Heroes' Prison

Chapter 662 - 637 The Effects of the Mysterious Elixir

"Alright! You can come and kill me now." Miyamoto Musashi, with a smile on his face, stretched out his hand in an embracing gesture, as if he were welcoming death itself, devoid of any resistance.

Everyone stared at Miyamoto Musashi, befuddled. They had all thought that the potion was a combat-type, similar to an instant-kill potion, capable of defeating Huang Yi with a thunderous blow. However, to their surprise, not only did Miyamoto Musashi not attack Huang Yi, but he also openly spread his arms, impatiently inviting Huang Yi to take the initiative to kill him.

Huang Yi was equally puzzled and did not act recklessly, uncertain of the potion’s effects.

"Why haven’t you made your move?" Miyamoto Musashi sneered at Huang Yi, "There’s a saying in China, ’It’s tough to get off a tiger’s back,’ and now you’re just like that! One of us has to die, no doubt about it, and that person will be me! Come on!" As he spoke, he spread his arms even wider, exuding a sense of longing for death.

Huang Yi looked intently at Miyamoto Musashi and promptly summoned the Blood God, hoping to let his contract partner strike the opponent and see what kind of trick he was up to. His Barbarian God had just been killed by Jun Zhiye and wasn’t dragged up; now, he could only summon the Blood God.

Instantly, the odd form of the Blood God emerged, with a single heart and eight blood vessels, resembling an octopus.

The moment the Gentleman saw the appearance of the Blood God, a slight surprise flickered in his eyes, and he gave Huang Yi a meaningful look. But he quickly calmed down and continued to look up to see how the situation would unfold.

"Go and kill him," Huang Yi commanded the Blood God.

The Blood God immediately lashed out with its eight blood vessels toward Miyamoto Musashi, the tentacles whipping fiercely through the air, as if they were eight whips.

Seeing this, Miyamoto Musashi’s smile grew even wider, even taking a couple of steps toward the Blood God as if he couldn’t wait to embrace death.

"Swoosh!" Just then, the Blood God plunged a blue vein into Miyamoto Musashi’s chest!

Immediately, copious amounts of blood were sucked into the Blood God’s body through the vein, making a "glug glug" sound that sent chills down one’s spine.

Miyamoto Musashi’s body visibly withered at an alarming rate, but the smile on his face remained unchanged, showing no fear of death.

After about ten seconds, Miyamoto Musashi had turned into a mummified corpse, devoid of any blood to extract. The Blood God flicked its tentacle, flinging Miyamoto Musashi’s corpse down from the sky.

"Thud!" A dull sound echoed as Miyamoto Musashi’s corpse hit the ground. His face was turned upward, still wearing that satisfied smile.

The entire audience watched Miyamoto Musashi’s corpse with perplexed looks, unsure what had just happened. He had clearly absorbed that strange black potion and yet, he died!

At that moment, Huang Yi suddenly received a system prompt—

"[System Prompt]: You have been afflicted by Miyamoto Musashi’s [Samsara Curse]. Death will result in 100% reincarnation, including death in secret realms, and the curse cannot be removed by resurrection skills or dispel skills. The curse can be lifted by either reincarnating or taking a specialized antidote."

Reincarnation!

The moment he saw that word, Huang Yi finally understood why Miyamoto Musashi said that potion was specifically prepared for him!

In The Second World, there are generally three outcomes to death.

The first, and most common, is a level drop and equipment loss. Of course, there are special ways to prevent the loss of equipment, such as Huang Yi’s God of Slaughter’s Bestowed Attributes, which include not losing equipment upon death. Just now, Miyamoto Musashi did not lose any equipment upon his death, indicating he had this ability as well.

The second is the much-feared reincarnation: Following death, one is forced to resurrect within a specific area of The Second World with a Level 1 status and gains one level per day until returning to the original level. It’s entirely random; no one knows where they would resurrect, possibly on a foreign continent or one’s own.

Higher the player’s level, the longer the reincarnation penalty. At Level 149, Huang Yi would need 149 days to return to his current level after death! This is nearly half a year, and without it, his skill gap with others would be immense, who knows how much effort would be needed to catch up, or if he would ever be able to catch up at all, possibly falling out of the ranks of super-first masters forever.

The third outcome is rebirth, a penalty no one has yet experienced. It is a death penalty Huang Yi saw on the contract stone of the King of the Fallen—if a player joins the side of The Seven Archdemons and they are defeated, the player enters a reborn state, akin to account deletion, and then has to start anew with a fresh account.

However, since no one has yet to undergo this penalty of rebirth, the most severe penalty perceived by players is reincarnation. And that is precisely the kind of reincarnation curse that Huang Yi has just been struck with, ensuring 100% reincarnation upon death.

