Chapter 218-2: Three Disasters Converge, the Ultimate Showdown (2) |
“Brother No. 1, are you there?”
Guest No. 1 had not yet obtained Monster World player qualifications, so there was no way to contact him through the friends list or by @ in the livestream room.
They could only ask and wait for Guest No. 1’s response.
Not long after sending the inquiry, a golden bullet-screen message streaked across the livestream room.
Guest No. 1: I’m here.
God King: Interested in fighting the Bully again? If you can participate, we’ll be even more confident.
Faced with the inquiry, Guest No. 1 did not give a direct answer.
After more than ten seconds of silence in the livestream room, a message came from Guest No. 1.
“From here on, I’ll command. After assembly is complete, require all players in the warband to turn on livestream mode.”
The command battle of the previous round that Guest No. 1 participated in was still fresh in his memory. It really let him vent a lot of anger.
Having received a clear answer, God King did not rush to have players turn on livestreams, since the warband’s numbers were still continuing to grow.
Fishing-party players, competitive players, exploration-party players… even many Spirit Chef players from along the Colorful Mist Coast heard the news, came, and joined the warband.
All wanted to take this opportunity to be recorded in the Honor Album.
Maybe there would be a chance to leave a highlight screenshot to use for bragging in the future.
After the warband’s numbers reached 300,000, the growth rate gradually slowed.
An hour later, the number of players participating in the battle reached 350,000.
God King waited no longer and immediately used his legion commander authority to issue the first order to the players in the warband.
“All players turn on livestream mode, open the attribute display panel, and do nothing else.”
After repeating it three times in a row, God King began waiting for Guest No. 1 to perform.
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The moon, Lunar Eclipse City.
Underground beneath the Lunar Eclipse Tower, the energy center.
After Starnet’s orders were transmitted to the underground, thousands of energy pipelines with a diameter of more than ten meters slowly rotated, emitting a low rumble.
The metal shells on the surface of the pipes reflected a cold luster under blue warning lights, and the hydraulic devices at the joints sprayed white steam.
[Inspection complete, pressure in Area A-1 is normal.]
Message transmitted after the underground robots finished inspection.
Starnet immediately issued new instructions, and tens of thousands of small maintenance robots in the underground space lit their indicator lights at once.
The optical lenses shifted from red to blue, and the tools on their mechanical arms switched rapidly.
Along the direction of the pipelines, twelve heavy maintenance robots quickly took their positions. Hydraulic clamps locked the pipe interfaces tight, and blue flames jetted from the boosters on their backs as they began pushing the energy transmission pipelines to switch.
[Pressure stable in Area A-2, continue executing the switching program.]
The energy pipelines began rotating at a faster speed, while the energy barriers at the interfaces flickered with dazzling arcs.
The maintenance robot swarm operated like precise gears, speeding along magnetic tracks on the pipe surfaces, constantly adjusting the angle and position of the pipelines.
[B level war mode preparing to start. Energy output power will be raised to 1000%.]
The entire underground space began to tremble. Web-like blue patterns appeared on the surfaces of the energy pipelines as energy surged within under level B load operation.
Fine arcs rippled over the armor surfaces of the maintenance robots as they precisely executed each command issued by Starnet.
Tens of thousands of maintenance robots were at work with clear division of labor, methodically carrying out the pipeline switching operation.
During this process, mechanical arms rapidly replaced the cooling modules of the new pipelines. The liquid nitrogen they sprayed kept vaporizing under high temperature, forming a white mist throughout the underground space.
[Switching complete, energy supply stable, entering level B war mode.]
After the energy replacement was completed, the underground space gradually returned to calm.
All engineering robots stood by at different positions.
Meanwhile, the blue radiance surging inside the transparent energy pipelines was several times brighter than before.
At this moment, in the room where Starnet’s AI core resided.
After entering B level war mode, Starnet’s computational efficiency was greatly improved.
More precisely, it unsealed a portion of its own computing power and no longer needed to worry about insufficient energy supply.
Toot~
After a crisp sound, livestream light-screen projections popped up at high frequency and quickly filled the entire room.
