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‘Ding! Your party has defeated ‘Childhood Idols’, the Lone Desert Smoke First Party has proceeded to the next round! Please remain in the main city, the next match is beginning in 40 minutes!’
Following the sound of the system notification, Zhang Yang and the gang were teleported out of the arena.
Zhang Yang smiled lightly and said, "The little girl spent a total of 47 seconds to secure the victory of our first round, let us compete to see who can take down the opposition party in the shortest time, shall we?"
"Hmph!" Wei Yan Er put her hands on her hip joints and said, "You are so wicked, if I had known we were racing, I could have did it faster! 30 seconds, no, 20 seconds would have been enough to take them all out!"
Han Ying Xue pinched the little girl’s face and said, "Keep puffing hot air, little prick!"
Wei Yan Er flung her head in a huff and said, "Cousin sister, even you’re being mean! I am finally seeing through your entire being, your heart, spleen, lungs and kidneys!"
"But we must not be too negligent, it is possible that we might encounter a strong party in the future!" Daffodil Daydream reminded all of them.
"Yes!"
The other four of them, including Zhang Yang nodded to express their agreement. As the saying went, an army puffed up with pride is bound to lose, but with enough confidence in themselves, they may conquer the world!
"Little Yang, we are in for the next round!" In just a short period of time, Fatty Han shouted into the guild channel.
"Guildmaster, we have also proceeded into the next round!"
"Boss! Boss! We’re in the next round!"
The guild channel was constantly filled with the triumphantly news of many parties in the guild. Of course, some people were happy, and naturally some people were crying as there were also many parties brutally, or forcefully eliminated from the competition in the first round. However, many of them were reporting victories. At the end of the first round at 8.pm, out of a total of 2,176 parties from the Lone Desert Smoke that participated in the competition, 1,847 parties had managed to secure their spots into the next round, leaving the elimination rate down to only 15%. With such great results, it reflected the elite superiority of the guild, thanks to Zhang Yang’s strict selection of members.
At 8.pm, the second round of the Soaring Swords competition closely followed right after the first round, there was a total of 131,072 parties, and the competition was divided into three different sessions.
This time round, Zhang Yang and the others had to wait a little longer, only being teleported at 8:40.pm.
Their opponents seemed to be pushovers again, with an average level of 53. It seemed that they had engaged with a similarly weak party in the first round, in order to proceed to this round smoothly. There was one Berserker, two Beastmasters, one Pyromancer and one Priest.
So, Sun Xin Yu pulled out her daggers and jabbed a thumb in her bountiful chest, claiming this round as hers and hers alone.
The five-minute preparation time passed very quickly, and Sun Xin Yu dashed forwards, disappearing into thin air as she went straight into her stealth mode.
"Wait, wait!" The five members of the opposition party had charged forward a few steps forward as the Berserker who seemed to be their party leader immediate raised up his hand and said, "They must have some trick up their sleeves! None of them are moving!"
"That’s right, they are the core party of the Lone Desert Smoke!"
"Such rotten luck, to meet these lunatics in the second round!"
"Boss, you said they might have something up their sleeves, right?"
"I don’t know, but the battle has already begun, and their assassin is in {Stealth} while the remaining four members are just standing there. They must be conspiring something!"
"We must not act lightly. Let’s stay in position, spread out a little, and flank them. Whoever charges over first, we’ll just instant-kill that player!"
"Right! Let them have a taste of our strength, the Five Immortals of the Peach Valley!"
"It’s a long shot, but we might even slaughter them and get our asses elevated!"
"Hahaha!"
The five of them started to laugh as their heads were filled with fantasies.
Pak!
The Pyromancer who stood at the rear of the party suddenly swayed on the spot, a circle of flying stars that indicated a stun effect appeared right on his head, followed by the shadow of Sun Xin Yu slowly revealing herself out of thin air, getting to work with her two daggers that glittered like frost and snow right behind him without a pause.
‘-2,040!’
‘-710!’
‘-4020!’
The regular attacks of the main weapon and the secondary weapon, with the addition of consecutive chain of a back attack, along with an additional 10% damage while appearing out from stealth mode -- instantly, she inflicted a total damage of up to 7,000! The Pyromancer did not stand a chance, it was a total insta-kill, with no chance of activating any emergency life-saving skills!
A true assassination, to suddenly emerge out of the shadow and instantly hammer out a series of terrifying attacks!
Sun Xin Yu immediately turned her focus towards the Priest and started running at him.
"What the hell! That was deadly shit!"
"Focus fire on her, take her out!"
The two hunters had sent their pets to attack Sun Xin Yu while shooting out their {Concussion Shots} to reduce her movement speed. Clearly, they lacked tacit understanding among each other, they were casting redundant skills at the same time!
Her body trembled, and Sun Xin Yu became translucent --- {Blur} !
Missed!
Missed!
The two {Concussion Shots} missed at the same time. As an assassin, Sun Xin Yu moved far faster than a priest. The movement speed boost could go up to 20% at most, and it was considerably fast! In a flash, she had reached her opponent who was 10 meters away!
{Shadow Step}!
"Old Ox, look out! She is right behind you!"
"Quickly! Use {Petrifying Shriek}!"
"Turn around, don’t give her the chance to stab you in the back!"
The other three players were busy spouting various advice! However, it was already too late!
‘-1,832!’
‘-692!’
‘-3632!’
Although there was no additional 10% damage, Sun Xin Yu was the ice queen. Her opponent only had a full body of Green-Copper equipment, with 5,000+ health points, how was it possible for that fellow to survive so many violent attacks of hers! He died instantly!
