Chapter 31 There were no flashy full-screen effects like a five-star ultimate
Crack!!!
One strike!
There were no flashy full-screen effects like a five-star ultimate, only the most extreme single-target violence erupting after the mechanical multipliers were compounded!
[Max Crit! Crit!!!]
[Double Special Attack Stacked! Weakness Break!!!]
With a dull, heavy thud, the incredibly thick health bar above Jeanne d'Arc's head evaporated by more than half, like a fuse ignited by intense fire, directly triggering the kill threshold!
Boom—
Under the perfect chemical reaction of Special Attacks and Critical Hits, Jeanne d'Arc dissolved into a sky full of black ash!
[Battle Victory (Mission Clear)!]
Dead silence.
Not just in PD's livestream, but the entire discussion area of the Youxing Network fell into a deep state of shock.
If this extreme tactical counter-kill and mechanical combo only made players marvel at Oriole's genius-like design ability...
...then a long column article published on the Youxing Community ten minutes later pushed the significance of this clear to an epic height that made souls tremble.
In this parallel world filled with "One Hit 999" and "VIP Divine Wings," players only ever cared about stats and had no concept of "digging deep into game lore."
Therefore, this world had never seen so-called "lore researchers."
However, this new uploader with the ID "Research Demon" was an outlier.
He was originally a college student obsessed with world myths and historical documents. Because he couldn't stand the trashy reskinned games on the market that haphazardly stitched together Eastern and Western deities and demons without any logical foundation, he had long been in a state of frustration, possessing a wealth of knowledge with nowhere to use it.
Until FGO appeared. That rigorous and heavy foundation, the sense of epic scale interweaving historical truth with magical settings, and the hidden tragic destinies behind the characters completely activated his misplaced talent for research!
When the Fate/Grand Order CG was first released, he was also the first to keenly perceive the weight behind the line "The Epic of Humanity."
After clearing France, he spent the night in Da Vinci's Workshop's encyclopedia database reviewing documents. With bloodshot eyes, he typed out this ten-thousand-word analysis post titled "You Think This is Just a Mechanical Puzzle? Look at the Name of the Mode!"
This was not only the first long article in Blue Star's gaming history to dig deep into a world-building setting, but also a dimensional reduction strike on an intellectual level.
Within just half an hour of being posted, it was pushed to the number one spot on the trending searches across the entire network, and the comment section instantly surpassed one hundred thousand.
The body of the post didn't analyze any tactics; it only contained a few paragraphs of text that were extremely restrained yet weighed a thousand pounds:
"When you were playing the [Historical Retrospection] mode just now, I wonder how many people noticed the prompt that flashed across the system interface:
"[Retrieving original records from the Throne of Heroes, loading original command data of the first Master, Fujimaru Ritsuka.]"
"We, the so-called pro players from another world, rely on throwing money around, using a hundred-thousand-yuan team of maxed-out five-stars to mindlessly steamroll everything."
"When we encounter a high-difficulty stage we can't beat, we rage impotently here, cursing the developers for unreasonable stats."
"But in the true background story of FGO, on that scorched earth of France where even the air was burning and despair was so thick you couldn't see a sliver of a future..."
"That first Master named Fujimaru Ritsuka was just an ordinary human without any magecraft foundation, who didn't even have a weapon!"
"He didn't have maxed-out five-star carries, and he didn't have the privilege of clicking 'Restart' if he failed."
"He took those 'low-star pieces of junk' like Mozart and Sanson—the ones even we look down on and deem unworthy of the table—and faced that Dragon Witch with her terrifying combat power head-on!"
"The 'puzzle' we just experienced wasn't some shortcut to victory given out of the system's mercy."
"That was the true historical fact!"
"It was that mortal Master who, in the face of a despairing chasm of combat power, relied on an ultimate understanding of every Servant's skills and unreserved trust to forcefully calculate a path to survival out of hell!"
Once this post came out, the forums of the entire Youxing Network fell into a long silence.
Following that was the frantic sharing by countless players with shock and awe.
Whether it was the wealthy who spent money like water or the pro players who considered themselves tactical Masters, at this moment, they all felt a resonance that struck their souls.
It turned out that a true epic was never about high-and-mighty gods crushing mortals.
It was that even the most humble mortal could rely on wisdom and courage to compose a miracle of god-slaying in the face of desperation!
This endgame stage of [Historical Retrospection] was like a heavy hammer. It not only showed the players of this other world the combat depth of FGO, which was as deep as an ocean trench, but it also thoroughly carved the name 'Fujimaru Ritsuka' into the hearts of all players!
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