Heroes' Prison

Chapter 344 - 336: Instant-Kill Potion

"Yes!" Tang Yunfei also nodded, "By then, we will arrive at the most suitable moment to go public. We’ll raise a large sum of money and build thousands of deep sea battleships, becoming the sea’s behemoth at the quickest pace, and control the trade of all continents around the world."

Huang Yi smiled slightly. His Hero Guild was developing quite smoothly on the continent, and Thunder God’s Sun Guild was also about to begin transoceanic trade, which would complement each other perfectly. The future looked bright.

After finishing breakfast, Huang Yi returned to his cell to rest for a while. After adjusting his mental state to its peak, he finally logged on.

First, he checked the forums; he wanted to see the news about the Pope creating a religion. He needed to collect the Power of Faith, and he already had the "Temple Statue Construction Technique." The only thing missing now was establishing a religion.

Huang Yi opened the 24-hour hot posts—

"In name and in reality! The Pope has founded ’Heaven’s Church,’ the first religion in The Second World, holding two major powers. He replaced Dao Feng to become the new world’s number one!"

"The highest damage in history! God of Slaughter split a Holy Domain Warrior with his axe, dealing ten million damage!"

"Hero Guild’s mighty victory, annihilated a large Half-Beast Tribe with a population of over a million. Instakill’s hatred with the Half-Beast Race peaked, and Half-Beasts all over the world erupted in rage."

...

Among the top three posts, the second and third were related to the Half-Beast Tribe Huang Yi had annihilated last night. However, he first clicked on the first post to read.

"Los Angeles, USA, at 15:31 today, the Pope has once again achieved a great feat by creating the first religion in The Second World, thus becoming the true ’Pope’ and receiving a name bestowed by the system. After founding The First Guild, he has established the second major power. Religion, as a new type of power, will undoubtedly be promoted and magnified in the future! Since Dao Feng’s retreat, the title of the world’s number one has been disputed, including old-time masters like the Pope, Heavenly Dao, Miyamoto Musashi, Dragon Spike, Pharaoh, Giant Bear Vinnie, and mysterious top individual award winner Sharp Sword, as well as two rising stars, Instakill and Thunder God, all qualified to contend for world number one. But now, with the Pope founding the first religion, overshadowing all masters, there will be no further debates in public opinion. He will fully take Dao Feng’s place to become the new world number one."

"It is reported that the Pope’s founding of the religion was not simple. Since he was the first to clear the twentieth floor of the Tower of Pantheons two years ago, he obtained the key magic item ’Heart of Religion.’ From that moment, the Pope began preparations, and it took over two years until today to finally establish the religion, an admittedly long period...

"Heart of Religion!" Huang Yi firmly remembered this item. Such an item was clearly a special magic item that could only be obtained by the first person to break the record on each floor. Before, Huang Yi had broken many world records in the Tower of Pantheons, but they were based on others’ achievements, not the first record!

Currently, from the tenth to the seventieth floor had all been completed by others. If he wanted to obtain the Heart of Religion, the quickest way was to clear the eightieth floor. To date, no one in the world had passed the eightieth floor; as long as he did, no matter how much time it took, he would be the first world record holder for the eightieth floor.

Huang Yi exited and looked at the second post.

The post was precisely regarding the unprecedented ten million damage he inflicted when he killed the Chieftain last night. Tens of thousands of members of the Hero Guild witnessed it, many of whom had turned on their recording features. It was something that could not be concealed and was bound to be uploaded to the forums. Huang Yi did not oppose such actions, as it could at least create momentum for his Hero Guild and attract more high-level players to join.

Once Huang Yi clicked on the post, the first thing presented was a video. It showed Huang Yi from the moment he was linked by Ghost Cloud’s Words with Static Connection and continued for several minutes until the Static Connection was about to end. Huang Yi unleashed a series of skills and finally transformed into a black ferocious Giant Beast, smashing down an otherworldly attack on the Chieftain, akin to a small asteroid impact, spewing out that ten million damage.

The author of the post, as well as all the people replying, had an incredulous tone throughout, as it was fundamentally impossible for current players to deal ten million damage. Huang Yi’s strike was virtually a divine blow.

Huang Yi skimmed through a bit and then clicked on the third post in the 24-hour hot posts. This post discussed the annihilation of the Half-Beast Tribe by the Hero Guild.

"Last night, the Hero Guild launched an extermination campaign against a Half-Beast Tribe with a population of over a million. According to information collected beforehand, the conflict started in Dragon City due to an altercation involving Instakill and Feng Zhi. At the time, Instakill, in an attempt to avenge Qin Shiyu, killed thirty thousand of Feng Zhi’s men, including twenty thousand Half-Beastmen Expedition Army troops under Feng Zhi’s command. Subsequently, Feng Zhi’s side leaked an important item of the tribe. In order to recover the item, Feng Zhi and his tribe, behind him, spent a large sum to hire a group of great assassins to slay Instakill, including one of the Four Great Assassins of China, Mirror Broken. This led to the classic video where Instakill swiftly electrocuted Mirror Broken within four seconds. After that, Mirror Broken joined the Hero Guild."

