This time I chose Paladin

Vampires... No, vampires should look like vampires x

Chapter 7 'Sorrow'

【'sorrow':

The third of the seven emotions.

His form is uncertain, and he is filled with sorrow and deep feelings that cannot be shown to others.

Each time [Weep] attacks, [Sorrow] is applied to all targets within the attack range. When the effect reaches 9 layers, a high-damage [Stab] is performed, with a chance to follow up with [Heartbreak].

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"It's a worrisome thought," □□ said. "It reminds me of things from the past, like lost friends and family, lost loved ones, a childhood you can never return to, or anything else that makes you mourn and resent yourself. You feel like you had a past with her or him, a past you shared, a past you shared, fantasized about the future, agreed to raise a cat and a dog together... Okay, it might not be that kind of relationship, but there's just this one person, and as long as they exist, they weigh heavily on your pain, preventing it from surfacing.

"Then you wake up, face your life, and realize that you are no longer like this, or realize that there has never been such a person around you." -】

[[Spirit]-[Charm] confrontation judgment in progress...confrontation successful]

[[Spirit]-[Charm] confrontation judgment in progress...confrontation successful]

[[Spirit]-[Charm] confrontation is in progress... The confrontation is successful...]

……

A beautiful, girlish silhouette drifted in mid-air, her long, dark hair, like a trace of melancholy, growing longer and longer, dangling in all directions: treetops, rocks, open spaces... It gradually wove a web around Nie Weiyang. Within this web, he could feel a delicate pain spreading deep within his heart. It was as if he had always been alone, possessed of nothing. The world was so vast, filled with so many beautiful things, yet he no longer had, or had never had, anything to do with it.

Nie Weiyang's expression was somewhat empty. He couldn't help but recall all the sorrows of the past twenty years of his life: choices against one's will, battles, kills, walking in the dark, avoiding almost all honors, and witnessing the extent to which human nature could degenerate in the end times.

Ferocity, despair, horror, terror, jealousy, resentment... in the human world and in hell.

The faces of the dead emerged from his mind, and his pace towards "Sorrow" became slower and slower.

Ai floated down, pulled by long hair. It approached Nie Weiyang, and the frequency of its mental attacks increased, from once every two seconds to twice a second, even faster and faster. The hair also began to approach him, gradually wrapping around his body.

[[Thousands of Sorrows]: Drives the entity of sorrow to bind the target. If successful, it will perform a [Stab], which will inevitably add [Heartbreak].]

Just like a beautiful girl trying to keep her lover while crying mournfully, the half-human monster slowly descended, and its long hair gradually bound the young man's body, pulling the two closer.

In just a few breaths, 'Sorrow' was close to Nie Weiyang. Its terrifying 'back' gradually caved in, and a deep vortex emerged from it. Just one glance at it would make people feel dizzy, lose their power, and even be swallowed by it...

[[Gloomy and Depressed]: Assimilate the target with your own melancholy, absorbing their extraordinary energy and vitality. Once the progress exceeds two-thirds, the target will be transformed into a puppet.]

It was a soft, cool hug.

Sorrow fell upon Nie Weiyang, its vortex opening to devour him, only to discover—this target was running out of energy.

Of course, it would be strange if a level 1 professional could have much energy left if he traveled like this!

If full energy allowed Nie Weiyang to unleash 'Holy Blade' 20 times and 'Holy Guardian' 10 times, he could only unleash 'Holy Blade' 3 times now, and couldn't even unleash 'Holy Guardian' a second time. The nearly empty blue bar didn't meet Sorrow's absorption criteria, and it paused imperceptibly for a moment before draining Nie Weiyang's vitality.

But at this moment, Nie Weiyang suddenly looked up, his blood-red eyes were clear, calm and gentle.

It was an almost completely harmless meaning, a...

……gentle.

Weird tenderness.

A soft light shield appeared on Nie Weiyang's body, and the power of "Holy Guardian" forcibly withstood the invasion of long hair.

He didn't shout angrily, nor did he curse, but stood up with his sword in hand!

"Crack!"

The long sword burst out with a brilliant light and cut off Ai's hair net.

