1 Ant eggs killed: 820 Available points +998
"Holy shit!"
Chu Ke's pupils instantly dilated, and the hand he had extended froze in midair.
His current state was like when an ordinary person used cheats in a game to farm powerful items, accidentally entered the wrong value, and could not undo it.
"It's over. The save file's ruined."
In some unknown world, a young man had just left a game store, clutching a case containing a disc as if it were a priceless treasure.
"Hahaha, I got it! The newly released Another World Hero Legend!"
But just then, he noticed a child chasing a ball had wandered into the middle of the road up ahead.
It was painfully cliché. A large truck was barreling toward the child, about to hit him.
Amid the piercing screech of brakes, the young man moved instinctively and tackled the child out of the way.
He himself was struck hard by the truck and sent flying more than ten meters.
The noisy street instantly fell silent, as though the passersby had only then realized what had happened.
"Ahhhhhhh!!"
Piercing screams and running crowds.
"Someone died!"
"Call an ambulance!"
But just as everyone thought the young man was certainly dead, he twitched and actually stood up completely unharmed.
"Huh?" The young man felt himself all over. "I'm fine?"
How was that possible? He had clearly been sent flying so far by that truck.
He only remembered that, in that instant, he seemed to see a magic circle flash briefly, followed by... This route is full. Please switch routes or activate VIP before trying again (5\5)