Chapter 39 – White Magic a.s.sistance

There are many guild events in Miracle. The challenge instance was open on Wednesday and Sat.u.r.day nights. Level 50 players in a guild could partic.i.p.ate in a team of 30.

Since it had the word 'challenge', there would naturally be difficulties. Fortunately, the rewards for clearing the challenge instance was very rich. In addition to equipment, gold coins and precious materials, the guild that pa.s.sed the challenge instance could get the guild construction reward. This was what Li Cangyu wanted the most.

His small guild was only level 1. If he wanted to raise it to level two, he had to acc.u.mulate enough guild construction points. The guild construction points came from members doing missions and also instances. However, the quickest way was to partic.i.p.ate in the guild challenge instance.

Time Machine didn't care about the reward and had no opinion on splitting it by 3:7. He was more concerned about the benefits to the guild after winning first place. There would be a server wide gold announcement and the guild would also be listed on the guild activities list.

Taking first place was a full-serve advertis.e.m.e.nt!

The two presidents finalized the cooperation plan for Wednesday and agreed to meet at the voice channel at 7 o'clock.

***

Once the conversation finished, Li Cangyu continued playing the Demon Forest instance with his fixed team.

The common Demon Forest instance wasn't so difficult as long as they didn't encounter the hidden boss Witch Lilian. Clearing it was very easy. In any case, there was still time until Wednesday and Li Cangyu wasn't in a rush.

In the process of playing the instance, he carefully watched the two new teammates.

The black magician 'Steamed Ba.s.s' who just entered the team today wasn't bad. His technique was relatively stable, which was common for an online game veteran. There weren't many bright spots. Of course, this was because Ling Xuefeng was drinking coffee while deliberately hiding his strength.

Li Cangyu couldn't help concentrating his gaze on the white magician.

Previously, this person was often in a daze when playing Lilian so Li Cangyu couldn't see too much. He just thought this person was flexible and responsive without making many mistakes.

Today he seriously played in the instance. Li Cangyu took a closer look and found that this person's style of play was somewhat special.

There were four remote cla.s.ses in Miracle: the white magician, the black magician, the summoner and the psychic.

A white magician had the most control skills and fewer attack skills, making a relatively balanced cla.s.s. A black magician had many high damage skills, with the main spells causing negative states, making their attack stronger. The summoner played by Li Cangyu was the most complicated and the corresponding explosive ability was the strongest. They were very powerful in PK. Finally, the psychic was a purely auxiliary cla.s.s, relying on various illusionary arrays to a.s.sist their teammates.

The four remote cla.s.ses each had their own characteristics. A summoner's pet operations were too complicated while a psychic was purely auxiliary. Therefore, the white magicians and black magicians were more common in the game and it was the same in the Miracle Professional League.

At present, the white magicians in the league were basically remote masters who dominated with control and supplemented with attacks. Cheng Wei, the vice captain of Time was a typical representative.

However, the performance of the white magician in their team was very different.

As everyone was attacking the mobs, the white magician suddenly used two skills: Inspiring Voice and Song of Encouragement.

A soft silver light and a blue light spread from the top of his staff to the surroundings. With the release of these skills, all teammates had a layer of white and blue halos symbolizing 'increased attack and increased critical hit rate.'

Li Cangyu saw this and couldn't help asking, "Awakened, did you put points in the three auxiliary skills of the white magician?"

The three auxiliary skills referred to the most powerful auxiliary skills of an angel white magician: Song of the Soul, Inspiring Voice and Song of Encouragement.

Song of the Soul could reduce the opponent's defense, Inspiring Voice could improve the teammate's attacking ability and Song of Encouragement improved the teammate's critical rate. These three skills could achieve unexpected results at critical moments but the disadvantage was that these three skills were a skill chain. Once Song of the Soul was used, it must be followed by Inspiring Voice and Song of Encouragement. In other words, a lot of skill points would be used up to obtain the full set.

Every character in Miracle had a limited amount of skill points and each cla.s.s had many skills. Players needed to comprehensively decide which skills should be discarded.

A white magician's main playing style was control skills and big attacks. Few people would waste skill points on these three auxiliary skills.

Was this person playing an auxiliary white magician?

Sure enough, a man's hearty voice was heard over the voice channel. "Yes, I have all three skills."

