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Chapter 592 - 575: Both are Wrong Answers (Happy New Year Everyone!)

Chapter 592: Chapter 575: Both are Wrong Answers (Happy New Year Everyone!)

Three days later.

Hou Ji continued to use Li Huanzhen, proceeding with the main storyline quest of the Thunder Country.

The main storyline of "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" is unlocked gradually, with a new portion unlocked each day, in sync with the Hero’s adventure journey in the game.

During the intervals, players can also choose to explore the big map or solve puzzles.

Hou Ji had a blast playing these three days, and the online reviews were unusually harmonious.

Apart from some players who got upset due to the gacha, the rest of the reviews were actually quite good.

As for bloggers who recommended gacha, they essentially changed their video style to focus on educational content without giving specific gacha suggestions anymore.

Because everyone has accepted Zhuge Jun’s view that discussing character strength in "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" is meaningless, as you never know when Nitiandang might change something.

Perhaps pure XP gacha is the happiest state in a gacha game.

And in terms of character selection this time, the bloggers’ advice was: just draw anyone!

Based on the current situation, these two Earth Element characters can wreak havoc in the Thunder Country.

The only difference is that Li Huanzhen requires certain operations and techniques, and is strong with the Blade Bounce Skill; those who can’t use the Blade Bounce Skill are just a larger version of a super soldier. Zhao Siyuan, on the other hand, has a lower threshold, simpler and more brutal, you could even smash through the entire Thunder Country by rolling your face on the keyboard or rubbing the screen with your feet.

In any case, just activate your minor skill to shield yourself, and hit wherever lights up; once the ultimate is fully charged, unleash it and it’s like mowing the lawn.

Of course, the premise is that training is normal, and the charging efficiency of the ultimate meets standards, which is not hard for the majority of players to achieve.

Thus, laughter and cheers erupted.

"Okay, let’s continue heading towards the volcano!

"But isn’t this volcano really modeled after Mount Fuji? It looks so similar, only Mount Fuji has snow at the peak, while this mountain is topped with thunder clouds."

At this point, the player-controlled Hero had just begun to integrate the peripheral forces of Thunder Country, which included righteous Warriors, smugglers, and exiled patriots, among others.

In any case, everyone was ready to join forces and delve deeper into Thunder Country to calm the storm over Thunder Cloud Volcano.

Today was the day everyone agreed to start climbing Thunder Cloud Volcano.

However, just as the time arrived and Hou Ji had just begun to climb with the protagonist, the objective of the main quest suddenly changed!

"Unexpected situation: An emergency seems to have happened at sea, please immediately interrupt your current target and head to the port to check."

Hou Ji paused, "Hmm?"

He was somewhat surprised because the plot update was a bit too abrupt, even seemingly illogical.

Just mentioned starting on Thunder Cloud Volcano, and now directing me to the port?

But Hou Ji didn’t think too much about it. After all, plot quests often unfold irrationally. If the plot developed exactly as the players expected, wouldn’t it become formulaic? That’d be boring.

So, he still jumped down from the mountain and hurried back to the port.

Halfway there, he sensed that something was amiss.

Why are there so many ships in the distance??

Since he was hurrying from the mountain to the port, the Hero also happened to have a high vantage point, providing a great view.

He couldn’t see it before because it was too far, beyond the game’s maximum view range.

But now close to the shore, he realized there were so many ships, densely packed, almost filling the entire coastline.

And when Hou Ji finally controlled the Hero to the port, they found that a battle had already erupted.

The originally well-arranged temporary camp was devastated, and two groups were fiercely fighting.

Upon a closer look at the enemies, Hou Ji was shocked: "Isn’t this the attire from ’Blood of Lies’?

"Triangle hats, Hunter outfits, even muskets...

"Holy, Hunter Weapons! Transform Slash! Wait, they can even transform into furry beasts?

"Why the sudden intrusion!?"

Hou Ji couldn’t wrap his head around it for a moment.

Of course, he knew there was a country in "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" based on the setting of "Blood of Lies," which was the Water Country.

Official prior promotional materials and numerous in-game texts also reflected this.

The previous UP pool’s Glacier General also wore a triangle hat, so these elements had been preluded.

But the issue was, Hou Ji never expected to encounter them in Thunder Country!

Normally, the story in Thunder Country should have been completed first, resolving the issues with Thunder Cloud Volcano, before moving to the next region.

But now, without the players actively going to Water Country, it’s Water Country that has come knocking!

This caught everyone off guard, completely unprepared.

"That works too, isn’t that like getting the content of two versions in one? Huge profit!

"Anyway, let’s just fight first. My Blade Bounce Skill is fearsomely strong now, even if a god shows up, I’ll show them!"

Hou Ji controlled Li Huanzhen and charged in as the Savior.

One minute later, he crawled out disheveled.

"Wait!

"Is something off?"

Hou Ji felt his mind go blank as he struggled to recall the previous battle scene.

Li Huanzhen battling with the enemies from "Blood of Lies" was a scenario fantasized by many players when "Blood of Lies" was first released, and now it had become reality.

Originally, Hou Ji was very confident in his own gameplay.

