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Chapter 166: Champions

Chapter 166: Champions

Sunday, 5:00pm...

(Promotion Tournament:)

(Final:)

>Chaos Inc. vs Iron Dominion<

[Location: Tomb of Dread]

[The Tomb of Dread is the resting place of a once mighty Warlord. Even in rest, his profane powers still reign, creating at atmosphere of dread where undead skeletons crawl.]

[NOTE: The Tomb of Dread is not for the faint-hearted.]

It was a cool Sunday evening in London.

And the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was filled to the brim with tens of thousands of Warstar fans who bought tickets and came to spectate the anticipated final of the Promotion Tournament.

That evening, a lot of prominent names made the occasion.

Scarlet Rose’s veteran and captain, Jonathan made it to the stadium, sitting in one of the VIP seats.

He was not the only celebrity who came. Echelon’s boss, Nightingale, the famous hip-hop singer also personally made the occasion this time.

There were other prominent faces that graced the occasion, both those in the eSports scene and from outside. Prominent faces like Kendrick Lamar, the popular rap artist graced the occasion.

Apart from Jonathan, England’s current Warstar pride, Gabriel, Dain Ironvalor’s controller also graced the occasion to watch the final.

All of them came to watch a certain Lord Doom and his crew in action.

And they were eager to know, would Echelon win?

Some of them seemed to know the answer already though, but most were kept in the dark, excitedly waiting to see the game start.

For those who came to see Lord Doom and his crew in action though, they were left disappointed because at the last hour, Echelon made a change.

An hour before 5:00pm, Nightingale, Echelon’s boss had a press conference and faced the media. There, he told them a heartbreaking truth.

"I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but unlike most of the other players of Echelon, Lord Doom has never appeared in the stadiums physically".

"This is because God Noah is currently battling with a strange illness".

"But don’t worry, he’s currently under the best medical care that we can dream of. And we believe that it’s just time before he recovers".

"So, for this final game, someone else will have to replace Lord Doom".

"Do you have a replacement already?" One of the reporters asked.

"Why, of course". Nightingale smiled dashingly. "In case you’ve forgotten, Echelon is an aspiring pro club, and we intend to play in the pro club next season".

"Unlike the promotion tournament, the basic requirement of a pro team in the English Pro Alliance is to have 7 players, 5 in the starting V, and 2 reserve players".

"Lord Doom, Reckless Storm, Captain Batman, Enlightened Flame, and Misty Rose are Echelon’s starting V players, but we already have 1 reserve player already".

Nightingale’s smile widened. "His name is Jeff".

"Today, he’ll be taking Lord Doom’s spot".

And just like that, it was done.

Lord Doom was ruled out of participating in the final of the Promotion Tournament while Club Echelon’s reserve player took his spot.

The guy was a teenager, still just 17, and he controlled a Combat Mage.

Noah was the one who scouted him.

While his friends had so many things to do outside of the game, Noah was literally stuck in the world of Warstar for almost 5 months now.

He ate, slept, and did everything inside the game.

When his friends were off to rest, alone in the boundless world of Warstar, when he was not raiding dungeons, he had to find ways to kill his boredom. And so, he made a few acquaintances in the game.

This teenager was one of the acquaintances that Noah made. He met him all the way in the beginner domain when he was just level 40+, and recognized the kid’s skill during a Wild Boss fight.

Despite over a dozen top guilds getting involved in the Wild Boss fight, including guild Echelon, the slippery little bastard managed to deal the killing blow.

He didn’t get the drop rewards, but he got 60% of all XP gotten from that Wild Boss kill.

And after that fight, Noah got interest in him.

When he tried to recruit him, to Noah’s surprise, the kid rejected. Lord Doom was famous in the 11th server, but the kid was not impressed.

Not until his true identity was revealed though.

Most Combat Mage controllers in the game revere God Noah, whom they saw as the peak of Combat Mage controllers; the same way Blademaster controllers revere Aria, and Paladin controllers revere Gabriel.

And so, the kid sought him out himself.

Just last week, he went to Club Echelon’s club building and he was officially employed by Nightingale as part of the aspiring pro club.

The kid now lived with Gabriel and the others in the big building.

