Chapter 276 International League

While Han Xiao had Luo Tuoer secretly carry out his plans, the division finals were held as scheduled.

After a series of fierce battles, the top eight of the Shattered Star Ring Division were decided. Dynasty had won the division championship for the third consecutive time, establishing a three-peat dynasty. Among the four great houses, Dynasty had always been ranked first. Their internal and external battles were extremely strong, very comprehensive, and had no obvious weaknesses.

The division runner-up was Temple. Although Temple's fans were relatively satisfied, bystanders couldn't help but beat their chests and stomp their feet, crying out in regret. Temple's image as a weakling in international battles was deeply rooted in their hearts. Letting Temple enter the international competition was equivalent to reducing the number of Chinese teams!

The third place was Changkong. Although their performance in the division competition was not ideal, they at least made it into the international competition, giving them a chance to show their skills. The fourth place was Jiangcheng. With Kuang Dao, Xie Xiaojian, and Feng Yue as the core of the team, their competitiveness was already not inferior to the top-tier teams.

The top four of the division were determined, and these four teams were able to advance to the International League.

Among the four great houses, Yu Xiang Qie Zi once again missed the international competition, which had become their basic operation.

It was rumored that the owner of the Yu Xiang Qie Zi club felt that the name was bad feng shui and planned to rename the team. They publicly solicited opinions on social media, and the goofy netizens offered suggestions, all of which were Mala Chicken, Water Boiled Fish, Fragrant Pot Skewer, and Mao Xue Wang, a complete "menu recitation" scene.

Leaving aside the Yu Xiang Qie Zi fans who were making the best of a bad situation, most players were cheering for the four teams that would represent China in the international competition. The advantage in this version was very large. The rise of the Mechanic class, the numerous major events in the Shattered Star Ring that greatly increased the benefits of the Black Star Army, the increased confidence of the Chinese team due to winning the last competition, and the peak state of the club's God-level players, all the right conditions were present. Therefore, the majority of players had high hopes for the Chinese team, expecting them to shine on the international stage and achieve better results.

In the individual competition, Feng Yue made it into the top eight. In this year's top eight in the division, there were four Mechanic class players, occupying half of the seats, reversing the decline of the Mechanic class in the previous two versions.

The top spots in the other eight divisions were also decided, and the dominance of the strong teams from various countries remained the same. Most of them were regulars in the international competition, such as the American team Mojie, Ke Yi, Lei Mang, the French team Tulip, Grape, the British team Rose Knight, the Japanese team Yamata and Ronin, the Korean team Kimchi and Samsung Bomb, the Swedish team Battle Axe, the Polish team Wing, and the Russian team "White Emperor Holy Sword" and the Australian team Kangaroo Boxing. Many were familiar faces from the previous international competition, forming the 36-team roster for the International League, divided into three groups.

The list of groups this time made Chinese players excited. The strongest batch of foreign teams were almost all drawn into Group A, becoming a group of death, while China only had Temple selected into it. Because the regular season used a point system, having too many strong teams in the same group was not conducive to widening the score gap, so many strong foreign teams with the ability to qualify might not be able to reach the finals.

Changkong and Dynasty were both assigned to Group B. This group was moderate. The only relatively competitive teams were the Japanese Yamata, the British Rose Knight, and the Swedish Battle Axe. The two top Chinese teams were favorites to win, and the chances of them qualifying together were very high.

Jiangcheng was assigned to Group C, the weakest group, and the intensity of competition was far less than that of Groups A and B.

The group list randomly drawn this time was completely opposite to the previous one, with a serious differentiation between strong and weak, but this kind of grouping was more beneficial to China than the previous one, and it was very likely to reproduce the feat of three teams entering the international top eight.

Chinese players couldn't help but rejoice, almost setting off firecrackers in the Shattered Star Ring section, this wave of grouping was extremely lucky!

As for the unlucky Temple team, the Chinese audience had no psychological fluctuations and even laughed out loud.

