'This background music sounds like it's from my world.'
'Mo Na has definitely gotten darker from this angle.'
'As someone with thalassophobia, I'll have to find someone else to help me through this part.'
'No, no, no, I'm feeling dizzy just thinking about deep sea fear!'
'Friendly reminder, it's okay to breathe while watching the stream.'
......
Meanwhile, Mo Zhi also reached the battle with the sea serpent Hydrus. The opening CG scene alone was enough to deter many who suffered from deep sea phobia.
Mo Zhi had no energy left to interact with the barrage of comments, even though she didn't have thalassophobia herself.
However, facing such a colossal creature in the lake, her heart couldn't help but tremble.
"There's no sunlight at the bottom of the lake, and the Sword of Yesteryear can't be used anymore."
Having lost a major cheat, Mo Zhi worried, "I feel like I'm going to get severely beaten here. This game has no regular monsters, but the bosses' difficulty keeps increasing."
"Come on, I can do this!"
With that, Mo Zhi accelerated towards Hydrus.
Within five meters, she could already feel a tingling sensation spreading across her skin.
Mo Zhi's heart tightened. If 10% of the sensation felt this way, wouldn't the real thing instantly electrocute her into unconsciousness?
【Grab the Colossus's Tail】
While hesitating, a prompt lit up, and Mo Zhi decisively attacked!
Pushing off with her legs, she rapidly surged towards the almost-escaped colossal sea serpent.
At the same time, the sea serpent noticed Mo Zhi in the water. Its crimson eyes, like countless stars scattered across the sky, rotated slightly, emanating a terrifying pressure that was bone-chillingly cold.
Immediately after, electric arcs surged along the bone spurs on the sea serpent's back.
Zzzzzt!
In the next instant, a red lightning bolt followed the water flow towards Mo Zhi, causing the water surface around her to splash and boil like a cauldron.
Hiss!
The tingling sensation suddenly intensified, and Mo Zhi couldn't help but let out a muffled groan.
A noticeable portion of her health bar in the bottom right corner disappeared.
The sea serpent's attack power is immense!
Its aggression is also very high!
I can't just be defensive like this!
I need to quickly reach its tail and climb onto its body!
In a flash, several thoughts raced through Mo Zhi's mind. Her leg movements became faster and faster, and she soon reached the sea serpent's tail.
"Got you!"
Her hands firmly gripped the sea serpent's tail.
After steadying herself, Mo Zhi raised her hands and fiercely stabbed the Sword of Yesteryear towards the weakness on the sea serpent's tail!
Chii!
"Roar~!"
A large amount of black gas spewed out, creating a splash of water.
In pain, Hydrus thrashed its tail wildly, speeding through the lake, waves crashing one after another!
Mo Zhi held on tightly to the sea serpent's tail hairs. The giant waves struck her face like knives. This felt a hundred times more thrilling than surfing at sea before!
"Wow!"
Riding the free ocean express, Mo Zhi exclaimed excitedly.
When the sea serpent tired slightly, she gradually climbed up its body from its tail.
Soon, she found a faint blue light next to the sea serpent's third bone spur.
That was a weakness mark!
Charge!
Muttering inwardly, Mo Zhi pushed off with her feet, moving at lightning speed.
Upon reaching the weakness, she instinctively reached out to grab the bone spur to stabilize herself.
Sizzzle!!
"Whoa!"
The moment she touched the bone spur, Mo Zhi was instantly hit with a ten-thousand-volt electric shock. In that instant, she felt as if she saw a rainbow.
"Damn it!"
Before she could even finish cursing, Mo Zhi froze in place.
'Is... is she stunned by electricity?'
'Wake up, streamer, wake up! You're in a challenge!'
'Should I call emergency services? Is she in danger?'
'She should be fine. Health data shows the streamer's physical condition is good, and all indicators are normal.'
......
Recovering her senses, Mo Zhi patted her chest fiercely, trying to catch her breath.
"Guys, it feels so good to hear your comments. For a moment, I thought I saw paradise!"
"The electrical charge stored in this bone spur is very high. I must destroy this first!"
Mo Zhi didn't want to experience paradise again.
She inserted the Sword of Yesteryear into the weakness below the bone spur. The bone spur, surrounded by red lightning arcs, instantly went out like a faulty light bulb.
"Ha, I finally found the way to tackle this ten-thousand-volt threat!"
With the technique found, clearing the stage was just a matter of time.
Half an hour later, Mo Zhi defeated the colossal sea serpent Hydrus.
Wanderer: "I'm sorry."
As usual, a slow-motion CG close-up, accompanied by a sound like the sigh of the wind, cast an exceptionally somber atmosphere over the entire livestream.
'What the hell, is this the protagonist apologizing after his will controls his body?'
'Colossus: One day I was swimming, and suddenly a young man stabbed me to death.'
'What do I do? My focus is on how good CC's voice sounds!!'
'Indeed, I didn't expect Wanderer's voice to be so charming!'
'Another martyr has bravely sacrificed themselves. The terrifying demon continues its slaughter.'
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Many players who identified with the colossi empathized fiercely with the slaughtered Hydrus, especially Wanderer's "I'm sorry" in the final CG.
It made more and more people feel that the protagonist was doing something wrong, rather than fighting a fierce beast to save his beloved.
They could have been happily wandering their territory, living a life of peace and contentment. However, an unscrupulous young man came and killed them without a word.
Despite the growing guilt in her heart, Mo Zhi never stopped moving forward.
After returning to the temple to rest and recuperate, she followed Dolph's guidance to a lush forest, searching for the dark shadow crawling along the wall – Kuromori.
It was then that she noticed seven pillars of light piercing the sky.
"This... this corresponds exactly to the seven colossi I've dealt with?"
Gazing at the imposing sky, Mo Zhi worried, "Will the sky collapse once I've dealt with all the colossi?"
"Wouldn't that make me a sinner in this world?"
"But... I have to secure one of the top two hundred clearance spots. This time for sure!"
Compared to the irreversible consequences of slaughtering all the colossi, Mo Zhi, after much deliberation, chose to pursue the real-world rewards.
People tend to learn from experience but not from punishment. The severe consequences brought about by choices in "Undertale" did not make Mo Zhi vigilant.
She continued her killing spree in the forest with gusto.
However,
As the game progressed, the difficulty of the colossi increased.
Initially, Mo Zhi could defeat two colossi a day.
Later, she could only defeat one colossus a day.
And then, she even needed three days to deal with a single colossus.
Although they were still the same land, sea, and air colossi, finding their weaknesses and climbing onto their bodies became increasingly difficult.
For instance, the lizard colossus Kuromori in the forest would also release poison projectiles, causing her health to drop rapidly, giving Mo Zhi her first taste of death.
Then there was the sand tiger colossus Xilexia, which not only required Mo Zhi to ride a horse at full gallop but also to dodge countless attacking sand worms simultaneously.
And at the critical moment, she had to shoot a fatal arrow to blind the sand tiger's exposed eye!
Only when it lost its vision and crashed into the rocks could she get a brief opportunity to climb onto the sand tiger's back and stab its weakness.
Despite the extreme difficulty, Mo Zhi persevered.
And she fiercely plunged the Sword of Yesteryear into their weak points, even though the CGs for each battle were uniquely sorrowful.
Mo Zhi's heart never wavered.
Until...
In the third week after the game's launch, Mo Zhi faced the thirteenth colossus, and her second flying colossus – Phalanx.
Her resolve began to waver.
......