novelraw Chapter 369: All Are Side-Effect Masks, Defensive Peak!
Chapter 369: All Are Side-Effect Masks, Defensive Peak!
"What is... this thing..."
On the dark green mask, there was now a dead fish eye expression, as if it couldn’t open its eyes.
At this moment, he felt very tired and sleepy, his mind unusually slow, even a bit unclear about what he was doing.
He hadn’t even stood up yet, barely sitting cross-legged on the ground, staring at his own reflection on the floor.
"Tsk... so many words, don’t want to read..."
He complained, but still forced himself to continue reading, looking through that long list of negative effects.
[Negative Effect 1: You will become very lazy, unwilling to move, and even if you have plenty of stamina, you will feel exhausted.]
[Negative Effect 2: Your mind will become dull. When unnecessary, you will be too lazy to think and will become very forgetful.]
[Negative Effect 3: You will constantly be in a state of fatigue, and even sleep will hardly bring recovery.]
[Negative Effect 4: Your body will become sluggish, speed reduced, movement laborious.][Negative Effect 5: Your passion will fade, procrastination worsens, your temper will become very calm, but your sense of crisis will weaken.]
[Negative Effect 6: Your nerves will become numb; all five senses, pain perception, intuition will decrease.]
[Negative Effect 7: All your attributes will weaken under normal conditions. If you want to go all out, it will consume a great deal of energy.]
[Negative Effect 8: After going all out, you will consume massive energy and require a longer rest afterwards; all above negative effects will intensify.]
[Negative Effect 9: To maintain vital signs normally, except under special circumstances, for every ten minutes of waking time, you must forcibly enter five minutes of deep sleep. If you forcibly avoid sleeping, refer to Negative Effect 8.]
Lu Ce: ......
Silence.
Silence is tonight’s Kangqiao.
At this point, he didn’t know what to say.
Nine clauses! No benefits or features mentioned, just nine negative effects right from the start!
“I... damn!”
Lu Ce couldn’t help but curse, but at this moment he realized his voice was also slow, like a sloth.
It was over.
Listen to advice and eat full meals—apparently, the game’s prior warning to him was really for his own good. He shouldn’t have chosen this mask.
He had so many other masks and still didn’t know their overload effects, so why bother with laziness!
But after thinking for a moment, he felt it wasn’t that big a deal.
Since things had come to this, he might as well just roll with it—plus he could get some sleep...
Summoning his strength, he avoided being knocked out by laziness and continued reading the features and function descriptions.
[Laziness Mask: Normal Mode.]
[Description: Literally what it says, nothing special to describe.]
[Benefit: Greatly increases defense. After entering deep sleep state, physical defense reaches an extreme level. Mental defense also increases, almost able to ignore any mental attacks through sleep.]
[While sleeping, presence is greatly reduced, aura nearly concealed.]
[Note: During deep sleep, no injury can wake the player, which may cause terrifying wounds. It’s best to avoid danger while sleeping. If about to receive fatal damage, the body will forcibly awaken.]
[Special Attribute: To be explored.]
Lu Ce: ......
His mouth twitched involuntarily; he was starting to struggle to keep from laughing.
If his understanding was correct, the only benefit of this mask was a huge defense boost.
All those side effects, just for that? And the defense boost was probably to prevent someone from easily killing you while you were asleep.
Besides, this wasn’t an online game—what was defense anyway?!
Lu Ce felt powerless to mock it.
Just the slight excitement in his heart made him feel even more tired...
Heh.
After so many masks, finally he met a truly useless mask.
He fell straight back, lying flat on the ground in a star shape, motionless.
Sigh, tired. Might as well be a salted fish and take it step by step.
Why hasn’t the game started telling the specific requirements yet?
Oh, there were so many patterns on the surrounding walls—what were those for again?
Lu Ce glanced a few times, then immediately pushed everything out of his mind, comfortably lying down, not caring anymore.
Well, despite being useless, this mask was actually quite relaxing.
Trying hard might not help, but not trying... that’s truly comfortable!
......
Meanwhile, as this strongest player had quickly given up, the other players all focused intently, memorizing the pictures on the walls.
There were ten people in total in this game, each unaware of who the others were.
But the spectators definitely knew!
To them, the stakes of this game were incredibly high!
Because of the previous game announcement, people from the East Sea Tournament were distributed into this same game as much as possible. These ten players were all top-tier.
No need to mention "Sin."
Perfect Life, Chiyo Eine, Creator—each were present!
This was an elite, high-level match. When the game’s 2.0 version launched, it gave everyone a big surprise.
Besides that, there was something even more terrifying—Blank!
They saw "Blank" in this game.
Although most ordinary viewers didn’t know Blank was actually Xie Antong, those following this game were not just ordinary people.
Many recognized her!
Resurrected?
[System: No, so many top players here? Nice, first and second finally in the same game.]
[System: That’s not the point, xd... didn’t you see Blank alive?]
[System: Latest news—The person under Blank’s helmet is the rumored girlfriend of Sin, killed by him personally.]
[System: Not sure what happened, but... Blank’s expression right now looks pretty bad.]
Xie Antong of course knew that dying then immediately reviving was suspicious, so she was acting, eyes filled with fury and sadness, jaw muscles tight.
With the All-Seeing Eye, she had memorized the pictures long ago. Now she was mostly thinking about what she needed to do in this game.
[Memory time over! Hope all players are ready!]
Suddenly, the game’s voice sounded, and all the patterns on the walls vanished instantly.
"Hmm?" Lu Ce, still lying down, was a little puzzled.
"Memory? Memory of what again?"