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Although Monster Battles was a ga that looked fun at first glance.
Mio really could not calm down enough to play it properly.
Even though Carl had already promised her that he would absolutely be fine in the next version.
Mio still could not put her mind at ease...
While Mio was worrying over these things and casually building the Thief synergy, she suddenly realized that the players playing this auto-battler match with her.
Seed to be famous big-shot players known across the entire internet!
Mio looked again, still uncertain.
The currently most famous god-tier player might be Kyo, a strong contender for the title of the world's strongest PvP player, a speedrun expert, and the most famous top player among Elysium gas!
Ryan, the Vice Guild Master of Crimson Sigil, was one of the best raid commanders today. He had led Crimson Sigil to claim several world-first clears of high-difficulty dungeons in Elysium gas.
Crimson Night, the Guild Master of Navigator, was an extrely famous ga story comntary uploader on video sites, and Mio was even her fan.
Back when Mio played gas and could not understand all kinds of ga plots, she had relied on Crimson Night's story explanations to understand them.
The other players at the sa table were also top-tier figures, one by one.
At this mont, Mio experienced what it ant to feel like she had wandered into the gods' lobby by mistake.
Where had Carl dug up this huge pile of top-tier figures from... and after roping in such a group of top-tier figures, he was only having them gather together to play a board ga?
Although Mio did not know what Carl was thinking, after she bought a three-cost Thief monster and barely completed the three-Thief synergy to start comfortably cashing out.
She suddenly brought up a topic related to Version 1.1 in the public channel.
"By the way... have you all watched Oath's Version 1.1 promotional PV? It was just uploaded at noon today," Mio asked.
"Don't want to watch it," Kyo answered very directly.
"Haven't watched it. I'll watch it later. You can talk about it," Crimson Night's answer was also very straightforward.
"Little girl... I'm already past the age where I get emotional over a gacha character PV. We only care about character strength evaluations. Occasionally watching ga story explanations is already the limit."
Ryan stated his own attitude toward playing gas, which was actually very similar to Kyo's.
What, the female character is super stacked? I only care whether she's strong, and how high she can score in Abyss!
When Mio heard this, her heart instantly sank halfway, but she still unwillingly asked the question she had to ask.
"Then what if! I an what if... in Version 1.1's story! The main story requires you to kill Carl Agata, would you... kill him?!"
Mio had basically hinted at the general plot of Version 1.1 here.
That was, in the end, players would have to personally kill Carl's main body after he was completely infected by the Calamity Virus.
In the end, every player present, even including Kyo, gave a surprisingly identical answer.
"Uh... why wouldn't we kill him? Isn't it just a boss called Carl?"
"What's the problem? Little girl, don't tell you think Carl as a boss in the main story... and Carl in our team are the sa person?" Ryan felt that what Mio said was a little inexplicable.
They had played so many gas. There were countless NPCs who were teammates one second and bosses the next.
Did players not still kill them without rcy when it was ti?
Even female characters were the sa! One second, players were calling them waifu, waifu. The next second, their stabbing speed was faster than anyone else's, and their aim was more ruthless than anyone else's!
After all, in the players' understanding, a character as a boss and a character as a teammate were not the sa person.
Hello... in Oath, they actually were the sa person.
Carl felt that this ti, Oath's official side would probably not be kind enough to use a Calamity Aberration Beast as a substitute for Carl like in Version 1.0.
This ti, they would definitely have Carl's main body personally enter the field.
"What if it is the sa person?!" Mio still refused to give up and continued asking.
In the end, Crimson Night was the one who realized what Mio wanted to say and directly explained it.
"What she wants to ask is... if killing Carl Agata in the main story ans we won't be able to play the gas he made anymore, would you still kill him?"
Mio hurriedly nodded, expressing that Crimson Night really was worthy of being a professional ga story comntary uploader!
Crimson Night, who had always been extrely considerate of NPCs' feelings, instantly understood what Mio ant.
"We'd kill him. Kyo might not do it, but you don't seriously think we'd stop pushing Oath's proper main story just for this kind of mini-ga, right?" Ryan said this with complete confidence.
That left Mio unable to refute him. This was how normal players thought.
How could a mini-ga compare to Oath's main story?
However, Ryan's words instead sparked Mio's competitive spirit!
Fine! You can say that because you think you've already hit your combo and have victory in the bag, right?
The reason Ryan could say those words so confidently was because his Elf giant ch lineup had highrolled like crazy.
In the first round, he had very luckily obtained the five-Elf synergy. The Ancient Tree Colossus basically killed whoever it saw, and with seven consecutive wins, he was sitting safely at one hundred health.
On the other hand, Mio...
She had already lost four tis in a row. Originally, it should have been seven losses in a row.
But midway, another player who was also intentionally losing had broken her loss streak once, causing her health to beco sowhat precarious.
If nothing unexpected happened, she would be the first person eliminated.
"Refresh, refresh."
Ryan humd a tune off-key as he refreshed, searching for synergies related to Elves.
His seven-win streak had made his funds very abundant. At the sa ti, his luck in this match was exploding. After a ding, Ryan directly combined a three-star Elf monster, Elf Priest.
This card could provide powerful buffs to the Colossus.
