Pillars of Ita

Chapter 993, Chapter 320, Scene [-] Recorded on the Stone Tablet

"The attack of the Rotao was thwarted," said the stray horse suddenly.

Shortly after they put the Holy Grail Knights into use on the battlefield, a strange-shaped construct suddenly appeared from the vicinity of the spire. They looked a bit like large tentacle monsters, wielding countless twisted black whips, suspended in mid-air middle.

All the structures of the Lotao who approached these structures were paralyzed without exception.They were not destroyed, but arc-shaped sparks appeared on the ether circuit around them, fixing them in that position.

"Virus," said the wandering horse, "this is a unique construct in this space, a type of psionic machinery. There are five types of basic plug-ins in the field of plug-in craftsmen, swift burst plug-ins, power burst plug-ins, barriers The plug-ins, the super-sensing plug-ins and the magic burst plug-ins represent the five basic dimensions of dexterity, strength, physique, perception and ether, which are often referred to as the five basic attribute plug-ins."

"Flexible constructs are created by imitating people to replace mortals' heavy labor and participate in wars. Therefore, the five basic attribute plug-ins are equally applicable to them. Just like the protective plug-ins that were applied to the Lotao people just now, It is a type of barrier plug-in, which sacrifices dexterity in exchange for thicker protection. The swift burst plug-in of the lurker in the psionic machine is already familiar to everyone..."

He stared at the scene of the battlefield intently, unscrewed the bottle cap, took a sip of water, and continued: "Viruses are a very special type of psionic machinery, or they are occultists who specialize in this space for contestants. It is not impossible to set the topic. When the ancient towers chose "plug-in" as the first topic in the barrier area, it was time for this kind of psionic construction to play. Their abilities are actually through specific psionic It can lock the value of a certain attribute, and psychic power is an ability aimed at the mind, but the connection between the main core crystal and the fairy is also a similar ability, so it can also work. "

"So when the value of the locked attribute does not reach the standard, the construct will be directly cut off the spiritual connection with the fairy doll, and it will fall into an uncontrollable state as you have seen. Viruses are a relatively high level For high-level psychic machines, the basic attributes of the second- and third-tier constructs in the normal state are difficult to escape the attribute lock. The solution for previous players is to temporarily overload or activate the attributes installed in the construct in advance. Plug-in, to achieve the purpose of making it break through the threshold."

He shook his head: "But the luck of the Luotao people seems not to be very good."

What the Lotao encountered was a rare variant of the virus, Virus IX.

The usual virus is only locked for the three attributes of agility, strength, or physique - the construct has no physique, but the barrier plug-in provides the strength of the structure and outer armor. When the structure cannot maintain stability, the spiritual connection is automatically cut off. The construct is also paralyzed.

This is the basic logic of virus operation.

But Virus IX is actually aimed at magic burst plug-ins. Except for magic constructs, most constructs do not have the attribute of magic power, but the main core crystal still has magic power, but few people will give it to ordinary flexible constructs. Install the magic plug-in.

The Rotao people are no exception.

But they still have a way, and that's by using a construct called the Ts-5 'Sentry Tower'.It can also be seen from the name that this type of construct is an improved version of the Ts-1 "lurker", but unlike the former, Ts-1 mainly creates a trap area through the gravity well that spreads like a halo, to limit the movement of the enemy.

Ts-5, on the other hand, uses a halo amplification device to spread the effect of a type of basic plug-in installed on the body to all friendly units in the area. 'Sentry Tower' is actually a common structure, especially in large-scale battles.

But Fang Plover doesn't like to use this kind of construct, because Ts-5 actually achieves this effect by overloading the plug-in, which means that every time Ts-5 takes effect, it will consume a precious functional plug-in.Especially high-level basic attribute plugins are also very expensive.

But in this space, everyone will care about the value of the construct, and the Rotao people are no exception. They have prepared a batch of Ts-5 and the engineering machine to carry them into the field, but the plug-in craftsmen are still Didn't have time to debug these Ts-5 'outlets'.

Unexpected changes occurred on the battlefield.

The stray horse sees another construct.

The tall constructed knight was wearing a pitch-black outer armor, with sharp blades all over his body. The sensor on the head between the neck guards flashed a dark red light, one bright and one dark, and a long antenna grew on the helmet. , like feathers.

It uses a dark spear blade that is as long as one person. Once it appears in the formation of the minaret machinery, it immediately attacks the Lotao people's line. But it was rounded by this construct and cut off with a single shot.

Even the ether shield, the giant shield and the walker's upper body are cut into two sections.

