My Players Are So Fierce

Chapter 2723 -908: This Is a True High-Stakes Gamble, Friend

“Mm, this might be my only chance in your remaining life to stand on the same level as Lady Triss.”

“Don’t do that.”

Murphy shook his head and said in a low voice:

“It’s just one divinity shard. If I play it safe, I’ll get one sooner or later anyway. But some treasures, once lost, are lost forever. I’m a gambler about to step up to the table; I can go all in for profit.

But I also have my bottom line.

An old man once told me, don’t try to achieve all beautiful things by means of destruction. That way lies nothing but endless despair.

Triss has accepted you already. All you’re missing is time.”

“Ah, my master, you really are too good at sweet-talking.”

Adel bit her lip, stood on tiptoe and whispered something in Murphy’s ear, making the handsome vampire glare hard at her and snap:

“Where did you even learn that filthy talk that would make even Shadow Elves blush! We’re about to head into danger here, no dirty thoughts! Focus!”

“All right, I’ll follow all your orders.”

Adel instantly slipped back into her rational Intelligence Officer persona, while Monica beside them pretended she’d absolutely not heard that one sentence between those two flesh-and-blood creatures, a line so terrifying it could’ve dry-fried her already overburdened CPU.

“Jump countdown, five seconds. Lord Administrator, please get ready!”

Monica gave a reminder, and Murphy nodded.

He focused all his attention on the Omega Program’s senses. With only 0.5 seconds of stay time, that meant the chance to perceive Old Su Head’s artificial divinity shard would only last for a single instant.

“Vmm”

The handsome vampire’s figure vanished from where he’d been, and the next instant he appeared on the battlefield where Old Su Head had been before.

Sure enough, just as Mannis had guessed, the moment he jumped over he saw a Barbarian Giant Spirit wreathed in the light of war, going utterly berserk as it slaughtered wildly in this Land of Chaos.

Vam was furious.

The kind of fury that comes from the humiliation of having your home wiped out.

Driven by that emotion, The Fury could still explode with enough power to rampage across this Land of Chaos even in the weakened state of a shattered Divine Kingdom.

The God of Faith might be inferior to the New Gods in terms of raw power, but They had Their own advantages. Vam looked completely crazed right now, but in truth this Fury was very shrewd. He was born from the faith of the Wam Barbarians, which meant at any time He could abandon part of His power and pull out, using the faith-link with His believers to return to the material world.

Before, the tether of His Divine Kingdom had kept Him from being free, unable to give up this little plot of Subspace. Now that the Divine Kingdom was gone, Vam naturally became like an “invincible man” with no more burdens or weak points, planning to have his fun with this wave and then bail.

And since He’d helped Old Su Head earlier, that meant when He went back to the material world, the Winter Wolf Religion wouldn’t come looking for trouble with Him.

He’d already arranged his exit routes in advance, making it impossible not to marvel at the cunning hidden beneath this guy’s apparent dominance and blockheaded straightforwardness.

But Murphy had no time to pay attention to Vam’s earth-shattering battle posture. In the instant he jumped over, he entered some sort of unique “resonance state.” He didn’t even need to consciously focus on the Omega Program’s perception to clearly sense that a unique object was hidden in the Subspace area ahead.

That artificial divinity shard!

It was actively responding to the Omega Program!

“Vmm”

The next instant, Murphy was brought back to where he’d been before as per the return setting of the hyper-dimensional radar, but on the character card in front of his eyes a line of text was already flashing:

[Special relic detected: “Creation Power High-Concentration Divinity Crystal No.7”! This item is an auxiliary product of Project “Alpha” and has a special connection with the Omega Program.

This item is currently in a hyper-dimensional folded state and is unbound to any user, in serious violation of divinity crystal storage protocols! Call to Custodian · Sentinel Corps not answered. Please have the Administrator retrieve it via activation of the Omega Program.

Ding!

Administrator System special hidden event activated!

Because the divinity crystal is linked to a component of the “Final Solution to the Subspace Problem” established by [Data Deletion], it must not fall into the hands of the Chaos side. Please have the Administrator complete retrieval and secure storage as soon as possible.

Event reward: Administrator System hidden permission “Format Function” unlocked.]

“My newbie quest just ended and you’re already giving me another one? The scene interaction on this thing is this smart? Or is some ‘[Data Deletion]’ currently lurking at a higher dimension and screen-peeking on the sly? Why does this feel exactly like when I used to coax newbie players into doing quests?”

Murphy threw out a fierce complaint.

But there was no way around it. The situation was serious enough that the Administrator System had actually issued him a quest. Looked like this risk had to be taken.

Still, things like this needed planning in advance. Just that one glance from before had been enough for him to understand how terrifying that Subspace Battlefield was. No exaggeration: the weakest of those Subspace Demons getting chopped up by Vam had the power to casually kill Murphy ten times over in an instant.

And just as Murphy started revving up his brain, a deep, rough voice suddenly rang in his ear:

“Hey! You! Sissy vampire! When I was chopping up those Subspace Demons just now, you were the little punk peeping from the side, right? Guts on you, I’ll give you that. But if I hadn’t just now let out that mighty, dominating battle roar to cover for you a bit, you would’ve been spotted by the Chaos Shadow.

So you already owe me a huge favor. Help me out with something and we’ll call it even, how about it?”

“?!”

Murphy’s expression instantly turned weird.

He could figure out whose voice this was with his heel. What puzzled him was Vam’s overly chummy tone and this clumsy attempt at “forcing a favor.” I mean, even kids in the senior kindergarten class wouldn’t ask for help with such a blatant cover-your-ears-while-stealing-the-bell routine!

You really are just a big dumb brute, huh, Vam!

Tch, and here I was just now admiring your scheming. Should’ve never held even the tiniest expectation for the brains of you muscle-bound meatheads!