Quadruple split.

Chapter 2246: The Mountain in the Past, the Road Today

  Game time PM13:41

Public Space, Tokiwa Meeting Room

"Oh my god! This is amazing!"

A'Du stared at the man on the screen with only one arm left. He looked a little embarrassed but still standing to the end, and exclaimed: "Boss guessed right! The foodie dad was directly wiped out by those kids, one against five! A super-god-like killing!"

The giant tree was also a little dazed, and it took a long time for him to utter a sound: "Ah?"

"As expected of the boss."

Agatha turned to look at Boss Sakaki with a satisfied look, and said helplessly, "Just now I thought that the foodie dad was bound to lose, but not only did he not give in, he even used it..."

"Inherent barrier."

The little thorn wolf crawling at Musashi's feet swallowed hard and said dryly: "I was eliminated by that kind of thing in the individual competition, but this dad's inherent barrier is completely different from Futaba's inherent barrier. That woman's inherent barrier is more like a skill, which is directly lethal, but the foodie dad's seems to be some kind of ability that can replace a small area of ​​space into another plane, which is more dangerous."

"That's Silver Mountain."

Boss Sakaki stared at the mountain at the feet of the foodie father in the frozen picture, and whispered, "It's a hidden map of the collection game [Battle of the Enchantments] that was popular all over the world nearly thirty years ago."

Musashi, who is only in his twenties, blinked and asked curiously, "Huh? What is that?"

"I have some impression of it."

Agatha, who was a few years older than Musashi, stroked her chin and recalled, "I remember that it was an open world game that focused on collecting 'served beasts' and fighting against them. It was also the first game that tried to transform from a computer to a virtual machine and achieved considerable success. In terms of map area, that game was even one-to-one with all the continents on Earth."

"Oh, I remember now!"

Jumu, who was about the same age as Agatha, slapped his head suddenly and said in sudden realization, "That game seems to have been popular for many years. Although it was not included in the e-sports circle from the beginning because it was different from mainstream online games, there were actually quite a few players, and several championships were held. Could it be that this foodie dad was the champion of one of them? That's why he left such a deep impression on the eldest brother?"

But Sakaki shook his head: "No, as far as I know, that foodie dad has never participated in any tournament."

Lorelai pushed up her glasses and asked with interest, "So he is..."

"The [Battle League Global Championship] has been held seven times in total."

Boss Sakaki stroked his ring and said calmly: "The champion of the first session is called Crystal, the head of the Grand Hall in the Holy City region and the overall champion of the Holy City region; the champion of the second session is called Green Fire Stone, the head of the Grand Hall in the Fengyuan region and the overall champion of the Fengyuan region; the champion of the third session is called Yaojin, the head of the Grand Hall in the Shen'ao region and the overall champion of the Shen'ao region; the champion of the fourth session is called Wuchang, the head of the Grand Hall in the Nuclear End region and the overall champion of the Nuclear End region; the champion of the fifth session is called Formula, the head of the Grand Hall in the Garo region and the overall champion of the Garo region; the champion of the sixth session is called Brea, the head of the Grand Hall in the Lula region and the overall champion of the Lula region; the champion of the seventh session is called Huojian, the head of the Grand Hall in the Guandu region and the overall champion of the Guandu region."

After hearing the last part, the confused little Thorn Wolf suddenly frowned and said hesitantly: "Wait a minute, I remember the Fire Sword seemed to be..."

"The character ID that the boss used a long time ago!"

Jumu clapped his hands suddenly and said in a shocking voice: "Boss, are you the champion of the last tournament of that game?"

"Yes, the age requirement for the tournament is 11 years old, and I was never old enough before that."

Boss Sakaki smiled, not without pride, and said, "Otherwise, the fifth and sixth championships would have been in my pocket."

Musashi immediately raised his right fist and shouted, "Boss, you are so domineering!"

Lorelai looked at Sakaki curiously, puzzled, "But Boss, although this news is indeed valuable, what does what you said have to do with a foodie dad who has never won a championship?"

“It’s somewhat related.”

