Demon Village is a Product of a Virtue-Lacking Producer

The river blocking the path was very wide, but closer to the Demon King's Castle, there were two river islands, one large and one small, which divided the originally wide and turbulent river into one wide and two narrow branches.

On the widest of these branches, there was a magically propelled, constantly moving platform, while the two narrower branches could be crossed with a simple sprint and jump.

However, crossing the river itself wasn't the problem. The real issue was the malice of the Chosen Evolution Space and the Demon Village producers that came with it.

The producer of Demon Village was named Tokuro Fujiwara. This was a producer who, with a hint of FUCK attitude already emerging, left Konami and went straight to Capcom, which hadn't yet changed its name at the time. When making Demon Village, this guy had already revealed his depraved nature of "enjoying torturing players."

From the very beginning, the level design of Demon Village, which was never intended to have a sequel, was completely aimed at killing every player.

Fujiwara even set up a test point at an arcade near the company, putting the unfinished test version directly into the machine for people to play for free, and then, using his position in the company, he would secretly observe the players' progress.

Whenever he found a place where players could pass smoothly without getting stuck, Tokuro Fujiwara would immediately record it and rush back to the company, modifying the code overnight to add obstacles to the road preventing players from completing the game normally...

Clearly, the Chosen Evolution Space had also emphasized and restored this depraved aspect.

Talk about authentic!

The moment Cheng Tian jumped off the moving platform on the river, he inexplicably sensed something and immediately got goosebumps all over his body.

At the same time, six or seven shield-wielding suits of armor, which had been completely empty, suddenly appeared in the distance, gradually solidifying from nothingness, floating in mid-air and slowly approaching Cheng Tian and the others in an S-shaped trajectory like crests and troughs.

[Specter Armor: Common Template, Ghost Unit. HP=1, MP=120. Strength 1, Agility 5, Spirit 12, Charm 0.]

[Monster Trait - Puppet Armor]

If Arthur, rather than Cheng Tian, had seen them at this moment, he would have immediately recognized that these floating knight armors were the armors of the kingdom knights who had sacrificed themselves alongside him when they broke into the Demon King's Castle.

Now, these human knight armors were all being put to good use, driven by ghost units that could control inanimate objects, to deter any audacious intruders.

The Specter Armor's attack method was very special. The empty shells of armor they controlled were basically unable to launch normal attacks, and could only use the armor's own mass and the shields they held to physically oppress intruders with a kind of telekinetic control. Their ultimate goal was to push people into the water, which was also the main reason why Cheng Tian and the others triggered the Specter Armor's spawn as soon as they reached the river island.

At this moment, Cheng Tian and the others were completely trapped on the small island in the middle of the river, in a truly difficult situation.

These Specters controlled by the Demon King's side didn't have much intelligence. They would only faithfully execute all magic commands. The Demon King's combat instructions to them could basically be summarized in one word: mischief.

The Specter Armor group simply hovered in the air above the river island, constantly circling back and forth, neither approaching nor moving away, but as soon as someone tried to approach the edge of the island to cross the river, they would immediately rush down and deliver a shield strike with not much force, but enough to throw people off balance.

This would be fine if it was just on the riverbank, but if they were already jumping or on a moving platform, they would most likely be knocked into the cold river water.

The Specter Armor's durability completely depended on the durability of the attached armor, and even if the armor was broken, the Specter itself would usually not be harmed. For them, they only needed to change into another suit of armor to continue returning to the battlefield.

It could be said that for players with unknown information, the Specter Armor, positioned as "delaying and causing trouble," was truly very deceptive.

However, facing the Specter Armor in the air, the two college students clearly became nervous, while Cheng Tian's expression was first puzzled, then suddenly enlightened.

Cheng Tian suddenly raised his hand and unleashed a Great Wilderness Imprisoning Sky Finger at a Specter Armor in the air.

"Change for me!!!"

Cheng Tian shouted loudly.

The Specter Armor that Cheng Tian pointed at was struck by lightning and stood frozen in place.

[You have used 'Hundred Demons' Night Parade' on the Common Template unit "Specter Armor."]

[The difference between your Spirit attributes and the target's is 0. The difference between your Charm attributes and the target's is +9.]

[Your skill judgment pass rate is 59%——]

[Judgment passed.]

The Specter Armor, which had passed the skill judgment, visibly began to show a large number of fine cracks.

Just when the Specter Armor spawned and floated over, Cheng Tian had already begun to feel that his temporary uninstallation of the Vampire Hunter template was the right move.

Therefore, the river island terrain he was currently in was a typical area where being hit would trigger a fatal terrain kill.

It didn't matter if he was hit normally. 140 health points wouldn't let anyone kill him instantly, but being uncontrollably knocked back after being hit, and then seamlessly connecting with a dissolve-upon-entering-water effect, Cheng Tian was afraid that he would become possessed by the Angry Video Game Nerd, dedicating all the swear words he had learned in his life to the Chosen Evolution Space in the one or two seconds before he fell into the water and died.

Fortunately, he still had the Knight Throwing ability granted by his macho strawberry underwear, and he wasn't just in a state where he could only be beaten.

Even if the knight armor on his body was broken and he accidentally bounced into the water, he should still have a chance to climb back ashore.

However, based on the idea of "since it's a special occasion/since I'm already here," Cheng Tian still tried using the new skill before preparing to throw.

As a result, the skill icon after selecting the target was in a highlighted state, indicating that it could be used normally!

Cheng Tian's expression also became subtle at this time.

A new enemy that had just appeared naturally couldn't have less than 10% health, so the only remaining possibility was that the opponent's total health was only a single digit.

This was obviously a bit wrong. Whether based on the game's original setting or the conventional understanding of the increasing difficulty of the dungeon, the Specter Armor's health should be thicker than that of a zombie. Therefore, Cheng Tian came up with two guesses.

One was that the Specter Armor's health was similar to the knight armor he was wearing, with health presented in terms of "absolute health," regardless of damage, only looking at the number of effective hits, requiring a fixed number of attacks to be destroyed.

The other was that this tattered flying armor itself might have additional shield or armor values that needed to be penetrated before the body hidden in the armor, which only had a single-digit health value, could be damaged.

So Cheng Tian, with the idea of "at worst, I'll turn into a monster," directly used 'Hundred Demons' Night Parade' on the Specter Armor in the front row.

With the cost of nearly half of his MP, the Specter Armor began to change.

However, when he saw the Specter Armor that he had turned into a "monster" unit, it was Cheng Tian himself who was stunned.

The shattered armor that should have been detached and peeled off actually showed a significant self-reorganization and change in form, eventually turning into... a strange creature with a white crescent halo on its head, with the characteristics of a thick insect-like head and torso, while also giving a feeling of emptiness.

['Hundred Demons' Night Parade' transformation complete.]

[You have become the temporary trainer of the Pokémon "Shedinja."]