Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 252 Thunder Chisel
Although Xue Wuxia had personal experience fighting against the silver Buddha statues, and had also learned relevant experience from other players who had entered the Great Leiyin Temple, he had estimated that it would be extremely difficult to destroy the golden body of Tathagata, but when it came to the actual battle, he still found that he had underestimated the power of all 108 silver Buddha statues. They slid quickly on the ground, flew fast in the sky, moved in and out, and cooperated tacitly, not giving us any chance to fight one-on-one or launch a siege easily, effectively offsetting our advantage in numbers. Once a Buddha statue was seriously injured, it would immediately leave the battle circle and return to the rear, resting in peace under the protection of the golden body of Tathagata. When inactive, these Buddha statues seemed to be able to further speed up their self-repair, waiting to recover their combat effectiveness before returning to the front line to fight. Considering the powerful strength of the big boss Tathagata, we didn't dare to go too deep under the frequent harassment of many silver Buddha statues. If we were trapped in the siege, we couldn't effectively dodge the sniping of Tathagata, which would only be a meaningless consumption of strength, and we couldn't seize the opportunity to completely destroy the silver Buddha statue in one fell swoop. This greatly enhanced the continuous combat capability of the silver Buddha statue. Without knowing the strength of the opponent's combat power, we underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, and our defense was a little lax. We launched several consecutive attacks, but we didn't achieve much results. Instead, the silver Buddha statue took advantage of the situation to counterattack. Instead of fighting with Xue Wuxia and Afeng's frontal attack troops, they split up and raided our rear, causing us to pay a heavy price of more than 20 players killed and more than a dozen players seriously injured, and only destroyed three silver Buddha statues. We suffered a little loss at the beginning of the war , which made our originally high morale depressed. We had to suspend the attack and dispatch people to repel the invading silver Buddha statues first. It turns out that divine artifacts are not so easy to obtain. If the team is a little weaker, or the tactics they implement are not reasonable enough, and they cannot form a more effective coordination than the 108 silver Buddha statues, they will probably end up in a dismal ending and can't expect any ideal gains.
Although time is precious, we must completely destroy the Tathagata's golden body within twelve hours to obtain the main artifact reward, but we must not be too impatient. If we attack rashly, it will easily leave opportunities for the opponent. Realizing the mistakes we made, Xue Wuxia and Afeng, who were in charge of the command, immediately adjusted the tactics. The silver Buddha statues are by no means so easy to destroy. They will not be easily lured into following our plan and compete with us head-on. Instead, they have higher wisdom and will find our weaknesses to attack and cause us greater damage. We must be prepared for a protracted war, deal with them patiently, and defeat them one by one. This is the most reasonable tactic to destroy them. We quickly changed the formation, set up a line of defense in the front, strengthened the protection of the rear camp, and paid attention to assisting the defense between the teams. Even if the silver Buddha statues continue to launch raids, it is not easy to cause too much damage. At the same time, we further narrowed the attack points and no longer dispersed the players to attack too many targets at one time. Having seen the tacit cooperation between the 108 silver Buddha statues, it is difficult to cause as much damage to them as possible in the shortest time with such tactics, and achieve the goal of complete destruction. It will only lead to a stalemate, and delaying it will be more disadvantageous to us. Only by concentrating superior forces, launching key attacks, and besieging a silver Buddha statue with multiple people, can it be difficult for it to find a chance to retreat with the support of other Buddha statues, and be destroyed in one fell swoop. Strive to gain something in each assault, so that there is hope to destroy these silver Buddha statues in the shortest time and directly threaten the golden body of Tathagata.
