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Chapter 4135 Shelter Platform
Chapter 4135 Shelter Platform
Because of Angor's reminder, Gray Porcelain temporarily abandoned the idea of finishing off the enemy, and simply stayed silently within the magic energy array, waiting for the next opportunity to fight.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Angor connected with the various illusory cloud clusters in the upper sky, wanting to see if any key information had been recorded from the cloud clusters' perspective.
After searching for a while, Angell actually found two clues.
First of all, Nereid's attacks have blind spots.
Angor's earlier findings were correct: when Nereid unleashes Hurricane Throw, he subconsciously avoids his own vicinity.
In other words, as long as he stays near Nereid when he casts his skill, he can avoid the effects of Hurricane Throw.
In addition, Angell noticed another clue.
As Nereid crashed to the ground, the wind elemental energy it released touched the ground tiles, causing the edges of dozens of square tiles around it to faintly emit a bluish glow.
This situation would have been very difficult to detect if Angel hadn't used "cloud monitoring".
Because the square floor tiles only emitted a bluish glow at their edges, and the light was very faint, their color blended with the original color of the hurricane.
but.
Angell has only discovered this phenomenon through cloud monitoring, but its specific principles and effects are still unclear.
However, this anomaly was positively correlated with the square bricks, which made Angel think of the clues provided by the Seto Squad.
Perhaps this anomaly is related to the strategy for conquering Nereid?
……
Angell shared the two clues he had noticed with the rabbit girl and Gray Porcelain.
"The existence of attack blind spots gives us more options for dodging. Sometimes, we can even deliberately hide in blind spots to save elemental energy consumption."
"As for the glowing square bricks, we don't know their effect yet, but we can continue to monitor them."
Both the rabbit girl and the gray porcelain nodded after hearing this.
Having blind spots in attack does indeed give them more options.
However, at present, there is a large surplus of elemental power in both the elemental turrets and the magic arrays of the elemental fields, so they have no intention of hiding in the blind spots for the time being.
Moreover, avoidance is always a poor strategy.
Offense is the only way to win!
Just look at this counterattack; it not only caused the Nereids to suffer elemental backlash but also gave them ample time to adjust. This was definitely a win-win situation.
time flies.
About half a minute later, Nereid finally recovered from its wailing and flapped its wings to fly back into the air.
Its gaze toward the crowd was filled with hatred.
It seemed to be filled with immense anger because of the elemental backlash it had suffered earlier.
However, all of this was merely a "demonstration of the battle process." Angor could clearly perceive through his extrasensory perception that his mind remained calm and undisturbed.
So, its current resentful gaze, to use a more fashionable term, is... going through the motions.
The plot required it to be angry, so it became angry.
After the anger, a new round of battle begins.
This round of battle was actually easier than the previous ones.
After experiencing the first elemental backlash, tiny cracks appeared on Nereid's body. No blood flowed from these cracks, but traces of elemental energy leaked out.
Therefore, everyone discovered that even without Gray Porcelain's prediction, they could still sense what ability Nereid was going to use next by observing the leaked elemental power.
For example, right now.
The cracks on Nereid's body were emitting fire elemental energy tinged with blue smoke.
Without a doubt, what Nereid is about to unleash next is—Heavenly Firefall!
As expected, the enraged Nereid unleashed a devastating attack, with countless fireball phantoms coalescing in mid-air.
Once the phantom materializes, it can transform into a meteor shower and fall to earth!
The process of the phantom turning into reality was very brief, but those who had anticipated it were not afraid at all.
"Heavy water shell! The target core is on its right flank, on that feather burning with purple flames!"
Within the mental ligament, Gray Porcelain swiftly made an attack decision.
The rabbit girl and Angor arrived at the heavy water cannon first, because the fire element escaped from the crack.
After Gray Porcelain confirmed that the elemental core this time was "Purple Fire Feather", Angor immediately aimed and calibrated, while the Rabbit Girl pressed the button for the heavy water cannon without hesitation!
