Editor: Decembery
A meeting room in the League Headquarters.
A representative of the Western Sixth Star District exited the room, tablet in hand with a satisfied look on their face.
He Jingxing rubbed his aching head and looked towards Du Chen, “The next time you’re this impulsive, I’ll—”
“The next time he talks shit like that, I’ll still beat him up!” Du Chen stiffened his neck and refused to acknowledge any fault.
With a darkened expression, He Jingxing turned towards Qi Zhefeng, “Why did you also—”
“I know my strength,” Qi Zhefeng was expressionless, “After all, the examination showed that he’s fine right? He’ll recover completely after a mere two hours in the healing cabin.”
He Jingxing: ……
He can’t relax even a little bit with any of them!
Thank goodness the representative of the Western Sixth Star District was quite reasonable and looked up the surveillance recording for a better understanding of the situation. After seeing it was KKL’s member who first spoke derogatively, Du Chen was not banned from competing but was issued a yellow card—should there be a next time, he would be banned from participating for the entirety of the Star Alliance Cup.
If it really got to that point, the Eagle Riders won’t even have enough members for a substitute when Qiu Yu isn’t able to go on-field!
The moment they got back, He Jingxing summoned all the members for a scolding.
He emphasised time and time again to not be impulsive and lastly, he spoke in Du Chen’s direction, “Look at Mu Feibai, he was one of the targets of provocation but see how he took it in his stride? Why did you just—”
“If not for the fact that Du Chen was faster, I would’ve hit him as well.” Mu Feibai didn’t help He Jingxing’s case.
He Jingxing’s cheeks puffed up in anger as he glared towards Mu Feibai.
At last, it was Qiu Yu who said, “I know you guys were protecting me, thank you for that.”
As he spoke, he solemnly faced Du Chen. “However, I also want to win the competition and I want to hold up the Star Alliance Cup. I don’t wish for anyone to be banned or injured or otherwise rendered unable to compete because they were trying to protect me—I want to hold the Star Alliance Cup together, with all of you.”
He Jingxing nodded in satisfaction and approval.
However, Qiu Yu continued. “Therefore, some unworthy things are better dealt with properly after the Star Alliance Cup.”
He Jingxing: ……
Mu Feibai’s moody expression that had lasted for quite a while finally cleared up. He chuckled under his breath.
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“Indeed,” He relaxed his back, settling further back into his seat. “KKL’s greatest wish is to win the Star Alliance Cup, right? So if we can take down three consecutive wins, there will be even more force behind our fists when we beat them up.”
After a little while, Du Chen looked towards Qiu Yu, “Understood.”
Qiu Yu smiled.
What to do when a little new recruit likes fighting? Just give them a beating… hmm, he couldn’t win right now, so he could only distract.
Although he didn’t take whatever that blondie said to heart, this revenge was now a necessity as it almost got his teammate banned.
Thinking of how the Star Alliance Cup progressed by sorting the teams into groups, Qiu Yu hatched a plan.
……
The Star Alliance Cup of Century’s Finale opened out on the twelfth of August.
Each of the eight Star Districts from the East and West gathered, totalling sixteen Star Districts and thirty-two teams. After a lengthy opening ceremony and team introduction, the first day of competitions finally began.
There were a lot of participating teams. In consideration of the need to coordinate major events for each group, each individual game couldn’t take up too much time. As such, the Star Alliance Cup qualifiers adopted a “survival mode ranking board”—
The thirty-two teams would initially be separated into groups A and B, according to the champions and runner-ups of each Star District. All 80 members of the 16 teams would then be dropped at random places into a survival mode map, and they would then be given points based on how many others they’ve killed, and how late their entire team was annihilated.
Subsequently, the top eight teams in points would form group A2, the bottom eight group B2 and then the survival game would begin once more. After four rounds, when the total points are calculated, the top 16 teams would qualify for the Star Alliance Cup.
