Chapter 206-1: Starnet Super-AI VS Earthmind Bully (1) |
“So the bully locked onto me through the lord trait?”
At the Emperor’s Mound Village revival point, God King looked at Guide’s water sphere floating before him, his expression surprised.
During the post-battle review, he chose to seek help from Guide, asking where exactly he had made a mistake that allowed the Earthmind Bully to precisely lock onto him.
After learning the answer, he still felt very puzzled.
“Guide bro, why would the release of the lord trait be captured by the bully? What’s the logic?”
Guide did not explain directly. He raised his hand and summoned a light curtain in front of God King.
The content shown on the screen was the marking of energy and its trajectory.
“Taking this Inkflame fireball as an example, its energy value is marked as 3.93 after release. Next, this number will follow the flight path of the Inkflame fireball. When I need to know where the Inkflame fireball was released, I can rewind the recorded footage.”
As soon as Guide’s words ended, the footage flowed backward. The Inkflame fireball flew in reverse in the air and finally returned to a spellcaster player’s hand.
“I understand. The Earthmind Bully detected the lord trait energy values on the battlefield, then backtracked the footage to find me.”
“Exactly. Although the effect of the lord Inherited soul trait does not have a flight trajectory like the Inkflame fireball, as long as there is a detectable release value, then all that’s needed is to rotate the perception footage to the player legion and, based on the time point of the energy burst, conduct a carpet search for the corresponding energy release source. That way it can precisely lock onto the releaser.”
Upon learning the answer, God King couldn’t help but sigh.
He had thought the lord Inherited soul would bring him a considerable boost, yet he hadn’t expected it to become a breakthrough point in the Earthmind Bully’s eyes.
The more contact he had, the more terrifying the Earthmind Bully seemed.
He was on the verge of being beaten into social withdrawal.
Ending the consultation, God King decided to go to the library to cram knowledge, to swim in the ocean of knowledge and search for a way to win.
An hour later, while flipping through ‘Master of Disguise’, God King suddenly saw a golden bullet screen streak across the livestream room.
The golden bullet screen was sent by a player he had marked as ‘Key Focus.’
He had been playing Monster World for half a year, and he only had two key-focus players. More precisely, one player, and the other was the guest numbered 1.
This guest was very formidable, often giving constructive advice in various livestream rooms.
Especially the ‘Divine Calendar Theory’ he proposed on the forum, which completely solved the resource allocation that had been extremely troubling for Wishmaking Inherited soul players, as well as how to sustainably and reasonably obtain wish power.
Guest No. 1: God King, the lord Inherited soul is your advantage. Choosing disguise means giving up the lord Inherited soul, which is undoubtedly a way of reducing pressure against the enemy by abandoning your own advantage. I don’t recommend you do that.
Seeing this bullet screen, God King put down the book and asked expectantly.
“No. 1, what do you have in mind?”
Guest No. 1: Since the Earthmind Bully has already locked onto you and collected a large amount of your bodily data, escaping is not the only solution. Perhaps you can try to set up a counterattack through the identity that is already exposed…
After an hour of exchange, God King felt suddenly enlightened.
What he had originally thought was to give up the lord Inherited soul, try changing his form, and re-conceal himself within the player legion, making it difficult for the Earthmind Bully to find him again.
But as Player No. 1 said, doing so would undoubtedly be cutting himself.
The effect of the lord trait was highly suited to battlefield use. Abandoning such a powerful ability would be a loss.
After understanding No. 1’s idea, a thought suddenly arose in God King’s mind.
“No. 1, I think you’re fully capable of battlefield command. Interested in giving it a try?”
Guest No. 1: Assuming I do the command, I can only convey my ideas to you by text, then you convey them to the player legion, and only then do they act after understanding the orders. There are three latency links, which will severely affect command efficiency. The Earthmind Bully is different. Its thoughts are its orders. There is a significant gap in command efficiency. I have no advantage.
“It’s fine. Failure wouldn’t be the first time. I want to see how you perform.”
Amid God King’s anticipation, guest No. 1 replied.
