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94: Chapter 94 The Demon King’s Summoning”That guy actually didn’t die.”

Regardless of the destruction of the Five Great Guilds, Fu Hao furrowed his brows because the expected result had not been achieved.

He had just finished confirming the attributes of the ”Giant Catapult +10”, and a plan to assassinate Prince Mian immediately surfaced in his mind.

This was not a common assassination, but a high-altitude bombing assassination carried out through ”ultra-long-range, ultra-wide-area” attacks.

Although killing Prince Mian would not directly complete the nation-building quest, as long as Prince Mian died, the difficulty of the quest would inevitably plummet. Therefore, Fu Hao decisively abandoned the long and complex conventional siege warfare, choosing instead to bomb the palace in one fell swoop.

He had firmly believed that the success rate of assassinating Prince Mian was 100%.

The reason was simple—similar to the Archer unit, if the attack of a Giant Catapult was detected in advance, there would still be time to formulate defensive countermeasures; but once in an unprepared state, such high-altitude shelling was impossible to dodge.

However, Prince Mian had survived.

If he had truly died, the system should have popped up a notification message just like when Prince Carlson died.

But Fu Hao, who was currently executing the nation-building quest, had not received any notification at all, which could only mean one thing—Prince Mian was still alive.

”Let’s retreat for now.”

Seeing the palace soldiers discover the location of the catapults and quickly assemble, Fu Hao ordered a retreat without hesitation.

Although the Giant Catapult possessed astonishing destructive power, its reloading process was extremely slow.

If he were greedy for a second attack here, it was highly likely that he would be surrounded by enemy troops before reloading was completed.

Fu Hao made a prompt decision, putting all twenty Giant Catapults into his inventory, while simultaneously commanding the hundreds of soldiers responsible for operating the catapults to quickly evacuate the scene.

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The top core technology expert of the otherworld, an authority in the field of artificial intelligence—Department Head Chen Guyun.

His only hobby was observing special events occurring in the otherworld.

However, calling it a ”hobby” seemed a bit far-fetched—after all, except for six hours of sleep every day, he devoted almost all his time to observation.

The game ”otherworld” was known for having ”zero bugs”.

In other words, it had reached perfection at a technical level, even reaching an impeccable state.

In Department Head Chen Guyun’s own words: This was a ”finished game” that had been capped since its launch.

Most continuously operated online games were launched in a semi-finished state and then improved through constant updates and patches, but the otherworld never needed updates or patches—to be precise, its design inherently precluded the possibility of updates.

When a game no longer needed subsequent maintenance from the development team, it naturally meant the team faced disbandment.

But Department Head Chen Guyun stayed alone in the development room in the name of ”Artificial Intelligence Management and Maintenance”.

As the core designer, he knew better than anyone: ”Maintenance” was just a high-sounding excuse; he had simply forcibly created a reason for himself to continue remaining in his post.

”otherworld”, just as its name implied, was world-renowned for its extreme ”sense of realism”.

Development members could not even track players’ behavioral trajectories and data at will—because in a ”zero bug” game, there was simply no legitimate tracking authority.

Game information unrelated to players was also not easily accessible.

Under such a highly free game system, the value of new intelligence was particularly high.

Because of its off-the-charts degree of freedom and popularity, ”otherworld” had already become a battlefield for information competition, with some even claiming: Stealing data from ”otherworld” yielded profits far exceeding those of commercial spies stealing corporate technology.

Under these circumstances, Department Head Chen Guyun could only keep making up excuses to continue observing the otherworld and the movements of the players within it.

”Huuah—”

Waking up from a light sleep, Department Head Chen Guyun took the iced coffee handed over by a robot as usual, listening to the routine report from ”The Creator”, the AI responsible for managing the otherworld.

”Two minutes ago, the Human Realm Demon King summoning trigger device was activated, summoning the fifteenth ’Envy Demon King’.”

Upon hearing this, Department Head Chen Guyun was so shocked that he opened his mouth wide, and the coffee he had just held in his mouth flowed down the corners of his mouth.

”Demon King Summoning”? This intelligence was absurdly unbelievable; he once suspected whether The Creator was joking.

A large-scale event of this level should have had omens, but until six hours ago, let alone a Demon King, there wasn’t even a trace of signs of low-level demons.

”What was the trigger cause?”

He forced himself to calm his thoughts and put the coffee back into his mouth, but the next second he sprayed it out again due to The Creator’s answer.

”Fu Hao used catapults to raze the Rowen Kingdom palace to the ground, causing over ten thousand deaths. The aura of death was absorbed by the ’Mirror of the Heart’, a Demon Realm relic sleeping in the treasure vault. This item was intentionally left behind by the Envy Demon King during the Human-Demon War, and after fulfilling specific conditions, it could summon him to the Human Realm.”

While The Creator stated this calmly, it switched the screen, playing the process of Fu Hao’s catapults bombing the palace, as well as the moment the ”aura of death” was absorbed by the ”Mirror of the Heart”.

