Chapter 1 The Prelude

January 10th finally arrived. Neither Misty Rain nor Howling made any transfer deals before this day. Howling's original team arrived in H City a day early for warm-ups and field testing. Howling's vice-captain, Liu Hao, received a warm welcome in H City. It was evident that many former Excellent Era fans still had affection for this former Excellent Era player. In a pre-match interview, Liu Hao expressed his deep regret for the dissolution of Excellent Era and offered sincere blessings to the new Excellent Era. He also clearly and accurately described the current situation and battle status of the new Excellent Era in the Challenger League, which touched many Excellent Era fans.

As for the upcoming match, Liu Hao didn't talk too much about it. Howling's captain, Tang Hao, did not accept pre-match interviews. After the All-Star Weekend, rumors spread that Tang Hao was in a bad mood due to his performance during the All-Star Weekend. This surprised people, as they didn't expect this top-tier player to care so much about his performance at the All-Star event.

"Captain? He's in good condition. He just doesn't want to be interviewed and wants to focus more on the match. Howling has performed well in the last two rounds, and we plan to continue this momentum! Excellent Era's performance this season has shown that they are not a weak team, so we need to prepare more actively and carefully." Liu Hao said about Tang Hao.

Howling's Liu Hao and Guo Yang have a deep connection with H City, but they don't have much involvement with the Excellent Era team. When Excellent Era competed against Excellent Era in the Challenger League, both of them had already left Excellent Era.

However, Howling and Excellent Era are now close to each other on the leaderboard, with a difference of only 5 points. The outcome of this match may change the landscape. In addition, former Howling player Fang Rui is a major highlight of this match. Many people are eager to label Fang Rui with revenge, after all, his departure from Howling was quite bleak. Everyone could see that Howling completely abandoned Fang Rui in order to build a new team.

That night, Excellent Era's home stadium, Xiao Shan Gymnasium, was packed. Excellent Era's outstanding performance has conquered more and more Glory players in H City. Just looking at the home attendance rate, you can't tell that this is a new team that has just entered the league without any foundation. In sports, strength speaks for itself, which is absolutely true.

Soon, the match was about to begin, and the first to be held was naturally the individual competition. Excellent Era's home fans immediately and powerfully shouted the number "Seventeen!"

Seventeen!

If Ye Xiu wins another individual match, his winning streak will be extended to seventeen rounds. And he has always been the first to appear in the individual competition, so before the match list was released, Excellent Era fans had already started cheering for him.

Excellent Era did not disappoint the fans. Ye Xiu stood up from the player's seat, waved to the audience, and went on stage amidst more enthusiastic cheers and applause.

Ye Xiu was a symbol of the Glory circle in this city. After his comeback, his strong record, constantly refreshed records, and the mystery he exuded have attracted a large number of fans around him. Among them, there are mostly older people. Many of them had even left Glory, but Ye Xiu's comeback awakened their memories of the past. In the Glory game, many old accounts that had not been logged in for a long time reappeared in the game.

This is the era that Ye Xiu represents, the passion of that era, which cannot be resonated with by new players who are now chasing Zhou Zekai, Sun Xiang, Tang Hao and other new generation gods. And now, it is being rekindled on this stage.

Ye Xiu has already appeared. Who will be the first player sent by Howling to respond?

Currently, countless experts and commentators in the Glory circle are discussing Excellent Era's arrangement of Ye Xiu's fixed starting position as a psychological warfare tactic to seize the initiative.

Ye Xiu is playing in the first position, without concealment or change. So, as opponents, how will you respond?

Sending a strong player to confront him head-on? If you lose, your morale will be greatly affected; sending a weak player, using the Tian Ji horse racing strategy, will result in being overwhelmed in terms of momentum before the match even starts, and may not achieve any ideal results.

Therefore, Excellent Era's move makes it difficult for opponents. I'll put a strong person in the first position and wait for you to defeat him. Do you dare to come? Ye Xiu's winning streak seems to be issuing such a taunt.

Teams with weak strength would not dare to call this shot and would usually just let this battle pass by. But some teams really want to fight you for this momentum. After all, if this battle can defeat Ye Xiu, the boost to their own team and the suppression of Excellent Era will be even stronger. Excellent Era's move is a double-edged sword, but Ye Xiu is so confident in wielding this double-edged sword that for the past sixteen rounds, it has only injured the enemy and not himself.

How will Howling respond?

This team has high aspirations, the captain of this team has high aspirations, and the newcomers of this team have high aspirations. They are probably not a team that will let the first game pass by. Who will they send? Will it be Captain Tang Hao directly? It's rare for a top core player to abandon guarding the arena and come to fight Ye Xiu in the individual competition. So far, no team has arranged this position, will Howling make such an arrangement?

Some people are watching the Howling player's seat, and some are staring at the electronic screen. Under Howling's list, the name of the first player is slowly turning out.

