As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 808 The Pinnacle Beyond Standards, Muto Sora
Race is the beginning of a player's inhumanity.

The vast majority of players start as humans, and only cease to be human when the race is introduced. To date, there are only two players around Li Nuo who are still human: Chen Shou and Ma Erjie.

Chen Shou had a Zagu.

They're not even as good as humans.

Marger is a piece of shit.

Li Nuo is a demon hunter, which can be seen from his race. Race is actually a profession, which also illustrates one thing: once you have a job, you are no longer human.

There really is a race in the corridor called "cattle and horses".

Let's get back to Li Nuo.

The last time I received a racial advancement was during the "Claymore" era, as a reward I earned after being exploited by Cha Bai for several days.

This time it wasn't painful.

Silver Cane: lv4→lv5

……

[Demon power unleashed, reaching a maximum of 90%]

[Demon Power Unleashed 90%: Strength, Reaction, Spiritual Power, and Insight all increase by 150; Constitution increases by 80; Total Spiritual Power (including magic power, ki, and chakra) increases by 100%; Damage taken is reduced by 50%]

[Negative Consequence: After liberation, you'll be in a daze for 7 seconds]

……

[Ability Unlocked]

【Cane Master MAX】

[Master of the Whip MAX]

……

[Demon power 90%, unlocking demon transformation]

……

Li Nuo stood with his hands in his pockets, waiting for a long time, while the people next to him also stared at him for a long time.

"What pose are you striking?" Xiao Wu asked.

"I... I'm waiting for my demonization..." Li Nuo said, staring at the panel but not seeing the demonization ability displayed.

Demonization is an inevitable path to the awakening of demonic power in Claymore. In fact, 50% demonic power awakening is enough to demonize. Li Nuo was able to drag it out to 90% only because his attribute values ​​were too high... demonization could not suppress him.

Not long ago, when I was being taught a lesson by a player from the End of the World in the Undead Asylum, I unlocked 89% of the Demonic Power Unleashed. At that time, there was indeed a prompt that said, "When the Demonic Power Unleashed reaches 90%, you can unlock Demonic Transformation."

"No."

Li Nuo tilted his head, and everyone looked at him, indicating that they didn't know either.

A player in the Death Corridor, holding the reagent, said, "Fake medicine?"

Amanda's Dragon Slayer Sword suddenly trembled: "Li Nuo, your soul is mutating!"

Li Nuo slapped his forehead, realizing what was going on.

The [Gene Activation Reagent] has a usage requirement of "multi-soul construct".

Li Nuo possesses three souls: his own, Teresa's, and one more...

"Cuihua..."

"Wow~"

Cuihua jumped off his shoulder and roared twice like a lion; the little guy had two horns on his head.

"Li Nuo, I feel like I've turned into a great demon."

"..."

"I think I'm even better now."

Shafa covered her mouth: "So cute..."

She immediately explained, "Cassifar... the soul of the demon fire, after acquiring demonic power, can also burn sacred matter."

“I know without you saying it.” Li Nuo stared with dead fish eyes.

Actually, Cuihua has a data panel; it's not a skill, but the soul of the fire element.

Besides, her name wasn't originally Cuihua.

Its Cuihua, like Nanami's Nanami, is a nickname similar to "Gousheng" or "Tiedan".

【Fire Elemental Kasifal】

[Hazard Level: SS]

[Attributes: Fire, Fairy]

[Skills: Jade Flower Flame Kill Black Dragon Wave, Reverse Kaioken, Great Self-Destruction, Spirit Bomb]

[Brief description: Don't be fooled by its appearance... I don't know who trained it, but it's covered in super S-level skills... and to defeat it, you can defeat its host, well, its host... hehe]

[Fragment of memory: That idiot Li Nuo used the "Axiom Seal" when he played cards with me again, damn it, Li Nuo! I want to fall in love too!]

Li Nuo and Cuihua locked eyes.

"So, in what ways have you become stronger?"

Cuihua gave a brief explanation.

Its abilities are basically all about enhancing Li Nuo. The demonized Cuihua is essentially helping Li Nuo withstand the side effects of demonism (cannibalism). However, Cuihua prefers to eat vegetarian food, so it is impossible for it to eat people.

Demonizing Cuihua means enhancing all of her skills, including a large number of abilities that combine with Li Nuo.

This can be considered a form of indirect blessing...

Li Nuo stuffed Cuihua into his chest, having roughly understood the situation; now it was just a matter of observing the changes in her racial stats after the next advancement.

