"The game is about to start."
The invisible atmosphere gradually escalated into the unique noise of the stadium, and the two teams of players in different planes finally began to merge into one place. As the high-pitched voice of the commentator on the scene was raised, some of the spectators outside the stadium began to shout.
The whispers gradually started to sound: "This event...maybe it will decide that person's fate."
"...How can I see it?"
"If this round is passed, the team led by that guy will break into the quarterfinals. No matter what, the alliance cannot continue to use the double-elimination system at that time. They are only three games away from the championship...
That’s it.”
"...It's not that easy for them to get a spot, even if there are a few weaklings in the team assigned to their group...well."
Looking at the vague figures gradually appearing at the other end of the arena, the hooded player sitting in the corner said to his companions in a low voice: "Speaking of which, this guy named Huanmeng...
...It’s the original fantasy, right?”
"It should be. Why, do you suspect they will let it go?"
"It's secondary to let go. I'm afraid that the intensity of the competition is too low... If we still can't force out that person's Intention Sword until the end of the fight, then we will have to find a way on our own."
"Of course there are ways, the superiors have arranged it for us." Another player sitting with him, whose name was hidden, replied in a low voice: "It's just..."
"There is another group of our people in the same group with them. It is uncertain whether they can pass this level."
Following the words of the two people who stopped together, their eyes also fell on the other side of the stand where they were raising their arms in response to the commentator's shouts. Several members of the Wings of Freedom guild were sitting there at this time.
At the end, they were mixed with other ordinary spectators around. It seemed that he couldn't stand the noise of passerby players. As the president, Free Flying let out a cold snort and took some of them away from the place.
Liangchen Meiyu, who was watching them leave, arched her eyebrows, and after a while, she returned to her extremely serious eyes: "It seems that our president has a lot of complaints against you."
"...Don't talk nonsense." The person who answered him was the lower half of Xue Ling Huan Bing's still cold face: "The president just wants to go out for some fresh air."
"Don't lie to yourself, the president has been very angry with you these past two days." The half-pack of cigarettes sitting in the row behind him couldn't help but said after hearing the sound: "You are the ones who want to ask the other party to step down.
, being able to sit with you... is the limit of what he can endure now."
"Why, haven't you lost patience with what that president did?" Liangchen Meiyu's smiling face was reflected in his turning back: "Don't you... haven't chosen where you want to stand?
One side?"
"……Won't."
His eyes rested on Nan Zhi who was sitting next to him with his head lowered and silent for a moment. He secretly bit his teeth with half a pack of cigarettes: "As long as it is for the future of the guild, I will support Sister Xue."
"Very good." Then Liangchen Meiyu withdrew her slightly satisfied look: "The only ones left are that guy Dongxia Yanliang and those under the Royal Clown."
"...Don't be so hasty in planning these things."
Holding his arms, Xueling Huanbing said in a cold voice: "As long as we can win the championship, all problems will be solved."
"I'm very happy that our competition has been arranged in the second round." Her eyes stayed on Liangchen Meiyu for a moment, and her voice became much softer: "Because..."
"The result of this game will determine our next course of action."
The silver mask shone brightly in front of everyone's eyes, causing everyone who saw it to glance aside involuntarily, and the smile on Liangchen Meiyu's lips became even wider after seeing the result.
It got bigger and bigger, and the eyes that turned around fell on the two groups of people gradually approaching in the arena. In the scene that attracted everyone's attention, Huan Meng, who was wearing a windbreaker, was slowly walking to the sky.
In the middle of the empty white square, after raising his hand to stop his companion from following, he folded his arms in front of his chest: "..."
"What, what are you doing?" As if she was a little confused by the other party's reaction of just standing there, the little girl Mengzhu, who is also the captain, hurriedly took two steps forward: "You, you, you, you, you -
Oops, why are you pulling me?"
"Don't make trouble." What answered him was Duan Qing reaching out to pull the resentful little girl to the back of the team, and then he also walked to the front of the lined up team: "...This scene hasn't happened for a long time.
ah."
