Only Player

Chapter 168 Killing the Narrative

Zhou Yuan’s profession in this game dimension is a unique [Player].

And in countless games, [players] all possess an ability that is so common that it cannot be more common.

That is - resurrection.

Depending on the type of game, the resurrection mechanism of the protagonist in the game is also different.

For example, the hospital resurrection in the "GTA" series, the Dragon's Curse resurrection in "Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice", the cat car in the "Monster Hunter" series, the body replacement resurrection in "Dead Cells", the data backup resurrection in "NieR: Automata"...

In today's abnormal gaming world, the player's resurrection mechanism has become extremely simple and crude - resurrect with full health on the spot after death.

Since it is caused by the rules of the abnormal world, this kind of resurrection will not consume the number of resurrections reserved by the [Son of the Star Player System]. Theoretically, Zhou Yuan can be resurrected unlimited times.

After learning this secret, the Demon King gave up on killing Zhou Yuan and instead adopted another strategy.

Thick evil spirit gushed out, covering the space within dozens of kilometers, turning it into a sealed cage and locking Zhou Yuan inside.

After dealing with this unkillable cockroach, the devil turned around and looked at the people in the distance.

At this moment, a scorching breath that could burn everything in the world burst out without warning.

The sky was torn apart in an instant, and hundreds of black space cracks extended out like lightning, spanning the entire vast plane. No matter where you were, you could see those huge and deep cracks as long as you looked up.

Then, endless flames burst out from the pitch-black gap, dyeing the entire world red.

Huo Yanluo roared to the sky:
"Grandpa, save me!"

Seeing that the situation was not good, she seized the brief opportunity and decisively used the secret method, using the hot divine blood flowing in her body as a medium to summon her own grandfather across dozens of planes.

This is her last trump card, and she will never use it unless it is absolutely necessary, and now it is obviously a last resort.

As the offspring of a god, she sensed very clearly that the mysterious being occupying the devil's body was also a god!
boom!
A huge roar exploded in everyone's soul, and a fist made of brilliant divine fire stretched out from the crack in the plane.

It is like a burning star, radiating endless light and heat all the time. Even the smallest creature can clearly feel the tremendous power operating within it.

It is so grand that it seems to encompass the entire world.

A small eraser appeared out of thin air in the devil's palm.

It raised the eraser and rubbed it against the giant fist of divine fire falling from the sky.

The shocking and spectacular scene of destruction in the sky began to disappear in large pieces, like a painting being quietly erased by an eraser without leaving any trace.

The giant fist of divine fire disappeared just like that, and so did the plane crack. The eraser in the devil's hand suddenly ignited with divine fire, which burned along the fingers all the way to the shoulders before stopping.

The burned areas appeared dry and charred, and would collapse into pieces if moved even slightly.

And, there is no regeneration.

"You are worthy of being the God of Fire." The Demon King looked at his empty arms and let out a sigh.

Huo Yanluo's expression darkened in the distance.

Everything that just happened seemed outrageous, but in fact it was a battle between divine power and authority.

Judging from the results, the Demon King was slightly defeated and lost an arm.

But he only lost an arm, other than that, there was nothing serious.

You know, the God of Fire is a god famous for his fighting power. Even among many true gods, he is the strongest one.

In the initial fight, he was only slightly inferior to the Demon King. The Demon King's strength was simply terrifying.

Huo Yanluo's heart was pounding. She could only pray that the Grandfather could tear through the plane and rush over. Given his temper, if his attack was blocked, he might come over to meet his opponent in person...

But if He hadn’t come, this day next year would be their death anniversary!

As soon as this thought came to her mind, Huo Yanluo was suddenly hit hard. The space shook and dense cracks appeared, as if she had been hit hard by someone.

She flew backwards like a kite with a broken string, covered in blood, and only stopped when she crashed into the depths of the mountain at the end of the world. She fell to the ground, seriously injured, and could not get up again.

This is the damage caused by just a look from the devil.

What surprised the devil was that he was not dead?
Although Huo Yanluo is a god, this attack should be enough to kill her...

Some mysterious force prevented Huo Yanluo from dying.

The devil glanced around the world indifferently and soon found Jiang Wuming, who was hiding behind the sunflower and trying his best to reduce his presence.