[You from Henan: Sacrificing one Temple, gaining three top eight spots, this deal... works!]

[Li Ge will be blacklisted forever: Removing the worst one, reversing and improving the average combat power of China (waggling)]

[Moonlight TOEFL: Is this Tian Ji's horse racing? (Surprised)]

[Senior Agent of the Strategic Deception Bureau: Haha, this is really a god-level grouping, God bless China, this competition is probably stable]

In a joyful atmosphere, the short off-season of the division competition ended, and the opening battle of the International League officially kicked off under the watchful eyes of everyone.

Tens of millions of players in each division watched their own competition channels in their respective forum sections, and the forums were as lively as a festival.

The international opening battle was a showdown between the world champion and runner-up from the previous competition, Changkong versus Mojie. For this match, Changkong's fans and casual viewers were a little worried. Changkong's performance in the division competition was unsatisfactory. If they met the world runner-up from the previous competition, they would likely suffer an opening defeat. Losing a match was actually nothing, but it was very demoralizing.

Both sides used dungeon crystals to enter the arena. Changkong was equipped with armor with the Black Star Army logo, each with different functions, showing the Black Star Army logo to the world audience, which was equivalent to free live advertising.

On the other hand, the Mojie team's equipment was also very strong, but the clothing was not as uniform as Changkong's. In comparison, Changkong's side had the feeling of a regular army.

Nowadays, the Black Star Army's reputation was no longer limited to the Shattered Star Ring. Players from various countries in other divisions knew that the Black Star Army was the largest player camp in the Shattered Star Ring. It was a completely monopolistic leading enterprise and the first camp to provide cross-Star Field services. In the hearts of players from various countries, the Shattered Star Ring division was roughly equivalent to the Black Star Army's territory.

To label a Star Field with a camp, this was generally a treatment reserved for universe-level civilizations and Super Star Cluster-level civilizations. The Black Star Army's actual scale of power was far inferior to these two, but its popularity among the player community was not much different from that of universe-level civilizations.

In the international opening match, Changkong swept away the decline of the division competition. They had been conserving their strength for a long time and finally revealed their fangs, fighting back and forth with the Mojie team in a fierce battle.

In this regard, Changkong was the opposite of Temple. Their internal battles were average, but their external battles were like wolves and tigers... Perhaps because foreign teams were not used to this kind of reckless playstyle, they were easily beaten by the iron-headed dolls.

In the previous competition, Changkong had won over Mojie by a small margin, but this time, because the Mechanic class version was strong and Mojie had a backbone player jump ship and transfer, the strength gap between the two had widened. Changkong won the first victory in the international opening match with no danger.

The morale of the Chinese players was greatly boosted, and the screen was filled with dense "Elder Brother is back".

The international regular season that many players were looking forward to officially began, and teams fought fiercely, and the leaderboard changed every day.

Until the first half of the competition was over, the leaderboard formed a relatively stable pattern. Because Group A was full of strong teams, it was difficult to play crushing matches and the efficiency of obtaining points was not high, resulting in many strong teams not ranking according to their true strength. For example, Mojie, Ke Yi, Tulip, "White Emperor Holy Sword", etc., all failed to make the top four.

Dynasty and Changkong were like fish in water in Group B, occupying the first and fourth place respectively. Jiangcheng crazily scored points in the Group C fish pond game, reaching the second place. Among the top four, only the third place was the Korean Kimchi team, which was also a member of the Group C rookie crushing game.

For the Chinese team, the situation was very good... As for Temple, who was being abused to the point of wanting to die in Group A, they were directly ignored by the players.

The Chinese team had a huge advantage, not only because of the grouping. This competition added Capture the Flag and two dungeon competitions, which were the most suitable stages for the Mechanic class to perform. Dynasty, Changkong, and Jiangcheng performed excellently in them, their PVE strength was much higher than the average level of teams from various countries, and they ate a big wave of points from it, eating their fill.

