Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 570 "White Night in My Heart" [6k words]

Three hours later, in the Lailai Cult training room.

Entangled Blade, Return to Heaven!

boom--! !

On the empty training ground, a blood-red sword light shot up into the sky, instantly engulfing the terrifying figure emitting a strong bloody aura like a vicious beast, causing the entire ground to tremble violently.

[Challenge successful, time taken 2'59'37, current difficulty level: Level 40]

[Because the challenger has passed the highest difficulty level of the current rank, the difficulty of "White Night in the Heart" has been unlocked]

[It is detected that the challenger has successfully challenged the maximum difficulty level of the current contract. Do you agree to record the challenger's data in this simulation action? ]

[Statement: This data will be sealed in the academic sect database at the highest confidentiality level and will only be used for experiments and function development purposes. If the challenger agrees to record it, as compensation, when a new version of this simulation action is developed in the future, you will be invited to experience it first! ]

"call……"

On the training ground, Xin Lailai, bathed in the repair light beam of the protection mode, glanced at the control console behind him and the long string of data displayed on his own branding interface, breathed a sigh of relief, and with a thought, he released the elf assimilation state.

"In this way, almost all the tests that need to be conducted have been completed..."

Xin Lailai felt her body quickly recovering to its pre-training state, and a look of satisfaction appeared in her eyes.

During these three hours, he and Ling Yuzi, with the help of Bai Ye's projection, basically tested everything that could be tested.

The most frequent test was about their current blocking ability. Xin Lailai divided it into several different situations based on their current blocking strength. The first was blocking when only the lowest bonus of [White God Defense] was triggered and Yuan Mo was not used. This was the blocking method they used when they first induced the White Night Projection to launch a direct kick.

According to Xin Lailai's test, this level of blocking is just enough to dissolve a full-strength kick from Bai Ye Projection in normal state, but the prerequisite is that the opponent cannot have more than 2 pieces of the four randomly obtained legendary melee-enhanced accessories used to enhance "kicking skills", and cannot trigger the set effect 3 of Bai Ye Projection's "Hunter Set".

On this basis, if the equipment effect 2 of "White God Defense" is triggered, that is, the defensive performance when blocking is increased by 25 points, then he can withstand a kick with the buff of 3 kick skill accessories; and if all equipment effects of "White God Defense" are triggered, that is, he gets a range blocking judgment, then he can firmly withstand the kick brought by 4 kick skill buff accessories + 1 kick skill enhanced armor + kick skill master LV.20, and this is without using Yuan Mo, and directly blocking with bare hands.

However, these are all cases where the set effect 3 of the "Hunter Set" is not triggered.

After repeated tests, Xin Lailai has confirmed that as long as the White Night Projection triggers the set effect 3 of the "Hunter Set"... that is, putting the opponent into a "near-death protection" state, the opponent's damage will immediately double. Note that it is not a 100% increase in damage, but a direct 100% increase in final damage, and all attacks will be accompanied by high armor penetration and cutting effects!

In this case, the threat caused by Bai Ye's projection's straight kick can be said to be rising in a straight line. Even if he doesn't have an accessory that enhances his kicking skills, he must trigger all the equipment effects of "White God Defense" to block it. Once he has the enhancement of a kicking skill accessory, the situation will become that although he can block the opponent's kick, the protective energy in his body will be kicked out alive, and the protective energy will be kicked out of a "discrete" state for about 1 seconds, making him unable to use any abilities related to the protective energy during this period, which is commonly known as the "strong and domineering" state being broken by a kick.

As for going further up, it is no longer something that can be blocked with bare hands:

2 kicking skill enhancement accessories + set effect 3 of the "Hunter Set", using the "initial form" Yuan Mo + "White God Defense" that triggers all effects, you can barely avoid being kicked out of the domineering state.

3 kicking skill enhancement accessories + set effect 3 of the "Hunter Set", using "Indestructible Form" Yuan Mo + "White God Defense" that triggers all effects, I can barely withstand the attack with less than 20% of my health loss while having my body protection energy emptied.

4 kicking skill enhancement accessories + set effect 3 of the "Hunter Set", using "Unbreakable Form" Yuan Mo + "White God Defense" that triggers all effects. Even if you use Yuan Mo to block it and survive, there is a high probability that only a skin of blood will be left.

This was the conclusion they came to after spending about an hour and a half testing. As far as the result was concerned, it was actually very satisfactory. After all, although they failed to perfectly block the last two levels of direct kicks, that itself was a test under extreme circumstances.