From a bird’s-eye view, the entire palace had almost turned into scorched earth, and the scene was extremely tragic.

”Crazy... truly crazy...”

Department Head Chen Guyun muttered in a low voice; he hadn’t been this shocked for a long time—the last time was when Leonhardt obtained the rare hidden class ”Weapon Master” by virtue of ”Divine Control”.

”It seems... I have to re-evaluate his potential.”

Although he had been paying attention to Fu Hao’s movements, his previous evaluation of his potential was only ranked seventh—this was diametrically opposite to how players regarded him as the top seed player and the ”King of Novice Trial buffs”.

Was this prejudice? Not at all.

Then why was Fu Hao, who had the second-highest combat power, ranked seventh?

The problem lay in ”race” and ”environment”.

Among the top six players in potential evaluation, besides Leonhardt, the other five were not human: Philip was in the Demon Realm, and the other four were reincarnators of other races, active in other-race countries or unknown maps.

In a sense, they were luckier than the ”super-lucky” Fu Hao—after all, in areas completely unreachable by NPCs and human players, they could monopolize all hidden achievements and rare resources, growing rapidly at an outrageous speed.

Precisely because they had not yet entered the Human Realm, these people were not included in the ”combat power ranking”; if included, Fu Hao’s ranking would likely drop to sixth, or even seventh.

And potential evaluation was not just about combat power; faction potential was equally critical—as long as one was strong enough, gathering forces was just a matter of time.

Therefore, although there was nothing wrong with giving Fu Hao seventh place, with the series of shocking events such as the destruction of the Archer unit and the bombing of the palace, Department Head Chen Guyun could no longer maintain the original evaluation standards.

”At least fifth place... no, give him fourth place.”

Although it was a temporary adjustment, he already had a premonition that this ranking would not last long—Fu Hao also possessed unused Enhancement Master skills, the second awakening of the Legendary Holy Knight, +10 Little Gold, and the Emperor series weapons.

More importantly, his ”Item Enhancement skill” might harbor greater possibilities.

In the otherworld, item types were as diverse as the stars. Although the effects of equipment enhancement were fixed, the results of ”Item Enhancement” depended on their original characteristics.

Watching the terrifying power unleashed by the +10 catapult, Department Head Chen Guyun couldn’t help but think: Perhaps what really determined Fu Hao’s destiny was not combat power, but ”Item Enhancement”.

”Then, where is that Envy Demon King now? Is he being summoned?”

After sorting out his thoughts, Department Head Chen Guyun spoke again.

”Even if the aura of death is gathered, restricted by the realm boundary, the Demon King’s main body cannot descend into the Human Realm, and it is expected to possess the nearest human. The human currently closest to the ’Mirror of the Heart’ is the Rowen Kingdom King—Prince Mian.”

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The scene shifted; in the ruins, Prince Mian was blankly looking up at the cloudy sky.

”He actually didn’t die?”

The palace had long been razed to scorched earth, and even ants could not have been spared, yet the target Fu Hao had meticulously planned for—Prince Mian—was actually standing there unscathed.

”Thanks to the ’Undying Ring’.”

The Creator brought up the item information:

- **Undying Ring**

- Rank: Mythical

- Usage Conditions: None

- Effect: When receiving a lethal attack, automatically nullify the attack and enter a 3-minute invincibility state. No actions can be performed while in the invincibility state.

- Additional: Item is destroyed after the effect is triggered.

- Description: A one-time mythical item of unknown age, its value is enough to make all those in power drool with envy.

”This is unexpected.”

This ”Block triggers upon hit” defense mechanism was extremely rare, and mostly seen in active skills attached to legendary-grade armor—the usage threshold was extremely high.

Although Prince Mian was a king, he belonged to the ”low combat power, high power” type, which was precisely why Fu Hao had decisively formulated the plan to bomb the palace.

The result, however, was completely foiled because of this one-time Undying Ring.

Its effect was powerful enough to crush any armor of +10 grade: there was no need to hard-tank damage exceeding 100% HP; as long as a ”lethal attack” was triggered, one would immediately enter a three-minute invincibility state.

Although actions were restricted during that time, for a power-type ruler like Prince Mian, this penalty was almost equivalent to ”nothing”.

And just as Department Head Chen Guyun finished reading the ring’s information, just as The Creator had said, the Envy Demon King descended.

”Ugh ahhh!... Ugh ah!”

Prince Mian was wrapped in black flames, his body twisting in pain, and finally he fainted and fell to the ground.

Not long after, he suddenly opened his eyes, and a non-human, sinister smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.

”It was originally a seed planted casually; I didn’t expect it to sprout so quickly.”

Standing in the ruins at this moment was no longer Prince Mian, but Prince Mian possessed by the Demon King—”Envy Demon King”, with a smile on his face that was hair-raising.

”It seems... I have to adjust the potential ranking again.”

Looking at the Envy Demon King’s attribute information projected by The Creator, Department Head Chen Guyun couldn’t help but shake his head helplessly.