Chapter 119-1: Tower Defense Game (1) |
Primordial Altar.
Qi Sheng’s gaze swept over the exit of the Colorful Mist Coast space.
In just a few hours, the Black Wind race had set up the initial structure of their race’s land in the rainforest behind the coast.
During this period, under leader Heiyu’s arrangements, the Black Wind warriors were divided into four groups, responsible respectively for building the station, felling trees, environmental investigation, and security patrol.
At this moment, Qi Sheng’s perception mode swept toward Heiyu, who was commanding his people to build houses.
Nearly two meters tall, Heiyu stood atop a hastily built high platform, gazing at his busy racial members in the distance, a smile spreading across his face.
He did not know whether he was happy to have escaped the Ancient God race’s capture, or happy to have easily taken the Colorful Mist Coast, or both.
But while Heiyu was happy, Qi Sheng was not.
From Guide’s feedback and data statistics, it could be seen that the arrival of the Black Wind race had caused a sharp drop in sacrificial power output over the past two hours.
So Heiyu’s happiness was built upon Qi Sheng’s loss of profit.
His view shifted to the starter village space of the Colorful Mist Coast.
The space, which could only accommodate a little over twenty thousand players, was already packed to the brim, practically human pressing on human. A large number of players had to wait in Emperor’s Mound Village because the Colorful Mist Coast space was congested.
In the voice channel, guild leaders from all the major guilds were organizing manpower and preparing to charge.
[Boss, should we open more exits? The Colorful Mist Coast space is full. If everyone floods toward a single exit, it will only be more congested.]
“No need, just open teleportation directly. Calculate how much sacrificial power it would cost to teleport each player straight out.”
[Leaving through the exit we built does not consume sacrificial power, but if we teleport directly, each player must consume 0.3 sacrificial power.]
“Then teleport directly. We can earn back the loss from the Black Wind race.”
As the words fell, Qi Sheng sent a temporary notification to all players:
[Challenger Notification (All Channels): Special crisis mission ‘Defend the Coast’ triggered. All players temporarily unlock the teleport function.]
Function introduction: Players located in the starter space of the Colorful Mist Coast area can directly descend to the Colorful Mist Coast area via the function panel (descent location is identical to the exit).
Hearing the game prompt, the guild leaders, who had been worrying about how to transport combat power out in bulk, suddenly brightened.
They all opened the function panel and found a new ‘Teleport Out’ option.
Clicking it popped up a prompt:
[Challenger Notification: Teleport out to the Colorful Mist Coast starter village space? Yes/No.]
Realizing the bulk charge battle mode could be changed to an airdrop tactic, God King, who had already formed the warband, immediately called up the warband interface, enabled permissions and mute mode. The noisy warband chat instantly fell silent, and then God King began arranging tactics.
“Brothers, the original plan was Gargoyle players charge first, and other builds follow in sequence. Now that we have the airdrop mode, we will change the tactics.”
“Here is how it goes. Players of the domain-output build will follow my command and launch the first wave. After going out, do not worry about anything else. Open your domains and screen-wipe. This wave will be led by Vosnidia, the leader of the Dinner Gang Guild. When the situation is about right, give a signal in the warband channel. The second wave will be a charge by the Gargoyle players, led by Big Gray Wolf, leader of the Mad Wolf Guild. The third wave…”
“Lastly, brothers of the Gill-Fish race and the Abyssal Mermen, follow the sixth customized assault group and take responsibility for the final wave of charging… Your combat power is too low, and it would be easy to be instantly killed by friendly fire in the earlier waves. After all, there is no teammate damage immunity mechanism in the game. When it is your turn to charge, just dps freely.”
“I have already granted warband permissions to the leaders of each charge group. Adjust the members of your own formations and prepare to heed my order to charge.”
