"The Lotao people's attack has been frustrated." The wandering horse suddenly said.
Shortly after they put the Holy Grail Knights into use on the battlefield, a strange-shaped construct suddenly appeared from near the spire. They looked a bit like large tentacle monsters, waving countless twisted black whips, suspended in the air. middle.
All Lotao structures that came close to these structures were paralyzed without exception. They were not destroyed, but arc-shaped sparks appeared on the ether circuit around them, fixing them in that position.
"Virus," said the wandering horse, "this is a unique construct in this space, a type of psychic machine. In the field of plug-in craftsmen, there are five types of basic plug-ins, quick burst plug-ins, power burst plug-ins, and barriers. Plug-ins, super-sense plug-ins and magic burst plug-ins, respectively represent the five basic dimensions of dexterity, strength, physique, perception and ether, which are often referred to as the five basic attribute plug-ins."
"Flexible constructs are originally created to imitate humans and are used to replace the heavy labor of mortals and participate in wars. Therefore, the five basic attribute plug-ins are equally applicable to them. Just like the protective plug-ins that were just applied to the Lotao people, It is a type of barrier plug-in that sacrifices dexterity in exchange for thicker protection. The rapid burst plug-in of the latent insect in the psychic machinery is already familiar to everyone..."
He stared at the scene of the battlefield intently, unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip of water, and continued: "Viruses are a very special type of psychic machine, or they are occultists in this space who specialize in treating the contestants. The questions set are not impossible. When the ancient tower people chose 'plug-in' as the first question in the barrier area, it was time for this type of psychic construct to come into play. Their abilities are actually through specific psychic It can lock the value of a certain attribute. Psionics are abilities directed at the mind, but connecting the spirit to the fairy through the main core crystal is a similar ability, so it can also work."
"So when the value of its locked attribute does not reach the standard, the construct will be directly cut off from the spiritual connection with the fairy doll, and will fall into an uncontrollable state as you can see. The virus is a higher-level For high-level psychic machines, it is difficult for the basic attributes of second- and third-order constructs to escape attribute locking under normal conditions. The solution for previous players is simply to temporarily overload or activate the attributes pre-installed in the construct. plug-in to achieve the purpose of breaking through the threshold.”
He shook his head: "But the people of Lotao seem to be unlucky."
The people of Lotao encountered a rare variant of the virus, Virus IX.
The usual virus only targets three attributes: agility, strength or constitution - the construct has no constitution, but the barrier plug-in provides the strength of the structure and outer armor. When the structure cannot maintain stability, the spiritual connection is automatically cut off. The construct was also paralyzed.
This is the basic logic of how viruses work.
But Virus IX is actually aimed at magic burst plug-ins. Except for magic constructs, most constructs do not have the attribute of magic. However, the main core crystal still has magic power, but few people will do it for ordinary flexible constructs. Install the magic plug-in.
The people of Lotao are no exception.
But they still have a way, and that is to use a construct called Ts-5 'Tower'. As can be seen from the name, this type of construct is an improved version of the Ts-1 'Lurker'. However, unlike the former, Ts-1 mainly creates trap areas through gravity traps that are diffused like a halo. to limit the enemy's movements.
Ts-5, on the other hand, uses a halo amplification device to spread the effects of a basic plug-in installed on the body to all friendly units in the area. 'Watch Tower' is actually a common type of structure, especially common in large-scale battles.
But Fang Yu doesn't like to use this kind of construct, because Ts-5 actually achieves this effect through overloading plug-ins, which means that every time Ts-5 takes effect, it will consume a precious functional plug-in. Especially high-level basic attribute plug-ins are also very expensive.
But in this space, everyone cares about the value of the construct, and the Lotao people are naturally no exception. They have prepared a batch of Ts-5 and the engineering machines to carry them into the site early, but the plug-in craftsmen have not yet There was no time to debug these Ts-5 'towers'.
Unexpected changes occurred on the battlefield.
The wandering horse saw another construct.
The tall construct knight wore a pitch-black outer armor, with sharp blades all over his body. The sensor on his head between the neck guard flashed a dark red light, bright and dark, and there was a long antenna on the helmet. , like feathers.
It used a dark-colored gun blade that was as long as a person. As soon as it appeared in the array of minaret machines, it immediately attacked the Lotao people's front line. The tall walkers formed a wall and raised their giant shields to try to block it. But the construct rounded the gun blade and chopped it off with a single shot.
Even the ether shield, giant shield and the upper body of the walker are all in two parts.
The gun blade dragged long sparks across its structure like a hot knife cutting through butter, flying out along with the cut shell, broken gears, and drive shafts, and fell into the ground together with the fragmented main crystal and grid pipe network. In the dust.
