Chapter 105: Chapter 105: Maze Rampage

"What is it?" Lin Xin’Er asked quickly.

"If I’m not mistaken, there’s only one trigger condition, but two solutions."

Wang Xi didn’t keep her in suspense and quickened his pace.

According to Bai Qimeng, the Fairy Tales Maze, Black Spade ♤A "Boot Cat," was still new, having been around for less than two years. Neither the Overlook Bureau nor the Hero Association had finished gathering intelligence on its various scenarios.

Even the Professional Hero Association’s database had no record of a "Maze Rampage" event in scenario number 014, "Circus."

In other words, this was a new discovery.

"The trigger condition should be killing any Demon King in a very short amount of time. I don’t know the exact time frame yet, but it’s likely no more than five minutes,"

Wang Xi said.

The reason he said this was because Demon King Cat Boos hadn’t lasted five minutes against them.

"The three theater stages are most likely adjacent in a triangular formation... The first solution is to have three teams of Heroes enter each of the three stages simultaneously. After one team quickly defeats a Demon King and triggers the ’Maze Rampage,’ the other two teams just have to kill their Demon Kings in succession."

"The second solution is to use the Demon King’s own power to destroy the scenery, connecting the three theaters so we can kill them one by one."

As he spoke, he glanced back at the Rabbit-Faced Knight who was in a fierce battle with the Magician, and added:

"Our current situation is perfect for the second solution... But whether it will actually work, we’ll only know after we try."

Hearing this, Lin Xin’Er looked surprised.

She seemed surprised by how perceptive he was, deducing the rules of the "Maze Rampage" so quickly from just the information she’d given him.

"I agree with your deduction,"

she said with a nod.

"But we don’t have to fight to the death here. We could just leave through the Iron Cage Theater on the ’Long Boot Musketeers’ side."

"Though it sounds a bit cold-hearted to say so,"

Wang Xi glanced at Liu Wenjie and the heavily injured, unconscious man and woman, then shook his head at Lin Xin’Er.

"But I doubt the two words ’give up’ are in your boss’s creed. Do you think she’d be willing to just tuck her tail between her legs and leave?"

"..."

Lin Xin’Er fell silent.

"Miss Xin’Er, please take care of them."

Wang Xi thought for a moment and sighed.

"I’ll resolve this ’Maze Rampage’ as quickly as possible so everyone can leave sooner."

"Huh?"

Lin Xin’Er was taken aback.

Even Liu Wenjie, sitting off to the side, looked up in a daze, thinking he must have misheard.

He knew Six Gods was strong, but wasn’t that a bit too arrogant? It was as if he didn’t take the "Maze Rampage" event seriously at all.

However, Wang Xi didn’t say another word. He grabbed his Beheading Sword, turned, and sprinted toward the battle.

Just as he left, a series of automated announcements rang out, accompanied by a buzzing vibration.

"Viewer ’Sony’s Machine’ has donated 10,000 Credit Points! Message: Streamer! Get it together!"

"Viewer ’Introverts Don’t Use Peripherals’ has donated 5,000 Credit Points! Message: Pick up your phone! I’m fucking dying of anxiety over here!"

"Viewer ’Lie Down, I’ll Carry’ has donated 5,000 Credit Points! Message: We’re with you! You have to survive!"

Liu Wenjie picked up his phone and looked.

The chat in the livestream was going crazy.

The viewer count had, at some point, surged to over 300,000. Apparently, the news that he’d run into Wang Xi and Lin Xin’Er during his Maze exploration had spread, attracting a large crowd of spectators.

"Six Gods’ analysis is spot on."

"The streamer is so unlucky. He’s explored the ’Boot Cat’ Maze several times, but this time he just had to run into the ’Circus’ scenario and a ’Maze Rampage’ event."

"It’s not bad luck."

"Running into Xi’Er and Xin’Er is good luck. At least the streamer survived."

"Idiot streamer."

Liu Wenjie’s eyes reddened as he watched the chat scroll by.

It was true. His greed and carelessness had nearly gotten his whole team wiped out. He regretted taking such a huge risk for the sake of viewership. If he had just waited and teamed up with another squad of Heroes, maybe none of this would have happened.

Seeing the chat’s urging, Liu Wenjie took a deep breath. Since things had come to this, he had no choice but to raise his phone and point the camera at the theater—

...

...

"Miss Bai! Get over here!"

Bai Qimeng, who was circling the Magician on her Storm Rabbit motorcycle, suddenly heard the call.

She turned her head and saw that Wang Xi had somehow made it onto the theater stage and was standing right in the spotlight.

"What the hell is he up to?"

Bai Qimeng muttered.

But she chose to trust Wang Xi anyway.

She twisted the handlebars, gunned the throttle, and the motorcycle spun in a graceful arc before launching into the air toward the stage.

Right at that moment, the Magician once again clasped his hands together, assuming a golf swing posture.

The instant his mouth opened, Wang Xi was already dodging to the side and shouted a warning:

"The Demon King’s using his ultimate, dodge!"

Bai Qimeng responded with action. The moment her motorcycle landed on the stage, she executed a ninety-degree drift and shot off to the right.

A massive blast of air roared past, right between Wang Xi and Bai Qimeng, and slammed into the curtain wall at the back of the stage.

BOOM!!

After the tremendous crash, dust, wood splinters, and stone fragments flew everywhere. A huge hole had been blasted through the entire curtain wall.

SCREECH—

Bai Qimeng slammed on the brakes, skidding sideways to a stop at the edge of the stage. Looking at the large hole, she couldn’t help but exclaim:

"Did it break through to the third theater?!"

