Chapter 556: Chapter 532: The Last Piece of the Puzzle
Money may not be able to solve all problems, but it certainly can solve most of them.
Chasing Wind’s team not only found a Redstone Expert, but they even “recruited” one who seemed to be the strongest among 5 other experts.
— It’s not that Chasing Wind couldn’t afford to hire more, but with creative work like this, having more people doesn’t necessarily mean higher efficiency.
In case they disagree with each other, arguing would be troublesome. Even if the employer forces a decision based on a certain person’s opinion, there’s no guarantee of smooth sailing.
So, they decided to hire just one.
However, Chasing Wind didn’t disregard the other four experts— when it comes to understanding the game, these Redstone Experts were crushing them, who wouldn’t be impressed?
He kindly introduced these four Redstone Experts to the quick-paying and highly reliable Pay-To-Win Lord Team.
By the way, he received gratitude fees from the four teams without hesitation, averaging 60,000 each.
Chasing Wind also shared half of it with those four Redstone Experts.
So, his team’s current status is essentially that they didn’t spend a dime, and they got a Redstone Expert working for them for free.
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The addition of the Redstone Expert directly changed the strategy for the BOSS Battle.
Although the difficulty is still high for below 25% blood, with the help of the Redstone Expert, the higher blood levels have almost become a “speed kill”.
It may not seem like it’s helping the progress directly, but the time and energy saved greatly pushes the strategy’s speed.
— This global first kill battle is about to speed up again!
“Redstone technology” is the engine of acceleration!
Whether or not there’s a Redstone Expert’s help— whether you know Redstone yourself, have a friend who knows Redstone, or pay for a Redstone Expert, determines if you can keep up with this round of acceleration.
European players have already accepted their fate and given up on fighting for the first kill individually or in small groups.
They have decided that both can be achieved but would require a large amount of supply reserves, the best equipment, enchantments, and a deep understanding of the game.
If you were to calculate it, you’d need to accumulate enough points in “My World” in exploration, combat, and building—all three key areas, to score at least 95 points to defeat the Ender Dragon alone.
As for small groups, people with accumulation in different areas can join up.
It can be roughly understood as: a collaboration of multiple 85-pointers to overcome their shortcomings.
Only teams can complete this BOSS Battle under the condition that they score under 80 points in every aspect.
But, they’re already lagging behind. It’s highly unlikely they could take first place by reorganizing their teams and changing their combat style now.
Especially since they have fewer players overall, it’s even harder for them to find players who understand Redstone technology.
So, they’re in a bind.
Lack of Redstone-savvy players is not just a problem for European teams, but also for Australia, Southeast Asia, Izumo, and Baekje.
Being able to find one or two in the entire country is already considered pretty good.
— In fact, it’s the same for Daxia. According to the proportion, there are only about a dozen players out of more than 18 million who can use Redstone technology to build complex automatic mechanisms according to specific needs.
How rare is that!
When the 38-player team that Mavis had her eye on finished being scolded and reentered the game, they found the world had changed dramatically.
Teams had entered the [10% Blood] stage.
At this stage, the Ender Dragon takes to the sky once again, spewing huge flaming meteorites onto the battlefield.
Adding subsequent burning damage, players hit by the meteorites are basically bound to die. The field will also be set ablaze, even if no one is hit.
At the same time, a large number of Endermen are summoned.
According to the previous train of thought, players should hide underground, blow up all those Endermen, and then come out to fight the dragon again.
But this doesn’t work.
These Endermen are not the same as the ones before.
They have several very special bomb-resistant units with, [End Crystals] in their hands, that begin to climb the 10 obsidian pillars as soon as they appear!
Once they climb up without being stopped, they’ll place the End Crystals back on top of the pillars.
After the End Crystals are set up, just like in the overture stage, the Ender Dragon can quickly regain blood!
This requires players to use close combat to interfere with their climbing and kill them as quickly as possible.
So, the players have no choice but to leave the safety of their defenses, find those Endermen holding crystals in the constantly emerging crowd of Endermen, and kill them as quickly as possible.
Fortunately, Lincoln had a conscience; those little black men holding End Crystals wouldn’t cheat and teleport. Otherwise, if they teleported directly to the pillars to put crystals, everyone might as well just give up on the game…
This challenge stopped many people once again.
