Chapter 236-2: Calamity Goes to Sea, Time to Show Off (2) |
Within an hour of the Chamber’s post, a large number of players gathered in the Colorful Mist Coast area.
Top guild teams from the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range, the Ecstasy Resistance Army from the Rimewinter Snowfield, the Blind Box Army from the cavern world, and even the newbie army from the newest scene, the Boundless Forest Domain, arrived one after another.
The loudest shouts along the coast came from this bunch of newbie players.
Newbies who had just entered Monster World mostly had not yet bought vehicles, and all called out for veteran players to give them a lift when going out to sea.
This was also the first time many newbies from the Boundless Forest Domain had come to the Colorful Mist Coast, and they were endlessly curious about everything here.
Even if they had seen it in videos during their cloud player days, the feeling was completely different from being there in person.
Compared with the deep, mysterious ambiance of the Boundless Forest Domain, the Colorful Mist Coast presented newbies with a brighter environmental palette.
Especially upon reaching the shoreline, the warm sea breeze brushed their faces. When their vision suddenly opened wide, it brought them a brand-new sensory experience.
As more and more players gathered, the shoreline grew livelier.
Sci-fi-style multi-person starships rose slowly into the air. A multi-person diving vehicle shaped like a mechanical octopus set out from the shallows and sank into the sea. A crystalline war chariot skimmed the sea surface as if on flat ground, leaving a gorgeous trail behind. Including the most popular sword flight.
In an instant, the sight of myriad flying swords volleying together drew cries of amazement from the newbies on the coast.
Gazing up at the myriad vehicles, the eyes of newbie players were full of envy, and the voice channels were filled with their exclamations.
“Wow, these vehicles are too cool. I wonder when I can have such a powerful vehicle.”
“Veterans, take me along. I will sing for you on the newbie road, okay.”
“What is so great about veteran players. If you have the ability, give me a free lift, let me go take a look at the Rule Node. Best if you can carry me into the annals of glory.”
“Holy crap, this vehicle template in the Somersault Cloud form is too handsome. Please share the vehicle template. I want to copy homework. Once I earn enough money I will get it.”
Exclamations rose one after another, satisfying the sense of superiority in veteran players’ hearts.
Some enthusiastic veterans also fulfilled newbies’ requests, taking them along to the territory node if there were empty seats on their multi-person vehicles.
Monster build players also appeared one after another during this period.
These players generally had no vehicles and crossed the sea with their bodies.
Black-Scaled Serpent forms dozens of meters long, Roaring Bear forms that stood more than ten meters tall, the ocean’s strongest monster form of ‘Control Fish,’ and so on.
The scene was as magnificent as a monster army from a sci-fi film.
Faced with newbies’ requests for a lift, monster build players generally paid no heed.
After all, within the monster build circle, the most despised are monster build players who act as mounts.
In their worldview, monsters are not tools, not vehicles, and certainly not someone else’s mounts.
Monsters are symbols of power.
Choosing this growth route means one should roam wantonly among boundless waves, crush mountains on vast land, tear the clouds in the vast sky, and with a fearless body grind down obstacles ahead, displaying the absolute majesty of the king of all beasts.
Players who become someone else’s mounts can only be called pets and are unworthy of being called monster build players.
So even if the back of a Black-Scaled Serpent could carry dozens of players, no monster build would bow and compromise.
Of course, the premise of upholding dignity is insufficient profit.
If a newbie is willing to spend tens of thousands of sacrificial power for a ride, the vast majority of monster build players are willing to sacrifice themselves for a lift.
After all, monster builds also need to grow. No one will turn down sacrificial power.
For instance, some of God King’s tactics in Emperor’s Mound Village would be paired with monster builds, letting them serve as mounts to charge, with distributed gains no lower than tank build players.
Paying is essentially a form of respect. With respect, everything is negotiable.
An hour after the Gold Coin Chamber’s post, the number of players at the Colorful Mist Coast only increased. Many players who used shortcuts to return to the village also set sail at this time.
The spectacle of collectively putting out to sea was grand, as if breaking the dimensional wall.
Sci-fi, fantasy, xianxia, wuxia, two-dimensional… players of any type could be seen at the Colorful Mist Coast.
