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Chapter 591 - 574: The Perfect Start for Thunder Country

Chapter 591: Chapter 574: The Perfect Start for Thunder Country

Hou Ji realized that he still completely underestimated Nitiandang.

After the previous events, many players had already recognized Zhuge Jun’s concept,

which was in "Endless Fantasy Legend 2," don’t worry about strength, just go with the XP gacha.

Because strong characters now might not be strong later;

Weak characters now might not necessarily stay weak, instead, there’s a high chance they will get stronger.

Even if your favorite character is at the bottom in terms of strength, there’s always a chance for a comeback.

In that case, why worry about strength? Just draw whoever you like.

After all, everyone is playable.

Choosing an underdog character that matches your own XP, if it really gets enhanced in the future, you can feel the joy of hitting the jackpot.

Hou Ji also approved of this view. Although he had made mostly wrong choices previously, it didn’t matter since this time he only needed to choose one character he liked and draw for them.

Unexpectedly, he liked both characters in this gacha pool!

There’s no need to mention Li Huanzhen, he’s already a popular character in "Ascension," he even has the Relic Sword–this ultimate is a dimensional slash after unsheathing the sword, who could resist that!

But the other character, Zhao Siyuan, is also very tempting.

As the Great General, his popularity is high, both handsome and strong.

In terms of XP, it can only be said to be a close call.

What about the mechanics? It’s even harder to choose! Because they both seem perfect.

Li Huanzhen’s perfection is that of an operation-type character, clearly, to play this character well you first need the skill of flicking the sword.

If you can continuously perfect the sword flicking, then it’s like always maintaining three layers of buffs on yourself, an Earth Attribute shield plus Earth and Metal attribute enchantments.

Although Earth and Metal attributes don’t have any special elemental reaction effects themselves, they can work with other background characters to react with other elements.

The ceiling for this mechanic is very high.

Plus, with this ultimate that allows for one resurrection, Li Huanzhen’s mechanics could be described as dancing on a knife’s edge, it’s either mowing down enemies or dying explosively.

For old players of "Ascension," he’s definitely the choice!

Sword flicking? That’s already muscle memory for old players, what’s there to fear!

Before really getting hands-on, the players must be feeling quite good about themselves.

But Zhao Siyuan’s module appears to be simply and brutally strong.

Compared to Li Huanzhen, who must perfect sword flicking to get a shield, Zhao Siyuan can casually deploy his shield with the domineering body effect.

How obnoxious is an Earth Element shield combined with a domineering body? Players have already experienced this with enemies from the Earth Country.

Zhao Siyuan’s ultimate is also simple and brutal, a forty-meter broadsword slashing through everything, quite a vision of mowing down a game.

This choice is really tough.

Hou Ji wants both, but it’s not possible since his gacha count might not be enough.

Partly because he didn’t deliberately save up gacha counts and also because the players have reached the toughest time right now, drawing a gold might take hundreds of attempts.

At most, at most, he could only draw one.

"It’s so hard to choose!

"Based on past experience, among the two UP pool characters, the stronger one is often the version trap, while the weaker one is the answer for the next version.

"But both characters seem strong!

"Hmm... wait, I should first look at the mainline quest to see which country we’re going to next before deciding."

Hou Ji suddenly had an epiphany, feeling like he got smarter.

Could it be that playing games with Zhuge Jun all this time also gave him a bit of an IQ boost?

Checking the newly updated mainline quest, Hou Ji’s eyes lit up.

"Oh? The next realm is Thunder Country! An overseas solitary island, essentially can be considered to have an ancient Neon backdrop.

"So what’s there to worry about, Li Huanzhen, it has to be Li Huanzhen!

"Let’s have a real man’s samurai battle!

"Sword flicking, flick to your heart’s content!"

This time the opening of Thunder Country didn’t completely follow the order in the Fantasy Book.

But it does make logical sense.

If the previous Earth Country was to further expand the world view, then after completing the adventures in Earth Country, it indeed seems appropriate to expand outwards.

Originally, players were guessing whether to go to Penglai Immortal Island to the southeast or Thunder Country on the solitary island to the northeast.

From the appearance of Ningyun Monarch, it seemed likely to be the former.

But clearly, Nitiandang doesn’t seem to want to reveal the secrets of Penglai Immortal Island so early; it looks like a place full of pretense, so it’s reasonable to update it in the mid to late stages of the game.

Thunder Country, as a Chapter that bridges the previous and next, fits well here.

Since it’s a battle with Thunder Country, then the Earth Element is very useful.

Because Earth Element does not react with Thunder Element, it has a fairly decent suppression effect.

Li Huanzhen and Zhao Siyuan both have Earth Element shields, which nearly immunize them against most of the Thunder Element attacks.

And since the setting is a kingdom with an ancient Neon backdrop, there would definitely be various warriors, right?

So choosing Li Huanzhen to duel with these warriors seems very exciting.

