Lucky billion players, you've never seen one before / I can accumulate my own luck

As expected, the mansion was likely enveloped by a device that could block out sound.

"It seems that the Holy Sword Alliance has already made a move here."

Fan Xiao said, "Let's go in and take a look. If we can help, we will. This base really needs a change of leadership. Right now, the people in power are a bunch of monsters."

After saying that, he walked into the mansion.

Alpha followed closely behind.

After passing through the outer courtyard, the two quickly arrived at the main entrance of the building.

The main entrance is now wide open, offering a view of the luxuriously decorated lobby on the first floor.

Once we got there, the sound returned.

Fan Xiao heard the sounds of fighting coming from inside the hall, and several corpses lay in pools of blood near the entrance, unattended.

Just as he was about to go in to check the situation, a loud rumbling sound suddenly came from a side hall on the right side of the "U"-shaped building.

Upon hearing the sound, Vanshaw and Alpha both turned their gazes in that direction.

The wall, adorned with reliefs, crumbled and collapsed, and a middle-aged man with a gloomy face hurriedly ran out of the collapsed hole.

His face was filled with rage, but his eyes revealed fear and a hint of anxiety.

The next second, he and Fan Xiao made eye contact and heard the sounds of battle coming from the main hall.

Suddenly, the middle-aged man, whose demeanor was gloomy, let out a cold laugh.

A bunch of lowly creatures dared to run wild in his mansion.

Before leaving, kill these people first... Suddenly, he realized he couldn't move his body!

Chapter 460 Fan Xiao: Come and see, I'm about to show off!

As a player who has been active since the Great Cataclysm of the 019 Division, Charles's combination of permanent items can be said to be quite perfect.

As a veteran player, he knew very well that high attack power was not necessarily a sign of true strength.

Who doesn't have a few attack items?

Only those with high defense and a tough constitution can survive to the end.

In other words, neither of these two aspects should be neglected; they must be developed in a balanced manner.

The latter, however, is of greater importance to him.

Player level B is a minor dividing line, representing the official entry into the realm of advanced players.

Grade A is a major dividing line, representing the true emergence of a strong individual.

From the most basic panel stats perspective, the most prominent feature of A-level players compared to B-level players is that their defense and immortality have seen a leap in improvement.

To put it more vividly...

When a B-level player attacks an A-level player, many attacks are just tickles. Even if a B-level player possesses extremely unique conceptual damage abilities, they often cannot penetrate the massive conceptual power of an A-level player after their upgrades... unless they use A-level items to fight.

As for an A-level player fighting a B-level player... perhaps the latter is more agile and can show off some fancy moves, but as long as they get hit, they're basically done for.

This is also one of the reasons why A-level players are far stronger than B-level players.

If you're resilient, you'll have countless opportunities to try and fail.

Those with high attack but low defense are short-lived; they'll die as soon as they're targeted.

Just like the number one master in a martial arts world, who was invincible and roamed the martial arts world, but then... he was poisoned to death the next day.

Evolution games are not about fighting and killing.

Instead, it's about defense, immortality, and surviving.

Charles knew that the vast player base was never short of unpredictable talents, psionic abilities, and items... making it impossible to defend against them.

Therefore, he focuses more on survival skills than on increasing his attack power.

As long as the enemy can't kill him in one hit, he has the ability to analyze the opponent's capabilities, target them, and have the opportunity to turn the tide.

Over the years, most of the items he has accumulated have passive defensive capabilities and super survival abilities, and many of them are of excellent quality. When he obtains some excellent offensive items, he will also go to the item black market in Zone 001 to replace them with effective survival items.

For example, the defensive item he currently uses is a rare concept-based protective item. It doesn't just defend against monotonous attributes like physical attacks, energy attacks, and mental attacks, but it can defend against anything that meets the concept of "attack".

Attacks that land on him will be reduced to the greatest extent possible, with only a very small fraction having any effect on him.

This kind of tool has both advantages and disadvantages.