{Holy Shield}? Sorry, that rare skill book was not available to any hillbilly!
"F*ck! They did not play any tricks on us, they really thought one assassin was enough to take us all out!"
"This level of looking down on people is too much!"
"... It seems like we are no match to them though!"
After Sun Xin Yu had torn up the priest’s *ss into ribbons, she immediately waved her hand -- {Vanish}.
The battle had just commenced for 16 seconds!
17 seconds, 19 seconds, 21 seconds!
Shoof! The shadow of Sun Xin Yu reappeared once again, and a hunter dropped dead!
"Sun of the beach! Kill one of them at least!"
"At least take some of her HP out!"
The two remaining players of the opposition party lamented .
Everytime Sun Xin Yu activated {Blur}, she was so lucky that every single attack ‘Missed’! After killing three players consecutively, she was actually still at full health, it simply made her opponents feel horrible!
Shoof! Small cyclones formed beneath her feet, and her movement speed was instantly boosted like crazy!
{Sprint}!
Sun Xin Yu flew at the other hunter at twice her usual speed!
‘-982!’
‘-1632!’
The two damages were inflicted on Sun Xin Yu at the same time, a combination of a regular shot and {Take Aim}!
Finally... a Reduction of health points!
The hunter revealed a triumphant smile on his face! He managed to draw some Lone Desert Smoke blood!
26 seconds!
Sun Xin Yu continued to charge forwards, and with amazing footwork, she positioned herself behind the hunter. Immediately after that she charged at the Berserker.
The hunter, dead but yet to even fall, had already been abandoned by its killer!
"Argh!" the Berserker charged straight at Sun Xin Yu, swinging his axe wildly but unfortunately, it only struck air. Witnessing his party members getting slaughtered one after another, it had left him infuriated! The outcome of the match did not matter anymore, he only wanted to strike Sun Xin Yu in order to at least regain some dignity!
Sun Xin Yu lifted a leg up casually, and the axe swung harmlessly beneath her!
Normal attacks were easily telegraphed, therefore, any skilled player could easily anticipate and evade attacks as they would in real life.
Sliding between the legs of her opponent, Sun Xin Yu flitted to the back of her opponent with amazing flexibility, and finished him off!
32 seconds!
The battle has ended!
Shoof, Zhang Yang and the party were teleported out of the arena at the same time.
"Little girl, you lost your position so easily!" Zhang Yang ridiculed her.
Wei Yan Er was instantly provoked, gnashing her teeth at Zhang Yang with an audible snap.
"Born in the year of dog?"
"No! Tiger! Rawgh!"
After the second round of the competition ended, 1,293 parties of the Lone Desert Smoke remained in the running. The chat was once again filled with a mixture of joy and sadness.
9 pm, and the third round began.
This time around, Zhang Yang and his party members were one of the first to be teleported into the arena. At the opposite side, the party was still vastly inferior, but their average Level had reached up to Level 54, and they glittered with a few gray-silver equipment!
"This time, let Daffodil handle this, don’t get killed!" Zhang Yang smiled while teasing.
If players are killed in the arena, they will not lose any experience points or equipment, but their equipment durability will still be reduced.
At first, Wei Yan Er wanted to give it another try in order to get herself back to number one in place, but when she saw the excitement on the face of Daffodil Daydream, she felt that it was not good to steal her spotlight, so she could only give up bitterly.
Five minutes later, the battle began!
The moment when Daffodil Daydream activated her {Heart of Flame}, pak pak pak, she had already instantly-killed one of her opponents the moment she laid her eyes on them. After a series of weaving and rolling, she killed the final opponent at the expense of having 872 health points remaining. It was understandable as she was a Spellcaster with lower defense and HP. The whole battle took one minute and 12 seconds!
She had no other way, as she could only cast {Fire Blast} again and again, other spells would have required an interruptible casting time. To fight against five opponents by herself was not easy, let alone winning the match!
A pyromancer truly shone in team battles, where behind their allies, they will be able to cast their hard-hitting skills at leisure and inflict series of extremely terrifying damage!
In the third round of the competition, there was no doubt that the second party of the Lone Desert Smoke with Fatty Han and the others in it would proceed to the forth round.
Meanwhile, a total of 902 parties from Lone Desert Smoke still made it into the next round. Compared to the 487 parties of the Crimson Rage and the 309 parties of the Imperial Sky, it was three times more than them in number! As everyone could see, Lone Desert Smoke was truly elite!
Only three rounds of the competition were held today, with another three rounds the next day, and then another three rounds on the following day, with only two rounds on the forth day, while the remaining six days will only hold one round each.
Although there were many inferior parties eliminated thorough the first three rounds, but 16,384 parties still remained in the competition, and the quality of the parties still varied greatly. On the second day of the competition, Zhang Yang and the gang were still able to send one representative to claim victory for them. Progress was smooth.
When it was Zhang Yang’s turn to step up, he had his pet join the battle to aid him, engaging in a fortunate match-up against a kitchen-knife-kind of party that consisted of two berserkers, two thieves and one sacred knight. In the end, he had purposely allowed the thief to activate {Ambush} successfully, while waiting for the four damage channel players to round up on him. When the time was right, he activated his {Warrior's Will} to get rid of the {Kidney Shot}, and did a perfect instant-kill on all four opponents with a combo of {Horizontal Sweep} and {Blast Wave} and {Thunder Strike}!
He then activated a {Charge} at the last sacred knight left on the arena and killed him with a series of explosive blows. The whole battle only took 19 seconds!
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There was no chance of breaking Zhang Yang’s record, not anymore!
