After entering the gaming cabins, the characters from both sides were transported to the PVP arena. At the same time, the full-body projections of both parties appeared in front of the audiences in the arena.
The rules of the official professional tournament were the same as the ones from the trials. The first would be 1v1, then the round robins, and lastly the group battle.
The end results would be decided by the points accumulated from every round.
The only difference between the two was that the players were not allowed any equipment in the professional tournaments, and all equipment would be sealed in the bag they carry.
This was reasonable, because if not there would be no way to show the competitiveness of each player.
If rich players like Feng Yun Realms was allowed to throw out his equipment as if they were all free on the arena, there would be no point in the tournament anymore.
Hence in the arena, players could only use their true combat skills to show sportsmanship.
In the first round of tournaments, Quan Zhen Sect was the host side so they had the priority for choosing locations. Therefore, Quan Zhen Sect could choose the location for the first round.
According to traditions, the first round would be to test the opponent’s skill level. After all, the teams that could make it to professional tournaments were teams that were not that weak.
Hence, Quan Zhen Sect chose the smallest possible location – The Arena. The first player to be on the Arena was the weakest among Quan Zhen Sect, Frost Blade.
From Spiritual Shadows, the first player up was an Assassin named Shadow Kill.
Compared to Frost Blade, Shadow Kill’s name had more loftiness to it.
After both teams had chosen their representative, the two representative players were sent into the tournament grounds.
Shadow Kill wore dark clothes and a mask and his figure looked creepy and daunting. Such unique aura only meant that he was a qualified and legitimate Assassin.
Meanwhile, Frost Blade wore sparkly equipment and raised his head high, acting like a warrior. There was nothing that suggested that he was an Assassin.
Even though they had very different styles, both parties had similar combat methods. After the countdown, both Frost Blade and Shadow Kill started with [Stealth].
Both of them instantly became two shadows on the arena.
All Assassins would start by [Stealth], and especially so for going against their own kind.
What followed next was the most boring scene in history.
The audience sat on the auditorium and had a bird’s eye view, so they could see the shadows of the two players. However, the two players in the arena could not see each other at all.
In addition to that, both were the first player to battle from their own teams, so they were more cautious about revealing too much of their skill. They were just merely trying to find out each other’s skill level.
After the battle started, Frost Blade ran to the corner of the Arena and stared at the battleground blankly.
Similarly, Shadow Kill ran to his corner on the arena and observed Frost Blade as if they had already discussed this between themselves.
Seeing both of the players chickening out, the audiences were confused.
F*ck, after all these years of watching tournaments, this was the first time they saw something like that.
No wonder all of them said that mentally weak children were the happiest. Applied to this scenario, it was so obvious that the amateurs were amateurs. If not for the environment, everyone would have thought they were watching a play.
After a minute, both parties still have not moved.
The audiences started to get restless.
Three minutes later, everything remained the same.
Everyone started screaming, “Stab his a**hole, CNM!”
After 5 minutes, the audiences were tired of screaming and started falling asleep on their seats. The players on the arena started feeling uneasy after staring at the empty arena for the whole time.
Because the tickets to the battle were so expensive, they would be blacklisted if this went on.
After a few more minutes, Frost Blade and Shadow Kill were impatient as well. Both of them started their attack towards the middle of the arena.
Of course, Frost Blade had better equipment and hence the ability to [Stealth] twice. Therefore, he had more confidence and walked towards the opponent.
On the other hand, Shadow Kill was a perfect epitome of what an Assassin was, so he was careful and creepy and moved forward half-squatted.
“They moved!”
Both of them finally moved and the audiences were moved to tears as if they saw two vegetables talking after 10 years have passed. Those audiences who fell asleep woke up immediately after hearing the cheering from the others.
Luckily, the arena was not big. It could be seen that the two players were moving closer to each other very clearly.
All of the audience started counting down to the direct confrontation of the two players in their hearts.
The quiet countdowns turned in to a synced countdown together.
3, 2, 1…
Right when all of them thought that the two players were about to meet each other, Shadow Kill slid beside Frost Blade’s legs miraculously.
“F*ck!!”
After seeing what had happened, all of the audiences’ heart sank.
However, Frost Blade felt something pass by his legs on the ground and stabbed his dagger into the ground fiercely.
At the same time, Shadow Kill stood up suddenly and dodged Frost Blade’s attack and slashed his dagger horizontally.
However, Frost Blade was still bending down at that point and Shadow Kill’s dagger swept above and across Frost Blade’s back.
That was how two Assassins miraculously dodged each other’s attack.
This scene blew the audience’s minds.
Although both of the attacks failed, both of the players knew that their opponent was just right beside themselves. They simply closed their eyes and continued attacking.
Frost Blade thought that Shadow Kill was aiming for his abdomen, crotch and legs and squat down by reflex in fear of losing his private parts.
Shadow Kill thought that Frost Blade was standing up, so he stood up and aimed his dagger towards the position of the heart.
Both of them miscalculated again and their attacks failed.
…
After all those struggles, both attempts of attacking failed.
The audiences on the auditorium were dumbstruck.
“Is this really not pre-rehearsed?”
“Oh my god, I can’t believe that I spent the whole sum of getting the tournament tickets to watch <<At the Crossing>>.”
After a few rounds of missing, Frost Blade was a little desperate. After thinking for a bit, he ran to the side of the arena and cancelled his [Stealth] and exposed himself in the sight of Shadow Kill.
“???”
After being able to see his target, Shadow Kill was first stunned. Even though he did not understand why Frost Blade did that, he still raised his dagger and dashed towards his opponent.
Since the battle had been going on for ten minutes, Shadow Kill’s patience had been killed completely and wanted to end this as soon as possible. Hence, he would not give up this chance with the appearance of his target, because it would be too late again after his target’s CD was completed.
The distance between the centre and the edge of the arena was merely a few metres and paired with the Assassin’s fast speed in Haste state, Shadow Kill was right in front of Frost Blade in no time. He stabbed his dagger towards Frost Blade’s chest immediately.