The Holy Blade pierced through the light shield from within, and the next moment, the light shield exploded with sea urchin-like spikes, shattered into pieces, and exploded with a loud bang!

Energy fragments shattered like knives, piercing Ai's flesh. It was like forcing a fragmentation grenade into an enemy's mouth. Even if the opponent had mastered horizontal martial arts, they would still cry out loudly if their body exploded from the inside!

The crying sound of "Ai" suddenly increased, and its voice became sharp, but there was still no emotion other than sorrow emerging. Only a crystal ball-like bead was faintly visible in the depths of the vortex.

That is its core and the most important thing to the 'BOSS' - their token!

Nie Weiyang cut through the hair that was wrapped around it with a sword and pursued the enemy - he opened his backpack and took out... a truck without any moral audacity!

‘Boom! ! ! ’

'Sigh' was embedded directly into the ground!

The sensation of a truck appearing out of nowhere and crashing into her face might have been a bit too much. Ai, half-pressed, screamed as waves of hair tumbled from beneath her skirt. She tugged at the tangled strands of hair in midair, trying to pull herself up. But Nie Weiyang half-jumped up, slashing through her hair with a horizontal slash of his sword, then slashing down into the swirling vortex in her chest and abdomen, slamming her back into the ground with his own weight!

He even closed the pop-up window with the introduction and attribute confrontation prompts - the attack frequency of the thing was too high, and the prompt content was almost flashing to the sky!

'Sorrow' is one of the 'Seven Emotions' among the leader-type hostile targets.

The bosses in this series are inspired by the "joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate, and desire" described in the Book of Rites. These aren't high-ranking emotions, but they tap into the deepest depths of human nature. Therefore, wherever humans experience strong emotions, the "Seven Emotions" can be considered.

The seven emotions can exist simultaneously in multiple forms all over the world. Their appearances vary, and their methods of attack are also very different. Even the incarnations of the same emotion may have different skill lists because their skill base is the supernatural "human reaction to such emotions."

Simply put, it is excessive anthropomorphism.

Until twenty years after the end of the world, people still couldn't fully understand the reasons for the formation of these things.

But no matter what, one thing remains constant: the Seven Emotions' main mental attack, as long as the mental judgment is passed, its harm will be reduced by at least 70% -

And the attribute that Nie Weiyang lacks the most is 'spirit'!

In the dark area, between steel and soil, the young man knelt on one knee, suppressing the BOSS with red light in his eyes.

In the early days of the end of the previous life, this wild BOSS caused a lot of trouble to the people in the town.

Generally speaking, players must reach level 10 or above and possess their own "beliefs" to gain a certain degree of resistance to psychic attacks. However, the town lacked combat personnel, and even fewer could withstand this frequency of psychic attacks. As a result, even the first global public crisis, the "Rising Blood Moon," three months later, failed to resolve it, making it one of the main culprits of the town's destruction.

Because pure emotion is so beautiful, heartache and satisfaction are equally captivating. It's hard to resist its allure, even if it's just the illusion of 'losing it.' But once it successfully stacks the stabbing effect, a single explosion could wipe out half a life. And when it swirls around the crowd with this attack method...

Even Nie Weiyang suffered a lot back then!

And now...

'Pfft! '

A whip woven from long hair pierced the youth's chest. His life force was rapidly drained, and Bloody Fury automatically activated.

Nie Weiyang felt relieved, his eyes flashed red, and he opened his mouth, revealing sharp fangs.

——He pinched Ai's delicate neck, which was as slender as a girl's, and bit it.

Right? Yes, that's right.

Chapter 8 Replacement

Vitality can be replaced.

Blood transfusion, blood sucking, energy replacement... all are ways to replace life force. Some of these methods are easily achievable with human technology, while others are still far off.

But now, what science and technology cannot do, we turn to the supernatural!

Nie Weiyang held onto the side of the truck with one hand, tightly controlling the Ai in his arms as he sipped the anthropomorphic body's blood. Pain ripped through his chest, and his strength quickly drained away, leaving him struggling to hold himself steady. He could even feel Ai absorbing him, its long hairs burrowing into his organs like an all-pervasive grief, finally gathering at his heart. They tangled, weaving a web through his chest, draining every drop of blood within their path.

