"It is eight o'clock in the evening on August 12, 2135. The second round of the top 32 group matches of the League Cup qualifiers has officially begun. What you are seeing in front of the live broadcast screen is the loser group match, ranked by the league guild.
The five-member Sword of Justice team faces the Zhushan team..."
The voice of the commentator continued to echo in the scene above the arena. The second round of the UEFA Cup qualifiers, which was starting simultaneously with other games, finally kicked off on another night. Although the atmosphere and enthusiasm of the game still did not fade away.
, but the game at this time is already the second game tonight - according to past practice, the first thing that needs to be played in the double-elimination knockout round is often the two group stage winners in the previous round.
The person who wins again will advance directly over the loser's body, while the loser can only stay and wait for the next opponent to come back from the loser's game.
Although except for some specific people, this loser's match between two "underdogs" actually seemed to not have many people paying attention.
"Is this the game map for this time?"
Yu gradually walked around the map in the center of the playing field for a long time, and Duan Qing commented in a low voice: "It looks like there is still some form of brawl..."
"No, it's just that the map looks bigger." Black Corn standing next to him immediately took out his adventurer's manual: "And... they have announced the rules of the competition."
"Kill all the members of the opponent to win... Is that it?" Qian Zhihe on the other side said in a panic: "And it's a best-of-five game..."
"It seems that all the previous training will be in vain." Mengzhu, who stood two steps ahead of the team and crouched on a rock, looked at the vast scene mixed with swamps and woods: "It's really unpleasant.
…”
"Okay, okay, don't complain." Duan Qing took two steps forward and patted the little girl on the shoulder: "At least we have practiced team coordination. Don't worry, they will work.
."
"...Don't comfort me, I know what to do." Mengzhu muttered in a low voice without looking back: "There are still so many people watching outside, at least it can't be as embarrassing as last time..."
"Don't worry, we don't have any big-name stars or gimmicks in this show, and there won't be many viewers who will pay attention." Duan Qing comforted him with hard-to-earth words: "At most, it's just those who like to add insult to injury. Let's see what the Sword of Justice can do.
What a miserable death..."
"Hey, hey, don't put up flags for us casually." Mengzhu jumped up from the front in a hurry: "You said it as if you will definitely lose..."
Ruoyouruowu's screams then came from a certain direction in front, seeming to be reminding several people of the start of the game in this way, but the screams echoing in their ears at this time were obviously mixed with
The voice of the non-player NPC. The few people who stopped talking then followed the voice and looked towards the corner of the swamp. Unexpectedly, they found a few flames rushing towards the sky. Black Corn took the first step to take out a map to record the direction.
, the first thing that came was a low-pitched reminder belonging to Qian Zhihe: "Those fires... are not natural fires."
"Is it magic fire? Is it set by the player or is it a game event?"
"Perhaps we have been thrown into a special scene again, such as the center of a battlefield that is about to erupt..."
"No, it should be a game event."
Looking around here, Duan Qing's eyes kept swinging back and forth to the left and right of the swamp in front: "Because..."
"This place seems a bit familiar to me."
He took out the map, glanced at the outline displayed on it, and then, amidst the dissatisfaction of the little girl beside him, he took the lead in rushing towards the direction of the fire ahead. More and more swamps and hills followed.
He kept moving forward and passed by him again and again. There were also dangerous creatures such as the familiar swamp giant crocodile in the middle. Duan Qing, who ignored these monsters, climbed over the last small hill with familiarity.
Then he took a certain village that was being burned into his sight.
"really……"
"You are indeed here."
The distant voice interrupted Duan Qing's soliloquy, and at the same time, the scene of a sword warrior wearing golden armor walking out of another corner of the village was shown in front of him, taking Banzhuan and several other teammates with him.
After walking out of the hiding place, he then grinned with a confident smile, as if he was very satisfied with the result that he expected that the other party would appear here: "Even if it is for fairness, we don't have to bully you with sneak attacks or anything like that... Come here
Come on, do you want to start fighting now?"
"...Graerson." Duan Qing also gave the other party a smile: "Are you also attracted by this fire?"
"You don't care how we got here, it's enough to find you anyway." Gregson laughed and shook his head: "Although I don't know why this village is being burned, killed, and looted, but... as long as the game can provide
It’s enough to have a sign that attracts players to come and fight, right?”
"There seems to be some truth to that." Duan Qing smiled and shrugged: "Otherwise... on such a big map, it would take a long time just to find the opponent."
"I'm glad you didn't play any other tricks." Gregson looked around them calmly: "Where are your amateur teammates?"
"They probably haven't arrived yet." Duan Qing pointed his finger behind him: "Or maybe they are searching other places on this map like they did in previous brawl matches..."
"Search for other maps? Don't be ridiculous." A sarcastic smile appeared on Gregson's face: "Aren't you looking for a place to hide and preparing to play hide-and-seek with us?"
"We're not going to use any nasty tricks."
Looking back at the villagers in the village who were being chopped down to the ground, and another group of people in red clothes who were attacking those villagers even more strangely, Duan Qing's smile and his frown became deeper and deeper.
Li: "It's just..."
"If you underestimate the elements of the game map, you will suffer losses sooner or later."
Ignoring the next provocation and roar of the sword warrior, Duan Qing rushed into the firelight of the village behind him without looking back, and then came to the place amidst the increasingly louder shouts of killing and screams.
In front of the largest house, the blazing flames were filling the wooden house at this time. At the same time, it illuminated the back of a figure sitting in front of the wooden house, as if he was begging for something.
The slender figure kneeling at the door was also shouting loudly into the room, something the player could not understand: "...ha."
"Eina!"
