Retrograde Gaming - Chapter 11
Chapter 11: Boss, Don’t Screw Over Yourself, Alright?
Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
“Not good!” Neidhardt’s entire body flashed with a golden light, he quickly slashed at Yazir who was in the middle of the room. This attack was truly permeated with the aura of death, however, Yazir simply raised his hand in response, and then, a wave of black ripples hit Neidhardt on the chest. The latter violently hacked out a mouthful of blood as he flew back the way he came.
“The Dark Emperor has granted me power.” As Yazir waved his hand, 11 black magic blasts fired right out from his palms, flying towards the 11 players on the scene as if they had eyes.
-240, -260, -226… 11 figures popped out, everyone was extremely shocked at this scene. This was actually multi-target magic!
“I won’t let you prevail!” Neidhardt, who was heavily injured, suddenly hacked out a mouthful of blood while standing up. “Even if I can’t kill you, I won’t let your summoning spell succeed!”
With that said, Neidhardt bellowed aloud, his entire body suddenly burst out with an intense golden battle spirit.
“You actually used that skill!?” Yazir was astonished. “You’re prepared to burn up your life?”
“For glory!” Neidhardt shouted, and then, he charged out again, however, this time, his target wasn’t Yazir, it was instead the black sphere in front of him.
“No!” Yazir shouted, his hands simultaneously mustered up a giant magic blast in an attempt to stop Neidhardt, however, he was a little too late. Neidhardt’s sword already hit the black sphere. With a ‘ka’, the entire black sphere was split in two by Neidhardt’s slash. At the same time, Yazir’s magic blast hit Neidhardt’s body, the latter screamed in agony as he crashed into the wall, his blood spilling all over the ground.
“No! No! My magic array!” Yazir looked at the black magic array that slowly disappeared from the ground, he actually let out a weepy voice, “Damn it, damn it… my painstaking efforts, my hard work for four years!”
Yazir slowly knelt down on the ground, the entire surroundings were silent for a moment, and then, Yazir suddenly raised his head once again. He looked at the 11 surrounding players, all who were still watching the scenario play out. “I want all of you to die!!” There was intense hatred and coldness in his tone.
“It’s not over yet?” Li Huailin was startled, all of a sudden, another magic buff appeared inside his status bar.
Shadow Vulnerability: Damage reduced by 100% when hit by Shadow Attacks.
In the surroundings, the expressions of the members of the Spiritual World guild changed drastically, this was because of the debuff they received.
Shadow Vulnerability: Damage increased by 100% when hit by Shadow Attacks.
“Oh no!” Night Flyer suddenly shouted, “He’s casting Multi-target Shadow Arrows!”
As expected, just as Night Flyer finished shouting, the boss immediately brandished 11 Shadow Arrows.
-530, -560, -490… Ineffective, a large pile of near 500 numbers drifted by—with the small addition of an ineffective status—all of a sudden, everyone in the Spiritual World guild party lay on the ground, turning into white light.
Inside the entire round room, only Li Huailin and Yazir were left staring into each other’s eyes.
“You… why didn’t you die?” After a short suffocating atmosphere, the boss, Yazir, suddenly popped out these words.
“Brother Boss, you completely screwed yourself over,” Li Huailin said a little helplessly, since he already finished watching the show now, he also wanted to die.
Yazir was startled, and then, he raised his hand. A Shadow Arrow fired at Li Huailin once again.
Ineffective.
“Uh…” Li Huailin looked at the black mist that still sealed the entrance. “Say, Brother Boss, why don’t we discuss this? You can’t kill me anyway, why don’t you just let me out of here, is that alright?”
“I’m going to kill you!” Yazir brandished three more magic blasts, however, the results were still: Ineffective. Ineffective. Ineffective.
“F*cker! Don’t be too arrogant! My discussion with you is already giving you a lot of face, since I’m standing here right now, why don’t you come and kill me? Bring it!” Because Li Huailin genuinely wanted to die, he persistently provoked Yazir.
“Life Absorption!” Yazir suddenly changed spells, his right hand extended towards Li Huailin, a red ray shot towards the latter.
+100.
“I…” Li Huailin looked at his status bar; he discovered another buff.
Life Absorption: Increase Health Points by 100 every second, continues for 20 seconds.
“Why was that even necessary… wait…” Just when Li Huailin wanted to make a few taunting remarks, he suddenly discovered that damage was actually popping out from above the boss, Yazir’s head, -100, -100… it was drastically dropping.
“Hey, hey, Brother Boss, don’t act so recklessly and screw yourself over. Don’t take this too hard.” Li Huailin was truly scared now, he obviously figured out what was happening—Life Absorption, the spell was originally supposed to deduct 100 Health Points every second but now… it was adding 100 Health Points every second to him—this was clearly reversed by his bugged character, it was now the boss who was continuously giving his own Health Points to Li Huailin.
“Hehe! Be afraid! Weep! Scream!” Yazir shouted with a sinister smile.
“Weep your damned sister! Big brother, can you please not use this skill?” Li Huailin was speechless, if this continued on, he would be solo killing a level 30 boss. Just thinking of the experience… dying over thousands of times wouldn’t make up for it.
