Chapter 523: Old Driver, Take Me along

"You mean jumping into the air can evade the eruption of freezing energy inside the body?!"

But the freezing energy was clearly inside the body, so what did it have to do with jumping?!

The warriors of the Western Polar Region, led by Xiya, completely disbelieved it.

"The Zombie King uses the dark moisture beneath the earth to spread the freezing energy; this is easy to understand. If the curse that triggers the internal freezing energy is also activated using the ground as a medium..." Having gathered a vast amount of experience in King difficulty, Nalan Mingxue explained as she contentedly turned in her class advancement quest, "Wouldn't that connect the two?"

"Then why does it activate at fixed times?" a warrior from the Western Polar Region questioned in disbelief. "If it disrupted the timing, wouldn't it make it impossible for anyone to judge?"

"That is because you do not understand 'auras,'" Nalan Mingxue said. "In Diablo 2, aura effects activate automatically unless intentionally controlled. As an undead creature, the Zombie King possesses low intelligence and naturally lacks the ability to control it at will."

Therefore, this was merely the result of an automatic activation from an aura-like effect.

As long as one caught the exact timing of its activation, it could definitely be avoided.

She looked toward Boss Fang. "I wonder how many points I scored with that guess?"

Boss Fang clapped and said, "One hundred points! Full marks!"

Their mutual praise of each other was highly pleasant.

"When you have time... could you tell another segment of 'The King's Avatar'?" Nalan Mingxue asked.

Delivery Gun didn't matter much before, since firearms were not widespread back then, and currently, the Gauss firearms in StarCraft had not yet been fully developed, leaving only a small portion of people using guns.

But now even the Shadow Steps had appeared; who knew if other, even more high-end techniques would be mentioned in the future?!

Techniques of this kind were not martial arts that required martial qi to activate, nor were they spells that required spiritual power to cast.

Instead, they were combat techniques that required only extremely simple conditions to unleash immense power.

Shadow Steps referred to a technique in battle where, through the control of one's footwork, one's character remains completely outside the opponent's line of sight, thereby achieving the goal of maximizing evasion against the opponent's counterattacks while attacking.

It did not refer specifically to a single type of footwork, and naturally, it was not as simple as merely taking two steps beneath the enemy.

To truly execute the effect of the Shadow Steps within virtual reality was arguably far more difficult than its original definition.

The angle of the sword strikes, the positioning of the footwork, and the force of the attacks—what Fang Qi had to face was a monster almost fully comparable to a real Zombie King, rather than a monster whose speed had been weakened to accommodate the reaction capabilities of ordinary people in the game from before his transmigration.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this was a monster that came and went like the wind, and a level 20 Ghost Swordsman was likewise already far beyond ordinary people.

And Fang Qi still needed to constantly stay mindful of jumping to evade the opponent's triggering of the freezing energy inside him.

During this time, Fang Qi even borrowed the sliding step of Triple Slash, as well as some introductory techniques from Immortal Wind Cloud Body and Drunken Immortal Moon Gazing Steps that could barely be referenced at this stage; with the aid of the Blade Master's own mastery over swordsmanship, the powerful greatsword techniques obtained from Cloud, and a series of other supports, combined with his own familiarity with this game's skills far exceeding anyone else's, he was barely able to use a technique deployed from a concept similar to Shadow Steps to combo this Zombie King.

Its effect was also blatantly obvious.

For instance, quite a few people were already staring eagerly at Boss Fang; how could they not learn such a gorgeous and cool technique?!

"Well..." Speaking of continuing the plot of The King's Avatar, Boss Fang scratched his head, "I can consider it when I have time in the future."

Meanwhile, Xiya listened to Nalan Mingxue's analysis and suddenly fell silent.

"Could it... really be as she said...?" Xiya blinked. "Could this Zombie King's freezing energy truly be cracked so easily?!"

Of course, the fact that they would die countless times in the Dark Thunderland Ruins afterward to practice these techniques, frantically contributing spiritual crystals to buy Resurrection Coins, would not be mentioned for now.

"Boss!" Su Tianji leaned in at this moment. "Can you carry me through a class advancement too?!"

She played a Mage.

If it were a Warrior or a Fighter, that would be fine, since everyone knew a bit of swordsmanship or fist techniques in reality.

But Mages were different; although cultivators used lightning and Mages used lightning, cultivators used fire and Mages used fire, making them look almost identical.

But... the incantations were different, the hand seals and mudras were different, and the method of circulating spiritual energy was also different.

It still required a certain amount of time to adapt.

Consequently, she had now completely transformed from the former captain of the second-place team in the Counter-Strike tournament into a total salted fish.

Let alone Master difficulty, she had already died several times even on Adventure difficulty!

It was not just her; quite a few cultivators playing Mages were currently underperforming, and they all came over to hitch a ride.

"Boss! Count me in!"

"Old driver, take me with you!"

"Me, me, me! And me!" Tang Yu ran over hastily; as a cultivator who had only encountered firearms in StarCraft, his performance as a Gunner was rather mediocre as well.

"Can you include this old man as well?!" The old man, Gu Tingyun, was also very embarrassed. He had chosen a Priest, a class that looked somewhat leaning toward a cultivator, but upon entering the game, his weapon turned out to be a massive crucifix, and aside from understanding a few incantations, everything else was close combat.

Neither truly close nor truly ranged, it felt even harder to play than a Mage.

"Alright... then." As he uttered the word "then," Boss Fang suddenly glanced at his fatigue points and shrugged. "Out of fatigue."

"Fatigue?!" Everyone looked at Boss Fang in bewilderment.

Fatigue points determined whether a player could enter the dungeons.

Although it didn't have the original version's room-by-room setting, the fatigue points existed nonetheless, calculated based on the area the player explored in the dungeon; once depleted, they could no longer enter dungeons for the day.

Boss Fang had already reached level twenty-something by this point, so his fatigue points were naturally exhausted.

And up until now, Fang Qi had only played for a total of a little over three hours.

In other words, for the entire game, one only needed to spend three to four hours a day entering dungeons to level up and hunt for treasure; the remaining time could be spent on other things, and indeed could only be spent on other things, with three hours being quite sufficient if one was fast.

Of course, if someone insisted on grinding King difficulty without levels or equipment, unable to clear a single dungeon even after nearly an hour, then eight hours a day would probably not be enough.

After this explanation, everyone was shocked: "There's actually such a mechanic?!"

Luo Piaoling said, "Then didn't I completely waste all that time exploring King difficulty without passing it before?!"

He felt like dying; it was one thing to be held back by others before, as he could just try again later.

Hexed with bad luck, who knew there was actually a limit?!

"Ah—!" An inner wail echoed.

"Then what do we do?!" Su Tianji looked at her own fatigue, which still had plenty left, so how could Boss Fang be completely out?!

Boss Fang pointed at Jiang Xiaoyue: "Ask Xiaoyue if she still has fatigue."

"Xiaoyue can carry us too?!"

They looked at the little girl next to Boss Fang, who was still intently playing a little loli Mage.

And this Mage... was actually using melee attacks?!

A Mage playing melee? What kind of strategy was this again?!

"Xiaoyue! Carry me for a bit!" Regardless of everything else, get someone to carry them first.

"Xiaoyue, our relationship is so good... can you carry me first!"

"I have gold coins here!"

"The market price is ten thousand gold coins! Carry me."

Everyone crowded around.

Jiang Xiaoyue: "Eh? What's going on?"

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There should be another chapter, but it will likely be after two o'clock...

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