Chapter 151-4: Reckless Newbie, Power of Halting Updates (4) |
Facing the Ascension race’s incursion, the originally blank scene changed violently.
The presented changes looked very much like an old game’s scene-loading process. The initial scenery was extremely blurry, then delicate textures and rich colors were filled in, and the mountains and rivers on the land became more three-dimensional.
Afterward, the spatial fissure still expanding in the sky cast down countless white beams of light which, upon landing, generated Written Word warriors.
There was no communication at all. A great battle was about to erupt.
Ascension warriors gathered elemental power through their spiritual roots and unleashed a ferocious bombardment on the island.
The Written Word warriors also launched counterattacks against the incoming Ascension race.
But in Qi Sheng’s view, the combat methods of the vast majority of Written Word warriors were very clumsy. They did not dodge, only attacked blindly, very much like the Ecstasy Evil Entities created by the Lord of Ecstasy.
The difference was that he could see each Written Word warrior had self-awareness.
Plainly weak.
This made Qi Sheng frown involuntarily.
Aside from players, cross level combat is extremely difficult for the various lifeforms of the Monster World.
Because the concept of hunting level, from its initial design, includes the target’s physical strength, mental strength, and ability characteristics. The only thing not calculated is the target’s combat technique and combat awareness.
And the players’ inherited soul level is another calculation system altogether. It only calculates strength and does not factor in the fusion amplification effects brought by different inherited soul combinations.
For example, a combination of six inherited souls averaging level 23 can challenge across levels a lifeform parsed at hunting level 32.
So players have a system-design advantage in cross level combat, but for other forces it is very hard.
Yet the Written Word warriors’ fighting style had no distinguishing features and no technical advantage, and when crossing levels to fight targets with higher hunting levels, they were not at a disadvantage.
There were even occasional situations where their own hunting levels suddenly increased.
This is very similar to the Ancient God race’s power of Battle Soul, gaining amplification through combat.
But the problem is that the Ancient God race’s battle growth has a traceable logic, gaining an increase in life strength through Battle Soul produced by fighting.
The Written Word race’s increase in combat strength, however, was very abstract.
Qi Sheng’s feeling was that when they could not win, they suddenly exploded and their combat strength rose.
This happened to many Written Word warriors.
Continuing to watch, the bizarre events multiplied.
He discovered that the Written Word warriors’ combat techniques would transfer.
A Written Word warrior who had been very strong would suddenly seem stripped of self-awareness, his fighting becoming stiff, while some of those who had originally fought stiffly seemed possessed by a war god and became very powerful.
This power was even a bit abstract.
When it was fundamentally impossible to dodge the elemental impacts released by the Ascension race, a Written Word warrior’s body would suddenly flicker and leap, evading the assault.
Beyond the inexplicable dodging, in battle the Written Word warriors seemed to be under the protection of a power that could modify rules.
When a Written Word warrior was about to be killed by the Ascension race, the ground before him suddenly split open and swallowed the attacking Ascension warrior.
Or a gust strong enough to tear space suddenly blew in, sweeping all the Ascension members besieging the Written Word warrior away.
Or a spatial fissure suddenly appeared, teleporting the Ascension warrior to another place in the scene, where racial members, caught unprepared, were struck head-on.
Using game concepts to explain it, this group of Written Word warriors were like players with their luck stat maxed out, with every action receiving assistance from the world, that is, the scene’s rules.
In the playback, a great many battle scenes suddenly interfered with by an external force appeared.
Secondly, the elements in the scene would also be briefly affected.
For example, when an Ascension member with the Water Spiritual Root wanted to gather water-element energy, the water-element energy in the scene suddenly disappeared for a period of time, catching the water spiritual root Ascension warrior completely off guard.
Under such constant interference by an unknown external force, the Written Word warriors fought as if aided by gods and won the first battle with crushing momentum.
Facing heavy casualties among their racial members, the Ascension race could only be forced to retreat from the Written Word scene shrouded in white mist.
After the war ended, everything that did not belong to the scene rapidly dissolved and ultimately turned into energy to be swallowed and digested by the scene.
After this, the scene suddenly ceased operating, and everything fell into a halted state.
The Written Word warriors who wanted to pursue and kill the Ascension race froze in place as well, unable to take any further action.
There was another phenomenon in the footage worth noting.
All the Written Word warriors were intelligent lifeforms, but after the scene froze it was as if their souls were drawn out, and the consciousness remaining in their bodies also disappeared.
