Chapter 186 Tournament and Potion

(The previous chapter has been revised. I miscalculated. It should be 78 matches over 39 days. Suddenly my math skills are exposed. Thanks to my brothers for the correction~)

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After the first round, the standings were released. The Devil Realm ranked first, followed closely by the Dynasty. The top three to six were all teams from Group B, having fun in the fishpond. The strong teams in Group C fought each other fiercely, mostly winning by narrow margins, not earning many points, and ranked lower. However, there were also powerful individuals among the strong teams. The French Tulip from Group C ranked seventh, which seemed low, but their opponent was the Swedish Battle Axe. Swedish esports has always been strong, and this was also a super team with championship potential. The fact that the French Tulip could snatch so many points from them was truly terrifying.

Han Xiao recalled the distant first league of his previous life and realized, "That's right, the champion of the first league was the French Tulip. The strength of these guys is overwhelming. The class combination, equipment selection, and skill supplementation are almost perfect, and the tactical cooperation is seamless. It seems that only the Dynasty in Huaxia made it to the top eight, and the other two were in the middle of the standings and failed to qualify."

Looking down, the scores from eighth to seventeenth place were the same, very close.

This was only the first round, and the rankings didn't mean much. Each team still had eleven matches to play, and the final result was still uncertain.

The viewership of the individual matches was also very high. One-on-one has always been a kind of sentiment. Various experts displayed their talents. Kuang Dao narrowly won the first game, and Wang Hou Jiang Xiang also achieved victory. However, Xue Ran Fan Hua suffered a defeat. This person was a sissy man, and fans called him "Sister Xue," lamenting his loss. He was the only one of all the Huaxia players to lose in the first round of matches.

After the matches, the Huaxia players asked Han Xiao to repair their mechs. During the competition, these professional players spared no expense, investing a large number of inal to strengthen their mechanical equipment. Han Xiao happily accepted it all – it was thanks to the unremitting efforts of the players that he was able to accumulate nearly 800,000 inal, enough to buy a spaceship.

Of course, buying a spaceship was absolutely impossible. Why buy something if you can freeload?

The competition schedule progressed step by step, and the Huaxia teams had a strong momentum. They also encountered strong teams during this period. Although the battles were difficult, they managed to achieve victory in the end. The equipment Han Xiao sold them had been screened. Although the Sergeant-grade armor was powerful, it wasn't invincible. The players were all at level 60, the maximum level, and they represented the elite of their regions. Their equipment wasn't bad either, and they might have some trump cards hidden, capable of making a name for themselves at critical moments.

Although Huaxia's hard power was at the peak level, the matches were ever-changing, and there were countless examples of using tactics to defeat the strong.

It was impossible to take out the most core equipment for sale in advance. Han Xiao wouldn't ruin his sales plan to improve Huaxia's ranking. He didn't even understand what was going on in this world yet, so how could he have the leisure to control the players' league? Moreover, in his eyes, the league was more of a business opportunity. He watched the players participate in the league mainly to show off the excellence of their equipment, thereby expanding the potential customer base. As long as the ranking wasn't too bad, it was enough for him.

After hard battles, all the teams had a clearer understanding of their other opponents and formulated targeted methods, and Huaxia was also targeted.

——The most powerful thing about the Huaxia teams is that they have a set of mechanical weapons and mechs from Black Star. As long as this is targeted, their threat will be reduced by a level!

Therefore, several opponents that Huaxia faced next changed their class combinations and added multiple esper.

In the early stage, esper were the biggest nemesis of the Mechanic class, without exception. Not only could they control objects, but their mental attacks completely ignored physical armor. If it was a mage class, they had high mental resistance and could block it to some extent. The Martial Arts class had good physique, reducing the duration of negative statuses. The Ability User class from Europe couldn't be taken as a general case. Only the Mechanic class was targeted. Relying on mechanical combat, their bodies were mostly fragile, and the esper were able to directly harm the user through the armor. Moreover, there were many means of mental control, various deterrence, illusions, and confusing debuffs. Their attack range was also very long and could ignore terrain. The brainlessness of this class was second only to the Martial Arts class.

Faced with this kind of targeting, the special characteristics of the Huaxia teams were revealed. Although they were wearing armor, their bodies were Martial Arts class and Ability User class. The esper weakened the role of the armor, pulling them down from their peak strength. The problem was, even so, the Huaxia teams still had first-class strength, and their opponents still had to face a group of fierce professional players.

In addition to the esper, the mage class's elements, rust spells, and curses also had a restraining effect on mechanical armor. Of course, things were relative. While they were restraining the mechs, they themselves were also very fragile.

The existence of the armor forced these teams to put in more effort to deal with it. Its strength was obvious at a glance. This thing was universal to all classes, comprehensively enhanced, equivalent to having a layer of thorny tortoise shell outside, an extra health bar, and also had ranged output. If the average team's fault tolerance rate was 3, then the Huaxia team's fault tolerance rate was 10!

