chapter 17: ultimate sacrifice flow

The process of brushing monsters is very boring. Fortunately, although the style of the Three Grasses was funny, the pulling monster level and the fighting monster level were very high. After all, they were old players from the Seven Star Grass Guild and Liu Chuan doesn’t have to worry about them at all.

The kind of mechanism: repeating the same actions of pulling and killing monsters, can make people mentally tired.

The Three Grasses chatted privately on one hand while the other was fighting monsters. Wu Zewen proceeded with his research on the Five Poisons’ strategy while Li Xiang searched for a lot of Seven Star Grass team videos to watch.

He still doesn’t know how to understand the overall situation like what his Master said but after watching the game, Li Xiang had some vague thoughts in his heart and because he had a convenient master to message, he wasted no time.

“Master! I just watched the Seven Star Grass game. Captain Xiao is really amazing! No matter what kind of map is used, he handles things so skillfully and easily!”

Liu Chuan opened the QQ window and explained: “Captain Xiao is one of the most famous commanders in the league and created the style of play on many maps. He has a strong overall view. Take a closer look. Every time there is a team fight, he’s always in a position where he can attack the enemy and take care of his teammates. He can attack, retreat and defend. This kind of position can also provide maximum protection and support to his teammates at any time. He is the strongest in terms of positioning in the entire league. You should study how he moves and his positioning in team fights.”

Li Xiang nodded seriously: “Yes, I can see it! When the other team face against Seven Star Grass, it seems that they will try to kill Captain Xiao first. Cough, I always thought that in every team battle, the nanny should be killed first.”

Thinking of the previous time Li Xiang fought in the arena, he yelled: Go go go! Kill the nanny…

Liu Chuan couldn’t help but laugh and said: “Of course, this theory of killing the nanny first is also correct, but you need to separate and be clear about who is the trump card and who is the second. The nanny is not omnipotent and it’s impossible to take care of all their teammates all the time. It’s also a good way to attack the main output first, especially the opponent’s core output.”

Li Xiang nodded immediately: “That’s right! I used to put all my attention on the nanny and hit them. No wonder I always lost!”

Liu Chuan asked: “Do you have any other feelings after watching the video?”

Li Xiang said: “I feel like the Shaolin is very important! Standing in front to protect your teammates and provide your teammates with the best environment to attack is simply awesome!”

Liu Chuan sent a thumbs up: “Children can be taught.”

Li Xiang sent a smiley face: “Then Master, I will continue to watch the video and ask you if I don’t understand something!”

Li Xiang, this foolish person, talked a whole lot and when he learned something new, he would open his QQ pop-up window and ask his master. Liu Chuan had a headache every time he saw QQ popping up.

On the contrary, Qu Zewen was particularly worry-free. He only said to him, “Go watch the video of Wheel of Reincarnation” and Zewen consciously studied it carefully. After studying for a long time, even Liu Chuan didn’t know how much he had learned and developed.

So Liu Chuan chatted privately with Qu Zewen curiously: “Watching the video?”

Wu Zewen replied: “Yes.”

Liu Chuan asked: “Did you learn something?”

Wu Zewen replied: “Yes.”

Liu Chuan: “……”

—Can’t you reply a little more?

Wu Zewen was like a well-behaved and honest spinning top: dial it and make it spin… dial it again and it spins again……

Li Xiang was like a crazy spinning top: dialing it lightly and it just keeps on spinning…

* He means that Wu Zewen only messages when prompted while Li Xiang when prompted talks so much

Liu Chuan felt really helpless.

He couldn’t understand how Wu Zewen and Li Xiang became friends. This personality gap was too big, alright?

Wu Zewen’s personality is gentle, calm and he rarely speaks up first. After asking a question, Liu Chuan can only continue to ask: “What have you learned? Let’s hear it?”

Wu Zewen was finally willing to type a few more words and replied seriously: “I was thinking that after sacrificing the Toad Gu, the owner has a state of enhancing his defense by 400%. When sacrificing the Snake Gu, the owner and the surrounding teammates’ blue* will be added. In other words, in an emergency situation where the teammates lack blue, the Five Poisons can sacrifice the Toad Gu to enhance their defense, rush into the battle, summon the Snake Gu and sacrifice it in seconds, giving their teammates a collective blue addition. Is this feasible?