Through her mask’s x-ray vision, she could see ten or twenty monkeys on unicycles emerging from the dust, swarming toward them with Molotov cocktails in hand.

And every one of those monkeys wore a stiff, sinister grin, their eyes glowing with a crimson light.

[Gamma Special-Type Mechanical Doll (Corrupted) · Juggling Monkey (Mortal Enemy/Three Stars)]

Wang Xi saw a series of red labels.

At the same time, he noticed that one monkey in the group was extremely unusual. Its appearance was identical to its companions, but its label was framed in a silver pattern.

[Maze Demon King · Gamma Special-Type Wire-Controlled Mechanical Doll · Juggling Monkey Prime (Mortal Enemy/Four Stars/Hero)]

"We killed the Demon King Cat too quickly and accidentally triggered the ’Maze Rampage’ event. I deduce that the only way to clear this is to break through all three theaters and kill all the Demon Kings,"

Wang Xi explained succinctly.

"Huh?" Bai Qimeng was surprised, but she reacted quickly, instantly grasping Wang Xi’s meaning. "You’re something else! Figuring out the pattern so fast!"

"So, how do you want to play this?"

"Divide and conquer." Wang Xi glanced at the horde of Mechanical Monkeys charging out of the dust and quickly approaching. His speech quickened, "You take the monkeys. I’ll go finish off the Magician."

"Alright!" Bai Qimeng revved the throttle. The motorcycle roared, and flames shot from its exhaust pipe. "Heh! Let’s see who finishes their opponent first. Loser has to call the winner ’Dad’."

"So childish..."

Wang Xi rolled his eyes.

He hefted his Beheading Sword and, without looking back, leaped off the stage and charged toward the Magician.

He could rest easy leaving the stage to Bai Qimeng.

’Looks like it’s time to get serious...’

Wang Xi thought to himself.

He raised his hand, and water gurgled and appeared in his palm.

As he ran, he flung it forward.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH—

Four sharp, slender Water Arrows shot out toward the Magician. The latter grinned and pulled out his Round Mirror, using the same old trick.

CLANG CLANG CLANG!

However, while three Water Arrows were deflected back, the last one suddenly froze in front of the Round Mirror and exploded into a curtain of water, drenching the Magician.

The smile on Hawke’s face stiffened. He was stunned to find that the water clinging to his body was solidifying like wax, reflecting an azure sheen and severely restricting his movements.

Wang Xi didn’t break his stride.

He calmly watched the three Water Arrows flying back at him, brought his Beheading Sword up horizontally, and took a stance.

—[Sword Orchid School Secret Technique]—

Suddenly, Wang Xi’s sword blurred at high speed.

In an instant, three flashes of sword light seemed to appear at once, blooming like the petals of an Orchid.

TING! TING! TING!

Three perfect Parries.

Water splashed everywhere, but not a single drop landed on him.

The sword in Wang Xi’s hand seemed to be accumulating some kind of power, emitting a faint, hazy glow.

"Insight."

He murmured the word, and from seven steps away from the Magician, he swung his sword through the air.

SWISH—

The Demon King Hawke struggled to lift his hand. He had just snapped his fingers, and flames had erupted from beneath his feet, but an impossibly fast, arcing blade of wind had already swept across his neck.

BANG!

A flicker of flame.

The Magician’s figure vanished from the spot.

But a THUD was heard.

A head fell from the sky and landed on the ground.

The face beneath the top hat was still frozen in the shocked expression it held before death, its mouth slightly agape.

Dozens of meters away from Wang Xi, a ball of fire ignited in mid-air, and a headless body toppled out of it to the ground.

A death-teleport...

The Magician, through his own demise, had just performed a spectacular "flying corpse magic trick" on the spot.

The performance was a great success.

Except he was really dead.

The audience—Liu Wenjie, Lin Xin’Er, and the more than 300,000 viewers in the livestream—all felt an urge to applaud.

"What just happened?"

"I don’t know, I just got here and saw Six Gods killing some Maze mobs."

"That was a Demon King! A Rampaging Demon King!!"

"Mobs my ass."

"Huh?"

Liu Wenjie wasn’t paying any attention to his phone. He just stared blankly at the black-haired young man standing ramrod straight in the distance.

His back radiated an unfathomable aura.

"..."

Lin Xin’Er stared in silence.

She had already felt a strong sense of defeat when fighting the Demon King Cat. But now, after witnessing Wang Xi instantly kill a Rampaging Demon King, the competitive spirit in her heart immediately sank.

Wang Xi had already left her far behind.

The gap between them was so vast it made her despair.

A genius...

This was a true genius!

’And what about me? Packaged by a corporation, praised by the media, plastered on giant skyscraper ads, bathed in the flash of cameras... and even the other corporate rising stars like Carl and Nagata An... What kind of geniuses are we?’

Wang Xi was completely unaware of all this.

Without even a glance at the Magician’s corpse, he picked up his sword and hurried toward the battlefield on the stage.

At this moment, Bai Qimeng was riding her motorcycle with one hand, a pink pistol in the other, continuously firing at the horde of Mechanical Monkeys chasing her.

PEW PEW PEW. A rain of crimson lasers pierced one monkey after another, knocking them off their unicycles.

No matter how hard they tried, the monkeys on their unicycles couldn’t catch her, and they screeched in frustration.

They tried to throw Molotov cocktails at Bai Qimeng, but they couldn’t reach her and ended up setting their own companions on fire instead.

"A bunch of useless apes! Eat my exhaust!"

Bai Qimeng cackled wildly.

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