The downside is that it cannot defend against all damage; it must bear a portion of the damage itself. In most cases, its effect is not as good as a simple physical or energy shield.

But its strength lies in its versatility!

When used in conjunction with the recovery items he was equipped with, it was almost perfect—his recovery items had excellent physical recovery capabilities, and injuries such as severed limbs could be healed instantly.

Even injuries and mental exhaustion can be partially restored with the help of these tools.

In addition, he also possesses an extremely valuable substitute item, which is also of grade B.

[Rank B Item - Puppet Master]

The Kingdom of Zebelta is not only the most prosperous country on the magical continent, but also the most tolerant of mages. It is home to more than 50% of the continent's mages, and in this wonderful environment for the development of magic, a wide variety of magical systems have been born, including the Puppet Master system.

The puppeteers used all sorts of materials to create all kinds of puppets. Among them, the most popular magical items were the puppets made by the puppeteers, which gave the humans who owned them a second life.

[Note 1: After equipping this item, you can create a disguise puppet every month. As long as you and the puppet are in the same space, when you die, you will be passively swapped with the disguise puppet, and all the injuries you receive will be transferred to the disguise puppet.]

[Note 2: You cannot create new puppets until the old ones are used up.]

[Note 3: This item is a passively triggered item and cannot be activated actively.]

This prop is the reason he was able to survive the "banquet assassins".

Charles was frightened.

Really scared.

This was the first time he had encountered an assassin with such bizarre abilities.

Maren, sitting on the sofa opposite him, was not as strong as him, but he was still a B-level player.

However... this guy died quietly.

They had absolutely no ability to resist.

Not only Maren, but he was also completely powerless to resist and was subdued by the young female assassin.

If it weren't for the fact that his defensive and recovery items were quite effective... he doesn't know what the consequences would have been.

That girl... was so eerie that it chilled him to the bone!

He was a veteran B-level player. After being hit, he immediately and cunningly disguised himself, then launched a sneak attack when his opponent was most relaxed... Even after doing all that, he still couldn't harm his opponent in the slightest. Instead, he was passively triggered by the puppet's substitution function and lost his life...

He simply couldn't understand what kind of attack the other side was using.

Could it be that the time for the entire world partition has been paused?

This is too exaggerated!

Fortunately, his puppet was quite capable, taking the fatal injury for him—no, to be precise, taking the physical fatal injury for him.

Even a puppet's substitute death isn't invincible.

Based on his experience using the prop multiple times, he concluded that the "death state" mentioned in the prop's description refers to a state where the body is completely dead, but not entirely dead—meaning that a wisp of spirit still remains.

In other words, as long as he is not completely dead, he can trigger the puppet's substitution function.

As for what would happen after all the spirits were destroyed and the soul was annihilated... he had never tried it, nor had he had the chance to try it.

But... Charles felt that if things really got to that point, even the puppet props probably wouldn't be able to bring him back to life and save him.

After all, if his spirit is completely extinguished, then he is truly dead.

It is estimated that the player's identity will be immediately deleted, and one of the items he is equipped will be inherited by the enemy who killed him, while the rest will be recycled by the game system - in any case, the items will no longer have any effect on him.

Of course, he has always been very open-minded about this.

If he were to encounter an enemy capable of annihilating him completely in a short period of time... such a being would most likely be an A-level player.

A-level players accumulate a considerable number of items, and they likely have plenty of high-level tracking items, so finding them shouldn't be difficult.

Even though it was unprecedented, the puppet still worked after his spirit was completely destroyed... Faced with the pursuit of an existence with such power, he probably wouldn't live much longer.

In short, Charles was scared.

The young female assassin sent chills down his spine and made his scalp tingle.

He placed the puppet in a side hall of his mansion, so when the prop was passively triggered, he immediately moved from the banquet hall to the side hall of his mansion—as long as they were in the same space, the puppet would take effect, and the world partition naturally satisfied the concept of "the same space".

