Monsters Are Coming
Chapter 1206 - 320: Black Tide Fluctuations, Anomalies in Reality
Primordial Altar.
In Qi Sheng's hand, a blue imprint radiating brilliant light floated.
This is the newly contained Territory Rules: Quantification.
Its effect is somewhat similar to Guidance's ability, allowing all concepts to be visualized.
For example, the target's health and mana (spiritual power) bars can be precisely presented.
It can be seen as a weakened version of the Guidance ability.
However, Guidance is severely injured now, and many in-depth analyses require consuming sacrificial power to proceed, such as the retrospection of past images.
The underlying logic of Quantified Rules is visualization and decomposition, which eliminates this issue.
The appearance of new rules will completely solve a problem that forum players have always been dissatisfied with.
Why are the Monster's health bars unable to be decomposed and presented, causing you to be unable to judge how much stamina the Monster still has during each fight?
Only when the Monster enters a dying state can the status bar be displayed.
The newly contained Quantified Rules can solve this problem.
It can even allow players to precisely calculate the slashing line of hunting targets, and carry out a round of explosive concentrated fire.
Besides health and mana bars, Quantification can also provide players with accurate distance measurements, making every strike more precise.
Other aspects include hatred (target attack desire) display, enemy special status duration, casting speed, and a series of data that can be obtained through Quantification.
This Life Soul offers limited enhancement to ordinary players.
But to the control-type players who seek to excel and want to break through the limits, it is enough to elevate their ability to the next level.
Regarding the interpretation of the Quantified Life Soul, related forum posts are continuously emerging.
But Qi Sheng did not pay too much attention.
He focused on the development and usage of Quantified Rules, with the primary goal of creating a complete system to display Monster health and mana bars.
After interfacing with the Challenger System, this system can indirectly enhance players' Hunting efficiency.
Secondly, a niche Life Soul may become popular after the appearance of Quantification.
That is the "Siphon" Life Soul that can absorb the target's spiritual power.
This Life Soul is quite niche because it is impossible to know the opponent's spiritual power reserve.
The specific effect remains completely unknown; perhaps the opponent's spiritual power reserve is abundant, and prolonged Siphon does not affect the target at all.
Therefore, players basically use the Siphon Life Soul for charging and sustaining, absorbing spiritual power from their own players to accelerate their spiritual power recovery.
Just as Qi Sheng was contemplating the usage and design scheme of the "quantification system," a Guidance feedback prompt appeared in his mind.
The next second, his vision crossed Space, returning to Earth.
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Moon, Eclipse City.
Security Center.
In the circular hall, a 360-degree holographic Star Map slowly rotated in the eerie blue light.
28 staff members sat at their workstations, with data streams cascading like waterfalls from where their fingers brushed.
At that moment, the alarm sounded in the key monitoring area of the Arctic, breaking the tranquility.
Then, a bouncing red dot appeared on the Earth Star Map.
Noticing something amiss, the on-duty technical officer quickly approached the main control desk.
A line was drawn across the Star Map with a fingertip, and the holographic Star Map suddenly responded.
The image rapidly descended from the Moon's orbit, the blue Earth enlarging swiftly in view.
The atmosphere scattered like a decorative veil to both sides, with the white snow of the Arctic Circle gleaming coldly under monitoring filters, when the camera penetrated the clouds, revealing the black rift stretching across the icefield.
During the advancement, the monitoring system automatically annotated abnormal data.
Rift length: 3.723 moon rulers, width 2.323 moon rulers.
Energy fluctuation amplitude: Maximum amplitude at 28.23%.
Energy intensity is: 563 moon grains.
Energy vortex: 7 new counterclockwise rotating Black Tide material vortices added.
Space distortion degree: Observable.
When the image finally zoomed in closely to the Black Tide Rift, all staff simultaneously inhaled sharply.
Energy haze drifted disorderly at the rift's edges, manifesting as phantom-like Black Tide tentacles.
Even the energy fluctuation wasn't the usual rhythmic pulse anymore, with black energy arcs constantly bursting from the rift's edges.
"Switch to energy spectrum view."
The image abruptly changes; under a special filter, the originally pitch-black rift reveals its terrifying essence.
Countless tiny black particles are pouring out from the depth of the rift, each carrying the trait of devouring light.
A vortex-like structure, similar to a pupil, is forming at the rift's center.
"What is the energy reading comparison?"
"It has already surpassed the previous peak, over 100 times that of its first appearance."
Although this value doesn't reach the level of a Black Tide invasion nor can it open large-scale Space rifts, the technical officer still unhesitatingly sent this information to the on-duty Governor of the day.
As for the Star Network, no report was needed.
It monitors everything happening on the Moon and Earth in real-time; nothing escapes the Star Network.
Presumably, the Star Network knows already.
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Earth, Arctic Station.
At five in the morning, the soft light of the sleeping pod gradually brightened.
Yu Chuan woke up from sleep, lifted the temperature-controlled blanket, stepping barefoot onto the heated floor.
He approached the mirror and wiped off the thin frost condensed on its surface.
The reflection showed a distinct face, clean and sharp in contour, with blue-grey stubble accentuating the prominent jawline.
The shallow scar on the brow added a touch of ruggedness.
He squinted slightly—an ingrained habit from long-term adaptation to polar glare—and then picked up the old-fashioned razor, the sound of the Blade scraping across skin especially clear in the silence of the cabin.