Chapter 326: Pre-Season

Heart picks up the conversation with a seemingly interested voice: "Bai Liu has been killing the game all the way through."

"That's where Bai Liu is very wrong." The man snickers, "I don't need to tell you how deadly unstable newcomers are, do I Heart?"

"Instead of thinking about playing a few more regattas in the early preseason to grind out the team's inconsistencies, Bai Liu is obsessed with killing games early to gain notoriety and wasting opportunity after opportunity to grind and train."

This one gave a mocking smile and commented arrogantly, "Short-sighted fool."

"You'll see, in the late game Bai Liu will have a big problem, his tactics won't work at all."

While the two were talking, the screen in the center of the viewing pool flickered:

[System Alert: The Wandering Circus has 8 points, killing the game early and advancing to the next round.]

[Stormy Mansion team eliminated]

The whole place is in a huge frenzy, with ear-piercing screams overpowering their conversations, and even the fanboy spectator sitting next to Heart doesn't care about Heart.

He stands up and dances frantically with his hands in the air, calling out the names of the Wandering Circus and Bai Liu.

In the league, winning means everything.

Heart retracted his gaze, "So your tactic of sneaking up on your opponent in reality is working?"

Logging out Bai Liu pats down his shirt as the Tactician of the Frenzied Lamb sits back in his seat, gazing from a distance at Bai Liu who seems oblivious to all of this, slowly hooking one side of his lips into a sneer as a bloodied expression grows on his face:

"Sure."

"In an already weak group game, if one of Bai Liu's key players gets injured and makes a mistake, he's bound to lose."

Heart said nonchalantly, "Your tactics have an Achilles heel."

The man glanced at Heart and said contemptuously, "Little witch, huh?"

"As long as I don't kill the others completely, and they make it into the game, the little witch will be able to heal them with medicine."

"Yes." Heart leaned forward, a sharp playing card emerging in her hand and holding it in two fingers against the side of the man's neck as she lifted it upward, whispering in her ear, "And if you touch the little witch, while I can't kill you here, I don't mind using your tactics a little."

"Getting down to murder off the field."

The man lazily raised his hands in surrender, feeling like he didn't even take Heart's threat seriously, "I won't touch the little witch, her skills are too rare, wait until next year's league, I still want to recruit her."

"She's not the one I'm going to lay my hands on."

"I prefer to challenge warlocks to get down and dirty." His gaze fell sinisterly on Bai Liu, "Especially the ones that look like they're flailing."

After the match against Storm Commons, Mu Sicheng stretched and followed Bai Liu out of the viewing pool, "Still playing today?"

"Not playing." Bai Liu said, "Going to the pool to practice for the team game."

Mu Sicheng jammed, "Huh? Why didn't you just practice for the team practice match?"

"If you forfeit a single or double match, you can play the group matches one by one, right?" Mu Sicheng asked back with a heartfelt doubt, "Why do we have to go to the pool to practice, there are no opponents in the pool yet."

Bai Liu faded, "How is it that you don't have an opponent, your opponent is Captain Tang."

Mu Sicheng froze: "Tang Er hit?"

"Yes." Wang Shun nods his head in agreement with Bai Liu's words, "Chairman Bai and I have been discussing this for a long time and came up with this solution."

"God Mu, you and Liu Jiayi, Mu Ke are all pure newcomers and haven't used to play in the league before, so you will be more unstable on the field, especially in the group matches, you don't always cooperate with others in time, which sometimes leads to disorder in the rhythm of offense or defense."

Mu Sicheng frowns, "Wouldn't it be better to practice in the preseason?"

"No, practicing in the preseason exposes just too much information." Wang Shun shook his head, "That's one aspect, the other is the opponents in the preseason, you guys felt it today, do you really think that you can get improved by playing group matches against these teams?"

Mu Sicheng paused and fell silent.

Honestly, the weakness of today's opponents is inflating him with a sense of [league? This is it?] feeling.

Wang Shun sighs, "Does it feel so weak that it's not even worth fighting against?"

"For you very strong newcomers, using this very weak team as a whetstone to polish you will only get you used to this low level of matchups."

