Chapter 206-2: Starnet Super-AI VS Earthmind Bully (2) |
When facing the player race, it had always adhered to one concept.
Victory was not hard. What it wanted was to minimize Black Tide energy loss on the basis of victory.
This was also why, when fighting other races, it chose damage output-type units, but when facing the player race, it used natural-catastrophe and plague series units as the core.
The Evil Eye’s perception magnified at this moment.
After outlining a range around the trajectories of the elemental energies falling from the sky and marking them, the bone bows raised their hands to attack. After drawing the bow and gathering power, and according to the range outlined by perception, they preemptively struck the flight-path impact points of the elemental trajectories.
A dense rain of arrows suddenly soared upward.
Disasters blossomed like fireworks.
Elemental spheres exploded by the bone bows released a scattering of multicolored energy light points. Lights of different colors intertwined and collided, bursting into brilliant blooms in midair, then the radiance fell from the sky like rain, and a colorful light rain descended.
It was as if a richly colored splendid scroll were unfurled across the sky.
But this time the rhythm of attack changed. It was no longer a dense offensive, but lifting off in disorder.
“Switching to free war mode already?”
Seeing this scene, the Earthmind Evil Spirit, following the player race’s habitual combat rhythm, reached a conclusion.
The player race’s command had always been a cluster offensive: one order affecting the whole army, or one order affecting a local area.
This disordered attack rhythm only appeared in free war mode.
It was also the player legion war mode that gave him the biggest headache.
For the same volley, when everyone struck at roughly the same time node, it could control the bone bows to conduct area volleys to block.
But in free war mode, to respond precisely, the amount of information that needed processing became extremely large.
“Earthmind, this is not a disorderly attack!”
At this moment, the Evil Eye’s voice suddenly sounded in the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s mind.
Hearing this, the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s heart jolted.
Its perception instantly swept toward the landing points of the elemental spheres.
It discovered that the seemingly disorderly attacks had in fact already locked onto clear targets.
In its mind surfaced the bone bow casualty information provided by the Evil Eye. The data was growing in a leaping fashion.
Death was not frightening, but what the Earthmind Evil Spirit found unbelievable was this.
The frequency of attacks suffered by the regions where the bone bows had been prior to death seemed as if they had been precisely calculated.
Every bone bow had borne exactly the amount of energy just sufficient to kill it.
For example, Bone Soldier No. 1032 had a damage-bearing energy value of 194 points.
The damage value it suffered was 195 points. After this bone bow died, no more elemental sphere offensives were received at its location.
Was the offensive over once the kill was completed?
This was not an isolated case. The damage-bearing values of a large number of bone soldiers seemed to have been precisely calculated.
The Earthmind Evil Spirit’s expression grew solemn.
“How did they do it?”
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Lunar Eclipse City, Starnet Center.
Starnet’s neural tendrils swayed, sending golden bullet screens to 59,836 player livestream rooms simultaneously.
It activated the ultimate micro-control mode.
Among the countless light-curtain images in front of Starnet, the largest screen displayed a map of the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range.
Scanning the map and combining it with the battlefield environment, spatial coordinate information was generated in its mind in real time, then sent as bullet screens to different livestream rooms.
On the light curtain floating to the right side of the map was presented Monster World’s official website: the Evil Entity compendium.
It contained all the Evil Entity unit information that had fought against the players.
Including hunt level, damage-bearing values, and so on.
Before the battle, Starnet had asked God King to convey one order, telling all players to call up their attributes panel.
It then sequentially recorded every allied participating player’s star vein level, number of Inherited souls, body tempering level, and comprehensive attribute values, calculated their combinations of Inherited soul traits and damage values, and so on, and recorded them in the database.
It could be said that the livestreaming players in this united warband were all being commanded by independent bullet screens, and if a player’s screen went black, Starnet would directly close that livestream footage.
The Evil Eye plays at ultra-wide-area perceptional insight and big data processing, while Starnet plays at big data processing plus extreme micro-control.