The gun blade dragged long sparks across its structure like a hot knife cutting butter, flying out together with the cut casing, broken gears, and transmission shafts, and fell into it together with the fragmented main crystal and grid pipe network. in the dust.

That scene was really shocking.Not to mention the Lotao people, the audience in the live broadcast room didn't even react, those dark, tall constructed knights destroyed the line formed by the walkers in a face-to-face.

And opened several gaps in that seemingly solid line of defense.

"Nightmare," the wandering horse was flipping through the information at hand, and finally found the name corresponding to that type of psionic construction, as well as the detailed parameters below.He glanced over and looked up at the scene in surprise, "Strange, the Rotao people are facing a knight tower. Logically speaking, they shouldn't appear here, including the previous virus type 903, It also rarely appears on the frontal battlefield of the Knight Tower."

There was a lot of discussion in the live broadcast room at the moment, and not many people really heard his words clearly.

But the wandering horse didn't repeat it, but just kept his mouth shut, thinking of a possibility in his mind.After Loofah and the empire's top genius Lex teamed up to attack the main tower last time, the difficulty of the tree sea space has quietly increased again.

The Spire Trial is not the first time that the difficulty has been increased. With the advancement of technology, the Spire Trial has also increased its challenge difficulty several times in previous competitions.It's just that the occultists can't predict the average level of the contestants in each region, so the increase in difficulty also has its lag.

However, since the last multi-parallel competition began to be used among the players, the difficulty of the lag caused by it has also appeared in this competition.

He kept thinking in his head, but he didn't stop introducing, which is also one of the necessary abilities of a professional anchor, "Nightmare itself has no special characteristics. I also saw it, because this is a flexible configuration close to level [-]—a type of fourth-level configuration."

"This should be the first Tier [-] structure that appeared in this game. The basic psychic characteristic of nightmares is the ability to resist magic, but they can't use this ability at all on this battlefield. The Tier [-] structure alone Excellent basic attributes can complete the crushing of the second-order structure."

The Luotao people were in chaos for a while.

Several of their Colossus are only Tier [-] constructions. Although Tier [-] constructions are not crushed against Tier [-] constructions, four nightmares appeared on the field at the same time, more than all of their Colossus. There is one more up.

Originally, the rank attribute was suppressed, and the number was not as good as it was, so it was unnecessary to fight, not to mention that the minaret camp still had a large number of lurking insects attacking their front, and hundreds of walkers were already in danger under such an offensive.

Their only solution is to use the Ts-5 'Sentinel Tower' to rescue the locked Holy Grail Knight. Although the Holy Grail Knight is only a second-level structure, its combat effectiveness as a variant is not much different from that of a third-level structure. Can Angel is almost at the same level of combat power.

Through quantity, the gap in quality can also be made up.

But without the cover of fortress-style walkers and giant elephants, can an engineering machine lacking combat capabilities really pass the Ts-5 'sentinel tower' through the heavily surrounded enemies and send it to its destination?

Among the participating teams in Miluo Temple, the tall black youth Tigger and the magic craftsman Anselmo were caught in a dilemma for a while, and Apu Hassan Muhammad in the third position was a taciturn man who talked less and did more. Personality, at the moment, is repairing a batch of withdrawn structures, and has no time to talk to other people.

"We still have materials in hand, why don't you set up a large protective barrier first," Anselmo looked at the battle and said anxiously, "We have to make a decision quickly, we can't accept the loss of a failed attack and a repeat , At least one-third of the preliminary preparations have been invested in this battle, captain."

Tigger thought for a moment, and was about to say something, but a voice from the side interjected preemptively.

"We can't afford to waste that time," Anat flicked her long hair, the tall mixed-race black girl looked at the others coldly and said, "Give me the Ts-5 'Sentry Tower', and I will send them to the preset position."

"Anat, can you do it?"

"My goblin and I are sure," Anat said, "The captain can make two-handed preparations, but at least let me try, the imperials are already far ahead of us, and the progress of the Colins is faster than us. "

Teague also showed hesitation in his eyes. Mirro Hall's birth point was in a bad position, right between the main teams of the Imperials and the Kolins. Now that both teams are in front of them, it is easy to seal them off. The road to the core area.

As Anat said, they can't afford to waste time.

He looked at the veteran player in the team and the only elf envoy who had participated in two continental leagues, and nodded slightly to the latter, "Anat, I'll leave it to you."

The black girl smiled and nodded firmly to all her teammates.

"Hey, behind the Luotao people..." The wandering horse certainly saw the Luotao people's dilemma, but when he glanced at a certain direction on the map from the corner of his view, he suddenly stopped slightly.He found that the light spot on the map representing Hanrui had approached the area behind the Luotao people at some point.

