Chapter 136 "Huh?"

Yet, just one second before the deadly claws of the monster horde were about to touch the blue gate!

With the repeated activation of Luxas's Noble Phantasm, the defense-ignoring curse debuff above their heads had stacked crazily to over a dozen layers!

"-2000!" "-4000!" "-8000!"

This continuous true damage DoT completely ignored the attack reduction effect brought by the level 33 modifier, melting away like snow. Just a split second before the monsters were about to step into the blue gate, it completely burned through their thick HP bars!

"Hiss— Extreme pseudo-looping?! Five-star Luxas and Tamamo slow-curse build?!"

Lin Feng felt his scalp tingle as he watched.

Only now did it dawn on him: under the hellish modifier of [Natural Cost Recovery Reduced by 75%], trying to brute-force cost generation was impossible!

White Night was utilizing Enkidu's high-star stats to maximize cost recovery from taking hits, dropping two five-star Servants while hanging on by the last thread of health, pulling off an "extreme kiting slow + Arts pseudo-looping curse stack" to forcibly "burn" the monsters to death before they could enter the gate!

Relying on this thrillingly drawn-out time, he managed to wait until he had enough Cost to deploy the final, decisive core Servant!

At this moment, with a dull, heavy boom from deep within the red gate, the final boss—Red Sword Brother—wielding a heavy sword, emerged slowly like a true grim reaper, carrying the despair-inducing HP and attack power of a level 33 full-modifier state!

White Night swiftly retreated the two five-star Casters who had contributed so much, freeing up precious deployment slots.

In the video, the operator's mouse cursor, moving too fast for the naked eye to track, left afterimages in the void.

On the high platform, Merlin, for whom the cost had just been saved, descended!

On the ground, the main damage dealer, Jeanne dArc Alter, took her position!

"Red Sword Brother is coming! If he deploys Jeanne dArc Alter now, once aggro is drawn, it's all over!"

Lin Feng sat bolt upright in bed, tense, because he clearly saw that White Night no longer had any spare Servants to tank Red Sword Brother's attack animation. The 7-person limit was already full!

Just at the critical moment when Red Sword Brother raised his heavy sword, about to step into striking distance...

In the video, the five-star Vanguard [Enkidu], who had been on the field tanking the pressure, suddenly erupted with dazzling golden light!

"Do not think you can cross this line! [Enuma Elish]!"

This Noble Phantasm from Enkidu forcibly nailed the arrogant god of death to the spot, inflicting a forced [Stun] for a full second!

In the original "FGO" settings, Enkidu's Chains of Heaven only triggered a stun effect when facing enemies with [Divinity].

But in the "VR Version FGO" created by Oriole, to adapt to the real-time strategy tower defense rhythm, he had made a simple yet brutal mechanical modification to this Noble Phantasm—against enemies with Divinity, Chains of Heaven would cause a long-duration immobilization; against enemies without Divinity, it could still forcibly inflict a short 1-second stun!

It was precisely this precious crowd control mechanism that forcibly created this life-or-death second!

"Retreat!" The millisecond after releasing the chains, White Night decisively pulled Enkidu off the battlefield, freeing up the final seventh-person slot.

Lin Feng's pupils shook!

"He used the Noble Phantasm right before Enkidu's retreat to stall Red Sword Brother for a second?!"

This is the shock of a top-tier player! Not only the stats of a whale, but also the superior intellect to calculate the game's underlying mechanics and control timing down to the millisecond!

It was precisely this incredibly insane one second.

In the video, the one-star [Mozart], as the seventh person, completed his final mission—airdrop!

50 critical stars were instantly ready!

Merlin's [Hero Creation] was firmly applied to Jeanne dArc Alter!

"Boom—!"

Jeanne dArc Alter's Noble Phantasm, mixed with dark red karmic fire, slammed heavily onto Red Sword Brother.

"-45,000!"

A number so huge it was gut-wrenching floated up, and Red Sword Brother's HP bar instantly evaporated by half!

"You can't one-shot him!" Lin Feng gritted his teeth and shouted.

As a veteran player who had been tortured all night, he knew too well that the level 33 HP was too thick; failing to one-shot Red Sword Brother would definitely trigger his half-HP Berserk state! And after going Berserk, Red Sword Brother's attack wind-up was less than 0.5 seconds—Jeanne dArc Alter's subsequent normal attacks wouldn't even have a chance to land before she was killed!

The facts were just as he expected. In the video, Red Sword Brother's eyes erupted with crimson blood-light, his heavy sword ignited with substantial blood flames, and at a speed almost invisible to the naked eye, he slashed down with a blow capable of destroying heaven and earth toward Jeanne dArc!

That was, without a doubt, an absolute dead end.

However, an extremely crisp clicking sound came from the video.

In the millisecond before the heavy sword fell, a sky full of pink petals dangerously and narrowly enveloped Jeanne dArc's entire body!

[Invincible]!

"-0!"

Red Sword Brother's earth-shattering blow, carrying a 300% attack bonus and doubled by his Berserk state, only slashed out an incredibly mocking white number.

"This... what kind of monster hand speed is this..." Lin Feng sat dumbfounded on his bed as if he had seen a ghost.

That was a reaction window of less than 0.5 seconds! The operator actually managed to manually click Merlin's second skill, Illusion, within this life-or-death critical moment, using the group invincibility to tank the lethal blow after the Berserk state!

Taking advantage of the stiffness after Red Sword Brother's attack missed, Jeanne dArc Alter's two ready-to-fire normal attacks, buffed to the limit by "Hero Creation," roared like two black dragons and viciously pierced through Red Sword Brother's chest!

"Buster (Critical)!"

"Buster (Critical)!"

"-31,000!"

"-33,000!"

That arrogant, level 33 full-modifier Red Sword Brother, whom Lin Feng didn't even dare to touch, let out an unwilling roar under this unreserved "Buster Critical" barrage, and his massive body shattered with a boom.

[MISSION CLEAR!]

[Current Level: 33 (Highest Level)!]

The video progress bar reached this point and slowly turned black.

In the rental apartment, there was a deathly silence.

Lin Feng stared blankly at the black screen where the video ended, then looked down at the "Level 18 Etched Badge" on his personal homepage that had once made him so proud, only to find it looking incredibly eye-searing now.

"So much for low-star challenge... others are even using five-stars as disposable fodder..."

Lin Feng muttered bitterly, completely putting away all his arrogance. He silently opened the bullet comment button he had previously blocked.

In an instant, tens of thousands of bullet comments washed across the screen like a tsunami.

There were no long-winded exclamations, no flashy worship; every player who finished watching this video had their brains completely crashed due to the micro-management that exceeded human limits and the imaginative team composition.

In the video, no matter which second you dragged the progress bar to, the entire screen was densely and neatly filled with only the same word: "Huh?" "Huh??" "Huh???" "Huh???????"

With trembling hands, Lin Feng also silently typed a "Huh?" into the torrent of bullet comments filling the screen.

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