Li Cangyu asked, "Is this your customer's request or did you add it yourself?"

The man smiled and said, "I added it casually."

Li Cangyu naturally didn't believe this explanation.

There were auxiliary white magicians in the first season of the Miracle League but the first season was the most powerful period of the Time team. Captain Xu's white magician style of play swept the league and smoothly took Time to become the champion of the first season.

Captain Xu's style of play was very violent and the skill effect was quite gorgeous. Under his influence, the white magician became a very powerful spell output cla.s.s. The current vice president, Cheng Wei carried forward this style of play. Now whenever anyone mentioned a white magician, everyone would think they were remote magicians with many control skills.

In fact, the white magician could also play as an auxiliary.

But compared to Captain Xu's dazzling brilliance on the field, the auxiliary white magician looked dull. Combined with the rise of the purely auxiliary psychic cla.s.s, the auxiliary white magician style was almost completely eliminated.

Li Cangyu was very surprised that this person was actually using a white magician to play as an auxiliary. Moreover, a semi-a.s.sistance and semi-attack cla.s.s could quickly rush to the front of the server rankings. It seemed that his leveling speed really wasn't normal.

Li Cangyu's heart couldn't help becoming excited, like a talent scout finding a fine steed.

"Awakened, do you plan to fill up the a.s.sist skills later and take the pure auxiliary route?" Li Cangyu asked to confirm it.

The other person smiled and said, "This is the customer's account, I am just playing casually. Once I reach level and gain the equipment, the customer can reset things."

Strangely enough, there seemed to be a hint of loss in his voice. Li Cangyu sensitively captured this point. However, the other person obviously didn't want to say anything else and Li Cangyu didn't ask again. He stopped the topic and continued to play the instance. He didn't want to scare this person away. If it was really possible to gain him as a teammate, it was better to know more first.

Ling Xuefeng was also listening to the voice channel and couldn't help frowning.

A white magician auxiliary player, the standard Mandarin of a northern person, liked to play a female account but the style was extremely bold. In addition, this familiar tone in the voice channel…

He remembered who this person was but he was currently an undercover account. It wasn't convenient to straight up tell Li Cangyu.

However, Ling Xuefeng believed that Li Cangyu would soon recognize this person.

***

It was like Li Cangyu received Ling Xuefeng's brainwaves as there was suddenly a flash in his head!

Yes, there was a unique player in the first season of the Miracle League. He was a white magician auxiliary who played quite well. The northern man who was tall and powerful actually built a long-legged beautiful angel character, creating a particularly large contrast.

This man's clear Northern Mandarin seemed somewhat like this leveling boss brother?

The voice might've changed slightly in five years but this tone of speech was very similar to the one in Li Cangyu's memories.

The man's team was called New Moon and their result was very bad, just like the FTD team. His white magician wasn't too bright on the field and the performance was ordinary. It was at the same time as Captain Xu's white magician so it was like the difference between clouds and mud.

If Time's captain Xu Luo was a bright e-sports superstar, then the white magician Zhang Jueming was just an insignificant player in the Miracle Professional League.

Full Moon was disbanded at the end of the first season, earlier than FTD, and it was unknown where the players went.

After all, the e-sports circle might have great G.o.ds but there were many unknown players who left the league without their names being known. In particularly, the rules for the first three seasons of the Miracle League weren't perfect and the compet.i.tion format was cruel, meaning there were countless teams that disbanded.

Li Cangyu didn't have a deep impression of the early disbanded teams. The reason why he remembered Zhang Jueming was because the host city in the first season was Beijing and Zhang Jueming was from Beijing. He did a great job of being a host by inviting players from all over to eat.

At dinner, Li Cangyu sat next to him and had a brief conversation with him.

“I think that when it comes to white magic a.s.sistance, the key is to watch the teammates. The moment the teammates are about to burst out with attacks, you have to add the buffs in time. If you can, the attack power will double and the violence will triple, causing a scary effect." Li Cangyu said earnestly.

"Cat G.o.d is right." Zhang Jueming smiled and clarified. "This is just in principle. It isn't so easy to implement!"

His bitter smile contained some helplessness.

At that time, Full Moon and FTD had the same bad results. The two captains chatted about these things but they had the feeling of 'misery loves company.'

