"How many people are here?" Mo Shigui asked the black pot of meat cooking beside him.
"All are here..."
The meat in the black pot said in a very helpless tone.
In the first ten minutes after the other world opened, all the players on Brand Island gathered in front of the portal built by Coke Mania. The scene scared the NPCs in Coke Mania so much that they dared not leave their homes.
After the portal was opened, millions of soldiers descended upon the Flower Square... More than half of the players on Brand Island rode their flying mounts and landed in the direction of the Flower Square.
Before Mo Shigui and his companions had time to marvel at the sophisticated modeling of the other world, they had to follow the entire army into the Flower Square to grab the 630,000 challenge qualifications.
What made Mo Shigui happy was that the skills of this group of old people were far inferior to those of the newcomer Juan Canyun. Mo Shigui's ranking in the queue was almost outside the top 20, while Juan Canyun successfully won the qualification for the first challenge as soon as he landed.
"Old Song, you guys are so dishonest! Why are you coming to Fanhua Plaza to join in the fun instead of going to New World Plaza?"
Canxin came over immediately when he saw Mo Shigui. He was feeling depressed right now... He was third in the queue. If the newcomer Juan Canyun from Leaping Nuclear hadn't come to disrupt the situation, he would have killed 630,000 people by now.
He was now very glad that the challenge from Eternal Thorn required a high enough ladder score... otherwise the number of challengers would be at least over two thousand.
"Fight both sides." Mo Shigui replied, and he assigned another team to challenge the New World Plaza area.
"That's even more unkind of you!" Canxin complained.
"Aren't you the same?"
Mo Shigui's fingertips slid across the queue list. Except for Jun Lin Tian Xia, the top masters of the other seven guilds of the eight major guilds were basically gathered in Fanhua Square.
The dungeon design of the inner world is not like that of Brand Island, where it takes more than fifty people to conquer a lord-level monster. The inner world is more inclined to dungeons for single combat and small-scale battles. Some NPC challenges can only allow four players to fight at the same time.
Therefore, each guild dispersed its manpower to the thirty-five areas of the inner world to try and see which area was easier to conquer.
There were only guilds like Coke Mania and Leaping Nuclear that bought a large number of challenge tickets and put all their energy into one or two areas, striving to open the inner world for one day, or even... conquer an area in half a day.
The NPC challenge of the Eternal Thorn is limited to one person at a time, and the first challenger is the professional player Juan Canyun from their guild.
This is good news for Mo Shigui.
"I guess you have to break the fragments to win the reward." Zanxin was on the second floor of the Flower Plaza, watching Juan Canyun and Eternal Thorn below and said, "Otherwise it would be too easy to clear it in one go."
"..." Mo Shigui did not answer Canxin. With 30,000 HP, Juan Canyun could take him down with two combos with his current equipment. There was no need for awakening at all.
It is impossible for the Holy Spirit to design the NPC guarding an area to be so weak. This can be seen from the fact that the Eternal Thorn is as high as level 65. Secondly, various disgusting mechanisms are set up to strengthen the NPC when the player fights against the NPC.
For example, unlimited hegemony, large-scale AOE skills, super high attack power, a lot of disgusting summons, etc.
According to Mo Shigui's speculation, the Eternal Thorn has at least two or three such disgusting mechanisms.
But after the battle started, Thorne used practical actions to tell Mo Shigui that he didn't have any fancy things and relied purely on technology!
Juan Canyun gave himself a combat BUFF of unparalleled spearmanship. After the BUFF was added, the Eternal Thorn did not attack, but watched Juan Canyun from a distance.
At this time, Juan Canyun was also observing the Eternal Thorne.
To be honest, after playing in the Holy Spirit Arena, all he could think about was practicing in the Dispute Arena, otherwise his gaming habits might completely change into the shape of the Holy Spirit.
But Mo Shigui not only did not allow him to play Dispute, he also dragged him to this other world to... challenge an NPC.
Can I log off after defeating this NPC? This is what Juan Canyun is thinking about now.
