Chapter 361 - 337: New Special Skill of the Sea Soul Staff
When a long row of system prompts flooded the screen as expected, Da Fei felt immensely fulfilled and comfortable, his spirits were incredibly high! At this moment, Da Fei found the air he breathed extraordinarily sweet, and the screams of the Hell Corps from Japanese players falling down were so delightful! Holding the thunder-flashing Titan’s Grasp in his hand, the electrifying feeling was as soul-stirring as a massage!
Da Fei, overcome with emotions, put the Divine Spear back into his bag. At this moment, all Da Fei wanted to say to someone was seven words: "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
Ah, what a pity to have blacklisted them! Not being able to say thanks really feels incomplete! As for now, of course, it’s time to check out the loot, an even more joyful task than defeating a super hard boss.
As for the competition achievements and such, there’s not much to say—it’s equivalent to obtaining a permanent BUFF; of course, effective only in the Ancient City Ruins competition map. For professional athletes aspiring to compete, this is certainly a great advantage, but for amateur players like Da Fei who count on a Divine Artifact just for casual competition, it’s ignorable.
Next up is Nash’s Tooth.
— Nash’s Tooth: S-grade strategic treasure, accessory, absorbs 1 point of poison, corrosion, and plague damage every second, restores 1 point of health and 1 stamina every 10 seconds.
Not bad! Any accessory is a good accessory. Players have ten accessory positions, or Support Equipment Position, which do not conflict with other parts of the body, and accessories are the hardest equipment to obtain in the game. Thus, the competition reward of an accessory is indeed the most thoughtful setting. This completely avoids any conflict between the competition reward and the player’s own "Divine Equipment."
Considering the attribute of this accessory, it is clearly a weakened version of "Crucible" "Funnel," but being a weakened version makes it reliable. If it reached the performance of competition props, it might be considered a Divine Artifact already? Anyway, this accessory, combined with Da Fei’s Navigator Skill "Extreme Survival," greatly enhances Da Fei’s troops’ ability to cope with harsh environments, which is extremely needed.
Now, Da Fei’s attention was on the highlight of this reward!
— City Building Blueprint "Sewer": Fortress facility, can cultivate sewer soldier species, and greatly increase the production of sewer soldier species, greatly improving the city’s sanitation environment.
Heroic Creation Era is not just a war, sailing, and trade game, the management and construction of Lord cities are also an important element. Honestly, Da Fei has also followed quite a bit of information during the public test and always felt that he had no connection with city-building, knowing little about it. He truly hadn’t heard of any Lord Player’s city possessing a sewer facility!
After all, this is a game. Just like how beauties in the game will never defecate or urinate, there are no excrement facilities like toilets in the game either. Thus, player cities in the game should not have sewer-type "city excretion" facilities; if any, they are usually just part of the player’s leveling quest scene.
However, now, the appearance of this blueprint has overturned Da Fei’s superficial understanding!
Ultimately, the purpose of Lord Players in building city fortresses is to raise armies, make money, and wage war, and whether it’s raising armies or making money, all must be based on the most important city indicator—population!
Without population, everything else is futile. Many factors affect population growth; besides water sources, the most important is the sanitary environment of the city.
Once the sanitation environment falls below 50 points (out of 100), it may trigger a plague that causes large-scale population deaths. In the game, facilities that can improve the city’s sanitary environment mainly include hospitals, bathhouses, clinics, and barbershops. Of course, just building these facilities is not enough, you also must have NPCs with sufficiently high professional skills. In short, Lord Players really play a different game from ordinary players. And now, Da Fei learns there’s another facility—the Sewer!
More importantly, this is not just a functional building but also a military facility! It’s a fortress!
What is a fortress?
Lord Players’ cities can build fortresses once they upgrade city walls to level 10. The fortress can further enhance the defensive power of city walls, also increase the production of all soldier species in the city, and recruit special soldiers.
And this Sewer blueprint doesn’t require level 10 city walls as a prerequisite, only targets the sewer soldier species. What are sewer soldier species? Three words immediately leapt to Da Fei’s mind—Slime Monster!
After killing the Slime Monster BOSS in the Corrosion Channel, Da Fei obtained a Slime Monster formula blueprint. At that time, Da Fei was still puzzled, how to produce soldiers with just a formula? Should he build a Slime Monster factory? But now, Da Fei’s thoughts began to clarify, the role of the sewers is both "cultivation" and "increase in production," meaning that it has the dual functions of a barracks and a fortress, the Sewer is the soldier construction building for recruiting Slime Monsters!
And it’s not just Slime Monsters, those Kobolds, Lizardmen, and bats are also sewer troops, right?
Great! Now, besides the double city walls and a new city hall that came with Radiant City, there’s nothing else built. Let’s make these sewers my first construction and have the Slime Monsters be my city’s underground cleaners!
The earlier a barracks is built, the better, just like the Banshee Camp. Because it was built early, I could accumulate so many troops. And the production rate of Slime Monsters clearly has nothing to do with population, which is precisely the kind of troops I need most at the moment. Anyway, once the competition rewards are handed out, I’ll start construction immediately. As for now— the screams in my ears finally became irritating!
