100: Chapter 100: First Kill!

The CG ended.

Five battlefronts, twenty players, were once again dragged into this suffocating, brutal meat grinder.

The familiar fourfold tidal wave of monsters surged out again from the abyss rifts on all sides.

But this time, no one threw their skills around recklessly; everyone acted as the perfect cog within White Night's cold and precise command axis.

"Defender Team 5 is in position! Slow-effect supports, spread out! Caster-class AoE firepower, full throttle to suppress HP! Defense line pressure is extremely stable, Vanguard cost generation is unimpeded!"

On the Spirit Vein Tower defense line, four civilian players executed White Night's tactics meticulously.

They no longer blindly pursued kills, but instead used slows and AoE to perfectly whittle down the monster horde, ensuring the block count of the Defender Servants always remained within the safety threshold.

This textbook-level clear and pressure resistance resulted in incredibly smooth Cost recovery for the entire twenty-person team!

"Team 3 reporting! The Incubator main body has been forcefully dismantled! The flying insect progenitor is blown up! The interference source has been cut off!"

"Team 4 is tanking the toxic blood and has pushed the generator's HP down to 10%! Healers have used all their Noble Phantasms to force-sustain our HP, and we've stopped attacking! Waiting for the big boss's command!"

"Team 2 has pushed the Foundation Anchor's HP to 2%! All members on standby, ready to shatter it at any moment!"

In the communication channel, the desperate wailing from before was no longer present.

Twenty strangers, who had previously not known each other, erupted with extreme execution capability akin to professional players under White Night's command!

White Night, located at the core [Command Bureau], was currently enduring the Demon God Pillar's barrage of attacks, which were like a violent storm.

While using fast-respawn Servants to bait out the BOSS's high-damage skills, he kept his eyes glued to the team status bar in the top-right corner of the screen.

"Hold steady... just five more seconds..."

The Demon God Pillar's terrifying ultimate skill cast bar had approached its final critical point!

The red death warning flashed frantically; the world-destroying light cannon was about to erupt!

"Now!"

At this moment, White Night's eyes erupted with unprecedented fervor. With a hoarse voice, he issued the final verdict in the communication channel:

"Team 2, Team 4, smash those structures for me!!!"

Two pieces of heartening good news erupted in the voice channel.

"Generator destroyed—! The Demon God Pillar's absolute invincibility has been removed!!"

"Foundation Anchor forcefully dismantled! Ultimate skill interrupted! The Demon God Pillar has been debuffed with 20% Vulnerability Armor Break!!"

In that very instant.

Under the perfectly aligned timeline.

The Demon God Pillar, which had been looking down on the insignificant humans from high above, not only had its death cannon—capable of wiping out the entire team—interrupted, but the golden shield covering its body, which was impervious to all magic, shattered with a boom.

At the same time, a "Vulnerability" icon, symbolizing extreme fragility, was precisely branded onto its massive body!

For the first and only time, it was exposed, completely defenseless, within the lethal crosshairs!

"Well done!!"

This fleeting, perfect window of opportunity was exactly what White Night had been waiting for!

"Team 1, everyone! Supporters, dump all damage-boosting skills and Noble Phantasms onto the main DPS!"

"This is the spark of humanity's counterattack! Die for me—!!!"

Accompanied by White Night's frantic roar, the four players in the central battle zone poured out the rage they had suppressed for several hours!

Zhuge Liang, Merlin, Caster Tamamo... all the top-tier damage-boosting skills lit up as if they were free.

Immediately after, a brilliant light, bright enough to blind the eyes, erupted on the screen!

"Stella——!!!"

"Roar, my wrath——!!!"

"Enuma Elish——!!!"

Several ultimate Noble Phantasms, bathed in countless buffs and the 20% perfect Vulnerability Armor Break, converged into a torrent of light that tore through the starry sky, ruthlessly piercing the Demon God Pillar's body with overwhelming force!

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

There was no glaring "Immune".

Only a shrill, piercing scream that penetrated the soul.

Boom——!!!

The Demon God Pillar, which had once brought endless despair to all players on the server, collapsed with its massive flesh crumbling into flying ash under the perfect, flawless coordination of the twenty players!

The screen suddenly turned pure white.

Immediately after, accompanied by the rousing horn of victory, a golden, glittering results screen popped up on the screens of White Night and his nineteen teammates!

[BATTLE FINISH!]

[Based on the comprehensive judgment of combat loss rate, clearance time, and mechanism execution, this joint raid rating is: EX (Perfect)!]

After a brief moment of dead silence, the nineteen friends in the voice channel completely descended into jubilation!

And at the same time.

On the maps of the remaining players, that [30,000,000] total server-wide shared HP bar, which had mocked everyone for over three hours and represented invincibility, suddenly jumped without warning under the gaze of countless desperate eyes.

[29,999,990]!

In Gu Yi's design, each kill did not reduce a fixed amount of HP; rather, it caused a reduction ranging from 1 to 10 points depending on the clearance rating. White Night's team, with their textbook-level perfect execution, directly dealt the damage cap of "-10"!

Although this mere "-10" still seemed insignificant compared to the massive base of thirty million.

But at this moment, the entire Blue Star's internet completely boiled over!

"Holy crap?! Everyone look at the big map! It lost HP! It actually lost HP!! One wave dealt 10 points of damage directly!!"

"Who on earth managed to do that?! Is this mechanism actually solvable?!"

A while later, a featured strategy post titled "Five-Line Synchronized Axis Execution Tutorial! Stop Attacking at the HP Threshold!" appeared on the front page of the FGO forum under the ID "White Night," and it was instantly pushed to the number one spot on the trending list!

"Hello everyone, I am White Night. Seeing everyone wailing, I'd like to briefly share a mechanism review of how we just secured the first kill.

First of all, please completely abandon your fantasies of stat-checking. Under the 20-person raid difficulty, it is absolutely impossible to brute-force through it, even with max-Noble Phantasm, max-equipped Servants. Not to mention that the Demon God Pillar has a permanent invincibility shield.

The core difficulties of this raid are actually only two: 'Defense Line Damage Threshold' and 'Output Axis Overlap'.

1. Damage Threshold and Pressure Control

The [Spirit Vein Tower] and [Incubator] are the foundation for the entire team's survival. Especially for the [Spirit Vein Tower], you absolutely cannot just bring tanks to hold off monsters; you must supplement them with slows and AoE Casters to reduce their HP, ensuring the monster horde never breaks through the block limit, in order to preserve Cost supply.

2. Output Axis Overlap (The easiest point to fail)

The reason many teams cannot kill the central Boss is that everyone is doing their own thing.

In most cases, fighting the Boss requires [Invincibility Removal] (Supply Pipe) and [20% Vulnerability] (Foundation Anchor) to exist simultaneously. This means the teams responsible for these two mechanisms must cut them at the same second, like the fuse of a time bomb!

Therefore, what we need to do is—stop attacking at the HP threshold. After suppressing the building HP of these two nodes to below 5%, everyone must stop attacking!

Even if the Healers have to use their Noble Phantasms to force-sustain, you must never be greedy for damage. Only when the central team is ready, counts down 3, 2, 1 in the voice channel, and simultaneously shatters the buildings, creating a fleeting, perfect window of output, should the main DPS unleash their Noble Phantasms.

Don't just kill every monster you see. This raid doesn't require you to spend a lot of money; what it needs is twenty comrades who can cooperate with each other and strictly execute the timeline.

— — Appendix: Recommended Low-Star Substitute Servants for All Nodes and Raid Exploration Video Footage"