"Pegasus Meteor Fist!" Tianma Xingkong, sticking to his style of shouting out the name of his move every time he used a skill, launched another attack.

This guy was fighting two opponents single-handedly, and he had Honghu and Zhaoying Wang on the defensive, unable to launch a counterattack.

"No way... it's the same skill, but its power is gradually increasing?" Zhaoying Wang muttered, clearly seeing this from the extent of the Blood Stone Demon's injuries.

Honghu added, "That's what makes this chuunibyou so troublesome..."

"Oh! It can burn! My Cosmo!" Tianma Xingkong continued to spout chuuni lines with a passionate expression.

At that moment, the Observer was standing to the side, coldly watching the battle. He had no good feelings towards these otherworldly travelers, but Duo Ling had ordered... not to make trouble for these people, so the Observer was just watching, neither stopping nor participating.

But... just as the battle was about to escalate further, the Observer suddenly noticed some kind of change... He immediately spoke to the three players in front of him, "Otherworldly travelers... I'd like to remind you."

His words successfully attracted everyone's attention, and all three turned to look at him.

"There is a creature approaching this place with malicious intent towards you." As the Observer spoke, his form began to change, quickly turning into a state similar to a mudslide, slowly sinking into the ground. "If I were you, I'd run away now..." The Observer originally hid and moved under the surface, and wouldn't have shown himself if the Blood Stone Demon hadn't discovered him. It was only natural that this blue giant would retreat in this way.

"What? Another villain is coming?" Tianma Xingkong turned his head and glared at the other two. "Hmph... you think you can defeat me by calling more evil companions?"

"Bro... there's a limit to how clueless you can be," Zhaoying Wang said. "What does it have to do with us?"

Honghu said, "There's no use talking to him. The world in a chuunibyou's eyes is different from ours. There's no way to communicate normally."

Shhh—

Suddenly, a pulse of light burst through the air, interrupting their conversation. The target of the attack was the massive Blood Stone Demon.

Zhaoying Wang was unable to dodge this light beam attack at this speed (the commands given to summoned creatures inevitably have a time delay when executed). In just two seconds, the towering, giant-like stone demon was vaporized by this pulse...

Honghu and Tianma Xingkong both looked horrified, caught off guard by this sudden change.

After the beam subsided, Zhaoying Wang was seen lying on the side of the road, his mouth full of blood, his face pale.

"What a... joke..." In the last moment before the Stone Demon was completely disintegrated, Zhaoying Wang severed the connection between himself and his summon, barely saving his life.

"How troublesome..." Honghu quickly regained his composure and rushed to Zhaoying Wang's side. The latter's first reaction when he saw the other party rushing over was... this guy is going to finish me off for the points, right?

Unexpectedly, Honghu did not attack Zhaoying Wang, who had already lost the ability to resist, but instead took out a strange item shaped like a soup ladle from his chest, waved it twice, and cast a healing skill.

"Can you stand up?" After using the skill, Honghu immediately looked warily in the direction the beam had come from, and said to Zhaoying Wang without turning his head.

"Hoo... why save me?" Zhaoying Wang quickly stood up, adjusting his unsteady breathing. "That was a great opportunity just now, you could have at least gotten one point, right?"

"Victory is victory, points are points," Honghu said. "The outcome between you and me is not suitable to be decided in this way." He paused. "Besides... if you die, wouldn't that mean I'd have to face that chuunibyou and an unknown powerful enemy alone..."

"Ah—" Tianma Xingkong, who was standing not far away, suddenly cried out miserably.

Honghu and Zhaoying Wang turned their heads and saw Little Ma looking at the two of them with tears in his eyes, lamenting with a hoarse voice, "How touching! This is the friendship between men!"

"No... this is just the reasonable choice that a normal person makes when faced with an idiot and an unknown threat..." Honghu complained in his heart.

"Yulong, I originally thought you were just a despicable guy hiding in the distance shooting arrows, but I didn't expect you to have so much backbone!" Tianma Xingkong then shouted to Honghu.

Honghu adjusted his glasses and replied, "Brother Tianma... please do me a favor... if you still have the self-awareness of a human being... please remember my ID, I'm called Honghu."

"Hahahaha..." Zhaoying Wang laughed out loud, which was rare for him. "Now that he mentions it... it really does look like him."

Honghu said coldly, "Hmph... nonsense. Aside from the hairstyle, glasses, white clothes, pants, gloves, and bow and arrows, there's no similarity at all, right?"

"The similarities you just listed are already enough!" Zhaoying Wang roared.

"Excuse me." Suddenly, a fourth voice rang out, interrupting their conversation.

A figure that was faintly glowing all over appeared at the other end of the street.

"Gentlemen... players." Y2-Shining's voice had a chime-like rhythm, and when he raised his voice, it could be heard very far away. "Could you... please come with me?"

"You really are showing courtesy after using force," Zhaoying Wang stepped forward, a sharp look in his eyes. "That beam of light just now, was that you? Are you in the habit of beating people half to death before communicating with them?"

"If you were killed by that level of attack..." Y2-Shining replied, while walking unhurriedly, "then there would be no need to capture you."

"Bastard..." Zhaoying Wang cursed under his breath, he was truly angered.

"Wait..." Honghu seemed to realize something, and he said to the glowing monster that was gradually approaching, "What did you call us?"

"Players," Y2-Shining responded. "Don't tell me you want to say that you aren't?"

"Who are you?" Honghu instinctively said, but a second later, he corrected his question, "No... what are you?"

"What am I?" Y2-Shining repeated, he snorted coldly. "That's a very interesting question. The answer to this question should be given to us by you, so why are you asking me instead?"

As soon as these words came out, Honghu's expression changed drastically, while Zhaoying Wang and Tianma Xingkong simply showed puzzled expressions.

"Although your lines are quite stylish, but..."

Suddenly, another voice came from above, and Honghu and Zhaoying Wang instantly recognized that it was Feng Bujue's voice.

"...but the 'answer' in your sentence refers to the definition in a broad sense, while Honghu's question is only asking for a name in a narrow sense." Feng Bujue poked his head out from the top of a street-side building, joining the conversation. "So... actually, you only need to answer him with the three words 'Derivatives'."