Chapter 141-1: Campaign Victory, Bully Strengthening (1) |
Azure Star Sea Region, Evil Moon domain.
With the energy delivered from three nodes, Rotbane’s repressed mood eased.
Unlike the energy provided by the Territory Nodes below and the corrosion core, the other nodes were sending Black Tide energy that could be used directly without conversion through the tower furnace.
What disappointed him was that the node providing intelligence on the player race still could not connect.
Originally he had planned to have Evil Spirit warriors who had fought the player race provide him with war assistance, even to the point of commanding the battle in his stead.
But according to the purple-skinned Evil Eye’s feedback, the intelligence-providing node was engaged in fierce combat with the Battle Swarm and could not offer any help.
“Evil Eye, allocate part of the energy to upgrade the tower furnace. Use the rest to generate doomsday series units.”
After issuing the order, Rotbane’s perception mode instantly descended upon the front line ahead.
His gaze focused, the surging black mist rapidly condensed, and mass-produced Doomsday Warriors and Doomsday Behemoths emerged from within.
Players currently slugging it out with the Black Tide quickly sensed something wrong.
The Black Tide’s strength had clearly climbed, and the levels of the Black Tide Evil Entities being generated had also risen significantly.
This made players curse out loud, yet it also firmed their resolve to crush the newly born Evil Spirit.
As one player put it in the regional voice channel: This one’s growth potential is terrifying to this degree and must not be allowed to remain.
Upon learning that the newly born Evil Spirit had extremely strong growth potential, many casual players and scenery seeking players could no longer sit still.
The Colorful Mist Coast region was a sacred land in the eyes of casual players, scenery seeking players, and fishing players alike.
Unlike the high-intensity confrontations in the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range, those in the Colorful Mist Coast region could freely choose what they wanted to do.
Upon hearing that the Black Tide had strengthened, the first image they pictured was the Evil Moon shrouding the Colorful Mist Coast region, formerly sunlit beaches parasitized by large numbers of twisted corrosion cores, the once blue sea turning into a blood-colored vast ocean, the refreshing sea breeze becoming a biting gloomy wind, and all kinds of delicious marine life also being ruined by the Evil Moon.
After that, the Colorful Mist Coast region would keep spawning disgusting, ugly derivative Evil Entities.
As a player on a forum calling everyone to join the battle explained:
“Think about it. You take your girlfriend out of the starter village, sit on the beach eating Spiritual Food and singing songs, then suddenly the Evil Moon arrives and an ugly blood corpse spawns right in your face, so gross you can’t even eat. So this battle is also for yourselves. Everyone, come join the fight.”
That line hit casual players hard.
It framed the proactive offensive into the Evil Moon domain as a counteroffensive against the Black Tide’s invasion.
Large numbers of players who were exploring new areas or fishing along the coast headed toward the Evil Moon domain, wanting to contribute their strength to this war and absolutely refusing to let the Colorful Mist Coast fall under the Black Tide’s rule.
This time, all players poured out in force, determined to take down the newly descended Evil Spirit.
The scene of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea played out again.
The casual players’ vehicles were just as varied, especially those of scenery seeking players and exploration-party players. Those who often traveled long distances generally had general-purpose vehicles.
At this moment inside the Evil Moon domain, the great battle continued.
With energy support from three nodes, Rotbane activated a crazy mass unit-spawning mode, crushing players all the way to the shoreline.
Having seized the advantage, the Rotbane Evil Spirit’s confidence also surged. Controlling the Black Tide, he prepared to devour every player at the shore.
Just then, a new wave of players arrived through the Evil Moon domain.
The newly arrived players were far inferior to the main force in capability, but they far outstripped them in their ability to stir things up.
For example, the fishing players.
Electric Rod, Self-Detonation Rod, Binding Rod, and so on.
Fishing rods were their weapons. Various traits paired with rods were flung wildly across the battlefield.
During this period, a batch of oddball Pokemon-type players also appeared.
These players had all embedded the Control Inherited soul and fought by beast-taming.
But unlike Yu Yun controlling Tian Bing.
This batch of scenery seeking players had captured only low hunt level monsters.
