Chapter 171-1: Deity Construction Build (1) |
Primordial Altar.
While Tong Xin was arranging the faith plan, Qi Sheng was also paying constant attention.
He had not expected that the extra qualifications he handed out casually would actually bring an unexpected surprise.
The Divinity Inherited Soul that Tong Xin contained was a Seventh-Generation Primordial, capable of producing one hundred thousand sacrificial power per hour, which was two million four hundred thousand sacrificial power per day.
The stable income brought by a single Inherited Soul equaled the unstable output of twenty thousand newbies in the early stage.
But this Inherited Soul, similar to the Sixth-Generation Primordial Infinity Inherited Soul, could not be adapted for all players. If too many players embedded it, it would affect the development of the player legion.
So he set this Inherited Soul as a special one not open for purchase.
In the future, he would distribute a small amount by lottery depending on the situation.
During this period, the progress of Tong Xin’s faith plan exceeded his expectations.
Even if it was to be used, it would have to wait until players possessed sufficient strength to establish subordinate forces in Monster World or in small worlds.
Yet unexpectedly, thanks to the brainstorming of forum players, Tong Xin opened by choosing the Darkborn race, which had pretty good growth potential.
You had to know this was a highly intelligent race with a complete knowledge system.
It was not easy to hoodwink such well-informed beings.
But Tong Xin’s handling was very clever.
He seized several core conditions for establishing faith right from the start and even used the strategy of borrowing a tiger’s might.
He constructed the lie in the name of the Emperor’s Sign.
The most powerful part of this lie was that the abilities Tong Xin used all truly existed.
During the display of miracles, he had two of the Kindergarten brothers create the illusion of disintegrating for Anshui by choosing to go offline.
Afterward, he had the brothers log back on and use special-effect medicine to complete the illusion of revival.
In Anshui’s eyes there was no flaw in this scene. The plan made use of Yan Ming’s space-type rule ability and the special-effect healing medicine Tong Xin created with sacrificial power.
In the second contact, he directly spoke the secrets of the Darkborn Legion, forming a kind of information suppression from on high, shocking Anshui again and again.
This used Guide’s All-Things Analysis rule ability and a large amount of intelligence provided by Guide.
All the abilities were real. Only Tong Xin’s strength was fake.
The best lie is woven from truth.
From Anshui’s perspective of Tong Xin, he was precisely a Divine Envoy of the player race who mastered this series of rule abilities.
Following this trend, the probability that Anshui would be taken in by Tong Xin as a believer was very high.
Among the suggestions given by forum players were even many psychological push-and-pull tactics, turning active into passive and setting tests for Anshui.
Qi Sheng felt very curious about the subsequent development of this faith plan.
But one thing was clear. If this plan succeeded, he would take a thirty percent cut of the faith power income.
After all, the faith power produced by Divinity did not belong to hunting income, and he would not get even a bit of profit from it.
But as long as it was player-produced profit, he had to take a stake.
Even if Tong Xin truly grew into a rule-type deity in the future, he still had to pay taxes to him.
The recent construction of the cultivation system required massive investment, and only with greater player output could he better build the player legion.
On this cut, no player could be an exception.
Secondly, he discovered that the number of players recently switching to the stone statue (Gargoyle) build and to the support build had begun to increase.
Through Guide’s investigation, this was related to the newly contained Second-Generation Primordial Life Link.
The free use of the Inherited Soul’s traits had led players to research a set of routines for dealing damage through Life Link during combat.
Specifically, Life Link was used to directly link the enemy.
For example, when a stone statue build player was taking damage, they linked the opponent attacking them, then set damage feedback to one hundred percent, reflecting it directly back to the opponent.
Although the greater the damage, the more vitality was consumed by feedback, and when facing lethal damage it might not even be possible to reflect before dying, Life Link’s trait still gave stone statue build players a counter-damage means against opponents they could contend with.
This was different from the trait of the Blood Rebound Inherited Soul.
Although Blood Rebound could also reflect taken damage, vitality consumption was intense while it was active.
It required precise timing control and placed technical demands on players.
But Life Link did not. While linked to the enemy, it only consumed a slight amount of vitality, and only when taking damage would the vitality consumption speed increase.
Therefore, the appearance of this Inherited Soul gave stone statue build players another counter-damage method.
They could both help teammates take damage and use it to deal damage.
The same applied to support build players. Compared to stone statue build players, their advantage was lower defense, so taking the same damage yielded higher counter-damage output.
As for spellcaster players, although they could also embed the Life Link Inherited Soul,
The main attribute granted by the Inherited Soul’s growth was a boost to physical aptitude, that is, vitality. Cultivating this kind of Inherited Soul would significantly lower their damage output.
Next, the new Inherited Soul Star Shift also shone brilliantly in battles in the Evil Moon domain.
It improved the survival environment for spellcaster players, allowing them to escape death in desperate situations via Star Shift cast by teammates and gain space to continue damage outputting.
All kinds of interesting playstyles appeared along with the containment of the three new Inherited Souls.
For example, the Clone Self-Detonation technique.
