No Power to Fight Back

Although "Lost a Leg" possessed top-tier operational skills among players, he hadn't created a chasm-like gap between himself and professional players.

His character was simply too strong.

When a Boss's performance far surpassed that of players, even the top players acknowledged by netizens had to practice hundreds or thousands of times, memorizing the Boss's attack patterns, before they could achieve the feat of defeating a Boss without taking any damage.

Generally, to defeat a powerful Boss for the first time, you either need a character whose performance is on par with the Boss, or you need to be able to challenge it repeatedly.

"Lost a Leg" possessed both.

"Lost a Leg" was originally a top player of [Kamen Rider], but through a chance encounter, he advanced to the unique hidden profession of [Godhead Collector].

The characteristic of this profession was that after defeating a Boss of Lv150 or higher, he could seize the power of a God and store it by consuming the item [God's Mark].

When he used a [God's Mark] from his inventory, he could unleash Boss-level power.

Even though each Boss defeated only dropped ten [God's Mark] items.

This was still an outrageously powerful characteristic.

This was because it was equally effective against wild Bosses that refreshed weekly and Bosses in dungeons.

At the same time, when combined with the characteristics of his prerequisite profession, [Kamen Rider], the two formed a perfect chemical reaction, completely turning "Lost a Leg" into an existence more terrifying than a Boss.

This was because he could transform into [Kamen Rider·Final Form] using [God's Mark].

This way, when he sustained a fatal injury, he wouldn't die directly but would revert to his initial form with full health.

In other words, when facing a powerful Boss that could instantly kill players upon first encounter, "Lost a Leg" had as many lives as the number of [God's Mark] items in his inventory.

He could completely use "trash cards" to figure out the Boss's patterns, then choose a counter-effective [God's Mark] to activate his Final Form and target the opponent.

In terms of stats and mechanics, he was no longer inferior to those World Bosses.

It was highly abnormal for such a powerful hidden profession to appear in an online game primarily focused on profit.

Therefore, "Lost a Leg" hid his special profession, rejected high-paying offers from major guilds, and avoided excessive interaction with other players. He simply remained a lone wolf, quietly amassing wealth, making a small profit of several hundred W.

Because of this, he still doubted the authenticity of this world.

Although the entire world spoke Chinese, and the background culture and history were only developed up to over 2000 years ago, and just a few continents had given rise to hundreds of intelligent races with reproductive isolation.

But...

After all, there were gods, who knew?

With that thought, "Lost a Leg" looked up at the deity in the sky.

The Vermilion Bird in its second phase was precisely the form that showcased the terror of a World Boss.

While it possessed numerous evasion skills, it also had high fire damage reduction from its body, a high chance of inflicting Debuffs on the upper three pages upon contact, dealt high damage AOE skills with every attack, and had an unavoidable, range-limited [Soul Burn] effect that increased in damage over time and required regular clearing.

It could only be said that beings at the God tier could no longer be simply described as "annoying monsters."

And "Lost a Leg's" method of dealing with it was very simple.

He first used the [Spirit Calming Needle] to control the Vermilion Bird, nullifying its evasion skills, then followed up with a Rider Kick from [Final Form Poseidon]. Afterward, he used the Shadowfolk's characteristic to create distance, and if he was hit, he would drink the cash-shop item [Regret Pill] to remove the debuffs.

After a combo like that, the players watching from below didn't know what to say, only feeling that this Vermilion Bird seemed much weaker than they remembered.

Under "Lost a Leg's" barrage of "unscrupulous" items, the Vermilion Bird couldn't even unleash its ultimate move when it was low on health. It burned out the golden flames on its body and was forced into its final form.

As the flames covering the sky dissipated, a humanoid figure slowly landed.

Its skin was fiery red, adorned with wings, and its golden pupils were stained with a layer of black scars.

It looked intimidating, but its stats had dropped to a level comparable to that of a normal player.

Veteran players knew that as soon as the Vermilion Bird's second form was defeated, they could start celebrating.

"I'll use this to deal with you for the last time."

The duration of [Ember] was only ten minutes left, "Lost a Leg" decided to have one last blast of fun, so he took out [God's Mark Hou Yi] from his inventory and inserted it into the card slot on his waist.

"Disaster of ten suns, one arrow ends it all, nine suns fall, light reappears!"

"Hou Yi Form!"

As the Kamen Rider's chant sounded, the sky-blue Poseidon armor on "Lost a Leg's" body transformed into the Hou Yi armor, imprinted with nine suns and coiled with a true dragon.

He leaped up, and a longbow drawn to a full moon appeared behind his body, shooting himself towards the Vermilion Bird in mid-air.

"Sunfall!"

As their bodies crossed paths, "Lost a Leg" landed on one knee, freezing in place.

The humanoid Vermilion Bird slowly raised its head, the black scars in its eyes gradually receding.

It looked at the sun in the sky, wanting to reach out and touch it, but withdrew its hand halfway, letting out a wry smile, and said "Thank you" to the Kamen Rider behind it.

The next moment, the Vermilion Bird's figure transformed into three dazzling streams of light, flowing into "Lost a Leg" and two other players in his team, respectively.

"Lost a Leg's" experience points, which were originally over 20,000, instantly surged to 75.2 million.

If he didn't invest in any skills and didn't consider advancement, he could level up to 88 in one go, widening the gap with all other players!

On the fourth day of the server's launch (Earth time), he had defeated the seventh World Boss of the major expansion.

This is the value of the [Ember]!

Perhaps the 3 million bid from the "Golden Wind" was too low.

"Lost a Leg" disbanded his team and guarded the loot from the [Source of Evil Fire·Cursed Vermilion Bird (Incarnation)].

His final choice to transform into the Hou Yi Form wasn't just for show; it was also because, among the dozens of [God's Marks] he possessed, this form was one of the most suitable for "clearing trash mobs."

He conjured a longbow in his hand and tried shooting an arrow into the sky.

Then—

His "father-in-law," who had already fled beyond Iron Wall City, suddenly felt something and looked back, witnessing a scene he would never forget in his life.

On the clouds at the edge of the sky, a dazzling golden "chrysanthemum" suddenly bloomed.

These countless "petals" made of arrows imbued with Divine Power, before breaking through the limits of the sky, were captured by gravity and fell into various locations within the Misty Forest below.

The landing points of these arrows precisely covered every monster spawn point within the Misty Forest, erupting in brilliant light and blasting the entire area into the sky.

In the final ten minutes, "Lost a Leg" naturally continued to gain experience.

Aside from the map boss in the central great lake, he blew up every monster nest in the Misty Forest. Although he couldn't eliminate them all, he still gained over 2 million experience points.

After the effect of the Ember ended, "Lost a Leg" immediately picked up the boss's loot beside him.

He waited until the end to collect the items because he was worried that his inventory would be cleared along with the monsters once the Ember's effect wore off.

The next moment, the Shadowfolk melted into the shadows and vanished from his spot.