Chapter 153-4: Immortals Clash, Players Open Chests (4) |
On the front line, fortuitous chance events also arrived.
An Ascension race member, gravely wounded, flew over and fell to the ground, falling into a coma.
Faced with the sudden treasure chest, the nearby players immediately went mad.
All kinds of skills rained down on the comatose Ascension race warrior.
The damage caused by these abilities was very limited and could not break the defense at all.
But no one gave up. Squads and teams all fought for the kill ownership by dealing damage.
At this moment, whichever squad or team output more would obtain 100% of the internal shared rewards.
All the players went all out on damage.
Before long, this Ascension race warrior with Hunt Level 189 was killed. The Challenger Notification then sounded in the minds of the player team that obtained the kill ownership.
After the successful kill, a large mass of scarlet energy surged from the body of the dead Ascension race warrior, split in the air into 338 clusters, and flew toward the players.
Most players in the team leveled up 7 levels in a row. Some who averaged their evolution points across various Inherited souls also leveled up several times consecutively, gaining massive evolution points and sacrificial power profits.
They truly achieved sudden wealth in one wave.
At this time the significant difference between teams and squads could be seen.
More players means a higher probability of successfully snatching kill ownership.
Even without competition from other squads, a team with a complete class composition could easily field dozens of players who possessed the Bloodburn Inherited soul, greatly increasing the efficiency of landing the finishing blow on near-death targets.
By contrast, squads generally had 1 to 2 players with the Bloodburn Inherited soul. Even without competition from other players, the damage dealt might not even surpass the Ascension race warrior’s automatic regeneration from absorbing the energy of heaven and earth.
To solve this problem, the regional voice channel became especially lively.
Many squads chose to unite into a warband mode, increasing the number of players with the Bloodburn Inherited soul and waiting for fortuitous chances to drop.
As time passed, the number of heavily injured lifeforms that flew over increased, and more and more teams completed the last hit.
These teams all fulfilled their expectations upon coming and became rich.
During this period, there were also teams that implanted Control Brands into the near-death Written Word warriors, protecting them at the team’s center and successfully capturing customizable high level warriors.
But the Ascension race was difficult to implant with Control Brands even when near death, because the Ascension race’s spiritual power was too strong, fundamentally not something a low level Control Inherited soul could interfere with and control.
Physical weakness does not mean spiritual power collapse.
The previously controlled Tian Bing was because his sea of spiritual consciousness had shattered, causing spiritual strength to be greatly weakened, which allowed the player to successfully implant a Control Inherited soul.
Players who wished to control a Written Word warrior would also have to pass this threshold.
But after asking Guide, players had already found a solution.
That was to take the Written Word warrior in near-death status out of the Written Word scene. Without the blessing of Rule – Book, the Written Word warrior would have its consciousness stripped away in an instant and its body would freeze.
This gave players the chance to easily implant a Control Brand.
After completing control, even if taken back into the Written Word scene, the control would still be effective. Within the Written Word warrior’s consciousness there would already be an extra remote controller.
Unless Written Word actively modified the setting of the scene and consumed Power of Ink to pull the Written Word warrior back.
Otherwise the process of control would continually clash with the players’ control.
Having learned through Guide that conflicts would exist in control, players got smarter and left the Written Word warriors that had been implanted with Control Brands outside the scene, not letting them enter.
Lest Written Word modify the settings and steal the ‘good buddy’ they had obtained with difficulty.
But spectating was not all benefits. Occasionally there were dangerous moments.
Sometimes the treasure chest that flew over was not necessarily in a weakened near-death state. It might only be lightly wounded and knocked away.
Yet in order to snatch ownership, players would all fling skills in a rush. Before Analysis even activated, skills would be cast first.
There was a player team that was slapped into dispersing black mist by an enraged Ascension race warrior.
Fortunately this Ascension race warrior did not care about the other players. After completing the kill, it turned back returning to the battlefield to clash with the Written Word cultivators once more.
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Three days later.
A total of 38 Written Word warriors were implanted with Control Brands by players and became player hirelings.
The fierce fighting within the scene continued.
During this period, a capture strategy post on the forum also received a large number of likes.
“Recently everyone has been stealing last hits and catching pets on the battlefield. As a man of destiny who has already caught a level 98 Written Word warrior, I have compiled a list of dry goods obtained from Guide for everyone.”
Poster: Taffy Meow
Content:
No nonsense, straight to the capture dry goods. Learn it and you can raise your success rate.
1 – Possess a Control Inherited soul (the core key. Without a Control Inherited soul, you are catching the hammer of a pet).
2 – Have team protection (the importance of a friends-and-family group goes without saying. Without a friends-and-family group or warband assistance, even if it flies right in front of you it will be snatched in a second. Although this is a game, there has never been any such thing as first come first served. When it is time to snatch, see whether other players will give you face).
3 – Prepare mental recovery potions. Mental power consumption is huge during control.
4 – Take the Written Word warrior out of the Written Word scene (within the scene, the Written Word warrior possesses self-awareness. With an intact mind, it cannot be captured unless you have powerful mental impact to shatter its consciousness).
