bookandnovel Chapter 4136 Challenge Progress
Chapter 4136 Challenge Progress
Chapter 4136 Challenge Progress
Did Angor discover the significance of Dark Armor?
Gray Porcelain and the Rabbit Girl looked at Angel in surprise. They were also very curious about what the Dark Armor actually did.
Most importantly, they were worried that the dark armor would have some unknown effects on their subsequent hunts.
Although there are no clues yet, perhaps this is a hidden move by Nereid?
"Didn't you notice that Nereid's skill attacks changed after it activated its Dark Armor?"
"It's changed?" Gray Porcelain asked in confusion. He had focused all his attention on the elemental field and hadn't noticed any changes at all.
The rabbit girl also looked confused.
Angel didn't keep him in suspense and gave the answer directly: "He had blind spots when he used any of his abilities before."
"But when it activates its dark armor, this blind spot disappears, and the entire platform is now covered!"
Because they had interrupted Nereid's spellcasting every time before, they hadn't discovered the effect of the Dark Armor at first.
But just now, they made a mistake; the Heavenly Firefall was released by Nereid.
It was at this moment that Ingres discovered the key point.
The attack range of Skyfire Fall is across the entire platform, including Nereid himself, who is also within the range of Skyfire Fall!
Only safe havens are the only true havens.
In other words, Nereid's "dark armor" means that challengers can no longer hide in blind spots and can only go to safe havens.
By this time, Angor had a general understanding of Nereid's process.
If we compare it to a game boss, its strategy is actually very systematic:
In the first four rounds, it will unleash four elemental attacks: lightning, wind, fire, and ice.
At this point, it hasn't entered its dark armor state yet, and when it attacks, it will subconsciously avoid its own surroundings, so its vicinity becomes a blind spot for attack. Hiding here can prevent injury.
At the same time, each time its skill attack lands, it charges the shelter platform.
Once fully charged, the shelter platform will activate the "Shelter Safe Zone" mechanism.
Nereid also simultaneously entered the "Dark Armor" state.
Entering Dark Armor state grants Nereid complete immunity to all attacks in her current elemental form, including any elemental attacks she herself unleashes.
Therefore, at this moment, Nereid's spellcasting no longer has blind spots, and has become a full-platform attack.
At this point, other challengers must first take refuge in the elemental sanctuary before attacking Nereid; this is an essential procedure for them.
But for Angell and others, the situation was different.
They already possessed elemental fields, so they didn't need to go to the elemental sanctuary; moreover, they hadn't escaped Nereid's blind spot from the beginning, so they didn't feel the effects of the dark armor at all.
If it weren't for this mistake, they wouldn't even know the specific effects of the Dark Armor.
can only say……
Nereid is utterly useless.
The Dark Armor mechanic, to put it simply, is just a way to compensate for the shortcomings of Nereid itself.
Before Angor and his group went into battle, they had made thorough preparations. In the simulation battle, they had amplified Nereid's abilities countless times, only to find out in the actual fight that he didn't even have half the combat power he displayed in the simulation.
They're so incompetent that even without making a mistake, they wouldn't notice the effect of the Dark Armor.
"So the Dark Armor effect really only prevents its attacks from harming itself?" After hearing this, the rabbit girl felt as if all the wrinkles in her brain had been smoothed out.
They had been very worried about Nereid's Dark Armor, an "unknown" ability that even Shizhen didn't understand, which made them extremely cautious.
Is this the result?
The rabbit girl looked on incredulously.
Angor nodded emphatically: "If you don't believe me, you can ask Gray Porcelain. When Nereid activated his dark armor just now, did your danger sense register anything?"
Gray Porcelain thought for a moment, then shook his head: "No..."
Angell shrugged, giving him a "you see" look.
Gray Porcelain's innate abilities couldn't possibly be wrong, so even he said so, and the rabbit girl finally believed him.
The mighty Elemental Rainbow Dragon actually learned Dark Armor in order to avoid elemental damage.
This is utterly absurd and utterly ridiculous.
The rabbit girl felt a pang of confusion. After holding it in for a long time, she could only utter the same sentiment as Angel: "Useless, utterly useless."
Everyone felt sad.
However, looking at the "domineering and majestic" Nereid in the sky, Angell still silently gave it a pat on the back: "Whether Nereid is useless or not, we'll discuss that later."