Under normal circumstances, a guy whose main skill is swordsmanship would never attach kicking skill bonuses to all four accessory slots when he already has an armor that enhances kicking skills. You have to know that even for them, the only buffs directly related to blocking are "White God Defense (Legendary armor)" + "Abyss Ink (main weapon)" + "Defense for My Will (SSS-level second talent)", instead of replacing all accessories with equipment with blocking bonuses. From this point of view, their current blocking ability is almost unbreakable in the third tier.

As for why only normal blocking is effective against straight kicks, and why Blade Entanglement and Heaven Return is not used?

It's simple, because there is no difference in the results.

In fact, it can be seen from his battle with Jiren Yuanying that although this technique is a blocking move, its core is to use the enemy's offensive to counterattack after blocking the attack. The advantage is that there will be a short range blocking judgment when using it, but it will not increase the strength of the block. The nature of the move is obviously more restrained against energy damage rather than physical damage.

Of course, theoretically speaking, if you use the Blade of the Sky to block the direct kick from the Byakuya Projection, you can indeed deal higher damage with the counter.

As for why it is theoretically? It's very simple, because from the time the "Hunter Suit" buff is activated, basically as long as Bai Ye Projection uses a kicking skill on him and he withstands it, the opponent's right leg or left leg will 100% shake into a puff of blood mist. At this time, Bai Ye Projection will either immediately use Dragon Shadow to flash into the space shuttle state, or be forced to let his body fly backwards at a speed of more than 1000m/s, and he can't catch up.

At least, according to these three hours of testing, the greatest value of his Blade Entanglement: Heaven Reincarnation is actually to block the opponent's slashing attacks mixed with a large amount of blood and Blue Steel Shadow energy, as well as the blood beast bites released by his talent, compared to blocking pure physical damage attacks such as straight kicks. These energy-based attacks can basically be blocked without making a sound when facing Blade Entanglement: Heaven Reincarnation.

There is also the "Sword Barrier" and "Defensive Barrier" provided by their second talent. Since these two abilities themselves have no cooldown, Xin Lailai naturally tested them many times with Ling Yuzi and tried out all the ideas in his mind.

The most critical thing is the control over the domain. As they have experience in using the Star Domain, their first reaction when they see the abilities within this domain is whether they can actively control the 'shape' and 'effect' of the domain to achieve the maximum effect with the minimum consumption.

After about an hour of testing, they came to a very detailed and clear conclusion:
——The range of the "Sword Barrier" and the "Defensive Barrier" can indeed be controlled, but it is very troublesome, and the effect is not as good as they imagined.

Taking the "Sword Barrier" as an example, they can indeed mold a spherical field with a radius of 80m into a cubic field with a length, width and height of about 130m, so as to change the range in which the field is effective in actual combat, but they cannot change the bonus effect of the field itself.

Simply put, they cannot create a "Sword Barrier" with a radius of only 8m but a time lag of 0.8 seconds. They can only create a "Sword Barrier" with a radius of 8m and a time lag of 0.08 seconds, or a radius of 80m and a time lag of 0.8 seconds.

As for the reason for this result, it is because no matter whether it is the "Sword Barrier" or the "Defensive Barrier", the intensity of the time and space effects they bring is based on a "positive feedback space-time force field". Simply put, how much energy is consumed determines how much effect is produced. If you want to produce a time delay of 0.8 seconds, you must consume 8000 points of sword power. If you want to perform a space displacement of 800m in length, you must consume 8000 points of body protection energy.

In this way, the benefits of controlling the "shape" of the barrier suddenly became not so good.

Among them, the "Sword Barrier" is fine. After all, even if it cannot increase the time lag, at least it can extend the maximum effective range of the time lag in this way.

But the "defensive barrier" is very awkward, because the activation distance of space displacement is so large. Therefore, no matter how the farthest boundary of the barrier is expanded, the effective activity radius for the resonant object is still the spherical area around the zero-residue. In this case, if you spend extra energy to change the shape of the barrier, it can be said to be a waste of time.

By the way, he and Ling Yuzi also tested the specific effects of "Time Slowdown" and "Space Replacement". The slowdown multiplier of "Time Slowdown" is about 10~800 times, and the speed of "Space Replacement" is about 10~800km/s. The range of variation corresponds exactly to the minimum to maximum release radius of the two barriers.

They also conducted detailed tests on the secondary invincibility effect produced by the "space displacement". The "secondary invincibility" effect formed by the weakest "defensive barrier" produced by 100 points of body protection energy during the displacement is probably the weakest of the secondary invincibility effects. It can only barely block attacks from the third level to the edge of the fourth level. If it encounters a stronger space impact, it may even crash halfway. The "secondary invincibility" effect formed by 8000 points of body protection energy is so strong that it can easily block attacks from the fifth level, and there is no need to worry about crashing.