"But you guys will be playing the top guilds soon afterward, and the steep rise in the level of all your opponents will make you uncomfortable, so using these guilds for regimental training is something that Chairman Bai and I agree isn't quite right."

Mu Sicheng scratched the back of his neck in annoyance, "But Bai Liu and I work fine together, do we need to go through all this trouble to do training?"

Wang Shun let out another helpless sigh, "It's not that you and Bai Liu work together okay, it's that Bai Liu works with you well."

"Bai Liu is not just for you, he can work well with any of you players, and that goes for Captain Tang as well, he's a very experienced starter now, and can tolerate your mistakes to a certain extent."

"The problem is with the three of you cooperating with each other, Bai Liu and Captain Tang are fine, so Bai Liu doesn't need to participate in your side of the training."

Mu Sicheng pointed at Bai Liu unconvincingly, "But this guy is a newcomer too! Why can't he participate!"

Liu Jiayi rolled her eyes, "Do you think we're on the same level as Bai Liu, the pervert?"

Mu Ke nods, "I can train."

Bai Liu smiles, "I'm going to train too, just not on your side."

Mu Ke was stunned, then his eyes quickly went back and forth between Bai Liu and Tang Er fight for a moment, gulping carefully, "Bai Liu is going to ......"

"Yes, I'm on Captain Tang's side." Bai Liu smiled, "The three of you work as a team, and the enemy is a team made up of Captain Tang and myself."

Tang Er fought with a solemn look and walked behind Bai Liu, holding his chest and sweeping his eyes coldly at them, at a glance, he would not show any mercy.

Bai Liu smiled in a very friendly manner, "I think with the level of Captain Tang and I combined, it should be enough to polish your instability."

Mu Sicheng, Liu Jiayi, Mu Ke : "......"

Wang Shun turned to Bai Liu : "Today's game pool is auctioned by our guild, we can go over anytime, only ......"

Bai Liu looks to Wang Shun: "Anything else?"

Wang Shun hesitated for a moment, but still said, "There's a Slayer Sequence match today against last year's ranked 27th [Skeleton Legion], it's about to start, do you guys want to watch it before you go?"

Bai Liu paused, "Go."

Killer Sequence Race Course Viewing Pool.

This huge viewing pool is probably ten times more densely populated than the 98th viewing pool where Bai Liu was previously located.

Bai Liu stood far away at the top edge of the viewing pool, his eyes downcast as he watched the fight on the big screen in the center.

There was also a host in front of the big screen with a microphone raucously narrating:

"Now you see the strongest player of our Slayer Sequence [Spades 】 versus a member of the Skeleton Legion [Disciples], who also had some good results in solo matches last year ......"

Mu Sicheng couldn't help but complain, "This person is so noisy."

Wang Shun explains in a whisper, "Very popular matches have commentators, you'll have to get used to it, but you won't be able to hear them in the game."

This host suddenly raised his voice, "Spades, our Spades has imprisoned his opponent's neck with a whip! Is he trying to kill his opponent to kill the match early!"

The big screen shows Spades on one knee on another player's shoulder with an icy expression, holding the whip in one hand and strangling it upwards, the opponent's face rises purple from the strangulation but soon falls forward physically, bringing down the Spades on his body.

Spades landed a smooth roll and seemed to get something from this [Disciple] and the big screen went out momentarily.

[System alert: Congratulations to player Spades for collecting all the key props, the game is over.]

[System alert: Player Spades kills early, wins solo match, 2 points]

The room was silent for a minute or so, then a mountain of cheers.

The host's shrill voice drowns out these whistles, "The match is over in 5 dimensional minutes! The time record for a mid-season solo match has been set! This is still the first match of the Slayer Sequence!!!"

"This team, last year's champions, has lived up to our expectations and has returned in an even stronger form!"

Spades logs out of the game in the midst of all the attention and walks straight back to his seat without looking away.

The Adversary next to him sidles up to speak to him, and Spades nods blandly, eyes downcast as he wraps bandages around his hands and the handle of his whip.

The eyes of the entire crowd were focused on Spades alone, but Spades' eyes never swept over the audience, taking the cheers and jumps of the bystanders for granted, without any relation to him at all.

