Chapter 5: Immortality

【Immortal】 (SS Rank)
You are Death itself.

【Skill 1】Wait for me, I’m going home: Upon your death, your corpse will randomly appear inside an underground coffin. You will resurrect after 7 natural days. This skill activates once every 365 natural days.

【Skill 2】Only the dead obey: You can control the creatures that died by your hand. The duration of control and the number of creatures you can command depend on your mana.

【Skill 3】Death Mimicry: Designate a target who died by your hand and imitate their divine gift. Only one target can be designated at a time. Switching targets will cause the previously mimicked divine gift to disappear.

【Skill 4】I’m not crazy, I’m just dark: When using any dark side skill or item, the skill effect is enhanced by 50%.

【Skill 5】Return of the Dead: When on the battlefield, you can use this skill to resurrect all fallen kin to continue fighting for you. Cooldown period is 90 natural days.

This talent is practically made for the battlefield. Especially Skill 5—it’s no wonder that undead leader ruled a city, and why this divine gift is rated SS rank.

Unfortunately, Skills 4 and 5 are grayed out, clearly not successfully stolen.

But she was already satisfied, particularly with Skill 1. Being alive is the only chance; even though the cooldown lasts a whole year, this skill was the one she was most pleased with among all.

Her fate was undeniably tough.

Names of countless enemies flashed through Yu Xunge’s mind.

Her potions, weapons, and gold coins in her backpack were all intact. She even managed to exploit a bug to acquire the undead race’s talent. If she still lost with such a start, then she deserved it.

Knocking sounded from the next room, followed by exclamations.

After a quick shower, Yu Xunge left her room, as if oblivious to the shocked and flustered expressions of Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo. She covered her forehead and said, “I signed a new endorsement deal yesterday, so I came back to have a drink with my brother. I’m off to work now, you guys get him some hangover soup.”

Without waiting for a response, she left.

Before leaving, she casually tried to use her skills on them but found she couldn’t. Remembering the skill description’s line, “Cannot harm creatures with a lower life level than yourself; the Thief God never bullies the weak,” she guessed it was because they weren’t players and had a lower life tier, so she couldn’t steal from them. What about players below her level in the future? Would those be untouchable too?

Lost in thought as she stepped outside, she realized her phone was missing.

Wearing a mask and carrying her ID, she went to replace her SIM card. Fortunately, although she was in the entertainment industry, it was just a minor tier-three circle. Even if recognized on the street, it would only result in a few photos taken, not a mob.

Shortly after purchasing a new phone and inserting the new SIM, Liu Zhengliu’s call came through.

Feigning ignorance of the anger in his voice, she directly requested three days off.

Liu Zhengliu was taken aback by her confidence: “Don’t you want to stay in this industry?!”

Yu Xunge sighed, “Give me three days, I’m really a little tired. How about we have a drink together after that?”

That last sentence silenced Liu Zhengliu. Thinking she could give an explanation to Director Liu in three days, he swallowed his anger and said, “Then rest well. Don’t keep things bottled up.”

After a few “hmm” sounds, she hung up and drove out of the city.

She had been discovered by a scout and brought into the entertainment world in her sophomore year of college. Now 26, she was just a minor celebrity, but the industry was lucrative, and she had no extravagant tastes. Even after gradually giving her parents and brother over seventy million yuan, she still had more than eighty million in her account.

Even if she stopped working, she would never be short of money.

After the game invasion, money quickly depreciated. Over time, monsters appeared in increasing numbers, dungeons multiplied, and players traded items, weapons, and armor using in-game currency. Within six months, real-world currency was replaced by gold, silver, and copper coins.

She knew Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo were eyeing her eighty million. In her previous life, it was on this very day that she was nearly pushed into the bald CEO’s bed by Liu Zhengliu, but she endured the nausea to show Yu Xunhuan the villa. Later, a dungeon entrance appeared in the basement of that villa she bought for Yu Xunhuan…

If real estate once symbolized wealth, then after the game invasion, possessing a secret dungeon entrance was like owning a treasure mountain.

Dungeons were time-space portals sent by alien races as vanguards. Having a dungeon entrance known only to oneself meant enjoying all the resources those aliens dropped within. What else could be more precious?

Today, Yu Xunge bought that very villa she had gifted to Yu Xunhuan in her previous life, putting it under her own name.

She even skipped the step of viewing the property and settled the matter before dinner.

Without eating, she went straight to the flower and bird market to buy a thrush, then carried the bird and picked up a few takeout dishes at a nearby restaurant before returning to the small villa she had purchased with her own money.

Upon entering, she deleted the fingerprints and facial recognition data of Yu Qingshan, Yi Qiuguo, Yu Xunhuan, and others from the main door.

Sitting down, she twisted the thrush’s neck while opening the takeout boxes.

Then she activated the skill 【Only the Dead Obey】. Almost instantly, she felt a connection established between herself and the dead thrush. With a thought, the thrush cocked its head to one side, then flew up, its head strangely straightening as if an invisible hand had helped it.

Closing her eyes to concentrate, she could “see” everything through the thrush’s eyes: the spacious living room and a woman sitting cross-legged before the sofa.

Watching the time, she directed the thrush to circle the room.

After finishing her meal, she tidied up the room a bit. She had never stayed in this villa before, preferring to live with her so-called family during breaks.

She then took the thrush and drove out to buy clothes and toiletries, continuously controlling the thrush to fly above the car. Before going to bed, she instructed the thrush to keep flying without rest.

The next morning at seven, she checked her mana: twenty points left.

Controlling a dead thrush to fly nonstop for twelve hours only consumed eighty mana points. What about controlling an adult human?

That day, Yu Xunge brushed off Yi Qiuguo’s comment about her already having a house while her brother still needed one, and organized her parcels. She bought three identical large storage boxes, dividing her guns, bullets, and explosives into them, stacking the boxes in a game inventory slot.

She kept one fully loaded gun in another slot.

Healing and mana potions she wouldn’t store like this. These needed to be at hand at all times—every second counted in life-or-death situations—so she filled an entire slot with them for peace of mind.

She ordered an herbal medicine cabinet from a traditional pharmacy, paid extra for same-day delivery, labeled each drawer with the herb’s name, and stocked the herbs inside. Extra healing and mana potions went to a bottom-row cabinet.

Now, out of thirty inventory slots, she had only used five: 99 basic healing potions, 99 basic mana potions, 3 basic invisibility potions, 1 low-quality shotgun, and 3 storage boxes.