[Challenger Tips: The Emperor Tomb Mountain Range is about to transition from the Waning Moon to the Waxing Moon phase. Players, please prepare!]
Waxing Moon phase introduction: The second most intense phase among the five phases of the Evil Moon, with an unknown duration.
Change: A large number of Evil Life that only exist during the Waxing Moon will descend upon the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range as the Moon Phase shifts, while the Evil Life from the Waning Moon vanish.
Change 2: The landscape has undergone transformation.
As the notification rang out in the players' minds.
The scenery of various areas in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range changed accordingly.
Towards the direction of the Ancient Battlefield.
The scene previously filled with skeletons vanished with a spatial distortion, and what refreshed in place were many blood corpses with red bodies and black fur.
Towards the direction of the Blood-Colored Plain.
The red plants that covered the plain dissipated with the wind, followed by numerous twisted vines, ancient dry trees, and a large number of Evil Life.
Towards the direction of the Artifact Spirit Valley.
A raging river appeared in the center of the valley. Besides the original monsters and Primordial Monsters, numerous suspended, distorted cores with dense tentacles were also refreshed.
But these Evil Life were immediately met with a siege from the Artifact Spirits.
With the switch from the Waning Moon to the Waxing Moon, it seemed as if an entire unknown space was integrated into the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, and with the change in the landscape came a surge of new Evil Life.
After the earth-shattering changes concluded, the dim light shed by the Waning Moon turned into a dazzling blood-red, and the energy particles drifting in the air increased by fivefold.
Players who were exploring the various scenes suddenly found themselves surrounded by Evil Life.
The bloodthirsty Evil Life will attack any target with life fluctuations within their sight (perception) range, including players.
Especially in the direction of the Ancient Battlefield, where the majority of players were hunting Curse Soldiers.
Before the change in Moon Phase, the refresh rate of Evil Life wasn't high. One had to wait for the accumulation of Black Tide Energy in the corpses before they could transform into Curse Soldiers.
Recently, under the frenzied hunting of the players, the refresh rate of the Curse Soldiers had already begun to fall behind the efficiency of players' killings, causing contention at every refresh. Many players could only continue to delve deeper towards the direction of the Ancient Battlefield, seeking targets further away for hunting.
The transition from the Waning Moon to the Waxing Moon switched the tide of attack and defense between the players and the Evil Life.
The overwhelming number of Blood Corpses trapped the player groups, launching fearlessly bloodthirsty attacks.
Furthermore, the Hunting Level of the Blood Corpses refreshed during the Waxing Moon reached 8-15, their overall strength several times stronger than the 1-3 level Curse Soldiers.
With numbers+level suppression, players were completely at a disadvantage in the fight against the enhanced Evil Life.
In Qi Sheng's mind, the number of online players was visibly plummeting, with a vast number of players being killed and forced out of the game.
In the meantime, the regional chat channel was exploding.
"Turns out this is the Moon Phase transition mentioned in the Newbie Guidance that might occur. I thought each region had a fixed Moon Phase, with different large areas having different phases. And this is just the intensity of the Waxing Moon; it's terrifying!"
"Blood Corpses are just too fierce, so much HP and high defense. It took our squad half a day to kill one, and then a group nearby encircled us. Now all my teammates are dead, and I've given up resisting and am waiting for death..."
"Help, I'm surrounded, I don't want to enter the one-hour resurrection cooldown (Storm Cry)."
"The Moon Phase transition is terrifying, the difficulty of the monsters increased several times over. If it's during the Full Moon or the Evil Moon phases, wouldn't the level of Evil Life break a hundred?"
"The twisted plants in the Blood-Colored Plain have a prevalent Hunting Level of 12+, I'm absolutely done for. It's hard to even run, just waiting for death!"
"Always tough-talking, complaining about too few monsters to fight during the regular refreshes. Well, there's plenty now, and if still not enough, just wait for the Waxing Moon (dog head)."
After the transition of the Moon Phase, except for the players in the Dark Cave who were safe and sound, all other players were attacked by enhanced Evil Spirits.
The reason is related to the special nature of the Black Tide, whereby non-Evil Spirit entities do not change with the Moon Phase.
The Iron Shell Bugs inside the Dark Cave did not disappear or turn into more powerful monsters.
But those outside weren't so lucky.
In a short period, the number of online players plummeted from over 9,800 to less than 1,000.
Qi Sheng was already mentally prepared for this.
The different Moon Phases of the Horror Black Tide can be understood as five different layered spaces; when the Waning Moon transitions to the Waxing Moon, the Waning Moon Space is replaced by the Waxing Moon Space, and everything related to the Black Tide in the scene also switches over.
For instance, the Curse Soldiers on the Ancient Battlefield do not completely vanish; they will reappear when the Moon Phase transitions back to the Waning Moon.
For the players at the current stage, the scene of the Waxing Moon is obviously too intense to handle.
But he had no solution to the problem.
The changes in Moon Phase are influenced by the tides of the Horror Black Tide, and it is completely unknown when it will switch back to the Waning Moon.
It is certain that the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range is not the core area of Black Tide Energy Corrosion, and it is highly unlikely for stronger Moon Phases to refresh here.
In his five hundred years in Monster World, Qi Sheng had only seen a Full Moon in the Fourth Stage once in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range.
The Full Moon scene could be described as a dance of myriad demons.
Abyss Demons, Void Corrosive Insects, Touch of Fear... one glance would reveal a vast number of super Evil Lives with Hunting Levels over 100.
Evil Spirits, blocking out the sky like locusts, would ravage the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, leaving few lives to survive in their wake.
As for the "Evil Moon," considered the final form of the Horror Black Tide, only the four great Servants at their peak had ever experienced it, and he had never witnessed it with his own eyes.
[Master, the switch in Moon Phase might not necessarily be a bad thing.]
Turning his head to look at the Guiding Water Ball hovering beside him, Qi Sheng nodded with a smile:
He naturally understood the Guidance's thoughts.
Compared to the Waning Moon scene, the Waxing Moon scene not only increased in intensity, but the energy between heaven and earth also became more abundant.
The Waxing Moon scene nurtured a large number of Black Tide Spirit Plants, including many that merged into Monster World after the Black Tide assimilated other worlds, and produced Black Tide Spirit Items under the refinement of the eroding Black Tide energy, all of which could be purified into pure sacrificial power by burning at the altar.
With high risk, players exploring outside could also gain more surprising rewards.
The sudden switches in Moon Phase, although forcing a large number of players to go offline, assured Qi Sheng that players could quickly adapt to the intensity of the Waxing Moon and continue to create more sacrificial power benefits for him.
When the wave of players that went offline come back online after leaving Newbie Village, they will surely find a way to deal with it.
If your strength is not enough, then form groups to act.
The difficulty of hunting has increased, but the rewards for killing a Blood Corpse are several times more than for killing a Curse Soldier.
Judging from various dimensions such as hunting efficiency, hunting difficulty, and the probability of opportunities, the conclusion from Guidance's calculations was that the comprehensive benefit rate of the Waxing Moon was 1.3 times higher than that of the Waning Moon.
And this value is only temporary.
As players grow in strength, the comprehensive benefit rate brought by the Waxing Moon will continue to climb.