"The author speculates that Mirror Broken probably informed Instakill about Feng Zhi’s bounty and this decision led Instakill to resolve to eliminate the tribe. And last night, they successfully eradicated that Half-Beast Tribe. This action has propelled Instakill to become the antagonist of the entire Half-Beast Race. From Instakill’s history of slayings, we can see that his first killing spree was in Wind Forest Stronghold, which was also a Half-Beast Tribe. The second massacre happened in Dragon City when he killed thirty thousand under Feng Zhi, primarily Half-Beasts. That massacre caused Half-Beasts worldwide to start harboring hostility towards Instakill. And after last night’s genocidal act, the rage of Half-Beast players around the world exploded! Repeatedly targeting Half-Beasts has now become a blatant provocation!"

"This time, Instakill is about to face an unprecedented catastrophe. Currently, Half-Beast Players all over the world are petitioning their respective tribe chieftains to issue a kill order from the Half-Beast Holy Land in the Central Continent, to brand Instakill as the public enemy of the entire Half-Beast Race! Once the Half-Beast Holy Land issues the kill order, Instakill will never have a moment of peace. There are fifteen million Half-Beast Players just in the China region; all these fifteen million players will become enemies of Instakill, and after the continents are interconnected, the number of enemies Instakill will face will explode like never before..."

Upon reading this post, Huang Yi’s heart sank. If the Half-Beast Holy Land really did issue the kill order and listed him as an enemy, things would indeed become extremely troublesome for him. The Half-Beastmen are one of the hundred Common Races, and there are 10 billion players worldwide. If calculated as 1% of the total, that’s one hundred million Half-Beast Players; eventually, all these hundred million players would be his enemies.

However, Huang Yi was not afraid. Half-Beastmen are just a Common Race; no matter how numerous the players, they posed no threat to him; they couldn’t kill him. But it would indeed cause a lot of trouble. He had a Hero Guild now, and inevitably, the guild members might get dragged into this. Moreover, there were some players of the Half-Beast Race in his guild, and they would definitely leave when the time came, unwilling to disobey the Half-Beast Race’s kill order for Huang Yi’s sake.

But now that things had already happened, it was impossible to think about backing down. When the enemy came, he would block them, and when the flood came, he would cover it with soil. He naturally had ways to deal with it after it happened.

After that, Huang Yi logged off the forum and entered The Second World.

Huang Yi appeared in his residence in Dragon City, turned his head to look out the window, where the streets were relatively empty since most people had gone to class or work; few people were online for extended periods like him.

As usual, he opened his storage ring and took out the medicine bottle to check the potions that had been breeding inside.

"Hm? What’s this?!" As soon as he took out the medicine bottle, Huang Yi let out a startled exclamation, pupils constricting as he stared dumbfounded at the bottle.

In that bottle, there was a huge drop of a blood-red potion. The potions that had bred previously were only about the size of a droplet of water. But today’s potion in the bottle was as big as a ping-pong ball, and it didn’t dissolve, remaining a whole droplet resembling a blood drop magnified dozens of times!

The aura of this potion was extremely intense, filled with an air of slaughter and brutality. Even through the bottle, one could feel a burning sensation, as if such a thing should not exist in this world!

Huang Yi had never seen such a potion before, not even on the forums. He took a deep breath and immediately checked it.

[Instant-kill Potion] (S-Rank, Magic Item - Potion)

Can directly kill a player, unable to be blocked by any means.

Instant-kill Potion!

Looking at these four words, Huang Yi was slightly taken aback. He had bought this medicine bottle from a Traveling Merchant named Kula Mingyue, who had mentioned that the bottle had a certain chance of breeding rare instant-kill potions, capable of directly killing a person upon use.

But despite having had the bottle for a long time, he had never encountered such a potion until today!

This drop of the potion had reached S-Rank, surpassing all other potions he had seen before. The best he had gotten previously was an A-Rank Level-Up Potion, which he still kept in his storage ring for future use once he reached above level 90.

The reason this instant-kill potion was classified as S-Rank was that it had a 100% chance to kill a player, and could not be blocked by any means. Even Dao Feng, Dragon Spike, Sharp Sword wouldn’t be able to withstand it, and no life-saving skills would work; death was certain!

However, the potion could not be used on NPCs, only on players. And now, for Huang Yi to take out a player’s life was already easy; there were but a few individuals who could compel him to use this instant-kill potion.

Huang Yi immediately took out a clean magic bottle, carefully transferred the potion into it, and stored this trump card in his storage ring as a reserve method against opponents. (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Starting Point (qidian.com) to cast Recommendation Tickets and Monthly Tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)