Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 190 Final Preview
I wanted to kill the enemy, but I was powerless. I could kill two or three expert players relatively easily, but after all, I was just an ordinary player in "Tianxia", not an "inhuman" super-existence. Without enough time to prepare, it was impossible for me to deal with five or seven opponents at the same time, including the super-powerful Supreme Honor and the "Top Ten" regular of Holy Heaven. There was already a huge gap between Tongxin League and Glory, and it was not something that my personal efforts could reverse. I lost all my teammates. Shaman, the two six-armed giant magicians, and Taotao were killed in battle one after another. Khufu was also seriously injured under the siege of others. I used "Wartime Return" to send him back to the "Dead Soul Space" in time. I fought hard to the end. Ibola was still able to continue fighting. With "Teleportation", no one could do anything to it. However, facing the endless pursuit of Glory, I was exhausted and could not stop for a moment, but I did not have enough physical strength to hold on. Not wanting to be killed by exhaustion, I cooperated with Ibora and let it break the "Holy Light Barrier" of a silver-robed bishop. After being forced back, I took the opportunity to fly up, transformed back into my original form, and pounced on him. At the same time, I immediately activated and detonated the "Undead Ring". Countless "death rays" shot out, covering an area within a radius of fifteen meters. Ibora teleported to a distance and made a feint, then seized the opportunity to kill him with a surprise attack. Amid the "gods and ghosts dancing", he was sent to the west before I was killed by the "Holy Cross" of the highest honor, and was buried with me.
The United Alliance was defeated. In the team finals, they lost to their old rival Glory and lost the chance to defend their title. The Church of Light took this opportunity to fully demonstrate the tyrannical strength of the light profession. Although there were only two professions, they were not afraid of the challenge of the multi-professional resistance alliance, which further strengthened the confidence of the members under their command. Perhaps this was also the main reason why Glory spared no effort and used so many pseudo-artifacts. At the same time, it was probably coveting the "Prince Order". As the "No. 1 Mercenary Group in the World", they could select more people to participate in the competition and seize the initiative. They wanted Glory to become the first super mercenary group of 50,000 people in "The World". However, the best performance in the entire final was from me, who was on the losing side. In the extremely unfavorable situation of four to fourteen and the United Alliance facing a disastrous defeat, I showed my ability to the fullest and staged a wonderful duel. After a hard fight, we killed more than twice as many enemies as we did. The glory far outweighed the highest honor, and I lived up to the honor of being the only holder of three artifacts in "Tianxia" so far and the "world's best master". We reversed the situation that was originally a clear winner and a one-sided defeat in less than half an hour to an almost evenly matched result, forcing Glory to use pseudo-artifacts to ensure victory despite the numerical advantage. It is really worthy of pride. With a super strong man like me, the reputation of the United Alliance or even the Resistance Alliance did not suffer much negative impact due to the loss of the team competition. Even the Church of Light did not dwell too much on the process of the finals, and for the first time, did not take the opportunity to criticize our United Alliance or the Resistance Alliance, but only talked about the positive significance and impact of Glory winning the team finals. The result was not favorable to us. It was an indisputable fact that we lost in the finals. The Church of Light did not take the initiative to provoke us, so naturally it would not cause any more trouble, so it kept silent. Both sides had their own concerns, and the atmosphere after the final seemed unusually peaceful for a while, without the lively verbal battles like in previous sessions.
