Chapter 25: Moon Phase: Last Quarter Moon

【Challenger Notification: The Di Zong Mountain Range region is about to fade the crescent moon and enter the Last Quarter Moon stage. Please be prepared, players!】

Last Quarter Moon scene introduction: The second intensity stage of the Evil Moon's five moon phases, duration unknown.

Change: A large number of evil spirit lives that only exist in the Last Quarter Moon scene will descend on the Di Zong Mountain Range region following the moon phase change, and the evil spirits in the crescent moon scene will disappear.

Change 2: The landscape environment will change.

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Accompanied by the notification sound ringing in the players' minds.

The scenes in various areas of the Di Zong Mountain Range changed accordingly.

Ancient Battlefield direction.

The scene full of corpses dissipated with the spatial distortion, and what was refreshed was a large number of blood corpses that were entirely scarlet and had black hair on their bodies.

Blood-Colored Plains direction.

The scarlet plants covering the plains dissipated with the wind, followed by countless twisted vines and withered ancient trees, as well as a large number of evil spirit lives.

Artifact Spirit Valley direction.

A rushing river appeared in the center of the valley. Besides the monsters and Origin monsters that already existed, a large number of twisted cores floating in the air and covered with dense tentacles were refreshed.

But these evil spirits were besieged by Artifact Spirits as soon as they appeared.

The switch from crescent moon to Last Quarter Moon was like integrating an entire unknown space into the Di Zong Mountain Range. While the landscape changed, a large number of new evil spirit lives emerged.

The earth-shaking changes ended, and the dim light cast by the crescent moon turned into dazzling blood red, and the energy particles wandering in the air increased by five times.

Players exploring in various scenes were immediately trapped by evil spirits.

Bloodthirsty evil spirit lives would attack all targets with life fluctuations within their line of sight (perception) range, including players.

Especially in the Ancient Battlefield direction, the vast majority of players were hunting Cursed Soldiers here.

Before the moon phase changed, the refresh frequency of evil spirits was not high, and they needed to wait for the Black Tide energy to accumulate in the corpses to transform into Cursed Soldiers.

Recently, under the players' crazy hunting, the refresh speed of Cursed Soldiers had gradually failed to keep up with the players' killing efficiency, causing every refresh of Cursed Soldiers to cause grabbing, and many players could only continue to go deeper into the Ancient Battlefield direction to find huntable targets in farther places.

The crescent moon changed to the Last Quarter Moon, and the offensive and defensive positions between players and evil spirits changed.

A large number of blood corpses besieged the player group, launching bloodthirsty attacks without fear of death.

And the blood corpses refreshed in the Last Quarter Moon reached a hunting level of 8-15, with comprehensive strength several times stronger than the 1-3 level Cursed Soldiers.

Quantity + level suppression, players were completely at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the enhanced evil spirits.

The number of online players in Qi Sheng's mind fell at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a large number of players were killed and quit the game.

During this period, the regional chat channel also exploded.

"So this is the moon phase switching that appears with probability in the novice guide. I previously thought that the moon phase of each region was fixed, and different large regions had different moon phases. This is just the intensity of the Last Quarter Moon, and it's already so high, scary!"

"Blood corpses are also too fierce, thick blood and high defense. Our team fought for a long time to kill one, and as a result, a group came nearby and besieged us. Now the teammates are all dead, I have already given up resistance and am waiting to die..."

"Save me, I'm besieged, I don't want to enter the one-hour resurrection cooldown (storm crying)."

"The moon phase switch is too terrifying, the monster difficulty has increased several times. If it's a full moon or a big evil moon moon phase, won't the evil spirit level break a hundred?"

"The twisted plants in the Blood-Colored Plains generally have a hunting level of 12+, I'm really drunk, it's hard to run, waiting to die!"

"Let you be tough on your mouth at ordinary times, complaining that the number of refreshed monsters is too small to fight. Now it's enough, right? Not enough, wait for the First Quarter Moon (dog head)."

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After the moon phase switch, except for the players in the Gloomy Caverns who were safe and sound, the rest of the players were attacked by enhanced evil spirits.

The reason was related to the particularity of the Black Tide. Things that were not evil spirits would not change with the change of the moon phase.

The Iron-Shelled Insects in the Gloomy Caverns did not disappear or turn into more powerful monsters.

But the players outside were not so lucky.

In a short time, the number of online players fell from 9800+ to less than 1000.

Regarding this, Qi Sheng was mentally prepared.

Different moon phases of the terrifying Black Tide could be understood as five different layered spaces. When the crescent moon switched to the Last Quarter Moon, the crescent moon space was replaced by the Last Quarter Moon space, and all things related to the Black Tide in the scene would switch accordingly.

For example, the Cursed Soldiers on the Ancient Battlefield would not disappear completely, but would reappear when the moon phase switched to the crescent moon.

For the players at the current stage, the scene intensity of the Last Quarter Moon was clearly difficult to bear.

But he had no way to solve it.

The change of the moon phase was affected by the tide of the terrifying Black Tide. When it would switch back to the crescent moon was completely unknown.

One thing was certain: the Di Zong Mountain Range region was not the core area of the terrifying Black Tide energy corrosion, and there was a very small probability of refreshing stronger moon phases here.

In the five hundred years he had been in the Monster World, he had only seen the full moon of the fourth stage once in the Di Zong Mountain Range region.

The full moon scene in his memory could be described as demons dancing wildly.

Abyss Great Demons, Void Erosion Insects, Fearful Touches... one could see a large number of super evil spirit lives with hunting levels exceeding 100 with one glance.

The evil spirits covering the sky and the sun ravaged the Di Zong Mountain Range like locusts crossing the border, and very few lives could survive wherever they passed.

As for the "Big Evil Moon," which was regarded as the final form of the terrifying Black Tide, only the four great servants in their prime had experienced it, and he had never seen it with his own eyes.

【Boss, this moon phase switch is not necessarily a bad thing.】

Turning to look at the guide water ball hovering beside him, Qi Sheng nodded with a smile:

"Indeed."

He naturally understood the guide's idea.

Compared with the crescent moon scene, while the intensity of the Last Quarter Moon scene increased significantly, the energy intensity between heaven and earth also became more abundant.

The Last Quarter Moon scene gestated a large number of Black Tide spirit plants, and there were also many Black Tide spirit objects produced by the Black Tide swallowing other worlds and integrating them into the Monster World, and then refining them under the Black Tide erosion energy. These things could all be purified into pure sacrificial power through the altar burning method.

While the risk was high, players exploring outside could also have more surprise gains.

Although the sudden moon phase switch led to a large number of players being forced to go offline, Qi Sheng could be sure that players could quickly adapt to the intensity of the Last Quarter Moon and continue to create more sacrificial power income for him.

After these players who went offline went back online and left the novice village, they would inevitably be able to find ways to deal with it.

If strength was not enough, group up to act.

The hunting difficulty increased, but the income from killing blood corpses was also several times that of killing Cursed Soldiers.

Through various dimensions such as hunting efficiency, hunting difficulty, and chance probability, the conclusion calculated by the guide was that the comprehensive income rate of the Last Quarter Moon was 1.3 times higher than that of the crescent moon.

And this value was only temporary.

With the growth of players' strength, the comprehensive income rate brought by the Last Quarter Moon would continue to climb.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 30 =====