Chapter 90: Lord Evil God’s Weakness |
Being kicked offline for absolutely no reason made Jiang Chen so angry his chest hurt.
“What the hell, are you messing with me?”
“Are you sick or something?!”
“NPCs can actually bait players into punishment now?”
Jiang Chen truly never imagined that one day he would actually get tricked by an NPC.
Just as Jiang Chen was still feeling depressed—
Something happened on Vivian’s side.
Vivian blinked her innocent eyes.
“Eh? Lord Evil God already left?”
“Awooo! I figured it out!”
Vivian remembered the previous two scenes where Lord Evil God had suddenly disappeared.
The first time was when Lilith had just walked out of the bathroom, and Lord Evil God immediately fled in panic.
The second time was when he controlled her body to stand up from the bathtub while she was bathing, and once again Lord Evil God ran away.
Recalling how Lord Evil God had wanted to peek under her skirt the very first time he controlled her—
Yet failed to see anything because of various interruptions—
Vivian had subconsciously assumed from the beginning that Lord Evil God was extremely lecherous.
“Hmph hmph... this must definitely have been intentional on Lord Evil God’s part!”
“In reality, Lord Evil God isn’t lustful at all. On the contrary, he must actually be the type of god who gets embarrassed extremely easily. He only acts lecherous on purpose!”
“So that’s how it is! I never expected you to be this kind of Evil God!”
Vivian felt as though she had seen through everything.
However...
“I am the cautious Vivian.”
Looking toward the bathroom, Vivian fell into deep thought.
Immediately afterward, Vivian stood up.
Flipping her ponytail, Vivian wore a smug expression. “Lord Evil God once said that practice is the sole criterion for testing truth! Next comes the moment of verification!”
Not long afterward...
Inside the bathroom, Lilith soaked in the bathtub with half-closed eyes. “So comfortable...”
However, the moment the door opened, Lilith saw Vivian enter wrapped in a bath towel.
“Eh? Vivian, what are you doing in here?”
“Obviously bathing together with you!” Vivian grinned mischievously.
Vivian’s expression scared Lilith so badly that she instinctively covered her chest. “No! Vivian, this absolutely won’t do!”
“Hmph hmph, that’s not up to you!”
“T-That... Vivian, we’re friends...”
“Exactly! That’s why we should bathe together!”
“N-No... um... Vivian, don’t do anything weird!”
Amid Lilith’s screams, Vivian squeezed herself into the bathtub beside her.
Fortunately, Vivian made no further moves, allowing Lilith to finally breathe a small sigh of relief.
At this moment, Vivian had no interest in caring what Lilith was thinking.
Right now, she was eagerly waiting for Lord Evil God to descend once more.
Based on Vivian’s experience, Lord Evil God usually left very late.
Today was still so early—Lord Evil God would definitely return!
Thus, while Vivian waited—
Before long, the familiar voice rang out in her mind.
“He’s here! He’s here!”
Vivian became excited.
Never before had she anticipated Lord Evil God’s arrival as much as she did now.
Then...
“Skills, skills, lemme see what the hell these skill effects are!”
“Holy shit!”
“Wooooow, nicely done!”
Those were the three sentences Vivian heard from Lord Evil God before he got scared and fled once again.
“Kekekeke!!” Vivian laughed extremely arrogantly.
As expected!
Her guess had been correct!
Hmph hmph, Lord Evil God, from today onward, the offense and defense have switched places!
Vivian wore a smugly wicked expression.
This caused Lilith, who sat beside her, to unconsciously shrink backward once again.
Looking at Vivian, whose brain suddenly seemed to malfunction, Lilith no longer dared remain there any longer.
“U-Um... Vivian, I’m done bathing, so I’ll head out first!”
Lilith gathered her courage and spoke.
Right now, she genuinely feared that the suddenly deranged Vivian might refuse to let her leave.
“Go ahead, go ahead!” Vivian waved her hand indifferently.
Vivian’s response allowed Lilith to breathe a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the worst-case scenario had not happened.
However, just as she reached the doorway, Lilith stopped and looked back toward Vivian, who was still foolishly giggling to herself.
“Um... Vivian, are you okay?”
Before leaving, Lilith still asked out of concern.
“What could possibly be wrong with me?” Vivian looked puzzled.
“As long as you’re okay...”
Leaving behind that sentence, Lilith fled from the bathroom as though escaping for her life.
Although Lilith felt that abandoning Vivian after she suddenly lost her mind was somewhat lacking in friendship—
Recalling Vivian’s bizarre “kekeke” villain laughter earlier, Lilith was scared too.
......
