Chapter 1 The Crowd's Surprise

The Zero Wing members were all surprised to hear Shi Feng's words.

A warlock was a ranged magic class, countered by rangers in terms of class. Logically speaking, they shouldn't send a magic class. At the very least, they should send a ranger like Bei Feng Didiao, so they wouldn't be at a disadvantage in terms of class, or send an assassin or berserker, which could counter the ranger.

"Guild Leader, let me go. I counter rangers. I can definitely win this match," Huo Wu said proactively.

The others thought it made sense.

There were a total of five matches. As long as they won three, they would be victorious. It was always good to win one first. Moreover, when Huo Wu arrived, everyone noticed that her equipment had changed.

The Truefire Flow Blade, which she hadn't changed for a long time, had actually been replaced.

The Truefire Flow Blade was a set weapon, and a superb Dark-Gold weapon. It was only slightly inferior to a level 35 Dark-Gold weapon, but considering the attribute effects, even a level 35 Dark-Gold weapon couldn't compare to the level 30 Dark-Gold set effect. However, the fact that she had changed her weapon was enough to prove that the attributes of the weapon in Huo Wu's hand must have exceeded the previous Truefire Flow Blade.

With Huo Wu's attributes improved, coupled with her previous combat skills, she should be able to confidently defeat her opponent in a one-on-one battle.

"No, Shui Se going is the best choice. You have more important things to do." Shi Feng shook his head, very certain of his judgment.

He was quite clear about the information of the ranger, Qian Ren. After all, Qian Ren was a frequent figure among the members of the Radiant Lion team in his previous life. How could he not know about such an expert?

In this kind of top-level competition, the gap in equipment attributes could be said to be very small. Even if Bei Feng Didiao wore a Tier 1 set, its basic enhancement was stronger than those level 35 Dark-Gold pieces, but a Tier 1 set only had five pieces of equipment. There was no difference in the other equipment. Each piece was inlaid with Tier 3 gems. It could be said that the attribute advantage was very limited. The main competition was in skills.

Because of the difference in combat power between their equipment, Shi Feng estimated that if Bei Feng Didiao's combat power was 2000, then Qian Ren's would be around 1800. There was a difference, but it could be easily compensated with skills. This kind of thing was very common in the Dark Arena, and in the Dark Arena, players couldn't use any items during battles.

This meant that the battle was a competition of skills and equipment.

Bei Feng Didiao had not yet entered the Realm of Micro, not even the Half-Step Realm of Micro. He could only unleash the limits of his physical body. How could he compare to Qian Ren, who had already entered the Realm of Micro and could freely control his own power?

After Shi Feng made his decision, the names of the combatants appeared in the middle of the 300 by 300-yard duel arena.

Qian Ren vs. Shui Se Rose!

"The Shura team is really pitiful. They actually sent out the highly famous Shui Se Rose right from the start. It seems they really have no one else." The assassin Chang Hong sneered, "It's a pity that even Shui Se Rose can't be Qian Ren's opponent. It would have been better to send out a cannon fodder. It's a waste of a good combatant."

"The information shows that the only one in the Zero Wing guild who can be considered is Sword King Black Flame. I really want to meet him. The title of Sword King will belong to me then." The blue-armored swordsman Xue Yang looked at the Shura team's participant list and couldn't help but sigh.

The others nodded in agreement. Just the first battle was enough to see that.

The Shura team had no chance of winning.

If Shui Se Rose could reach the Realm of Micro, she could have had a good fight due to class advantage. However, not reaching the Realm of Micro meant she was ultimately just an amateur. Although there was only a thin line between them, it was a world of difference.

...

"Qianyu Jie, what is Ye Feng thinking? He actually let Shui Se Rose go up. Can't he see Qian Ren's level?" Qing Huang had previously admired Shi Feng a little, but now Shi Feng's performance was a bit disappointing. Qian Ren didn't hide his combat level at all. Every move was so natural and smooth, without any extra movements. He had clearly reached the Realm of Micro. "No matter how I look at Qian Ren, he should be at the Realm of Micro level. Even if the best candidate wasn't Ye Feng himself, he should at least have sent Huo Wu!"

Huo Wu was Zero Wing's number one assassin. In terms of skills, she was on par with Shui Se Rose. Assassins countered rangers to some extent. Although she hadn't reached the Realm of Micro, she might have had a chance to win with her attribute advantage. Giving up a match like this was really not worth it.

Feng Qianyu also shook her head, unable to understand Shi Feng's thoughts.

To win against a stronger opponent, one had to seize the opponent's weaknesses. Now that the other party didn't take the Shura team seriously, it was a good opportunity to win a victory, but to do this was really puzzling.

Shui Se Rose didn't think much about it. Such one-on-one battles, especially against experts, were rare opportunities. Although she didn't know Shi Feng's consideration, she was happy to fight Qian Ren, even if she felt her chances of winning were not high.

"Shui Se, wait a moment." Shi Feng suddenly stopped Shui Se Rose, who was about to go on stage. He took out a verdant staff from his backpack and handed it directly to Shui Se Rose, "Don't rush to end the battle. Hone yourself more."

"Guild Leader, this is..." Shui Se Rose was very excited when she saw the green staff. "Guild Leader, don't worry, I will play with him as much as possible."

After Shui Se Rose finished speaking, she confidently walked towards the stage.

"Your team leader is really foolish to send you up to die, but it's also good. I haven't fought a beautiful woman in a long time. Don't blame me for being ruthless when the time comes." Qian Ren grinned, took out the purple-bronze sharp thorn longbow behind his back, and took out five green-glowing refined steel arrows from the quiver on his back.

These arrows were carefully prepared by him, called Sudden Poison. Each arrow cost 10 silver coins, which could be said to be very expensive. He usually couldn't bear to use them, but now it was a competition, so he naturally wouldn't be stingy in this regard.

As long as one was hit by this Sudden Poison, even if it only grazed the armor on the body, it would cause extremely high damage, and also be infected with poison, greatly reducing the player's movement and attack speed, and causing a lot of health loss every second, lasting for 5 seconds.

For magic classes, which were already slow in movement speed, being hit and having their speed greatly reduced would make it impossible to dodge arrows, and they could only be slaughtered like a target.

Moreover, warlocks were not like elementalists. Elementalist were a firepower turret, while warlocks were mostly focused on restricting and weakening. Their own firepower was generally weaker and couldn't compare to rangers.

Faced with Qian Ren's provocation, Shui Se Rose ignored him and simply played with the new staff in her hand, like a little girl who had found a new toy.

"You're courting death!" Qian Ren was furious when he saw Shui Se Rose directly ignore him. "I'll let you personally experience what despair is soon!"

The countdown to the match finally reached zero. With a low warning sound, the match officially began.

"Scatter!"

Qian Ren directly shot an arrow into the sky, using the ranger's Tier 1 AoE skill, Rain of Arrows. The falling Sudden Poison arrows instantly covered the area where Shui Se Rose was.

Authentic subscriptions are on Qidian, a subsidiary of Yuewen. You can see the latest chapters there first.