Wei Yan Er glared at him dejectedly, and she said, "Noob tank, you got real lucky, engaging four melee profession players at a time, if only I --- Hmph!"
Zhang Yang shrugged and said, "It could not be helped, luck is also a part of strength!"
"How ostentatious!" Han Ying Xue rolled her eyes at him. Sun Xin Yu was on fire, constantly rubbing her daggers against each other everytime they stepped into battle. However, after the sixth round, only 4,096 parties managed to proceed to the seventh round of the competition.
Maybe they could still managed to send one player each for the coming rounds, but naturally, these parties were the cream of the crop, possessing greater strength than their previous encounters!
As a safety precaution, Zhang Yang would have his party charge out as one starting from the next day. They cannot risk any 1 VS 5 battles anymore!
Lone Desert Smoke had a total of 227 parties who entered the next round, taking up a total of 5% of the remaining parties of White Jade Castle in the competition, it was definitely astonishing! It was far better compared to the Crimson Rage who had only 132 parties remaining and the Imperial Sky who had only 96 parties remaining in the competition!
"Let’s go, we shall level up to achieve Level 70 at a faster speed!" Zhang Yang was already currently Level 64, but to race against other players and also spend time on the competition was an uphill battle. However, Zhang Yang naturally had the uttermost confidence to secure the championship of this competition!
Let’s set aside other circumstances, by just booking the dungeon where the Demonic Treant King is, Zhang Yang and the gang had already acquired a total of 12 pieces of [Aura Stones]. The Aura skills of Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue had already reached Level 4 while the Aura skills Wei Yan Er, Hundred Shots and Fatty Han had also reached Level 3. The whole gang had grown far stronger than before!
As five of them were about to tear their own [teleportation scroll] to return back to Thunderstorm Castle, when they saw Humbly Gentleman and his big gang walking by with thier annoying swagger. The hypocrite glanced at Zhang Yang, and he said, "Zhan Yu, I heard that you guys managed to make it into round 7! Hehe, you guys better burn more incense and pray that you never engage with us tomorrow, or else, that would be the end of your streak!"
Zhang Yang laughed out loud and said, "Hypocrite, have you taken the wrong medicine today as well?"
Humbly Gentleman snorted and put his hand over one of his men’s shoulder. "Zhan Yu, allow me to introduce you to a person! Millenial Wanderer, profession, Cryomancer, and he is a new recruit of The Dominators and also our Ace!"
The Millenial Wanderer was a male elf spellcaster, who did not hide his personal information. He was Level 58, health points 8,320, mana points 4,120. With his hands folded across his chest, he gazed and them lazily and said, "I heard that you guys are strong? Unfortunately, that was before you guys met me!"
Han Ying Xue and the ladies exchanged a look, trying to hold back their laughter. Wei Yan Er rubbed her forefinger against her cheek and said, "Goodness, the mental hospital is so irresponsible this year round, how could they let a patient run wild without giving him proper medication!"
Zhang Yang smiled nonchalantly, but his heart skipped a beat. Millenial Wanderer -- he was bad news. His past life told him of that!
--- Millenial Wanderer, he was indeed the core player and ace of The Dominators in the S Rank Competition! Being the seventh in the top 10 best spellcaster list, his strength must not be underestimated!
In this life, Millenial Wanderer had also sided himself over to The Dominators, despite their downfall.
"You b*tch, just wait until you meet me in the arena, I shall show you just how much of a toad under the well you are!" Millenial Wanderer slammed his fists together, a most belligerent look on his face.
Wei Yan Er burst out, "He’s driving me mad! I really wish that our first opponents will be them, I am going to cut his head off and kick it like a football!"
"Yan Er, how can you be so violent? But, I do support you this time round!" Han Ying Xue pinched the cheek of Wei Yan Er again.
"Humph, while you’re still at it, be pleased and enjoy the moment!" After Humbly Gentlemant finished with his demonstration of power, he waved his hand and led his men away from the scene.
"That was a really annoying person!" Wei Yan Er stuck out her tongue, "Noob tank, raise their teleportation fare up 10 times more!"
Zhang Yang laughed loudly and said, "Alright!"
One day had passed, the Soaring Swords competition had entered its third day.
‘Ding! Lone Desert Smoke First Party VS ‘Fire Phoenix’ party is about to begin in 5 minutes, please make ready!’
It was already 7 pm, Zhang Yang and his party members were teleported to the arena at the same instance again, and there marked the beginning of their round 7 battle!
Fire Phoenix was an unconventional party formed out of five female Pyromancers! The average level of the five was Level 56, which was considerably quite high. Plus, they were pretty well-equipped, most of them glittering in gray-silver light. All of their health points were over 7,000!
A vicious party of glass-cannons! Focus fire, instant-kill, simple, violent, effective!
"How do we do this?" Wei Yan Er asked.
"We split them up into individual battles. Each of us take one. Their health points are not that much, if we can get near them, we can kill them! We must really close the gap before they start bombarding us! Five ‘Fire Balls’ flying at us all at once is no joke!" Zhang Yang said.
"Then I shall take on Phoenix Subzero!" Wei Yan Er said.
"I’ll take on Phoenix Foam!" Daffodil Daydream said.
"Iced Tea!" Sun Xin Yu was brief and straight to the point as usual.
"Then I shall take Phoenix Jasmine, while Whitey shall take Phoenix Babe!" Zhang Yang shall cover the remaining two opponents.
On the other side of the arena, the Fire Phoenix were also having a discussion.
"They will definitely start with Zhan Yu in front! You have all seen it, that lunatic has like 28,000 HP, and our first volley could theoretically do 30,000. But he’ll definitely have some passive damage-reduction skills, he won’t go down from that! Furthermore, once they close in, their melee attackers will deal serious damage!" Phoenix Foam said.
