This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 22 Interlude and Phase Two

Sneak attack is the assassin's fighting instinct.

In the darkness, a cold light suddenly approached. It was a sharp dagger.

The opponent obviously knew that if armor had a breastplate, it would most likely have a back armor. The tip of the dagger had an unusually cold light.

[Armor-piercing thorn]!

Nie Weiyang sighed and suddenly turned sideways. The dagger passed by the back of his clothes by a centimeter, but ultimately failed to reach him.

He blocked it with his arm and suddenly smelled a strange fragrance.

'Bang! !' "Uh..."

The combined strength, physique, and hardness of the arm armor caused a slender figure to suffer a heavy blow to the throat, briefly losing consciousness. When she gradually regained her senses, she found herself thrown to the ground by Nie Weiyang.

Her throat ached as if it were on fire, but she could only stare blankly. She felt as if all her actions were actually within the expectations of the person in front of her?!
Tracking, observing, attacking...even the flaw she found was...actively revealed by the other party!
Under the pitch-black sky, Nie Weiyang stared at the girl on the ground, his brow furrowed. Her blood exuded a scent that attracted vampires. He knew this particular physique wasn't common, but it wasn't rare either. In his previous life, more than once, someone like her had tried to approach him.

Of course, they all died.

"Sam didn't want you out," he said. "He wanted you to stay away, even at all costs to attract my and other people's attention. Then he told me that you had nothing to do with the people behind him, and you could live under a different identity - so why?"

Before this, before the 'peaceful exchange' with Sam, he had already spotted this girl. At that time, she was lurking nearby, observing the surrounding environment for Sam.

In his previous life, Nie Weiyang had seen her before. Her name was Vanessa, and she was Sam's partner and lover. She had always been by his side when Nie Weiyang was hunting him, and she was the reason Sam escaped twice.

At that time, she and Sam carried each other's soul seeds, and they were bound together in some way.

As long as one survives, the other can be resurrected incompletely at some heavy cost, even if the other dies physically.

But now, no one has even reached level 10, so it is naturally impossible for Sam and Vanessa to have such a link effect.

Sam had previously hinted at her leaving with subtle gestures, letting out earth-shattering screams to protect her, and even surrendering a lot of things, either voluntarily or pretending to be passive. Yet, she had returned shortly after successfully leaving...

Although Nie Weiyang had not originally intended to let her go - he did not have the habit of letting enemies with whom he had conflicts of principle live freely.

But before he could catch up, Vanessa came back on her own initiative.

Don't tell him it's because of love or something...

"I love him." The girl chuckled, her voice hoarse as she looked up at Nie Weiyang.

Nie Weiyang: “………………”

He sighed and sent Vanessa away with a sword.

Warm blood spurted out, and an alluring aroma suddenly burst forth. For a moment, Nie Weiyang felt as if he had been hungry for a thousand years before being faced with a feast. Every cell in his body clamored for him to pounce, every strand of his genes urged him to eat something delicious. But Nie Weiyang remained unmoved. He simply thrust his sword, snatched up the dagger Vanessa had hidden behind her, and tossed it into his backpack.

This is a green weapon. Although it is not very powerful, it is enough for the early transition of assassin-related professions. Although he himself cannot use it, there will always be someone who can use it.

In the new world, unless you have special items or skills, you cannot get the items in the backpack after killing the enemy.

Those items will disappear permanently into the void—therefore, all important items or quest items have the restriction of 'not being able to be put into the inventory'. Nie Weiyang shook his head and walked towards the team leader. The team leader had been watching him, and seeing him approach, asked, "Mr. Nie, what happened? Do you need help?"

"No need." Nie Weiyang sighed, a rare look of silence appearing on his face.

He could no longer tell whether this meant "even enemies have their own true love" or "love-brain is a terminal illness."

But he didn't need to discern. For an enemy who had proven incurable in a previous life and who remained his opponent in this one, he didn't need to consider whether to forgive or listen to confessions. He was only human, and that wasn't his job.

"Do you have love and emotions? Are you also suffering? What does it have to do with you harming me and the group I belong to?"

——Faced with this situation, what Nie Weiyang has to do is send them away from the new world and find the idol who can listen to their confessions.

At this moment, the three-headed water snake in the water curtain gradually began to move.

In full view of everyone, the heads on both sides began to bite the snake head in the middle. Although the head in the middle tried to resist, it was quickly torn and eaten clean.

Then the wound healed, and the two heads stood side by side—

The water curtain collapsed!

——[Ze Mei Fang]-18200!

This was a shared damage situation. A massive wave crashed down, breaking the willow trees on the shore in a single blow. Everyone continued to withstand the impact, and those who were more capable did more. Nie Weiyang held his shield and pushed forward, bearing the powerful impact head-on, his entire body drenched in the icy river water.

His current health bar value is 2200. Because he insisted on standing in the front, even with the defense provided by the armor, this attack deducted more than health from Nie Weiyang.

Aside from being used for skill assessment, the basic numerical bonuses to various attributes won't be realized until one has confirmed their beliefs at level 10. The new world requires everyone to walk the initial path in an almost primitive state, just as it requires people to gradually approach the 'Blood Moon Rising' in their current state, using humanity's own strength to overcome this first crisis. Those who can't hold on are simply... unsuited to survival in the new world.

At this moment, those who were far away were fine, but those who were close were hit so hard that most of them were directly in a state of serious disability. Fortunately, those who could stand here must be outstanding, so no one fell down directly.

But even so, the cold wind of the polar night combined with the large-scale water-attribute attack still caused tons of damage to the crowd.

Nie Weiyang put down his round shield, stood up, and drew his sword. He didn't seem to have been hurt too much, and now he stood in front of everyone with a serious expression.

'Three-headed Water Snake'——Phase Two, Begin!
……

It was not until this moment that the three-headed water snake truly entered full combat state.

Its health bar was fully restored, and its huge body, about 35 meters long from head to tail, broke away from the river channel, winding through the reeds, and crushed heavily into the mud on the river bank, leaving only the tip of its tail still in the water.

When it swings its tail, the water in the dark area will vibrate violently, causing the ground on both sides to become restless, and even the soil on the shore to gradually flow into the water.

The river expanded, and Nie Weiyang quickly took a few steps back to avoid being swallowed by the waves.

Less standing surface!
The two-headed water snake gradually moved downwards, its sharp scarlet eyes scanning around, staring closely at the most threatening individual.

It didn't even strike a pose, but pointed both of its heads at Nie Weiyang and shot out two water guns from its mouth!
　Lao Nie: I remember I haven’t clicked on the taunt yet

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(End of this chapter)