"We still cannot let our guard down."
"Don't forget, Nereid is quite cunning. Didn't it just give us a rude awakening by hiding the elemental core?"
Upon hearing this, a blush flashed across Gray Porcelain's face.
It was precisely because he relied too much on empiricism that he made the wrong judgment, which resulted in not interrupting the falling fire.
“Moreover, we’ve made more than one mistake.” Angell said, “We made a mistake at the very beginning, and we just made another one. If we didn’t have the elemental field, we would have been eliminated long ago.”
Angell's expression was serious: "You should know that the other challengers do not have elemental fields. They didn't even have a safe haven for the first four rounds."
In this situation, the Seto clan discovered the secret of the "squares," meaning they survived the first four rounds.
Their Rabbit Hole team made a mistake right from the start; without an elemental field, they had to die in the first round.
From this perspective, they are not even as good as the Seto Squad.
That's why Angell gave such a stern warning.
Never underestimate your prey before successfully completing the hunt.
The gray porcelain and the rabbit girl put away their relaxed expressions and nodded emphatically.
In the ensuing battle, Gray Porcelain's concentration indeed improved significantly.
Nereid's repeated accurate judgments caused him to suffer constant backlash from the spell.
By this time, Nereid had already suffered nineteen backlashes. Although the extent of its injuries was obscured by the dark armor, the fact that it could rise and continue attacking after nineteen consecutive spell backlashes, with each attack maintaining its power, demonstrates the incredible strength of Nereid's physical body.
Under normal circumstances, a wizard would need to recover for half a year after suffering an elemental backlash, let alone continue fighting.
It can only be said that although Nereid himself was useless, as an abyssal dragon, his physical resilience far surpassed that of other creatures.
At this moment, Gray Porcelain couldn't help but sigh, "If Nereid had attacked us with his physical body from the beginning, we might have been eliminated in one round."
Although Huici's statement was somewhat self-deprecating, the actual situation was pretty much as he described.
Their physical bodies were too weak; if Nereid touched them even slightly, they would be instantly killed.
But Nereid abandoned the shortcut and insisted on taking the path of "elemental attacks".
This is like using a cannon to kill a mosquito.
Ultimately, it backfired on him.
In this regard, even if Angor wanted to save face for Nereid, he really didn't know how to bring it up, and could only say softly, "After all, this is just a dream version of Nereid, and its true form may have other changes."
With a cough, Angell changed the subject.
"The next round is very important."
"Why?" Gray porcelain and the rabbit girl looked at Angel.
“We are undertaking a perfect challenge, and the challenge rules limit the number of elemental gems that can be carried, with a maximum of 25 elemental gems – this is essentially a limit on the number of attacks,” Angel explained. “Other challengers do not have ‘elemental turrets’ and can only interrupt Nereid’s spellcasting by manually throwing reverse elemental gems and triggering a backlash by detonating them.”
He paused for a moment, then continued his analysis: "You can take a maximum of 5 of each reverse element. Nereid commonly uses four types of attacks: wind, lightning, fire, and ice. The corresponding reverse elements are earth, wood, water, and fire. You can take 5 of each of the four types, for a total of 20."
“I had taken 5 extra lightning elemental gems, intending to deal with dark armor. But dark armor is only immune to attacks of the same element and does not release dark elemental damage, so these 5 gems are completely useless.”
"The key point is that, assuming the challengers hit every shot, they've already used up 19 Reverse Element Gems in the first 1 attempts. Now, they should only have one left." Angor's eyes sharpened. "The power of the Fairy Realm doesn't create death traps, which means the next round will inevitably be a decisive blow!"
Gray Porcelain wasn't stupid either. He understood the importance of the next attack, given how meticulously Angel had disassembled the structure. He looked solemnly at the sky.
As expected, Nereid in the sky roared in vain, and then, in its huge, bell-like eyes, bolts of lightning flashed out.
This is... a thunderous punishment!
Gray Porcelain: "Use wood-based projectiles! The core of my ability is... my eyes!"
Nereid previously used the core of Thunder Punishment's power in either his left or right eye.
But this time, he opened both eyes directly!
The change may seem small, but it could be fatal for other challengers!
Because they now only have one elemental gem left, and they must simultaneously strike Nereid's eyes!
This means they must accurately calculate the explosion distance before throwing the object!
