T0 Gaming Guild Saves the World.

Chapter 282, Section 281: The Hidden Top Player?
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One gold and one purple item were dropped by two wolves, and the entire team received one.

While everyone was celebrating, Liu Jinhong secretly asked if falling was a good thing.

Jiang Heyi replied instantly: "That's great. Free teleportation attempts save a lot of money in the early stages. Getting one is a win."

Captain Twilight Bookstore had the authority to distribute the loot. Besides the two randomly dropped orbs, the Twin Wolves also dropped a lot of small white and green junk. He didn't act rashly and waited for Liu Jinhong to return before asking him to help with the distribution.

Liu Jinhong naturally chose to divide it equally.

"Why don't you be the team leader?"

The suggestion came from Twilight Bookstore.

He wanted to refuse, but everyone seemed to be expecting it, so Liu Jinhong simply nodded.

The team composition is quite good, with two warriors and one mage. Lu Xinxin is a believer, and the magic warrior she changed to is a jack-of-all-trades.

According to experienced players, the current mainstream dungeon setup is 5-12 players. Too many players may trigger special penalty mechanisms for certain bosses, while too few players will significantly increase the difficulty.

"Captain, should we go out and forge equipment first, or continue the raid?"

The others clearly regarded Liu Jinhong's words as the only designated high-quality strategy.

After receiving the instruction to continue, the troll hibernating orange cat picked up the giant shield that had just fallen and took the lead.

His seamless substitution suggested he had realized from the previous battle that the team desperately needed someone to take the lead.

Team roles are often assigned slowly as the dungeon is being cleared.

As the guardian of the first floor of the Temple of the Clarity, there are many guides on how to defeat the Frog-Headed Stitches.

After the initial strategy guide for the boundary between virtual and real was released, the optimal strategy underwent several iterations.

Purchase a set of elemental potions and arrange them in a narrow passage within a layer of dust-removing material.

The Frog-Headed Stitches will trigger upon entry, using Elemental Resonance to limit its form transformation to the greatest extent possible.

Alna's lantern shone, triggering the power of the Clarity's magic circle and weakening its mobility.

Everyone should focus their attacks on the Stitched Monster's Demon Scales to disable its second-stage Word of Power. In this way, even if the damage output is insufficient, the Stitched Monster's combat power will be greatly reduced after the phase transition.

After being updated and iterated by players at home and abroad, this strategy now has an extremely high success rate. Even if you are wearing all white gear, you will be instantly melted upon contact and still be able to put up a fight.

However, if you're really bad at the game, even a guide won't help.

Standing in front of the teleportation statue, the entire team wondered whether they should temporarily return and buy an elemental potion package.

What is the price of the package?

"Around 100 magic stones? I'll also trade purple materials of equivalent value for it."

It's a bit of a pain to spend money on the Twilight Bookstore.

Veteran players don't exploit new players to the point of exhaustion; they calculate a price that new players can accept based on the drops from the two wolves, thus profiting from their losses.

If you want to reliably beat the Frankenstein's monster without getting repeatedly tortured, the best strategy is well-known and will always have buyers, so there's no worry about making money.

Everyone started taking out the materials they had just acquired from their backpacks. Each person contributed a little, so it wasn't too painful.

"Potato, is there a cheaper way to defeat the Froghead Stitches?"

Jiang Heyi wiped his sweat, finished the first round of PVP training, walked to a corner where French fries couldn't see him, and started chatting with Crimson Music Box again.

"Cheap?"

The Crimson Music Box took a sip of Zhong Zemo's special orange juice and let out a comfortable sigh.

"Isn't it pretty cheap now? Depending on the quality of the elemental potion, it can cost anywhere from 100 to 500 magic stones."

It's not that the Scarlet Music Box doesn't eat meat.

High-end players barter, while ordinary players use an established currency system. These two different groups will intersect due to the production of various items by players who specialize in crafting.

Without consulting experienced players in the lifestyle sector, it's difficult to gain a deeper understanding of the prices and conditions for ordinary players.

Especially those who are already at the top of the domestic game development stage.

"In short, save money to fight the Froghead Stitches, right?"

The speaker was from the Funny Tree, named "Jiangdong Iron Wall." He happened to be joking with his friend and overheard the conversation.

"Is there a way?"

“After taking a look, some people in the community had a wild idea: since the Frankenstein’s monster is a creation of the dead and a product pieced together, there must be a ‘point’ that sustains its existence.”

He gestured, pointing to his heart.

"Just like the human heart, which pumps blood to every part of the body, once it stops working, we 'uh...'"

Jiangdong Iron Wall, with great emotion, fell asleep immediately.

It was determined to be quite viable.

"So?" the Crimson Music Box asked thoughtfully.

"Considering that Proof of the Stars is particularly meticulous in its monster details, do you think...?"

Jiang Dong Tiebi sat up and continued, "The Frog-Headed Stitches actually has a very weak core."

