Chapter 456 Bloody Sacrifice (Subscription Request)
"Chief, I have lived for more than 800 years! I have seen too many strange people and things, and experienced too many major events. To be frank, I am a living dictionary in the world of Vares. Please respect my experience, okay?"
The White Dragon Queen was a little angry.
"Even if you don't trust me, you can't question the divine revelation of my Lord Tiamat! I came to you today to act completely in accordance with the divine will of Her Majesty the Dragon Queen!"
Gao Fei remained silent.
Sonia's words were well-reasoned and sounded convincing.
The only problem is... I really don't have any "mythical power"!
Wait a minute...mythical power?
Gao Fei suddenly thought of a possibility.
He turned his back and secretly opened the astrolabe database, typing in two search keywords:
"mythical power" and "astrolabe energy".
After a search, Gao Fei suddenly realized.
His own understanding was not wrong, but Sonia's judgment was also correct.
Neither Gao Fei himself nor the Berserker Basaka Olaf possesses the so-called mythical power.
However, if Gao Fei obtains a special ability that requires mythical power, he can use the energy of the star disk to simulate the mythical power and achieve the same effect!
In this case, why not just use the energy of the star disk? Why bother setting a mythical power in the game?
Why make it so complicated?
From the perspective of the player, this question is difficult to understand.
But when Gao Fei switched to the perspective of the creator, he understood the difficulties.
"Star disk energy" is a player-exclusive ability. The characters in the game will never understand what "star disk" is. Otherwise, it would break the "fourth wall" and be a super-game behavior.
It's like the game's save and load, which is a basic setting that any player understands.
When you play and fail to challenge a certain task, the NPC will say to you: "Young man, please go back to practice, and come back to challenge after your skills have improved."
This means that you can read the file and level up again, and start over, no problem.
However, if the NPC directly says to you "Young man, please reload the game", wouldn't it be very abrupt?
It instantly destroys the game experience and sense of immersion!
Just as the NPC should not know about "reloading the game", the White Dragon Queen Sonia, as an NPC, must not say the four words "astronomical disk energy".
But what should we do if the astronomical disk energy must be used in the game?
We can only design an additional "myth" system to make the astronomical disk energy appear in a less inappropriate "mythical power" way.
Even in the astronomical disk database, it is emphasized that "astronomical disk energy" is just an artificial simulation of "mythical power" and cannot completely replace "mythical power".
In Gao Fei's opinion, this is probably just a pretense to maintain the game experience and immersion.
It's like a popular game that claims that it won't celebrate real festivals in the game, as if it's afraid of waking up the players' sweet dreams and making them realize that they're just playing games...
Recovering his thoughts, Gao Fei then asked Sonia: "How can I get this mythical ability you mentioned?"
"Chief, leave it to me!"
The White Dragon Queen patted her majestic chest and promised.
She really wasn't bragging, she started working hard overnight.
Gao Fei lent his guard company to Sonia, and cleaned up the battlefield and collected the bodies of the frost giants according to her instructions.
Sonia had to collect 100 giant bodies. If the frost giants were not enough, hill giants, trolls or ogres would also be fine.
When there were 100 giant bodies, Sonia would personally chop off the heads of the bodies with a sword.
She carefully arranged 100 bloody giant heads into a pyramid shape and built a so-called "Jingguan" as an altar to please Tiamat and pray for the Dragon Queen to bestow divine grace.
In the prehistoric era of mankind, the world of Vares was once a stage for giants and dragons to compete for hegemony.
These two mutually hating races cannot live in peace until today.
The feud between giants and dragons is also reflected in the gods they each worship.
The relationship between the giant gods and the dragon gods is very bad, and Tiamat is the one who hates giants the most among all the dragon gods.
Any action that can strike the giants, this "Evil Dragon Mother" is interested in getting involved.
A person who has lost her high taste!
Sonia Shuangming came to meet Gao Fei this time, indeed in accordance with the divine revelation of Tiamat.
The bloody altar she cast to pray for divine grace can indeed please the evil dragon goddess.
However, why was such an important thing not revealed at the beginning, and only told the truth when Gao Fei asked angrily?
Gao Fei knew the answer without asking Sonia.
The answer is simple. Sonia neither wants Germir to win, nor is she willing to see the young barbarian hero, Basaka, rise strongly.
In fact, she hopes that Basaka and Germir will both lose, and it would be best if they can die together.
In this way, she will have the opportunity to clean up the mess and rule the entire Jotunheim.
When it comes to ambition and greed, there is no essential difference between the White Dragon Queen and the Ice Tower Warlock.
The alliance between Basaka and Sonia is just a combination of interests.
When Germir is defeated in the future, it is possible that they will turn against each other.
Considering that Sonia might become his enemy, Gao Fei was not polite.
While she was busy performing sacrifices, she quietly opened the astrolabe to check the background of the White Dragon Queen.
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·"White Dragon Queen" Sonia Shuangming (ancient white dragon/white dragon blood warlock level 9)
Equipment: Frost-marked Great Sword, +1 Mithril Acceleration Full Body Armor, Giant Strength Belt +6, Charm Cloak +4
Challenge level: 18
Neutral evil, very large dragon (cold type)
Life: 405 (30d12+210)
Speed: Walk 60 feet/Fly 200 feet/Swim 60 feet/Burrow 30 feet
Defense: 50 (Agility +2, Natural +26, Shield +4, Armor +10, Size -2)
Attributes: Strength 42 (belt +6), Agility 15, Constitution 24, Intelligence 16, Perception 18, Charisma 26 (cloak +4)
Senses: darkvision, blindsight, keenvision, passive perception 20
Special Abilities: Cold subtype, walking on ice, damage reduction 15/magic, immunity to cold/sleep/paralysis, fire resistance 30 (frost mark), fire extinguishing (frost mark), spell resistance; skilled caster, combat casting, spell Counterattack, uncanny dodge, dexterity, metamagic feats (spell range enhancement/expansion/delay)
Special Attacks: Power attack, Cleave, Whirlwind, Multiattack (2 claws/2 wing strikes + bite + tail strike), 180-foot line/90-foot cone dragon's breath (cold damage 20d6, Reflex DC 23) , 300 feet of ferocious aura (DC24), magic pool (390/day), spellcasting (CL15, skilled caster +6; DC24; 0 level - freezing ray, magic tricks, mage's hand, secondary enemy attack first; Level 1 - Colorful Jet, Feather Fall, Shield, Identification, Command, Thunder Wave; Level 2 - Invisibility, Wind Creation, Flash Dust, Silence, Resistance to Energy Damage, Cloud and Mist; Level 3 - Dispel Spell, Lightning Beam, Frost Nova, Haste; 4th level - Ice Wall, Polymorph, Dimensional Anchor; 5th level - Freezing Mist)
