Chapter 223-2: Monster Legion Challenge (2) |
“Damn.”
Realizing his combination posted on the forum had been used by another player, he could only change the resonance trait.
After a round of selection, he finally chose the weapon template with the Death Conduction resonance.
This time no ‘already used’ prompt appeared.
He first tried the Repel Challenge. His consciousness tapped confirm, and the earth trembled.
[Repel Challenge begins. First wave incoming monsters: Goblin Army.]
Gazing into the distance, smoke and dust billowed at the edge of the wasteland.
A horde of goblin-like monsters surged toward the village.
At the forefront was a gigantic creature with the words Goblin Chieftain above its head. It was more than five meters tall and swung a thick spiked club. With each step, the ground quaked.
The gauntlet worn on Darkness Approaches’ right hand burst into dazzling light as he suddenly raised it.
At once the weapon trait activated. Several black energy orbs flew into the sky and fell among the Goblin Army.
Goblins in swathes were quickly dissolved, turning into pools of black water.
The Death Conduction resonance trait activated at this moment, producing a chain reaction within the Goblin Army.
Like a virus spreading rapidly, goblins fell in sheets after being infected and likewise melted into pools of black water.
Before they even approached the village, the Goblin Army had already been completely dissolved.
[Challenger Notification: First wave cleared. Repel Challenge continues. Second wave incoming monsters: Shadow Wolf Pack and Corrupted Treants.]
With the annihilation of the first wave, the wasteland scene automatically initialized back to its original state. From the horizon came a low wolf howl, and pairs of ghostly green eyes appeared densely, roaring as they charged toward his position.
Behind the Shadow Wolf Pack, massive Corrupted Treants rose from underground, following the wolves in their assault.
This wave also had no difficulty.
The gauntlet in his hand was level 100, with the primary body priced at 505,000.
The equipped enchantment traits were even more expensive. The total price added up to 1,489,300, making it effortless to kill low hunt level small monsters.
After the ability was released, the Death Conduction resonance activated again.
Sheets of Shadow Direwolves and Corrupted Treants fell. There was no need to cast a second time; the battle ended.
[Repel Challenge continues. Third wave monsters: Flame Trolls and Lava Worms.]
Before the remnants of the second wave had fully dissipated, the sky suddenly turned crimson.
On the horizon, countless silhouettes of enormous Flame Trolls appeared.
Their bodies were formed of searing magma. Each step left burning footprints on the ground.
The difficulty of this challenge clearly ramped up. According to the panel introduction on the right side of the view, the Flame Trolls possessed ranged attack capability, able to condense fireballs to inflict large-area flame damage.
They needed to be killed within a certain distance, or the village would be damaged.
Behind the Flame Trolls, the earth split, and Lava Worms drilled up from underground.
The monsters in this wave had a significantly improved capacity to withstand damage. After being affected by the Death Conduction resonance, they persisted for quite a while before dying.
But the strongest aspect of Death Conduction was its ability to spread quickly.
When dense waves of monsters attacked, it could rapidly transmit through the entire army. He still completed the challenge with great ease.
[Repel Challenge continues. Fourth wave monsters: Frost Giants and Ice Spiders.]
The heat of the third wave had not yet faded when the sky suddenly turned overcast and a cold wind howled.
Frost Giants walked out from glaciers appearing at the end of the horizon.
Their bodies were formed of solid ice, and they wielded massive crystal war hammers. Each step left spreading frost marks on the ground.
At the feet of the Frost Giants, dense Ice Spiders followed.
The spiders’ bodies were as transparent as ice and moved very fast, becoming clear in view at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Then came the fifth wave, the sixth wave… relying on the infectious effect of the Death Conduction resonance, he reached the currently highest stage on the leaderboard: the seventh wave.
[Repel Challenge continues. Seventh wave monsters: Undead Legion and Death Knights.]
In the distance the sky suddenly turned dim, and thick black fog appeared at the end of the land.
A warhorse’s neigh broke the silence.
An Undead Legion composed of skeletons, zombies, and ghosts emerged from the black fog, their numbers vast.
At the very front of the monster legion, Death Knights charged on burning warhorses.
Darkness Approaches failed this wave. The village behind him was utterly destroyed by the Undead Army, and the challenge progress froze at: Wave 7, 18.72 percent.
The Death Conduction resonance did not excel in lethality; its strength lay in contagion.
Facing lower-strength monsters it had extremely high kill efficiency, able to destroy an entire monster legion with one strike.