"Demon scales, of course," the person next to him replied immediately. "If they're damaged, you can't unleash your Word of Power. It's like a part being destroyed, which is a hunter's dream."

"Not the demonic scales, I mean the point that can cause it to crumble under a powerful blow."

Oh right, a Frankenstein's monster. Its body is covered in stitches, and it maintains its balance with powerful magic.

As long as you strike the core point, the spell will crumble, and it'll just be a lump of rotten flesh.
"Players all over the world have fought the Frankenstein's monster countless times. If there really was such a point, it should have been discovered long ago."

The phrase "A moment of carelessness can ruin a lifetime" has also been added to the discussion.

"Perhaps other triggering conditions are needed."

How come ready-to-eat meals have also come up, and they seem quite interested in this topic?

Thankfully, during my break, my bed and I went to the big mining area...

Oh dear, are they itching to go and draw the lottery again?

"The Easter eggs are like this: unless you can directly confront the developers and designers, or dig into the code, the ones buried deep are so hard to figure out no matter how hard you try," Huang Liangyi complained.

“First, you have to make sure this guess is correct,” Captain Jegan shrugged.

"How do we determine this? Should we ask the planner or the designer?" Crimson Music Box said helplessly, "I won't tell you."

Jiang Heyi murmured, "It seems we can ask the person in question?"

"Ask the person in question, which person? When did you add the designer as a friend?" Everyone was taken aback.

"No, I mean..."

This time everyone realized what was happening.

Yes!

As a creation of the guild, the frog-headed stitched monster restored by the visitor from another world, Xilu, is essentially the same entity as the one in the Clarifier's level.

Moreover, it also has self-awareness.

"weakness……"

The frog-headed monster had its wide tongue drooping, and its bulging, fish-like eyes were spinning around as if it were deep in thought.

It nodded in response to everyone's intense gaze.

"Yes... Great master, I have many weaknesses."

"Based on your description... the key to stopping my necromancy core from functioning lies in..."

The frog-headed stitched monster trembled violently and collapsed on the ground, resembling a bright red tongue from a street stall.

"Tongue?"

Everyone was confused.

"That's not right. Many players have done the tongue-cutting operation. I remember seeing videos of it."

"Yes, you can get an extra loot after a part is destroyed, and this detail has been shown in a video."

The frog-headed stitched monster stretched out its giant, human-like arms, straightened its fat tongue, and scraped its tongue coating.

"An attack of dark attribute and necromantic aura, aimed directly at my tongue, will paralyze me."

"The core hidden beneath the scales will be revealed." "I will cease the dark element attack."

what?
Everyone was stunned.

What shocked them was not that the frog-headed stitched monster truthfully revealed how it killed itself, but rather this counterintuitive weakness setting.

Weak to light, fire, and lightning, players will never use dark-attribute attacks against the Stitches monster in order to maximize damage.

Not to mention, some people who tried it were absorbed and strengthened by the Frog-Headed Stitches, and then retaliated.

"I, the first, master..."

"They believe that this way, it's safe and won't be restrained by despicable purists."

Your creator is so insidious, who's really more despicable?

The episode that best fits the character of Eternal Night.

Crimson Music Box clapped her hands in admiration: "This really optimizes the gameplay. Newcomers with a little skill can easily pass the level."

The ready-to-eat food hummed, "Someone's going to be unhappy~~~"

"Who?" Huang Liang was taken aback.

The user "Open Can Eat" said, "Of course, it's about finding newbies and exploiting them like a drug dealer."

Mint, who was resting during a training exercise, suddenly shuddered. She listened intently... Oh, so it wasn't him whispering about her.

It's understandable that a seasoned veteran player who's a "ready-to-eat" open-source guru and a cyber saint would be unhappy with newcomers being scammed.

He personally wrote a long guide specifically for new players when the second batch of players joined the game.

Jiang Heyi had the privilege of reading it, and it felt like returning to the small circles of the early days of the internet more than a decade ago.

The industry veterans patiently share their insights, practically begging you to swallow their words and explain in every detail how to get into this industry.

Liu Jinhong now feels like knowledge is being crammed into his brain.

The message sent by Potato detailed how to trigger the Froghead Stitches' weakness to cause temporary paralysis, and how to find the core location for a one-hit kill.

"what?"

"Is this...is this right?"

"Why didn't any players mention this when I searched for guides online?!"

"Yeah, Orange Sky, Khorne, oh right, and the most powerful Reality/Virtual Boundary, they haven't updated either, have they?"

The team's reaction was the same as Liu Jinhong's reaction when he saw the news.

"Trust me, it's much more effective than any elemental level-clearing method."

Everyone was suspicious, but they all nodded in agreement.

Liu Jinhong happens to possess dark element attack methods.

Potato found a jar of it in the guild chest last time. It was an enchanted potion that Mint made with Soul Shards during the early days of the game.

Because of its poor quality, Mint was carelessly tossed into a warehouse.