"The damage of a tanker is limited, he won’t be a priority! The thief will definitely go into stealth mode immediately. So, we should really focus fire on Drizzler or Daffodil Daydream!"
"Subzero, Iced Tea, Jasmine, you three focus fire on taking out the Drizzler, while Babe and I shall take on Daffodil Daydream! Try to kill them off in a one volley, and then if the thief is still in stealth mode, we shall hit the priest first. If the thief reveals herself, we shall take out the thief first! The Guardian shall be our the last target!" Phoenix Foam assigned their objectives.
"Alright!"
Five minutes passed in the blink of an eye!
The battle had begun!
All five members of Zhang Yang’s party charged at the same time. As Zhang Yang was the tanker, naturally, he was at the forefront, while Wei Yan Er and Daffodil Daydream followed closely behind him. Sun Xin Yu had long vanished out of sight.
The three members of the Fire Phoenix party took aim at Wei Yan Er, while two of them aimed at Daffodil Daydream. At the same instant, they activated the skill that temporary increased their damage, the {Heart of Flame}, and they began to cast their {Explosive Flame} that had the highest damage output among all their skills!
{Counter Magic}!
Daffodil Daydream put up her hand and waved, immediately sealing up the {Explosive Flame} that was about to be activated by Phoenix Foam. At the same instant, she activated her own {Heart of Flame}. Afterwards, she gulped down a bottle of [Beginner Power Potion] and activated her accessory, the Magician's Brooch, and began casting her own {Explosive Flame}!
Just two seconds later ---
‘-2,926!’
‘-1,646!’
‘-2911!’
‘-1534!’
‘-3012!’
‘-1621!’
Six damage values appeared right on top of Zhang Yang as the attacks struck him, taking away approximately 14,000 of his health points!
The Fire Phoenix party reeled in shock! As these attacks were supposedly thrown at Wei Yan Er, how did Zhang Yang become the one who sustained all the damage?
[Sacrifice]: Protects an ally, taking all damage done to the ally instead. Cool down time: 1 minute. Distance: 30 meters
‘-4,592!’
‘-1,541!’
Phoenix Babe managed to inflict some damages on Daffodil Daydream, taking away 6,000+ of her health points. However, Daffodil Daydream bombarded Phoenix Foam with only one {Explosive Flame} that inflicted a damage value of ‘-9360!’, instantly killing her opponent on spot!
‘-3120!’
Daffodil Daydream answered with a {Fire Blast}, taking away a third of her other opponent’s health points!
Zhang Yang was grinning as he entered the range of {Charge}. Immediately, he charged head on at Phoenix Jasmine. At the same time, Whitey activated {Wild Charge} and clashed onto Phoenix Babe! Shoof! Sun Xin Yu used her {Shadow Step} to draw herself to the back of Phoenix Iced Tea -- {Ambush} activated! Wei Yan Er had also used {Charge} to clash into Phoenix Subzero!
{Flash Out}!
The four remaining members of the Fire Phoenix party activated their {Flash Out} at the same instant: Instantly move 10 meters forward, cancels all movement restriction skills!
Zhang Yang, and the other two party members immediately pursued their opponents, while Han Ying Xue was frantically healing Zhang Yang.
Their distance gone, and positioning greatly disrupted the weaknesses of the spellcaster profession were revealed thoroughly. The remaining four members of the Fire Phoenix party were instantly nailed by Zhang Yang who smacked their asses with his huge axe. After just a few attempts, they were forced into despair. After lashing out for awhile, they were sent to their demises one after another.
Round one, Lone Desert Smoke First Party acquired victory!
The second level started immediately right after, it was the same 5-minute preparation time. Fire Phoenix party made the best use of the time to revise their tactics.
"Their guardian has {Sacrifice}, it totally messes up our plan!" Phoenix Babe frowned.
"This time, we shall focus our assault on Drizzler, let Zhan Yu use his {Sacrifice} on Drizzler first. Then we shall immediately use our second volley on Daffodil Daydream, it should immediately kill her!"
"But once we let them get near us, their damage outputs are just as terrifying!"
"That’s right, they are all individual freaks of their own! The parties that we encountered in the first few rounds could only focus fire on one of us at a time. We only needed to activate a {Ice Frame} to protect ourselves, while the other four of us will just wipe them out! However, they’re spreading out to deal with us all at once!"
"Argh, why did it have to be Zhan Yu! It could have been any other!"
"Hehe, or Iced Tea, you go on ahead and seduce Zhan Yu, let him turn his coat around and betray his party!"
"You b*tch, you are the one who should go and seduce him! With your two papaya sized titties, men are bound to drool!"
"Stop messing around, think of something now!"
"... Nothing on mind now!"
"...Let’s just do it then!"
The match began with the end of their unproductive discussion!
The five cyromancers did as they had roughly improvised, focusing fire on Wei Yan Er, trying to trick Zhang Yang into activating his {Sacrifice}, and then they turning to Daffodil Daydream immediately. Daffodil Daydream immediately went down!
However, Phoenix Foam was also killed by the {Explosive Flame} coming from Daffodil Daydream, turning the battle into 4 VS 4!
The prime advantage of a 5-spellcaster party was that all five of them could focus fire and take out their opponents, one at a time! As their numbers dwindled, their firepower would drastically drop, and the moment they fail to kill any of their opponents in a single hit, the healer’s role which was meant for long-term combat would start to shine!
Fire Phoenix lost to Lone Desert Smoke First Party with the result of 0:2 by the end of the match.