It looked like a god that had always been worshipped, powerful to the point of alienation.

Soon the pairs races began as well.

[System Alert: Double Race is about to start]

Killer Sequence members Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu vs. Skeleton Legion members Centurion and Bone Shield Trooper.

The host chattered excitedly as he narrated, "Duals were always the weak point of the Killer Sequence last year, I wonder what's going to change this year ......"

Mu Sicheng, who was looking at the big screen, watched Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu's flowing counterattacks above, pressing their opponents into death step by step, and his face gradually became gloomy.

Bai Liu calmly inquired, "See anything?"

Mu Sicheng ground his back teeth, "Are these two people sharing a brain?"

"The degree of cooperation is too outrageous." Liu Jiayi's complexion also became grave, "When something happens to one person, the other can react quickly even when he's a hundred thousand miles away from here, and all the matchups are as smooth as if they were done by one person."

"And I saw no sign of them communicating." Mu Ke took a deep breath, "How?"

The four men on the big screen are tangled up in a small space.

The moment Bai Yi was about to be touched from behind by a skeleton's bony claws, Bai Jiamu's eyes flew over to him with a scalpel that opened up without a hitch.

Meanwhile, the moment Bai Jiamu deflected his head to attack, his opponent in front of him was whipped up into the air by a backhanded eggbeater from Bai Yi.

Within such a small space, these two people actually did not hurt each other in the slightest when they attacked, their attacks were articulated in an incomparably silky smooth manner, and at the same time, these two people had not exchanged a single word.

The opponent was pushed step by step and eventually lost the game.

[System Alert: Players Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu killed the match early and won the single-player match, scoring 6 points]

[System Alert: Killer Sequence accumulated 8 points in this game, killing the game early, game over]

[Skeleton Legion team has 0 points from this game]

The whole place was completely abuzz.

Everyone was cheering the names of Killer Sequence and Spades at the top of their lungs, and others were twirling and dancing right out of their seats as if the champions had already been crowned ahead of time at this very moment.

Wang Shun watched this with a mixed heart, "This is the charm of a top guild tournament."

"Compared to last year's Killer Sequence, this year's Killer Sequence has matured a lot." Liu Jiayi calmly analyzed, "This should be the credit of that tactician who trained this team well."

Bai Liu watched for a moment and calmly turned around, "Come on, go train, we're not even close at the moment."

After the match, the Killer Sequence Lounge.

The Inverse God held his head and muttered to himself with dull eyes, "What to do, what to do, the next game to play the eighth ranked team, the strength is very strong, there is no way to kill the game in advance, to play a group match ......"

The others didn't feel the slightest bit of anxiety from Against the Gods, as Bai Yi was very excited to be circling Around Against the Gods after killing the match early today.

Only Liao Ke looked at the Retrograde God with sympathy, "Has the form gotten this grim?"

The Adversary nodded heavily, "Yes."

Bai Yi sat curiously next to him, "Didn't we kill the game early today, what's so grim about it?"

The Adversary sighed, "I didn't kill the match early for a gimmick, I did it to avoid a group match."

"Our team's group matches aren't mature at all, and we'll get beaten up pretty badly against these big guilds that have honed their maturity."

"The culprit is you!" The Reverse God looked resentfully at Spades, who was sitting on the couch as if dozing off.

Spades rolled over and went back to sleep.

The Reverse God sighed helplessly, "Forget it, there's no use scolding you now, in short it's just that right now we're in a dangerous situation and need to practice more group matches."

He turns to Liao Ke : "Did we shoot the game pool today?"

Liao Ke spreads his hands, "Nope, we got there late, it was Wandering Circus that tapped the game pool today, a team that killed the game early all the way through today as well."

"I guess it's a similar situation to ours, where the group games are the short end of the stick, so they're shooting for the game pool to practice."

Reverse God glanced at Spades, who was lying asleep on the couch, and deliberately raised his voice: "Wandering Circus, ah, the tactician is Bai Liu, right?"

Spades, asleep on the couch, opens his eyes and sits up violently.

With red marks still on his face from being slept on, he looked straight at the Adversary and said, "Bai Liu, where is it?"

Against the Gods: "......"