Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 19 - The Embryonic Forms of Multiple Factions

The emergence of the Black Tide Rift signifies that the real world has entered the countdown to the Black Tide's erosion.

Qi Sheng is not clear about the exact speed of collapse and needs to further observe and analyze the changes in the world to make a judgment.

But what he can be sure of is that he still has ample time to perfect the Challenger Plan.

Currently, Monster World is attracting new recruits under the guise of "Dark Land," but the day will come when it will be fully exposed.

However, he has never worried about the problem of the truth being exposed.

In his Challenger Plan, the recruitment targets include humans as well as the Alien Race forces that have fled to Earth.

But not now, as the sacrificial power he possesses is not sufficient to initiate large-scale recruitment.

Inside the containment wall beneath Imperial Tomb Village, there are now 9 Primordial Monsters being held: the Black Armored Snake, Eagle-Headed Demon, stone-statue ghost, Bone Fire, and the Five Instruments Spirit. Their daily production of sacrificial power amounts to 2160 points, and together with the players' hunting and mining output, the daily sacrificial power income is around 2500.

After deducting the 1000 points of sacrificial power used to maintain the Imperial Tomb Village, there are 1500 points of sacrificial power available for recruitment costs each day.

That is to say, 1.5 player slots can be created every day.

This amount of sacrificial power is a drop in the bucket for expanding the Player Faction, not to mention recruiting the Alien Race. Even the goal of recruiting all members of the Human Clan is far from sufficient.

To increase the number of recruits, he must wait for the players' strength to gradually increase and create more sacrificial power income.

Without dwelling on this issue, Qi Sheng turned his head to look at the Guiding Water Ball:

"Inform Uncle Yan to send me back."

[Understood.]

After the Guidance nodded, it disappeared into the void and a few seconds later, a Teleportation Array appeared under Qi Sheng's feet.

After returning to the Primordial Altar beneath Imperial Tomb Village.

He switched his gaze to the players who were exploring Monster World.

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Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, Blood-Colored Plain.

Dark Cave.

"Stone-statue ghost holds the front, Black Armored Snake and Eagle-Headed Demon find opportunities to attack."

Accompanied by the woman's shouting, the players engaged in an intense battle with the Iron Shell Bug once again.

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In recent days, the Dark Cave had become the top place for players to level up and mine resources.

This is related to the special environment of Monster World.

In a normal game, once you leave Newbie Village, the monsters outside are generally weak, suitable for player leveling and growth.

Monster World is entirely different; venturing out from Imperial Tomb Village, apart from Curse Soldiers of lower Hunting Levels, it's also easy to encounter powerful monsters at high Hunting Levels that can easily annihilate a player team. The process of exploration is filled with uncertainty.

In contrast, the Dark Cave with its clearly defined monster strength and abundant resources available for mining has become the location of choice for players.

After growing over these days, many players have already opened their Second Star Vein.

Three strong Star Vein School factions have been proven in actual combat.

The strongest one in the version is the Artifact Spirit Stream, inlaying multiple Artifact Spirits on the Star Vein, using the human body as the core to control a variety of Artifact Spirit traits for combat.

But at this stage, only Li Tie is part of this faction.

Leveling 1 Body Refining level requires 10,000 sacrificial power; other players simply do not have enough sacrificial power to create the Star Vein Combination of the Artifact Spirit Stream.

Next is the long-range attack stream with Bone Fire + Eagle-Headed Demon, combining output with Perception for positioning makes this faction the preferred choice for initial Eagle-Headed Demon players, notably performing well in actual combat.

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The last is the combination of Black Armored Snake and Power Barbarian Axe's Star Vein.

The Black Armored Snake attacks in physical form, and with the added strength attribute and damage amplification of the Power Barbarian Axe, it significantly boosts combat power.

However, at the current stage, players typically switch forms to fight, with very few maintaining their human form for extended periods to utilize trait powers for fusion.

As for the stone-statue ghost form, there hasn't yet been a suitable Star Vein School developed; players commonly choose one of the Five Instruments Spirit preserved by Li Tie as their second form, with the popular combination being stone-statue ghost and Soul Detachment Spear.

The stone-statue ghost has low output but strong defensive power; combined with the spiritual shock attribute of the Soul Detachment Spear's attack, it follows the route of damage effect faction.

Some players simply do not choose any faction and focus on leveling up their initial monster form.

These players believe that the more Star Veins they inlay, the more evolution points they need, and it's better to focus on cultivating a single form.

For example, raising a Black Armored Snake to a 100-level Sky-Reaching Giant Python, or an Eagle-Headed Demon to a Roc, and so on.

In fact, concentrating on cultivating the initial form has also proven to bring significant combat power improvements, and this faction has been jokingly called the Monster Stream by players.

Every player has different thoughts, and the development of the combat system has already shown tendencies towards different schools of thought.

The battle lasted for half an hour.

The players from the Liver Emperor Group, Drunken Group, and Child Group repelled the Iron Shell Bug Tide at the cost of losing more than half of their members.

In addition to obtaining a large number of evolution points, which allowed many players' monster forms to be upgraded, the collected shells were also part of the harvest.

According to Guidance's analysis, these shells are classified as Level 1 spiritual materials and can be used to offer sacrifices to Emperor Zhao to obtain additional sacrificial power rewards.

As for how to allocate these, since the chaotic battle made it impossible to tally each player's contribution, the end decision was to distribute them equally; all the shells were handed over to the Drunken Group for sacrificing, then the sacrificial power gains from the sacrifice were divided equally among the leaders of the player groups, who would then disperse them to their team members.

Just as the players were dividing the gains, a sudden change occurred.

A player who activated Resentful Chant Perception from the ranks of the Eagle-Headed Demon abruptly issued a warning:

"Big trouble, the Earth Cave Clan is coming again!"

Hearing this, everyone instinctively threw the shells into their Space Bags and unhesitatingly sprinted toward the cave exit.

The Earth Cave Clan Warrior's Hunting Level had reached 19, and with the multitude of Iron Shell Bugs accompanying him, they were no match with their current strength.

Death is not scary, what's scary is losing 10 points of sacrificial power upon death and the Resurrection Cooldown of one hour.

As they ran, the local voice channel was surprisingly jovial:

"The brothers who chose the stone-statue ghost with high defensive power, take the rear and hold on for a while, let us run first."

"What are you talking about? Why should those who chose the stone-statue ghost die for you?"

"I'm about to be caught up, why are you guys running so fast, wait for me!"

"So you're teasing us Eagle-Headed Demon players for having short legs, right? Everyone's running so fast, what happened to sticking together as a team?"

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During the tense and thrilling escape, players could hardly care about their teammates; everyone was pushing their limits to sprint towards the cave entrance.

Meanwhile, several players running at the rear were entangled in the silk threads spat out by the Iron Shell Bugs, being dragged backwards as they slid, and their anguished screams spurred the players at the front to accelerate their speed even further.

After the players made it out of the cave, they started to discuss an issue.

Whether they should unite to kill the Earth Cave Clan Warrior.

The existence of the Earth Cave Clan Warrior had become an obstacle to their mining in the Dark Cave, and even to monster hunting and leveling up.

Without eliminating it, they would always need to be ready to flee while in the Dark Cave.

Rather than being constantly anxious, it's better to remove the problem completely, to resolve the threat once and for all.

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