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‘Ding! Your party has defeated ‘Childhood Idols’, the Lone Desert Smoke First Party has proceeded to the next round! Please remain in the main city, the next match is beginning in 40 minutes!’
Following the sound of the system notification, Zhang Yang and the gang were teleported out of the arena.
Zhang Yang smiled lightly and said, "The little girl spent a total of 47 seconds to secure the victory of our first round, let us compete to see who can take down the opposition party in the shortest time, shall we?"
"Hmph!" Wei Yan Er put her hands on her hip joints and said, "You are so wicked, if I had known we were racing, I could have did it faster! 30 seconds, no, 20 seconds would have been enough to take them all out!"
Han Ying Xue pinched the little girl’s face and said, "Keep puffing hot air, little prick!"
Wei Yan Er flung her head in a huff and said, "Cousin sister, even you’re being mean! I am finally seeing through your entire being, your heart, spleen, lungs and kidneys!"
"But we must not be too negligent, it is possible that we might encounter a strong party in the future!" Daffodil Daydream reminded all of them.
"Yes!"
The other four of them, including Zhang Yang nodded to express their agreement. As the saying went, an army puffed up with pride is bound to lose, but with enough confidence in themselves, they may conquer the world!
"Little Yang, we are in for the next round!" In just a short period of time, Fatty Han shouted into the guild channel.
"Guildmaster, we have also proceeded into the next round!"
"Boss! Boss! We’re in the next round!"
The guild channel was constantly filled with the triumphantly news of many parties in the guild. Of course, some people were happy, and naturally some people were crying as there were also many parties brutally, or forcefully eliminated from the competition in the first round. However, many of them were reporting victories. At the end of the first round at 8.pm, out of a total of 2,176 parties from the Lone Desert Smoke that participated in the competition, 1,847 parties had managed to secure their spots into the next round, leaving the elimination rate down to only 15%. With such great results, it reflected the elite superiority of the guild, thanks to Zhang Yang’s strict selection of members.
At 8.pm, the second round of the Soaring Swords competition closely followed right after the first round, there was a total of 131,072 parties, and the competition was divided into three different sessions.
This time round, Zhang Yang and the others had to wait a little longer, only being teleported at 8:40.pm.
Their opponents seemed to be pushovers again, with an average level of 53. It seemed that they had engaged with a similarly weak party in the first round, in order to proceed to this round smoothly. There was one Berserker, two Beastmasters, one Pyromancer and one Priest.
So, Sun Xin Yu pulled out her daggers and jabbed a thumb in her bountiful chest, claiming this round as hers and hers alone.
The five-minute preparation time passed very quickly, and Sun Xin Yu dashed forwards, disappearing into thin air as she went straight into her stealth mode.
"Wait, wait!" The five members of the opposition party had charged forward a few steps forward as the Berserker who seemed to be their party leader immediate raised up his hand and said, "They must have some trick up their sleeves! None of them are moving!"
"That’s right, they are the core party of the Lone Desert Smoke!"
"Such rotten luck, to meet these lunatics in the second round!"
"Boss, you said they might have something up their sleeves, right?"
"I don’t know, but the battle has already begun, and their assassin is in {Stealth} while the remaining four members are just standing there. They must be conspiring something!"
"We must not act lightly. Let’s stay in position, spread out a little, and flank them. Whoever charges over first, we’ll just instant-kill that player!"
"Right! Let them have a taste of our strength, the Five Immortals of the Peach Valley!"
"It’s a long shot, but we might even slaughter them and get our asses elevated!"
"Hahaha!"
The five of them started to laugh as their heads were filled with fantasies.
Pak!
The Pyromancer who stood at the rear of the party suddenly swayed on the spot, a circle of flying stars that indicated a stun effect appeared right on his head, followed by the shadow of Sun Xin Yu slowly revealing herself out of thin air, getting to work with her two daggers that glittered like frost and snow right behind him without a pause.
‘-2,040!’
‘-710!’
‘-4020!’
The regular attacks of the main weapon and the secondary weapon, with the addition of consecutive chain of a back attack, along with an additional 10% damage while appearing out from stealth mode -- instantly, she inflicted a total damage of up to 7,000! The Pyromancer did not stand a chance, it was a total insta-kill, with no chance of activating any emergency life-saving skills!
A true assassination, to suddenly emerge out of the shadow and instantly hammer out a series of terrifying attacks!
Sun Xin Yu immediately turned her focus towards the Priest and started running at him.
"What the hell! That was deadly shit!"
"Focus fire on her, take her out!"
The two hunters had sent their pets to attack Sun Xin Yu while shooting out their {Concussion Shots} to reduce her movement speed. Clearly, they lacked tacit understanding among each other, they were casting redundant skills at the same time!
Her body trembled, and Sun Xin Yu became translucent --- {Blur} !
Missed!
Missed!
The two {Concussion Shots} missed at the same time. As an assassin, Sun Xin Yu moved far faster than a priest. The movement speed boost could go up to 20% at most, and it was considerably fast! In a flash, she had reached her opponent who was 10 meters away!
{Shadow Step}!
"Old Ox, look out! She is right behind you!"
"Quickly! Use {Petrifying Shriek}!"
"Turn around, don’t give her the chance to stab you in the back!"
The other three players were busy spouting various advice! However, it was already too late!
‘-1,832!’
‘-692!’
‘-3632!’
Although there was no additional 10% damage, Sun Xin Yu was the ice queen. Her opponent only had a full body of Green-Copper equipment, with 5,000+ health points, how was it possible for that fellow to survive so many violent attacks of hers! He died instantly!
