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Chapter 378 - 137: The Thieves’ Momentum is Growing! The Crushing Blow from Huaxia Players!_1

Chapter 378: Chapter 137: The Thieves’ Momentum is Growing! The Crushing Blow from Huaxia Players!_1

Another half a month had flown by.

The preliminary selections had ended, and the online group stage was underway, fierce as ever.

Gathered in one place, the top 500 experts from the server had begun their true competition on the official match server port designated by Number One Player.

The designated server by Number One Player had a strong inspection mechanism that would scan the entire computer of all participating players, including private files.

Even if someone tried to cheat mid-game by injecting software through a USB drive, they would be detected immediately, and the cheater’s ID and results of the check would be made public, leading to an open execution.

Besides that, Number One Player also required that every player’s point-rushing on the match server had to be live-streamed in full, with the camera clearly showing the player’s full body movements and computer host.

Although the requirements were somewhat harsh and not too friendly towards some socially anxious players,

even with Netcom’s backing, Number One Player’s strength was insufficient to hold a thousand-person offline match.

This move was already the best solution.

Since it was Blue Star’s first national esports event,

"Eternity" had been receiving frequent attention from outsiders ever since the first round of the online group stage.

Additionally, with Netcom’s continuous efforts and 2.9 billion in promotional funds still warm,

trending searches had a permanent spot on all major social media lists.

Quite a few passersby who had eaten their fill would occasionally bring it up: "Hey, have you heard? Recently, there seems to be some big esports competition in the gaming circle, and it’s quite lively."

Even the official Weibo account of the China Broadcasting General Bureau had joined in on the fun, retweeting with the comment: "The gaming industry is thriving!"

It didn’t seem to say much,

but retweeting on Weibo already expressed an official attitude of tacit support.

This also caught the eye of many other industry businesses.

Those with higher reputation directly approached Number One Player to discuss sponsorship.

Since the mission had already failed, Ke Jin was accepting all reasonably quality sponsorships without hesitation.

The company was growing larger, and he was already planning to set up branches.

It was a time when Number One Player needed money.

Smaller factories also began to connect with promising players, proposing to customize special combat uniforms for them, and to print their brand names on these uniforms.

Apart from opportunistic capital and overwhelming trending searches,

the rhythm incident from half a month ago had passed, and Number One Player’s exclusive gift packs had greatly pleased Huaxia Nation players.

It also excited players from the Korean server, who loudly demanded ’no gift packs, just the championship.’

Conversely, it made Huaxia Nation players take the competition for the championship more seriously.

It could be said that in times of peace, sports events represented another level of national power clashes.

And now, players who only knew how to play games realized that they too could have their own ’sports events’?

Moreover, the inaugural event was hosted domestically, while the neighboring country was arrogantly triumphant, with many voices suggesting that Korean server contestants should take a tour of Huaxia Nation with the trophy after winning, especially visiting Number One Player Company’s front door to flaunt it.

A group of "Eternity" players from Huaxia Nation were instantly energized.

For the CN Competition Zone!

Attack like Jaguar, victorious in battle!

As is known, collective will is tough to coalesce.

But once formed, it becomes a fierce, unyielding flame, a force that can shear through gold and break through anything like bamboo!

By now, the competition between the two zones had already reached a fever pitch before the official matches even began.

Players from both zones were constantly studying new things, preparing for the big tournament.

At this time, the Huaxia Nation’s unique advantage of human wave tactics became apparent.

"Eternity’s" national server, with close to two to three million players, had created a whirlwind of intense competition.

Frantic clashes, iteration, more clashes, more iteration!

This process gave birth to many new tactics.

Then, like a steady stream of reinforcements, these newly developed strategies were continuously passed onto the players who had advanced to the online group stage, providing them with maximum support.

On NAA forum, this week’s popular posts were almost monopolized by the "Eternity" section.

Within the top 20, 15 posts, almost thesis-like, shared insights about personal gameplay tactics.

TOP1: "Based on the principles of Clear Rain’s Longsword combo, I’ve developed a new theory—come take a look!"

The post began by interpreting Clear Rain’s BSB technique (right mouse button + shift + right mouse button)

After frame-by-frame analysis of Clear Rain’s recorded videos,

it extracted something fresher—charge step-sliding.

The main poster stated,

"...When we rush on our journey, we often use dodge to enter running status and then keep dodging frequently to speed up. However, this can greatly deplete the stamina bar, usually running out of stamina after just three or four dodges, and doesn’t actually speed things up by much.

But through Clear Rain’s mechanism of interrupting dodges with attacks, we find that charging applies to this mechanism as well. Moreover, charging while in a running state doesn’t fix the character in place but instead allows it to slide forward a bit.

If we combine the two, we achieve the effect of charge step-sliding, which lets us run faster. Here’s a video demonstration for it."]

Beneath the post, there was an attached comparison video.

Inside the game, a random location was selected as the starting line in the video.

The content on the left showed a character running with full stamina, exhausting the stamina bar through several consecutive dodges, then switching to walking.