Chapter 171 Take Them Down!

"Take them down!" With Tang Hao's final roar, although the minds of the Howling Heights players were not completely aligned, their low morale was, to some extent, reignited.

"The Howling Heights side seems lively?" On the Xingxin side, the players preparing for the team competition were doing their final tactical review. Chen Guo liked to eavesdrop, but she would always get dizzy listening, and her attention would drift. Then it would be difficult to catch up with the tactical thinking everyone was discussing. The pitiful Boss Chen could only look around at this time. She suddenly saw the Howling Heights side acting like they had been injected with chicken blood, yelling and screaming, and being extremely passionate.

Everyone at Xingxin had already been attracted by the shouting over there. They glanced over and their eyes met with those from the Howling Heights side. Compared to Xingxin's casualness, the gazes from Howling Heights seemed quite clear, especially from a few individuals.

"Well, it seems our temporary changes are necessary," Ye Xiu said.

Everyone's eyes turned to Fang Rui at this moment. Xingxin's on-the-spot adjustments in this team competition would depend on Fang Rui. Today, he had become the protagonist through and through.

"No problem," Fang Rui gave everyone two thumbs up.

"Then... let's get ready!" Ye Xiu finally nodded and said.

After the final few minutes of rest, under the signal from the on-site referee, the players from both sides participating in the team competition began to walk onto the stage.

Xingxin Team: Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, Fang Rui, Qiao Yifan, An Wenyi, and the sixth player, Baozi.

Howling Heights Team: Tang Hao, Liu Hao, Zhao Yuzhe, Lin Feng, Ruan Yongbin, and the sixth player, Guo Yang.

To be honest, the Howling Heights team's lineup had indeed undergone a transformation in the past two years. As for this lineup, except for Ruan Yongbin, everyone else had been on the team for less than three years. Zhao Yuzhe, on the other hand, was the most senior among them. Tang Hao and Guo Yang had been on the team for less than two years, and Liu Hao and Lin Feng had just joined last summer, and would only have been there for a full year after this season.

The new lineup of players changed Howling Heights' old tactical style, and even the professional configuration had changed. The Rogue and Thief classes were still there, but the Knight position, which had been stable in the team for many years, had gradually retreated to the second line this season. Liu Hao's Spellblade was a new class, and Guo Yang's Qi Master had come to the team last season, and his position had not been stable, but this season he had gradually become a main force. It seemed that Guo Yang's decision to reject Ye Xiu's invitation to stay on the team was not bad after all, at least he finally had a stable position in the Howling Heights team.

There were twelve players in the two teams, and there were three pairs of repeated classes.

Tang Hao and Baozi's Rogue; Fang Rui and Guo Yang's Qi Master; An Wenyi and Ruan Yongbin's Priest.

However, since Baozi and Guo Yang were both sixth players, only the Priests clashed in the starting lineup. As healers, this was not surprising.

The players from both sides took the stage and exchanged pre-match greetings. The Howling Heights players who had lost in the individual matches obviously carried the emotions of avengers, and the atmosphere was quite intense. The referee stared at the players from both teams, confirmed that there were no excessive verbal conflicts or physical contact between the two sides, and signaled the players from both teams to enter the competition seats. The team competition was about to begin.

The Howling Heights die-hard fans, who had been somewhat sad and disappointed, immediately cheered up again when they noticed that their team seemed to have suddenly cheered up. The Howling Heights team flag began to flutter in the Xiao Shan stadium. Sometimes, fans' demands are actually quite simple. They don't necessarily need to see a particularly satisfactory result, just an attitude that makes them feel that their support has not been in vain.

The countdown began. After a few seconds, the map was loaded, and the two teams began the team competition of this match.

The map was Peli Town Market.

Peli Town is a real town in the Glory Continent, and the market was indeed captured from this town to be used as a battle map. In fact, about 90 percent of the battle maps in Glory are captured from parts of the Glory Continent. This connection design existed from the beginning, so the scenes captured as battle maps were designed with this purpose in mind.

Peli Town Market is a town map, with streets, buildings of varying heights, and indoor and outdoor scenes, which are common in this type of map. The Peli Town Market map has relatively few indoor and outdoor scenes. The large market square occupies nearly half of the map's area. This square is not a large open space. The market naturally has various stalls and piles of goods. However, the durability and sturdiness of these things are relatively poor. The entire market can be seen as a destructible scene.

The starting five characters of the two teams were refreshed at opposite corners of the map.

Xingxin: Unspecialized Lord Grim, Launcher Mu Yu Chengfeng, Qi Master Ha Wu Liang, Ghostblade One Inch Ash, Priest Little Cold Hands.

Howling Heights: Rogue Tang San Da, Spellblade Dark Oblivion, Elementalist Shining Exchange, Thief Ghostly Shadow, and Priest Healing Spirit.

At the beginning of the game, the Howling Heights team showed the morale they had recovered during the half-time break. The whole team formed a formation and rushed to the center of the map.