“You want to go solo for the qualifiers?” Mu Feibai looked at Qiu Yu in surprise, “Why?”
Qiu Yu rested his chin on one hand while his other hand tapped the competition rules booklet. He smiled, “With you, their survival can be ensured. Meanwhile, I can get more heads for us while solo, as it would be easier to escape if I’m on my own. If you guys are unfortunately surrounded, I can also survive until later in the game, and we can get more points for survival.”
After all, with the Eagle Riders’ strengths, they won’t be easily threatened when facing most other teams. As long as the Eastern Third District and Western Eighth District don’t band together and target them, it would be quite a breeze for them to qualify in the top 16 teams. This was also why He Jingxing gave them freedom to discuss strategy for the qualifiers among themselves.
Hmm, yes. Western Eighth and Eastern Third Districts were both key players in the esports scene, and have waged many battles against each other—their grudges go deep. The probability of them allying together is even lower than that of Mu Feibai getting pregnant and giving birth.
So it was kind of expected that the Eagle Riders would qualify in the top 16.
In the two Star Alliance Cups of previous years, Mu Feibai had always taken advantage of team Eagle Riders’ strength and bulldozed through as a five-person group. However, given this year’s changes, Qiu Yu’s suggestion was also a good idea.
“Alright, we’ll do as you say.” Mu Feibai nodded in agreement.
Hence—
In the first round of the qualifiers, KKL was killed into a state of stupefaction.
Blondie was the first to go, by Qiu Yu’s hand. Immediately after, in a battle initiated by KKL, who were reeling in the fishnets, an unwelcome visitor once again graced them with his presence. KKL’s captain had injured his leg, and was immediately on-shotted by said “visitor”. Afterwards, in a series of unfortunate coincidences and mistakes, KKL’s entire team was somehow annihilated.
After all the points were totaled up, KKL ended up eighth, barely holding onto the last train carriage.
KKL’s coach was almost angered into flipping the table. “Isn’t it embarrassing? Huh? Isn’t it embarrassing for you?! Look at EWG, look at SCS! Look at those teams from the Western eight Districts! Those people are hogging the top four spots, yet you guys get me the eighth! You almost fell into group B!”
Blondie shrank back his neck and unwillingly acknowledged his mistakes with gritted teeth, “It’s all because of that Omega in EWG! He sneak attacked me while I was in a sticky situation!”
The coach countered, “Then why didn’t he sneak attack other people? Hmm? Why were you the only one who left a gap for him to take advantage of?”
Blondie pursed his lips, clearly still unconvinced of his loss.
The coach turned to scold the captain.
The captain frowned, “It’s very weird. Before that big battle, we had checked the surroundings and saw that SAG’s members weren’t even close. Who knows how they somehow brought their fight over onto our side… I’m sure there wasn’t an error in my positioning, and I know SAG’s approximate positions as well. They don’t have sights on me, so it’s impossible for them to accurately hit my leg.”
Blondie slapped the table. “Then there must have been a sneak attack! Who knows, it might’ve been that Omega from EWG!”
The coach raged, “Use your brain before you speak!”
After analysing how every member died in the post-game meeting, KKL’s coach couldn’t help feeling that something was off.
Coincidences, too many coincidences.
It was as though there was a mysterious force from the depths of hell, pushing his team members towards their deaths. However there were too many people in the survival game, and even the commentators’ perspective couldn’t cover everything, they would usually only cut to an exciting battle or scene. KKL had been eliminated too early to see anything suspicious from the game recording.
……
It was arranged for there to be four rounds on the first day of the Star Alliance Cup qualifiers. As such, the qualifiers would end in two days. Group A, where team Eagle Riders was sorted into, had their first game at six in the evening which ended a little before seven. Their second game was to begin at eight, which left plenty of time for Qiu Yu’s massage therapy sessions.