There was another reason... The dungeon competition in the international regular season would not choose dungeons from the same team's division. This was to ensure that there was no information gap between the teams, which meant that the Chinese team would not experience those perverted dungeons of the Black Star Army in the dungeon survival battle in the international competition.

However, foreign friends fully experienced the hardships of the daily life of Shattered Star Ring players.

The high-difficulty dungeons released by Han Xiao were not at the same level as the high-level dungeons in other divisions. Looking at the major divisions, the Shattered Star Ring was the only place with Super-A Grade dungeons!

Under Han Xiao's torment, Chinese professional players had long been accustomed to being abused, their mentality was stable, and when they went to play high-level dungeons in other divisions, they only felt relaxed and comfortable. Even if they were blown to the point of having peach blossoms all over their faces, they felt as comfortable as a picnic.

On the other hand, teams from other divisions were abused to the point of wanting to vomit when they played the Black Star Army's dungeons, their mentality collapsed and their worldviews were impacted.

Meeting kill was a basic operation, and there was even an entrance kill. How long the cutscene was, that was how long they could live.

Was this a dungeon for people to play?

How could the difficulty be so perverted?!

As long as the Black Star Army's dungeon was drawn, foreign teams fans on other sections' live channels wailed everywhere. They died too fast, with no viewing experience.

In the second half of the international regular season, perhaps because the score gap was too large, the teams from various countries gave up, and there was no frustrating incident of the Chinese team being targeted by teams from various countries as in the previous competition.

Dynasty, Changkong, and Jiangcheng played steadily, their results rose and fell, but they all maintained their top eight rankings, and their positions were stable and could not fall.

After the last international regular season ended, the rankings were finally determined.

Jiangcheng rose against the trend and took the first place. The next eight were Kimchi, Dynasty, Yamata, Changkong, Mojie, Ke Yi, and Battle Axe.

China had a total of three teams entering the international top eight, reproducing the glory of the previous competition... and history was surprisingly similar. This year, the ones who qualified were still these three old irons.

Dynasty and Changkong were old powerhouse, needless to say. Jiangcheng, as an emerging club team, had made it into the international top eight for a row and their status in the player community had become more and more consolidated, and there was a tendency to become a new super-first-line powerhouse.

Temple failed to reach the finals... but no one felt sorry for them. The audience's eyes had always been focused on the winner, so real.

What excited the Chinese audience was that this year's finals matchup was far better than the previous one!

In the second league, due to ranking and drawing reasons, the three Chinese teams had two internal battles. Dynasty and Jiangcheng were both eliminated by their own people.

This time, according to the integration ranking, the first place Jiangcheng fought against the eighth place Swedish Battle Axe, the third place Dynasty fought against the American Mojie, and the fifth place Changkong fought against the Japanese Yamata. The matchup situation happened to avoid all internal battles.

This grouping list made the Chinese audience couldn't help but rejoice. Compared with the bad luck of the previous league, this one seemed to be really favored by the goddess of luck, and their luck broke out!

...

After the international regular season, the event organizer promoted the finals on the forum, setting the date for the opening of the finals.

Luo Tuoer was sent by Han Xiao to other Star Fields to assassinate the target. Some time after the end of the international regular season, Han Xiao received a reply from Luo Tuoer, still concise and to the point.

"Target eliminated."

The message was accompanied by a photo of the victim, and the matter was handled cleanly.

He only provided the information. Luo Tuoer acted independently throughout the entire process and did not need any help. His work ability was extremely strong, and Han Xiao felt very reliable.

The Crimson Dynasty also eliminated two Blood Gold Organization executives.

The deaths of the three executives were a deterrent to all the executives of the Blood Gold Organization.

Targeted by the Crimson Dynasty and the Black Star Army, the leader of the Blood Gold Organization couldn't sit still and summoned all the executives online to discuss countermeasures.