Chapter 1 The Battle Begins

Beneath Guchi Castle, the divine war had begun.

Feng Bujue, Li Ruoyu, Heike Kiyomori, Dong Zhuo... and even Lü Bu, who stood by the arena, his expression already stunned, were all witnesses to this battle.

"An evil seed from another world..." Facing the Yamata no Orochi, Qitian Di's face showed a rare hint of solemnity, "So, revealing your true form allows you to withstand divine might?"

Before his words faded, the giant serpent responded to Qitian Di's question with action.

The eight serpent heads moved with a thunderous roar, launching a multifaceted, ferocious, and violent assault.

The massive size didn't hinder the serpent demon's attack speed; the eightfold barrage, capable of uprooting mountains and rivers, came in a continuous stream that broke the sound barrier, creating gusts of gale-force winds.

Seeing this, Qitian Di neither dodged nor evaded: "Ha!" After a soft shout, an ultimate move burst forth, "Divine Light!"

As the divine light emerged, the sun and moon dimmed, and an earth-shattering power exploded.

At the same instant!

Chi chi—

Suddenly, two purple beams of light came from Qitian Di's rear, striking him directly.

At this moment, Qitian Di's attack was still in progress, and he had no time to worry about this sudden, lightning-fast assault.

However...

Buzz buzz—

In the next second, two strange sounds created ripples in the air.

Frieza's sneak attack was easily blocked by Qitian Di's protective ki barrier, failing to harm the latter in the slightest.

"Hmm?" Qitian Di, having just finished his move, turned to look at Frieza. His expression seemed to say..."You dare to plot against me?"

"Heh heh..." Frieza chuckled sinisterly, "A man who claims to be a god is indeed capable." As he spoke, he gathered his energy again, further enhancing his combat power, "Those last two attacks... were just a greeting. Next... I won't be so polite."

"A greeting?" Qitian Di replied expressionlessly, "Does someone who calls himself the Emperor of the Universe only dare to greet me from behind?"

"Ugh..." Frieza was rendered speechless by Qitian Di's sarcasm. What infuriated him even more was the other's consistently calm and superior attitude. "Ha!" At the height of his anger, Frieza roared and fired hundreds of purple light beams at his opponent at an incredible speed.

"The same trick, no matter how many times you use it, will yield the same result." Qitian Di stood still, his hands behind his back, treating Frieza's continuous waves as if they were nothing.

Buzz buzz buzz buzz...

The transparent ripples constantly spreading on his protective ki barrier proved that the intensity of the attack was not enough to harm him.

"Tch..." Seeing this, Frieza stopped attacking, contemplating a stronger move to break through that ki barrier.

Just then, on the other side... the Yamata no Orochi, struck by the Divine Light, revealed its form again from the dust of the explosion. It... was also unharmed.

"Orochi Calamity!" Then, Orochi's voice resounded from within the giant serpent's body.

As he shouted the name of his attack, each of the eight serpent heads lit up with a purplish-black energy, and attacks containing the eight powers of "Wind, Earth, Thunder, Flame, Fang, Darkness, Beast, and Death" erupted, transforming into eight demonic light orbs that blasted towards Orochi and Frieza respectively.

"Nani!" Seeing the move, Frieza's expression changed drastically. He immediately sped up and ascended, unwilling to take the demonic light head-on.

As for Qitian Di... although he didn't dodge, he immediately used "Reverse Demon Origin."

[Reverse Demon Origin] is a move that is shamelessly overpowered in terms of its concept. It can absorb an enemy's attack, mix it with one's own true energy, and then reflect it back.

Judging from Qitian Di's main body's foundation, any move that he couldn't reflect would have to be at least star-destroying level in power.

But unexpectedly...

"Ugh... This!" Upon contact with the demonic light, Qitian Di's expression... changed!

Facing the "Orochi Calamity," Qitian Di's double-layered protective ki barrier didn't work at all, and Reverse Demon Origin couldn't absorb the demonic energy. For a moment, all he could do was channel his palms and use force against force.

But this was only an emergency measure. The true energy he hastily gathered gradually showed signs of failing under the impact of the vast demonic energy.

"Fool... can't you see the power of this move..." Frieza floated high in the air, looking down at Qitian Di below, "Hmph... judging from his previous speed... he could have undoubtedly avoided it, but he chose to take it head-on... simply confident to the point of stupidity."

"Good..." Unexpectedly, after a few seconds, Qitian Di regained his calm. He withdrew one hand, changed to expelling energy with a single palm, and urged his divine power again, "... Well done, Orochi, you indeed have the right to be arrogant!"

Even as he spoke those words, he didn't hold back... With a wave of his sleeve, he dispersed the Orochi Calamity in front of him.