Silver Cane

[Next advancement method (choose one of three): 1. Complete Dante's quest; 2. Discover more secrets of the original world; 3. Explore on your own]

Each advancement method leads to different advancement results, but the higher the level, the more difficult the advancement.

It happens every time.

Race advancement is entirely at your discretion.

A pigeon's cooing was heard.

Li Nuo quickly reached back and grabbed a pair of glasses.

“Soren’s here,” Shafa said. “Oh, it’s been a long time. I’m a little lonely without him as my opponent.”

Safa and Amanda gathered around and started catching up with Glasses. The dead player frowned; the rumored, extremely powerful four-eyed thug had appeared. Xiao Wu could only try to calm them down.

It has to be said that, in everyone's eyes, Sauron's true form should be his glasses.

There was a note on the glasses: about the improvements your race will receive after the next advancement.

Li Nuo made Amanda put on the glasses so she could see herself.

He only trusts Amanda.

"Let me see……"

Amanda put on the glasses... and instantly, she transformed from a female warrior in armor into a mature woman with glasses, also in armor...

The deceased player and Li Nuo exclaimed together that the glasses were truly a great invention.

"Awakening of the Demonic Transformation?"

"what?"

"Your next racial advancement will be a product of a demon with the form of demonic awakening, but your essence will be a warrior of light, so the changes may be different from what you imagine. That's all the glasses have to say."

Amanda took off her glasses, and Li Nuo suddenly pressed down on the frame of her glasses.

"Sister Ga Zi, trust me, it's great to wear."

The eight dead players nodded in agreement.

Sister Ga was stunned for a moment, and Shafa took out a mirror.

"what?"

Sister Ga was stunned; I looked so tempting…

Sister Ga Zi, Ms. Amanda, is of the same Caucasian race as Nanami.

She died while falling asleep in the bathtub and drowning. Because she developed too quickly as a child, she was always ridiculed by girls who were jealous of her. She had a slight tendency towards social anxiety. At the age of 29, she had never worn makeup. She added the joys of life to virtual games. Her favorite game was "Dragon Quest". She had a strong obsession with heroes and saviors. This obsession led her to obtain the [Inferior Ga Zi Set] when she first entered the "Endless Corridor".

From then on, Sister Ga Zi abandoned her identity as a woman and became an extreme genderless individual.

It wasn't until she put on her glasses that I realized... she was actually a stunning beauty...

Now, Sister Ga Zi is no longer thinking about that bullshit hero; all she can think about is whether she should go back and try wearing a bra to see what it feels like.

“Now we can get down to business,” one of the dead players said while injecting himself with a potion. “We have to hunt down Atkinson. He’s a tough guy, you know that.”

When Li Nuo participated in the mission to hunt down the Moon God's embryo... it was the ancient god who held a missile and blew Li Nuo up. The difficulty of that mission was level 120, which means that the process would be quite dangerous, but it was possible to complete.

The difficulty of Miaham's quest is level 200, and the difficulty will not fluctuate no matter how many people join, meaning it is impossible to complete.

The difficulty of killing Lord Atkinson fluctuates between level 150 and 180. The difficulty is calculated based on the participants. This means that if there are dead players and with the help of Shafa and others, the difficulty fluctuation is at least level 150, which means it will be quite difficult, but there is a way to complete it.

The old man was still sitting on the ground reminiscing about his first love.

Li Nuo called out, "Grandpa, can you do me a favor? I'll deliver some more goods to you!"

The old man said, "Speak." The difficulty of the task immediately jumped from level 150 to level 200.

It's not that I can't beat Lord Atkinson; I could crush that lord.

The problem lies in the mission content. Organic matter can restrain the old man, or rather... if the old man comes into contact with Atkinson, the boss of this mission might become the old man. After all, the curse of the ancient gods is everywhere, and the Cairo aliens are too malleable, they could become anything.

“We’ve considered summoning creatures, but think carefully about the consequences,” a deceased player warned. “Players can resist the curse, but what about other creatures? Even if you summon a godlike being, the curse in this world is strange, and we might encounter new problems that we can’t handle.”

“I understand, I'll just give it a try,” Li Nuo said.

"What exactly do you want us to do for you?" the old man asked impatiently. "The repair shop is still up and running."

"I will find a way to compensate you, until then..." Li Nuo planned to use the old man as a backup plan for Nong Miaham, and they would discuss the specifics later. Right now, they had to move the old man to a safe place.