Boss Sakaki looked up at the foodie dad on the screen and said calmly, "First of all, let me give you some basic knowledge. The so-called tournament in that game is actually the annual finals of the new regional hall championship. The person who wins the regional championship will become the champion of the tournament that year. During the time period outside of the annual tournament, although players can challenge those halls that can be seen everywhere, the champions of the large halls entrenched in the core of each region are almost impossible to challenge."

Agatha keenly caught the key word and immediately asked, "What do you mean by 'almost'?"

"What I mean is, if you want to challenge me, you can, but you have to meet two conditions. First, the champion player who can teleport back to the Daiyakukan from anywhere is online. This is easy to meet. After all, the players who can become champions are all fanatical fans. No matter how busy they are, they will be online for at least a few days every month. And then..."

Boss Sakaki paused for a moment and said in a deep voice: "In time challenges outside the final round of the tournament, the strength of the owner of the Daiyakan will be forcibly doubled by the system when facing the challenge."

A'Du was shocked: "Double it!?"

“Triple it.”

But Sakaki gave an answer that shocked everyone present, and then continued: "I won the title of Guandu Daiyakukan Gymnasium Master in the tournament that year, and automatically became the Guandu regional champion. I was challenged on the third day after the tournament ended."

The little Thorn Wolf who reacted the fastest widened his eyes: "Could it be..."

"His name is [Red]."

Sakaki turned his eyes away from the foodie dad on the screen, and put all his weight on the back of the chair, saying quietly, "When I first received the challenge application, I thought he was crazy, but after I experienced the pleasure of three times the intensity of the battle, I thought I was crazy again."

Jumu swallowed hard and looked at Sakaki in disbelief: "Boss, could it be that you..."

"I lost."

Boss Sakaki spread his hands and said in an inexplicably cheerful tone, "In a total of 167 rounds, the opponent defeated me with all six of his servitude beasts alive, or rather, my six servitude beasts with tripled stats. To be honest, I accepted the defeat wholeheartedly and I have no temper at all."

Musashi, who was already fully immersed in the story, moved his stool closer to Sakaki and asked curiously, "And then what?"

"Then, just when I was about to hand him my championship certificate, he left me a message saying 'Keep climbing to the top of the mountain' and left. Thirty days later, he never returned to the Daiyakukan, so I became the gym owner again without anyone knowing."

Sakaki didn't keep the secret and said straightforwardly: "Then, I received an invitation from a group called "The Loser Alliance"."

This time Lorelai reacted faster and asked, "Could it be that the champions of the previous six tournaments of that game are in there? Don't tell me they were defeated even after they got the triple boost from the system!"

"That's it."

Boss Sakaki nodded slightly. The person who created the group was Crystal, the champion of the first tournament. The group had one more member added every year. I was the seventh. The common point among all of us was that after winning the championship, we were challenged by that [Red] and suffered a crushing defeat.

A'Du frowned and asked, "How did Crystal know that the other champions were defeated?" "After he was defeated by Red, he searched for him for a year, but found nothing."

Sakaki took a sip of the soda water he had just bought from the system mall and said slowly, "So in the third year, he suddenly came up with an idea, which was to try to challenge the leader of the Daiyakukan half a month after the tournament ended. In the end, he found out that the third champion Yao Jin was in the Daiyakukan, but the system prompted that he was not online or not in the Daiyakukan, so he concluded that he had also been beaten."

A'Du laughed and asked, "So he started to go to that gym every year after the tournament and when he found out that the gym owner had changed, he would add people as a friend and invite them in?"

"That's what it is."

Sakaki nodded slightly and continued to explain: "In short, in the end, we so-called champions got together, and the topic of discussion was naturally only one thing, that is, to find that Red and defeat him."

Musashi asked with shining eyes: "Did you and your friends find it in the end?"

"No."

Sakaki shook his head, and then continued: "But in the winter of the same year, Aka took the initiative to contact us and said that he felt that the life of this game might have come to an end, so he wanted to compete with a few of us one last time, and then... gave us an address."

The little thorn wolf blinked and asked curiously, "Where is it? Is it mysterious?"

"It's not really mysterious, but..."

Boss Sakaki thought for a moment and explained in a relatively easy-to-understand way: "It's just like the relationship between the seven mid-level players and the ember volcano in the [Realm of Innocence]."