Teams of players with different vehicles headed out to sea.
Players’ shouts, the sound of ships cleaving waves, and the roars of monster build players intertwined, composing a rousing battle song of departure.
From high above, the entire sea area was occupied by dense player vehicles.
Included among them were many lone wolf players who normally did not act with player teams, all present as well.
Facing the temptation of the Godshift rule, there was not a player who was not moved.
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Half a day later.
The fastest first wave of players reached the coordinates marked on the map and saw the spectacular undersea vortex.
This group did not hesitate at all and passed through the vortex to descend into Ghost Scorpion Space.
But they did not act rashly, instead beginning to wait in place for reinforcements to arrive.
As more and more players entered Ghost Scorpion Space, the players launched a fearless charge toward the ancient undersea structure in free war mode.
A fierce melee erupted at once.
Large numbers of Ghost Scorpion Bugs surged madly from the silt. The dense figures almost filled the entire water, rapidly forming an indestructible defensive line.
Their carapaces flashed a ghostly blue under the light. Their huge pincers opened with scraping sounds as the phosphorescent tendrils on their bodies danced, and they launched attacks on the oncoming players.
Every Ghost Scorpion Bug had a hunt level of 70+, and the key point was their extremely high defense.
Players were not good at underwater combat to begin with, and the first clash with the Ghost Scorpion Bugs already showed signs of rout.
Fortunately, reserve forces of players kept pouring into Ghost Scorpion Space, continually filling the advancing front line with living strength.
Front-row tank build players proactively raised their shields, trying to block the Bugs’ pincer strikes.
At the moment the shields collided with the pincers, a muffled impact rang out, and the current was shocked apart.
Back-row damage dealers also launched their offensives. Arrows and energy rounds traced paths through the water, striking the Bugs’ shells and splashing ripples of energy.
However, there were simply too many Ghost Scorpion Bugs.
Their attacks surged in wave after wave like the tide.
Several Bugs in front relied on brute strength to tear through the tank build players’ front line defense with ease.
After they charged into the rear of the player formation, their huge pincers became reaping blades, and swathes of players were shredded in an instant.
At this stage, those who could contend with hunt level 70+ were the very top echelon of the player camp.
But that was limited to one-on-one confrontations.
Faced with such a dense mass of level 70+ monsters, ordinary players would die instantly on contact.
Besides their formidable bodily toughness, the Ghost Scorpion Bugs could also manipulate seawater, generating swift vortices on the seabed to drag swathes of players in and maul them.
“Protect the back line. Brothers with Star Shift, send the Ghost Scorpion Bugs away. The back line is getting blown up.”
A player shouted loudly in the regional voice channel, but his voice was quickly drowned out by the chaos of battle.
In free war mode, the battlefield was quickly divided into zones, and small-group combat began.
The turbid current was churned even more chaotically by the fighting.
Players’ skills and the Bugs’ attacks intertwined in the water.
Inkflame burst in the seawater, evaporating large patches of bubbles. Frost arrows struck the Bugs’ shells, freezing sheets of ice crystals. Void Grasp slammed down in the water, setting off waves of current shock.
The Ghost Scorpion Bugs’ low snarls, players’ shouts, the booming of skill eruptions, plus the seabed sludge spreading in the water made for a scene worthy of a horde of demons dancing.
In the chaos, several players activated Extreme Speed and tried to break through.
Their intent was obvious.
As players, there were two ways to contain a territory node.
The first way had only been encountered in the Evil Moon domain: the node crystal was entangled by a corrosion core, and the core had to be shattered to contain the node.
The second way was simpler and more direct. A player only needed to touch the node crystal to complete containment.
The players trying to break through were precisely aiming to contain the territory node via the shortcut.
They wanted to pluck the fruits of victory by direct contact.
But the blue great net woven by the Ghost Scorpion Bugs filled the entire sea area. In the breakout attempt they were quickly surrounded by the Bugs.
To keep breaking through they had to kill the blocking Bugs, but under attribute suppression, ordinary damage methods could hardly kill them. The breakout players could only turn into black mist and return to the village on the spot.