The most outrageous was a player who brought 50 Gold-Claw Crabs, caught on the beach and at hunt level 0, charging at the Black Tide, a sight that truly made the nearby players’ jaws drop.
Before this, Gold-Claw Crabs had been defined as delicious ingredients, with combat power that could basically be counted as 0.
Although getting pinched on the finger hurt, the lethality stopped at pain and was not fatal.
Right on the spot, nearby players called out a reminder, telling him not to feed them to their deaths and that if there were many crabs he could save them for himself to eat.
There were many other kinds of bizarre monsters as well, with combat power too unbearable to look at, purely there as friendly participation.
This kind of scenery seeking player contributed quite a bit to exploring the big map of the Monster World, but in actual combat they were truly underwhelming.
Yet not all scenery seeking players were weak. Some scenery seeking players put on a standout performance in battle.
These players understood a truth deeply. How far you can go depends entirely on your own strength. Only your own strength is the foundation for exploring the Monster World.
Five days later.
After continuous high-intensity combat, Rotbane discovered that players simply could not be killed off.
Several times he wiped out all the player race’s combat power on the island, but the members of the player race would soon reorganize and come killing again.
The energy supported by the three nodes was almost exhausted, and the tower furnace had not yet been upgraded. The speed of converting energy could not keep up with the rate units were being consumed.
At this rate, he would soon fall into disadvantage again.
But aside from continuing to fight, he had no way to extricate himself.
The Black Tide, which usually grew stronger the more it fought, had actually become the side being worn down in front of the player race, leaving the Rotbane Evil Spirit truly stifled.
Realizing that he would be doomed to defeat if this continued, he could only once more seek support from other nodes.
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Abyss of Heaven Territory Node.
Upon receiving the Azure Star Sea Region node’s request for support, the Earthmind Evil Spirit, who was controlling the Black Tide and fighting the Swarm, was about to refuse without hesitation.
But the Evil Eye interrupted at that moment.
“Earthmind, the situation at the Azure Star Sea Region node is not good. At this rate it won’t hold for long before it is overrun by the player race.”
“What does that have to do with me?” The Earthmind Evil Spirit was very puzzled.
“I think we can find an opportunity to step in and support.”
Hearing this, the Earthmind Evil Spirit turned his head to look at the Evil Eye floating behind him. He knew that since the Evil Eye had said so, it must have an idea.
“Speak. What outrageous and treasonous idea do you have this time?”
The Evil Eye blinked and continued.
“According to intelligence shared with me by other nodes, there is a clear regulation in the region governed by the king. All Evil Spirits who provide support and join the battle have the right to handle all resources of the node of any fallen Evil Spirit. Now the node in the Azure Star Sea Region is locked in a bitter fight. From the feedback it could be wiped out by the player race at any time. I suggest we provide support before the Rotbane Evil Spirit dies and offer remote command assistance.”
“You wicked Evil Eye!” At these words, the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s eyes went wide.
He finally understood why the Evil Eye had suddenly changed its mind and wanted him to provide support.
Support was a pretense. Collecting the corpse was the reality. By taking over the Black Tide’s command at the final moment, he could seize control of and devour all remaining energy of the node under the Rotbane Evil Spirit.
It looked like support, but was in fact outrageous and treasonous.
“Evil Eye, are you mad, plotting against our own?”
“I am an auxiliary eye, only providing suggestions. If you think my suggestion is unreasonable, you can veto it… also, I strongly recommend you veto my proposal. This indeed violates the Black Tide regulations.”
At these words the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s eyes went wide again.
He realized the Evil Eye seemed to have gone bad.
The once simple Evil Eye was now playing mind games with him. First it offered a huge temptation, then it apologized and claimed it had given a wrong suggestion, hoping he would not choose that suggestion.
“Evil Eye, your heart is dirty.”
“I have no heart, so do you need me to refuse?” The Evil Eye blinked very innocently.
“Wait. Keep observing the situation at the Azure Star Sea Region node and give full support at the critical moment.”
“Earthmind, you just said this idea is outrageous and treasonous, in violation of the Black Tide regulations.”
“They are all Evil Spirit warriors loyal to the Black Tide. I have a duty to provide help.”
“Earthmind, your heart is dirty.”
“Shut up.”
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