A lot of styles worked in principle but actually implementing them was a big problem. If they met strong teammates, this type of style could sweep the league. If the teammates weren't great, vulnerabilities could be created on the actual battlefield.

At the dinner, Zhang Jueming took the initiative to toast everyone. He drank a lot of wine and fell unconscious, eventually being carried back to his hotel by his teammates.

Soon after, the Full Moon team was disbanded and Zhang Jueming silently left the league.

Xu Luo, a white magician and a person the same age, led the Time team to win the champions.h.i.+p in the first season.

Xu Luo's white magician control style was greatly praised while Zhang Jueming's favourite white magician a.s.sistance play was completely eliminated from the Miracle League.

***

Li Cangyu's heart couldn't help feeling sour when he thought about these old things.

If this person was actually Zhang Jueming… then he was still practicing that style?

He operated different accounts every day. Sometimes he received urgent orders or had to work all night to level. Leveling other people's accounts, playing instances, gaining equipment… it was in order to earn living expenses?

A professional player had fallen to this point, how miserable.

Li Cangyu always remembered this bold and forthright man. His eyes were full of brilliance when he talked about the auxiliary white magician. Despite losing the game, he spent a lot of money to invite everyone to eat. He was happy to act as host just because the Miracle League opened in his hometown.

In fact, he loved this game very much. Otherwise, he wouldn't painstakingly research the white magician a.s.sistance build.

No one expected that he invited them to eat just to say goodbye.

He didn't leave a deep impression on the field. As a professional player, everyone's deepest impression of him was his last 'let's eat.' This matter… it was very bitter.

Li Cangyu thought of this and couldn't help sending a private message: [Are you the captain of the Full Moon team, Zhang Jueming?]

The man on the other side of the computer was silent for a moment before typing: [Don't joke around. I am just a small leveling player.] He followed up with a row of laughing expressions.

Li Cangyu didn't ask again.

If the other person was really Zhang Jueming, he wouldn't directly admit it.

A professional player running to a leveling studio to earn a living. It was shameful to say it but Li Cangyu believed that Zhang Jueming's eagerness wasn't completely extinguished. One day, that small flame would ignite and become an unstoppable raging fire!

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Chapter 40 – Challenge Task

Li Cangyu didn't go to bed until midnight. At this time, it was noon in China and Gu Siming remembered the captain's task. He sent an invitation to Awakened Magician and said: [Uncle, let's PK!]

[Kid, what's wrong with you?] Awakened Magician was puzzled. [Why do you want to PK with me?]

[Let's PK! Are you afraid of me?]

The man laughed. [Kid, don't make trouble. Uncle will buy you sugar to eat.] Then he sent a line of lollipop emojis.

Gu Siming, "…"

Xiao Gu almost died of anger.

He was 16 years old! He was still growing and the period where his voice changed was relatively late!

Who would eat lollipops? Was he crazy?

This uncle was very sick and Gu Siming felt that the captain's task of PKing would be impossible to complete. Then they would have to group up to play instances. Gu Siming thought up to here and said positively: [Then the three of us will continue to play the instance as a group!]

Steamed Ba.s.s typed a single word on the team channel: [Yes.]

The white magician also said: [Okay, then we need three more people.]

After a day of leveling, there were already many people in the new district who had reached level 45 and it wasn't difficult to form a team for the Demon Forest. Xiao Gu called on the world channel and he soon got a complete team to clear the instance. At midnight, he went to sleep on time.

***

At 8 o'clock on Wednesday night, the new district's guild challenge instance would open. Li Cangyu deliberately calculated the time difference, set an alarm clock and woke up at 7 in the morning to log on.

Beijing was 12 hours earlier than New York. It was currently 7 o'clock domestically and Time Machine was online.

Once he saw Love to Eat Braised Fish, he pulled the other person into the team and gave the voice room number. He spoke politely, "Brother Fish, the people on my side have arrived. Do you have anything to prepare?"

Li Cangyu glanced at the cla.s.ses on the team list and said, "Leave the paladin, three healers and the rest will be all remote outputs."

The team members who heard his words typed rows of ellipses on the team channel.

Time Machine was surprised. "Is it enough to have only three healers?"

Generally, this instance would be divided into five teams. Every team must have a healer to see to the blood of the team. The main T also needed a healer in the second stage of the boss so it was usually necessary to bring six healers.

"It is enough. I have one more here." Li Cangyu said seriously.

