How should the contestants line up in the new competition format? The teams were worried, the players were concerned, and all parties were actively participating in this research and discussion. Of course, it was not advisable to use the ace player as the final trump card in the group arena. That would be too negative.
However, placing the ace player as the first to fight seemed a little too radical. In the pro scene, 1v3s were extremely rare. In the group arena, it was more common to see one person beat two people.
Sometimes, after defeating one person, the second person would also be beaten half to death, but the first person would be unable to hold on and fall. Or, the second person would also be defeated, but when facing the third person, he would not have much energy left and would be defeated very quickly. This was already considered a rare achievement in the single-elimination tournament. Therefore, even if they were ace players, if they were to be the first to battle, they might not be able to win more points for their own side.
Good steel still had to be used where the blade needed to be. In the past, the ace players were the gatekeepers at the final juncture. Now, the ace players needed to obtain as many heads as possible on the basis of victory. Therefore, appearing at the most opportune moment was the most ingenious. For example, when the opponent still had one and a half people left, it would be the ace player's turn to come out. Naturally, the chances of success would be higher.
After much analysis, the general consensus was that the third or fourth position of the five positions in the arena was the most appropriate.
Even so, it was much harder to earn points in the group arena than in the team competition. The future development of the group arena should focus on stability. They should guard the arena well and not lose too many people in the group arena. Then, they would decide the winner in the group arena. This was the current forecast for the future of the group arena.
But today, Team Jade Dynasty's first player was their current captain, the Blade Master, Lin Yi.
From the previous matches, Lin Yi was the most outstanding player in Team Jade Dynasty. At this moment, he was the first to go onstage. Was he confident, or was there some other arrangement?
Team Jade Dynasty's boss, Xiao Jie, had a smile on his face from beginning to end. He made an inviting gesture towards Happy. Ye Xiu smiled and patted the people around him. "Let's go!"
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
"Baozi, one against five!!!" Of course, the fans did not care if this was practical or not. After all, it was just a slogan. If it was not exaggerated, could it be called a slogan?
"Hahaha." Baozi laughed heartily. With his temperament, he couldn't care less about the enemy's formation. He waved his hand and waved his fist at his friends in the game behind him.
"One against five!" Baozi said loudly. In the eyes of the onlookers, he was really an arrogant and shameless guy. Team Jade Dynasty's fans had long since started booing. Happy's fans were too embarrassed to respond, because while they had shouted, they also knew that 1v5 was impossible. Using this to challenge others, wasn't that just asking for a slap in the face?
The players from both sides immediately went up the stage and began to swipe their cards to load their characters. Happy's players looked at each other, and their gazes all fell on the character loading screen. The electronic screen would display all of the character's equipment to the audience after the character was loaded.
"As expected!"
Lin Yi's character, the Blade Master, Ten Thousand Swords, appeared. Just from looking at his equipment, everyone could see that it was different from before. When the equipment panel opened, a row of shining silver names immediately popped up. Ten Thousand Swords had as many as seven pieces of Silver equipment. Even though it looked like he had one less than Windward Formation, Happy's Silver equipment was not balanced. Wei Chen's Windward Formation had as many as eight pieces, while the other characters had fewer. Ye Xiu's Lord Grim only had one Silver weapon, the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella. The Silver equipment was mainly given to the other characters first.
However, pro teams usually wouldn't be so biased. Core characters would definitely take up more resources, but it wouldn't be so exaggerated as to have eight pieces of Silver equipment while the other characters only had one piece. In addition, Team Jade Dynasty's lack of experience was something that every character had. Lin Yi's Ten Thousand Swords' Silver equipment was very likely the average level of their main characters. An average of seven pieces of Silver equipment … … this equipment level was higher than the average level of the Alliance. Team Jade Dynasty really was a hidden team.
However, none of the seven pieces of Ten Thousand Swords' Silver equipment were Level 75. After all, Level 75 resources were limited. The reason why Level 70 Silver equipment was so common in the Alliance was because they had been stuck at Level 70 for so many years. If they really wanted to level up once a year, the amount of rare materials in the Heavenly Domain would drive the pro teams crazy.
Jade Dynasty's situation was more or less expected, so Happy's expression was still quite calm. Jade Dynasty's ability to obtain so many pieces of Silver equipment wasn't just because of their financial resources. After all, Xiao Jie was just a young author. No matter how popular his books were, in terms of financial resources, he couldn't compare to Lou Guanning's group. What's more, Heavenly Swords was a five-man team. Even so, they had only obtained 20 pieces of Silver equipment in the beginning.
