Otherworldly Architect

In the second half of the studio's internal test, everyone went to the advanced map to test a boss-level monster.

Of course, in "Hunter World", there is no concept of boss, only the concept of biological type and species - the entire race of volcano dragons is very strong, not a single individual can be a boss, but the whole family is a boss!

To fight the four-star task of Volcano Dragon, in fact, a lot of preparations must be made first.

This set of processes is basically designed by Ming Yan himself.

So he knows it well: "To enter the volcanic area, you first need a set of flame and high-heat protective equipment; to do this set of equipment, you need to get a cutting machine, and some silicon-containing monsters drop; the cutting machine is also a prerequisite for getting Electric energy, electric energy needs generators and oil, and the important circuit materials of the generators rely on the two-star flash wolf; the oil mainly depends on getting through the three-star volcano exploration mission, which is also the first mission to contact the volcanic area, and needs to be drunk throughout the process. Fire resistance medicine can only approach volcanoes; fire resistance medicine is produced by two-star monsters..."

"..."

Xia Cheng watched him explain and drew a "road map" on the blackboard.

Unconsciously, an intricate network is formed, which roughly covers the technological route of the entire Hunter World.

And all of this is artificially designed, and it is clearly stated that it can be recited.

"Papapa." Xia Cheng raised his head blankly and applauded, "The designer is awesome."

It turns out that the designer's thinking may be the opposite of that of the player.

Players will consider from low to high. After getting through the first-star level, they will make the best equipment and props according to the resources they have obtained, and then guess which tasks they can go to explore in the two-star level.

Designers, on the other hand, consider from high to low, first see the ultimate output of a technology route, and then put the technology at each level in its proper position, and then talk about the resources needed to upgrade the technology. Star-rated tasks - also known as "putting outputs".

The word "put" is very vivid.

It's like a designer sitting in a helicopter, releasing airdrops at a fixed time and deciding what good things are in the airdrop;

And the players are chasing the airdrops wholeheartedly behind, and it is enough to drive them one by one...

And now in the test field, the intermediate process is simply skipped.

Ming Yan led Xia Cheng to make preliminary preparations for hunting the Volcano Dragon.

Xia Cheng drooled: "Is it possible to get a four-star weapon directly!! Take out any good things!!"

Ming Yan shook his head helplessly, so he had to take him to the weapons store for a walk.

Xia Cheng saw the big sword at first sight - no way, the big sword is handsome and mighty.

The ones lying here are basically all the big swords that the player can collect after the three-star mission, with all attributes.

Of course, forging is not free, blueprints must be obtained by doing tasks, and resources need players to work hard to collect or trade.

Xia Cheng took a fancy to a "Fu Mourning Sabre·Yueyue" big sword, which is really dazzling in shape and has its own cold light special effect.

Ming Yan nodded in relief: Well, as expected of Xia Xiaocheng, he chose the most handsome looking (but actually the least powerful) knife.

——But anyway, it is a fire-type volcano dragon, and this water-type knife is not unusable.

——It’s better not to tell Xia Xiaocheng.

As a member of the Otachi series, "Fu Mourning Sword · Yuyue" requires similar resources.

Xia Cheng muttered: "160 aquatic animal teeth, 20 pairs of salt snake leather, 4 startail fish spines...Well, it doesn't look like much."

He went through the quest list and found that water beasts are monsters that appear at 2-star level, and they are all over the map with 3-star level; startail fish are boss-level monsters with 3-star level, and they need to be hunted by a separate quest.

So it seems -- is this resource list pretty conscientious?

Xia Cheng said excitedly: "Let's not say anything else, 160 ordinary monster teeth, it's not difficult at all. I think I can collect it myself, I don't need the GM to give this material! Look at this hunter's book, a water beast is densely packed. Say there are dozens of teeth..."

At this time, Mingyan smiled and said: "Well, a water beast will only drop 1-3 teeth, dear."

"..." Xia Cheng, "What about that fish?"

Clearly said: "The spine is a special drop, and the player must break all the key parts of the startail fish to have a small chance of falling."

Xia Cheng cautiously said: "'small probability'?"

Ming Yan said: "About 5%."

Xia Cheng: "..." To fight this boss with three-star hunter equipment, most of the time it takes ten to twenty minutes to clear it once, and all parts must be broken, and there is only a 5% chance of dropping it - as expected. Or the devil style of Blue Star! ! !

"No way, if you want to be handsome, you have to put in a little effort."

Ming Yan smiled and opened the mailbox next to him, received a letter from the game GM, and turned all the materials in his backpack into 999 copies in one go. This is the biggest benefit of the internal test.

The backbone of Xia Cheng: "These materials, I don't-"

Ming Yan: "Huh?"

Xia Cheng: "I don't...not enough. Let the GM give me more?"

