Chapter 697: Best Rookie


    Trantor: Nomyummi Editor: GravityTales


    Fireball!


    It was a low-leveled Elementalist skill. Jiang You didn’t put it into his eyes. He simply stepped to the side and dodged it while counterattacking. Then, he saw that Haze Scene had leapt down from the stone pir.


    I’ll still fight you even if you’ve jumped down!


    Jiang You didn’t hesitate. He finished casting a spell and aimed at Hazy Scene. Suddenly, he heard a boom. A pir of fire erupted into the sky. Elementalist skill: Raging mes.


    The spell didn’t hit Jiang You’s Wandering Peak, so he didn’t need to dodge it. However, this Raging mes caused him to lose sight of his target. When the pir of fire erupted, Hazy Scene was enveloped in it. Not even a shred of his equipment could be seen. Jiang You was originally about to click on his target, but he suddenly didn’t know where to click.


    Hazy Scene couldn’t have just disappeared though. Jiang You relied on his experience to guess his general location and cast his spell.


    Elementalist skill: Piercing Lightning!


    A sh of lightning shot out from the tip of Wandering Peak’s staff. The lightning crackled as it moved in a straight line, piercing through the pir of fire and hitting the stone pir on the other side of it.


    It didn’t hit!


    Jiang You thought to himself. He suddenly felt like something strange was going on around him. The air surrounding Wandering Peak seemed to be emitting tiny sparks as if lightning had passed through. The ground below him was bing darker and darker. His view was bing hazier too, as if he were in a steam cooker.


    F*ck!


    How could the experienced Jiang You not know what was going on? He immediately tried to cast Teleport, but......


    It didn’t work!


    All of Wandering Peak’s skill icons turnedpletely gray. Below his character’s health and mana bar, a debuff symbol appeared.


    Elementalist Darkness skill: Magic Prison.


    No spells could be cast within the range of the prison. The prisoner wouldn’t be able to use any spells for 4 seconds.


    4 seconds sounded short, but Jiang You knew that, let alone 4 seconds, 1 second was more than enough.


    Lightning and fire instantly enveloped Wandering Peak.


    Elementalist skill: Heavenly Lightning Earthen Fire. Jiang You could see the signs of this spell being cast, but he wasn’t able to dodge it because the other side had countermeasures set up to stop him. Magic Prisonpletely silenced his spells. Using his two legs to run out of Heavenly Lightning Earthen Fire’s range was impossible.


    Under the barrage of lightning and fire, Jiang You could see the fire pir from the Raging mes begin to disappear. Hazy Scene stood on the ground with his staff pointed towards him.


    An expert! An incredible expert!


    Jiang You had the eyes to see that, even more so for someone with the same ss as him. His opponent had been able toplete two spells during the short animation time that it taken to jump down from the pir.


    Heavenly Lightning Earthen Fire, Magic Prison......


    No, three spells! There was Raging mes too!


    Casting while in the air wasn’t anything new. As long as one had Mobile Cast activated, any spell could be cast while moving. The problem was that it only took the blink of an eye to jump down from that height. Let alone being able to cast three spells, Jiang You was certain that he wouldn’t have even been able to cast two beforending.


    For someone to be able to do something far surpassing his abilities, what type of expert was this?


    Jiang You only had one answer: a pro yer.


    As a Club guild leader, he obviously knew that during thepetitive scene’s summer break, pro yers would sometimes hop into the game, perhaps to help the guild or perhaps to pass the time. If a pro yer came out, how could he not participate in something as important as snatching wild bosses?


    A pro yer from Team Wind Howl?


    Which pro yer in Team Wind Howl used an Elementalist?


    In the blink of an eye, he recalled a name: Zhao Yuzhe.


    This very season eight’s Best Rookie: Team Wind Howl’s Zhao Yuzhe. His character was called Beautiful Light. Wasn’t that also an Elementalist?


    Jiang You himself was an Elementalist, so he paid more attention to pro yers of the same ss, even if they weren’t from Team Tyranny. As a result, he was instantly able to guess his opponent’s identity.


    Jiang You’s heart fell. He hadn’t expected Howling Heights to have a pro yer participate. If a pro yer came, the guild would obviously provide an ount for him to use. The character would be wearing aplete set of Orange equipment too.


    Heavenly Lightning Earthen Fire was something Jiang You couldn’t dodge. His opponent didn’t show any mercy and cast several spells consecutively. By the time Heavenly Lightning dissipated, Jiang You was basically dead. Jiang You had previously attacked Misty Castle from the front lines, so the other side knew his identity and would obviously ce great importance on him. Wandering Peak hadn’t been at full health at the start of the fight either. Now a pro yer was specially taking care of him.


    Run!