"…" Time Machine was speechless. Even four healers wasn't sufficient!

Someone couldn't help saying in the voice channel, "This instance generally has six healers and they still might not add enough blood on the second stage. Yet you want to bring four healers?  Are you joking?"

"I'm not joking." Li Cangyu said, "We will be using another style of play."

His voice was firm and resolute, without any hesitation.

The team channel instantly exploded. Everyone was very suspicious of his other style of play.

Time Machine struggled for a moment before finally decided to trust him. In any case, their previous strategy only allowed them to take second place at most. Maybe they could take first play with this strange style of play? Let's gamble once!

Time Machine thought up to here and immediately kicked out the extra healers and paladins on the team, then he swapped in remote outputs.

The people kicked out naturally wouldn't feel comfortable and one sent a private chat to the president: [President, who is this person that you have found? Is he reliable?]

Time Machine could only comfort everyone. [He is reliable, just wait and see.]

Since their president was so sure, the other people couldn't say anything and just waited to see the show.

***

The guild challenge task would open at 8 o'clock but the instance would open at 7:30 in order for people to prepare in advance.

Time Machine gave leaders.h.i.+p of the team to Li Cangyu. Li Cangyu accepted the challenge task at the guild administrator and once he entered the instance, he immediately started to reorganize.

Everyone saw him quickly dividing them and couldn't help wondering. This method of grouping had never been seen before! Six white magicians in one team and six elf archers in another team. What did he want to do?

Once Li Cangyu finished dividing them into groups, he started to explain, "The first stage is facing the mobs. Time Niuniu will add blood to the main T, As the Name Suggests. Time Ranran will add blood to the other T, Time Madman, Time Doudou will add blood to the melee while my healer will add blood to the remote outputs."

Everyone, “…”

His healer would treat all the remote outputs? Was he a spider with eight hands? How could he be so busy?

Tan s.h.i.+tian was the first elf archer in the Miracle League and Cheng Wei's white magician was very popular. This meant there were many elf archers and white magicians in the Time Guild. Among the 30 members, there were eight elf archers and seven white magicians. The white magician brought by Li Cangyu increased it to eight. There was also a summoner (Li Cangyu) and a black magician (Ling Xuefeng) who didn't seem to fit…

It added up to 18 remote outputs.

One healer taking care of all of them was simply a fantasy.

Time Ranran was the main healer of the Time Guild and her limit was adding blood to 12 people. She couldn't help saying sarcastically, "Is the healer on your team a milk G.o.d?  Can he handle 18 remotes?"

Li Cangyu calmly said, "Yes, he is a milk G.o.d."

Time Ranran, "…" This girl was too angry that she couldn't speak.

Li Cangyu continued speaking, "There are many remotes in the team so there is no need to divide into five groups to kill the mobs. Once the mobs are refreshed, the two main Ts will pull the monsters in the five directions from north to south. They will run around in a circle while everyone will use group attacks."

Everyone, “…”

The first level of the guild challenge had mobs refres.h.i.+ng in five locations: the east, west, south, north and middle of the venue. There were 25 mobs in each wave and a total of 10 waves.

The mobs' attack power was relatively strong so the general style of playing was for the 30 people to divide into five groups. Each group would have a healer and the group was responsible for cleaning up the mobs in one location.

However, Li Cangyu wanted to pull all the mobs together and kill them…

Could he guarantee that the main Ts wouldn't die? Could he guarantee that the healers didn't make a mistake in such a chaotic situation?

Everyone's hearts were full of doubts.

Ling Xuefeng heard this but his heart was very clear. Li Cangyu was using the kiting style that the Time team was best at. The Time Guild was the only one with so many ranged outputs and it was a strategy impossible for other guilds. (Forgot to mention it early but kiting is a game term for using ranged attacks to kill the enemy and running whenever the enemy comes near)

To be able to adjust the strategy according to the team's configuration, this showed that Li Cangyu had a deep understanding of the game.

The people of the Time Guild were really ignorant. Cat G.o.d was specifically tailoring this for them so why were they questioning it?

Ling Xuefeng couldn't resist typing on the team channel: [Since our president current has command of the instance, we should listen to his arrangements. Being noisy does nothing other than waste time.]

These words appeared on the team channel and had a natural cooling effect. The noisy people were quiet for a while.

