"Left, left, left!!"

"Interrupt, interrupt, interrupt!!"

"Retreat, retreat, retreat!!"

The shouts in the Happy training room never stopped, completely drowning out the commentary of the finals on the projector screen. The intense atmosphere made it hard to believe they were running the simplest five-person dungeon in Glory, with two professional players and two strong players at that.

Once again, they managed to resolve the chaotic situation, and all four of them breathed a sigh of relief.

It wasn't that the dungeon was too difficult, but that the four of them were too distracted. Even Ye Xiu, who had instigated everyone to run this dungeon, would occasionally glance at the match and lose focus. Before they knew it, the situation in the dungeon would descend into chaos.

Their progress was tragic. Almost every wave of monsters was treated with the same seriousness as facing a major Boss. If the four of them weren't so skilled, they would have been wiped out long ago. In the end, they didn't reach their goal of clearing the dungeon before the team competition, falling short by a third!

"I'm saying, if you really want equipment, why are we running dungeons? Wouldn't it be easier to find a few people on the road and PK them for their gear?" Wei Chen said, disgruntled. In his opinion, with their skills, progressing through dungeons layer by layer like ordinary players was a waste of time. If they saw players with good equipment, they should just treat them like a Boss and PK them, that would be much more efficient. And PK'ing players was targeted. If you wanted equipment for a certain class, you could just target players of that class. A Battle Mage wouldn't be wearing a Swordsman's equipment.

It would be much more troublesome to run dungeons. Glory had 24 classes, each with different equipment, and very little was shared. Like this run, they had killed two Bosses and hadn't seen any equipment for their classes. They would have to sell the equipment for other classes or find someone to trade with, which was a pain. Wei Chen, a professional rogue, deeply despised this conventional method.

"PK'ing people for equipment, aren't you afraid the boss will fire you?" Ye Xiu said.

"She's not here now! Baozi and Little Tang, you wouldn't say anything, would you?" Wei Chen said, "There's equipment in it for you too, you know!"

"Stop it," Ye Xiu said.

"This really isn't a good idea. Even buying it with money would be more cost-effective. The time cost is too high," Wei Chen said.

"Do I need you to teach me that? I really need a piece of equipment from this dungeon. I've been watching the market for a few days and haven't seen it," Ye Xiu said.

"What do you want?" Wei Chen asked.

"Yangfeng Diaodui (Wind Chasing Pendant)," Ye Xiu said.

"Oh, that...you want to stack jump height?" Wei Chen immediately understood because this accessory was quite famous.

Although a 5-person dungeon wasn't a prestigious origin, its basic magic defense attribute couldn't compare to pendants from 10-person, 20-person, or even 100-person dungeons. The added Intelligence and Spirit wouldn't attract any magic-based class, but the additional +8 to jump height was a huge highlight. It was the highest jump height bonus among all pendants.

However, how to balance sacrificing some magic defense or even the four core stats for this +8 jump height required careful consideration. Usually, classes that didn't need Intelligence or Spirit would never consider the Wind Chasing Pendant; the sacrifice was too great. But Ye Xiu's Lord Grim was an unspecialized class, using skills from all 24 classes. Every stat was valuable to him, so he decisively decided to use this accessory.

But although the Wind Chasing Pendant came from a 5-person dungeon, it was an orange-tier equipment, so the drop rate was naturally extremely low.

Extremely low drop rate, awkward presence – no one would consider such equipment as a means to get rich. And as an early level 70 dungeon, few people came here now, so the Wind Chasing Pendant was hard to find on the market. Ye Xiu had no choice but to try his luck himself.

Wei Chen was clearly aware of the situation, so he didn't say much more. At this time, the finals had reached the team competition in the first round. The individual competition and team arena had seen each team win a match.

In the individual competition, Blue Rain sent Yu Feng as their first player. This All-Star level Berserker lived up to expectations and gave Blue Rain a good start. Then each side won a match, and after the individual competition, Blue Rain had 2 points and Samsara had 1 point.

The scoring system for the playoffs was slightly different from the regular season. The individual competition was unchanged, one point per match. The team arena was worth slightly more than in the regular season, at 2.5 points, while the team competition was worth less, at only 4 points. This made a total of 9.5 points, and 19 points in total for home and away games. Unless the home and away games resulted in completely opposite wins and losses, there would be no ties. But the system did take ties into account. If the home and away games were tied, there would be an additional match to directly determine the final winner.

After the team arena, during which Ye Xiu and the other three had watched the dungeon run intermittently and chaotically, they only knew that Samsara had won, and Samsara was temporarily leading 3.5 to 2.

The team competition was undoubtedly the main event. Whether in the regular season or the playoffs, the team competition often determined the final outcome.

After a short break after the team arena, the team competition began. The players from both sides were ready, and the screen showed their lineups.

