Chapter 3 Self Destruction

"Congratulations on completing this task. You have successfully obtained one more energy bar!"

Edward felt something burning on his wrist. He lowered his head and looked at his watch. There was a full energy bar on it.

Edward didn't understand, so he opened the "system rule".

"System rule":

Every time a specific task of the system was completed, the energy bar on the watch would automatically add one. If this task was not completed, the energy bar would be deducted. When the space was deducted, the player would be eliminated, which also meant death.

When the energy bar was full, it meant that he would be the final winner after he passed the test. The final winner would obtain endless wealth in the real world.

Attention: the only choice to return to the real world was to pass the game, or you would be trapped in the game endlessly until death!

Edward closed the "system rule" and lowered his head, lost in thought.

There was no other choice, not to mention that he had been lucky since he came to the game. In that case, he had to pass the game and become the final winner!

Edward smiled with satisfaction and took the food he just collected to the place designated by the system to rest, waiting for the next task.

Suddenly, a burning and steaming fireball came at Edward. Edward dodged the attack with the newly upgraded assassin's flash skill.

Before Edward could catch his breath, countless fireballs exploded around Edward like cannonballs. Edward had to continue to dodge nimbly and dodge the frontal attack by moving fast.

The explosion caused by the landing of the fireballs brought a violent heatwave, burning the air into a reddish red.

Standing in the sea of fire, Edward felt his body burning.

"System hint: the "angel body" has been activated."

Activated the skill of blowing the wind! Edward thought to himself.

In an instant, there seemed to be a pair of invisible wings blowing away the heatwave around Edward, and the air gradually returned to the original temperature.

"Aren't you an assassin? Why do you use the skill of the wind magus? Or is this the talent you drew?"

Not far away, a tall, looking extremely coquettish and charming woman, with shoulder-length pink-purple straight long hair, wearing a flesh-colored leotard with a pattern, with a mole under the corner of her eyes, walking towards Edward.

Edward was stunned for a while and then became alert.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Irene, fire-type magus."

After saying that, Irene winked at Edward.

"You attacked me just now? Why did you do that?"

"Of course I want to grab your food."

Before Edward could say anything, the earth began to shake violently, making Irene and Edward unable to stand steadily. They could only try to keep balance.

"Watch out!" Edward shouted.

An ax flew towards Irene and hit the nail on the head.

Edward activated the flash skill, held Irene in his arms, and flew in another direction to avoid the ax.

When the two of them landed on the ground, Edward was still holding Irene's waist, and the two were very close to each other.

Edward blushed and let go of Irene.

"Who is it? It turns out to be Edward, my useless subordinate who was fired by me."

Lauren, dressed in black armor and helmet, swaggered over with several subordinates.

Edward clenched his fists.

Lauren was Edward's former boss. He had always been against Edward when he was working. He blamed all his mistakes on Edward and even took the opportunity to fire Edward.

'What a small world!' Edward thought.

"Be sensible. Give me the food."

Lauren said with disdain.

"No way!"

"Huh, you're courting death! Come on!"

Lauren's men rushed towards Edward.

Edward pushed Irene away and dodged with his flash skill.

Lauren glared at him and said sarcastically,

"I didn't expect you trash to be useful. But you still have to die."

Lauren picked up the ax and jumped down to chop at Edward. Edward immediately dodged. The moment the ax fell, the ground was split in half.

Lauren:

"Strength warrior"

"Level": Medium stage

"Attributes": Medium stage of strong attack. It could last for 1 minute.

Medium stage of movement speed: 30 seconds of an accelerated attack

Lauren adjusted the angle of the ax and launched a second continuous attack on Edward.

Edward immediately used his invisibility skill and disappeared in an instant.

Irene, who was watching the fight aside and was about to reap the benefits, took the opportunity to take Edward's food on the ground and prepared to run away.

Irene had just taken a few steps when she was attacked by Lauren's ice attribute magus's ice sealing talent. She was immediately frozen.

Lauren got furious,

"Get out!"

Just then, Edward hid with a dagger and quickly stabbed behind Lauren. But the armor on Lauren's body was too hard, so this stab failed.

At this time, Edward's hiding time had come.

"Hahaha, you are a loser. You can't hide now, can you?"

"Damn it!" Edward cursed.

Lauren used the 30-seconds acceleration function of a warrior at the medium stage to chop at Edward, but he didn't hurt Edward. Edward had just completed his task and obtained the one-second injury-free nature, which successfully resisted the attack of Lauren.

Lauren was a warrior of close-range attack. There was no chance of winning in a head-on battle with him, and the assassin behind him was unable to break through the armor on Lauren.

Edward continued to click on the control board and quickly thought about which skill to fight against Lauren.

After thinking about it for a while, Edward still used the strong wind to blow. A strong wind blew towards Lauren.

Seeing this, Lauren immediately used the rebound talent.

Edward saw that his strong wind was bounced back. It turned out that Lauren had hidden a rebound skill!

Edward was blown to the ground by the strong wind, and his whole body was as painful as falling apart.

Edward was overwhelmed.

Lauren cast an evil glance at Edward and shouted,

"Loser, go to hell!"

The ax instantly turned into a palm and pinched Edward's neck.

At this critical moment, Edward also held the dagger tightly in his hand and stabbed it into the weak joint of Lauren's armor.

Only this was Lauren's fatal weakness!

Edward's talent for plundering was activated.

For a moment, Lauren felt that his body was being drained by some kind of power. Lauren shook his head painfully, and then the power in Lauren's body turned into golden light and injected into Edward's body.

"You have lost all your talent and skills!"

System reminded Lauren.

"How is that possible? No!" Lauren roared in disbelief.

Edward turned around and was about to leave. Lauren stood up and tried his best to pick up the ax on the ground and cut Edward's neck.

However, it triggered the rebound talent that Edward had just plundered from Lauren.

The ax, which was about to go to Edward's neck, instantly turned to Lauren.

"Crack!"

Lauren's neck was cut off and died on the spot.

Edward was stunned.

But he immediately realized that Lauren deserved it.

This kind of garbage who wanted to throw the blame on his subordinates when he did something wrong and even wanted to kill people in the game was self-destructing.

Edward shook his head and left. After the fight, Edward felt tired and needed to rest.

This was the first time that Edward had plundered a lot of talents and skills from a human, but after the plundering, it couldn't be arbitrarily controlled like the talent plundered from animals.

It seemed that he had to continue to unlock more after the upgrade.

It suddenly occurred to Edward that Irene was still frozen by Lauren. He hurried to Irene and removed the seal on Irene with the help of the purifying effect of the angel body.

Irene, who had just been unsealed, shivered with cold. She rubbed her hands and asked,

"Why don't you kill me? I left you just now and was about to grab your food. I attacked you at the beginning. You can kill me."

"You look like my ex-girlfriend."

Edward replied, pretending to be calm. He looked down to avoid Irene's eyes getting closer and closer. Then he turned around and left.

"Besides, I won't kill women."

Irene snickered.

"Wait!"

Confused, Edward turned around and said,

"What's wrong?"

Irene approached Edward, pulled Edward closer to her, put her arms around Edward's neck, and buried her head in Edward's chest.

The air was filled with the fragrance of Irene's orris musk, which shocked Edward.

"What are you doing?"

Edward blushed and pushed Irene away.

"Don't move."

Irene said in a coquettish voice.

"I was so cold because of you just now. You have to let me get warm."