The Newbie Is Too Strong's
221. The Determination Competition Begins
“Finally, today arrived also yes.”
“Hmm.” Luca nodded at the comments from his former senior at the High School, Areka.
“Many things happened, but somehow we can survive yes. I thought I would give up halfway, but time passed so quickly, I knew we had arrived at this moment of determination.”
“Hahahaha. I still remember when in the first round of preliminary, the whole team suddenly tracked the footsteps of Senior Areka then huddled to her.” It was Egi who said that comment while putting both hands on his waist in a standing position while laughing out loud.
“But thanks to Egi who uses his griffin arrow skill, we get a lot of points from opponents.”
“Hmm. That's right Luca said. Thanks to you, Egi, my role as bait went smoothly.”
“But I don't see at all that Senior Areka planned all that. I'm sure it was due to Senior Areka's carelessness alone.” While saying that, Luca looked cynically at Areka because he was suspicious of the truth of the statement spoken by his senior.
“Hahahahaha. Thanks to our little data, we can hit the back of the opponent. Unfortunately, this did not happen in the next preliminary round. I lost in a row to my opponents after they analyzed my first game. On the contrary, even Senior Areka had never been game over. I'm so envious.” Egi initially laughed, but slowly, there was a hint of regret to his words.
“Well, it's because Luca and Senior Malik protected me just fine. Besides, you've worked hard, too, Egi. Thanks to your wary opponent, we can defeat the opponent easily.”
“True Senior Areka, Egi. You need to be more confident. But now, the opponent would not be as easy as in the previous preliminary round. We have to face it with a stronger determination.”
Thus the three young men who are serious about winning first place in the professional e-sport vrmmoprg that despite their newbie status, declare their determination in their respective hearts.
Elsewhere, Brian approaches Malik.
“You all right, Malik?”
“Ah, Senior.”
“Strong yourself. I'm sure this year is our chance especially with Luca and the two talented newbie players he brought to join our club.”
“I know Senior, our juniors it is a great player.”
In contrast to Luca and his comrades who only thought about the outer appearance of the competition, Malik and Brian both knew what was hidden behind the scenes. From the outside, it only appeared to be an ordinary competition, but it was actually a venue for higher-ups looking for talented individuals to overcome the world crisis.
Malik regretted that time to let Leon go alone which eventually led to the death of his best friend in vain at the Hero Academy. Malik decided to sign up there. And the trick is to get the same offer once again by winning this vrmmorpg e-sport competition.
Malik realized even though he was involved in the world of war against monsters from the dimensional gap that his best friend Leon would still never return, Malik wanted to keep knowing it. Malik wants to find out about the meaning behind Leon's futile death. What his best friend fought for was more important than his own life and what exactly the monsters that took his life were.
Unfortunately after that, Malik has never again been given the opportunity to accept the same offer.
Malik initially thought it would be easy for him and his team to be re-elected to represent Indonesia to the international e-sport vrmmorpg, but he was too naive.
No matter how talented he was, in order to obtain the qualification to receive the invitation, he needed qualified comrades to be together with them to break through the international level competition.
However, for the past 5 years, those qualified colleagues he could never get again. Lucky in his second year he met Brian, but at the same time, other talented seniors had retired first.
Two people will certainly not be enough to achieve this goal. It takes talent from all team members to achieve this goal.
No matter how much he struggled to find information on the surface, he would still never gain anything regarding the dimensional gap monster that had claimed Leon's life. Only by finding out directly in the academy would he be able to find the answer.
Year after year he struggled, he always failed. Let alone being a candidate, penetrating international matches he could not afford about the lack of talented members. Malik who struggled for too long slowly started to be disappointed and thought about giving up. However, at the age of 22, Luca suddenly came into his life and once again gave him motivation.
With that confidence, his spirit slowly came back up and he decided to delay first in giving up. This year he is sure to get an answer from the awkward feeling he has felt so far.
He certainly never intended to implicate Luca and the others in that situation. Therefore, when he obtained the ticket he needed after qualifying covertly through the vrmmorpg porfesional match, he planned to no longer involve others.
He only needed his colleagues to get him into the top two in this national e-sport vrmmorpg competition then drove to the international level and after that was glimpsed by the secret recruiter committee.
However, even though he only intends to make the competition as a stepping stone, as well as others, Malik's intention is still serious about winning.
With that same burning determination, Malik, Brian, Luca, Areka, and Egi, as well as with the support of Kania and Bento, stepped into the decisive competition.
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“Sorry, Sir. Is this okay if so? Based on the analysis of the observer team, this type of competition will not be liked by the audience. The audience will prefer the direct fight between the play of antartim rather than the show against monsters in the game.”
“It's okay. It has been decided by the higher-ups, so just follow.”
“Good, Sir, if that's what you said.” The subordinate was without resistance again following the orders of his superiors.
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Saturday, February 17, 2085, the core match between the eight professional clubs who managed to pass the selection stage to compete for the title of best e-sport club in Indonesia was started.
They are: they are:
Block A: Clock Tower
Block B: Silver Hero
Block C: White Star
Block D: Lucifer
Block E: Golden Tree
Block F: Shadow Park
Block G: Alps Sky
Block H: Black Joker
It is those eight clubs who will soon struggle to decide their fate in the competition.
But how surprised they are, though, after anxious expectations about who their opponents were in the first round of that core tournament where they all hoped to get easy opponents first so they could fight longer in that prestigious event, apparently the match was held not in one on one battle mode or battle royal, but in the simplest form, fighting the ability to play in the game.
And the game mode in question is ‘castle defense’.
All players of The Last Gardenia have at least once played such game modes, including Luca, who also played them while running quests in the border area of the Lalania Empire with the Land of Death, in order to protect the citizens at the border from the zombie horde.
But if you go back to looking at whether it's the kind of game that is good to watch by viewers at home or the audience who attend directly at the stadium to watch the game live, the answer is no.
That's too ordinary. If they want, they can easily play alone through a virtual awareness connecting tool that is connected to the computer in their homes. And if they want to watch a great player to play it, there have been many streamers in cyberspace that often present such things.
It is not something like that that that the audience wants to see at the top game which is only held once a year it is among all the professional e-sport clubs that exist. What they were looking for was a smoldering battle between fellow players, banging their spirits head-on, instead of players facing off against computer program quests.
And that is why, many now professional players, especially those who have long struggled in the professional world, forget the essence of playing by running quests in the game vrmmorpg itself.
They were mostly just training to improve their skills to fight for real against other players instead of training against game monsters.
The perceived essence between fighting against fellow players with fighting against game program quest monsters was of course different. The movement of monsters in the game is on average more rough and straight, without tricks like fellow players, however, that is also what causes it sometimes difficult to deal with.
In addition to that special nature, there are also thoughts on how to determine who the best player is about who is able to complete the quest with the shortest time or who is the player who can defeat more monsters than others.
This was what caused the eight participants who had qualified for the core tournament to currently feel an unusual alertness.
“Match selection of the top four participants of the quest mode of the castle defense game with three monster waves with this starts!”
The cries from the MCs officially began the competition.