Chapter 1 The Wake-Up Call

Whether in-game or out, Mo Fan gave no indication of acknowledging Ye Xiu’s instructions. But Ye Xiu and Wei Chen’s discussion had finally sounded the alarm for everyone in Happy.

In the past, they had always been successful in bullying ordinary players, so they generally didn’t consider combat attrition. But this training was different; it was aimed at professional players. Meeting one or two wouldn't be a big deal, after all, they were a whole team, and there were more of them! But this time, the other side sent out six at once, and all six were main players fresh from this year's All-Star Game, their strength beyond doubt. Moreover, they had only revealed six; who knew if the guild lineup was hiding others who hadn’t made a move yet? Hadn't they been coming out one after another like a relay race?

In the past, Ye Xiu would definitely wait until the excitement had reached its peak before telling everyone to attack, picking the cheapest and easiest option. But now the goal was different. They weren't here to snatch the Boss, just to use the Boss as a prize and compete with the professional players. Of course, they couldn't wait until the Boss was on its last legs before coming out to strike the final blow. Everyone needed to be full of energy and vigor; that’s what made a three-hundred-round battle meaningful!

"High risk, high reward, comrades, let’s go!" Ye Xiu gave a pre-battle pep talk.

"What a terrible analogy!" Chen Guo complained.

"Oh, what are you doing here?" Ye Xiu asked, puzzled.

Chen Guo glared at Ye Xiu outside the game. This guy always looked down on her skills. At least her Chasing Haze was a member of the team in name. What was wrong with coming along for the training?

"Let’s go!"

In Happy Team, there was no shortage of straightforward people like Lu Hanwen. After Tang Rou voiced her support for Ye Xiu’s decision, Soft Mist decisively charged out first.

During this period, Qiao Yifan had also continued to mature. His overall awareness and coordination had become more outstanding, and his understanding and application of the Ghostblade class already possessed professional qualities. Seeing Soft Mist go up, he didn’t dare to delay and quickly followed, ready to assist with ghost arrays at any time.

"Then let's go!" Seeing that someone had already rushed out, Wei Chen didn't say much. Although he really, really wanted to hide his Death's Hand first, his teammates had already charged forward, and he couldn't just go back to the main city.

"Hmph!" Chen Guo's anger hadn't subsided. She glared fiercely at Ye Xiu and also steered Chasing Haze into battle. She hoisted the steel cannon in her hand and started aiming at those great gods' alts, but was soon blocked by Steamed Bun Invasion's summons.

"Steamed Bun, get your toys out of the way!" Chen Guo snapped. Luo Ji's skill level was also higher now, and he could skillfully multi-control several summons at once, so when he was there, the chaos on the field increased by several degrees. There was a reason why Summoners weren't popular in teams. It was because of things like this that ranged attackers found them annoying.

Hearing the boss's shout, Luo Ji felt embarrassed and quickly commanded his summons to make way. But then Ye Xiu ruthlessly pointed out, "It's easier for you to just move your position than to have him mess with the summons."

"Huh?!" Chen Guo was about to erupt, but Wu Chen's Dawn Rifle slipped behind her and said very kindly, "Follow me!"

Wu Chen didn't say much, but Chen Guo more or less sensed that just now, her Chasing Haze's positioning was bad, but she went and ordered Steamed Bun Invasion's summons to make way. This seemed a little like throwing her weight around...

"It's all your fault for making me angry!" Chen Guo said to Ye Xiu, huffing and puffing. Showing off wasn't something she usually did.

"Hehe, I know you didn't mean it," Ye Xiu said.

"..." Chen Guo really hated that she only had a steel cannon in the game! If that cannon were in her hands, she would definitely blast Ye Xiu's head off right now.

As the members of Happy Team made their appearances one after another, the players from the three major guilds immediately burst into an uproar.

If watching the All-Star gods fight each other was what everyone loved to see, then the Happy people were like a plague that everyone avoided.

"Lord Grim is here!"

In an instant, cries like "the wolf is coming" spread constantly through the channels, crowds, and messages of the three major guilds.

"The one really stealing the show is here..."

The people who were currently fighting each other also noticed. Hearing the players' cries, Lin Jingyan couldn't help but stop and glance over, feeling a mix of emotions.

"How about we team up and beat this guy up first?" Zhang Jiale suddenly had a great idea. Among the people present, besides that rookie kid, who hadn't been beaten up by the guy who just rushed out? Now was a good opportunity for them to return the favor!

"That's a great idea, hahahahaha!" Huang Shaotian shouted.

"Then let's go!" Wang Jiexi's words indicated that he had also agreed.

"Should we call Old Han over too?" Lin Jingyan wanted to push his luck even further.

"Give a shout in the group, whoever wants to come can come! We'll go first." Zhang Jiale was obviously more ruthless in his actions. After saying that, he stopped fighting with the person in front of him. He turned his gun and, with his Hundred Blossoms style, covered everyone.

Without saying a word, Wang Jiexi manipulated his character to ride his broom and fly up, only to see the tip of a sword emerge from his Magician's chest. He had been backstabbed!

"Huang Shaotian..." Wang Jiexi's tone was full of helplessness.

"Hahahaha, this is paying back the revenge for the three-on-one just now!!!" Huang Shaotian shouted maniacally.

How could Wang Jiexi let him be so arrogant? He flipped his character over and swatted down with his broom, but Huang Shaotian's Swordsman raised his sword to block. Zhang Jiale's Grenadier had already created a dazzling explosion, but then he heard the sound of conversation and fighting behind him. He looked back and was furious.

