Unreliable Sword Immortal

Chapter 3: Living in Harmony with the Lion Dog

"Ding, the battle space is a closed temporary space that ensures the battle process is not disturbed by outsiders. It will shatter after the battle ends!"

"Ding, the battle participants determine their actions based on their speed. Sword Immortal Lu Chaoding, it is now your turn!"

The system notification sounded.

"It's my turn?" Lu Chaoding muttered as an operation window appeared in front of him.

To others, he appeared to be standing there with his hands in his pockets, motionless.

Zhao Weike explained, "Let me explain. In a battle, all participants are like starting at the beginning of a circular racetrack that is 10,000 meters long. They start running at their respective speeds, and once they reach the finish line, they can take action. This action is called a turn. During a turn, they can launch a normal attack, a martial skill, or a special skill. Lu Chaoding is a Sword Immortal with the talent of Sword Control, which increases his speed by 5 points. He is the fastest among the four of us, so he will reach the finish line first and take the first action. So, Lu Chaoding, why don't you make a move?"

Lu Chaoding shouted, "Oh no, I lost connection!"

After saying that, his expression froze, and he remained motionless.

Of course, he was just pretending.

What's the point of fighting?

Being as clever as he was, he had already noticed a timer. He only had two minutes for his turn, and if it exceeded the time limit, the turn would automatically end.

"My goal is to wipe out the enemy!"

Lu Chaoding made up his mind not to take any action and wait for the turn to end automatically, as the tenfold reward was within his grasp.

This made the others anxious.

"Lost connection? Do you think we believe that nonsense?"

"Don't mess around, make a move!"

"Hey, why are you just standing there?"

"Who's slacking off? Wake him up!"

"You bastard..."

Facing the urging of Zhang Defa and the others, Lu Chaoding remained expressionless and did not respond.

Finally, two minutes passed, and Lu Chaoding's turn ended. The system gave a prompt, and it was now Sword God Zhang Defa's turn to act.

Zhao Weike and the other two were dumbfounded.

"This guy really didn't attack!"

"Is he here to cause trouble?"

"I told you not to bring him..."

After grumbling for a while, Zhang Defa looked at Zhao Weike and asked, "Captain, what should we do?"

"What should we do?" Zhao Weike glared at the motionless Lu Chaoding and said fiercely, "Attack the Bloodboil Lion Dog. The four of us rookies can pass the level just by blindly attacking with our eyes closed. But with only three people, we definitely won't be able to defeat it! Forget it, just attack as you please. Treat it as an experience. Later, I'll kick Lu Chaoding out, and we'll start over!"

"Okay!"

Zhang Defa nodded in agreement. He couldn't wait to point his finger at the Bloodboil Lion Dog and his wooden sword appeared above its head. Then, with a loud crash, he struck it. After the attack, the wooden sword disappeared, and a lightning bolt struck the lion dog's head.

"-10"

"-1, Divine Power!"

The damage numbers appeared above the lion dog's head, and its health bar decreased by a small amount, while the white bar decreased by two-thirds.

Zhao Weike explained, "Sword God's talent is [Divine Power], which inflicts 10% additional thunder damage with each attack. Have you noticed the white bar above the monster's head? That represents its tenacity. As long as the tenacity is not broken, damage is reduced by 50%! So, breaking the tenacity is extremely important in battle. Breaking tenacity is also known as breaking the shield. It doesn't matter how strong the attack is, only the number of attacks matters. Generally, attacking the target once will reduce its tenacity by one! The tenacity of a small monster is usually only one or two points, elites don't exceed twelve points, and as for bosses, they usually have around twenty points. Like this lion dog, it has three points of tenacity. Zhang Defa's normal attack and Divine Power have reduced it by a total of two points! Wang Yingluo, it's your turn to attack!"

"Oh!"

Wang Yingluo obediently nodded. Her turn began, and she ran towards the lion dog, striking it on the head with her sword before quickly retreating.

"-10"

"Tenacity broken!"

Damage numbers appeared above the lion dog's head, and the white bar disappeared.

Wang Yingluo, however, seemed dissatisfied and said, "Melee attacks require running back and forth. It's so troublesome! And no critical hits, the damage output is so low!"

Zhao Weike explained, "Sword Saint's talent is called [Critical Hit], which increases the critical hit rate by 5% and the base critical damage by 5% at level 1. It seems like an offensive talent, but the experience from the beta test shows that Sword Saint is actually a support class!"

"Why?" Wang Yingluo asked, puzzled.

