"Why are humans surrounded by aliens?"
Cheng Shaofeng's real body came to the southern battlefield, walked through the pile of corpses left after the insect swarm, and thought about this problem.
According to some complete history books he had seen in this world, human society was peaceful more than 400 years ago, and technological development was similar to that on Earth, until... the advent of the shrine.
Aliens also appeared and began to attack humans.
He initially thought that the wasteland appearance of the world today was caused by the nuclear war fought by humans themselves, but after continuously filling in the gaps in history, he realized... humans have never fought among themselves!
On the contrary, they are extremely united!
Nuclear weapons were used against alien races. Although there were endless consequences and there are still many barren lands,... in that special period, it bought a lot of time for mankind and delayed the emergence of energy inheritance.
Da da da~
Cheng Shaofeng, dressed as an ordinary soldier, walked towards the ruins of a shrine on the southern battlefield, his hard-soled leather boots making crisp sounds as they stepped on the stones.
He stretched out his hand.
Discover the remains of the shrine!
Offering: Toxic Spikes
Cheng Shaofeng took out the offerings he had purchased long ago and placed them on the shrine. A flash of starlight passed by, and the offerings were absorbed by the shrine. A mysterious voice sounded in his ears.
Successfully offer sacrifices to the shrine and gain 1 piety point!
The next second, the soul quickly rose to the starry sky!
Gazing at the boundless and misty constellations, Cheng Shaofeng, who had risen to the fourth-level professional, felt even more insignificant. He was like an ant in front of this vast starry sky.
He murmured, "The shrine... the constellation... the alien race... In historical records, there have always been two theories. One is that after the meteorite fell from outer space, the alien race also descended into the world. The other is that after the alien race descended into the world, the meteorite fell from outer space..."
"The meteorite they are talking about is the remains of the shrine. So is this a stone that brings misfortune or... a relic that brings power?"
Cheng Shaofeng has never figured out this problem.
Because from the perspective of the locals of this world, the ruins of the shrine will only emit extremely stimulating energy, which will transform the humans who absorb it into monsters. The player also learned from the fourth-level God's Envoy who kept the oath that there are various ancient gods and demons hidden behind the shrine... They are enemies of mankind, and they are definitely very dangerous creatures!
If they were indestructible, the people of the Oath-Keeping tradition would have already leveled all of these shrine ruins. Why would there be a need for regular patrols and cleaning
From his and the players' perspectives... the shrine ruins are miracles that can greatly enhance their strength! They bring a lot of attribute bonuses, as well as constellation-specific skills, and they are like stars possessed when they attack.
The Tsunami Constellation lit up by Cheng Shaofeng adds tsunami power to the attacks of his shadow guards. This power is not released by himself, but comes from the starry sky, making it impossible for the opponent to defend against it!
It is a perfect match with the Wind Strike, the most popular group attack skill among mage players recently. It can cause a lot of cold and lightning damage, and it does not require any brainpower to operate, it is fully automatic.
This is equivalent to getting a useful passive attack skill that does not consume energy for free.
One constellation might not be obvious yet, but when multiple constellations are lit up... then players may be able to defeat enemies far above their level through the power of the constellations.
By the way, the skills of the constellations can also be upgraded through the Star Altar, which only consumes some crystals. Players are now also consciously earning crystals to upgrade their constellation skills, and Cheng Shaofeng can make a lot of money from it.
For example, the turtle shell, a life-saving skill of the turtle constellation, costs 3,000 crystals to upgrade from level 1 to level 2. Cheng Shaofeng prices it at 6,000 crystals, making half of the profit from the players.
In this way, the players' crystals will continue to flow into his small treasury.
"The Star Altar is a good thing. Players cannot do without this building whether they are upgrading their constellation skills or resetting their skills. Now I don't need to bother completing various tasks to cheat crystals from players. I can just wait for them to be delivered to me. It saves me a lot of trouble."
As the players' levels became higher, they needed more and more experience to upgrade. With the increased efficiency of monster spawning after entering the four major human battlefields, it was difficult for Cheng Shaofeng to give them benefits that exceeded those of monster spawning. He was originally troubled by what excuse he should use to take all the crystals from the players. The Star Altar solved his urgent problem.
"As more shrine ruins are discovered, players gain more piety points, and more and more constellation skills need to be upgraded. The speed at which they earn crystals cannot keep up with the speed at which they consume them... The Star Altar can accumulate enough crystals, and it can also give full play to the subjective initiative of players to earn more crystals..."
