Monsters Are Coming
Chapter 315 - 138: Divine Beings Clash, Pet Setting_5

Chapter 315: Chapter 138: Divine Beings Clash, Pet Setting_5

Many times, melee players grimace in pain at the frontlines, while the magic players at the back can easily deal damage.

In team battles, melee players also tend to become the scapegoats for failures, bearing immense pressure.

Moreover, at the current stage, the overall strength of magic souls in the Star Vein Library is always higher than that of melee, and the variety of playstyles is also more than that for melee.

Analyzing from strength and playability, magic factions are also superior to melee factions.

Lastly, there’s the daily sacrificial power expenditure.

Melee factions need to spend a significant amount of sacrificial power daily to purchase Healing Potions, especially Stone Statue Players, who often spend 30%-60% of their sacrificial power income on potions daily. They frequently need other team members to share the burden, just to keep up with the growth rate of other team players.

All these drawbacks lead to the lack of increase in the proportion of melee players.

Only when powerful melee souls appear does the proportion of melee players slightly increase, but it declines again when powerful magic souls emerge.

Many players switch between different factions, playing whichever faction is stronger.

Those who truly stick to playing melee factions are not a large proportion of the player community.

However, the dominant appearance of the Ancient God Champion this time, along with his formidable display against the Ascension Clan, showed melee players the dawn of their faction.

To be as powerful as the Ancient God Champion is not seen as impossible by melee players.

A robust body can be endowed through soul growth, and the surge of Qi-Blood in their moves can be replaced by Battle Aura Soul. In the future, they can embed resistance and other auxiliary defense souls into their Star Veins, allowing them to fight as fiercely as the Ancient God Champion.

They may even have a higher growth cap than the Ancient God Champion, given that there will be more souls to choose from in the future.

In theory, as players, their growth potential is unlimited.

This is why melee players become so excited after watching the video clips.

Mountains and rivers, lakes and seas, polar glaciers... A powerful body can traverse endless seas, cross vast deserts, climb extreme peaks, and melt extreme cold glaciers. As long as the body is strong enough, the concept of life-restricted zones doesn’t exist.

Many extremely dangerous places are inaccessible to magic players, but melee players can conquer them with their powerful physiques.

The appearance of the Ancient God Champion unexpectedly gave melee faction players a shot of confidence.

This battle showed them the future, giving them a strong motivation to enhance their strength.

...

After the grand battle between the Ancient God Champion and the Ascension Clan concluded, Qi Sheng, located at the Primordial Altar, was reviewing player discussions about soul manipulation.

He noticed the enthusiasm players had for soul manipulation.

Players who liked soul manipulation shared a common trait: they enjoyed controlling monsters to fight, avoiding direct involvement.

But soul manipulation had its series of drawbacks.

For instance, controlled monsters couldn’t enter the Newbie Village space, and once such monsters died, they couldn’t be resurrected.

These issues can be addressed.

As long as he grants permission, players can bring monsters marked with a control imprint into the Newbie Village space.

Yet this carries certain risks.

All players are equipped with a Purification System, so there’s no issue with a space mark, but external creatures face this risk.

For safety reasons, he would never grant such permissions to players.

However, it’s not that the problem is without solutions.

He had considered before creating a pet function for players.

In terms of settings, pets target creatures from Monster World. He would select some potential creatures, analyze their life structures in detail, and create pet templates for players to choose and nurture.

The focus, though, is not on the pets’ combat strength, but on their abilities.

In his view, pets are not the core system of the Player Corps’ development but rather to fill the gaps of the Player Corps.

For example, players currently lack healer-type souls, unable to continuously heal in battle through specific means.

The chance of acquiring healing type souls depends entirely on luck, so he plans to find a monster with healing abilities, analyze its life structure, and make it into a pet for players to nurture and use.

As for enhancing combat power, no matter how strong the Pet System is, it cannot compare to the meticulously designed player growth system.

Thus, combat power is the least of his concerns when selecting pets.

Only the pets’ talents that meet player needs are his primary consideration.

But after reviewing player discussions on the forums, he realized that players actually care more about being able to freely capture pets rather than being limited to specific templates.

Players desire that all living beings in Monster World can be captured as pets.

This design is entirely feasible in Qi Sheng’s view.

However, compared to his envisioned specific pet template, the free capture pet design proposed by players has notable flaws.

Freely captured pets might not be useful to players, making nurturing them just a waste of sacrificial power.

With that sacrificial power, they might as well enhance their own strength.

For the overall development of the Player Corps, the free capture pet design is more of a burden with no positive returns.

So he thought of a new mode for the Pet System, adding a setting where pets cannot grow in strength to the free capture concept players want.

This way, there is no issue of wasting sacrificial power on free captures; the combat power upon capture remains unchanged.

Additionally, he could incorporate his template-based pets into the Pet System, designating them as growth-type pets.

Search the lightnovelworld.cc website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.