The giant tree whose birthplace happened to be in the southwest was immediately shocked and said in amazement: "Isn't that just going to die? An intermediate level person would be roasted to death if he stayed there for half a day. If he encounters a living fire element or a lava puppet, he will definitely die."

"Yes."

Sakaki looked at the giant tree calmly and said in an even calmer tone: "The Silver Mountain located in the far north of that game is similar to the Embers Volcano in the eyes of the mid-level players in [Boundary of Innocence] to us seven champions. To other players, it is just a hidden map like a background board."

"No, why?"

A'Du scratched his head in confusion and said, "Why does a place like that exist? You should be T0 players in that game!"

"so what?"

Boss Sakaki glanced at Adu and asked, "Could it be that when [Realm of Innocence] was first launched and all players were at a low level, maps full of dangers such as Embers Volcano and Dragon's End no longer existed?"

A'Du: "..."

The other four heavenly kings: “…”

Shinmen Musashi no Kami Fujiwara no Genshin: "..."

"In short, we have no reason to reject the man named Red. As for the price of dying on Silver Mountain, it is only that all the beasts will be weakened for 12 hours. Compared with the death penalty of the Innocence Realm, which is equivalent to direct account deletion, it is simply not worth mentioning."

Boss Sakaki lowered his eyes and spoke to himself, "Later, we lost four people while climbing Silver Mountain. When Wuchang, Shuijing, and I finally reached the top of the mountain with each other's support, we found that..."

Agatha clenched her hands nervously: "What did you find?"

"Those truly powerful Overlord-class beasts all crawled obediently at the feet of that man, and what stood between him and us was the previous owner of the insurmountable mountain, the phantom beast that was only mentioned sporadically in some background stories."

Boss Sakaki closed his eyes and was silent for a long while before shaking his head and saying, "After that, Akabane disappeared along with [Yakusen], and I came to Tokiwa's youth training camp a few years later, choosing to focus on summoning professions, trying to use this as a springboard to become a professional player qualified to stand against that person."

As soon as these words were spoken, the Four Heavenly Kings and Musashi looked at each other in bewilderment. The main reason was that the 'professional players' that Sakaki mentioned were definitely not the ones who were in charge at a place like Tokiwa Studios and had to lead everyone to earn gold, materials, equipment and even do power training most of the time. The game department of Tokiwa Studios, which almost only followed the lead of boss Sakaki at this moment, was definitely not his ideal at the time.

"I can see that you are very curious."

After a brief silence, Sakaki opened his eyes again, a faint smile on his lips: "Do you want to know why I chose to stay here?"

"miss you!"

Musashi was the first to raise his right hand high.

"On the one hand, it was because I had some feelings and responsibilities towards our studio, and gradually I identified with [Tokiwa], and I wanted to make [Tokiwa] famous."

Boss Sakaki looked up at the simple yet heavy Tokiwa logo on the ceiling and said calmly, "On the other hand, I have seen my own limits, which are only as high as Lusail's."

A'Du pulled the corner of his mouth and laughed dryly: "Old Master Lu is very powerful."

"It's OK, but with his limit, he can't see the back of 'Red'."

Boss Sakaki said calmly, then shook his head and said, "Of course, this is no longer important. After all, the 'Red' I know is old. He didn't choose this path, and now he can't even beat me."

"Ah? But that inherent barrier..."

"The inherent barrier is not invincible. You saw that those children appeared directly on the top of the mountain that was level with Red. If it were me now, hey, I'm afraid that after I deployed the inherent barrier, he would appear at the foot of the mountain."

"……what?"

"That's enough for this topic. Get ready."

Boss Sakaki did not intend to endlessly satisfy his companions' curiosity. He simply stood up and gave the five people a very familiar, cold, stern look like a rock: "The power of the Wind-Breaking Bird is beyond doubt. Let's treat this as our last dance in this [Battle of Guilt] and do our best without any regrets."

  "Yes, Boss!"*5

……

  Game time PM14:25

In the first round of the quarterfinals of the [Guilt Discussion Battle·Team Battle], [Tokiwa], under the leadership of the boss Sakaki, fought tenaciously against [Windbreaker] for a full thirty minutes. In the end, after defeating both Shion and vice-captain Fang Shi, both of them were killed, and [Windbreaker] advanced to the quarterfinals.

Chapter 2237: End