Players can now find ways to make money!
Cheng Shaofeng would not stop them. As long as they did not create vicious competition with the shops in the base, there would be no problem at all.
"I choose the second constellation - Ghost!"
The system he chose at the beginning was the blue original system, but the Turtle constellation was in the yellow order constellation system, so he couldn't choose this defensive constellation.
"Then let's attack more fiercely!"
Ghost Constellation
Planets: 4
Light up the first planet: Strengthen lightning and aether damage by 15%
Light up the second planet: Intelligence +4, Aetherial Resistance +8%, Strengthen all counterattack damage by 30%
Light up the third planet: Strengthen lightning and aetherial damage by 24%, all attacks cause 6% additional damage to the ethereal race
Light up the 4th planet: attack ability +24, attacking the enemy will absorb 15% of the energy of the damage, and permanently gain lightning counterattack (the damage depends on your intelligence)
This constellation has no constellation skills, but after lighting up the fourth star, you will gain a permanent lightning counterattack!
"For me, none of the attributes of this constellation are wasted... Lightning damage can enhance the output of Lightning Mage Shadow Guard 1, and counterattack damage can also greatly enhance the output of Shadow Guard 3."
"And my intelligence is very high! Shadow Guard 3's counterattack will add lightning energy... This thing can give people convulsions. It hit me and I convulsed. It's great!"
Early this morning, facing the strong support of the Human Alliance and the powerful counterattack of thousands of brush players, the Zerg realized that the situation was hopeless and retreated, no longer attacking human cities.
They built nests in their captive cities and began to organize their own Zerg defenses, while at the same time plundering the land's resources in large quantities, multiplying and replenishing the losses brought to the Zerg by this war.
It seemed like humans had won, but... they had lost about 10,000 square kilometers of territory, had 9 cities destroyed, the Demon Sword inheritance city was destroyed, and a large number of inheritors died. This had dealt a huge blow to this small inheritance, and it might take decades to recover.
The Forest Patrol inheritance, which was supposed to have the same fate as the Demon Sword inheritance, received continuous help from the players. Dali City became the only human city that survived the first wave of the insect swarm!
Within the new arcane protective shield system, Dali City protrudes like a sharp cone. Once the Zerg launches an attack, the first city to be destroyed will definitely be Dali City!
Like a nail hanging alone outside human territory!
In the future, the most friction in the southern battlefield will occur here!
When Cheng Shaofeng passed by the outside of Dali City, he saw the Southern Battlefield Commander Shaman Heritage and a large number of troops gathering outside Dali City. He peeked at the chat records of the players in the regional channel and found out that they were scratching their heads for the future normalized defense.
The pressure that Dali City will have to endure next... will be the greatest on the southern battlefield!
But Bai Yue and Bai Cang, representing the Forest Rangers and the Cang Niao tribe, had no regrets and their homes were saved!
The Forest Ranger's fourth-level talent is very special!
As the first auxiliary inheritance of the Human Alliance, their fourth-level talents are all auxiliary!
Planting trees and building a forest protection field will greatly increase the strength of them and their allies! If Dali City is destroyed, the forest protection formation built by their successive fourth-level forest rangers will no longer exist, and the inherited strength will be greatly reduced!
"It's a pity that there are too few fourth-level professionals in the Forest Ranger. If the players can master their talents, they can expand the formation outward and rush all the way to the front of the Zerg nest. Then, with super strong recovery and bonuses, they can fight against the Zerg and be invincible!"
"But the question is... How do players obtain professional talents?"
"I hope this problem can be solved after the base is upgraded..."
Cheng Shaofeng shook his head and went to the next shrine ruins. He wanted to light up all six shrine ruins today.
3 hours later...
As the last star of the Ghost Constellation was lit up, a ray of starlight flashed in Cheng Shaofeng's eyes, and his whole body was enveloped by a soft energy, as if some kind of lightning power was possessed by his body surface.
At this moment, a small insect opened its mouth and bit Cheng Shaofeng's leg.
The armor completely blocked the damage, and Cheng Shaofeng didn't lose a single drop of blood...
Bang!
An electric current bounced off the body and directly turned the little bug into charcoal.
You are attacked, triggering a lightning counterattack, causing 315 lightning damage!
"Huh? The damage is OK... If you play the counter-attack style, you can click on the Ghost Constellation."