Have a clone loaded with psionic bombs stand in a safe position. When the backline is dived by Evil Entities controlled by an Earthmind bully, the spellcaster swaps places and then detonates the psionic bombs to deal area destructive damage.
Or have an assassin player dash into the enemy’s rear and swap with the spellcaster’s self-detonating clone.
Or have the assassin player dash to the backline and swap positions with a stone statue build player using Star Shift.
At that moment, activating the Taunt trait could instantly draw a large amount of enemy backline firepower, achieving battlefield segmentation and limiting enemy damage output efficiency.
After this round of Inherited Soul updates, Star Vein combinations underwent a reshuffling, and many new playstyles appeared in succession.
In the development of the player corridor area, exploration had reached 3.02 percent.
Recently, the Arms Dealers Guild had begun initial testing of first-generation mining robots at an underground mine northeast of the Colorful Mist Coast.
The specific results remained to be verified.
Player development was gradually advancing toward a complete legion system.
The only thing troubling Qi Sheng was that building the cultivation system recently consumed too much sacrificial power.
The era of nationwide AFK cultivation could not begin for the time being.
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Colorful Mist Coast.
“Thank you for your guidance, Divine Envoy.”
Listening to the voice coming from his mind, Anshui nodded respectfully.
Through these days of contact, Anshui was immensely shocked by the abilities displayed by this Divine Envoy of the player race.
Remote communication that ignored spatial distance without constructing a mental link, death and revival, information analysis. All of these abilities left him incredulous and were rule-type abilities beyond his understanding.
It could be seen that the player race, like the terrifying Black Tide, mastered multiple rule abilities.
And each rule ability’s performance was far stronger than the reincarnation ability mastered by their Darkborn Legion.
From this alone, one could see how profound the player race’s foundations were.
He now had only one thought: cling to this great tree of the player race as much as possible.
Perhaps, with the help of the player race, he could succeed Anstar and become the next leader of the Darkborn Legion.
What had once made him feel a bit lost about the future now revealed hope of rising in Monster World.
Thinking of this, Anshui, in the Darkborn space, cast his gaze toward the vitality energy orbs extracted after hunting with his people over the past two days.
It decided to take its people out to continue hunting right away, to increase its chips for the assessment, and even to use the resources gifted by Anstar as bargaining chips.
It was all for development. Rather than consuming them on construction, it was better to latch onto the big thigh of the player race first.
At the thought of becoming a subordinate force of the player race, it felt an inexhaustible surge of motivation welling up inside.
The chance to soar in a single step was right before its eyes, and it had to seize it.
On the other side.
After severing the faith link, Tong Xin let out a long breath.
The bait was still on the hook, and the plot was unfolding in the planned direction.
Opening his notebook, he began consulting the backstory he had written.
Once the first round of assessment ended, he would gradually explain to the Darkborn the background of the player race and the great God of the Emperor’s Sign behind it.
Then, through this story, he would deepen Anshui’s faith.
Perhaps when the assessment officially ended and the moment came for his invitation, Anshui’s awe would directly transform into faith.
He even felt that if he invited him now, there was a considerable chance that Anshui would change from awe to level 1 faith.
Between believer and awe there was a barrier. In Anshui’s eyes he still did not have Anshui’s approval and was merely an outsider.
His explicit affirmation of Anshui would be the force that broke the barrier between believer and awe.
But Tong Xin felt this could not be rushed and had to continue unfolding according to plan.
Only by laying a solid foundation could a towering edifice of faith be built.
He had also already planned a clear direction for Anshui’s future.
He would not act with the Darkborn Legion in the capacity of a leader. He would continue operating with the Kindergarten brothers, letting Anshui change territory and develop freely afterward.
And during this process he would continuously provide help such as revival and resources.
He did this for two reasons.
First, he felt no personal affection for Anshui. When gaming he still preferred to be with his brothers.
Second, he had to maintain a sense of mystery and distance. Excessive contact might seem to make the relationship stronger, yet would actually weaken Anshui’s faith in him.
On this point he had discussed matters in detail with Darkness.
The conclusion was that as long as he could help the Darkborn race speed up revival and occasionally provide some shop resources that Anshui could not obtain, he could maintain and continuously deepen faith.
This was also the initial three cores’ sense of security.
Therefore in the future he would still act with his brothers and free-range Anshui.
Compared to supporting other small forces, with the Darkborn race that possessed reincarnation ability he did not even need to worry about sudden extermination.
If possible, he even wanted to get his hands on the reincarnation space in Anshui’s possession.
That way he could completely control the revival of Anshui and other Darkborn warriors. When war came, he could even have these Darkborn warriors work for him without worrying about the cost of death.
It was simply the perfect troop type.
As long as he succeeded, he would open up a brand-new build in Monster World: Deity Construction Build.
A gameplay akin to a simulation game.
Imagining a future with faith warriors who could produce faith power for him at any time and even die for him, Tong Xin felt he was about to strike it rich.
Although he entered the game late, the appearance of the Divinity Inherited Soul might let him defy fate.
He would soon be promoted into the top ranks of the player legion.
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