Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 181 The Bone Dragon that Died for No Reason
In the final of the individual competition, Supreme Honor lost, and was killed by me on the spot. It can be said that he was completely defeated. He used two pseudo-artifacts, including the most powerful "God's Domain", but still could not gain any advantage. I neutralized it with one pseudo-artifact, and took the opportunity to expand his advantage, making him powerless in the subsequent battles. Even if he continued to use pseudo-artifacts to resist stubbornly, he could only save his life and survive the game time limit. He had absolutely no hope of winning. The defeat was already determined, but he was decisive and wise. He did not waste pseudo-artifacts for a little fame and face. He accepted the outcome of being killed by me. He was able to take it and put it down, and he also showed some heroic qualities.
As the winner of the finals, I was naturally the biggest beneficiary. I won the title of "World's No. 1 Expert" for the first time. I finally lived up to the reputation of being the only person in Tianxia who possessed three artifacts. I became the "Unbeatable Demon King" and my reputation was at its peak. No one could compete with me. Many senior players even asserted that with the strong strength I had shown at this stage, it was expected that for a long period of time in the future, I would be the "Unbeatable Demon King" who would dominate Tianxia. Unless other players were lucky enough to possess multiple artifacts during this period, it would be difficult for them to pose any threat to me in a one-on-one duel before they were promoted to the ninth-level profession and achieved a significant breakthrough in their abilities.
In addition to the main competition, the play-offs for the losers of each round of the top 16 were also held at the same time to determine the specific ranking of the "Top Ten Masters in the World". After several rounds of fierce competition, the new "Top Ten Masters in the World" were finally produced. I, the Undead Grand Mage, successfully took off the hat of "Uncrowned King" and became the new "No. 1 Master in the World". The following "Top Ten" rankings were Light Phantom Knight Supreme Honor, Dwarf Phantom Warrior Fearless Warrior, Silver Robe Bishop Holy Heaven, Phantom Knight Dragon Walks the World, Phantom Knight Afeng, Phantom Shooter Moon Wolf, Light Phantom Knight Real Madrid, King Goryeo Warrior and Earth Mage Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. Except for the lucky Real Madrid, the other nine winners are all artifact holders, almost showing a monopoly trend. For example, Afeng and Wangyue Canglang were ranked only around 100 in the last term, but they became the new elites in the "Top Ten" just because they obtained a powerful main artifact. The champion and runner-up, I and Supreme Honor, have three and two artifacts respectively, which further proves that fake artifacts can only succeed temporarily, and artifacts are the absolute guarantee of players' strength. For those top players who have both strength and ambition, artifacts will become their desire and pursuit that they pay more and more attention to.
Judging from the results, the three major forces, the Resistance Alliance, the Church of Light, and the newly established Neutral Alliance, divided the "Top Ten" spots. The Resistance Alliance and the Church of Light each had three people selected. Although two Light players made it to the semi-finals, I was awarded the title of "World's No. 1 Player". Real Madrid was at the bottom of the top eight, which was a fairly evenly matched situation. Although the Neutral Alliance occupied four seats, one more than both of us, the strongest Fearless Warriors was only third. The rankings were generally relatively low, and they did not have a very obvious advantage, and they still maintained a balanced situation.
After the most competitive individual competition, the professional competition will be held immediately. It is not only for the glory of "the best professional player", but for the "top ten" of us in the individual competition, it also means whether we can get extra rewards, which naturally we must win.
The ranking of individual competitions is mainly based on the results. Then, according to the number of players in each profession, sixteen or eight expert players are selected to participate in the professional competition to compete for the honor of "the best professional player". There are many experts in normal professions such as Knight, Warrior, Shooter, and Four-element Magician, and there are sixteen players participating in the challenge. However, due to the small number of players, there are only eight players participating in hidden professions such as Demon Shooter, Wrath Swordsman, Assassin, Lightning Magician, and Ice Magician. As for the Light Knight, Light Priest, Magic Knight, and Necromancer, which are also hidden professions, because they play the leading role in the ultimate battle between light and darkness, in order to better select experts to participate in the final rehearsal, the sixteen strongest players are also selected to participate.