Guest No. 1: We can try, but you need to prepare in advance according to my requirements. I have a way to reduce the command latency problem.
God King: No problem. I’ll organize people right away.
Having received guest No. 1’s affirmation, God King felt excited.
This guest No. 1 was absurdly strong. He was very much looking forward to the peak clash between the Earthmind Bully and guest No. 1.
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Three hours later.
Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range, Western Sector.
A united warband of sixty thousand players advanced toward the western sector of the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range.
Meanwhile, in the center of Lunar Eclipse City’s Data Center.
A huge semi-transparent sphere emitting a soft blue glow hovered at the center of the room.
Its surface was composed of countless micro light particles, forming flowing neural network patterns that changed rapidly, like the pulsing of thought in motion.
Dozens of slender transparent tendrils encircled the sphere, like neural fibers sensing changes in the outside world.
At the ends of the tendrils flickered countless free-floating light points. Every node was a highly developed information processing unit capable of assisting with data handling.
This was precisely the super-AI symbolizing the highest wisdom of the Lunar Eclipse race and also the highest wisdom of the Earth Alliance: Starnet.
Beep!
A light-curtain image popped up in front of Starnet’s enormous body.
Then came a second light curtain, a third, a fourth… Soon the light-curtain images filled the entire room.
After shrinking all the screens, the number of images continued to fill the room.
Before the battle, Starnet had asked God King to convey to the warband that all participating players should turn on livestream mode.
Without the Owl-Headed Fiend’s perception boost, Starnet chose a simpler and cruder way to observe changes on the battlefield.
In this mode, all participating players were its eyes.
“Black Tide, our first battle actually begins in this fashion.”
As the voice fell, from the horizon in countless split-screen images rose a surging pitch-black tide. It swept in with endless pressure.
Starnet’s thoughts instantly turned into text appearing in God King’s mind.
Receiving the order, God King immediately spoke.
“Groups 7, 8, and 9 support. Aim Light Shield at me and release.”
Countless figures immediately turned toward God King, releasing layers of Light Shield to protect him within.
“First battle line, Vital Qi Bodyguard, charge!”
As the black tide closed in, the Gargoyle players, under God King’s command, released crimson Vital Qi to shroud themselves and launched a fierce charge at the onrushing Black Tide.
At this moment, on the Evil Eye Tower platform.
The Earthmind Evil Spirit instantly locked onto the player race commander’s position via perception, a ferocious smile curling at the corner of its mouth.
The scale of the player race coming this time was far inferior to last time.
Their tactics had long since been completely seen through by it. It didn’t understand where the player race found the courage to fight again.
But this also matched the stereotype it held of the player race.
In its eyes, this battle was already a predetermined-outcome war mini-game.
In an instant, the natural-catastrophe series and plague series units fell from the Black Tide like dumplings, constructing a pitch-black wall on the battlefield.
Roar!
At the very center of the main battle line, the Calamity Behemoth raised a right arm as thick as a stone pillar and smashed it fiercely onto the ground. Then it raised its head and roared toward the direction of the oncoming player army. The terrifying sound waves turned into a gale, mixed with gravel that swept forth.
Dense gravel struck the bodies of the damage-bearing build players in a charging state, splashing points of light upon the Vital Qi shield.
Like raindrops falling on a lake, it stirred outward-spreading crimson ripples.
Facing the natural-catastrophe colossi generally over ten meters tall, the torrent formed by the damage-bearing build players accelerated their rush.
Boom!
The tank damage bearing units of both sides met at the center of the battlefield.
With every collision, the raging airstream turned into a howling gale across the battlefield.
The spellcaster players on the player race side followed up immediately. The gloomy sky was instantly dotted with elemental energy into resplendent colors.
At the initial clash, in the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s eyes, the player race still used the same old tactics.
The subsequent course of war obviously would not change.
In an instant, the Black Tide rear began generating death-catastrophe series units, the ‘bone bow.’
But the bone bow’s aimed shots were not at the spellcaster’s damage outputting at the back of the player legion, but at the elemental energy spheres falling from the sky like meteors.
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