As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 785 The Fated Death of the Glutton
Let's go back a few hours.

In the ruins of a factory, a day's drive from the Northern Undying Institution.

Phil walked through the narrow alleyway made of dilapidated shipping containers, the corrugated iron factory buildings groaning in the wind. He reached an open area and put down his backpack.

"You really kept your promise."

Before him stood the most powerful being from the "Eternal Corridor," known as "Zera," the Steel-Bone Heavy Fist.

Zera, wearing sunglasses and sporting a buzz cut, was a massive man who sat on a shipping container like a small mountain.

Phil is like the difference between a man and a mammoth compared to him.

Zera usually shrinks his body using his skills, only revealing his true form before battle. This man is among the top ten in the level 99 range, although... there are many people in the top ten.

“Phil…hahaha…”

Zera moved his strong, powerful fingers and muttered incantations.

"The strong have all gathered in this world, those famous figures: Marger, Sauron, our mercenary captain, Lino, Chabai, Mutou Sora, Zeref, Jenny of Death, Tanaka, Takizawa, Sora and the whole bunch of monsters from the End, and of course, you and me..."

Phil silently drew his dagger and took out a whetstone to sharpen its edge.

Zera jumped off the container and walked towards him.

"This stage is prepared for those who break through levels. As agreed, you and I will determine a winner. The winner will break through the level limit, and the loser... will die!"

The two have a life-or-death feud and have agreed to resolve everything in this scenario. They have both reached their maximum level and only need to defeat a powerful opponent to break through their limits. And now is the time.

Zera silently clenched her fists, her Armament Haki covering her entire body, her skin turning into a jet-black metallic sheen, and even the concrete ground beneath her feet cracked under the weight.

The next second, he punched the air, and the violent shockwave tore through space, sending metal fragments from the container raining down on Phil!
Swish!
With a horizontal slash, Phil remained motionless, the [Iron-Cutting Sword] flashing with ice and lightning drawing an arc.

The distant mountain peaks were cleaved in two horizontally, the aftershocks crashing against the earth, and even further away, the ocean waves surged skyward! The towering waves rolled up like a torrential downpour, washing over the land!
Zera was cut in half at the waist, flying backward in two sections. His large hand grabbed his lower body and instantly reassembled it.

"Using such a powerful move right from the start!"

"That's not nonsense."

Phil took a step forward, shattering the ground and sending up layers of ice lightning.

Knowing the difficulty of this script, he left his favorite personality, Phineas, in the Corridor Gathering Area, with the souls of nine personalities filling his pupils.

Suddenly, Zera's dark fist slammed into the ground, shattering the ice and using the recoil to leap into the air.

"You brat, you're asking for it."

"Ah."

Phil smirked and retreated like a ghost, his hands moving in a blur of ice and lightning as he swung the blade, now wrapped in ice and lightning, at his opponent once more.

Boom!
A cannon-like impact suddenly came from the front. Zera's punch tore through the air and shattered Phil's chest with true damage, sending him flying.

[Glutton] reveals his skills by sticking an arm out from behind and plunging it into the ground, then somersaults to the ground.

Zera closed in, and Phil met him again.

Frost and thunderstorms exploded between the containers, cold mist and lightning intertwined into a net, a torrent of water shattered the clouds, creating a huge hole in the sky, distant mountains were cut off by air blades, and the ground was shattered by domineering energy. Two players of super-level were staging a death match like gods descending upon the land.

Meanwhile, two kilometers away, Emil's truck slowly approached in the gale.

The Blood Emperor, seated in the passenger seat, was reviewing nearby intelligence.

"Hmm... This place is located on the edge of 'Cape City', which is practically unclaimed land. I doubt any army would come to stop us. They really know how to choose a location."

The driver, Malje, input the language into the in-vehicle tablet screen.

"Hmph, so this is a big deal..."

"Probably so."

Blood Emperor turned his head to look at Nanami, who was still fast asleep in the back seat.

"Seriously, could a duel between two players really become a big event?"

"Trust Nanami."

