Chapter 172-1: Simple Computer, Extreme Brutality (1) |
[The Evil Moon domain at the Colorful Mist Coast is about to be breached. Brothers, come join the battle. The final carnival has begun!]
Poster: God King
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The war in the Evil Moon domain was approaching its end.
The post God King released on the forum drew a massive number of players to join the battle in the Evil Moon domain.
This meant the purification node mission was about to be settled, and no matter how much contribution you mixed in, you could get some reward.
More importantly, the rule node that was about to be contained.
After containment was completed, a brand new rule would appear on the Rule Divine Pillar at Emperor’s Mound Village, and all players would gain a permanent amplification.
Vast crowds of players set out for the Colorful Mist Coast region.
Some players had already figured out their showboating plans, just waiting for the climax of the purification mission to display them, so they could be recorded in the Honor Album in the coolest pose for later players to admire their handsomeness.
This battle also attracted the attention of a large number of guests from Earth.
From within their game pods they watched either from first person or Guide perspective, all incomparably excited.
Before this, they could only watch campaign footage by flipping through the Honor Album.
This was their first time participating in a large-scale war in the Monster World via real-time viewing.
God King, the initiator of the campaign, rocketed to number one on the forum heat ranking with his livestream room in a very short time.
The barrage comments in the livestream were jumping by tens of thousands per second. Off-site viewership reached an astonishing 1.2 billion and was still climbing.
Broken Bridge Mist and Rain: Not good, the digital life army is attacking. Livestream numbers are skyrocketing, pity they are all digital lifeforms (sarcastic.jpg)
guest 23194: Please do not enable guest blocking. I want to send barrage comments to cheer you on. I hope I can get Monster World qualification soon.
guest 4819: Players in the livestream room from Monster World, do not go too far. We will snatch qualifications sooner or later. What do you mean calling us digital lifeforms, especially you stinky Human players. Do not get cocky. When I get into Monster World I will blow your heads off.
guest 920521: I really want to join this war. Pity I do not have qualification. I hope Starnet will distribute qualifications server-wide soon. Praise Starnet. Starnet is the greatest. I will persevere in praising Starnet in the comments every day. I believe Starnet will surely see it and be moved by me, then give me a qualification.
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This purification campaign adopted Legion War mode and Free War mode simultaneously.
God King led members from major guilds, as well as some well-known player squads and lone wolves.
As for the other players, God King did not plan to recruit them into the warband.
Before recruiting, he had detailed discussions with the leaders of the major guilds on this matter.
The conclusion was that bringing in a large number of newbies into the warband would only average out the combat gains of the core players, and there would even be freeloaders fishing in troubled waters.
After all, under warband mode, all player gains are shared.
Secondly, there would also be player groups like the Night Demon race and Giant Brute race who became uncontrollable once emotions ran high.
For better united front command, and also to maximize the benefits of war, they finalized a participation scale of fifty thousand.
The remaining participating players were all Free War groups, and God King chose to open up a separate assault route to avoid interference from players in Free War mode.
At 3 p.m, players gathered outside the Evil Moon domain, forming an enormous force.
Players on site had already exceeded one hundred thousand, and more were still on the way.
For this battle God King opened four star vein slots.
He embedded Owl-Headed Fiend, Mark, Qi Eater, and Brain Overclocking.
Among them, Brain Overclocking came strongly recommended by Darkness Approaches, who said that among the current inherited soul library, aside from Owl-Headed Fiend, it was the most helpful inherited soul for command.
He had tested it.
The effect left him deeply shocked.
As the war was about to begin, God King, gazing at the player battle formation gathering momentum, activated the level 28 Brain Overclocking trait.
His temples throbbed, and a nuclear fusion in his mental world erupted in an instant.
His thinking speed soared as if a rocket blasted off. Thought was no longer a steady linear derivation, but like countless parallel supercomputers operating at the same time.
All kinds of complex logic were rapidly dissected in his mind, and tactical plans bubbled up like a spring.
The player squad information in the warband interface was instantly decomposed into countless tiny logical fragments in his overclocked brain, then recombined at astonishing speed to yield optimal solutions.