Li Cangyu had some doubts. He hadn't expected this Steamed Ba.s.s to speak up for him. Was this protecting his president?

Most players in online games didn't have the innovative awareness of professional players and preferred to follow the rules. Today's strategy was tailored for the Time Guild. As long as everyone cooperated, there would be no problem winning first.

Li Cangyu ignored the various expressions and ellipses filling the team channel and marked the east, west, south, north and middle locations where the mobs refreshed with different colours. Then he said, "The two paladins, Xiao Gu will pull the mobs at the red, yellow and green points. Time Madman will pull the mobs at the purple and blue points. After pulling the mobs, run in a clockwise direction. The remote outputs will follow and use group attacks from a distance."

Time Machine finally understood. If they followed the previous strategy and divided into five groups to kill the mobs at the five locations, a group attack could only hit the five mobs around them.  However, Love to Eat Braised Fish's method had the main T pulling the mobs and the group attack could hit all 25 mobs!

The pulling required skill and time but overall, everyone's group attack damage could be maximized without wasting it. As long as the mobs were pulled well, everyone would use their powerful group attacks and the speed at which they killed the mobs would naturally accelerate!

Time Machine was a sensible president. Once he heard this, he immediately said, "I directly forbid anyone from talking on the team channel. We will play according to Brother Fis.h.!.+"

Li Cangyu was very pleased with Time Machine's decisiveness. He said, "There is still a little time. Everyone stand at their positions. The remote cla.s.ses should be 10 metres around the light marker."

The president gave them an order so everyone had to be silent and follow the instructions.

***

At the same time, the Flying Feathers team challenging the instance.

The 30 member team consisting of a large number of swordsmen had been divided into five groups and were standing in their positions, ready to go.

The commander of the event, President Flying Feathers Liangshan said calmly, "We have played this challenge countless times. In the old district, the first place in the level 50 guild challenge instance has always been our Flying Feathers Guild. Today we must also achieve it."

Flying Feathers Ares smiled. "Boss doesn't have to worry. Most of us are level 55 and the mobs are only level 50. We have the advantage and can kill them in seconds."

This was true but there were many compet.i.tive guilds in the new district. Flying Feathers Liangshan couldn't feel too at ease.

"What about Wind Colour?" Flying Feathers Liangshan privately asked his undercover contact.

[Wind Colour's president doesn't seem to care about the rankings. He said it is just a matter of playing and getting the rewards.]

Flying Feathers Liangshan messaged another undercover: [How is the Time Guild arranging the instance?]

[Time has allied with the Food Squad. They took 24 people to challenge the instance while the Food Squad sent six people. In order to show the friends.h.i.+p between guilds, Time Machine gave the command to Love to Eat Braised Fish.]

[…] Flying Feathers Liangshan couldn't help frowning.

If Time Machine was the commander, their speed of killing monsters was definitely below Flying Feathers due to their inferior level.  Now that the commander was suddenly changed to Love to Eat Braised Fish, Flying Feathers Liangshan couldn't help sensing something bad.

Love to Eat Braised Fish… what was the origin of this person? If he commanded, would the result surpa.s.s Flying Feathers?

It was almost 8 o'clock so Flying Feathers Liangshan suppressed these thoughts and said in the voice channel, "Everyone, maintain your concentration and start acting at 8 o'clock. We must win first place!"

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Chapter 41 – Starting the Train

At 8 o'clock Beijing time, there was a server wide announcement in the Moonlight Forest district.

[Players, the guild challenge instance has been opened. Players in a guild and above level 50 can team up and accept the challenge task from the guild administrator. This event will give a large amount of experience, money, equipment and guild construction points. Please actively partic.i.p.ate!]

At present, not many players had reached level 50 in the Moonlight Forest district. Almost all of them were elites of the major guilds. At this team, all guilds had already a.s.sembled a team to challenge the guild instance. This announcement meant the instance was officially opened and everyone immediately raised the weapon in their hands!

The guild challenge instance's first stage: destroy the intruders.

The so-called intruders were the mobs that Li Cangyu previously mentioned. They appeared in the east, west, south, north and middle directions in 10 rounds. The 25 mobs in the first wave had to be killed before the second wave refreshed. Therefore, in order to save time in this stage, it was best not to miss any mobs.