Qiu Shui Chang Tian, Tian Xing, Qing Wu Fei Yang, Ye You, Night Bonfire, True Son of Heaven and other masters among the Undead Wizards were selected to compete with me for the title of "The World's No. 1 Undead Wizard". According to the different levels of the Undead creatures that can be summoned for battle, the strength of the sixteen participating Undead Wizards is obviously divided into three levels - I can already summon ninth-level upper-order Undead, which is unmatched and I occupy the highest level alone; Qiu Shui Chang Tian, Tian Xing and Qing Wu Fei Yang, the other three Wizard Kings and the owner of "Blood Transformation", probably used the "Soul-Gathering Finger" to subdue the higher-level Undead. Qiu Shui Chang Tian and Tian Xing summoned three ninth-level Undead at one time in the competition. The three of them are almost the same in overall strength and can be regarded as the second level. As for the other selected undead wizards such as Yeyou, Fa Ruxue, Zhenming Tianzi, and Night Bonfire, they can only summon green bone dragons or bone giants, or at most bone dragons. They also show that they cherish them very much and are reluctant to sacrifice them in battle. It is probably because it is not easy to subdue them and they cannot have too many of them. They belong to the weakest level. Because of the differences in equipment and encounters, as well as the characteristics of the Necromancer profession, it can be said that the strength of players is the most uneven among all professions. Even among the sixteen Necromancer master players who are eligible to participate in the professional competition, there is a big gap - I am the "Undefeated Demon King" who enjoys the reputation of being a super strong man and the "world's number one master", and several Necromancers such as Yue Ye Gu Hun who ranked last could not even enter the main competition of the individual competition. Single player combat is indeed not a suitable stage for our Necromancer profession to perform.
As the current "world's best player", with my powerful strength, three artifacts, two level 8 pets, I can easily summon two level 9 intermediate bone dragons and sacrifice them at will. At the same time, I also have the abilities of "blood bat transformation" and "instant teleportation of demon spirit possession", so no undead wizard can stand up to me. I won all the way and easily made it to the finals. The opponent I encountered was Qiu Shui Changtian, but even though he had always been ambitious, he gave up the effort to win in the face of my overwhelming advantage. In the battle with me, he only played with the green bone dragon. In addition, the demon spirit possession had been used twice in the previous three rounds of competition. He lacked effective means of survival, and I easily defeated him with a little resistance. They participated in the professional competition, and all they strived for was to defeat other undead wizards as much as possible and win a higher professional ranking, so as to become the representative of the undead wizards and qualify to participate in the preview of the ultimate duel of light and darkness.
Compared to the difficulties of the individual competition, the professional competition was too easy for me. The other necromancers were not strong enough and lacked the fighting spirit to defeat me. No one even used a pseudo-artifact. They could not cause me any trouble at all, allowing me to successfully win the title of "the world's number one necromancer", combining the two honors of "the world's number one necromancer" and "the world's number one master" in one person. In the report of "Tian Media", I was called the first "double champion".
As expected, Supreme Honor won the title of "The World's No. 1 Knight of Light". With the two artifacts in his possession, he won relatively easily, and the difficulty of winning the championship was only slightly greater than mine. Real Madrid, who was also one of the "Top Ten" and eligible for extra rewards, wanted to give it a try, but was suppressed by Supreme Honor and was always at a disadvantage, leaving him no chance of luck. Due to his lack of strength, he was eventually defeated and was temporarily unable to shake Supreme Honor's position as "The First Person of Light".
Long Xing Tian Xia defeated the second seed Desert Eagle and won the title of "World's No. 1 Magic Knight". Sheng Tian Tang won the decisive battle with Olympia and became the "World's No. 1 Bright Priest". Except for the unlucky Real Madrid, the rest of the "Top Ten" players, such as Fearless Warriors and A Feng, defended their honors in the end, won the professional competition, and won the title of the top master in their profession, and won the opportunity to obtain additional rewards. Of course, this is after the end of this "World Hero Conference". Whether the "win-win" players can seize the opportunity and what kind of rewards they will get, they still need to go through the test of the task to know.
In the 19 professional competitions, the title of "Number One in the World" is usually won by the holder of the artifact. Unless it is a duel between two artifact holders, such as Saint Heaven vs. Olympia, Moon Wolf vs. Ice Heart Jade Soul, otherwise, in the situation where they are reluctant to use pseudo-artifacts to compete with the artifact holders, the competition is usually not too fierce. As for those professions that have not yet appeared artifacts, no one can take advantage, and the strength of the people is relatively closer. Although they are also reluctant to use pseudo-artifacts, the battles conducted by conventional means are more intense. The final result may not necessarily be that the player with the highest ranking in the individual competition wins the title of "Number One Professional".
Professional competitions can be said to be an important supplement to individual competition results, allowing top players to more accurately recognize their own positions. In addition to further stimulating their enterprising spirit, there is also the potential intention of preparing for the rehearsal of the ultimate battle between light and darkness, making it easier to select the 25 most powerful masters of the Resistance Alliance and the Church of Light so that they can fight with the strongest lineup.
After the professional competition, the next event was the most important event of the "World Heroes Conference", the team competition organized by various mercenary groups. The basic rules of the competition were similar to the previous ones. Regardless of size, each mercenary group selected 30 official members to form a team to register for the competition. In each game, 20 members from each side competed, and the competition time limit was one and a half hours. There are about 1,800 large and small mercenary groups in "World" so far. Basically, they will sign up for the team competition, which is also divided into group qualifiers and the main competition. Through the competition of the group qualifiers, 128 teams composed of mercenary groups will be selected to enter the main competition to compete for the honor of "Top Ten Mercenary Groups in the World". In particular, the top three in this team competition have the opportunity to obtain the "Prince Order", a necessary item for promotion to a super , as a winning reward. Not only does it have a false reputation, but it also has rich actual benefits, which has attracted many powerful mercenary groups to strive to participate in the competition.
