Chapter 566 - 532: Diplomacy of the Entire Group
The Flying silently sailed into the blood-churning battlefield, with more and more water monster corpses floating on the lake having their souls absorbed by the Sea Soul Staff. Meanwhile, Vice Hero Alicia maintained her spellcasting stance in front of the Teleportation Array, ready to act at a moment’s notice in case of unexpected developments.
Now the Flying targeted a large water monster that was attacking the Leviathan, as Elena’s Thunderstorm struck thunderously, and the 16 crossbow cannons in the gun cabin fired all at once, with a massive row of damage numbers erupting!
"-3700!" "Elemental Chain Damage-1600!" "-362!" "-85!" "-81!" "Shattering Strike-184!" "Dragon Slayer Strike-116!" "Lucky Strike 210!" "-81!" ...
Da Fei’s eyelids twitched! It wasn’t dead! This round of over ten thousand damage output didn’t kill it! Although it was already estimated that these water monsters had over ten thousand HP as bosses, confirming it now left Da Fei unable to contain his excitement!
These forces were definitely the ace main force of the Demon Race, hundreds of them! Once they were taken down using Leviathan, who knew how high his merit would reach? Would he get promoted? Be granted a title? Moreover, such strong bosses would surely be converted into Sea Souls by the Sea Soul Staff—wow, he really might get hundreds of Sea Souls!
"Haha! This gamble was worth it, even if the entire Radiant City was lost, I might not suffer a loss!" Da Fei waved his hand in high spirits, "Continue firing!"
Boom! Boom! Boom! Another volley, and the water monster finally perished dramatically. At this moment, Leviathan’s window-sized, blood-red eye, akin to a searchlight, suddenly swept toward the Flying! Red light exploded on Da Fei’s screen!
System Prompt: Reconnaissance Skill Warning! You have entered the alert range of the extremely dangerous powerful creature Leviathan and are about to enter combat!
"Oh my God, this is ominous! Stay away!" Da Fei was so shocked that his hair stood on end, hurriedly raising an arm to signal Alicia to teleport away. Just then, a row of system prompts appeared on the screen:
System Prompt: Your Master-level Leadership Diplomacy Skill is attempting to neutralize the hostility of the powerful creature!
System Prompt: Your Vice Hero Elena’s Master-level Leadership Diplomacy Skill is attempting to neutralize the hostility of the powerful creature!
System Prompt: Your Vice Hero Deirdre’s Master Leadership Negotiation Expert Skill is attempting to neutralize the hostility of the powerful creature!
...
Da Fei froze in astonishment, a system prompt for Diplomacy Skill? This was unheard of!
Diplomacy Skill always worked silently in the system’s background. It was not like Reconnaissance Skill, used for alerts—it was either engage or surrender, but he had never heard of a situation where a system prompt appeared when Diplomacy Skill was at play! What was happening?
Obviously! A special situation in the quest scenario! Perhaps this was the key to completing this task! Right, communication between people is through language, but communication between humans and gods is through strength and skill!
In this moment of Daze, Leviathan transferred part of its attention and bit at the attacking water monsters again. Simultaneously, as the Flying charged in, a group of water monsters broke off to pounce on the Flying!
This meant they weren’t attacking me!
In the warning from the Reconnaissance Skill, a buffer time allowed players to respond between "about to engage" and "entering combat." In the situation where they hadn’t immediately attacked him, either the skills had neutralized some hostility, or they were too busy being attacked to pay attention!
Da Fei seemed to find the trick in this instant! He immediately dismissed the idea of teleporting away, shouting, "Target, the next water monster attacking Leviathan!"
As for the oncoming water monsters, Da Fei decided to withstand and ignore them! The Flying had a blood defense of a level 10 city wall and an inherent 1% durability regeneration every 10 seconds. These water monsters couldn’t breach the city walls of the Radiant City in half a day and wouldn’t pose a threat to the Flying in the short term. The immediate task was to stabilize Leviathan and delay the buffer time of entering combat!
And just now, having three system prompts in a row, and including Deirdre’s Master Leadership among them, indicated that negotiating with Leviathan required at least Master Leadership, so was there any need to question what to do now?
Da Fei immediately checked Alicia’s hero attributes, feeling pity! This child was the lowest level among the harem, level 35, from initially being level 33, likely leveling up from a previous wave of Demon Race’s air drops.
Her current skills were:
Advanced Ranger, Master-level Meditation Skill, God-level Magic, Intermediate Navigator. Then there’s Intermediate Attack Skill, Intermediate Arrow Skill, Basic War Machine Science, Intermediate Leadership Skill, Intermediate Defense Skill, Basic Logistics Skill, Basic Reconnaissance Skill, Basic Navigation Skill, Intermediate Luck Skill.
Skill Points remaining: 7.
Oh my God, apart from God-level Magic, nothing stood out! Compared to Elena, this was completely a trash hero! Yes, when he first saw her, if not for her beauty, he’d have firmly labeled her a trash hero—sigh, truly a moment as if they only met for the first time, ultimately blaming himself for not cultivating her well.