He wanted to ask who would execute this crucial strike, but then he glanced at Lu Xinxin beside him…

There's nothing more to ask!
As expected, the teleportation resulted in a fall into the bathhouse, following the same process as when navigating the boundary between reality and illusion.

After passing through the narrow area filled with zombies, we entered the open central garden.

Liu Jinhong held a lantern and shone it around, easily pulling the frog-headed stitched monster in its magical state into reality.

It has an ugly, enormous frog head, slender, white, humanoid arms, a siren-like body covered in scales, and long, flexible octopus tentacles.

Watching the video is far less impactful than seeing a mountain of flesh crash to the ground, its tentacles waving at you in a breathtaking display.

A suffocating sense of oppression instantly swept over everyone. If Lu Xinxin hadn't pulled him back, the Demon Fox withered realm would have been a pile of minced meat under the tentacles.

"Don't get distracted, it was a 2-second kill!"

Their equipment couldn't possibly withstand a single blow!
When first conquering the boundary between the real and virtual worlds, whoever you encounter will be left to watch.

Liu Jinhong deeply realized the gap between strategies and practical application.

"Wait for it to stick out its tongue, then swing the dark element and stab the base of its tongue."

"The only difficulty is seizing the opportunity."

No.

Jiang Heyi is wrong; there is a second difficulty.

What do I do if the frog-headed Frankenstein monster doesn't stick out its tongue?
With its wrists and legs whipping, it charges and crashes about like a spider with eight legs, its savage and ugly attack posture limited to deformed forms.

After several rounds of attacks, the crowd scurried around the field like mice.

The hibernating orange cat stumbled and fell.

In the blink of an eye, the frog-headed stitched monster suddenly stuck out its tongue at him.

His wide tongue rolled him into a sushi roll, sending him into his mouth.

"The root of the tongue, the root of the tongue..."

As the only person in the entire arena capable of stopping the Frankenstein's monster, Liu Jinhong's mind was filled with nothing but gossip, the blade in his hand gleaming with a faint blue light, and a whirlwind swirling around the tip of the sword.

Raise your sword and slash!
Whoosh~~~
The frog-headed stitched monster suddenly shook its head, its tongue twitched, and it flew into the air with the troll, contracting like a spring.

"Gulu~~~"

The unfortunate troll became his meal.

My own actions were so stupid!
There was no time for regret. Its tongue stretched out again, inserting itself into the gap between Lu Xinxin and the demon fox. Of the two prey, it chose the former.

As the second sushi roll was about to take shape, all Liu Jinhong could hear was her panicked screams of "Waaaaah~~~".

The sword moved before the mind could react, slashing towards the air.

The rest of the group were stunned; there was nothing there!
The frog-headed stitched monster suddenly flicked its tongue and tilted its head back.

The root of the tongue appeared precisely in the instant the sword energy swept past, in a place that should have been empty.

The tongue snapped off, and the dark element triggered the paralysis of the frog-headed stitched monster. Its massive body crashed to the ground, its scales shimmering with an eerie, ghostly blue light.

Among the dense, dizzying scales, Liu Jinhong, as if divinely inspired, immediately spotted the most unique one—a fake scale disguised as a light spot.

The longsword was raised high, carrying a deep, dark element, its blade piercing through flesh and blood, striking straight at the core!

There was no scream, only violent convulsions from the frog-headed stitched monster.

The enormous octopus tentacles thrashed wildly, its dying spasms tearing its body, now devoid of necromancy, to pieces. Foul-smelling blood oozed from its seams.

A few seconds later, everything returned to calm.

Several orbs of light floated on its enormous corpse, and a massive amount of experience flowed into the team members' bodies.

After being stunned for a while, Miss Fox was the first to shout, as excited as could be.

It took him a while to calm his mind at the twilight bookstore. He couldn't forget Liu Jinhong's extraordinary prediction.

It was as if Liu Jinhong had seen the future two seconds ahead and was waiting for the frog-headed Frankenstein monster to fall into his trap according to his plan.

"Did you deliberately choose a spell with a slower casting speed to match the Frog-Headed Stitches' movement speed?"

"You can even time this perfectly?"

Wow, you're undoubtedly a top-tier player!

If it weren't for the fact that he was helping female friends, he could have easily joined a top-tier guild.

"You do this and remain calm on the surface; is it something you're used to?"

Liu Jinhong's mind was blank until he felt Lu Xinxin snuggling into his arms, and he gradually came back to his senses.

"How did you do that? How did you do that? Just now, I thought you missed!" Lu Xinxin blinked her eyes frantically, her face full of admiration.

Liu Jinhong was stunned for several seconds, finding it hard to admit that he had missed.

But my skills are limited, so I can't say anything rude or arrogant.

But Lu Xinxin's little expressions made him itchy and restless.

After thinking it over, he said.

"Potato taught me this secretly before."

(End of this chapter)