Chapter 289 - 269: Sea of Fleeting Blossom Archers
The world’s attention was now focused on the World Cup qualifiers of each country. After two days of selection, the crowded registration for the qualifiers was nearing its end, and each region basically had 1,000 players make it through.
Indeed, each area had hundreds of thousands of participants, but only just over a thousand players could ensure they successfully collected 10 heads to qualify. This was the brutal nature of survival battles. Few people could guarantee they wouldn’t become someone else’s prey in the next second. Most players were taken down from behind in the heat of battle, and then the ambusher was taken down by another from behind.
Though the sheer brutal nature of these rules caused widespread complaints among players who felt unfairly treated, there was no doubt that those who emerged victorious from such a melee were quite strong.
All professional teams wouldn’t miss such an opportunity to understand the strengths of the other regions, but they didn’t want to reveal too much of their own strength either. Therefore, they initially planned to observe for a few rounds before symbolically sending out a few professional players to test the waters. But Da Fei’s appearance completely overturned the professional teams’ understanding of the game! To be precise, he terrified them; for one single reason: numbers!
Da Fei had at least over two hundred level-four units! Moreover, they were the most troublesome kind of ranged units! At this stage, this was a terrifying quantity and quality. Under this overwhelming military power, no God-level Hero could match him. Don’t talk about tactics of winning with fewer numbers; even encountering over two hundred stationary level-four ranged wild monsters in the wild was not something current professional players could handle alone. Not to mention he even had a nun that could counter Dark Skills.
For large professional teams at this stage, it wasn’t a problem to gather a few hundred level-four troops, or even level-five troops. The problem was, who could command them? No one’s Command Power could compare to Da Fei’s because he had too many Vice Heroes. This made him an oddity among players who generally rushed to level 50 into the New World without any Vice Heroes. Of course, if any player had the chance to be Da Fei, everyone would want to be such an outlier. In the face of female heroes, nothing else mattered.
However, this didn’t mean Da Fei was invincible.
That would be to hire some Command Power heroes from the tavern who were over level 20 and met the arena requirements, then sign up for the competition, and after competing, dismiss those trash heroes. Of course, the levels of heroes in the tavern varied, and it was usually not easy to find a hero over level 20 directly, but for large teams, this wasn’t an issue. Could such a large region fail to find five Vice Heroes over level 20?
Certainly, dismissing heroes without reason afterward would reduce the player’s prestige, but prestige wasn’t an issue for professional players.
All in all, large professional teams worldwide were stirred by the news. On the forums, they offered bounties for their country’s players to find heroes over level 20 in the tavern. Then, they equipped the main commander with the finest strategic gear and equipped the Vice Heroes with all equipment that increased Command Power. A Super Hero was thus intensively and methodically being formed with the power of the whole nation.
Although this seemed unfair to ordinary players, Heroic Creation Era was a game that involved national warfare, and national warfare had always been a comprehensive reflection of a country’s national power.
That is to say, Da Fei was going to face super professional players on the International Arena who surpassed him in military power, operations, and tactical awareness, even by a long margin!
And no country realized that a truly terrifying Super Hero was also plotting and preparing with their own power.
Lionheart Empire, the central military fortress town, Strong Crossbow Town.
Lionheart Empire’s renowned gathering place for Divine Archer mentors, a fortress city specializing in training level-two archer units. It was also the only fortress city built in the empire’s central region. Its strategic role was to suppress domestic rebellions and support the borders. Whenever there was an issue in any direction, the forces of this fortress could respond simultaneously. This was what they called "controlling the world from the center." Due to the city’s status as a military stronghold, players needed a certain Kingdom Merit reputation to enter.
For humans, before the mass deployment of level-six Knights, level-two archers were the absolute main force in the conventional army. Many human players essentially used large quantities of level-two troops paired with a small number of level-three Shield Guards to conquer the world before reaching level 50, also known as the archery sea tactic.
At this moment, a large convoy of 20 caravans arrived at the gate of Strong Crossbow Town. A golden-haired Knight Hero named Elanee jumped out of the carriage and handed over a pass to the gate guards, who saluted, and the drawbridge of the town gate lowered. The convoy entered.
Elanee, a golden-haired Knight Hero, Fleeting Blossom’s number one Epic Deputy Hero in the China Region, and the world’s number one Epic Deputy Hero! This was Fleeting Blossom’s convoy. The player pulling the carts, however, was the logistics expert, Harem Beauty.
Players used ships for sea transport and caravans for land hauling. The maximum cargo capacity of a caravan was 10 units, equivalent to a small ship’s capacity, and it could carry troops with 100 Commander Value. When encountering enemy forces surrendering in the wild but lacking enough Command Power to carry them, the caravan was the best tool for transporting guests.