"Can you guys be serious?" Zhang Jiale was so angry! His Hundred Blossoms style consumed a lot of his APM, skills, and mana. Especially when facing a top player like Ye Qiu, it wasn't enough to just throw a few bombs casually, so he had to use the maximum amount of effort. But he was working so hard, and these two were just setting off fireworks to cheer him on?

Lin Jingyan had really run to the pro player group to send a message. When he switched back to the game from QQ, this was the scene, and he was speechless for a moment.

Lu Hanwen and Gao Yingjie, the two juniors, basically followed their seniors' lead. Seeing that it seemed like they weren't fighting anymore, the two quickly stopped. Now, seeing that Huang Shaotian and Wang Jiexi were fighting again, the two teenagers didn't say a word and started fighting again.

In just a moment, the great gods had disrupted their own formation, and Happy had already taken the initiative to attack them. Cannons roared, summons charged around. Happy Team had been established for so long and had a lot of practice. When they went into battle, they were no longer amateurs, especially when they started without being disturbed. They fought absolutely professionally and sharply.

So a sharp team collaboration crashed into a pile of loose sand. Even if it was six gods of sand, they were stunned in an instant. Each person's character suffered varying degrees of damage. Zhang Jiale's Grenadier was even knocked to the ground by Tang Rou's Soft Mist with a Circle Swing, and he heard the girl mutter in disappointment, "A god?"

"A scholar may be killed, but not humiliated!" Zhang Jiale roared and threw a grenade at Soft Mist's face as he lay on the ground. Tang Rou now had experience and wasn't completely ignorant of other classes. Seeing that it was just an ordinary grenade, she didn't take it too seriously and directly swept it away with her spear, blasting the grenade at the same time, and then stabbed the Grenadier on the ground. But she didn't know that after the spear passed through the explosion, it stabbed into empty air, and then she heard a voice behind her.

"Beauty, look back at the god!"

Tang Rou was shocked.

This technique used the explosion of a grenade to create the effect of a ninja's smoke escape. Among the Grenadiers that Tang Rou had encountered, she had never seen anything like this before.

But no matter how strong you are, it was absolutely impossible to scare Tang Rou. Tang Rou didn't obediently turn Soft Mist around, but directly sent her spear behind her.

"Oh, impressive!" Zhang Jiale saw that she was attacking directly behind her, which was a very high-end operation. Ordinary players almost never used it in actual combat. But he was just praising her casually. There weren't any among ordinary players, but in the pro scene, wasn't this kind of skill just a basic skill?

Boom boom boom boom!

Tang Rou's attack was ultimately not faster than the bombs Zhang Jiale had laid. As soon as the first one exploded, she entered his combo performance time. Four consecutive explosions all had backstab damage bonuses, which was extremely sharp.

Soft Mist ate four explosions in a row, and Tang Rou didn't have any tricks at all. Only then did she know that knocking a god to the ground with one spear wasn't a reason to underestimate the opponent. It would be about the same if she killed him directly with one spear.

After the four explosions, it stopped. It wasn't that Zhang Jiale's combo was over, but someone had come to make trouble. It was a team, so of course they had to help each other at this time. Tang Rou, Baozi, and the others were still in the process of developing this awareness, but Qiao Yifan was already quite accomplished in this regard. One Inch Ash's Ghost Slash accurately split into the gap between Zhang Jiale's Grenadier and Soft Mist, interrupting his possible continued attack.

"Yifan!" Gao Yingjie immediately shouted when he saw One Inch Ash appear. It was no longer a secret that One Inch Ash was Qiao Yifan.

"Your friend?" Lu Hanwen asked casually when he saw Gao Yingjie's Magician turn to look over there and even call out.

"Yes!" Gao Yingjie replied.

"Very strong?" Lu Hanwen asked.

"Uh..." Gao Yingjie couldn't answer for a moment. He didn't want to look down on his friend, but for a pro player, it was really hard to use "strong" to describe Qiao Yifan's class!

"I'll go learn from him," Lu Hanwen suddenly said, then turned around and used Triple Slash to open a path, actually charging towards Qiao Yifan's One Inch Ash.

"Ah!" Gao Yingjie was stunned for a moment before he came back to his senses.

For a moment, he completely forgot that Qiao Yifan was no longer on Tiny Herb Team, and he wasn't his teammate. He was just protecting him out of instinct, and his Magician immediately rode his broom and flew over.

With his excellent overall view, Qiao Yifan naturally saw Lu Hanwen's intention to attack him. One Inch Ash waved his sword and directly threw an Ice Array in front of him, forming a protection zone.

Lu Hanwen had no choice but to go around, but then Gao Yingjie's Magician caught up and swooped down, knocking Lu Hanwen's Swordsman off balance.

One Inch Ash's own Ice Array, of course, had no effect on himself. He strode through the Ice Array and approached, following up on Gao Yingjie's attack. Ghostblade Three-Strike Slash, Moonlight Slash, Full Moon Slash, and Ghost Slash, sent Lu Hanwen's Swordsman flying far away.

"I never thought we'd be fighting side by side in this situation." Gao Yingjie realized that they were no longer teammates and forced a smile with some disappointment.

As a result, before Qiao Yifan could speak, he felt someone lift his character from behind, and then he was thrown out. He couldn't use a soft landing in the air. It was a forced knockdown grab.

"Side by side my ass, we're opponents, be serious!" Ye Xiu's Lord Grim said after throwing Gao Yingjie's Magician out.