"The cursed one?"

The devil instantly understood the curse that was entangled with Jiang Wuming, and with a thought, he was ready to raze the plant paradise to the ground.

boom!
The sudden loud noise suddenly broke out, shaking the earth and making the devil pause.

Because the sound came from the cage that imprisoned Zhou Yuan.

The demonic energy surged violently, shrinking and collapsing inward.

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The moment he was locked in the cage, Zhou Yuan activated the divine power bestowed by Lady Raven without hesitation.

Activate a skill called [Unparalleled] - this skill is a limited-time trial skill that Ms. Raven just created and it didn't exist before.

The duration of [Unparalleled] is one minute, during which Zhou Yuan will be based in the realm of God and can use various divine skills without restrictions - all consumption will be paid by Ms. Raven.

Zhou Yuan was so excited that he couldn't even describe it. Even though it was only for one minute, it was a God Experience Card after all. This was the treatment that a Saint of a religion deserved!
But what's the cost?

"You...what exactly do you want to do?" Zhou Yuan called out.

"You just thought of using honorifics now, right?"

The image of Ms. Raven rolling her eyes flashed through Zhou Yuan’s mind, “Don’t worry about anything else, just go and beat that guy to death.

And take this.”

A long knife was forced into Zhou Yuan's hand.

He widened his eyes in surprise.

It turned out to be a knife to urge for more updates!

"Isn't this knife in Chen Guangxi's hand? Why..."

"I borrowed it." Lady Raven said, "Stop talking nonsense and go quickly. If you are late, everyone will die."

Zhou Yuan frowned as he stared at the knife that urged for more updates, vaguely grasping the truth of this unusual incident.

Afterwards, he temporarily put away the knife that urges for more updates, raised his hand, and a black hole the size of a basketball appeared in his palm. It expanded its gravity in all directions, bursting out with a mighty roar, and absorbed and devoured all the evil energy that made up the cage.

This is Guixu. In just a moment, the magic cage disappeared.

Zhou Yuan moved his mind and used his reality-distorting ability to teleport Jiang Wuming, Amy and others, as well as the entire plant paradise, to a safe area outside the battlefield.

Psychic energy surged, and space solidified into a sphere, refracting colorful light, enveloping the battlefield and blocking observation by satellites and all exploration props.

Afterwards, darkness as deep as the night swept across the interior of the spherical space. Zhou Yuan unfolded the dark night domain, completely turning this place into a dark land.

The next moment, Guixu suddenly expanded, and in the eternal darkness that enveloped everything, a ray of light suddenly appeared, transforming Guixu into a dark sun.

The black sun hangs in the sky and everything loses its color.

As the sun rotated, an even more terrifying gravitational force burst out from it, pulling everything, even the Demon King was flying towards there unconsciously.

"You--" The devil was shocked. He had not expected such a sudden change. Where did this god come from?
It took out another eraser and waved it quickly at the black sun. The sun was wiped out silently and the eraser immediately disintegrated into powder.

"Not reality distortion, but... narrative revision."

Zhou Yuan is now in the realm of gods. Although he has never analyzed these special powers, he is able to recognize them now. It seems that after reaching this level, some advanced knowledge will be automatically comprehended.

Then, he showed a playful smile, as expected!
"This power doesn't belong to you, how many times can you use it?

Without the ability to use this power, you are nothing more than a mere figurehead."

Zhou Yuan summoned a shadow sword and slashed at the demon king.

When one reaches this realm, even a skill like Shadow Sword becomes a divine skill. When the sword blade sweeps across, the emitted shadow energy turns into a black storm, carrying billions of shadow blades that roar across.

Just like the common wind erosion phenomenon in nature, under the action of wind, the wind carrying sand and dust will continuously scour and grind the exposed rocks. In this process, the sand particles, like countless tiny grinding wheels, constantly hit and grind the surface of the stone, causing the shape of the stone to change.

Wearing down stone is a very long process, but if the sand is replaced with a sharper and more dangerous shadow blade, the stone will be reduced to powder in an instant.

And now, the devil is that stone.

It used its divine power to condense a suit of demonic armor and wrapped itself in it to temporarily resist the invasion of the shadow blade storm, but the entire suit of armor was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The devil pointed his finger from a distance, and fired a ray of foul divine power that pierced through the shadow blade storm.

