Monsters Are Coming

Hearing the Earth Thought Evil Spirit say he would imprison him forever, the Divine King couldn’t hold it anymore.

This was simply worse than killing him.

He remembered that a hot topic was once discussed on the forum, approximately four months ago.

Someone initiated a discussion on the forum: What are the player’s weaknesses?

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The post included examples of the various "weaknesses" of players from many of them.

For example.

Players are a new force in Monster World, having only been in the game for a few months; compared to those strong clans, there is still an insurmountable gap in a short amount of time. One could say their mechanism is strong, but their combat power is truly worrying.

Any famous force on the forum can easily crush them, the players.

Except for the two tyrants in Newbie Village.

The Ancient God Race, Soul Returning Clan, Shuyan, Ascension Clan, Jile Clan... No matter which force, they could easily take down the players.

So, the short development time is the biggest weakness of the players.

Some players also expressed that their biggest weakness is poor technique.

The various races and creatures in Monster World completely crush players in combat techniques, and growth in this area requires time to accumulate.

There are many other various viewpoints.

Lack of sacrificial power, overconfidence, reliance on strategy, etc.

But to the Divine King, these all boiled down to issues rather than weaknesses.

Until a player proposed a point that sparked heated discussion, saying:

The biggest advantage players currently have is not rapid growth after hunting, nor the rule power boost brought by Star Vein Combination, Life Soul Level, and Body Refining Level. Actually, the biggest advantage is the ability to resurrect without loss, followed by the power boost from other rule abilities.

If there were no resurrection mechanism, even if other abilities were twice as strong, they couldn’t withstand the pressure from the strong clans.

Players would absolutely be shut down by the two tyrants in Newbie Village and wouldn’t even dare to leave the space of Imperial Tomb Village.

This is the fundamental mechanism that ensures players can explore Monster World with an "invincible" posture.

So, the biggest weakness of players is: being restricted from resurrection.

To restrict players from resurrection at its source, the various forces in Monster World would not be able to do it.

Unless the game’s characters descended into reality, unplugged the Star Network cable, and shut down the Moon Eclipse Clan’s game server.

But this hypothesis is obviously impossible.

The only feasible way is one: to imprison the player.

And there must be three conditions met on the basis of imprisonment.

The first condition, restrict player movement to prevent players from dying through self-harm or other means.

The second condition, maintain life force to prevent player deaths due to hunger or disease.

The third condition, restrict players from being rescued by external forces, or imprison them in a location unreachable by players.

With these three conditions helping, theoretically, players are like the Primordial Monster "Prayer" locked in the underground cave of the Ghostly Clan’s land.

Unable to escape, unable to die, without hope of returning to the village.

Other games generally have a setting of "forced detachment" where players can return to the city if they are stuck in an immovable state or in a scenario bug.

But Monster World doesn’t have a forced detachment mechanism, so being imprisoned by a hostile force is the player’s biggest weakness.

When the Divine King read this reply, he found it very logical.

He even fantasized about what he would do if he fell into such dire straits.

The truth is, without external assistance and unable to leave through suicide, this plight is simply unsolvable.

But to his surprise, he truly encountered the hypothetical plight from the post.

The Earth Thought Bully wanted to imprison him, instead of killing him directly, like the previous two times.

This made the Divine King feel that things were serious.

He feared he might not escape, having to linger around the Earth Thought Bully, as an eyesore accessory.

"Bully, let’s make a deal."

"Not releasing." The Earth Thought Bully floated in mid-air, not even bothering to glance at the Divine King, his consciousness continuing to control the Black Tide to devour resources.

"Bully, do you really think I can’t escape?"

"Imprisoning you here is to see how you’ll escape. You can exercise your hidden abilities anytime to leave, I’m watching closely."

Upon hearing this, the Divine King sighed dejectedly within.

It’s over; he really became an accessory of the Earth Thought Bully.

Watching the Earth Thought Bully still controlling the Black Tide, the Divine King was so angry that his teeth itched.

He decided to try to make the Earth Thought Bully kill him.

With this idea, he immediately summoned the Star Vein Interface and decisively purchased the Spiritual Shock Life Soul and Taunt Life Soul.

Then, a Spiritual Shock was launched at the floating Earth Thought Bully.

The Earth Thought Bully, who was controlling the Black Tide, didn’t even glance at the Divine King, raised a hand, and immediately formed a translucent Spirit Barrier in front of him, easily resisting his Spiritual Shock.

Finding that the Spiritual Shock was ineffective, he promptly switched to the Taunt Attribute.

The Taunt Domain spread out, beginning to impact the Earth Thought Bully.

Earth Thought Bully’s body shook, then he opened his eyes, looking at him with a curious expression.

"This ability is familiar; back then, your Player Clan used this ability to rescue that Reverse Tide new-generation warrior from my hands."

"Will you release me?" the Divine King inquired again.

"As I said, if you have the ability, just escape, but let me release you willingly, it’s impossible."

After saying that, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit placed his consciousness on a cloud run, letting the Evil Eye take control of the body.

The Taunt Attribute was released again.

But this time, it was the Evil Eye that was affected.

Various affectionate greetings to its mother appeared repeatedly in the memory scenes of the Evil Eye, dissipating into nothing within less than a second.