Chapter 340 - 317: Encounter with South Korea’s Rising Star
The battle in the Ancient City Ruins had already commenced in a region unknown to Da Fei, while he still struggled over this manhole cover! Why? Why was Brother Mao’s God-level Reconnaissance Technique going to fail? The progress wouldn’t even pass 20%? Impossible! This is impossible!
What to do! What to do? Just give up like this? Damn it! The more inaccessible a mechanism is, the more likely it leads to treasure, right? How could I give up after coming this far! Ask Hemorrhoid Ointment and the Goddess? Damn it, tell others the treasure’s location? Am I that type of person? Definitely not, I’d rather not get it myself than let someone else have it! I don’t trust these scheming bigwigs, I only trust NPCs!
Alright, I only have these trustworthy NPC beauty heroes around me, I’ll call them to help out and brainstorm!
Da Fei immediately called out to Catherine, Selvia, and Anlicia, "Come, come, let’s all help open the cover!"
Anlicia smirked with indifference, "Commander, please refrain from doing meaningless things on the battlefield!"
Damn it! What do you mean by meaningless things, do you know anything? Forget it, she’s definitely inadequate in intelligence replication, not expecting her to help, but why the smirk?
Selvia casually said, "Commander, I think this matter might require a tool."
Da Fei’s brow twitched, a tool? What tool? A shovel? Damn it, her intelligence must also be this limited in the competitive servers; she’s not reliable either.
Now, only Catherine was left, silently staring at the manhole cover!
Da Fei felt a spark. She hadn’t responded yet? Was she pondering? Right, a pirate by nature, having plundering skills, was akin to unlocking skills; perhaps she had a way?
After a while, Catherine lifted her head and said solemnly, "Commander, I think you should concentrate fully and try again, maybe there’s still hope."
Concentrate fully? Damn it! You’ve been staring for a long time just to give such a useless piece of advice? This is a game, how can I concentrate any harder?
Huh? Wait a minute! My current God-level Reconnaissance Technique was activated along with Phantom March! Was she suggesting I shouldn’t use Phantom March while unlocking mechanisms? Makes sense! No matter how powerful a main skill is, multitasking with two statuses might still be too much, right?
Da Fei immediately canceled the Phantom March state, and the troops emerged from the shadowy state. Da Fei then tried to open the manhole cover again.
—System Prompt: You are attempting to open the sewer mechanism...
The progress bar for opening the mechanism reappeared, and this time, the speed of the progress bar was notably faster than previous attempts! In an instant, Da Fei sensed the aura of success!
Five seconds, six seconds; in just under six seconds, the progress bar broke through the previous 20% barrier!
Da Fei finally understood! How could Brother Mao’s God-level Reconnaissance Technique fail? So that’s it, sub-skills in the game need to have related sub-skills turned off to maximize their effect; such a simple principle, yet I never paid attention to it until now! Haha, wahahaha! It’s like I’ve opened a door to enlightenment! The treasure isn’t in the sewer, it’s in the process of opening the sewer, damn it, I’m so profound, wahahaha!
30%! 40%! 50%! 60%!
Just as the progress bar was soaring towards success, Da Fei’s radar suddenly flashed red, and a red dot appeared!
Damn it! Someone’s coming! And at that moment, the progress bar’s speed suddenly slowed down! So Reconnaissance Technique alerts also drain unlocking resources, damn it! Now’s not the time to worry about this, right?
At this moment, the red dot on the map was heading decisively in Da Fei’s direction, and Da Fei indeed saw a player army at the end of the alley, their red and blue Taiji flag! South Korea’s Ssmida! Korean pro-gamers?
Da Fei’s heart skipped a beat! Although Da Fei was a casual amateur player, he knew how formidable the Ssmida players were in games!
This is trouble, just based on their Ssmida reputation, they’re not coming with good intentions! But could they be kidding me? I struggled with unlocking for so long, and now when I’m about to succeed, they come to mess it up, and their direct approach clearly indicates they found me, right? Did my unlocking attempt dull my Reconnaissance Technique or is this Korean’s Reconnaissance Technique also impressive?
Should I activate Phantom March and run away before the battle starts?
Run like hell! Their Reconnaissance Technique clearly isn’t much lower than mine! Plus, I haven’t opened the manhole yet, so where can I go? The whole world is hunting me down! Counting on the large guilds for salvation? Damn it, even if they are willing to help, I don’t want to owe this favor, lest I can’t haggle over prices when selling divine artifacts in the future!
Beat them! I’ve never in my life seen firsthand what this legendary Korean expert is all about, let’s see how big the gap is between the world’s greatest amateur and a professional gamer! Even though this terrain put me at a disadvantage like a tiger in flatlands, my troops are way better than Fleeting Blossom’s pitiful 2nd-level archers, who are more a hindrance than help. My troops consist of 115 level-4 Banshees, 200 legendary level-3 Elite Secret Archers, 50 level-4 Druids, plus 44 Flying Elite Cannon Emperors, and a few Forest Goddesses with 5 level-7 Storm Druids. What’s that concept? That’s high-end and classy! Even the Dragon Slayer from the grand guilds acknowledges my might!
I refuse to believe my substantial force can’t take them down! Even if this Korean gathered his entire guild’s high-level soldiers, my divine artifact should definitely work!
