My players are so fierce.

Chapter 581 580. Isn’t it a fixed rule that technology relies on archeology and strength relies on atavism? -Additional update【2230】

(Additional update for "Crow_13" brothers [2/5])

The legendary quest chain released by Hogg has been dominating the forums for several days. Considering that this is the most important challenge launched in the game so far, and the target is directed at an evil god, the enthusiasm of players is understandable. .

However, everyone generally believes that the actual implementation of this task chain must wait until the internal beta. After all, it is a bit too scary to implement a task of this size in just a closed test.

However, there are also rumors from unknown sources that the 120 players currently accepting the mission are not the final list. One interpretation is that considering that the target is an evil god, the basic strength of the players participating in the crusade cannot be too bad. , although the completion and even the solution of the Silver Trial are still in the fog, some good people have calculated a table based on the current power system of the game.

Because this thing was supported by the professional logistics staff of the Riptide Knights, the content in that format was produced quite beautifully.

They have further deepened the current game's general "black iron/silver/gold" system to present the player's strength enhancement curve in a more intuitive way.

This table first clarifies a basic concept.

That is to say, level in this game is just a form of "game qualifications". It itself does not represent real strength. The simplest example is that after triggering the Black Iron Trial at level 10, you can continue to upgrade, but players at level 11 and level 20 There is simply no way to crush the players in terms of strength.

In the PVP of Fight Club, there are often cases where the level is five levels different but the game still overturns tragically.

According to the judgment of the "logistics staff" who specialize in playing data, the improvement of strength after the Black Iron Trial is more about skill, that is, the skill itself and its proficiency.

For another example, the number of victories in Fight Club is far ahead. Guys like Cat Brother, Pomegranate Sister and Niu Niu, who have already secured the title of "Scarlet Gladiator" in the first season in advance, are strong because they generally master more than six types of weapons. Advanced skills, while ordinary players can only obtain two to three advanced skills step by step from professional trainers even after the Black Iron Trial.

Some players who have poor learning ability may need a month to master the essence of these advanced techniques.

The most exaggerated among them is Brother Cat. He is a warrior of the tribune Kudel. Lord Kudel also values ​​this studious and talented foreigner, and gives Brother Cat a series of the most proud cutting skills he has mastered. .

Such as disarming slash, thundering slash, earth-shattering slash, spinning slash, etc., Yishui's "classical knight secret skills" pushed Brother Mao's combat power to the point where he can suppress Sister Pomegranate head-on.

This is also the reason why Sister Pomegranate has been seeking to join the Thorn Clan recently, and she is also under great pressure in this regard.

In short, according to the description of the power table circulating on the forum, if you want to be in the top 20 in combat power among the player group, you must reach level Black Iron and have two combat professions, and be proficient in at least four core advancements. Combat skills must be understood by at least one or two masters.

This requirement is already very high.

But the most perverted thing is that currently the top 10 combat players have at least four or more master-level skills in their hands. It can only be said that others are enjoying the game, while these combat fanatics are desperately trying to reach the limit.

Starting from this table, the forum also reached a unified conclusion, that is, before the final step of the legendary mission, as long as one of the 120 selected people can be squeezed out, their "god-killing qualifications" can be taken away.

In fact, ordinary players are also self-aware.

In this game that is so real, even if Hogg really entrusts them with such a task, they have no confidence that they can complete it. This ghost game cannot drag corpses to fight a war of attrition. If they really want to kill gods, they have to fight hard. There's nothing to take away from.

But there is no shortage of ambitious guys among players.

Especially as the scope of recruiting testers becomes wider and wider, more and more "ruthless characters" from the greedy party appear in the forum. A few days ago, there was a "professional" who had played in an unrestricted fighting game before. "Surfaced, people made it clear that they were not here to play games, but because they were bored during the lockdown, so they came to this game to "meet martial arts masters from all walks of life."

The words were quite arrogant, but after asking again, I found out that this person was specially invited by Teacher Li. Moreover, this person was just lucky enough to register, and there were quite a few "folk martial artists" waiting in line behind him.

Ok!

Teacher Li, the great master of the Shado-Pan, thinks that the game is not lively enough, so he plans to hold a "martial arts conference" in Transia.

"Holy crap! How come in just one or two days, I have 13 more potential opponents in Fight Club! Am I so hated by people?"

Just in front of the hunting guard's cave, Ah Yu, who was about to start the second round of exploration, said to Che Che next to him with fear:

"How many are going to challenge you?"

"I didn't watch it. If you like it, come here. Man, I'm not afraid of fighting. What strong person doesn't win all the way?"

