Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 26 - Star Vein Schools Combination

Primordial Altar.

Qi Sheng began to peruse player-posted content by summoning the function panel.

Over the past two days, the number of players posting and exchanging ideas on the forum kept growing,

where the hottest topic was the discussion of the functionalities related to the newly-built "test tower" in Imperial Tomb Village.

In the constructed test tower, 729 known Primordial Abilities from Yan Ming were included, allowing players to inlay various types of Monster Life Souls in a simulation environment to create combinations and build their own favorite growth streams.

After two days of testing, many powerful streams had been developed and shared by the players on the forum.

At this moment, Qi Sheng was looking through the most popular strategy sharing thread.

[After playing with the simulator for two days, I'm sharing a few Star Vein Schools Combinations I've matched.]

Posted by: Endless Night

Content: The competition for killing monsters outside is crazy, and as a newbie, I'm shivering with fear. So, I spent two days in Newbie Village testing different streams, and I'm sharing three strong schools combinations. Since my Body Refining Level is 0, the highest simulation option only allows me to pair up to 8 Monster Life Souls, so each stream is built with a combination of 8 Monster Life Souls. There are more expansion and enhancement possibilities for these three streams when levels are higher in the future.

First up is a stream built around the core of the stone-statue ghost, which I call "Immortal Stance."

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Qi Sheng clicked on the video, and immediately a screen popped up in the forum interface.

In the video, a player named Endless Night is performing a Star Vein Inlay.

He sequentially embedded into the eight Star Vein slots: stone-statue ghost (encapsulated), Taunt (encapsulated), Recovery, thorns, Ice Bone, Thirst for Blood, Fire Scythe, Black Armored Snake (already encapsulated).

After completing the Star Vein assembly, Endless Night turned to face the camera:

"First, I'll show you the specific effects of each Primordial Ability to facilitate subsequent simulation test performances."

The camera then zoomed in on the Star Vein enhancement interface:

Petrification (Active): After using the ability, you enter an immobile Petrified state, which significantly weakens any form of attack damage, with the specific effect influenced by Physical fitness.

Taunt (Active): Releases a mental shock wave centered around oneself, and the hit targets will go through numerous altered memory scenarios based on their own memories (release range is controllable) for a short time, with the Caster becoming part of the altered memory (only effective on Level 1+ sentient beings).

Recovery (Passive): Activates life potential, significantly enhancing self-healing efficiency, with the specific effect influenced by Monster Level.

thorns (Passive): Protected by the power of thorns, part of the physical damage received is reflected back to the attacker, with the specific effect influenced by Body Strength.

Ice Bone (Passive): When taking damage, inflicts a freezing effect on the target, slowing down the attacker's movement efficiency.

Thirst Blood Mark (Passive): Centered around oneself, the Thirst Blood Mark continuously absorbs the draining Qi-Blood from nearby targets and converts it into Healing Energy to repair tissue damage, with the range of the mark influenced by Body Strength.

Fire Scythe (Active): Burns nearby units continuously from the center of oneself, with the specific damage value influenced by Body Strength.

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Fierce Poison (Passive): Any form of physical damage comes with a poisoning effect that causes continuous damage to the target, with the specific effect influenced by the Black Armored Snake's form Level.

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"The logic behind building this stream is to attract nearby targets to attack oneself by using the Taunt ability, and then significantly reducing damage received by activating the Petrification Ability. Following that is Recovery providing continuous health regeneration, thorns reflecting received damage, Thirst Blood Mark absorbing health from injured units nearby for continuous healing, Ice Bone controlling the area with its ability, and both Fire Scythe and Fierce Poison causing continuous damage."

"It's important to note the Vicious Poison Attribute of the Black Armored Snake, which causes all physical damage to carry a poison effect. In this Star Vein School combination, the effect of thorns is to reflect part of the physical damage received, so the combination of the Black Armored Snake and thorns allows you to poison the attacking target while taking damage."

"Next, we'll see a demonstration of a simulated battle."

As the words were spoken, Endless Night opened the simulation interface and summoned 100 Blood Wolves before switching to combat mode.

Faced with the fierce assault of the Blood Wolves, Endless Night decisively activated Taunt, and a Spiritual Illusion was automatically constructed around him, turning the eyes of the Blood Wolves blood-red.

Then the Petrification Ability was initiated, and Endless Night's body was enveloped in a layer of black matter, entering an immobile state.

