Chapter 505: Chapter 494: Accident (2nd Update)
The venue for the top sixteen of the Holy Spirit League was in the King’s Arena, outside Lionheart City.
This arena was specially built for the Holy Spirit League, and its construction was modeled after a sports stadium, with seating that could accommodate about one hundred thousand players for viewing.
Players could exchange their spiritual devotion in the Heart Intent Store for viewing tickets, each ticket being priced at fifty, one hundred, or one hundred fifty heart intents respectively.
Tickets could not be traded, and each player could only exchange for one ticket per day.
Today, four matches were to take place, all of which would be team competitions and would follow the best of three (BO3) format, aning any team that won two rounds would declare victory!
The players, frenzied with excitent, had already been transported to the players’ lounge in the King’s Arena.
Finally, the day had arrived.
Caral placed the Moonlight Sword horizontally across his knees and closed his eyes to enter a state of ditation.
Three months ago, Caral had scoffed at engaging in what he considered worthless practices, such as yoga and ditation.
But now, Caral’s deanor had beco much more restrained compared to before… However, this did not dull his sharpness; instead, he had learned to conceal his ‘edge’.
ditation was sothing Caral felt during his training sessions—maybe it was an illusion or so psychological effect—but he felt as though he could communicate with the Moonlight Sword in his hand.
It wasn’t just the Moonlight Sword; other weapons were the sa, but his connection with the Moonlight Sword was stronger.
“Captain, it’s our turn,” said Cola Frenzy’s support player, Can, to Caral.
“Yeah, let’s go together.”
Caral opened his eyes. It was as if he was speaking to his teammates, and yet also to himself.
Still, his voice was filled with a slight tremor, not from fear, but from excitent.
Finally, he could confront Thorne face-to-face again!
Over the past three months, Caral had not encountered Thorne once. He could feel his progress, yet there was no one to test how far he had co.
And today was the mont for that test!
Caral led his teammates out through the long walkway to the arena, coming into the spotlight of the highly anticipated stadium.
The arena in Holy Spirit was a hundred tis more lively than any stadium in the real world, and the players burst into fireworks and made all sorts of bizarre expressions as they saw the Cola Frenzy players enter the arena one by one.
In an instant, the spectator stands were covered with colorful special effects.
The frontline reporter and the Stargazer Comntators remained in their roles as comntators, but they had a higher status and a more spectacular comnting booth than those in the real world.
Their comntary booth was floating above the arena.
“Let’s welco the first team Cola Frenzy! As one of the finest esports teams in China, their performance in Holy Spirit is equally remarkable! They secured the top sixteen spot with the second-highest score in the qualifiers, and what’s most terrifying is that since Holy Spirit’s launch, no one has ever shaken Caral’s position as the number one on the Holy Ladder!”
The frontline reporter opened the first match of the top sixteen with a voice full of fervor!
The players of Cola Frenzy lined up one by one on the competition stage, and the cheering from the stands was so loud at tis that it even drowned out the frontline reporter with the sound system.
The frontline reporter began introducing the players of Cola Frenzy.
When it finally ca to the team captain, Caral, the cheering was the loudest.
Caral waved slightly to the cheering audience on the competition field. His fa had completely burst forth during the qualifiers and was even greater than the fa of the disputes themselves.
This title, “The Foremost Swordsman of Spirit,” belonged solely to Caral. Combined with the fact that the Swordsman players accounted for the largest base in the ga Spirit, all Swordsman players across the server viewed Caral as the target to pursue!
“The next team to enter is the one that was the top scorer in the qualifiers and advanced to the top eighteen! Composed of the well-known Four Knights and that man you definitely wouldn’t want to face—the Spirit Team!”
When the front-line reporter began to introduce the Spirit Team and Thorne… Caral sharply sensed that his teammates were trembling, and their expressions were extrely grave.
They were all afraid, afraid that they would suffer a crushing defeat in the first match.
The reason was simple: their opponent was Thorne, a monstrous NPC who had schooled them through three ga updates starting from the Inside World version.
Caral was also afraid. To all players of Spirit, Thorne was an opponent who could not be defeated.
In the past, Caral had faced Thorne a total of seven hundred twenty-three tis! And he had lost all seven hundred twenty-three tis!
Thorne had shown Caral with his strength… so gaps could not be bridged by the ga’s trics.
“There’s no way out! We have to defeat Thorne here!” Caral said to his teammates beside him.
They must win against Thorne, the top sixteen was definitely not the peak of their Coke Frenzy!
Moreover, Caral had been looking forward to this match for a very long ti, his gaze was firmly fixed on the opposite player’s entrance, he wanted to demonstrate with his strength that he had beco stronger again!
“Let us welco Spirit Team to the stage!” the front-line reporter repeated what he had said before.
At that mont, Caral suddenly realized sothing was amiss, and he abruptly looked up toward the comntary booth where the front-line reporter seed to be confirming sothing with soone.
The audience, still in a state of cheer, suddenly stopped cheering, looking curiously at the other side of the Spirit Team’s player entrance.
But… no one, neither Thorne nor the Four Knights, were visible.
What’s going on?
Caral waited in place for about three minutes, then the front-line reporter announced a piece of news that made him stunned.
“I’m sorry, everyone, the Spirit Team has declared a forfeit for so reason! Let’s announce that the Coke Frenzy Team has successfully advanced to the top eight!” said the front-line reporter.
This announcent caused an uproar among the eagerly awaiting audience, and even Caral stared wide-eyed at the front-line reporter.
“Forfeit? What does forfeit an!” Caral loudly questioned the front-line reporter in the comntary booth, because only the front-line reporter knew the inside story.
Had the Spirit Team, the strongest contender for the championship, just forfeited? Why?
“Because player Thorne has withdrawn from the match before it began! The substitute player could not participate due to an injury, let’s give a round of applause to the first team to reach the top eight, Coke Frenzy!” the front-line reporter also tried his best to salvage the awkwardness in the arena.
Thorne… had withdrawn from the match?
Caral was staggered at that mont, and the other players of Coke Frenzy sighed in relief, with Can even laughing out loud.
But for Caral, there was only an unspeakable anger. He wanted to confront that guy and ask why he had forfeited, but he had no idea where to begin.
Suddenly, a thought flashed in Caral’s mind—perhaps this match was not so important to Thorne!
Regardless, in the first match of the top sixteen, Coke Frenzy had successfully advanced! Spirit Team had declared defeat due to Thorne’s withdrawal.
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