Seeing the massive corrupted heart appear before them, and the narration subtitles beside it, Wang Lao Ju and the audience couldn't help but hold their breath, becoming incredibly tense.
After all, they had put in so much effort and explored step by step to reach the top of the slay the spire.
If they failed, who knew if they would be so lucky again.
"Continue!"
Taking a deep breath, Wang Lao Ju clicked continue directly.
Then the narration flickered, and another line of text popped out.
"You grip your long blade."
"Attack?"
Without hesitation, Wang Lao Ju pressed the attack button.
In an instant, a flurry of blade light and sword shadows covered the corrupted heart, causing a series of dense damage.
"You dealt 1650 damage!"
"The corrupted heart writhes and bleeds... but it is still beating."
"Is even your strongest attack not enough?"
"Continue?"
Didn't kill it?
Wang Lao Ju was stunned, and the bullet comments were also rows of question marks.
However, he didn't think much and chose to continue again.
"You ask yourself: 'Have I been here before?'"
"The heartbeat grows louder, and you feel your consciousness gradually beginning to dissipate..."
"But in an instant, a surge of energy erupts from deep within you, making you jolt awake."
"The corrupted heart has fled upwards! In the corrupted heart's original position, a massive door has appeared."
"Walk towards the door?"
Door!
Wang Lao Ju immediately saw the key information.
If he wasn't mistaken, this door should be the entrance to the true top of the slay the spire!
The audience's gazes also subconsciously moved closer to the screen.
Sure enough.
When Wang Lao Ju chose to advance, a familiar scene appeared.
It was precisely the three-color keyhole door from the CG animation!
And the three keys collected earlier immediately burst into light, inserting themselves and spinning rapidly.
The next second, the door opened, and a new map slowly emerged, with two large characters marked at the top.
"Finale"
That's right!
It was the hidden map they had long anticipated.
It was also the true top of the slay the spire!
"He actually made it up!"
"Is this the top of the slay the spire?"
"So those items weren't bugs! I misunderstood the Designer."
"Such a great design, and there are still a bunch of people complaining. As expected, haters are everywhere."
"Don't worry, they'll shut up after today."
"I declare that this Designer is my god!"
Looking at the constantly scrolling bullet comments, Wang Lao Ju smiled.
Only by personally experiencing the arduous exploration along this journey could one truly understand how amazing this game was.
Even though he had played countless games.
He still gave this slay the spire a very high score in his heart.
Even higher than some triple-A masterpieces.
After a brief adjustment, his gaze returned to the game.
There weren't many levels in the Finale, only four short ones.
The first two levels were a campfire for resting and forging, and a shop for buying cards and items.
Further up was an elite icon, and a massive corrupted heart with bulging veins, like a terrifying beast prostrating itself at the top of the tower, exuding a strong sense of oppression.
This.
This was the final Boss of slay the spire, the corrupted heart!
"Alright! Today, we'll push through the final Boss in one go!"
In front of the camera, Wang Lao Ju was full of heroic spirit.
After a brief rest at the campfire and shop, he quickly clicked on the second-to-last elite level and entered it, making the audience immediately excited.
However.
To everyone's surprise.
After entering the level, two monsters appeared before them.
slay the spire Spear and slay the spire Shield, holding a long spear and shield respectively, stood on either side of the character, with two numbers marked above their heads.
"21" "6x2"
"Is that all the damage?"
Wang Lao Ju laughed, his face full of ease.
The values marked above their heads were the damage the monsters were about to deal.
This meant he only needed to withstand 21+12 = 33 points of damage, which wouldn't even break his armor.
Is this all the gate-keeping elite has?
"Child's play. Watch me take them out in one go."
His current card deck was an armor-stacking deck derived from countless experiments. These two elites were probably here to give him equipment.
Without further ado, he used defensive cards to stack his armor from the very first round.
He even used the divine card 'Double Armor' he had just obtained, instantly raising his armor value to over 100.
Then, he folded his arms and watched the two elite monsters with interest, wanting to see how they would break through his turtle shell.
"This elite is a bit too easy."
"Indeed, as a gatekeeper, it's a bit underwhelming."
"Mainly because Lao Ju is too strong, he even has double armor."
"One hundred armor at the start, even a turtle can't shrink like you."
"Elite monster: Coward, if you have the guts, unequip your armor and fight us one-on-one!"
The live stream was filled with joy, with bullet comments teasing Lao Ju's turtle shell tactic.
But it had to be admitted.
While shameless, it was very effective.
However.
They clearly underestimated the insidious nature of these two elite monsters.
When Wang Lao Ju ended his turn and it was the spear monster's turn, the monster directly threw a long spear at his face.
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Two damage numbers floated up, and at the same time, two 'Burn' cards were forcefully inserted into his deck.
"Wait, what did you put in there?"
Wang Lao Ju suddenly sat up straight, finally sensing a hint of something wrong.
Before he could react, it was already his turn, and he drew three cards from his deck.
But when he saw the two 'Burn' cards folder ed inside, his face turned green.
Damn it!
The two cards inserted actually replaced his original draws.
And they would also deal him damage at the end of the turn!
The audience was also stunned for a moment when they saw this, but then they burst into crazy laughter.
Holy cow!
This monster was too tricky.
No wonder it became a gate-keeping general.
What made Wang Lao Ju even more uncomfortable was that after attacking, the number above the spear monster's head actually changed to "10x4".
A full 40 points of damage!
With card draws restricted, he simply couldn't generate that much armor!
After a series of operations, he could only barely reach 38 points.
Then.
With a "bang".
The shield behind him slammed heavily into his body.
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32
His armor was directly reduced by more than half.
The damage number above the shield monster's head changed to "57", and it also gave both monsters 30 points of armor.
Only then did Wang Lao Ju realize that damage taken from behind would increase by 50%!
"Holy crap!"
With a pincer attack and stacked damage, he couldn't care less about so much, and he frantically started operating.
After more than a minute.
The massive shield slammed onto his forehead, taking away his last dozen or so health points, and he fell to the ground as a corpse.
"You died."
Three large characters slowly appeared at the top of the interface.
Wang Lao Ju: ???
"No, there's a problem with this monster's difficulty!"
Seeing his bewildered expression, the bullet comments immediately burst into laughter.
"When I type question marks, it's not that I have a problem, it's that I think you have a problem."
"Dying of laughter, he said he'd clear it in one go, but he couldn't even beat the gatekeeper."
"Is Lao Ju performing the fastest clear for us?"
"Elite monster: Turtle shell? Doesn't exist."
"6666, the Designer outsmarted him again."
"I knew this guy's games aren't meant for speedrunning."
"No, I have to upload this part online, it's making my stomach hurt from laughing, hahaha..."