Under the ferocious attack of the Blood Wolves, red figures indicating health deduction and green figures for health regeneration simultaneously appeared above Endless Night's head.

Each time the nearby Blood Wolves bit into Endless Night, they would get another wound on their bodies, with numbers popping up for poison, freeze, and burn elemental damage, as well as the white figure damage caused by the thorns' reflection.

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The blood shed from the injured Blood Wolf is drawn by the "Thirst Blood Mark," transforming into thin streams of blood that float towards Endless Night, whereupon green healing characters pop up above his head.

In the combat demonstration, Endless Night's health bar remains between 98% and 100%, with the ferocious assault of the Blood Wolf Group posing no threat to him.

In less than five minutes, all the nearby Blood Wolves are dead, and Endless Night's health bar has returned to 100%.

At this moment, Endless Night looks towards the camera (Guiding Water Ball), grins, and says:

"This is why I call this Star Vein Combination the Immortal Stance, isn't it strong?"

The video demonstration ends here, and a large number of players comment below the video:

Minstrel: Awesome! With this faction, just dive into any area with plenty of monsters and get moving, standing still to kill nearby targets.

I Choose Black Armored Snake: Shocked, what kind of divine faction is this, a boon for the lazy, just stand in a place with lots of monsters, enter the forum to read posts and watch videos while leveling up.

Strongest Newbie: Damn, I really want to follow this faction, but besides Black Armored Snake, Taunt, and stone-statue ghost, I haven't collected the other five Monster Life Souls, and I have no idea where to find Primordial Monsters with these Special Abilities.

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Closing the video page, Qi Sheng continues to read the subsequent content.

Apart from the most discussed Immortal Stance, Endless Night also provides two other factions in the post.

He respectively calls them Shadow Army Flow and One-Hit Kill Stream.

Among them, the Shadow Army Flow is built around the core of "Shadow Summon" from the Life Soul Library.

The ability effect of Shadow Summon is to call upon Shadow Warriors imprisoned in the Shadow Realm by Emperor Zhao to fight for oneself, with the specific number and strength of summons affected by one's own Spiritual Strength.

With this at its core, Endless Night selected 7 group amplification Monster Life Souls for Star Vein Inlay.

The combat mode is very simple.

Start by summoning a group of Shadow Warriors, then sequentially apply Evil Blade (weapon amplification), Cloud Dragon (movement speed amplification), Evil Armor (defense amplification), Frenzy (Physical fitness amplification)...

By amplifying status effects in this way, the combat power of Shadow Warriors is significantly enhanced, allowing their strength to be multiplied several times.

This faction is also a boon for the lazy: after stacking amplification statuses, one can watch the Shadow Warriors perform without personal participation in the battle.

A large number of players left comments below the video expressing their fondness for this faction.

The last One-Hit Kill Stream is a Star Vein School built around the core Life Soul, "Worsening."

The effect of Worsening is to significantly strengthen the effects and duration of various sustained damage.

The hallmark of this faction is that as long as the target is hit, one can confidently run away, and the target will suffer from continuous Worsening, Poison, Death Erosion, and a series of sustained damage states, ultimately culminating in death as time accelerates.

In the demonstration battle, Endless Night strikes a Level 28 Fallen Scythe Monster with a normal attack, then promptly beats a retreat.

One can see negative damage info constantly emerging above the Fallen Scythe's head, with the wounds on its body rapidly festering and spreading over the entire body, leading to its demise shortly thereafter.

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This post was pushed to the top of the forum's hotness list in a very short time.

It sparked strong interest among many players in the construction of Star Vein Schools.

A large number of players then followed suit, building various Star Vein School playstyles in the simulation environment.

To the players' regret.

The initial Star Vein inlay in the simulation environment is limited to embedding 8 Life Souls, which is insufficient for constructing more powerful factions.

And the vast majority of Life Souls in the simulation library have not been collected, leaving players clueless about where to hunt for Primordial Monsters with these abilities.

However, the emergence of various factions also makes players look forward to their future growth directions.

The 729 Primordial Abilities introduced in the simulation library are just a part of the energy that Emperor Zhao has decomposed, with many more unknown Primordial Monsters waiting for players to find and collect.

It is foreseeable that as the game updates continuously, more perfected Star Vein Schools Combinations will emerge.

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