CHAPTER 443: CHAPTER 160: OFFICIAL WEBSITE GOES LIVE, GLOBAL CRAZE (PART 2)

The key is that the combat method of Black Luminous Insects lacks any tactical strategy.

Players don’t need to endure the double torment of the Earth Thought Bully on both spirit and body to easily and joyfully earn Hunting Rewards and Contribution Income.

As the number of incoming players continues to grow, the Domain Node’s war is almost completed by rolling over in a manner similar to sweeping conquest.

When players touch the Node Crystal, a pitch-black spatial vortex expands centered around the Node Crystal.

It devours the nearby areas’ Spirit Fields and all the accompanying land.

As the announcement echoes throughout the entire channel, the three Newbie Villages’ spaces simultaneously tremble, expanding in size.

Qi Sheng did not disappoint the players, distributing the Spirit Field areas according to contribution rankings.

This time, however, he cut the distributed Spirit Field areas into smaller portions to ensure more players could have Spirit Field rewards, allowing them to gain additional sacrificial power income through the Spirit Fields. Each Spirit Field can roughly cultivate three Spirit Plants, but the specific number depends on the Spirit Plant variety.

Although the additional output from Spirit Fields cannot satisfy players’ demand for sacrificial power, it indirectly increases the players’ usual sacrificial power income.

The Glory Chronicles on the functionality panel also fully recorded this battle, with many players’ impressive performances documented through videos and screenshots.

After the battle ends, players move to a new location.

Only newbie players continue to hunt monsters nearby and search for wild Spirit Plants.

Veteran players move to the Colorful Mist Coast Region, heading towards the Thunder Lion Domain Node.

This Domain Node is set in a relatively open scene within the dense forest.

The environment of the Colorful Mist Coast Region is undoubtedly the most comfortable of the three scenes, with a sky as blue as a wash, wisps of light clouds floating gently above the Node scene, slowly moving as they’re pushed by the warm breeze, with lush grass covering every inch of the scene.

As the breeze sweeps over, grass waves rise and fall, as if the earth is breathing, and the air is filled with the fragrance of grass and soil.

This Node was discovered by an Exploration Faction player, yet not many players have come to contain it.

The reason is that the monsters’ average Level within the Node is Level 52, and their abilities are rather unpleasant to the players.

Occupying the Node is a monster called the "Phantom Nightmare,"

The Phantom Nightmare does not have a fixed physical form, composed of semi-transparent azure energy, resembling a constantly flowing liquid energy with a vague humanoid outline, with edges indistinct, sometimes twisting, sometimes stretching, appearing as if it could dissipate into the air at any moment.

Its head lacks facial features, only a deep blue area like an invincible vortex, capable of swallowing ability particles in the surrounding air.

The most striking feature is the energy arms on its body, slender and soft, moving like floating ribbons, akin to energy-formed tentacles.

The Phantom Nightmare possesses a Spiritual shock-type ability.

Players hit by it will first feel intense headaches, as if countless needles are piercing within the skull, followed by a sense of dizziness and loss of balance, making it difficult to stand.

With low spiritual power strength, enduring such spiritual shock can result in a state similar to drunkenness, with memory disorder, hazy consciousness, and even forgetting what they were doing, falling into a brief confusion.

During this period, symptoms like accelerated heartbeat and rapid breathing can also occur.

This kind of spiritual damage ability includes a Spiritual Interference effect, which is not within the Purification System’s protective scope, with its intensity below the warning line, unable to be isolated or defended against.

Even if the Purification System can be activated, the spiritual damage is still endured by the players.

Only the negative state is isolated.

This type of spiritual ability truly troubles players, especially for close combat players with weaker Spiritual Strength, it’s undoubtedly a painful torment.

Currently, there is no Life Soul that can be inlaid to resist spiritual damage, so close combat players generally are unwilling to engage with such monsters.

Magic players have high Spiritual Strength and can endure the spiritual shock.

However, without close combat players in front to take the damage, they are no match for higher-level monsters like "Phantom Nightmare."

Thus, players choose to temporarily abandon the containment of the Domain Node, planning to easily contain it in an overwhelming manner once they become strong enough.

However, the emergence of this purification mission has changed the minds of many players.

The mission offers a 20% increase in rewards and additional ranking contribution rewards, enough for players to endure the hardship of pioneering.

Upon entering the green grassland where the Node Crystal is located, one can see numerous Phantom Nightmares floating in the air like jellyfish.

Players invade unscrupulously, quickly drawing attention.

The highly territorial Phantom Nightmares swiftly gather through Spiritual Communication, launching a Spirit Storm assault on the invading players.

Clusters of players fall like mowed grass.

But at this time, the players are not dead; they are merely subjected to severe spiritual damage, while the rear Magic players take the opportunity to unleash their attacks.

Facing the Phantom Nightmare with its Spiritual Strike ability, players are not without countermeasures.

The Tower Defense Style from the Magic System can perfectly counter the non-physical spiritual shock, as long as the built Magic Towers have their structures intact, they can continue to output elemental damage.

The most countered in combat are the assassin players.

The stealth state, which can exempt most physical damage, is ineffective against the Phantom Nightmare.

A single spiritual shock strike can instantly kill the fragile assassin players, rendering the Twilight Shadow Form unable to provide defense.

The battle lasted half a day before a player discovered that a niche Life Soul had some resistance to spiritual damage.