Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 10 - Domain Node

Ancient Battlefield.

Bones piled into mountains on the ground.

At this moment, a blob of dark flames traced an arc across the sky, accurately striking a Curse Soldier after flipping over a pile of bones, instantly engulfing the Curse Soldier in raging flames.

Soon, ten silhouettes flipped over the bone pile and arrived in front of the still burning, but already extinct Curse Soldier.

"Hahaha, the fusion of Martial Skills is too perfect, from now on, I won't need visibility to kill targets."

The speaker was a young man around 20 years old. Wrapped in dark flames in his humanoid form, he wore an expression of pride.

Seeing this, Li Zheng and the others could hardly hide their envy:

"Damn, the weakest in combat power, the Eagle-Headed Demon, has become the version's answer because of its Bone Fire Form."

Through Guiding Water Ball's demonstration and explanation, Li Zheng and the others already knew that in human form, they could combine various Monster Traits' powers, but they were still shocked by Chi Tu's performance.

The Monster Trait of the Eagle-Headed Demon is Resentful Chant.

After activating this ability, a Perception View spreads outward from oneself as the center, with the initial range being 50 meters in radius, expanding to 100 meters after reaching level 5.

The ability trait of Bone Fire is to control Death Intense Flame.

Combining the two, one can lock onto targets within a 100-meter radius without direct line of sight and carry out long-range precision strikes.

This was the first time Li Zheng and others witnessed the power of integrated usage of Monster Traits.

"It's good, but my Body Refining Level is 0. In human form, I can only use traits from two Monster Forms, but I can't inherit the monster attributes, which causes me to feel a bit dizzy after using two abilities simultaneously," Chi Tu couldn't help but complain, then continued:

"I just asked Guidance. To upgrade from Body Refining 0 to 1 requires 10,000 points of sacrificial power. In the early stage of pioneering, we should still focus on the Monster Forms. The spiritual power intensity in human form is not strong enough for frequent use of monster skills."

...

After analyzing the power traits of different Monster Forms, only Chi Tu and Fun without paying, the two players who chose the initial form of the Eagle-Headed Demon, mounted the Bone Fire Life Soul onto their Star Veins as their second Monster Form.

Li Zheng and the others decided not to mount new Monster Forms for the time being.

According to the Guidance explanation, the cost of upgrading Star Vein Level will gradually increase with the level.

Hence, the second life soul can be mounted when the appropriate Monster Trait appears. In the early stages, they would still fight in the form of the Black Armored Snake.

The reward for killing Bone Fire also made Li Zheng and others look forward to containing new Primordial Monsters.

It could be envisioned that in the later stages of the game, each player could combine various Monster Traits to create different school combinations of Star Veins, which seems really interesting.

...

As Li Zheng and his companions explored the ways to fuse monster abilities, another group of players also entered the game at this time, pushing westward towards Imperial Tomb Village.

A huge team of 30 players mowed down the Curse Soldiers blocking their way like slicing through melons and vegetables.

Suddenly, another Curse Soldier rose from the wreckage ahead.

Immediately, the 30 players pounced like hungry tigers, leaping at the newly risen Curse Soldier.

Zui Nai: Brothers, give me a chance, I haven't got a single one after fighting Curse Soldiers all the way, don't be too mean.

Black Ball: This one's mine, whoever snatches it is my son!"

Tie Chui: Cute baby, you're already level 2 and still snatching, where's your public spirit, forget about paying back the 200 you owe me!

...

The scene instantly became chaotic, seeing a Curse Soldier, the players were like starving wolves, and soon disassembled the Curse Soldier into a pile of bones.

Black Ball, who snatched the Curse Soldier, was overjoyed, while the other players looked dejected.

However, the feeling of striving together to level up and pioneer was a pleasant one they hadn't felt in a long time.

"This game is too awesome, I thought it was just exaggerated promotion, how could there be a game with a hundred percent realism, now I'm convinced."

"Indeed, the attribute enhancement feedback from leveling up is so satisfying. Here I can experience a superhuman feeling, jumping several meters high."

At this moment, the cute baby leading the team suddenly spoke:

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"Brothers, an area alert just informed us that a team of players killed a Primordial Monster and got rich rewards; let's go find some Primordial Monsters."

Saying this, the cute baby turned his head to look at the Guiding Water Ball at his side:

"Guidance, where can we find Primordial Monsters to kill nearby?"

[Primordial Monsters are scattered throughout Monster World, and although their numbers are extremely large, they are free entities without a specific territory restricting their movements; they can be encountered anywhere, maybe just a few steps away you could find one.]

Realizing that Primordial Monsters are special creatures that refresh at random locations, the cute baby felt somewhat regretful.

The team continued to push westward.

Whenever a Curse Soldier appeared along the way, everyone killed it by their own ability, accompanied by various cursing and shouting, creating a lively atmosphere.

