Chapter 81 | The Horror Game Gave Me a Witch's Talent

The bullet chat bantered back and forth.

But soon, everyone's attention shifted back to that eerie array.

【By the way, what kind of array did Lady Witch just draw?】

【Does anyone know? I feel like you can't even find it in the live stream platform's array database.】

【It's not just that you can't find it; you can't even find any similar rune structures.】

【Never mind you guys, I've been watching horror live streams for almost a year now, and I've never seen this style before.】

【Whoa, where did the big shot upstairs come from? The horror descent only happened a year ago, right? And you've been watching streams for a whole year?】

【To survive until now, they must be a big shot on the Peak Leaderboard, right?】

【It's alright. Don't hype up the Peak Leaderboard like they're gods. People on the Peak Leaderboard are human too; they still get hurt in dungeons just like anyone else.】

【Big shot, big shot! Can you tell if this array is powerful or not?】

【Lady Witch had to use three potions to finish drawing it, so there's no way this array is weak, right?】

The live stream room fell silent for a few seconds.

Then, a line of text in a different color from the ordinary bullet comments floated across the screen.

【I can't tell its exact purpose.】

【This isn't a standard dungeon array, nor does it look like any known mental or curse-type Talent derivative ability.】

【But its rank won't be lower than A-rank.】

That single sentence made the bullet chat explode even harder.

【A-rank?!!】

【That's way too exaggerated!】

【Isn't this only her second dungeon? She can use an A-rank array in her second dungeon?】

【To the person above, strictly speaking, she only just entered her second dungeon not long ago.】

【Is this the legendary genius?】

【Where on earth did she learn this?】

【Is it possible she already knew it in the real world?】

【Since we have a Nuo opera successor like Zhu Lingxi in reality, it wouldn't be surprising if there was a Witch successor too, right?】

【But there was absolutely no news about Cen Yao before this.】

【True reclusive clans with deep heritages wouldn't have the time to advertise themselves online every day.】

【That's true.】

【Speaking of which, has no one dug up the Witch's Talent yet?】

【She has too many tricks up her sleeve. Flames, blade shadows, healing, plants, space storage, arrays... During the day, she can even make malatang, conjure rattan chairs, and set up big beds... I can't even tell which one is her actual Talent.】

【No matter what, her Talent is definitely not lower than SS-rank.】

【Siren and Nuo are already so powerful, but the pressure the Witch gives off feels even stronger than theirs.】

【Then doesn't that make her SSS-rank?!】

【!!!】

【Lady Witch is the best!】

【SSS-rank Lady Witch!】

【The strongest rookie!】

【Don't be so quick to call her the strongest; Talent doesn't equal strength.】

【But the strength Lady Witch is showing right now is already absurd enough.】

【Nuo, who is second on the Rookie Leaderboard, is beside her. Siren, who is eighty-ninth on the Peak Leaderboard, is beside her. Yet the camera still makes you unable to look away from her.】

【I guess she was just born to be the protagonist.】

These bullet comments reflected the views of most ordinary players.

They were shocked by Cen Yao's power and curious about the endless tricks up her sleeve.

But the truly veteran players kept their eyes fixed on that array.

They replayed the footage of Cen Yao drawing the array frame by frame.

They observed her state every time her magic was depleted.

They noted the timing of when she drank those three potions.

They analyzed the subtle fluctuations in rules that occurred throughout the coffee plantation once the array was complete.

Cen Yao had made no effort to hide her actions from the camera when drinking the potions.

Three advanced recovery potions.

Three near-collapses from exhaustion.

This meant the consumption of that array was terrifyingly high.

Based on all the live stream recordings of Cen Yao they had reviewed, her energy reserves were by no means low.

If converted into the standard power system of the Horror Game, she possessed at least the energy reserves of an A-rank player.

Perhaps even higher.

Furthermore, the abilities she displayed were incredibly diverse.

Elemental attacks, healing support, creation, and arrays.

Any one of these abilities, taken on its own, would take an ordinary player a very long time to master.

Yet Cen Yao seemed to face no bottlenecks whatsoever.

It was as if she were born knowing how to use magic.

Yet even a person like Cen Yao had still been completely drained of all her magic and mental strength after drawing this array.

The power of this array was definitely not as simple as it appeared on the surface.

【She wasn't drawing an offensive array.】

Another special bullet comment drifted slowly across the screen.

【If it were a pure offensive array, it wouldn't need such complex outer karmic nodes.】

【That array must have locked onto something.】

【Or rather, it has locked onto a relationship.】

【What relationship?】

【I don't know.】

【But I have a rather bad feeling.】

【The owner of this dungeon might be in for some serious trouble.】

Cen Yao had no idea that the people outside the live stream were analyzing her array with such intense fervor.

Even if she did, she would probably only lazily raise an eyelid.

And then tell them with absolute certainty:

Of course.

This is a causal-law array.

How could it not be powerful?

A truly complete Karmic Retribution Array was far more terrifying than the version she had drawn.

As long as one of the two parties involved in the karmic relationship stepped into the array, the other party—no matter where they hid, whether they were alive or dead, and regardless of whether they were in the same time or space—would be traced by the array.

Everything the perpetrator had once inflicted would be laid bare within the array.

All the covered-up truths, suppressed voices, and forgotten suffering would be presented in their entirety.

There was no hiding.

No regrets.

No shielding.

Once the array was activated, it would be a thorough settlement of accounts.

Good deeds would reap good rewards.

Evil deeds would reap evil consequences.

It was naturally designed for the weak who had no way to seek justice, whose voices had been forced down, and who had no avenue for appeal.

It gave those who had been stripped of their right to speak a chance to be heard.

It brought buried truths back to the light of day.

It left those villains who believed they could escape the law, their consciences, and the eyes of everyone else with nowhere left to run.

Of course.

That was the complete form.

Cen Yao would have to at least become an Advanced Witch before she could truly touch that kind of power which transcended time, space, life, death, and rules.