Careful observation and analysis show that these silver Buddha statues are not all the same. Most of them have different characteristics and play different roles. Some are larger in size, move more slowly, and have stronger defensive capabilities. They usually rush to the front line to block our attack head-on; some are smaller in size and move quickly, suitable for guerrilla support or medium- and long-range raids, and pose a considerable threat to us. We need to pay attention to their positions and performances at all times to avoid being taken advantage of by them; some have stronger attack power, but a slightly lower attack frequency; some have a very fast attack frequency, but weaker attack power. We also need to treat them separately, dispatch corresponding personnel according to the characteristics of the silver Buddha statue to be attacked, and adopt appropriate tactics to destroy them more effectively.
I hid in the back, constantly summoning six-armed giant magicians to fight, an average of one batch every five minutes, seven at a time when performing the "blood transformation" state. If it weren't for the need to spend some time to command them to play the advantage of ultra-long-range attacks, cooperate with the teammates in front to fight more effectively, and not be able to concentrate on absorbing mental power, the normal speed should be only four minutes each time. Xue Wuxia has invested almost all of her savings in this operation, and there is no extra money to think about artifacts in a short period of time. What she needs is a main artifact to make up for her slight gap with Hua Mantian in personal strength, and to have the strength to compete with Hua Mantian, who is expected to obtain the main artifact of light sooner or later. For this operation, she has poured almost all her hopes. For the sake of Afeng's future happy life, I also spared no expense this time, summoning more than a hundred in succession, and summoned more than two-thirds of the six-armed giant magicians under my command - the number is limited, and it is not easy to replenish, but I have accumulated more than half a year of hard work, if they all die here, I will be heartbroken. Of course, the effect is also very significant. A single giant magician does not show much power, but once they gather into a group, they are definitely a force that cannot be ignored and can play a huge role. At one time, a piece of "Torch Stone Bomb" is thrown out, and the six arms are used in rotation. There is not much time to ask. Even a strong silver Buddha statue cannot withstand too many bombardments. The more six-armed giant magicians are summoned, the greater the power they show, which effectively curbs the mobile support and counterattack actions of the silver Buddha statue, and wins more opportunities for the front-line commandos to besiege and destroy the silver Buddha statue.
The Silver Buddha statue also recognized the dangers of the six-armed giant magician cluster, but the ultra-long-range attack method allowed them to hide far behind, relying on the "large lightning array" to add a layer of protection. In front of them, many magicians, especially shooters, gathered, and they had extremely strong defensive capabilities. The Silver Buddha statue launched several surprise attacks. Although it killed some six-armed giant magicians and other long-range attack players, we took advantage of the situation to counterattack and destroyed several of them. We were forced to retreat and returned in defeat without being able to gain any advantage. After summoning more than a hundred six-armed giant magicians, I continued to summon black bone dragons to fight. Their strength was not too weak. The Silver Buddha statue could only kill them with three or five electric shocks. They were most suitable for going deep into the enemy camp and acting as "cannon fodder" to harass and contain. In order to help Xue Wuxia win the final victory, I could not afford to care for them at all. Basically, as many as I summoned died in battle, making the greatest possible contribution to the operation of destroying the Silver Buddha statue. There is no other way. If I don't work so hard in front of everyone and cooperate with Afeng, Xue Wuxia and others to set an example, it will be difficult to mobilize everyone's morale and make everyone fight for their lives and launch a more efficient attack to completely destroy the golden body of Tathagata within twelve hours, when more of the reliance is on personal relationships and there is no big enough benefit as a reward.
