Five Frozen Centuries

Wei Huo ordered the Rhinoceros to stay where it was and walked into the ruins with Wei Sha. Wei Sha was growing fast. Her intelligence was high, and that was why she could understand him quickly. On top of that, her Attack bar was increasing steadily after going through systematic training.

“Listen, training is like sailing against the current. You must forge ahead or the boat will be driven back. If doing 100 pushups a day cannot satisfy you, do 200. If 200 aren’t enough, then do 400. This is how you can improve your capabilities quickly!” Wei Huo taught Wei Sha patiently.

Wei Sha asked, “Big Divine Man, did you become this strong after training this vigorously?”

“Cough!” Wei Huo was drinking water and almost choked on it. He sat upright and said with a straight face, “Of course, I’ve been pushing my limits. Every time I succeeded, my capabilities grew immensely!”

“Oh!” Wei Sha looked at Wei Huo worshipfully. “Big Divine Man is indeed divine, you must be able to do 20,000 pushups by now!”

Wei Huo was speechless. “...”

Truth be told, these training were meaningless to Wei Huo now — They stopped serving a purpose over a century ago. It was already a habit for Wei Huo to train himself daily. He would usually feel fulfilled for the day if he did the training. Otherwise, Wei Huo would feel like there was something missing throughout the day.

Just like how some people would go to the cyber cafe everyday, and they would feel uneasy if they did not. For some people, not going to the cyber cafe for days would make them feel like it had been forever since their last visit. As long as they went into the cyber cafe, they would feel much better. Even if they were just there to watch other gamers play rather than playing the games themselves.

Wei Huo did not know how to respond to Wei Sha hence he decided to switch the conversation topic. “Cough, let’s discuss the ruins! Speaking of which, it’s my first time inside one.”

The ruins did not seem huge from the outside as it was only about three stories tall. Wei Huo only realized that most of the ruins were buried underground upon walking in, and that was why it did not seem huge from the outside.

In most cases, ruins would usually have traps or even monsters guarding them. That was why Wei Huo was being extra vigilant about it.

Wei Sha followed behind Wei Huo with caution. However moments later, she had goosebumps after sensing a strong murderous aura from Wei Huo.

‘What’s going on?’ Wei Sha was terrified, but she did not make any noise. Wei Huo had warned her to not speak unless necessary, and she was also told not to touch anything.

She was terrified as Wei Huo had activated Massacre Mode[1]. The deeper they went into the ruins, the darker it became. It was highly possible that they were surrounded by dangers as well. That was why Wei Huo activated Massacre Mode and leveraged on his cheat-like God View[2] to observe their surroundings.

The one thing Wei Huo did not know was that whenever he activated Massacre Mode, his eyes would become blood red as he emitted his murderous aura garnered from over 300 years of killing.

That was why Wei Sha was afraid.

‘He is indeed the Big Divine Man!’ Wei Sha thought to herself.

With Massacre Mode, Wei Huo continued moving deeper under the ruins. His Massacre Mode’s sensory range was at about 15 meters, so anything within 15 meters would not be able to hide itself from his sight, not even with the help of walls.

Although the ruins were as complicated as a maze, it was no match for Wei Huo and his God View.

Wei Huo felt like he was playing a game of maze, and he was controlling his own character. It felt wonderful being able to fully feel and control his own body in this game. It was just like how you would rely on your mind more than your hands and keyboard while playing games.

It was true, games are meant to be played with brains!

With God View, no maze could stop Wei Huo from advancing. That was the case until he was met with a wooden wall.

Wei Huo threw a punch at it, but the wooden wall did not budge an inch. There were no traces of sawdust either.

Wei Huo was shocked. With his fist’s current destructive power, it was unsurprising for him to break a huge tree in half. How was it possible that he could not do the same to this wooden wall?

Wei Huo tried to throw a few more punches. He even whipped out his incredibly sharp hunting knife as well, but the wooden wall remained as it was.

“Not even the hunting knife?”

This hunting knife was Wei Huo’s first game item, and it had remained incredibly sharp over the last few centuries. It could easily cut open any creature’s skin, break their scales, slice any metal or even dig a huge hole on a metal wall. Despite Wei Huo’s current defensive capabilities, even he could be harmed by this sharp knife without Qi protection.

The only things that could withstand this hunting knife were game items that were protected by rules which included Instance Gates, cave entrances, and the humans or buildings shielded by golden light.

In other words, the wooden wall in front of Wei Huo was a game item that could not be destroyed. At the very least, he could not destroy it before his skills were above the game’s minimum skill requirement rules!

Wei Huo looked around him and found three bombs. They were shaped like iron balls, and each of them had a fuse. Each bomb was about the size of a volleyball.

Looking at the three bombs and the wooden wall, Wei Huo thought about a famous little game.

‘Bomb and Bubbles[3].’

When Wei Huo was little, he played an online game where he could use explosive bubbles to destroy obstacles and enemies. It was a game where you would win if you eliminated all your enemies.

On top of that, the enemies knew how to use bubble bombs as well.

Wei Huo was left speechless. “...”

This was the same game in another form! f𝒓𝑒e𝙬𝒆𝚋𝘯૦𝘷𝐞𝑙.c𝑜𝐦

Wei Huo placed the bomb next to the wooden wall and lit it up.

Although the flame was tiny, Wei Sha was terrified. She had been afraid of fire all this while. Although she had gradually overcome the weakness with Wei Huo’s teaching and training, she would still be terrified if a flame appeared out of the blue.

Wei Huo felt that it could be because Wei Sha had encountered a genocide by fire before she was born. The fire must have traumatized Wei Sha, causing her to fear the sight of it.

Wei Huo looked at the two other insect eggs in the Pet System that had yet to be incubated. He felt that if the same thing with Wei Sha happened to the other two Zerg girls, this could become a huge weakness of theirs.

‘If I used materials incorporated with fire to incubate these eggs and have them possessing fire element objects upon birth, will they still be afraid of flames?’

This was a problem. Wei Huo suddenly felt that he made the right choice by incubating Wei Sha before the others. He could avoid new issues in Wei Sha’s future sisters by weeding them out from observing her.

Translator’s Note:

[1] Massacre Mode grants increased stats, allows healing from attacks, as well as increasing strength and reducing inhibitions or hesitations of the player.

[2] God View is a viewing mode found in games like Starcraft or Warcraft 3.

[3] Bomb and Bubbles is a free Korean online game.