Using the continuous teleportation of the electric field, Bai Ye quickly arrived at a street.
As soon as he appeared, Bai Ye felt a scorching heat wash over him.
The street ahead was already completely engulfed in flames, and constant explosions echoed through the sky.
"Fighting this fiercely?"
Bai Ye waved away the billowing black smoke and walked forward.
In such an environment of thick smoke and flames, finding someone would not be easy.
But at this moment...
From within the flames, a stumbling figure slowly emerged.
He was about thirty years old, covered in black soot, with multiple wounds on his body, looking utterly disheveled.
The man's vision was blurred. He vaguely saw a person standing in front of him and instinctively reached out, grabbing Bai Ye's clothes, and mumbled, "Save me..."
Bai Ye nodded. "Alright!"
The next instant, the Thunder Fang Fury Beast appeared in Bai Ye's hand.
*Pfft!*
Bai Ye thrust the sword forward, piercing the man's chest and fatally wounding his heart.
Des Mondotorre!
Number Six!
Bai Ye hadn't expected such a grand gift to be delivered to him so suddenly; it was truly effortless.
As Des's eyes widened, Bai Ye swiftly withdrew the sword, drawing a spray of blood. Des's body went limp and collapsed at Bai Ye's feet.
"You have eliminated Number Six. Your next target is Number Five."
With Des dead, defeating one more would put him on par with Li Jiayi and Hamir.
However...
Bai Ye looked at the corpse, somewhat puzzled.
Wasn't this guy Number Six?
Number Six was supposed to be pursuing Number Five, so why was he so badly injured, appearing on the verge of death?
According to the rules, Number Five could retaliate but could not kill Number Six; doing so would result in elimination. So, even if they fought, Number Five shouldn't have inflicted such severe injuries.
This was clearly a fight to the death.
Was he, like Lancegart, unwilling to participate in the wish mission and wanted to leave?
"Number Five, wasn't his name Xu Mengfei?"
As Bai Ye pondered, footsteps echoed from the burning street.
A young man slowly strode forward, a long saber in his hand, heading towards Bai Ye.
Bai Ye raised an eyebrow, surprised by the man's appearance.
The man, or perhaps "boy" would be more accurate.
His face looked no older than sixteen or seventeen, very youthful.
The World Battlefield was cruel; age was no shield against being summoned. It was rare to see purely because of their young age, boys and girls whose minds were not yet mature, struggling to survive on the World Battlefield.
These young ones, along with the elderly, were usually among the first summoned ones to perish.
But what did that have to do with him?
Bai Ye would not spare someone because they were good-looking, nor would he show mercy to the elderly, nor would he let a child off the hook.
Bai Ye's principle for killing had always been whether he needed to kill or not.
As the man approached, Bai Ye spoke, "Xu Mengfei?"
Bai Ye's words were met with a smile.
The smile was somewhat eerie, chilling, and tinged with a wicked charm. Then...
Xu Mengfei suddenly raised his saber and swung it at Bai Ye.
The next moment, as the blade cut through the air, a wail of ghosts filled the surroundings, sounding incredibly desolate.
Even within the burning flames, specters appeared, struggling and crying out.
A supremely evil blade energy surged forward, transforming into a ghostly face as it tore through the air, roaring ferociously at Bai Ye.
Bai Ye blinked, then looked at the saber in Xu Mengfei's hand, a look of astonishment appearing on his face.
"Demonic Blade, Onikiri!"
Bai Ye recognized the saber.
More accurately, Bai Ye had seen the saber in his previous life.
Onikiri was a famous blade, one of the Ten Great Demonic Blades, unmatched in sharpness. Legend had it that it had once slain Ibaraki-douji, one of the ten strongest demons in Japanese folklore, hence its name "Onikiri" (demon cutter).
However, according to legend, because it had slain Ibaraki-douji, the blade became stained with the demon's malevolent aura, causing every subsequent wielder to be haunted by demons and meet a miserable end.
Of course, legends were just for listening; they weren't very practical.
What was practical was this:
Onikiri was a...
Gold-tier weapon!
In fact, Bai Ye had not only seen Onikiri in his previous life but had even possessed it. However, he had only possessed it, never daring to use it.
This was because Onikiri had extremely stringent usage restrictions.
After drawing the blade for the first time, the wielder would be cursed by Onikiri. A vengeful spirit would then haunt the user, requiring them to kill three living beings daily, whether they were chosen ones or natives, to continue using Onikiri.
Furthermore, once the blade was drawn, the curse was irreversible. Even if the blade was sheathed or not used in combat, the curse would take effect unless the sword was traded to a new owner.
Secondly, while Onikiri's effects were incredibly powerful, its usage conditions were also harsh and incredibly troublesome.
The harshness lay in the need to accumulate souls. The method of accumulation was simple: kill people. The souls of those killed by Onikiri would be extracted and sealed within the blade.
Each of Onikiri's different effects required a varying number of souls to be consumed.
The troublesome part was that all of Onikiri's effects included a "Confusion" buff.
Yes, a buff!
Under the Confusion state, the wielder's physical attributes would double, but they would lose consciousness and reason, their bodies completely controlled by Onikiri until they killed an enemy or were killed by one.
Killing, Bai Ye didn't care about. In his previous life, Bai Ye had survived to the end on the World Battlefield; what was there to care about killing?
Indecisive people had long since turned to dust. The World Battlefield never belonged to the kind-hearted.
Even if Bai Ye didn't care, he found Onikiri too outrageous. A minimum of three kills per day, and more souls were needed for effects without any extra benefit.
What Bai Ye found most unacceptable was that under such harsh conditions, there was the "Confusion" effect, which was pure trouble.
In Bai Ye's opinion, this effect was not a buff at all but a complete scam. While physical attributes doubled, one's body was beyond their control, meaning life and death were not in their own hands.
This was something Bai Ye could absolutely not tolerate. Therefore, in his previous life, Bai Ye had decisively gotten rid of Onikiri through a "bargain sale."
However, Bai Ye truly hadn't expected to be so fated with Onikiri that they would meet again in this life.
But this time, Onikiri was not in Bai Ye's hands.
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