Chapter 173: Reactions from All Sides

Kamiyu’s Thunderstorm Bullet in its Frenzied Lightning Arrow mode, while on the Crimson Earth, could only electrocute Aberrant Beast Demons into charcoal, lacking the ability to pierce through monsters.

It required stacking with Armor-Piercing Bullets, transforming into the “Phase Energy Cannon” skill, to achieve penetration against monsters.

Yet in the real world, using just the Frenzied Lightning Arrow alone, she was actually able to completely vaporize a Third-Tier Ability User. Not only that, but even the building behind it and the dozens of aerial roots hanging vertically from the tree canopy were severed by Kamiyu, causing the Fear Emperor Divine Tree to tremble slightly.

The high-tier ability users on the branches swayed unsteadily, nearly losing their balance and falling, each wearing different expressions on their faces.

Some were shocked, some skeptical, some disbelieving, and some panicked.

“The Fear Emperor Divine Tree… is actually trembling in fear because of that pink-haired woman’s attack?” One ability user looked up at the continuously shaking tree canopy, as leaves the size of cars fell one after another.

“Bullshit fear! His Majesty Fear Emperor only spreads fear; he does not feel fear. This is anger, rage,” another defended the Fear Emperor’s dignity, angrily scolding the first.

“What just happened? I turned around early and missed the scene,” someone who had left and returned said.

“Bald Tiger… he was actually killed in one strike by that pink-haired woman, his body burned to ashes,” an ability user gasped in shock. “This is a Third-Tier Ability User! A proper Third-Tier Ability User, killed in a single blow, without even a trace of his remains left.”

“What? Tiger is dead? Are you sure? Could he have jumped away and you just didn’t see it?” another retorted.

“Dead beyond dead. Look at the remains of Tiger’s limbs on the ground, neatly severed by the beam,” this person stammered.

“Hiss.” The severed ends of the limbs were still emitting heat.

“Impossible, absolutely impossible. Tiger was a Third-Tier Ability User; he couldn’t possibly be killed so easily.”

“Could it be… could that pink-haired woman be holding a divine weapon? Like that weapon the bespectacled kid summoned during the big fight downstairs at the apartment before?”

“Unlikely, right? Those weapons were nothing special, barely scratching us when they hit.”

“What in the world is going on?” A high-tier ability user with the character “three” carved on his forehead lowered his hands, squinting into the distance at Kamiyu.

“According to the intel we extracted from interrogating Players, the vast majority of these people are only level one or two, no match for us ability users at all.

Players at levels three or four might be able to defeat the few ability users blocking the highway entrances and exits, but defeating a Third-Tier Ability User? Absolutely impossible.

Killing 100 people to rise from zero-tier to first-tier, 1,000 to reach second-tier, 10,000 to reach third-tier—each tier-up brings an exponential increase in strength.

By second-tier, they can crush Players below level 10, let alone third-tier ability users. Tiger himself had successively killed 10 so-called ‘Veteran Players’ at level 15 from the Player group.”

So it wasn’t that there were no Veteran Players. Those who escaped back to reality, those who knew Kamiyu—all had been killed by these ability users for Blood Sacrifice leveling.

“Tiger isn’t an ordinary Third-Tier Ability User. He performed the Blood Sacrifice Ritual, burning his essence and blood to gain Fear Emperor’s blessing, temporarily elevating his Attack Power and Vitality to the level of a Fourth-Tier Ability User who needs to slaughter 100,000 people.”

“If this pink-haired woman can kill Tiger with a single strike, does that mean she’s one of those ‘Beta Testers’ mentioned by the dead ‘Veteran Players’?”

“No, there’s no such thing as Open Beta or Closed Beta. It must just be that weapon in her hand that’s powerful. As long as we take her weapon away, she’ll be helpless. Just like those players downstairs in the apartment building earlier—they don’t know how to fight at all. Without their weapons, they can’t attack; they’re just lambs waiting to be slaughtered.”

“Qian Long, Hou Ao, you two come with me. Your Special Abilities happen to be suitable. Let’s devise a plan and properly confront those two,” said Men San, who had the character “three” carved on his forehead.

“Do we really have to fight? I’m only Third-Tier; I can’t win. I’m not like you, a Fourth-Tier,” Qian Long said timidly.

“That woman, with her delicate skin and tender flesh, looks delicious at first glance,” the chubby Hou Ao, who resembled a little candy figure, licked his lips.

Like Men San, Hou Ao was also a Fourth-Tier Ability User. Within just an hour, he had devoured over a hundred thousand defenders of Dragon Roar City alive and was among the first batch to reach Fourth-Tier.

“That pink-haired woman is only powerful because of the weapon in her hand. As long as we knock her weapon away, she’ll have no Attack Power at all.”

“Your Special Ability can steal and swap things—perfect for taking the weapon right out of her hands. Then we can use her own weapon against her. She’ll be crying soon enough.”

“I want to see the look of despair on her face,” Men San revealed a cunning and sinister expression.

Qian Long’s ears twitched, and he rubbed his hands together like flies. “That’s a good idea. Hehe, I can steal and swap more than just weapons.”

“Hmph, as long as you leave her to me in the end. Killing her will definitely let me advance to Fifth-Tier,” Men San showed his wolfish ambition.

“Then what do I eat?” Hou Ao asked blankly, sucking on his finger.

“Your target is that man. You’re so fat; that little girl wouldn’t be enough for you.”

On the other side, the players watching the Black Sphere Live Stream immediately brightened up, cheering and rejoicing one after another.

“Am I seeing this right? That pink-haired girl really blasted a Third-Tier Ability User to death?”

“What formidable strength! This girl hasn’t made a move all along because she was so confident.”

“Tsk, this Third-Tier Ability User was too weak. He was suppressed by the Black Armor Warrior the whole time early on, his health kept getting reduced, and then this person just picked up the scraps,” one player questioned.

“You’re right. That pink-haired girl actually has no real strength at all. It’s all because of the weapon in her hand. And she doesn’t even know how to use it properly. The first shot wasn’t very powerful and couldn’t kill that Third-Tier Ability User. It was the second shot that unleashed its power, blasting that low HP Third-Tier Ability User to death with one shot.”

“She doesn’t know how to use a gun. If we take the gun, we’d use it better than her,” someone tried to fish in troubled waters.

After Pang Mi’s death, Xiao Zhong regained his voice and immediately retorted, “She just killed one Ability User, and you’re already eyeing her weapon? Are you even human? We need to unite.”

Those petty thieves and scoundrels then dared not speak up anymore.

Back on the battlefield, Kamiyu discovered that after killing this Third-Tier Ability User, she had gained 3 Enhancement Points.

“Huh, 3 Enhancement Points? Does that mean those I took out outside Longming City only gave 1 Enhancement Point, indicating they were first-tier?”

She was gradually figuring out the strength levels of these people.

To put it simply, they were all trash.

“Ding-ding-ding.”

She took out her phone and found that the player named Xiao Zhong had indeed sent her the shortest route to the apartment where the Black Sphere was located.

Kamiyu immediately snapped her flip phone shut, turned to Jack, and said, “Let’s go.”