    The instant Heavenly Lightning Earthen Fire dissipated, Jiang You was about to escape by using Teleport to hide among his people. Before he could even cast his spell, his character could onlyplete a turn when lightning struck Wandering Peak from behind, piercing through his chest.


    “F*ck......” Jiang You cursed. Wandering Peak’s health fell to zero. He died from his opponent’s Piercing Lightning, the very same skill that Jiang You had initially used to counter attack.


    “Hmph.....” When Wandering Peak fell, Hazy Scene didn’t even nce at him as he coldly humphed and headed towards a different location.


    Jiang You didn’t guess wrong. The yer controlling Hazy Scene was from Team Wind Howl and season eight’s Best Rookie, Zhou Yuzhe.


    The selection for season eight’s Best Rookie wasn’t as easy as season seven. In season seven, the Best Rookie was given to Sun Xiang, who also became a God that season. Every other rookie that year knelt before him. Sun Xiang had even been a candidate for that year’s MVP. However, the MVP award wasn’t given just based on his own record, but the team’s performance as well. Sun Xiang had been on Team Conquering Clouds, a rtively weak team. They didn’t even make it to the yoffs. How could he be qualified to be that season’s MVP? However, for the Best Rookie award, even a blind person would have given it to Sun Xiang.


    But for season eight, Zhao Yuzhe had to win it over two other candidates. It wasn’t by arge margin either.


    Zhao Yuzhe didn’t think about that though. To be able to win the award was enough to prove that he was an outstanding yer for his first year in thepetitive scene. Zhao Yuzhe was very excited to be able to win this award because it gave him a lot of confidence. He felt like his position on the team would certainly improve. Team Wind Howl’s current situation also gave him a lot of confidence for his future.


    Team Wind Howl’s original ace yer and captain, Lin Jingyan’s ability was declining due to age. In the All Star Weekend, he was defeated by Tang Hao and his poprity fell by quite a lot. Even his own team’s respect towards him worsened. Zhao Yuzhe only gave his captain respect on the surface, but in his heart, he never epted it.


    As for the other All Star on his team, Fang Rui, his skill level wasn’t low. His character Doubtful Demon was praised as the Number One Thief in all of Glory. However, the problem was that Fang Rui was the representative for all those who yed dirty. Besides ying dirty, he knew of no other way to y. Support for ying dirty was very one-sided. There were a lot of supporters, but there were even more haters too. Putting this kind of yer as an ace yer meant that the team would gain, but also lose a significant number of fans.


    Winning fans in this way wasn’t bad for new teams, but Team Wind Howl was a fairly strong and popr team, so dancing on the edge of a knife like that was too risky. As a result, Fang Rui’s ystyle prevented him from bing an ace yer.


    Then who would be given the title of ace yer in Team Wind Howl?


    Selecting the Best Rookie was one option.


    After being chosen as Best Rookie, Zhao Yuzhe imagined all sorts of things. He even dreamed that his team would buy him the number one Elementalist character, Windy Rain. He even thought that it was very likely. It was already widely known that Team Hundred Blossoms had purchased the number one Brawler Three Hits for Tang Hao. Why wouldn’t his team spend the money to buy him Windy Rain?


    Zhao Yuzhe was excited from his own imaginations. He thought of his future as limitless. He gave up his vacation and ran over to the game to help his team improve. He already thought of himself as the team’s ace yer. When there weren’t any matches, he should run to the game and contribute.


    While the team buying Windy Rain for him was a bit excessive, Zhao Yuzhe wasn’t overstepping his bounds. Lin Jingyan was old. Fang Rui wasn’t suitable to be their ace yer and pir. Teams with someone who won Best Rookie would raise the Best Rookie to be their ace yers. This line of thinking waspletely reasonable. Zhao Yuzhe wasn’t the only person thinking about it. Others agreed too.


    Such as the guild leader West Riding Wind. When Zhao Yuzhe ran over to the game to help him, he regarded him as the future ace yer of Team Wind Howl. This made Zhao Yuzhe extremelyfortable. He took the character and equipment provided by West Riding Wind and helped the team snatch a boss.


    As a result, he met Tyrannical Ambition in his first battle.


    Zhao Yuzhe treated West Riding Wind’s introduction of Tyrannical Ambition’s strength with disdain. So what? Tyrannical Ambition’s elite group were just experts at a game level. Even if they were elites, how good could they be? To catch a band of thieves, first catch the leader. After killing off the other side’s leader, what were they going to do afterwards?


    Thus, Zhao Yuzhe’s Hazy Scene stood up high. He was provoking the other side, so he could kill off their leader in one go and lower the other side’s morale.


    He clearly seeded. As soon as Jiang You and him faced off, Jiang You was killed. Zhao Yuzhe became even more delighted at his achievements. How could anything in the game be difficult for the Best Rookie and the future ace yer of Team Wind Howl?