Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations

“Where’s Sister Lan Yan today?” while sitting beside Nalan Mingxue, Jiang Xiaoyue looked around and asked.

“She wants to have a try with Diablo and went to the competition,” Nalan Mingxue said while she watched the matches on the couch.

Many players were in the competition, but there were still many people sitting downstairs and watching the matches on the big screen.

Even the Yinlong Elder, who focused all his attention on the Legend of the Sword and Fairy, watched the matches on the couch with his disciples, let alone Lan Mo and Jun Yangzi who loved the items in Diablo.

The only thing was that in the entire Blue Flame Faction, only Li Haoran entered the Diablo competition.

Although a team of their disciples had entered the Counter Strike team competition, they didn’t place too much hope in them.

All they could count on was Li Haoran’s sorcerer character.

With the progress of the matches, the points of the individual participants changed slowly on the left side of the big screen.

“The list of the top 16 is on the screen!”

At this moment, they found that Nalan Hongwu wasn’t in the first place; the first place was currently taken by An Cheng. They both won five matches, but An Cheng’s total battle time was much less than Nalan Hongwu’s.

An Cheng fell silent while he looked at the level 9 female barbarian in front of him who was wearing rag-armor and rag shoes.

This was the second time that An Cheng encountered this kind of opponent.

“Ugh? Isn’t that Luo Yun from Xiyi Academy?” The Second Prince pointed at the level 9 female barbarian on the big screen and asked.

“It seems to be her…” Nalan Mingxue looked toward that match.

An Cheng tried to summon the Hydra.

Xiao Yulv explained with familiarity, “The sorcerers and sorceresses who main fire spells can summon this nine-headed serpent-like flame creature. It can act as a helper with strong fire-elemental spiritual spells. The sorcerers and sorceresses don’t have to fight since the Hydra will deal with the enemies!”

While looking at the Hydra spitting out hot flames, Xiao Yulv explained confidently, “This time, Brother An is lucky. I guess that his ranking will be above Senior Nalan’s. He can defeat this level 9 female barbarian with his eyes closed.”

“Gonzgi Xiao.” Ji Yu pointed at the big screen. “Young Master An surrendered.”

Xiao Yulv looked at the big screen in shock.

“The An Family of Jiuhua and the Luo Family in the north had been friendly for generations.” On the side, Mr. Mu explained, “Now that Young Master An has a high score, it’s okay for him to let her win this match…”

Xiao Yulv closed his gaping mouth and said with twitching facial muscles, “Everyone can see that this is an exception.

After failing to predict the results of these two matches, Xiao Yulv got more cautious with his comments. He still made comments about the skills but was very careful with predictions of the results, thus making no such mistakes again.

As time went on, the competition on the first day progressed uneventfully, and the players with higher rankings played cautiously to stay in the top 16.

During all that, some black horses appeared.

For example, Fu Jianghe and Bai Lang made it into the top 16.

Lan Yan also barely made it onto the list.

To their surprise, they saw a name which they had never noticed before – Wang Tai?

“Isn’t he Mr. Fang’s fat friend?” Nalan Mingxue said with some bafflement.

“Do you know him?” Ji Yu asked.

“I’ve watched this fat guy play.” Xiao Yulv looked at the only necromancer in top 16 and analyzed, “This necromancer always tossed out spiritual spells from behind Song Qingfeng and the others, and he’s cowardly! He probably entered the top 16 with pure luck. After all, few people play this class, and I don’t know much about his skills.”

“After today, the top 16 players will be analyzed by others, and their skills will be figured out. Then, it will be easier to fight them,” Xiao Yulv said logically, “After all, the necromancer can’t teleport, which means that he needs help from others to block attacks. This class is probably at a disadvantage in individual competitions.”

“Senior Nalan is meeting Bai Lang!”

Almost everyone turned their eyes to the screen!

“Is this the last match?” Nalan Mingxue asked.

Ji Yu nodded and said, “Yeah. If he wins this match, he will have 20 consecutive victories!”

Xiao Yulv was cautious this time. “Senior Nalan’s paladin character is very powerful, but his battles with Castellan An and the others looked difficult. He must be cautious with Bai Lang.”

Mu Donglai said, “This time, I think the Senior will take the No. 1 spot after this match.”

Everyone glanced at him without a word and then turned their eyes to the big screen.

“In this match, Bai Lang is very cautious with his moves.” Xiao Yulv clicked his tongue and said, “He is creating distance between him and his opponent instead of attacking!”

In fact, although Nalan Hongwu had won the last 19 matches, he knew the disadvantage of paladins when facing sorcerers and sorceresses; paladins couldn’t catch up with them!

He learned Blessed Hammer which was a long-range attack. However, the trajectory of the hammer was an arc instead of a straight line, so it required skill to land it.

While sorcerers and sorceresses teleported and created distance, they could use the powerful area spells such as Blizzard without aiming. If Nalan Hongwu was hit, he would be slowed down greatly!

Bai Lang was an old player who was very familiar with the skills of paladins and wouldn’t make a rookie mistake!

Soon, everyone saw that Nalan Hongwu fell on his way while chasing after Bai Lang.

At this moment, everyone turned to look at Mu Donglai with dumbfounded expressions.

Mu Donglai: “…”

The final list showed that only Nalan Hongwu’s paladin entered the top three list; the other two were taken by sorcerers and sorceresses.

For example, An Huwei lost one match, but due to the long time that Nalan Hongwu spent on the last match, An Huwei took the first place.

At this moment, an understanding dawned on Nalan Hongwu.

After putting down the virtual reality headset, he yelled with a dark expression, “Who has an item with Teleport?! I’ll buy it with crystals! Also, I will buy items that cannot be frozen!”

The participants couldn’t borrow items from others, but it didn’t say that one couldn’t buy them!

Right now, the first day ended, and the second floor fell silent; no one answered.

Then, Song Qingfeng yelled, “Who has items that have the ‘cannot be frozen’ property? I’ll buy one for 50 crystals!”

“I’ll pay 100!” Nalan Hongwu was furious.