The magician's defense ability is too low, and he dare not go too far to fight the silver Buddha statue with long-range attack ability. The accuracy of the "Torch Stone Bomb" performed by the six-armed giant magician is slightly lower, and it is easy to accidentally hurt his own people in the melee. He is more responsible for defense and harassment to contain the actions of the silver Buddha statue. The main force to destroy the silver Buddha statue is the shooter with a long attack distance, especially the sniper shooter and melee professional players. In addition to the four professions with summoning skills, such as the priest of light, the knight of light, the necromancer and the magic knight, and the knight profession that can ride pets, the ninth-level players of other neutral professions have an additional skill of "merging" with the ninth-level or tenth-level pets, which can be learned by completing a specific professional task. Many players who have been promoted to the ninth-level profession earlier have already mastered it. In the battle, it depends on the specific situation to decide whether to fight separately or merge and attack. After merging, the player's attack power, defense power and agility can be increased by a certain percentage according to the ability of the pet, which can play a greater role in some cases. The leader of the 100-man small mercenary group with a level 10 upper-level holy pet, Shining Gold, who was recruited by us to join, is a warrior who focuses on attacking. He holds a high-priced holy weapon-level two-handed axe. After combining with his holy pet Behemoth, he showed extremely strong attack power, even more eye-catching than Afeng who holds the artifact "Blood-sucking Spear" - unable to absorb life from these Buddha statues, even with "three heads and six arms", the effect of "Blood-sucking Spear" is also discounted. The time of subduing the mount Phoenix is relatively short, and the cooperation is not tacit, so the lethality to the silver Buddha statue is not as good as Shining Gold. If this guy was not "lust-obsessed" and wanted to pursue Diewu, we would not be able to recruit him to join this time.
Xue Wuxia and Kong Cuiming Wang merged together and cast thunder defense magic to protect several top melee professionals such as Afeng and Shining Gold. Each time, they chose a silver Buddha statue to besiege. With the strong support of several top sniper shooters such as Yun Wuying and Nan Feiyan, they tried to destroy the silver Buddha statue in the shortest time. After several successes at the beginning, the silver Buddha statue became more vigilant and paid more attention to guarding against their main attack team. They arranged more silver Buddha statues to "take care" of them and tried to avoid being trapped in their siege. It became more and more difficult to destroy the silver Buddha statue in one fell swoop. They always escaped in time and could not seize the opportunity to give a fatal blow. They could only patiently capture the opportunity in the entanglement. Fortunately, the wisdom of the silver Buddha statue is still not comparable to that of us master players. The instructions set by the system for them seem to emphasize offense as the main focus, trying their best to eliminate the invaders, rather than relying on the Tathagata's golden body to stabilize the defense and deliberately delay time, so that we still have some opportunities to use. As long as we reveal some flaws in our actions and make these silver Buddha statues feel that they can take advantage, they will take the initiative to attack and it will be easy for them to fall into our encirclement. We will use smaller sacrifices to gain greater benefits and destroy the silver Buddha statues one by one.
Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. Since we have decided to end the battle within twelve hours, destroy the golden body of Tathagata in one fell swoop, and win the reward of the main artifact, we have no room for emergency. We would rather risk getting nothing in the end and give it our all. All actions are planned within twelve hours. The destruction of the silver light Buddha statue is exchanged for the sacrifice of some personnel. We will launch a direct attack on the golden body of Tathagata. According to the rules, in order to avoid our players' speculative behavior of delaying time, the system will automatically repair the golden body of Tathagata and the surviving silver light Buddha statues after twelve hours, so that they can meet the enemy in good condition. Once our goal is set too high, the overall strength of the team is slightly insufficient, and the loss of soldiers and generals has not been able to destroy the golden body of Tathagata within the twelve-hour time limit, we will face more severe tests, and there will be no advantage. This can also be regarded as a disguised compensation for the weakening of the power of the silver light Buddha statue by referring to the average strength of the current master players. It will not be so easy to get the artifact reward. The slightest mistake could lead to failure and loss of capital. The more I think about it, the more sinister it seems. I wonder if this is a way for the authorities to "rob the rich and help the poor" and provide most players with an opportunity to earn extra money.
