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Chapter 157: Promotion tournament [3]

Chapter 157: Promotion tournament [3]

[You have leveled up!]

[You are now level 70!]

After months of working hard, grinding to level up his Avatar, Noah crossed another big milestone with his Lord Doom Avatar.

Lord Doom was now level 70, the first in his crew.

And it coincided with Day 1 of the 6th week of the elimination round battle royales, where a coalition of 12 teams gathered against them.

They planned to eliminate Echelon in one decisive strike.

It was a flawless plan. A 12-team coordinated ambush should’ve been an instant death sentence, it should’ve been an unbeatable force.

Yet, it wasn’t.

Because they had forgotten one thing.

Echelon didn’t just play the game, they controlled it. They had been controlling it from the very beginning of the Promotion Tournament.

The coalition’s trap was perfectly laid. They surrounded Echelon in a ruined fortress, cutting off every exit.

They launched a full-frontal assault, magic and arrows darkening the sky.

It should’ve been the end, but...

Noah only laughed. And that laugh, sounded far more ominous than anything these challengers had ever heard in the game.

"Unleash the demons". Noah said.

And Caleb activated Hell’s Key. In an instant, the world went mad.

A flood of demons erupted, throwing the battlefield into chaos. As Caleb leveled up, so did his demons become even more fearsome.

And he was not alone, he had allies, fearsome allies.

Benjamin’s firestorm turned the ambush into a death trap, deviously using his SS-Ranked unique skill to weave chaos among the enemy ranks like an art.

Aria vanished into the shadows, becoming the Reaper of Life. She only reappeared behind the enemy commanders, attacking at rapid speed, cutting them down in mere seconds.

She was like a phantom of death.

As for Genevieve, she was the cornerstone of the team. She shielded the team from every attack, making them unkillable.

And Noah?

He simply tore through them.

Aetherforge warped through space, striking from angles no one could predict. The coalition’s ambush turned into a massacre.

No matter how strong pro players were, it was not logical for so few players to overwhelm so many. The true secret behind this impossibility made possible was teamwork, a coalition of multiple elite players, the best of the best.

Maybe Noah could take on 10 of them alone, maybe 20 if pushed to his limits, but that would still leave dozens of enemies.

That was where the math came to fore.

In Echelon, 1 + 1 did not necessarily mean 2.

In Echelon, Noah + Aria alone could be translated to 10 + 10 if not 15 + 10. When you do the math, both of them end up taking the role of 25 enemies.

This was also not just because of their individual skill, it was because of their perfect synergy that has been honed through years of fighting against powerful enemies and rivals in the pro scene, pitting themselves against the best of the best.

Passing through these trials together made them the perfect comrades in arms, monsters honed in Warstar’s fantastical world.

And so..., Noah + Aria + Genevieve + Caleb + Benjamin was far more than the direct sum of the individual parts.

It was not a team of individual players fighting, rather, it was cods of a well-oiled cutting-edge technology machine cutting through lesser machines like a hot knife through butter, turning fearsome opposition to weak prey.

And so, the perfect ambush turned into a perfect massacre.

They tried to retreat, but Noah didn’t let them.

By the time it was over...

Twelve teams were wiped from the tournament, more than 60 players brutally killed in the process.

And the leaderboard updated again.

[Echelon – 135 Kills]

Day 1 ended in bloodcurdling fashion.

And from that moment on, the tournament changed.

...

After the terrifying culling that resulted from the decision of multiple teams to gang up on Echelon, the tournament changed.

No one tried to fight Echelon head-on anymore.

They ran, they hid.

They fought each other to avoid being next on Echelon’s kill list.

And just like that, the days of the last week passed, the spectators bearing witness to the bloodbath that occurred on the arena every day.

Due to every team avoiding Echelon like a plague, their kill count reduced in the next 4 days but it didn’t matter.

No team managed to catch up to them.

Echelon stood undefeated.

They didn’t just qualify for the playoff rounds; they owned the battlefield.

They didn’t just win; they made a statement with their performance.

And then, it was decided, the top 4 teams that progressed to the playoffs from the elimination round.

[Echelon – 135 Kills]

[Chaos Inc. – 83 Kills]

[Apex Reign – 53 Kills]

[Silverfang – 49 Kills]

Silverfang, the underdogs did it.

They managed to go all the way, securing a playoff spot after the last bloodbath that lasted a week in the arenas.

