Mop God of War

"Eh? Novice Villages had hidden gameplay like this too...?"

Su Jiang stared blankly at the system announcement.

At the same time, the game forums erupted into a frenzy. Since every country was currently boycotting the game—banning streams and public play—everyone could only crowd into the game's built-in forums to chat.

This was the first announcement to appear, and everyone was a little shocked.

Which Novice Village was so incredible? The server had only been open for a few hours, yet they had already triggered a system announcement.

"What's going on with No. 13 Novice Village? What did they do? Hunt rats?"

"So jealous. Is this the first Gold Boss to appear in the game? I wonder what it'll drop. (drooling.jpg)"

"We struggle just to kill a Slime, let alone a boss. This is probably going to end in failure."

New forum posts were appearing at an astonishing pace, and nearly all of them were related to No. 13 Novice Village.

Through those posts, Su Jiang saw the Gold Boss that had appeared in No. 13 Novice Village: a giant golden rat as large as a cow, its entire body covered in golden fur.

Rat King

Level: Lv. 3

Life Level: Golden Monster

Attack: 200

Defense: 0

Health:

Description: This little rat is getting angry, nya!

"Two hundred attack power? One hit per kid."

"The description is as cheeky as ever..."

"I wonder what equipment it'll drop if it dies."

The forum players watched excitedly, while the players on-site charged forward in a frenzy, hacking at the Rat King and dealing pitiful single-digit damage before being swept back to the respawn point by a single tail strike.

Su Jiang also arrived at the scene. Seeing this rare monster, every player had gone red-eyed. Barefoot people weren't afraid of those wearing shoes—what was there to fear about losing experience?!

"Eh..."

Watching from afar, Su Jiang quickly spotted a familiar figure.

ID: Mop God of War.

Don't let the "God of War" in that ID fool you into thinking it sounded imposing. Its true meaning was that a mop dipped in shit was as mighty as a god of war!

She had revealed that meaning herself in a private interview after becoming famous.

Back then, everyone had been curious why such a soft and adorable girl had chosen that name. They guessed endlessly without getting an answer, and that private interview happened to collect questions netizens wanted to ask her.

So she answered with complete honesty.

In his previous life, Mop God of War had been an exceptionally prominent player. She also possessed the Dimensional Avatar talent and could transform into all sorts of powerful anime characters. How could she possibly not be impressive?

Unfortunately, before Su Jiang obtained Kurumi Incarnation in his previous life, he could only transform into everyday characters like Sagiri and Black Cat. His combat ability was utterly worthless, and he had no chance of coming into contact with high-end players like her.

Come to think of it, Mop God of War had obtained the core items for both Rem and Crimson's incarnations quite early in his previous life. Rem aside, Crimson, that Rozen Maiden doll, had extremely useful large-scale magical attacks!

He wondered whether he would have a chance to obtain those core items...

But Su Jiang quickly shook his head. He had no idea when Mop God of War had acquired those two core items, and he could hardly follow her around every day just to steal her opportunities.

Besides, Su Jiang did not particularly want either of those incarnations. If there was one he truly wanted, it would be Mercury Lamp's incarnation. If he could use the skill "N's Domain" in reality, that would be insanely powerful.

Of course, none of that really mattered.

After all, the abilities of those incarnations were merely unusual and troublesome. In terms of raw strength, they definitely could not compare to Kanna, whom Mop God of War would obtain much later. At least before Su Jiang's rebirth, he had never seen an incarnation stronger than Kanna.

I'd better not steal her early opportunities. Once someone with the Dimensional Avatar talent becomes weak, countless people will covet them.

Su Jiang thought to himself.

Of course, he would not take Rem or Crimson's incarnations, but Kanna's incarnation was a must.

No one could resist the thrill of commanding lightning, especially with such a powerful incarnation that could clear the field with a single skill!

At this moment, it was not just the players who had gone red-eyed. The NPCs of No. 13 Novice Village had as well.

The crops they had painstakingly grown had all been destroyed by the Rat King. That meant they would most likely go hungry this winter!

Thousands of fearless players continuously used suicide attacks to stop the Rat King from rampaging around, while the NPCs outside the spiked wooden fences fired arrows from afar!

-10!

-1! (wooden stick without an arrowhead)

-3! (stone strike)

-12!

-9!

The players died wave after wave. Most of those who had earned experience had probably died until they lost it all, perfectly returning to their factory settings.

Well, fresh out of the factory, they had still possessed two or three starter equipment pieces. Now, they only had white underwear left.

Su Jiang silently slacked off at the back of the crowd, picking up stones from the ground and throwing them from afar.

Without transforming into Kurumi, he could not widen the gap between himself and the Rat King's speed. Even with 700 Health, he could not take many hits.

Anyway, this was a communal task. As long as the Rat King died, everyone would receive rewards.

If the mission truly looked like it was about to fail, it would not be too late for him to transform into Kurumi.

-12!

-10!

-21! (stone strike)

-8!

Amid the storm of attacks, a damage number as high as 21 suddenly appeared, only to be quickly swallowed by the sea of damage numbers.

But Mop God of War did not overlook that number.

She clearly saw a stone strike the Rat King and deal a whopping 21 damage.

She froze instantly. At this stage, if someone could deal that much damage by throwing a stone, just how high were his attributes?

Especially since the damage formula for throwing stones was: final damage = (Strength x 0.3) - Defense. To deal 21 damage, that person's Strength had to be as high as 70!

How was that possible...

Could he be a high-level player? Did he have some secret method for leveling up?

Mop God of War's little face went blank for a moment, then she swiftly scanned the battlefield, watching for players throwing stones.

Hard work paid off.

Mop God of War saw an uncle pick up a stone from the ground and throw it. Another -21 damage number appeared above the Rat King.

Gulp—

Mop God of War nervously swallowed, then quietly followed behind that uncle.

The Rat King had become exceedingly irritated by the sea of players. It let out a shrill cry, curled up its body, and began spinning in place.

Its hard tail whipped into an afterimage, like Death's scythe harvesting lives.

An empty patch instantly formed around the Rat King.

"It only has 2,000 Health left! Charge! Keep it up! The first Gold Boss kill is right in front of us!"

Everyone became excited at those words.

Only Mop God of War, hiding behind the crowd, was dumbfounded. The tail had struck that uncle twice just now, and two -193 damage numbers had appeared above him.

This uncle's Defense was actually as high as 7! And he had not died after taking nearly 400 damage!

That was way too absurd!

How could his Constitution be so high when his Strength was already so high?! Was he cheating?