“Begging for forgiveness won’t work either…” Yazir responded, with that said, he then hacked out a mouthful of blood.
“Beg your damned sister! You should first understand who’s the one hacking out blood right now!”
Twenty seconds quickly passed by like this and Life Absorption ended. Just when Li Huailin was about to say something, Yazir the boss quickly raised his hand again to cast Life Absorption once more.
“If… if someone truly wants to die, not even God can stop them… forget it, I give in…” Li Huailin sighed.
At this moment, the system suddenly notified Li Huailin that someone was requesting a long-distance call. Li Huailin took a look and discovered that it was Spiritual World Night Flyer.
“Huailin, where are you? I didn’t see you at the respawn point,” after the call connected, Night Flyer asked, feeling quite baffled.
“I’m still at the f*cking boss, this guy is still chatting with me. Because the passageway is still sealed, I can’t even get out,” Li Huailin said gloomily.
“Huh? What’s he talking to you about?” Night Flyer immediately asked.
“Uh, basically, it’s just “weeping won’t work”, “begging for forgiveness won’t work either”, things of that sort. I really can’t do anything about him,” Li Huailin said honestly.
“Huh?” Night Flyer felt a little confused, he couldn’t understand the situation.
“Oh right, what happened to the quest?” Li Huailin could only turn aside from the current topic.
“Oh, the quest’s been completed,” Night Flyer said, “It seems that once the black sphere was broken, the quest was counted as completed right away. That magic that instantly killed everyone on the scene was probably a ‘scripted death’. I’m about to go to the village chief to hand in the quest. Oh right, thank you again.”
“Uh, no need…” Li Huailin was genuinely depressed, he originally wanted to stroll around, he never would’ve imagined that he would provoke such a death-seeking boss.
“We’re going to leave the newbie village after we hand in the quest, what about you?” Night Flyer asked again.
“Since I’m still not level 10, I’ll stay here and level up for a while. You guys just go, don’t mind me.” With that said, he added in his mind, ‘After I kill this boss and be deducted of several tens of thousands of experience, god knows when I’ll be able to leave the newbie village.’
“Alright, see you at the main city. If you need help in the future, don’t be a stranger, just find me,” Night Flyer said courteously.
“Okay.”
After hanging up the call, Li Huailin turned to the boss once again. He was suddenly scared by the sight. The reason this was so was because after talking for a while, Yazir the boss was already bleeding from his seven apertures, he appeared extremely terrifying.
“Hey, hey, big brother, how are you doing? Still alive?” Li Huailin asked with concern.
“Cough, cough…” Yazir suddenly hacked out a mouthful of blood. “It’s hard to imagine that you can be so powerful without even having a class change….”
“How the hell am I powerful? You’re clearly the one continuously screwing yourself over and over again.”
“Today, you defeated me, but if I want to escape, you can’t stop me…” Yazir said as he spat out blood.
“What, you’re leaving!?” Li Huailin shouted wildly with joy, “Great! Big brother, you’ve finally thought this through! Why don’t I send you off? How about I give you some travel expenses?”
“Next time we meet, I definitely won’t spare you,” after saying this, Yazir took out a magic scroll from his chest and pulled on it forcefully, a black ray of light flashed across Li Huailin’s eyes. After Li Huailin opened his eyes again, Yazir disappeared.
“God really is merciful!” Li Huailin said this as his cheeks were streaming with tears.
Followed by Yazir, the boss’ departure, the black mist that covered the entrance also immediately dispersed. Just when Li Huailin was about to walk out, an extremely small voice called out to him.
“Great brave warrior, wait a moment…” Neidhardt, who had fallen on the ground and was covered with blood all over his body, extended his hand and said weakly.
“Oh sh*t! You’re still not dead.” Li Huailin was momentarily startled.
Neidhardt’s appearance was clearly one that looked to be on the verge of death, not to mention that his entire body was covered in blood, even his eyes were a little blurry, his life was probably about to end.
“Great brave warrior… cough… you must notify His Majesty, the King, about the situation here… oh right, you might not be able to see the King… Oh… please tell my nephew, Anthony… Anthony Muller… he… he’s…” Before Neidhardt could say where his nephew was, his body suddenly trembled and his eyes turned white—he finally died.
System Notice: You accepted an A-rank main quest, Emergency Situation. Find Neidhardt’s nephew, Anthony. Quest tip, it’s said that someone saw Anthony at the north of the empire. Completion reward: 10,000 Experience, 1 Gold Coin, 500 Reputation.
“What the hell? I didn’t even say anything to accept this quest!” Before Li Huailin could get a word in, Neidhardt died with satisfaction and this quest actually just accepted itself on its own.
“Abandon.”
System Notice: You cannot abandon a main quest.
“I…” Li Huailin wiped his forehead. “What the heck is this? This guy screwed me over even after dying… 10,000 Experience… 1 Gold Coin… if I were to complete this, I’ll be sent right back to level 1 with zero additional statuses, this is even more inconvenient than deleting the account.”