Every second a massive amount of text information is generated and sent.
The volume of information that needs processing is too enormous, and Starnet’s stored energy is being consumed too violently. It now needs more energy to adapt to its operation.
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Abyss of Heaven Territory Node, Evil Eye Tower platform.
The Earthmind Evil Spirit was dumbfounded by this wave of offense.
Precision and order within seeming disorder. This simply isn’t a capability a player race commander should have.
Has the player race evolved yet again?
The Earthmind Evil Spirit felt like coughing blood.
It had finally waited for the waxing moon, and before it had enjoyed it for long, the players had already caught up?
“Beasts.”
“Earthmind, focus on handling the war.”
With the Evil Eye’s reminder, the Earthmind Evil Spirit decisively cast its gaze toward the battlefield and began manipulating units to meet the fight.
Then an even more infuriating situation appeared.
Its reclamation tactic specifically used to counter players also had problems.
It was as if the player race’s commander could predict in advance which natural-catastrophe unit it wanted to have retreat for reclamation, always managing to concentrate fire one step earlier and kill the unit before it could fall back.
What the Earthmind Evil Spirit did not know was that the injury status of all natural-catastrophe units was being presented in Starnet’s mind as percentage values.
Based on past video records, the Earthmind Evil Spirit habitually activated reclamation when natural-catastrophe units were at 20%-22% health.
The Earthmind Evil Spirit had once countered God King using God King’s habits.
This time Starnet countered the unit reclamation tactic using the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s habits.
With the health bars of natural-catastrophe units clarified as percentages, it could predict and focus fire one step ahead. Starnet even analyzed the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s habitual sequence for reclaiming units.
Centered on the main battle line’s central area, then the left of the main battle line, then the right of the main battle line.
“Earthmind, your habits have been detected. Change your operating habits.”
The Evil Eye saw through the problem at a glance and decisively voiced a reminder.
“Understood.” The Earthmind Evil Spirit nodded and forcibly corrected the rhythm of reclaiming units.
But what terrified the Earthmind Evil Spirit was this.
The new reclamation rhythm was seen through again ten minutes later, a new counter focused-fire pattern started up, and it precisely single-shot killed the natural-catastrophe units that were about to retreat.
“Damn.”
The Earthmind Evil Spirit decisively continued changing its operating rhythm.
This time Starnet did not follow. Seizing the gap brought by the opponent’s change of operation, it commanded its own damage-bearing build players to fall back.
But unlike God King’s retreat-and-resupply order, under Starnet’s extreme micro-control, the orders were issued based on each individual player’s situation.
This avoided healthy Gargoyle build players retreating early and placing excessive pressure on the main battle line’s advance.
Single Light Shield releases, single Bind controls, single-target damage output strikes… Starnet gradually entered a state of war.
This was not its first clash with the Black Tide.
What had once limited it was that the Lunar Eclipse race’s army combat power was far inferior to the Black Tide’s units. This time it was still a similar situation.
At this time, the players in the united warband were also dumbfounded.
“Holy crap, guest No. 1, you’re cheating, right? How are you commanding every single player in the whole group independently?”
“My goodness, this guest No. 1 is way too badass.”
“Damn, I strongly suspect Starnet got itchy and joined the fight. There’s no way a sapient lifeform can achieve this level of detail in command. Multitasking with one mind is one thing, but one mind using tens of thousands? Taking yourself for a super-AI?”
“Probably not Starnet. Monster World was created by Starnet. If it had a single thought, Earthmind Bully would die. There’s no need to do this. I suspect God King brought in the city AI cores of the human race to join the battle. As expected of a real-life chad.”
“The city AI cores are like idiots. Managing city traffic systems is fine, but this isn’t something a city AI core can do. Definitely not a city AI core.”
“Everyone stop arguing. Pay attention to the golden bullet screens. So awesome. Our player legion is finally standing tall.”
“Damn it. Bullet-screen command. No. 1, is awesome. I bow in absolute admiration.”