My incredible luck and the girl I picked up

[Confirmation complete: All players have finished their match and are now being matched with opponents.]

[Match complete. This round's bye player: Moon. Your opponent is: Hammer it all.]

[Starting random map generation...]

[Map confirmed: Border Battlefield]

"Hmm? This name sounds familiar." Leng Yihan narrowed her eyes in confusion, but she didn't expect the system's words to continue.

This is a border battlefield.

[There were countless magical beasts, as well as the corpses of invaders and guardians.]

Here, day after day, one thing goes on: invaders invade the land guarded by the defenders, and the defenders guard the land invaded by the invaders.

"What is this tongue-twister-like narration?!"

But...do they really know what they're invading? Do they know what they're guarding?

As soon as he finished speaking, Leng Yihan regained control of his body. He quickly discovered that he was hiding in a thicket of grass, and he could faintly hear the roars of wild beasts... no, they should be called magical beasts.

"The map shouldn't be very big, and even if it were, the system would probably find a way to make me meet my opponent. But I didn't expect my opponent to be Brother Hammer." Leng Yihan cautiously peeked out. The fact that the system had spawned him in such a hidden place meant that something might be triggered next.

The main questline has been refreshed.

[Just kill the opponent and you're done.]

The main quests don't refresh immediately after they are refreshed; instead, there's a pause of a few seconds before the side quests finally appear.

The side quests have been refreshed.

Investigate the secrets of the border battlefield thoroughly.

"See? I guarantee the guardians and intruders have no idea what they're guarding or invading." After confirming there was no danger around, Leng Yihan was about to stand up when she felt the ground shaking. Accompanied by the angry roar of a magical beast, Leng Yihan immediately crouched down and hid in the bushes.

"Help! Help!" Leng Yihan hid for a while and sure enough, she heard someone calling for help, along with the continuous roar of that magical beast, which made Leng Yihan's eardrums hurt.

"I guess we should still try to save her." Leng Yihan peeked out. The person being chased was a human woman dressed lightly. If nothing unexpected happened, she should be either a guardian or an intruder. Normally, there are only these two human forces on the field.

Although the woman ran quite fast, even Leng Yihan could catch up to her in reality, let alone that four-legged, tiger-like monster with a scorpion's tail. It was obvious that it was just toying with the human in front of it.

Leng Yihan shifted his gaze to the magical beast chasing the woman. The information given by the system once again made Leng Yihan not want to deal with this matter anymore. He didn't even dare to be discovered by this magical beast.

Name: Tiger Scorpion

[Level: 100]

Current Health: 100%

Attack power: ???

[Defense: High]

[Special Attack Method: Scorpion Tail Strike]

[Note: This guy is tough to fight, I think it's best to run away!]

"Level 100? Attack power question mark? Sorry to bother you!" Although she said that, Leng Yihan couldn't really watch that human woman die in front of her.

As the human and the beast drew closer, Leng Yihan used her six-pointed sword formation to instantly separate the magical beast and the human woman. Xue Yi put it away, took out her greatsword, Chaos, triggered the special effect, refreshed the six-pointed sword formation again, activated her sword intent, and threw out the greatsword six-pointed sword formation once more.

"Watch out! Run this way!" Leng Yihan shouted loudly at the woman. The double six-pointed sword formation couldn't hold her off for long. Seeing the woman running towards her, Leng Yihan took back Xueyi with her right hand and grabbed the woman's arm with her left hand, and they started to run away.

The tiger scorpion was clearly enraged and went berserk, trying to catch up with Leng Yihan and tear him to pieces. However, what it didn't know was that after the two six-pointed sword formations were unleashed, Leng Yihan had already switched to speed-enhancing gear, pulling the woman further and further away until they finally escaped the tiger scorpion's perception range amidst its unwilling roars.

“This should be safe now…” Leng Yihan pulled the woman along for a short distance, and the two finally hid in a thick patch of grass.

"Um... thank you for saving me... My name is Ruoyi, nice to meet you." Ruoyi looked at Leng Yihan with gratitude in her eyes and said.