An hour later, the team crossed the bone-strewn Ancient Battlefield, and in front lay the vast plains filled with blood-colored plants. In the distance on the plain stood a great stone, like the open maw of a monster, howling up at the sky.

Upon opening the map, the area previously shrouded in fog became clear, and a new line of text labeling appeared: Blood-Colored Plain.

At that moment, a prompt popped up in the minds of all players:

[Challenger Tips: Origin Domain Node discovered. Occupying the Source Domain Node can yield enormous rewards (shared among all participants).]

Following the prompt, the Blood-Colored Plain area on the map was marked with a scarlet-colored light spot, pointing to the giant stone on the plain.

The sudden trigger of this mission excited the group of players, signifying that substantial rewards were on the way.

Without any hesitation, even though they knew there might be dangers ahead, the 30 players still swiftly advanced towards the direction of the stone statue.

Upon reaching the stone statue, they discovered that its gaping mouth was actually the entrance to an underground cave, covered with red vines hanging at the cave entrance like a curtain.

Cute Baby: Bros, do we go in or not?

Zui Nai: Nonsense, after coming all this way, of course we're going in.

Tie Chui: Activating stone-statue ghost form, let's charge, brothers.

...

After a brief exchange, all players agreed to enter the cave for exploration.

Entering the cave, the visibility grew dark.

Tie Chui, who was leading the way, summoned the shopping panel and spent 1 sacrificial power to purchase a torch, illuminating the path at the front.

The cave passage was narrow, only wide enough for two people to walk side by side, and the team lined up in a long queue descending deeper.

Not long after, Tie Chui, who was at the forefront, suddenly stopped and crouched to look at a glowing plant by his feet.

It was a plant about half a meter tall with long, slender, and supple leaves, carved like jade and sprinkling speckles of starlight in the darkness.

Zui Nai: Why did we stop? Is there something up ahead?

Pebbles: Did we encounter a monster? What's the Hunting Level?

Gulu: Tie Chui, say something, what's going on?

In response to everyone's inquiries, Tie Chui at the forefront shared the plant's feedback information on the team channel.

[empty valley grass]

Spirit Level: Level 2.

Spirit Plant Introduction: A low-level spiritual plant unique to the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range. Consuming it can enhance the sharpness of the five senses, providing a permanent slight attribute enhancement, and it can also be used for sacrifices to obtain sacrificial power rewards.

Note: Sacrificial power can be used for Star Vein strengthening or marketplace shopping and is circulatable among Challengers.

...

Preschool Class Leader: Damn, we found good stuff just upon entering the cave, I'm calling dibs as a college student.

"Scram!"

Facing Pebbles' shameless request, everyone else vehemently scolded him.

It was at this moment that Tie Chui turned to look at the floating New Player Guidance:

"Guidance, what does 'sacrifice' mentioned in the analysis mean?"

[Open the feature panel and you can see the sacrifice. The Challengers can exchange anything with spiritual material for sacrificial power rewards from Emperor Zhao through sacrifice.]

Following the Guidance's instructions, Tie Chui summoned the feature panel and clicked on the sacrifice function.

Suddenly, a semi-transparent altar interface appeared in front of him. The altar's base was built from massive black stones, its surface weathered as though eroded by long years of wind and rain, slightly mottled. The altar's body was surrounded by intricately carved various monster totems, lifelike, and in the center burned a flame of scarlet intense fire.

On the right side of the interface was the space bag, with 50 small compartments for items.

[After putting the empty valley grass into a space bag compartment, you can use your consciousness to drag the plant onto the altar for sacrifice.]

Hearing this, Tie Chui crouched down and pulled the empty valley grass out of the ground by the roots.

After summoning the Space Bag feature, a black vortex materialized before him, into which he promptly tossed the empty valley grass.

An instantly shrunken model of the empty valley grass appeared in the first compartment of the Space Bag.

Once again summoning the sacrifice interface, he used his consciousness to drag the empty valley grass and dropped it onto the scarlet fire at the center of the altar.

Upon contact with the flame, the empty valley grass was incinerated completely, turning into a clump of scarlet energy that flew out of the virtual interface and merged with his body.

[Challenger Tips: By sacrificing a Level 2 Spirit Plant, empty valley grass, you have received a sacrificial power reward from Emperor Zhao: 109 points.]

This prompt was also displayed in the team's voice channel.

Tie Chui: Bros, I tested the sacrifice function for all of us, and it proves to be quite useful; any unwanted items can be transformed into sacrificial power when tossed inside.

"Scram!"

Facing Tie Chui's shameless rhetoric, players following behind all flipped him the bird and strongly demanded that the rewards from the sacrifice should be split evenly, even if each person could only get 3 sacrificial points.