Such a gap basically sentences the operation of releasing small-scale barriers multiple times to death. After all, the release of the barrier itself has a startup load, just like the power consumed when large equipment is turned on. Taking the "Sword Barrier" as an example, assuming that the load borne by the body when he releases a sword barrier with a radius of 80m is 100, then the load borne by the body when releasing the "Sword Barrier" with a radius of 1m is 21, and the load borne by the body when releasing the "Sword Barrier" with a radius of 10m is 30. No matter how to reduce the consumption, it cannot change the 20-point basic load brought by starting the "Sword Barrier" itself.

In this case, coupled with the difference in effect between small-scale barriers and large-scale barriers, as long as you are not crazy, you can at most make a choice between releasing two 2m-level barriers and one 30-level barrier, instead of thinking about placing five 1m-level barriers in a battle.

The above are the main contents of their tests in these three hours. As for other details such as the physical damage reduction in the double strong body state superimposed to 40%, the accuracy of the Star Luo field's spatial perception, the testing of new techniques and moves in actual combat... and so on, they were basically handled in the process of blocking and talent ability testing, and did not take up too much of their time and energy.

"Speaking of which, I feel like this challenge went much more smoothly than before..."

In front of the console, Ling Yuzi flipped through the challenge records on the screen and complained.

When she and Lai Lai challenged the high-level White Night Contract before, they basically had to fail many times before they could pass it. But this time, if she didn't need to use the White Night Projection to test the data, she would probably be able to pass the highest level White Night Contract in about ten tries at most.

"It is true. How should I put it... I always feel that the points added to the third-level White Night Projection are a bit too extreme?"

Xin Lailai looked at the challenge record on the screen, touched his chin and thought.

To be honest, in terms of difficulty, the difficulty of this level 40 White Night Contract can be said to be not low at all. This can be seen from the fact that the Death Keeper is still stuck at level 39 in the challenge record. You must know that in terms of real strength, they are now obviously weaker than the Death Keeper who has completed professional awakening + first talent second awakening + second talent awakening, but the opponent's challenge record stops at level 39 White Night Contract, which actually explains a lot of problems.

——The reason why they were able to pass the level 40 White Night Contract so easily this time was entirely because the content of this White Night Contract happened to be perfectly restrained by them.

Apart from other things, the blocking master alone not only destroyed the opponent's kicking master, but also greatly improved the ability to parry the opponent's slashing, allowing them to deal with the opponent's offensive with ease, and their entangled blades and heaven-turning just happened to kill the opponent's "Blood Beast" and "Blood Spear Master". In addition, after a long period of challenge, they have long been very familiar with the logic of Bai Ye Projection's moves, and Bai Ye Projection's full-point output "fragile" point allocation directly allowed them to suppress the opponent to death despite their professional restraint. On the contrary, it was the point allocation method of the Death Master, which also took an extreme offensive route, that made it difficult for the opponent to encounter an enemy like Bai Ye Contract who used the kicking master as a one-time ultimate move.

Especially when it has "Near-Death Protection" and "Honor Revival Potion", the level 40 White Night Contract can be treated as a big boss with 2 lives + 4 instant recovery methods. It can be said to be extremely unfriendly to people like the Death Bearer who take the burst output route.

After all, when both sides put all their points into attacking, their outputs are basically on a per-second basis. At this time, if one side has an extra life, the impact on the outcome is naturally self-evident.

"Lai Lai, do you think we should try the new difficulty mentioned in the update announcement?"

Suddenly, Ling Yuzi seemed to have thought of something. He looked at the options on the console with some curiosity and made a suggestion to Xin Lailai.

Challenge the difficulty of "White Night in My Heart"?
Upon hearing this, Xin Lailai's eyes moved slightly and looked at the new option marked with a blood-red border on the screen. After thinking for a while, a hint of anticipation flashed in her eyes.

If they think about it carefully, with their current configuration, they can indeed try to challenge this so-called new difficulty level. At worst, they can just take it as an experience of this so-called super-high difficulty challenge.

Moreover, after trying the level 40 difficulty White Night Projection for three hours, he is now very confident about the level White Night Projection.

So, he stopped hesitating and pressed the option at the bottom. The next second, a line of prompts popped up:
[Tip: The "White Night in My Heart" challenge is about to start. This challenge will use the "Data Memory" function, and the equipment configuration and ability simulation of the White Night projection will change to a large extent. At the same time, in order to ensure the authenticity of the challenge experience, this challenge will not provide the "White Night in My Heart" information panel, and challengers need to use detection equipment to explore on their own]

[Yes/No to start the challenge]

They don’t even provide an information panel?

