Chapter 343: Hard to Find

Chapter 343: Hard to Find

Translator: Lonelytree Editor: Millman97

The prizes for the top fifty-one to one hundred was basically a participation prize. Other than the limited-edition T-shirt, other prizes could be bought with real money and they weren’t that expensive. Ten Double EXP booster cards and 200,000 Game Coins were worth about two hundred RMB. Whales spent more than that on their monthly top-up.

Prizes for top thirty to fifty were much more valuable. Two level thirty and above excellent quality equipment would sell for about 300,000 Game Coins at the auction house (After two weeks, the jacked-up prices at the Auction House had slowed down) and the two thousand Skill Points couldn’t even be purchased with money. for new novels

Then for the top eleven to thirty, the value of three thousand Skill Points was not that different from two thousand Skill Points, but the key difference was the perfect quality equipment. If excellent quality armor could be bought with money at the auction house, then perfect armor equipment was practically priceless. Because most of such high-quality equipment would be soul-bound, so the ones that could be sold at the auction house had a sky-high price. They would also increase your ability quite visibly.

Based on these, it was clear that Dream Inc knew what kind of prizes would draw players in. They knew the psychology of their player base well. Most casual players who would participate would aim for the top thirty. They knew that it was basically impossible to get into the top ten. Of course, that did not mean there weren’t conceited players who thought they were the best in the world. The world was never lacking in idiots. If their aim was the top hundred, then they underestimated themselves slightly; to go for thirty but be satisfied with top fifty was the most logical goal.

But in reality, this goal was very hard to achieve due to the presence of professional gamers. Take swimming as an example. Casual players were like people who swam for a hobby. They would visit the pool thrice at most in a week while professional gamers were like professional athletes. They trained every day in preparation for a competition. If they matched up, the results would be obvious. The casuals would lose. But this did not mean that the top one hundred would necessarily all be professional players. After all, among casual players, there were some extremely talented individuals, like Feng Bujue...

Furthermore, in the preliminaries, there might be a situation where two professional gamers would meet and cause one of the best seeds to get an early elimination. Considering the possibility of the number of participants reaching over six digits, when the elimination dwindled the number down to the thousands, it would be hard to say how many professional players would remain. Combining various factors and an element of surprise, even for professional players, it was not a guarantee for them to get into the top hundred.

In conclusion, for the top hundred, casual players still had a chance, but for the top thirty, those were probably reserved for professional players with great ability.

With regards to the top ten...

“Players ranked 4 – 10 will get three random skill cards of their mastery with the highest level, and four random skill cards of their other masteries and five thousand Skill Points.”

“Hmm... After the ranking updated, if he hasn’t been online, then the system will automatically hide his name on the ranking, so that makes sense.” Vishnu concurred.

Brahma sighed loudly. “Why are we wasting our time over this... This couldn’t be simpler. Since boss was originally number two and now that he has beaten boss, naturally, he took boss’ previous spot.”

Yama held his chin with one hand and tossed his blue bangs back. He said darkly, “Don’t you think this is strange? On the original combat stat ranking, his name wasn’t even there. Of the top twenty hidden names, we could have an educated guess of who they were, and he was not one of them. Therefore, before this scenario, he should be ranked at least beyond the top 20. If he based on one single scenario and jumped up to the top 2nd spot by luckily winning that Killing Game, I suppose that’s explainable... But from boss’ description, before the scenario ended, the man’s fighting capability could be considered one of the best already.”

Vishnu added, “And he is cunning and quick in mind. He is both good with his brains and brawn...”

“Hmm... I have a suspicion about that as well.” Shiva’s face was hidden behind his curtain of hair and he said, “Before I ‘died’, even though he gave me some ambiguous explanation, I have no idea what he was talking about. The kid mixes truth with falsehood and is very hard to predict... Instead of placing trust in him, it’s better to not trust him at all and believe in oneself.” He paused. “Based on my observation, the only explanation is—during the scenario, through some kind of method, or hidden quest or some very powerful skill or item and that helped him to boost his ability greatly.”

“That’s possible...” Yama nodded. “He captured Robin alive, provoked the God’s Web, took over Mr. Freeze’s equipment... All these show that the man is good at making use of the scenario’s innate resources.”

Shiva continued, “So he was able to kill the King of Shadows, defeat me... and naturally, Seven Kills wouldn’t be his match (After Shiva died, he had no idea Seven Kills got the full Batsuit and believed Feng Bujue won the final match easily).” He sighed. “On the day before the announcement of the Tournament of the Best, suddenly an unpredictable competition appears... This sure is annoying.”

Brahma laughed. “Boss, hasn’t he accepted your friend request? That means we could have drawn him to join our camp. His guild... is called, what ‘Underworld Frontline’? I haven’t even heard of them before. It’s probably a small casual guild. At most, we will have their whole guild join us, Brahman.”

Vishnu immediately said snidely, “The blockhead finally knows how to use his brain.”

“Who are you calling a blockhead?” Brahma replied.

Vishnu smiled and ignored him but continued, “Just like in times of war, a good general is even harder to find than thousands of gold. This man has both brain and brawn. He is a rare talent. If he is willing to join Brahman, when we go against Regulations in the future, we will have one more hidden trump card.” He pointed at Brahma. “I think the blockhead’s proposal of consuming their whole guild might work. Even if the other members of the guild are noobs, for this Feng Bujue, we will have to do it. He alone is worth more than that.”

Shiva sighed. “I understand all that... but...” He hesitated, thinking, I suspect the man is mentally unstable.

“Never mind...” Shiva decided not to share that observation and said seriously, “After he gets online and replies my message, I’ll talk to him in person.”