Roche was drinking milk from a glass bottle. Milk was an absolutely scarce commodity in the Holy Spirit World, especially this kind of flavored milk.
If Roche was a qualified businessman, she would definitely smell business opportunities in it, but Roche is not... Her current identity in Holy Spirit City is more like a pursuer who came to arrest Thorne.
But... more like... a slave
If Rosh remembered correctly, the Holy Spirit had described her like this. Slave was not a very nice word, but the meaning of the word slave was very suitable for Rosh's current situation.
Like every NPC who participated in the Holy Spirit Challenge, she was busy matching with the Holy Spirit every day and gaining points on the arena ladder.
Recently, Roche encountered a huge bottleneck. Her score was stuck at 2,900 points, the Grand Master level, and her ranking in the ladder ranking was 13th.
What Rosh is doing now is to try her best to reach 3,000 points, get into the top ten or even the first place in the ladder.
But Roche couldn't do it. During the fifteen days of fighting, more and more Holy Spirits mastered her fighting habits and skills, and were discussing strategies to defeat her.
When Luo Shi faces some Grandmaster-level players now, she has to be extremely alert. She is 80% sure of defeating the opponent, but her overdrawn physical strength and energy increase exponentially.
She was not a perfect Eternal, not like Thorne who could defeat hundreds of high-level Holy Spirits in a day with just a yawn.
Rosh would also feel tired, and had to eat when she was hungry and receive treatment when she was injured. Rosh gritted her teeth and persevered through several days of high-intensity battles.
The result of holding on was that Rosh's ladder ranking points were close to the top fifteen, but Rosh was not satisfied with this result... because her brother Xuzel had already ranked second in the entire server!
She could lose to anyone in this Holy Spirit Challenge, but not to her brother! She would not allow Thorne to fall into her brother's hands.
Rank up! Trying every possible way to rank up, Rosh has recently used her sleeping time to play ladder matches to rank up. The current time is six in the morning.
She felt extremely tired after not sleeping all night. If Roche looked in the mirror, her eyes would definitely be bloodshot.
But Rosh's mind was always filled with the calculation method of the ladder ranking points. If she wanted to rush into the top ten of the server as quickly as possible, there were two ways. One was to specifically challenge the strongest king and the master-level players of the same level, and the second was to win consecutive games.
The more consecutive wins you have, the higher the points you get. Her brother reached second place in the ladder by winning 72 games in a row, but Rosh's winning streak was broken by a holy spirit called Happy Games!
When Roche thought of this, she was so angry that she almost crushed the bottle in her hand, but she controlled her emotions.
When Roche was considering whether she should take a short rest, she felt the temperature around her drop a little, which made Roche look towards the ring in the distance.
Freya
Roche looked at the figure that appeared on the arena in the distance. This character, called Freya by the Holy Spirits, was the one who had just participated in the challenge yesterday.
Freya's rank is now platinum, and she can't threaten Rosh...
She leaned against the wall and looked at Freya standing on the stage from afar. The first person to challenge Freya was a Grandmaster player ranked 127th in the ladder, with the ID "Handing the Sunset".
This was a hunter player. Rosh remembered that they had fought against each other in the past. He was very good at using traps.
Roche watched him walk onto the ring, watched him apply a combat buff to himself, and then watched him lie on the ground pretending to be dead.
What's going on? Roche frowned slightly. She and the Holy Spirit had gained some experience in fighting, so she knew what skills the Holy Spirit of each profession had. The skill of feigning death was exclusive to hunters.
But this skill can only fool those headless beasts. There is no way that Rosh will be tricked by this skill of feigning death. The biggest problem is... this hunter faked his death in front of Freya!
Is there any insidious trap? When Roche was thinking this, Freya was also thinking this.
Freya circled around the hunter with the Frost Scythe, also on guard against any sinister moves from the other party.
But Freya had no patience, and she didn't need to wait... Extremely cold frost condensed on Freya's sickle, and the moment she swung it upwards, a large number of ice cones instantly bloomed on the ground.
The ice cone spread all the way to the ground where the hunter player was lying and knocked him into the air. Freya took this opportunity to leap into the air and directly slashed the hunter player with a sickle.
