My game is depressing worldwide.

Since this is a trial version, players are given the default starting class of "Knight" and are equipped with a one-handed sword and a shield.

Meanwhile, the default burial item is a Life Ring, which adds a negligible amount of health.

"Mr. Chen, how long do you think it will take me to defeat the BOSS you've meticulously designed?" Sun Zhirui drew her spiral sword as she controlled her character, causing the arena to tremble slightly, signaling the start of the BOSS battle.

Logically speaking, if you have the right strategy, Gundyr shouldn't be too difficult. You could easily defeat him with only three to five takes at most.

But if your approach is wrong... then you're in for a rough time.

Sun Zhirui has an aggressive gaming style and likes to take high-risk, high-reward actions.

This is a major taboo in soul wandering.

No matter how good you are at the game, you need time to learn and adapt to it.

"1".

"One minute? Oh, that's too much trouble."

"No, I mean one day."

"...Who do you think you are?!"

During the conversation, the BOSS battle officially began.

The epic choir chanting stimulated Sun Zhirui's eardrums through the sound system, making her feel full of fighting spirit, wishing she could immediately raise her sword and cut down the enemy in front of her in a few rounds.

The Ashen Judge, is it?

I'm here today to judge you!

Since it was the first time the boss battle was triggered, the cutscene took up a lot of time, causing Gundyr to lose nearly a quarter of his health right at the start.

"Mr. Chen, there's not much of a sense of accomplishment in defeating this kind of BOSS."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Teacher Guda unleashed a sweeping attack, instantly reducing his health by a third.

Sun Zhirui was startled and quickly rolled backward to try to create some distance.

However, Mr. Guda clearly did not want to give her that chance, and his attack followed immediately.

Snap, snap, snap...

Each time, Sun Zhirui would roll backward after being hit, only to be hit by the next attack.

In a moment of desperation, he even drank a potion of elemental energy to replenish his health, but before the recovery animation was over, he was struck down with another powerful blow.

The blood vial was wasted...

Soon.

YOU DIED

There was a deathly silence, broken only by the sounds of the characters coming back to life from the speakers.

Chen Xuan glanced at the time and nodded, saying, "37 seconds. It seems you still have a long way to go."

[Defense Penetration Value Detected from Sun Zhirui +1]

"This...this was just a mistake!" Sun Zhirui's face flushed slightly. "Every game has an adjustment period. How can you start fighting a boss right after the tutorial?!"

"Alright, alright, you can continue."

Sun Zhirui sat by the campfire, intending to level up.

However, the prompt above made her pause for a moment.

Insufficient souls?

But didn't I have several hundred yuan on me just now?

"Mr. Chen, is your game bugged? Why is all the currency I had gone?"

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, this is the core setting of the game: when you die, you will drop all the souls you have. Of course, you can pick them up in full, but you only have that one chance. If you die again, you will lose them permanently."

Sun Zhirui's face was filled with shock.

I'm really impressed by you, you old man.

"You didn't tell me about something this important beforehand?!"

"You didn't ask."

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"Fine, fine, so this is how you play it?" Sun Zhirui gritted her teeth. "I'll go and retrieve the lost soul right now!"

As she spoke, she controlled her character to jog towards Professor Guda's location.

I had only run a short distance, just past a corner.

A small monster suddenly rushed up from behind, brandishing a weapon, and without hesitation, unleashed a double slash, instantly reducing Sun Zhirui's character's health by nearly half.

"Hey!! What kind of monster is this?!"

Sun Zhirui was startled and subconsciously pressed the roll button several times.

But this attracted the aggro of another small monster.

Gang fights are shameless, but they're effective.

Sun Zhirui, her face dark with anger, asked through gritted teeth, "Have you forgotten to tell me about some important mechanism again?!"

"After death or recovering from a campfire, all monsters except for bosses and some special elite monsters will respawn." Chen Xuan looked innocent. "These things are actually written in the tutorial at the beginning of the game. I didn't say them, but you didn't read them carefully either."

[Defense Penetration Value Detected from Sun Zhirui +1]

The little devil snorted and was about to launch her third attack on Teacher Guda when Chen the Great Regent reminded her again.

"Oh, by the way, let me remind you one more thing. Because you died without retrieving your soul, the soul you lost at Gundyr is gone."

Sun Zhirui: ......

Thank you so much for reminding me!

YOU DIED

"Fine, I won't pick them up! The monsters will respawn anyway, I can just go farm souls, right?"

After some time had passed.

Sun Zhirui looked at the level four Undead and nodded in satisfaction, then added all four upgrade points to its health.

In action RPGs, grinding levels isn't unreasonable, right?

Next came the third challenge to Professor Koda.

This time, the door to the BOSS room has undergone some changes.

The door was covered with a thick layer of fog.

This time, as soon as I entered, I encountered the awakened Gudako-sensei, so there was no chance to steal damage.

Then, another minute later.

YOU DIED

Sun Zhirui was stunned as she watched the scene of being taken down by a combo once again.

"Mr. Chen, isn't the character's health in this game way too low? It's practically made of paper! Does healing even work?"

"Yes, it's like you've folded a piece of paper in half, doubling its resistance to damage," Chen Xuan said seriously.

Sun Zhirui: ?

God the hell folded!

Isn't that still just paper?

What's the difference between easily piercing and piercing with a little force?

It wasn't even A4 paper, it was toilet paper!

"I refuse to believe there's no action game in this world that can stump me!" Sun Zhirui exclaimed, "I'm going to beat it with my skills!"

But ideals are often grand, while reality is often harsh.

YOU DIED

YOU DIED

YOU DIED

........

Soon, an hour had passed.

Sun Zhirui felt her eyes were getting blurry from all the torture she was going through.

Dissatisfied!

Those two words were practically written all over their faces.

This is completely different from the action games she's played before!

The parry is not instantaneous; there is even a pre-attack animation! You must receive the attack exactly within the specified frame range, otherwise it will be considered a failure, and you will have to take the entire combo of the BOSS head-on.

Sometimes, after finally dodging a whole set of skills with a roll, just when you're about to counterattack, you find that... you're out of stamina!

Moreover, even if they managed to get through the first stage, the elemental bottles were all consumed.

The second stage looks even more imposing, with a larger attack range, making it completely unbearable.

"It's okay, try again, you can do it!"

YOU DIED

[Defense Penetration Value Detected from Sun Zhirui +1]

"I'm getting serious now, no more jokes."

YOU DIED

[Defense Penetration Value Detected from Sun Zhirui +1]

"It didn't even bounce?! What kind of nonsense is this deflection function?!"

YOU DIED

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"Why didn't they dodge that?? Is there a bug in the game??"

YOU DIED

[Defense Penetration Value Detected from Sun Zhirui +1]

This self-proclaimed prodigy, who boasted of her exceptional skill in action games and had once dominated the streets and alleys in fighting games, visibly blushed.

Just like a cooked shrimp.