Chapter 245-1: Enemy Commander, Backstabbing a Fellow Townsman (1) |
Primordial Altar.
Qi Sheng’s consciousness swept across the Etherbreath World.
The invasion war was in the initial contact stage, and the players’ combat power showed a one-sided crushing.
But during the invasion, a small accident occurred.
A player was swept into a spatial countercurrent during teleportation, yet by great luck did not die.
Only the docking between consciousness and body was damaged within the countercurrent.
The connection remained, but there was a loss at the memory level.
This state would not cause any effect.
What was interesting was that this player ultimately still managed to descend into the Etherbreath World.
When he woke up, he was dumbfounded.
In the end, he was captured by nearby warriors of the Super Beast Legion.
Under normal circumstances, the Etherbreath race would kill an alien without hesitation.
But the Super Beast Legion still followed tradition and conducted a physical examination of the player.
This examination changed the execution that should have been the player’s fate.
A player’s pure body was, in the eyes of Etherbreath warriors, the most precious transplant template for a memory sac.
That gave the player a chance to continue living.
Even more coincidentally, the king of the Blood Pool Super Beast Legion had reached the end-of-life stage.
This player, unsurprisingly, with the purest body became the chosen transplant target for the memory sac.
He successfully docked with Blood King’s memory sac.
This should have been an alternative possession, but with the protection of the Challenger System, there was no possibility that the player could be modified at the level of consciousness.
Thus a bizarre scene appeared.
Blood King failed to possess, yet everything belonging to Blood King was given to the player.
Including Blood King’s memories, the memory sac neural system, and reproductive function.
But the player was still in a state of memory loss. After receiving Blood King’s memories, he believed he was the resurrected Blood King.
In fact, the player’s condition only needed a return to Emperor’s Mound Village to be perfectly repaired.
It was like the Grind Kings group when they transplanted gifted organs from the Anti-Tide Legion.
After transplantation, the gifted organs operate normally within the player’s body. Only after the player dies will all external forces not belonging to the player system be erased.
At that time the Grind Kings also earned a handsome sacrificial power income by this method.
This point could also be referenced by injuries during players’ battles.
When a player suffers bodily remnants in combat, if not treated by item shop props, that state will continue to exist.
But as long as the player dies completely, he will be decomposed by Transdimensional’s Extraction of All Things, and within Emperor’s Mound Village obtain perfect rebirth through flesh reconstruction.
Including negative emotions and negative memories, everything will be purified.
The player’s original memories will not be affected.
The current state of this player could be understood as severely injured. The docking between body and consciousness became disordered in the spatial countercurrent.
Having not yet returned to Emperor’s Mound Village, he still maintained amnesia.
At this time the player was like a blank sheet of paper.
Blood King’s memories gave the originally blank-memory player a sense of self.
Therefore, the player now firmly believed he was Blood King.
Even the war priests around Blood King all believed this player was Blood King reborn.
The current situation was that an allied player, through an accidental event, successfully mixed into the enemy’s high ranks.
And he was one of the pinnacle eight kings atop the Etherbreath World’s pyramid: Blood King.
This was also why, when he killed defectors, a Challenger Notification sounded in his mind.
In essence he was not Blood King. Whether body or consciousness, he was a player.
But the memories he temporarily used were Blood King’s.
Qi Sheng’s gaze looked down upon the land. The mighty Blood Pool Super Beast Legion surged forward.
It could be confirmed that the player who believed himself Blood King was about to lead the Blood Pool Super Beast Legion to strike ruthlessly at his fellow townsmen.
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Emeraldbreath City.
A city once prosperous had now fallen into a desolate ruin.
The slanting sun cast down, yet what reflected on the ground were only fragmented shadows of buildings.
From high above, the whole city was a complete mess, with some areas still burning fiercely.
Most of the towers along the streets had been torn apart by violence. Walls were riddled with holes, and architectural debris lay everywhere.
Collapsed building remains piled like mountains, blocking the once bustling roads.
The vehicle-like flying organisms once driven by bio-energy and shaped like giant insects now lay crisscrossed along the roadside.
Wings thin as cicada membranes had become countless fragments. The compound eyes that once gleamed were now completely dull.
The entire city was shrouded in a depressing haze. From the sky came an occasional caw of crows, adding to the bleakness.
Players in the city were still digging three feet into the ground.
Just then, a voice suddenly sounded in the regional voice channel.
