The Great Thief

The first match of the top four occurred in Jingling City, the home of Drizzle Court, with Glory Capital visiting as guests.

Of course, there was no way that Lu Li would fly over to Jingling to watch the match. He bought tickets instead alongside the other executives of Ruling Sword. There was no way they wouldn’t be able to get their hands on these tickets.

There were some slight differences between the top four matches and the top eight matches. In the top eight, there were three match types – a home match, visiting match and random match. Now, there were only home matches and visiting matches. Only if the two teams played evenly in both matches would a third random match follow.

If the two teams were still even in the third match, that would be an incredible work of destiny.

Lu Li planned to gather as much intel as he could from the battle between Glory Capital and Drizzle Court, so he had already assigned some equipment to lend to Drizzle Court beforehand.

Besides the secret weapons that the competitors held onto, these equips were the best that Ruling Sword had to offer and were worth tens of millions.

Friendship and business remained separate in this situation. The two guild masters even met up to sign a contract for lending out these equips, and if any accidents were to happen to them, Drizzle Court had to pay accordingly.

As for the equipment exchange between Lu Li and Water Fairy, that was counted as their own personal actions.

Just because Lu Li didn’t expect Drizzle Court to win didn’t mean that Drizzle Court was going to give up immediately. They saw this competition as their greatest chance within these few years. Even just making it to the top four proved their strength, so they didn’t underestimate themselves.

However, Glory Capital was still at its peak and Ruling Sword was rising. Even Drizzle’s Court’s side guild, Peerless City, seemed to be growing into something big. There were also Seventh Heaven, Wings of Dawn, Gale Legion, Blood Red War Flag and Azure Guard which were all running closely behind them.

If they could defeat Glory Capital this time, then they would face Ruling Sword, and they would have a shot at the championship too.

On the livestream, Lu Li could see Falling Star, Deadly Green Orange and Priest Star Baby, but no one saw Water Fairy herself. Even Soul Eater and Half a Cigarette from Peerless City had made appearances.

Some guessed that Water Fairy couldn’t attend the commencing ceremony because of personal reasons. Perhaps she had been forced to cut ties with her family.

However, after the match began, Water Fairy appeared on the match ground.

Her expression was calm like usual; there were no expressions of sorrow that gave anything away. In fact, she even defeated Empty Shura, a Warlock from Glory Capital in her first 1v1 match.

Lu Li couldn’t understand what was going on in the Sheng family.

He saw that the CEO of the Sheng group still insisted that they weren’t going to change who would take over the company in the future in front of the media.

Water Fairy was still the first and only successor, but on the other hand, they kept pressuring them in the game, as if they wanted to see their little girl lower her head first.

Apparently, CEO Sheng had hired a professional manager to combine all the clubs under the name of Sheng Group to create a super club.

This super club revolved around Blue Universe, with their main goal being to challenge Glory Capital and become the best club in the gaming industry.

This was probably the first major movement since Dawn had opened its server, and came two months earlier than what Lu Li had remembered. Similar actions in the future became normal from here on.

Perhaps the new Blue Universe would be very suitable to the gaming industry that was currently rapidly developing. After all, the games from the past weren’t played at such a large scale and were limited the size of the gaming circle.

However, as technology and the economy continued to progress, people without professions needed to find a new way of survival. It wasn’t right to just sit at home and do nothing.

The gaming industry gave people a new source of entertainment.

People could also vent out their frustration in the game.

Players could enact their revenge. Some gaming specialists pointed out that Azeroth was like the new immigration and this was only just the beginning.

While Lu Li zoned out, Water Fairy had been taken down by Blood Dagger.

Lu Li was probably the only one who could zone out during Water Fairy’s match. Even if Water Fairy wasn’t rich or a beautiful goddess, being pretty alone was still a miracle of biology. As for the compliment that she was a ‘one-in-four-thousand-years-beauty’, this was probably a description that had come out from people’s mouths without thinking first.

Bloody Dagger’s power was similar to what Lu Li had estimated – that is, if he wasn’t hiding anything.

However, Lu Li was almost certain that he was, or else he wouldn’t have taken so long or used so many tactics to take down Water Fairy, who only had half her health left.

The 1v1 battles continued and ended with Drizzle Court’s defeat. However, the points were only 6:5; the gap was negligible.

Although Drizzle Court was at a 1-point disadvantage, everyone had already began cheering. After all, this was Drizzle Court’s home game. They had the advantage of picking a map from nine maps, so they would undoubtedly be more familiar with the map compared to their opponents.

However, Lu Li began to worry for Drizzle Court, because it seemed like Glory Capital had a lot of strength to spare.

Sorrowless hadn’t even made his appearance!

If Sorrowless wasn’t on stage, could Drizzle Court win against Glory Capital?

Lu Li wasn’t sure. Without Sorrowless, Ruling Sword had 80% chance to beat Glory Capital, but if Sorrowless was on stage, Lu Li couldn’t be sure.

Regardless, during their resting time, the analysts all cheered for Drizzle Court and so did the audience.

Players from the beauty rankings also existed in Glory Capital. Dancing Flower Beauty was a good example, but unfortunately, Water Fairy’s cool mannerism was more of the majority’s type. Not to mention, Dancing Flower Beauty wasn’t good enough to play competitively, so in a setting like today, no one could steal the spotlight off Water Fairy.

The group match began, and Drizzle Court chose the Ruins.

Drizzle Court selected a combination of Hunter, Warlock, Paladin, Thief, Mage and Priest with a Hunter as their substitute, while Glory Capital selected a combination of Warrior, Warlock, Paladin, Thief, Mage and Priest with a Paladin as their substitute. The class combinations were similar between the two, but the only difference was that Drizzle Court had Hunters while Glory Capital had a Warrior.

The advantage of the chosen map was that it had a complex geography. If you did enough training here, you would be able to use this to your advantage and surprise your opponents. It also gave them more options in terms of tactics.

The battle was dependent on how well Glory Capital knew this map.