-123!
The staggering three-digit damage instantly emptied the full health bar above Glasses Girl's head.
Clutching her neck as blood poured out, Glasses Girl stared at Lin Mo in disbelief and staggered back two steps.
The next second.
Whoosh!
Her entire body turned into a beam of white light and vanished.
Clatter!
The beginner's sword in her hand dropped as loot.
A deathly silence fell over the scene.
All the college girls were stunned.
Only Lin Mo kept moving.
"I told you. In this life, I'll kill anyone who pisses me off!"
"No exceptions!"
After killing Glasses Girl with a single strike, Lin Mo swung his sword rapidly, giving everyone their fair share.
Slash, slash, slash, slash!
Each strike dealt over 120 damage, with critical hits reaching 180-190. These level 2 college girls stood no chance against him.
[Ding! You killed player Sweet Sweet Sweetie...] [Ding! You killed player Cat Who Doesn't Drink Cola...] [Ding...]
"Aaaah!!!"
Amid a chorus of screams and sobs.
Lin Mo slaughtered all dozen-plus college girls in an instant!
Not one survived!
The spectators watching from the sidelines were dumbfounded.
"Holy shit! This guy's ruthless! He didn't hesitate even with girls that pretty!"
"People like you are why they say to kill the bleeding hearts first in an apocalypse! They were already hacking at him, and you're still worried about protecting pretty girls? What, should he spare them so you can take them home to warm your bed?"
"Well, that's not out of the question..."
"Awesome! That was so damn satisfying! I deliver food, and I've been sick of certain college students for ages. They call themselves educated, but they don't know the first thing about respecting people!"
"Those loudmouthed bitches needed a good beating! Do they seriously think men would never hit women?"
"You're a badass, bro! Nicely done!"
After dealing with those irritating college girls.
Lin Mo looked up at Wind Soughs Sadly.
"Your turn."
With that, Lin Mo advanced toward Wind Soughs Sadly, his blood-soaked Flowing Light Sword in hand.
Having witnessed Lin Mo's terrifying strength, Skinny Monkey and Pang Dahai said in panic, "X-Xiao, there's something seriously wrong with this guy! Let's retreat!"
"No!" Wind Soughs Sadly's gaze was resolute, his words decisive. "We can't retreat!"
"I have to get the blue equipment that the Man-Eating Flower boss dropped. Only then will I have a chance to become the first person in Cloudside Town to reach level 10!"
As he spoke, Wind Soughs Sadly addressed Lin Mo. "I'll let it slide that you stole my hidden quest. I don't know how you found it, but I paid twenty thousand for that information!"
"In exchange for that, I want this boss's loot!"
Lin Mo froze for a moment.
It took him a while to recover.
So he was the college student who completed Cloudside Town's hidden quest in my previous life!
But how did he know I'd accepted the quest?
He had his doubts.
But Lin Mo couldn't be bothered to waste words on him.
After all, every opportunity in Oracle belonged to whoever had the strength to claim it. That was the supreme law!
"I already told you."
"If you want it, come and take it."
With things having reached this point.
Wind Soughs Sadly knew negotiations were over. He seemed to make up his mind.
He instructed Skinny Monkey and Pang Dahai beside him, "If he drops anything in a moment, make sure you pick it up for me!"
Skinny Monkey seemed to understand what Wind Soughs Sadly intended to do next.
He asked worriedly, "Xiao, do you really have to do that? Isn't there any other way?"
"We've already seen how strong he is. The three of us have no chance in a head-on fight!" Wind Soughs Sadly said gravely. "If we want to kill him, that's our only option!"
With that, Wind Soughs Sadly approached Lin Mo, sword in hand.
Seeing this, Lin Mo gripped his Flowing Light Sword and smiled calmly. "Now that's more like it! Stand up and fight me like a man!"
But when Wind Soughs Sadly suddenly put away his beginner's sword and charged faster with his bare hands, Lin Mo realized something was wrong.
"Wait! What's this big idiot trying to do?"
No sooner had he spoken.
Boom!
Once Wind Soughs Sadly entered a fifty-yard radius, he seemed to activate some sort of skill, and roaring flames erupted over his body!
At the same time, identical flames engulfed Lin Mo!
[Ding! Player Wind Soughs Sadly used the talent skill · Mutual Destruction on you. You took 160 damage. You have died!]
Boom!
Two identical damage numbers of 160 rose above Wind Soughs Sadly and Lin Mo's heads at the same time.
The next second, both turned into white light and shot into the sky!
"What the fuck?"
"What just happened?"
"How did they both die at once?"
Every spectator looked utterly bewildered.