Water elements condensed above the magic array, transforming into inconspicuous cannonballs that flew toward the target, Purple Feather, at an extremely fast speed.
puff-
The heavy water cannonball pierced through the Purple Flame Feather, leaving a trail of flames in its tail.
The Nereid, who was chanting in mid-air, suddenly seemed to freeze in time, the entire dragon suspended in mid-air.
Two seconds later, the cracks on Nereid's body began to multiply rapidly, spreading across his entire body like a spider web.
At the very moment the crack began to spread, Nereid let out a bloodcurdling scream.
The enormous body crashed to the ground once again with a deafening roar.
The fire element escaping from the crack touched the white stone slab, causing the gaps around the slab to emit a faint glow once more.
This time, it was no longer green awns, but firelight.
As Angel had specifically mentioned before, both the rabbit girl and the gray porcelain had noticed this minute detail.
"It really is glowing?"
"Why do I have this feeling that this glowing floor is absorbing fire elements?"
Normally, the gaps in the floor don't emit light; they only become glowing when they come into contact with fire elements.
In addition, Angell previously mentioned that the floor gaps emitted a bluish light after coming into contact with the hurricane.
It gives the impression that it has absorbed the wind element and emitted a bluish light, or absorbed the fire element and emitted a fiery light.
“It does seem like it absorbs the corresponding element and emits the corresponding light.” Angell: “But why design this effect in the first place?”
The answer to this question is currently unknown.
However, the answer soon became clear to them.
Half a minute later, Nereid rallied again and launched an attack.
This time, it used the ability "Frozen Hell". Because of the existence of the crack, its attack was revealed in advance, and Angor and the rabbit girl arrived at the corresponding turret ahead of time.
As the elemental cannonballs roared, Nereid trembled and suffered another elemental backlash.
The third time, it crashed to the ground, and the pure white bricks beneath it once again "absorbed" the dissipated ice elements...
Just as the bricks emitted a pale white, icy light, a row of information prompts appeared on everyone's text input screen.
"The shelter platform is checking its charging status."
Lightning Element: √, Wind Element: √, Fire Element: √, Ice Element: √, Dark Element: ×
"Detection complete. The shelter platform's elemental charging is incomplete and will not be activated at this time."
"A sheltered platform?" The text message confirmed their suspicions; the floor was indeed absorbing elements. What they hadn't expected was that this platform would be called a sheltered platform.
Just as they were still marveling at the name of the platform, Nereid took to the air again.
But this time it did not attack immediately. Instead, it displayed an even stronger hatred, and its body began to release a dense amount of dark element.
The dark element, like a black mist, enveloped it completely, utterly engulfing its body.
The current situation felt to Angor like... he was fighting a BOSS when suddenly something strange happened and he entered the second phase.
That said, the moment the dark element appeared.
The text message that had appeared earlier suddenly changed.
"The shelter platform is checking its charging status."
Lightning Element: √, Wind Element: √, Fire Element: √, Ice Element: √, Dark Element: √
"Detection complete. The shelter platform's elemental recharging is finished."
"In each subsequent round of attacks, the shelter platform will randomly generate safe havens on the ground, which challengers can freely choose to enter or leave."
With all five elements gathered, the shelter platform was finally fully charged.
And a new change has emerged: safe havens have appeared.
But what exactly is a safe haven?
The group looked around but had not yet found the so-called "safe haven." Perhaps it would only appear when they entered a new round of battle?
Just as they were speculating, the dark element began to slowly recede, and Nereid, which had been shrouded in black mist, revealed its true form.
Nereid's overall appearance remained unchanged, but all the cracks on his body had disappeared.
At the same time, a layer of light black, gilded armor appeared on its body shell.
This matches what the rabbit girl said.
Nereid does not use dark element attacks, but it will buff itself with dark element.
What is the effect of this dark element enhancement?
The text box has appeared.
"Nereid has entered Dark Armor mode."
"In Dark Armor form, Nereid will change its elemental form periodically and become completely immune to all attacks in the current elemental form."
"Nereid has now entered a new elemental form: Dark Armor - Wind."
At first, no one understood what the text message meant.
How to avoid attacks from the current element?