A dark vortex appeared in front of Zhou Yuan, Guixu roared, swallowing up the divine power rays. After a moment, the light of death flashed in the bottomless depths of darkness.

Devour and transform, use the opponent's force to counter attack.

A ray of cold light from the lunar eclipse shot back at the Demon King, and with a snap, it shattered his protective armor.

A big hole was pierced through the devil's chest, and dark matter spread rapidly in it, devouring it.

Snapped!
Zhou Yuan snapped his fingers crisply.

Dense distortions occurred in the space, and then black whirlpools emerged and transformed into huge dark sun wheels.

Hundreds of black suns surrounded the devil and then exploded spectacularly.

There was no earth-shattering sound, nor gorgeous special effects. The explosion of the Black Sun only brought about silent annihilation, just like the explosion of a star in the universe, silent but full of destructive power.

The demon king fought hard and finally escaped from the explosion covered with wounds. However, after seeing the scene in front of him, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

The sky was filled with Zhou Yuan's figure, at least tens of thousands of them, each emitting a divine aura, some real and some fake, some fake and some real, making it difficult to distinguish.

Each Zhou Yuan held a huge dark sun wheel in his hand, which slowly rotated and emitted a low roar.

All expenses were borne by Ms. Raven, so Zhou Yuan had to go all out to have a good time. This was a rare public spending event in a century!

"Do you like my super-sized Rasengan?"

Zhou Yuan and others threw out the Dark Sun Wheel at the same time, and the Demon King was once again covered by the explosion.

A moment later, it drove its shattered body out of the annihilation zone, erupted a storm of filthy divine power, and slashed towards Zhou Yuan and others fiercely.

Zhou Yuan's figures exploded one after another, black fog drifted all over the sky, and the Demon King carefully searched for the real Zhou Yuan.

But what it didn't expect was that in the hole in its chest, amidst the pervasive dark matter, a tiny human figure stood up.

Zhou Yuan held the knife that urges updates and injected a large amount of divine power into it, causing this abnormal item to be sublimated. It continued to branch out and extend from the characteristic of "killing the author", thus creating another completely new characteristic.

—kills the narrative created by the author.

Zhou Yuan swung the blade, cutting out a dazzling arc, which not only tore apart the body of the demon king, but also tore apart the space, shattered the plane, and destroyed the entire narrative.

It's as magical as the characters in the game smashing through the screen and opening the way to the real world.

The scene changed suddenly.

Zhou Yuan walked down to earth and came to a dark and depressing lakeside cottage.

The sky and the earth were bleak, the grass and trees were sparse, and it was filled with desolation and dead silence.

Looking back, he saw a huge shadow hidden in the depths of the lake, casting a resentful and angry look at him.

The water surface was surging and boiling, but the shadow seemed to be suppressed.

Can only be helpless and furious.

Da da da……

The sound of high heels stepping on the ground was heard.

Zhou Yuan turned around in surprise and saw a beautiful lady wearing an intricate dark long dress woven with the night color slowly walking towards him. She had long black hair that fell to her waist, and her eyes were like the quiet night, twinkling with the light of stars.

Her facial features were absolutely beautiful, without any flaws, just like the most perfect creation. Her temperament was mysterious and elegant, giving people a feeling like a gentle nocturne.

"You... actually have a human form?" Zhou Yuan widened his eyes, shocked.

Ms. Raven ignored him and walked to the lake with an expressionless face. She stretched out her hand and pulled out a mass of mud-like substance through the air.

The water bottom suddenly became clear and transparent again.

The bleak and desolate atmosphere between heaven and earth weakened a lot, no longer dark and depressing, the dark clouds dispersed, and bright sunshine shone down.

"Huh... caught."

Ms. Raven then let out a long sigh and smiled. Her mysterious and elegant noble temperament disappeared instantly. "Look what we caught? A wild evil god, with a chicken-like crunch and six times the protein of beef."

Zhou Yuan: “…”

He rubbed his face hard, well, he shouldn't have had any expectations of the goddess.

Boom!
At this moment, a muffled sound was heard from the room, as if someone had fallen down.

(End of this chapter)