Not long ago, after Marger left the Undead Asylum, he actually encountered Nanami on the road. This girl had received instructions from Li Nuo to hunt down a group of players who would cause trouble. Although she killed a few of them, she still couldn't help but head towards the End's base camp. Hunting End players had long become her habit.

"This girl is practically fast asleep," the Blood Emperor said.

Marje typed: "After a hard-fought battle without any rest, it's all that bastard Li Nuo's fault for not explaining things clearly to Nanami... That girl isn't very bright."

But there was another reason why Nanami was working so hard, and Marger knew this reason... She wanted to get the "Endless Corridor" back as soon as possible, to bring Wink back, and to stop her fans from waiting in vain.

After all, this was her entire life. The Blood Emperor took out a card from his pocket, which had a radar chart on it and pointed it forward.

This card is what Nanami got from a player. It detected the location of a "major event" in the script. Marger believes that the major event may be more important than the main storyline, and may also involve hidden content unknown to the main storyline, which is why he rushed over.

"Brother Ma, it's just ahead, be careful."

The Blood Emperor retracted the card, his gaze turning somewhat cold.

"I sense something very bad is ahead..."

The Blood Emperor was terrified by the "darkened" Li Nuo during the "World War," and ever since then he has been very concerned about "danger warnings."

"Got it!" came the shouts of the Steel Soul cultists from the roof of the car.

The cult member was a professional photographer, and he transmitted the photos he took to a small screen inside the car.

With ice and lightning swirling around them, they could not get any closer. So, Marje slowed down and looked at the filming content with the Blood Emperor beside him.

"Can I get through?"

"No, there's a strange force field nearby that's interfering with things. If we go over there, we'll be pulled out."

“How terrible…”

"Let's take a look first, and make the car invisible."

The modified camera pierced through the frost and white mist, capturing images of the dueling arena.

Phil stood on the earth, the blade in his hand trembling with white lightning, cold mist clenched in his mouth, multiple arms growing from his body, his whole body covered in blood and grime.

Zera was lying on the ground, her whole body covered in and burned by lightning, unable to move.

This duel ended with Phil, the "End," emerging victorious.

But there is still no sign of a major event.

If you look at Phil from the front, you'll see that he has turned into a woman's face. This is the personality awakening passively triggered by the "Glutton," and it is also one of the souls he has consumed.

"Normally, I should have eaten you and turned you into one of my powers."

Phil raised the blade.

Today, in order to break through level 99, he must kill Zera.

The blade pierced through, drawing blood.

A bloody hole burst open in Zera's chest, and an eyeball suddenly popped out of the flesh inside. Almost instantly, a large number of eyeballs burst out of Zera's body like cells regenerating.

At this moment, Phil's gaze was blank. He had not expected that Zera would be infected by the Ancient God, and that it would be so severe.

"you saw it."

An unfamiliar voice came from beside me.

Phil looked over with all his pupils, and a middle-aged man wearing a top hat appeared beside him at some point. This man was Fenrir, the mastermind behind the whole incident.

[Side quest triggered: The Malice in Twilight's Eyes]

[Task Difficulty: lv180...]

Before the panel finished displaying, Phil paused, startled.

Because Fenrir's pupils are extremely unique.

"Night color..."

These were the last words Phil spoke.

Fenrir's hand blade, imbued with the law of "Destined Death," slashed down, black arcs of light piercing the void, and black lightning of death pierced Phil's body like a blade of judgment.

In that instant, time seemed to freeze, all of Phil's pupils constricted, and he felt as if his soul was being pierced by countless sharp thorns.

As he was about to retaliate, the inner eyes within Razer all turned to look at him, their pupils transforming into the same "night-colored eyes" as Fenrir's.

The curse of the Mortal Blade is corrupting Phil.

[Glutton] All the barriers of the soul shatter like paper under the power of "severing immortality".

A sudden, unexpected shot pierced the curtain, leaving it stained with blood.

The scene described above occurred within the illusion created by Fenrir, and lasted only for a brief moment.

(End of this chapter)