But fortunately, she still had 7 skill points left, nothing to say, it’s your turn!
Da Fei pulled out the Leadership Skill Book, the golden light flashing continuously!
System Prompt: Your Vice Hero Alicia used 3 skill points, Alicia’s Leadership Skill level was raised to Master-level!
System Prompt: Your Vice Hero Alicia used 1 skill point to learn the Leadership sub-skill, Diplomacy Skill!
Oh yeah! One down, next is Catherine.
Catherine was currently level 39, her skills are: Master-level Pirate, Master-level Navigation Skill, Master-level Attack Skill, Basic Navigator.
Then there’s Advanced Leadership, Basic Luck Skill, Basic Arrow Skill, Basic War Machine Skill, Basic Defense Skill, Basic Logistics Skill, Basic Reconnaissance Skill. Remaining skill points: 2.
Da Fei sighed inwardly, even the earliest follower, his dear, hadn’t been well cultivated either! Her remaining 2 skill points were only enough to raise Leadership to Master-level, but no worries, Da Fei still had 7 skill books!
After settling Catherine, next was Little Nun Serbia.
She was level 39, Master-level Light Magic, Master-level Meditation Skill, Master-level Nun, Master-level Navigation Skill, Intermediate Leadership, Basic Luck Skill. Remaining skill points: 3.
This is truly the strongest hero Da Fei nurtured firsthand! Nothing to say, level up Leadership to Master, then use a skill book to learn Diplomacy!
Having swiftly dealt with all his cherished ones, Da Fei felt a sense of exhaustion akin to that of an overly large harem draining one’s soul.
At this moment, another water monster was obliterated under focused fire, and then a grand series of system prompts appeared:
System Prompt: Your Master-level Leadership Diplomacy Skill is attempting to neutralize the hostility of the powerful creature!
System Prompt: Your Vice Hero Elena’s Master-level Leadership Diplomacy Skill...
System Prompt: Your Vice Hero Deirdre’s Master Leadership Negotiation Expert Skill...
System Prompt: Your Vice Hero Serbia’s Master Leadership...
System Prompt: Your Vice Hero Catherine’s Master Leadership...
System Prompt: Your Vice Hero Alicia’s Master Leadership...
Da Fei couldn’t help but laugh heartily—this was precisely the desired effect! A team of two master-level and four masters—is it still impossible to alleviate your anger? May I call you dear mother?
At this moment, watching from the sidelines, Aeris suddenly understood, "I see! Facing such a powerful creature, the best approach is to turn hostility into friendship. Although I do not know if success is likely, please allow me to lend you a helping hand!"
System Prompt: Legendary Hero Aeris used the Master-level Leadership Diplomacy Skill to attempt neutralizing the hostility of the powerful creature!
Indeed, a move by a legendary hero already utilizes a master-level skill!
Da Fei and Alicia exclaimed with joy, "Thank you, sir, for your assistance!" Oh my gosh! This little girl, why so excitedly invigorated?
With Aeris’s addition, Da Fei’s confidence soared. Even a legendary hero had merely a master-level skill, showing that the highest task difficulty in the game was no more than master-level. Even if facing a divine beast required god-level, wasn’t a combination of three masters and four masters comparable to one god-level? Didn’t the legendary "Mysterious Stealth Navigation" require three god-level skills to barely piece together using various additional effects from master-levels?
It had to work! Otherwise, this mission couldn’t be completed!
Since the Leviathan was temporarily stabilized, there was no need for the Flying to fight head-on with the water monsters attacking it!
With a flash of light, the Flying’s teleportation was initiated, appearing on the other side of the battlefield, successfully eluding the attacking water monsters. With just these two teleportations, one Magic Charging Crystal’s 10,000 reserve mana was entirely depleted. But it didn’t matter, the Flying’s deck had eight slots in total, one occupied by the Teleportation Array, and seven by Magic Energy Crystals, with three more lying in the warehouse, enough for the Flying to teleport ten more times—not to mention there were so many revived Flower Demon chargers on the Flying!
This was the result of high technology boosting combat power, the ultimate pursuit Da Fei had tirelessly aspired to! Why was the US Empire strong? Because their core gameplay was high tech, which preceded financial play and real estate! Even if finance and real estate went bust, their core remained intact, continuing as a strong nation! Without revitalizing national technology to follow suit by playing finance and real estate, wouldn’t they be played dead?
So, keeping the Flying or the Radiant City? The answer needed no reply; my core gameplay wasn’t real estate!
As another water monster fell, a line of system prompts appeared:
System Prompt: Legendary Hero Aeris used the Master-level Leadership Diplomacy Skill and successfully neutralized part of the Leviathan’s hostility!
Holy crap! Success! No one could rightly claim a legendary hero’s power—could it be because he was at a higher level, making it more negotiable?
For a moment, the whole ship was filled with cheers! (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)