Chapter 803 - 761: Elda’s Test and Trials
Time flows like the lava stream, trickling slowly, and Da Fei’s Angel Army is already too drunk to recover their healing abilities; each one clutching life-saving wine boxes, slumped lifelessly over the furniture. Their once pure white wings gradually reddened, resembling discarded sanitary pads in a trash bin.
Da Fei wanted to ask Elifel for her thoughts and feelings, but his game character was so drunk he felt like a dead dog, unable to speak. Da Fei’s ears were filled with the screams of women, possibly too impaired to listen at all.
Despite this, Da Fei activated the ability of God-level Reconnaissance Technique Stealth, which remained unaffected. Fortunately, hero skills aren’t easily disrupted by alcohol. Although Angels can’t use Healing Skills, the Power Angel’s stamina-restoring "Vigor" skill can still be successfully released. It seems the most direct influence of the Blood Wine relates to Healing Skills, or perhaps those spells related to "adding blood."
Overall, Da Fei’s only option now is to turn off the game’s sound effects, using the clear Blood Eagle perspective to maintain control. Indeed, the Blood Eagle is now like Da Fei’s second self, as his main character is too drunk to even open a bottle from the wine box to keep himself alive—only through the Blood Eagle can the situation be sustained.
The development of this situation leaves Da Fei helpless. If only his preparations had been better, gathering more drought-resistant supplies onboard; if his team’s configuration were more balanced, with fewer Power Angels, he might have safely passed the second day?
But who can say for sure? Just like Magellan’s first human crossing of the Pacific Ocean, which happened under conditions of insufficient water and food. At that time, humanity didn’t know the Pacific was half the diameter of the Earth.
Indeed, it is amidst all unknowns and unpreparedness, when life and death create miracles, that the greatest navigators are born. Otherwise, relaxing on a luxury yacht, sipping champagne, listening to music, fishing and enjoying bikini beauties—even with nuclear power to circle the globe dozens of times—would not give birth to any navigator!
Indeed, Little Coltner, I’m talking about you!
Thinking thus, Da Fei immediately found a convincing excuse for his troublesome encounter—it’s all for the sake of training!
And in hell, never hope for good luck. Just as Da Fei’s whole team was drunk like a heap of soggy mud, what Da Fei least wanted to see occurred again—on the Blood Eagle’s radar, a red glow exploded; a huge red dot emerged from the riverbed, approaching Da Fei’s ship once again.
The River Monster appeared again! Damn it! This is just adding fuel to the fire, and I might crash!
Elda had said before, the highest form of playing dead is pretending to be truly dead, only then can you deceive the enemy. But today is different from yesterday, as I cannot bear the price of true death anymore? Then before the River Monster arrives, just drink another bottle and pretend to be dead-drunk first! This should be more convincing, right?
Thus, Blood Wine was used once again! A warning prompt popped up:
——System Prompt: Warning! Your Angel Army has consumed a large amount of Hell Blood Wine, bodies severely polluted, they’ve completely lost action and combat abilities! Stop drinking, or the army will undergo unknown transformations!
Then the skill activated!
——System Prompt: You activated the God-level Reconnaissance Technique skill "Phantom March", entire army entered Stealth State!
Come on, I’m stealthy again!
Then, the River Monster wandered around the giant paddle ship like yesterday, refusing to leave. Da Fei had nothing to say except feeling a heart-flutter.
The reason for such a situation is, after all, the inadequacy of my Stealth Ability. God-level Stealth isn’t my end goal; there’s still much room for improvement, such as continuing to upgrade Sentinel Level. Only by improving the Sentinel Level can sub-skills Stealth Master and Aura Shield further enhance effects. And to improve Sentinel Level, it seems my Ranger mentor Jilrien in Elorin had mentioned raising the Ranger grade first.
But where do I have the time or energy to improve?
Now regretting inadequacies in skills is useless. At this moment, Da Fei’s team turned into Shadows sprawled inside the cabin, not daring to move as time ticked by second by second. The cooling effect of the Blood Wine finally dissipated, the army began rapidly losing health again.
At this moment, Da Fei tightly grasped a bottle of Super Stimulating Potion, yet was incredibly conflicted, not daring to use it!
What to do? Once a small move disturbs the Sea Monster, all efforts from the past couple of days would be in vain. But without using it, we will cook to death in the heat. If this time I get overheated, I cannot guarantee that the drunken, mudlified Elifel will save anyone, right? But, what good is using the potion? At the current rate of losing health, even with full health, death by overheating won’t take long.
Da Fei let out a long sigh, there’s no choice! Only a worst-case scenario plan can work. Even if all regular Angels can’t endure, there won’t be time to save them, but as a BOSS, Elifel surely will be fine; she also won’t die. As long as I can cultivate her alone, my journey won’t be in vain.
With firm belief, Da Fei could only watch helplessly as his army turned red again, until the blood was drained—
——System Prompt: Your 4 units of Power Angel Army succumbed in the harsh environment, your God-level Navigator sub-skill "survival will" activated, placing 4 Power Angels in critical condition.