Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 615 - 598: Molten Rock

Chapter 615: Chapter 598: Molten Rock

"The Hero duels the ultimate boss," no doubt it’s a rather attractive title.

Even if Zhuge Jun ultimately failed to find a way to bring the Peak Brave Warrior into the real world, just this video alone could salvage some of his online reputation.

Then it wouldn’t be a waste of time after all.

But this task is easier said than done.

Because other players have already tried it, this so-called "Peak Brave Warrior," although it has activated many of the previous protagonist’s abilities, the values of these abilities are greatly reduced, making them not particularly strong in combat.

Take the frequently used skill "Justice from the Sky" from the previous game, for example, it hardly scratches the enemy.

Many players love to argue about which is more important, "mechanics" or "values," but in reality, it’s always the "values" that matter.

Because without the support of values, even the best mechanics can’t shine.

Conversely, if the values are high enough, mechanics simply don’t matter.

The elemental reaction system in "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" actually went through many rounds of value inflation to match the growth and training systems of characters and equipment.

So while "Justice from the Sky" was very damaging in the previous game, it’s not so effective in this installment.

This is also a major reason why players rant with fury.

Now, Zhuge Jun intends to defeat the ultimate boss with these somewhat outdated techniques. If he discovers any hidden mechanics, that would be ideal, but if not, he’ll give up.

However, even if he gives up, he could post this gameplay video online to recoup some of his reputation.

"Phew, finally passed!"

Zhuge Jun took a deep breath, lay on the bed, and tossed the controller aside.

Though he played on a mobile phone, the touch controls were just too challenging, so he chose to use a controller instead.

It must be said that this battle was indeed torturous. Normally, it would take about ten minutes to decide the winner.

If the character had high stars and was well-trained, ending the fight in even three minutes wouldn’t be surprising.

Zhuge Jun only used the Hero and it took a hard-fought half hour, during which he also used a lot of strength-boosting and health-restoring cuisine, cosplaying the Medicine King.

But no matter what, he managed to fight through it.

Hou Ji couldn’t help but admire, "Awesome! Wait, did you record it?"

He suddenly realized this serious issue.

Zhuge Jun shook his head: "No, how can I record on a phone? I have to play and record at the same time; it would lag horribly.

"I’ll practice the controls first, and then I’ll use your account tomorrow at the experience store to try again, and I’ll record it then."

Then he looked at the phone screen with a complicated expression: "Sigh, as expected, I was hoping for too much, nothing happened."

After the storyline ended, the Hero returned to his original state, and no miracle occurred.

"Forget it, I’ve done my best. Tomorrow, I’ll try to record a video where I get less hurt, just to barely make do for the fans."

Zhuge Jun turned over and lay down, quickly falling asleep, to conserve energy for tomorrow.

...

The next morning, Zhuge Jun and Hou Ji went to the experience store again.

"Give us two cans of Red Bull!

"Focus on the operation, hopefully, the recording will come out a bit better and have more presence. Otherwise, I’ll have to switch to being a comedy Uploader."

Zhuge Jun downed a Red Bull, then opened the video recording software and logged into Hou Ji’s account, ready for the final dance.

He had tried it with other accounts yesterday, and had a rough idea in his mind.

Even though he couldn’t achieve a flawless victory like the pros, he might have to rely on medicine and scraping techniques to whittle the boss down, but since he’s the first one on the Internet to do so, posting it should also garner some popularity.

When he started, he felt like something was wrong everywhere.

"Ah! How did that not dodge!

"Need to heal, need to heal.

"Oh no, why didn’t that trigger a melt! The Wind Attribute also expanded wrongly... Hey, I didn’t mean to grab that rock!

"Hou Ji, why does your account only have so little cuisine? If this keeps up, I won’t have enough to sustain me!"

Zhuge Jun felt like he had slept away all his momentum from the night before when he had played well on such a small phone screen, but today with the bigger screen, he seemed to be out of his element.

From the start, every five minutes he was in bad shape, and such a video would only bring him ridicule if posted.

Hou Ji was speechless: "How can you blame me for this! My account doesn’t really use cuisine much, so I don’t make a lot.

"If you want to play Medicine King, then you should have prepared some cuisine before fighting!"

Zhuge Jun sighed: "It’s too late now, I’ll just try a bit harder."

He continued to use the Earth Element to create rocks, then using the Water Element to bind them and the Wind Element to manipulate them, constantly repeating these operations.

For him, an ordinary player, his hand-eye coordination was pretty much maxed out.

"Feel the relentless ice storm!"

As the Emperor roared on the screen, the battlefield changed once again, with ice rain starting to fall from the sky, intermittently inflicting both Ice Element and Water Element on the player.

Zhuge Jun was a bit anxious: "Not so lucky this time! Hou Ji, what’s with your account, it’s too awful!"

Hou Ji glowered: "Don’t always blame gravity when you’re stuck in a hole! You keep complaining and I’ll change the account!"

The battle mechanics were rich, including changes in environmental mechanics.

