Well, our Boss Huang is indeed a scoundrel who stops at nothing. A company with legitimate authorization pirating its own content is unprecedented.
However, on the other side, when Allen Adhan saw Huang He so readily agree to the match, his heart immediately began to falter.
"This Huang He said he's a loyal player of Warcraft II, so his Warcraft II skills must be very high!" Allen Adhan started to feel nervous because he knew that despite being the owner of the game, his skills were only slightly better than an ordinary player. He had always been in the top 20% of the ladder, and there was still a significant gap to the top professional players.
What if this Huang He genuinely had some gaming talent and was proficient in Warcraft II? Wouldn't he be destined to lose!
So, Allen Adhan had a sly idea. He smiled and said, "Since Mr. Huang is so interested in Warcraft III, and my laptop happens to have the beta version of Warcraft III installed, why don't we battle using Warcraft III? This will be the first match of Warcraft III globally!"
Allen Adhan said confidently. He had already played over 300 matches of Warcraft III, while Huang He hadn't even seen the unit types in Warcraft III, let alone the brand-new game mechanics.
Blizzard had indeed put a lot of effort into Warcraft III. Compared to the second installment, Warcraft III's gameplay, mechanics, and especially the appearance of heroes, completely overturned the entire setting of Warcraft II.
In fact, Warcraft III had even overturned the entire real-time strategy game genre. It was undoubtedly a groundbreaking masterpiece of a game.
Facing such a game, any player from the Warcraft II era had no chance of winning against Allen Adhan, who had already played 300 games. He was sure to win.
This was Allen Adhan's confidence.
"Directly play Warcraft III..." As expected, upon hearing it was the third installment, Huang He instantly became a bit timid. "This game hasn't been released yet, is it really okay for me to play it first? How about we stick to the second one?"
"No problem!" Allen Adhan became even more confident and said, "This game is scheduled for release in just two to three months, and I believe Mr. Huang wouldn't leak any content from the game. Of course, we'll need to sign a non-disclosure agreement!"
"Is that so..." Huang He was still hesitant.
"Mr. Huang, you get to experience our latest game, and you still have any complaints? You will be the first outsider in the world to experience Warcraft III." Allen Adhan grumbled, "How about this, you can play a match against the computer first to get familiar with the game, and then we'll start the match!"
"Alright!" Huang He finally relented, agreeing with a "very reluctant" nod.
Allen Adhan's face also broke into a smile, signaling his vice president to lend him his laptop for Huang He to play against the computer. Meanwhile, Allen Adhan himself was not idle. He opened his own computer and started warming up with a match against the AI.
Twenty minutes later, Huang He successfully defeated the easy computer, and Allen Adhan had also finished his warm-up. The two sides began the first battle of Warcraft III in the history of wcg.
First, it was time to pick heroes. Without a second thought, Huang He directly chose the Human race. Allen Adhan had no doubts about this, as Huang He had experienced the Human race during his practice match against the AI, which was normal.
Allen Adhan, on the other hand, chose the Night Elf race. Actually, the Undead race would be the best choice against a beginner. Against a beginner who didn't even understand early-game economic development, one only needed to quickly produce a wave of ghouls to kill the peasants, which would throw the opponent into disarray and agony. Eventually, all the peasants would be wiped out, leaving only a large expanse of buildings, and they could only watch as the Undead army came to raze their base. This was known as the "Frenzied Kobold Rush."
However, Allen Adhan was relatively kind. He felt that bullying a novice like this, especially a future partner, was too inhumane.
Therefore, Allen Adhan decided to play the Night Elf race. Although the Night Elf race was somewhat weak in the early game, it didn't matter against a novice.
Moreover, when the Night Elf race later produced Chimeras, they were incredibly powerful. Allen Adhan envisioned himself pushing through the opponent with a 200-population army, which he thought would feel incredibly satisfying.
With this thought in mind, Allen Adhan began to deliberately go easy on him. He didn't even choose to harass the opponent in the early game. After summoning his hero, he directly took his few archers to jungle creeps.
"He probably doesn't even know how to summon a hero at this point!" Allen Adhan sighed inwardly, feeling that bullying a novice like this was too cruel.
Just as Allen Adhan was happily slaughtering Naga creeps, he suddenly heard a cry of alarm from his vice president. This vice president was squatting beside Huang He's computer, watching. Had he seen something interesting?
Perhaps the novice had killed his own hero while farming creeps?
As Allen Adhan was pondering this, a frantic alarm sound suddenly blared through his headphones. This was the sound of his base being attacked!
"What's going on?" Allen Adhan was startled. He moved his view back to his base with his mouse, and his eyebrows were about to catch fire.
Because he discovered that a shameless old man with a white beard, accompanied by a level two Murloc and three Dwarven Riflemen, was slaughtering his Moon Elves who were chopping wood.
"How can I stand this?" Allen Adhan roared, clicked his town portal scroll, and was about to return to base to save his units.
However, as the town portal scroll activated, the opponent, after taking down one Moon Elf, directly retreated with his troops. Allen Adhan calculated and found that he had lost four lumber-gathering Moon Elves. This loss made his face turn green.
One had to know that in the early game, losing even one peasant could inflict fatal damage to the economy, let alone losing four, especially for the Night Elf race, which was already weak in the early stages.
Then Allen Adhan became anxious. In his anger, he was eager to retaliate. He pulled his troops forward and intended to engage Huang He in a decisive battle. However, he couldn't find Huang He's troops along the way. So, Allen Adhan decided to follow suit and attack Huang He's base to kill his peasants.
At first, it went quite smoothly. He easily reached the gold mine and was about to wreak havoc when the peasants began to scatter. They fled in two different directions. Allen Adhan aimed at one direction, launched an attack, took down two peasants, and then advanced into the base.
Just as he was feeling smug, a group of units emerged from the shadows and blocked his retreat.
Leading the charge were a pair of Footmen, followed by a squad of Dwarven Riflemen. Judging by the glow of their gun barrels, their attack power had also been upgraded.