San Tian Liang Jiao
Chapter 1474 Round Three (Part 1)
At midnight on March 25th, the third round of the Apex Ascendancy S3 tournament began.
A total of 6677 teams participated in this round. Because the number of teams was still an odd number, one team would once again advance due to a bye. The remaining 6676 teams would have to fight to determine who stayed and who left.
[Hell's Front]’s opponent in this round was the [Fireball Cult] team, which was also composed of casual players. Judging from the recordings of the previous two rounds, the [Fireball Cult]’s strength was actually not as strong as [Controversial League]. Therefore, Feng Bujue arranged the same lineup as the previous match and once again quickly swept their opponents with a score of 3-0. Then he went back to the conference room with everyone to watch the live broadcasts.
Jue-Ge and the others were quite interested in the two spotlight matches tonight, especially [Red Cherry] vs. [Gates of Paradise]… For Xu Huai Shang, who had only left [Red Cherry] not long ago, there were many things worth observing.
But they never expected that when they opened the live broadcast of the match, what they saw was…
“What? It’s already two to zero?” Xu Huai Shang couldn’t help but exclaim when she saw the score and match situation on the broadcast interface.
“Hmm… let me see…” Feng Bujue also looked at the screen, muttering, “In the first match, [Iron Begonia]’s solo fight, she lost in one minute and twelve seconds… The doubles match of [Blood Rose] and [Hyacinth] in the second round only lasted forty seconds…” He shrugged and gave a dry laugh, “Heh… it looks like if we had been a few minutes later, we wouldn’t have needed to watch the live broadcast at all, we could have just watched the recording.”
“If I remember correctly…” The next second, Ruo Yu thoughtfully added, “[Iron Begonia]’s main specializations are machinery and shooting. Under these rules with a thirty-second preparation time, her specialization combination should be very advantageous…”
“And the summoning-type [Blood Rose], plus [Hyacinth]’s support combination, are definitely not so easy to kill…” Xiao Ling also said.
“However…” Feng Bujue picked up the thread, “Regardless of the theory, the current reality is… they have already lost, and they were both resolved in a very short time. Since you all think their strength is not bad, then there is only one conclusion left—their opponents are too strong.”
Just as they were talking, on the battlefield, the [Red Cherry] member who played the “adjutant battle” was already in great danger.
Her ID was [Zhi Ziyi], and she was the new trump card that Red Cherry Studio was focusing on cultivating, that is… the successor to Xu Huai Shang decided by Red Cherry.
Xu Huai Shang was also quite familiar with this junior. The two had worked together for quite some time, and Xu Huai Shang could be said to have watched this little sister grow from a newbie who didn’t understand anything into a main force in the studio.
However, not long after Zhi Ziyi became a main force, Xu Huai Shang was snowed under by the studio due to some "mistakes" in the S2 competition, and the two had not played dungeons together for a long time after that. Therefore, Xu Huai Shang’s impression of this new trump card still remained several months ago.
Now, watching her little sister being gradually forced into a desperate situation by her opponent on the field, Xu Huai Shang gave her evaluation: "Compared to when I left, Ziyi has obviously improved a lot and has grown into an expert who can stand alone." She paused for half a second, "The problem lies with her opponent..." At this point, the Goddess Xu’s expression became very solemn, "...This level of expert, I have never encountered before, and I only saw his ID for the first time today."
The "expert" she was talking about had the ID [Michael], the captain of [Gates of Paradise].
This was a player who could be called "mysterious," and there was no sign of him in the S1 and S2 matches.
Not only him, but also his six teammates: [Gabriel], [Uriel], [Raphael], [Raguel], [Saliel], and [Remiel], were all unknown before S3, just like him.
Even the most well-informed people could not find out any information about them… These seven guys with super-first-class strength were like they suddenly popped up before the start of the S3 competition, making them elusive.
"It’s almost time to decide the winner." After another moment, Ruo Yu suddenly spoke, as if predicting what was about to happen.
As a result, in less than five seconds, Zhi Ziyi, who was already at the end of her rope, was killed by Michael and turned into white light…
[Red Cherry], which had entered the top eight in S2, lost to a non-professional team in the third round of S3, a team that had never participated before and whose players were all unfamiliar. What was even more surprising and unsettling was… both the final score and the course of the match showed that [Gates of Paradise] was far stronger than [Red Cherry].
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Let’s split the focus and look at the situation of the other spotlight match.
Unlike the match between [Red Cherry], the match between [Mountains and Rivers] and [Heaven and Earth], at least from the first match, the two sides were evenly matched and equally strong.
After nearly twenty minutes of fierce fighting, [Mountains and Rivers]’s [Chen Wusuo Ying] defeated [Heaven and Earth]’s [Bawang Xiejia] with a slight advantage, taking a 1-0 lead.
At this time, the "mid-game battle" between the two sides had also begun.
[Mountains and Rivers]’s [Ma Guanhua] and [Yun Yun] faced off against [Heaven and Earth]’s [Detective Buu] and [Old Military Doctor Oob].
Leaving the former aside for the time being, let’s talk about Buu and Oob… In the "Terror Nursery Rhymes" scenario, they also teamed up with several members of Hell's Front. If you remember, they were all fans of Feng Bujue, and their catchphrase was "As expected of Teacher Jue…"
Although Buu and Oob were not professional players, but peripheral members recruited by [Heaven and Earth] in the game, they managed to obtain the opportunity to represent [Heaven and Earth] in the competition as non-professional players, which was enough to show that the strength of these two people… especially their doubles strength… was extraordinary.
At this time, the battle situation on the field was already under the control of these two.
The "fat and thin combination" turned into two phantoms, continuously moving around the enemy at super high speed. Their "charge" speed was extremely astonishing, but their movements were unpredictable. Looking down from the air, the two figures drew a series of chaotic geometric figures on the ground, constantly changing and shrinking… compressing the enemy's activity space.
Buu and Oob had both appeared in the previous two rounds, and they used the same tactics.
Enemies who tried to rush out of their "charge net" directly from the ground would suffer heavy continuous impacts. Enemies who tried to escape from the air would suffer even worse combined attacks once they jumped up and became airborne. As for those who tried to "break the net" with ranged attacks, they would often only waste their efforts by hitting empty space in the face of this seemingly irregular encirclement…