Starry Sky Railway: Opening Performance - Taixu Sword God

First, Yanqing summoned her own ethereal spirit.

The most eye-catching of them all was the tall, muscular blue gorilla.

Beside the blue gorilla was a golden man.

The remaining three slots are for two healing-type mechanical Aethers and one offensive support Aether.

"Your lineup is really sneaky," Yan couldn't help but sigh.

The Golden Ether Spirit can summon goldfish, and the Blue Giant Ape deals extremely high damage while being incredibly tanky.

In addition, there are two therapeutic ethers.

How's my lineup?

Yanqing smiled confidently:

"My giant ape and golden man have very high health. To find a breakthrough, I must prioritize killing the healing ether spirit, otherwise they will be fully healed again very quickly."

"But while you're killing the healing aether spirits, I'll also launch an attack. Even if the healer is killed by you, I can use the golden man's summons to replace him!"

March 7th sized up Yanqing's appearance, not expecting that this guy, who seemed so single-minded, would use such a sneaky tactic when playing games.

“But this won’t work,” Yan pointed out the problem.

"It looks like it has both offense and defense, but in reality it's still lacking something."

"Almost...?" Yanqing asked in confusion.

"Let's not make grand pronouncements yet. Let's see how it goes in practice!"

"alright."

Yan Huan and San Yueqi discussed it and released their respective ethereal spirits.

Since it's just a competition for a spot in the queue, both sides will only send one batch, which is five Ethers.

Yan Huan and the ethereal spirit of March 7th slowly appeared.

First is a Deep Freeze Wanderer, a rifted ice giant that can absorb the health of its teammates to give itself a huge boost.

Its passive skill can also reduce the damage it receives.

Yanqing's gaze sharpened slightly.

"Deep Freeze Wanderer... I've seen this tactic before. Usually, this Ether Spirit is paired with a suicide machine, right?"

Just as Yanqing had predicted, the second to take the stage was the Automaton Grizzly.

The Automaton Grizzly can summon fist-shaped suicide bombers.

Immediately afterwards, another senior employee, team leader Ether, came up.

Looking at the three fat men standing there, Yanqing suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Three... Overlord-level Ether Spirits?"

As the Queen of Aethers, the Deep Freeze Wanderer has had its ability to summon Rift Soldiers reduced.

However, the remaining automatons, Grizzly and the company leader, can summon suicide bombers and lower-level employees.

"In that case... the two of you left should both be healers, right?" Yanqing guessed.

Yan shook his head and sighed:

"Unfortunately, you guessed wrong."

The last two Aether Spirits to appear were only of ordinary level, but their abilities were quite bizarre.

Their ability is to make friendly units act immediately, but they are extremely fragile.

"What...what are you trying to do?!"

Yan Qing panicked a little. Yan Huan and San Yueqi didn't even bring a healer. This strange lineup gave him a bad feeling.

"Practice makes perfect."

Immediately, the two sides began to fight.

Based on speed, Yan Huan and the Deep Cold Wanderers on March 7th's side acted first.

The Wanderer of the Deep Cold didn't hesitate and immediately used his skill to absorb a large amount of health from the other four teammates around him.

Those two Ether Spirits were far too fragile; just one breath from the Deep Freeze Wanderer left them with only half a tube of blood.

"This is bad!" Upon seeing this situation, Yanqing immediately ordered the blue giant ape to act, defeating one of the speed-boosting Ether Spirits with a single smash.

Next up was the Grizzly Mech, which Yan Huan and March 7 controlled, and it immediately began summoning self-destructing mini-robots.

"..."

Yanqing's gaze was solemn; now it was his turn to take the lead.

He was very confident in his golden man, believing that he could kill the suicide machine or the speed-boosting aether spirit in one hit.

The problem is that it can only choose one.

"Who should leave the stage..." Yanqing fell into deep thought.

If you destroy the self-destructing mech first, the mech's explosion will also damage the opponent.

But that pull-up Aether Spirit will act next round. If it pulls up the Deep Freeze Wanderer, its buffs will stack up significantly again!

After much deliberation, Yanqing gritted his teeth and immediately ordered the Jin people to kill Nalatiao Ether!

Without hesitation, the golden man charged toward the ethereal spirit, his heavy club striking its agile body and dealing a staggering 204 points of damage!

"what?!"

Upon seeing this, Yanqing's eyes widened.

"How could it be so low?!"

A normal Ether Spirit, no matter how low its HP is, still has over a thousand HP, but this speed-boosting Ether Spirit only has 410 HP.

After being sucked by the Deep Freeze Wanderer, my health should only be 205 left.

"Wait...you installed a blood-locking chip on it!" Yanqing suddenly realized.

This chip can make the Ether Spirit immune to death when it is about to die, preserving its last drop of blood.

"Didn't expect that, did you~~" March 7th smiled slightly and immediately used the Ether Spirit to boost the speed of the Deep Freeze Wanderer once again.

Once the Deep Freeze Wanderer regained the ability to act again, it didn't hesitate and immediately began absorbing the health of its teammates.

"Damn it...!" Yanqing activated a healing Aether Spirit, abandoning healing, and directly attacked the speed-boosting Aether Spirit.

As expected, the ethereal spirit was instantly repelled.

However, the senior team leader who took action next decisively called on the frontline staff to fill the vacant positions again.

"..."

After another fierce battle, the Deep Freeze Wanderer's amplification level was finally maxed out.

Immediately... the terrifying icy shockwave it released instantly killed all of Yan Qing's ethereal spirits except for the giant ape and the golden man!

The two survivors only had one-third of their health remaining.

"This is way too much...!" Yanqing was utterly shocked.

"Hey~ You said before that there are no useless Ether Spirits, only useless players."

Yan Huan smiled slightly, then ordered the other two fat men to unleash their ultimate skills to deal additional damage.

Under the combined high-damage area-of-effect attacks of the three fat men, Yanqing's golden man and giant ape were also instantly killed.

"..."

Yanqing stared at her ether coin, unable to come back to her senses for a long time.

"It seems... you're right."

Yan Qing raised his head, looked at the two of them, and said in a deep voice, "This lineup looks like it has both offense and defense, but in reality, it's lacking in both offense and defense."

"But I only deployed two Overlord-level Aether Spirits, while you deployed three, which is one of the reasons I lost."

Upon hearing Yanqing's explanation, March 7th crossed his arms and muttered:

"So what if we have three? Our main attacker is only Ice Fatty. The other two Fatty are just there for show, and their role is not as great as that Ethereal Spirit that pulls the speed up."

In this kind of game, an Aether Spirit that allows teammates to act immediately can significantly boost the strength of a team.

Chapter 419 Let's just withdraw from the competition.

"...That's exactly what you said."

Yanqing nodded.

For a dominant Aether Spirit that requires energy accumulation, pairing it with a support that can increase its turn meter is indeed the optimal solution.

"Regardless, I lost. I will return to the previous area and wait for the next time I can enter."

Yanqing decisively grabbed her Ether Coin and left the final area.

Watching his retreating figure, March 7th said to Yan Huan:

"Hey, we won! Now, can we go challenge Gongshu Liang?"

"of course."

Without further ado, the two headed straight for the platform.

Gongshu Liang sat on a stool, sipping tea and looking at the two men who had just entered, asking in confusion:

“So soon…?”

"Wow, you two nameless passengers from the Star Train. I didn't expect you to be playing this game too."

After recognizing the two people, Gongshu Liang immediately burst into laughter:

"You two arrived so quickly, could it be that you didn't participate in the battle and sneaked up here?"

Letting players directly fight each other is actually unsupervised, relying entirely on their own conscience.