Chapter 54: Last Round Was Just a Fluke

Buzz~ Buzz!

The strange buzzing sound grew louder and louder, and even through his headphones, Guo Mo could hear it clearly. It was the sound of the internal cooling fan in the computer case.

But he couldn’t care less right now.

He awakened the Celestial Heart Seal and entered the Extreme Sublimation state. With golden smoke rising all over him, he felt filled with power.

Star Sky Body, Solar Anomaly!

Star Fall!

In the cosmic void, an ancient building suddenly appeared, full of charm, and behind it, a great sun slowly rose.

The entire starry sky was filled with starlight, and under the sun’s illumination, the endless starlight was no longer a trickle but surged like a waterfall, converging at the fingertips of the Star Emperor.

"Oh my god!"

Even though Guo Mo was mentally prepared, he was still startled by the scene. Is this the Star Fall Pro Max version?

The live-stream viewers and Guo Mo’s opponent, the Alien Race’s Feather Venerable, were equally astonished.

She also awakened the Celestial Heart Seal, entered the Extreme Sublimation mode, and unleashed the AOE skill full of feathers to directly confront Guo Mo’s Star Fall.

But it’s not just feathers this time!

Under Extreme Sublimation, the feathers, originally made by the shadows of the Dao rules, now all transformed into Immortal Phoenixes, sprinting towards the Great Emperor.

"Is this Dream Building 5?"

Guo Mo glanced at the frame rate display in the top left corner and murmured, "The graphics are really top-notch! But speaking of which, hasn’t the frame rate dropped at all?"

It shouldn’t be!

This 1070ti is an old graphics card, doesn’t even support ray tracing, and with such complex battle effects, the game should have dropped frames long ago!

While marveling at the game’s optimization, he suddenly realized that the screen was frozen.

The image lingered at the moment when the Star Emperor’s finger aimed at Feather Venerable, with all the Immortal Phoenixes rushing at him.

The mouse and keyboard were completely unresponsive.

"Hey, hey, hey! Can you hear me? Type 1 in the chat if you can hear me, I think I’m frozen..."

Guo Mo tried to say something, picked up his phone to check the live stream situation, and the 24-inch computer screen suddenly went black, showing a [No Signal] prompt.

[The streamer is currently charging, more exciting streams...]

There was no picture in the live stream on his phone, obviously, the computer had crashed entirely, or else the background streaming software wouldn’t have dropped.

The chat was still full of question marks.

"Just arrived, what’s happening?"

"Don’t ask me, I don’t know either!"

"Maybe the game crashed! I saw another streamer crash and black screen too, they said it was a system compatibility issue, they’re reinstalling the system..."

"I see, so it was a system issue!"

Guo Mo, spying on the chat, seemed to find the root of the problem—the system issue, not the game’s issue or his computer’s problem.

That’s what he thought!

His computer may be crappy, but at least it can handle Apex perfectly fine, how could it fail with this game?

And the game’s optimization is great!

With such explosive scenes just now, the game could maintain 60 FPS without any sign of dropping frames, proving the game isn’t demanding on hardware.

"Damn Giant Hard, lousy programmers!"

After cursing Giant Hard Company, Guo Mo typed to explain the situation to the live-stream audience, indicating he would reinstall the system and return as fast as lightning.

Fortunately, having built a machine before, Guo Mo wasn’t unfamiliar with reinstalling the system, taking only about half an hour to complete it.

Not only that, but he also updated the drivers.

After checking and confirming everything was fine, he opened the stream again and entered the online mode of "Star Emperor".

"Giant Hard really sucks, right?"

Guo Mo complained to the audience who had been waiting for half an hour, "It’s bad enough with the automatic updates all the time, but the constant bugs are unbearable for anyone!"

The chat unanimously agreed.

Giant Hard’s system updates have always been criticized, especially the hard-to-turn-off automatic updates, which are beyond irritating.

"Alright, enough of that."

Reloading the game, Guo Mo confidently stated, "Last time was an accident. Now that I’ve reinstalled the system, there shouldn’t be any more issues."

If he runs into that guy [Ba sent me to herd cattle] again, he’ll definitely show him what cruelty means!

Hmph!

Lucky to win one match, doesn’t actually think he’s skilled, right? If it wasn’t for his sudden black screen crash, who knows who would win!

"Let’s go, queue up another match!"

Confident in his skills, Guo Mo set off once more on the Path to Immortality.

Strangely, this time it wasn’t an instant match; it took over 30 seconds to show a successful match.

Guo Mo was curious why the Path to Immortality wasn’t matching instantly now, and when the game loaded, the opponent’s ID left him stunned.

[Third Heaven of the Great Emperor ] Ba sent me to herd cattle]

It’s him, it’s him, it’s really him, Feather Venerable from the last match!

Guo Mo was shocked, partly because of matching with the same person twice, the luck was remarkable.

On the other hand, if he remembered correctly, this guy was at the First Heaven of the Great Emperor during their last match, didn’t expect he had reached the Third Heaven now.

"Leveling up quite fast!"

In the game, they could type chat; Guo Mo launched a mental attack, "But it doesn’t matter, main characters like me usually sweep opponents across realms."

[Ba sent me to herd cattle]: "Enemies defeated by me are never viewed as opponents. I give you time to chase, until you can’t see me even in your dreams."

[Buried Love Xiaomo]: "..."

He couldn’t stand it, this guy was so pretentious!

Just took advantage of the black screen then won a match, what are you posing now? Really think you’re invincible?

Guo Mo couldn’t bear it, thinking the opponent’s best should be Feather Venerable, as long as he grabbed it, he wouldn’t lose.

So, he locked Feather Venerable with the last three seconds of countdown.

Coincidence or deliberately, the opponent picked Star Emperor this time.

At this moment, just like that moment!

The same characters, the same players, the difference is Guo Mo used Feather Venerable this time, while the opponent used Star Emperor.

"What’s your graphics card?"

Before the battle started, Guo Mo saw the opponent’s message.

Why ask that?

He found it strange but replied honestly, "1070ti, why?"

"Nothing, just asking!"

What a strange person.

As Guo Mo was about to complain to the live-stream audience, he suddenly saw the opponent’s Star Emperor, after the preparation time ended, emanating golden smoke...

This smoke effect looks really familiar!

Star Emperor had the Starry Sky Cauldron floating above, constantly inhaling and exhaling star light, golden smoke rising and billowing, under the Solar Anomaly enhancement of the Star Sky Body, like a war god.

"???"

With limited time, Guo Mo couldn’t afford to think much, only seeing the brilliant starlight fill the entire screen, then the dull buzzing sound echoed from the case again.

It wasn’t just buzzing.

This time, there seemed to be a strange whistling sound too?