Chapter 516: Defeating Moonkiss
Translator: alyschu
Our beautiful guild leader was currently encouraging all of her subordinates to work harder in the guild channel.
He Yi: âIs everyone busy fighting in the champion arena!?â
Gui Guzi: âAh, this is so tiring. Iâve taken part in so many battles but I only just hit rank 781...â
High Fighting Spirits: âIâm good over here. Iâm ranked 142 already. Hahahahaha~â
He Yi let out a soft laugh: âKeep at it, everyone. More than ten thousand gaming clubs were registered just this afternoon. Right now, all of the big sponsoring companies have their eyes fixed on this arena ranking board. If your rank is high enough, youâll definitely be scouted by some of these big companies. After that, youâll be able to sign on to a big gaming club, and having a salary of over a million a year wonât be a pipedream anymore...â
Li Chengfeng gave a hearty laugh of his own: âThe guild leader is right! Just this morning, someone from the State Grid Corporation of China called me and asked me to join their gaming club, but I rejected them.â
I grinned: âIsnât that the one of the biggest companies in China? Why did you reject them? Logically speaking, there was no way that they would lowball you with their offer.â
Li Chengfeng replied: âThatâs right. The salary they were offering wasnât low at all. In fact, it was set at seven million RMB a year, but after I heard that there were several people from Vanished God City already in the club, I decided to reject them. This is because I hope that I can enter the same gaming club as my brothers and sisters from Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls. I donât want to fly solo, because I donât find any meaning in doing that.â
He Yi smiled appreciatively: âOkay, since thatâs the case, the next time one of us receives an invitation, letâs set one condition. And that condition will be that we want to enter the gaming club as a team.â
Li Chengfeng: âYeah, our guild leader is wise indeed! Those were my thoughts exactly.â
Chaos Moon: âHey guys, Iâve just discovered a problem...â
Xu Yang: âWhat problem?â
Chaos Moon: âLu Chen isnât even ranked amongst the top 1000 players right now. That doesnât make any sense! Could he have lost a few matches already?â
Chaos Moonâs words shocked everyone into action. Everyone in the guild channel started bombarding me with one question: âLu Chen, what the hell happened?â
I: âUhhhh... there was an assassin that decided to play a game of hide-and-seek with me, so it took me a full eight minutes to hunt him down and kill him. I also happened to encounter a cute girl from Soul Battle Robes. I simply couldnât bear to kill such an adorable girl, so I wasted six whole minutes in that match. In the end, I even got her QQ number...â
He Yi: âBloody hell!â
Murong Mingyue: âBloody hell!â
Beiming Xue: âBig bro, you...â
Everyone broke out into laughter. The men in the chat all understood my actions. In fact, I could even see looks of regret appear on High Fighting Spirits and Eighteen Steeds of You and Yunâs faces. They looked like they were intensely disappointed by the fact that they hadnât met such an adorable girl themselves. If it were up to them, they wouldnât mind even wasting all ten minutes of the match!
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In truth, I was in no rush to climb to the top spot in the leaderboard. I mean, I was already ranked seventh in the CGL Hall of Fame, did I really need to prove myself again with these arena rankings? Entering the heavenly ranking of the arena leaderboard would merely add to my halo of brilliance.
Of course, I also hoped that I would achieve a satisfactory rank and catch the eye of some big gaming club. Once that happened, I would start earning a salary of at least a million RMB a month, and I would no longer need to work myself to the bone to earn money from this game every day. In fact, the reason why I had time to visit my father the last two times was because the game had literally forced me to stop playing by going on maintenance.
I started killing my way through the arena again, but before I started I checked the leaderboard. To my utter and complete shock, I saw that Dominating Knight God was actually number one on the leaderboard! I nearly spat out my proverbial drink when I saw that name on the top of the leaderboard! How the hell did this doofus who couldnât even tank a combo of attacks from me actually climb up to rank one!? It didnât make any sense! What kind of opponents had he been meeting on his way to the top!?
However, it was inevitable for Dominating Knight God to get pulled off this throne. Once a player entered the top 100 in the arena rankings, the opponents theyâd face would all be from the top 200 players in the champion arena. Theyâd start to duel and points would start being swapped around like crazy. So any player who didnât possess absolute strength wouldnât be able to stay on the arenaâs Heavenly Ranking for too long.