This potion, no one knew where Miyamoto Musashi got it from; it was unheard of, even more vicious than an instant-kill potion. Although an instant-kill potion could directly kill a person with immediate effect, Huang Yi would only drop one level, which wouldn’t be a huge loss of strength, as there was only a very small chance of encountering Reincarnation.

However, although the Reincarnation Potion did not take immediate effect and required Miyamoto Musashi to pay with his own death to activate it, its effects were downright terrifying. After being affected by this potion, one would live in constant fear of death. Even in a place like the Tower of Pantheons where death carried no penalty, there would still be Reincarnation after dying.

It was undoubtedly a nightmare. Who in The Second World could avoid death? Even if Huang Yi managed to stay alive in the wilderness, death was very likely in the Tower of Pantheons, especially when competing for a boss’s first kill, which often required countless deaths to figure out the boss’s tactics!

However, every curse has its conditions for removal, and the condition to remove this Samsara Curse was either to reincarnate or to take an antidote. The former condition was passive, the latter active, but the antidote was certainly hard to find.

With the death of Miyamoto Musashi, the Void Battlefield also instantly dissipated, and Huang Yi drifted to the ground. But by now, he had been afflicted with a Reincarnation Curse on top of the pre-existing Slaughter Curse, the two curses weighing on his heart like two dark clouds.

Both Japanese and Chinese players stared at him in shock—only they knew the effects of Musashi’s potion. Everyone else was left in the dark.

"Kill!" Just then, Huang Yi glanced at the remaining eight Japanese experts, and with an unchanged expression, uttered a single word. He seemed unaffected, as if not even a powerful curse like the Reincarnation Curse could cause him to change his expression.

As if waking from a dream, everybody quickly realized that the battle was far from over. The Chinese experts once again raised their weapons and charged at the group of Japanese experts.

Seeing Miyamoto Musashi dead, the Japanese experts lost their anchor and began to retreat, no longer keen to fight.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

Two archers by Huang Yi’s side shot their arrows simultaneously at the same Japanese expert, one controlling, the other damaging, firmly holding down the Japanese expert, who was quickly killed in a joint effort.

"Pfft!" Next to a Japanese expert with low health suddenly appeared a chilling flash of a dagger and, in an instant, blood spurted out like a fountain of red. The next moment, the Japanese expert fell as a corpse, dropping an equipment piece. Nameless appeared beside the corpse, swiftly picking up the equipment.

In this way, the group of Japanese experts was hunted down one by one. Four of them—Meiji, Black Warrior, Ninja, and Sakura—were judged by Huang Yi and personally dealt with after being lifted into the sky. With the Slaughter Curse on him, Huang Yi’s attributes doubled during combat against players, making him like a Heavenly God descending to earth, unmatched by anyone.

Thus, the band of experts brought by Miyamoto Musashi was wiped out! And the only cost on Huang Yi’s side was that he had been cursed with a Reincarnation Curse.

"Boundless sea of suffering, help me resurrect my Contract Partner, please!" At this moment, Huang Yi put away the Blood God and pointed to the corpse of the Barbarian God not far away, speaking to a priest expert.

"Of course!" The priest named Boundless Sea of Suffering immediately nodded, walked over to the Barbarian God’s corpse, and resurrected it.

"Godslayer, your killing intent is too heavy! These Japanese experts were just instigated by Miyamoto Musashi to come here, they might not have had any animosity towards you themselves, yet you killed them all," said Gentleman, looking at the corpses of the Japanese experts on the ground and lamenting to Huang Yi.

Huang Yi shook his head with a smile: "But if I don’t kill them, each person with no grudge against me will be instigated by my enemies to come and kill me, one after another. I’m just killing the chicken to scare the monkey."

"That makes sense," Gentleman nodded, and then said, "We shouldn’t stay here long. Let’s go to Yun Sihai and Thunder God now! Let’s hurry back to Hero’s Continent!" With that, he and the lady in white summoned their mounts, mounted them, and hurried toward the coast.

The rest followed quickly, eager to leave.

After a while, they were nearly at the shore, where the scent of the sea breeze was noticeably strong in the forest. From afar, the sounds of commotion, human voices, the clash of blades, and skills were ceaseless, suggesting a large-scale battle on the beach.

Huang Yi and the others felt a sinking feeling and quickened their pace.

"Boom!" At that moment, a thunderous sound of cannon fire erupted at the beach, exploding in the air and shaking the ground violently, like an earthquake!

Sand was blasted high into the sky, darkening the day, before falling down again, causing the leaves in the forest to rustle like rain, pelting Huang Yi and the others with stinging sand.

"The battleships have arrived!" Hearing the sound of cannon fire, everyone’s expressions turned slightly grim.(To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it with Recommendation Tickets and Monthly Tickets at Starting Point (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)