Volume 18, Chapter 155: Forbidden Sky, Forbidden Demon
Chapter 155: Forbidden Sky and Forbidden Demon
The sudden collapse of the atmosphere caused us all to lose the ability to fly, and we watched a large group of us fall to the ground together with a bunch of rats as big as bulls.
Just when we were about to fall to the ground, I suddenly saw a large number of flying swords flying down from above my head. They first chased us, and then separated to form several platforms composed of sword spines. After completing the grouping, these platforms quickly flew under us and began to slow down. As we fell, we immediately landed on the platform, and then our bodies' falling speed immediately slowed down and gradually stopped falling.
Although the current atmosphere cannot support other flying skills, we are lucky, at least the gold coin flying sword can still be used. Although these platforms composed of multiple flying swords cannot move us quickly, it is not a problem to support us in front of them. But there is one question that makes us a little confused. This question is what should Matsumoto Masaru do?
Ordinarily, Gold Coin is now fully capable of catching Matsumoto Masa, but the problem is that our every move now is watched by a large group of Chinese and Japanese players. It's not difficult to let the gold coin shooter catch Matsumoto Masaga with his flying sword, but how can we make those *** players believe that we have no personal relationship with Matsumoto Masaga? So even if we have a way to save Masamoto Matsumoto, we can't take action now. But if we don't save him and let him fall to death like this, our plan to help Masamoto Matsumoto improve his reputation will come to nothing.
We were struggling there, but we didn't expect that there would be new changes in this duel space. While Masamoto Matsumoto was still struggling in the air, we suddenly felt our feet soften, and then everyone passed through the platform composed of flying swords and began to fall again.
The sudden weightless fall did not cause much panic, but all of our eyes turned to the gold coins. The gold coin itself was also falling precariously, but the flying sword under her feet still managed to maintain a rough formation. Although it could not completely resist the weight of the gold coin, it could act as a deceleration umbrella in front of it.
After discovering that we were all looking at her, Jin Coin quickly explained in the communication channel: "There is something wrong with the surrounding magic field. I can't control the flying swords that leave a certain range of my body, and even the control of the nearby flying swords has been greatly reduced." .”
The gold coin's words were quickly confirmed by Kristina. Compared with the Taoist priest profession of gold coins, Kristina's profession is a pure legal profession, and Taoist priests should be regarded as the Chinese version of magic swordsmen in a strict sense, because they are very good at melee magic. Kristina's explanation was more detailed than gold coins. According to her account, it should be that after the planet's atmosphere collapsed, the planet's demon also collapsed.
The world in "Zero" is a world where magic exists, and the basis of magic's existence is devil. This demon can be understood as an atmosphere-like thing composed of basic magic power, and it exists in most places in the world. Demon is the basis of magic. Where there is a concentration of demons, magic is more powerful. The demonic vacuum area is the area where magic is forbidden. The demons on this planet have obviously completely collapsed just now, but it is as if nothing left will disappear immediately after the atmosphere of the surrounding planet collapses. The collapse of the demons does not mean that all elements will disappear immediately, but the distribution of various elements changes. It's extremely thin and chaotic. In such an environment, the use of various magic powers will also become extremely unstable. Not only will the difficulty of control increase significantly, but the power will also decrease significantly.
Although Jin Coin is a Taoist priest, theoretically she uses mana instead of magic power, but "Zero" is a game after all. In order to ensure comparability between players, the Taoism here is actually set to be equal to Magic is completely the same thing. To put it simply, they are a concept, but there are two names due to the differences between Chinese and Western cultures.
Now that the magic is collapsing, whether it's gold coin's Taoism or Kristina's magic, the end result is the same situation - the difficulty of casting spells increases, the power decreases, and the vertical range becomes shorter.
Faced with the current situation, we can only resign ourselves to fate. After all, players use their power within the rules of the game. What this scene has changed is the rules of the game. As players, no matter how strong we are, can we still compete with the rules of the game? So there is nothing we can do now. All we can do is wait and see if the system is going to kill us all, or if it is going to give us a blow first.
Soon the system's intentions were revealed. As the referee in the game, the game system generally will not directly interfere with the players. Even if sometimes it seems as if the system is posing problems for players, it is just creating difficulty corresponding to high-level tasks, not that the system is really trying to make things difficult for anyone. Although the current scene is also extremely high, the purpose of the system is obviously not to kill us directly, so it generally does not create a fatal situation. Just like now, it seems that if we can't fly, we can only wait to fall to death, but in fact, the system has no intention of letting us die.
As we continued to fall, there was a sudden flash in the cracks below us, and then the entire earth began to collapse. At the same time, we also felt that the speed of our descent was actually slowing down.
"Is it my imagination or something?" Rose suddenly asked, "Are we slowing down?"
"No, we are just slowing down." Yingquan said with certainty: "I am taking a smart route and am more sensitive to environmental changes. I can feel that the gravity seems to be decreasing."
"Gravity dropped?" Rose was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly said as if she suddenly realized: "Did the gravitational field of this planet also collapse?"
