<h4>Chapter 538: Fighting For The Title Together!</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion <strong>Editor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion


    Nheless, Liu Zng only dismissed those discussions with augh.


    Since he had once faced the same opponents, he was well aware of the kind of yers he would be meeting in the invitational tournament.


    Liu Zng was not confident that their team would prevail but he knew that those monstrous yers were not undefeatable.


    Before the invitational tournament in California, Liu Zng applied for a weeks’ leave from the counselor in advance.


    Of course, counselors from universities like the University of Jianghai were unauthorized to approve leaves that were rtively long.


    However, Liu Zng had been rather “popr”tely and his university had been promoting multicultural development among students.


    Once they heard that he was about to represent Asia in the invitational tournament in California, America, the principal called him in to give him words of encouragement in hopes that he could win honor for their university.


    “The University of Jianghai won’t drag you down but will forever back you up...”


    ‘Oh, look at how he phrased his sentence...’ Liu Zng was so touched that he almost teared up.


    While he sessfully applied for his leave, 4AM had settled the tournament visa with help from Tencent.


    Furthermore, the matter of Liu Zng’spanions to California had also been settled.


    Due to Zhang Xiaotong’s studies, she could only watch the tournament from home. With that, Wang Qianqian and Misaka Mikoto became his “cheerleaders”.


    Two dayster, the Asian representatives 4AM, IG, and Se7en gathered at Jianghai’s international airport.


    “Da, da, da-!”


    The moment all three teams met, the yers from IG and Se7en were stunned by the yers from 4AM who wore slippers.


    ‘Do they think that they’re going on a holiday?’


    Since everyone bought their flight tickets in bulk, all three teams were on the same flight.


    Apart from a small number of tourists on the ne, the three teams somewhat upied the entire ne.


    Before the ne took off, Long Shenjue gave the yers a detailed briefing of the tournament format and schedule.


    Simr to the Asia Qualifier, thepetition would go on for three days.


    However, there was a change in the sequence of games. In proper order, it would be squad mode first which was followed by duo and then solo.


    Furthermore, there was also a change in the tournament format.


    Firstly, the tournament mode had changed from third-person perspective to first-person perspective because yers in the western countries were more used to thetter. Hence, the world invitational tournament held in California would go with what the locals were familiar with.


    Furthermore, there was also a change in the system in terms of umting points.


    Points earned from winning chicken dinner had decreased from 500 to 300 while points gained from acquiring kills had reduced from 15 to 10.


    Although it looked as if the points for both cases had reduced, in actual fact, it actually indirectly increased the weight of points from kill counts.


    Unquestionably, it would increase the number of encounters between yers in matches as well as its spectate value.


    Needless to say, it was also done to heighten the tournament’s intensity.


    Other than that, there was an additional rule for the squad and duo matches in the tournament: yers who were killed and eliminated were not allowed to stay to assist their teammates by reporting to them and had to leave the stage.


    Consequently, the tournament would undoubtedly be crueler.


    One could imagine...


    If there were 100 yers on the stage, as time passed by, yers would eventually get eliminated.


    Losers would be asked to leave the stage and it would go on until one squad emerged as the winner.


    The chaotic, ruthless, dystopia-like scene... truly got one’s dander up!


    When everyone heard Long Shenjue exin about the tournament, they began feeling anxious. Liu Zng was no exception as he subconsciously held his knee cap tightly.


    Once Long Shenjue was done briefing them about the tournament schedule and format, he informed them of the participating teams.


    Although, 4AM, IG, and Se7en were the winners of the Asia Qualifier, in actual fact, they were not the only Asian teams participating in the tournament. For example, Korean’s ACE Club that was sponsored by OGN League managed to secure a spot through another tournament even though they did not y in the Asia Qualifier.


    Moreover, there were Southeast Asia’s Gold and Taiwan’s famous AHQ Club. They had both acquired spots through qualifiers in other continents.


    This meant that there were a total of 6 teams representing Asia.


    For the other participating teams, the list was as follows.


    Oceania: Athletico, Savage, Windfall.


    Commonwealth of Independent States: Vega, AVANGAR, Navi.


    Europe: Liquid, FaZe, Team Vitality, Gates.


    South America: Luminosity, Tempo Storm, Underhood, Knights.


    North America: Team Solomid, Cloud9, Ghost Gaming, SKK.


    In total, there were 24 teams and 96 yers participating in the invitational tournament.


    Based on the yer distribution, the teams from Europe and America that took up 12 slots had undeniably upied half the total number of slot. This itself disyed their powerful dominance in the FPS scene.


    On top of that, Squad SKK thatprised of FPS “First God” yers was giving off enormous pressure to all the other teams.


    After Long Shenjue emphasized the key points of the tournament to the yers, a flight attendant notified them that the ne was about to take off and asked them to be ready.


    Upon hearing her, Liu Zng was startled.


    After hesitating for a while, he stood up to carefully ce his backpack in the luggagepartment above him.


    At that moment, Li Muqiu who was seated in front of him stood up to put his stuff into the luggagepartment. When he saw Liu Zng being careful with his belongings, he instantly felt curious.


    All of a sudden, he recalled something and realized what was going on.


    Thus, Li Muqiu moved his head toward Liu Zng soundlessly and then whispered, “Did you... bring that?”


    When Liu Zng felt the sudden warmth air on his ear, he was so taken aback that he quivered!


    At once, he pushed his back into the luggagepartment and closed it tightly. He then looked at Li Muqiu cautiously. “What do you mean?”


    “That thing!”


    “What thing?”


    “...”


    Seeing as Liu Zng was determined to act dumb about it, Li Muqiu pouted his lips. “Cheh! How stingy! Not like I’ll spoil it if you lent it to me.”


    Right away, Liu Zng tried to suppress his anger as he replied, “You said the exact same thing a year ago but it took half a month for me to return it to the factory in Germany. Not to mention, the maintenance guy f*cking cried when he saw the keyboard, okay?


    “An ident... that was just an ident...”


    Embarrassed, Li Muqiu kept quiet.


    Around 13 hourster, by the time Liu Zng and the rest woke up from their sleep, they arrived at California’s airport.


    Followed by that, all three teams settled down in a hotel with help from the officials.