Chapter 150-3: Fabricating a Backstory, Observing the Environment (3) |
In the past two days, two Primordial Monsters were contained again in the Rimewinter Snowfield region.
The first Primordial Monster was contained by the veteran player ‘Lone Wolf Assassin.’
[Insight (Third-Generation Primordial)]:
Primordial trait: After actively releasing it, enter Insight Vision and discover the weak points on the target. The specific insight effect is influenced by one’s own mental power intensity and the target’s vitality intensity. The higher one’s own mental power intensity, the more obvious the insight analysis effect. The higher the target’s vitality intensity, the weaker the insight analysis effect.
After the Insight trait is released, the world seen by the player turns gray and white.
Life in the eyes becomes aggregates formed by countless blood-red light points. The strength of the radiance emitted by the blood-red light points can be used to distinguish the target’s weak points.
The lower the light point intensity, the weaker the defense at that location.
The appearance of this Inherited Soul greatly boosted the strength of the Mark Inherited Soul.
The most upvoted Star Vein combination build on the forum was: Weak Point Strike Build.
The combat characteristic of this combination is to use Insight to identify the target’s weak point location, then use Mark to apply a guaranteed-hit mark. Subsequent strikes can precisely hit the weak point, achieving a continuous weak-point shattering damage output effect.
The second Primordial Monster was contained by the Skyfeather race player ‘Monochrome Alarm Clock.’
[Blood Rebound (Second-Generation Primordial)]:
Primordial trait: After actively releasing it, a vitality barrier forms around the body that can reflect elemental and physical forms of attacks. The specific reflection effect is influenced by the Inherited Soul level, one’s own vitality intensity, and the intensity of the attacks received. Note: It cannot reflect spiritual shock-type damage, and it cannot reflect lethal damage received.
With the debut of the Blood Rebound Inherited Soul, the strength of tank-type builds rose by a notch.
It gave tank-build players a means of damage output without affecting their own defensive strength.
The only drawback of the Blood Rebound Inherited Soul is that each activation consumes a large amount of vitality, which severely tests the timing control of tank-build players.
If every reflection can be precise, the damage performance in the test tower is astonishing.
It can even be paired with Venomous and other special-effect builds to increase the damage values caused by reflection.
This is an Inherited Soul that better suits technical tank-build players, sending tank-build players, who had not been strengthened for a long time, into rapture.
For Star Vein pairing, the most upvoted combination on the forum was: Gargoyle (Petrification), Bloodthirst, Blood Rebound, Roar, Sluggish, Black-Scaled Serpent (Venomous).
This setup is composed entirely of Inherited Souls that primarily amplify vitality intensity.
While maximizing damage soaking capability, it also has decent damage output.
The combat method in the test tower is to soak damage through Petrification, use the Sluggish domain and Roar for close-quarters control, then rely on the continuous healing of the Bloodthirst Inherited Soul, and have the Blood Rebound Inherited Soul paired with the Black-Scaled Serpent Inherited Soul launch a damage-soaking counterattack at key moments.
The appearance of these two new Inherited Souls gave notable boosts to the strength of tank builds and long-range physical damage builds.
Many players who enjoy trying new playstyles have already begun using these two new build combinations.
After scanning the forum’s gameplay evaluations of these two new combinations, Qi Sheng’s view switched to the Rimewinter Snowfield region.
A comparison of the three exploration regions.
At present, the Colorful Mist Coast region has the highest degree of exploration.
Players have already explored and discovered five offshore islands, as well as a large number of alien forces. Multiple Territory Nodes have also been found in the dense forest to the rear.
The scene expansion has already surpassed the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range region.
Next is the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range region. Due to being constantly constrained by two great bullies, players’ development and exploration of new areas in the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range have hit a bottleneck and cannot expand freely like the Colorful Mist Coast.
At the bottom is the newly opened Rimewinter Snowfield region.
This region is also the most abstract hunting area in the eyes of forum players.
Although, in the eyes of players, the Lord of Welfare improves every day, the legion system produced is indeed overly abstract.
The combat mode is like a circus performance.
