Chapter 509: Chapter 498: Must Win! (2nd Chapter! Asking for Monthly Passes!!)
The second match of the top four contenders… to be honest, Black Pot Stewing at felt there was nothing much to see in this matchup.
Just listening to the frontline reporters’ comntary outside was embarrassing enough for Black Pot Stewing at.
“Next up will be the duel between Team Nuclear’s first and second teams!”
The first and second teams, what’s that supposed to an? Doesn’t the second team imply they’re not good enough? It’s so humiliating.
Black Pot Stewing at originally thought that the second team he led stood no chance of making it into the top four, but it was as if Queen i was playing a prank on him.
The opponents he encountered along the way were not very strong, and the battle for the top sixteen was even against a no-na team.
Luck, Black Pot Stewing at felt that it was purely by luck that he had made it to the top four, and now that luck had finally run out—or even if there was any left, it was of no use.
Team Nuclear’s first team, just hearing the na made it sound stronger than the second team.
Moreover, Black Pot Stewing at had no intention of defeating the first team, because if he did, he would have to face Caral, that man capable of holding his own against Smiling Sir in a fifty-fifty match!
Both the first and second teams of Team Nuclear are Nuclear’s teams, with the first team being more likely to take the championship compared to them.
So Black Pot Stewing at was considering whether to forfeit, to let Juan Canyun and the others conserve their energy for the battle against Cola Frenzy.
But… he still wanted to win.
Black Pot Stewing at stood in the arena, looking at the cheering crowd around him, thinking… if he wasn’t really bad…. who wouldn’t want to show off their skills in front of the whole world and defeat their opponent?
“Don’t go easy just because we’re teammates,”
As the countdown began, Black Pot Stewing at twirled his revolver and said from a distance to Juan Canyun.
“I won’t, senior!”
Juan Canyun swung his legendary spear nad “Chasing Sun” and took a ready stance.
Wait a minute! Didn’t you understand that I was just being polite?
Obviously… he didn’t understand.
The mont the countdown started, Team Nuclear’s first-team players launched an attack on the second team’s veterans that left them no chance to fight back!
Stop hitting ! I have contributed to Team Nuclear! Is there no justice in hitting so fiercely?
Black Pot Stewing at ranted internally, but he also did his utmost to direct his team to et the fight, while also concentrating on mobilizing every cell in his body to keep up with Juan Canyun’s movents.
But… it wasn’t possible.
The gap was still there, a palpable distance that Black Pot Stewing at could clearly feel. Otherwise, why would there be a first team and a second team?
And who said that Feng Yi’s style of playing the ga was freakishly unique?
The coordination between him and Juan Canyun was simply too perfect, so perfect that Black Pot Stewing at began to suspect that he and Juan Canyun had tead up long ago in so past tournant.
These two rising stars of Team Nuclear made the team’s veterans feel utterly lost.
1:0, 2:0, 3:0.
Juan Canyun knew that giving it his all was the ultimate respect for his opponent, and in three consecutive matches, he didn’t entertain the thought of going easy, instead quickly ending the matches with a gaping disparity in strength within half an hour.
“Sigh… After Rising Nucleus, it’s indeed up to you guys, good luck in the finals!” Suffering from exhaustion, Black Kettle Cooked at collapsed onto the platform, panting non-stop, his hands quivering from just trying to keep up with Juan Canyun’s movents during the past thirty minutes.
“I will do it! Senior!”
Juan Canyun was also riding the montum, as the first team of Rising Nucleus effortlessly beat the second team to advance into the finals.
But before the final match began, the defeated second team of Rising Nucleus had to confront the equally beaten Uncontested Under Heaven in a match for third place.
This match was still an undeniable loss for Black Kettle Cooked at, and Zhao Mingwei didn’t know the aning of holding back, nearly pushing him to a ntal breakdown. At least he could barely keep up with Juan Canyun’s moves when fighting him.
But facing Zhao Mingwei felt like… “Smiling Grandpa has arrived, Smiling Grandpa has instant-killed, the match is lost.”
Ultimately, Uncontested Under Heaven secured third place, earning a three percent share of the Dispute, a small percentage but enough for the five mbers of Uncontested Under Heaven to completely pay off their debts.
So when the finals began, Black Kettle Cooked at, with a deadpan expression, lay on the couch watching the match.
He was only short of having been trampled by Caral.
The final showdown took place at the Upper City Sports Hall, with Cola Frenzy facing off against Rising Nucleus.
This might have been the most anticipated match of the Holy Spirit League because the two teams were so closely matched in strength, but on paper, Rising Nucleus had a slight edge.
Because they had Feng Yi.
Feng Yi was just as well a promising player for the future, he just hadn’t undergone the sa transformation as Juan Canyun had.
The championship match didn’t disappoint the audience, who paid a high price for their tickets. The rhythm of the entire match was tight, filled with continuous climaxes and fierce battles.
The competition lasted nearly two hours, ending after two and a half hours with Cola Frenzy and Rising Nucleus tied at 2:2 in a life-and-death final round.
After the deciding ga five arrived, every player on both teams was sowhat exhausted, but this was the ti to fight with everything they had!
With all their might! Each player on the Cola Frenzy team fought with all their strength, knowing this might be the closest they’d ever been to the championship since the team was established.
No one wanted to lose; the runner-up was the biggest loser in the entire match!
Everyone understood this, but every player has their limits, and as the match neared its end, all the Cola Frenzy players except Caral had fallen.
Caral was the only one left standing with half his hit points remaining, but before his teammates went down, they still managed to take three players from Rising Nucleus with them.
Yet the situation for Cola Frenzy was still not looking good.
