Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 994 - 274: Ultimate Point Allocation, Heavenly Demon System

Primordial Altar.

Qi Sheng's gaze flitted between different player groups.

The formation of the Bully Alliance indirectly accelerated the development of the Player Corps, raising players' enthusiasm to challenge the bullies.

Recently, three United Battle Groups have come into his view.

To challenge the Bully Alliance, they recruited a large number of newbies, merging several promising small guilds in the process, showing signs of gaining a foothold in the Newbie Village.

Besides the traditional warfare modes, many innovative ideas have also made an appearance in the battle against the Bully Alliance.

For example, the "Tidal Rotation Tactic" that was popular some time ago.

This approach integrates attack and defense, lowering the upper limits while raising their own lower limits.

Players are making many conceptual ideas a reality through practical application.

During this period, a forum post caught Qi Sheng's attention and sparked heated discussions among players.

The reason was a question raised by a Research Party player in the recent tactical discussions that went viral.

[As a Research Party player, I love focusing on details. Recently, I've read many tactical discussion posts, and one issue makes me feel very puzzled.]

Posted by: I Love to Babble.

Content:

I am very satisfied with the detailed designs in the Monster World game, but one question has always troubled me, so I'm posting to discuss it with everyone.

Why do the civilizations in Monster World generally focus on bodily growth as the core direction for combat strength building, rather than using advanced weapons to destroy opponents, as seen in many science fiction novels, like Two-Dimensional Foil that performs dimensional reduction attacks, sticking to primitive army confrontation tactics?

Therefore, why do conflicts between civilizations in this highly developed, multi-faceted world still center around physical combat, lacking more advanced long-distance, massive destruction weapons?

After diving deep into the background information on Monster World, I've found that many races in the game actually possess abilities like interstellar travel or space technology, indicating their technological level should be theoretically capable of developing super weapons like the "Two-Dimensional Foil" seen in science fiction, or at least super energy weapons and automated fighting systems.

Yet in the actual scenarios, apart from the Mechanical Army faction, the majority of races rely on body enhancement and close combat weapons, including the powerful Black Tide Army System. This setting seems mismatched with their showcased combat level.

So the question arises, given such powerful forces, why do battles between races remain at the level of physical melee?

From a rational perspective, does this setting align with reality's logic?

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This question quickly mushroomed in the forum.

The topic rapidly surged to the top of the forum's trending list.

The response count in the comments section skyrocketed in a short time.

Comments Section:

Are You Kidding: Because it's a game, Upper Realm Beings in real life can use various highly destructive energy weapons, so it's reasonable to switch things up in the game, right? You don't need to be so picky about details when playing a game. The primitive army facing off seems basic, but it's thrilling, doesn't it?

Why Not Ride the Wind Up to Nine Heavens: Actually, there's a very reasonable explanation behind this, first you need to understand one thing: in the Combat System setting of Monster World, the strongest power is not some technology held by a race, but Rule Power. The essence of Rule Power is the ability to burn fire in the deep sea, to reverse rivers skyward, rewriting reality, whereas many technological developments rely on logical reality, and Rule as a counter-logical force will render your technology completely ineffective.

For example, your weapon is a Flame Gun, which releases flames for burning and requires basic physical laws like oxygen and heat conduction.

However, if your opponent masters a Rule Power such as "No burning allowed in this domain" or a rule lacking oxygen, your Flame Gun turns into scrap metal.

So the greatest advantage of our Player System's Life Soul Characteristic lies in, no matter the environment, the power of Life Soul Characteristic can be unleashed, unaffected by any rules or modifications.

Therefore, technological development is destined to be meaningless unless it can forge into "rules".

Fujian People Are Not Tasty: Not entirely, after all, Mechanical Army once fired a long-distance energy beam that pierced through the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, such power is still present in Monster World, we just have little access, and the nearby factions mainly focus on body evolution, making it seem like everyone's enhancing their bodies rather than developing super weapons.

Little Monster Sergeant: Is there a possibility that the essence of the Black Tide System's Evil Spirit Soldiers is weaponry, mastering long-distance magical bombardment, space jumps, evolution through devouring? The technologies you mentioned are present in the Black Tide System, but they've semi-biologized the weapons, making it appear as if everyone, like in ancient warfare, is engaging in melee army combat. Once Earth Thought Bully strengthens, the high-level Evil Spirits generated can wield power akin to obliterating Earth.

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Within the replies in the post, one answer's likes swiftly surged.

After Qi Sheng checked it out, he also found the mentioned viewpoint quite interesting.

Don't Know What Name to Use:

As a fellow Research Party player, who spends nights in the library looking through background information, I can answer this question in detail.

The Rule Power mentioned by the fellow above is one reasonable explanation, which I won't delve into here.