"Nonsense, you disappear inexplicably every time." The man in the trench coat who spoke had a look of disdain on his face: "I can't find anyone to settle accounts with you."
"Okay now, we all have a chance to settle accounts with each other." Duan Qing smiled and spread his hands: "I will take my people, you will take yours... Let's fight with real swords and guns.
How about comparing each other's abilities?"
"Don't worry, I didn't intend to give in anyway." Huan Meng lowered her face and said, "This time let us use our fists to prove who is right and who is wrong."
"Would you like to bet something?"
"...Old rules, Lulan Workshop, Wudun."
"Okay! That's settled."
Loud high-fives then echoed around the white space, and spread to the endless distance along with the stunned eyes of countless players. The surrounding atmosphere also became quiet as their discussions gradually stopped, seemingly in this way.
It proved that they were extremely surprised at this time. His eyes scanned the players behind the man in the windbreaker. Duan Qing finally nodded in the direction of the player named Iron Ambition, and then
As he retreated back to his own camp, he ignored all the looks from the outside world: "Okay, now we can have a good fight."
"...Since you are all acquaintances with them, wouldn't it be better to let them go free?" Black Corn standing at the back finally relaxed his dull face: "It took a lot of effort for us to get here..."
"Don't make trouble, you won't feel any happy about getting a superficial victory." Duan Qing shook his head expressionlessly: "What's more, there are so many people watching outside..."
"Then, do we really have to fight that uncle with real swords and guns?" Mengzhu, who looked dissatisfied, then approached Duan Qing and said, "I remember I met that uncle several times before.
Your relationship with uncle is quite good..."
"Why do you like to recognize uncle so much?"
Several black lines appeared on his forehead, and Duan Qing couldn't help but raise his hand to threaten the other party: "I'll emphasize it again! I'm only twenty-seven years old! Don't look at that guy who usually likes to wear windbreakers and look like handsome guys. He's much older than me.
Got it!"
"You, why are you so fierce? I'm not..."
"Forget it, let's not discuss this issue."
He stretched out his hand to stop what the other party wanted to say again with his flat mouth. Duan Qing's eyes stayed for a while on Qian Zhihe who was covering his mouth and snickering: "Lost Dream is temporarily unavailable for something. This time we don't have a defensive war to help us block it."
The gun is ready, if necessary later...Brother Black Corn and I will be responsible for taking the shot."
"The firepower output will be left to you two, Xiaoqian and Mengzhu." His expression finally returned to a serious look, and Duan Qing looked at the last person left in the team: "And you, the evil young man from Jie City..."
"The opponent is a team with a character of Huan Meng's level, so don't be careless."
Buzz——
A slight chirping sound then appeared in front of the team, and together with the sound of the Jiecheng evil boy nodding his head in agreement, it extended toward the far end of the endless white space. An invisible light curtain then rose at a speed visible to the naked eye where the chiming sound was.
The straight line passing through gradually divided the area where the two teams were facing each other. Realizing that this meant the beginning of the game, Huan Meng, who was also explaining the tactical arrangements to his companions, also stood up and turned around, and then
Amidst the shouts from the commentators above and the audience, a prompt from the system was clearly heard: "Competition rules are being generated——"
[Competition rules are generated, start selecting maps. 】
[The random map has been generated and the rules have been imported.]
[Determine the goal of victory: reach the finish line.]
[Ready to start. Countdown: 10 seconds.]
"……what?"
Listening to the electronic sounds that kept ringing in his ears, the evil young man from Jiecheng slowly asked his question: "Arrived at the end? What is that?"
"Victory conditions." His eyes continued to patrol the surroundings that were still filled with white light, and Duan Qing's voice began to become deeper: "Very good, it doesn't look like a way to determine the outcome that requires a life and death decision..."
"But there's nothing on this map at all." Listening to the countdown that kept ringing in his ears, the little girl on the side looked nervously around the team with her round eyes: "Isn't it still used in this competition?
Is it the principle to use the map in the free world as the competition map? Why can't I see anything now..."
