Editor: Decembery
In actuality, the Eagle Riders had no advantages in a team battle in the current situation.
In this training match, except Mu Feibai’s lane which could still be considered stable, the other two lanes were facing great pressure, and Du Chen’s situation in the jungle was also not very optimistic. Although they had taken down all the unique mutant beasts, the other team had also robbed quite some normal mutant beasts, so the total energy of the Eagle Riders’ base had been hovering about the danger line.
As there wasn’t an abundance of energy in the base, the team members also didn’t have an advantage in gear and equipment. In addition, if the entire team was eliminated, they would have to wait a longer time for everyone to be revived. If they were to lose the team battle,their entire team could be annihilated.
However, if they didn’t choose to initiate a team battle and just let the water lizard be hunted by Su Se, there would be no chance for them to win this training battle.
They would be defeated if they played steadily, and they might be defeated sooner if they chose to fight back—but there was also a chance of flipping the tables. Mu Feibai did not even hesitate to follow his instincts—fight!
This team battle must be fought!
And if it would be possible—
“Qiu Yu, assassinate Tang Weiran.” Mu Feibai commanded with no room for objection.
“Yes.” Qiu Yu answered unhesitatingly.
Neither of the two felt that this would be a difficult task.
Qiu Yu left Zhou Shu behind and lept over sections of ruins, disappearing in between the stalagmites in the blink of an eye.
Tang Weiran had voluntarily left the Eagle Riders and jumped ship over to Su Se, attesting to her excellent skills and pride. Although her battle theories did not agree with Mu Feibai’s, she would not underestimate Mu Feibai’s abilities because of this. Even in training competitions, she would go all out without giving the enemy any opportunities.
Moreover, this was her first time facing Mu Feibai in a semi-formal professional-level battle. She wanted to prove herself, so she must win.
However, she did not expect that Mu Feibai would actually arrange for the Zhou Shu to guard this most dangerous and difficult lane.
Even more so that in the first team battle, the other would actually send that little Omega anchor who was stirring up waves to stop her.
This sort of contempt, in Tang Weiran’s eyes, was simply an undisguised provocation! However—
However, before she could see him clearly, she was actually insta-killed by that Omega!
What the heck just happened?
In their analyses according to the dynamics of the earlier battle, wasn’t that Omega playing support?
In the earlier battle, because the opponents didn’t have enough energy to level up their equipment, she wasn’t completely suppressed even if their marksmanship was extremely skilled… Then in the small window of time they passed by each other, did the other’s dagger actually slit her throat?
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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The moment she finished speaking, she saw a figure condense in the revival capsule next to hers.
Su Se’s captain, Wang Kaiqi’s embarrassed voice sounded in the channel, “…I was careless, he’s really strong.”
Then Li Ji also started wailing, “What the hell! Why the heck is he playing support if he’s so strong?! This has freaking got to be a pit Mu Feibai dug for us!!!”
Tang Weiran: ……
At this time, in the cave area.
Lin Jinxi and Mu Feibai, who had just rushed over to the battlefield, stared at the dissolving water lizard corpse in front of them, stunned.
Qiu Yu looked up while waist-deep in the water and sheathed his dagger behind him. Half his body was covered in blood and he raised the special crystal nucleus in his hand to his teammates, “Got it. I’ll send it back to the base.”
Lin Jinxi couldn’t believe it. “You only used a dagger to kill the water lizard?!”
Although the water lizard wasn’t too big and it didn’t have any super attack abilities that could one-shot someone, it was still an extremely nimble mutant beast in the water, which made it exceedingly hard to face in water-based terrains. If the capabilities of the jungler weren’t enough, it was possible to be entangled by it in the water and slowly tortured to death.
The thing is, long-distance weaponry was useless when facing special mutant beasts and only melee weapons like high-frequency longswords or pulse daggers could damage it. Qiu Yu only had a short pulse dagger on him, so who knew that he would be able to kill the water lizard in its home court merely using that little dagger?!
Mu Feibai’s line of sight fell on the gaping wounds on Qiu Yu’s body and wordlessly tossed a medical pack towards him.
Qiu Yu caught it before he unhesitatingly tossed it back. “You keep it, I’ll go back to the base. Just then I only killed three on the other side and two got away… you guys be careful.”
Zhou Shu and Du Chen died in the team battle for the water lizard and were currently waiting to be revived. The only ones who could still do battle were Mu Feibai and Lin Jinxi, and their base could not take any more losses.
Mu Feibai nodded before commanding in the team channel, “Change lanes. After he revives, Zhou Shu will take the upper lane, Du Chen, the middle, and Lin Jinxi will play support. Qiu Yu will be jungling.”