Cheche is optimistic.

He was originally a very ambitious young man and didn't care how many people challenged him. On the contrary, he thought it was a kind of capital worth showing off, but others were not as optimistic as him.

"I have 9 people lined up here."

Good Pigeon held up her chin and sighed:

"Tell me, how many of you are there?"

"I have 11."

"I have 5."

"I, I, 23!"

Meow Shark almost cried. He looked at the Fight Club PK reservation on the character interface and cursed fiercely:

"These bastards just think that I am a hunter who is easy to bully, and the arena is so big that they cannot fly their kites, so they want to take away the 'god-killing quota' in my hand. They have a good idea!

I will go to the swamp soon to find a rare swamp tiger or spider to tame. I will kill them hard when I go back to PK this week to kill them. "

"It's useless."

The electronic snail who had been silent shook his head and said:

“We have just captured the Wolfsburg stronghold, and it is at the height of our popularity. Those guys who want to stand out are trying to step on us to get the upper hand. Now that there are more and more players, you have to work hard if you want to make a name for yourself.

The development team gave 120 quotas just to intensify this kind of battle. What I mean is, if you all keep your eyes open, you will lose if you lose. Anyway, we hold the stronghold and have a steady supply of supplies, and we are already in an invincible position.

No one can resist the rise of the Scarlet Beast Regiment. Unless we commit suicide and let the administrative office take back the stronghold, there is really no other way. "

"Hey, what are you talking about?"

Niu Niu came over with his three sports student brothers. They also carried some props for casting spells, which they wanted to send to the assistants to increase their status.

Seeing the six people in the dormitory so dejected, Niu Niu, who had been proud of the recent success, couldn't help but ask more questions. As a result, he learned about the challenge from them. Niu Newton suddenly became interested. He clicked on his own interface and took a look, but was disappointed again. explain:

"What, I only have 3 challenge reservations! Does this mean I'm not famous enough? Or am I not strong enough? This is too disrespectful!"

"Go away! I want to make a name for myself, not to get my head broken and bloody."

Ah Yu scolded:

"With your current strength that is firmly in the top ten, who can't think of challenging you? You have to pick the weak ones, understand? Those of us who are ranked high but not high enough are the most suitable targets.

For example, at this stage, except for Sister Pomegranate and the two masters of the Shado-Pan, no one will challenge Brother Cat.

There's no chance of winning. "

"What's this? Brother, won't you be afraid if you practice hard?"

The shrimp catcher said jokingly:

"Look at Jusha, he is so stubborn. The more people challenge him, the happier he will be. You must learn from Jusha. That is the true mentality of a strong man. Now this kind of worry and fear is called sore loser. Yes. Okay, how many potential release bars do you have?"

"I'm 34%, what about you?"

Ah Yu glanced at the character interface and asked. The shrimp catcher proudly made a 4 sign and said:

"I'm 40%."

"Zhuo! Are you cheating?"

This value shocked everyone around him, including Niu Niu, who exclaimed:

"That's not right, you are the latest among us to come in, how come you are the fastest to unleash your potential? There must be a skill to this kind of thing, right? Share it with me? I'll treat you to hot pot after classes resume!"

"My damn secret book is only worth a hot pot meal to you?"

The shrimp catcher rolled his eyes, but then he put on a posture of "hiding his merit and fame", waved his hands and said:

"I specifically asked Lord Kudel before, and the tribune told me that fighting style is very important, and it is also important to find the areas in which you are good at. I know that you all practice hard in all skills, but this is wrong!

Not everyone can master all the skills like Cat Brother.

You have to find the skills that best suit you, form your own unique fighting style, and orient yourself towards your own style. You have to have a focus, do you understand?

I have painstakingly studied it. I tried various weapons and finally felt that the pole specialization in Tomb Sword Guard was suitable for me, so I gave up other core skills to specialize in this! He also went to the polearm master in the clan for advice.

Now that all the skills related to polearms have been mastered to a master level, I feel like my style has taken shape.

It turns out that my guess was right. You see, my potential release bar has increased very quickly.

However, I'm stuck at 40% and can't get rid of it. At least 70% of the potential must be released to trigger the Silver Trial. Now I'm wondering if the method needs to be improved? "

"Well, is that so?"

Others nodded, including Niu Niu himself, thoughtfully.

He glanced at his "Fist Fighter" character's specialties and wondered if the development team had told him the answer from the beginning. This concretization of individual advantages seems to be complementary to the "specialization" theory of shrimp catchers.

