【Now teleporting out of the Instance.】

【Congratulations to player Pending Death#9527 for clearing the solo Nightmare-level Instance, Chronicle of the Desolate Village.】

【We are now preparing to announce this good news on a full-screen broadcast! Rejoice! You have witnessed the birth of a Great Demon King with an atrocious character!】

【Game Rating – Alpha】

【Main Quest completed.】

【Side Quests 1, 2, and 3 completed.】

【Hidden Reward condition met – Creating a Desolate Village.】

【Instance Rewards and Hidden Rewards have been distributed.】

【Please check and receive your rewards in a timely manner.】

【Instance Summary – From the moment you stepped out of the dilapidated house, your methods were unorthodox. The solemn Ancestral Hall became your playground. The ritual that summoned calamity became your tool for provocation. The miserable screams of the villagers were a beautiful symphony you composed.】

【The system detected no empathy, compassion, or mercy from you. In a sense, you are a terrible Demon King who brought down destruction. But by using overwhelming force to dispel sin and save the souls of the unjustly killed Saintesses, you are also an ally of justice!】

【Please enter the message you wish to announce to the entire server.】

【Choose whether to remain anonymous.】

Wu Wang returned to the familiar Settlement Space.

The summary screen before him was somewhat unexpected.

He could actually broadcast a message to the entire server? And he could choose to be anonymous or public. This Spirit Calamity Game was surprisingly user-friendly.

After a moment of contemplation, he reached out and typed his message.

【The Nightmare-level Instance has been sitting there all this time, a freebie for the taking! Have you ever stopped to think if you’ve been trying hard enough? Have you worked to earn items? Have you leveled up and bought equipment? You should look in the mirror. If you suck, get good. If you don’t like it, come gank me. It’s ya boi, Zha Zha Hui.】

He clicked 【Send Anonymously】.

Phew. What a humble and cautious statement.

Wu Wang smiled shyly.

For a socially anxious player like him to suddenly have to address the whole server, it was all a bit embarrassing. He was at a complete loss for words.

Once his moment of emotion passed, he lowered his head to check his rewards on his personal info panel.

【Player Nickname – Pending Death#9527】

【Player Level – Lv6】

【Distributable Points – 2】

【Strength – 11】

【Constitution – 12】

【Agility – 11】

【Intelligence – 11 (Fixed value, cannot be increased)】

【Mental Strength – 50 (You have been resisting a certain type of Mental Contamination for a long time, and it is tempering your spirit)】

【Charisma – 3 (Because you were regarded as the root of all calamity by the villagers in Chronicle of the Desolate Village, your Charisma has dropped significantly)】

He had leveled up twice. If he remembered correctly, Baili Dao was also level 6.

Who knew how many Instances the other guy had ground out to reach that level? Wu Wang had caught up in just two.

This was the confidence the Abyss God gave him!

Without the slightest hesitation, Wu Wang allocated the two attribute points to 【Strength】 and 【Agility】, ensuring his well-rounded development.

And why wasn’t “morality” included?

Because Wu Wang had always believed he stood on the moral high ground, with no room for further improvement.

In short, he had an atrocious character.

Next, he checked his equipment and items.

【Fashionable Skate Shoes (Fine Quality) – Equipping this item makes movement smoother, slightly increases the user’s leg strength, and reduces stamina consumption.】

【Equipment Requirements – User must have legs and be able to wear shoes.】

【Remark – My skate shoes~ So fashionable, so cool~ The most fashionable, the most beautiful~ Slide, slide~ Sliding on this smooth ground! Slide!】

Wu Wang raised an eyebrow and took them out.

They were a pair of skate shoes in a shockingly gaudy color scheme.

After careful examination, Wu Wang made his determination. It had to be magenta!

He took off the cloth shoes he was wearing and slipped on the new pair. He could clearly feel his leg muscles become more powerful. This would probably make his double jump with 【Cloud-Stepping Steps】 go even higher.

He tentatively took two steps forward.

His expression turned to one of astonishment.

“What the fuck! This isn’t walking, it’s gliding!”

Those few steps hardly felt like walking at all. It was more like sliding on a frictionless surface. His whole body moved several meters forward as if he were a ghost.

He hadn’t expected such a pleasant surprise.

No matter what game he played, Wu Wang understood one thing very clearly. Being fast was what truly mattered.

Continuing his inspection, he found a doll-like item in his backpack, holding a small knife. Its ferocious appearance was somewhat familiar, and he couldn’t help but crack a smile.

【Chucky the Doll (Fine Quality One-Time Use Consumable Item) – Gaze at a target for ten seconds while using this item. Chucky will then physically pursue the target for 12 hours. During this time, it cannot be destroyed by any means or lose the target. The pursuit will continue until the timer expires or the target shows no signs of life.】

【This item originates from the horror movie, Child’s Play.】

【Remark – I’ll kill you all!】

“First, I get flower tea from a game character like Sylvanas, and now a prop from a horror movie? The pop culture references in this game are all over the place, huh?”

Wu Wang looked at the Chucky doll in his hand with great interest.

The keywords for this item were quite subtle. It couldn’t be destroyed, which was powerful, but the chase was limited to physical damage. It couldn’t pull off a curse through the internet like Kayako or Sadako.

In a city or an open area, this thing would be garbage.

But in a closed environment, forcing someone to endure twelve hours of relentless pursuit? It could prove far more valuable than a simple Fine Quality item.

“Hmm… the first two were pretty lucky. I hope the last one doesn’t disappoint me.”

Wu Wang took out the final reward from the Main Quest. This was also the reward he was most looking forward to.

A 【Skill Evolution Guidance Item】!

When he took it out, it looked like a black fountain pen. Clear words were written on its side.

【Grasp this pen in your right hand and think of the name of the skill you wish to evolve. The pen will then provide guidance. Important, you must formally bid it farewell after use, or disaster will follow.】

【Remark – Pen Immortal, Pen Immortal, if you are there, please give me a sign.】

“?”

Wu Wang was speechless.

Bro, you said you’d give me evolution guidance, but it’s just asking a Pen Immortal? You really know how to exploit a loophole!

Though he grumbled internally, his hands were quite honest. He gripped the pen and mentally recited the name, 【Cloud-Stepping Steps】.

The next second, the fountain pen slowly moved.

On the back of Wu Wang’s hand, it wrote a line of text in crimson ink.

【Can be evolved by using the skill to move more than 30,000 steps in a single Instance.】

“Is skill evolution always this insane?”

The corner of Wu Wang’s mouth twitched, a little helpless.

If a normal player wanted to meet this condition, they would probably have no energy left for the main quest. They’d have to spend the entire instance just jumping around.

After all, normal people needed to rest. The consumption of stamina, the drain on Mental Strength, and physical fatigue would all waste precious time.

Unfortunately for them, he wasn’t a normal person.

In that case, he would evolve 【Cloud-Stepping Steps】 in the next Instance.

That just left the Hidden Reward for him to consider.

Once he finished reviewing everything, he planned to return to the real world. There were questions he had been itching to answer.

For example, did Yin Fate Village actually exist?

He just needed to ask his Second Sister about the mountain range she had visited. By checking her old plane tickets or travel details, he could follow the breadcrumbs right back to that secluded village.

One trip there in the real world, and the truth would be revealed.

I’d really like to see if the Spirit Calamity Game’s power is really that bizarre, he thought. Can it truly affect the past?

If nothing unexpected happened, that unlucky Yin Fate Great God should still be buried under the dirt floor of the Ancestral Hall.