* Mana: an attribute assigned to characters in games that indicates their power to use special magical abilities. No mana = no use of abilities

Liu Chuan almost knelt down!

Wu Zewen, do you know that the style of play you are talking about is the ultimate sacrifice flow that only a Five Poisons expert can use?

In the Five Poisons’ Poisonous Insect School, there are five different Gu beasts and each baby will bring a different effect to the owner when sacrificed in death. Therefore, there is a popular style of play among experts—it’s what Wu Zewen called “kill the pet immediately after summoning the pet” style of play.

This style requires extremely high hand speed for the player. In other words, summoning Gu Toad, sacrificing the Gu Toad then summoning the Snake Gu and sacrificing it. Four consecutive operations must be completed in a very short time. Because the speed is too fast, others can’t even see which pet is being called.

This style of play is to sacrifice the pets to make up for the state of the owner and the team under special circumstances.

The four skills are being released continuously and the effect is quite gorgeous so it’s called as the “Ultimate Sacrifice Flow” style of play by the Five Poisons’ players.

This little rookie Five Poisons who entered the game for a day actually discussed the “Ultimate Sacrifice Flow” with others? Will anyone believe him if he says it?

—However, Liu Chuan believed it.

Because he had seen Wu Zewen’s hand speed and piano performance level in the Rhythm Master final and the flexibility of his hands and fingers was simply amazing! The gentle boy with glasses always had a calm expression on his face and when he plays musical notes with his slender fingers, his fingers are as graceful as dancers. The scene where he scored SSS full marks in a row really impressed Liu Chuan.

Liu Chuan couldn’t help but send a smiling expression: “You have a very high understanding. You can immediately see the high-level style of play of the Five Poisons’ Poisonous Insect School so quickly?”

Wu Zewen wondered: “Is this style very high-level?”

Liu Chuan: “……”

一This sentence… can kill without explanation. Is this very high-level? Like it’s very simple for him!

Liu Chuan was helpless: “Can you accomplish it?”

Wu Zewen nodded: “No problem but I still haven’t reached level 30. I haven’t learned how to summon the Snake Gu yet.”

Liu Chuan thought for a while and said: “You can try it with the Toad Gu first. Kill it immediately after summoning. Let me see what your highest speed is.”

Wu Zewen replied with one word: “Very well.”

The characteristics of the Five Poisons’ Poisonous Insect School in the game are the same as spell-type summoners. Summoning the poisonous beasts and sacrificing them doesn’t have a cooldown time.

However, such frequent pet changes also had their disadvantages. The amount of blue needed to summon and sacrifice pets is particularly large and changing it frequently can empty the blue bar. Therefore, whether to keep your pet and use the pet to attack the enemy or sacrifice the pet to replenish the status of the owner and teammates, depend on the specific opponent and environment.

The “Ultimate Sacrifice Flow” style of play of the Five Poisons is generally used in special circumstances and can be regarded as an emergency means.

Wu Zewen recently learned how to raise the Toad Gu. Tangmen messaged him privately and asked him to sacrifice it in seconds. He walked to the side of the team, switched to the Poisonous Insect School, and then—summoned the Toad Gu and sacrificed it!

It was obviously two separate skills but in Zewen’s hands, it seemed to merge into one skill!

The huge Toad Gu appeared for a moment and flashed before immediately disappearing with a croak. At the same time, a small icon with a 400% enhanced defense appeared on the Five Poisons. That was the last protection given to the owner before the Toad Gu died—such a continuous operation did not even exceed 0.5 seconds!

The Three Grasses fighting monsters next to him were suddenly stunned.

Nepenthes: “…what is Sister Poison doing?”

Mimosa: “…Is Sister Poison angry? Venting on the baby?”

Moon Grass: “Sister Poison, don’t be impulsive! You’d better switch back to a nanny! Little Swine is dying!”

Nepenthes pulled a lot of mobs and his blood drained just like an avalanche.

Wu Zewen calmly returned to his position of brushing the monster, switched to a nanny, and threw a healing skill on Nepenthes.

At the same time, he still had the time to type and ask the Tangmen: “Just now, was that okay?”