{Holy Shield}? Sorry, that rare skill book was not available to any hillbilly!
"F*ck! They did not play any tricks on us, they really thought one assassin was enough to take us all out!"
"This level of looking down on people is too much!"
"... It seems like we are no match to them though!"
After Sun Xin Yu had torn up the priest’s *ss into ribbons, she immediately waved her hand -- {Vanish}.
The battle had just commenced for 16 seconds!
17 seconds, 19 seconds, 21 seconds!
Shoof! The shadow of Sun Xin Yu reappeared once again, and a hunter dropped dead!
"Sun of the beach! Kill one of them at least!"
"At least take some of her HP out!"
The two remaining players of the opposition party lamented .
Everytime Sun Xin Yu activated {Blur}, she was so lucky that every single attack ‘Missed’! After killing three players consecutively, she was actually still at full health, it simply made her opponents feel horrible!
Shoof! Small cyclones formed beneath her feet, and her movement speed was instantly boosted like crazy!
{Sprint}!
Sun Xin Yu flew at the other hunter at twice her usual speed!
‘-982!’
‘-1632!’
The two damages were inflicted on Sun Xin Yu at the same time, a combination of a regular shot and {Take Aim}!
Finally... a Reduction of health points!
The hunter revealed a triumphant smile on his face! He managed to draw some Lone Desert Smoke blood!
26 seconds!
Sun Xin Yu continued to charge forwards, and with amazing footwork, she positioned herself behind the hunter. Immediately after that she charged at the Berserker.
The hunter, dead but yet to even fall, had already been abandoned by its killer!
"Argh!" the Berserker charged straight at Sun Xin Yu, swinging his axe wildly but unfortunately, it only struck air. Witnessing his party members getting slaughtered one after another, it had left him infuriated! The outcome of the match did not matter anymore, he only wanted to strike Sun Xin Yu in order to at least regain some dignity!
Sun Xin Yu lifted a leg up casually, and the axe swung harmlessly beneath her!
Normal attacks were easily telegraphed, therefore, any skilled player could easily anticipate and evade attacks as they would in real life.
Sliding between the legs of her opponent, Sun Xin Yu flitted to the back of her opponent with amazing flexibility, and finished him off!
32 seconds!
The battle has ended!
Shoof, Zhang Yang and the party were teleported out of the arena at the same time.
"Little girl, you lost your position so easily!" Zhang Yang ridiculed her.
Wei Yan Er was instantly provoked, gnashing her teeth at Zhang Yang with an audible snap.
"Born in the year of dog?"
"No! Tiger! Rawgh!"
After the second round of the competition ended, 1,293 parties of the Lone Desert Smoke remained in the running. The chat was once again filled with a mixture of joy and sadness.
9 pm, and the third round began.
This time around, Zhang Yang and his party members were one of the first to be teleported into the arena. At the opposite side, the party was still vastly inferior, but their average Level had reached up to Level 54, and they glittered with a few gray-silver equipment!
"This time, let Daffodil handle this, don’t get killed!" Zhang Yang smiled while teasing.
If players are killed in the arena, they will not lose any experience points or equipment, but their equipment durability will still be reduced.
At first, Wei Yan Er wanted to give it another try in order to get herself back to number one in place, but when she saw the excitement on the face of Daffodil Daydream, she felt that it was not good to steal her spotlight, so she could only give up bitterly.
Five minutes later, the battle began!
The moment when Daffodil Daydream activated her {Heart of Flame}, pak pak pak, she had already instantly-killed one of her opponents the moment she laid her eyes on them. After a series of weaving and rolling, she killed the final opponent at the expense of having 872 health points remaining. It was understandable as she was a Spellcaster with lower defense and HP. The whole battle took one minute and 12 seconds!
She had no other way, as she could only cast {Fire Blast} again and again, other spells would have required an interruptible casting time. To fight against five opponents by herself was not easy, let alone winning the match!
A pyromancer truly shone in team battles, where behind their allies, they will be able to cast their hard-hitting skills at leisure and inflict series of extremely terrifying damage!
In the third round of the competition, there was no doubt that the second party of the Lone Desert Smoke with Fatty Han and the others in it would proceed to the forth round.
Meanwhile, a total of 902 parties from Lone Desert Smoke still made it into the next round. Compared to the 487 parties of the Crimson Rage and the 309 parties of the Imperial Sky, it was three times more than them in number! As everyone could see, Lone Desert Smoke was truly elite!
Only three rounds of the competition were held today, with another three rounds the next day, and then another three rounds on the following day, with only two rounds on the forth day, while the remaining six days will only hold one round each.
Although there were many inferior parties eliminated thorough the first three rounds, but 16,384 parties still remained in the competition, and the quality of the parties still varied greatly. On the second day of the competition, Zhang Yang and the gang were still able to send one representative to claim victory for them. Progress was smooth.
When it was Zhang Yang’s turn to step up, he had his pet join the battle to aid him, engaging in a fortunate match-up against a kitchen-knife-kind of party that consisted of two berserkers, two thieves and one sacred knight. In the end, he had purposely allowed the thief to activate {Ambush} successfully, while waiting for the four damage channel players to round up on him. When the time was right, he activated his {Warrior's Will} to get rid of the {Kidney Shot}, and did a perfect instant-kill on all four opponents with a combo of {Horizontal Sweep} and {Blast Wave} and {Thunder Strike}!
He then activated a {Charge} at the last sacred knight left on the arena and killed him with a series of explosive blows. The whole battle only took 19 seconds!
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There was no chance of breaking Zhang Yang’s record, not anymore!