That scene was truly shocking. Not to mention the Lotao people, even the audience in the live broadcast room did not react. Those dark, tall construct knights destroyed the front line of walkers in a face-to-face encounter.
And opened several gaps in that seemingly solid defense line.
"Nightmare," the wandering horse was flipping through the information at hand, and finally found the name corresponding to that type of psychic construct, as well as the detailed parameters below. He glanced over and looked up at this scene in surprise, "It's strange, the Lotao people are facing a knight tower. Logically speaking, they shouldn't appear here, including the previous virus type 903. It rarely appears on the front battlefield of the Knight Tower."
There was a lot of discussion in the live broadcast room at the moment, and not many people really heard what he said clearly.
However, the wandering horse did not repeat it, but silently closed his mouth, thinking of a possibility in his mind. After Loofah and Lex, the empire's top genius, teamed up to attack the main tower in the last session, the difficulty of the Sea of Trees space has quietly increased again.
This is not the first time that the difficulty of the Spire Trial has been increased. With the advancement of technology, the Spire Trial has also raised its challenge difficulty several times in previous competitions. It’s just that the occultists cannot predict the average level of contestants in each region, so there is also a lag in the increase in difficulty.
However, since multi-parallelism began to be used among players in the last competition, the lag and difficulty caused by it have also increased in this competition.
His mind was full of thoughts, but the introduction did not stop. This is also one of the necessary abilities for professional anchors. "The nightmare itself actually has no characteristics. It is a type of psychic construct that can attack difficult problems. Their ability to attack difficult problems is as follows. I also saw it, because it is a flexible structure close to level 30 - a fourth-level structure."
"This should be the first level four structure that appears in this game. The basic psychic characteristic of nightmares is the ability to resist magic, but they have no use for such an ability on this battlefield. The level four structure alone can Excellent basic attributes can completely crush the second-level structure."
The Lotao people were in chaos for a while.
Several of their Colossus are only third-level structures. Although the third-level structure is not crushed by the fourth-level structure, four nightmares appeared on the field at the same time, which is more powerful than all their Colossus. There is one more.
Originally, the attributes of the same level were suppressed, but the numbers were not as good, so there was no need to look at them in a fight. Moreover, there were a large number of lurking insects in the Spire camp attacking their front. Hundreds of Walkers were already in danger under such an offensive.
Their only way is to use the Ts-5 'Watch Tower' to rescue the locked Holy Grail Knight. Although the Holy Grail Knight is only a second-level structure, its combat effectiveness as a variant is not much different from that of the third-level structure. It is different from the Kaolin's. The capable angels are almost at the same combat level.
Through quantity, the gap in quality can also be bridged.
But without the cover of fortress-like walkers and Titanic elephants, can an engineering machine lacking combat capability really transport the Ts-5 'Watch Tower' to its destination through the surrounding enemies?
Among the participating teams of Mirrodin Temple, the tall black young man Tieg and the magic craftsman Anselmo were both in a dilemma. The third position, Aphasan Muhammad, was taciturn and said little but did more. Character, at the moment, he is repairing a batch of retired structures and has no time to talk to other people.
"We still have materials on hand, captain, why don't you set up a large protective barrier first," Anselmo looked at the battle situation and said anxiously, "We have to make a decision quickly, we can't accept the loss of having to repeat the attack after the attack fails. , at least one-third of the advance preparations have been invested in this battle, Captain."
Tig thought for a moment and opened his mouth to say something, but a voice from the side interrupted him.
"We can't afford to waste that time," Anat shook her long hair. The tall mixed-race black girl looked at the others coldly and said, "Give me the Ts-5 'Tower' and I will deliver it to them. to the preset location."
"Anat, can you do it?"
"My goblins and I are certain," Anat said. "The captain can make two preparations, but at least let me try. The Imperials are already far ahead of us, and the Kaolin people are also progressing faster than us. "
Teague's eyes also showed a hesitant look. The birth point of Mirrodin Palace was in a very bad position. It happened to be between the main team of the Empire and the Kaolin people. Now that both teams were in front of them, it was easy to block their access. The road to the core area.
As Anat said, they couldn't afford to waste time.
He looked at the veteran player in the team and the only Goblin user who had participated in two continental leagues, and nodded gently to the latter, "Anat, I leave it to you."
The black girl smiled and nodded to all her teammates with firm eyes.
"Hey, behind the Lotao people..." The wandering horse certainly saw the dilemma of the Lotao people, but when his peripheral vision swept a certain direction on the map, he suddenly stopped slightly. He discovered that the light spot on the map representing the Hanrui people had unexpectedly approached the area behind the Lotao people.
