Eight o’clock sharp, the second contest started, Lone Desert Smoke versus The Glory.
Lone Desert Smoke’s team won the loudest cheers. The official battle bets offered odds of 1.05 to 4.7 for Lone Desert Smoke to The Glory, respectively! However, many more fans placed bets for Lone Desert Smoke.
Easy as a pie!
Zhang Yang’s team did not give The Glory any chances of winning. Regardless of levels, equipment, controls and teamwork, Zhang Yang’s team reigned superior in all. Zhang Yang’s team won an overwhelming victory in two matches and successfully broke into quarterfinals, showing their well-earned, prevailing dominance!
All eight qualifying teams were announced after 9.30 pm.
The first few matches were: Crimson Rage versus Sunset Amber; and Radiance versus Imperial Sky.
The second batch of matches were: Angel Wings versus Breaking Dawn; and Lone Desert Smoke versus Brilliant Star.
On 27th December, at 7.30 pm, Crimson Rage started the event, raging against Sunset Amber. The ability and strength of both teams were almost similar. Currently, both teams had won one round each at 1-1, and were now putting extra effort in the third and most crucial match.
The final round ended with both teams only left with an attacker and a healer each, an excruciatingly long, final phase of the match. The final phase lasted for more than seven minutes. Crimson Rage’s healer, Perfumed Water was a Priest who was not as efficient in single-target healing as her counterpart, Sunset Amber’s Sacred Knight. Perfumed Water ran out of MP first, and sadly, that was the end of Crimson Rage’s stint!
It was a regrettable 1-2 loss.
The elimination of this beautiful all-girl team had left a lot of male players heartbroken and furious at Sunset Amber!
Due to the lengthy match, the following match between Radiance and Imperial Sky was affected, starting late at 8.20 pm.
That match too, was a close battle, with the third match beginning at a score of 1-1. However, Radiance made unexpected mistakes, and their Spellcaster was immediately killed under the combined attacks of the enemy. The Spellcaster had mistimed his {Ice Barrier} and left himself open to the enemy!
The balance broken, Imperial Sky’s team members grabbed the chance and in one stroke, defeated their opponents soundly and proceeded to the semifinals!
Due to the long battles of the first two matches, the match between Angel Wings and Breaking Dawn did not happen until 9.00 pm.
"Noob tank, the Spellcaster threw the match!" Wei Yan Er looked at the Radiance members who had walked off-stage, bickering among each other, most of them clearly berating the Spellcaster.
Zhang Yang frowned and said, "Maybe it was just a one sided contest!"
Such careless mistakes were not supposed to happen in any team who had made it to the quarterfinals, thus, the circumstances definitely looked dubious.
"Guild master Zhan Yu!" Snow Seeker led her four team members elegantly towards them, "It’s almost your turn! You guys are the only team left from our White Jade Castle, be sure to fight hard!"
"Sister Snow Seeker, please do not worry. I will lead the team and our team will surely steamroll over all obstacles, we are brave and skillful in battle, we shall conquer everything… we are undefeatable like The Legend of the Swordsman!" Wei Yan Er initiated some sort of poorly worded, ancient oath from the battles of the olden days.
"Little brat, drop those drama series and start reading some books!" Zhang Yang reached out and waved a hand in front of Wei Yan Er’s face like he was shooing off an annoying fly. Zhang Yang replied, "Guild master Snow Seeker, if your healer was a Sacred Knight, the outcome would have been really different!"
"Oh, I’m sooo sorry for being a Priest!" Perfumed Water growled, rolling her eyes.
Snow Seeker smiled graciously and said, "Being able to enter the top eight ranking is more than enough for us! We’ll leave the rest to you guys! Guild master Zhan Yu, although you guys have the most support out of all the fans, please does not underestimate Sunset Amber! They are definitely not weak. I even believe that they were holding back against us, trying to mislead the other teams!"
"Oh?" Zhang Yang muttered, genuinely surprised. If it was like what Snow Seeker said, then Sunset Amber’s leader definitely took a great risk, but with convincing results! All these were semifinal teams, if Zhang Yang got careless, he might even get his team eliminated!
"Hmph, it doesn’t matter, we’ll just defeat them all!" Wei Yan Er clenched her fist as she said.
Zhang Yang laughed out loud and said, "Little brat, that’s a bold statement, I like it!"
"Silly Yu, I’m warning you, don’t you dare have any thoughts towards Yan Er!" Han Ying Xue moved in between the two of them.
Zhang Yang let out of a sigh, simply waved his hand and said, "Take it easy, I have no interests in flat-chested lolis!"
Han Ying Xue immediately turned flirtatious and said, "Oh! So you do have the hots for me! Sigh, it’s not like I chose to be born gorgeous!"
"Earth to Han Ying Xue!" Wei Yan Er furiously shook her out of her reverie.
As they spoke, the first match between Angel Wings and Breaking Dawn had started and Breaking Dawn’s team completely mopped the floor with their opponents. The next match was no different. So much for Angel Wings writing a story for underdogs.
It was getting late, so the matches between Lone Desert Smoke and Brilliant Star started right away.
Both teams went up to the stage one after another and entered the battle arena. As the team leader, Zhang Yang went to the middle of the stage to shake hands with Brilliant Star’s leader, Hawk Striker.
"Zhan Yu, from today onwards, we Brilliant Star will replace Lone Desert Smoke as China’s Top Guild!" Hawk Striker hissed through his smiling teeth. Other than those words, onlookers would only see two men shaking hands in mutual respect, with no tension between the two.
Zhang Yang returned the smile evenly, knowing that it was to be expected. Currently, Lone Desert Smoke was indisputably the strongest guild in China. Naturally, they would be targeted by everyone. If Zhang Yang really took every jab like this to heart, he would wear himself out in no time!
"Then you guys should try harder than this!" Having said that, Zhang Yang headed back to his team without sparing a second glance.
"Noob tank, what did you say to him? That guy looks mad!!" Wei Yan Er laughed.
Zhang Yang put the gaming helmet on, shrugged his shoulders and said, "Who knows?!"
The Five of them logged in the game one by one, and after a while, all of them teleported to the virtual arena and entered the final stages of preparation.
Brilliant Star’s 5-man team members included:
Hawk Striker, Level 62, Male Orc, Bandit, 15,780 HP.
Slip and Fall, Level 61, Male Dwarf, Guardian, 19,260 HP.
Chaos Thought, Level 62, Male Dwarf, Sacred Knight, 14,820 HP.
Purple Carrot, Level 62, Female Elf, Phantom Assassin, 14,970 HP.
The Second Red Lotus, Level 61, Male Human, Cryomancer. 14,550 HP.
"We are going to have to blitz this! Focus fire on the Guardian first, force their Thieves to emerge from stealth. Then, I will use {Vanguard's Aggression} on all of us. I’ll keep them busy with {Thunder Strike} and {Blast Wave} and use {Rearm} to start off the cycle again! We’ll defeat them within 20 seconds, okay?" Zhang Yang looked at the four girls.
"Yeah! Violent and brutal, just the way I like it!"
‘Ding! Lone Desert Smoke versus Brilliant Star will officially begin after 10 seconds!’
Bang!
When the invisible wall disappeared, Zhang Yang and his team rushed towards their opponent.
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