The guild leaders, who had been dispatching different build players in a crowded environment, decisively followed God King’s instructions, called up the warband panel, kicked players of non-grouped Star Vein builds out of their party (kicked players remaining in the warband), then opened the warband list to enable filtering, kicked out other groups, and bulk-invited the builds their own group needed.
After more than ten minutes of adjustments, God King quickly flipped through the party list information. Confirming that each group was properly arranged, he immediately spoke:
“Players in the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range wait for the next round. First-wave domain-output build, prepare to charge. All of you open the function panel and click the teleport option.”
“3… 2… 1, teleport.”
With God King’s command, countless white lights rose within the starter village space.
At this time, the Black Wind race’s temporary camp.
Countless white lights appeared densely, instantly drawing the attention of Heiyu and the Black Wind warriors.
They all turned toward the flickering white lights, their expressions extremely puzzled.
When the white light dissipated, they were stunned to find that the figures in the white light were the alien life-forms they had slaughtered by the Colorful Mist Coast.
Before they could react, the players quickly spread out and all activated domain mode.
“Flames from the Abyss, heed my call: Inkflame Domain.”
With a slightly chuunibyou cry from a player, blazing flames instantly shrouded the nearby area centered on him. A large amount of lumber was ignited by Inkflame, and the Black Wind warriors within the domain’s range also suffered speed limits under the Sluggish domain during this period.
“Brothers of the Black Wind race, how about trying electrotherapy. Free cure for arrogance.”
A certain player opened the Thunderburst mode’s thunder domain, and raging current instantly rampaged outward centered on him.
All kinds of damage output domains unfolded at once, instantly making the Black Wind race dumbfounded.
Several Black Wind warriors were killed on the spot under a series of continuous suppressions from inherited soul traits such as flames, lightning, Bind, and so on, without even having time to make a move.
“Call back all the dispatched investigation teams and counterattack for me.”
Seeing the race’s land they had painstakingly built being dismantled under the raging elemental domains, Heiyu’s eyes nearly split. He immediately leaped down from the temporary watchtower.
Steadying himself, Heiyu braved the raging Inkflame Domain, rushed to a player, drew the moon-arc saber hanging at his waist, swept it across the player’s neck, and shattered him into a cloud of black mist:
“Kill.”
Heiyu let out a shout, then pounced again toward another player not far away.
Other than being caught off guard at the beginning, the Black Wind race quickly organized their forces to sweep the descending players.
Facing a one-sided rout, Li Siyu spoke in the voice channel:
“Those who can, set a self-detonation bomb off before you leave and prepare to exit.”
After speaking, Li Siyu switched the team chat channel to the warband chat channel:
“God King, it’s almost over here. Get ready.”
“OK, received.”
In the Colorful Mist Coast starter village space, God King replied at once, then began organizing the next round, the Gargoyle players’ charge.
This round of charging would relay with the third round.
First, after descending, the Gargoyle players would spread out and activate Taunt to draw fire, then the spirit weapon damage output build players would enter to pick off Black Wind warriors.
After waiting five minutes, God King once again issued the order to charge.
At once, the Gargoyle-build players all chose to teleport, turning into white light and disappearing from the Colorful Mist Coast space.
On the other side, the Black Wind warriors were clearing a messy open area.
The white light that followed instantly made them tense. Realizing this mysterious alien group was descending again, they rushed toward the white light to strike first.
The well-prepared Gargoyle players also decisively activated Petrification.
The scene became chaotically turbulent once more.
The hate-drawing impact of Taunt even drove some Black Wind warriors insane, sending them into a frenzy.
With the flicker of a new round of white light, the spirit weapon build players entered the field and, taking advantage of the gap while the Black Wind warriors were madly attacking the Gargoyle players, began the slaughter.
“What a relief, being arranged to charge right after the Gargoyle build, I feel full of security.”
“Kill. Being blocked at our doorstep is an utter humiliation. I’m going to make them howl.”
“Gargoyle brothers, watch your friendlies. Control the Taunt coverage range. Don’t torment our own. Everyone, let’s go!”
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