When the first round of 2-1 began, Ryan was matched against his longti rival, Kyo.
Kyo's Goblin turret build had actually also taken shape, but he could not withstand how terrifying Ryan's Colossus was.
Three seconds after the start, the Colossus directly punched all of Kyo's Goblins into at paste. They did not even manage to build several turrets.
"What the hell is that damage? Are you cheating?" Even Kyo, who had stayed silent all this ti, could not help typing a question.
"Nothing I can do when my luck is this good! Highroll... By the way, do you guys want to bet so money?!"
This feeling of already having victory in his grasp was also why Ryan could confidently say that even if killing Carl in the main story ant losing access to his mini-gas, it did not matter.
Anyway, after winning this round, once Version 1.1 ca online, he could wait a while, play Monster Battles to his heart's content, and then go push the main story.
On the other side, Mio was betting everything on surviving.
Fortunately, Mio chose a Strategy at 2-1.
A Strategy was a global enhancent. Players could choose Strategies of the sa rarity in each round's stage.
After obtaining a healing Strategy, she barely survived a few more rounds.
"Miss Player, you really don't need to compete with others over the future main story..." Carl whispered beside Mio's ear.
"But... I still want to struggle a little! At the very least, I want to give them a reason to play another round."
Mio's gaze was fixed firmly on her remaining health. After the healing Strategy, she had 40 health left.
After several rounds of barely surviving through losses, her loss streak finally reached nine losses, with 12 health remaining.
As the last-place player, she was once again matched against first-place Ryan. As a result, Ryan had now already obtained the seven-Elf synergy.
Mio did not ask to win. She only wanted to survive!
In the end, Mio's Thief monsters answered her prayers and successfully survived under the terrifying offensive of Ryan's Elf Colossus.
Ten-loss streak! Cash out!
Mio opened the highest-level Thief treasure chest. This chest only gave her one card.
[King of Thieves, Five-Cost, Five-Star]
[Skill: When you purchase a Thief monster, you gain an additional five gold.]
The prices of monsters in Monster Battles ranged from one to five cost, and each monster could be sold back at its original price.
This chanic combined with this skill... promised infinite money! As long as her hand speed was fast enough!
It was here! The mont to gamble Mio's professional career!
She began refreshing at a speed that even Carl marveled at, constantly buying low-cost Thief monsters, then selling them, refreshing, buying five-cost monsters, then buying low-cost Thief monsters again, selling, and refreshing!
The players who had been defeated by Ryan's Elf giant ch all ca over to Mio's side, seemingly by unspoken agreent, to watch her play.
"You... you're cheating, right? Why does your money look infinite? The more you buy, the more you have?"
"Money printer?"
"What kind of build is this? It looks really fun. I want to try it next ga too."
"You bought out all the five-costs in the pool? This... this is a pure five-cost power lineup with no synergies at all."
The players who had been eliminated early all stood beside Mio. Forget playing themselves, just standing beside her and watching her actions made them feel a burst of satisfaction.
It gave them the thrill of frantically grabbing goods in a supermarket packed full of products.
In the end... Mio achieved the strongest lineup in Monster Battles, the legendary full five-cost board!
Simply put, Mio's lineup consisted of nine of the strongest five-cost monsters. Each monster was two-star on average, and two of them had even reached three-star!
"What the hell?"
Ryan, who was still at full health, was once again matched against Mio, who had only two health left. But when Mio's monsters flew onto his board.
The weak and sickly Thief monsters from before had disappeared, all transford into warm, lovely gold and powerful five-cost monsters!
The instant this round began, Mio's three-star five-cost card, Champion Hero, directly grabbed all of Ryan's Elf monsters, carried them into the sky, and then slamd them heavily onto the ground!
After a terrifying string of critical damage numbers, -6510, appeared...
Ryan's Elf monsters were all killed in the blink of an eye. Only one Colossus remained on the field, before being torn to pieces by another of Mio's three-star five-cost monsters, a giant dragon.
"Ch-cheating, right? I have ten-Elf synergy! Where did you get that many five-cost monsters?!"
Ryan instantly froze when he saw his health get massively chunked by Mio.
And Mio's lineup improvent still had not stopped! She had even more three-star five-cost monsters to combine!
Ryan would continue to be surrounded by this pain until he finished the entire match, facing Mio three rounds in a row, losing faster each ti.
In the end, Ryan's ten-Elf lineup finished second, losing to Mio's luxurious lineup of all three-star five-cost monsters.
"I won!"
Although Mio did not know what these guild experts had bet on this match, she had achieved her goal of forcing them to play another round.
Just as Carl was about to ask what to do, since Mio did not seem interested in first place in Extre Abyss, he suddenly received a notification.
[Carl Agata, congratulations. You have obtained the qualification to write the side story for Oath Version 1.1. Please proceed to the academy eting room to discuss this matter, Elysium Academy Board of Directors.]
The mont he saw this notification, Carl truly could not suppress the smile on his face.
Elysium, you really gave the chance to write a side story? Then the Saintess is finished!
Carl had the confidence to write a story that would be enough to make so players betray the Saintess three tis over! When the ti ca, they should open their eyes and see who the real final boss was!
(To be continued.)
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