Noah never thought of it too much but he could not help but wonder how it feels to live in the club building, the atmosphere there.

It reminded him of Cyber Squad’s early days.

Noah smiled. Though he was stuck in the game, he also had a chance to spectate the final as it was also broadcasted virtually.

He didn’t watch the game because he was uncertain of the result, rather, he watched it because of a certain matchup..., Nightshard vs Echoing Blade.

Echoing Blade was the Avatar name of Iron Dominion’s young genius, while Nightshard was the Avatar name of Club Echelon’s new reserve player, Jeff.

Iron Dominion fans loved their young prodigy, and their love was not baseless, the young Blademaster was prodigiously talented.

But the same thing could be said about Jeff.

Not a lot of people knew him, but almost all members of guild Echelon did.

Jeff may have only joined Club Echelon a week ago, but he was part of the guild for a time already. Most people saw him as Lord Doom’s sidekick already.

Wherever you see Lord Doom, you see Nightshard.

The teenager was eager to learn first-hand from his idol, the one player he saw as the best player in the world of Warstar.

Noah was not used to it, having an apprentice, but he relished it nonetheless.

He did his best to teach Jeff all he knew about the Combat Mage class and coming from him, what he knew was a lot.

Now, it was time to put it into action.

3..., 2..., 1!

FIGHT!

As soon as the 5 characters spawned inside the arena, without hesitation, they sought each other out in a direct attack.

In Lord Doom’s absence, Aria who was Club Echelon’s Vice Captain took Noah’s place as the captain.

And under her lead, Echelon’s strategy was simple... attack!

Iron Dominion seemed to have accepted that they could not beat their opponents already despite Lord Doom’s absence, and so they accepted her preferred style, dancing to the tone of her battle cadence.

There were 10 Avatars on the pitch, why not make it 1v1s? A personal duel?

This was what Aria liked, and strangely, that was what happened.

Aria took on one of Iron Dominion’s Paladins, Caleb took on the other Paladin, while Benjamin took on the Ghostblade.

As for Jeff, he engaged in a Blademaster duel.

And strangely, that was the clash that drew the most attention as the 2 prodigious players entangled in a whirlwind of steel.

The Tomb of Dread was a highly strategic location, using it like this was just a waste of resources to any strategic mind. And yet, that was what happened, because it was Aria’s will.

While the combat classes dueled, on another side of the battlefield, a comical scene played out as 2 Clerics engaged in combat.

It was almost funny if it was not so ridiculous; people laughed though.

The 2 Clerics simply swung their staffs at each other, spamming debuffs on each other as they engaged in a very simple but brutal duel.

In the end, Aria’s battle ended first. She obliterated her opponent, Iron Dominion’s captain in less than 2 minutes.

The other battles took far more time and yet, Aria didn’t try to help them, rather settling in a good spot to observe the battles, mostly focusing on Jeff’s battle.

She even had the leisure to correct the new recruit’s mistakes as the duel continued. This was definitely the strangest final of the Promotion Tournament.

In the end, Jeff was the one to complete his duel next.

His Avatar was at red health, below 10% HP and yet, somehow, he managed to prevail, his battle lance dealing the final blow to the Blademaster.

Jeff won and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium erupted in joy, excited Echelon fans screaming at the top of their lungs.

Caleb finished his battle next, taking more than 8 minutes to grind out the defense of the stalwart Paladin.

He frowned. ’That’s 2 seconds more than my calculation’.

Benjamin followed next, winning over the Ghostblade after over 10 minutes and the shameless Elementalist could not stop bragging about it, flooding the chat with his shameless boasting.

As for the clash between Clerics?

It was a strange, slow-paced, and utterly funny occurrence. In the end, despite using all the 30 minutes allocated to the battle, neither Cleric could prevail.

They managed to drain each other below 50% HP but with healing skills at their disposal, it was meaningless.

In the end, the countdown timer ended.

---<VICTORY>---

The victory screen flashed; Echelon won.

Genevieve not winning her duel didn’t matter. At the end of the timer, there were 5 Echelon players standing and only 1 Iron Dominion player left standing.

Automatically, Echelon won.

That night, Echelon supporters felt on top of the world.

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