Operate You!

After roaring, Jie Jian pressed forward again.

Since Charlie was ready, Jie Jian stopped holding back.

Using the future foreseen by his cursed technique, Charlie barely dodged another of Jie Jian's attacks.

However, something Charlie had not expected happened.

Just as he prepared to seize another chance to attack, he suddenly felt a faint electric sting on his skin!

He looked around in horror and was shocked to find that, at some unknown point, the air around him seemed to have changed!

Charlie was not the only one shocked; Jie Jian himself was equally baffled.

Because he had suddenly triggered the initial passive of Undying Thunder!

Jie Jian knew that after making consecutive attacks, he could form a Thunder Field around himself.

At that point, his lightning attacks would bounce between enemies within the field and automatically attack every enemy inside it.

But Jie Jian remembered clearly that he had not hit Charlie at all.

So how had the Thunder Field been activated?

Staring at the air before him, an idea suddenly came to Jie Jian.

He tentatively swung at the air.

The next moment, an electric current burst from Jie Jian's hand.

The current leaped through the air and struck Charlie, who stood a meter away, with perfect accuracy.

"Holy shit! Is this for real?!"

How could Jie Jian still not understand? His basic attacks could actually hit the air!

So his cursed technique had not come from League—it had come from Farming!

Not far away, Charlie, who had taken an electric shock, looked at Jie Jian as though he had seen a ghost.

He had not expected to get hit despite never touching Jie Jian.

Feeling his numbed body, Charlie gave a bitter laugh.

"Forget it. I'm not fighting you anymore. I'm no match for you."

"Huh?! You're not fighting anymore?!"

Jie Jian shouted in disappointment. He still had several active skills from his cursed technique that he had not even tried—why was Charlie quitting already?!

He hurriedly tried to console Charlie.

"How could you not be my match? My attacks clearly couldn't hit you. You had such a huge advantage, so why surrender?"

Charlie closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

He suddenly found the person before him rather annoying.

Jie Jian clearly held the advantage, yet he was putting on an act and toying with him.

If Charlie did not feel that he could not beat him, he would have fallen out with him long ago.

Suppressing his dissatisfaction, he patiently said,

"I'm just a sorcerer who only recently awakened his cursed technique. You should find another sorcerer."

"Actually, I only just awakened too. I think we're pretty well matched."

"Huh?! You said you only just awakened?"

Charlie stared at Jie Jian with wide eyes.

Whether it was Jie Jian's imposing landing at the beginning or the immense cursed energy he had displayed during their sparring match,

Charlie simply could not believe that Jie Jian was a newly awakened sorcerer!

"Yeah." Yet Jie Jian nodded again. "I never lie. My cursed technique definitely awakened today!"

Jie Jian looked utterly sincere, without the slightest sign of lying.

And he really was not lying, because his cursed technique truly had awakened today!

Charlie licked his dry lips.

"Then how are you so strong?"

Jie Jian smiled and waved his hand, speaking with a serious expression.

"Brother, you're joking. I'm not actually strong. My mechanics are just a little better."

"You've only seen the surface. You have no idea about all the sweat and effort behind it."

Charlie gave a dry laugh.

Heh. I've seen the effort, but why is the sweat on my face?

Jie Jian could not hear Charlie's thoughts.

Seeing that Charlie did not want to continue fighting, Jie Jian became somewhat awkward as well.

After all, he was famously honest—the good little rat who never betrayed anyone after taking the code phrase in Delta Force.

If they had started fighting outright, that would have been one thing. But they had agreed to spar, and now that Charlie did not want to continue, Jie Jian could not just force the fight to go on.

Forget it, then. No fight, no fight.

It was just one challenge. There was no need to stop acting like a person over a bit of reward. He could always come back next time.

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The next time he revived here, he would not make an agreement with Charlie in advance.

Thinking this, Jie Jian withdrew his cursed energy.

"Fine, then. Since you don't want to continue, brother, let's compete another day."

"Another day, then."

Charlie stiffly waved his hand. The electric shock from earlier had not fully worn off yet.

Since Charlie did not want to continue, Jie Jian prepared to find other sorcerers to test his cursed technique on.

"Then, Brother Charlie, I'll be going fir—"

Before Jie Jian could finish speaking, he caught sight of a shadow rapidly rushing out from his blind spot. Its target was Charlie, who was still numb.

Without time to think, Jie Jian stepped in front of him.

Bang!

Cursed energy charged with lightning directly blocked the sneak attack.

Only then did Charlie realize that he had been ambushed.

"B-Brother, you..."

Jie Jian waved a hand, signaling for him not to speak.

He looked toward a large tree in the distance, the direction from which the attack had come.

Realizing he had been discovered, a burly man stepped out from behind the tree.

"Heh, kid, you really like sticking your nose into other people's business. Couldn't you have just let me take my five points and leave?"

The five points the man mentioned referred to the scoring system of the Culling Game.

Here, each sorcerer a player killed earned five points, while killing an ordinary person earned one point.

Rather than being alarmed by the sudden appearance of another sorcerer, Jie Jian was delighted.

He had just been looking for someone to fight, and now one had delivered himself right to him, saving him the trouble of searching everywhere.

Seeing the smile in Jie Jian's eyes, the man's face darkened.

"Kid, you seem pretty happy. Are you really that confident?"

Jie Jian sneered.

"What's there to respect about an ambush-loving dog like you? I hate people who creep around, pretend to mediate fights, and sneak up behind others to stab them in the back. You deserve to die!"

The man's face turned completely grim.

"Arrogant!"

As a sorcerer who had lived for decades, he had not expected to be looked down on by a sorcerer who had only just awakened.

He had to teach this ignorant brat a lesson!

The man sized Jie Jian up.

"Kid, do you think your lightning cursed technique alone can do anything to me?"

As he spoke, he raised his palm, and a stone spiraled through the air above it.

"Your area shock does have some bite. I saw it earlier. But..." The man smiled confidently. "As long as I don't get close to you, what can your current possibly do to me?"

After saying that, the man burst into laughter, completely disregarding Jie Jian.

As a long-range sorcerer, he never needed to approach his enemies in battle. He could win from far away.

And he had already observed Jie Jian's Thunder Field from the sidelines.

The Thunder Field only covered a certain range. As long as he stayed away, the electric current could not lock onto him at all.

Yet Jie Jian gave a crooked smile, looking like the Dragon King himself had possessed him.

"Hmph. Do you think I don't have other skills?"

The man froze slightly, unable to understand what Jie Jian meant.

Jie Jian raised his hand high and shouted,

"Thunder God, aid me!"

The next moment, under the man's bewildered gaze, a massive ring appeared beneath his feet.

He immediately realized that something was wrong, but by the time he tried to flee, it was too late.

Charlie was not the only one who knew how to prepare a skill in advance.

Jie Jian had begun preparing to cast Lightning Strike the moment the man appeared!

In his heart, he had directly invoked a Binding Vow: he would skip breakfast tomorrow in exchange for a Lightning Strike with a shorter wind-up.

A true expert might have easily sensed Jie Jian's surging cursed energy, but this man was clearly not among their ranks.

As soon as Jie Jian's words fell, enormous bolts of lightning crashed down from the sky, striking the man squarely on the head.

The man did not even have time to dodge before the overwhelming force of the lightning blasted him black.

Suddenly, the Golden Bug appeared beside Jie Jian.

Points +5. Player's current points: 5.

That's right, Jie Jian had not merely won—he had killed the man in a single blow!

Jie Jian shook his hair.

"Whew, as expected of me. My mechanics really are insane."

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