Chapter 650: Doing Two Things at Once


    Trantor: Nomyummi Editor: GravityTales


    “Left left left!!!”


    “Interrupt interrupt interrupt!!”


    “Retreat retreat retreat!!”


    The constant yelling that wasing from Happy’s practice room almostpletely drowned out thementary for the finals. It was hard to believe that these guys were running an easy five yer dungeon, even more so with two former pros and two mechanically skilled yers.


    After taking care of another chaotic situation, the four of them released a sigh of relief.


    It wasn’t that the dungeon was hard, but rather that the none of them were fully focused on their ying. Even Ye Xiu, who had urged everyone to run the dungeon, also gave a few nces at the ongoing match from time to time. A slight misstep and the situation devolved into chaos.


    Their progress through the dungeon was not going smoothly. Every small wave of monsters was as if they had encountered a final boss. If not for their high skill levels, who knew how many times they would have died already? In the end, they failed to clear the dungeon with still a third of the dungeon left to go!


    “I say if we really need equipment, instead of running dungeons, why not just find a few yers wandering around and kill them?” Wei Chen said angrily. In his eyes, obtaining equipment like how normal yers got theirs through running dungeons was aplete waste of time. Instead, if they saw good equipment on a yer, it would be more efficient to just directly treat that yer like a boss and kill him for his equipment to drop. In addition, this method was less reliant on luck. If you wanted a certain ss’s equipment, then just kill a yer of that ss. A Battle Mage obviously wouldn’t wear a de Master’s equipment.


    Finding a specific piece of equipment by running dungeons was much more troublesome. There were a total of 24 sses in Glory and each ss had their own respective equipment. Very few sses shared equipment. In the dungeon that they had just run, they hadn’t found any suitable equipment from the two bosses that they had managed to kill. The only thing they could do with equipment for other sses was sell them or find someone to trade with, which was also very time-consuming. Wei Chen felt that doing this sort of proper and upright practice was beneath him.


    “Aren’t you afraid of the boss kicking you out if you randomly kill people for equipment?” Ye Xiu said.


    “It’s not like she’s here right now! Steamed Bun, Little Tang, you won’t tell her, right?” Wei Chen said, “It’s you guys who will be getting the equipment!”


    “Stop with your nonsense.” Ye Xiu said.


    “This really isn’t a good way of doing things. Even using money to buy equipment is more worthwhile. The time needed is too high otherwise.” Wei Chen said.


    “Do you think I don’t know that? I really need an equipment from this dungeon and I didn’t see it in the market.” Ye Xiu said.


    “What do you need?” Wei Chen asked.


    “Rising Wind Pendant.” Ye Xiu said.


    “Oh, that one...... you want to stack jumping power?” Wei Chen immediately understood. It was a fairly famous piece of equipment.


    Anything that came out of a five-yer dungeon wouldn’t be considered too valuable. Its base stats, such as its Magic Resistance, couldn’tpare to drops from ten-yer, twenty-yer, or hundred-yer dungeons. The tiny bit of intelligence and spirit bonus wouldn’t move any magic ss, but its +8 to jumping power was its only highlight. It was the highest bonus of any pendant.


    However, whether this +8 to jumping power was worth sacrificing Magic Resistance and even other base stats was something that needed to be considered. Normally, any ss that didn’t require intelligence or spirit wouldn’t even consider this pendant. The sacrifice was too much. However, Ye Xiu’s Lord Grim was an unspecialized character, which could use skills from all of the 24 sses. Any stat was valuable to him, so he had decided on this pendant.


    However, even though this Rising Wind Pendant came out of a five-yer dungeon, it was still an Orange equipment, so it naturally had a very low drop rate.


    With a very low drop rate and a low demand, no one would treat this kind of equipment as a valuable good. This dungeon had been one of the first Level 70 dungeons to be added to the game, so few yers came. As a result, it was rare to see a Rising Wind Pendant in the market. Ye Xiu could only depend on his luck.


    Wei Chen was quite clear about the circumstances, so he didn’t say anything more. The finals had already reached the teampetition portion. In the previous individual and grouppetitions, the two teams each had their own victories.


    In the individualpetition, Blue Rain had sent Yu Feng as the starter. This All Star level Berserker didn’t disappoint and gave Blue Rain a good opening. In the next two rounds, each of them won one. After the individualpetition ended, Blue Rain had a total of two points, while Samsara had one.


    The scoring for the yoffs were slightly different than it was in the regr season. The individualpetition wasn’t any different. Each round was worth one point. The group arena was worth more points than normal. It was worth 2.5 points. On the other hand, the final teampetition was worth fewer points than normal. It was only worth 4 points. As a result, each match was worth 9.5 points. For both the home and away games, there were a total of 19 points possible. As long as neither of the matches in the home and away games wereplete opposites of each other, there would never be a situation where both teams had equal points. Of course, a tie breaker still had to be considered. If both teams tied, they would add an additionalpetition to decide the winner.


