Chapter 851: Fighting the Demon, Begins
September, a delicate season.
She is like a graceful girl who is about to change into a dress called autumn; the residual heat of midsummer is the last wisp of gauze tied around her waist, and the pressure of school and the haze of quarterly reports are like a pair of safety pants under the gauze.
Well, let's get back to the point...
This September in 2055 is undoubtedly a horror paradise. After the start of the preliminaries of Peak Hegemony S2, Dream Company took the opportunity to launch a corresponding publicity plan to hype up this competition. In just a few days, all kinds of news related to it were overwhelming in all media, and even many mainstream media that disdained the game industry reported on this matter one after another, and its social attention was unparalleled.
In the game circle, this game has become the most eye-catching focus battle in recent years.
The time point of five months of opening the service, the form of team battles, and the ranking method of the points system... It is not difficult to see that this preliminaries system has a subtle meaning of "testing the quality of the studio".
If the final ranking of S1 is unconvincing due to too many unpredictable factors in the finals, then this time S2... at least in the preliminary stage, the teams have no excuses.
In fact, most game studios have reached a consensus unanimously - the preliminary results of the Peak Hegemony S2 are likely to determine the true strength ranking of each studio in the minds of the majority of players.
Therefore, for those well-known game studios, a 50-day dark war has already started from the moment of midnight on September 5. .
Every day, the points they publish on their official website are an important cornerstone to victory.
And for those professional players who are regarded as "stars", this is also a protracted test.
The results of each round of games, the process of each team battle, and even every point of survival value lost in each duel... may have an impact on the team's preliminary ranking.
From the perspective of casual teams, thirty-six games are just thirty-six wins and losses. In theory, 108 points is the best result.
But from the perspective of a professional team... 108 points is just "qualified". "Unbeatable" is a must. As a team that wants to compete for the championship, if you don't even get unbeaten in the preliminaries, how can you be confident that you can win all the way in the knockout rounds with so many strong players?
On the basis of unbeaten, they must try their best to ensure that every game is won at the lowest cost and in the most efficient way... Only the team that can do this to the extreme can reach the top of the preliminaries standings.
Simply put, the team pursuing the preliminaries ranking must take every game and every moment seriously in the entire 36 valid points games and cannot afford to make mistakes. They can't play like casual players with the attitude of "it's fine as long as I win in the end". They are destined to pay more than ordinary players, because... this is what can be called "professional".
"Getting paid to play games". It is never as easy as it looks literally; to be fair, this is more stressful than doing something else with a salary. Even though the times are progressing, stereotypes still exist in people's minds... No one would say that football players "get paid to play football" or swimmers "get paid to play in the water", but the profession of "professional gamers" is always judged with tinted glasses.
In fact, there is no essential difference between professional gamers and professional athletes. Both require talent, hard work and a little bit of luck, and both have experience, skills, stress resistance and professionalism. The biggest difference between them is that one party uses physical equipment or venues as competitive tools. The other party uses virtual electronic programs as competitive carriers. It is obviously unfair to look at the latter carrier differently just because the latter carrier has a greater entertainment tendency than a tendency to exercise the physical or mental strength of the participants.
This time, when Dream Company promoted the Peak Heroes S2 to the general public outside the game circle, it paid attention to this point. One of their slogans is "Don't understand why some people can support themselves by playing games? Then let's see what they are so outstanding about."
As soon as such a slogan came out. Not to mention the group of players who have dabbled in games, even those who know nothing about the game industry or have never been to Horror Paradise have become interested in this "peak competition".
And all of this... is the preparation made by Dream Company for the "live broadcast" of the second half of the preliminaries.
By the end of September, when this "only heard about it but not seen" hunger marketing aroused people's curiosity, Dream Company took the opportunity to release a message-"Three days later, the live broadcast rights of the second half of the preliminaries will be publicly tendered."
This move. Not only did they recover all their previous publicity costs, but they also made a lot of money...
Of course, these are all later stories. At least before September 20, no one knew that the games in the later stages of the preliminaries would be broadcast live. At present, most players are still focusing on how to play their own games.
Almost no one noticed... At the beginning of this 50-day preliminaries cycle, the prelude to the Ragnarok... has actually been quietly unveiled.
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The main universe, the border of the chaotic scorched earth
At the edge of this void, stands a huge door quietly - the Door of Nothingness.
Back then... the battle between gods and demons was earth-shattering. In the end, the God of War used all his power to use a life form with dual characteristics of god and devil as the sealing hub, sealing Dou Mo inside the door.
Countless years later...the ancient demon guardian successfully escaped from the seal by absorbing the demon-fighting energy seeping out of the door and disappeared without a trace.
Fortunately, the Seal of the God of War was indestructible, and even after losing its "wedge", it still persisted for a long time.
However... these days have come to an end today.
Karakra...
After a dull crashing sound, the dark door shattered into debris.
In an instant, an incredibly dense ultimate demonic energy swept out from the door.
Then, heavy footsteps came from the door...
Bang, bang, bang...
A gigantic figure walked slowly out from inside the door. Every time it took a step, the whole earth would tremble.
But... just when it reached the door and was only one step away from stepping out, it stopped.
"Huh?" it said to itself, "Have I stayed in the 'nothing' for too long...or has something changed in this universe..."
While speaking, it had raised one hand (front paw) and stretched it out the door. As a result... in less than two seconds, its hand exploded from the inside.
The dark demonic blood flowed down, exuding a mellow, violent and distant smell like old wine.
This... is the physical sign of the most extreme "devil". From a data perspective, every drop of blood on its body and every breath it exhales are highly condensed energy. Compared with those mortal things that exude a fishy smell inside and outside their bodies, there is simply a world of difference.
"Is this really the 'universe' I used to be in... Why is the 'pressure' so small..." Dou Mo retracted his hand, and many black fiber substances repaired its stumps at a speed visible to the naked eye, " It seems it will take me some time to adapt to this new environment.”
As it spoke, it secretly channeled magic energy and began to modify its body.
Wrapped in the demonic energy, its figure began to shrink rapidly, and gradually... turned into a human form.
Finally, after about three minutes, "it" became "him."
At this time, Dou Mo has transformed into a naked human man. He is about 1.9 meters tall, with a well-proportioned body shape and a gloomy appearance. He has pale skin and naturally curly black hair. Looking at his exposed body, there is nothing different from ordinary people.
"Huh..." After successfully transforming, Dou Mo took a deep breath, and then he stepped out of the door that had trapped him for hundreds of millions of years (in "nothing", the feeling of time will become infinite) through the gate, officially stepping into the main universe of Thriller Paradise. (To be continued...)