After watching the footage, Qi Sheng’s doubts deepened.
His impression was that the Written Word warriors in the entire scene were very much like players.
During battle, all players log into the game, the server activates and runs, and under player control the Written Word warriors and the Ascension warriors slaughter one another.
But after the battle ends, all players log off, the consciousness inside the Written Word warriors disappears, and after the server shuts down they fall into a state of bodily freeze.
After he told Guide his thoughts, Guide’s consciousness form nodded:
[Boss, the conjecture you described is indeed very similar. Perhaps we can go investigate according to the coordinates of the torn space before the scene descended.]
“Set out.”
Receiving the reply, Guide’s consciousness immediately contacted Yan Ming.
Before long, a spatial fissure tore open in the sky, and Qi Sheng and Guide’s consciousness entered it.
Passing through the spatial tunnel, the scene before his eyes left Qi Sheng dumbfounded.
What appeared was a pitch-black space filled with dense special energy particles, and there were only three items in the entire world.
A thick, ancient book suspended in midair, a finely crafted pen inlaid with crystals of various colors on its surface, and a jet-black hand holding the pen.
After analysis information was activated, the relevant data surged into his mind.
[Rule – Book]
Rule analysis: can create a self-contained world of rules.
[Rule – Pen]
Rule analysis: can consume ink power to drive the progress of the book world and modify the rule manifestations and transformations of things in the book world.
[Rule – Wielder]
Rule analysis: can create the Power of Ink by devouring matter. When the Wielder combines with the Pen, it can drive the rewriting of the content within the book world scene. Each modification consumes ink power, and the stronger the modification, the more ink power it consumes.
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The analysis content made Qi Sheng understand what exactly was going on with the frozen scene.
Guide spoke at this time.
[Boss, I understand what is going on. The so-called frozen scene can be understood as a novel. The Book is the framework of the domain scene, the Pen is the scene modifier, and the Wielder is the energy producer and driving push for the Pen.]
[The Written Word race and the Ascension race broke out into war within the scene framework of the Book, and they were constantly interfered with by the Wielder and the Pen. Every time the Wielder and Pen rewrote content, everything in the scene was affected, which is why in the playback the Written Word warriors received various mysterious external assists during battle.]
[In summary, the Written Word race is a force composed of single lifeforms. It possesses the ability to modify scenes. Through war it devours energy, converts it into ink, and then consumes the ink to change the scene structure for combat. It can even, with a single stroke, raise any Written Word warrior’s strength by several levels.]
[For example, if the Wielder and Pen write a passage stating that a certain Written Word warrior explodes with power when at a disadvantage and gains a boost in strength, then that passage will consume the corresponding Power of Ink, and it will subsequently manifest on the described Written Word warrior.]
[When the Wielder and the Pen stop operating, a scene without the injection of ink power will fall into a halt without external driving force, which also explains why external forces entering the scene are not affected by the time freeze. In essence, the entire scene is a novel.]
Hearing Guide’s answer, Qi Sheng nodded.
This also explained why the entire scene was so exceedingly abstract.
Written Word warriors in battle would suddenly grow stronger because the ‘author’ behind them was conducting a localized depiction. When the content of the depiction switched, this group of Written Word warriors’ fighting style would become stiff again, while another group that had originally been stiff would become full of spirit after being depicted.
It also explained why Written Word warriors would perform evasions that violated the world’s rules during battle.
In reality, it was simply that the ‘author’ wrote such a sentence: XX avoided a fatal blow.
After this description consumed ink power, it became an inevitably occurring, concretized result within the scene.
And earlier, when analyzing Hongyun Fantian, the analysis information was not wrong, because that was the ‘author’s’ introduction for that character.
[What I am more curious about is why the power behind the Wielder and Pen would stop driving these two rule forces, causing the scene to fall into a completely halted state.]
After hearing Guide’s words, Qi Sheng was silent for a moment and then offered a guess:
“Is there a possibility that the author took leave and halted updates.”
Guide: …
[Boss, that makes sense.]
Qi Sheng ignored Guide, and an idea surfaced in his mind.
Since the scene is controlled by the behind-the-scenes Wielder writer in the form of a novel, if the Wielder writer who controls everything behind the scenes does not want to write this scene and chooses to drop the work, would the entire scene fall into a state of permanent stagnation.
If they start a new book, would a new system be generated within the framework scene of the Book.
Tsk, kind of interesting.
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