Hu Die Lan
Chapter 969 Active Preparations
As soon as April arrived, the teams participating in the Challenger League received formal notification from the Alliance. The weekend of April 19th and 20th were designated as reporting days, and on April 21st, the Challenger League's offline matches officially began.
The short notice was also to facilitate the players' scheduling. After all, apart from professional teams, many player also had studies or work. The Challenger League's offline matches would last at least a month, so figuring out such a long period of free time naturally required time to manage.
On Happy's side, there were also Luo Ji and An Wenyi, who were both students. However, Ye Xiu had already told them in advance, so they started making arrangements even earlier. Asking for leave, skipping class? Or something else? Ye Xiu didn't bother to ask, but he still preferred to use appropriate means. Skipping class would inevitably lead to anxiety, which would have a significant impact on the players' condition.
Entering April, the players of the major teams were still busy with both ends, but Ye Xiu and the others had to restrain themselves a bit. Two months of training, almost every day sparring with professional players. The length of the sparring depended on the daily Boss respawns. Professional players were the most active for level 75 wild Bosses, level 70 wild Bosses were okay too, but for anything below that, professional players basically wouldn't show up. In addition, things like late-night times or match days usually wouldn't happen either. So this training camp completely standardized the daily routine of the Happy team, which would occasionally have its schedule disrupted, making it exactly the same as a professional team.
After two months, not only did their technical level rapidly improve by a notch, but everyone's mental state was also excellent, and their equipment level was further improved. Lord Grim's Myriad Manifestations Umbrella had a confirmed level 70 upgrade plan, and what it currently lacked was a skill book plan. Because the research on level 75 materials was still very weak, Ye Xiu didn't plan to have Myriad Manifestations Umbrella rush to level 75 for the time being. Happy couldn't afford the material losses brought about by this kind of hard testing, and it was better to make more silver equipment with the surplus materials.
Currently, Soft Mist would be the first to get a silver weapon besides Lord Grim and Wind Howl. After all, Ye Xiu was too experienced with Battle Mages. Not to mention silver weapons, in the future development, Soft Mist would have a strong lead in full-body silver equipment, all thanks to Ye Xiu's knowledge reserves. As for other classes, although Ye Xiu was proficient in all of them, he wasn't as handy as Battle Mage, which had been his exclusive class for many years.
Silver weapon spear: Fire Dance Flowing Flame.
Although it hadn't officially started production yet, the plan drawings had been completely determined, and after Luo Ji's calculations, it was said to be foolproof. It hadn't been made yet only because some materials were lacking. This kind of demand for rare materials in the normal server was what made Ye Xiu and the others most helpless. They really didn't have the energy to spare to participate in Boss competition in the normal server. Although each server had now cultivated guild forces, they were not yet mature enough in a short time.
Ye Xiu planned to find a transaction for this batch of materials. Because they were rare materials from wild Bosses, although they were from the normal server, most of them were monopolized by the club guild forces, and Little Strong Workshop had no goods. In the end, Ye Xiu had to find his good friends in the club guilds, Yueyun, Hewu, and Zhaohua. Although the three guilds were small, they weren't so poor as to have nothing. Given the good cooperative relationship between the two parties, the three guild leaders all said that they could help request a transaction.
The value of rare materials was evident from this. Even the guild leader of a small guild didn't have the authority to directly trade ordinary server rare materials, and needed to go through multiple departments in the club.
Ye Xiu wasn't in a hurry, because he still had a lot to do. Recently, the training camp was still continuing, but it had slowed down, and everyone was starting to accumulate energy to prepare for the offline Challenger League, which was coming soon. And the equipment had to be completed as much as possible before that. Fire Dance Flowing Flame was only part of the equipment project, and the silver equipment that Ye Xiu could make wasn't just weapons.
During these two months, while sorting out materials and information, Ye Xiu and Wei Chen also sorted out many silver equipment ideas, and then handed them over to Luo Ji for calculation. If the plan was determined and the materials were sufficient, then it had already been made directly. If they hadn't already made a lot of silver equipment, Fire Dance Flowing Flame wouldn't be stuck because of materials. The 2 million worth of materials brought from Samsara at the time were mainly ordinary server materials. Because Ye Xiu knew that his future focus would definitely be in the Heavenly Domain, he wouldn't be able to take care of the material plundering in the ordinary server, so he prepared for it in advance.
The 2 million materials were gradually used up, and there were more and more missing materials for making equipment. But before Fire Dance Flowing Flame, 19 pieces of silver equipment had already been made, all reaching level 70. If you add Myriad Manifestations Umbrella and Death's Hand, if Wuji hadn't disbanded, it would have been 1 more piece than Yizhan's 20 pieces of silver equipment at the time.
Currently, Happy has Ye Xiu and Wei Chen with their own silver weapons, Myriad Manifestations Umbrella and Wind Howl.
When Wuji disbanded, 3 pieces of Warlock silver equipment were acquired from there.
