Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 440: Chapter 425: Sorry, I Must Win! (5000 words! Asking for monthly votes!)

The frenzy stirred up by Juan Canyun on Weibo was still fermenting, with various marketing accounts digging deep into his relationship with the Lady of Calamity, and articles related to Juan Canyun instantly flooding Weibo.

Like “Attention to VR Professional Gamers’ Mental Health Issues: Difficulty Distinguishing Between Game and Reality?”

“What Kind of Character is the Lady of Calamity, the Top Professional Gamer Juan Canyun Confessed To?”

This onslaught of articles came at them, but they were already irrelevant to Juan Canyun because the second half of the Holy Spirit Tournament’s top eight was underway.

The first round was Zhao Mingwei versus Eternal Rosh.

Juan Canyun sat on the sofa watching the large screen in the training room; to most professional players, this match had no suspense whatsoever.

Because Master Xiao was simply too strong—this was something the eleven professional players from Dynamic Nucleus had experienced firsthand.

Black Ash even cursed during the earlier top eight ranking matches saying, ‘What the hell, state decline! This damn thing is in its prime! I even feel he’s stronger than his prime!’

Indeed… Black Ash’s failure to make it into the top eight was due to repeatedly matching against Zhao Mingwei in the ranking matches, which broke his winning streak.

This led to players during the ranking matches saying, ‘Damn it! Master Xiao is starting to matchmake!’ ‘I’m off to do laundry!’ ‘I’m off to drink tea!’ ‘My wife’s about to give birth!’ ‘I’m off to give birth!’

Players in the high rankings and a host of professional gamers all avoided the time slot when Zhao Mingwei was matchmaking, only continuing their own matchmaking after confirming that Zhao Mingwei had entered the duel arena.

Only a very few true frontline players dared to continue matchmaking during Zhao Mingwei’s session; this is what everyone in Dynamic Nucleus thought, including Black Ash, who believed he would surely take the Conflict Worlds competition.

How could an outdated, retired old gamer be a match for them?

And it turned out… they were probably not a match. The win rate of Dynamics Nucleus’s players against Zhao Mingwei was 70-30, in favor of Zhao Mingwei, as calculated by Black Ash.

Perhaps in Holy Spirit, only Caramel could face Zhao Mingwei directly, managing a mere fifty-fifty.

As for Eternal Rosh? Zhao Mingwei had consecutively beaten Rosh’s speed run records three times.

The latest record was two minutes flat, achieved by Zhao Mingwei through a reckless playstyle, but in the elimination rounds, he chose a stable method to deal with Rosh.

Thus Rosh experienced what it was like to feel despair, facing a Holy Spirit that was so difficult for the first time.

In the end, at three minutes and twenty-one seconds, with only a third of his life remaining, Zhao Mingwei eliminated Eternal Rosh.

The battle was suspenseful yet without peril; one hour later, Caramel’s match with Eternal Hilze’er began.