"It seems so." My answer is not random, because I have evidence. "look down."
Following my instructions, everyone lowered their heads and looked at the ground. As a result, they saw that the cracked surface fragments on the ground began to move in a chaotic direction. It is said that there is a gravitational field, and the fragments should fall down after the collapse, but now after the rocks on the ground are broken, some are slowly floating upward, some are moving laterally, and some are tumbling. Flying out diagonally, you can even occasionally see two pieces of the earth's crust as big as an aircraft carrier colliding together in the air at a relatively slow speed, then peeling off some pieces each, and then separated again and flew out in two directions.
Although the gravitational field collapsed, we are still falling because the gravity pulling us down has disappeared, but the inertia has not disappeared. However, because there is no gravitational pull, and the thin air around us still provides some resistance, our falling speed is actually slowly decreasing.
Because there is no help from the flying sword of gold coins, Matsumoto Masamoto has not paused in the air like us, so his current position is closer to the ground than us, and his falling speed is much faster than us. But probably out of desperation, this kid actually found a way to save himself. Just when he thought he was going to fall to his death, the nearby gravitational field just disappeared, giving him a little chance to breathe. And although the surrounding air was thin and could not support the flying spell, after all, the air did not completely disappear, so Matsumoto was congratulating With constant use, he could barely control the direction of his body's fall.
It was this little bit of control that ultimately saved Masamoto Matsumoto's life, because he found a stepping stone. Masa Matsumoto was not alone in being thrown into the air by the shock wave before. There were also many giant rats the size of bulls that were thrown up with him. These things can't fly in the first place, so they will naturally fall down together with Matsumoto Masa. However, Masamoto Matsumoto found his hope in these guys. He controlled himself and moved hard to the side of the mouse, and then saw the opportunity and kicked the big mouse hard. In the case where gravity and air friction are both negligible, this pedal immediately faithfully demonstrates the principle that the effects of force are reciprocal. Masamoto Matsumoto and the mouse immediately separated in two directions. However, since Masamoto Matsumoto kicked from diagonally above, the mouse accelerated downward while he himself moved towards the other direction diagonally above. A mouse flew past.
With the initial velocity obtained from the first mouse, the following process is much simpler. With the help of his powerful attributes, Matsumoto Masa's body function was almost stronger than Superman. After quickly contacting the second mouse, he used the mouse as a springboard to jump up again, and then he just jumped up like this. He just stepped on it, and soon his falling speed was completely offset, and even a little upward acceleration was generated.
However, just when Matsumoto Masaru thought he was fine, his body suddenly began to fall again, but the acceleration was obviously not too great. At the same time, not far above Masa Matsumoto, we also noticed another change in the gravitational field. The previous zero-gravity environment was obviously only a temporary phenomenon caused by the instantaneous energy release when the gravitational field collapsed. The matter in the planet still had mass, and mass was the basis of gravity. Therefore, after the energy burst, gravity returned, but For some unknown reason, the gravitational field does not seem to be fully restored. At least now we can clearly feel that the traction force we receive has not reached the normal value, and may not even be one-tenth of the normal gravitational force. In other words, the gravitational field strength here may not be as strong as the moon's surface.
In this micro-gravity state, we all successfully landed on a relatively large piece of ground debris in a very gentle state. However, the movement trajectory of this piece of debris due to the collision was not downward, but upward. , but the speed is relatively slow.
After everyone successfully found a foothold, they all started preparing to fight. After all, we all knew that if we didn't fight for a while, the system might not give us a chance to fight. The situation on our side now is that Zhenhong flew to nowhere alone. The combat effectiveness of Kristina and Gold Coin has dropped significantly. The effect of True Red's resurrection spell is temporarily unknown, but it has been confirmed that the effect of the healing spell has declined significantly. Shadow Spring and I can still fight, but the power of all magic skills has been severely reduced, almost equivalent to being scrapped.
On the other side, Masamoto Matsumoto stood alone on the surface of a small suspended rock. That rock is getting closer to the rock under our feet. Judging from the current situation, the two will pass each other less than three meters away in more than ten seconds. However, there are actually hundreds of giant rats on the messy rocks near us. They are distributed in twos and threes on the nearby suspended rocks, and from time to time they will jump back and forth between adjacent rocks. It seems like they are planning to come over and attack us. Moreover, those mice jumping around also disturbed the surrounding rocks. After all, the gravitational field has now dropped to a very weak state. Although the surrounding rocks are generally falling downward, from a local perspective, it is a bit Like being in a gravity-free environment in space. Every time those mice change rocks, some rocks will change their flight path, causing the surrounding rocks to collide and make the environment more complicated.
"What to do now?" Jin Coin looked at me and asked.
"You still need to ask? Of course I rushed over." I couldn't help it. Apart from bows and arrows and throwing knives, long-range attack skills are basically magic skills and quasi-magic skills. In short, they are all unusable, and we don't have full-time archers here. Although I have a crossbow and Shadow Spring can throw darts, they are auxiliary combat skills, and we generally rarely use such skills. It is obviously impossible for us to rely on them to fight now. So now the most direct and only available method for us is close combat.