The wandering horse's mind was racing, and he seemed to have thought of something, but at this moment, several battles were going on in the sea of trees at the same time, and no one paid attention to this detail for a while. "Everyone, please pay attention to Han Rui's movements." He suddenly said.
The audience in the live broadcast room was startled at first - that Han Rui? After being defeated by Fang Plover with the Peace Knight, much less attention was paid to them. What's more, at this moment, the Hanrui people, like Guta and the Kapka Craftsmen Association, have not yet entered the barrier area.
Therefore, everyone's eyes were focused on the teams that were attacking the barrier area. But when people turned their eyes to the map, they couldn't help but let out a low cry:
"Holy shit!"
The people of Lotao are in big trouble.
If they can rescue the Holy Grail Knight from the locked state in a short time, then there is still a chance. If they plan to deploy a defensive barrier and wait for help, then under the attack from the front and back, it will be almost a dead end situation.
The trajectory of Han Rui's actions made it almost impossible to give them this opportunity.
However, on the main stage, not many people paid attention to the situation on Hanrui's side. The commentator from the empire was retracting his attention from searching for the missing Dragon Alchemist, and the battles taking place in turn attracted his attention again.
Because the four battles unfolding at the same time were so exciting and intense, the main stage switched back and forth between several scenes, and the commentators were overwhelmed. Not to mention ordinary people, most of whom had no intention of paying attention to anything else.
Due to the uneven flow of the game space and real time, the behind-the-scenes director team was also working overtime to cut and slow-play the video. Four battles started at the same time, and even the usually sufficient manpower seemed a little stretched at this time.
What's more, what worries them more is that the Imperial people have also arrived at the target area and are preparing to enter the battle.
And their attack actually ran into trouble from the beginning.
"What the hell." Cui Xisi looked at the mechanical octopuses floating in the sky and couldn't help but curse. The Mind Spire is almost identical to the Storm Tower, but there are some differences between the two towers in the psychic constructs that appear in battle.
The scientific name of those mechanical octopuses is 'Soul-Eating Constructs'. They are a bit like electronic jammers on the battlefield. They can greatly suppress the connection between the fairy dolls and ordinary structures. In human terms, they reduce the control of the fairy dolls. Efficiency, and distance——
The Mind Spire is filled with a large number of such psychic constructs. Their frontal combat capabilities may not be strong, but they are quite difficult to deal with. What's more, there are also virus constructs on the ground, and those constructs waving tentacles directly locked all the first batch of constructs they put into the battlefield.
Then the spire activated a large structure and used long-range firepower to fight them back, and then a large number of lurking insects appeared in front of the front.
The Imperials managed to stabilize their position with great difficulty.
They are also taking out the Ts-5 'Watch Tower' and handing it over to the black hands of plug-in craftsmen for debugging. But the attack was blocked, making everyone look a little unhappy.
They have never been so defeated since they entered the Sea of Trees space - the situation analysis team in the barrier area also mentioned to them more than once that they originally thought they would not encounter such an intense challenge until at least the F area.
Only Juno still looked calm. He looked at this scene from a distance, as if he had confirmed what he was thinking, "After going through Lex's session, the difficulty of the steeple trial has increased a lot. It seems that today It will be good if we can pass through Area D at night.”
"Juno," said Geogeffen, "the Corinthians are in hot pursuit."
"I know, don't worry," Juno replied, "They still have to cross the barrier area. We have time. Compared with other things, we should eliminate the unstable factors first - what did the Hanrui guy say?"
"They have arrived at the predetermined location," Georgifen said. "I didn't even take the initiative to mention it, but they guessed your intention."
Juno smiled, "That's why I like to deal with good people. Smart people know where their true interests lie and will never make unrealistic demands. It's easy to deal with them."
Georgifen shook his head. He preferred to deal with stupid people, at least he didn't have to think so much.
Cui Xisi suddenly saw the other person looking at her. The look of sympathy made her very unhappy. She was already so angry that she said with anger: "What are you looking at?"
"Trish," Georgifen said, "Luo Fen's junior fellow student, another student from FOX."
Before he could finish his words, he said to the girl, "Shut up."
The others looked at Juno and then at her, unable to help but snicker.
In comparison, the progress of Forin and the other two selection teams was much smoother. The people of Giant Tree Hill seemed to be favored by the god of luck. They encountered almost no difficulties in the knight tower they faced. of enemies.
Although nightmares also appeared in the second round of battle, there was a rare virus that did not appear. The result of an increase and decrease was that the people of Giant Tree Hill easily stabilized the front.
However, the Taxin Singers, who originally had poor attacks, did not have the ability to prepare the Ts-5 'Sentry Tower' like the Imperials and Lotao people, so they directly adopted a stupid method, that is, constructing There are multiple sets of plug-ins prepared in the body.
