Chapter 42 Back to Reality - Her Sword

The familiar sense of weightlessness lasted only a few seconds before the darkness receded. The warm yellow nightlight in the bedroom was on as usual. The first thing Bai Xiao did upon opening her eyes was pick up her phone.

July 16th, 12:02:31 AM. Time was moving!

Two and a half days of game time had only been two and a half minutes in reality. So, one day in the game was only one minute in reality.

She whipped the curtains open. Outside, the night was pitch black. The sudden transition from the heavy rain of the day to her home under the night mist gave her a sense of unreality.

This game hadn't been as straightforward in its offense and defense as the last one; it was simply filled with unknown mysteries and temptations. Perhaps it had something to do with her drinking the enhancement potion; otherwise, she wouldn't have escaped so smoothly when she was besieged by the Townsfolk twice later in the game.

She couldn't help but think that if she'd had a sharp weapon at the time, it might have been easier to escape. She could have posed a greater threat to those Townsfolk and wouldn't have feared the lassos, being able to cut them easily. Of course, firearms would have been perfect; taking them down one by one with a gun, she would have had no rivals.

It was truly uncomfortable to be soaking wet. She temporarily gave up on reviewing the game and decided to take a shower and change her clothes first.

After changing into warm and comfortable loungewear, the sticky feeling all over her body finally vanished. Bai Xiao opened her game personal panel, which felt like it hadn't been logged into for a long time, to check her points for this round.

[Name] Bai Xiao

[Gender] Female

[Age] 23

[Game Number] 526

[Level] Level 1 (50/100)

[Comprehensive Score] 75 (Limit 100)

[Potential] 7 (Limit 10)

[points] 90

She remembered that her level in the previous round was Level 1 (20/100). This time, she was actually given 30 experience points. Looking further down and seeing her points as high as 90, she was even more overjoyed.

Winning the previous game gave her 50 points. She had spent 40 points successively before entering this game, leaving only 10 points on the panel. Now it had suddenly reached 90 points, which meant the victory reward for this game had given her 80 points all at once.

While Bai Xiao was happy, she couldn't help but wonder: what rules did the game use to reward players with experience points and points?

Unfortunately, the game provided no settlement details, so Bai Xiao had no way of knowing.

She didn't dwell on it too much and quickly opened the Game Mall, heading straight for the weapon item she had been longing for.

[weapon] can be set by the player themselves. The result of the setting is evaluated and generated by the system. Performance cannot exceed the current level limit.

A personalized custom weapon was currently priced as high as 40 points in the mall. Bai Xiao didn't hesitate for a second and placed the order instantly.

The new item quickly appeared in her backpack. Bai Xiao couldn't wait to click on the small sword icon representing the weapon.

The icon flashed, and a line of instructions quickly appeared.

[Please conceive your ideal weapon in your mind. Note: The player's conceived weapon cannot exceed the player's current game level limit. Firearms and cold weapons with a complexity exceeding three layers are not within the scope of customization. Click 'Confirm' to begin conception. After conception is complete, it will be generated after the system evaluates its rationality.]

So, firearms like guns couldn't be generated. Bai Xiao thought about it and realized it made sense; things that exceeded the game's limits too much would affect game fairness, so it was reasonable for them to be outside this scope.

At that time, she never imagined that one day, with the evolution of the game and its players, even with firearms, it would not be easy to take a person's life. Of course, that is a story for later and won't be mentioned for now.

Looking again at the requirement that the complexity of cold weapons could not exceed three layers—what did that mean? Bai Xiao didn't understand, but she planned to conceive it first and leave everything to the game to judge.

She closed her eyes and began to fantasize. In fact, she really wanted a crossbow. A crossbow is stronger than a compound bow; it can be fired with one hand or in succession, and it is smaller and very portable, making it the best choice for long-range attacks.

At the same time, she also really wanted a melee weapon. In a scene like the last game, where a lasso was already thrown in front of her, a crossbow would be of no use. Only a sharp blade or sword could break the situation.

Torn, she tried to combine the two types of weapons in her mind. She imagined this sword to be extremely flexible, capable of being worn around the wrist in a circular shape. Normally, it would be composed of tightly connected layers, forming a palm-wide bracer.

She could wear it on her left hand, which could both cover the butterfly mark and make it convenient for her right hand to press the internal mechanism. The hilt would pop out from the ring, allowing her to draw it. At that point, the coiled blade would whip straight, turning into a thin sword about the length of an arm.

She couldn't imagine how to integrate a crossbow with it, so she could only simplify. She wondered if the bracer could serve as a sleeve tube, with a thin chain extending from the top of the bracer. The top of the chain would be a ring that could be worn on the middle finger. When the finger was bent to a certain degree, the sleeve tube would fire a hidden arrow, achieving the purpose of a long-range attack or a sneak attack.

Equipped for both long and short range, it would be perfect.

As she thought this, the small sword icon on the panel began to flash continuously. Clearly, the system was evaluating the rationality of the player's conception and whether it exceeded the level limit.

After a long time, the icon stopped flashing and turned into a beam of white light that wrapped around her left hand.

Before long, a bracer shaped like an armlet appeared on her left wrist. The bracer was silvery and bright all over, emitting a faint cold light under the lamp. It was tightly wound layer by layer like a Mobius strip, slightly wider than her palm. These circular patterns made it impossible to tell if they were threads inherent to the sword or gaps formed by the blade winding around itself; it just felt naturally formed.

Three thin chains of the same color, intertwined with each other, extended from the top of the bracer. The other end of the chains was connected to a silver ring she was wearing on her middle finger. The silver ring was about as wide as her pinky nail, with a complex and ancient pattern on its surface. In the center was an oval black-brown gemstone similar to a tiger's eye, with two slightly smaller gemstones of the same material set on either side.

As soon as this illusory weapon item landed on her hand, the method of use simultaneously appeared in her mind.

At the same time, Bai Xiao also learned that this generated weapon did not have the hidden arrow function; it was simply a long sword that usually hid in the form of a bracer.

She used two fingers of her right hand to press the two small gemstones on the sides and gently pulled the ring outward. The three hanging thin chains were instantly pulled taut, merging with the unfastened ring and the silver circle at the top of the bracer to form a hilt less than three fingers wide.

Continuing to pull outward, the silver bracer uncoiled like repeatedly wound silk threads. Following the pulling motion, it transformed like flowing water into a two-finger-wide blade. Once fully drawn, a silver sword the length of an arm leaped out, shimmering with a cold light.

The silver blade was extremely thin, like a piece of frozen ice—pure and cold.

Bai Xiao found a wooden tissue box in her house and tossed it into the air. Then, with a swing of the long sword, it sliced through the air, and the wooden box broke at the sound, being smoothly cut into two halves in mid-air.

She couldn't help but marvel. It was truly a fine sword. It looked thin, but the material was even tougher and sharper than imagined, and it combined beauty with practicality, making it impossible to put down.

Bai Xiao thought that the lack of a hidden arrow function might be because it violated the rule about cold weapon complexity exceeding three layers. Perhaps this complexity referred to the composite nature of the weapon or the difficulty of manufacture.

The oval gemstone originally in the middle of the ring was now set at the top of the hilt when transformed into a long sword. To retract it, she only needed to hold the sword with a reverse grip, press the gemstone, and place the hilt back at her left middle finger. The blade, pressed against her forearm, would re-coil back into its original shape like flowing silk.