86: Chapter 86: A Strategy Extravaganza!

Hearing this analysis from White Night, the viewers in the video's comments were completely stunned.

"Holy crap?! Full marks for reading comprehension!"

"We spent all last night obsessing over the stats, and Boss Bai just reverse-selected the modifiers to cheese level 18 for free?!"

"This opens up so many possibilities! It's like seeing the sun through the clouds!"

"Alright, the modifiers are selected. Now, let's look at the actual gameplay."

White Night's voice switched back to tactical command mode. "In the early stage, the hounds will charge, so we don't need to deploy high-cost Defenders. Here, we deploy a 3-star commoner war god—Cu Chulainn. His 'Protection from Arrows' skill comes with extremely high evasion, allowing him to tank the early wave of hounds all by himself."

"If your luck is truly terrible… just restart. Anyway, Pruning Protocol doesn't consume stamina, so you can retry infinitely."

In the video, Cu Chulainn was like a slippery loach, relying solely on his evasion skill to survive the early stage. Not only did he earn enough deployment points, but he didn't even need a Healer!

"Alright, the second wave of elite enemies is coming. Now we deploy the 1-star Arash on a high ground. When the monsters are at their densest—time it carefully and unleash his Noble Phantasm."

"Boom!"

With Arash's "Stella!" self-destruct, the screen full of small mobs instantly vanished into dust!

"The benefit of self-destructing is that it not only clears the field but also automatically frees up a valuable deployment slot, saving us the trouble of manual retreat. Next, get ready for the main event—Red Sword Brother."

At this moment, the red-armored Pruning Knight, "Red Sword Brother," carrying a heavy sword, walked out from the ruins.

"Although Red Sword Brother has extremely high damage and can one-shot anyone after going berserk, because we didn't select any modifiers that increase enemy HP or defense, he's actually quite squishy."

White Night circled Red Sword Brother's health bar in the video. "So, our core strategy is—after having the supports stack all the buffs, use one fully upgraded 5-star single-target Noble Phantasm to take him out directly!"

"Pay attention to my deployment order. Here, we deploy the borrowed max-level 5-star Scathach. But be careful! Make sure to place her on a tile slightly further away from his path. Use Scathach's long-range Noble Phantasm to engage; do not block Red Sword Brother directly."

"When Red Sword Brother enters range, we drop a 2-star Georgios at his feet and activate his taunt skill. Don't worry about him; just let him get slashed to death."

In the video, Georgios landed, taunted, and was hacked to death by Red Sword Brother in three hits.

"Georgios bought us 3 seconds. Red Sword Brother continues to move forward, so we drop another 2-star Leonidas to continue the taunt. After he dies, he can even provide an attack buff to the entire team."

"Taking advantage of the precious time these low-star brothers bought with their lives, we place 1-star Mozart and Shakespeare in the back row, activate all their skills, and stack all the buffs onto Scathach."

"Finally, activate the Master's Mystic Code skill—increase attack! Scathach, unleash your Noble Phantasm!"

"[Gáe Bolg Alternative]——!!!"

On the screen, the crimson demonic spear, carrying the terrifying buffs stacked to the limit by a group of low-star supports, transformed into a long rainbow and fiercely pierced through Red Sword Brother, who was still at full health!

Under this absolute single-target nuclear explosion, Red Sword Brother's thick health bar instantly dropped from 100% to zero!

He didn't even have a chance to draw his sword; this living Yama that had brought despair to all the big spenders on the internet died on the spot!

As Red Sword Brother fell, the [Pruning Etching: Origin (Plated Version)], symbolizing the highest honor, shone with a blinding light on the results screen!

The entire internet was dead silent.

Ten seconds later, a tsunami of crazy comments erupted.

"Holy shit, ahhhhh! Skipping phases?! You didn't even drop him to half health, you just one-shot him from full?!"

"Too simple! This guide is so clear! No micro-management needed, just deploy, sacrifice, buff, and unleash the ultimate! I could do this too!"

"Old Thief Gu's mechanics have been stripped bare! This is what tower defense is! There are no trash cards, only Masters who don't know how to time their rotations!"

PD's mouth hung open. Watching the clear, fool-proof, step-by-step tutorial in the video, he felt his intelligence had suffered an unprecedented dimensional strike.

"The 5-star core he used... it's the same Scathach I used just now..."

PD bitterly covered his face. "I took a max-level 5-star to tank it, and I was one-shot like an idiot; the pro takes a max-level 5-star, hides her in the back, uses low-stars to tank the hits, and pokes Red Sword Brother into an idiot with one spear!"

"Others are playing with second-by-second mechanic counters and leveraging strengths while avoiding weaknesses, and I'm just playing 'spending money to get beaten up because I don't understand the mechanics'! This damn developer made the underlying mechanics so deep—the charm of this game is just insanely good!"

The comments in the livestream also frantically flooded the screen in agreement:

"Indeed! The story of Chapter 7 already made me cry, I didn't expect the underlying tower defense mechanics of this game to be this hardcore!"

"I originally thought it was just a waifu-collector game for reading the story, but Old Thief Gu turned around and pulled out this god-tier high-difficulty content! Epic story-telling, and the hardcore gameplay is also maxed out—this is a true dimensional strike!"

Just as the whole internet was frantically copying White Night's "Single-Core Scathach" strategy, rubbing Red Sword Brother into the ground, and marveling at the exquisite game mechanics...

Another content creator famous for trolling—[Lao Gou]—published an even more outrageous "Level 18 cheese guide" on the forum.

Since White Night proved that as long as you don't select the "Base HP is 1 (leaking an enemy equals failure)" modifier, the player's blue gate actually has a certain margin of error. Therefore, Lao Gou simply gathered all the insane modifiers that buffed Red Sword Brother, and when Red Sword Brother appeared, he withdrew all his defenses and watched as Red Sword Brother swaggered right into his base!

Although 2 points of base HP were deducted, because not a single enemy was leaked in the early stages, the base managed to tank Red Sword Brother's invasion, and then a golden [CLEAR] immediately popped up!

At the end of the video, Lao Gou left a deafeningly famous quote: "Why are you so obsessed with your final line of defense? What's wrong with letting Red Sword Brother go? As long as you can pass level 18 and get the etching, isn't that enough?!"

In fact, in all previous main story stages and daily quests in "FGO", there was a rigid, hard rule: to get the "3-star perfect clear" reward of saint quartz, you had to ensure the base's blue gate remained at full HP and not leak a single monster.

Long-term muscle memory had branded a deep-seated mental imprint into the minds of all players—"leaking an enemy = failure".

Even White Night, who was skilled at calculations, subconsciously treated "killing all enemies" as the only solution for clearing the stage when planning his rotations.

Until Lao Gou, a score-obsessed player who would do anything to clear a level, broke this fixed mindset.

This ultimate "let-go" cheese strategy once again dealt a critical hit to the intelligence of players across the internet and brought about a carnival of diverse playstyles for the entire game ecosystem.