"……Well."
The field of vision continued to extend forward along the long corridor rising in the center. The center where Duan Qing's eyes focused finally stopped at the end of the white light that seemed to have no end in the distance: "It seems..."
"This is our map."
【……2,1.】
【Game start.】
boom--
A roar that was enough to suppress all the doubts from the surrounding audience then filled the scene in front of him. At the same time, the surrounding white color suddenly dimmed, and the star points that only belong to the starry sky began to appear.
Appearing in this darkened space, the unknown world was decorated with stars shining above and below. Still standing in the center of this dark space, Duan Qing, who was the first to calm down, immediately raised his head.
With one of his feet, Mengzhu and Qianzhihe, who were still hugging each other and screaming in shock, took a tentative step forward: "...There is a floor, what are you afraid of?
"
"Is this...a road?" Black Corn, who was also looking at the direction Duan Qing was heading towards, asked in a low voice: "A...corridor?"
"Since the goal of victory is to reach the finish line, of course we need a track."
After stretching his feet to test the surroundings, Duan Qing's eyes fell on the front left of the team: "Although I don't know if this track has boundaries, we'd better not try it lightly."
"But at least there is a boundary on the other side." The evil young man from Jiecheng's eyes fell on the invisible light curtain on Duan Qing's right hand side that had not disappeared: "We should be lucky that we didn't fight together at the beginning, otherwise now
If they are divided into two teams, then..."
The words that wanted to continue were interrupted again. The evil young man from Jie City's eyes fixedly stayed on the surface of the light curtain that still remained transparent. There, the team belonging to Dawn Glory was also waking up from the sluggish state.
Come, their eyes fell in the same opposite direction. The two teams on both sides of the competition just looked at each other in the eyes of all the spectators, without saying a word for a long time. After a long while, they suddenly realized the reaction.
, each picked up their own steps: "Run!"
"The game begins!"
"The game has already started! You idiots!"
"What did you say? Believe it or not, I will..."
Boom.
A strong impact sound then appeared on the surface of the invisible light curtain that separated the two teams. It was the sound made when Huan Meng, who was running at high speed, punched it and watched the ripples spread.
When he reached the endless darkness above, he retracted his fist angrily, and his eyes fell back on his teammates: "It seems that the two sides are really not allowed to interfere with each other. This wall of light is probably infinite..."
"What should we do now?" Tears of the Stars, who was running at the back of the team, also retracted his long sword upon hearing the sound: "Does this really want to be a foot race?"
"A race is a race. When have we ever been afraid of others with our endurance?" Yelin, who was also running on the other side, said loudly with disdain: "What's more, there is a magician on the opposite side. That red lotus girl must be
It will hold them back!"
"The problem lies in what this race is really like." Mi Zitou, who was running at the front of the team and usually responsible for investigation, shook his head when he heard the sound and replied: "As Xingchen said, this race will definitely not be as good as running.
Simple, the problem is that the secret of this space channel and its true identity have not yet appeared... By the way, what is the name of this place?"
"The Road to the Stars..."
As this whisper appeared, Duan Qing, who was at the other end, also put away the adventurer's manual in his hand: "This should be the biggest hint that the existing system can give us."
"The name is very appropriate." Looking at the scene around him that was like stepping into the universe, Black Corn while running rubbed his chin: "It's like walking among the stars."
"Stop admiring it, we are already behind!" Mengzhu, who was running at the front of the team, then shouted towards the back: "They have already surpassed us by two positions. If we don't hurry up..."
"I...I can't run anymore..." The long swaying hair belonging to Qianzhihe began to pull lower and lower as Mengzhu screamed: "You...you don't have to...take care of me.
, you guys first...eh?"
The violent sound of breaking through the air then appeared in her ears, and the endless strong wind suppressed all the words she had just wanted to give up. The girl kneeling on the ground then raised her head, and the surroundings suddenly changed.
The resulting high-speed scene and the actions of several teammates stopping together came into his eyes.
This chapter has been completed!