For Samsara, the captain and vice-captain, Zhou Zekai and Jiang Botao, were undoubtedly in the starting lineup. Then there was Lu Boyuan, a Judo master; Wu Qi, an Assassin; and Fang Minghua, a Cleric. The sixth player was Du Ming, a Swordsman.

For Blue Rain, captain Yu Wenzhou, vice-captain Huang Shaotian, and Berserker Yu Feng, all three All-Stars, were in the starting lineup. The remaining two starters were Zheng Xuan, a Launcher, and Xu Jingxi, a Guardian Angel. The sixth player was Song Xiao, a Qi Master.

The two teams both had a Swordsman, but Samsara's Du Ming was the sixth player. On Blue Rain's side, Huang Shaotian's Swordsman was their trump card. The most likely class to overlap was the healer, but the two teams had a Guardian Angel and a Cleric, which made them different.

Healers were essential for all teams in the professional scene, and they would always appear in the team competition. An aggressive, all-out attack style team had proven to be unstable in a high-level competitive scene like the professional league. Although it could be impressive at times, it was too difficult to maintain such performance. At least so far, teams that tried to rely on this style had either transformed or disappeared.

Guardian Angels and Clerics both came from the Holy Order, and they were both classes with a lot of healing skills, so they were professional healers. Compared to that, Clerics could limit and attack opponents with some Holy Order spells while healing. Guardian Angels had a different style. Besides healing, they had excellent defense and could take damage for teammates. In many cases, Guardian Angels could take on the MT role like Knights.

Sometimes, by looking at whether a team's healer was a Cleric or a Guardian Angel, you could get a general idea of the two teams' styles. Teams with Clerics as healers were generally more aggressive and preferred to control the overall situation with attacks. Teams with Guardian Angels as healers usually weren't too aggressive.

The current Samsara and Blue Rain teams basically fit these two styles. Samsara was aggressive, without a doubt. Although Blue Rain couldn't be called a defensive team, they were more balanced than Samsara.

"Watch the match or continue the dungeon?" Seeing that even the team competition was being delayed, Wei Chen was reluctant. The finals! As professional players, they were the most die-hard Glory fans. Even without any emotional attachment, it was hard to bear not being able to watch such a high-level match properly when it was right in front of them.

"Okay...let's watch!" Ye Xiu was no different. He wanted to make the most of his time by watching and running the dungeon at the same time, but he couldn't do either well. Now that it was the team competition, he didn't want to continue like this.

"Watch the match first, watch the match first." Wei Chen immediately let go of the mouse. The four characters stayed in the dungeon and watched the match.

The lineups of both sides were introduced, along with the various characteristics of the characters, and then the commentators and guests made their predictions. Samsara's skill point problem was no longer a secret at this stage of the finals. But no one had figured out how much it had been improved. Of course, Samsara wouldn't actively publicize it. The commentators and guests gave some guesses before the match. To Ye Xiu and the others, who knew the truth, the two of them were too conservative. They didn't dare to make a bold prediction that the other side had reached 5000 points. They only cautiously suggested that it was possible that they had broken the current record for the most skill points on a Glory character.

But speaking of which, Ye Xiu didn't know if Zhou Zekai and Jiang Botao's characters had reached 5000 points. According to the probability, there shouldn't be a problem, but if those two were unlucky, there was nothing he could do.

After listening to the commentators and guests babble for a while, the match officially began. The ranking in the regular season could give a team an advantage in the playoff format. For example, in these two teams, Blue Rain's first place ranking in the regular season was better than Samsara's, so the two teams' two-round match would have Blue Rain play the away game first, then the home game, making it easier to take advantage of the home field after the first game based on the score.

At this time, in the first round, Samsara was at home, so the map was naturally chosen by Samsara. In the end, Samsara chose "Feng Zhong Jin Cao" (Grass in the Wind).

This was a grassy map with rural scenery. Although there were many terrain conditions for cover, grass piles could block the line of sight but didn't offer any protection against attacks. By using this as their home map, Samsara clearly wanted to take the initiative with their attacks.

Although the maps used in the professional league were diverse, the size was the same. After the map was chosen and both sides' characters were ready, they quickly entered the match map. The camera quickly cut to some close-ups of the audience cheering and shouting.

The two teams, each in a corner of the map, quickly made their moves.

Samsara was very familiar with their chosen map. The five starting characters were already moving towards the other side's spawn point. And Blue Rain seemed to be familiar with this map as well. It was unlikely that Blue Rain, an old team, would be completely unfamiliar with a map.

Blue Rain's characters were also advancing quietly, and their trump card, Huang Shaotian's Yu Ye Sheng Fan (Night Rain Sounds Distant), had already disappeared into the grass in the wind...