The team collected the lightning protection equipment and props from the three major old and powerful mercenary groups, Tongxin League, Longteng, and Xingyue, as well as some other small and medium-sized forces, to enhance the lightning resistance of the team members, especially the top masters who were responsible for close combat with the silver light Buddha statue. Everyone was equipped with several pieces, so that they could fight with the silver light Buddha statue as much as possible. Good logistics support played a very important role in the battle, reducing a lot of casualties, so that many players were not killed on the spot by powerful attacks, and were seriously injured and withdrawn to the "large lightning protection array". After emergency treatment by the water magician, they rested for a while to recover their physical strength, and then they could continue to rush to the front line to fight, so that they would not be consumed too much strength by the silver light Buddha statue in the fierce battle in the early stage, and they would not be able to destroy the golden body of Tathagata. After more than seven hours of fierce fighting, at the cost of more than 300 players, most of the silver light Buddha statues were destroyed, leaving only a dozen flying in the sky and twenty sliding on the ground, and they all suffered heavy injuries. However, seeing that the situation was not good, they gave up the tactic of actively attacking and killing us, and chose to retreat to the vicinity of the Tathagata statue to confront us. No matter how we lured them, they refused to attack again. It seemed that they were determined to defend with all their strength. Time was running out. We could not continue to tangle with these remaining silver Buddha statues. We could only launch a full-scale attack and fight with the Tathagata statue with all our strength. Either it died or we lost. We must strive to completely destroy it within the deadline of twelve hours.
Facing the golden body of Tathagata, he felt its tyrannical power. Under the palm of Tathagata, a melee professional player who had been promoted to the ninth level and did not have a tenth level magic pet was smashed to pieces on the spot without any resistance. The lightning released from the eyes has an effective attack range of up to 500 meters. Magicians, archers, and six-armed giant magicians are all under its threat when they attack it. Once they are hit, they will be killed in one blow. The roar of thunder from the mouth is a range attack. The thunder sound enters the ears, and the mind is distracted and the movement is sluggish. If the Tathagata golden body is unfortunately targeted and attacked at this time, it is basically a sure death. The golden light and purple lightning on the surface of the Tathagata golden body complement each other. Although it cannot move, it has extremely strong defense and self-recovery capabilities. We attacked hard for a long time, but there seemed to be no change. We didn't know how much damage it had suffered, and we had no way of estimating whether we could destroy it within twelve hours. This was the most torturous thing. We could only try our best to launch a fierce attack, improve the efficiency of the attack, and not give it more time to breathe and recover.
Time was running out, and there was no hope of winning by fighting in a guerrilla battle. We had no choice but to fight with the Tathagata's body and use the simplest and most direct human wave tactics to take a risk. We also called up the "Large Lightning Array" to cover the magicians and archers in launching long-range attacks on the Tathagata's body. With the Tathagata's intelligence, he would not know to focus on attacking the lightning magicians who were in formation first, and the electric beams shot from his eyes could not resist the lightning magicians with strong lightning ability. With the weakening effect of the "Large Lightning Array", he could support it for a while longer. After such a long battle, the water magicians no longer had much mental power to treat the seriously injured. Every member could only fight desperately to attack the Tathagata's body twice more before dying. At this time, it was a matter of who would survive longer. Fortunately, this was not a Tathagata with many eyes or hands. He only had two eyes, one mouth and two hands. He could not withstand our large number of people and could only fight with us to see who could hold out to the end.
With only ten minutes to spare before the twelve-hour deadline, we only had forty or fifty players left after the suicidal attacks. The "Great Lightning Array" had already been broken, and even more than half of my six-armed giant magicians had been lost. If it weren't for the Tathagata's golden body attacking the players first, I'm afraid we would have been wiped out. Perhaps it was because we were strong enough, or perhaps it was because we were just a little luckier. The Tathagata's golden body finally lost its golden and purple glow, and with a tremor all over its body, it collapsed with a loud bang, dropping a chisel that was about a foot long and gleaming with colorful divine light. As the person who submitted the task, Xue Wuxia was eligible to pick up the reward items. She excitedly rushed forward, took a quick look, and told Afeng and me the name of the artifact in her hand, "It's the main artifact of the thunder magician profession - Thunder God Chisel!"