As for Zhao Siyuan, he’s certainly strong too, but he doesn’t have a unique blade parrying mechanism. After much consideration, Hou Ji decided to summon Li Huanzhen!

After all, he’s a previous main character from "Ascension," so it’s not a loss to summon him.

After a series of operations, and 110 summons later, Li Huanzhen was finally summoned.

This was under the circumstances of good luck with the gacha not going awry, because if it did, wouldn’t aiming for a UP pool character take almost two hundred summons?

Hou Ji also felt helpless. As expected, every time there’s a new card pool, there would be complaints from players online, but somehow, it seems like these complaints never coincide.

When a portion of players are complaining, there’s another portion who don’t mind, so they never manage to unite in outcry.

Complain every time, complain every time, Hou Ji himself felt he was becoming numb to it.

Anyway, it’s time to have some fun with Li Huanzhen!

In the storyline of "Endless Fantasy Legend 2," there isn’t much about Li Huanzhen and Zhao Siyuan. The main story is still driven by characters like Hero and Xi Yun.

It can be seen as a separate world line.

Originally, in the world line of "Ascension," it was Li Huanzhen who saved the world, but in this current world line, due to the dispersal of the fog and a larger world being revealed, Li Huanzhen had just switched to the Seeking Immortal Record and hadn’t yet emerged to save the world, when it was already rescued by the Hero.

So naturally, there’s no use for martial prowess.

Hou Ji poured all of the saved experience books and weapon enhancement materials into Li Huanzhen, bringing his level up to par with the other characters.

Then he boarded the ship heading to Thunder Country.

The plot in Thunder Country isn’t too complex. Broadly speaking, it’s an archipelago isolated in the sea, surrounded by storms and thunderclouds, which makes it dangerous for ships to enter or exit, so it’s been cut off from the world for a long time.

Due to the world’s strange changes, various monsters have also appeared here.

There are wild warriors misusing Thunder Element for evil, bandits, and various named or nameless Demons.

The Hero’s ultimate task is to head to the central island’s Thunder Cloud Volcano, enter the crater, and quell the Thunder Element’s power, so that the island is no longer engulfed in constant storms and thunder but returns to sunny and serene.

Just arriving on the coast of Thunder Country, a battle was encountered.

A group of pirates at the port came to rob, and of course, it’s now the player’s turn to take action.

"Hah, come and duel me with swords!"

Hou Ji immediately took control of Li Huanzhen and charged forward.

Indeed, just as he predicted, most of the enemies in Thunder Country wielded weapons like katana or straight swords, with some carrying long spears, but overall, these enemies’ attacks could be parried.

And they were relatively easy to parry.

The speed of these enemies’ attacks was moderate, and their movements were quite intuitive, whether it was swinging the sword downward or thrusting, not hard to parry at all.

What was more troublesome were some enemies using Iaijutsu, but Nitiandang had shown some mercy, adding a flashing effect to the sword during Iai cuts.

As long as you parried at the moment the sword flashed, it was practically a perfect parry.

Hou Ji himself had a solid foundation in "Ascension" parrying skills, so battling these enemies was quite thrilling.

Even if there were a few failed parries, it was not a big deal because the previous perfect parries provided him with an Earth Element shield. Though this shield was not as thick as Zhao Siyuan’s, it was sufficient for use.

In addition, although it was constantly raining from the sky, it wouldn’t directly afflict the characters with a muddy attribute.

This is because, in "Endless Fantasy Legend 2," the effects of elemental affinities also had strengths and weaknesses, and they were divided into several different grades.

When a weak element meets a strong element, even if there is an existing suppressive relationship, it won’t directly trigger an elemental reaction.

Take water and earth, for instance; their relationship is rather complicated:

If it’s weak water meeting strong earth, then the water would be entirely absorbed without any elemental attachment effect;

Conversely, if strong water meets weak earth, then the earth would be washed away and dissolved, making the shield weaker and carrying a muddy effect, causing a slowdown in movement and attack speed.

Although it appears to always thunder and rain in Thunder Country, the water in this natural environment is the lowest layer of weak elements and won’t affect the Earth Element shield on the player in any way.

No need to worry about water and thunder elements causing conduction and extra damage either.

"What’s with Nitiandang?

"It feels unfamiliar!"

Hou Ji was surprised; his initial experience in Thunder Country was actually quite good!

Because the Earth Attribute here is practically a superior attribute, you can swagger around!

Is this scientific?

Previously, in Fire Country and Earth Country, players were using lower-ranking attributes to fight stubbornly, first Wood attribute being chased around in flames, then being half-dead from struggling with the Earth Element shield.

Now in Thunder Country, it turned out to be a top-notch existence.

Looking at it now, whether it’s summoning Li Huanzhen or Zhao Siyuan, playing in Thunder Country should be quite invigorating.

Both turned out to be the right answer?

This is like the sun rising from the west.

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