Now, after a series of consumption, 19 pieces of silver equipment have been independently produced, for a total of 24 pieces of silver equipment.
Among them, Wei Chen's Wind Howl was undoubtedly the most gorgeous. He had a silver weapon, and all three pieces of silver equipment acquired from Wuji were for his Warlock. Then he researched silver equipment with Ye Xiu. Just like Ye Xiu was most handy with Battle Mages, Wei Chen was of course the most skilled with Warlocks. Of the 19 pieces of independently produced silver equipment, another 4 pieces were Warlock equipment. Currently, Wind Howl already had 8 pieces of silver equipment, far exceeding the league's average of 5.23 pieces of silver equipment, and even approaching a god-level character. Blue Rain's first Warlock character, Soul Extinguisher, only had 10 pieces of silver equipment, only 2 more pieces than Wind Howl. But then again, Wind Howl's silver equipment was all level 70… This couldn't be compared to Soul Extinguisher.
Excluding the 4 pieces of Warlock equipment, 19 pieces of silver equipment also included 5 pieces of Battle Mage equipment, these two classes alone accounted for half. There were also 3 pieces of Brawler equipment, 2 pieces of Cleric equipment, 2 pieces of Phantom Demon equipment, 2 pieces of Summoner equipment, and 1 piece of Ninja equipment.
The Ninja equipment was undoubtedly for Mo Fan's Deception, which made the boss, Chen Guo, a little uneasy. Mo Fan also participated in the training camp. However, because both sides had guild backing, deaths in battle were rare, so his scavenging talent wasn't able to be used much. On the other hand, his combat level had improved a lot in the competition with professional players. However, Mo Fan still didn't express anything, and didn't have an attitude that made Chen Guo feel at ease. She always felt that one day, Mo Fan would leave without saying a word, at most leaving in front of everyone...
Giving Mo Fan's Ninja silver equipment made Chen Guo worry that it would eventually be a losing business. As a result, Ye Xiu was generous and handed over the made silver equipment to Mo Fan without hesitation. Mo Fan was even more generous, taking it without saying a word, not even saying thank you, and directly equipped it.
Chen Guo was so depressed that she couldn't say anything. She really wanted to grab Mo Fan's neck and make him give her a clear answer. But according to Mo Fan's personality, Chen Guo suspected that even if she really did this, she still wouldn't get an answer.
After these 19 pieces of silver equipment were made, what remained were either ideas that were not yet clear, or like Fire Dance Flowing Flame, the ideas were clear, but the materials were lacking. Materials could only be sought through transactions the fastest, and Ye Xiu and Wei Chen no longer worked as hard on the production plan as before. After all, the offline matches were approaching, and they both needed to rest and adjust their condition. Moreover, compared to Tang Rou and Bao Zi, these two "older" players found it more difficult to maintain their energy.
Under Ye Xiu's experienced regulation, Happy slowed down the pace of various affairs on the eve of the offline matches. If Happy had been developing in various rapid postures since this year, now was finally the time to test the results. Before that, of course, they had to properly digest the nutrients accumulated during this period, and finally fully display them.
On April 5th, the first Saturday of April, early in the morning, Happy had guests.
Chen Guo would always pull Su Mucheng aside to ask all sorts of questions whenever she met her, but this time, when she saw Su Mucheng coming, she only exchanged some ordinary pleasantries, and then quickly dressed herself neatly.
Chen Guo knew why Su Mucheng came today. Because today was the Qingming Festival (Tomb-Sweeping Day), Su Mucheng and Ye Xiu were going to the same place as her.
The three of them went out together, took a car together, and went to Nanshan Cemetery together. Along the way, the three of them chatted casually, without deliberately being solemn, and without deliberately being relaxed.
"I'll find you later."
Like last year, Chen Guo, who was a little closer, temporarily separated from the two and went to visit her father first.
"See you later." Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng greeted her, and also went to Su Muqiu's side.
"Dad, I'm here." In front of the grave, Chen Guo put down the flowers and casually cleaned up the surroundings. In fact, Chen Guo didn't only come every Qingming Festival, she often came to see it on weekdays, but she wouldn't tell anyone. But this Qingming Festival, Chen Guo habitually became more formal and systematically told her father about her life this year.
"This year has been so busy! I really didn't expect that our team would actually be successful. I didn't misjudge people, that guy, although he still feels messy, he's really reliable! Actually, I don't think I've ever helped him, but he started from scratch and formed a team like this. We are now participating in the Glory Challenger League, and if we win in the end, we will become a real professional team! Happy will not only be an Internet cafe, but also a professional club!"
"But no one is optimistic about us now. Because there is the Excellent Era team in this Challenger League. Excellent Era team! You know, it's our opposite door, the team that I used to like very much, but I don't like it now, not because it became an opponent, but because they are dishonest. But speaking of which, if they were honest, I wouldn't have this opportunity to experience all of this this year. This year, I have been very happy and especially fulfilled. We are going to play in the offline matches later this month, and we will definitely win, don't you think?"
Chen Guo said, laughing.