Master of Kaidan
Chapter 430: This Time, I am the Player

Chapter 430: Chapter 430: This Time, I am the Player

On the bustling street, the constant flow of cars and pedestrians intertwined to form a scene unique to a modern city. On either side of the street, alleyways spread out like a spider web.

At the entrance of a pedestrian street next to a residential building, a courier station had just opened its doors. A couple of delivery trucks from different courier companies were parked in front, waiting for the courier station’s staff to accept their packages.

Feng Xue held his phone, leaning against a lamppost by the roadside, looking like an ordinary smartphone enthusiast, yet his gaze, or more precisely, the crosshairs in his vision, remained fixed on that small courier station.

Yesterday at midnight, it was the time for the mysterious game company to open the public beta reservation.

According to rumors circulating online, the mysterious courier from this game company would notify and deliver in a normal courier manner the day after completing the reservation and obtaining an activation code.

After drinking a bottle of Lucky Yogurt, Feng Xue naturally managed to snatch one of the million activation codes released this time, and then he began his stakeout here.

It was worth mentioning that, to avoid a situation where the delivery was completed at the moment of reservation and only notified the following day, Feng Xue made his reservation outside the courier station.

And now, it was a waiting game...

As Feng Xue pondered quietly to himself, a large amount of garbled code and strings suddenly flashed before his eyes. In an instant, his spirit focused, and under the support of the recent firing of the "Martial God" logs, time seemed to freeze at this moment.

What halted was not time itself; rather, Feng Xue’s consciousness had been pushed to a terrifying speed at this moment, surpassing the neural reflex limits of humans, reaching a godly realm attainable only by information beings like Kaidan.

The endless garbled code congealed almost in slow motion towards Feng Xue’s Golden Finger crosshairs, weaving clear elements, finally integrating completely. At that moment, Feng Xue finally saw what he wanted to see—

A cluster of Kaidan Fire.

However, it was not the Kaidan belonging to the game company or the Jianghu game, but rather, a courier Kaidan—

Entry: Mysterious Courier

Tags: [Courier], [Hidden], [Fast], [Exclusive]

Description: A dedicated courier belonging to the mysterious game company, responsible for delivering game helmets to various stations. No one knows who they are; no one knows when the courier appears, but it does indeed appear, and even the package code gets unknowingly recorded into the station, and a receipt text message is sent to the recipient.

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Perhaps it’s because this Kaidan did not hide its Kaidan Fire, Feng Xue could clearly see all the information he could capture. Although he didn’t see the power or the Current World Rules, he could imagine them basically.

The only problem was,

This Kaidan had almost no physical form.

Or rather, compared to Kaidan, this thing was closer to a phantom item.

"This is interesting. No matter how much it looks like a phantom item, that thing is definitely a Kaidan, and the delivery of the helmet, rather than being a courier, is more like manufacturing on the spot, a Kaidan without a ritual creating corresponding items under specific rules, which sounds quite like some inherently weak-willed congenital Kaidan."

The almost stagnant time in Feng Xue’s vision slowly resumed its flow. Although the recently burned Martial Gods were merely some riffraff, it didn’t mean he gained nothing. Because this act of burning logs was, in a sense, almost equivalent to "devouring the ancestor Kaidan."

If using the Martial God Power normally was akin to taking out high-interest loans, a careless moment might lead to rolling interest to bankrupt him, then his current behavior was akin to beating the moneylender to death after borrowing the money, rendering the principal and interest unnecessary to repay.

—Although technically speaking, these loan sharks were long dead (just prone to zombification), this can’t even be called grave robbing, but rather scavenging behavior.

Essentially serving as a decomposer for "Mother Nature."

As of now, these riffraff Martial Gods provided Feng Xue with a considerable inheritance, which was the near-time pausing ability used earlier.

In the Eastern Country, there is a direct potential setting for real-world gods (gods ascended from humans), which is "bringing a certain skill to the level of god," called "One Thought to God."

Feng Xue had almost effortlessly acquired hundreds of such absolute arts. Although individually they were basically useless (or else they wouldn’t be stray gods), if specific types were pieced together, they could combine into various miraculous techniques.

Regarding the ability just used to "divide time with Eye Power," it was the standard answer of seeing but not being able to physically react. But if coupled with the ability of "weighing heaven and earth with willpower," which is essentially a god-like application of momentum, one could achieve an effect almost akin to having a Platinum Star—outrageous.

Most importantly, these abilities were openly available, even without the need to consume "Identity" to activate, directly extracting from the public pool of "Martial God" Power.

Under circumstances where no one else dared use it while he did, Feng Xue’s actions practically amounted to embezzling public funds.

But who made those real Martial Gods unable to come back to life?

"Well, maybe there are some alive on the upper floors of the Babylon Tower, but they probably aren’t strong, or like Cain, afraid to swallow recklessly; otherwise, these small fry wouldn’t be left for me."

Feng Xue shook his head, retracting his Digging into the "Martial God" Power, opened his phone’s message page, and indeed saw the delivery text.

This made him even more curious about this game.

After all, with such obvious abnormal phenomena, the authorities hadn’t investigated, and Feng Xue could imagine only two possibilities—

One, the authorities investigated but found nothing.

Two, this thing is something the authorities themselves produced.

Considering that no other Kaidan has yet been found in this world (the delivery can only be considered a subsidiary, similar to how an Executioner becomes a subsidiary Kaidan of the Libra Organization after death), the latter is unlikely, meaning that the authorities currently find zero traces, unable to ban it, leaving them to watch with interest while seeing if they can gain some benefits from it.

Suppressing the thought of directly contacting the authorities again, Feng Xue took the delivery box to the room he had booked nearby, unpacked it, and took out the helmet that had to be viewed every time a Current World Rule was used.

"Then, let me see if I can log in... wondering if this crappy game has a GM."

Feng Xue muttered to himself, following the instructions to complete the helmet configuration, then lay down on the bed wearing it.

Inside the all-encompassing helmet was pitch black. Feng Xue gently pressed the button and softly said, "Lincoln, big head!"