It was almost 10 o’clock at night, Yelang was feeling a bit dazed, but suddenly an idea struck him out of the blue—
When he had just entered the game and found the village, the crops that the Village Uncle, with whom he had a past grudge, were growing— were pumpkins!
“Since Endermen target players by seeing their faces, what if I cover my entire face, leaving only two small holes for my eyes? Would they not attack me?”
“No way, right?” Yi instinctively felt it was unreliable, “We’re wearing iron helmets, so our faces are only exposed a little bit.”
“But an iron helmet is still a human head! A pumpkin can’t be considered a human head.” Yelang was persistent in wanting to try it.
So he willingly took the risk of adding another layer of [Victorious Chasing] buff to the Ender Dragon and went out to find a pumpkin, attempting to hollow it out with a sword.
Just as he stabbed the sword in, the pumpkin hollowed out by itself, and there were two eyes and a mouth-shaped gap in the front, turning into a standard Halloween pumpkin shape.
“An Easter egg left by Cloud Dream?” Muttered Yelang while putting the Halloween pumpkin on his head and entering The End through the Teleportation Gate.
Then it worked!
He put on his equipment, walked into a pile of Enderman monsters, looking and walking around casually. As long as he didn’t touch the Enderman, none of them would attack him!
Yi instantly got excited, “The final piece of the puzzle! It’s complete!”
“The championship is ours!”
Well, this was half right.
The final piece of the puzzle was correct.
But the championship being theirs? That was completely wrong.
There was absolutely no privacy in the live streaming team.
Teams with faster progress, even if they changed a person, could be discovered by the live broadcast room audience and even passed on to other broadcast rooms, let alone such a crucial item usage.
Just 5 minutes after Yelang discovered the use of a pumpkin head, this move spread to all the pioneering teams.
Pumpkins, unlike the rare items like [Nether Alloy Sword], were incredibly easy to obtain, and could be immediately equipped upon receiving the news.
With the help of the pumpkin head, not only did it become significantly easier to intercept specific Enderman at this stage – you could just kill one by one as they emerged, being careful not to hit ordinary Enderman.
Even in previous stages, the threat of Enderman was greatly reduced – except for those directly summoned by the Ender Dragon near the players, those spawned on the edge didn’t even rush over anymore.
And so, once again, teams began to overcome the [10% Blood] stage.
After the Ender Dragon’s blood was reduced to 5% by arrows, it fell heavily to the ground!
And entered the final stage – [5% Blood], [Dragon Scale] state!
[Dragon Scale]: Feeling its life in serious danger, the Ender Dragon infuses its scales with power, greatly enhancing its defense!
During this state, as most of its power is invested in its scales, the Ender Dragon’s attack frequency is significantly reduced, but it is immune to all damage except its weak points.
The curled-up Ender Dragon, looking like a solid chunk of obsidian, couldn’t be penetrated by even the strongest enchanted bow and its scale defenses.
However, when it attacks, the system clearly indicates the weak points.
Specifically –
[Tail Swipe]!
Expose the tail’s weak point.
[Dragon Wing Strike]!
Expose the weak points at the base of both wings.
[Pounce]!
Expose the weak points of the dragon horns.
[Dragon Breath]!
Expose the weak point in its throat.
For every weak point that is broken, the Ender Dragon loses 1% of its blood.
At this stage, players are required to evade the Ender Dragon’s high stack of attack damage while seizing fleeting opportunities to focus attacks on the weak points exposed by the Ender Dragon, causing massive damage to break the weak points.
By the time they reached this stage, all that was left to compare was the team’s solid strength.
Luck, money, and skills all contributed, but in the end, strength was what remained!
On the floating island in The End, a commander stood on a high spot, shouting hoarsely –
“Last 5%!”
“Watch out for [Tail Swipe]!”
“Cut off the tail! — 4%!”
“[Dragon Wing Strike]!”
“Cut off the wings! Cut them off again! — 2%!”
“Watch out for the dragon’s head! [Pounce]!”
“Cut the horns off! — 1%!!”
“The last one is — [Dragon Breath]!”
“Finish it off!!!”