Creativity was like a wild horse off the reins, galloping wantonly through his mind. New ideas and concepts surged forth without end.
This feeling was intoxicating to God King.
The power of Brain Overclocking was built upon his existing cognition. It could elevate his thinking logic to an unimaginable realm.
It even made God King feel that he himself was like an AI core.
On the other side, atop the Evil Eye Tower.
After the player army entered the Evil Moon domain, the Earthmind Evil Spirit abruptly opened its blood-red eyes. The Evil Eye projection behind it thrust tendrils into its back and completed a connection with it.
Its body rose into the air. Gazing toward the direction the players were coming from, a cold gaze tinted with blood appeared.
It decided to take this battle seriously. This was also a rare training opportunity in its eyes.
With the perception blessing granted by the Evil Eye, its awareness swept forward. Information on members of the player race continuously surfaced in the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s mind.
Based on vitality intensity and mental power intensity, the type of combat unit the scanned player was appeared as probabilities in the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s mind.
It could even, based on the ratio between a player’s vitality and mental power, roughly guess which abilities the player possessed.
For example, Gargoyle, Qi Eater, Resistance, Rock Shield.
Every inherited soul gained different growth attribute bonuses after leveling up, and the Earthmind Evil Spirit could roughly infer the player’s ability characteristics from the ratios.
These bits of information were a summary of experience derived from countless clashes between it and the player race.
In the blink of a thought, the troop types it excelled at, the natural-catastrophe series, were rapidly generated.
First to appear was the Black Tide Corrupted-Rock Behemoth.
The unit’s appearance was as massive as a mountain. Its body was covered in a thick outer shell formed by the fusion of corrupted rock and twisted flesh, exuding a nauseating stench. Its limbs were thick and powerful. Each step it took could make the earth tremble. Several sharp bone spurs also extended from its back.
This unit featured extremely strong recovery ability. In addition to Black Tide energy, it could draw self-healing nutrients from the air. It carried an innate energy purification organ. Its corrupted rock shell could effectively resist various elemental damage, and it could release a fetid miasma that caused surrounding enemies to fall into a poisoned state.
Next onto the field were Shadow Colossus, Shockers, Black Tide Howling Tiger, and Ruinbringer.
Every natural-catastrophe series unit had strong defensive power, yet with different roles on the battlefield.
They were divided into Immortal Vanguard for mainline damage bearing, Undying Wall for point defense, Bone Bastion to roam behind the line to protect, and Shadowbound Catastrophe as tank control, and so on.
After constructing the natural-catastrophe series, the plague series took the field.
First up was the Plague Carapace Beast.
It looked like a floating balloon. Its whole body was covered with sharp spines. Its skin presented a mottled, sickly purple. It spat plague mists. Its surface was smeared with a layer of sticky black fluid.
The spines it released could infect enemies with the Black Tide plague and weaken their combat power. While moving it could also secrete a kind of plague slime that splashed onto the ground to form plague zones. Enemies stepping into them would continuously suffer corrupting infection.
Following that came Corrupted Pus Iron Guard, Gangrenous Carapace Soldier, Plague Warlock, Death Pitcher, and more.
In the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s eyes, the natural-catastrophe series and the plague series were the two troop systems that performed best against the player race.
These two series had weaker damage output, but their survivability and control were exceedingly strong.
In the players’ words, they were disgusting.
In this war, on the foundation of these two series, it planned to add some damage output type units.
Its first choice was the death-catastrophe series unit with long range group damage output, the Shadow Lich.
Next were Wither Hunter and Disaster Bow with single shot kill capability.
The Black Tide level in this Evil Moon domain beneath its feet was relatively high. Originally it could also generate a death-catastrophe series unit with even stronger single shot kill capability, Reap.
Its unit ability could draw vitality and spiritual energy from targets hit by its arrows, convert them into Black Tide energy, and then feed that back to Black Tide units near the target struck.
But the characteristic of the player race was that they were stingy to the last hair.
Reap’s powerful feedback ability was meaningless. It was better to generate more lower level Wither Hunters and Disaster Bows.
Then came the frenzy tide series assassin type units, Phantom Stabber, Blood Stabber, and Wraith.
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