【Due to behavior violating player regulations, your game login privileges have been suspended.】
【Note: Repeated recent violations of player regulations detected. Suspension duration extended.】
【Login Suspension Time Remaining: 5 hours 54 minutes 59 seconds....】
【Please maintain civilized gameplay and help preserve a healthy gaming environment.】
Sitting in front of his computer desk, Jiang Chen stared at the pop-up window and pondered silently for a long time.
“So are these game planners actually sane?”
“I can understand the whole 100% realistic simulation thing including NPCs bathing.”
“But if a player accidentally logs in while an NPC is bathing and instantly gets kicked offline, isn’t that system just a little ridiculous?”
Jiang Chen felt speechless.
“And this problem could’ve been solved in countless other ways. For example, just remove the NPC bathing mechanic entirely.”
“Do they absolutely have to bathe?”
“Even taking ten thousand steps back, if you insist on including bathing mechanics, couldn’t they just bathe while wearing clothes? Why do they specifically have to undress?”
His attribute points remained unallocated, and he had not even finished researching the skill books before being kicked offline.
This left him feeling incredibly miserable.
“I’m numb. No way. Today’s progress is already lagging behind this much. If this keeps up, people will catch up very easily.”
However, after glancing at the login countdown—
He realized he would only be able to log back into the game around three in the morning.
“Forget it. I’ll leave it for today. Tomorrow I’ll explore the ruins and probably recover the lost progress.”
“Although I still haven’t researched the skills, they probably won’t be bad. Once I wake up and grind for a while, they’ll come in handy anyway.”
Thinking this, Jiang Chen picked up the phone beside his computer desk, opened the alarm app, and set an alarm for three in the morning.
After finishing all that, Jiang Chen suddenly remembered something.
“Since I’m free anyway, I might as well check how the forums are doing right now.”
Lately, he had focused entirely on grinding progress and barely paid attention to the forums.
Now was the perfect chance.
Thinking this, Jiang Chen first opened the Leaderboard.
【Eternal Era Combat Power Rankings:】
【1st Place: Human Race, Combat Power 7490】
【2nd Place: Dragon Race, 6950】
【3rd Place: Giant, 6400】
【4th Place: Dark Elf, 5700】
.......
“Holy crap, they’re catching up this fast?”
Especially after seeing the Dragon Race player only about 500 combat power behind him, Jiang Chen was stunned.
“How many damn days has this guy been grinding nonstop?”
“Is he not afraid of suddenly dropping dead from overwork?”
Regarding this Dragon Race player, Jiang Chen genuinely felt admiration.
Closing the rankings, Jiang Chen opened the forums—
And became even more shocked.
“Grinding this hard in-game is already outrageous enough, yet this guy’s somehow still this active on the forums too?!”
Because at the top of the homepage, the hottest thread belonged to the Dragon Race player.
And the thread title was outrageously arrogant.
Curious, Jiang Chen clicked the post titled:
【I’m Dominating Weekly, Monthly, and Overall Rankings. Who Approves? Who Objects?】
“Good lord...”
After seeing the contents of the thread, even Jiang Chen was stunned by this Dragon Race player.
The post was filled with lines such as “everyone here is trash,” “first place belongs to me,” and similar nonsense.
Jiang Chen stared in disbelief.
What was even more absurd was that while every other player carefully hid their identity and location, this Dragon Race player openly revealed his own coordinates.
“Damn, getting a good race really does make people confident.”
“He even dares reveal his location casually.”
However, after seeing the location revealed by the Dragon Race player, Jiang Chen fell silent.
“Dragon Lair.... who the hell would dare go there?”
“And based on this guy’s comments, it sounds like his status among the Dragon Race isn’t even low.”
“Every day he’s being fed and cared for completely, and his recent combat power gains all came from prey brought back by his dragon parents.”
Although Jiang Chen felt there was definitely a large amount of bragging mixed in—after all, this same guy previously bragged nonstop on the forums about how hard he grinded.
Yet the moment he argued with others, he immediately changed his story, which clearly meant something was suspicious.
Still, even so, Jiang Chen could not help feeling somewhat unbalanced.
“I mean... besides being jealous, what else can I even say?”
As he browsed through the thread, Jiang Chen discovered many other players felt similarly.
Everyone was jealous.
Then came the funniest part—the Dragon Race player seemed to get carried away.
Whenever other players shared their combat power growth, the Dragon Race player would immediately jump in saying things like “this much combat power is easy if you’ve got hands.”
Perhaps jealousy eventually turned into hatred, because the Dragon Race player ended up arguing with several other players.
Since the Dragon Race player genuinely possessed overwhelming strength, his mockery was completely merciless.
The other players became furious after being ridiculed and, in order to fight back, actually dragged Jiang Chen into the argument.
The further Jiang Chen read, the stranger his expression became.
