A couple of seconds later, Lin Yixin finally replied, “My… my second match opponent was a party of your guild, and I took them out…”

“Fuck. Who was in that party?”

“Amazing Expert, Yamete, Wolf Fang, Moonlight Stone, and Moon Dew…”

“...”

I couldn’t say anything for a time. Sigh, Thirteen and Mamate had got to be some of the most unfortunate players in the game. It took some amazingly bad luck to run into Lin Yixin’s party during the second match of the preliminaries. Everyone in the party was a pretty good player, but there was just no way they could beat Lin Yixin.

I sucked in a deep breath before replying, “It’s fine, Yiyi, don’t worry about it. Do your best so we can meet up at the offline finals, okay?”

“Mn, you too!”

After closing the communicator, I tried searching for Lin Yixin’s party by keying in the ID “Wind Fantasy” under the criteria “Party Leader”. The full party list quickly entered my view—

Wind Fantasy LV-107 Light Wanderer

Purple Marquis LV-106 Warrior

Shadow Chanel LV-106 Dark Tongue Mage

Clear Perfume LV-105 Archer

Beauty At First Sight LV-105 Holy Bard

……

I was slightly caught off-guard. What happened? When did Snowy Cathaya update their first seed?

Just two days ago when I saw Shadow Chanel, she...