"Since you want to get close, it's up to us." After Yingquan told me, he turned to look at the gold coins and asked, "Are you good at close combat?"
"You're kidding. I'm also a warrior after taking off my Taoist robe, okay?" Jin Coin said confidently.
After hearing this, Yingquan looked up and down the Tianzun suit that Jin Coin was wearing, and then said: "What you are wearing is not considered a Taoist robe. You are not afraid of being naked if you take it off?"
Because she is a woman, the gold coin Tianzun suit has been adjusted according to her body shape. Now it looks nothing like a Taoist robe, but looks like a fashion girl's short fur, and it is still more sexy. 'The kind of feeling. But joking aside, beneath the beautiful skin of the gold coin is indeed the body of a highly sensitive warrior. Although Taoist priests often use Taoist magic to fight, their melee combat abilities are not bad at all. Anyone who wants to treat a Taoist priest as a mage should be prepared for misfortune.
Under Yingquan's joke, the gold coin was the first to jump away from the rock under our feet and rushed towards Matsumoto Masa, and Yingquan also jumped over. I turned back to Kristina and said, "You protect the rose." Then I jumped over.
It's not that Kristina can't use magic now, it's just that the power of magic drops significantly once it's out of the body, so she can't carry out long-range attacks. Originally, Kristina's magical melee skills were also very powerful, but now we and Matsumoto Masaga are not really fighting. If Kristina rushes forward, it would be a bit disrespectful to Matsumoto Masaga, which will not be able to compliment us. Matsumoto was congratulated on the purpose of combat effectiveness. Therefore, I finally decided to let Kristina protect Rose, which actually gave her an excuse not to join the war.
Masamoto Matsumoto knew our arrangement from the communication crystal when he first landed on the rock, so when he saw the three of us jumping over, he didn't panic until the gold coin rushed in front of him. The sword in his hand was raised to meet the Tianzun sword of gold coins.
The Tianzun Sword in Jin Coin's hand and the Light Divine Sword in Matsumoto Masa's hand are not ordinary goods. However, the Tianzun Sword is classified as a stabbing sword, which is relatively light and relatively flexible, while Matsumoto Masa's hand is The Light Divine Sword is close to the style of Western knight swords. It is a heavy sword that can not only stab but also cut. As soon as their swords touched each other in the air, their respective characteristics were immediately revealed.
As soon as the sword of the gold coin leaned against Matsumoto Masaga's sword, she immediately felt a huge force. She knew that she would definitely not be able to compete with Matsumoto Masaga in terms of strength, so she softened her wrist and did not fight with Matsumoto Masaga. She slid to the side and then squatted down to get under Matsumoto Masaga's arm. At the same time, her Tianzun Sword also tilted back, turning along the angle of Matsumoto Masaga's Light Sword and grazing Matsumoto Masaga's. The body sweeps forward. As long as Matsumoto Masaka reacts a little slower, the sword will be swept towards him. However, Matsumoto Masaka has received my special training and his fighting skills are also good. He directly moved the sword to the side, relying on the power of the Light God Sword. The Tianzun Sword, which was pressing the gold coin with its weight advantage, bypassed his body.
This brief confrontation lasted only half a second. Because the speed was too fast, many people didn't see what was going on. However, those who could see clearly kept sighing that Matsumoto Masa and Jin Coin's skills were too great. If they had done it on the spot, they would have Ruined. In fact, what they didn't know was that Masamoto Matsumoto and Jin Coin had already informed each other, otherwise they would not dare to engage in such close combat. To be honest, no one in the group except me had enough reaction speed to play a live show battle. All they could do was to discuss the general attack method in advance, so that they could do it when they knew what to do. "Tacit understanding of cooperation".
Although it was a fake fight, the Chinese and Japanese players watching the match didn't know it, so they still watched it with gusto. Just like fighting scenes in movies are often very visually impactful. The more fake a fight is, the more beautiful and eye-catching it is. Because both parties have used tricks before, they can play tricks that they would not dare to use in real fights. At this time, it was used very easily and casually, and the people watching the battle naturally watched with more enthusiasm. Of course, you have to pay attention to the heat when playing this kind of fake shot, otherwise some experts will still be able to see something if the shot is too fake.
As soon as Matsumoto Masako and Jin Coin separated, Yingquan arrived. She was lower in strength than Jin Coin, but faster. Masamoto Matsumoto had never officially played against Yingquan before, and saw that she was a little nervous, not because he was afraid that he would not be able to beat her, but because he was afraid that he would not be able to act well and be a gangster. However, Yingquan didn't have as many scruples as Matsumoto Masaka. She knew that with Matsumoto Masaka's current attributes, it would not be easy for her to kill Matsumoto Masaka, so she could let go and play to her heart's content. But now it was just a trial between the two parties, so she didn't get too entangled with Matsumoto Masa, and they separated again as soon as they touched each other.