Chapter 328: Chapter 207: Unable to Protect (First Update)_2
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But he knew he wasn’t Fang Cheng, and the other party might have deeper intentions.
He restarted “Spirit Vessel,” choosing the open selection entrance to begin competing.
Since it was a competition, all chas and chips were unlocked, allowing players to freely pair the chas they desired and even to have two additional sets as spares during the match.
The AI in the ga, however, chose the default cha, which was evenly balanced in all aspects and didn’t have as many crafty tactics as the players did.
Landing in a spacious arena, Wang realized he was in a colossal arena.
Across from him, a gray-brown default cha silently watched him, and after Wang entered, it gestured for him to co closer.
Stepping forward, Wang charged directly at the cha opposite him, with the hydraulics on his arms running at full load, causing his arms to burst with a lot of steam.
He threw a powerful punch at his opponent, but instead of the opponent’s head shattering as expected, the cha deployed a force field that deflected his heavy punch.
“What!”
The opponent moved with remarkable agility and operated the cha with extraordinary skill.
Taking advantage of the mont Wang was thrown off balance, the AI cha reached out, grasped Wang’s head, and forcefully pressed downward.
A knee strike followed, and amid the teeth-grinding roar, Wang’s head took a severe blow, followed shortly by a close-range blast from a heat-lting cannon to the abdon. The energy released from the opponent’s palm erupted Wang’s power furnace, sending him straight out of the competition.
In less than fifteen seconds, Wang t his defeat.
Watching the AI cha return emotionlessly to its starting position, Wang was utterly stunned and didn’t recover his senses for a good while before he yelled, “It’s cheating, right? Can a cha even fight like this? Who could defeat this thing!”
Rallying his spirits, Wang prepared to switch tactics.
If close combat wasn’t working, then he would use long-range weapons to control the foe before delivering a vicious blow!
Entering the ga once more, Wang quickly retreated after landing, then took out a cannon and began firing like crazy.
A barrage of missiles flew towards the target, but before they could get close, the opposing cha deployed a force field that neutralized each incoming weapon.
Seeing his opponent stride out of the lingering smoke, Wang couldn’t help but shout, “You can’t be serious!”
Then, the AI cha drew a lightsaber from its wrist and lunged at Wang, who was cut in half, unable to dodge in ti, and with an explosion, he was sent back to the spawn point.
Two failed attempts made Wang realize the difficulty of the open selection was no joke.
Even a skilled technical player like him was defeated at first encounter; there couldn’t be many who would pass the challenge.
He decided to take a break for now, log into Bilibili to let his fans know he was still alive, then continue the challenges afterward.
However, as soon as he logged into Bilibili, he found that “Spirit Vessel” had flooded the platform.
It had been five hours since the “Spirit Vessel” competitive version had been released.
The ga was free, and passing the open selection earned you ten thousand US dollars and a free plane ticket to the United States for a global competition…
Each of these conditions was enticing on its own, but together, they ford a knockout combo.
And with Druid Entertainnt’s recent nonsensical behavior, the resulting chain reaction had exploded across the dia, turning “Spirit Vessel,” its rival, into the hot topic of the mont.
In five hours, its global download count had already surpassed ten million, with Druid Entertainnt’s biggest competitor erging before its eyes, full of fighting spirit.
A flood of players joined the open selection, many talented gars stood out, and a plethora of videos showing challenges against AI chas began to surface, with even so live strears engaging in seventy-two-hour challenges to see if they could defeat an AI cha within that ti fra.
These AI chas were programs compiled by Fang Cheng Studio, imitating Artifact Spirits, and their level of competence was about thirty percent of the actual Artifact Spirits, more than enough to filter out players.
And in the sixth hour, the first kill was finally achieved.
An anonymous player holding up a digital plane ticket and check in their phone, showed off their first kill accomplishnt through a video and expressed their winning thoughts:
“Liuzi, where’s your hardcore? I can’t see it!”
Then, ten minutes later, the second anonymous player to kill an AI cha showed their achievent and gave their winning speech: “You damn slowpoke! There’s a ti difference here!”
Dostically, successive players started to succeed, and many international players also erged victorious. Once they realized the rewards could indeed be exchanged, a second wave of social dia buzz was born.
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Although many players initially chased after the prize money, they found sothing after actually downloading “Spirit Vessel”…
This ga is off the charts!
No, to be precise, this ga rocks!
The dostic players were fine, Fang Cheng Studio’s gas had never disappointed them, so they could download it without a second thought.
But the international players were different.
Although they had been initiated through “Heavenly Demon,” many of them were not really interested in Eastern fantasy thes and would just skim through to claim they’d played it.
But “Spirit Vessel” was different.
Just watching the broadcasters’ challenge videos got their adrenaline pumping, and the videos of PVP battles were enough to make anyone’s blood boil.
Tearing apart cha with bare hands, close-combat wrestling, the lightning-fast cha fights were unbearable, and they just made people want to dive into a cha and experience it for themselves.
Upon discovering that “Spirit Vessel” also had a VR version, and that it was exclusive to Kirin Industry, plenty of rich gars promptly ordered the Kirin VR Integrated Machine from overseas and after trying it, beca people who could only repeat “Amazing” like parrots.
Seeing the cha customization segnt, “Amazing”!
Personally piloting the cha, “Amazing”!
Destroying a city with bare hands, sinking an island, and altering the terrain of a planet, “Amazing” squared!
Especially when they engaged in PVP battles, the intense gaplay reminded them of “Pacific Rim,” “Mobile Suit Gundam,” “Six Gods Combined,” and “Transforrs.”
The dreams of their childhood were realized to 120%, making them unable to help but shout out that this is what cha is all about!
Gars started creating cha of their own design, finding various ways to increase their cha’s strength, and the PVP section beca exceptionally lively, with both 1v1 and 5v5 reaching instant matchmaking status.
Millions of cha battling simultaneously, new tactics erging constantly, also led to so players gradually gaining the strength to challenge AI cha.
But that didn’t include Wang.
After trying sneakily for a day, Wang realized he was still sowhat short of being a genius.
A typical genius would have already defeated the AI cha by this ti, but he could only last five rounds.
He had watched plenty of walkthrough videos, learned various styles and thought he was ready afterward, but he would still get beaten up each ti.
What really got to him was a private ssage from an old acquaintance, Dumb Dragon.
[Wang, don’t be a recluse, hurry up and join in challenging the “Spirit Vessel” AI cha! It’s tough, but I’ve already made it through, and so can you.]
Dumb Dragon was Wang’s junior by half, and had always been dim-witted, just as he is now.
Though Wang long knew that Dumb Dragon had so gaming talent, he didn’t expect him to have already passed the preliminaries and secured a plane ticket.
Especially that line “and so can you,” broke Wang’s defenses and finally led him to make a tough decision.
He called Fang Cheng.
He agreed to beco a comntator for the competition.
He got the plane ticket and the overti pay, he could go to the United States!
Having secured the plane ticket in this way, he collected his emotions and replied to Dumb Dragon, [Don’t worry, I’m alright now. But I’ll pass on this challenge, I have to be a comntator. Let soone else have this opportunity.]
[You’re really sothing, Wang! I’ll go prepare my luggage then, see you in the US.]
[See you in the US.]
After regaining his composure, Wang took a deep breath, feeling that he had saved face.
Re-opening his own videos, he once again compared “Fallen cha” and “Spirit Vessel,” and couldn’t help but let out a laugh of satisfaction.
He had saved his own face.
But so others’ faces, I’m afraid, were not going to be saved.
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