Red Name PK Player with Precise Market Positioning

Oni Princess and Yaksha, a pair of Red Name PK players, twin sisters whose core philosophy is "Others Hoard Food, I Hoard Guns," and they put this into action.

Among the many new player communities, their favorite type to hunt are those players who were assigned the Super Mario Bros. novice trial dungeon and had just completed their first official Moon Trial.

The Mario Novice Trial guides players too well, so well that they can understand the basic operating rules of the Chosen Space without a guide, so well that players might even develop some misconceptions about the Chosen Space—

Thinking that the dangers the Chosen Space brings to players are nothing more than this.

The biggest reason is Mario's own excellent player guidance and dungeon design, as well as the fact that a trap mechanism capable of instantly killing Fake Bowser was designed directly into stages 1-4.

While this method of clearing the dungeon greatly increases the survival rate of novices, it also directly eliminates a proper BOSS drop treasure chest. Players who pass the novice trial will only gain some Mushroom Gold, Super Mushrooms, and Fire Flowers at most, essentially trading a safe clear for an increase in strength.

This leads to the "Hidden Rating Score" that players have, which only exists within the space's internal review mechanism, being at a low level.

If players who enter the low-scoring domain are even more cautious, or simply chicken out and run back to the real world to become turtles hiding in their shells, failing to seize the opportunity to improve themselves through Bounty Missions, they will then begin their first official Moon Trial with this low score.

Whether they live or die at this point is purely up to fate.

But if they are lucky enough to survive this Moon Trial, then Red Name PK players like Oni Princess and Yaksha, who only dare to attack newcomers, will smell them out.

This is because there's a high probability that such players will have accumulated some savings they haven't had time to deal with.

They don't know the market price of equipment and items, nor do they know where to best spend their Chosen Coins. They might even be picky about skill and equipment requirements, so they temporarily leave them unadded. In this state, they are still very weak and have little ability to resist.

Since they were lucky enough to survive, they naturally wouldn't remain so naive. They would logically start engaging with areas like Equipment Trading, enhancement, and Bounty Missions.

And the duo of Oni Princess and Yaksha would choose to stake out the Player Market and Mission Hall respectively. Under the guise of offering free and enthusiastic guidance to newcomers, they would extract more information, confirm their prey, and finally choose a suitable mission to complete the PK.

Once they've tasted the sweetness of this behavior, people like Oni Princess and Yaksha can never go back. Like those immersed in gambling, after experiencing the intense thrill of tens of thousands fluctuating up and down in a single second, 3,000 yuan a month cannot stir even a ripple in their hearts.

"A golden belt for killing and arson" indeed~

Under normal circumstances, Cheng Tian did not fit their hunting criteria at all. A monster who could crawl out of the novice cesspool had too many possibilities, making him a huge Variable.

But as the saying goes, "Man dies for wealth." The Knight Armor, a special stepping stone, ultimately led them to take action. They even directly deployed the Person-Finding Guide Bug, which had a limited lifespan, meaning they paid a considerable price before even seeing their target.

After entering the dungeon, they were still praying that Cheng Tian wouldn't easily die at the hands of NPCs or other players.

So when the Guide Bug confirmed Cheng Tian's identity, their joy was beyond words.

Their usual method of dealing with newcomers was to beat them down with sheer strength without a word, bringing them to the brink of death, and then using the fear of death to threaten them into handing over everything they had. If they didn't comply, they would simply kill them and loot the treasure chest.

Oni Princess and Yaksha absolutely would not allow any prey to leave the dungeon alive.

However, at this very moment, they were completely blinded by the Knight Armor. They hadn't considered why Cheng Tian would be standing alone in an empty alleyway in broad daylight.

The distance between them rapidly closed, but when the two saw the distinctively painted shield flashing in Cheng Tian's hand, their eyes widened in unison as they were mid-leap.

Captain America's Shield!?

Wasn't he a complete newbie from Demon World Village? Which idiot sold him something like this!?

Or had he found a Player Guild to join in such a short time, and it was a high-level guild rich and generous enough to casually give away "Protagonist's Armament" like this main tank-level gear?

...Damn it! He didn't trade for it with Knight Armor, did he!?

Oni Princess and Yaksha, thinking of the same possibility, couldn't help but exchange glances, seeing the exact same worry and anger in each other's eyes.

Because this might mean their initial investment was completely wasted, and even if they did manage to kill Cheng Tian, they would be forever without the Knight Armor.

Should they retreat directly and pretend nothing happened? Or continue to kill Cheng Tian to make up for their investment losses as much as possible?

However, Cheng Tian didn't give them any more time to overthink. The muscles in his arms beneath the Chimera uniform instantly tensed, and the next second, the shield, extremely aerodynamic, flew towards the right twin!

With the Shield Master's 100% increase in throwing speed and the boost from his 24 Strength, the distance of over twenty meters was covered almost instantly... However, Oni Princess, chosen as Cheng Tian's target, dodged it with an extreme, hair's-breadth-close waist bend.

Oni Princess was a typical high-Agility build. With her combat suit and other matching equipment, her base Agility stat was above 22.

But as she maintained her evasive, bent-over posture, she saw the shield she had just dodged bounce back directly after hitting the wall, heading straight for her face!

Shield Master! Double Ricochet!

Just then, Oni Princess's side took a heavy kick, sending her rolling like a tumbleweed.

However, this heavy kick that made her look so disheveled successfully avoided the Captain America's Shield's secondary ricochet.

This kick was, of course, delivered by the other twin, her sister Yaksha. An excellent emergency evasion maneuver... but the next second, her hand reached past her own sister, directly towards the Captain America's Shield embedded in a nearby discarded trash can.

As long as she touched the shield, this ownerless item that had already been thrown could be instantly stuffed into Yaksha's Inventory. From either disarming the opponent or gaining loot, collecting the shield took priority over helping her sister up.

Yaksha's hand touched the ownerless shield, but her Inventory showed no intention of executing the item collection. A small message "You cannot forcibly plunder other players' Equipment and Items" appeared on the shield's surface.

...Soul-bound!?

An incredulous expression reappeared on Yaksha's face.

"Watch out!"

Almost at the same time Oni Princess, who had just gotten up from the ground, shouted a warning, Cheng Tian had already arrived instantly. The sharp horn on Giant's Head mercilessly stabbed towards the twin Yaksha, who was distracted by the Captain America's Shield's hard control—

Flash Charge!