As for how to fight, isn’t it obvious! Even an NPC like Deirdre knows to occupy high ground and fortify; how could I not know? The buildings on both sides are natural bunkers, right? Have the Elite Cannon Emperor occupy the rooftops, Banshees who can Chain Shoot and charm occupy the middle floor windows. Oh, yeah! Banshees have Chain Shooting, hitting a whole string of foes, their firepower in these streets and alleys is formidable indeed! During public testing, the Hell Race’s first three levels didn’t have long-range troops, but once they got 4th-level Banshees, it was a qualitative leap, demonstrating the Banshees as a vital strategic force in the Hell Race! By the way, my Banshee army is my secret, foreign players surely don’t know, so I can completely catch them off-guard.
However, to maximize the Banshee’s Chain Shooting, the opponents must all be within firing range, unlike Fleeting Blossom and the foreign player earlier who shot from afar, that just won’t work, need to devise a strategy! Speaking of strategies, what would professional gamers think of an amateur gamer like me? Isn’t it obvious? Given my fame as the first Demigod slayer, my reputation alone should terrify them! Arrange the troops, now!
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While the Japanese were conspiring internationally against the China Region, there was always one country that would never buy into Japan’s schemes, and that was South Korea.
South Korea was proud and self-assured, yet was oppressed by Japan and ironically, Japan shamelessly gloried in it. South Korea’s hate and disdain for Japan were palpable, and their boycott of Japan was all-encompassing. For instance, in automobiles, electronics, and sports, Koreans claimed anything the Japanese had, they themselves had too, and would never be inferior; South Korea would never buy Japanese products.
Even Japan’s most prized AV industry was boycotted by South Korea, with the people declaring they’d make local youth watch domestically-produced AV, hence South Korea vigorously developed their AV industry! What’s that called? When the dog eats shit, Ssmida follows to learn from the dog!
Ssmida’s mindset could indeed be perplexing at times. Perhaps it’s precisely this perplexing mindset that breeds countless e-sports talents?
Right now, in the Ancient City Ruins. South Korean e-sports prodigy, former world top pro-gamer Jin Xiyong’s most cherished apprentice, a darling poised to be South Korea’s next e-sports queen, known as the Star of Tomorrow—Li Yinzhu—was riding her Unicorn King across the battlefield, searching for Da Fei.
As for the alliance resolution advocated by the Japanese, it was flatly ignored by her and her mentor team.
Her Freedom Wings Team, Tatazu, received insider information before the competition, stating that players with high Command Power would be isolated in a super map, demanding extremely high player skills. Meaning, this map gathered the world’s acknowledged strongest players.
This did put the Freedom Wings Team in a quandary. The Koreans never played with soldier seas. However, the training opportunity was too good to pass up. With Freedom Wings’ prowess, creating a Super Hero wasn’t hard. But between the three rising stars—Hongg Xiuying, Zhao Shizhe, and Li Yinzhu—who should go on stage?
The answer was undoubtedly Li Yinzhu, because her mission developed into a Unicorn Boss, the Unicorn King. The legend was that unicorns allowed virgins to ride on their backs, meaning Li Yinzhu came to possess a Unicorn Boss as a mount, greatly enhancing troop mobility, second only to flying heroes!
Under normal circumstances, this mission Boss wouldn’t easily accompany players into battle, but the competition’s purpose was to gauge player strength, so even mission Bosses could contend, not to mention the Unicorn King came with a squad of Unicorn Elite Guards, which could also combat, plus high-level troops borrowed from other teammates, making Li Yinzhu’s prowess obvious!
Not to mention, forget elites, Boss-level Unicorns, even ordinary Unicorns were formidable, core 5th-level troops of the Elf Clan, comparable to the 6th-level troops of the Human Race and Ghost Clan, already beyond most players’ reach.
So under these competition rules, Li Yinzhu’s military force was indeed overwhelming, so her mentors intended her to just stroll around, learn about what might become a future international competition arena, then casually survey the troops other players had, gather 10 Hero’s Proof to advance, then leave.
However, this idea was directly dismissed by the mentors in less than a minute after opening! Da Fei’s arrogance and dominance were extremely vexing! Koreans disliked Chinese people, especially arrogant ones like Da Fei! And killing Da Fei would highlight Japanese incompetence, also educate this self-proclaimed world’s number one amateur player from China, letting the whole world know, that divine artifacts and Boss units couldn’t defeat Korea!
But where was Da Fei? This Da Fei with no less Reconnaissance Skills must have employed Stealth Skill to hide.
Though Korea didn’t agree with Japan, it didn’t impede Freedom Wings from obtaining other contestants’ coordinate information from the alliance, further analyzing potential zones where Da Fei might exist. The Unicorn King, as a high-level Bright Creature with the special skill Dark Sense, had a keen scent for Dark Creature stench, consistently seeking out Da Fei, who might possess Dark Creatures.
Within a top professional team’s calculations, the search zone would inevitably shrink, and Da Fei would eventually become exposed under the Unicorn King’s scent.
Yet the Koreans were taken aback when Da Fei suddenly appeared! His potent Dark Creature stench prompted the Unicorn King to sneeze from afar!
Li Yinzhu screamed with excitement, "Mentors, found the prey!"
The mentors behind her chuckled, "This is your test, you handle it yourself!"
Li Yinzhu scornfully cut in, "Understood, full force when a lion hunts a hare!" (More to come. If you like this work, please visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote with recommendations or monthly tickets, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read on m.qidian.com.)