Terraria: Cruel World Legends

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At four o'clock in the morning, Xi Yao arrived at the square first. While waiting for Prism and Elias, he flipped through the Book of Terra and learned about the introduction of the Great Southern Plants located under the jungle:

[Originally, it was a type of snapdragon flower that grew underground in the jungle. When the divine essence dissipated, it was affected and began to grow violently, and gained self-awareness in the process... However, you only need to defeat one of the flowers to release all the absorbed divine essence. I believe you can do it. After all, your prey is just a flower, right? ]

...While Xiyao was silently reading the Book of Terra, he noticed two figures walking towards him side by side. He looked up and found that it was Prism and her Blue. Because she was woken up before dawn, Blue was a little confused.

After the two men greeted each other, Xi Yao noticed that Elias was walking slowly towards him from another direction. He looked over and noticed that Elias's face was a little dark, with the corners of his mouth slightly turned up, and he seemed to be in a bad mood.

"Why didn't you sleep well last night?" Xi Yao asked first.

"Yeah, all the bars closed early last night, so I didn't have any wine to drink. I couldn't sleep all night without alcohol." Elias sighed.

"... Let's plan how to deal with the solar eclipse for this hour." Xi Yao didn't intend to get into the topic of wine, and then looked around.

"Elais, let me ask you, is there a detailed record of the enemies of the solar eclipse?"

Elias yawned. “Yes, after all, people in the Moon Sorrow Era and the first Evil Sorrow Era a hundred years ago were in distress and were much more proactive than they are now. Of course, there are records of enemies during the solar eclipse.”

"So, will there be enemy monsters with great destructive power to the environment during the solar eclipse?" Xi Yao asked.

Elias thought for a moment and said, "It seems so...hiss...but these are what I learned in my childhood. It's hard for me to recall them now."

"One last question. Can enemies with strong environmental damage destroy terrain in the same way as they destroy buildings? I believe you have an impression of this."

Elias pinched his chin. "There are records. The one with the greatest destructive power is the fatal ball... It seems that it can indeed achieve the same effect as the demolition ball..."

Xi Yao nodded: "In that case, let's go to the battle site to welcome the solar eclipse. This way, there won't be any Essence enemies in the town destroying the houses because of the presence of people. At the same time, we can also avoid being attacked from both sides."

"Ha... let's go. I really hope the solar eclipse will end soon. I can't sleep without drinking some alcohol..." Elias stretched his deltoid muscles, first looked up at the dark sky, and then looked towards the direction of the battlefield.

"I say, what is our strategy for dealing with events like a solar eclipse?"

"Combine radicalism and conservatism, remain calm in the face of the situation, and maintain the ability to adapt to changes." Xi Yao said, turning his head to look at Prism and Bi Lan beside him.

"By the way, keep an eye on your Azure. After all, a unicorn this big is still a big target."

"It's okay. Just think of it as a way to train Bilan's character. After all, when she has full combat capabilities, she can also be one of our comrades-in-arms." Prism said, gently touching Bilan's head.

"When I faced a mechanical creature before, Azure helped me a lot."

Elias held his forehead and said, "Then just be careful not to let her learn how to create people... The creation of a certain unicorn has left a psychological trauma on me."

"I told you that Bilan is very well behaved, just don't provoke her."

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In the northern part of Terra, in the city of Xavalon——

Yu Yuling stood on the roof of the main building of the city, looking down with a cold face at the crowd who were still preparing to fight against the solar eclipse.

"You are not here after all, so I was about to leave." Yu Yuling murmured to himself, then raised his head and looked coldly at the sky, where a strange dark orange color was faintly visible.

"Because of this untimely solar eclipse, I can only stay here for a while..." Yu Yuling said, slowly closing his eyes, and then suddenly grinning, his cold eyes slightly crazy.

"Haha... let me see where to find you next..." Yu Yuling said, taking out a map from his storage pocket and unfolding it. He scanned the map and finally locked onto a place name.

"East... Town...?" Yu Yuling read silently word by word, his expression becoming slightly more crazy.

"Ah... isn't that the region founded by the brightest rising star on the Terra continent? Haha... haha..."

Suddenly, he put away his smile and his face turned cold. "However, if we go to the inland Dongfang Town first, we will have to take a longer detour to the surrounding coastal areas... It would be better to go from Narotos Town on the northeast coast, go around the coast to the two new star areas, and then go to Dongfang Town."

Yu Yuling put away the map, then lay directly on the roof. Looking at the gradually emerging dark orange light, he grinned, "Ahaha... Solar eclipse, this is also the first time I've experienced a dangerous solar eclipse in the Evil Age... I'm really excited! Hahaha!"

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South of Dongfang Town, in the battle field—

Xi Yao looked up at the dark orange light gradually emerging in the sky, then looked down at his pocket watch: 4:35 a.m.

Now, there are only two minutes left until the solar eclipse announced by the Terra Federation... Looking at the signs in the sky, Xi Yao knows that the solar eclipse is about to occur.

"When will this solar eclipse end?" Elias, who was standing by, asked with a yawn, holding Hell's Coming.

"5:29 a.m. in the morning. It lasted less than an hour." Xi Yao said, and then looked down at his pocket watch. It was already 4:36 a.m.

Looking up at the sky again, the sun, with its middle part blocked by the bright moon, has roughly appeared within sight.

"Hiss... the solar eclipse has begun..." Elias frowned as he looked at the already appeared solar eclipse. "Although it's a one-minute delay, there are time differences in different parts of Terra after all. A one- or two-minute delay is reasonable. It's always been like this before."

Xiyao looked around and indeed noticed some evil spirits around him. After a brief thought, he decided to switch the environment tuning to clear purity and began to wait for the enemy monsters to arrive.

“…Is that…an enemy monster?” Prism was the first to notice a bat with a white face and red wings that flew in from nowhere.

"...Oh, this is the bat form of the vampire. Be careful. It would not be a good thing if you get hit by this thing." Elias said easily, while raising Hell's Coming and shooting explosive bullets... However, all the bullets were dodged by the vampire bat with a fancy move.

"Huh? It seems that what the textbooks say is true... The movement of this thing is really sexy, tsk..."

Elias said a little displeased, and then after a little prediction, he fired all his bullets at the vampire bat... Not long after, the vampire bat dissipated into a little black smoke under the muzzle of Hell's gun.

Just like that, Elias fired the first shot in the face of the solar eclipse torrent of the Evil Era... both physically and symbolically.

Xi Yao looked up at the sky again... At this time, the annular solar eclipse had completely appeared, and the strange dark orange light could not illuminate the entire earth shrouded in darkness.

"Solar eclipse?" Xi Yao muttered, "It is indeed a strange astronomical phenomenon..."