"I just relayed the message verbatim, no need to get worked up..." Mu You shook his head, not counting on the other party believing him. He signaled his summoned creatures to join the battle, swiftly sending him to his death once more.
But this time, Gemini didn’t flee after death. He hovered in place, rapidly pulling out two cards and merging them into the crystal.
Immediately, he summoned a Fire Giant to block the pursuers. He, himself, surfaced on the water, his crazed eyes fixed on Mu You, laughing loudly: "I may be doomed, but you won’t be getting any of my stuff!"
Laughing uproariously, he removed the Gemini ring from his right hand, holding it in his left.
A flash of lightning surged from his palm, and when he reopened his hand, the ring had turned to dust and disappeared.
He then began to remove each piece of equipment and artifact from his body, placing them in his left hand where they all reduced into dust and disappeared.
Watching this, Mu You’s expression was odd, was this guy simply giving up and destroying his own gear?
Regardless of his intentions, Mu You killed the Fire Giant and led his summoned creatures to continue targeting Gemini.
This time, Gemini didn’t even attempt to dodge or evade, courageously welcoming death. After resurrecting, he continued his spree of ’burning’ the items in his bag, wearing a smug smile. As if destroying his own belongings was his way of taking revenge on Mu You.
With the enemy not putting up a fight, Mu You’s job was a lot easier, so he quickened his attacks.
Upon his sixty-seventh demise, Gemini abruptly pulled out a palm-sized furnace and, as per usual, set it on fire in his left hand.
However, this time, the furnace didn’t vanish like the previous items. Instead, it made a dull ’thump’ sound, its surface cracked, and Gemini didn’t catch it in time, causing it to fly out of his hand.
Gemini hastily tried to retrieve it, but Mu You wouldn’t give him such an opportunity. He cast a shockwave, knocking Gemini away before he could recover the furnace.
Then he teleported over, quickly picking up and stowing away the furnace.
Whatever it was, since it didn’t get destroyed in one go like the other equipment, it certainly was no ordinary item!
Spotting the furnace getting nabbed by Mu You from afar, Gemini grimaced, although he dared not provoke Mu You. His remaining lifespan was running out and he hastened to destroy the rest of his items.
Soon, every item Gemini possessed was destroyed, including the outer skin of his bag, leaving behind only an indestructible spatial node on the spot. By this time, Gemini’s lifespan, too, was at its end.
When the final hammer of the Troll War God smashed down, Gemini fell once again, dying a brutal death.
Finally, a prompt appeared in Mu You’s mind.
[You have completely killed ’Ximen Chang Bai’, lifespan +1, experience +10.]
Including this time, Mu You killed Gemini a total of 122 times, accumulating 122 years of lifespan and 1242 points of experience.
This time, after Gemini’s death, he didn’t vanish again.
Over his body, a familiar hexahedral crystal automatically floated up.
Undoubtedly, this was the Legacy Crystal of Gemini.
Mu You stepped forward, intending to try and touch the crystal.
Naturally, he couldn’t feel anything.
The object itself was an illusory existence without a physical form. It didn’t belong to the Star Spirit World and couldn’t be collected by the game. Even if Gemini were to die on Earth, the crystal would burst out of his body, and be inherited by the first person to touch it.
As expected, the very next second, the crystal disappeared and automatically merged into MuYou’s body.
Immediately, Mu You could sense a new crystal appearing next to the secret technique crystal in the depths of his mind.
Simultaneously, a new ring quietly appeared on his finger, with the Gemini emblem engraved on the top.
Mu You looked doubtfully at the Gemini ring on his finger. Wasn’t this object destroyed?
"The essence of the ring is an inter-dimensional passage, an accessory made from the scraps of the crystal. Its form is merely a decoration. To ensure that every inheritor from the association receives two complete items, the ring automatically resets its state whenever the crystal’s inheritor changes. No matter where it is, it will reassemble on the hand of the new inheritor," Vivian’s voice echoed in his head.
"So that’s the way it is..."
Mu You nodded, realizing that the Secret Technique Crystal and the ring were both completely disconnected from the Star Spirit World system and were not restricted by the rules of the Star Spirit World..
Next, he finally had the chance to inspect his new crystal.
Of course, the crystal wasn’t empty. There were secret technique cards on each of the three output surfaces. They were the last three Gemini had: Shockwave, Fire Giant, and Annihilation Technique.
He already possessed the Shockwave secret technique, so there was no need to mention it.
He had also seen and even used the Fire Giant personally, tempting him greatly. Now, it finally became his first high-order secret technique.
Lastly, there was the ’Annihilation Technique’ that he was encountering for the first time.
[Annihilation Technique: Low-order Black Magic of the Thunder Element, used to destroy rarely destroyable items with highly concentrated Thunder Element energy. It only takes effect on unclaimed articles, ineffective on living beings.]
This was a technique specifically for destroying objects. From what Gemini had destroyed earlier, even epic-level artifacts could be effortlessly ruined by this technique.
Of course, this technique had two restrictions: ’unowned items’ and ’nonliving’, meaning it couldn’t work against enemy players or be used to destroy an enemy’s equipment. No wonder Gemini had to specifically remove all equipment before destroying them.