The telepathic spirit contacted Cha Bai, instructing her to be ready to open the spatial portal at any time.

"Safa, can your hot spring space be connected to the portal to my partner's space?"

"Yes, I can. I'll give it a try."

Safa walked to the surface of the hot spring water and touched the water with her finger, creating a ripple.

Immediately afterwards, the hot spring water burst open with a splash, and Cha Bai suddenly stood up, her white hair whipping out a shimmering arc. The water curtain slid down from her wet clothes that clung to her skin, outlining breathtaking lines.

Sister Ga Zi's newly awakened womanly feelings were completely extinguished by Cha Bai's entrance.

Cha Bai greeted Peters and the old man with a smile. The latter two had a good impression of her and waved with a smile. Then she took off her blindfold and pointed at Li Nuo with her affectionate eyes.

"Explain the situation as soon as possible. The door I opened with [Ancient Blood] can only be maintained for a limited time."

"Isn't it a bit incongruous of you to talk about work with that look in your eyes..." Li Nuo thought to himself, pointing at the person next to him.

"Take them all away."

Li Nuo refers to everyone except him and Xiao Wu.

“Li Nuo, what are you doing?” a dead player said. “Those who can stay here are all top-tier. Do you think we are a burden? We agreed to kill Atkinson and distribute the rewards. If you make us leave, we will have no right to distribute the rewards.”

"Do you think you have the power to distribute things just because you're here?" Xiao Wu said, showing no respect whatsoever. Lone wolf players don't care about such social niceties.

Li Nuo stopped Xiao Wu.

“Even if you don’t need my woman’s help, you can leave through a spatial portal, I know that. The reason you’re not leaving is because you can’t contact Fenrir, right? Now that you’re without an allied faction, I’ll find you one. This deal is very worthwhile for you, and besides, I need you all.”

Li Nuo's last words were very important. The dead players were in an awkward position because of Lennon's appearance. They had no choice but to follow Fenrir. Although they were above the standard level, they made a mistake in the Borderlands-level scenario and were destined to be unable to reverse the decline.

Unless someone is really willing to help them.

Li Nuo needs the dead to stop causing trouble, and the dead need a new force to attach themselves to in order to prevent other corridors from launching surprise attacks on them.

This deal is a good deal.

"Take this." A dead player handed over a [Blood Gem] without any description on the interface.

He explained, "The reason we spent so much time trying to defeat Atkinson is because he has a special skill. He's a mechanic monster; crushing this blood gem can lock that move and directly trigger the boss fight."

Everyone was here to conserve their energy, and Amanda was going out to help the citizens, but their plans were all disrupted by the arrival of Li Nuo and Xiao Wu.

Li Nuo remembered Tang Rui, who had helped them enter the dream world; that guy had run into the castle and suddenly stopped breathing.

In fact, Tang Rui met Atkinson at the time. When the BOSS battle started, Atkinson's first move was a fatal skill called "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception (the real version)," which was an evolution of the "Inner Eye" from Bloodborne.

Only the players who died after joining Fenrir's faction knew about this.

This is Atkinson's most troublesome problem.

Li Nuo held the blood gem and nodded: "Understood."

Peters asked, "Should I go too?"

Cha Bai said, "Mr. Peters, come with me. I have something to ask you about spatial magic."

The old man is still reminiscing about his first love and doesn't care where he goes.

Shafa took out a crystal and tossed it to Li Nuo, saying, "I know you care about Wells. That guy used to be my rival. Maybe this will help you get Wells back."

[The Black Crystal of Racism]

It contains a copy of Wells' soul. It was originally a contingency plan that Shafa had prepared for the civil war. By entrusting it to Lino, she was saying, "I'm leaving the rest to you."

Li Nuo carefully put away the black crystal and made one last request to Shafa and Sister Ga: "Don't use that racial advancement potion, and don't make me your enemy."

Both of them are players of the "Endless Corridor," and the judge is their manager. Once they break through the limits and enter the next strongest scenario, becoming enemies is the least of their worries. Li Nuo must guard against the possibility that the judge might use the fragments of "old acquaintances'" memories.

The two women handed the reagents to Cha Bai on their own initiative. Of the five reagents they had agreed upon, one was missing. The other player who lost the lottery handed it over, and it was also given to Cha Bai.

"Let's go, everyone jump into the hot spring."

