She’d walked right into a trap.
Bai Yue Ling instinctively reached into her bag for the spare novice divine staff, only to receive the prompt that her inventory was unusable.
Not only that, her skill bar had turned gray. She couldn’t muster even a wisp of mana.
“Stop struggling.” One of the soldiers said indifferently. “A magic-sealing barrier has long been set up in this area. Any skill that consumes mana is disabled. A Priest like you won’t be able to cast that Holy Light Orb you’re so proud of.”
“You came very well-prepared.”
Bai Yue Ling calmly scanned the surrounding enemies while silently analyzing in her heart.
Unlike the Black-Clad Figures she had encountered before, these people made no effort to hide their faces. They were all dressed as ordinary citizens, yet every gaze was resolute, every movement perfectly synchronized.
This reminded Bai Yue Ling of a conspicuous yet secretive official force within the kingdom—the army.
Someone in the upper echelons of the kingdom wanted her dead. Who could it be? Viki? No, she had only just escaped from the Royal Palace; she couldn’t possibly have gathered so many people in such a short time.
At this moment, Bai Yue Ling suddenly realized that, without noticing, she had already become the center of the storm.
She was the highest-level otherworld traveler, the hero who purified the Forest of Nature, someone once acknowledged by the Goddess of Judgment, the mortal enemy of the Third Princess, and Her Majesty the Queen’s hope…
Any one of those was enough to make people jealous, resentful, and arrange a meticulously planned assassination.
“Come with us quietly, Priest Hero.”
The soldier disguised as a guard slowly walked toward her, eyes cold as ice.
“Or do you want to fight us bare-handed?”
Bai Yue Ling looked at her fair, delicate fists and thought for a moment.
“That’s not impossible.”
She yanked off the Slime Queen cape from her back, tore it in half, and wrapped the pieces tightly around her hands like boxing wraps. Then she assumed a perfectly standard fighting stance.
“Since none of us can use magic, why don’t we give it a try?” Bai Yue Ling taunted. “If you can’t even beat a little Priest like me, you’ll all look really pathetic, won’t you, useless trash?”
“Interesting.” The soldier raised her blade and stepped forward slowly, voice icy. “Looks like we’ll have to cripple you before you come along obediently.”
A level-20 Priest thinks she can play fighter just by putting on fist wraps?
The soldier lunged forward like an arrow, her sharp blade thrusting viciously toward Bai Yue Ling’s knee!
Yet Bai Yue Ling did not panic in the slightest. With a light tap of her toe, she effortlessly dodged the strike. Immediately after, she countered, her right fist shooting toward the soldier’s chin even faster.
The wrap only grazed the chin, but the soldier suddenly shuddered violently, swaying unsteadily before collapsing powerlessly to the ground.
That graze appeared harmless, but it had brushed past at terrifying speed, causing severe “concussion” that instantly destroyed the soldier’s sense of balance.
In her previous nine loops, Bai Yue Ling had tried nearly every class at least once—naturally including Fighter. Her combat technique was extremely refined.
Although her current class was Priest, thanks to her 99 points in Spirit, she never had to worry about damage output. That left her plenty of points to invest elsewhere.
Stamina, Strength, Agility… Her current stat allocation was absolutely not what a normal Priest should have.
“Truly astonishing technique.” Another soldier clapped lightly, sneering. “But so what?”
Even though Bai Yue Ling had defeated one soldier, dozens more remained. She still had no chance of winning.
Facing the slowly closing circle, Bai Yue Ling once again readied her stance and chuckled.
“Actually… I’ve just been stalling for time, waiting for a big sister to come save me.”
“Save you?” The soldier frowned. “Impossible. This operation was completely covert. No one is—”
Before she could finish, a small object was suddenly hurled from afar. It rolled a few times on the ground and, by some miracle, stopped right at Bai Yue Ling’s feet.
Everyone looked closer—thick smoke instantly billowed out, engulfing the entire area and blocking all vision.