I continued to chop up âvegetablesâ for about half an hour before I finally earned the 197th spot in the rankings! However, this ranking didnât satisfy me one bit, I was still going to continue killing!
Ding~!
System Notice: Hello, you have been successfully matched with player "Moonkiss"! The battle will commence in 5 seconds!
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Hot damn! To think Iâd actually run into Moonkiss. A battle between CGL Hall of Famers was about to occur! What was the probability of that happening!? Tsk tsk, what an unfortunate coincidence! However, Moonkiss was currently ranked 104, so if I beat her, Iâd earn quite a number of points!
Woosh!
As we entered the arena, I saw Moonkiss, who was dressed in an exquisite set of leather armor, hold her dagger at ready. Before the festivities began, she smiled at me cheerily and said, âOh my, itâs been a long time, hasnât it, Lu Chen? Iâve missed you...â
My sword dipped as I said, âItâs time to hand over those points, Beauty Moonkiss...â
Moonkiss, â...â
The battle began and Moonkiss was the first to strike. She threw a fiery red little pellet at me from far away and it exploded against my side with a loud bang when it hit my armor. Smoke flew up everywhere, greatly obscuring my vision. Assassin-class players were all quite sneaky and underhanded. They were always ready to hit you with a low blow and they had a whole bag of them! I thought that these smoke bombs were only used by those ninjas from Japan...
Crack!
I felt a cold breeze brush past my back before Moonkissâ dagger slashed against it, causing a streak of hot and bright pain to run down my back. Hmmm, this burning pain meant that Moonkissâ attack had taken off more than 5% of my health...
5089!
She had clearly used a skill to attack me. I abruptly swung the Heaven-stealing Sword in a backwards sweep through the cloud of smoke that was still surrounding me, but it didnât hit anything. Moonkiss had already leaped backwards in an incredibly agile manner before my sword had even begun swinging towards her. After that, she raised her hand, causing her entire body to be shrouded in a dull red light. She had used a buff skill that had greatly boosted her movement speed and attack speed. Once it was activated, she sped towards me once again!
Clang!
However, to Moonkissâ absolute surprise, the Heaven-stealing Sword swung out to intercept her dagger this time. She let out a small gasp before she abruptly shifted her body. Her feet spun as she borrowed the force of my blow to whirl to my left. As she spun, she planted two daggers into my shoulder. Ouch, that hurt! Assassins had a very high attack speed, so even though each hit only dealt about 2000 damage to me, she was able to shave off nearly 7000 points of my HP in three seconds!
Moonkiss was still resetting her stance when her eyes suddenly widened in shock. Her body was still moving to the right when she saw the Heaven-stealing Sword shooting towards her, a cone of spiralling indigo energy glowing around its tip.
Universe Break!
19840!
Moonkiss limply collapsed to the floor with a soft groan of resentment. As expected, even a CGL Hall of Fame assassin wouldnât be able to withstand my Universe Break if they didnât parry or dodge it. At this current stage of the game, it would always oneshot them if it hit, it simply wasnât an attack they could endure with their current HP pools.
Victory! As I was transferred out of the arena, I saw my points rise dramatically. I had now reached rank 172. Hah, just killing Moonkiss once had caused me to jump over twenty ranks! This wasnât bad at all!
Alright, it was time to continue battling!
Ding~!
System Notice: Hello, you have been successfully matched with player âTempest Shadowâ! The battle will commence in 5 seconds!
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Hahaha, Tempest Shadow was ranked 75 on the leaderboard and I was lucky enough to meet him! This was great! Ah, but this punk was really unlucky to meet me today, it was time for him to deliver his points to me!
Woosh!
Tempest Shadowâs face went ashen when he appeared inside the arena. It was extremely clear that I was an opponent he never wanted to meet in the arena. The moment he matched up against me, he knew that he was going to lose a lot of points and his hard-earned rank would also drastically drop because of this.