As the defending champion of the previous session, the goal of the Tongxin League this time is naturally to strive for the honor of "the world's number one mercenary group" and increase the chance of being the first to advance to the super mercenary group. Compared with last year, not only did I have three artifacts, my strength was further improved. I successfully won the title of "the world's number one master", and Afeng also obtained the artifact "Blood-sucking Spear", and was selected as one of the "Top Ten" for the first time. A large mercenary group of 10,000 people, holding four artifacts, and two members ranked first and sixth in the "Top Ten", this kind of strength is not even comparable to the highest honor and the glory of the Holy Heaven. More importantly, the strength of other main members such as Xue Wuxia and Yun Wuying has also improved. In today's increasingly fierce competition, their rankings have been further improved, or at least they have not declined. The overall strength is also steadily increasing, and their dependence on me is gradually decreasing. It is no longer the situation where I have to rely on my full strength to compete with other powerful mercenary groups.
According to the rules of the team competition, the defending champion does not need to participate in the group qualifiers and can directly qualify for the main competition. Even if they enter the main competition, with Afeng, a newcomer among the "Top Ten" who also holds a magic weapon, as a solid backing, unless the opponent also has a magic weapon player or a veteran strong team, under normal circumstances, there should be no need for me to play. On the one hand, it can give Moonlight Box and Country Breaking Mountains and Rivers, the rising stars among the undead wizards, more opportunities to perform. On the other hand, it also makes it easier for members of other professions in the team to show their strength, so that they don't have to formulate tactics around me, and the limelight is taken away by me alone, limiting their performance.
In this way, I had some free time, which was equivalent to having a few days of rest. I had no interest in watching other teams' games. I was thinking about the things in the "Dead Space". The higher the status and the more famous I was, the more pressure I felt. I didn't want to face failure. I had to seize the time to develop my own power and enhance my strength. Now is far from the time to relax and enjoy the joy of victory.
I have already made arrangements for many things. I have been away for nearly ten days, and everything has been going on in an orderly manner without any accidents. However, this is only the surface situation. According to my habit, every once in a while, when I have spare time, I will check on my subordinates scattered everywhere to understand some basic situations. But suddenly I found that some marks of the undead subordinates were missing.
Every undead creature that has signed a "soul contract" with me will form a unique mark in my consciousness. No matter where I send them, or how far they are, as long as they are still alive, this mark will not disappear. At least it can let me know their specific location, so that I can dispatch and summon them when needed. Moreover, they can be classified and managed. The distribution map and number of various undead subordinates can be called up at any time for me to view. It will automatically mark the changes in the location and number of each undead population and individual since the last time I checked. Therefore, although the number of conquered subordinates is large and the distribution is wide, any changes that occur will be fed back to me in a timely manner. As long as I pay close attention, I can understand them clearly and will not lose control and contact with them.
The marks representing the undead subordinates disappeared, and I did not cancel the "soul contract" with them, so the only explanation was that they were dead and no longer existed. Although the undead subordinates with names and surnames were all safe, the situation was quite serious and I could not ignore it. The dead were all bone dragons, not only green bone dragons and bone dragons, but also many white bone dragons. After careful inventory, minus the losses caused by the battle, the number of bone dragons that died for no reason was almost close to one hundred.
One hundred bone dragons, although the highest was only level nine intermediate, and not very powerful in the Lost Continent, died suddenly and silently in less than ten days, which absolutely shocked me unprecedentedly. Even if it was not difficult for me to subdue the bone dragons now, I didn't dare to provoke too many battles at the same time in "Dragon Bone Mountain". I could only subdue them one by one, which took a lot of time. Now they died so suddenly and inexplicably, without any effect at all. I was at a great loss.
After further investigation, I found that these hundreds of bone dragons were not massacred en masse. The groups of bone dragons stationed in several fixed areas did not suffer any losses. They were scattered in many places in the Lost Continent, but not all of them acted alone. The largest group of missing people seemed to have more than 20 bone dragons. They were the "checkpoints" I set up in a relatively important area to monitor the movements in the nearby area. It was really weird. If they were low-level undead, it would be fine. I have never experienced the frequent deaths of high-level undead like bone dragons. Generally, as long as I don't take the initiative to cause trouble, even if I encounter those more powerful beings, I will not kill them. What happened to kill so many bone dragons under my command? It shouldn't be that other undead wizards who are jealous of me are behind this. Even if they unite, I am afraid they don't have the strength to kill hundreds of bone dragons in such a short time, so that I can't even get a glimpse of it. Could it be that another knight of destruction has appeared? But it doesn't feel like that. A mid-level Destruction Knight cannot have such a big appetite. If it is a high-level Destruction Knight, it lacks some "destruction" effects and seems a bit "picky".
