Vanguard of the Eternal Night - Chapter Ch135 - Assassin Civil War
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Chapter Ch135 - Assassin Civil War

Chapter Ch135 - a.s.sa.s.sin Civil War

translator: xiin

editor: kara

After finis.h.i.+ng dinner that evening, Victors eyebrows still held traces of anger as he picked up the cat and sent it back to his roommate.

This part of the artificial planet had entered the late night phase, and there were a lot of party lights and alcohol everywhere.

In order to send away this cat, Victor was really putting in a lot of effort. He didnt stop until he found his roommate in a club.

This roommate of his, who had lived with him for two years, was confused by his actions. He spoke as he accepted the cat, You you went through so much trouble and came into a private club just for this?

Victor: This is for the sake of harmony in the family. You dont get it.

Roommate: Is it such a big deal that youve married your male G.o.d?! My wife is pregnant! If you have the ability, you should go and get pregnant too!

This private club was mainly focused on gambling for the National Champions.h.i.+ps. Although it wasnt illegal, it wasnt a fully legal activity either. It was a business that really tread the fine line and therefore didnt dare to open up to the public. Instead, it allowed some young men who were in the circle to come in for entertainment.

Victor wasnt interested in these things, but when he looked up, he saw the words: Odin vs Vantico. He stopped and looked at it a little more.

His roommate spoke up, Darling! You have such sharp eyes! I had never thought that you wouldve picked out the great demon king back then when he was still reading in the library! How come I dont have that kind of luck!?

Victor asked and finally discovered that his roommate had lost a lot of money in the past two days. It was mainly because hed also placed some bets on Odin that hed managed to remain afloat. Although the amount that hed lost wasnt considered a lot for a second generation, the key was that it had been too humiliating.

Victor wasnt interested in partic.i.p.ating though and asked casually, Are you guys holding bets for the top eight?

His roommate pulled him over to the betting window to take a look: They really were taking bets for the next game.

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Victor took a look and saw that beneath the entry for Odin vs Vantico, the odds were almost 50-50 while Odins return was slightly lower by around 0.1. He asked curiously, How is this predicted? Does this mean that more than 50% of the betters are placing bets on Odin?

His roommate replied, Yes, yes. Rumor has it that in the previous National Champions.h.i.+ps, Vanticos odds were very high, but n.o.body here is stupid. Its obvious that your male G.o.ds momentum is more frightening this time. Both of them are from the Earth District, and people have been placing bets on them since a long time ago. This time, theyve finally made it into the top eight, and its basically the betting stakes that everyone is paying the most attention to.

The second most popular betting zone was for the champions.h.i.+p round. The champion of the previous National Champions.h.i.+ps, Crimson, and the runner-up, Jiuzhou, had steadily entered the top eight once again, and they would definitely have another decisive battle.

Although the club was based around gambling, it was still mainly for fun. The second-generation rich would spend time here, so there was plenty of available news, and e-sports a.n.a.lysts had also been employed to oversee the betting.

Victor casually read a few more reports and noticed that the win rate for Odin vs Vantico was fluctuated at around 55% with the highest one only giving 80%.

Victor wasnt willing to accept this, Why is it so low? I feel that it should be at least 98%.

His roommate laughed, Hey, its just for fun. If you really followed the a.n.a.lysis, we wouldve made bets based on last years ranking a long time ago. These a.n.a.lysts only know how to look at the data

Victor was gracious, Eh, sooner or later theyll be slapping their own faces.

His roommate could actually hear a sense of having experienced the world from this sentence. Had Victor often seen people slapping their own faces?

Victor: When the game is over, give them a few more bonuses. These a.n.a.lysts eyes its probably hard for them to support themselves.

Roommate:

On the way back, Victor pulled up the official website for the A-League National Champions.h.i.+ps. As expected, the images for the top eight were displayed on the home page.

The great demon king was the one who drew the most attention. Half of the scrolling comments on the front page were about him. After all, he was a newcomer to the scene like a War G.o.d whod lived in seclusion on a mountain who had suddenly jumped out. Over half of the remaining comments were debating about the previous champions.h.i.+p winner and runner-ups upcoming match.

If one continued to look down, the matchups for the top eight had already been released. It was really a.s.sa.s.sin, Odin, Earth District VS a.s.sa.s.sin, Vantico, Earth District.

The comments were all saying, Death match! This years Earth Districts two a.s.sa.s.sins are having a civil war!

Fights between two players of the same profession were called civil war. It was quite rare, especially in the top eight of the National Champions.h.i.+ps. Whats more the a.s.sa.s.sin profession itself wasnt a strong occupation in the PVP arena. The advantage of stealth and sneak attacks decreased as one went higher up in the rankings.

Other than these two a.s.sa.s.sins, there was also an oriental swordsman, a priest, a mage, an ability user, a dragon knight, and a ranger left. Their professions could be divided into 2 fighter types, 3 agility types, and 3 mage types. It could be said that it was quite evenly distributed, and there were no unexpected surprises.