Elsewhere.
The Resurrection Spring in Cloudside Town.
Whoosh!
White light spilled down.
Lin Mo appeared in the spring.
[Ding! As you are under level 10 and within the beginner protection period, your death penalty is: EXP -320 (10% of your current level)!]
Lin Mo was shaken.
An A-rank talent, Mutual Destruction?
In the world of Oracle, every SSS-rank talent was unique across the entire server.
Other talents could appear more than once.
Thanks to his experience from his previous life, Lin Mo knew that Mutual Destruction, the talent Wind Soughs Sadly had just used, was an A-rank talent!
Its effect was to sacrifice the user to deal true damage equal to their maximum health to one designated enemy. This damage ignored all damage reduction effects!
I never expected this guy to have an A-rank talent!
And he was even willing to sacrifice himself just to take me down?
What the actual fuck...
Clearly, Wind Soughs Sadly had put all his stat points into constitution to suit this talent!
If he'd had even a few dozen fewer health points, he wouldn't have been able to kill Lin Mo, who had 140 health!
Meanwhile.
Whoosh!
Another beam of white light spilled down.
Wind Soughs Sadly also respawned in the spring.
The two stood face-to-face, as though sharing a hot spring. The scene was both awkward and bizarre.
"Are you out of your mind?" Lin Mo couldn't help cursing. "Seriously, what's wrong with you?"
Wind Soughs Sadly remained completely earnest, without the slightest hint of remorse. "You took the hidden quest that rightfully belonged to me. I only wanted that boss's drops as a little compensation!"
"That's not unreasonable, is it?"
As he spoke, Wind Soughs Sadly opened his friend list and messaged Skinny Monkey. "Did he drop anything?"
A moment later, a smile appeared on Wind Soughs Sadly's face.
Lin Mo seemed to realize something.
He immediately opened his inventory, and his heart sank!
Shit...
I dropped the Venomous Ring!
"Good. Very good!" Lin Mo laughed instead of getting angry. "I'll remember you. You'd better pray I never run into you in the wilderness again!"
The instant he said that.
The college girls Lin Mo had killed earlier immediately crowded around him.
They pointed at Lin Mo and unleashed a torrent of abuse:
"Don't you dare bully Senior Ling Xiao!"
"So what if you're good at this game? That doesn't change the fact that you're a loser in real life! Besides, Senior Ling Xiao still beat you, didn't he?"
"Exactly! If you dare make trouble for Senior Ling Xiao, we won't let you get away with it! There are hundreds of us from Ning University playing this game!"
Looking at these college girls, whose eyes shone with pure, unclouded stupidity.
Lin Mo almost wanted to laugh.
"I wonder how your parents would feel if they knew they worked so hard to pay for your education, only for you to spend your time here sucking up to someone?"
"All tits and no brains."
With that, Lin Mo hurried away from the Resurrection Spring. He had important business to attend to and no time to waste on them.
The college girls were so furious they stamped their feet!
Wind Soughs Sadly, meanwhile, said in relief, "Great! With this blue-quality ring, I'll definitely have a chance to take first place on Cloudside Town's level rankings!"
But before he had even finished speaking.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Two beams of white light descended beside Wind Soughs Sadly in succession.
Skinny Monkey and Pang Dahai respawned together.
Wind Soughs Sadly froze.
"How... did you two die?"
"The ring? You still have the ring, right?"
Pang Dahai looked miserable. "S-sorry, Xiao. We couldn't hold on to it..."
Wind Soughs Sadly was both furious and anxious. "Who did it?"
Skinny Monkey said, "It was the [Troubled Times] guild!"
"We'd just picked up the Venomous Ring when the Troubled Times people rushed out from all around us and cut us down!"
"Then the ring dropped!"
Skinny Monkey gritted his teeth and glared, seething with rage. "The most disgusting part was that those bastards from Troubled Times seemed to have been hiding in the crowd all along! They knew how strong that guy was too, so they didn't dare fight him. They just waited for you to kill him, Xiao, then came out to steal the spoils!"
"Troubled Times!" Wind Soughs Sadly clenched his fists, endless flames of hatred burning in his eyes.
He had finally glimpsed a sliver of hope, only to lose it again in an instant.
But that didn't defeat him.
Instead, it fueled an even stronger fighting spirit!
"I will be the first person in Cloudside Town to reach level 10!"
"No matter what!"
"Whatever it takes!"
Around him, the college girls chimed in:
"Senior Ling Xiao, you can definitely do it!"
"Yes! We'll always be your strongest support!"
"Wow, Senior Ling Xiao looks so handsome when he gets serious!"
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