“Brothers, there is an airdrop to the south. Get ready to eat.”
Hearing the reminder, players floated up and looked south of the city.
At the end of their sight, the earth was trembling slightly.
Soon, a blood-colored tide ripped open the junction of heaven and earth on the horizon.
It was a cataclysmic flood composed of one million super beast warriors, each a slaughter machine weighing dozens of tons.
The gale raised by their charge uprooted ancient trees along the way. The roar from bio-armor colliding shook the entire world.
Realizing the Etherbreath race’s war power was about to appear, there was no fear in the players’ eyes. All were extremely excited.
“Brothers, go out of the city to meet them. The resource pack is here.”
“Hahaha, I am so happy. I was just wondering which direction to scour for resources next, and I did not expect the resources to grow legs and come by themselves.”
“Spellcaster group brothers come out with me to place Spell Towers. My wallet is already thirsting.”
Upon discovering the Super Beast Legion, players turned around one after another, gathering to the south of the city to welcome the war.
Through the regional voice channel, players in other cities who learned there was a war here also moved and rushed this way.
The blood-colored tide at the edge of sight gradually became clear.
Charging at the very front was the Destroyer phalanx of the Super Beast Legion.
This was a shock line composed of six-legged giants. Each toe claw of the giants was incomparably sharp, every landing in the run leaving sunken claw marks in the rock layers.
At their shoulder blades, protruding bio-cannon barrels were charging, ghostly blue light rapidly flickering.
Just then, dense black dots appeared on the horizon.
A wing-darkening swarm blotted out the sky as it skimmed over the battlefield. The flying super beasts with wingspans over 20 meters began to accelerate.
On both wings of the blood-colored tide, the ground bulged into giant mounds as Earth Devourers burst out.
These war units, shaped like abyssal worms, were over fifteen meters long. Ringed-tooth mouthparts, like precision instruments, spun at high speed.
At the very center of the blood tide, the End Behemoth advanced like a moving mountain.
Where it passed, the ground sank and left footprints. Super beasts on both sides bowed their heads to make way.
When the missile hives on its back opened, hundreds of bio-missiles were revealed.
At this moment, the earth wailed under the legion’s charge.
This was one of the Etherbreath race’s top war legions.
Baptized by cross-boundary flames of war through long ages, countless races were slaughtered by this legion and turned into a paragraph in the Etherbreath race’s history books.
This legion needed no tactics and no formations, believing that a pure torrent of violence was the most perfect art of war.
On the players’ side, forces were also quickly organized.
War mode opened with Monster Build players as the front line.
Gazing at the Blood Pool Legion, the foremost Monster Build players raised their heads and roared, showing domineering arrogance that looked down upon the world.
They then surged forward together with the tank build players.
War was on the verge of erupting.
The blood-colored tide and the player tide collided with a thunderous crash at the center. The air exploded into a visible shockwave that swept in all directions.
At the head, Black-Scaled Serpents, Rend Giant Lizards, and Roar Bears were like sea-calming pillars in a sky-high wave, breaking open the Super Beast Legion’s line with irresistible force.
At the very front, a Giant Lizard displayed unmatched power.
Green scales refracted a cold luster under the sun. It ignored pouncing super beasts and charged straight ahead like a bulldozer.
Every tail sweep flung several super beasts flying.
Standing atop the green lizard’s head, the player activated Owl-Headed Fiend perception, rapidly generating countless rotating, expanding lightning spheres around him.
In a flash of thought, precision-guided strikes locked by the Owl-Headed Fiend wove through the air.
Dense electric light followed the Giant Lizard’s berserk charge forward, and swathes of super beasts fell.
Just then, the sky suddenly darkened.
The Wing Calamity cluster descended. Their abdomens split open launch chambers, and tens of thousands of bone needles poured down.
Under Free War Mode, there was no player commander, but support-build players still reacted by instinct and decisively released the Light Shield trait toward the sky.
Light curtains connected and formed a solid local defense.
Bone spurs struck and raised rippling waves of energy, yet could not break this layer of defense.
But some spellcaster players outside the defense range were instantly penetrated by bone spurs. Before they even had their fun, they left the small world instance early.
These were basically mages with extreme offense point allocation. Their bodily strength was weak and could not withstand the dense bone-spur damage.
Then, thousands of mounds rose on the ground behind the player army. Bulky Earth Devourers burst out and swept nearby players like shield tunneling machines.