The team competition has ended. The honor of "the world's number one mercenary group" was won by Glory, which was played by all the professional players of Guangming, as the defending champion of the previous session. Tongxin League came in second, and the competition for the third and fourth place was also extremely fierce. After all, it was related to the last place to participate in the competition for the "Prince Order". Neither Fearless nor Blood Moon was willing to give up the opportunity to become a super mercenary group, and there was no pressure from the subsequent final showdown rehearsal match. Both sides went all out and showed their best. The "Wrath of Thunder God" of the Fearless Warriors finally showed its power and found an opportunity to break Blood Moon's "Nine Stars Linked Arrow Formation". At the cost of six people, nine enemy shooters including Wangyue Canglang were buried with them. Relying on the advantage in numbers gained from this, they won the final victory. The top three were Glory, Tongxin League and Fearless, all of which were old and powerful mercenary groups, each with a super strong man. It was basically a normal result. They all obtained the qualification to participate in the task of competing for the "Prince Order" and had the opportunity to be promoted to the first super mercenary group in "Tianxia". The fourth place is naturally Blood Moon, and the fifth to tenth places are Longteng, Night Wolf, Never-Setting Sun, Galaxy, Star-Moon and Sunset respectively. Among them, there are three that are directly affiliated with the Resistance Alliance, namely Tongxin League, Longteng and Star-Moon. Although the Church of Light only has two factions, Glory and Galaxy, the Never-Setting Sun of Yamato Spirit has been recognized as a force that has defected to the Church of Light, and is generally not at a disadvantage. It is still a draw, and there is no good reason to attack or suppress the other side.
Of course, the calm will only be temporary. Perhaps both of us are waiting for the rehearsal match of the final battle between the Church of Light and the Alliance of Resistance Forces, which will be held in a day and a half. The first direct confrontation between the two major forces of light and darkness is related to the final trend of "Tianxia". Its result can determine which of the two camps has the upper hand. Although it is only a rehearsal battle for the eighth-level profession, the members are also temporarily selected from different mercenary groups. They may lack coordination with each other, and the powerful props and pseudo-artifacts have been used up. It may not be as exciting as a team match, but the overall strength of the participating members is far beyond any previous game. They are all well-known top players, representing the strongest lineup of the two camps, which is enough for most players to look forward to seeing which force can win the rehearsal match and take the lead.
The organizing committee determined and announced the official list of players from both sides participating in the rehearsal match based on the results of the individual and professional matches, and mainly referring to the nominations and recommendations of the Church of Light and the Resistance Alliance. The Church of Light only involves two professions, so it is naturally simpler. The selected players are all players among the sixteen who are eligible to participate in the professional match. According to personal results and professional rankings, and referring to professional merits and mutual cooperation, a list of twenty-five players was selected, including thirteen Light Phantom Knights such as Supreme Honor, Holy Heaven, Olympia, Real Madrid, and Hua Mantian, and twelve Silver Robe Bishops. However, our Resistance Alliance is more troublesome. In addition to the two dark professions of Magic Knight and Undead Wizard, other neutral professions are also involved. We need to select eight master players from multiple professions to participate. How to choose between players of different professions with equal strength. It was indeed a difficult task. The organizing committee gave us the main decision-making power, which made the Dark Council quite thoughtful. Long Xing Tian Xia, Dame Fei Ying, Qiu Shui Chang Tian, and Qing Wu Fei Yang argued for a long time, until the final time given by the organizing committee was about to expire, we finally decided on a list with great difficulty and submitted it.
The nine Phantom Knights, led by Long Xing Tian Xia and Da Mo Fei Ying, had an extra spot for the Phantom Knight Tie Xue Dan Xin, who ranked 14th in the profession, but had bad luck in the previous individual and team competitions, was eliminated by the strong too early, and still had several pseudo artifacts. The eight Undead Grand Mages, including me, Qiu Shui Chang Tian and the other four witch kings, are easy to determine. The eight selected neutral professional players are based on their strength, referring to the balance between merits and different forces within the alliance. They selected Phantom Knight A Feng, Phantom Knight Romantic Sakura, Thunder Grand Mages Bai Yun Jian, Phantom Berserker Ganges War God, Phantom Archer Xiang Si Hong Dou, Water Grand Mages Wan Li Wu Feng, Phantom Swordsman Kosano and Dwarf Phantom Warrior Re Xue. They are all very strong individually, but they are the result of compromise among various internal forces. Moreover, no matter whether they are multi-professional neutral players, or Undead Wizards and Magic Knights, they have no way to form or temporarily form a certain battle formation, and can only rely on the combat cooperation between individuals. The overall combat power is really not optimistic. Fortunately, the candidates from the Church of Light also come from different mercenary groups. Although the priests of light are good at cooperation, they may not be able to use one-time group powerful props like the "Heaven's Gate" of the previous session or the "Teleportation Aura" of this session. According to insider information, obtaining them also requires accumulating enough merits. The process is not simple. It requires some members to make corresponding contributions to the Church of Light selflessly. The pseudo-artifacts should have been consumed almost, and we need to rely more on our true strength. We still have a considerable chance.