“Cough cough cough… This is bad!”
The nearest soldier immediately realized something was wrong and frantically reached toward Bai Yue Ling’s position.
Yet what she saw was a mysterious figure who had already scooped Bai Yue Ling into her arms. Something shot from her hand toward a distant rooftop, and together they flew away like an arrow.
“Chase them! Don’t let them escape!”
The soldiers stomped hard and leaped onto the rooftops, racing after the distant figures at top speed.
At the same time, Bai Yue Ling, held in one arm, turned her head and opened her small cherry lips in surprise. “Ying Ye?”
Ying Ye only glanced at her coolly, expressionless. “Hold on tight.”
“Mm~”
She had thought it would be Sistana who came to save her. She never expected Ying Ye.
They hadn’t seen each other since the battle with the Slime Queen ended. Destiny World had no private chat function, so Bai Yue Ling had no idea what Ying Ye had been doing lately.
But from the current situation… it seemed she had been following her the whole time. Otherwise, how could she have arrived so quickly?
Bai Yue Ling re-draped the Slime Queen cape over her shoulders, wriggled her black-silk-clad perky butt upward a little, wrapped her arms around Ying Ye’s neck, and clamped her legs around that slender waist—clinging to Ying Ye’s delicate body in an extremely intimate pose.
Seeing this, Ying Ye couldn’t help raising an eyebrow. She was sorely tempted to find an empty grove right now, pin this “wide-open-to-attack” big-breasted girl beneath her, and naturally shift into some kind of mating press position.
Bai Yue Ling remained completely oblivious, only complaining that her huge rabbits were bouncing too wildly and hugging even tighter.
Ying Ye sprinted at full speed while firing a “grappling claw” from her left hand, securely latching onto a distant roof. Then the claw rapidly retracted, pulling her forward.
Repeating this process, she soon left the pursuing soldiers far behind.
Bai Yue Ling’s gaze locked onto Ying Ye’s left hand repeatedly firing the claw, and she froze slightly.
She felt the equipment Ying Ye was using now looked very familiar.
【Equipment Name: Ninja Prosthetic Hand】
【Quality: Epic】
【Attack Power: Extremely High】
【Equip Requirement: 30 Agility, pass the “Ninja Trial” of the Shadow Blade Assassins】
【Attribute Bonus: Strength B, Agility S】
【Additional Skill: 「Ninja Tools」 – can equip, switch, and upgrade prosthetic ninja tools freely】
【Description: Equipment used by a ninja known as “Wolf” from the archipelago nations. It appears capable of loading all sorts of mechanical ninja tools. Countless large and small scars cover its surface, some dried blood still clings to it, yet it is meticulously maintained.】
【Note: Though called a “prosthetic hand,” it is actually arm armor—not something that requires missing an arm to wear.】
The Ninja Prosthetic Hand?!
Bai Yue Ling’s heart jolted. This was the equipment she had obtained together with Ying Ye in the Royal Capital during her very first loop, after fighting the Shadow Blade Assassins.
Back then, Bai Yue Ling saw how perfectly it suited assassin players and gave it to Ying Ye. It had massively boosted Ying Ye’s combat power, quickly propelling her into the ranks of top-tier players.
But later, after Bai Yue Ling’s affair of two- (no, more than ten-) timing was exposed, this very Ninja Prosthetic Hand became her nightmare.
Like a phantom in the night, Ying Ye had used it to kill her who-knows-how-many times.
That was why, after the first loop, Bai Yue Ling never again brought Ying Ye to acquire the Ninja Prosthetic Hand—she deliberately prevented Ying Ye from becoming too strong, so she herself wouldn’t be helpless against her.
Yet at this very moment, the Ninja Prosthetic Hand had once again appeared on Ying Ye’s arm.
As if noticing Bai Yue Ling’s stare, Ying Ye turned her head, looked straight at her, and smiled gently.
That smile somehow sent an inexplicable chill down Bai Yue Ling’s spine.
“Little White, I’m back~”
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