A neural network diagram flowed across the surface of Starnet’s suspended body. Dozens of slender transparent tendrils surrounding it kept splitting in midair, generating countless tendrils.
At the end of each tendril was a highly developed information processing unit that assisted it in handling data.
In an instant of thought, all images in the room were compressed to the size of a fingernail. New livestream light-screen images continued to generate and once again filled the entire room.
During this process, the Star Vein combinations of participating players, Inherited soul levels, body tempering levels, and even their configured growth pets and embedded cultivation combat techniques were rapidly searched and recorded.
Starnet compiled this information into the War Mode database it had created last time.
Simulated grouping then started.
Starnet did not group by guild, viewing all players as independent individuals.
The first consideration was a series of possibilities for being countered by the Earthmind Bully, with a choice of mixed composition.
That is, players of various types such as tank builds, spellcasters, functional support, melee players, ranged archers, and assassin builds could exist in the same group.
One second later, the simulation test ended.
Starnet abandoned the idea of mixing players with different roles.
Doing so would seriously affect command efficiency.
Simulation data proved that distinctive group role positioning could better exert synergy. Thus the second and third rounds of simulated grouping began.
Before long, dense golden bullet-screen messages streaked rapidly across different players’ livestream rooms.
Having received the notice, God King opened permissions to sub-group managers to rebuild the sub-groups within the warband. Players who received the bullet-screen messages applied for different groups according to the prompts.
Next came the pairing of battle formations.
It simulated the arrangement with reference to past records of clashes with the Earthmind Evil Spirit and its command habits.
Before long, Starnet arrived at a grouping plan for the battle formation.
Starnet then issued assembly orders directly to all players in the form of coordinate points.
The foremost part of the battle formation was composed of fodder players.
The first row was an iron bastion formation interlaced by monster builds and tank builds, unfolding in an arc to block frontal charges and create a damage output environment for the back line.
Some tank players were arranged in the third row to guard against possible assassination tactics from the Earthmind Bully.
These tank players all had Life Link Inherited souls embedded. In emergencies they could help damage output players bear damage.
The second row of the battle formation was composed of melee damage output players interlaced with some functional support build players.
The third row of the battle formation was composed of tanks, functional support, and ranged archers.
The groups behind were mixed with spellcaster players, tanks, and functional support to ensure that spellcaster damage output would not be focus-fired by the Earthmind Bully due to overconcentration.
The flanks were handed to assassin build players to await the moment to cut into the Black Tide and reap the battlefield.
Starnet divided the players in the warband into two identical battle formation groups that unfolded on both sides, leaving a passable gap in the middle for the rotation of player forces.
This battle formation was also to deal with a possible third-party faction.
Leaving a gap in the center was in fact also creating space for the Earthmind Bully to charge into the player formation.
In past campaigns, the Earthmind Bully had always adopted a strategy of defense plus counterattack.
It was always the players who charged, with natural-catastrophe series units blocking, while looking for chances to launch long-range area strikes.
This time it gave the Earthmind Bully a chance.
The natural-catastrophe series units on the Black Tide’s front line formed an unbreakable wall. Would it switch units to seize the opportunity to launch a charge?
To catch a flaw, one must expose a flaw.
Orders were continuously sent in the form of bullet screens. The Skyfeather race also flew into the sky under bullet-screen command and raised their hands to condense Scatter Arrows bows.
When Starnet issued the advance order, the player army rolled forward in mighty force toward the direction of the Black Tide.
Whenever the formation along the way changed even slightly, Starnet would issue orders to individual players to adjust their positions to ensure the battle formation remained orderly.
On the other side.
Through prompts from the Evil Eye, the Earthmind Bully discovered that the player race was assembling and coming.
“Evil Eye, how many players have come?”
“359,232 and the number continues to grow.”
The unprecedented scale made the Earthmind Evil Spirit realize that the players were serious this time.
“Interesting. It seems they really care about the Primordial Monster. I just do not know whether the mysterious commander of the player race will appear.”
As it spoke, the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s body rose into the air and docked with the black tendril extended by the Evil Eye.
In an instant of thought, the Black Tide diffused outside converged toward the Evil Eye Tower.