Other people were using him as an example, yet this idiot somehow ended up hating him too.
Jiang Chen was dumbfounded.
“No seriously, are you mentally ill?! I’m a victim too, alright?!”
“They’re the ones mocking you, so go fight them! Why the hell are all your grievances ending up aimed at me?!”
Jiang Chen felt the entire situation was incredibly stupid.
Especially later on, this idiot Dragon Race player mentioned him in almost every single reply.
For example, the final comment.
【The Human Race player surpassing me? Just because he temporarily suppressed me in combat power rankings, he thinks he’s invincible now? Do you even understand the value of the Dragon Race?】
【Within two days, I’ll awaken the Dragon Race inheritance magic. Any random inherited spell will massively increase my combat power.】
【Go ahead and keep barking while you still can. Two days later, let’s see whether you’re still capable of barking at all.】
“No seriously...”
Jiang Chen held his forehead speechlessly.
Although this Dragon Race player had been acting like a complete idiot lately, Jiang Chen still had to admit that this race was basically a walking BUG.
The key issue was that when this guy argued with others, he deliberately included Jiang Chen in the conflict.
Jiang Chen had never suffered this kind of nonsense before.
Could this really be tolerated?
“Good, very good! You like being active, huh?”
Thinking this, Jiang Chen picked up his phone and called one of his good brothers.
Not long afterward....
A new reply appeared beneath the Dragon Race player’s post.
【Human Race Player: Heh, you sure are amazing. I simply couldn’t be bothered responding to you before. Do you really think you’re invincible now?】
【Inheritance dragon magic? Wow, I’m so scared. Since we’re talking openly, I might as well tell you this—I’ve already obtained the special Class Hero Candidate.】
【It won’t be long before I officially obtain the Hero Class. Little brat, you should understand exactly what the Hero Class represents. Haven’t you heard of the phrase ‘Hero Slays Evil Dragon’?】
【Once I officially obtain the Hero Class, you’d better pray I never run into you. Otherwise, you’re gonna suffer real hard.】
Seeing the newly posted comment, Jiang Chen nodded in satisfaction.
“I was actually worried earlier that, considering how insane this game is, the Violet Family might directly send powerful people to attack me.”
“Matthew already proved that possibility.”
“I was still trying to figure out how to deal with it...”
“And then you conveniently delivered yourself to my doorstep.”
“When the time comes, you people can slowly torment each other instead....”
Jiang Chen did not know exactly how badly things would spiral.
But he knew one thing for certain—
The Violet Family was absolutely going to suffer terribly.
This seemingly ordinary comment had actually been carefully crafted by Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen paid close attention to what the old principal said earlier, especially the part where he mentioned he knew many Heroes, yet the Violet Family’s situation was the first of its kind he had ever seen.
This revealed one thing:
There was more than one Hero in this world, and the Violet Family’s situation was unique.
Directly revealing his identity would leave too many flaws, so Jiang Chen deliberately made the comment appear as though it had been posted impulsively in anger.
Furthermore, he never explicitly revealed his own identity in the contents.
But people would naturally investigate on their own, and once they investigated, they would definitely find the truth.
Jiang Chen was certain the Dragon Race player would not be the only one investigating him. Other players would definitely investigate too.
“Hehehe, this way the Violet Family probably won’t have time to bother me anytime soon.”
“And once they confirm that Vivian’s cheap older sister is a player and understand the conditions for obtaining the Hero Class...”
“Kekekeke!!!”
At that point, he might even gain free bodyguards.
Jiang Chen could not help giving himself a huge thumbs-up for this maneuver.
“Of course, to ensure absolute safety...”
Thinking this, Jiang Chen edited and sent a text message.
The contents were very simple.
Delete that forum reply after one hour.
After all, if he was going to act, he had to commit fully.
One hour was enough time for everyone to see the information.
Deleting the post afterward would instead reinforce the idea that he had posted impulsively while enraged, only to calm down later and delete it to save face.
That would make the entire thing appear far more believable.
After finishing everything, Jiang Chen stretched lazily.
“I’ll take a quick nap first. Once I finish the final thing later, I can finally sleep peacefully tonight...”
.....
On Vivian’s side—
She was extremely happy today!
Because she had discovered Lord Evil God’s secret!
“Hmph hmph, mere Lord Evil God. From now on, Vivian will completely control you!”
For once, Vivian could finally go to sleep early.
And this sleep felt incomparably peaceful and sweet.
At night, the moon hung high overhead while the occasional chirping of insects drifted in from outside the window.
Suddenly, the sleeping Vivian heard a “beep beep beep...” sound.
Then—
Her eyes abruptly snapped open.
Her body sat upright from the bed.
Still groggy, Vivian was forcibly booted awake.