Because the last two standing were Feng Yi and Juan Canyun, Rising Nucleus’s two strongest ace players. Juan Canyun still had half his hit points, while Feng Yi only had a quarter left.
“Caral, God, how about you just forfeit?” Unlike the reserved and shy Juan Canyun, Feng Yi didn’t hesitate to show his arrogant side when he had the advantage.
Caral didn’t answer Feng Yi; he couldn’t hear any sound at that mont, his eyes only focused on the humming of his Moonlight Sword as his fingertips glided along its blade.
“Feng Yi, be careful!” Juan Canyun, snapping to his senses, instantly warned Feng Yi, raising his long spear at the sa mont, which collided with Caral’s Moonlight Sword in an instant.
The spear shaft and sword blade clashed, sending out brilliant sparks, and in that mont, Feng Yi also delivered a charged kick towards Caral.
But Caral made a blocking move.
Block! Juan Canyun wanted to attack in these less than 0.3 seconds, to break through Caral’s defense, but the Moonlight Sword in Caral’s hand had transford from a straight sword into a short sword.
When did he switch? Damn!
Feng Yi’s foot had already kicked onto Caral’s short sword, and the blade of the short sword suddenly burst out with a hurricane-like Sword Qi that swept over Feng Yi.
Wind Retrospection! This short sword’s effect rebounds the attack back at the enemy in the form of wind blades after blocking!
Juan Canyun had encountered swordsn using this short sword in the arena, so he would be cautious if the enemy wielded this sword.
But Caral had switched the weapon in his hand just a second before blocking.
Feng Yi, of course, had also encountered swordsn of this weapon-switching style, and when the rebounded edge swept over him, he stepped and leaped back to dodge the strike.
But Caral had made a slashing move a second earlier.
With such a short reach, the short sword couldn’t possibly slash Feng Yi!
But the instant Caral made the slash, the weapon in his hand suddenly beca a two-ter-long greatsword!
Heavy Sword No Edge!
The greatsword struck Feng Yi with unerring accuracy, and the blow even blocked Juan Canyun’s thrusting spear in the process.
The attack from a greatsword may be slow, but the damage is terrifyingly high. The mont Feng Yi was hit, Caral released the Breaking Army Ascending Dragon Strike, and in the mont he resisted Juan Canyun’s offensive, his weapon switched again to a katana.
Katana of the Abyss!
This long blade, clad in scarlet luster, swept straight across Feng Yi’s throat…and in just five short seconds, Feng Yi’s life was drained to less than a quarter.
But the instant Feng Yi fell, Juan Canyun also thrust out a fatal spear, piercing Caral’s chest, leaving Caral too with precious little life remaining.
But Caral didn’t give Juan Canyun another chance. As a newbie in the Spirit League, Juan Canyun’s experience was still too little, especially with swordsn’s weapons; his match count in the arena was far less than Caral’s.
Confronting Caral, Juan Canyun felt as if he was dueling with hundreds of holy weapons.
Those swords would always exert their effects at just the right ti!
Yet, Juan Canyun still leveraged his extraordinary reflexes to compensate for the various unexpected blades that Caral thrust at him.
“Moonlight!”
Just when both sides were down to their last sliver of life, Caral chose to stake everything on his beloved weapon, the Moonlight Sword.
A pale green Moonlight Slash covered the entire battlefield, and Juan Canyun’s Flowing Cloud Illusion was thrown out, but before the skill could fully unleash, Caral’s Sword Qi found him and swept away the last of Juan Canyun’s life!
Victory!
As the word echoed over the arena, the whole uptown stadium erupted!
Caral, amidst the near-deafening cheers that could burst his eardrums, was soon surrounded by the fervent mbers of Team Caral and even Soda Pop rushed up, hugging Caral jubilantly as if crazed.
“We won! We finally got the championship!”
“Team Caral! The designated champions!”
“Hahahaha!”
Even Xue Bi, who was always so stoic, couldn’t help but smile uncontrollably as she stepped onto the stage.
But Caral wasn’t smiling.
The trophy for the champion of the Spirit League appeared on the stage, and Queen i approached slowly.
“Lift the trophy, Team Caral, for you have proven yourselves to be the strongest team in the Spirits. Raise the trophy that belongs to you,” Queen i proclaid to the entire world.
Surrounded by his teammates, Caral ca before the pure gold trophy, the symbol of the current strongest in the Spirits.
“Co on, Captain, lift the trophy. You’re the only one who deserves to be the first one to hold it,” Can exclaid excitedly.
I… deserve it…
Caral looked at the trophy and then lifted his eyes towards Queen i, who was smiling gently. Finally, he saw his own reflection on the surface of the trophy.
The number one in Spirit, unmatched in the nation.
Do I… truly deserve this?
No! I don’t!
Caral suddenly withdrew his hand that was about to touch the trophy.
“I… don’t accept,” Caral said, looking up at Queen i.
Caral’s words echoed clearly throughout the entire stadium, and for a mont the audience’s cheering fell silent, Queen i’s smile vanished, and even the smiles on the faces of Soda Pop and the other Team Caral players stiffened.
I don’t accept?
What does it an for a champion to refuse the championship trophy?
“Captain, what are you saying?” a puzzled teammate asked before quickly being silenced.
Soda Pop was about to question if Caral had gone mad, but seeing Caral’s solemn expression, he imdiately understood that Caral was not joking.
“You must defeat him, right?” Soda Pop understood what Caral ant.
“I must defeat him!” Caral said seriously.
“Captain, we support you.”
Can instantly grasped Caral’s intent and forgot about lifting the trophy, because they did not yet have the right to do so!
They must defeat that guy! Only by defeating him do they earn the right to be called the strongest in Spirit… Only then will they truly be unmatched in the nation!
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