I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 675 - 209: Stonewell! The God-level Map Design That Silenced Designers Globally!_9

Chapter 675: Chapter 209: Stonewell! The God-level Map Design That Silenced Designers Globally!_9

After removing his cloak, the joints in his back writhed chaotically, a grotesque sight to behold.

But beyond the chaos,

There was not a trace of the heroic demeanor befitting the lord of King City.

Instead, he resembled someone who would go to any lengths in his pursuit of ultimate strength.

And this was especially true in actual combat.

This guy, forget about comparing him to the Omen guarding the city.

Even the Big Tree Guardian outside the city gates seemed stronger than him.

Gerrick’s attack motions mainly comprised various heavy axe strikes while in a Charging State.

A Charging Strike is slightly different from a delay blade’s design.

The so-called delay blade gives players the impression that the enemy is about to strike, but the enemy, through certain subtle movements and a wind-up animation, will pause just before attacking.

Then, they strike again.

However, with a Charging Strike, the enemy maintains the Charging State until they attack, which poses no threat in the process.

Then, they deliver the slow damage.

Players could easily dodge it with a roll.

After a couple of real encounters, Czcu felt that this was just for show.

The boss’s damage relied solely on numbers, thoroughly dominated in design by the Omen.

However, after Gerrick’s health was reduced to below half,

He transitioned to the second phase.

The transition CG that popped up was quite intimidating.

You could see Gerrick being driven back step by step by the Fading One until he let out a piercing scream.

After that, he pulled a trick on the live stream viewers.

And it was literally a trick up his sleeve.

Because he raised his great axe, and amid agonized howls, he chopped off his own favored arm!

As blood spurted out, Gerrick moved towards the side where a withered dragon’s corpse, hung upside down and long dead, was placed.

"Ah, mighty dragon..."

"Lend me thy strength..." he pleaded.

No sooner had he spoken than Gerrick plunged his severed arm into the dragon’s head.

Accompanying his painful screams,

He violently tore off the dragon’s head!

His broken arm was then rapidly merging with the dragon’s head.

Gerrick, holding up his new dragon’s head arm, pointed to the sky and roared loudly.

"Ancestors of old..."

"Bear witness!!!"

At that moment, the dragon’s head spewed out a pillar of raging flame that soared into the heavens!

"Damn...?" Czcu’s eyes bulged.

He actually attached the dragon’s head to himself?

Wow, is he connecting an external brain here?

"So the trump card was in the second phase."

"With the dragon’s head attached, his strength might be on a completely different level."

"Now, I must be careful and cautious to deal with him!" Czcu became resolute as the mid-fight CG came to an end.

But soon, Czcu’s serious expression turned numb.

No.

This Gerrick is too pathetic...

Afting gaining the dragon’s head, he became even weaker.

Especially when he aimed the dragon’s head at the player to release a flame pillar.

The player just needed to do a few quick rolls to stay close to him.

Then they could find an absolutely safe spot, leisurely watching him spew fire.

This Charging Magic Flame lasted a long time, a good few seconds.

This gave players enough time to dish out several blows.

With Czcu’s current damage, a few Hound’s Sword techniques brought Gerrick down to a sliver of health.

Seeing this, the chat couldn’t contain themselves.

"The least suspenseful episode yet."

"By the time Gerrick finishes charging, my phone will have run out of battery."

"Phone run out of battery? My sister ran out of battery already!"

"Guy from before, tell us in detail how you played till your sister ran out of battery."

"Was this boss’s design a failure?"

"Really though, if the Omen is that powerful, why is the lord of the first King City so trash?"

"Baby Ke got lazy, right! Or is it a bug in the program where they accidentally swapped the order of the Omen and Gerrick, but if the bug allows it to run, no need to fix it/dog holding a flower in its mouth"

Like many viewers, Czcu also thought there was something odd about Gerrick’s boss design.

Of course, this boss wasn’t without any difficulty.

He belonged to that category who had practiced rolls at Mr. Furnace’s for a long time.

When facing Charging State monsters, dodging became ridiculously easy.

And his equipment had been significantly upgraded.

If a regular player came without the patience for the open world, and brute-forced the Omen and then went on to fight Gerrick,

They would find it a bit challenging.

But even if they didn’t breeze through it like Czcu, dying probably just three or five times would likely be enough to get through.

Could it be... that there really was a design flaw?

However, it didn’t take long.

For Czcu to realize.

The relative weakness of this boss was also part of the "Elden" game’s design!

After killing Gerrick, players would obtain an item called [Gerrick’s Grand Rune].

This item was a bit special, similar to a powerful buff.

Once activated at the shrine tower, it would grant players a temporary status of +5 levels to all attributes.

It was akin to giving players a sudden boost of 40 levels.

Resulting in a significant increase in stats.

But upon death, the buff would disappear, and to reactivate it would require consuming the somewhat rare [Rune Crescent].

It’s like giving players extra choices for overcoming some of the stronger monsters.

Besides the Grand Rune, players would also obtain an item called [Limbing Gerrick’s Recollection].

Recollection could be exchanged with specific NPCs for the boss’s equipment and weapons at the Big Blessing.

Beyond this,

After the players had defeated Gerrick,

They would see that the old gatekeeper, known as Geto Ke, who originally opened the door for them, would appear next to Gerrick’s corpse.

He was stepping on the head of the lord and cursing under his breath.