"It's just a difficulty level, but you're making it so mysterious?"

Xin Lailai looked at the prompt in front of her, a hint of curiosity appeared in her eyes, and she pressed the confirmation button directly.

[Confirmed. "White Night in the Heart" projection generation begins. Countdown 10, 9, 8...]

Om-! !

The next second, a blood-red beam of light rose from the training ground. Extremely rich blood energy instantly filled the entire training ground, and wisps of dark blue lightning arcs spread from the air.

It’s quite a grand ceremony?

Xin Lailai sensed the scene in front of him, took out the [Eye of the Lord] with great interest, and after entering the elf fusion state with Ling Yuzi, he slowly looked at the blood-red light column in front of him.

To be honest, he was really curious about what the producer had designed to create such a grand scene.

【3...2...1】

The cold electronic countdown continued to sound from the radio. On the training ground, the oppressive feeling from the blood-red light column began to become stronger and stronger. Xin Lailai looked at this scene, standing calmly in place, without any panic on his face. Finally -

[Generation completed, challenge begins! 】

"Roar--!!"

In an instant, an extremely ferocious blood-red beast, carrying a monstrous blood and oppressive feeling, roared and pounced towards Xin Lailai.

He actually used this ultimate ability right at the start?
Xin Lailai looked at the bloody angry beast that was approaching in an instant, and a strange look flashed in his eyes.

SSS-level talent: Blood Beast.

A lethal talent that can instantly cause tens of thousands of points of damage that ignores defense and stuns for a very long time. Even if a contractor is from the outer echelon, once hit by this talent in battle, he will instantly go from full health to a severely disabled person.

They had fought with Bai Ye's Projection so many times before, but this was the first time that the opponent used the Blood Beast to greet them at the beginning.

but……

'You've arrived just in time!'

Xin Lailai faced the bloody beast in front of her without dodging or evading. She simply picked up Yuan Mo and blocked it in front of her!
Boom——! !

The next moment, golden light symbolizing protective energy burst out from its body and sword, knocking the bloody giant beast that was swooping forward to the ground. Under the pressure of the protective energy, it turned into pure and violent blood, and was finally compressed on the surface of Yuan Mo's sword.

Immediately afterwards, Xin Lailai took a heavy step forward, sensing the figure shrouded in blood in front of him, and slashed down with a sword without hesitation.

Entangled Blade, Return to Heaven!

boom!
Instantly, the entire training ground trembled heavily under the pressure of this sword. At the same time, a blood-red slash that was amplified twice by the sword's force soared into the sky and rushed straight towards the Bai Ye projection standing in the same place, and then...

Om-! !

not good! ! !

In an instant, without any reason, an extremely strong sense of crisis rose from Xin Lailai's body. Seeing this, Xin Lailai mobilized his sword without hesitation and was about to release the space shuttle to evade, when a dark color suddenly bloomed from Xin Lailai's sight.

boom--! !

In an instant, a vast amount of darkness erupted with the Bai Ye projection as the center, instantly engulfing Xin Lailai's figure. At the same time, a terrifying feeling of oppression instantly descended upon him, causing his body to suddenly lower downwards. At the same time, the Xing Luo domain that originally covered the entire training ground seemed to have suddenly suffered a huge blow and was compressed to less than 30m.

But at the moment, Xin Lailai had no energy to care about these things, or rather, at the moment, the only thing left in his mind was the "cordialest" greetings to the designer.

because……

——The designer of this groove brought this kind of thing here!!!

[Hint: You are suffering from the effect of "Dead Silence Corrosion", your movement speed is reduced by 98% (Grandmaster of Heavy Sword is exempt from 1%), and your maximum health is lost by 5% per second (Grandmaster of Heavy Sword is exempt from 2%).]

[Tip: Due to high-level potential energy suppression, this detection can only detect the current unit's capabilities and equipment]

……

【「White Night in My Heart」】

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Skill 17, Deathly Silence (Ultimate Set Ability, Active, LV.MAX): After activating this ability, the user will be unable to move, and the area within 300m of the user will be rapidly assimilated by the "Dead City". The movement speed of all units in this area will be reduced by 99%, and the nerve reflex speed and dynamic vision will be reduced by 80%. They will suffer erosion damage of 7~20% of their maximum health per second, which lasts for a maximum of 10 seconds.

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(End of this chapter)