Chapter 444: Title Change
Chapter 444: Title Change
【Your title has been updated——Hate Furnace】
This was the first voice prompt Feng Bu Jue heard after returning to the Login Space...
"Why did it turn into this?!" Feng Bu Jue stared blankly at his new title, lips twitching in frustration. "I just mastered advanced data manipulation techniques... and immediately lost my title ability. Without 【Demon God Descent】... even if I reach max level, I might never attain that realm again..." He paused. "And... without 【Demon God Descent】, I'll be at serious risk during the finals..."
Instantly, he opened the menu to check his new title ability.
【Name: Hate Furnace】
【Special Ability Type: Passive】
【Effect: Every attack you suffer restores a portion of your stamina value and reduces cooldowns for all skills (the benefit scales proportionally with injury severity; attackers must harbor hostility toward you—natural disasters, accidents, or self-harm won't trigger this ability)】
【Background: Getting targeted means you either have capability... or you're just plain annoying】
"This..." Feng Bu Jue mused, "...for players with many active skills, this title ability is genuinely divine." He glanced at his skill bar. "But... I only regularly use four combat skills. 【Spirit Sense Body Technique】 is a continuous consumption technique, while 【Moon Step】 and 【Storm Leg】 have zero cooldown. Only 【Southern Dipper Flying Dragon Fist】 will benefit..."
As he pondered, Feng Bu Jue stood before the touchscreen, eyeing his mailbox's explosive influx of messages. He didn't even need to open it—his blacklist was about to expand dramatically.
Suddenly, a communication request popped up. Feng Bu Jue connected the call. "You finished your match too, huh?"
Wang Tan Zhi's voice came through naturally: "Actually, I was already at the mall while you and Xu Huai Shang were striking poses on the Colosseum stage..."
"Heh... So you witnessed my legendary performance then", Feng Bu Jue shamelessly declared.
"Legendary? More like barely survived!" Xiao Tan retorted. "You got slapped around nonstop! You said thirty seconds to finish them off but failed. Bragged about tearing them apart but couldn't deliver. You only won thanks to Xiao Jinjing—barely scraping by!"
"Hmph... You wouldn't understand how defeating Seven Kill through sheer style points works", Feng Bu Jue scoffed.
"Since when was 'style points' a thing?!"
"Wow, you're clueless as ever, huh? When your time comes to burn at the stake, you'll regret all the knowledge you ignored back then!"
"Why did we suddenly switch to talking about me?! And why is this making zero sense?!"
"Silence! After extended combat sequences, budget cuts are inevitable", Feng Bu Jue argued. "Main characters must carry transitional chapters on their shoulders!"
"Budget cuts?! This isn't an anime!" Xiao Tan roared.
"Creativity is budget too, you moron! Don't underestimate authors! Think you can write combat scenes easily? Painstaking descriptions, exhaustive mental visualization, frantic research! To maintain pacing, I'd condense fifteen thousand words into three chapters instead of six or seven, yet still get called slow. If I wrote it, combat's always one sentence—like 'A smashed B's head with an ashtray.' Wars? 'Millions ride forth across the Nine Provinces, Three Thousand Administrators pacify the world'—those summary lines with poetic gravitas! You clueless outsiders can't imagine how hard crafting complex violence is!"
"Are you openly defending authors out of some hidden agenda...?" Xiao Tan asked. "Also, this nonsense has already hit two hundred words—enough already."
"Oh right, how did your match go?" Feng Bu Jue suddenly asked, voice casual. "Finished so fast—didn't get one-shot, did you?"
"That was fast..." Xiao Tan blinked. "Actually, I one-shotted them. But forget my stuff—know your current situation?"
"What situation?" Feng Bu Jue replied smugly. "Just that my 【Mad Bu Jue】 ID's popularity skyrocketed..."
"Not quite", Xiao Tan interrupted. "If you hadn't ranted during combat, maybe. But now the fuel for your fire isn't oil—it's swamp gas."
"Oh, so they see me as a villain now?" Feng Bu Jue guessed.
"More like 'Great Demon King' fits better", Xiao Tan corrected.
"Heh, these days' Demon Kings are usually ruggedly handsome male gods or domineering older sister types", Feng Bu Jue chuckled.
"Except you're classic old-school—like Diablo's Balrog, the ugly destructive god who's cruel, cold, powerful, but neither handsome nor cute", Xiao Tan added.
"Oh really..." Feng Bu Jue said calmly. "Whatever. I predicted this pre-match. So during the fight, I went full villain—no restraints, doing whatever I pleased."
"Would've worked better if you stayed silent from second one..." Xiao Tan mused.
"Pfft! Where's the fun in that?" Feng Bu Jue interrupted.
"True... For you, losing might've been better than that", Xiao Tan laughed.
...
As Feng Bu Jue and Xiao Tan chatted, Dream Corporation's official website quietly published the 【Peak Conquest Tournament】 finals rules...
The final was set for 1:00 AM on May 30th.
Fifty players emerging from the 【Butterfly Arena】 would simultaneously be teleported into the same scenario—the special recipe scenario "Summit Confrontation." Until now, no game scenario had hosted more than six players at once. Placing fifty together was unprecedented.
The final's combat format would be...
(End of Chapter)
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