After a moment's thought, he shook his head again: "No... The counterattack school is almost all about strength attributes. Their intelligence is very low, and the ghost's passive lightning damage is based on its own intelligence attribute. If they point it, I'm afraid it will only be a few dozen points of damage, which is too low..."
"At present, I am probably the only one with comprehensive attribute points who can get this bonus. For a lightning mage... if I am attacked by the enemy at close range, I will probably die soon. A few hundred points of damage will be useless."
At the same time, Cheng Shaofeng's three shadow guards flashed with starlight at the same time, gaining a bonus to lightning counterattack damage.
“One person’s prayer benefits the whole family!”
"There are two more shrines!"
He rode the Green Goblin skateboard to the next location, and on the way he cleared out a lot of lost Zergs surrounding the shrine. This was why he wasted a lot of time. Otherwise, he would have finished the journey quickly by just flying.
"What's the next constellation?"
Cheng Shaofeng has no way to learn from the players' experience here. After all, their attributes and combat modes are completely different. He needs to find his own way.
As his soul ascended again, Cheng Shaofeng saw a different scene from before...
There are more constellations.
"Huh? Is this... a more powerful constellation?"
After choosing the original route, he could only see 10 constellations.
Tsunami, ghost, lizard, imp, gallows, scarab, hound, moray eel, bull, compass.
But now, there is one more on top of these constellations!
A huge trident-shaped constellation seems to be about to tear a spatial crack in the starry sky.
Cheng Shaofeng stared over there, and the information about this constellation appeared in his mind.
Lightning Storm
Planets: 7
"There are actually 7-star constellations... must the attributes be explosive?"
According to his previous experience of observing all the constellations, the more planets in a constellation you click on, the higher the bonus will be.
7 stars, the last few will get extremely high bonuses!
"Besides... the name of this constellation seems to fit my genre very well."
"The first two constellations, Tsunami and Ghost, both have bonuses to electrical damage, so I unlocked the Lightning Storm? In this case, then every choice I make will affect the future of the constellation?"
He wasn't sure. He knew too little about constellations. Even the Truth Society, the most knowledgeable organization in Central City, had no relevant records.
He could only grope his way forward step by step.
"Why do I suddenly feel like... the constellation was designed specifically for the Scourge Base?"
"How strange..."
Considering that only people in the Scourge Base in this world can worship the shrine to gain power and... the vision on Earth, Cheng Shaofeng felt that a mystery was hanging over his head.
"Where did the Scourge Base come from? Why did they choose me?"
He couldn't get an answer to this question, and Zero couldn't answer it either.
so...
"Let's pick a constellation first."
The properties of the constellation were just as he had expected, growing stronger and stronger, far surpassing the other 3-5 star constellations.
He gained a huge boost just by lighting up the first two stars!
Light up the first star: Lightning damage +40%
Light up the second star: All attacks will have additional lightning damage (depending on your intelligence), intelligence +5
"The attributes have been greatly improved, and all of them are focused on lightning damage... Lightning mages have received an epic enhancement!"
"And the second star has a special effect... It's worthy of being a more advanced 7-star constellation."
At this moment, he clenched his fists and an electric current rushed out of his hands.
"This power... can be amplified for each of my shadow guards. Each strike will inflict lightning damage."
"What a strong constellation!"
At this time, he looked up at the sky. Even though it was daytime, he could still see the shining stars in the sky. A strange connection connected him with the stars.
"It seems that... if players want to completely defeat the local fourth-level professionals in terms of comprehensive strength, in addition to improving their levels, the most important thing is to work hard on the shrine."
After lighting up the constellation here, Cheng Shaofeng posted the information he knew on the official website with a small account and added a highlight so that other players can
"In this case... if you want to go the lightning route, you can just follow the order I light up."
This is the habit of old bar friends, sharing the latest information with bar friends for free.
Tieba was originally created as an interest-oriented mutual assistance forum, where the fun was once very pure.
As the Zerg retreated, more players had time to light up the constellations one by one. After all, many players were pulled to the southern battlefield to fight as soon as they entered the game, and had no time to light up the four constellations around the Red City base.
Just when Cheng Shaofeng was thinking about whether to go to the city called Zibo City to light up the last known shrine, he received an important message from the Clown King offline.
"Zhao Hongwu wants to work with me to create skills! I expect he won't be leaving the house for a while!"
Cheng Shaofeng was cheered up after receiving this information.
"Okay! Back to base!"
It's time to upgrade your Scourge Base!