Monsters Are Coming
Chapter 56 The Brothers Are All Rich Now

Chapter 56: Chapter 56 The Brothers Are All Rich Now

Primordial Altar.

Qi Sheng’s consciousness quickly browsed through the forum content.

Two days had passed since the battle to Purify Dark Cave ended, and the hottest topic among players was the expansion of Imperial Tomb Village’s area and the incorporation of Dark Cave.

The efficiency of players mining has significantly increased, saving time spent on travel.

The successful containment of the Domain Node made players realize a problem.

This game’s core gameplay is divided into two parts.

The first part is the growth of personal strength, which can gain higher attribute enhancements, hunting stronger Monsters and Evil Spirits.

The second part is faction growth, that is, the Emperor Zhao faction to which the players belong. Each time a Domain Node is purified or a Primordial Monster is contained, all players within the faction benefit.

Many internal contradictions among players were resolved after the battle.

For example, the conflict between the Drunken Guild and the Divine Wings Guild.

Before this, players from both sides had repeatedly clashed on the outskirts of Imperial Tomb Village, Ancient Battlefield, and Dark Cave, usually resulting in battle upon encounter.

But in order to take down Dark Cave as soon as possible, the two major guilds ultimately cooperated to combat the Black Armored Soldiers under the mediation of other guilds.

After completing the mission, the conflicts between both sides were resolved.

And with this battle coming to an end, Qi Sheng also had the idea of recruiting players again.

After switching to Emperor’s Omen Form, a large amount of data information emerged in his mind.

[Player Count: 10329]

Number of contained Primordial Traits: 15

stone-statue ghost (Petrification), Eagle-Headed Demon (Resentful Chant), Black Armored Snake (Fierce Poison), Bone Fire (Ink Flame), Power Barbarian, Shattering, Sweep, Soul Separation, Nether Ghost, Taunt, Dusk Shadow (Shadow Transformation), Light Shield, Energy Absorption, Resistance, Binding.

Today’s player outturn of sacrificial power (commission): 132,552 points

Average Monster Level of players: 11.3

Controlled Domain Nodes:

Imperial Tomb Village (the land of the final whiff of Source from Emperor Zhao, possessing the Rule characteristic of reshaping life and flesh)

Dark Cave (Resource-type Domain Node, continuously converting Spiritual Ore resources)

Sacrificial Pool: 3,239,480

...

In this Dark Cave campaign, players have contained 4 Primordial Monsters for him.

Namely, Taunt, Energy Absorption, Resistance, Binding.

Among these, Taunt is Second Generation Primordial, and the rest are First Generation Origin.

The ability effect of Resistance is to greatly enhance the resistance to various elemental damage, reducing the damage taken, which is a very suitable Star Vein Combination option in the eyes of stone-statue ghost players.

The last one, Binding, was found by players on the fifth underground floor of Dark Cave. It had a plant form and was imprisoned in an ice chamber constructed by the Ice Blade Clan people, killed by the players’ focus fire.

The manifested Primordial Trait is the rapid construction of an energy cage through spiritual power near the target, restricting the target’s actions.

However, the forum discussions on Binding Soul aren’t very high.

While this ability alone can indeed have a good control effect, a powerful Star Vein Combination has not yet been developed.

After players experienced simulations in the test tower, they felt that the relatively fitting combination with the existing Life Souls is stone-statue ghost, as stone-statue ghost Life Souls are not primarily offensive and adding control Life Souls can restrict the movement of the target while sustaining damage.

But in the current stage, as players’ Star Vein Levels are low, compared to Taunt and Resistance, Binding is clearly not the priority option.

In terms of control effects, Taunt completely crushes Binding.

The only difference is that Taunt’s control attracts aggro, allowing the controlled target to continue output, whereas Binding is a small-range restriction, preventing the restricted target from causing any damage before breaking the energy cage.

As for ranged DPS players, they have the most Life Soul types to choose from, with Binding not being second, third, or even fourth choice.

After reviewing the information, Qi Sheng opened his eyes.

There are still 3.23 million points of sacrificial power in the Sacrificial Pool unused, and he decided to open recruitment again.

This time he plans to consume 2 million sacrificial power to recruit 2000 new players into the game.

The remaining 1.3 million sacrificial power will be kept for reward distribution, creating new features, and other needs that may arise.

...

Eight o’clock in the evening.

Human Clan Federation - Star Network Security Center.

"Little A, did you snatch the download access?"

Facing the inquiry, the projector robot on the desk shook its head with spread hands, with a humanized expression of despair and a sigh:

"I’ve used the high-frequency connection method you suggested, but all the feedback I received was failure, indicating that all slots have been distributed, and download permissions have not been opened."

Hearing the explanation from Intelligent Brain Little A, Ding Xiu couldn’t help but sigh as well.

His superior instructed him to investigate the truth behind the link, but this task had no clues whatsoever to initiate a tracking investigation.

The only download link presented openly was also inaccessible; this task seemed impossible in his view.

Every day he would ask Little A several times, only to receive the same answer.

"Keep working."

No longer dwelling on the issue, Ding Xiu prepared to continue with his work handling the reports.

Just then, Little A suddenly exclaimed:

"Ding Xiu, there’s a different response from the access link."

"Show me quick." Ding Xiu perked up upon hearing this.

Little A reached out, and a virtual screen materialized in front of Ding Xiu, where a pop-up message appeared:

[Connection failed... As for why you failed, because you cheated.]

Ding Xiu: ...

Clearly, the manipulator behind the download link had detected his attempt to cheat by using high-frequency connections to snag the download access.

Intelligent Brain Little A spread his hands helplessly at this time:

"It proves impossible to obtain download permissions through high-frequency methods, I suggest you try manually."

Simultaneously.

In the Human Clan Federation, Yelan City.

In a room cluttered with assorted items, Tong Xin’s eyes were bloodshot, her computer desk filled with snacks and energy drinks.

Opening the group chat page.

The once bustling kindergarten chat group was now silent, with its members rarely popping up since that day, and if they did, it was due to some resurrection cooldown, ready to plunge back into the game once it ended.

"You guys really deserve to die... how could you leave me all alone."

Muttering to herself, Tong Xin continued to frantically click her mouse, trying to acquire download access.

But the pop-up message remained the same:

[The game download has reached the set number of times, the issuer has not opened new download permissions, unable to continue downloading.]

"I don’t believe this."

Faced with the constant failure messages, Tong Xin kept her head down and clicked furiously.

To snatch the download access, she had quit her job.

Days ago, Zui Nai shared a picture in the group that greatly shocked her.

The image was a payment receipt; Zui Nai had made a profit of 13,000 yuan by selling the game currency from Dark Land.

According to Zui Nai, this was his three-day gaming income, which could even be earned in a single day with good luck.

The dao heart of the working-class shattered.

Nothing was more painful in life than watching all your brothers get rich while you’re still stuck in the same spot.

With this thought, Tong Xin couldn’t help but mutter:

"You guys really deserve to die!"

This feeling was even more unbearable than if they had killed her.

So, she quit her job and started her life of frenzied clicking at home.

Until today, she had stayed up for three continuously sleepless days and nights; her dark circles so thick they could scare her in the mirror, but still without any gain, the link remained unopenable.

"I can’t accept this, let me snatch it, ahhh!"

The more she thought about it, the more her heart ached, and she increased her clicking speed.

Emotionally agitated, her already fragile body could not hold up anymore, and as her vision blurred, Tong Xin fainted onto the computer desk, falling asleep.

At the same time, a different pop-up message appeared in the upper right corner of the webpage:

[Downloading... Progress 0.01%]