In general, both "Ascension" and "Blood of Lies" have deflecting mechanics, but the deflecting in "Ascension" is simpler compared to the Transform Slash in "Blood of Lies", which is much more challenging.

Because deflecting is an instantaneous reaction action, there’s hardly any lead-up movements, and you just need to press at the right moment when you see the enemy about to strike, and after some practice, one can even adapt to the rhythm;

whereas the Transform Slash in "Blood of Lies" involves more complex lead-up motions and even different weapons to handle, making it hard to master initially, and some players even resort to physical mods like trigger back buttons.

Thus, many believed that if Li Huanzhen entered the world of "Blood of Lies", he would be deflecting fiercely, leaving the adversaries bewildered.

But when they actually fought, Hou Ji found that was not the case.

These enemies wielding Hunter Weapons, each of their Fast and Slow Blades was extremely severe!

In fact, after playing "Blood of Lies" a lot, one would find that although these weapons’ Transform Slash has a certain lead-up, as long as you can match the frequency of the enemy’s Fast and Slow Blades, the chances of success are still very high.

On the other hand, using Blade Bounce to fight disrupts the rhythm, requiring adaptation all over again.

Hou Ji could clearly feel that his Blade Bounce success rate plummeted when fighting these enemies.

Of course, this would be fine, given that a successful Blade Bounce once allows him to put on an Earth Element shield for himself, providing safety and enabling gradual adaptation to the Blade Bounce rhythm.

But the problem was, these people were from the Water Country.

Many of them possessed power of the Water Element!

It always rains in Thunder Country, but environmental elements like rain are the weakest tier, so they don’t affect the Earth Element shield at all, being quickly absorbed without even causing elemental adhesion.

But the Water Element power possessed by the enemies was a different story.

Hou Ji confidently put an Earth Element shield on Li Huanzhen, only to prepare for another 300 rounds of battle, and then saw the enemy unleash a Water Element Skill.

With a "swoosh".

The absorption of the Earth Element shield decreased;

Li Huanzhen got afflicted with a "Muddy" debuff;

What angered him most was that he even got inflicted with a Water Element adhesion!

Having Water Element adhesion meant possibly triggering reactions with other elements, for instance, if a bolt of lightning struck from the sky at that moment, it would no longer be just Lightning Elemental Damage, but electrocution damage from a mix of Lightning and Water elements.

"Seriously, is my Earth Element character naturally countered by Water Element characters??"

Hou Ji realized this, and suddenly felt terrible.

"If I had known, I would have chosen Zhao Siyuan instead of Li Huanzhen!

"Darn, can I always precisely pick the wrong answer during a two-choice situation?

"Is this even reasonable?

"Even if I’m unlucky, it shouldn’t be to this extent right?"

He looked at Zhuge Jun: "Did you make the right choice this time? If I guessed correctly, you probably only had enough for one draw too.

"Should I spend a little? After all, subscribing to a monthly pass should allow me to pull Zhao Siyuan out before the pool ends.

"Darn, I cannot compromise! We agreed to be a non-spender group, absolutely no buying monthly passes!"

Hou Ji was struggling with himself, leaving Zhuge Jun somewhat speechless: "Why do you think Zhao Siyuan would have an advantage in this situation?

"As if he isn’t an Earth Element character."

Hou Ji paused for a moment: "Oh? Right."

He opened the streaming and video websites, briefly searched, and watched videos of people who pulled Zhao Siyuan, then couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

Well, that turned out even worse than Li Huanzhen!

In the previous battles, Zhao Siyuan was indeed not bad, simpler and more straightforward than Li Huanzhen.

He had a thick shield, and after activating his ultimate, there’s an AOE effect, making the indigenous people of Thunder Country cry out.

But the problem is, when he fought against the people from Water Country, it was a completely different story!

At least Li Huanzhen had the special mechanism of Blade Bounce, don’t mention a perfect deflect, but at least after some practice, he could use a perfect Blade Bounce to block some high-damage attacks.

After a perfect Blade Bounce, the enemy’s attack won’t trigger elemental reactions.

But Zhao Siyuan doesn’t have such a mechanism.

His straightforward Earth Element shield is susceptible to erosion from Water Element, and it would also afflict him with the Muddy status.

In fact, previously players could also use Water Element to attack monsters with Earth Element shields, but the core issue is: there’s a huge gap between the stats of player characters and monsters.

Monsters generally have much higher stats than the player characters.

Therefore, when players use Water Element to break a monster’s Earth Element shield, the dissolved shield amount is minimal, and the Muddy slowdown effect is also not very pronounced, requiring Wood attribute and Time attribute to effectively break the shield.

Moreover, some monster’s Earth Element shields are directly shaped like rocks, in such cases, Water Element attacks are utterly useless.

But players currently don’t have this kind of rock shield, and their shield amount is much less than that of monsters.

So when a monster uses Water Element to attack a player’s Earth Element shield, the amount of shield dissolved makes players feel the pain, and the Muddy effect is much more pronounced.

You can imagine, if later on a monster with both Wood Element and Time Element comes to attack a player’s Earth Element shield... The sight would be too terrible to witness.

"Man, in the previous two character pools, at least there was one correct answer and one wrong answer, now what, both characters in the UP pool are wrong this time??"

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