As for the most difficult-to-defend second tower located perilously by the waterside, he would take it upon himself.
Hearing this command, Qiu Yu froze for a moment before smiling.
As he passed by Mu Feibai, he asked in a low voice, “Not training them anymore? Want to win?”
Mu Feibai looked back at him in surprise.
Qiu Yu raised an eyebrow in response.
If his judgement was correct, Mu Feibai’s initial arrangement for each player’s position wasn’t aiming to win the practice competition, but rather to let everyone train their weaknesses in a simulated competition environment which was also one of the goals of this training match.
However, the duties of each member after changing lanes were obviously to promote their respective strengths and minimise their shortcomings. The goal was simple and obvious—to win.
Sure enough, when Mu Feibai heard this, he placed an arm around Qiu Yu’s shoulder and smirked, “Of course, I want to win, no other outcome would be a fitting conclusion to your beautiful kill just then.”
Qiu Yu fell silent for a moment before his words got straight to the point, “It’ll be a little difficult.”
At this point, it was only ten minutes into the game and they had lost a tower on every lane. The second tower on the lower lane was on the brink of collapsing and they were consistently repressed in the jungle. Their base didn’t have sufficient energy and the opponent’s advantages were snowballing.
After all, the battlefields in “Century’s Finale” were not ones where the abilities of one person could turn the tide.
“It will be hard,” Mu Feibai spoke with no trace of dejection on his face. On the contrary, he seemed a little excited, “Which is why it’s worth a challenge!”
“Sure.” Qiu Yu had no objections. Nodding casually, he stepped into the knee-deep water and made his way back towards the base.
Having obtained the water lizard’s buff and changed their battle tactics, the Eagle Riders were finally able to barely parry Su Se’s attacks. The second tower on the middle lane was more or less stable, however, Mu Feibai was targeted by both Tang Weiran and Wang Kaiqi on the bottommost lane. They also initiated two group attacks in which Lin Jinxi couldn’t keep up with the battle rhythm and was killed both times. Mu Feibai fended the enemies off for almost five minutes, however, the Eagle Riders unfortunately still lost the second tower in the end.
The good thing was that in those five minutes, Qiu Yu performed exceptionally and didn’t lose a sliver of resources in the jungle, even running to the middle lane to help Du Chen destroy one of their opponent’s defense towers.
The base’s energy gradually increased and the team members’ equipment could finally be enhanced. There was no longer any worry of consuming energy in revivals so the team members could set down their concerns and fight.
“Damn, that Omega has to be killed!” Tang Weiran spoke into the channel with gritted teeth after being pushed back by Mu Feibai, “We can’t let him give Mu Feibai any more resources, otherwise none of us will be able to stop them!”
“Then I’ll go to the middle lane and let Li Ji enter the jungle to assassinate him.” Clearly, Wang Kaiqi also felt the pressure.
“No, you hold the fort,” Tang Weiran said, “Leave the Omega to me.”
Wang Kaiqi wanted to say that the terrain on the bottom lane was complicated and there was no way he could hold off Mu Feibai by himself, but seeing That Tang Weiran had already made up her mind, he thought about how he would retire next year—the chain of command would definitely fall into the hands of this young Alpha, so he didn’t object.
Thank goodness this was just a practice match so there was no need to argue over commands.
After Tang Weiran entered the jungle area, Qiu Yu did indeed feel a little restricted.
Although the slight restriction meant he could no longer go onto any of the lanes to help his teammates push any towers, it did not, in any way, affect his slaughtering of mutant beasts while killing other players.
Tang Weiran was consecutively sent back to the revival point three times, such that her entire mentality was on the brink of collapsing—
Is this still a freaking Omega?
How could there be such a strong Omega in this world?
Could it be that earlier in rank, when Mu Feibai was killed thrice, he didn’t go easy on the Omega at all?!
As the match progressed to the 25-minute mark, the Eagle Riders began to retaliate.
Qiu Yu stabilised the base’s energy levels at an adequate amount. Mu Feibai also killed Wang Kaiqi enough times to send him into self-doubt, then continued onwards to push two defense towers, thus successfully attracting the opponent’s firepower. As a result, the pressure on the other two lanes lessened and the morale of the team members climbed higher and higher.
In the 27th minute, Tang Weiran, Wang Kaiqi, and Li Ji finally, after exhausting all their collective brawn and wits, successfully killed Qiu Yu.
However before they could breathe a sigh of relief, an announcement from the jungle area sounded—their special mutant beast had been robbed and Mu Feibai even flaunted that special crystal nucleus as he made his escape!
