Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 467 - 450: Flame Prosthetics Enhance the Boss in Reverse

Chapter 467: Chapter 450: Flame Prosthetics Enhance the Boss in Reverse

It’s not entirely fair to blame the players for this kind of strategy; after all, "Blood of Lies" is a trap from beginning to end, and many of its basic settings are designed around these traps, making it very difficult for players to avoid being duped.

After all, there is an information gap between the creators and the players.

But no matter what, this is exactly what Lilith loves to see.

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The next morning, Zhuge Jun arrived at the experience store as soon as he opened the door.

Continue the good fight!

He had fought hard all day yesterday, and although he had thought about giving up several times, overall, he had made good progress.

After conquering the first challenging boss, the giant beastification puppet, he successfully made it to the workshop district in Charlton City and obtained the crucial item to unlock Puppet Prosthesis.

Charlton City is a vast diorama, with about 50% of the content of "Blood of Lies" taking place there. It is centered around a super-giant cathedral, with the various functional districts of Charlton City scattered around it.

Such as residential districts, affluent districts, workshop districts, commercial districts, church districts, sanatorium districts, and so on.

Each district is a miniature diorama, or can also be seen as a Chapter.

Generally speaking, for such difficult games, players typically adopt one of two radically different playstyles.

One is to speedrun, activate the waypoints, and then beat the boss as quickly as possible to unlock subsequent areas, even venturing into higher-level areas for exploration in advance.

The advantage of this approach is that once you enter the high-level areas, you can farm money and materials faster and do not have to worry about losing too many resources during exploration.

But the downside is that you might miss out on some side quests and critical items during exploration.

Zhuge Jun, on the other hand, prefers the other style of gameplay; he likes to explore thoroughly, usually clearing out the entire map before going up against the final boss.

He spent a lot of time exploring the workshop district yesterday and hadn’t even gone to fight the final boss of that district when he left the experience store.

However, Zhuge Jun firmly believed his approach was the right one because, during his exploration, he had obtained the key item to unlock Flame Prosthetics and had a craftsman install it back at the hotel.

Compared to the original prosthesis, which had no other function besides hammering, the Flame Prosthetics were obviously much cooler.

It came with two initial uses: one, to provide Flame Enchantment to weapons, and two, to spray fire when holding down the button.

Of course, both actions would consume the durability of the Puppet Prosthesis, which could be replenished with items or automatically restored after returning to the gas lamp, so there were some limitations.

However, using it would not result in complete damage to the Puppet Prosthesis. When about a third of the durability was left, these special functions would become unavailable.

Zhuge Jun didn’t mind this, as the prosthetic’s defensive Skill was basically a joke, barely usable in emergency situations and not needed at all normally. It made more sense to ignore the defense button and just use its special capabilities.

After installing the Flame Prosthetics, Zhuge Jun tried them out immediately and the results were very satisfactory.

Once enchanted with flame, he could take down the beastified craftsmen with just a few hits, and each strike elicited significant rigidity due to the burning flames, which greatly enhanced the experience of advancing through the map.

Furthermore, Zhuge Jun lied again, resulting in a nice profit.

When entering the gate, survivors trapped in the workshop’s security office would ask for identification. If the answer was a human coming to seek refuge, they wouldn’t open the door; but if the answer was a puppet coming to rescue people, they would open it.

By doing so, you could directly open a very important shortcut in the level.

If you were unable to open the door, you had to go through the hassle of climbing walls from the side, which meant a long and unnecessary detour.

Of course, after having been deceived into opening the door, the survivor from the workshop’s security office didn’t say much, just asking where there was a safe place to shelter; Zhuge Jun then directed him to Claridge Hotel.

With everything in order, it was time to face the boss of the workshop district.

"Alright, just charge at it!"

Although Zhuge Jun had been educated by the giant beastification puppet yesterday and had gained a deep understanding of the strength of the game’s bosses, when encountering a new boss, he still chose to try fighting it without looking at the strategy first.

After all, reading the strategy in advance would negate experiencing the true power of the boss and diminish the fun.

Upon pushing open the doors to the boss room, there indeed was a fluffy monster inside.

It looked a bit like a T-rex with red fur, its small and cute front claws were clearly Puppet Prosthetics, but if you only looked at its other parts, it resembled more the makeup of a wolf.

Sharp nose, long ears, and a mouth filled with razor-sharp teeth.

By now, Zhuge Jun had understood some of the story and guessed that this monster was probably a powerful human transformed by the Beastification Disease.

Originally, it should have become a werewolf with thick hind legs and sharp front claws, but this human must have undergone Puppet Prosthesis surgery to replace both arms.

However, when it contracted the Beastification Disease, all its parts except its front claws swelled, leaving the Puppet Prosthetics to hang awkwardly in front like a T-rex’s arms, creating an incongruously cute impression.