What's the point of this?
When they interrupted Nereid's spellcasting, they didn't use the current element, but the inverse element. The interruption still happened.
Could it be that there are some hidden meanings in this that they haven't discovered yet?
It wasn't until later, after a mistake, that I realized the meaning of this message...
Although Nereid activated its Dark Armor state, the battle process did not actually change. When it unleashed Hurricane Throw, I interrupted the spellcasting with Earth Cannonball, causing it to backfire.
Release the falling fire from the sky using heavy water cannons.
In short, nothing has changed much from the previous battles.
The only change was the emergence of safe havens.
What is a safe shelter?
Whenever Nereid unleashes an elemental attack, the shelter platform seems to detect the surrounding elemental concentration and then randomly generate four shelters across the entire large platform.
They are: Thunder Shelter, Wind Shelter, Fire Shelter, and Wind Shelter.
This corresponds exactly to Nereid's four elemental attacks.
The effect of the shelter is actually similar to that of the elemental field.
For example, if the group goes to the Wind Shelter when Nereid unleashes Hurricane Throw, they will be immune to the attack.
However, one point needs to be made clear.
The location of the safe haven appears randomly, and all four elemental safe havens appear together.
Therefore, if the challenger team wants to obtain shelter, they must first locate the corresponding shelter and then run there.
If the judgment is wrong, the team will be wiped out.
Also, the safe shelter is only the size of a square platform. If you squeeze in, it can just fit three people.
This is probably why Seto specifically mentioned "squares" earlier.
From a certain perspective, the appearance of the block platform is indeed the key to clearing Nereid.
In this respect, Seto was not lying.
Moreover, the fact that Seto was able to discover this clue also means that they survived the previous four elemental bombardments.
From this perspective, the Seto Squad is no ordinary group.
If they could try again today, they might be able to clear the current level.
However, there are no "what ifs" in reality.
Back to the topic.
The appearance of the safe haven seems to have overshadowed the effect of the elemental field?
Because each activation of an elemental field requires the consumption of internal elemental power, while the sanctuary exists indefinitely.
But in fact it is not the case.
Because the shelter requires locking the corresponding element, and it appears randomly each time.
If the shelter randomly appears near the challenger, that's fine; but if the shelter spawns in a remote location or in a blind spot for everyone, the challenger may not be able to reach the shelter in time and will be killed by elemental attacks.
The position of the element field is relatively fixed.
There's no need to rush, and no need to search.
Therefore, from a safety perspective, an elemental field is much better than a safe shelter.
……
The battle continues.
Nereid's Dark Armor state continued indefinitely.
But so far, no one has figured out what the significance of this "dark armor" is.
This is similar to what happened to Shi Zhen back then. Shi Zhen only discovered that Nereid would buff her with dark elements, but she didn't know what the effects of these dark elements were.
"Is the Dark Armor really just for show?"
Soon, it was time for Nereid to activate the Dark Armor for the third time. The continuous elemental backlash made Nereid even angrier.
This time, it once again summoned heavenly fire to fall.
"Heavy water shell! The core target is still on its right flank, that feather burning with purple flames!"
The sound of gray porcelain came from the heartstrings.
But soon, Gray Porcelain suddenly changed his tune: "No! It deliberately concealed its core. The one on the right wing is fake and poses no threat! The brightest feather on the left wing is the core!"
After several rounds of battles, Nereid began to show new changes.
Because this change came so suddenly, Gray Porcelain didn't notice it at first.
Although he immediately changed his tune, it was too late.
Heavy water cannonballs have already hit Purple Feather on the right flank.
There is no time left to attack the left wing again.
Upon seeing this, Angor made a decisive move and immediately activated the Fire Elemental Field.
Without hesitation, Gray Porcelain and the Rabbit Girl stepped onto the clouds beside them, using the momentum to quickly enter the fire elemental arena.
In the end, they escaped the falling fire.
As Gray Porcelain and the Rabbit Girl breathed a long sigh of relief, Angel suddenly said, "I think I understand the significance of the Dark Armor effect now..."