Upon returning to his mansion, Charles immediately created a new puppet. Although the item had a one-month cooldown period, the last time he created a puppet was half a year ago. During that time, he had remained unharmed and had not triggered the puppet's function. Once the last puppet was used up, he could naturally create a new one immediately.

Based on the idea that "the most dangerous place is the safest place," Charles placed the new puppet in a hidden room underground, then rushed out of the side hall, preparing to leave the A9 base to avoid trouble.

He actually possessed a spatial teleportation device, although he could only use it a limited number of times each day. But when he was escaping, he naturally didn't care about that. The reason he broke the wall and made a big commotion to run out was to fake his angry escape from the mansion, thereby covering up his "puppet survival method" left in the basement.

He had already put on an act of impotent rage and frantic escape, so surely the girl who tried to assassinate him wouldn't suspect that he had left some kind of backup plan in the mansion?

Charles decided to go outside the base to avoid trouble first.

If you get caught and killed... then it proves that partition 019 is not safe.

At that time, after he is resurrected through the puppets in the mansion, he will directly use the ticket to leave Division 019 and will not return for several years!

then……

Charles, who had just smashed through the wall and left the side hall, saw Vanshaw and Alpha, and the corpses of his subordinates and strangers lying at the main entrance.

At the same time, he also heard the sounds of fighting coming from the lobby on the first floor.

His close associates are being slaughtered.

Charles felt no pity and had no intention of saving anyone.

The most important thing is to stay alive.

This world will never lack despicable lackeys.

As long as he's alive, he can gather a pack of obedient dogs at any time and have them work for him again.

“People have come to my residence as well. The Holy Sword Alliance is actually fighting on multiple fronts… That treacherous bastard! He dared to lie to me and even sent such a powerful assassin to kill me. Maren is dead, but this is not the outcome I wanted!”

"However... it seems my guess was right. That young female assassin just has strange abilities; her actual strength might not be very strong."

"Otherwise, she could have easily killed the five B-level players and the other leading C-level players in the A9 base by moving around constantly in a short period of time. There would have been no need to make a big fuss and increase unnecessary casualties among our own people."

"That young female assassin wasn't unwilling, but... unable to do it!"

"That's right. I was wondering why an A-level player would suddenly appear in Division 019. It turns out he just has strange abilities..."

Charles quickly analyzed the situation and gathered a considerable amount of information.

The girl hasn't caught up yet. Either she's exhausted and can't fight again, or she doesn't have a teleportation item and it will take her a long time to get here... He made the right bet!

Even if he makes the wrong bet, it doesn't matter. He can just get killed again. When he revives for the second time, he can simply leave the 019 section with a train ticket.

As for now...

Looking at the uninvited guests before him, Charles made a different decision.

Since the intention is to feign an "enraged escape," why not go all out and quickly kill all the attackers before fleeing?

With his skill level, it wouldn't even take 10 seconds.

Even for a B-rank player, without a teleportation item, it would take at least 3 minutes to get from the banquet hall to his mansion... There's no need to worry about the threat from that female assassin for now.

Moreover, one of the conditions for cooperation he agreed upon with the Holy Sword Alliance leadership was to kill as many members of the Holy Sword Alliance who were invading as possible.

Now, something unexpected has happened to the cooperation, and the people who came to assassinate him are incredibly vicious... This matter can be investigated afterward, but right now, according to the constraints of the contract item, he also has to fulfill his promise to kill them.

Otherwise, they will pay a heavy price afterward.

What a coincidence... Thinking of this, Charles no longer suppressed his rage.

He is also a human being, and a pampered person in a high position at that. Now that someone is riding on his head and defecating and urinating on him, how could he not have a temper?

Kill this tall, strong man in front of us first!

All the attackers in the hall were killed!

As for the girl next to the man... hey, such a beautiful girl is rare. When we escape, we can control her, pack her up and take her with us. I guess we can enjoy her during the escape.