    Ye Xiu and the other four also nced at the group arenapetition following from time to time. In the end, Samsara won. Samsara currently held the lead with 3.5 points to Blue Rain’s 2.


    The teampetition was always the highlight of the match, whether it was in the regr season or in the yoffs, most matches would be decided here.


    After a short break, the teampetition began. The two sides readied themselves as the screen showed their lineups.


    On Samsara’s side, captain Zhou Zhekai and vice-captain Jiang Botao would obviously be leading the team. Next was a Grappler yer, Lu Boyuan, an Assassin yer, Wu Qi, a Cleric yer, Fang Minghua, and their sixth yer was a de Master yer, Du Ming.


    On Blue Rain’s side, the three All Stars: captain Yu Wenzhou, vice-captain Huang Shaotian, and Berserker yer Yu Feng would bepeting. Next was a Spitfire yer, Zheng Xuan, a Pdin yer, Xu Jingxi, and the sixth person was a Qi Master yer, Song Xiao.


    Both teams had de Masters, but the one on Samsara’s side, Du Ming, was their reserve yer. On the other hand, Blue Rain’s Huang Shaotian was their ace yer. Of the two healing sses, which would directly be opposing each other, one team had a Cleric, while the other had a Pdin.


    Healers were essential in the pro scene. They would almost always appear in the teampetitions. It had been proven through countless matches that pure offensive teams weren’t dependable enough in the Pro Alliance. Pure offensive teams could sometimes win in an astonishing disy of prowess, but consistently performing at that high of a level was way too difficult. At least, up until now, any team that had tried to attempt a pure offensive style had vanished like smoke in thin air.


    Pdins and Clerics were both Priest sses. Both of them had healing skills and could be considered specialized healers. When Clerics weren’t healing, Clerics had other spells to restrict or attack their opponents. On the other hand, when Pdins weren’t healing, their defensive stats were outstanding. They would often take a damaging role or be a main tank like a Knight.


    Often times, just by looking at whether the healer was a Cleric or a Pdin, one could usually guess what style the team was nning to use. Teams with a Cleric were more offense-oriented. They preferred to use damage to control the battle. Teams with a Pdin usually yed a slower and steadier pace.


    Samsara and Blue Rain had each settled on a style. Samsara’s offensive capabilities didn’t need to be questioned. While Blue Rain wasn’t considered a defense-oriented team, their team was more bnced.


    “Are we going to be watching the match or continue with the dungeon?” Seeing that they might even miss the teampetition, Wei Chen felt a bit reluctant. It was the finals! As pro yers, they were still huge fans of Glory. Even if they didn’t have any emotional investment into the teams ying, watching high-level y was always a treat.


    “Fine...... let’s watch!” Ye Xiu felt a bit reluctant too. He had wanted to watch the match while running the dungeon, but it seemed that they couldn’t do both at the same time. Now that it was the teampetition, he didn’t want to continue either.


    “Let’s watch the match first.” Wei Chen immediately let go of his mouse. The four characters stood in the middle of the dungeon as their yers watched the match.


    The lineups on the two teams were introduced. Each character had their own characteristics. Afterwards, thementator and guest made predictions. Whether or not Samsara’s skill points had improved was no longer a secret. It was just that no one had an exact number and Samsara naturally wouldn’t announce it to the public. Thementator and guest made their guesses. When Ye Xiu and the others heard their guesses, they knew that they were being too conservative. None of them dared to say that Samsara had characters with maxed out skill points. They only guessed that these characters might have the most skill points in all of Glory.


    Then again, Ye Xiu didn’t know if Zhou Zekai’s or Jiang Botao’s character actually reached 5000 skill points or not. ording to the drop rate, it shouldn’t have been a problem, but who knows if their luck turned sour.


    After listening to thementary by thementator and guest for a while, the match officially began. A team’s cing in the regr season could give the team an advantage in the yoffs. For example, Team Blue Rain was first ce in the regr season, so for the two matches yed in the finals, Team Blue Rain would y their first match as their away game and their second match as their home game. This allowed them to figure out how to fully utilize their home game advantage based on how the first game went.


    The first match of the finals would be Samsara’s home game, so they had the right to pick the map. In the end, Samsara picked the map “Grass Blowing in the Wind”.


    This was a map filled with tall grass, so the terrain could provide protection to the team. However, the tall grass only blocked vision. It didn’t help defend against an attack. To use this as their map, Samsara was clearly nning on making aggressive attacks.


    There were many different ways a team could use a map to their advantage, but they generally followed one rule. After the map was chosen and the two teams gave their okay, they would quickly start the match. The camera swirled around the map as the audience cheered.


    The two teams immediately began moving as soon as they loaded in.


    Samsara were obviously very familiar with the chosen map. Their five characters headed towards the other team’s spawn point. Blue Rain wasn’t aplete stranger to this map. An old powerhouse like Blue Rain wouldn’t have a map that they had absolutely no knowledge of.


    Team Blue Rain quietly set out as well. Their ace yer Huang Shaotian and his Troubling Rain had already disappeared amidst the grass blowing in the wind.......