Colorful Mist Coast, Azure Star Sea.
Crystal Palace Node.
The battle that had lasted four days was still raging.
The Shadow-Scaled Shrimp Guards, which grew by absorbing the node's energy, counterattacked the players' assault.
Clad in tough scales and skilled at group combat, swarms of Shadow-Scaled Shrimp Guards used their numerical advantage and swift underwater movement to form barriers that were difficult to penetrate. Every strike of their sharp pincers could easily sever a player's body, instantly sending them back to Di Family Village.
In theory, the player army should have had no trouble taking down Shadow-Scaled Shrimp Guards averaging around level 25.
After all, the Shadow-Scaled Shrimp Guards lacked the terrifying talent of the Insect Tide and Dark Tide to produce an endless stream of troops.
But without help from Life Souls adept in water, the human players could not adapt to the pace of underwater combat at all. Several waves of coordinated attacks were easily routed by the Shadow-Scaled Shrimp Guards.
Among the Alien Races players, the Gillfish and Abyssfish races were adept in water.
But their average Life Soul levels were low, and they lacked sufficient Body Tempering Levels to inherit their Life Souls' attributes. The Shadow-Scaled Shrimp Guards completely outclassed them.
The battle was fought entirely by chipping away at the enemy's health. Every Shadow-Scaled Shrimp Guard killed weakened the opposing force a little.
But this Domain Node clearly could not be taken anytime soon.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Qi Sheng had gained a rough understanding of this Domain Node's rule trait through Guide's analysis.
When he first read the analysis of "Gathering," he imagined that the more players gathered, the stronger the effects of the abilities they unleashed would become.
Like a formation, each player could serve as an energy node, connecting with the others