Cha Bai gestured, then mouthed to Li Nuo.

"The sun is used up. When you have time, come back and help me build a few more as backups."

With Li Nuo wearing a pained expression, Cha Bai led everyone away.

With the disappearance of Safa, the hot spring world also disappeared.

Li Nuo and Xiao Wu returned to the city from their dream.

"The hunters we killed so many times have all come back to life."

"Should we just attack directly, Li Nuo?"

"Ah."

Li Nuo crushed the blood gem that the dead player had given him.

The traps guarding the castle have been removed, and the boss battle begins immediately.

Atkinson had been searching for them in the castle for a long time. He sat on the castle throne with his head down and his whole body wrapped in bandages.

"The Healing Church..."

Atkinson's arm suddenly braced against the armrest of the throne, the bandages tightening and revealing the dull luster of the metal.

His chest was wrapped in bandages, the left half of which undulated beneath the fabric, while the right half was a jagged, black armor, with energy particles hissing out from the joints like fireflies.

Atkinson possesses some of the technology from the Dragon Ball world. Although it is a replica, it is still very powerful. He is an artificial ancient god who is far superior to Luna and the Orphan of Kos.

He slowly stood up, the bandages rubbing against the metal joints with a sickening rustling sound.

"Fenrir, it really was you... Only you know how to counter my abilities... You are a powerful person, cruel and ruthless, with multiple bloodlines within you... But why are you targeting me... Why!"

The roar shattered the fog walls outside the castle.

All the dream hunters were shaken to the point of turning into thick blood, and the city was instantly covered in crimson blood.

Li Nuo covered his ears and said, "And he has a damn loud voice."

Atkinson's figure had already reached the top of the castle. His body had become distorted, and this terrifying half-decayed, half-mechanical body was shrouded in a blood mist. He was perhaps the most powerful artificial ancient god on the continent of Sumeru. The oppressive feeling he brought was nothing but despair in the eyes of most players.

Atkinson's bandaged head turned slightly, and the dense eyes beneath the bandages released a bloody light, illuminating the gaps in the cloth strips, piercing through the blood mist of the dream, and locking onto the target.

"The priests of the Healing Church..."

It was Li Nuo and Xiao Wu who kept causing him trouble. Ever since they arrived, they've been relentlessly using his hunters as materials to farm, forcing the reborn hunters to eventually retreat into the castle—something that almost never happens in a dream.

"It's you again, Fenrir... You created perfect artificial life before I did..."

He mistook Xiao Wu and Li Nuo for artificial beings created by Fenrir.

After all, it's hard for normal organisms to be that outrageous.

Atkinson opened his mouth, filling the oral cavity with his glasses, and looked out at the world outside his mouth, releasing a red ray.

The rays plowed through the town, silently obliterating everything they touched—bricks, stones, life, sounds—leading straight to Li Nuo.

"coming……"

Li Nuo's demonic eyes turned golden, his staff wrapped around the [Dark Line], and with a bang, he sent the red ray that could destroy everything flying into the air.

Light exploded in the sky, and a spiraling blood hole burst open in the dark clouds.

"Let me do it."

Xiao Wu walked in front of Li Nuo and gracefully combed her ponytail.

"It's faster if we do it together."

"Don't talk nonsense," Xiao Wu said. "Do you think I don't know what you're thinking?"

Li Nuo: "..."

Xiao Wu looked at Atkinson's enormous shadow and said, "If you can't even easily take down this thing, then don't bother thinking about Miaham, and don't even think about how to fight against Schwarzalel, is that what you mean?"

Li Nuo was speechless and remained silent.

This is the core factor that made the dead players and everyone else leave. The dream world is an alchemy ground where one can test their potential and see the strength of the world.

“If we can’t even take care of these guys ‘easily’, we might as well break up and go about our business. I knew you and Marger had this idea a long time ago.”

After all, we've been neighbors for so long.

After all, they are among the few people you can get along with.

Xiao Wu said, "I almost always enter a script alone, so I always live with the attitude that there is no tomorrow, and this time is no different... If I can't even handle this guy on my own, then don't talk about the future. I don't join the team because I hate interpersonal relationships, and also because..."

She took a deep breath, and her whole body radiated a pale blue starlight.

"I hate being a burden."

Xiao Wu's demonic power broke through its limit, reaching 70%, and her body began to demonize and transform.

Atkinson seemed to see a deathly nightmare, in which he was about to understand what a nightmare was.

(End of this chapter)