Duan Qing secretly sighed in his heart, fending off the attacks of several red-clothed aliens around him, and ran behind the slender figure in a few steps. Then, in the surprised eyes of the Graysons who followed him, Duan Qing looked at that slender figure.
An equally surprised woman pulled herself up from the ground: "Use this!"
He reached into his arms and raised a green stone in front of the opponent's eyes. Then, when the woman with a cloth bandage on her head and a dance skirt widened her eyes, she turned around and raised her sword to block the following few people.
Dao Scimitar attack: "Quick!"
"What are you doing..."
call--
A strong wind then appeared behind Duan Qing, who was trying his best to resist the siege of other NPCs, covering up all the questioning words of Grayson not far away. The woman who seemed to have no trust in Duan Qing finally accepted it out of desperation.
He passed the green stone in the opponent's hand, and then raised it high above his head. The dazzling light then overshadowed the soaring firelight surrounding this area, and sprayed straight upward with a roar that filled the sky.
The strong wind that was enough to overwhelm everything then quickly spread with the surrounding red and black flames, enveloping the entire village including Duan Qing and the Sword of Justice team.
"This power..."
With the faint singing sound echoing in his ears, Duan Qing looked back at the tightly closed eyes of the woman with her hands clasped together. Then, with a wry smile on her face, she flew high into the sky along with her body.
Among them: "It's really beyond my imagination."
boom--
【The first battle is over.】
【Winner: Zhushan.】
"Such a strong magic! Moshang Qingshan actually triggered such a strong magical brilliance! Grayson and his Sword of Justice certainly did not expect such an accident. Their team and Mo Shang Qingshan were involved in that incident.
It’s inside the Dao Dragon Scroll!”
The passionate shouts suddenly sounded from the commentary outside. Mengzhu and others who had just arrived at the edge of the village then stared blankly at the continuously rotating and rising tornado, and finally they were about to disappear in place when their bodies were about to disappear.
Before, I opened the system prompt that appeared in my field of vision: "...Is this the end?"
"All the people in the Sword of Justice are dead? Did they die by scratching or falling?"
"Such a powerful magic mechanism was activated instantly... Where is this place? Why is Boss Qingshan so familiar with it?"
"This is the Independent State of Anderson."
Duan Qing, who was also reborn in the waiting room of the contestants and confirmed that the Oknos Stone still existed in the bag, replied in a low voice: "It's a place I passed by some time ago."
"Anderson? No wonder there are so many swamps and woods." Black Corn nodded slowly as he recalled the information in his mind: "But... what about the burning village? What about the tornado later?"
"The tornado is caused by humans. You can imagine it as a map mechanism." Duan Qing replied casually: "As for the burning village... it should be an incident that I encountered when I passed through that place."
"So... you took advantage of that incident to destroy the Sword of Justice group?"
"They are the ones who look down on the map mechanism. What can I do?"
Under Mengzhu's suspicious eyes, Duan Qing shrugged helplessly: "But this method can only be used once..."
"If this process happens again, I'm afraid they won't be so easily fooled."
The buzzing sound of the system prompts sounded in everyone's ears again, and at the same time, the bodies of Duan Qing and others were teleported into the vast swamp area again. Duan Qing, who was looking at the same fire, then spread his hands towards his companions around him.
, pointing towards the other end of the burning village that was being attacked: "Look, the IF line is coming, the same scene and the same starting conditions..."
"Let's discuss how we should operate this time."
With the same words in his mouth, Gregson, who was reborn in another corner of the map, said in a gloomy voice. Full of anger, he also followed the footsteps of several silent teammates behind him, quietly and slowly moving towards the center of the map.
Getting closer. After bypassing the village that had just killed them instantly, and dodging several dangerous-looking swamps and ponds, and circling the edge of the hills several times, they finally came close to another tribe on this map.
At the gate of the community, the sneaky figures of Duan Qing and others were spotted: "What do they want to do again?"
"Probably preparing to exploit the next trap on this map."
"Anderson Independent State...I heard that there are many tribes there, and they all have some strange tricks that are hard to guard against. If that guy really knows more than us..."
"No matter what, the enemy is clear and we are hidden. If we don't attack now - when will we have to wait!?"
The golden sword energy then suddenly burst out together with Grayson's shout, slamming towards a corner of the forested community. The straight light with the whistling sword wind then broke through the sharpened wooden piles and stones like a destructive force.
The formed defense line struck directly at the center of the crowd of players. A loud explosion then blew the three or two figures with their backs to them into pieces that filled the sky, and then scattered in the air into prototypes of mud and ice.
Block, a few warning shouts then interrupted the raiding pace of the Sword of Justice and the involuntary curses. With their heads tied with red cloth belts, countless alien warriors rushed out from the gate and surrounded them.
In front of him: "There are intruders again! Kill them!"
"Wait, wait a minute, we are following another group of players...another group of intruders came in! This is a misunderstanding...ahhhhhhh!"
"Their weapons are attached with anti-magic stuff, so my enchanted and attribute weapons can't work!"
"Evacuate! There are too many people! Evacuate quickly!"
The shouts one after another, accompanied by the clashing of weapons, extended back along the direction in which the Sword of Justice came. Then, as Duan Qing and others suddenly launched an ambush, they stopped near a certain patch of complex terrain.
By the swamp, Gregson and others, who were attacked from both sides, were quickly defeated by double teams. They only killed Black Corn and Lost Dream and the whole army was annihilated. Duan Qing, who had received the news of the victory of the game, also
He escaped the indiscriminate pursuit of the group of red-clothed aliens and was teleported back to the same player preparation room by the system: "Look...this is the power of knowing the terrain."
"Just two little tricks, and I've already won two victories."
This chapter has been completed!