No matter how powerful the NPCs in the game are, their skills will never be good. After all, computer AI is computer AI. No matter how cunning they are, they can never be more cunning than these battle-hardened players.
So Juan Canyun didn't think too much and rushed towards the Eternal Thorn with his spear.
The moment he came in front of Thorne, he made a basic gun attack. Thorne just took a step back and dodged Juan Canyun's gun attack with a puzzled expression on his face.
The spear didn't hit... Juan Canyun instantly changed his move and thrust the spear in his hand suddenly. A silver-white unparalleled spear energy was attached to the spear. In an instant, the spear in Juan Canyun's hand thrust out two consecutive stabs that were so fast that they could not be captured by the naked eye.
Even the players in the arena would be instantly caught off guard by this set of moves.
But Thorne slightly tilted his head to avoid Juan Canyun's attack. The moment he dodged, the branch in his hand swung with a sound of breaking through the air and suddenly stabbed at Juan Canyun's throat.
Xingyun Jue!
Juan Canyun released a backward jump at the same time. At the moment of the backward jump, the phantom left by the Xingyun Jue raised the spear in his hand and released a spiral of unparalleled spear energy forward. Juan Canyun's real body also jumped into the air and threw the spear in his hand towards Thorne.
All this happened in less than a second, but Thorne disappeared... not disappeared...
The moment the shadow left by Xingyun Jue released his skills, he suddenly lowered his body and bypassed the shadow left by Xingyun Jue like a crawling snake. The spear thrown by Juan Canyun hit the air directly.
"Jumping up in the middle of a battle... is equivalent to letting yourself be slaughtered." Thorne had already come under Juan Canyun and hit Juan Canyun's back heavily with the branch in his hand.
A damage reduction of 700 popped up.
The damage is so low? Juan Canyun thought that this level 65 BOSS could kill him in one second. No, now is not the time to think about this!
Juan Canyun adjusted his posture. He never expected that Thorne would rush to him so quickly, because the two skills he released were AOE damage. If released at such a close distance, any player would either be hit and stunned and then be hit by Juan Canyun again, or retreat out of the skill AOE range and then attack.
So it would be completely no problem for Juan Canyun to jump back here, but Thorne easily dodged these two AOE skills. Even the spear that Juan Canyun stabbed out in order to land quickly... was stepped on by Thorne.
Isn't this a mechanism that only players can see through
Juan Canyun was stunned, and the result of being stunned was defeat. His current health was only over 5,000. Thorne no longer showed mercy and used the branch in his hand to instantly clear his health to zero the moment he landed.
After his health was reduced to zero, he was teleported out of the arena. He sat on the ground and looked at the sky above the Flower Square.
"Sure enough, this newbie is not good enough. He was carried out after fighting an NPC for less than 20 seconds."
"Other people's rookie arena ladder points are already 1,900, you don't even have the qualifications to play?"
The sound of discussion beside him made Juan Canyun feel uncomfortable. He could accept being abused by a bunch of professional gods, but... this was an NPC! An NPC set by the AI in the game!
Mo Shigui and Heiguo Zhurou walked up to him and pulled him up from the ground.
"Coach... I'm going to log off first." Juan Canyun's voice was a little choked. This was too embarrassing! As a professional player, he actually lost to an NPC in the game in front of so many players!
"Wait a little longer." Mo Shigui said.
“But... Coach..." Juan Canyun now just wanted to leave this damn game.
"The next one to come on stage is Caramel who is a coke fanatic. You should finish watching his battle with Thorne before logging off." Mo Shigui's voice was filled with stern reprimand.
If Juan Canyun were to be offline like this, the experience of being completely defeated by an NPC in the game would become a shadow on his career, and he would not know when he would be able to get out of this shadow.
So… now he must watch the battle between Caramel and Thorne.
Mo Shigui had already seen from the battle just now... this Eternal One Thorn was not at all like those stupid NPCs in the Holy Spirit's original world who fought according to the combat routines set by the program.
He didn't have any fancy skills at all. He just relied on pure combat skills and awareness and the small branch in his hand to suppress Juan Canyun, commonly known as technical crushing.
(End of this chapter)