The hunter player's health was instantly reduced by one third. The hunter player who was hit wanted to stand up and shoot an arrow but missed! Freya took this opportunity to kill the hunter player with a cruel and ruthless combo.
What happened? Roche drank milk while watching the hunter player being carried off the stage.
Although he fought back from the beginning to the end, Roche always felt that the strength of his fightback was... a little too light
Was it my illusion? As Roche was thinking this, Freya quickly matched with the second shield warrior player.
This ID is a shield warrior player who can wash defense for free and is also a master-level player.
As soon as this shield warrior player entered the ring, he immediately created a shield wall for himself, while holding up the large shield in his hand and vigilantly waiting for Freya's attack.
Freya swung the giant scythe in her hand and rushed towards the shield warrior player. When Rosh was thinking about how the Holy Spirit would deal with Freya's frost giant scythe... he suddenly shouted...
"Oops, I sprained my ankle."
This sentence made Roche almost spit out the milk in her mouth, but the shield warrior player really twisted his foot, and it was twisted very badly. He fell to the ground and rolled over.
Freya tilted her head as she watched the rolling player, as if waiting for the player's foot to heal before continuing to fight. But when the shield warrior player saw that Freya didn't attack him...
"No more fighting, no more fighting. I'm going to see a doctor." He used this as an excuse to give up.
Freya won two consecutive games.
what happened
Roche didn't want to drink milk anymore. She looked at the third Holy Spirit coming on stage. The third Holy Spirit was also a Grandmaster player. The Berserker ranked 14th. His ID was Xinxue Tianweng, and he was a professional player of Night Speed.
This Berserker player's ladder ranking was one place higher than Rosh's. When Freya saw him coming, the expression on her face became a little solemn.
Roche stared at Xinxue Tianweng as he came on stage. The moment he came on stage, he looked like any other Berserker player.
"Blood frenzy! Blood frenzy!" A hot red light emerged from the body of the Blood Skyweng. Berserker players will exchange their own health for combat power, and Rosh also knew that... But Rosh saw that this Berserker player, who might be the best in the whole server, suddenly clenched his blood right arm.
"Bloodthirst... Open!"
The skill of Bloodthirstiness is a skill that exchanges health points for attack power.
A large amount of blood gathered on his sword, and his health points dropped rapidly. Generally, berserker players would only activate the bloodthirst skill for a short while.
But this berserker player accumulated a bloodthirsty state and used up all his health.
Finally, the Berserker player fell to the ground with hatred...
"It was a wonderful battle. I am dead." The Blood-Faced Sky-Swan said this and then his head tilted and he lost consciousness.
What a blast! You didn't even use any skills!
Rosh, who was watching from the side, crushed the milk bottle in his hand! Why didn't you use bloodlust like this when you hit me
The unfinished milk in the bottle dripped from Roche's palm onto the ground, and then Freya faced eight more Holy Spirit challengers.
These eight Holy Spirit Challengers were either killed instantly by Freya, or pretended to fall to the ground for various reasons, or used a bunch of weird skills to hurt themselves at the beginning!
Fake match!
This word instantly appeared in Roche's mind!
Someone is rigging the match! This group of Holy Spirits are rigging the match!
I want to report... but to whom? As Roche watched Freya accumulate more and more winning streaks, and her ladder ranking points went from platinum to diamond, and then from diamond to grandmaster, Roche felt something was amiss.
"This shouldn't be considered a fake match." Suddenly Jiang Qiao's voice sounded in Luo Shi's ears.
Roche covered his right ear and suddenly turned his head to see a ball of azure light floating beside him.
"Those holy spirits deliberately let Freya go and didn't even think about fighting. Why can't this be considered a fake match!" Roche's voice sounded a little angry.
She had no idea how many injuries she had suffered in the past fifteen days and how many sleepless nights she had endured before she finally reached the Grand Master level. But wherever Freya stood, a bunch of Holy Spirits would come to help her fake the match!
"The meaning of a fake match is that Freya bribed those players to let them win in the competition, which can be judged as a fake match, but what can a weak, helpless and pitiful puppet use to bribe those holy spirits?" Jiang Qiao's words made Luo Shi fall into deep thought.
