Monsters Are Coming
Chapter 53: Explosive Tactics

Chapter 53: Chapter 53: Explosive Tactics

The confrontation with the Qi Die ended with Lu Xing temporarily giving up.

But Lu Xing’s surrender does not mean other players are willing to give up.

Many players who eagerly want to possess the "Wind Control" Life Soul choose to hunt Qi Die by other means.

They tried solo challenges, baiting with food, setting traps, and so on, but unlike Bone Fires and other such unintelligent Primordial Monsters, Qi Die remains vigilant and observes its surroundings. Even if it temporarily leaves the bushes, it carefully inspects the environment when it returns.

Any change would cause the Qi Die to leave.

This resulted in many group attempts by players ending in failure.

In the end, they had no choice but to go to Lu Xing’s live stream and try to persuade him with kind words, hoping to reignite his fighting spirit and to expect him to take on the Qi Die once again.

However, after being beaten up several times, Lu Xing had learned his lesson.

The onlookers in his live stream room were all big talkers in his eyes, unable to offer a reliable plan to defeat the Qi Die, only encouraging him to keep attempting challenges.

Failure meant nothing to the players in the live stream room, but for him, it meant enduring a miserable beating.

Half an hour had passed.

After this experience, Lu Xing’s mindset changed.

He decided to give up the idea of a world trip for the time being and focus on strengthening himself until he was strong enough to fight the Qi Die again.

Another purpose of increasing strength was to ensure safer travels in the future. Who knows, he might encounter more bizarre monsters like the Qi Die on his exploration journey; formidable strength would safeguard his travels.

Just as Lu Xing was motivated to grow, the purification campaign in the Dark Cave had advanced to the front of the Underground Palace.

The players thought victory was in sight when they learned from the Guidance that the Corrosion Core was behind the palace, and destroying it would complete the purification.

But that’s when the unexpected happened.

The Corrosion Core, sensing the threat, controlled the Black-Armored Soldiers standing in front of the palace to commence a massacre of the player group.

Each Black Armored Soldier was once a powerful warrior who followed the Ice Blade. Although they fought until their Qi-Blood was depleted and their bodies shattered, they were transformed into Curse Soldiers by the Black Tide Energy Corrosion and generally had a Hunting Level of 25+.

Meanwhile, the current average Level of players was only 10.

Facing the slaughter of the Black-Armored Soldiers, the Player Corps formed by the joint efforts of various guilds were no match, and the battle was a one-sided crush.

After being annihilated several times in succession, players who re-logged into the game began to redeploy tactics on the forums.

During this time, many innovative tactical ideas emerged.

Among them, one player’s idea gained attention, and a large number of players started a heated discussion under his post.

[How to kill the Black-Armored Soldiers in front of the Underground Palace, I have a reliable idea]

Poster: Weapon Master

Content:

I am a member of the Doomsday Technology Guild, and I have participated in the entire Dark Cave battle these past few days.

Fighting alongside everyone has been thrilling, and it’s been a long time since I’ve felt this happy.

Now, onto the main topic.

These days, after fighting with the Black Armored Soldiers, I’ve realized that it’s still too difficult for us players to defeat them at our current strength; the huge disparity in power has caused our hard-organized joint operations to end in failure.

I just browsed the forum and saw everyone proposing quite a few tactical suggestions, but to me, none seem reliable, except maybe the attrition strategy, which involves continuously regrouping after being wiped out, and slowly eliminating the Black-Armored Soldiers.

But this approach is undoubtedly too slow.

So I have an enhanced version of the attrition strategy, and here I will present the custom weapon I’ve recently made (Attached: Schematic)

Spiritual Bomb:

Item Quality: Level 10

Item Analysis Introduction: A custom weapon made by the player "Weapon Master," by altering the internal structure of the Spirit Stone to make it unstable. It can be detonated with a focused thought, destroying the final support structure and causing an energy eruption-style explosion.

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The Spiritual Bomb I made can cause area damage when detonated and its power is enormous.

Here’s a clip from a real combat video (Attached: Video)

In the video, I used just three Spiritual Bombs to kill eight Blood Corpses within the blast radius.

So my idea is whether we can kill the Black-Armored Soldiers by exploding large quantities of Spiritual Bombs.

The only drawback to this strategy is that only players who have chosen the Eagle-Headed Demon, Bone Fire, or Energy Absorption Monster Forms, which have enough spiritual power to externally control the blast of the Spiritual Bomb with their minds. Other Monster Forms do not have sufficient Spiritual Strength to trigger it.

Another unsolvable problem is that throwing Spiritual Bombs requires tremendous strength.

How to throw them is a challenge.

My proposed strategy is to give up on throwing, and have players who chose the Eagle-Headed Demon, Energy Absorption, or Bone Fire Forms charge with the Spiritual Bomb in hand and detonate them close to the Black-Armored Soldiers, causing massive damage by self-sacrifice.

In theory, this strategy can quickly eliminate the Black-Armored Soldiers and let us successfully take down the Dark Cave Domain Node.

The content above is just personal thoughts, if you have different ideas, please go easy on me!

Comments section:

Beaver?: Damn, bro, this strategy is basically turning us into human bombs, suicidally damaging the Black-Armored Soldiers.

Dark Night Will Come: This strategy is interesting, I think we could give it a try. The purification mission rewards are calculated based on contribution, there’s no problem of unrewarded effort, even just damaging the Black-Armored Soldiers without killing them will count towards our contribution, so everyone doesn’t need to worry about returns.

Orange Perfume: So it turns out to be a game where the Magic Souls save the world. We are the ones who end up taking on the mission to purify (sarcastic.jpg)

Dark Lands is really fun: Seems like it could work, a collective suicide charge. If we don’t kill the Black-Armored Soldiers we still get contribution for damage dealt, and if we kill even one we make a big profit, we could level up several times, gaining lots of sacrificial power. It’s like scratching lottery tickets, gamblers hear this and they’re ecstatic.

Vosni Butterfly: Feasible, absolutely feasible, I wholeheartedly agree with both hands and feet. But I’m a bit skeptical that the main purpose of the original poster proposing this suggestion is to sell Spiritual Bombs. You Arms Merchant Guild folks are all shrewd merchants. As I know, the cost of making one Spiritual Ability Gun is only 100 sacrificial power, yet you dare to sell for 150, making a 50% markup profit.

Weapon Master (Original Poster) replies to Vosni Butterfly: There is indeed such a consideration, but considering that this collective action benefits all players, the Spiritual Bombs being made will only be charged at cost price +5%.

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Qin Ye’s idea sparked a heated discussion on the forum.

The self-explosion strategy received a lot of support from players, thinking that since death is certain, this method would indeed inflict more damage to the Black-Armored Soldiers.

What’s important is that each explosion is a draw of luck; if you’re lucky enough to kill a critically wounded Black-Armored Soldier, the gains in sacrificial power and evolution points are exceptionally substantial.

The post was quickly pinned to the top of the forum’s homepage hot list.

This was followed by a flood of orders.

Key members of the Doomsday Technology Guild were also summoned back to Imperial Tomb Village by the Guild Leader "Yang Tianxuan" to participate in the production of Spiritual Bombs.

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