Chapter 1 The Resentful Demon Breaks Free

In an instant, the Resentful Demon had already burst out of the tunnel, hovering in mid-air above the waiting area.

His tattered cloak fluttered wildly.

The green worm in his arms, huddled into a ball, gurgled and steadily emitted a jade-green light, illuminating the expressionless Ash, the wary Chu Yin, and Wu Mu, who was lying on the ground, sweating on his forehead.

Without any further ado, the Resentful Demon swooped down, a ghostly blue flame burning on his jagged bone palm, reaching for Ash's crown.

This grab was swift and fast. Ash dared not use the heavy sniper rifle again, whose power was matched by its consumption.

He rolled to the side in a rather inelegant manner.

The Resentful Demon's sure-fire strike barely touched Ash's scalp. Upon contact, however, the Resentful Demon suddenly felt his hand slip, allowing Ash to escape through his fingers.

When he tried to change the direction of his palm to grab Ash, he was stunned to find that he could see Ash clearly, but he could not confirm Ash's exact position on a subjective level.

Suddenly, he felt as if his hand was out of control.

A skill with special effects, or some kind of equipment item?

Ash's movement, comparable to a donkey rolling, was indeed a skill.

[Skill Scroll Name: Emergency Evasion Roll]

[Attribute: Consumable, disappears after five uses]

[Type: Fighting]

[Level: Excellent]

[Effect: Lao Roll. Perform a rolling and turning movement in one direction, then quickly get up. The rolling time is no longer than one second. During the release of the roll, you cannot become the designated target of a targeted attack with subjective awareness, but you will suffer area-of-effect damage.]

[Consumption: 200 Stamina Points, 50 Sanity Points]

[Cooldown: 10 minutes]

[Note: In this world, rolling is invincible]

[Note: Roll first, then roll]

The strength of this consumable skill is beyond doubt.

Once used, the user can enter a "unselectable" state for a maximum of one second, unable to become the designated target of a targeted attack with subjective awareness.

It can easily ignore enemy melee attacks, light firepower shooting, or single target spell attacks, and other targeted attacks.

If used well, this [Emergency Evasion Roll] is, as its skill description says, almost equal to invincibility.

If it were a learnable skill scroll instead of a consumable one, its quality would be at least perfect.

Ash, who used the skill to avoid the Resentful Demon's grab, didn't have time to pat out the hair on his head that had been ignited by the ghostly blue flame.

In less than a second of rolling, he quickly turned his entire left arm into a long chain of ash material, and swung it hard at the Resentful Demon, who was briefly stalled.

His title skill, during active activation, can ignore all defenses as long as it comes into contact with the opponent's body, and randomly generate injuries on the opponent's body that are commensurate with the attack power, according to a percentage.

It's a bit like Li Ang's Cutting Machine title skill.

The difference is that Cutting Machine is a passive ability, while [True Damage] needs to be actively activated, and has cooldown time, duration time, and other restrictions, so it's hard to say which is better or worse.

The long chain of dust swept across, tearing the air along the way, and struck the spot where the Resentful Demon had just stood with the power to split mountains and crack rocks, shattering the marble floor tiles and scattering them in all directions.

This time, he didn't hear the system notification of hitting his teammate as before. The scene in front of him swayed slightly. When he looked again, he realized that the direction of his attack was where Wu Mu had just been lying.

If Chu Yin hadn't been quick-witted and kicked him away, Wu Mu, whose whole body was bound, would have been hit by the dust chain and split in two.

Again! He had clearly aimed at the enemy and activated the special equipment to defend his mind, but he was still affected by the opponent's illusion and almost killed his teammate!

"Goo-goo—"

The green worm huddled in the Resentful Demon's arms let out a sharp cry, similar to laughter.

Previously, these two non-human players, with the help of the Lunar Phase Locator, found and killed the player Si Wenbin, and plundered a perfect quality learnable skill scroll called [Enmity is in the Palm of Your Hand] from him.

Its effect is that when there are two or more enemies present, it can distort all enemies' hostility towards oneself,

Causing them to produce cognitive distortions during attacks, and instead attack others. During this process, the attacking player cannot detect the anomaly.

The Resentful Demon, who personally killed Si Wenbin, did not know how the other party obtained this perfect quality scroll, but perhaps because the learning requirements for this skill were too strict (perception attribute requires as high as 13 points or more),

Si Wenbin had never tried to learn it, but kept it as a treasure at the bottom of his box.

After obtaining the skill scroll, the Resentful Demon decisively handed the scroll over to his teammate, Gulu Gulu Gu, and had the latter learn it.

Gulu Gulu Gu was originally a player specializing in mental manipulation, with a considerable reserve of psionic energy, and it also had another skill that allowed it to continuously draw psionic energy and sanity from the Resentful Demon through direct contact with the latter,

To supplement what is needed to cast [Enmity is in the Palm of Your Hand], thus greatly extending the duration of this skill.

Especially in this kind of situation with three hostile players, all attacks against oneself will involuntarily point to others.

With Ash and Chu Yin's current conditions, they are completely unable to avoid or immunize themselves, and can only keep moving with Wu Mu (Chu Yin opened the shackles that trapped Wu Mu at the first time) in a narrow space, only defending and not attacking.

Using the various traps previously set up in the abandoned subway station to deal with the Resentful Demon.

"Useless useless useless useless!"

The Resentful Demon roared, waving his bone palm, smashing the steel balls, dust, exploding shock waves, and light beams that were triggered by his traps and shot at him. In this narrow space, he swooped and chased after the three players who were running away in a panic and dared not continue to attack.

Ash, Chu Yin, and Wu Mu were being hunted down and had a hard time saying it. Once they tried to fight back, their cognition would be tampered with and they would attack friendly forces.

Even if they deliberately attacked the ground below the Resentful Demon, their cognition would still be distorted. It was simply overbearing to the extreme.

The only way is to drag it out. Such an unreasonable skill must also consume a lot!

"What are you, fantasizing about?"

The Resentful Demon grinned sinisterly, his jagged bone claws blocked by a trap, almost slashing Wu Mu's nape.

The Resentful Demon believed that as long as he merged with Gulu Gulu Gu, he could maximize the effect of [Enmity is in the Palm of Your Hand].

Even if the other two players on the Lunar Phase Locator arrived, it would only enhance the effect of distorting enmity! It would be more conducive to Gulu Gulu Gu's performance!

In this mission, their combination is invincible!

Boom—

At the entrance of the subway station, the thin iron gate that served as a barrier was kicked open.

The cold moonlight shone down the steps into the subway station, illuminating the players who had just arrived on the first floor of the subway station.

They saw a burly, caped humanoid figure standing quietly in the moonlight, almost blending into the dark night.

Seeing the cape, Ash, who had previously collected information using the Mobile Task Force's internal network, subconsciously thought of one of the players in this mission.

"Kasasagi?!"

"No!"

Li Ang, who was standing quietly, took a step forward, walked out of the moonlight, and let everyone see the color of the cape on his body.

It was a pure black, multi-pleated, bat-like cape, the top of which was connected to a half-covered mask that only revealed the eyes and mouth.

"You can call me, Batman."