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If you don’t kill, you will never be free from suffering!

If you don’t kill, all your actions will be meaningless!

Sometimes...

We have to believe in the wisdom of our ancestors!

How to do?

Only kill!

Thinking of this, someone silently added a name in his little notebook.

Apart from these slightly strange props.

Lingge carefully checked the information that Enoshima Junko had just mentioned, that someone wanted to deal with him.

As a result, apart from the memory of inciting the troublemakers and players to cause trouble, which resulted in hundreds more resurrection coins for him, he gained nothing.

It's not that soul searching is not possible, but that Enoshima Junko has no idea who wants to deal with him. He just thinks there is a high probability that this will happen, so he is just trying to trick people.

About this matter...

Lingge, on the other hand, was not too worried.

Although it has a long lead time, requires concentration, and it is best not to use supernatural powers other than cursed energy when activating to avoid distraction...

But the 'cursed power barrier' that he created with a slap on his forehead was indeed very strong!

Not to mention someone of Enoshima Junko's level, even if it's an ordinary Lv.2 like the Cloak Man, as long as you can use it, you can basically achieve the final say!

The principle of the 'Cursed Power Barrier' is not complicated.

Its core is naturally cursed power.

This extraordinary power from the new world is very free.

But objectively speaking.

My level as a user is really average, and I basically use this ability as telekinesis.

no way.

When your level is not high enough, this is the most intuitive and least demanding way to use cursed power.

After passing the Dead River and observing the existence of the 'soul', Linger has been thinking...

Can I use the power of spells to directly interfere with the soul, so as to better exert the effect of this power?

These days...

Ling has been studying this topic.

In terms of results.

The cursed force barrier, or more accurately, the cursed force soul barrier, is a by-product of this research.

For me, the current problem with cursed power is not the lack of lethality.

Ten tons of cursed power were condensed together. As long as it could hit the target accurately, apart from immortal players like himself, even Lv.2 players could be killed easily.

But the question is how to hit it?

Although it may sound counterintuitive...

However, the speed at which humans act based solely on muscle memory is actually much faster than the speed of thinking when they need to concentrate on a specific target.

Some FPS type games are the best example of this.

Target appears, shoot.

Follow the target to appear, select the target, and shoot.

It is obvious which of these two different strategies is faster.

That being the case...

The attack range of the spreading cursed power is no longer a point-based attack, but an "area-based attack", which will naturally be regarded as a way to solve the problem of insufficient reflex nerves.

But there are also problems in trying to break through the point with the surface.

Once the range of the cursed power is expanded in exchange for a larger attack range, it will be almost impossible to cause effective damage to other players.

The players' defense and mobility are too high.

The output value per unit area is not enough, let alone killing, even restricting their movements is a problem.

The cursed soul barrier is the solution that Lingge came up with!

By transforming the nature of the spell power.

It's not about pushing physical forces, but using 'spiritual power' that is closer to the 'soul'...

Try to reduce as much as possible the problem of players' 'physical damage reduction rate' going up when using cursed power for range attacks, so that the cursed power is not effective when used for large-scale attacks!

To put it simply, it converts the physical damage caused by cursed power directly into soul damage!

Compared to the players' average physical fitness, which is like that of a newborn...

It is much easier to suppress them in terms of soul!

To round it off, this soul barrier is basically equivalent to spiritual pressure.

By releasing the 'spiritual pressure' on a large scale through cursed power, the suppression of the soul can be used to restrict the physical movement capabilities of ordinary players!

If you encounter a true soul-type player...

Then this move of mine is probably what is called showing off one's skills in front of an expert, and it is very ugly.

In essence, the cursed power is still used as telekinesis, it's just a different way of output.

Now, because he couldn't 'observe' the souls of others, he couldn't even use his cursed power to tear the souls apart directly. He could only put pressure on the target's soul through this range attack that didn't require selecting a target.

But for those muscular brutes who don't understand the power of the soul...

This can definitely be considered a dimensionality reduction attack!

Chapter 56: The blood power is expanding...