Looking at Luo Shi's thoughtful expression, Jiang Qiao suddenly remembered the sentence, "From the referee, the contestants, to the audience, they are all Freya's people. How can you fight with Freya?"
"Because I like it." Roche thought for a while and finally gave an answer that she was not willing to believe. "God Eater, I have also been investigating the social structure of the Holy Spirit and their lifestyles in the past fifteen days. The name Freya seems to be the name of the automatic doll that every Holy Spirit has."
"It seems that you are not like the others, a reckless man who only knows how to fight." Jiang Qiao was somewhat relieved that Luo Shi could understand so quickly.
"Holy Spirits are a group of people who are extremely easy to like...Except for Holy Spirits, beings of the opposite sex, gods, law thieves, and plane pirates, as long as their appearance is good enough, there is a high probability that they will be favored by Holy Spirits. But I didn't expect that they would go to such lengths for the favor of a doll..." Roche looked at the Holy Spirits who were performing fancy falls in front of Freya. She thought that the Holy Spirits' favor towards her was limited to helping her do various tasks.
"This is just the basics. You should have also experienced the convenience of getting along with the Holy Spirits during this period of time, right?" Jiang Qiao said.
During this period of time, Roche has become half an NPC in the game. The half reason is that she may leave Holy Spirit City at any time, but Roche has also mastered how to be an NPC, which includes issuing various tasks to players.
Most of the tasks currently issued by Rosh are to request the Holy Spirit to collect various materials on Brand Island. The rewards are divine power crystals and Holy Spirit currency. Rosh can also cook deliciously like the Fluffy Rabbit.
She pops up occasionally in the city...it seems like a good idea to open a restaurant here after I retire
But she quickly put the idea to rest.
"Do you want to be welcomed by the Holy Spirits like Freya?" Jiang Qiao said.
"I just want to know how to make the Holy Spirit not take the duel so seriously."
Roche is not a warrior who values her honor. She is more like a police officer with a strong sense of justice. In order to catch criminals, she also hopes that the Holy Spirits will go easy on her in the ring, have a fake match, and act as an actor.
"I can help you with these, including promoting your popularity and building your image, but the prerequisite is... you are willing to settle in this city permanently."
Jiang Qiao whispered this condition into Luo Shi's ear. Jiang Qiao did not forget that the original intention of the Holy Spirit Challenge was to retain SSR-level figures like Luo Shi.
Her Eternal bloodline is only a part of her. The Holy Spirit values the bloodline of the God of Fire in Rosh's body more. This is why Rosh is rated as SSR-level. The bloodline of the God of Fire in her body has a large number of believers following her, so Rosh is actually a superior god, but she herself is unwilling to accept this power.
"I...refuse. I came to this city only to hunt down Thorn! As a natural disaster, the God Eater is destined to be our target for destruction."
Roche still resisted the devilish temptation from Jiang Qiao, and pushed away the ball of light next to her ear with her hand.
"Really? You've lived here for fifteen days... and you still think the Holy Spirits are evil?"
"I..." Roche didn't know how to answer, but the ball of light formed by Jiang Qiao disappeared beside her ears.
"I'll give you more time to think about it. It doesn't matter if you can't figure it out. By the way, if you want to set up an official organization, like the Rosh Gang, you can contact me." After Jiang Qiao finished speaking, his voice faded away.
Rosh Gang
She looked outside Freya's arena and saw two holy spirits who had completed the tasks assigned by her and came to Rosh to receive their rewards.
Roche has a pair of eyes that can distinguish good people from bad people. The Holy Spirit is definitely not an evil person, even if their behavior is very strange.
But what makes Roche feel fortunate is...she doesn't need to be an enemy of the Holy Spirit for the time being. Her mission is to capture Thorne, and destroying the descendants of the God Eater is only the most secondary task.
Just maintain your current living conditions.
"Big sister...are you really not considering opening a store?"
"I know President Bubble, he would be happy for you to open a store in town."
"My only goal now is to win the Holy Spirit Challenge, that's all." Roche said to the holy spirits around her who were attracted by her personal charm... words she had repeated countless times.
(End of this chapter)