But at the same time, he could also feel new power entering his body - or rather, entering his stomach, entering his blood vessels, and merging into the power that sustained his life.

The blood was so warm, so blissfully warm. When it flowed into this body between life and death, it gave Nie Weiyang a strange illusion, a kind of bewitching illusion. Every time this happened, his appetite would briefly increase, and his body would relax slightly, a long-lost moment...

Almost all behaviors of life in nature revolve around the theme of "continuation of life", eating, drinking, killing, reproducing, climbing, competing for resources... everything is just for the continuation of life.

Behaviors like monsters devouring hearts and livers, ghosts devouring souls, and vampires siphoning fresh blood are precisely how creatures of darkness perpetuate their own existence. Ai's attempt to devour Nie Weiyang and anything that invades its domain is a manifestation of this behavior—even as a boss, what matters to its life is not blood, but the energy core that sustains its activities.

live.

Plunder enemy resources.

Make their lives...my life!

This was the instinct of players with vampire blood, but Nie Weiyang was even better. For some reason, his thirst for blood was always higher than other vampires, and dark impulses that were considered sinful to creatures of order flowed through his body.

He once starved himself to the brink of death because of his resistance to bloodsucking, but "New World" requires people to do things they don't want to do and become people they don't want to be. When he closed his eyes, he mistakenly thought that the torture was about to end, but the opposite happened.

When he opened his eyes again, the assassin Nie Weiyang found himself sitting among the innocent corpses on the ground, having lost his mind, with the heart-pounding smell of blood lingering in his nostrils.

"I swore to protect you..."

The warmth of the blood was comforting. With Ai's blood, Nie Weiyang's flesh and blood quickly regenerated. His strength gradually began to recover, and even the attributes on the panel slowly increased. Even the panel itself began to shake.

It's a tug-of-war, long and short, painful and fascinating.

Memories from that dark age surged deep within his mind, and his emotions assaulted Nie Weiyang's spirit with overwhelming force. The pain and despair were beyond words. Regret for the past, the uncertainty of the present, and worry about the future—they were ripped from the depths of his heart by the monstrous power of the seven emotions. The whip tried to rip his body apart, and the emotions tried to shred his soul. A voice echoed in Nie Weiyang's mind, countless voices echoed in his mind:

"Assassin!" "Dark creature!" "Murderer!" "Sinner!"

"sinner!"

"sinner!"

"sinner!"

Almost infinite voices resonated with the same name, Nie Weiyang's name:

"sinner!"

A sinner? Yes, a sinner. Nie Weiyang's thoughts were in a state of confusion. A murderer, a blood-sucking person, a person controlled by his bloodline to kill innocent people for his own selfish desires and obsessions, a hypocritical and conceited person, what else could he be if not a sinner? He should... should... I should...

should……

...

The young man suddenly opened his scarlet eyes.

He gripped the long sword tightly in one hand and picked up the ordinary wooden shield with the other, raised it high, and smashed it down heavily!

'boom! ! ! ! ! '

Bones and blood splattered, and Ai's not-so-strong body shattered into pieces. A crystal ball-like bead flew out of it, bounced twice on the ground, and rolled away.

Nie Weiyang's body and face were covered in blood. He tilted his head back, hugged the strange and broken corpse, and was still kneeling on one knee on the ground, without breathing or any other movements.

After a while, he slowly lowered his head, opened his eyes again, and exhaled a breath of air filled with a strong smell of blood. Then he loosened his grip and slowly stood up. He was covered in wounds, his clothes torn, and his flesh and blood were wriggling and regenerating, pushing out long hair from his body and dropping it to the ground.

"Noisy." Nie Weiyang said calmly.

No red tape, no mercy.

In the dark zone, no stars could be seen, and the long night's silence was unsettling. The corpses on the ground gradually transformed into a black mist and dissipated. The young man raised his hand, and his powerful mental force brought back the bead from a nearby location. It landed in his hand, a soft light flowing through it, like a young girl's tear.