Although the conflict between the basic attribute plug-ins made these constructs cumbersome and inefficient, it happened that the construct clusters of Taxin Singers and Shojin Blades worked wonders in such battles. Even the commentators on the main stage couldn’t help but comment:
"The plug-in craftsmen of these two teams are really talented."
You can even think of such an idea.
Turning their attention back to the Kaolin people, Shui Wuming, Weiyu, Luo Wei and others of course also encountered the same enemy - Virus Type III, a psychic construct that is targeted at dexterity attributes.
However, the basic attributes of the flexible construction completed by Fang Lu and MTT were so high that they did not even need to activate the pre-prepared Swift Burst plug-in. Instead, they simply overloaded the construction and directly unlocked it.
The design of the magic furnace, which was born out of the Kingfisher Workshop, is good at stably overloading for a long time, so Kaolin easily solved the problem.
As for some third-level constructs, such as Orfen Gemini Virus Type III, it cannot be locked because its basic attributes have exceeded the locking limit. In front of these constructs, Virus Type III has almost no sense of existence.
The performance of everyone even made the audience in the Wandering Horse live broadcast room numb. "Turn it off, it's boring..." the crowd said this one after another.
However, the subsequent appearance of the Nightmare Construct still put the Kaolin people into a difficult battle.
Only four Nightmares appeared in the battle scale of the Knight Tower, but as many as twenty appeared here at once. The attributes of the fourth-level constructs overwhelmed all the constructs below the third level, even though Even if it was written by the Dragon Alchemist, it would be equally inoperable.
And the only Orphen Twins were only able to stabilize the front so that they would not be repelled like the Imperials.
But at this moment——
On the other side of the battlefield, Fang Plover has certainly not disappeared, but is just silently observing the battle situation in the woods here. He has one hand in his purse and the other hand holding a pocket watch - the pocket watch with a white copper cover also has spatial qualities.
Because the timer brought in from outside cannot truly reflect the time in this space.
Not far behind him was Wu Cun who was completing his preparations. Fang Yu turned back to look at the latter and asked, "Are you ready?" Wu Cun nodded and was putting some small objects and tools into the tool bag - a few brushes, a needle-holding pliers and a small hammer.
He tied the tool kit to his arm and said: "These things are actually of no use here, but they are used as amulets."
Fang Yu nodded, he closed the watch cover, and on his right hand was the magic glove that had been put on - Luo Wei also assigned some of the permissions of the fairy doll, so that he could observe the situation on the battlefield through the eyepiece.
Several Silver Bees hovering in mid-air recorded the entire battle situation from a fixed perspective. Soon, a new type of construct appeared behind the battlefield. It was a huge, fortress-like structure.
Fang Yu pulled down his goggles and was silently taking these constructs into his field of vision——
"Fangs," Hanrui said without making any movement, and the wandering horse also looked away from there. He cut back to the screen and saw this scene, "a long-range fortress-like structure with very powerful long-range Firepower and protection capabilities. It looks very different from the structure style controlled by the spire, but it is actually a type of psychic structure. It has the ability to invade the mind. Human sea tactics are not suitable for this kind of structure. "
"The fangs used to be a psychic construct that only appeared in the F area, but this year it actually appeared in the D area." The barrage in the live broadcast room was also knowledgeable. "How come the difficulty has increased so much? This is better than the Empire." It was too difficult to take down the storm tower. Ed and the others were unlucky enough to encounter a high-level tower, so they are in some trouble now."
Although Area F is not yet the core area, it is already the last sector close to the core area, and the strength of the structures there is already very high.
The wandering horse also pursed his lips and said nothing.
Fang Yu was staring at a weak spot above the torso of several bulky psychic constructs in his field of vision. There was a virus construct that covered that spot from time to time, but his lips were moving, as if he was silently calculating something.
Then he said: "Senior, connect my vision."
"Ed." A familiar voice came from the communication crystal.
"Authority," Fang Plover raised his magic glove. Almost at the same time, the silver-gray Valkyrie not far away from him also raised her left hand, and the slender black and white spear in her hand also pointed in that direction.
"Gangnir," Fang Plover said softly: "Attack——"
A black light.
Across the battlefield, it penetrated directly through the tall and terrifying psychic construct.
It is like a fleeting thin line, but when it lights up, it penetrates every mechanical monster on its path. The light is extinguished, and all the structures it passes through emit bright sparks, and then It was destroyed in a blaze of bright fire.
Fang Plover gently clenched his fist.
"Valkyrie, attack!"
A silver figure shot out from the woods.
Her target is the psychic machinery casting center in the center area directly in front.
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(End of chapter)
