Chapter 1 A Very Harmonious and Loving Beginning

After a very harmonious, loving, and genuine opening greeting, Team Happy and Team Yizhan began their official match.

This was Team Yizhan's home field. Although Team Yizhan was also a team with a considerable amount of character, it was clear from the attendance rate that their popularity wasn't particularly high. Even after a year of operation and accumulation, they were still inferior to Team Happy. In the end, esports still revered strength above all else. No matter what Team Yizhan was like, their strength was only at a mid-to-lower level. Moreover, in terms of city culture, Team Yizhan wasn't the only team in City B. Team Tiny Herb, with its greater fame and many years of operation, had long become a symbol of this city's Glory scene. It was actually quite difficult for a latecomer like Team Yizhan to operate without much strength.

During their preparations, they had once used the grassroots banner, which resonated well in the online game. But now everyone knew the full story. Team Yizhan was only grassroots in terms of their strength. The five players were all rich young masters, and every hair on their bodies was far from grassroots.

Team Yizhan's commercial operation couldn't be said to be very smooth. However, for a team that invested in building or even acquiring a stadium for the sake of playing Glory, even the most experienced and professional Glory commentators wouldn't dare to casually comment on Team Yizhan's operations. Their initial motivation for forming the team was different from the start, and it was obviously inappropriate to apply the usual business model to their logic.

But regardless of the background or business strategy, when standing here, the only thing that mattered was victory or defeat on the field. The players from both sides returned to their respective player areas, with only the two players participating in the first match of the individual competition remaining on the field.

Ye Xiu.

Sun Zheping.

"Not bad." Sun Zheping was very satisfied with this matchup, and a different kind of fire was already burning in his eyes.

After retiring for many years, he had returned to this arena. Sun Zheping was both familiar and somewhat unfamiliar with everything here.

What was familiar was that no matter how things were updated or improved, this was still the battlefield of Glory. The fighting was still between those 24 classes.

What was unfamiliar was that many of the people he used to know were no longer here. In each round, Sun Zheping saw many unfamiliar faces. Even the people around him were no longer the league or the teammates he remembered.

Ironclad characters, flowing players.

It's all in the past…

Sun Zheping had sighed inwardly more than once. But at this moment, on the field, standing in front of him, was Ye Xiu!

Sun Zheping felt as if he had returned to those early seasons in an instant. Familiar people, familiar characters, familiar things, and familiar feelings.

"Let's begin!" Sun Zheping clenched his right fist, brought it to his mouth, and blew into it.

This was a habitual action of his in the past, which many fans had forgotten. Even Sun Zheping himself had not repeated his old habits after his comeback. But now, after suddenly feeling familiar with everything, he naturally made this signature move.

"Don't push yourself too hard." Ye Xiu saw everything and smiled, turning back to the guest team's player area.

Like the beginning.

Berserker Zai Shui Yixia, Unspecialized Lord Grim, spawned on opposite corners of the map.

The stadium was already in an uproar when the map loaded.

This was Team Yizhan's home field, and they had the right to choose the map. Naturally, the individual competition was determined by the players themselves. And the map that Sun Zheping had chosen was precisely the arena, a limited space with no terrain changes. It was the same map that Ye Xiu had chosen in the match against Team Tyranny to blow up Zhang Jiale, the arena.

And now, Sun Zheping had also chosen this map to face Ye Xiu. Of course, he didn't know beforehand that his opponent would be Ye Xiu, but the choice of this map still seemed to be conveying some kind of message to Team Happy.

"This is…"

After entering the map, he was just about to send a message when Sun Zheping's Zai Shui Yixia took a few steps forward and jumped with a Collapsing Mountain.

A very common Berserker opening, but when executed by Sun Zheping, it gave people a different kind of momentum.

Why is this happening?

Ye Xiu, with his many years of Glory experience, wouldn't have such doubts.

It was the rhythm, Sun Zheping's rhythm, revealing a fierce temperament. Before Ye Xiu could even type two words, the sword light had already fallen.

Ye Xiu had no choice but to concentrate on controlling his character. Complaining about the map? Unfortunately, Sun Zheping didn't give him that time.

Collapsing Mountain fell, and Lord Grim had already rolled away. Before the sword could grow old, the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella unfolded into a spear, and a Rising Dragon Strike was already launched. This attack seemed a little impatient. The judgment of Rising Dragon Strike was weaker than that of Collapsing Mountain. When the two skills collided, Collapsing Mountain would definitely shatter Rising Dragon Strike.

But experienced Glory players could quickly perceive that Lord Grim's Rising Dragon Strike was timed to perfection. It would hit the opponent right when Zai Shui Yixia's Collapsing Mountain landed and the judgment ended, completely shaking off the so-called weak judgment.

Unfortunately, Sun Zheping happened to be one of those experienced Glory players. The Collapsing Mountain, which was about to land, suddenly twisted.