"Because Sword Saint's skills include Holy Heart, Combo, Sword Intent, Flying Flowers, Astonishing Beauty, Falling Moon, and more, which have various support effects, such as increasing allies' attack or reducing the enemy's defense, and so on. You'll understand later."

While Zhao Weike was speaking, it was already his turn. Equipped with a one-star iron sword with an attack power of 30, he swung his sword, dealing full damage and reducing the lion dog's health by another 30 points.

At this point, it was the Bloodboil Lion Dog's turn to act. It let out a roar and ran towards Zhao Weike, ramming into his stomach.

"-40"

"Break through!"

The white bar above Zhao Weike's head was empty, and the red bar had decreased by half. He shook his head and said, "The monster's hatred is based on accumulated damage. Whoever has the highest accumulated damage will be attacked! Now it's our turn again. Don't struggle anymore, the sooner you die, the sooner you can revive."

At this moment, this closed beta player had already adopted a defeated attitude.

Zhang Defa and Wang Yingluo, on the other hand, were still very motivated. Lu Chaoding remained motionless for another round, and the two of them took turns attacking. Zhang Defa's sword dealt 22 damage, while Wang Yingluo's sword dealt 20 damage.

Zhao Weike also swung his sword, and then it was the turn of the Blood Boiling Lion Dog to attack. It continued to target Zhao Weike, who had the highest accumulated damage.

"-80!"

Zhao Weike's red bar emptied, and he half-knelt on the ground, using his iron sword as support. His whole body turned gray.

"I'll lie down first, you guys continue!"

He could still speak, surprisingly.

Lu Chaoding was shocked and said, "Hey, how can you still talk when you're dead?"

Zhao Weike was momentarily stunned, then stared at Lu Chaoding and shouted, "You idiot! Weren't you disconnected? How can you still talk when you're disconnected?"

"I just reconnected... Oh no, disconnected again!"

Lu Chaoding quickly pretended to be clueless.

"I messed up, you're really here to cause trouble!"

"So frustrating!"

"Captain, let's blacklist this noob in the whole village!"

Zhao Weike and the other two cursed Lu Chaoding again.

Lu Chaoding stood with his hands in his pockets, thinking that it wasn't his fault. The system was just too generous.

Soon, Lu Chaoding's turn ended due to timeout.

Zhang Defa and Wang Yingluo continued to attack the Blood Boiling Lion Dog without giving up. When it was the Blood Boiling Lion Dog's turn again, Zhang Defa had the highest accumulated damage, so the dog started attacking him.

One attack broke through his defenses, and the second attack killed him instantly!

Zhang Defa soon half-knelt on the ground, joining Zhao Weike in cursing Lu Chaoding.

Lu Chaoding peacefully coexisted with the lion dog, and the dog then started attacking Wang Yingluo. Two rounds later, they achieved a triple kill. Wang Yingluo also knelt down.

At this point, the Blood Boiling Lion Dog had 149 health points left, but Lu Chaoding remained motionless. Four minutes later, the Blood Boiling Lion Dog finally killed him.

"Ding, your team can no longer continue the battle!"

"Ding, failed to clear the instance!"

"Ding, you have been kicked out of the team by player Zhao Weike!"

"Ding, occasionally unreliable system activated, rewards settled, 10 gold coins, 100 cultivation points, and 10 unreliable lottery tickets have been automatically stored in your storage space. Please check."

Accompanied by the sound of system prompts, Lu Chaoding was forcibly teleported out of the lion's den and returned to the entrance of the instance.

"Lu Chaoding, you big jerk, roll as far away as possible, don't let me see you again!"

"How can our village have such a scumbag!"

"Pretending to be disconnected, are you crazy..."

Zhao Weike and the others naturally scolded Lu Chaoding again.

Lu Chaoding didn't even bat an eyelid. At this point, he quietly opened his storage space and began to count his spoils.

Gold coins were just gold, quietly lying in the first storage slot of the storage space, exactly ten.

No deductions!

This made Lu Chaoding feel relieved.

"Cultivation points" were sent directly to the attribute panel and could be used for leveling up or improving skill levels.

The ten unreliable lottery tickets made Lu Chaoding particularly happy.

He had already discovered that "Grand Dust Sword World" was a card-drawing game.

Looking at the attribute information of the ten unreliable lottery tickets, he found that each one had different winning probabilities.

"The random effect: 99% chance of drawing compressed biscuits!"

"The random effect: 50% chance of drawing black iron ingots!"

"The random effect: 100% chance of drawing fine iron ingots!"

"The random effect: 0% chance of drawing five-star items!"

"The random effect: significantly increased chance of drawing two-star weapons..."

(End of this chapter)