Quadruple split.

Chapter 2837 Blood Dance

I'm a little tired...

Amidst the unpleasant commotion, Xue Ran, usually the noisiest of all, frowned.

It smells a bit...

Amidst the nauseating stench, the girl, who was usually able to adapt to any environment, curled her lip in disgust.

It hurts a little...

Covering the newly added wound on the outside of her arm, the cat-eared girl, who feared nothing except yoga and gymnastics, twitched her ears.

Three hundred and seventy-five... or was it three hundred and fifty-seven?

Shaking his head wearily, the up-and-coming professional gamer, who always maintained a beast-like alertness and clarity and could make countless correct judgments based solely on instinct and intuition, sighed.

Is nobody coming to help?

Wielding the increasingly heavy [Blood Howl], Bloodstained, who had never thought of relying on anyone, including his teammates, was now overwhelmed by exhaustion. Or rather, he had never been particularly motivated to fight to begin with; he simply wanted to do something to distract himself. His gaze was somewhat dazed.

A sense of déjà vu that made her very uncomfortable was quietly taking root and sprouting.

The current situation is gradually overlapping with the "Debate on Guilt - Group Battle" with the "Breaking Wind Bird" club. Although the time, place, mission, and purpose are completely different, a feeling called "helplessness" is spreading, and Xue Ran suddenly feels a little sore.

A strange and disgusting sense of grievance, which I had almost never experienced before, suddenly welled up in my heart at this moment.

As a girl who grew up in a warm family, she was a little too willful because she was pampered.

As a highly talented prodigy who, at a young age, has already become a key player in the rotation of the [Red Constellation] team.

As a clever and quick-witted lazy person, I can get rewards even if I'm not serious, attentive, or hardworking, and I'm always tolerated.

Despite being willful, playful, and unreasonable, he still has a group of the best friends and is always well protected.

Bloodstained has never felt so wronged.

She has experienced defeat before, whether as a key player in the club's reserve team or as a rotation player in the main team.

But the girl didn't think it was scary. On the contrary, those enemies that she couldn't defeat no matter how hard she tried would become the motivation for her to keep moving forward, making the lazy cat who liked to work hard for three days and rest for two days work harder and rest less.

Bloodstained didn't actually have any ambitions, so even though she stood out from her peers since childhood and suddenly became 'ordinary' after becoming a professional gamer, and met many people who were no less talented than herself or even more talented, she never got discouraged.

After all, she wasn't competitive or ambitious.

She was just playful, at most a little more playful and mischievous than the average girl.

As older brothers and sisters like Jiuchong, Hanmei, Yinyue, Xinglong, and Xianfeng know, Xueran is actually a pretty ordinary child. At least in terms of personality, she is actually quite ordinary despite her seemingly 'unique' personality.

However, this ordinary child, because he was so well protected, has almost never experienced the grievances of being 'ordinary'.

Even though she lost to the relatively unknown Zhou Lan in the previous "Debate on Guilt," she didn't dwell on it much, nor did she care about the online ridicule. She simply told Xinglong to practice more so that she could beat him next time.

But that team battle against the [Windbreaker] was different.

After numerous analyses by professionals, it was almost universally agreed that the probability of the Crimson Constellation winning the match was '80% to 90%'. The reason for this was simply that their captain, Xinglong, was too strong.

Putting aside the question mark guy and the anonymous person in the individual overall rankings for Cordoba, at least in the team battles, the presence of Xinglong is a devastating blow to other teams. Some people have even said that if [Red Constellation] had won that match, the story might have gone in a completely different direction, and [Haunted Church] might not have become the overall champion of the team competition.

Unfortunately, without the interference of 'karma', there is no 'what if' in any world.

The Red Constellation lost, losing the game in an almost humiliating manner.

Aside from a few extremists, almost no one felt that the victory of the "Windbreaker Bird" who ultimately triumphed through hide-and-seek was unfair. In fact, whether it was Lucel and Fangshi as captain and vice-captain, or Youming, Xizhao, and Lingjie who fought alongside them, they all gave it their all. In particular, Lingjie, who was said to be in poor health, was even sent to the hospital after the match.

Anyone could see that everyone in the [Breaking Wind Bird] team had given their all, fighting with everything they could and revealing every trump card they had.

In the post-match internal analysis, Jiuzhong directly took the blame for most of the responsibility, believing that [Broken Wind Bird] had probably been studying them since the official announcement of [Inquiry and Debate]. After the match started, they were constantly formulating, revising, and adjusting their tactics and strategies. Lucer, on the other hand, showed weakness to the enemy. Despite being the first professional player to develop a domain, he deliberately hid his things the whole time when he encountered Xinglong, allowing himself to be criticized by the public on various social media platforms.

And their efforts ultimately earned them a well-deserved victory.

"I'm sorry, if I had thought more carefully, I might not have made things so difficult for everyone."

That night, after Luo Ou left, Jiu Chong bowed to all her teammates and apologized, her eyes red with tears as she spoke.

"sorry."

Xinglong bowed a second time to apologize and said softly, "Next time, I will adjust my mindset and stop thinking about leading you to victory. Instead, I will win with you."

"sorry."

After Luo Ou left, Han Mei, who had been crying, sniffed and angrily slapped herself: "I never beat a sorcerer, damn it, I clearly had a chance."

"sorry."

