130: Chapter 130 The Lifespan Game and the Godly Rich Game
The moment Diarmuid landed, the red and yellow dual spears in his hands, boosted by the absurdly high stats from the [Attack Speed Trio], instantly lost their original weapon outlines!
"Swish-swish-swish-swish-swish-swish—!!!"
Under the limit-breaking attack speed, those two long spears transformed into terrifying afterimages resembling helicopter propellers!
Because the thrusting speed was so fast, the sonic booms created by the weapon's swings merged into a single, piercing shriek!
The Count of Monte Cristo had just wanted to take a step with his prideful "Super High-Speed Movement," but before he could even lift his leg, he was shoved into a corner by the sheer force of Diarmuid's absurdly glitchy basic attacks!
The Count of Monte Cristo's health bar, like a pipe with a gaping hole, was plummeting at a speed visible to the naked eye!
"Holy crap! What kind of glitchy attack speed is this?! Is he having a seizure?!" Lin Lu was so startled that she sprang right out of her gaming chair.
Before The Count of Monte Cristo could even recover his wits, Dr. Jekyll, the Avatar who had just been deployed nearby, joined the beatdown.
The originally refined young man, under the buff of extreme-speed basic attacks, turned his hands into a blur of frantic clawing, resembling a human meat grinder as he shredded The Count of Monte Cristo's black coat into scraps of cloth flying everywhere.
And the Prince Charming not far away—[Arthur Pendragon (Prototype)]—was even more ridiculous.
That massive Excalibur, which should have been used to unleash holy light cannons, was being wielded by him like an electric fan, swung back and forth in a frantic, glitchy manner as if he were being electrocuted!
"Hum-hum-hum-hum—!!!"
Accompanied by jaw-dropping sound effects, The Count of Monte Cristo's high-evasion and high-mobility mechanics, which were enough to give countless players splitting headaches, were reduced to a joke in the face of this absolute, glitchy basic attack suppression.
He couldn't even take a single step before being poked into a hornet's nest by basic attacks from these three handsome men, who looked like they were "having a spasm" due to their excessive attack speed!
There wasn't even a split second to unleash a skill.
"Bang!" With the final, rapid basic attack, the dignified King of the Prison Tower dissolved into golden light particles across the sky, filled with despair and frustration.
The entire battle, from when A-Dai deployed the units to the Count vanishing into ash, took no more than five seconds.
[Battle Victory]
When the victory sound effect chimed.
In the livestream, A-Dai looked at the fallen The Count of Monte Cristo, suddenly covering her mouth and sighing with emotion: "Sigh... How is my Count hubby so squishy? I haven't seen enough of him using his skills yet! Sorry, sorry, it was my fault for letting Diarmuid poke him too fast..."
Meanwhile, in front of her screen, Lin Lu, who had watched the entire recording, fell completely silent.
She had no complaints against A-Dai; she just felt that this world was too unreal.
She looked down at her own fingers, which were cramping from trying to calculate every point of Cost and timing every skill cooldown perfectly.
Then she looked back at the screen, at A-Dai, who relied entirely on top-tier collectibles, forced tower defense into "musou-style mowing" using a few "vase" characters, and was even complaining that the boss died too quickly.
The corners of Lin Lu's mouth twitched uncontrollably.
At this moment, she finally understood that famous saying:
"In the face of an absolutely perfect hand, all tower defense techniques are nothing more than flashy acrobatics."
Old Thief Gu, your roguelike balancing is done very well, don't do it next time!
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If A-Dai's clear recording showed the entire internet what a "Lucky Life Run" was.
Then the Whale PD's live clear of the third ending perfectly interpreted the ultimate foundation of "a heavy sword has no edge, great skill is not contrived."
At 2:30 AM, PD's livestream was still packed with tens of thousands of viewers staying up late to cultivate.
At this moment, PD was like a tense leopard, staring fixedly at the tactical sand table in front of him.
What he was playing was the hidden third ending with extremely harsh trigger conditions—[The Irretrievable Farewell].
To enter this route, PD could be said to have suffered greatly in the previous floors.
In an event named "Echoes of Ruins," he painfully picked up a cursed collectible named [Burnt Coffee Cup].
That thing was practically toxic official malice: [All Servant deployment costs +5, Attack power decreased by 20%].
Enduring this deadly negative Buff, PD managed to scrape by, relying on holding back costs and frantically leaking enemies, crawling all the way to the fourth floor before finally "cleansing" this broken cup in a special event, upgrading it into the collectible [Unsent Strawberry Cake].
"Brothers, although my collectibles this run are deadly bad, and I didn't even get a feather for attack speed."
PD took a deep breath, spending the last of his hope points, "But in this roguelike mode, besides collectibles, there is another set of hidden 'official cheats'!"
"That is—your own true cultivation level!"
That's right, in this mode, although all Servants are confiscated at the start and must be re-recruited using hope points, as long as you recruit a certain Servant and you already possess them in your personal inventory outside, the system will directly inherit that Servant's actual cultivation level!
Those newbie players with shallow boxes have no choice at all and can only pick carefully from the few Servants they have. There are even many five-star Servants they haven't had time to train, so even if they are recruited, they are just level 1 whiteboards with unstrengthened skills.
Only when they luckily trigger the system's free [Temporary Recruitment] can they occasionally experience those characters they haven't pulled, getting a taste of the thrill of dimensionality reduction strikes from max-level, max-Noble Phantasm big shots.
But for a whale like PD, his personal inventory has long since achieved full collection domination, and every single Servant is a true ultimate perfect form with maxed-out levels, Noble Phantasms, and skills!
As for those rare items like "Holy Grails" and "Golden Fous" that can only be accumulated by clearing high-difficulty content and the main story, they were meticulously fed to phantom god DPS units like Gilgamesh and Jeanne dArc Alter, which is also the common strategy for most hardcore veteran players.
This means that what others see as a lucky card draw is, for PD, equivalent to every one of his recruitment tickets being a top-tier, fully-equipped [Temporary Recruitment] from the system!
With the fall of the fifth-floor final boss, because he held that special "Strawberry Cake," the game did not enter the settlement screen, but instead forcibly tore through the dream, dragging PD into a hidden sixth floor named [Hall of Farewell].
The final boss appearing at the end of the defense line was named [Ember of humanity · Burning Echoes].
It was a massive afterimage composed of broken Demon God Pillars and burning chains, exuding a suffocating sense of oppression.
"Come on! Let me see how capable the boss of the hidden sixth floor is!"
PD shouted loudly, directly slamming the maxed-out Gilgamesh and Zhuge Liang as a support onto the battlefield.