The Newbie Is Too Strong's
129. An Unexpected Assassin Fellow Meeting
In the room, a beautiful secretary stepped beautifully with her high heels that shook the entire floor, then right in front of her male boss' desk.
“Oh, you have come apparently. How's the match result report?”
The secretary also began his report.
“Omiros, the rider of Team Goliath, the 17th favorite, was unable to beat Pei Yu, the 16th favorite, as we already predicted. However, it was Dennis, the archer of his teammate, the 34th favorite, who made it to the last 16 after beating the 13th favorite.”
“Oho, this is interesting. Are there any participants who caught your attention?”
“Hmm. Perhaps the most eye-catching participant was Chung Li of Team Ying Xiong, the 91st favorite, who surprisingly managed to get rid of the saber from Team Goliath, Photio, the holder of the second favorite.”
“Absolutely no one predicted it would last this far. Moreover, his role in his team is only as a supporter. After all, at first he did not enter the top 4 jury selection from his team. If not for you changing the list of participants, of course until now no one will know the greatness of Chung Li the alchemist.”
“See right? What I told. We almost missed a rough diamond in plain sight. Judging one's fighting ability with a team match, it was obviously a strange thing. Nothing can measure one's fighting ability more than an individual match. If the match system is run as usual, then 32 individual participants are selected from the best participants of the top 32 teams, then where might we find the talent of Chung Li.”
“That's right, Boss. Chung Li during the team game looks passive. But if considered carefully, it is because he is a supporter in his team and as a supporter, he has very well carried out his duties and let 3 attacking team-mates who collect points.”
The secretary suddenly fell silent for a moment as if remembering something.
“By the way about the supporters, there is also Lia, the healer of the Silver Hero Team who qualified for the next round. Unlike Chung Li, although he is a supporter, he fights so much that he is dinotice and chosen by the jury after being ranked in the top 2 in his team.”
“Oho? By the way, who is the opponent that the girl defeated?”
“Goruth, the assassin from Team Lost Child, Boss.”
“Wow! He managed to defeat that talented assassin?”
“That's right, Boss. Even more astonishing, he could guess well the fighting style of Goruth.”
“That means Silver Hero Indonesia Management Team should not be underestimated. But regardless of the management, the woman means quite talented because duly the assassin who always attacked secretly is the main weakness of the support team from behind.”
“True, Boss. That all we can later prove through the next match in the last 16 round.”
“By the way who is the girl's next opponent?”
“That, Eros, the lancer from Team Goliath.”
“Then, this will be a hard win. Only someone who has the strongest shield can win against Gae Bolg Eros. Does that tiny healer have it?”
The Boss seemed to be dissolved in his mind for a while, before further commenting again,
“By the way, is there still another unusual fight?”
“Iya, Boss. Out of the blue Silua from Team Lost Child beat the third favorite and Ethan from Team Metamorphosis beat the sixth favorite.”.
Then the discussion continued until quite late at night between the two of them.
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1. Lia – Silver Hero – Indonesia – The Last Gardenia (non-favorite)
12. Eros – Goliath – Prussia Atlantic – Evernight (Favorite 4)
Pei Yu – Ying Xiong – China – Jian Xia (Favorite 16)
Sergei – Crossians – New Zealand – Buster (Favorite 7)
Tolo – Roo Reception – South Africa – Avarest (Favorite 9)
Ethan – Metamorphosis – Brazilia – Underworld (non-favorite)
Felix – Pheles – Germany – Mecha World (Favorite 14)
Ekila – Lost Child – United States – The Last Gardenia (Favorite 1)
Silua - Lost Child – United States – The Last Gardenia (non-favorite)
Dennis – Goliath – Prussia Atlantic – Evernight (non-favorite)
Lucas – Epic Fantasy – English – Magic Academy (Favorite 15)
Asario – Silver Hero – Indonesia – The Last Gardenia (Favorite 5)
Austin – Epic Fantasy – English – Magic Academy (Favorite 11)
Chung Li – Ying Xiong – China – Jian Xia (non-favorite)
Renn – Gatra – Sweden – Magic Academy (Favorite 10)
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Luca looked at the notice board carefully. If the standings continue to run as they are, then the next Lia opponent is Eros, the lancer of the Goliath Team. How much Luca was worried about it.
How not, Eros is a very bad opponent type for Lia whose defense is still at that medium level, even surpassing Goruth, Lia's previous opponent.
“Master, I've managed to find and collect the track record of Eros fighting data in the game Evernight.”
Suddenly Aura projected her hologram right in front of Luca which left Luca shocked, but the young man quickly corrected his gaze back before others noticed.
However, the expression on Aura's face was not good.
“Aura, what's up?” Luca called his pet name out of concern.
“It.... Master.. Many track records of the game the player named Eros in the game Evernight that Master is looking for. However, from that 1028 track record, there were only twice he lost.”
“What??? Defeat only twice from 1028 matches?!”
“Iya, Master. In other words, his win rate was 99.81 %. It was also a track record of twice his defeat was done by the same player.”
“What??? The same player? Who?”
“That's.. He's Photio who lost to a Chung Li player before.”
“What? That awful saber??? Try showing the match.”
Then Luca also watched two matches where Eros lost to a player named Photio.
Apparently, how Photio was able to dodge Eros Gae Bolg's deadly attack was by activating his overpower area skill, Excalibur.
Gae Bolg's skill is an out-of-the-box skill in which an attack can reverse causation that if avoided, the spatial dimension will soon be distorted, restore the position where the right spear will hit the player.
To stop the attack, there was no other way but to accept the attack directly.
In Photio's case, he prevented the deadly attack by throwing down the entire area around him with his Excalibur skill. In the absence of a space gap between the player and the spear, there is also no chance the spear will be distorted and penetrated towards the player.
There is also a track record of data belonging to Dennis, the archer, who tried to avoid the attack of the Gae Bolg skill with his mana shield in layers. Unfortunately, that method failed because the mana shield was not strong enough to withstand the wild movements of the spear.
But that has been enough to hint Luca on what Lia needs for the next game.
As long as Lia could take out her strongest mana shield which was capable enough to withstand that spear attack directly, then Lia would be able to dodge the instant kill. The problem is as far as Luca is concerned, Lia has never revealed such a skill.
There is also a chance of winning in another way that gives a deadly surprise attack before Eros players can activate his Gae Bolg attack. However, given how wary Eros is in each match, then that way is certain to have a very low chance of success.
There was no other way to defeat him like Photio other than players having to be able to receive those deadly spear attacks directly.
Luca thought and kept thinking until he realized there was also someone passing by at the intersection of the wall that he would point to.
But in the last seconds, Luca had seen him then immediately dodged swiftly through his deft assassin skill.
Unfortunately, someone who was at another crossroads was doing the same thing that was not less alert with Luca.
As a result, their heads clashed without any of them being able to dodge anymore.
“Hey, goddamn kid! You put where your eyes are, huh?!”
The man who collided with Luca was furious, venting out all the emotions in his heart that he had been quieting all along.
It was Goruth, the assassin from Team Lost Child who accidentally bumped into Luca in a common area as Goruth slipped out of his dorm.