Even though Team Jade Dynasty was in dire straits, they had been in the pro scene since the beginning. After so many years, they hadn't given up. No matter what, they had to have accumulated a certain amount of experience. Xiao Jie's investment this time had probably triggered Team Jade Dynasty's many years of accumulation. And that Zhang Jian might have been the key to this explosion. In that era, he was already at the pro level. If he hadn't given up after so many years, then his achievements in Glory were definitely not to be underestimated.
Ye Xiu and the others guessed at Jade Dynasty's situation. On the stage, the first round of the group arena was finally about to begin. After the countdown, the two characters loaded into the map and the match officially began. Team Jade Dynasty's boss, Xiao Jie, was a man of his word. As soon as the match began, he came over to chat with Ye Xiu.
"I feel like your team's player is very interesting." Xiao Jie said. His tone sounded like he was taking advantage of his seniority. But in reality, Ye Xiu wasn't in a position to look down on the other side's youth. If the other side was around 25 or 26 years old, then they were basically the same age.
"Your player is also quite steady." Ye Xiu said.
"To be a captain, you need this kind of player." Xiao Jie sighed.
"It looks like he's still not Team Jade Dynasty's trump card." Ye Xiu said.
Xiao Jie laughed and then asked: "God Ye, in your opinion, who is our Team Jade Dynasty's trump card player?"
Ye Xiu also laughed. His gaze shifted to a player on the Jade Dynasty player bench: "Your trump card player can't play a central role in guiding the battle, but he's your last line of defense."
"God Ye has good eyesight!" Xiao Jie gave a thumbs up in praise. His gaze shifted to their Team Jade Dynasty player, the Cleric Lu Shilin.
"But God Ye said that the Cleric can't play a central role in guiding the battle. I feel like that's a bit old-fashioned." Xiao Jie said.
"Uh, actually, what I wanted to say was lead, not guide. I used the wrong word. Sorry, you know that I'm not a writer." Ye Xiu said.
Xiao Jie stared blankly. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Lead, guide. Just one word difference, and the meanings were indeed very different. He was just about to find fault with Ye Xiu, but he didn't expect the other to use a word mistake to cover it up. He even made fun of his identity as a writer.
"So it looks like God Ye has a well-thought-out plan for how to deal with this?" Xiao Jie composed himself and continued.
"There's no need to specifically deal with a core player who can't play a central role," Ye Xiu said.
"Is that so?" Xiao Jie laughed again. He didn't say anything else and sat back down to continue watching the match.
This person really liked to laugh, the kind that was faint and faint. At first glance, this kind of smile would easily give people a good impression of him, feeling that he was humble and polite. However, when this kind of smile appeared again and again, it no longer conveyed that kind of feeling, but pride and conceit. He used this kind of expression full of superiority to express his disapproval of the other party. In Chen Guo's opinion, it would have been better to directly say, "You're really an idiot!"
"This person's smile is really annoying," Chen Guo said to Ye Xiu.
"It's annoying when he doesn't smile too. He brought a team over to cause trouble for us. It's so annoying!" Ye Xiu said.
"…"
The off-stage exchange ended there. On the field, Baozi's Bao Ozi Invasion and Lin Yi's Ten Thousand Swords into One had been in contact for a while. Both sides did not use any tactical moves. They went straight to the center of the map, met, and then fought.
It was a battle of skill, awareness, and judgment. It was a battle without too much scheming. Lin Yi, who had more experience, more solid skills, and better equipment, quickly gained the upper hand. He did not have overwhelming strength, but his unperturbed state of the game was just enough to restrain Baozi's jumpiness. From time to time, Steamed Bun's frightening strokes didn't have any psychological effect at all. Even though it was impossible to grasp the rhythm of this kind of jumpiness, Lin Yi was able to maintain a steady state of mind from beginning to end.
Ye Xiu glanced at Team Jade Dynasty's side and just happened to see Xiao Jie looking over at them. He had that kind of smile again, using his superiority to say, "See, I knew it."
The other side's first appearance was a targeted formation. It looked like they had guessed Happy's intentions. Ye Xiu didn't know how good this Xiao Jie was at Glory, but he had been a fan of Jade Dynasty ever since then. He was clearly someone who was crazy about Glory. It looked like he was quite skilled in Glory as well.
Seven Fields and the others began to frantically cheer for Baozi. They were already a bit dispirited because they could see that the current situation was very unfavorable for Baozi.
If even the audience could see it, then the situation was already quite clear. The broadcast commentator was just short of announcing the result of this match.
"Haha, it looks like the result of this match is already very clear, no?" Xiao Jie moved closer and said.
"Everyone can see it, but there's still one person who doesn't understand the situation at all!" Ye Xiu said.
"Who?" Xiao Jie didn't understand. How could someone not understand such an obvious situation?
"Look," Ye Xiu pointed at the screen, "Our Baozi is still playing with such vigor."
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