Zhuge Jun had been quite serious up until then, but seeing this almost made him break into laughter.

In the cutscene triggering the boss fight, you could see it had a furnace almost spherical in shape strapped to its back, with molten metal bubbling inside, scalding the giant wolf enough to make it howl in pain from time to time.

When the Blood Bar appeared, the screen displayed the boss’s name: Beastification Furnace Craftsman.

"It seems like the Beastification Disease and the earthquake erupted around the same time?"

"When the craftsman erupted with the Beastification Disease, the earthquake also damaged the workshop. The furnace, originally set on a base, tumbled down and, by chance, smashed onto the back of the transformed giant wolf, embedding itself there.

"I must say, this Beastification Disease is ruthless; its vitality is incredibly tenacious. It can still hop around even with a hot pot on its back.

"Anyway, too much fur, weak to fire, this is clearly a setup by Nitiandang, a reward for my arduous exploration of the map or my possession of the Flame Prosthetics!"

"Enchant with fire, and start mowing!"

Zhuge Jun, brimming with confidence, immediately used his Puppet Prosthesis to enchant his weapon with flames and charged at the boss!

First encounter, observe the boss’s moves, then seize a moment when the boss appears to have a long recovery from a move; Zhuge Jun swings his Sword Spear, jabbing fiercely!

Wu wu wu!

The flames indeed catch on the monster’s long fur and instantly spread around, gradually extending from the point of impact to its body and limbs.

"Just as I thought, too much fur, weak to fire!"

Zhuge Jun can’t help but be overjoyed and continues his assault.

Normally, he should have stopped and continued to watch the boss’s moves, but common sense suggested that a boss usually has a slight rigidity after catching fire, so Zhuge Jun felt that it was fine to get greedy for an extra two or three hits.

However, the boss didn’t lose health rapidly despite being completely engulfed in flames.

On the contrary, the furnace embedded in its back also turned a glowing red due to the flames, and as it thrashed about in pain, molten iron from inside the furnace sprinkled down like raindrops.

"Ah, fuck!"

Zhuge Jun instantly realized that something was wrong.

He had fallen into a trap!

Indeed, as copious amounts of molten iron fell on Zhuge Jun’s character, the Blood Bar plummeted, and his clothes also caught fire.

Not only that, the monster, now ablaze, went berserk, stomping on the ground, biting and rolling aggressively, almost all of its attacks now imbued with the Flame attribute.

With Zhuge Jun’s current character capabilities, it was incredibly difficult to evade.

Although both parties were on fire, it was clear that the boss had much higher fire resistance, and it lost health much slower.

"Damn it, who ended up with the Flame Enchantment?!"

Quickly sent back to respawn, Zhuge Jun was speechless.

Fooled by Nitiandang once again!

Obviously, this boss was not only not weak to fire but also became strengthened by it, its whole body bursting into fierce flames, turning every attack into a flame-attached area attack.

Upon reflection, there were indeed clues to this in its appearance.

It carried a huge furnace on its back and could still jump around; this showed that the life force after Beastification was astonishing.

Moreover, since the boss was a Melter Craftsman before Beastification, which means it had been working on stoking furnaces all along, always in a high-temperature environment, it naturally had a high tolerance for fire.

This trait was carried over after its Beastification.

Not only that, but the furnace on its back, while normally not too threatening, would quickly heat the iron inside if its fur caught fire, and the high temperature would reheat the molten iron, which would then be splashed out during intense combat.

Although it injured both the boss and the player, the boss’s Blood Bar and resistances were not something players could match.

In short, it was a complete trap!

What was more infuriating was that the creators of Blood of Lies deliberately placed the Flame Prosthetics in this Chapter as a reward for the players’ exploration.

From a logical standpoint, it made perfect sense.

After all, the workshop needed fire, so parts for crafting Flame Prosthetics could indeed show up; the workshop workers dealt with fire daily, so their fire resistance was high, and it remained high after they turned into monsters.

Makes sense!

But for the player experience, it was terrible. The prosthetics hard-earned through exploring the map not only were no help to oneself but also had the opposite effect, enhancing the boss...

It defies all reason!

Zhuge Jun was furious. He tried fighting the boss a few more times without the prosthetics, and of course, he ended up being brutally defeated.

He couldn’t think of any strategy to beat the boss and saw no hope whatsoever.

"Damn it! Do I really have to look at a strategy guide?"

Reluctantly, he compromised in the end.

He opened the video website and clicked on Heilong’s account.

However, much to Zhuge Jun’s disappointment, Heilong had not updated the strategy for the second boss. While countless players in the comment section of the first video urged for an update, he was indeed playing dead.

Zhuge Jun searched Heilong’s live stream recordings and found that he did fight this boss, but it was basically a display of raw skill, not something easy to replicate.

"I’ll have to find someone else’s strategy guide then."

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