Monsters Are Coming
Chapter 421 - 156: Black Tide Easter Egg, Springwater Appears (Part 4)

Chapter 421: Chapter 156: Black Tide Easter Egg, Springwater Appears (Part 4)

Qi Sheng, who was observing from behind the scenes, wasn’t surprised to see this.

The player was making a move, and the Earth Thought Evil Spirit was also making a move.

He noticed that the Earth Thought Evil Spirit was indeed smart. By constantly collecting player information, it could always design new tactics that had miraculous effects.

But as long as it could bring benefits, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit’s tactics could be freely deployed, and he wouldn’t have any specific countermeasures.

Just like the Earth Thought Evil Spirit exploiting players and stealing Black Tide Energy resources from the Evil Moon Domain strategy.

This strategy allowed the Earth Thought Evil Spirit to feast heartily, and players benefited alongside it, with his sacrificial power production surging in the short term thanks to the Earth Thought Evil Spirit’s assistance.

So as long as players can benefit, everything else isn’t a problem.

At this moment, the floating Guidance beside him seemed to ponder, transforming into an arm to support its chin and said:

[Boss, do you think there’s a possibility that many years later, when the Black Tide managers ask about the development of each node and the intelligence of encounters, the other Black Tide nodes report their engagements with various factions, but the Earth Thought Evil Spirit submits a thick Player Guide because it has spent these years solely battling players.]

Qi Sheng:...

Guidance’s snark made Qi Sheng chuckle.

As Guidance said, ever since the Earth Thought Evil Spirit arrived in Monster World, it had been fighting against players.

Even when switching scenes, it was still clashing with players.

...

Five days later.

Primordial Altar.

Through these five days of observation, players had many new gains.

First was containment, with three new Primordial Monsters contained.

The first is the Second Generation Primordial: Spirit Shock Wave, contained by the player "Green Onion Vibes" in the Frost Winter Snow Region.

[Spirit Shock Wave (Second Generation Primordial)]:

Primordial Traits: Releases spiritual ripples, causing spiritual shock damage to single or ranged targets, ignoring the target’s physical defense abilities. The specific effect is influenced by Life Soul Level, one’s own Spiritual Strength, and the target’s Spiritual Strength (Note: If the damage intensity far exceeds the target’s spiritual consciousness tolerance, it may cause dizziness, nausea, disorientation... even death of consciousness).

This is the third spiritual interference-type Life Soul following Taunt and Soul Detachment Spear.

But compared to the previous two Life Souls, Spirit Shock Wave is purely a spiritual damage trait, focusing on disrupting the opponent’s spiritual consciousness.

The emergence of Spirit Shock Wave has spawned a new faction in the Function Assistance Stream that can support and deal damage.

Among them, the forum’s most liked strategy post provides a Star Vein Combination called: Puppet Master.

Star Vein Combination: Spirit Shock Wave, Control, Energy Absorption, Light Shield, Binding.

The display effect is to weaken the monster’s Spiritual Strength through spiritual shock, then imprint a mark through Controlled Life Soul for control.

Other Life Souls are inclined towards support, which can complement team combat, and also have strong combat power when acting alone.

The second is the Primordial Monster: Brain Overclocking, contained by the player "Emiya the Grand Champion" in the Bright Star Sea Area.

[Brain Overclocking (Third Generation Primordial)]:

Primordial Traits: Can significantly enhance memory and concentration, strengthening thought processing abilities.

This primordial ability is a template ability early in the Life Soul Library that was successfully contained by a player team in the sea area.

The Primordial Monster is a sea creature resembling an octopus, with a Hunting Level of 17.

For the vast majority of players, the role of Brain Overclocking traits is optional.

But for gun merchants, Alchemist Alliance, and other scientific research players, this Life Soul Characteristic is comparable to a Divine Skill.

Using the Special Ability will make thought logic exceptionally clear, significantly improving learning efficiency and rapidly mastering various new knowledge.

The forum has temporarily not developed any Star Vein Combination adapted to Brain Overclocking.

The only relatively suitable Life Soul is one, and that is Energy Absorption.

Under the state of Brain Overclocking, the player will continuously consume spiritual power, and Energy Absorption can provide endurance.

This is also why Energy Absorption is known as the universal Life Soul, with its strength always ranked T0 in the version.

The dual recovery effect of Qi-Blood and spiritual power can be used by both physical and magic systems, basically usable with any faction.

Along with the Domain Rule "Gathering" resulting in enhancement, Energy Absorption’s strength was significantly improved.

The third is the Second Generation Primordial Monster: Withering, contained by player "Nuclear Power Boiling Water Ignition" in the dense forest area of Colorful Mist Coast.

[Withering (Second Generation Primordial)]:

Primordial Traits (Passive): All damage-type skills can accompany withering damage, causing Qi-Blood depletion, weakness, and other negative states. Withering effects can be infinitely accumulated (the higher the damage intensity, the more withering energy attached).

This is a passive damage Life Soul, similar to the Vicious Poison Attribute of Black Armored Snake.

The biggest advantage compared to the Vicious Poison attributes is that damage can be infinitely accumulated.

While the effect of Fierce Poison can only stack the amount of poison, it cannot stack the toxicity strength.

There is no limitation with the Withering attribute, and the damage effect can be infinitely accumulated.

However, the stacking method is not calculated by attack frequency but determined by the Qi-Blood or spiritual power consumed in a single attack.

This Life Soul was contained not long ago, and after being evaluated by Strategy Guide Players, it was quickly pushed to the T0 level throne by forum players.

The reason is none other than, it is a passive trait.

As the number of contained Life Souls increases, the strength of passive traits is gradually rising.

Excessive active traits mean that the spiritual power or Qi-Blood consumed for each release also needs to increase accordingly.