"Don’t charge in alone, brothers online gather at the Imperial Tomb Village exit, we’ll charge out together later."
"I thought the Black Tide was supposed to be terrifying, but this is nothing. It’s turned into a Dynasty Warriors-style hack-and-slash mode for us, so thrilling."
"Although the Guidance says this is just the weakest level of the Black Tide, with Evil Life just barely reaching Waning Moon Level Evil Spirit strength, the thrill makes it all worthwhile."
"Looking for a strong DPS to join the team and farm levels, no need for Taunt Souls or other support Souls, just DPS."
"If only there were a Healer Soul to heal us, we could enjoy the thrill of killing in the face of the Black Tide, but we can’t sustain it. When Physical Strength or Spiritual Power runs out, death is inevitable."
The Black Tide has already been rampaging in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range for a whole day.
Players who planned to play the resurrection loop in Imperial Tomb Village are now thrilled beyond measure.
The weakness of the enemy was beyond their expectations.
The low-level Evil Spirits borne from the Low Tide, in the eyes of players, are just experience and sacrificial power fodder – pitiful in their power to harm yet incredibly abundant in number.
The batch of new players who had entered the game were still complaining about encountering the waning moon scenario right at the beginning and the high difficulty of monsters, but after facing the Black Tide, they completely turned the tables, finding that their strength was more than enough to slice through the Low Tide strength of the Black Tide.
The thrill of slaughtering Evil Spirits even made the veteran players feel as if the nature of the game had changed.
Compared to the previous hard grind of mining, teaming up to challenge high Hunting Level Evil Spirits, and the monster soul survival mode, the emergence of the Black Tide turned the game into a Dynasty Warriors-style hack-and-slash mode.
The only trouble for players is that their endurance is insufficient, leading to an hour in the little black room after each thrilling kill.
Leaving Imperial Tomb Village is a one-way charge to oblivion, until the soul returns to Imperial Tomb Village.
Compared to the players’ joy, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit that created this Black Tide disaster is in trouble.
Currently, on the platform of the Tower at the Domain Node, the gaze of the Earth Thought Evil Spirit follows the sweep of the Black Tide over the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range.
During this time, it noticed a very serious problem.
The intensity of the Black Tide spreading to nearby regions not only did not increase, but also was continually weakened by contact with the mysterious beings who call themselves players.
To investigate the origin of these mysterious creatures, it had personally tracked them.
The resulting conclusion was unbelievable.
These beings that call themselves players don’t seem to belong to this world, but like it, come from other worlds, descending upon this land through a breach in Monster World’s barriers.
In other words, this Player Clan is also an invader of Monster World.
However, the method of invasion was baffling to it – they arrived consecutively, sometimes dozens at a time, sometimes even alone, with no tactics or coordination.
After contact with its controlled Black Tide, members of the Player Clan would simply fight mindlessly until life expires.
This is highly inconsistent with the structured force expected of an invading power – it’s completely scattered, without any systematic fighting capacity.
Yet this insignificant force, with no capacity to kill, became an unsolvable problem for it.
The Player Clan has a Rule characteristic that even Evil Eyes cannot decipher: upon death, they completely dissipate, unable to be absorbed by the Black Tide, and Evil Spirits killed by Player Clan members cannot be reincorporated into the Black Tide.
The battle turned into a war of attrition.
What it doesn’t know is how much reserve power the Player force actually has. At the current rate, the strength of the Black Tide will only continue to wane.
It is infuriated by this serious trouble on its first expedition to this world, with no perfect solution in sight. The only option seems to be to continue draining the Player Clan’s reserves through the Black Tide, gradually wearing down the Player force.
In the war of attrition, the Black Tide Army in the eyes of Earth Thought is seemingly invincible.
Before this, it had followed and invaded two small worlds.
At the beginning of the invasion, the descending Black Tide Army was at a disadvantage.
Especially when invading Dungeon World, the commander leading the Black Tide only had strength less than Commander Level, even weaker than some of the strongest beings in Dungeon World.
But as the Black Tide Army swept across the world through the long years, the combined strength of Dungeon World’s various alliances was continuously weakened, while the combat power of the Black Tide Army rapidly climbed. By the end of the war, the commander’s strength had advanced to King Level, and it had ascended to a Commander-level Warrior during this battle.
Ultimately, Dungeon World succumbed in their last offensive, facing the doomsday of being consumed by the Black Tide.
Therefore, in the eyes of the Earth Thought Evil Spirit, the Black Tide Army fears nothing more than a war of attrition, with its trait of rapidly nurturing Evil Life, no force can contend with the Black Tide in a protracted war.
The initial disadvantage when first clashing with other forces, or a war of equal powers, in the eyes of the Earth Thought Evil Spirit, signifies an inevitable victory to come.
Qi Sheng’s mind is filled with the data feedback from Guidance, showing the gains from the Player Corps’ 29-hour resistance against the Black Tide.
After deducting the consumption from player deaths and resurrections, the Black Tide has brought him a wealth gain of 580,000 in sacrificial power.
The revenue is growing explosively.
At the current trend, the raging Black Tide will significantly enhance the Player Corps’ overall strength.
According to the feedback from the Guidance, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit has drained the Heavenly Domain Node’s reserve energy. But in order to take over the Domain Node of the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, it is borrowing energy from other Black Tide nodes, trying to create more Evil Life. In the eyes of Qi Sheng, it’s like borrowing money to upgrade the combat power for his Player Corps.