Isn't it because Brother Cat can master all the cutting skills taught by Master Kudel? Isn't it because he has the specialty of "Master of Swordsmanship"? Brother Cat may have found a way to silver, but others will definitely not take the initiative to share this.

Speaking of which, my sister has been clamoring to join the Thorn Clan and learn the true essence of the Midnight Assassination Fist. Could it be that she also...

"You guys, come here quickly! Get ready to enter the cave!"

Brother Meow Meow's broken gong voice sounded from the side, and everyone was ready to rush into the hunting cave ahead again. Since there was no way to adopt BUG tactics, they planned to attack steadily this time, clearing them one by one until they were gone. Finally get the inheritance of the Bone-Gripping King.

As for how to distribute those legendary weapons and equipment, we can wait until the game is finished.

Niuniu is a shield T, so he naturally has to lead the battle. However, this time he did not use his flail. Instead, he took out a heavy-hitting glove for defense and put it on his hand.

This made Brother Bang, who was also a defender, blink his eyes, but he didn't ask any more questions. Instead, Lanhua on the other side raised his eyebrows, seeming to understand what Niu Niu was planning to do.

"Come on! Take one step at a time, don't mess up!"

Brother Bang gave the order, and the four shield Ts immediately stepped forward to pick up the monsters.

The moment they stepped into the cave, the corpse of the jackal hunting guard in front of them immediately jumped up with a cry. The shriveled and weathered corpses were wrapped with weird green fluorescence. Although all their equipment was taken away by Murphy in advance, the strength of these guys was real.

They are all strong men carefully selected from the entire Gnoll clan by the King of Bonebiters during the Fourth Black Disaster. A combat team of six people, a silver captain and five elite black irons is an incomparable combination. withstand.

Each of the four shield Ts can carry one, and Sanwu Dou, who has the artifact in hand, can carry three. They can block the undead's attack by blocking the position, allowing melee fighters and psionicists to quickly output, according to the "hardness" of the shield T. Kill them by name.

But there wasn't much time left for them.

Because the "combat AI" of the monsters in the cave is powerful, they do not have a "warning range". As soon as the cave entrance is opened, more monsters will rush over, which requires the DPS to do their best and not to catch fish.

The advancement speed of such a head-on battle is very slow, and because each monster may hit a crushing critical hit, accidents are easy to occur. When they killed two teams of hunting guards and were about to move forward, a hidden jackal appeared. The human assassin suddenly used a shadow leap to bypass the defenders and enter the psionic master.

Cheche, who was preparing a large-scale slowdown spell, had no time to react. The jackal assassin broke his shield with two swords and hit him with three critical hits. His life was hanging by a thread. Fortunately, Gebao reacted quickly and cast a immobilizing spell on the guy, and Cheche was able to let go. He rolled and crawled and ran out with a trace of blood on his skin.

Seeing that the Jackal Assassin was about to escape, Orchid, who was nearest, turned around and cast a rescue attack, bumping into the Jackal Assassin and kicking him on the waist, knocking him out of danger.

Brother Miao Miao was about to go up and kill with an ax but saw Lan Hua's weapon being knocked away. But at this critical moment, the only female shield T calmly raised her finger and flicked it forward.

"Snapped"

The biting cold wind blew up in an instant, and the jackal assassin in front of him who was about to kill was frozen into an ice sculpture. Although the guy broke free after a few seconds, the precious few seconds were enough for the melee to complete the position and kill it. Chopped into pieces.

"Quit! The formation is in chaos. Everyone should withdraw and regroup."

Brother Bang was startled by the mistake just now. Seeing that the monster in front of him was attacking with great force, he immediately ordered a retreat. A group of people retreated neatly. When they left the cave, those violent hunting guards were like He fell to the ground as if dead again.

"What's your skill?"

Brother Miao Miao didn't care about the failure of this attempt. He stared at Orchid and asked:

"Shield T does not have such a general skill. Even the winter breath of Nord blood cannot control a Black Iron Elite for that long. It is more like the method of a psionic master."

"Well, this, this is called 'The Power of the Ancestors'."

Lanhua put the shield aside. She was a little annoyed at this time. She obviously planned to upgrade quietly and complete the Silver Trial at a specific time to shock everyone, but she didn't expect that her "little secret" could not be hidden.

"Ah? What the hell is the power of ancestors?"

Even Brother Cat was startled now.

He raised his heavy sword and asked curiously:

"Is it some kind of special skill? Was it taught by an NPC that was unlocked during a mission?"

"this one"

Orchid Flower didn't intend to say it.