In actuality, Qiu Yu had been taking kills from the dark in the entirety of the first game and hadn’t had any major confrontations. The pain wasn’t too bad, he could recover without the massage in an hour anyway. However, in order to maintain his best state, he still went to look for Doctor Qi.
At eight o’clock sharp, the second round began. Both team Eagle Riders and KKL were in group A.
Qiu Yu looked at the snowy mountains outside the landing plane, mood lifting.
This round, they continued to separate into four and one. Qiu Yu had pretty good luck and obtained two heads very quickly. From them, he looted a compound bow and three arrows.
Cold weapons were better in the business of sneak attacks. No sound, nothing to expose his position. If he used it well and reused his arrows, he wouldn’t even be restricted by ammo. To him, bow and arrows were of much better use than guns in survival mode.
Qiu Yu was like a mystical snow leopard. Creeping through the snow, he hunted down little cuties who got separated from their teams while maintaining a watch on the movements of KKL’s members.
The Eastern Third Star District had a reputation for esports, while KKL was also a strong team. The names of their members often sounded in kill reports. Using these, Qiu Yu more or less figured out KKl’s location. The moment he tracked them down, KKL wouldn’t be able to escape from his palms.
Qiu Yu hid behind a patch of stone ruins, watching a small group of KKL members take down three kills. After silently calculating their points, he didn’t rush to show his hand.
After following them some more, KKL killed another couple of players and then encountered two Su Se members, whose team had split into teams of three and two. Just as KKL spread their formation in attempts to surround their prey, Qiu Yu acted.
An arrow silently sped over, piercing through Blondie’s neck. His figure stumbled forward a couple of steps before calling face-first into a pile of snow.
KKL’s captain whipped around in shock, yet was instantly pierced through the left eye by an arrow, and died on the spot.
At that moment, the kill announcement sounded—
[EWG_Cupid slew KKL_Nak]
[EWG_Cupid slew KKL_Wera]
Immediately after—
[EWG_Cupid slew SCS_Zou]
[EWG_Cupid slew SCS_Fei]
Qiu Yu had killed the two from Su Se as well.
Because he didn’t wish to leave any more head for KKL, and also didn’t want Su Se to kill KKL this early.
As the four consecutive kill announcements popped up, the resting commentators’ perspective was immediately switched over to Qiu Yu by the AI director, and quickly replayed what had occurred moments before.
The commentator exclaimed, “Hmm? This stalking positioning… how amazingly subtle!”
“We can see that Cupid’s bow skills are very stable!” The other commentator immediately followed, “He is currently ranked first on all of Century’s Finale’s archery-related leaderboards. This leaderboard can be challenged from anywhere in the Star Alliance, which is to say that Qiu Yu is currently the most excellent archer in the entire Star Alliance—indeed, there were no wasted shots at all!”
“He could even retrieve a used arrow then use it to kill SCS’s player,” the commentator smiled, “It seems that EWG’s Cupid has no mercy even when facing SCS’s players, considering they’re both from the Eastern First Star District ah.”
The other commentator nodded in appreciation, “This is indeed befitting of a professional player, not bringing any personal biases into the game.”
Then, the “unbiased” Qiu Yu once more gifted KKL a beautiful team annihilation at rank eight.
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Thanks for the update. And happy travelling! 🙂
Safe travels and thank you
Have fun traveling, and don’t worry about being late, it’s completely understandable!!
Loved Qiu Yu’s reaction : “Ill take care of them afterwards” and hell yeah, he did!! GO QIU YU!!! he truly is our little slayer >:)
Blondie just can’t believe he sucks and Qiu Yu is better 🤷♀️
🥰🎇🎆🎇🔪
Ah, yes.
“Unbiased”
Anyway, i was deaydreaming about a scene (that i made up in ny head). Basically, i was imagining how mu feibai would react when qiu yu rides his shoulder. That’s it. Thank you for coming to my ted talk. And thank you for the translation. And i hope the vpn works fine for you