The explosion radius of the elemental gem is limited; if it's too close, it will be deflected by the dragon scales, and if it's too far, it won't cover both eyes. The explosion's center must be exactly between the eyes, so that both pupils are simultaneously hit by the elemental impact.
In such a tense battle, they had to make such precise calculations, and they only had one chance. Failure would mean running out of gems and having no chance of turning the tide.
Therefore, this change is a fatal test for the other challengers!
Judging from the difficulty alone, it truly deserves to be the prerequisite for the Perfect Challenge.
but.
The Rabbit Hole team is different from the other challenger teams.
Although their gem count was also calculated, the elemental turrets gave them double the number of cannonballs out of thin air.
In other words, their tolerance for error is much, much greater than that of other challenger teams.
At this moment, they didn't need to consider the blast distance covering their eyes like other challengers; instead, they fired two elemental shells in quick succession.
One eye aimed at the left eye, one eye aimed at the right eye!
Two wood-type cannonballs, shimmering with the light of life, hit their target directly!
"Roar--"
Accompanied by a bloodcurdling scream as the rock strata were torn apart.
After a struggle, Nereid's dragon body suddenly burst into thousands of crystalline blue bubbles.
Each bubble reflects its distorted face, like a dream.
They slowly rose up, and finally touched the fluorite high in the sky, turning into a cascading rainbow of fragments.
Although the wailing echoed on the empty platform after the bubbles dissipated, everyone who saw this scene understood that Angor's prediction was correct: Nereid could only withstand twenty instances of elemental backlash.
After twenty attempts, everything vanished like a bubble...
"Well done!" Angell looked at the still somewhat dazed Gray Porcelain and Rabbit Girl, smiled, walked over, and patted them on the shoulder.
"Just like that... he died?" Gray Porcelain murmured softly.
Angel raised an eyebrow: "What? Haven't you had enough?"
Gray Porcelain scratched the handle of the teapot with a hint of embarrassment: "It's not that, it's just that I didn't expect it to die so suddenly. I thought it would leave behind a few last words... That's how it's written in novels."
Angel shook his head: "It's a fight to the death, who has time to say their last words? Just like if we were grazed by its elemental attack, would we have time to say our last words?"
Gray Porcelain thought for a moment and shook his head.
Indeed, the big boss leaves behind regrets before he dies; this is a fictional story.
Reality is difficult.
Angel patted him on the shoulder again: "However, I personally think that fighting to the death is itself a kind of last testament."
Gray Porcelain was startled, somewhat dazed.
But before he could ponder Angell's words, the change in the text bar caught his attention.
"The team 'Rabbit Hole' has entered challenge mode. Complete the following three challenges to enter perfect completion mode."
Challenge 1: You can carry a maximum of 5 elemental gems of each element, with a maximum limit of 25. √
Challenge 2: Successfully hunt Nereid in Normal Mode and ensure all members survive. √
Challenge 3: Pass Montedan's test. (This challenge will only unlock after completing the other two challenges.)
Current challenge progress: 2/3
Current completion rate: 40%
The biggest change is in the level of completion.
Initially, after selecting challenge mode and completing challenge 1, their completion rate reached 20%.
Hunting Nereid in normal mode now adds another 20% to the completion rate.
It seems reasonable, but killing the regular version of Nereid only adds this little bit of completion, which Angor thinks is still a bit too little.
If other teams don't participate in challenge mode and they hunt the regular version of Nereid, will they only get 20% completion?
This level of completion is practically forcing people into a challenge mode.
As Angell was reflecting, the text box refreshed again.
"Montedan's assessment is about to begin."
Montedan's test is a challenge they must complete; otherwise, they will not be able to enter the perfect completion mode.
However, what exactly Montedan's assessment will entail remains unknown.
After a brief silence, the text field suddenly refreshed with several new messages.
"Montedan watched your challenge from the very beginning."
"Montedan disapproved of your challenge and left a note. (Click to view)"
"Congratulations to the 'Rabbit Hole' team for passing Montedan's test."
Current challenge progress: 3/3
Current completion rate: 60%
The suddenly updated information left everyone looking at each other in bewilderment.
what is this?
Why did he suddenly pass Montedan's test?
But they didn't undergo any assessment.
Moreover, judging from the information from Wonderland, Montedan doesn't seem to approve of their challenge—although we don't know why, if you don't approve, why did you pass the test?