However, thinking of the terrifying difficulty of this god-killing mission, she hesitated for a moment and decided to disclose this secret that could make players stronger as soon as possible.

"After choosing a new race, I felt that the skill Breath of Winter was particularly useful, so I would use it frequently whether it was a swamp battle or other battles. Because it was a shield T, I quickly reached Master level with its proficiency. class.

I didn't think much about it at first, but when I was surrounded by seven or eight rat thugs a few days ago, my racial skills suddenly changed. "

The Grand Traveler raised her left index finger, and a biting ice breath surrounded her fingertips. She explained:

"The system prompted me that through frequent use of the breath of winter, the power of the ancient ancestors of the Nords in my body was discovered, and my breath of winter advanced into the ancestral power of the Ice Fingers.

When in close combat contact, the enemy can be forcibly frozen regardless of the strength limit, and the [Freezing Weakness] state will be applied. However, the chance of failure will increase when facing high-level enemies.

My guess is that this is a change that only occurs with racial skills.

I also speculated that this thing might be the truth of the Silver Trial. In addition to releasing my own potential, I also need to discover the power hidden in my bloodline from the source of my race. For example, after unlocking the ancestral power of Ice Fingers, my The potential release bar jumped to 66%.

There is only 4% left before triggering the Silver Trial. "

"66%! Sister Lanhua is so fierce, I am only 32%!"

Che Che gave a dog-licking compliment, but Lan Hua glared at her and said:

"I am not fierce because I accidentally discovered the power of my ancestors. My potential release bar was originally stuck at 40%. All my defense skills are at the master level, okay?

These two conditions are complementary to each other, and there is no shortcut at all. "

"Correct!"

Sister Pomegranate stared at the cold winter breath wrapped around Orchid's fingers, and she said:

"There is no shortcut to this kind of thing. Lanhua's innate conditions are the worst among the four shield Ts, so accordingly, she has put the most effort into her skills than the four of you. And I have a guess.

Silver Trial can be triggered at 70%, but it doesn’t mean you have to activate it at 70%!

Since there is a 100% upper limit there, my suggestion is that you'd better release your potential to 100% before starting the trial advancement.

If you think about it, almost all Silver level NPCs are emphasizing this point. The slower the better when laying the foundation for the Black Iron level. Obviously, laying a good foundation is the most important thing!

Just like the Black Iron Trial, there are two options: easy and hard. Although there is no difference in numerical values, you can see by looking at the victory and defeat of Fight Club that those brothers who advance through the easy way are a bit inferior in actual combat. It's scary. "

"It can't be said that the simple option is obviously reserved for administrators, manufacturing companies, and casual players. Not everyone is as hardcore as us."

Brother Miao Miao rubbed his chin and said:

"This information about Lan Huahua is really important. Although we can't monopolize knowledge in the game, we have to accept this favor! Before Lan Hua completes the Silver Trial and gets the first achievement in the server, this method cannot be revealed. on the forum.

Today, I am here to say something harsh based on my qualifications. Anyone who violates the secret agreement will not play with us in the future!

Anyone disagree? "

"I understand, everyone understands."

Ah Yu, who was still feeling pain in his balls just now for facing the PK challenge, now couldn't help but want to find a place to tap into the ancestral power of the Blood Eagle Clan.

He glanced at the cave and said:

"Now that the secret to strength has been revealed, I suggest that everyone dig into the power of their ancestors first, and then challenge this cave after their strength has strengthened to avoid serious attrition."

"Well, that's a good idea, let's do it!"

Brother Bang made a decision, and the players dispersed according to different guilds, but Brother Bang, Brother Miao Miao, Silver Moon Group and Brother Cat all stayed where they were.

Brother Meow Meow carried his beloved battle ax and said to Lanhua:

"Come on, let's go around the Earth Palace to help you release the potential bar to 100% as soon as possible, so that we can explore the way for everyone."

"unnecessary."

Orchid is a little embarrassed.

Of course she knew that when these guys said they were helping, they actually didn’t want to owe any favors, so she waved her hands and said:

"I can handle it myself. If any of you walks faster than me, it only proves that you are better than me. When I told this secret, I had no intention of monopolizing the number one achievement on that server."

"We don't like to hear what you say!"

Brother Bang moved his shoulders and said:

"You still don't understand the meaning of this secret you accidentally discovered. Don't refuse, Lanhua. You are loyal. We can't just pretend that nothing happened. This server should be yours first. Let's go. Just pretend that nothing happened. Why don't you explore the way for us again?"

(End of this chapter)