"Heh heh ha ha ha..." Orochi's laughter came from within the serpent monster's body, "As expected... just now, you weren't using your full power..." He paused for a moment, "And you over there, Emperor of the Universe... you're only at about 70% of your full power right now, aren't you?"

"This guy..." Frieza didn't reply, but thought to himself, "How does he know..."

"It seems... none of you understand yet..." Orochi's tone suddenly turned cold, "I (from this sentence onwards, he no longer referred to himself as 'this king')... am not some half-assed opponent." As he said this, one of his eight heads suddenly moved and seized a corpse on the edge of the arena, swallowing it along with the earth beneath it, "Give your all to challenge me..." At this moment, his voice no longer had a "double echo." The tone sounded somewhat different, "... You ignorant... arrogant data..."

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At the same moment, south of Guchi Castle.

On the battlefield, two Super-Dimensional Legion soldiers suddenly fell to the ground in agony without having suffered any injuries.

"Cough... so... so painful..." Chris knelt on the ground, purple flames fluctuating all over his body, his life withering rapidly.

"Uh... This... this is..." Yashiro Nanakase, not far from him, also collapsed. He seemed to know what was happening, but he was powerless to resist the impending death.

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Guchi Castle, west end.

"Why... Could it be that this world also has..." Shermie twitched all over, and the lightning that swirled around her uncontrollably poured into the ground beneath her feet.

"Is this... the fate of us, the Hakkesshu..." Goenitz, on the other hand, revealed an expression of relief, "Very well... as long as it's... the will of Orochi..." Before he could finish speaking, this boss-level powerhouse from the King of Fighters world had already breathed his last...

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Tenshukaku, top floor.

"Ugh... quick..." Inside the stone coffin, the man who looked exactly like Orochi spoke painfully in his doubled voice, "... Kill me... otherwise... it's... too late to..."

However, the three members of Wind Mark's group, who were still in shock, didn't take action in time.

Orochi in the stone coffin didn't even manage to finish that sentence before he died of exhaustion.

"What... what's going on?" Yuan Wuzang asked suspiciously.

"Perhaps... he's a clone of Orochi hidden here?" Wind Mark offered a possible explanation.

"But how did he die?" Heizi touched his chin and continued, "Could it be because we opened the coffin?" He shook his head, "That's not right... why did he tell us to kill him when he was about to die?"

Heizi's questions were probably unanswerable.

Only Orochi in the stone coffin himself knew that he wanted the three people before him to end his life before his own "Orochi Power" was extracted, so that... at least, it could delay the time that "Orochi" under Guchi Castle would take to obtain this power.

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The scene... returns to the arena once again.

"What is he doing..." Lü Bu, who had retreated outside the arena, had recovered his senses somewhat. As a man with a relatively strong mind, he had accepted the fact that the battle power of those three monsters was simply on a completely different level than his own. "Why would he eat Rugal's corpse..." His gaze shifted upwards, looking at the sky, "And... what is that power swimming in from the direction of Guchi Castle..."

"Hey hey... Monk." On the other side, Dong Zhuo didn't consider these problems. Practical as he was, he simply made a suggestion to Heike Kiyomori, "I think... this place is not suitable for a long stay... how about..."

"This one also has the same intention." Heike Kiyomori agreed with the other party before Dong Zhuo could even finish speaking.

The two of them didn't care what would happen to their "Great King Frieza" and turned around to run. Their actions once again confirmed that... traitors have no morals to speak of.

As for the third party by the arena, namely, the two players, their focus was completely different from the NPCs.

"Did he... just say... 'data'?" It was rare for Ruoyu to ask such a question, only because the situation before them was truly unexpected and unbelievable.

But Feng Bujue's expression at this moment seemed to say—"As expected."

"Hmph..." Brother Jue opened his mouth and replied, "When Cang and the others appeared alive before me... I felt that something was wrong."

No wonder the first thing he said when he saw Cang was, "Xianshou, what are you doing here?" It turned out that he was surprised that these guys hadn't died yet.

"Based on the basic settings of the game, Seven Murders and Huajian, who stayed on the arena and were not teleported away, should have encountered a more dangerous situation than us..." Feng Bujue continued, "So, the plot here is most likely... Orochi will break through the Xuangang Sword Formation in a short time, and then start attacking the surrounding NPCs and players." He changed the subject, "But... the situation that Cang told me was completely different from this. I noticed something was wrong at the time..."

Hearing this, Ruoyu already understood what Brother Jue meant. She added, "But... in Killing Game, no matter how many players there are, there will be no derivatives mixed in."

"Yes... I don't understand this point either. However, there is no evidence to show that this 'Orochi' is definitely a derivative..." Feng Bujue said, looking at the serpent demon who was absorbing and digesting the power of Orochi, "The truth... can only be revealed when he says it himself."