Chapter 45 Countless blood-red stakes erupted from the ground

"Holy shit?!" PD practically launched himself out of his chair.

In the video, only three seconds after deployment, Vlad III, fully buffed by Kongming and with an instant charge, directly unleashed his Noble Phantasm that dealt devastating single-target damage!

"[Kazikli Bey: The Blood-Stained Royal Demon]!!"

Countless blood-red stakes erupted from the ground, instantly impaling the full-health Oni Leader at the front like a pincushion, killing it on the spot!

During this process, Zhuge Liang's seemingly damage-less Noble Phantasm, [Stone Sentinel Maze], also unfolded.

A massive Bagua formation enveloped the entire field.

The extremely broken group slow + stun effect made the remaining Oni feel as if they had fallen into a swamp, unable to move a single step!

With the support of Kongming's unreasonable instant charge and all-around damage buff and defense debuff.

White Night's "Nuclear Burst" lineup turned the Rashomon high-difficulty stage, which had driven the entire internet to despair, into a one-sided slaughter with no suspense!

The video ended.

"Holy hell!!! What did I just see?! An equipment card comes with 50% charge, and the support fills the other half instantly?!"

"Support... is this the freaking true way to use a support?! Directly eliminating the wind-up time for the main DPS's ultimate?!"

"Kongming lands, and the big boss draws his sword! This is literally 'ignition upon landing'!"

The exposure of the "Power Bank" mechanic completely overturned the fundamental understanding of the game for all players in the parallel world.

They finally understood that while damage-dealing Servants were important in "FGO,"

the "Supports (Gua)" who could allow these damage dealers to ignore rules and wind-up times, instantly unleashing world-destroying power, were the true and only ceiling of this game!

While countless players regretted not leveling Kongming or even pulling for him,

someone silently pointed out another way:

"Brothers... don't forget, in Chaldea's formation system, you can borrow a Friend's Support!"

These words were like opening Pandora's box.

A few minutes later, the few players who had coincidentally leveled Zhuge Liang to max at the server launch suddenly found their game clients frozen.

Their friend request lists were instantly and completely overwhelmed by players from all over the world!

"Big shot! Please accept my friend request! I want to borrow your Kongming!"

"Father! Kongming is my biological father! Let me borrow him for a charge; I've been stuck on Rashomon for a whole day!"

Over the following week, in the data monitoring room of the network backend, Oriole looked at the absurd data report.

The Servant with the highest deployment rate across the server was no longer Gilgamesh, nor was it Saber.

Instead, it was that helpless-looking Zhuge Liang with the feather fan in his hand.

His server-wide deployment rate was a terrifying 99.8%.

On average, for every player who owned Kongming, their Kongming had to work overtime in various friends' worlds more than 300 times a day!

A parody fan art quickly reached the top of the trending topics on the Youxing Forum.

In the image, Zhuge Liang had two huge dark circles under his eyes, his soul was escaping from his mouth, and he held a stack of "overtime documents" while being forcibly dragged onto the battlefield by countless red-eyed Masters.

Seeing this familiar ACG meme reappear in such a vivid way in this parallel world, Oriole smiled broadly.

"Strategist, time for overtime."

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