Chapter 55: What Kind of Game Makes You Rely on True Damage This Early?! |
However, after seeing the NPCs bypass the little bear, Jiang Chen also noticed the problem.
“I’m numb. Looks like I overthought this.”
“I thought this Candy Bear had some kind of high aggro mechanic.”
In many of the games Jiang Chen had played before, summons similar to Candy Bear usually came with naturally high aggro.
And after Candy Bear transformed into a tank, it fit that setting even more.
Originally, Jiang Chen had been thinking about changing up his combat style in the future.
When fighting bosses later on, Candy Bear could stand in front and pull aggro, giving him a relatively comfortable output environment.
Now it seemed he had simply been overthinking things.
It could not even hold the aggro of a few ordinary wild monsters. “This is really hard to cope with.”
“Looks like it’s about enough.”
The moment those words fell, Jiang Chen decisively detonated the bear.
“BOOM—!”
Along with the deafening explosion, flames instantly engulfed the entire apartment building.
The once luxuriously decorated apartment was immediately swallowed by fire, and the window glass shattered apart.
The room Vivian rented was on the first floor, and the entire apartment building only had three floors.
By the time everything ended, half of the apartment building had already been blown away.
The remaining half looked as if it could collapse at any moment.
The apartment was basically beyond repair now.
“This feels way too satisfying!” Seeing this scene, Vivian somehow felt a faint sense of exhilaration in her heart.
Thinking back to when that guy demanded she compensate him with one hundred thousand gold coins, Vivian had briefly entertained the terrifying thought of simply blowing up the apartment building altogether.
But she had only thought about it. She never would have dared to actually do it.
Yet Lord God had blown it up without the slightest hesitation.
However, after that brief feeling of satisfaction, fear completely swallowed Vivian once again.
“This has become a huge incident!”
“And an unbelievably huge one at that!”
They had blown up an apartment building in Silvermoon City’s wealthy district, and even the Enforcement Officers had been caught in the blast.
This time, they had truly blown a hole through the heavens...
And...
There were many innocent people inside the apartment building too.
At that thought, an ominous feeling rose in Vivian’s heart.
Although Lord God had controlled her body to do all of this, Vivian still felt deeply uneasy inside.
Compared to Vivian, Jiang Chen did not care in the slightest.
In Jiang Chen’s eyes, these people were nothing more than a few neutral wild monsters.
The fact that he had not carried over his bad habit from other games of routinely farming every neutral monster he encountered into this game was already pretty commendable.
Expecting him to deliberately avoid neutral monsters whenever he used skills was basically unrealistic.
Besides, there had not even been any accidental casualties in this wave.
The reason was simple. In a world with supernatural powers, when something happened, most people’s first instinct was not to gather around and watch the excitement—it was to run.
Especially ordinary people. Their first reaction was to flee as far away as possible.
As for those who wanted to watch the show, they generally possessed some degree of strength and would choose a viewing distance based on their own abilities, though they usually stayed very far away.
The commotion caused by Jiang Chen’s side earlier had already drawn most of the apartment residents out to investigate.
Then, after realizing the situation was bad, many of them had fled before he even made a move.
Another portion had immediately run far away once the little bear started attacking.
Compared to accidentally killing wild monsters, Jiang Chen cared much more about the damage numbers that popped up.
“So what’s going on with my damage?”
Although a huge number of damage values appeared from this explosion—
The numbers themselves were not high.
Aside from the few people who tried to bypass the bear and chase after him, who directly took around 17,000 damage from the explosion—
The remaining numbers were ridiculously strange. -9700 was the largest among them, followed by a sea of values like -100 and -300.
“What the hell is this nonsense?!”
“That 9700 probably hit their magic shield.”
“And those one or two hundred damage values were the damage after the shield broke.”
Clearly, the magic shield had blocked almost all of his damage.
“The hell? Their resistances are that high?”
It had to be known that among Jiang Chen’s damage right now, his true damage had already exceeded 8,000.
“My total damage is 18,000.”
“Damn it, so over ten thousand points of my regular damage got reduced all the way down to 1,700? What kind of bullshit is this?!”
That magic shield was absurdly durable.
Originally, Jiang Chen thought his damage was already enough to slaughter everything in his path, but now it seemed his damage was still far too low.
Absolutely ridiculous!
What kind of decent game cranks resistances this high right from the start?
Under normal circumstances, games in the early stages barely relied on true damage at all. Only in the late game, when monsters gained extremely high resistances, did true damage become important.
But who could have guessed that this game demanded such high true damage attributes right from the early game?
“At this rate, doesn’t that mean that by the late game, every damage type except true damage becomes useless?”
Given the current situation, it was difficult for Jiang Chen not to think that way.
.......
What Jiang Chen did not know was that while he found this outrageous, Peter’s side was not doing much better.
“How is this possible?!” At this moment, the somewhat bedraggled Peter stared blankly at the shattered crystal ball in his hand.
This crystal ball had cost him a tremendous amount of money. It could release a single Fifth Ring defensive spell: Sacred Protection.
Just moments ago, when Peter saw the little bear’s body turn crimson red, he instinctively sensed that something was wrong.
So he immediately activated the magic stored inside the crystal ball.
At the same time, the Enforcement Officer beside him also instantly cast a Third Ring defensive spell.
Yet even with the two defensive spells stacked together, they still failed to block the explosion, and their side still suffered devastating losses.
At present, only five people remained alive here. Aside from himself and a Two-Ring bodyguard, there were also three Enforcement Officers, though all of them had been severely injured.
“How could she possibly be this strong?!”
That had been a Fifth Ring defensive spell. Even if a Six-Ring Mage cast a Sixth Ring spell, it should have been impossible to shatter it.
At this moment, Peter had already begun regretting everything.
For the sake of his petty hobby, not only had he lost the apartment building, he had nearly lost his own life as well.
Naturally, Peter had heard of the Empire’s Twin Stars.
That was also why, after learning that these two women were the ones who caused trouble, malicious thoughts arose in his heart.
Compared to ordinary people, these two clearly gave Peter a much stronger sense of conquest.
“But how could she dare do this?!”
“Doesn’t she know what consequences this will bring?!”
Without question, Vivian and Lilith would become wanted criminals in Silvermoon City.
Even escaping Silvermoon City would be useless. Their wanted posters would be seen by bounty hunters everywhere.
No matter where they hid in the future, they would constantly have to worry about suddenly being killed by bounty hunters.
And if they failed to escape Silvermoon City, things would be even worse.
They would be arrested directly, and considering the crimes they committed, they would probably be executed on the spot.
Peter refused to believe they did not know this.
Yet what happened in the end?
They still made their move.