Pfft!
Before Jemmas could even grasp Bai Ye's meaning, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his abdomen. He looked down to see the broadsword in Bai Ye's hand piercing through his body.
"You..."
Jemmas opened his mouth, but no words came out. The copious blood flowing from him choked back any further attempts to speak.
"It seems you, like them, didn't understand my meaning. These are two separate matters," Bai Ye said with a smile. "I really didn't intend to save you."
The moment he finished speaking, Bai Ye yanked the broadsword out with a flourish, drawing a spray of blood.
Jemmas's eyes glazed over, his body swayed, and he finally fell to the ground, his blood pooling beneath him into a widening crimson stain.
"You have killed a participant (Fantasy World)."
"As this is your first time killing a Fantasy World participant, you have received a reward: Fairy Horn x1."
"You have obtained a fragment of a God Stone."
"You have obtained an Entry Pass to the City of Sin (Gotham) (Item) x1."
Bai Ye couldn't understand why those three people thought he was killing them to save Jemmas, nor why Jemmas believed his act of killing was to rescue him.
He was merely killing people on the side, hoping to obtain God Stone fragments.
Or perhaps...
Bai Ye touched his face.
Did he look like a kind and benevolent person?
Bai Ye shrugged and looked at the screen.
Four kills, two God Stone fragments. Not bad.
"Wait a moment!" Bai Ye looked at his inventory and casually took out a piece of paper. "What is this?"
Bai Ye unfolded the paper. It was black on both sides, with a few large characters on one side: Welcome to the City of Sin (Gotham).
City of Sin (Gotham) Entry Pass: An entry pass that allows access to the City of Sin, Gotham. Once the number of participants reaches three hundred, entry can be initiated via teleportation. This item will automatically transfer to the hunter's possession upon the holder's death. Current participants: 172/300.
"An entry item for a hidden forbidden zone?" Bai Ye's lips curled into a smile. "An unexpected bonus."
Obtaining an entry pass to a hidden forbidden zone was definitely something to be happy about. Just look at how much Bai Ye and Jin Sha managed to acquire within the chaotic forbidden zone of the entire city.
If they hadn't split the spoils, at a starting price of fifty million for the lowest tier black-quality items, one hundred million could have bought two black-quality items!
And...
The City of Sin?
Bai Ye couldn't help but chuckle. He was familiar with this place!
The World Battlefield was vast. Even though Bai Ye had reached the very end in his previous life, he hadn't explored every corner. For instance, he had never been to the Jura Great Forest in his past life.
As for hidden forbidden zones accessed via items, he couldn't possibly have obtained entry items for all of them.
However, the City of Sin...
It happened to be a hidden forbidden zone he had visited.
After tucking away the City of Sin (Gotham) Entry Pass, Bai Ye glanced again at the reward for the first kill of a Chosen One in the Fantasy World.
Fairy Horn (Item) (Green): Allows the random summoning of a fairy to assist in battle. Different fairies possess different abilities.
A small trinket of green quality. Nothing much to say.
In fact, first kill rewards were mostly green quality, with a small chance of blue quality.
Of course, there were occasional exceptions, like...
The Sunflower Manual!
That was a golden quality martial art, but the first kill reward was only a fragment, and it required castration...
Bai Ye would pretend he had never killed anyone from a martial arts world!
Green or blue quality first kill rewards were incredibly valuable when one first entered the World Battlefield, capable of instantly boosting combat power and increasing survival chances. But now, their value was… just so-so.
Casually putting the items away, Bai Ye waved to Gengar and continued walking deeper into the forest.
As Bai Ye's figure gradually disappeared, a person suddenly leaped down from a large tree behind them. It was Li Jia Yi.
"Tsk tsk..." Li Jia Yi approached Jemmas, pinching his chin and examining him. "I really didn't want to save an idiot like you; it's purely a waste of my item."
Li Jia Yi complained, but still produced a palm-sized straw doll with a yellow talisman attached. The talisman bore Jemmas's name.
As Li Jia Yi tore off the talisman...
"Ugh!"
Jemmas suddenly groaned. The wound in his abdomen, pierced by Bai Ye, healed at a visible rate, and his pale complexion gradually returned to its rosy hue.
"Damn it!" Jemmas's eyes snapped open, and he cursed. "That bastard really went through with it, didn't even give me a chance!"
Li Jia Yi stood up and looked at Jemmas. "I told you long ago that your idiotic plan wouldn't work. How could someone like him have any mercy? He doesn't have friends, and you didn't have any prior connection, did you?"
Jemmas gritted his teeth. "I often chatted with him in the Land of Monsters. Even if not friends, we were at least on good terms, right?"
"To him, there are only two kinds of people on the World Battlefield: those with benefits, with whom he can cooperate, and those without benefits, whom he can kill. Huh, what is 'good terms'?" Li Jia Yi said disdainfully, looking at the corpse beside them. "Because of your naive idea, I lost three people, and I used up a substitute puppet on you!"
Jemmas regretted it. "We shouldn't have tried to scheme. I should have just used my sniper rifle to ambush him."
"It's useless. Didn't you fire during the previous battle? Did you succeed in sniping him? You're no match for him!" Li Jia Yi said. "I didn't stop you because I knew that any words would be less convincing than failing once. Don't provoke him again. The best outcome is for us to never meet again, and for neither of us to bother the other. If we happen to run into him again, then we'll figure out how to try and kill him."
After speaking, Li Jia Yi turned and walked into the forest, heading in the opposite direction from Bai Ye.
Jemmas clenched his fist and punched the ground in frustration. Then, he got up and followed Li Jia Yi. "Since you understand him so well, it means you've seen through him. Don't you know how to deal with him? You know, Krumeit didn't die at the hands of Pighead Emperor in the end; he died at his hands, leaving our mission only half completed. It will be much harder to find the Demon King now. And including this time, he's disrupted things three times. Aren't you angry?"
"I am angry, of course, but anger is not a reason for me to lose my mind."
Li Jia Yi glanced at Jemmas, his gaze suddenly turning cold.
In that instant, Jemmas felt an intense pressure. Li Jia Yi's gaze made him feel terrified.
The reason I understand him isn't because I've seen through him!
It's because...
I'm the same kind of person as him!
If you weren't still useful to me, do you think you'd be alive?
Li Jia Yi sneered inwardly, then slowly moved his gaze away from Jemmas's face.
"Let's leave this matter as it is and don't think about it anymore," Li Jia Yi said as he walked forward. "The City of Sin (Gotham) Entry Pass you had should have transferred to him, right?"
Jemmas lowered his head, guilt evident. "Yes, I forgot about that. I should have given it to you earlier."
"Never mind," Li Jia Yi took out a City of Sin (Gotham) Entry Pass and handed it to Jemmas. "Find someone to trade it with."
"Ah?" Jemmas asked. "Aren't we going?"
Li Jia Yi said, "I told you, the best outcome is for us to never meet again. Since he got the entry pass, he'll definitely go. So, we won't."
Jemmas was still unconvinced. "Is it necessary to avoid him like this?"
Li Jia Yi's face gradually showed impatience. He looked at Jemmas and said, "Clarify who is in charge here. Have I been too polite to you?"
"Sorry!"
Jemmas quickly apologized, but his right hand, gripping the entry pass, involuntarily clenched into a fist.
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