Wei Yan Er glared at him dejectedly, and she said, "Noob tank, you got real lucky, engaging four melee profession players at a time, if only I --- Hmph!"
Zhang Yang shrugged and said, "It could not be helped, luck is also a part of strength!"
"How ostentatious!" Han Ying Xue rolled her eyes at him. Sun Xin Yu was on fire, constantly rubbing her daggers against each other everytime they stepped into battle. However, after the sixth round, only 4,096 parties managed to proceed to the seventh round of the competition.
Maybe they could still managed to send one player each for the coming rounds, but naturally, these parties were the cream of the crop, possessing greater strength than their previous encounters!
As a safety precaution, Zhang Yang would have his party charge out as one starting from the next day. They cannot risk any 1 VS 5 battles anymore!
Lone Desert Smoke had a total of 227 parties who entered the next round, taking up a total of 5% of the remaining parties of White Jade Castle in the competition, it was definitely astonishing! It was far better compared to the Crimson Rage who had only 132 parties remaining and the Imperial Sky who had only 96 parties remaining in the competition!
"Let’s go, we shall level up to achieve Level 70 at a faster speed!" Zhang Yang was already currently Level 64, but to race against other players and also spend time on the competition was an uphill battle. However, Zhang Yang naturally had the uttermost confidence to secure the championship of this competition!
Let’s set aside other circumstances, by just booking the dungeon where the Demonic Treant King is, Zhang Yang and the gang had already acquired a total of 12 pieces of [Aura Stones]. The Aura skills of Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue had already reached Level 4 while the Aura skills Wei Yan Er, Hundred Shots and Fatty Han had also reached Level 3. The whole gang had grown far stronger than before!
As five of them were about to tear their own [teleportation scroll] to return back to Thunderstorm Castle, when they saw Humbly Gentleman and his big gang walking by with thier annoying swagger. The hypocrite glanced at Zhang Yang, and he said, "Zhan Yu, I heard that you guys managed to make it into round 7! Hehe, you guys better burn more incense and pray that you never engage with us tomorrow, or else, that would be the end of your streak!"
Zhang Yang laughed out loud and said, "Hypocrite, have you taken the wrong medicine today as well?"
Humbly Gentleman snorted and put his hand over one of his men’s shoulder. "Zhan Yu, allow me to introduce you to a person! Millenial Wanderer, profession, Cryomancer, and he is a new recruit of The Dominators and also our Ace!"
The Millenial Wanderer was a male elf spellcaster, who did not hide his personal information. He was Level 58, health points 8,320, mana points 4,120. With his hands folded across his chest, he gazed and them lazily and said, "I heard that you guys are strong? Unfortunately, that was before you guys met me!"
Han Ying Xue and the ladies exchanged a look, trying to hold back their laughter. Wei Yan Er rubbed her forefinger against her cheek and said, "Goodness, the mental hospital is so irresponsible this year round, how could they let a patient run wild without giving him proper medication!"
Zhang Yang smiled nonchalantly, but his heart skipped a beat. Millenial Wanderer -- he was bad news. His past life told him of that!
--- Millenial Wanderer, he was indeed the core player and ace of The Dominators in the S Rank Competition! Being the seventh in the top 10 best spellcaster list, his strength must not be underestimated!
In this life, Millenial Wanderer had also sided himself over to The Dominators, despite their downfall.
"You b*tch, just wait until you meet me in the arena, I shall show you just how much of a toad under the well you are!" Millenial Wanderer slammed his fists together, a most belligerent look on his face.
Wei Yan Er burst out, "He’s driving me mad! I really wish that our first opponents will be them, I am going to cut his head off and kick it like a football!"
"Yan Er, how can you be so violent? But, I do support you this time round!" Han Ying Xue pinched the cheek of Wei Yan Er again.
"Humph, while you’re still at it, be pleased and enjoy the moment!" After Humbly Gentlemant finished with his demonstration of power, he waved his hand and led his men away from the scene.
"That was a really annoying person!" Wei Yan Er stuck out her tongue, "Noob tank, raise their teleportation fare up 10 times more!"
Zhang Yang laughed loudly and said, "Alright!"
One day had passed, the Soaring Swords competition had entered its third day.
‘Ding! Lone Desert Smoke First Party VS ‘Fire Phoenix’ party is about to begin in 5 minutes, please make ready!’
It was already 7 pm, Zhang Yang and his party members were teleported to the arena at the same instance again, and there marked the beginning of their round 7 battle!
Fire Phoenix was an unconventional party formed out of five female Pyromancers! The average level of the five was Level 56, which was considerably quite high. Plus, they were pretty well-equipped, most of them glittering in gray-silver light. All of their health points were over 7,000!
A vicious party of glass-cannons! Focus fire, instant-kill, simple, violent, effective!
"How do we do this?" Wei Yan Er asked.
"We split them up into individual battles. Each of us take one. Their health points are not that much, if we can get near them, we can kill them! We must really close the gap before they start bombarding us! Five ‘Fire Balls’ flying at us all at once is no joke!" Zhang Yang said.
"Then I shall take on Phoenix Subzero!" Wei Yan Er said.
"I’ll take on Phoenix Foam!" Daffodil Daydream said.
"Iced Tea!" Sun Xin Yu was brief and straight to the point as usual.
"Then I shall take Phoenix Jasmine, while Whitey shall take Phoenix Babe!" Zhang Yang shall cover the remaining two opponents.
On the other side of the arena, the Fire Phoenix were also having a discussion.
"They will definitely start with Zhan Yu in front! You have all seen it, that lunatic has like 28,000 HP, and our first volley could theoretically do 30,000. But he’ll definitely have some passive damage-reduction skills, he won’t go down from that! Furthermore, once they close in, their melee attackers will deal serious damage!" Phoenix Foam said.