Damn! They’ve been dying for ages and still haven’t all died?! Japan’s troops are really numerous! No need to say anything else now, clean out Japan first, then charge out of the sewers and clear out the Bell Tower! With my three plagues upon me, why do I need to lift a finger to clear them out? Haha, bwahaha!
Under the oppression of the triple plague and Da Fei’s troops, who have reclaimed all buffs, clearing the field, the Japanese players’ troops stood no chance; it was an entirely one-sided slaughter. From the corpses of the fallen Hell Army, thick, dark red smoke soared up and drifted into Selvia’s Sea Soul Staff.
Just then, a system prompt sounded!
—System Prompt: Your Divine Artifact Equipment, the Sea Soul Staff, has completed the absorption and conversion of the "Artillery Emperor’s" soul, gaining 1 low-level Demon Soul Sea Demon +1, and the Sea Soul Staff has gained a special skill: Demon Soul Sea Demon Rebirth.
—Demon Soul Sea Demon Rebirth: The Banshees of the Hell Race are pure Spiritual Bodies. The Sea Soul Staff can absorb and convert the spirits of deceased Banshees into Demon Soul Sea Demons.
Da Fei was suddenly startled, the Sea Soul Staff has gained a new special skill? And it’s related to Banshees? Just how special is the Banshee troop type anyway? Before he could think further, Da Fei hurriedly opened Selvia’s Equipment Bar.
—Sea Soul Staff: Divine Artifact, Magic Power +20, Knowledge +20, able to absorb souls of creatures killed in sea battles. Stored high-level Sea Monster Leviathan Sea Soul +1, intermediate Sea Monster Narwhal King Sea Soul +1. Absorbing and converting battlefield spirits, currently gained Mana +425 points. Special skills: Ghost Ship Transformation, Demon Soul Sea Demon Rebirth.
Da Fei was so surprised he was speechless! This Sea Soul Staff has already self-discovered two special skills, damn, it really is a Divine Artifact capable of self-evolving! That means, it transformed the just-died Artillery Emperor into a Sea Demon, but what are the attributes of that Sea Demon? How to summon this Sea Demon? Does this mean the Artillery Emperor gets an extra life?
No, no, no! Da Fei quickly shook his head! The Artillery Emperor cannot die! He is my treasure! I definitely won’t risk using the Artillery Emperor! The problem is—
Da Fei immediately thought of the dilemma he encountered when he obtained the Sea Soul Staff from Demigod Skira. The Sea Soul Staff, indiscriminate of friend or foe, absorbs souls from any creature that dies on the battlefield, making it extremely despicable as it prevents players from resurrecting their troops. So, if an elite troop like the Artillery Emperor unfortunately dies, it cannot be revived using the Dark Resurrection Technique. The only option then is not to equip the artifact. But what use is an unequipped artifact? Maybe I should bring a mechanized army instead?
At least now, Da Fei knows one thing; once the Artillery Emperor’s soul is absorbed, it doesn’t turn into Mana but becomes a low-level unclear strength Sea Demon. If this low-level Sea Demon is weaker than the Artillery Emperor, it would be worrisome and better not to equip this cursed artifact. If it’s stronger than the Artillery Emperor, then there’s nothing to say.
But wait, I just lost 115 normal Banshees! Since the Artillery Emperor was only transformed into a low-level Sea Demon, these normal Banshees are also pure Spiritual Bodies, wouldn’t they directly turn into Mana? Just like the Narwhal previously where, apart from the BOSS, the common form of Narwhal directly turned into Mana.
So, let’s wait! To understand the Sea Soul Staff more deeply, the best way is to wait! Let the Sea Soul Staff finish converting all the absorbed souls and see the final outcome. The advantage of the competition server is that whether you die or survive in the arena doesn’t affect the player’s account in the region server, so this time it’s not just about testing the Destiny Coin, but also observing the Sea Soul Staff.
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At this moment, at the Mitsubishi Command Center.
Watching Da Fei effortlessly kill the ultimate BOSS that the designers claimed was currently impossible to defeat, Japan, already numbed by the abundance of Da Fei’s anomalies, couldn’t muster any energy from the mysterious dark smoke filling the field.
Now, Gunno Yosai’s defeat is certain. In this arena, Japan has lost 5 key players, with Sessho Kanpaku losing to China’s first person from Hell, Lei Huolong, and the other four all cleared by Da Fei! Now that Japan only has two players left, they are powerless to control the situation, completely defeated!
It’s beyond anger and despair to describe the emotions of the Japanese players at this moment. But whether it’s unwillingness or dissatisfaction, a loss is a loss. However, Japan can still do one last thing—retreat to the sewer entrance and bolt the lid to keep Da Fei down!
He’s powerful, right? Just let him be powerful all alone in the sewers! (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, please visit qidian.com to vote with recommendation tickets or monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to continue reading.)