The two sides had already coordinated like this many times, and David Stone was very familiar with it, so when he saw ‘Ren Chao Entertainment’ charging forward, he rushed up immediately.

Then...

Walt Whitman's second dash didn't happen; he just stood there, not moving! Not moving!

What was going on? Before David Stone could react, the opposing Abraham Harris had already emerged from the bushes... The enemy marksman Descendant, who had been running away, also stopped in his tracks.

The next second... Benjamin Bailey was taken down by Abraham Harris, and then Ulysses Grant and Descendant took their turns, and the screen dimmed...

‘Sorry, 460... the internet suddenly got bad.’

Ethan Brooks explained, and at the same time, the Demon King system's voice came through: ‘Harming others without benefiting yourself, gained 60 Demon King points.’

Obviously, the 460 network lag just now was fake; Ethan Brooks had simply pulled off a classic move of selling out his teammates, deliberately standing still at a critical moment.

Chapter 12 Sometimes Don’t Say You Can

David Stone was so frustrated he wanted to smash his phone. He had gotten six kills without dying once, just one more to go before going godlike! And now, 460?

‘Forget it, let’s continue.’ David Stone adjusted his mindset, thinking as long as they could win, it was fine.

A minute later... David Stone was sold out again with another 460 excuse, and Ethan Brooks found that this time he only got 50 Demon King points. This made him reflect and realize that the previous “harming others without benefiting yourself” had ruined the opponent’s godlike streak, so he got 60 points for that.

Another minute passed, and both sides engaged in a big team fight. David Stone managed to get a quadra kill, and the only enemy left alive, Davy Crockett, was barely hanging on with a sliver of health.

The chance for a pentakill was right in front of him!

Walt Whitman appeared... and used his third skill to take Davy Crockett's head.

“Damn it! Walt Whitman! Didn’t you see I was about to get a pentakill?” David Stone roared at his phone: “Are you fucking blind? Is your brain waterlogged? Do you know how hard it is to get a pentakill?”

Ethan Brooks heard the Demon King system award a full 200 Demon King points this time, and naturally understood that getting a pentakill was indeed quite difficult for David Stone.

Of course, pentakills are hard to get anyway; many people play hundreds of games and never get one.

“Sorry, I didn’t notice.”

After apologizing, in the next chaotic team fight, Ethan Brooks successfully sold out four teammates and himself, resulting in a team wipe and letting the enemy directly destroy their crystal.

‘Harming others without benefiting yourself achieved, gained 200 Demon King points.’

Ethan Brooks was very satisfied with his performance this game. Besides the 1000 Demon King points from the mission reward, Mr. Stone contributed 510 Demon King points.

“Xiao Liu! Go find a place with a better internet connection! Diana Duke is in first place now!” David Stone's angry roar came through the in-game voice chat.

Ethan Brooks took another two sips of ‘goji berries’ before realizing why losing a star was worth 200 Demon King points. Turns out, the harm done in this “harming others without benefiting yourself” was big enough—knocking the opponent out of first place. He had to help get first place back quickly... and then help him lose it again.

“Other people farm bosses, but I’m just farming Mr. Stone...”

With a ten-game winning streak, Mr. Stone contributed another 500 Demon King points during the streak. He looked at his own 25 King stars, then at Diana Duke's 15 King stars, and happily logged off to rest.

Just as Ethan Brooks was about to log out of the game, he suddenly noticed that Diana Duke was still fighting hard for stars, so he casually sent a duo queue invite.

Diana Duke was quite puzzled to receive the team invite. Wasn’t this ‘Ren Chao Entertainment’ David Stone's top player in the game? Why would he invite me? Did arrogant Stone send him to mess with me? David Stone always wants to compete in everything, but I’m just playing for fun, not trying to compete with him. Whatever, it’s all just a game—if we team up, we team up.

After the two teamed up, Ethan Brooks didn’t say a word and started the match right away. Diana Duke didn’t ask why either. The two began in this silent atmosphere, and then... an eleven-game winning streak, bringing Diana Duke's King stars to twenty-six, surpassing David Stone to become the school’s top King star holder.

What was going on? Diana Duke really didn’t understand what this ‘Ren Chao Entertainment’ was up to.

‘Harming others without benefiting yourself, gained one thousand Demon King points.’

Ethan Brooks secretly wondered if he was being a bit unscrupulous, fleecing all this wool from just Mr. Stone. Was it a bit much? Maybe he should develop some other targets?

With a ‘fortune’ of 2510 Demon King points in hand, Ethan Brooks swaggered into the Demon King system, and before Shadow could react, he quickly exited again.

“What’s going on?” Shadow watched as Ethan Brooks came in and left again, completely baffled by his behavior. “Why can’t I see through this kid?”

After exiting the Demon King system, Ethan Brooks quickly opened the almanac app on his phone. Yesterday’s failed lottery draw, plus the previous encounters with the rat spirit, the fox spirit, and the class monitor Zuo Liaoliao, had made him start to believe that the wisdom of thousands of years of Chinese civilization was definitely not just feudal superstition.

All things auspicious

Those four bright red characters on the almanac made Ethan Brooks instantly feel like his luck was off the charts today!

Shadow was still lost in the feeling of not being able to figure out Ethan Brooks, when he suddenly saw this unfathomable weirdo come back again! And this time, he headed straight for the offering table.