Yes, the playoff spots were reserved for 8 teams, but only 4 of them are eligible to qualify from the elimination rounds.

The others were decided through a seed system by the tournament organizers, selecting from past relegated teams from the English Pro Alliance.

The remaining 4 playoff spots were reserved for relegated pro teams.

There was a 2-day break after the end of the elimination round battles before the draw. And then, on Monday morning, the draw was made.

[Quarterfinal Draw Randomizing, please wait...]

[Draw complete!]

>Chaos Inc. vs Crimson Vale<

...

>Apex Reign vs Iron Dominion<

...

>Silverfang vs Nightshroud<

...

>Echelon vs Aetherlight Syndicate<

The first game of the playoffs, the quarterfinal games was between Chaos Inc. of the elimination round and Crimson Vale, the relegated pro team.

Crimson Vale, once a mid-tier powerhouse of the English Pro Alliance known for relentless aggression, now fallen from grace and desperate to claw their way back. They didn’t have the funds to purchase one of the other 2 spots.

And so, the Promotion Tournament was their only hope of returning to the English Pro Alliance.

To them, it was not a matter of victory or defeat. Rather, it was a matter of life and death.

A day after the draw, the first game of the playoff was broadcasted.

...

(Promotion Tournament:)

(Quarterfinal:)

>Chaos Inc. vs Crimson Vale<

[Location: Ravaged Wasteland]

[A fractured battlefield with shifting terrain, crumbling structures, and intermittent sandstorms that obscure vision and disrupt long-range attacks.]

The atmosphere was electric in Anfield.

Tens of thousands of Warstar fans gathered, buzzing with anticipation as two storied but battered clubs stepped into the fire.

On one side, Chaos Inc., the wild, unpredictable challengers whose every match was a gamble; high risk, high reward.

On the other, Crimson Vale, a fallen warrior of the old guard, disciplined and ruthless, desperate to reclaim lost glory.

The match began with a detonation. Chaos Inc. lived up to their name, opening with an explosive five-man Blitz that targeted Vale’s backline.

Their Elementalist, Singe, rained down flame storms like a man possessed, forcing Vale’s support unit into disarray.

But Crimsom Vale wasn’t to be shaken so easily. Valen, their captain and a Paladin class controller called for a phalanx formation.

Shields raised, spells linked, they absorbed the chaos, and then retaliated in brutal harmony.

Nerida, their Assassin blinked through space, isolating and eliminating Chaos Inc.’s healer in a moment of genius and graceful dance of death.

Still, Chaos Inc. didn’t crumble, even without their healer.

Midway through the match, the terrain began to shift, massive stone spires bursting from the ground as a sandstorm rolled in.

Using it to their advantage, Talon, Chaos Inc.’s Brawler captain activated his skill Shadow Carnival, a field-wide stealth barrage.

In seconds, three Crimson Vale members were dropped, one after the other having lost a chunk of HP since.

The tides turned again.

With just Valen and Nerida standing, they regrouped under the eye of the storm. Valen roared, casting Unbreakable Line, a skill that shielded Nerida long enough for her to charge her Awakened level skill, Veilpiercer.

The Assassin vanished from sight, then reappeared behind Talon, blades poised. But Talon had been waiting.

"...!"

She realized too late that it was a trap.

{Counteredge: Paradox Bloom=}

A Brawler trap skill.

The instant Nerida struck, the trap snapped shut, reversing the damage and stunning her in place!

Chaos Inc. surged.

Singe’s Infernal Cage dropped like a meteor, drowning the battlefield.

The battlefield became hell, and in a stunning final sequence, Crimson Vale’s last two players were eliminated in sync.

---<VICTORY>---

The familiar victor screen flashed in the stadium.

Anfield was stunned..., what an upset!

Chaos Inc. won!

The crowd erupted as Talon raised his daggers to the sky, a grin on his face.

"Order’s dead," Talon said still in the Arena, he had a big but exhausted grin on his face. "Long live chaos". He muttered.

And just like that, one of the favorites of the playoff stage, Crimson Vale were eliminated from the tournament early.

How the mighty have fallen.

With Day 1 out of the way, all eyes turned to Day 2’s game.

Apex Reign and Iron Dominion, who would win? Would the challengers win again or would the relegated pro club show again that they had what it takes to make it back to the pro scene?

No one knew. They could just wait, and speculate.

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