We are all top players, and we didn't form any battle formations, nor did we need to conduct any tactical drills. During the one and a half day break, other contestants could rest and gather their strength for the final battle, but I was a miserable person. The team finals against Glory were only for the sake of momentary pleasure, and we fought hard to the death. Ibora was okay, as his injuries were not serious, and he had a strong recovery ability. If I gave him some bone dragons to kill and devour, he should be able to recover soon. Khufu was more troublesome. In order to cooperate with Ibora to kill an opponent, he persisted until the end, was severely injured, and was almost dead before I sent him back, but he could not recover in time by relying on the "pyramid" alone. Like Ibora, he is currently my most trusted subordinate. I had no choice but to use the "Soul of the Dead" to assist him in healing. I worked for more than ten hours to ensure that he could fight intact.
It was not until before the start of the competition that the twenty-five of us gathered together to discuss tactics. We could not cooperate as effectively as the light profession, and we had to rely more on our individual combat effectiveness. According to the tactical characteristics of the light profession, the cooperation between the light priests was not easy to stop. The most important thing was to effectively prevent the cooperation between the light priests and the light knights. We first concentrated our efforts to eliminate one of them and kill the light knight. After all, only the Supreme Honor Transcription had two artifacts, while the light priests had two defensive artifacts - the "Angel Robe" of the Holy Heaven and the "Eye of Glory" of Olympia. It was difficult for melee professions to launch effective attacks on them, which was more difficult to deal with. As long as the light knights were eliminated first, the remaining light priests would be unable to support themselves, and the threat would be much smaller. I, the new "world's number one master", took on the most important task, which was to contain the Supreme Honor and effectively limit his performance, so that he would not rely on the "Speed Wing Light Armor" and "Holy Cross " to threaten other teammates with slower speed and weaker defense.
At the beginning of the rehearsal match, the twelve silver-robed bishops, led by Holy Heaven and Olympia, quickly joined forces to cast the "Holy Light Barrier". At the same time, Holy Heaven activated the "Angel Robe", which added another layer of protection to the "Body Protection Divine Light", and Olympia also activated the "Eye of Glory". The area of 50 meters was covered by white light. Neither Ebola's "Teleport" nor Voldemort's "Earth Walk" could invade. If you approach them directly, you will be irradiated by eight "Eye of Revelation", which has a strong defensive effect. If you want to attack with a melee profession, it will definitely be twice the result with half the effort. After completing the preliminary preparations, they began to advance rapidly under the protection of the Seraph, and cooperated with the Knight of Light to force us directly. We must give full play to our overall strength and strive to defeat us.
I also immediately used "Blood Transformation" and summoned Ebola first. It then summoned Xiaobai to possess it, and used "Instant Teleport" to move towards the Supreme Honor. He had also summoned the Seraph to possess it. It also activated two pairs of light wings, one large and one small. When it saw Ebola attacking, it immediately chose to stay where it was, trying its best to deal with Ebola, and could no longer take care of other things. Real Madrid and Holy Heaven did not stop at all, and continued to move towards us, eager to start a close battle, unwilling to give us, the Undead Wizard, more opportunities to replenish our spiritual power.