Tang Hao!

It's really Tang Hao. Howling really became the first to eat a crab and directly sent their captain, core Tang Hao, to fight Ye Xiu.

The die-hard Howling fans who traveled a long distance with the team cheered proudly for their team's dominance, but they were quickly drowned out by the boos and mocking laughter of the Excellent Era fans.

If I remember correctly, your captain, Tang Hao, was just blown up by our captain in the All-Star Game, right?

Excellent Era fans have confidence. Although the All-Star Game is a show, do fans care about that? Just find an example and spray it over first.

What can Howling fans do? Could they painstakingly explain that the All-Star Game doesn't count? It's okay to debate this in a long article on the forum, but in this kind of atmosphere, shouting this kind of thing doesn't have any momentum at all. They can only pretend to ignore it, but the mocking sounds of the Excellent Era guys are quite painful to hear.

The most painful person has to be Tang Hao. Even if the whole world doesn't care about the All-Star Game, he cares about it very much. Now that he is being ridiculed by Excellent Era fans because of this, he cares even more. His hands are clenched tightly. It is these hands that have helped him win everything, helping him make the voices he doesn't want to hear disappear again and again. This time, he decided to use these hands again to shut up all the Excellent Era fans at the scene.

"Victory belongs to Howling!"

After the individual competition started, Tang Hao immediately issued a declaration of victory, and then Tang Three Strikes rushed out straight ahead. No one plays tactical maneuvering in the All-Star Game, so Tang Hao won't this time either. What's more, Ye Xiu's chosen map for the individual competition at the home stadium is never a complex map, but the simplest and most direct one.

The two characters met head-on in the middle of the map. Lord Grim has a higher attack range. The Myriad Manifestations Umbrella is in gun form, and the Gatling Gun is fired, with bullets shooting out like rain. Tang Hao didn't retreat at all. Tang Three Strikes quickly shuttled through the rain of bullets. It seems that one person's Gatling Gun can't completely suppress him.

The skills were used up in a blink of an eye, and Tang Three Strikes forcibly narrowed the distance a bit, but Lord Grim still has these skills. The character retreated while firing antitank missiles, three missiles firing out, tri-point shot, the muzzles swinging out in parallel, three missiles pulled into a straight line, flying out in a fan shape.

But this still failed to stop Tang Three Strikes' momentum. Accurately and quickly, Tang Three Strikes had already passed through the gap between the two shells. These tricks seem too trivial in front of this top-tier god.

At this time, Tang Three Strikes finally entered the range he could attack. The character waved his hand, and sand was thrown towards the face. This skill may not be dodged, but the view must be avoided, but Lord Grim has an umbrella in his hand, and with a whoosh, he opened it to block directly.

This response seemed to be expected by Tang Hao. Throwing sand head-on is to pursue the moment when the opponent turns away their view. Turning the view or blocking it with a shield is actually the same. Tang Three Strikes had already prepared a ma bi needle, which was thrown out at this time, hitting the target and causing a paralysis effect. Rogues have many of these despicable little tricks.

The ma bi needle was shot out almost at the instant when Lord Grim opened the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella. What Tang Hao wanted to time was that after Ye Xiu blocked the sand, he would retract the umbrella, and the ma bi needle would be right in front of him, unavoidable.

As a result, the sand was blocked, but Lord Grim didn't retract the umbrella, still holding it like that. The accurately calculated ma bi needle hit the umbrella shield and fell without a sound.

Tang Hao was depressed. Seeing that the umbrella didn't seem to be going to be retracted for a while, he simply took advantage of its cover to control Tang Three Strikes to rush forward, with a brick already raised in his hand, waiting to hit his face directly when he got in front of him.

As a result, Lord Grim didn't retract the umbrella, but rushed forward.

Charge! A knight's skill, the shield is also the equipment in the knight's hand, and does not affect the release of this skill at all. It's just that a charge with a shield has impact, but the damage is not as good as a knight's sword. But Tang Hao didn't dare to be negligent. The shield doesn't do much damage, but using the shield has Shield Strike. This guy just used it in the All-Star Game, and even Huang Shaotian was tricked. Tang Hao took that scene to heart and didn't dare to use the shield as cover again. He quickly crossed his position, pulled out a gap, raised his hand, and threw a brick.

Just at this moment, Tang Hao clearly saw that Lord Grim behind the umbrella shield had his head turned towards this side, and the opponent's view was staring at this side.

This is the opponent's expected response!

When Tang Hao realized it, Tang Three Strikes had already thrown the brick in his hand. He saw Lord Grim draw out the blade from the umbrella handle, and the sword light flashed in front of him in an instant. Dodge? Tang Three Strikes took a step, his foothold was stable, where could he step to dodge?

Front? Back? Left? Right?

This sword light has completely enveloped him.

Hit!

Tang Three Strikes' blood flew up first.