5 – Prepare healing potions. Restoring from near-death to weakened is enough. After that it will slowly self-recover (potion consumption is super expensive. The higher the Hunt Level, the more potions are consumed. To heal the just-caught Written Word warrior, I exhausted my family savings and even incurred an external debt. Thinking of having to work to pay off the debt later, I really want to run away QVQ).
6 – Customizing settings requires controlling the Written Word warrior and modifying settings through textual description, and each setting will consume Power of Ink (the specific amount of Power of Ink can be seen in the top right of the settings interface. The higher the Hunt Level of the Written Word warrior, the more Power of Ink there is when resetting, and the more functions can be added).
The information provided in this post was all compiled and listed by the thread owner after asking Guide and organizing it.
It resolved doubts for many players who wanted to capture pets.
As the great war within the Written Word scene reached white heat, players’ emotions surged along with it.
In the words of a certain forum player: Fight, I want to see rivers of blood.
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This war, just as Written Word had anticipated, fell into a protracted struggle. By modifying the scene settings, the Ascension race that held the advantage still could not crush the entire scene.
Qi Sheng, observing from behind the scenes, also discovered at this time that Written Word’s consciousness had already interfaced with the small world on Ascension Island and begun to spread its own story.
Storytellers and minor historians… authors in the cultivation world suddenly sprouted inspiration in their minds and wrote plots of stories created by Written Word.
This story depicted upper-realm beings farming all beings, spreading the lie of ascension to harvest the beings of the lower realm.
So-called ascension was essentially a conspiracy of upper-realm beings, with the ultimate goal of incubating the offspring implanted in the bodies of lower-realm beings.
And at the beginning of this story, the synopsis contained such a passage.
If the Celestial Realm is truly as beautiful as the rumors say, a holy land of ultimate goodness and beauty, then why have the ancestors who went to the Celestial Realm never descended to speak of it with their own mouths?
Is there an unutterable taboo in the Celestial Realm that binds them beneath that sky?
Or is it that the so-called beauty is nothing but an illusory appearance, with an unknown truth hidden behind it, leaving the ancestors with suffering they cannot speak, helplessly stranded, and even if they wished, powerless to cross that invisible chasm.
As for the truth, we have only heard rumors and have never witnessed it with our own eyes.
Perhaps ascension is a scam.
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Seeds of doubt had already been planted in the lower-realm world. All that remained for Written Word was to wait for the seeds to sprout and grow.
Gradually cut off the Ascension race’s supply of combat power.
At that time, the combat units of the Ascension race would be continuously downsized.
What Written Word, now at a disadvantage, needed to do was to hold out in the protracted war, investing high Power of Ink in the early stage to maintain the battle situation. With one rising and the other falling, it could then completely devour the Ascension race and gain a vast Power of Ink resource.
And Power of Ink is the core for constructing the ‘Book World.’
If this set of tactics could succeed, Written Word would grow into a stronger consciousness lifeform, and the cultivator army it created would also receive a significant increase in combat power.
But as for which of the two forces would win, Qi Sheng did not care.
He only paid attention to changes in the players’ profits.
Over these three days, through scavenging during the war, many players saw their profits soar, their strength also increased significantly, and quite a few players obtained powerful controllable beings with implanted brands.
This made him feel even more that one of the pet mode settings, the free capture function, was very necessary.
It truly could allow players’ combat power to gain a notable boost in a short time.
At the current stage, production of the pet system was nearing completion, and Transdimensional was interfacing with the Challenger System for testing.
If the test performance was perfect, he would release the pet function to all players in the coming days.
This would thoroughly solve the problem of ‘pets’ captured by players being unable to be brought back to the starter village space, while also providing players with a high-growth, specialty pet cultivation mode.
This free capture pet incident also made Qi Sheng begin to consider a question.
Could some Primordial Abilities be expanded and made into a specialty system similar to the pet function.
In the soon-to-be-launched pet system, the free capture function setting was produced based on the underlying framework of the ‘Control’ Primordial Monster inside the Primordial Containment Wall.
The other contained Primordial Monsters each had endless potential, and all were rule-oriented abilities.
These Primordial Abilities were sufficient to act as cores and bear a complex functional system.
For example, using the Qi Eater Inherited soul as the core framework, could an idle cultivation system from earlier concepts be built.
Or, using domain-type Inherited souls such as Bloodthirst and Sluggish as the foundation, could a formation function setting be built.
These ideas took root in Qi Sheng’s mind.
But at the current stage, launching the pet system first was his next plan.
When many concepts would be put into practice still depended on the speed at which players generated sacrificial power.
Players had been in the Monster World for just over four months, yet could contend with many small forces that had developed for long years. Their growth was remarkably fast and had already exceeded his expectations.
As for calamity class forces like the Black Tide, or superpowers like the Ascension race and the Ancient God race, Qi Sheng was in no hurry to respond.
Just as Yan Ming once taught him.
“The road ahead is long. To set your heart toward the firmament is not wrong. Yet to aim too high and seek far, vainly attempting to ascend to the heavens in a single step, unrealistically chasing a realm beyond reach, is to build a castle in the air. With foundations hollow, this road will surely be hard to walk.”
Therefore only by advancing steadily, step by step, can one break through layer upon layer of obstacles.
The world is vast. Qi Sheng always believed that on the future main stage of the Monster World, there would surely be a place for him and the player legion.