"...Another player is looking for me?"

As soon as I returned to Tokyo city.

When Lingge heard the news from the Royal Guards again, the corners of his mouth twitched subconsciously.

but.

This time it was different from Enoshima Junko who was preparing to cause trouble. There were actually players who came to pay their respects.

To be more precise...

In fact, it was several "ordinary citizens" who had already bowed down before who became players.

"I didn't expect your sister, Ijichi, to become a player too..."

"Should I say congratulations now?"

Looking at the familiar face in front of me, but thinking carefully...

This was the first time that Lingge had officially met these girls. He couldn't help but turn his head and tease the blonde woman who had both volunteered and been selected to join the Royal Guard.

Although from the perspective of common sense, joining this kind of death game cannot be considered good luck.

But everything in this world is relative.

At least in today's world, being a player means being more "noble" than ordinary people.

It is said that after the 'end of the world'...

Although the total human population in this world has dropped by more than half, the probability of selecting players for the reincarnation game has increased several times.

Originally, someone had no idea about this.

Looking at the four girls in the band who were chosen to become players and survived the end of the first mission, Linger finally had a personal experience.

"Don't be so formal, just treat it as a normal chat."

"I already know why you're here. Just consider it my personal curiosity..."

"Since you're already players, why don't you just move your family to the game space? It's obviously safer there, right?"

Playing with the small light ball representing one thousand points that was handed to him as a prop, Lingge couldn't help but ask curiously.

"I have no relatives left."

A blue-haired girl answered first with a blank expression.

"……I am sorry for your loss."

After hearing this answer that left him speechless, Ling'er's expression almost collapsed.

Alas, the reincarnation game.

"Since we've become players, we also want to do our part for everyone. We can't just leave everything up to you, Master Lingge, to handle alone!"

After touching the hair of a certain blue-haired girl, Ijichi Nikka clenched her pink fists and answered with a sincere expression that shone so brightly that it dazzled someone.

"I don't want to be separated from everyone, and..."

"Even if we hide in the game space, it's far from safe."

Kita Ikuyo also gave her own reasons.

Bringing your family into a gaming space does mean safety…

But in the game space, only players have human rights, and all other lives only have property rights.

Once the player who brought his family into the game space dies in the game, his relatives will most likely not be spared, and the best outcome is that they will become ownerless "things".

Bringing your loved ones to the game space is like playing the game with your entire household registration book.

"me too……"

"I don't want to be separated from everyone..."

Looking at the legendary figure before them, who had single-handedly saved tens of millions of people, restored basic order to the Tokyo area after the apocalypse, and even forced ordinary high school students like them to go back to school...

Goto Ichiri, who was shy to begin with, trembled when he felt the other person's gaze on him, and even his voice trembled.

"I see……"

Is this the so-called comprehensive optimal solution?

Someone nodded thoughtfully.

What you have learned can be applied next time!

"Since you're the first group of players to come here, I have to show some appreciation. Think of it as paying a huge sum of money for a horse's bones..."

"I'll give each of you a conversion quota with no limit on the number of users."

"As long as you meet the requirements, you can come to me for the first embrace ceremony."

After thinking for a while while sitting on the sofa in the luxurious reception hall, Lingge put the 1,000 points represented by the tithe tax set in principle under the territory under his control into the player panel, and then spoke to the four girls who had ended the band in front of him.

Power abhors a vacuum.

When I was brushing up my KDA in Tokyo, Yukinoshita Haruno once asked for my opinion on this issue.

Aside from those subtle hints and witty comments, the main purpose can be summed up in one word...

That means letting yourself collect some taxes, at least some of the surplus value of the victims.

Although that guy had brought up the first-time employer's right and other things, Lingge's personal concept had not evolved to that level yet, so he just asked for a "tithe tax" in name.

No matter what the output is, one tenth will be taken.

It is a mysterious tax rate that exists in theory but I have never paid attention to it.

After all, if you want something, just go get it.

Even if she is ○○'s wife, she will offer her daughter together!

Putting aside whether or not I would do that...