I rested the Heaven-stealing Sword against my shoulders as I grinned and said, âWar God Tempest Shadow, itâs been a long time! Has everything been good with you?â
The muscles on Tempest Shadowâs face spasmed violently before he replied, âLu Chen, arenât you doing quite well for yourself in Sky City? After seeing how arrogant youâve become, itâs quite clear that Candle Dragon should visit Sky City once and bathe your Dark Moon City in blood. Weâll let you know what a true number one guild looks like!â
âCut the crap and face me! Iâm short on time!â
I brandished the Heaven-stealing Sword as I suddenly started barrelling towards him. As a magic knight, Tempest Shadow was able to summon his mount into battle. He immediately swung his body up onto the back of a battle wolf, causing all of his stats to rise dramatically. Furthermore, Tempest Shadowâs Famous General Skill was Resolute and it had raised a playerâs attack by 25%. Right now, it was raising his attack by 71%, so it wasnât bad at all. It was just a little inferior to my Martial God right now. My advantage in this match was my high attack power, while his advantage was high HP and Defense.
Both of us swung our weapons the instant we shot past one another. My longsword had swept across his neck while the tip of his iron spear slammed into my arm. Wow, that really hurt! This punkâs Attack was high enough to break my Defense.
8810!
5221!
After the first exchange of blows, I saw that Tempest Shadow still had over 70% of his HP left even after being dealt nearly 9000 damage. This doofus had a total HP pool of at least thirty thousand hitpoints.
âHeh!â
Tempest Shadow grinned as he raised his arm into the air. Green energy instantly started shrouding his body and his HP bar started filling up rapidly! This was one of the magic knightâs signature skills, War God Recovery, which would heal the user for 100% of their HP over the next 60 seconds!
A drawn-out battle was absolutely disadvantageous for me. I had to get rid of him quickly!
Tempest Shadow looked like he didnât want to waste any time either. He charged towards me with his spear raised. His spear swept towards me and when I parried it, this punkâs eyes suddenly lit up with satisfaction and delight. His spear suddenly started to whistle as a spiral of energy that looked like burning flames shot towards me! He had actually used Barrier Break!
Bloody fucking hell, Candlelight Shadow had definitely helped the CGL Hall of Famers in Candle Dragon learn that skill!
Pcchhht!
A deep, sharp pain radiated out from my chest. This Barrier Break had caused his spear to sink straight into my chest and a huge damage number flew up above my head. 14890!
Holy shit! I only had about 21000 HP right now, so I definitely couldnât compete with Tempest Shadow on this front. But I didnât panic, because the truth of the matter was that the moment Tempest Shadow hit me with that Barrier Break, he had already become a dead man!
Thunk!
My arm shoved aside his long spear with a soft thud, and Tempest Shadow was now completely open to my counterattack! His eyes widened in shock and fear as they shot towards my Heaven-Stealing Sword. An indigo energy that resembled raging flames was swirling around its tip and the entire sword was shrouded in burning red flames. This was clearly a skill combo ââ Universe Break + Burning Blade Slash!
17849!
6789!
8010!
12842!
All four attacks hit him dead-on! Tempest Shadowâs mechanical control was far inferior to Candelight Shadowâs. In fact, he might not even be a match for Li Chengfeng or Purple Marquis in this regard. He was at about the same level as Moonkiss when it came to mechanical skill. As a result, he wasnât able to dodge a single one of my lightning-quick strikes. As the damage quickly piled up, he knew that not even a health potion could save him!
Woosh!
I left the arena in victory, my rank flying up once again!
I didnât meet any truly tough opponents over the next few matches. The only competent ones I was matched against were players like Dominating Arrow God, Night Sorrow, Hero In A Dream, and Familiar Scent. By the time the clock struck 5, I had finally made it into the top 20! My current rank was 14 and I had kept my unbeaten streak all the way to the top!
There was no time to relax! I had to continue because I wasnât more than two victories away from entering the top 10 ranking!
By this time, Dominating Knight God had long since been kicked out of his top ten spot. Only the heavens knew how many people had trampled over him during this process...
Ding~!
System Notice: Hello, you have been successfully matched with player âLuo River God of the Capitalâ! The battle will commence in 5 seconds!
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I was stunned when I saw the system notice. Did it really match me against Luo River God of the Capital? Hahaha, my luck wasnât bad! Right now, Luo River God of the Capital was ranked second on the champion arena rankings, so if I could defeat her, I would earn a lot of points. I couldnât help but grin when I thought of that.
Woosh!
The moment we entered the arena, Luo River God of the Capital took one look at my face before her delicate body shook with anger. âWhat the hell, Lu Chen! Why are you smiling in such a disgusting manner? Oooh, I so want to slap that look off your face...â
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