In fact, the professional PVP trends were very obvious. Fighters and a.s.sa.s.sins swept through the low-end arena, but there were more and more mage types in the middle ranks. Sometimes, at the provincial compet.i.tion level, half of the players would be mages. However, when it came to the National Champions.h.i.+ps, there were much fewer mages around.

In the top tier of e-sports, none of the players relied on their professions. In reverse, the professions were more dependent on how the players used them. For example, the runner-up from last year, Jiuzhou, was a priest. In low-ranked fights, priests accounted for less than 1% of all professions. As long as there was another option, n.o.body would choose to use the priest profession. However, Jiuzhou could use this profession and make it all the way to second place and fight with the champion, Crimson, to a point where the winner and loser wasnt clearly divided.

Due to Jiuzhous understanding and interpretation of the priest profession, many priest schools have continuously redefined themselves. Last year, Jiuzhou had preferred using s.h.i.+elds that reduced damage and other such spells, and this year, there was a school of thought called Anti-s.h.i.+eld that had become popular.

In the same way, a great demon king a.s.sa.s.sin came into being this year. This years a.s.sa.s.sin profession was suddenly greatly improved. There was a blade fighting style that practiced blade fighting to death every daythey firmly believed that all skills were virtual, and only the power of real fighting was unshakable. When an a.s.sa.s.sin could wield their sword at a rate of nine times per second, they would be invincible across the whole world!

Odin, who was regarded as the founder of this style, was currently eating snacks and watching videos. He wasnt nervous about the upcoming game at all.

Victor came back from his trip outside and slapped a stack of paper onto the table. He said, Youre fighting Vantico the day after tomorrow! Didnt you go watch Vanticos videos?

I watched. Tyron said, Theyre not interesting.

Victor opened up the stack of paper himself and said, Ive gotten a lot of top secret information. They call him the mysterious hand, and they say that he has many techniques. Heres a summary of the nine techniques that hes shown

Tyron didnt look at them. He just said, Theyre all learned by rote and havent been integrated. Its useless even if he has more techniques. Right now, he should be the one who is nervous. He hasnt come to provoke me recently. Its likely because hes been busy with special training.

Victor smiled and said, Is he that nervous? Did he go back to find his teacher for more instruction? Speaking of which, I still dont know where he found such an amazing teacher, who could teach him so many techniques.

Tyron pointed out, Have you seen his attack techniques?

Mm.

This kind of technique cant be summed up in a virtual arena. Its not in an embryonic form but rather a routine that was polished by many people. Its like a group of a.s.sa.s.sins summed up their decades of experience, then discussed, polished, and further improved it in order to create such a perfect technique.

Victor pondered this for a moment, Such a thorough a.s.sa.s.sin club doesnt exist in the e-sports circle. All the players are quite humble and self-taught. Besides, n.o.body has ever used Vanticos techniques before. So, Vantico is

Hes probably learning from the people in your game world. The master a.s.sa.s.sin was very casual about it, Hes being cultivated by some organization. Its quite a rare opportunity.

Vantico was indeed in special training. And, all this training was affecting his mental state a little bit.

In order to go further during this years National Champions.h.i.+ps and at the very least not fall from the top three, he was under great pressure. This was particularly true after he had encountered an unlucky thing that had a relatively low probabilityhe was going up against Odin in the top eight.

Odin was a great demon king, who excelled at blade fighting!

In this world, how could there be two a.s.sa.s.sins who encountered each other in a civil war without engaging in a blade fight?!

What made it worse was that Vantico couldnt find a suitable partner to train his moves withan opponent at Odins level wasnt comparable to the Ice Sword Array or a simulation AI provided by the system. It was even less possible to find an NPC or boss in the game world Ah, those bosses were all the types that required an entire PVE team and werent something that a single person could go and PVP against with ease.

By the time the match day had approached, Vantico was so anxious that he had begun to lose his hair, and he couldnt find half of his usual arrogant aggressiveness.

Hed changed his character stats over and over again until finally following Old Friends advice and using a template that tended towards sword-wielding and sharp edges

It was the same template as Odins: It only focused on weaponry and not on skills, with attributes maxed out.

He had to focus on his strengths and make up for his weaknesses. His basic attributes couldnt be inferior to OdinsIf that happened, he wouldnt even have to go up and would simply be killed in a blade fight.

Vantico: Come! Lets fight with technique! This young master has nothing but techniques!

When they arrived at the compet.i.tion arena, the two commentators were also very surprised. Our two G.o.d-level a.s.sa.s.sins have finally encountered each other in the top eight. We never thought that their stats and skills would be exactly the same! Odin is using a short sword, darts, darts, and steel wire while Vantico is using two daggers, a crossbow, and a hook claw

Whats shocking is that neither of them took any skills! That means that other than Shadow Jump and Stealth that are both unconditional, instant-cast skills, theyre both relying on basic attacks and techniques to fight this round!

The game hasnt even started yet, but Im already a little scared and shocked. One of the commentators joked, This is really the peak battle of the century between a.s.sa.s.sins. It would be fun if we could randomly draw maps like the Night of the Full Moon or the top of the Forbidden City.