Death Game: Starting as a Trickster, Pretending to Be a God

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Inside the Settlement Space, Lin Yu let out a long breath of relief.

”Phew... that was truly nerve-wracking and thrilling.”

Although he seemed completely unscathed, and even Galli Thontas, who had appeared at the very end, hadn’t shown any hostility, Lin Yu knew that dragging things out would never work in his favor.

Operating in the Night Valley Realm under Galli Thontas’ surveillance for any extended period... what a joke!

Lin Yu wasn’t about to entrust his very life to the ”judgment” of a stranger.

After all, if he had actually agreed to Galli Thontas’ proposal and tried to survive in the Night Valley Realm, what would he do if some unexpected variable arose?

If that happened, he would have no choice but to reveal more of his trump cards to stay alive, and then what if Galli Thontas decided, ”This kid can’t be allowed to live”?

After all, he had used the Origin Magic Crystal of the Third Pillar, which was clearly an item belonging to high-ranking figures of the Abyss, and had even gotten the Ninth Pillar of the Abyss to show him a certain degree of goodwill.

Therefore, Lin Yu would rather ”snatch meat from the tiger’s mouth” and forcefully clear the dungeon.

And to accomplish that...

Lin Yu naturally relied on the Narrative Trick!

Through the Narrative Trick, he modified cognition, making Galli Thontas mistakenly believe that the Ancient Notebook was the Book of Hell. Just as Lin Yu had predicted, the Specialized Items distributed by the Death Game were indeed effective even against a high-ranking powerhouse like Galli Thontas, who was unable to resist their effects.

Moreover, because the Ancient Notebook’s own status was extremely high, and because Galli Thontas had a certain degree of trust in him, the cost of this cognitive distortion wasn’t too severe.

While Galli Thontas was distracted by the Ancient Notebook, Lin Yu used the Repaired Fog Pocket Watch to refresh the Narrative Trick, then performed a second cognitive distortion.

This time, he made Galli Thontas overlook the presence of the snake descendant at his feet.

And then...

He took advantage of that opportunity to have Hannah bring the Void Bottle and the Repaired Fog Pocket Watch over to the snake descendant.

The Void Bottle absorbed all the mana from the snake descendant, including the magical restriction that Galli Thontas had quietly planted on it.

The restriction disappeared silently and without a trace, and combined with the cognitive distortion, Galli Thontas completely failed to notice anything!

And next...

He used the Repaired Fog Pocket Watch to extract the snake descendant’s soul, causing its complete death.

The snake descendant had already been mortally wounded and on its last legs, and after having all its mana absorbed by the Void Bottle, it had almost no resistance left and was devoured by the pocket watch.

This also ensured that even after the ”cognitive distortion” ended, Galli Thontas would be unable to figure out how Lin Yu had silently taken the snake descendant’s life.

The interlocking schemes, combined with the performance of constantly feigning weakness, meant that even though the opponent was powerful and shrewd enough to stand at the apex of Night Valley, Lin Yu could still catch him off guard and achieve his goal.

And what this brought were extremely generous rewards!

Even without looking at what item rewards this dungeon had given him, the rewards obtained through his efforts within the dungeon were already plentiful enough.

On the Social panel, Nitsanchi, a native who could be considered a top-tier powerhouse in Night Valley, had appeared. Because of the demon contract, this could almost be viewed as having gained a powerful subordinate in Night Valley!

This was also why Lin Yu had chosen to use the Repaired Fog Pocket Watch to kill the snake descendant. Besides the fact that using the watch to collect a soul was utterly silent and nearly the most foolproof method of assassination right under someone’s nose, another important reason was that Lin Yu didn’t want to leave Galli Thontas any possibility of tracing things back to Nitsanchi.

A subordinate this useful, he didn’t want him getting targeted by Galli Thontas.

Besides Nitsanchi, there were also the two items that Galli Thontas had upgraded for free. The One-Shot Revolver had become the Guaranteed-Hit Revolver, with its ammo capacity increased to six rounds loaded every 24 hours.

Furthermore, if the bullets ran out within 24 hours, he could consume mana to refill a set of ”reserve rounds.” Although the cooldown for these reserve rounds was one week, it was still vastly better than before.

But with six rounds per day and six reserve rounds per week, Lin Yu couldn’t help but marvel that this Galli was truly impressive and truly generous!

And the enhancement of the One-Statement Lie Detector was immediately apparent just from the change in the item’s name.

It had become the Three-Minute Lie Detector.

Although it wasn’t of much use to Lin Yu, it was still a very nice improvement.

Lin Yu even felt a twinge of guilt toward Galli Thontas. The old man was actually pretty decent, just a shame their positions were different.

Aside from that, the Void Bottle had been filled to the brim with a massive amount of mana, and the Repaired Fog Pocket Watch was fully sated and seemed full of vitality, even acting much friendlier toward Lin Yu. Those were also two decent gains.

”Indeed, high risk, high reward. Although first there was the Original Sin Wraith, then Galli Thontas, both existences I couldn’t face head-on, the payoffs from deceiving guys like them are huge!”

”And... the greatest gain is actually the identity of ’Schreiber.’ One dungeon was all it took to firmly establish it!”

Sure enough, in the Settlement Space, upon seeing Lin Yu’s figure appear, Fish’s delighted voice rang out.

”Hey, Schreiber, you’re alright!”

”That old bastard didn’t give you any trouble, did he?”

Hearing Fish’s words, Lin Yu looked at her, smiled, and said, ”Sister Fish, you’re overthinking it. Your master is actually a pretty decent guy. He just chatted with me for a bit and even gave me some things.”

Fish was astonished. ”He just shot the breeze with you and let you go just like that?”

”No, it’s not that he let me go,” Lin Yu said, maintaining his smile and speaking modestly. ”I just pulled off a little trick and killed that snake descendant without him noticing.”

”What?”

Fish was stunned.

And it wasn’t just Fish. Hearing Lin Yu’s words, Phoenix, Brother Qi, and Kui all wore expressions of astonishment.

”Are you saying that, while Galli Thontas was in control of that snake descendant, you used some method to kill it right under his nose?”

Phoenix asked in disbelief.

Kui also said with a faint smile, ”Being able to deceive a powerhouse at the Chosen One level is hardly ’a little trick,’ friend, Schreiber... you’re being far too modest.”

”It’s truly hard to imagine that someone like you has remained so unknown all this time!”