This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 940 - 448: The Secrets of the Black Clothed One

hours since the Black Hole appeared.

The view of the Black Hole in the sky above City V finally shifted from a long day to night in the opposite world.

The judgment made by Jiu You and the Son of Heaven about the effect of day and night on monster numbers was accurate.

It wasn’t too bad when both sides were in the dark; as long as the city lights were kept off as much as possible, the impact on the other world was minimal.

The worst situation was when it was night there and day on Earth. During this period, from the gigantic creatures’ world’s perspective, Earth’s Black Hole resembled a searchlight in the darkness, visible even from a great distance.

This was the situation for City V at the moment.

Despite having arranged for people to continuously create clouds under the Black Hole, it was impossible to completely block out the natural daylight.

Therefore, from this morning, as the opposite world entered the night, the frequency of monsters falling from the City V Black Hole began to increase at a visibly accelerated pace.

Silkworms, moths, fish, insects, flies, and walking beasts—all sorts of phototactic creatures were plummeting from the Black Hole.

Upon landing, a very small fraction of these monsters, due to territorial instincts, would start fighting among themselves, sparing humans the effort. However, more of the creatures would instinctively flee into the surrounding area, having suddenly fallen into an unfamiliar environment.

Directly below the Black Hole, two teams with over a thousand elites each had been assembled, with the lowest-ranked individuals being level 18 and above—effectively gathering all available experts from several neighboring provinces and cities.

The objective of these two teams was simple: focus on restraining and sniping the occasional three-star or higher monsters. As for those below two-stars, they were to be let go. There was no choice; there was simply a shortage of high-level experts.

The two-star creatures that moved towards the surrounding area were handed over to the second line of defense.

This second line of defense, namely the united defensive perimeter formed by the three cities bordering City V, was manned by a vast number of lower-level players and the military.

City K was one of those three cities surrounding City V.

At this moment, City K’s southern outskirts were engulfed by the booming of Magic and the roars of monsters.

Massive groups of humans were gathering behind defensive works, with arrows and acid constantly flying past, occasionally sparking bright red, as various Magic traced through the sky, bursting into dazzling flares.

A massive Magical Energy gathered nearby, forming a colorful tornado that enveloped the giant beast in the forefront, disorienting the monster’s vision.

At the same moment, a barrage of Arcane Magic Missiles flew into the sky, following a spiraling trajectory, dancing around the monster and unleashing beautiful Magic Flames.

Global battles from the previous day had fully demonstrated that against these giants, physical armaments were no match for Magic. Since the Titan world lacked Magic Power, these monsters all had zero resistance to Magic but nearly a hundred percent immunity to "abnormal status effects."

In other words, controlling or limiting spells were almost ineffective against these behemoths, but Magic damage could be fully inflicted upon them.

Especially after many had gained the power of Divinity by climbing the tower, it became possible to use Magic to trigger God’s Power and breach the hard exteriors of these low-level creatures, thus ensuring every hit caused some damage. In contrast, firearms and other physical weapons, being external objects, couldn’t trigger God’s Power. This one factor alone made Magic far more practical than physical firepower (for details on triggering God’s Power, see Chapter 330).

The only technologies that could somehow affect these alien beasts were a few high-powered weapons, including the "mushroom" types, but they still faced a problem of level suppression. Against monsters all above level 25, these physical weapons suffered at least a four-tier suppression.

It’s said that yesterday, when monsters in America were causing the most intense and concentrated disturbances, the military, overwhelmed, lured the monsters to an open area and deployed a nuclear weapon, hoping to annihilate them all at once. However, the outcome was less than satisfactory.

One and two-star monsters did suffer heavily under the explosion, but ones at three-stars and above mostly lost less than half of their life, remaining vigorous and healthy. In turn, it was their own land that incurred severe damage, and for a long time to come, they would have to deal with the aftermath of nuclear radiation risk, the harm of which was no less than the monsters themselves—a classic case of inflicting a thousand damage to the enemy only to suffer ten thousand oneself.

"Where are the reinforcements we called for? Why haven’t they arrived yet?" Zhang Yang, glancing at the increasingly close battlefront, turned to inquire of Liu Chen by his side.

As the director of the City K Special Affairs Bureau, he was appointed as the commander in charge of the defense around City K.

Gazing at the battlefield nearly obscured by the smoke and dust of Magic, Zhang Yang’s expression was grave.

To confront such giant creatures, melee fighters were virtually useless. Not to mention the question of whether melee means could injure them, merely maintaining a distance was essential since the behemoths could crush many simply by turning over.

Currently, on the southern perimeter, 12,000 Mages and Sagittarius with ranged attacking abilities had been placed intermittently.

However, in light of the number of monsters, this manpower was far from sufficient. Especially since the opposite world had turned to night and monster numbers had suddenly surged, the defense pressure doubled instantly, leaving the entire front line in jeopardy.

"They’re still in transit..." said Liu Chen with a bitter smile.

In fact, a day before, the nation had issued a semi-compulsory conscription order for all players with long-range attack capabilities, also heavily promoting the benefits of joining the battle—for instance, killing monsters would yield real experience, and there was a chance to obtain rare materials from the beast, Divine Crystals, and so on.