Liu Chuan smiled happily: “Yes, it’s fast. There’s no problem at all with your ultimate sacrifice flow. After you’ve studied the five kinds of insects, you can study more about switching and matching methods between several pets.”

Wu Zewen replied seriously: “Okay. Thank you.”

Although it was three simple words, Liu Chuan knew this passage must’ve come from the bottom of his heart.

Alas, a smart and serious guy is worry-free!

It’s a pity that this Xueba really talks too little. If half of Li Xiang’s talkativeness is transferred to Wu Zewen, it would be perfect…

Speak of the devil and he shall appear. Classmate Li Xiang messaged his master on QQ again: “Master! I just finished watching another video of a one-on-one match between Captain Xiao and someone. Do you know the hand speed of Captain Xiao?”

Liu Chuan replied: “240. Captain Xiao’s hand speed isn’t particularly high.”

Li Xiang was shocked: “Isn’t that just similar to me?! My hand speed is also 240!”

Liu Chuan smiled: “He can kill you in seconds with a hand speed of 100.”

Li Xiang: “……”

Liu Chuan continued to laugh at his apprentice: “The game isn’t purely based on hand speed but also consciousness and experience, do you understand?”

Li Xiang: “……”

Li Xiang, who suffered a blow, scratched his head in puzzlement.

What is consciousness? It can’t be touched. It can’t be seen. It’s too mysterious.

Li Xiang continued to watch the video sullenly and decided to find some “consciousness” from it.

***

After Five Poisons switched to the nanny, the six-person monster brushing team continued to fight boringly. Time slowly passed and it wasn’t until more than 6 o’clock in the afternoon that atop Liu Chuan’s head was an upgrade prompt.

—His Tangmen account finally rose to level 30 first!

Before level 25, everyone was a rookie. Level 25 was just the entrance and level 30 was the starting point. Starting from there, the game will show players a richer way to play.

First of all, at level 30, the first 6-person team instance of “Ye Tanming Jian Pavilion” is open with a level limit of 35*.

* Instance is only open from level 30 players to level 35.

Secondly, the opening of various social relationships such as the husband-and-wife system in the game and the worship system which will fully be opened at level 30.

At the same time, the second large-scale main city “Jiang Ling*” will be opened.

* County in Jingzhou

Jiang Ling, a prosperous city located in the Central Plains, is accessible at level 30 and is three times larger than Chengdu*. It’s one of the main cities with complete function groups. There are gang management offices, couples, mentoring, worship and other social relationship management offices, teleportation offices of major sects, battlefield teleportation offices, chamber of commerce, etc. A prosperous city generously opens its door to players.

* Main city for novices

The opening of the main city is also accompanied by the opening of the trading system in the game. In the early days of the game, the equipment produced by the level 30 instance “Ye Tanming Jian Pavilion” has become the most important commodity in the trading market system.

At this time, the [world] channel was already boiling--

“Looking for groups to conquer Ye Tanming Jian Pavilion! Begging and kneeling in this mind-numbing cold for a Level 30 sharp Shaolin expert! Novices, don’t disturb!”

“Level 30 nanny for Ye Tanming Jian Pavilion! Must be an expert nanny! Lacking only one player and starting right away!”

“The Top of the Forbidden City Guild accepts people. Only friends above Level 30 are accepted. Apply for an instance immediately when you enter a guild so that you can get a piece of good equipment!”

“The Mushroom Gang welcomes new people and after reaching a certain level, the team will be playing an instance. The team will be led by a professional gold-level commander who will lead the team! If you want to join, apply now!”

It’s only been an afternoon since the Shuilong Yin server in the seventh district of TELECOM was launched and the eight novice villages servers are full showing how popular this server is. All kinds of dazzling news, team broadcasts, and guild recruitments filled the [world] channel, swiping them up quickly.

Seeing the Tangmen reach Level 30, Nepenthes couldn’t help the “thump” in his heart.

Li Xiang also had his doubts so he asked on the [team] channel: “Tangmen, you’re already at Level 30. Do you want to do an instance first?”

Liu Chuan said, “No, I’ll wait for you.”

Li Xiang felt moved: “Brother, you are so loyal!”

Liu Chuan smiled, not bothering to reply.

If they found out my true purpose, you might not praise me but beat me up.

In fact, I actually want to get married to Wu Zewen first after he reaches level 30…