At 8 o'clock, the mobs refreshed in the instance and the activity time bar appeared in the upper right corner.

Time Machine looked around and found that the groups made by Love to Eat Braised Fish were a bit strange. The 30 people were divided into five groups. Group 1 had six white magicians, group 2 had six elf archers, group 3 had two white magicians, two elf archers and two psychics, group 4 had the remaining outputs and his healer Love to Eat Twice-cooked Pork, while group 5 had two paladins, two healers and two melee swordsman.

Li Cangyu quickly ordered, "The main T will start to pull the mobs. The healers and swordsman of group 5 will follow the paladins. The healers will fill the blood of the main T while the swordsmen will protect the healer.  The outputs will wait for my orders to use the group attacks. Don't mess up!"

According to the previous positioning, Gu Siming and Time Madman were sent to different colour monsters marked by Li Cangyu. They used the Battle Howl skill and pulled the mobs around them. Then they started running in a clockwise direction!

The distance outputs saw Gu Siming pulling the mobs in the west, north and east while Time Madman pulled the mobs in the middle and the south. They ran clockwise and the two groups joined together. This was a spectacular train!

Li Cangyu saw the mobs gather and said, "Groups 1 and 3, unleash the group attacks!"

The group of six white magicians used the group attack skill 'G.o.d's Faith' while the archers of group 3 used the skill Death Arrow Rain. The two psychics in group 3 used their a.s.sist skills and the gorgeous light effects of the skills filled everyone's computer screen.

Once the group attack skills were released, the mobs screamed and collectively fell to the ground!

"…" Everyone in the Time Guild was shocked.

When playing against the mobs in the past, the healer had to take care of the teammates' blood due to the high attack power of the mobs. The six person groups would take at least 25 seconds to kill a wave. If some teams accidentally missed a mob then it would delay everyone's time.

Now the two paladins brought the mobs together and it took only 20 seconds to kill the first wave of mobs!

The group was staring blankly when the second wave of mobs refreshed.

Li Cangyu ordered, "Continue."

Xiao Gu and Time Madman repeated their actions in pulling the mobs. The two paladins pulled the mobs and ran around in a train. The mobs followed the two paladins and the outputs standing in the distance received very little damage, making it easy for Bai Xuan to heal all the remotes.

The two healing sisters of Time were arranged to take care of the blood of the paladins. They followed the paladins and topped up their blood. If the mobs came to the healer, the two swordsmen arranged by Li Cangyu would protect the healers. They ensured that the healers' chanting wasn't interrupted and the healers filled the paladins' blood. This meant the pressure wasn't too great.

"Groups 2 and 4, prepare for the group attack." Li Cangyu said on the voice channel. "Go!"

There was a loud bang as soon as he gave the command. The elf archers' Death Arrow Rain, the white magicians' G.o.d's Faith, the summoner's Thunder's Wrath, the black magician's h.e.l.l Flames and Li Cangyu's white magician's timely use of Inspiring voice doubled the entire team's attack power for 10 seconds.

The output of groups 2 and 4 weren't as high as groups 1 and 3 but the auxiliary skill meant it took them seconds to wipe out all the mobs.

Time Machine saw the bodies of the mobs and his jaw dropped.

He didn't expect the killing efficiency of gathering the mobs to be so high!

He didn't expect Love to Eat Braised Fish to calculate everything before the instance opened and to clearly calculate all possible incidents!

He was afraid that interrupting the healers' casting would affect the paladins so he specifically sent two swordsmen to protect the healers…

He was afraid that the outputs of the group skills would lead to damage overflow and a waste of skills so he split up the outputs according to cla.s.s. He divided them into groups to maximize the damage of the group attacks…

The cooldown of a big group attack was almost 40 seconds. Groups 1 and 3 were responsible for the first wave of mobs while groups 2 and 4 were responsible for the second wave of mobs. By the time the third wave of mobs appeared, the cooldown for groups 1 and 3 would just be over.

This sophisticated killing design and the seamless connection of skills that didn't waste any second…

At this moment, Time Machine was feeling frightened while a strong admiration rose in his heart.

This person wasn't an ordinary cow!

Love to Eat Braised Fish saw the cla.s.s distribution of the 30 team members and temporary adjusted it to a kiting method obviously tailored for the Time Guild! How come Time Machine never thought of this? Was his IQ not high enough?

