Chapter 395: Purple Dawn (1/2)
A couple of seconds later, Lin Yixin finally replied, “My… my second match opponent was a party of your guild, and I took them out…”
“Fuck. Who was in that party?”
“Amazing Expert, Yamete, Wolf Fang, Moonlight Stone, and Moon Dew…”
“...”
I couldn’t say anything for a time. Sigh, Thirteen and Mamate had got to be some of the most unfortunate players in the game. It took some amazingly bad luck to run into Lin Yixin’s party during the second match of the preliminaries. Everyone in the party was a pretty good player, but there was just no way they could beat Lin Yixin.
I sucked in a deep breath before replying, “It’s fine, Yiyi, don’t worry about it. Do your best so we can meet up at the offline finals, okay?”
“Mn, you too!”
After closing the communicator, I tried searching for Lin Yixin’s party by keying in the ID “Wind Fantasy” under the criteria “Party Leader”. The full party list quickly entered my view—
Wind Fantasy LV-107 Light Wanderer
Purple Marquis LV-106 Warrior
Shadow Chanel LV-106 Dark Tongue Mage
Clear Perfume LV-105 Archer
Beauty At First Sight LV-105 Holy Bard
……
I was slightly caught off-guard. What happened? When did Snowy Cathaya update their first seed?
Just two days ago when I saw Shadow Chanel, she was still a normal mage. This meant that she had probably changed her class to Dark Tongue Mage between that time and the time the tournament began. Moreover, Snowy Cathaya’s party had a new Level 105 Holy Bard called ”Beauty At First Sight”. It was yet another hidden class I had never heard of before.
Now I understood why Lin Yixin hadn’t sent me a single message in the past couple days. She was busy recruiting powerful party members to prepare for Who Will Rise. Snowy Cathaya’s first seed was now a lot stronger than before, and I doubted that even we had a high chance of winning if we ran into them. The problem here was that Lin Yixin knew all our classes intimately, but we knew next to nothing about their new secret classes, Dark Tongue Mage and Holy Bard. Moreover, Lin Yixin and Purple Marquis themselves were super-tier experts with the equipment to match their skills. There was no way anyone was going to beat their party easily, if at all!
I prayed that we wouldn’t run into them before we entered the Top 32. Otherwise, it would be like rehearsing for the semifinals...
After that, I looked at my companions to see what they were doing. He Yi and Murong Mingyue were chatting with each other—
”Eve, what did you do during your around-the-globe business trip?” Murong Mingyue asked.
”Oh? You are… literally the only person in the entire company who would do such a thing. Now confess, what were you plotting when you transferred the core of GGS all the way from India to China; to Suzhou to be exact?”
He Yi turned slightly red. ”I don’t know what you’re talking about. I just don’t want to spend one-third of a year flying on a plane, that’s all…”
”Hmph hmph~ You can lie, but we all know the truth, don’t we?”
Unable to stand Murong Mingyue’s teasing any longer, I said, ”Hey, why are you, the assistant, bullying your boss like that? Do you want to quit your job or something?”
”Fuck!” Murong Mingyue rolled her eyes before complaining in a grudgeful tone, ”The dog’s starting to protect its food. My life just lost a bit of entertainment…”
Beiming Xue giggled. ”Alright, alright, stop arguing. We need to be united! Li Chengfeng will laugh at you three, you know!”
Li Chengfeng hurriedly waved his hands in denial. ”Oh, I’m fine, I heard nothing at all. I’m just here to fill the numbers, so just do whatever you want, guild leaders. As a law enforcement professional, I would never record any conversation without requesting the involved party’s permission, especially a lover’s quarrel that has no judicial value whatsoever. So please, continue.”
”...”
He Yi and I exchanged a smile with each other before falling silent, waiting for the third match to begin. Everyone had a feeling that our path of conquest wouldn’t be the smooth sailing we expected it to be, especially after encountering the high-level party Iron Mercenaries on our first match and the powerful Blazing Hot Lips on the second, so we were prepared to give every match everything we got. Only a fool would continue underestimating their opponents, especially after the baptism that was Blazing Hot Lips.
When the third match began, and our opponent’s formation was displayed on the screen, we all suddenly burst out in laughter all of a sudden. It was because the highest-leveled player in the opposing party was only Level 92. Considering who we had to fight during the previous two rounds, it was unthinkable how this party managed to come this far. Still, this was as far as their luck could carry them.
Li Chengfeng raised his sword and declared, ”You guys stay back. I’ll handle this party myself!”
”Sure. Run forward, youngster!”
I hugged the Heaven-stealing Sword and sat against the railings like I was a spectator and not a participant. He Yi also sat down next to me and leaned against my shoulder. Unwilling to be left behind, Murong Mingyue and Beiming Xue joined us as we sat together and waited for Li Chengfeng’s one-man show to begin.
Not far away from us, Li Chengfeng held his sword in front of himself and smiled at the opponents. ”Please forgive this one’s impudence, but this one wishes to challenge you all by myself!”
The Level 92 warrior on the other side of the ring waved his axe angrily. ”You think you can 1v5 us? Dream on! We didn’t come this far through sheer luck, you know?”
”Actually, you did survive till the third match through sheer luck. You absolutely don’t deserve to be on this stage…” Li Chengfeng replied honestly.