Chapter 1 Best Newcomer?

The members of Yueyun, He Wu, and Zhaohua Guilds hadn't heard Zhao Yuzhe's self-introduction before. Upon hearing the name, they were naturally startled.

"Zhao Yuzhe? Where is he?" Many people immediately shouted. Although they weren't supporters of Team Howling Wind, these award-winning players had to be widely followed and praised. Very few Glory fans wouldn't know him.

Zhao Yuzhe actually enjoyed being the center of attention, but the situation felt off. He was still stuck on what Ye Xiu had just said.

Being bullied!

Was that what these people thought of him? What did that make him? Being bullied was completely different from being defeated!

Him, a professional player, the Best Newcomer, being bullied?

Zhao Yuzhe couldn't tolerate the term. He didn't bother enjoying being surrounded. But he couldn't figure out how to explain it. All he could think of was fighting! He would use battle to show his strength and let everyone know that he could never be bullied.

After marveling at how insightful the great god was, Ma Ta Xi Feng realized that even though they were at an absolute disadvantage against the four guilds, Zhao Yuzhe probably wouldn't leave.

Ma Ta Xi Feng also understood why Zhao Yuzhe wanted to fight the people of Righteous Ambition. Perhaps it was the great god's dismissive attitude that the proud Best Newcomer couldn't stand.

That way, Ma Ta Xi Feng grasped Zhao Yuzhe's purpose in this battle. Winning or losing wasn't the most important thing. The most important thing was to show off his skill.

Ma Ta Xi Feng really didn't want to help Zhao Yuzhe show off any skill here, but they had no way out. Many fans in the elite group were angered by Ye Xiu's dismissive attitude. Zhao Yuzhe spoke up: "Enough nonsense!"

"Ah! Is that Zhao Yuzhe?" Someone immediately found him. The positioning of Fenyan Jing was distinct from the others in Howling Heights.

"Isn't he playing his Elementalist, Shaoguang Huan?" someone said.

Shaoguang Huan was the character Zhao Yuzhe used in Team Howling Wind. A newbie's account wouldn't be that strong, but it was still much stronger than a regular player's account and worth checking out. But now, Fenyan Jing was a name no one had heard of in the game. Zhao Yuzhe was just hiding behind this character. Players generally felt it wasn't very genuine.

"The situation is a bit complicated. Let's find a way to break through," Ma Ta Xi Feng messaged Zhao Yuzhe. He had to do something. The four guilds were together now, and fighting them would be a certain defeat. Breaking through was a normal decision. And after understanding Zhao Yuzhe's thoughts, Ma Ta Xi Feng understood that Zhao Yuzhe wasn't seeking death. Breaking through would still let him show off his skill! It was a good, happy ending.

However, more importantly, Ma Ta Xi Feng hoped Zhao Yuzhe wouldn't think that they had provoked this, and the other side might not make it difficult for them if they wanted to leave. Maybe they'd let them go easily! Saying "breakthrough" was a bit of a stretch. If Howling Heights didn't fight, why would they surround them? Ma Ta Xi Feng hoped that their attacks during the "breakthrough" would provoke a casual counterattack, and then they would tacitly let them leave.

From the great god's two insightful analyses, Ma Ta Xi Feng believed that if the great god didn't want to have a death match with them, they would break through, and the great god would immediately form a tacit understanding with him.

"Charge!" Ma Ta Xi Feng received Zhao Yuzhe's reply. He couldn't understand what it meant, and he didn't have time to ask because Zhao Yuzhe had already attacked. Fenyan Jing waved his staff forward. Ma Ta Xi Feng saw that even if it was a breakthrough, they had chosen the most difficult spot... Fenyan Jing's spell was cast towards Wudao Jun, who had stepped out to speak to him.

"Cast" might not be the right word; "draw" would be more accurate.

Elementalist skill: Ice Line.

Where the mana passed, an ice line would be left behind. The ice line would form a magical barrier within 1 second. Anyone who touched the ice line would be frozen for 4 seconds. The ice line's duration, starting from when the barrier formed, could last up to 12 seconds. The spell's casting duration was 3 seconds. In other words, how long the ice line could be drawn depended entirely on the caster's hand speed.