Then I summoned Shaman and Taotao, and I activated the "Touch of Death" without hesitation. Anyway, I had Wanli Wufeng to replenish my health points, so I didn't worry about the consumption. In addition, the three white bone dragons summoned by Qiu Shui Changtian and Tianxing, as well as Voldemort and the giant jellyfish with flying shoes were also not weak. They could effectively block the attacks for me and buy time to replenish my mental strength. Their "Hand of Darkness" consumed physical strength, which could not be replenished by water magicians. Before I was too sure, I didn't dare to waste it easily.
The strongest players of light who were carefully selected had personal strength that was naturally not comparable to that of a mercenary group of Glory. There were thirteen phantom knights of light, eight of whom rode velociraptors, four rode pterosaurs, and one rode a level seven upper-level two-horned Pegasus. In addition, there were twelve descended seraphim, a total of seventeen enemies with air combat capabilities. Fortunately, most of the ones we summoned were bone dragons, which had enough air interception capabilities, and we were not worried about the air raid of the light side. We successfully blocked their vanguard and allowed them to charge left and right without any loopholes for them to break through.
However, when the silver-robed bishops quickly approached and joined the battle, they were unable to resist. The key was that they basically did not dare to approach the 50-meter range covered by the "Eye of Glory". Otherwise, once the "Eye of Vision" came, they would be attacked immediately. It was difficult to avoid damage when they could not see. Experienced players could withdraw in time, but the reaction of the bone dragons would inevitably be a little slower. Under the attack of the Seraph and the light magic, it was often difficult to retreat unscathed. Fortunately, there were many summoned ones, flying in the air around the silver-robed bishops looking for opportunities to attack, which also made them dare not be careless. They followed closely, took precautions, and did not dare to be too aggressive.
Although the organizing committee did not provide any rewards for the winner of the rehearsal round, our resistance alliance specially applied for a special bonus. We believe that the Church of Light is not a stingy person. With the heavy reward, and considering the reputation of the two major camps, our fight was quite fierce. However, we were fighting with our own strength and did not use any pseudo-artifacts. Perhaps they were almost used up in the previous games and could not be used easily. After all, almost all the selected contestants are top masters and the backbone of their mercenary groups. For their own direct interests, they will definitely work harder in traditional individual and team competitions. Especially for those marginal players who are not very sure that they can participate in the rehearsal round, it is difficult for them to retain more strength for this.
Without the threat of powerful props and pseudo-artifacts, relying on the cover of my teammates, I was able to activate the "Touch of Death" quite smoothly. Although I was interrupted by the enemy's surprise attack several times, Wanli Wufeng replenished my health, so the loss was nothing. The Supreme Honor, who was the strongest and had the ability to surprise, was entangled by Ibola. Although he was defending with all his strength, he could not do anything to him in a short time. Without using pseudo-artifacts, he could not get rid of Ibola's pursuit. There was no way to support or threaten our teammates. Without him, the holder of two artifacts, Afeng and Long Xingtianxia seemed unstoppable. One-on-one, neither the second-ranked Real Madrid nor the third-ranked Hua Mantian were their opponents. They could only rely on the silver robe bishops' cluster and rely on their support to repel our attack. They pushed forward step by step, trying to compress our range of activities and find opportunities to break through the defense and directly threaten the undead wizards behind the team.
After I summoned Khufu and the six-armed giant magician, the frustrated light side finally couldn't hold back, and several phantom knights and silver-robed bishops used pseudo-artifacts to strengthen the offensive, but several of my teammates such as Tiexue Danxin also used pseudo-artifacts immediately, and did not let them take advantage of the opportunity. With the powerful protection provided by Khufu and the six-armed giant magician, Qiu Shui Changtian and others looked for opportunities to use the "Hand of Darkness" and began to absorb spiritual power to summon more undead to fight. However, the light side never took more effective means to contain us, and the peace of victory had begun to tilt towards us.