The amplification was too great!

Even with a certain amount of damage correction balance, it was impossible to eliminate Huaxia's equipment advantage.

In fact, mechs would basically become standard equipment for everyone in version 2.0 or 3.0. When everyone was the same, they would start comparing the performance of their mechs. The gap wouldn't be as big as it was now. Unfortunately, in the first version, the characters selling armor were extremely rare, and they were all rough semi-finished products. For the time being, only Han Xiao's store offered high-quality full-set armor services, and there were no other branches.

However, the targeting still had an effect. The Huaxia teams' attrition rate increased significantly. Everyone was a strong team from their respective divisions, and they couldn't always win by crushing their opponents. The following matches were back and forth, with wins and losses, and were very intense and exciting.

The rankings on the leaderboard fluctuated every day, affecting the hearts of viewers from various countries. Dynasty and Devil Realm fought once, and Dynasty won by a slight advantage, ranking first on the leaderboard and attracting much attention.

This achievement made the Huaxia viewers feel proud. Every time there was a Huaxia match, they would definitely stay in the forums to watch it. Not only Huaxia viewers, but many foreign viewers were also attracted by the performance of the Dynasty team. The viewership of Huaxia's matches could rank in the top three.

Compared to the bleakness of the previous life, it was simply a rebirth-like change.

However, the situation of Chang Kong and the Temple in Group C wasn't so good. They had been hovering between eighth and twelfth place, walking on the edge of qualifying, and the competition was fierce.

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Jubely Hub, Black Star Mercenary Group's base.

An idle alloy room was transformed into a prison. Rezarle was imprisoned here, his hands and feet firmly fixed to the iron bed. Several needles were constantly inserted into his body, injecting nutrients and sedatives. His eyes were empty and dull, his appearance withered and haggard, as if he had been played to death.

He was treated as a material for the Separator, without freedom, and almost tortured beyond recognition. As soon as his restored magic power was drawn away, leaving him no hope whatsoever.

The door opened, and Han Xiao walked in, glanced at him, continued his movements, changed a new nutrient solution, and even hummed a little tune, ignoring Rezarle's miserable appearance, as if he was a doctor who was used to seeing life and death, and then took out the Separator, routinely extracting blood.

Fresh red, fluorescent blood flowed into the test tube along the pipeline, turning into a new ability potion. Han Xiao had already accumulated eight portions of potion.

Rezarle turned his head to look at Han Xiao and spoke. His hoarse voice was almost inaudible, revealing a deep weakness, "Are you going to trap me forever..."

"Of course not forever."

Han Xiao raised his eyebrows, "Do you think you can live that long?"

"Can...cough cough, can you make a deal? You give me my freedom, and I can give everything to serve you. I just want to come to the upper world to satisfy my thirst for knowledge. I don't resist working for anyone..." Rezarle begged.

Han Xiao picked up a new ability potion with two fingers, shook it, and the viscous red liquid clung to the wall. He turned his head to look at Rezarle and smiled, "I already have everything you have."

"You! Are! So! Vile!"

Rezarle gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with deep hatred and deep despair.

"I wouldn't do this to the innocent. If you were an ordinary person, maybe I would sympathize with you, but you are a villain who almost killed millions of lives. Heh, do you expect me to have mercy on you? That is an insult to the millions of people who were almost killed by you."

Han Xiao's heart didn't waver at all. He had experienced being imprisoned by Germination and used as experimental material during the dark period, and he understood this feeling very well. He was very willing to apply it to people like Rezarle.

He asked himself that he was never a charitable good person, nor was he a good person.

"Rest assured and look forward to the day of death. That kind of liberation is your last hope."

Han Xiao said indifferently, closed the door, and left Rezarle inside to roar in despair, his old and weak body making beast-like screams.

Returning to his room, Han Xiao cleaned and disinfected the Separator again, and lined up all the ability potions, with labels on them. Taking advantage of the tournament, these potions were ready to be sold to the players.

Looking at these potions, Mechanic Han suddenly had an idea.

"The Separator is used on the NPCs to form potions, if I extract my own genes...can it be successful?"

Han Xiao became interested and washed the Separator carefully again, pointed it at his arm and pressed it down. He adjusted the lowest power.

[You are using [Supergene Separator - Experimental Model] on yourself]

A sense of emptiness arose from the inside, instantly penetrating the body. Han Xiao raised his eyebrows and didn't stop until he filled a tube.

[You have obtained [Ability Potion] x1]

"It really works!" Han Xiao's eyes lit up, and then he looked at the character panel, which had a [Weakness] buff attached, lasting 12 hours, reducing all attributes by 30%. At this time, he felt a little weak and sluggish.

He didn't care. He was resting in Jubely Hub, and there was no chance of fighting during this time. The temporary weakness didn't matter.

"What will be the effect of my ability potion..."

Han Xiao became extremely curious, and his eyes rolled.

"It's too wasteful to drink it myself. I have ready-made customers."