It was undoubtedly a powerful skill, but it was important to note that there couldn't be any player characters or NPCs where the mana was being drawn. In other words, the line couldn't be drawn directly onto a character and freeze them. The line could only remain in the scene, and then the players or NPCs would be passively frozen upon contact. If the ice line was drawn onto a character during the drawing process, the skill would be forcibly interrupted.

Fenyan Jing pointed his staff, and mana flowed from the tip. Icy air spread across the ground, and everyone knew he was drawing an ice line. The speed at which the ice line spread showed everyone what a professional player was.

Guided by Zhao Yuzhe's rapid mouse movements, the speed at which the ice line was drawn was almost impossible to see with the naked eye. Some players tried to use their characters to crash into the ice line to stop the skill, but their characters couldn't keep up.

Moving something with the mouse faster than a character could run was something anyone could do, but it was difficult to be accurate in the process.

Zhao Yuzhe was specially trained. The ice line was fast and accurate. He didn't rush to target Ye Xiu's Wudao Jun, but instead, he drew the line to hinder the other players as much as possible. What about Ye Xiu? He was staring at the ice line's path, and his character quickly jumped backward.

Too late, right? That's what everyone thought. Wudao Jun's movement speed couldn't compare to the ice line's. The vast difference made it easy to tell that Wudao Jun would be separated from the crowd by the ice line's barrier.

Just then, as Wudao Jun landed, he inexplicably jumped again, and just when everyone was confused, they noticed the ice line's path suddenly change. Everyone thought it would smoothly cut off Wudao Jun from them, but then it suddenly curved inward.

The change seemed meaningless to everyone, but then two holy white lights bloomed behind Wudao Jun, flying left and right. Then, Wudao Jun stayed in the air without falling.

Priest skill: Angel's Wings.

The skill's visual effect was gorgeous. Wudao Jun's two wings were made of pure white light, so bright that they were blinding. Even Wudao Jun's clothes and face were blurred, making it look like an angel bathed in holy light descending to earth.

But beneath the gorgeous visual effects, the skill's function was very simple, just as everyone saw: keeping the character in the air, preventing them from landing. The character could still move during this time, but only at that height. They couldn't go higher, and going lower would be the same as canceling the skill.

Why use Angel's Wings to float at a time like this?

Everyone was confused. Even with Angel's Wings, it was impossible to cross the ice line's barrier. Otherwise, what would players be worried about? They could just jump over the ice line. The height that the ice line could seal off couldn't be judged visually. After player testing, it was known that it wasn't limitless. But with the methods currently available to players, it was impossible to jump directly over the ice line. Knowing it wasn't limitless was discovered by trying out different terrain heights. Normally, everyone thought it was limitless.

Everyone was puzzled by the intent behind Angel's Wings. Before they could think about it, Angel's Wings was canceled. Wudao Jun suddenly fell, and the ice line drawn by Fenyan Jing brushed past him, but ultimately failed to draw behind Wudao Jun. If it didn't pass behind Wudao Jun, it meant the ice line had failed to separate Wudao Jun from the others!

Only now did some players suddenly understand Wudao Jun's strange jump earlier.

With that jump, Wudao Jun didn't move on the plane, but he did increase his height. He changed his position, and this change wasn't to block anything else, but to block Zhao Yuzhe's mouse cursor!

Drawing a line involved holding down the right mouse button and guiding the cursor. When the cursor pointed at a character, the ice line would reach the character, and the skill would end. Players tried to crash into the ice line as it moved, but they couldn't keep up. Wudao Jun's jump was to judge his position on Zhao Yuzhe's screen, then use a jump to change his position, and then crash into Zhao Yuzhe's mouse cursor.

That was why the ice line suddenly changed direction. Then, Wudao Jun used Angel's Wings for a short hover, followed by a rapid descent. This was also control after clearly judging the other person's cursor position. What kind of battle took place between the two professional players was completely beyond ordinary players.

They only knew one thing: Ye Qiu could use such a method because he was extremely familiar with Glory. He actually looked at Fenyan Jing's position, then imagined what Zhao Yuzhe saw on his screen, and then, looking at the ice line's movement, he judged the position of Zhao Yuzhe's mouse cursor on the screen...