This slight twist didn't change the time difference between the two skills, but it sent the shockwave of Collapsing Mountain closer to Lord Grim after landing…

At this time, it was already the end of the skill. Even if Ye Xiu noticed it, it was too late to make any changes in his actions.

Collapsing Mountain slashed to the ground, and the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella, executing Rising Dragon Strike, pierced at that instant.

Hit!

Zai Shui Yixia was knocked into the air, but at the same time, Lord Grim's figure was also being bounced away.

Lord Grim was also unable to avoid the shockwave of Collapsing Mountain.

Just two super low-level skills, yet they contained such rich and wonderful confrontation, completed in a single rise and fall. Those with poor eyesight and insufficient skill simply didn't notice the subtlety of the timing of Rising Dragon Strike and the imminent adjustment of Collapsing Mountain. Those who saw this exchange as a direct collision of two skills were really wasting the opportunity.

Boom!

At this moment, another explosion of fire erupted between the two characters who touched and bounced away. Lord Grim, who had been bounced away by the shockwave, transformed the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella into gun form and added an attack on Zai Shui Yixia. However, Zai Shui Yixia also used the Swordsman's Block at this moment, actually using his sword to block the cannonball.

"Good reaction!" This time, Ye Xiu had time to type. This was a skill change that only Unspecialized would encounter, but Sun Zheping had reacted to it.

"Don't push yourself too hard." Sun Zheping didn't care whether the timing was appropriate or not, and simply returned the words that Ye Xiu had given him before the match.

"Not at all." Ye Xiu added, and the moment Lord Grim, who had been bounced away by the Collapsing Mountain shockwave, touched the ground, a cold light swept out towards Zai Shui Yixia.

Assassin skill, Arc Flash!

In an instant, the two characters, who seemed to be creating distance, had already closed the gap again. At this time, Zai Shui Yixia was still rolling on the ground, using a Ukemi to digest the aerial landing after the Rising Dragon Strike.

Annihilation Slash!

As a result, in such a posture, Zai Shui Yixia used Annihilation Slash while getting up.

The Berserker was a domineering class, and skills of this type usually had one characteristic: strong judgment.

The Unspecialized's low-level skills below level 20 simply didn't have many that could compare with Annihilation Slash's judgment. Lord Grim's Arc Flash rushed forward, but at this moment, it seemed more like sending a lamb into the tiger's mouth.

Annihilation Slash, with the Berserker's surging killing intent, slashed towards Lord Grim.

As a result, Lord Grim's body shook, as if a wave of energy swept through his entire body.

Steel Body!

Lord Grim actually activated this Striker skill at this moment, which meant that he was going to take this Annihilation Slash head-on.

Annihilation Slash's damage was secondary. It was actually an attack effect skill. The defense of a target hit by Annihilation Slash would be greatly weakened. Hence, the name "Annihilation". Therefore, taking Annihilation Slash head-on wasn't just about selling blood. It also meant that the character's defense would be destroyed by as much as 70% in the next 5 seconds. The higher the defense class, the more amazing the defense reduction would be in the face of this move. It could be called the nightmare of heavily armored, high-defense classes.

Lord Grim's mixed equipment, without the bonus of any class armor mastery, resulted in a haphazard defense that didn't follow the logic of any tier. Now, with Steel Body activated, this skill increased defense, but not as a percentage increase. Instead, it was a data-based increase. In this way, combined with Lord Grim's chaotic character defense, and then being reduced by 70%, the resulting defense would be a complex arithmetic problem…

The audience didn't need to calculate, because when this attack hit, they could directly observe the changes in the character's attributes displayed on the electronic screen at all times. And what about the professional players? Their skilled calculation ability allowed them to grasp the change in Lord Grim's defense after a percentage reduction and a data enhancement in an instant.

The conclusion was, approximately 7%.

A 7% defense reduction was vastly different from 70%, a tenfold difference. The threat of this Annihilation Slash could be said to have been basically resolved by this Steel Body. But Steel Body wasn't just for increasing defense. The 20 seconds of super armor after activating this skill, coupled with high defense, could guarantee that the character would launch an unreasonable, brutal attack.

Annihilation Slash, slashed down.

Lord Grim's figure swayed slightly, but under the effect of super armor, this sway was already worthy of Annihilation Slash's strong judgment.

Lord Grim's fist struck out, the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella, already split into two nunchaku, was tightly gripped in his fist.

Charging Punch, Knee Strike, Hook Punch, Wave Punch…

Continuous attacks had already bombarded Zai Shui Yixia. Lord Grim's aggressive figure also exuded a strong madness, almost no less than the berserk Berserker…

Yes… If it weren't for this, how could he have broken through the Blossoming Brilliant Flowers of us two alone back then?

Seeing Zai Shui Yixia suffer continuous attacks, Sun Zheping further found the familiar feeling of the past.
Hu Die Lan