Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 741 A Rare Summoner Showdown

The Arthurian knight's throwing technique, passed down through the strawberry underwear, truly has its unique aspects.

As long as players can pick up a weapon, they can use that weapon as a base to create exclusive phantom ammo for throwing. Some weapons that originally required additional resources to take effect also have their own active and passive skills, which will be retained in the phantom ammo as much as possible.

Similar to Dragon Fang, it's a skill whose damage output depends entirely on the quality of its base item.

If a player learns this skill through legitimate channels, even if the skill level is low, and all their resources are invested in weapons, they can still achieve considerable damage numbers in the mid-to-late game.

And the knight's throwing ability, which originally had certain limitations in Cheng Tian's hands, has clearly taken another step forward at this moment.

With the synergy of "Phantom Sword" and "Key to the Golden City", the Knight's Throw can create an explosive rain of phantom swords. Cheng Tian doesn't even need to painstakingly retrieve the weapon himself; he only needs to continuously provide MP to generate phantom weapons. In terms of damage, it is basically no different from throwing physical weapons.

If it weren't for the dungeon restrictions, Cheng Tian's treasure chest would now be teeming with not only various melee weapons, but also a large number of cannons.

The Phantom End Devourer that exploded in front of the Demon King originally had a 15% chance to trigger the "Nether Lantern Burst" effect, but with the influence of 5 points of Legendary status, it suddenly became 65%, so it was perfectly normal for it to explode right at the start of the battle.

Before Cheng Tian's serpentine light could even reach the Demon King, a damage number of over a thousand, invisible to ordinary people, had already emerged from the flames of the earth vein energy explosion.

The red demon, who appeared to be a general, and the princess, who screamed instinctively, were also mercilessly blown away by the effect of the Nether Lantern's explosion.

Cheng Tian didn't care at all.

Because it was Arthur who wanted to save the princess, and it had nothing to do with him. The soul pact between him and Arthur was always just to "kill the demon king and save the human world." The life or death of the princess was obviously not within his consideration.

Moreover, this rain of phantom swords smearing his face was merely Cheng Tian's appetizer for the Demon King.

【阿斯塔罗斯：首领模板。魔界之王。HP=1W/1W、MP=2.83W/3W。力量50、敏捷40、精神75、魅力80。】

[Unit Traits/Skills - Demon King, Demon Flame, Cyclic Curse, Illusory Illusion]

As the serpentine light struck, the Demon King's panel also appeared simultaneously, but the panel in front of him made Cheng Tian think, "That's all there is to it."

If we include the various attributes attached to the equipment, Astaroth's overall stats, except for Charisma, are all inferior to Cheng Tian's.

Oh, and the leader template grants an extremely high strength-to-health ratio and a high mana ratio.

It's unclear whether Cheng Tian's growth was too rapid or Astaroth was simply that weak.

It's understandable that Cheng Tian would have this thought, since the various BOSS units he had encountered before were all quite outrageous, with each one having some kind of numerical inflation, causing Cheng Tian's understanding of the panel values ​​to become somewhat unbalanced, almost to the point that each of those he had encountered before belonged to the category of numerical monsters.

However, this round of phantom sword rain also allowed Cheng Tian to determine that the Demon King, whose body was huge and whose muscle mass was quite astonishing, was a typical dual-talented individual with both mental and charisma traits. He possessed a mental shield, which was common among players with high mental strength, and could withstand damage proportionally, using it as a health bar.

In other words, although it seems to have only 1 HP, the Demon King's maximum HP is actually 4, provided he doesn't use other magical abilities. However, Cheng Tian soon saw the Demon King's mana bar visibly depleting, and almost immediately, Cheng Tian's nasal passages went off. A very familiar stench, accompanied by the airflow from the bursting Nether Lamp, directly entered his nasal passages.

The next second, the one-eyed giant, riddled with holes, burst through the flames and charged straight towards Cheng Tian's location—

King of the Demon Realm, Summon Monsters!
Although this world has original entries, including the Demon King himself, who cannot escape the underlying logic of the NES Ghosts 'n Goblins, it is still possible to expand abilities within a reasonable system.

As the ruler of the demon realm, Demon King Astaroth has the ability to freely draw upon demon units to assist in battle. This champion-level one-eyed giant is one of his subordinates that he temporarily drew upon as a meat shield.

Of the phantom sword rain that Cheng Tian used to greet him, only the Nether Lamp burst damaged his shield; the rest were all withstood by the Cyclops.

Its extreme breakthrough power and extremely high strength-to-health ratio give it the powerful physique to withstand a rain of phantom swords and still charge forward with vigor.

Because of its sluggish peripheral nerves, it hasn't even felt how much pain the bloody hole in its body is causing.

With low health and high chain, strength and agility not exceeding their limits, and both spirit and charm at the breakthrough level, combined with the thousands of points of damage absorbed by the spirit shield, it can be basically determined that the demon king in front of us is a summoner capable of casting damaging spells.

Coincidentally, the Demon King, whose body did not show any obvious burn marks due to the protection of his instinctive mental energy shield, also made a preliminary judgment that Cheng Tian was a "turret-type spellcaster".

Thinking this, the Demon King muttered a few low murmurs, and then three identical champion template cyclops monsters emerged from the ground magic circles on his left, right, and back.

Spellcasters are generally afraid of being approached by people. These foul-smelling, big, dumb creatures can serve as living walls and also use their physique and stench to cause all-around interference to humans.

These champion one-eyed monsters are far more powerful than the gatekeeper one-eyed giants stationed on the edge of the Demon King's territory.

"A summoner duel? That sounds interesting~"

Faced with the charging one-eyed giant, Cheng Tian first raised his hand to stop Bazett, who was already ready to charge. Then, his eyes narrowed, and an invisible energy spread out in front of him.

The four one-eyed giants, who were charging towards the little sun, suddenly shuddered and then collapsed in pain, convulsing and visibly changing shape.

As their bodies grew even more massive, their single horns on their heads instantly detached and fell into their hands almost perfectly. Then, these detached horns began to deform dramatically, transforming in the blink of an eye into a two-handed, single-edged axe that matched the giant's body.

As if by prior agreement, these one-eyed giants simultaneously stopped their convulsions, then grabbed their great axes, first kneeling before Cheng Tian in a gesture of loyalty, before turning around in unison to the Demon King's almost incredulous gaze, pointing the blades of their axes at their former master—

Dominator + Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, a chain reaction is triggered.

The four champion-level Cyclops were transformed by Cheng Tian into four Cyclops from the world of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, each wielding a demon axe.

(End of this chapter)