"Ah... my name is Ji Han." Leng Yihan looked away somewhat awkwardly, but in the end, she forced herself to look back at Ruoyi, suppressing her inexplicable embarrassment.

"Um, I'd like to ask you a question, is that alright?"

“You are my benefactor! Of course!” Ruoyi nodded vigorously.

"Um... are you an intruder or a guardian?" Leng Yihan regretted asking as soon as he did, because he saw a clear change in Ruoyi's expression.

"Well... I'd say it's an intruder." Ruoyi smiled awkwardly. "Could it be... that Jihan is a guardian?"

"No, I'm not on either side." Leng Yihan shook her head, and an awkward silence fell between them. Leng Yihan was also caught in a dilemma.

First, either ignore the side quests altogether. After running around for so long, you'll probably just finish the hammer and be somewhere nearby.

Second, have a deep conversation with Ruoyi and try to understand why the intruders wanted to invade.

"Tsk, not enough time." Leng Yihan spat and stood up. "Ruoyi, I need to go find someone now. You go back to your headquarters first, be careful on your way." Leng Yihan was about to leave when Ruoyi mustered up her courage and grabbed his hand.

"Ok?"

"Um... um... can you take me with you... I can't go back to the invaders anymore. Without the technology of the invaders and the guardians, it's impossible to return to the original world on the border battlefield..." Ruoyi looked at Leng Yihan with a pleading expression, but Leng Yihan really had no choice. As long as Hammer was dealt with, everything would be over, and he would be teleported away, and Ruoyi would still be in trouble afterward.

Just when Leng Yihan was at her wit's end, a new side quest appeared.

The side quests have been refreshed.

Explore the mysterious cabin nearby.

cabin?

With a sense of doubt, Leng Yihan looked around and, sure enough, saw a strange little house not far away.

"...Ruoyi, I have a question for you."

"What's wrong? You can take me with you if I answer?!" Ruoyi said excitedly.

"...Is it possible to live on the border battlefield?" Ruoyi fell silent after hearing Leng Yihan's question.

"Huh? That's unlikely. Food is scarce on the border battlefield, and crops can't be grown on the land. Water isn't a problem, but most of the creatures there are magical beasts, even on land. These beasts are incredibly strong, and you can't hunt them without sufficient strength. A short-term stay might be possible, but a long-term stay... is impossible!" Ruoyi's tone was very certain; it was absolutely impossible for anyone to live on the border battlefield.

"Then what do you think... should we go and investigate that house?" Leng Yihan pointed to the small house not far away.

"Huh?" Ruoyi looked surprised, but that didn't mean anyone lived in that little house.

"I don't know, but we'll find out once we go and take a look."

"Wait, wait, wait!" Ruoyi grabbed Leng Yihan again. "I heard a legend when I was still in the Invaders' Army!"

She paused, then said, "If you see a small house on the border battlefield, run away immediately! That's the devil's house..."

"Oh? You mean this old man?" Ruoyi had barely finished speaking when someone asked from behind the two of them.

Ruoyi was startled, but she was not too shocked because she was not very strong. However, Leng Yihan was different. After activating his sword intent, his perception ability was also improved, which was a hidden improvement. He could sense someone approaching.

"Who goes there?!"

77. That's all for the Border Battlefield and Extreme Cold vs. Hammer.

"Who goes there!" Leng Yihan turned around and immediately drew his sword to slash, but something terrifying happened. The old man behind the two of them caught his sword with just two fingers.

"What?!" Leng Yihan was dumbfounded. The shock in his heart even made him forget to dodge. If the old man hadn't had no intention of attacking... he probably would have been killed instantly.

"Not bad, but we are too far apart in terms of the essence of power, and your understanding of sword intent is not yet proficient enough. Yet you have chosen to cultivate both sword and saber. This will make your future path very difficult." The old man commented on Leng Yihan, releasing his grip on her katana. Only then did Leng Yihan realize what was happening and instinctively took a few steps back.

I forgot to mention, the hammer was the only thing that mattered. The eighth-ranked player on the God Ranking, Ji Han, was the first-ranked player on the God Ranking. This match was arguably the most exciting one so far, so it was broadcast. When everyone saw that Leng Yihan's invincible sword-drawing slash was actually caught by an NPC whose identity was unknown, they were all stunned.

