The Game with Fairies

【Cao Cao】【Yuan Shao】【Grand General He Jin】【L

These characters with IDs were strikingly conspicuous among the crowd, each enveloped in a dark red mist, exuding the aura of a boss.

And in the imperial palace at the very center of Luoyang City, stood a figure draped in imperial robes, representing supreme power——Emperor Ling of Han, Liu Hong.

He sat at the banquet with a cheerful smile, enjoying the song and dance below.

Yet, the dark red mist around him was the thickest, looking overwhelmingly oppressive.

This sudden elevation to a god-like perspective made Li Muyang instantly understand.

“…So the final boss is Emperor Ling of Han, Liu Hong?”

Defeat Liu Hong to clear the game?

But when Li Muyang tried to enter the perspective of a game character, he found he couldn’t.

He remained at the god-like overhead angle and did not enter the body of a game character.

Previously, the tutorial and Xiao Yecao were immersive experiences, but this time it was third-person… Li Muyang tried to control the movements of the young man in the alley.

The young man walked out of the alley, and character dialogue appeared in the view.

【Immortal Nanhua: To avoid the imperial dragon qi, I have borrowed this corpse to reincarnate here. Time is short. I must quickly pacify the spirits in the city】

As soon as Immortal Nanhua finished speaking, several figures suddenly walked towards the alley from outside.

They were dressed in ordinary civilian clothes, but they looked more like thugs.

Seeing the young man, the three thugs approached with a sneer.

【Thug: Kid, do you have any money on you? Lend it to us brothers to spend?】

As the words fell, a system prompt appeared.

【Fight/Escape】

This binary system option immediately led Li Muyang to guess the game’s control mode.

As he chose to fight, the scene suddenly changed in his view.

Immortal Nanhua stood in the lower left corner of the view, while the three thugs stood in the upper right corner, with an action bar in the center and skills beside it…

“F*ck! It’s a turn-based game, huh?”

This game mode of “Three Kingdoms: Demon Subduing Record” was also considered a classic.

Games like “The Legend of Sword and Fairy” and “Fantasy Westward Journey” all started with this mode.

Li Muyang was naturally not surprised by this game mode.

After quickly familiarizing himself with the skills, Li Muyang easily used two abilities to defeat the three thugs.

As the system settlement interface popped up, Immortal Nanhua gained 300 experience points, leveling up from LV1 to LV2… Good, all classic elements, definitely a turn-based single-player game.

But what happened to the three thugs after they were defeated?

In theory, after being defeated in such a game, these beginner NPCs should at least spout a few harsh words and then run away, right?

But these three suddenly appearing thugs just vanished after being defeated, which was abrupt and did not lead to any follow-up plot.

As Li Muyang was curious, Immortal Nanhua had already walked out of the alley.

【Immortal Nanhua: The city is filled with too much killing intent and resentment, the most entangled of which are the generals who suppressed the Yellow Turban Rebellion】

【Immortal Nanhua: I need to defeat these generals one by one, dispel the resentment on them, and finally resolve the resentment surrounding the Emperor to appease the Yellow Turban spirits】

Immortal Nanhua laid out his action goals and the main storyline of the game.

Li Muyang, a somewhat experienced gamer, also understood the game’s mode.

It was the old routine of a single-player turn-based game: first kill the minions to level up, defeat all the monsters in the dungeon to gain experience and level up to the top, and then go after the final boss.

However, after Immortal Nanhua finished speaking, he just stood motionless on the street.

Li Muyang, out of habit, saved the game, and then controlled Immortal Nanhua to walk towards one end of the street.

When he entered the game and the view rose to overlook the city, Li Muyang remembered that there was a red-named character nearby the alley.

Indeed, after controlling Immortal Nanhua to walk past two corners, he saw three brothers sitting at a roadside tea stall.

【Liu Bei】【Guan Yu】【Zhang Fei】.

The three red-named NPCs sat at the tea stall, and their character images were very much in line with Li Muyang’s imagination of the Three Kingdoms characters.

The burly, bearded Zhang Fei, who looked fierce and formidable, was drinking tea heartily and complaining to his elder brother.

“…I really don’t know why we brothers are working ourselves to death for nothing.”

At this point, Li Muyang didn’t care why the Liu Bei trio appeared in Luoyang City.

He didn’t understand history, nor was he clear whether the three brothers were in Luoyang City in the year 186.

Anyway, since the game arranged it this way, then just go for it.

Without saying another word, Li Muyang directly controlled Immortal Nanhua to step forward.

Fight!

After entering the battle interface, it was the familiar turn-based interface again.

However, after Immortal Nanhua, controlled by Li Muyang, used a skill, he immediately sensed something was wrong.

He unleashed three Sword Qi strikes on the heads of the opposing trio, a group skill that came with Immortal Nanhua at the start, but after the Sword Qi hit, three 【-18】 appeared above the brothers’ heads.

Then, the bearded Zhang Fei, carrying his serpent spear, charged forward and took out one-third of Li Muyang’s health bar with a single thrust.

【-366】

What the hell…

The difference in combat power is too huge!

He watched the trio take turns, one sword, and one blade at a time, chopping Immortal Nanhua to death in front of the tea stall.

In Li Muyang’s view, the classic interface of the turn-based game popped up.

【Failed in Battle】

【Victory or defeat is a common occurrence in warfare. Immortal, please try again】

“…These three brothers are quite fierce,” Li Muyang reloaded the game, returning to the moment just after he left the alley.

But this time, he didn’t go looking for the Liu Guan Zhang trio.

These three brothers looked like commoners, without any impressive equipment, yet their combat power was so fierce.

They truly lived up to the name of Liu Guan Zhang.

However, after this defeat, he also noticed the game’s division of NPC strengths and weaknesses.

Among the Liu Guan Zhang trio, Liu Bei had the least amount of red mist and resentment around him, and the damage he dealt was the lowest.

Clearly, in this game, the strength of NPCs is directly proportional to the amount of resentment they carry.

The more resentment they are wrapped in, the stronger they are.

Li Muyang, controlling Immortal Nanhua, walked to the other side of the street, avoiding the Liu Guan Zhang trio and also avoiding 【Cao Cao】 who was riding a tall horse passing by.

Eventually, he saw a general on the roadside with very little resentment.

He couldn’t be bothered to check the name. With such little resentment, it was clear this wasn’t any well-known tough character.

Li Muyang directly controlled Immortal Nanhua to attack, and sure enough, after entering the battle interface, he easily defeated the general along with his two retainers.

【Immortal Nanhua: LV2→LV3】

【Learned Skill: Sword Control Technique】

Looking at the system settlement interface’s leveling system, Li Muyang let out a sigh of relief.

Good, as expected, the less resentment an NPC has, the weaker their combat power.

He had found the leveling route.

It was just that after these three NPCs were defeated, they disappeared without a trace as if they had never appeared.

This made Li Muyang somewhat mutter to himself.

–Is this game’s level of harmony a bit too high? Not even corpses can appear?

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