"The damage of a tanker is limited, he won’t be a priority! The thief will definitely go into stealth mode immediately. So, we should really focus fire on Drizzler or Daffodil Daydream!"
"Subzero, Iced Tea, Jasmine, you three focus fire on taking out the Drizzler, while Babe and I shall take on Daffodil Daydream! Try to kill them off in a one volley, and then if the thief is still in stealth mode, we shall hit the priest first. If the thief reveals herself, we shall take out the thief first! The Guardian shall be our the last target!" Phoenix Foam assigned their objectives.
"Alright!"
Five minutes passed in the blink of an eye!
The battle had begun!
All five members of Zhang Yang’s party charged at the same time. As Zhang Yang was the tanker, naturally, he was at the forefront, while Wei Yan Er and Daffodil Daydream followed closely behind him. Sun Xin Yu had long vanished out of sight.
The three members of the Fire Phoenix party took aim at Wei Yan Er, while two of them aimed at Daffodil Daydream. At the same instant, they activated the skill that temporary increased their damage, the {Heart of Flame}, and they began to cast their {Explosive Flame} that had the highest damage output among all their skills!
{Counter Magic}!
Daffodil Daydream put up her hand and waved, immediately sealing up the {Explosive Flame} that was about to be activated by Phoenix Foam. At the same instant, she activated her own {Heart of Flame}. Afterwards, she gulped down a bottle of [Beginner Power Potion] and activated her accessory, the Magician's Brooch, and began casting her own {Explosive Flame}!
Just two seconds later ---
‘-2,926!’
‘-1,646!’
‘-2911!’
‘-1534!’
‘-3012!’
‘-1621!’
Six damage values appeared right on top of Zhang Yang as the attacks struck him, taking away approximately 14,000 of his health points!
The Fire Phoenix party reeled in shock! As these attacks were supposedly thrown at Wei Yan Er, how did Zhang Yang become the one who sustained all the damage?
[Sacrifice]: Protects an ally, taking all damage done to the ally instead. Cool down time: 1 minute. Distance: 30 meters
‘-4,592!’
‘-1,541!’
Phoenix Babe managed to inflict some damages on Daffodil Daydream, taking away 6,000+ of her health points. However, Daffodil Daydream bombarded Phoenix Foam with only one {Explosive Flame} that inflicted a damage value of ‘-9360!’, instantly killing her opponent on spot!
‘-3120!’
Daffodil Daydream answered with a {Fire Blast}, taking away a third of her other opponent’s health points!
Zhang Yang was grinning as he entered the range of {Charge}. Immediately, he charged head on at Phoenix Jasmine. At the same time, Whitey activated {Wild Charge} and clashed onto Phoenix Babe! Shoof! Sun Xin Yu used her {Shadow Step} to draw herself to the back of Phoenix Iced Tea -- {Ambush} activated! Wei Yan Er had also used {Charge} to clash into Phoenix Subzero!
{Flash Out}!
The four remaining members of the Fire Phoenix party activated their {Flash Out} at the same instant: Instantly move 10 meters forward, cancels all movement restriction skills!
Zhang Yang, and the other two party members immediately pursued their opponents, while Han Ying Xue was frantically healing Zhang Yang.
Their distance gone, and positioning greatly disrupted the weaknesses of the spellcaster profession were revealed thoroughly. The remaining four members of the Fire Phoenix party were instantly nailed by Zhang Yang who smacked their asses with his huge axe. After just a few attempts, they were forced into despair. After lashing out for awhile, they were sent to their demises one after another.
Round one, Lone Desert Smoke First Party acquired victory!
The second level started immediately right after, it was the same 5-minute preparation time. Fire Phoenix party made the best use of the time to revise their tactics.
"Their guardian has {Sacrifice}, it totally messes up our plan!" Phoenix Babe frowned.
"This time, we shall focus our assault on Drizzler, let Zhan Yu use his {Sacrifice} on Drizzler first. Then we shall immediately use our second volley on Daffodil Daydream, it should immediately kill her!"
"But once we let them get near us, their damage outputs are just as terrifying!"
"That’s right, they are all individual freaks of their own! The parties that we encountered in the first few rounds could only focus fire on one of us at a time. We only needed to activate a {Ice Frame} to protect ourselves, while the other four of us will just wipe them out! However, they’re spreading out to deal with us all at once!"
"Argh, why did it have to be Zhan Yu! It could have been any other!"
"Hehe, or Iced Tea, you go on ahead and seduce Zhan Yu, let him turn his coat around and betray his party!"
"You b*tch, you are the one who should go and seduce him! With your two papaya sized titties, men are bound to drool!"
"Stop messing around, think of something now!"
"... Nothing on mind now!"
"...Let’s just do it then!"
The match began with the end of their unproductive discussion!
The five cyromancers did as they had roughly improvised, focusing fire on Wei Yan Er, trying to trick Zhang Yang into activating his {Sacrifice}, and then they turning to Daffodil Daydream immediately. Daffodil Daydream immediately went down!
However, Phoenix Foam was also killed by the {Explosive Flame} coming from Daffodil Daydream, turning the battle into 4 VS 4!
The prime advantage of a 5-spellcaster party was that all five of them could focus fire and take out their opponents, one at a time! As their numbers dwindled, their firepower would drastically drop, and the moment they fail to kill any of their opponents in a single hit, the healer’s role which was meant for long-term combat would start to shine!
Fire Phoenix lost to Lone Desert Smoke First Party with the result of 0:2 by the end of the match.
