Chapter 98: The Zombie Army-I Am the Demon King(The Frenzied Flying Daggers)

The female elf’s sweet voice rang through the air.

“Battle Royale instance, first hour complete. A total of thirty-four players have been eliminated. One of them has activated kill mode. According to the rules, that player’s body will be permanently imprisoned in the Infinite Purgatory. From this moment on, the number of zombies will double, and the difficulty will double as well!”

Chen Mo hurriedly opened the map, and sure enough, the desert that had been completely cleared now swarmed once more with dense purple dots.

He lured out a zombie and scanned its data.

D-rank Zombie, Enhanced +1

Health: 1000

Physical Attack: 200

Poison Attack: 200

Movement Speed: Two meters per second

Skills: Pounce, activated within twenty meters; Virus Infection, passive

It had been strengthened. It really had been strengthened!

Chen Mo not only panicked, he actually laughed. Interesting. Now this was interesting.

After confirming there were no other evolved players nearby, Chen Mo decided to test something.

He switched from the Little Prince ID to the Kunlong ID, then immediately opened the leaderboard and dragged it all the way to the bottom. Astonishingly, the leaderboard could only show the player ranked one thousandth. By rights, since there were already one thousand people on this map and he had added one more mind-body, the total should have been one thousand and one. It seemed this was a bug: the system had set the maximum number of participants in this instance at one thousand, so it could not count a one-thousand-and-first player.

In the form of Kunlong’s golden warrior, Chen Mo wielded a golden sword and unleashed three shadow strikes, cutting through the zombies like harvesting leeks. In one breath, he slaughtered more than a hundred of them.

Kill D-rank Zombie, instance points +1

Chen Mo opened the leaderboard. With one hundred points, Kunlong should have ranked around ninetieth place, yet there was no trace of the name Kunlong at all. That meant this ID had already been regarded by the system as invalid, and therefore could not be counted on this instance’s leaderboard.

Chen Mo then opened the Battle Royale Chinese Region leaderboard.

He found Kunlong’s ID immediately, ranked at eight hundred and fifty thousandth place, with exactly one hundred points. This proved that although this instance did not count Kunlong’s points, those points did in fact exist and had been recorded on the Chinese Region leaderboard.

What perfect fortune!

Chen Mo had been worried that if he activated the Great Demon King ID in this instance, anyone who saw that name would be shocked. After all, it was the number one ID from the beginner instance. Then all one thousand people taking part tonight would become prime suspects, and Chen Mo did not want to leave any evidence behind.

But after testing it, he was relieved. Even if he activated the Great Demon King ID, no one else would know.

Chen Mo very much wanted to turn on kill mode, but he absolutely could not do so with either the Great Demon King or the Little Prince. Once activated, the red name above his head would be far too conspicuous. Then an idea suddenly struck him: if Kunlong activated kill mode, would the other IDs inherit that kill mode as well?

After all, all of his avatars shared the same attributes and were interconnected.

After repeatedly confirming that there were no red dots on the map, Chen Mo, using the Kunlong ID, sent an order to the female elf, Meimei:

“Meimei, help me activate kill mode!”

The female elf Meimei actually showed a surprisingly human reaction and her expression changed slightly. Though it vanished in an instant, it was undeniably different.

“Master, are you certain you wish to activate kill mode? Once a player in kill mode is slain, they will fall into the Infinite Purgatory and never be reborn.”

Infinite Purgatory, never to be reborn? How scary.

Open it for me!

“Your master is bold and mighty. Do I look like I’m afraid of death? Activate it!”

Meimei still hesitated.

“Master, would you really not like to think it over?”

“Open it, open it, open it!”

Meimei had been about to continue persuading him, when suddenly her eyes went hollow and her voice reverted to a cold electronic tone.

“Kill mode cannot be disabled once activated. Confirm activation?”

“Confirm!”

Kill mode activated. All attributes doubled. All rewards doubled. Killing players has a chance to drop their equipment.

Chen Mo’s physique attribute was 200, and his mental strength was also 200.

After kill mode was activated, his physique instantly became 400, and his mental strength became 400 as well.

The increase in physique was not yet obvious, but in terms of mental strength, Chen Mo immediately felt that his consciousness could spread across the entire desert region. Every blade of grass and every tree seemed to stand right before his eyes.

This feeling was indescribably wonderful. Chen Mo raised his golden sword and, with a casual slash, unleashed a fifty-meter-long golden sword aura.

Boom!

The desert was cleaved open by a gully fifty meters long and five meters deep, with yellow sand flying everywhere.

Kill D-rank Zombie, instance points +2

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Kill D-rank Zombie, instance points +2

Chen Mo was speechless. With one casual sword strike, he had actually slain a whole cluster of zombies hidden beneath the desert. The points had indeed doubled as well. Damn, that felt unbelievably good.

Instance Announcement: Near the D-rank desert zone, a player has activated kill mode. Hurry and hunt them down. Killing a red-named player can drop all of their equipment.

What?!

Near the D-rank desert zone? Wasn’t that right here?

Chen Mo warily looked around. That was impossible. On the map, it showed that he was the only person nearby.

Only after a beat did Chen Mo realize.

Damn it.

Wasn’t that talking about him?!

At that moment, there was a highly conspicuous red name above Chen Mo’s head: Slayer.

Huh? It wasn’t his character ID, it literally said Slayer.

Then what was there to worry about? The Great Demon King could activate kill mode too!

The design of this battle royale instance was truly vile. In order to encourage players to slaughter one another, the game prevented them from seeing other people’s true IDs; everything was hidden. It was practically saying to the players: kill away, go on and kill. No one will know who you are, and you won’t suffer revenge in the real world.

Chen Mo transformed into the Great Demon King, equipped his vampire set, and activated Blood Bind.

Awooo!

A zombie whose legs had been severed by sword aura staggered behind Chen Mo, its hands covered in green virus fluid, reaching for Chen Mo’s foot.

These zombies all carried virus attacks. Even if they merely scratched a little skin, they could inject the virus.

Just as the zombie’s rotting hand was about to touch Chen Mo’s ankle, a flash of blood suddenly burst forth!

The zombie’s body seemed to be pierced by dozens of thin threads as it was torn apart, broken into fragments!

Frowning, Chen Mo looked at the green slime on his blood claws and muttered to himself, “Disgusting. Seems I can’t use the blood claws to kill these zombies anymore.”

Any damaged equipment below A-rank will automatically be repaired upon entering a new instance; equipment above A-rank requires special materials to repair.

Putting away the blood claws, Chen Mo summoned the Annihilation Greatsword. The black liquid flowing over the blade did not clash with the vampire’s crimson aura at all, but instead seemed to complement it perfectly.

Kill D-rank Zombie, instance points +2

Not bad at all!

Just as Chen Mo had expected, so long as one avatar activated kill mode, the other avatars automatically received the bonuses of kill mode as well. That way, there was no need for a giant red name hanging over his head.

A kill-mode player might frighten some ordinary players, but at the same time it would also draw countless others to hunt them down.

Because killing a kill-mode player could drop all of their equipment, and any player daring enough to activate kill mode would surely not be poorly equipped.

The instance had only just begun. Chen Mo did not want to become the target of everyone’s attention yet. He would first farm some points, then see whether there were any other kill-mode players around and make a little extra on the side. Heh heh.

Instance Notice: All players in the B-rank zone have activated kill mode. Justice-seekers, proceed to punish them.

Instance Notice: All players in the C-rank zone have activated kill mode. Justice-seekers, proceed to punish them.

As more and more players activated kill mode, Chen Mo smiled knowingly.

Prey, don’t rush. You will all be mine.