The Genesis of Multiple Schools

Chapter 19: Nascent Multi-Genre Development

The appearance of the Black Tide rift signifies that the real world has entered a countdown to Black Tide erosion.

Qi Sheng is unsure of the specific rate of collapse and needs to observe world changes further to analyze and judge.

However, he is certain that he has ample time to perfect the Challenger Plan.

The current monster world is using the name "Dark Land" to attract new recruits, but it will eventually be completely exposed.

Yet, he has never worried about the truth being revealed.

In his Challenger Plan, besides humans, alien factions fleeing to Earth will also be recruitment targets.

But not now; the Sacrificial Power he possesses is insufficient to initiate large-scale recruitment.

In the Containment Wall beneath Emperor's Tomb Village, the number of contained Primal Monster has reached nine: Black Armor Snake, Eagle Head Demon, Stone Gargoyle, Bone Fire, and the five artifact spirits. They produce 2160 Sacrificial Power daily. Combined with player hunting and mining, the daily Sacrificial Power income is around 2500 points.

After deducting 1000 Sacrificial Power for maintaining Emperor's Tomb Village, 1500 Sacrificial Power remains daily for recruitment.

This means that 1.5 player slots can be produced each day.

This amount of Sacrificial Power is a drop in the bucket for expanding the player base. It's far from enough to recruit alien races, let alone recruit all the Human Race.

To increase recruitment numbers, they must wait for players' strength to gradually improve, creating more Sacrificial Power revenue.

Without dwelling on the issue, Qi Sheng turned to the Guiding Water Orb.

"Notify Uncle Yan to send me back."

[Understood.]

The Guider nodded and vanished. Seconds later, a teleportation array appeared beneath Qi Sheng's feet.

Upon returning to the primal altar beneath Emperor's Tomb Village, his gaze shifted to the players exploring the monster world.

Emperor's Tomb Mountain Range, Crimson Plains.

The Gloomy Cave.

"Stone Gargoyle take the front, Black Armor Snake and Eagle Head Demon find opportunities to output damage."

Following the woman's shouts, the players engaged in fierce combat with the iron-shelled insects once more.

These days, the Gloomy Cave has become the players' primary location for leveling up and mining resources.

This is related to the special environment of the monster world.

In a normal game, outside the novice village, the monsters are generally weak, suitable for players to level up.

The monster world is completely different. Outside Emperor's Tomb Village, besides hunting low-level Cursed Soldiers, players can easily encounter high-level monsters that can easily wipe out player teams. Exploration is full of uncertainty.

In contrast, the Gloomy Cave, with its clearly defined monster strengths and abundant mineable resources, has become the players' top choice.

After these days of growth, many players have already unlocked their second Star Vein.

Three powerful Star Vein genres have been proven effective through actual combat.

The strongest in the current version is the artifact spirit genre, which involves embedding multiple artifact spirits onto the Star Vein and using the human body as the core to control the powers of various artifact spirits.

However, only Li Tie currently possesses this genre.

Each level of body tempering requires 10,000 Sacrificial Power. Other players simply do not have enough Sacrificial Power to build the Star Vein combination for the artifact spirit genre.

Next is the long-range strike genre, combining Bone Fire + Eagle Head Demon. The synergy of output and perception/location makes this genre the preferred choice for initial Eagle Head Demon players, with excellent performance in combat.

Finally, there's the Star Vein combination of Black Armor Snake + the Savage Axe.

The Black Armor Snake attacks physically. Combined with the Savage Axe's strength attribute and damage amplification, it significantly boosts combat power.

However, most players currently switch forms during combat. Very few players maintain their human form for extended periods to fuse and use special powers.

As for the Stone Gargoyle form, suitable Star Vein genres have not yet been developed. Players generally choose one of the five artifact spirits contained by Li Tie as their second form. A popular combination is Stone Gargoyle + the Soul-Shattering Spear.

The Stone Gargoyle's output is not high, but its characteristic is strong defense. Combined with the Soul-Shattering Spear's ability to inflict mental shock on attacks, it follows a route of damage-special effect.

Some players choose no genre at all, focusing on leveling up their initial monster form.

These players believe that the more Star Veins are embedded, the more evolution points are required for cultivation. It's better to focus on cultivating one form.

For example, cultivating the Black Armor Snake into a level 100 Heavenly Python, or the Eagle Head Demon into a Roc, and so on.

As it turns out, the combat power increase from focusing on cultivating the initial form is also very considerable. This genre is also humorously called the "monster genre" by players.

Each player has different ideas, and the development of combat systems already shows tendencies towards different genres.

The battle lasted for half an hour.

The players from the Grinding Player group, the Fan Zui group, and the Infant group repelled the attacking iron-shelled insect swarm at the cost of over half their forces.

Besides gaining a large amount of evolution points, allowing many players' monster forms to upgrade, the shells scattered on the ground were also a harvest.

These shells, classified as Level 1 spiritual materials by the Guider's analysis, can be used to sacrifice to the Di Zhao to obtain additional Sacrificial Power rewards.

How to distribute them was difficult to determine due to the chaotic battle, as individual player contributions could not be tallied. Therefore, an average distribution was adopted. All the shells were handed over to the Fan Zui group for sacrifice, and the Sacrificial Power rewards from the sacrifice were then equally divided among the leaders of each player group, who would then distribute them to their team members.

As the players were distributing their spoils, a sudden change occurred.

A player with the Wailing perception ability, who was a Eagle Head Demon, suddenly issued a warning:

"This is bad, the Cavemen are here again!"

Upon hearing this, everyone tacitly tossed their carapaces into their spatial bags and resolutely sprinted towards the cave exit.

The Caveman Warrior's hunting level reached 19, and with the large number of Iron Shell Bugs accompanying them, their current strength was no match.

Death wasn't the issue; the problem was the 10 points of Sacrificial Power deducted upon death and a one-hour resurrection cooldown.

As they fled, the regional voice channel was filled with lively chatter:

"Brother who picked Stone Gargoyle, your defense is high, stay at the back and hold them off so we can run first."

"Are you speaking human? Why should picking Stone Gargoyle mean death?"

"I'm being caught up to, why are you guys running so fast, wait for me!"

"Are you bullying us Eagle Head Demon for having short legs? Running so fast, you call this a team, treating your teammates like this?"

During the tense and thrilling escape, the players had no time to care about their teammates; they all put their all into sprinting towards the cave entrance.

During the escape, several players at the very back were entangled by the silk threads spat out by the Iron Shell Bugs, dragged backward. Their piercing screams caused the players in front to suddenly accelerate.

After the players ran out of the cave, they began to discuss a problem.

Should they unite and kill the Caveman Warriors.

The existence of the Caveman Warriors had become an obstacle to their mining and even monster-leveling in the Gloomy Cave.

If they weren't cleared out, they would have to be prepared to flee at any moment in the Gloomy Cave.

Rather than living in fear every day, it was better to cut the weeds and eliminate the roots, thoroughly resolving the hidden danger.

(End of this chapter)