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Chapter 580 - 563: Choose Between Two New Characters

Chapter 580: Chapter 563: Choose Between Two New Characters

The first featured character in the gacha pool is an immortal of ancient Huaxia style, with a female form adorned in numerous golden patterns, looking extremely luxurious.

Her name is Ningyun Monarch, her primary attribute is Time Element, and her secondary attribute is Wind Element.

The second featured character in the gacha pool is a fire attribute male character who doesn’t particularly stand out. His name is Echio.

Red-haired and wielding a huge sword, he epitomizes the stereotypical tough guy.

"Isn’t this like writing the answer on your face?

"Who could resist pulling for Ningyun Monarch!

"Whether it’s looks or mechanics, she’s a must-pull, right?"

Hou Ji looked at these two characters and almost instantly made up his mind.

Clearly, Ningyun Monarch completely overshadowed the competition.

According to the storyline, Ningyun Monarch is an immortal from Penglai Immortal Island in the southeast eternal realm who possesses a long lifespan.

She descended from the mountain to save people after foreseeing that Earth Country Daliang would face a great calamity, with its people suffering immensely and countless innocents dying in battle.

Of course, the current plot of ’Endless Fantasy Legend 2’ mainly focuses on the junction of Earth Country, Wood Country, and Fire Country. Although it delves more into Fire Country, it hasn’t fully defeated Fire Country’s enemies.

According to the setting, Fire Country in the south and Golden Country in the west are both powerful realms. The war between demons and mechanical life forms is long and drawn-out, even completely annihilating Wind Country caught in the middle.

So in the first Chapter, the hero only defeats a high-ranking general from Fire Country, temporarily thwarting their plot to invade Wood Country and Earth Country.

They haven’t managed to penetrate deep into Fire Country, the stronghold of the demons, lacking the capability for now.

The appearance of Ningyun Monarch is obviously a kind of foreshadowing.

In a future Chapter, players will surely visit Penglai Immortal Island in the southeast, or further harness the Time Element.

Her popularity stems not only from her excellent appearance and background but also because she is currently the sole character with command over the Time Element!

Yes, prior to this, no other character, whether in primary or secondary attributes, possessed the Time Element.

This is normal, as ’Endless Fantasy Legend 2’ has too many attributes and characters, with the initial characters mainly featuring Wood attribute, thus it’s easy to have such deficiencies.

Time attribute, this sounds very powerful!

In the previous game, Time Element could stop time or reverse it, all of which are considered game-breaking bug-level abilities.

As for the secondary attribute Wind Element, it should also be quite good, as it has decent dispersal ability, hence many regard it as a specialized attribute for support characters.

As for Echio, he seems somewhat bland.

A fire attribute male character with a great sword – this just seems like filling numbers.

Although not many characters have been released in this game so far, the most common attribute is Wood, followed by Fire.

These two attributes share two things in common: the first is that they are both attributes the hero currently possesses, and the second is that they both struggle against monsters from Fire Country.

Wood attribute tends to betray its own kind by being more susceptible to damage, while Fire attribute struggles because these monsters from Fire Country have high fire resistance, making attacks on them less painful.

Thus, players generally believe that for fire attribute characters to turn the tide, it would probably have to wait until the distant Ice Country.

But even at the rate of one major version per month, who knows when it will reach Ice Country.

Plus, although this guy looks powerful and commanding, he doesn’t have the advantage in XP, making his situation even more precarious.

"Don’t rush; I think we should wait and see, watch some other reviews of the UP characters first."

Zhuge Jun certainly wouldn’t rush to conclusions.

He opened Instructor Ding’s livestream, only to find him doing gacha.

Being a streamer, pulling full stars when a new gacha pool launches has become a routine program.

"Ah, how did it go wrong again!

"Nitiandang, look at this lousy gacha pool, is this right!"

Just entering the livestream, Instructor Ding is heard wailing, but obviously, the audience is used to it.

The streamer getting upset has become an unavoidable part of the game entertainment.

Anyway, after spending a lot of Gold Coins, he finally managed to pull both characters to full stars.

This time Instructor Ding, learning from past lessons, did the gacha in one go before testing them to prevent his luck from running out.

But clearly, this kind of superstitious gacha doesn’t really help.

During the testing phase, Ding first leveled up both characters, tested them one by one, then proceeded to do their star upgrades, testing the effect after each upgrade.

"First, let me see what use this Time Element really has!