***

The Time members who partic.i.p.ated in today's instance were all first-cla.s.s masters. Everyone's doubts towards Love to Eat Braised Fish had disappeared a long time ago. They belatedly wors.h.i.+pped him and listened to his commands.

After three rounds of killing the mobs, everyone was familiar with this style of play. Li Cangyu said, "The first stage is like this so I won't repeat it anymore. Everyone use their group skills at the right time. The next stage is the maze. President, how did you clear this previously?"

The guild challenge's second stage: the random maze.

It was a very large maze that could accommodate hundreds of people. Moreover, the route of the maze was randomly generated in each instance. It didn't follow a fixed route to team members needed to cooperate and improvise.

Time Machine thought about it and said, "Once we go in the entrance, the groups will separately take different roads. If we encounter a dead end, the person will return to the beginning and put down a marker to indicate that this road is blocked. Then they will enter another road."

Li Cangyu asked, "Is it the road elimination method? People who walk into a dead end will mark it and slowly eliminate all the wrong paths. The remaining path will naturally lead to the end?"

"That's it." Time Machine was disturbed. "Is there something wrong with it?"

"It is a good method." Li Cangyu said, "We will follow the old method."

Time Machine excitedly agreed, "Okay!"

He didn't know why but Time Machine felt a bit proud when he received this master's affirmation.

In fact, this road elimination method was developed six years ago by the old captain, Xu Luo.

The large maze was very complicated. If everyone walked a road and found a dead end, it would waste a lot of time. Captain Xu and his team used a bunch of small accounts to walk the maze. People walked in different directions and made the dead roads at intersections, which would prevent other teammates from entering the dead end again.

This way, among the 30 members, there would always be a person who headed in the right direction and reached the final destination.

Using this method to walk the random maze was very quick.

Later, the undercovers from other guilds spread this method and it gradually became the main strategy to clear the maze part of the instance.

How many people knew that the Time members studied the maze for a whole night to develop this?

Time Machine couldn't help feeling sad when he thought about the retired captain.

Fortunately, Tan s.h.i.+tian didn't disappoint the trust of his master. After taking over as captain, he took care of the Time team and their performance was still at the forefront of the league, greatly pleasing the Time veterans.

Time Machine had just been thinking for a little bit and the first stage was already finished. Two large prompts appeared on the screen.

[Congratulations, the guild challenge instance's first stage 'Destroy the Intruders' has been successfully cleared!

[The second stage, Random Maze is about to start. Countdown in 10, 9, 8…]

***

Li Cangyu didn't want to change the strategy in the second stage. The large maze was more troublesome and changing strategies was likely to make things messy. Li Cangyu decisively handed back commanded to the president of Time, saying, "President, you can arrange the maze."

Time Machine was startled and immediately said, "Okay! Everyone prepare to enter the maze. Group 1 will enter the left, group 2 to the right and group 3 will go forward. Teams who encounter a dead end will drop a stone as the signal. Once the correct direction is found, immediately report it!"

Time Machine had been managing the guild since Xu Luo was captain. He was a six year veteran. Compared to the younger generation of other guilds, he had more experience with managing a guild and was stable. He was also very decisive when commanding, causing Li Cangyu to feel appreciative.

The countdown was soon over and the random maze opened.

Three teams entered the maze according to Time Machine's arrangement and immediately went in different directions.

The ban on the team channel was lifted and it wasn't long before someone sent a message. [The left side is all dead!]

Another message soon popped up on the team channel: [The road forward is all blocked!]

Since the left and forward paths were all dead ends, the correct direction must be on the right side. Time Machine immediately said, "Group 4 head to the right and groups 1 and 2 will also help."

The four teams dispersed to the right side and many dead ends were soon marked.

The fog on the small map in the upper right corner was gradually unlocked. The fog area being unlocked meant that someone had reached the right area.

Once 70% of the maze was unlocked, Time Machine took the last five members to the right.

As soon as they entered, they saw many dead ends marked by the players. Everyone saw the marks and avoided those roads. There was no need to walk into the dead end so a lot of time was saved. They walked almost unimpeded all the way and soon found the correct route.

[Congratulations, the guild challenge's second stage 'Random Maze' has been successfully cleared!]

[The third stage 'Work Together' is about to start. Countdown in 10, 9, 8…]

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