Ice and Fire bosses will randomly change the entire field’s environment during the switch.

The "ice rain" environment can be said to be the worst because players are easily hit by the Freeze reaction, immobilized, and then instantly killed by the boss in one combo.

Not only that, the Molten Rocks left on the ground from when the Deep Flame Demon switched in were not removed by the scene transition.

These Molten Rocks, originally bursting with fierce flames, now had their fires extinguished by the ice rain, but they still had an extremely high temperature, triggering an automatic evaporation reaction.

Players would take massive damage just by getting slightly close.

Zhuge Jun was dodging various AOE on the ground with full concentration, while muttering to himself, calculating the duration of the fight to come.

"This is just the first phase, and it’ll take about seven to eight minutes.

"After defeating one of the bosses, both bosses will trigger a fusion skill and then enter the second phase, bringing specialized skills.

"The second phase will also take about ten minutes or so.

"The third phase is purely mechanical combat, mainly to showcase large-scale battles. I’m quite familiar with it now; it should have taken five minutes, but now probably about three will suffice.

"Ah, slow scraping it is."

If he went with a standard character combination, it would be much faster, but Zhuge Jun had chosen to go for the Gua Sha method.

He once again used the Earth Elemental Power to create rocks, then tried sticking and grabbing them.

However, at that moment, his hand shook accidentally and missed the mark.

The Hero actually grabbed the Molten Rocks from the ground!

"Eh? That’s not right, there was no highlighting effect!"

Zhuge Jun was a bit puzzled; normally, anything that could be grabbed with the Wind Elemental Power would be highlighted when aimed at and would automatically attract the crosshair.

These Molten Rocks were not large and not particularly conspicuous after being scattered on the ground, nor would they be highlighted after activating the Wind Elemental Power skill. They wouldn’t be drawn to it either.

With all kinds of eclectic grabbable items throughout the field, players generally wouldn’t think to grab them, and even if they did try on purpose, the crosshair would easily be drawn to other items.

Moreover, not many players now chose to use this set of Hero skills to fight bosses; they played conventionally, so even fewer players discovered this point.

Zhuge Jun also found out by chance with a slip of the hand, accidentally moving the crosshair that was originally locked on a stone to this thing, then realizing it could actually be grabbed.

"Could it be that these can be used to smash the bosses?"

Zhuge Jun hurriedly smashed it over, but only a small number appeared above the boss’s head, effectively as if nothing had happened.

"...right, as I thought, I was overthinking it.

"No, I must think more, to try might reveal a 1% chance of a bug, but not trying leaves a definite 0%.

"I’ll try with other elements!"

Zhuge Jun didn’t continue to smash the boss, instead, he tried attacking the Molten Rocks with other elements.

The first that came to mind was the Fire Element, but it was useless because the ice rain in the field would automatically extinguish any fire element attacks made.

He tried the Ice Element and the Water Element as well, to no avail.

Then came the Wood Element, the Time Element...

He virtually tried all the single elements one by one but couldn’t see any specific effects. He even threw all the original Molten Rocks on the ground at the boss, only causing minor irritation.

"It must be a combined reaction of multiple elements, like when I used Wood, Water, and Time elements to break the Earth Element shield.

"Or perhaps it needs another environmental mechanic to activate it."

Zhuge Jun analyzed seriously and earnestly.

Hou Ji sniped from the side: "Or maybe Heavenly Games just forgot to make it unselectable, and there really isn’t any hidden mechanism."

Zhuge Jun’s face darkened: "I don’t believe it! Every detail in the Heavenly Games is definitely significant!"

"The Deep Flame’s fire devours everything!"

Zhuge Jun was still pondering when the bosses switched.

This switching was random; good luck meant no switch for five minutes, bad luck meant a switch within one.

In general, the more frequent the switches, the more troublesome it was for the player.

However, at that moment, Zhuge Jun suddenly noticed that the Molten Rocks on the ground had refreshed during the switch.

A plethora of rocks rained down from the sky, and the ones that had not been consumed before were re-lit with fierce flames.

The bosses’ switching also lasted a few seconds.

"Could it be..."

Zhuge Jun quickly tried again to pick up the ground rocks with the Power of Wind Element, but unfortunately failed because such burning rocks had indeed become unselectable; they couldn’t be grabbed.

But he quickly had an idea, switching to the Ice Element and Water Element, targeting the rocks in turn.

The flames were indeed temporarily suppressed.

Using the Wind Elemental Power again, he managed to grab a rock briefly this time!

However, Zhuge Jun wasn’t quite ready mentally and didn’t manage to throw the rock at the Emperor before it relit with fierce flames and instantly slipped out of the Hero’s control.

Zhuge Jun tried to grab another rock, but the Emperor had already exited the stage and was out of reach.

"What a pity!"

Although this attempt failed and he would have to wait for the Emperor to re-enter the stage, Zhuge Jun lit up with a glimmer of hope.

Perhaps there really was something to it!

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