"Hmm... doesn’t seem very useful, it doesn’t react with Water attribute? Nor does it react with Earth attribute.

"Time Stop or time reversal? Okay, I was overthinking it, none of those either.

"Oh, here we go, it reacts with Wood attribute! But...the effect is making little saplings grow faster? Ah, this...

"If it’s tied to Wood attribute, isn’t it doomed? Because Wood attribute itself is already quite weak!"

Instructor Ding became increasingly less confident the more he tested.

Clearly, the Time Element in "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" is completely different from the first game, lacking mechanisms like Time Stop and Time Reversal.

Its basic function is simple, which is the acceleration effect.

This point is somewhat similar to the Wind Element.

The Wind Element can spread existing elements while amplifying certain elemental reactions, for instance, when Wood and Fire react, using Wind Element for dispersion could produce an additional damage multiplier.

Time Element is somewhat similar, as it can also accelerate existing reactions, resulting in more reaction occurrences in a short period.

Moreover, Time Element can slightly increase a character’s movement and attack speed, but this enhancement is not very significant.

Instructor Ding also made a key discovery that the Time Element seems to have a more noticeable impact on the Wood attribute.

Even with just the Wood attribute, and no other reactions, using Time Element with the Wood attribute makes these trees grow faster, and naturally, the effects of the reaction are stronger.

But the problem is, currently, both the Wood and Fire attributes are rather unpopular!

So, if the Time Element is strongly bound to these attributes, it would inevitably become unpopular as well.

"Let me take another look at this Fire attribute character...

"Holy smokes, this guy’s stats are pretty exaggerated!

"No, really, hear me out.

"If we go by these stats, there’s actually something to work with.

"Now, although the monsters we’re fighting have high Fire resistance, there are ways to reduce that resistance through elemental reactions.

"Besides, this Chapter ends at the end of the month, if the next Chapter isn’t set in Fire Country, wouldn’t the Fire attribute stand out then??"

Instructor Ding began testing the new Fire attribute character, Echio, and found his stats to be quite generous!

Even when directly hitting those monsters with high Fire resistance, the damage is still considered decent.

There are actually some resistance reducing techniques in the game, like set effects which trigger elemental reactions to reduce monster resistances, or using special characters with Water Element Skills during reactions to reduce resistances.

After reducing resistances, Echio’s Fire-based Skill damage becomes quite notable.

The most important thing is, the game doesn’t have only Fire attribute characters!

Although it’s still unknown which area the next Chapter will open, using deduction, it definitely won’t be Fire Country.

"This makes it seem like Echio might be worth pulling a bit more!

"I know the mechanics of this character aren’t great, but mechanics have to be based on stats.

"Mechanics without stats are just toys, brothers, am I right?"

After some testing, Instructor Ding came to an initial conclusion.

Both characters aren’t that great, and don’t seem worth pulling, but if you had to choose one, then it should be Fire Attribute Echio.

At least these stats are solid.

Of course, Instructor Ding didn’t forget to stack the armor: "Everyone, don’t rush, this pool just opened, there’s absolutely no need to hurry with the gacha.

"I’ve only done some preliminary tests, we still have to test more, especially to see the effects of reactions with other elements."

Hou Ji was already getting ready to start pulling.

"Alright, I’m still gonna pull Echio, it’ll also match with Glacier General I pulled before, Ice and Fire can cause a melting effect with great damage multipliers.

"No matter which country we go to next time, these two characters should be enough for me to handle it."

Zhuge Jun hesitated, but he had no solid reason to dissuade Hou Ji, so he stayed quiet.

He temporarily turned off the livestream and checked his existing characters.

Earlier, he pulled one each of Wood attribute character Xing Ying and Glacier General.

Technically, with this pool, he should only pull one maximum, two isn’t necessary.

Unless he plans to form a team with four UP pool characters.

Unlike other players, Zhuge Jun hasn’t played many similar gacha mobile games, so he doesn’t have as many preconceptions.

Moreover, his extensive experience with Nitiandang games gives him an instinctive caution.

For example, everyone says initial four-star characters are trash, don’t develop them, is this necessarily true?

Or, everyone believes that once characters officially debut, their strength won’t change anymore, is this true again?

If it were any other gacha mobile game, this would certainly be true.

But Zhuge Jun feels that it’s hard to say when it comes to Nitiandang games.

With this thought, he made up his mind.

To pull both characters.

Without investigation, there’s no right to speak, he feels there might be a trick, so naturally, he needs to verify it.

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