The scene was no longer unusual for the current Howling Heights fans, but in the days when the Criminal Combination was in charge, the Howling Heights team rarely adopted this posture of head-on collision. But now, no matter who their opponent is, Howling Heights almost always has this domineering aura of crushing their opponents.

To be honest, fans initially liked this momentum very much. Who wouldn't like such a powerful force that could directly crush opponents? In the first five rounds of the season, Howling Heights did indeed have an unstoppable force, crushing their opponents like a hegemon. However, these five rounds of opponents were Yueyun, Zhaohua, Light Ruling, Mingqing, and Miracle... None of them could be called a strong team. Howling Heights' beautiful start seemed to owe a bit to the schedule.

So in the sixth round, Howling Heights encountered the Samsara team, and their unstoppable force was immediately defeated.

Then, in the seventh round, the team was destroyed by Tyranny.

In the eighth round, the team was destroyed by Blue Rain.

In the ninth round, the team was destroyed by 301.

In the tenth round, against Team Seaside, Howling Heights' spirit was invigorated and their momentum was unstoppable.

After these ten rounds, Howling Heights was immediately labeled as a fake strong team. They won against weak teams, but they would kneel as soon as they encountered a team that looked a bit strong...

Fortunately, in the next eleventh and twelfth rounds, Howling Heights defeated Misty Rain and Void in a row, proving themselves fiercely. But in the thirteenth round, they were washed by Team Hundred Blossoms. In the fourteenth round, they were stepped on by Thunderclap. In the fifteenth round, they were even more embarrassingly defeated by Royal Wind. It wasn't until the sixteenth and seventeenth rounds, when they encountered Team Everlasting and Team He Wu, that Howling Heights stood up again.

Howling Heights was able to stand in the top eight because they were still strong against weaker opponents and didn't lose too many points that they shouldn't have lost. However, when they encountered opponents with a little bit of strength, their team was immediately defeated. A fake strong team? Howling Heights had this label removed. Now players called them soft-legged shrimps, cowards who would soften up when they encountered strong teams.

This round, after bullying two weak teams in a row, they encountered a strong team again. It was another chance to prove that they were not soft-legged shrimps, but now, with the individual competition completely wiped out, if they lost the team competition again, they would get zero points directly, which was as soft as it could get.

But even so, the Howling Heights team showed the same domineering aura that they would conquer everything. The five characters rushed to the center of the map, Peli Town Market, in a very standard attack formation.

The market, which occupied half of the map's area, was cut into pieces by various stalls and piles of goods, and the players' perspectives became twisted.

Zhao Yuzhe received the signal and immediately operated his Shining Exchange to jump onto a pile of sacks next to him. After a few jumps, he reached the top. Before he could stabilize his perspective and take a closer look, a gunshot rang out.

Hearing the sound, the Howling Heights players instantly found the general direction. Everyone rushed towards that direction without hesitation, including Shining Exchange, who had jumped onto the pile of sacks and attracted the attack.

Zhao Yuzhe's attack was extremely aggressive. As soon as the gunshot rang out, he quickly adjusted his character's direction and teleported Shining Exchange out in an instant. He flashed and forced forward, and the one being attacked became the leader of the offensive.

"How fierce!" At this moment, the trash talk from the master of sneakiness, Fang Rui, mysteriously appeared in the channel.

Howling Heights' attack formation was, of course, well-prepared. Seeing this sudden trash talk, the five characters clearly monitored the surroundings to determine the location of Fang Rui's character.

However, there was nothing... The only person within sight was Ye Xiu's Lord Grim.

Ambush!

Even a player would have thought of this situation. Lord Grim was just bait. The other characters of Xingxin were probably laying in ambush in this mixed scene.

However, Howling Heights did not retreat and continued to charge!

Being able to set up an ambush so quickly meant one thing: they didn't bring a healer.

Very reasonable judgment. Howling Heights was rushing fast and fiercely enough, but if Xingxin could still calmly set up an ambush before them, there was only one possibility: they abandoned the short-legged healer who would slow down the team's movement speed.

A team without a healer? An ambush? What was there to be afraid of!

Howling Heights Captain Tang Hao thought so, so his momentum did not decrease. Liu Hao had doubts in his mind. He hoped to slow down and be more cautious at this time, but seeing Tang Hao's determination, he immediately stopped thinking and resolutely followed his captain's rhythm. But at this moment, a flame, rotating in the air, fell towards the center of the Howling Heights team.

Heat-seeking missile!

"Dodge quickly!" Liu Hao subconsciously typed out the reminder, and his Dark Oblivion was already desperately sending himself out of the range of this heat-seeking missile attack. As a result, Tang Hao's Tang San Da flicked his arm, and a brick flew out. In terms of volume, the fire-starter seemed so weak. The volume of a brick made it obviously easier to hit a target than to hit it with a bullet. The fire-starter of the heat-seeking missile was immediately knocked aside by the brick.

The four characters of the Howling Heights team did not move. Only Liu Hao's Dark Oblivion accelerated and rushed a few steps. At this time, seeing this, his cheeks were hot, but he did not forget to shout in the channel immediately: "Captain is mighty."