Chapter 67
Lady Lam had been engaged in PVP battles for a while, playing quite a few matches.
Mostly victorious, she gradually became adept with Earth Dreamer's fighting style.
However, today she felt very uncomfortable.
Blue Wolf.
He was a seasoned PVP player, famous in several games even before First World, and had participated in world tournaments a few times.
His rank was Emperor. The highest rank in PVP.
First World's PVP gathered within a King's Mark.
The ranks, from lowest to highest, were Commoner, Soldier, Captain, General, Master, and Emperor.
The name originated because King's Mark was a land that valued talent.
They didn't care about your past or where you came from.
As long as you were truly strong, you would be hailed as an Emperor.
Players who wanted to participate in the professional DMG tournament needed to have at least a Master rank.
The Master rank had a unique name compared to the other ranks because it served as a "waiting seat."
When players reached Master rank, they were considered part of the "Council of Masters" within King's Mark.
Only Masters were allowed to challenge the title of Emperor.
Every month, each Emperor had to accept at least 10 matches.
And if they lost even one match, they would have to pass the title of Emperor to the victorious player.
Thus, many players who achieved Emperor status only played the required 10 matches each month.
Each match against an Emperor was a "scheduled duel" instead of random match-making.
Blue Wolf was among those players.
He had managed to keep this position for quite a long time—around four months.
Today, Lady Lam had scheduled a match with Blue Wolf, so she had been practicing with Earth Dreamer beforehand.
This match had been arranged a week in advance.
In her guild, there were two guys who truly managed to fight their way up to Emperor using just their skills: Sword of Love, who have been Emperor for six months, and No One, for two months.
Occasionally, they would tease her about her PVP rank, so she fought whenever she had free time.
Unfortunately, it coincided with a period of meta shifts.
A new update had just been released, introducing numerous new classes, which required time to train and counter.
The win-loss rate was actually not very high.
Reaching the Master rank had taken her quite some time.
However, her match with Blue Wolf this time...
She lost completely!
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She had assumed Blue Wolf would use the Berserker class.
To her surprise, this scoundrel had just switched his class today!
He was now a Beastman !
When facing a Berserker, usually health stats are increased since Berserkers have decent armor penetration abilities.
But against a Beastman, defensive stats need to be boosted.
Her current Earth Dreamer build focused on health, putting her at a disadvantage in the match.
She really ended up being a punching bag for Blue Wolf.
After each challenge, there is a cooldown period.
She won't be able to challenge again for another week.
And after four consecutive challenge failures, players are directly demoted to the General rank.
She would have to climb back to Master from there.
Then Sword of Love added fuel to the fire.
[Sword of Love: Wut git gud lol.]
That jerk...!
She was genuinely annoyed!
...
At this moment, No One had just left the PVP arena.
He had just completed his Duel match.
His opponent was a Shadow Assassin. Not too difficult.
The match with Ye Yu had prepared him well for encountering this class.
Shadow Assassin is also a meta class in PVP, with many players using it.
Casually, he opened the PVP class tier list created by the top Emperors and read it.
Rank S: Divine Druid, Plague Doctor, Musician
Rank A: Shadow Assassin, Fighting Monk, Flying Blade, Earth Dreamer, ...etc.
Rank B: Onmyoji, Blade Dancer, Berserker, Phantom Blade, Falconer, ...etc.
Unranked: Beast Transformation, Charmer, Puppet Master
Rank S is often considered to be the broken classes in PVP.
Divine Druid is currently ranked as S.
No One wasn't too surprised.
The reason Divine Druid holds an S rank is because Plague Doctor is there.
Divine Druid has summoning abilities that give it certain advantages against both ranged and melee classes.
But normally, it would probably be ranked around A.
The main reason is that Plague Doctor "can't be played" when facing Divine Druid.
It was getting dark, and soon it would be time for his appointment at the Tomb of The Immortal Blade.
He decided to log out of the game and rest for a bit.
He planned to go with Lady Lam, but she had scheduled a fight; Snow Moon was nowhere to be found.
Even Sword of Love, who often PVPed with him, had vanished.
Earlier, he met Heavenly Demon In Black and asked about the Society In Black's Almighty Technique.
He was mentally prepared to take the assessment or something similar.
Unexpectedly, Heavenly Demon In Black directly gave him the Almighty Technique.
"If you want to use it, then use it," he said.
Master... isn't this a bit too lenient?
No One looked at the Almighty Technique skills.
【Netherworld Lantern】
【Society In Black's Secret Technique】
【Escape Skill】
【Consumes 50% mana to create a Netherworld Lantern at a designated location. This eerie lantern continuously inflicts fear on nearby enemies until destroyed.】
【Players can activate the Netherworld Lantern again to shatter it, dealing area damage and knocking back all surrounding enemies.】
【If the Netherworld Lantern is destroyed by an ally, that ally will receive the Netherworld Form effect.】
【The Netherworld Lantern can be destroyed or moved by enemies and allies. However, the player can still teleport to the remnants of the Netherworld Lantern.】
【Netherworld Form】
【Increases Damage, Speed, and Critical Damage for the duration of the Netherworld Form. Consumes 1% mana and 1% health per second.】【Can be ended early.】
【If not ended manually and forcefully ended due to insufficient health or power, it will create an explosion dealing damage equal to 20% of each affected target's maximum health.】
【Stroke of Brush】
【Society In Black’s Secret Technique】
【Use your mind to draw your own path. Draw on the map in 1 second. All enemies on the path of the stroke will take damage. Enemies hit multiple times by different strokes receive reduced damage from each subsequent stroke.】
【Sound of Silence】
【Society In Black’s Secret Technique】
【After use, can be reactivated multiple times to use Silent Demon.】
【Silences everything and removes their effects. Destroys objects that generate sound.】
【The in-game sound of everyone within the affected area will be muted until the effect ends.】
【Demonic Sound】
【Society In Black’s Secret Technique】
【Can only be used when Silent Sound is activated.】
【The user can use the weapon's vibration to create a demonic sound to attack and stun enemies.】
【The closer the enemy is to the weapon, the higher the damage inflicted. You can freely teleport within the affected area of Silent Sound. Maximum of 3 times.】
The skills, in theory, are really good.
One skill deals damage, the other two have crowd control.
Especially the Netherworld Lantern, which simply states "causes fear" without showing any duration for the effect.
Does it mean that as long as they're within range of the Netherworld Lantern, they'll remain frightened until they leave?
This needs further testing.However, so many control effects like these do not have much impact on the Phantom of The Immortal Blade.
No One temporarily hesitated to use the Almighty Technique book.
...
Meanwhile, Sword of Love had just left the Phantom Blade Palace.
His hair had turned white.
His eyes had also changed to white.
It seemed like a mist was emanating from his mouth.
"Phantom of The Immortal Blade, wash your neck for I am gonna cleave it !"