I will attack as a player!

Chapter 67 The Real Use of Expectation Convergence

Chu Wuji read the description of the technique again and noticed something was wrong.

"This technique seems to have more potential than I thought..."

Chu Wuji's two punches just now naturally carried the effect of expectation convergence. Specifically, at the moment of hitting the cursed spirit, Chu Wuji used half of the body's strength, half of the speed, and half of the curse power with absolute precision. Even the damage caused was only half of the maximum damage Chu Wuji could inflict on the weak cursed spirit in front of him—the upper body was shattered while the lower body remained intact.

But now Chu Wuji has realized another way of using this technique... or rather, the true use of this technique.

He turned to look at another cursed spirit in the distance, who was peering in his direction. He quickly walked up to it and gently threw a punch.

The punch was very light, barely grazing the opponent's body before the cursed spirit could dodge it; its force was even less than that of an ordinary high school student's punch.

But the next moment, the upper body of the cursed spirit suddenly shattered and exploded, turning into ashes in the wind.

Feeling the depletion of his cursed power, Chu Wuji smiled.

"Just as I thought."

Chu Wuji hadn't exerted any force at all, yet the cursed spirit before him still died, and in the same way as the cursed spirits that had died before.

The reason is simple: Chu Wuji slightly changed the goal of the expectation-gathering technique.

First, the expected value is known to be the sum of multiple possible outcomes multiplied by their probabilities of occurrence.

So, what are Chu Wuji's data on the behavior of "attacking cursed spirits"?

So far, Chu Wuji has only attacked two cursed spirits, and their fate is "to be killed by Chu Wuji's punch to the head," with a probability of 100%. That is, the expected value of the action of "attacking a cursed spirit" is "to be killed by Chu Wuji's punch to the head."

The result was obvious. Chu Wuji didn't exert any force at all; he only lightly "attacked" the cursed spirit, and the cursed spirit in front of him died just like the two cursed spirits before him.

The only problem is the consumption of magical power.

Chu Wuji discovered that whether he used force when attacking also affected the mana consumption of the expectation value convergence technique. The closer the force, accuracy, and other factors of his punch were to the expected value, the less mana Chu Wuji needed to consume, and vice versa.

If Chu Wuji simply touches the cursed spirit with his fist and then activates the spell, the amount of cursed power required is several times that of if he were to exert force.

Fortunately, Chu Wuji's [Ghost] nature made the curse power within his body like a deep abyss. Apart from the curse power that was consumed half of the first time he used it, the curse power consumed when he just used the spell was so small that it was almost negligible.

"Try a few more times."

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"Well, even with zero experience, it should be at least level four..."

Across the corridor from where Chu Wuji was, a bespectacled girl with a high ponytail and a Guan Dao slung over her shoulder took the ID from the timid boy in front of her and glanced at it.

"Top-tier!?"

Zenin Maki's lips were tightly pursed, and her eyes trembled involuntarily.

Is this what a person with powerful techniques looks like?

Even if someone knows nothing and is extremely timid, they can still be rated as a top-tier student right from the start.

Even with her best efforts in physical combat, she's currently only a regular level four sorcerer...

"Bang!!"

The loud crash, accompanied by the shattering of countless panes of glass, startled the two of them, who both looked toward the other side of the "L"-shaped teaching building.

A gigantic, tick-like creature with eyes emerged from the school building, smashing through most of the structure and roaring into the air.

"What...what is that?!"

"A cursed spirit! At least level one!" Zenin Maki took a step back, somewhat incredulous, but then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw Empress Otsukoku Yuta trembling with her hand over her mouth and immediately understood what was going on.

Teacher Gojo would never assign such a deadly mission; he probably wanted to use the danger to unleash this bean sprout's potential.

Anyway, there are five teachers to back you up...

"What is that!?"

Yuta Otsukoshi's exclamation rang out again, and Maki Zenin followed his gaze.

In the distance, a gigantic cursed spirit opened its blood-red maw and roared toward the sky. A small figure could be vaguely seen in the pitch-black sky.

"What...that's a person, isn't it?"

Zenji Maki's pupils contracted sharply.

How could Mr. Gojo make such a mistake, dragging ordinary people into it!

No!

Zenin Maki swung her sword and slashed the window in front of her. After turning to Otsuku Yuuta and telling him to come find her on a detour, she planned to jump to the other side to try to save the innocent person.

Before Zenjima could even put her feet down, the figure fell from the sky and swung a big punch at the cursed spirit with its neat rows of teeth.

"Bang! Pfft!"

The upper body of the giant cursed spirit suddenly shattered and exploded, and the purplish-black, foul-smelling blood mixed with fragments of the corpse surged over like waves, sticking to some of the still unbroken window glass.

Zenin Maki reacted a beat too slowly, only managing to cover her face with her hands, her whole body covered in blood.

"Feeding...really?"

"Senior Zenin, are you alright?" Yuta Otsuku was still worried about Zenin Maki, who was covered in blood, but Zenin Maki remained calm. After shaking the blood off her hands, she took the lead and ran towards the gradually dissipating corpse of the cursed spirit.

"Follow me, Special Grade."

"oh!"

Outside the black tent, Gojo Satoru, whom the two called Teacher Gojo, used his thumb to lift the white cloth covering his eyes and looked inside through the semi-transparent tent.

"Killed a level one cursed spirit in one strike?" A happy smile appeared on the man's handsome face.

"Looks like we've encountered something interesting this time~"

As the cursed spirit was exorcised, the tent crumbled into fragments and slowly dissipated. Gojo Satoru got up from the car and walked towards the school.

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"call--"

Standing amidst the ruins, Chu Wuji let out a long breath, and the energy within his body, which had been weakened by the exploitation of his curse power, rapidly recovered.

"That was close, you almost contaminated my data pool."

After killing several cursed spirits intermittently, Chu Wuji also figured out the three essential elements of the Expectation Value Convergence technique.

These are: the target object, the objective, and the data pool.

The expected value result after the spell is activated is calculated from the data pool. Currently, in the data pool for Chu Wuji's "attack on the cursed spirit", all the results are "the cursed spirit's upper body was shattered by Chu Wuji's punch and it died". The expected value convergence spell will naturally select this result after it is activated.

The enormous cursed spirit that suddenly appeared almost drained Chu Wuji's cursed power, and the spell nearly failed.

If the cursed spirit in front of him does not die from having its upper body smashed by a punch, but instead survives with injuries, Chu Wuji's data pool will be contaminated.

The activation probability of what Chu Wuji called the Cursed Spirit Instant Kill Fist would also be reduced from 100%.