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Umu
~Nero
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At that mont, Vengeful Blood, the owner of this Open World, and the Saintess noticed the commotion and ca over to see what was happening.
"What... happened?"
The Saintess had originally arrived with an extrely elegant air, intending to diate the dispute.
However, her voice trembled slightly when she saw Carl's true body standing there.
"Reporting to Your Highness! This person has committed serious cris within the city. We were just about to expel her from the Upper District!" one of the soldiers reported.
At this point, Oath was actually being lenient, only restricting Villager Players from entering the Upper District.
Furthermore, Oath also gave these players the option to abandon Netherworld Village.
It was essentially urging them to give up the impoverished Netherworld Village and return to being elites of the City of Glory.
"Quiet. She is a mber of our Do Alliance. Since when can you expel her just because you feel like it?"
Vengeful Blood stepped forward, glaring at the two soldiers with a terrifying gaze.
Although Carl knew that Vengeful Blood was likely a woman in the real world, the character she had created was quite the intimidating man, two ters tall, with a sharp, sculpted face. The morale of the two ordinary soldiers instantly collapsed after being glared at.
"But these are orders from above! Those who have violated the taboo are forbidden from entering the Upper District!" one soldier insisted.
The Saintess stepped forward to act as diator.
"The person before you is Lord Vengeful Blood, the 42nd-ranked Champion." The Saintess naturally knew how to make players feel valued, and continued, "As for this Taboo-breaker... although her presence may soon be restricted, for now, how about I pardon her cris in my na?"
With the Saintess acting as guarantor, the two soldiers could not say much more, but Macchiato just had to interject.
"Wait a minute! You can be pardoned if you're in the top one hundred of Champion tier? My Champion Points are currently at 2370. I'm ranked 30th! There's no need to trouble the Guild Leader. You have no authority to deal with !"
When Macchiato said this, Carl could see that Vengeful Blood nearly choked on the spot.
"Macchiato! How many Champion Points did you say you have?"
Vengeful Blood had been grinding the Trial of Glory recently, aiming for the top spot.
A player's strength and influence were not enough. They needed a way to prove it.
The Trial of Glory was the best proof available at this stage. Vengeful Blood knew very well that she had to make both the Theocracy and the Empire understand just how powerful the Do Alliance was as an organization.
Vengeful Blood had originally thought she was the highest-ranked player in the guild with 2070 points. Yet Macchiato, who had been kicked from the team early on, had a score three hundred points higher than hers?
"2370... Guild Leader, I thought you'd already broken into the top ten. I haven't really been paying attention to the rankings."
Macchiato said this while showing her rank and match history to Vengeful Blood.
Vengeful Blood's expression twisted as she looked. Nearly every entry was marked Successful Extraction. It was basically one long win streak.
Macchiato had achieved a thirty-seven-match extraction streak, and even after one failed extraction, she imdiately followed it up with ten more successful runs.
And Vengeful Blood? Ever since reaching Champion tier, she had basically been alternating between wins and losses.
"How is this possible... How did you get such a long streak?" Vengeful Blood asked.
"Uh... because I feel like Champion matches aren't that intense. Everyone avoids fighting, so I just pick up so loot and extract." Macchiato, in turn, did not understand why her Guild Leader kept failing to extract.
Not that intense?
Then why did every match Vengeful Blood played feel like the grand finals of a world championship? High-level players were everywhere, and every fight was a brutal struggle to the end.
Were they even playing in the sa tier?
Moreover, ever since reaching Champion tier, the teammates Vengeful Blood had matched with in solo queue barely felt like real teammates.
There were laid-back casuals who had not even maxed out their character levels or skills.
There were fashion-first players who whaled for a character's Exclusive Weapon but refused to equip it because they thought it looked ugly.
There were also suspected boosted players who had done nothing but ride other people's montum to rank up, contributing almost nothing beyond acting cute.
Champion tier sounded prestigious, but in reality, it was full of every kind of oddball and deadweight imaginable.
Wait... oddballs.
Vengeful Blood seed to realize sothing and imdiately checked Macchiato's match history.
It turned out Macchiato's match ratings hovered between 5.0 and 7.0, aning she was exactly the kind of "oddball" Vengeful Blood had been getting matched with lately.
The difference was that Macchiato truly knew how to survive and escape. By relying entirely on looting and extraction points, she had surpassed Vengeful Blood, who had been struggling desperately to earn kill points.
"What kind of logic is this?"
Vengeful Blood initially thought Macchiato was an exception, but then she opened the Trial of Glory's top 100 leaderboard.
Rank one was Ryan from the Crimson Sigil Guild. She had to admit that Ryan's gaming instincts were sharp.
After playing his first match with his main Oath character, he realized the matchmaking was off and imdiately switched to Villager Mode to coast.
Now he stood at the top of the server with 2541 rank points, while his average match rating was only 7, and his total number of kills was only 12.
He took first place on the server with only twelve kills? anwhile, I grind myself into dust every day just to gain around seventeen points.
These people are casually strolling around the map, looting whatever they see, and they still gain points? How is that fair?
Vengeful Blood looked at the other players in the top ten, and five of them were capable Villager Players like Macchiato.
To Vengeful Blood, it was no wonder the Oath officials wanted to ban Villager Players. This really was practically cheating.
She then checked the Oath Online Forum, where everyone was discussing whether the Trial of Glory's matchmaking was broken and complaining about how easy it was for Villager Players to climb the rankings.
Finally, one reply set everyone off.
"The matchmaking is set by the Oath officials. Basically, it's veterans carrying beginners, strong players carrying weak players... so don't try too hard! Otherwise, you'll just beco a babysitter and free entertainnt for the casuals. Or just do what we do and beco a casual yourself. Since you're so good, what's wrong with carrying a little?"
Carl seed to see through Vengeful Blood's doubts and deliberately spoke to Macchiato.
"Miss Macchiato, let's head back and continue climbing. Didn't you say you wanted to try breaking into the top ten recently?"
Maybe... I can do it too? But is it too late?
This thought imdiately surfaced in Vengeful Blood's mind.
Previously, Vengeful Blood had looked down on Netherworld Village's Villager Mode and had no interest in experiencing it.
But now, Vengeful Blood looked at the anonymous alt profile feature unlocked beside her account interface.
It's just a scavenging mode. Taking a little ti for one quick trial run should not hurt.
(To be continued.)
◇ You can read the ahead chapter on Pat if you're interested: p-atreon.c-om/Blownleaves (Just remove the hyphen to access normally.)
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