The wandering horse's mind changed quickly, as if he had thought of something, but at this moment, several battles were unfolding in the sea of ​​trees at the same time, and no one paid attention to this detail for a while. "Everyone pay attention to Hanrui's movements." He said suddenly.

The audience in the live broadcast room were startled—that Han Rui?After being defeated by Fang Plover with the Peace Knight, they paid less attention to them. What's more, at this moment, Hanrui, like the ancient tower and the Kapuka Craftsman Association, has not yet entered the barrier area.

Therefore, everyone's eyes were focused on the teams that were attacking the barrier area.It's just that when people moved their eyes to the map, they couldn't help but let out a low cry:
"I rely on!"

The Lotaos are in big trouble.

If they rescue the Holy Grail Knight from the locked state in a short time, then there is still a chance. If they plan to deploy a defensive barrier and stand by for help, then under the front and rear attack, it is almost a situation where there is almost no life.

Hanrui's trajectory made it almost impossible to give them this chance.

But on the main stage, not many people paid attention to Hanrui's situation.The narrator from the empire was looking away from the search for the missing dragon alchemist, and the successive battles re-attracted his attention.

Because the four battles that unfolded at the same time were too exciting and intense, the commentators were overwhelmed by switching back and forth between several screens on the main stage, let alone ordinary people, most of them didn't have the heart to pay attention to other things.

Due to the uneven flow of the game space and real time, the director team behind is also working overtime to cut and slow down the video. The four battles are being staged at the same time, and even the normally sufficient manpower seems a bit stretched at this time.

What's more, what made them even more concerned was that the Imperials had also arrived at the target area and were preparing to go into battle.

And their attack ran into trouble from the very beginning.

"Damn it." Tracy looked at the mechanical octopus floating in the sky, and couldn't help cursing.The Psychic Spire is almost identical to the Storm Tower, but there are some differences between the two towers in terms of psionic constructs that appear in battle.

The scientific name of those mechanical octopuses is called "Evil Devouring Construct". They are a bit like electronic jammers on the battlefield, which can greatly suppress the connection between fairy dolls and ordinary constructs. In human terms, it reduces the control of fairy dolls Efficiency, and distance——

Psychic Spires are filled with a large number of such psionic constructs. They may not have strong frontal combat capabilities, but they are quite tricky to deal with.What's more, there are also virus constructs on the ground, and those constructs waving tentacles directly locked all the first batch of constructs they put into the battlefield.

Then the minaret activated the large structure and beat them back with long-range firepower, and then a large number of lurkers appeared in front of the front line.

The Imperials managed to hold their ground.

They are also taking out the Ts-5 'Sentry Tower' and handing it over to the plug-in craftsman for debugging.But the attack was blocked, which made everyone's faces look a little unsightly.

Since they entered the space of the sea of ​​trees, they have never been so deflated—the situation analysis team in the barrier area has mentioned to them more than once that they originally thought that they would not encounter challenges of this intensity until at least the F area.

Only Juno remained calm. He looked at this scene from a distance, as if he had confirmed what he thought in his heart, "After going through Lex's class, the difficulty of the Spire Trial has increased a lot. It seems that today It would be nice if we could get through D-zone at night."

"Juno," began Georgieffin, "the Corin are in hot pursuit."

"I know, don't worry," Juno replied, "They still have to cross the barrier area. We have time. Compared with it, we should eliminate the unstable factors first——what did Hanrui say?"

"They've already arrived at the scheduled location," Georgieffin said, "I didn't take the initiative to mention it, so they guessed your intention."

Juno smiled, "That's why I like to deal with excellent people. Smart people know where their real interests are, and they will never make unrealistic demands, so it's easy to deal with them."

Georgiffin shook his head, he prefers to deal with stupid people, at least he doesn't have to think so much.

Cui Xisi suddenly saw the other side looking at her, the kind of sympathetic gaze made her very upset, she was already angry, and said angrily, "What are you looking at?"

'Tracey,' said Georgieffin, "that junior of Roffin, another student of FOX."

Before he finished speaking, he blocked the girl back with a sentence, "Shut up."

The others looked at Juno and her at the same time, and couldn't help laughing.

In contrast, the progress of Forin and the other two selection teams was much smoother. The people of the Hill of Giant Trees seemed to be favored by the god of luck, and there were almost no difficulties in the knight tower they faced. enemy.

Although there were also nightmares in the second round of battle, there was rarely a virus. As a result of one increase and one decrease, the people of Giant Tree Hill easily stabilized the front line.

However, the singers of Taxin, who were originally unable to attack smoothly, did not have the ability to prepare the Ts-5 'Sentinel Tower' like the Imperials and Lotaos, so they directly adopted a stupid method, that is, constructing Several sets of plug-ins are prepared in the body.