A few minutes later, Xia Cheng walked out of the weapon shop with satisfaction, carrying two extremely handsome big swords "Fu Sang Dao Yuyue" and "Yan Mo Dao".

Ming Yan changed to a long sword "Infinite Ice Slash" and switched it to an ice attribute.

Then the two went to an armor shop, replaced all their equipment with fire resistance, and added stun resistance enchantments and gems to them.

Xia Cheng felt dizzy when he saw the resources needed for this set of equipment, and said, "These are all collected by the players?"

Ming Yan showed a kind smile: "Well, accumulating resources is part of the fun of the game, and we are very considerate of the players' thoughts."

Xia Cheng: "...Then if I don't make this set of equipment, can I fight the Volcano Dragon?"

"Of course it is possible." Ming Yan said, "Blood 20 points per second, at the same time, pay attention to avoid the fire-breathing skills of the volcano dragon, and don't be hit by any random drops from the volcano. The difficulty is quite similar. Clear 'The Body of the Ancient God' without taking any damage to the soul of mortal nature."

Xia Cheng: Okay, needless to say, I admit defeat.jpg

After a while, GM sent another set of emails to the two of them.

When Ming Yan opened it, a lot of props and potions burst out.

Ming Yan continued: "This is a GPS tracker, you can use a long-range weapon to hit the body of the prey, and it can maintain position tracking for 30 minutes; this is lava cream, which further increases flame resistance; this is condensation agent, if you accidentally catch fire Use it to put it out; this is a universal antidote, random chemical product air will appear in the volcanic terrain, use this to relieve all kinds of adverse reactions; oh, this is a shovel, if you are buried, I will use this You dig it out..."

Xia Cheng listened, raised his hand, and asked a crucial question: "How many times does this mission allow us to destroy the group?"

Ming Yan smiled and said: "The boss that each star encounters for the first time is called 'Encounter'. There is no limit to the total number of resurrections. It only needs to be solved within the 30-minute time limit."

Xia Cheng was instantly excited: "It's simple! What's the fear of infinite resurrection!"

Thirty minutes later.

Xia Cheng squatted in the corner with his hands on his knees.

"..."

Ming Yan: "Uh, it's normal to fail the first mission. After all, we are not familiar with the attack methods of monsters. We wasted a lot of time on groping."

Xia Cheng hesitated.

With a clear face, Ming Yan sat next to him and gave him a hug.

After sucking Ming Xiaoyan for a while, Xia Xiaocheng was full of blood: "Let's go wife, I know how to fight this time! The essence of soul games is actually to block and counterattack!!!"

Thirty minutes later, there was a deafening roar.

The monster, which was bathed in magma, slammed into the black volcanic rock and roared in pain.

Bloody claws and broken dragon wings, clinging to the edge of the rock, trying to escape the hunter's pursuit——

Whoosh.

An arrow carrying frost shot out in response, breaking the final balance. Volcano Dragon could no longer balance his body, and unfortunately continued to fall to the ground.

Not far away, Ming Yan with a long bow whistled.

Xia Xiaocheng, who took out the sword + shield, jumped high in the air and gave it the final blow!

"Huh." Xia Cheng stepped on the Volcano Dragon's corpse coldly, "missioncomplete. (mission completed)."

Then he raised the shield in his left hand and the long sword in his right hand, trying to dent a handsome and compelling shape to take a screenshot.

...but he failed.

——No matter how you look at it, Sword and Shield are not as handsome as Datachi! Failed! Sure enough, being strong is just a matter of changing weapons, and being handsome is a matter of a lifetime!

Annoyed, Xia Cheng retracted his weapon, took out a hunter's knife, and began to squeak, recovering resources from the corpse of the Volcano Dragon.

Well, he recovered two dragon scales, a broken dragon wing, and a bottle of dragon blood.

The total weight does not exceed 30 kg.

Then the huge, several-story-high, tens of tons of volcanic dragon corpses were exhausted like this, and then disappeared completely.

Xia Cheng: Damn it, why? ? ?

And Ming Yan fell into contemplation: "..."

The dragon heart with 5% drop rate, the dragon claws with 18% drop rate, the complete dragon wings with 50% drop rate, and the dragon teeth with 80% drop rate of 1-3 pieces, all happened to be random and not dropped?

And the dragon scales and dragon blood that must be dropped are randomly assigned to the smallest number, 1, right?

Master Ming took out the books.

The devil himself is not too devilish today, he thought: If Comrade Xia Cheng comes to brush the forging materials of the Otachi in the future, and only beats others ten times after brushing a hundred times, he will be unhappy.

Hmm... It seems that the output of boss-level monsters still needs a guarantee mechanism.

In this way, I seriously wrote a few improvement suggestions, and said that I would look back.

Xia Xiaocheng stood at the place where the boss's body disappeared, and was still circling in circles in confusion.