And they also lost a tower in the middle lane.
In the Eagle Riders channel, Zhou Shu was full of admiration, “My gosh Qiu Yu, Qiu ge! How did you single-handedly draw three people’s aggro onto yourself?!”
The key thing was, Qiu Yu even made it so that the opponents forgot the existence of the human-shaped weapon, god Mu, and left their jungle completely undefended!
Qiu Yu also wanted to laugh, “Their commander got too into it.”
A commander losing sight of the bigger picture was a great taboo on the battlefield that would lead the entire team to destruction. As a result, the situation that was greatly disadvantageous for the Eagle Riders somehow turned into an opportunity for them to turn the tides.
However…
Qiu Yu recalled the battle in which the three joined together to target him, thinking that although Su Se’s commander still requires further experience, the team members were quite disciplined. Even though they knew it may be a trap for three people to target one person, there was no instance of internal disputes. This was a quality essential to a strong army, so as long as the commander can grow, Su Se would definitely become stronger in the future.
At the 29th minute, the Eagle Riders made a final push into the enemy’s city defense area from the bottom two lanes and initiated a group battle.
Mu Feibai and Du Chen drove siege vehicles to break in while Zhou Shu and Lin Jinxi provided sniper cover from the sides. Meanwhile, Qiu Yu cut in straight from the back and quickly dealt with the opponent’s snipers. The battle did not even last a minute before Su Se’s team was annihilated, and the Eagle Riders’ siege vehicles leisurely destroyed the defense mechanisms while Qiu Yu stood outside the entrance of the enemy’s base, picking off little cuties that had just been revived.
Outside the competition field, He Jinxing watched this scene from the team’s internal monitoring perspective and pressed down on the buzzing timer, not in a rush to disconnect Qiu Yu’s gaming cabin.
Next to him, Li Tingzhen sighed with a smile, “You were right, his rhythm is indeed a great match for Mu Feibai. Even Liu Jinrong or Wang Yi can’t reach this level of tacit understanding after two years of training together. What a pity…”
That they found him too late.
Mu Feibai was only 20 this year. Even if he wanted to join the army, he could still play for five years.
But as for a 25-year-old Omega? Even if he joined the competition scene there won’t be much time for him to shine at his brightest.
nagisa: hope everyone’s had a good week! Thanks to Decembery as usual for always being there because I translate too last minute lmao
THANK YOUUU❤️ Better not underestimate him, he will still be a famous anchor
I dunno, considering he’s past the supposed prime and is doing so well + he’ll have his alpha in the future (🤭🤭), he’ll probs have a good long career. And even if it’s short, it’ll be an explosive one 🤩
Thank u for the update!
I think in gaming, people start when they are 15/16? and their professional careers end in their mid to late twenties so mc can be considered to be an old man rn
That’s usually because their reaction speed (hand speed) slows down and long term playing may create side effects, I wonder what the reason for being past prime is for a holographic game?
Young people always have better physique and drive than older folks, also, the body starts having problem around mid twenties… back pains muscle stuff and the likes
So many doubters! Hahaha! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
Thank you for the chapter! 💚🤍💚🤍
Thank you for the awesome translations ♥️ it’s so exciting and I love the slow budding sexual tension on ML’s side hahaha
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Thanks for the update 🌸
Our omega is just too powerful, no one stands a chance~ [proud]
Hahaha too good, I love him intensely
Thank you so much for translating! <3
THANK YOU FOR THE CHAPTER!!<3
This is the first time we have a fairly ‘old’ (bish, anyone under 30 is a child to me) MC.
MC is so overpowered that he has to be nerfed and become an Omega, but even than he can still kill a man.
lol
I rely dislike that Tang Weiran. Shes so disrespectful to the commands given by ml just bc she thought they werent correct but went and basically did the same thing in her new team. Yes it was just a training match but the fact that everything followed along speaks volumes for them.
Yup, their teams’ commander also didn’t want to argue over who commands only because he was going to retire soon😅
I wonder how it’ll be if someone who has the same thoughts as her joins her team and refuses to follow commands or acts on their own.
I almost forgot who this Tang weiran was, until the reminder that she was the one who jumped ship after the team got into an accident….
In truth I’m sure she was always lookin to leave bc she dislikes mu feiba n it was convenient timing.
Tang Weiran may be hotheaded and hypocritical as an individual but I really wish there wasn’t a stigma against female alphas in this story. Srsly wtf shouldn’t the existence of secondary genders negate physiological differences between biological men and women? Discrimination against omegas is already bad enough but we have to throw this into the mix too?