"Are you kidding me...? Someone caught it?" Xiao Yulin rubbed her eyes in disbelief. She, on the other hand, encountered an opponent less than a minute into the game and was eliminated within thirty seconds...

Back to the match, when Leng Yihan's sword-drawing slash was caught, his reaction was exactly the same as Xiao Yulin's: "Someone can catch a sword-drawing slash with two fingers?"

Then, just as he finished thinking that, he saw the information given by the system and immediately felt much relieved. As for why... it can only be said that the old man in front of Leng Yihan was far beyond the current version of the Oracle.

[NPC: Mysterious Old Man]

【Race:???】

[Level: 150]

Current Health: ???

Attack power: ???

[Defense Strength: ???]

[Special attack method: ???]

[Note: Danger!]

"My God..." Leng Yihan muttered to herself. The system's information notification displayed numerous question marks. "Just how many times stronger is this guy than me...?" (Attack and defense are calculated based on the player's own data. If the strength difference is too great, only "???" will be displayed.)

"Let's get down to business. What are you two doing loitering around in front of my house?" The old man looked at the two of them with a puzzled expression, if Leng Yihan was not mistaken.

"Senior...do you live here?" After struggling for a long time about how to address the old man, Leng Yihan finally used the more common term "senior".

"Oh? Why should I answer you? You haven't answered my question yet." The old man gave Leng Yihan a suspicious look.

"I'm so sorry! My name is Jihan, and this is Ruoyi. We were being chased by magical beasts and ended up here by accident. I'm truly sorry..." Leng Yihan was interrupted by the old man before she could finish speaking. He then looked at Ruoyi and asked, "Are you an intruder?"

"Huh?" The old man's absurd change of topic caught Leng Yihan and Ruoyi off guard. Ruoyi quickly nodded after realizing what he meant.

"Then we can kill him." After the old man finished speaking, he raised his hand. As soon as the old man said "that's right," Leng Yihan grabbed Ruoyi and ran away immediately.

The spot where the two had just been standing seemed to be untouched, but a dent had appeared in the ground.

"Small-scale Annihilation?" After ensuring a safe distance from the old man, Leng Yihan released her left hand from Ruoyi's and took out the scroll of Annihilation from her backpack.

No one noticed his rampant groping; all the spectators watched the duel between Leng Yihan and the old man with bated breath.

"Oh? You're not backing down? You still have the confidence to fight me? Is it because of that scroll?" The old man glanced at Leng Yihan's left hand and asked with a smile. Leng Yihan did not answer, but looked at the old man with a solemn expression. At this moment, he had also changed back to a set of combat equipment.

“Should we use Annihilation on him? But he should be some kind of particularly useful NPC... But it seems we can’t communicate with him at all, we can only trigger battles, how could this be…” Leng Yihan did not immediately launch an attack, but cautiously observed the old man from a distance.

"Aren't you going to make a move yet?" The old man urged Leng Yihan when he saw that she was not making a move.

Leng Yihan glanced at him a few times, then put away the annihilated scroll, gripped Xueyi tightly, and for the first time treated an enemy so seriously.

The two were locked in a stalemate again, but everyone knew they were waiting for the other to make a mistake.

"If you..." Before the old man could finish speaking, Leng Yihan disappeared from her original spot and flashed behind him. Instead of unleashing the Silver Light Slash, she used a simple upward slash, aiming for a single, decisive strike.

"Alright!" the old man said, but Leng Yihan found that, for some reason, her upward strike just grazed the old man's clothes and didn't hit him.

“…Space.” Leng Yihan quickly realized that the old man must have mastered some kind of spatial ability; he might even be a spatial mage.

However, he was empty-handed and hadn't taken anything, but that was enough to deal with Leng Yihan.

Leng Yihan immediately spun around in place, unleashing a storm of sword strikes, but it still had no effect. The swords passed right through the old man's body, but they simply passed through without spitting out any blood or leaving any wounds.