Although the conflicts between the basic attribute plug-ins made these constructs cumbersome and inefficient, it just made the construct clusters of Taxin Singer and Shujin Blade play a miraculous effect in such battles.Even the commentators on the main stage couldn't help but comment:
"The plug-in craftsmen of these two teams are really ghosts."

Even this kind of idea can be thought of.

But when the sight returned to Kaolin, Shui Wuming, Weiyu, Luo Wei and the others had of course encountered the same enemy—Virus Type III, a psionic construct targeted at the dexterity attribute.

However, the basic attributes of the flexible construction completed by Fang Plover and MTT are too high. They don't even need to activate the quick burst plug-in prepared in advance, but simply overload the construction body to unlock it directly.

The design of the Magic Furnace, which was born out of the Kingfisher Workshop, is good at stably overloading for a long time, so Kaolin's side easily solved the problem.

As for some third-tier structures, such as the Orphen Gemini Virus Type III, it can't be locked because its basic attributes have already exceeded the upper limit of the lock. In front of these structures, the Virus Type III has no sense of existence.

The performance of the crowd even numbed the audience in the Wandering Horse live broadcast room, "Shut it off, it's boring..." The crowd said so.

However, the subsequent nightmare construction still caused the Colin people to fall into a hard fight.

In the battle scale of the Knight Tower, there were only four nightmares, but there were as many as twenty of them at one time, and the fourth-order constructs surpassed all the third-order constructs in terms of attributes. It's from Dragon Alchemist's handwriting and it doesn't work either.

And the only Orphen twins are just to stabilize the front so that they will not be repelled like the imperials.

Only at this moment——

On the other side of the battlefield, of course Fang Plover did not disappear, but was silently observing the battle situation in the woods here.He puts one hand in his purse and holds a pocket watch in the other—the pocket watch with a cupronickel cover also has the characteristics of space.

Because the timer brought in from outside cannot truly reflect the time in this space.

Not far behind him was Wucun who was completing the preparations.Fang Plover looked back at the latter and asked, "Are you ready?" Wucun nodded, and was putting some small objects and tools into the tool bag - a few brushes, a needle pliers and a small hammer.

He strapped the kit to his arm, and said, "These things are of no use here, but they serve as amulets."

Fang Yan nodded, and he closed the watch cover. On his right hand was the magic glove that had already been put on—Luo Wei also assigned the authority of some fairy dolls so that he could observe the situation on the battlefield through the eyepiece.

A few silver bees hovering in mid-air recorded the entire battle situation from a fixed perspective, and soon, a new type of construct appeared behind the battlefield.It was a huge, fortress-like construct.

Fang Plover pulled down his goggles, silently bringing these constructs into his field of vision——

"Fangs," said Han Rui, who remained silent for a long time, and the stray horse also looked away from there. He cut back to the screen and just saw this scene, "A long-range fortress-like structure, with a very powerful long-range Firepower and protection ability. It looks like it has a very different style from the structure under the control of the steeple, but it is actually a kind of psionic structure, which has the ability to invade the mind, and the human sea tactics are not good for this kind of structure.”

"The fangs used to be a psionic construct that only appeared in the F area, but this year it appeared in the D area." The barrage in the live broadcast room also knew the goods, "Why has the difficulty increased so much? The storm tower that we took down was too difficult, maybe Ed and the others were unlucky to encounter a higher tower, and now it's a little troublesome."

Although Area F is not yet the core area, it is already the last sector close to the core area, and the strength of the constructs there is already very high.

The stray horse also pursed its lips and said nothing.

Fang Plover was staring at a weak spot above the torso under the bulky psionic constructs in his field of vision, and a virus construct covered that position from time to time, but his lips moved, as if he was silently calculating something.

Then he said: "Senior sister, connect my vision."

"Ed." A familiar voice came from the communication crystal.

"Permission," Fang Yan raised his magic glove, and almost at the same time, the silver-gray Valkyrie not far from him also raised his left hand, pointing the slender black and white spear in that direction.

"Gungnir," Fang Plover said softly, "Attack——"

A beam of black light.

Traversing the battlefield, it directly pierced through that tall and terrifying psionic construct.

It is like a fleeting thin line, but when it lights up, it penetrates every mechanical monster on its path, and when the light dies, all the structures it passes through emit bright sparks, and then Disappeared in a blaze of fire.

Fang Plover gently clenched his fist downwards.

"Valkyrie, attack!"

A silver figure shot straight out from the forest.

Her goal is the Psionic Machinery Casting Center in the central area in front of her.

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(End of this chapter)