This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 7 'Sorrow'

【'sorrow':
The third of the seven emotions.

His form is uncertain, and he is filled with sorrow and deep feelings that cannot be shown to others.

Each time [Weep] attacks, [Sorrow] is applied to all targets within the attack range. When the effect reaches 9 layers, a high-damage [Stab] is performed, with a chance to follow up with [Heartbreak].
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"It's a worrisome thought," □□ said. "It reminds me of things from the past, like lost friends and family, lost loved ones, a childhood you can never return to, or anything else that makes you mourn and resent yourself. You feel like you had a past with her or him, a past you shared, a past you shared, fantasized about the future, agreed to raise a cat and a dog together... Okay, it might not be that kind of relationship, but there's just this one person, and as long as they exist, they weigh heavily on your pain, preventing it from surfacing.

"Then you wake up, face your life, and realize that you are no longer like this, or realize that there has never been such a person around you." -】

[[Spirit]-[Charm] confrontation judgment in progress...confrontation successful]

[[Spirit]-[Charm] confrontation judgment in progress...confrontation successful]

[[Spirit]-[Charm] confrontation is in progress... The confrontation is successful...]

……

A beautiful, girlish silhouette drifted in mid-air, her long, dark hair, like a trace of melancholy, growing longer and longer, dangling in all directions: treetops, rocks, open spaces... It gradually wove a web around Nie Weiyang. Within this web, he could feel a delicate pain spreading deep within his heart. It was as if he had always been alone, possessed of nothing. The world was so vast, filled with so many beautiful things, yet he no longer had, or had never had, anything to do with it.

Nie Weiyang's expression was somewhat empty. He couldn't help but recall all the sorrows of the past twenty years of his life: choices against one's will, battles, kills, walking in the dark, avoiding almost all honors, and witnessing the extent to which human nature could degenerate in the end times.

Ferocity, despair, horror, terror, jealousy, resentment... in the human world and in hell.

The faces of the dead emerged from his mind, and his pace towards "Sorrow" became slower and slower.

Ai floated down, pulled by long hair. It approached Nie Weiyang, and the frequency of its mental attacks increased, from once every two seconds to twice a second, even faster and faster. The hair also began to approach him, gradually wrapping around his body.

[[Thousands of Sorrows]: Drives the entity of sorrow to bind the target. If successful, it will perform a [Stab], which will inevitably add [Heartbreak].]

Just like a beautiful girl trying to keep her lover while crying mournfully, the half-human monster slowly descended, and its long hair gradually bound the young man's body, pulling the two closer.

In just a few breaths, 'Sorrow' was close to Nie Weiyang. Its terrifying 'back' gradually caved in, and a deep vortex emerged from it. Just one glance at it would make people feel dizzy, lose their power, and even be swallowed by it...

[[Gloomy and Depressed]: Assimilate the target with your own melancholy, absorbing their extraordinary energy and vitality. Once the progress exceeds two-thirds, the target will be transformed into a puppet.]

It was a soft, cool hug.

Sorrow fell upon Nie Weiyang, its vortex opening to devour him, only to discover—this target was running out of energy.

Of course, it would be strange if a level 1 professional could have much energy left if he traveled like this!
If full energy allowed Nie Weiyang to unleash 'Holy Blade' 20 times and 'Holy Guardian' 10 times, he could only unleash 'Holy Blade' 3 times now, and couldn't even unleash 'Holy Guardian' a second time. The nearly empty blue bar didn't meet Sorrow's absorption criteria, and it paused imperceptibly for a moment before draining Nie Weiyang's vitality.

But at this moment, Nie Weiyang suddenly looked up, his blood-red eyes were clear, calm and gentle.

It was an almost completely harmless meaning, a...

……gentle.

Weird tenderness.

A soft light shield appeared on Nie Weiyang's body, and the power of "Holy Guardian" forcibly withstood the invasion of long hair.

He didn't shout angrily, nor did he curse, but stood up with his sword in hand!
'Crack!' A flash of light shot out from the longsword, severing 'Ai's' hair net.

The Holy Blade pierced through the light shield from within, and the next moment, the light shield exploded with sea urchin-like spikes, shattered into pieces, and exploded with a loud bang!

Energy fragments shattered like knives, piercing Ai's flesh. It was like forcing a fragmentation grenade into an enemy's mouth. Even if the opponent had mastered horizontal martial arts, they would still cry out loudly if their body exploded from the inside!

The crying sound of "Ai" suddenly increased, and its voice became sharp, but there was still no emotion other than sorrow emerging. Only a crystal ball-like bead was faintly visible in the depths of the vortex.

That is its core and the most important thing to the 'BOSS' - their token!

Nie Weiyang cut through the hair that was wrapped around it with a sword and pursued the enemy - he opened his backpack and took out... a truck without any moral audacity!
‘Boom! ! ! ’

'Sigh' was embedded directly into the ground!
The sensation of a truck appearing out of nowhere and crashing into her face might have been a bit too much. Ai, half-pressed, screamed as waves of hair tumbled from beneath her skirt. She tugged at the tangled strands of hair in midair, trying to pull herself up. But Nie Weiyang half-jumped up, slashing through her hair with a horizontal slash of his sword, then slashing down into the swirling vortex in her chest and abdomen, slamming her back into the ground with his own weight!

He even closed the pop-up window with the introduction and attribute confrontation prompts - the attack frequency of the thing was too high, and the prompt content was almost flashing to the sky!
'Sorrow' is one of the 'Seven Emotions' among the leader-type hostile targets.

The bosses in this series are inspired by the "joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate, and desire" described in the Book of Rites. These aren't high-ranking emotions, but they tap into the deepest depths of human nature. Therefore, wherever humans experience strong emotions, the "Seven Emotions" can be considered.

The seven emotions can exist simultaneously in multiple forms all over the world. Their appearances vary, and their methods of attack are also very different. Even the incarnations of the same emotion may have different skill lists because their skill base is the supernatural "human reaction to such emotions."

Simply put, it is excessive anthropomorphism.

Until twenty years after the end of the world, people still couldn't fully understand the reasons for the formation of these things.

But no matter what, one thing remains constant: the Seven Emotions' main mental attack, as long as the mental judgment is passed, its harm will be reduced by at least 70% -

And the attribute that Nie Weiyang lacks the most is 'spirit'!
In the dark area, between steel and soil, the young man knelt on one knee, suppressing the BOSS with red light in his eyes.

In the early days of the end of the previous life, this wild BOSS caused a lot of trouble to the people in the town.

Generally speaking, players must reach level 10 or above and possess their own "beliefs" to gain a certain degree of resistance to psychic attacks. However, the town lacked combat personnel, and even fewer could withstand this frequency of psychic attacks. As a result, even the first global public crisis, the "Rising Blood Moon," three months later, failed to resolve it, making it one of the main culprits of the town's destruction.

Because pure emotion is so beautiful, heartache and satisfaction are equally alluring. It's hard for people to resist its temptation, even if it's just the illusion of 'losing it.' But if it successfully inflicts a devastating blow, a single attack can take away half your life, and when it circles through a crowd with this kind of attack…

Even Nie Weiyang suffered a lot back then!

And now...

'Pfft! '

A whip woven from long hair pierced the youth's chest. His life force was rapidly drained, and Bloody Fury automatically activated.

Nie Weiyang felt relieved, his eyes flashed red, and he opened his mouth, revealing sharp fangs.

——He pinched Ai's delicate neck, which was as slender as a girl's, and bit it.

　Right? Yes, that's right.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)