Many players just want to hunt properly, but every time in battle they cannot help bursting into laughter, disrupting their own attack rhythm.
For example, when a player is about to launch a lethal attack, the Ecstasy Evil Entity on the opposite side suddenly lands a heavy punch on the player’s cheek. This sudden absurdity always makes players burst out laughing.
But compared to the Ecstasy Black Tide and the Ecstasy Swarm, the most abstract in the Rimewinter Snowfield is the area shrouded by the Ecstasy Divine Lamp.
In this area, rule changes occur every moment, and they are not under the control of the Lord of Ecstasy.
Browsing the forum posts shows that quite a few players have already complained about this area.
For example, players who were originally normal, after entering this area, whenever the thought of taking a step forward arises in their mind, that step inevitably becomes a step backward.
Then, step by step, they retreat out of the scene shrouded by the Ecstasy Divine Lamp.
Only after asking Guide did players learn that it was because the scene rules had changed, causing the mind and body to produce opposite feedback. Therefore, after entering the scene, controlling the body to step forward would become stepping backward.
There are many more such abstract rule changes.
For example, time acceleration: the flow of time in the scene is faster than outside.
Language garbling (non-voice chat channels): words that players speak normally suddenly turn into a jumble of gibberish they themselves cannot understand, making it impossible to express normal meaning, as if they suddenly became idiots.
Gravity inversion: the heavier an object is, the lighter it becomes in the scene; the lighter an object is, the heavier it becomes.
Taste confusion: the flavor of all food within the lamp’s shrouded range changes. Food that was originally unpalatable suddenly becomes very delicious, while originally delicious Spiritual Food becomes hard to swallow. Although the generated effects do not change, the taste experience is completely reversed.
These are relatively abstract rule changes.
There are also some extremely dangerous rule changes, such as normal circulation of blood within the body reversing, causing players who enter the scene to die within a short time.
Others include cessation of bodily functions, extreme weather, and so on.
In the most dangerous case recorded on the forum, players who had just entered the scene shrouded by the Divine Lamp had their flesh and blood collapse, leaving only a skeleton, yet absurdly were still alive.
It can be seen that each time players enter the scene shrouded by the Ecstasy Divine Lamp, they encounter different rule changes.
Qi Sheng also analyzed the Ecstasy Divine Lamp in detail.
Among the three replication systems built by the Lord of Ecstasy, this is the one that consumes the most power of ecstasy.
The Lord of Ecstasy cannot control the changes of rules at all, causing the scene to be in a constant process of rule distortion. Without rule power control, an enormous power of ecstasy must be consumed at every moment to maintain the scene.
Through the Ecstasy Divine Lamp structure, Qi Sheng could see the Lord of Ecstasy’s ambition.
He wants to create a special rule similar to a ‘divine lamp.’ thereby controlling a scene and becoming the god who formulates the rules of that scene.
If the Ecstasy Purple Tide and the Ecstasy Swarm are weapons in the Lord of Ecstasy’s eyes, then the Ecstasy Divine Lamp is the strongest shield.
By spreading territory with the Purple Tide and the Swarm, he would sit in the Ecstasy Divine Lamp scene with customized rules, fearing no external intrusion. Any power entering the customized scene can be nullified.
This is the core reason why the Lord of Ecstasy is willing to invest vast resources to develop the Ecstasy Divine Lamp.
He wants to have in his hand both the sword that opens up territory (Purple Tide, Swarm) and the shield that guards territory and preserves himself (Divine Lamp).
Combined, these are the strongest legion system in the Lord of Ecstasy’s eyes.
But having an idea is one thing; whether it can succeed is completely unknown, and subsequent R&D investment is astronomical.
After all, for these three systems to succeed, rule power capable of bearing the systems must be created.
The resources this requires are immeasurable.
In the forum players’ words: with every resource investment, a group of pitiful living beings is quite literally pleasured to death in ecstasy.
Such is indeed the case.
Every step forward by the Lord of Ecstasy requires large numbers of living beings to contribute the power of ecstasy as a cornerstone.