But against monster legions whose defensive strength had clearly increased, it seemed very feeble, with kill efficiency far too low.
He summoned the challenge leaderboard interface.
He found that he had not even entered the top 100 of the Repel Board.
And the player at the top of the leaderboard had changed.
No. 1: Seal Does Not Read the News (Weapon Resonance: Blazing Path)
Challenge Progress: Wave 9, 39.83 percent
This player was using precisely the resonance combination he had mentioned in his post.
Clicking the player’s name, a video of the challenge process popped up in the interface.
With a resonance combination built from Flame Particle + Gale Particle and other enchantment particles, the damage output efficiency was explosive.
In the video, each swing of the player’s greatsword generated a forward-sweeping flame tornado that drowned monsters along the way in blazing fire.
In the first few waves, swinging three times to generate three flame tornadoes was basically enough to end the battle.
Until the ninth wave, when the Hell Legion appeared, the damage output of Blazing Path began to falter, and the village was ultimately devoured by the Hell Legion.
Just as he was about to check other player information on the leaderboard, the first place on the Repel Board suddenly changed.
No. 1: Happy Rice Noodles Roll (Weapon Resonance: Shadow Lightning Chain, Eternal Core)
Challenge Progress: Wave 12, 89.83 percent
This player’s weapon was paired with two sets of weapon resonances.
Darkness Approaches did not find this strange.
Weapon resonance traits had no restrictions.
As long as the weapon’s level was high enough, in theory you could stack countless resonance effects.
But the vast majority of players basically chose a single weapon resonance and developed that resonance’s effect to the maximum.
For example, his first discovery, Weak Elemental Resonance.
By continuing to increase elemental enchantment particles, it could be upgraded to Major Elemental Resonance, Strong Elemental Resonance, and so on.
So weapons specializing in one resonance would have higher strength with a single resonance.
Curious, Darkness Approaches clicked the player’s name.
In the presented scene, a female player holding a staff stood in front of the village.
After the challenge began, the stacked performance effects of Shadow-Lightning Chain + Eternal Core left Darkness Approaches amazed.
You could see dense black arcs of lightning jumping among the monster legion during the battle. This was also a damage output-type weapon resonance with conductive traits.
Although its transmission effect was far inferior to his Death Conduction, its damage output intensity was more than a grade higher.
The temporarily first-place female player almost passed the twelfth wave, but in the end fell to the dragon legion that came in the twelfth wave due to insufficient damage output.
After watching, he then checked other players’ rune resonance combinations on the leaderboard.
Most weapon resonances were actually not suitable for players to use in the early stage, as the inlaid trait particles were truly too expensive.
But there was one resonance combination he felt was very suitable for players to use as an early transition. The weapon resonance was called: Wings of the Void.
The performance of this enchantment combination was that it could greatly extend attack distance.
Standing at the village entrance, you could attack targets at the limit of sight, striking the incoming monster legion from afar. It also carried a void erosion trait effect, and its damage output performance was very good.
With 2 days left before the event ended, he could foresee that stronger weapon resonances would appear one after another.
After roughly browsing the Repel Board, he then checked the Guardian Board and the Function Board.
The resonance combinations listed on the leaderboards all performed very brilliantly.
He saw quite a few spectacular resonance combinations.
A desire to hit the leaderboards also rose in Darkness Approaches’ heart.
After exiting the event scene, he returned to the forging room scene.
Next, he would try to fuse more enchantment particles into the primary weapon to seek stronger weapon resonance combinations.
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Primordial Altar.
Latest player output information kept skimming through Qi Sheng’s mind.
The weapon system had officially gone online.
Within this functional system, various trait effects from the Enlightenment Shop had been integrated.
But unlike the ‘limited-time’ rule traits in the Enlightenment Shop, what he replicated with sacrificial power were eternally existing trait effects.
Because the eternal effect of a single trait was too expensive and simply beyond what players could bear, he split it into enchantment particles for players to collect and purchase bit by bit.
On the basis of eternal traits, he also integrated the knowledge system of the Four Gods to create a freely combinable weapon system.
This made weapons no longer just weapons, but able to possess all kinds of very interesting playstyles.
After browsing the forum for a long while, Qi Sheng glanced at the sacrificial power remaining.
Next, he decided to open a new round of recruitment as soon as possible.
This time he planned to issue five hundred thousand player qualifications to the outside world.
Secondly, he would also open up a new space node to carry the new players and help them grow quickly.