Chapter 76-2: Reborn and Back, Ten Billion Spent in One Go (2) |
Qi Sheng also didn’t want players wasting their precious early sacrificial power on speeding up cooldowns. He would rather see them invest it in enhancing their strength.
That’s why he hasn’t made the ‘Quick Revival’ function available to players.
After all, there would definitely be players who’d waste sacrificial power just to shorten the cooldown. This would be pure waste.
As for whether this feature will be opened in the future.
Maybe when players become strong enough that their hourly sacrificial power gains can fully offset the loss from quick revivals, he’ll consider making it available.
Without paying too much attention to the veterans’ passionate battles, Qi Sheng’s perspective shifted to the rookie players.
This batch of recruits started during the Black Tide onslaught phase, and their growth approach was different from earlier batches.
They didn’t choose mining, but instead faced the Black Tide directly.
Compared to the old players’ god-like mowing-down-the-enemies style, the rookies adopted a looting strategy.
About 800 players were participating, three-quarters of whom were veteran players.
After leaving Emperor’s Mound Village, the veterans shifted into monster forms and collided head-on with the Black Tide, while the rookies followed behind, hunting for isolated Evil Entities to gang up on and kill.
Meanwhile, the voice channels were buzzing.
“These veteran players are insane. Killing Evil Entities like they’re chopping vegetables. We can barely kill one together, and I’m exhausted.”
“Look at them! Giant serpents over ten meters long shaking the ground when they roll, then look at myself, barely a one-meter-long little snake. The size difference is ridiculous. I’m so jealous.”
“Damn, the Bonefire form is so cool. I really want to know what it feels like to release deathly Inkflames. I hope I can embed the Bonefire soul soon.”
“Can someone tell me which soul ability gives that purple big gun? The way he holds it is so cool, taking out whole rows with one shot. I love it.”
“Why does that guy next to me always have white smoke swirling from his mouth every time he breathes? Is he smoking inside the game? Looks like he’s pretty addicted. Can some veteran explain this to us noobs?”
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Most veteran players chatted in their guild or squad voice channels, while the local area voice channel was flooded with the rookies’ exclamations.
Having only recently entered the game, they were extremely curious about everything in the Monster World.
They constantly marveled at the veterans’ dazzling combat skills with envy. Whenever a lone Black Tide Evil Entity appeared, they would swarm in and gang up on it.
By contrast, most veterans focused fully on grinding monsters, completely ignoring the rookies.
To veterans, Black Tide Evil Entities weren’t just evolution points and sacrificial power, but could also be converted into real-world currency.
Slaying Evil Entities and raking in cash brought them endless joy. They had no interest in babysitting rookies.
Only a few enthusiastic veterans were willing to form squads and help guide new players, explaining Monster World basics through squad voice channels in place of Guide.
As his view kept switching, Qi Sheng suddenly received feedback from Guide, and his perspective shifted to a player squad near Spirit Weapon Valley.
Not far from the battling squad, a crimson light coalesced into a floating sphere.
This scene quickly drew the squad’s attention. As they watched curiously, ripples appeared on the sphere’s surface, its shape distorting and morphing until it formed a creature resembling a puppy with two small horns on its head.
Its body was composed of black mist, sometimes thin as wisps, sometimes solidifying, looking very much like a Black Tide Evil Entity.
It was curiously observing its surroundings with sapphire-like eyes, then raised its head and let out a shrill cry.
“Yoo~”
At that moment, information analysis appeared in the squad members’ minds.
[Flowing Shadow (Second-Generation Primordial)]
Hunt Level: 1
Monster Description: A special second-generation Primordial monster that controls clone abilities. By consuming mental power, it can create a clone possessing 20% of its base physical attributes, controlled via consciousness.
Guide’s Note: The number of clones depends on the user’s mental strength. In theory, infinite clones can be created, as long as you have enough mental power to split your consciousness and maintain the clones’ consumption.
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Upon reading the analysis, the squad members widened their eyes in shock.
The squad leader immediately turned to Guide’s projection floating nearby.
“Guide, what’s going on?”
[Primordial Monsters can only be killed and contained by those of you who’ve inherited the Emperor’s Sign. Other beings in Monster World cannot truly kill Primordial Monsters. Even if killed, they will regenerate through world operations and respawn randomly… To put it simply, you guys got lucky and ran into a newly respawned Primordial Monster. Feels pretty great, huh?]
Guide explained lazily.
Upon learning the truth, the squad members exchanged glances and instantly lunged at the still-crying Flowing Shadow.
Boom!
A dark fireball slammed into the ground, creating a crater as the Flowing Shadow was instantly killed, dissolving into black mist that was absorbed by the nearby Guide projection and teleported into the underground containment wall.
In Qi Sheng’s perception view, the black mist recondensed within the containment wall.
A blue energy tube extended from the crystal wall above, connecting to the Flowing Shadow’s back. Scarlet energy was steadily extracted from its body and channeled into Emperor’s Mound Village’s underground Sacrificial Power Pool.
Meanwhile, a Challenger Notification rang out across all channels.
[Challenger Notification (Global Channel): Congratulations to players: Jungle Huang Feihong, Top Lane Dong Haichuan, Mid Lane Huo Yuanjia, Bot Lane Sun Lutang, Support Ma Yongzhen, for containing the second-generation Primordial Monster ‘Flowing Shadow.’ Sacrificial Power reward: 20,000 (shared among squad members).]
[Challenger Notification (Global Channel): New Primordial Monster Soul added to the Soul Library: Flowing Shadow (Clone)]
The successful containment notification immediately blew up the regional chat channel.
All the players were asking about the process of containing second-generation Primordials and how difficult it was.
The squad leader, Jungle Huang Feihong, was bombarded with friend requests, most of which came from guild leaders looking to buy the 20,000 sacrificial power his squad had earned from slaying the Primordial.
The sudden windfall left the squad members a bit dazed.
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