The gentleman sighed, unusually refraining from his usual passionate shouting, and simply shook his head, saying, "I'm sorry it was exchanged for the opponent's sacrifice."

"sorry."

Pioneer covered his face and said with a wry smile, "I have nothing to say. We are clearly stronger than Xizhao, but we managed to drag her down until the alchemists came to our aid."

Yinyue and Hanguang remained silent, as they had not made it into the main selection. They simply responded to everyone with silence and unwavering gazes.

Bloodstained, who participated in the competition with the other four, didn't say anything at the time. He simply waved casually after everyone had finished speaking, turned around, left the meeting room, and logged off.

That night, the girl, who knew she could have performed even better, shed tears for the first time because she lost the game, and cried for the entire first half of the night.

Xue Ran knew that her strength was not as good as You Ming's. Even if she was in good condition and had not been tricked, her chances of winning were far less than Han Mei's chances of defeating Fang Shi and the Gentleman's chances of defeating Ling Jie. So if she started to feel sorry for herself, both Han Mei and the Gentleman would be very embarrassed.

But Xue Ran was unwilling to accept it. Even she herself didn't know why she, who had ruined good situations in the past due to various mistakes, felt so aggrieved and unwilling this time.

Even so, the next day Xue Ran was still full of energy and had a carefree, smiling face. Even Jiu Chong didn't notice what she had been suppressing in her heart. Of course, Jiu Chong knew that Xue Ran was very unwilling, but others also had the same negative emotions, which was why she didn't notice the latter's mental problem.

Ultimately, it was the Cleaner who astutely recognized the problem and directly requested that Bloodstained come over, thus leading to the formation of the "Red Constellation" team, composed of veterans, new core members, and reserves.

And now, at just the right moment, the Cleaner didn't hesitate at all and gave Bloodstained a hard shove.

This push could send her plummeting off a cliff to her death, or it could allow her to break free from her constraints and be reborn.

However, the probability of these two outcomes is not evenly matched. After all, for a cleaner who has fully realized his own speculative level, a probability of less than 70% can be directly judged as a loss.

In other words—

"really."

Bloodstained staggered slightly, then shook his head gently and muttered, "Being afraid of being tired, afraid of pain, afraid of the smell, etc., is all fake. I just want to give up a little."

"kill!"

Seeing that Bloodstained was unsteady on her feet, a boarman bravely threw his round shield, which struck her hard between the eyebrows. Then, as she leaned back due to inertia, he strode forward and thrust his short spear into her ribs, trying to pin her to the ground.

"really……"

Twisting his body at an incredible angle, he deftly dodged the spear while flipping sideways in mid-air. With his body slightly arched, he blinked his eyes, which had somehow turned into vertical pupils, and regained his smile. He deftly raised [Blood Howl], 'grazing' a wound on the opponent's neck that was neither deep nor shallow, just enough to be fatal. He said softly, "I knew something was wrong."

Bah!
The boar warrior's heavy body collapsed, but more boar warriors surrounded him. After all, even without Kaku's reminder, everyone could see that Bloodstained was at his last gasp, so their fighting spirit soared to unprecedented heights.

Then, within three seconds, the girl mass-produced no fewer than ten wounds similar to the previous one—not too deep, not too shallow, just enough to be fatal—causing the surrounding boar-men to collapse to the ground, clutching their necks like flowers in bloom.

"really……"

Bloodstained looked down at the still heavy Blood Howl in his hand, which he now had countless ways to make move at will. His smile grew even more arrogant: "The reason I've always felt uncomfortable isn't because of those random reasons, but because besides being unable to defeat it even with all my strength... I still have the 'possibility' of easily defeating Netherworld."

Having said that, Bloodstained slammed the giant blade in his hand into the ground, then nimbly jumped onto the hilt, grinning as he looked around at the boar-men, a relaxed and cheerful smile on his lips.

The wind swept across her bright red hair, and she swept away the fallen leaves within it.

Gentle, silent, elegant, deadly.

Having perfectly integrated these traits that contradicted her own personality into her very being, the girl crouched on the wild and mad giant blade, released her slender hand, and let the fallen leaves drift to the ground.

Then, the leaf fell to the ground.

The three boar-men also fell to the ground at the same time, each with a perfectly placed wound on their chest.

It's neither deep nor shallow.

More than ten spears arrived one after another, but the girl nimbly flipped to the other side of the giant blade, and with a light flick of her index finger, she hooked up [Blood Howl] with the help of the spears, and flung it in front of her.

The powerful and fierce soldier flew out, but because it cut a boar-man's body in two on the way, it only flew less than two meters before falling to the ground.

Bloodstained, whose movements were even faster after losing his weapon than when his stamina was full, had already nimbly run to a position half a meter in front of the landing point of [Blood Howl], placed his arm next to the blade, and gently added force to his weapon with the momentum, completing a light and graceful over-the-shoulder throw.

The giant blade she swung from her shoulder to her front cleaved another enemy in two, but the resistance prevented it from sinking into the ground.

With a kick of his toes, he raised the blade of [Blood Howl], his hands clasped together in blood, and gently pushed it out, piercing through a boarman who was standing at the perfect angle.

Then she raised her other foot and kicked the blade handle, forcing the boarman who had been stabbed through to spin ninety degrees on the spot and embed himself in the chest of another boarman.

The girl danced gracefully, but at its core was not high art, but the instinct to hunt.

After all, top predators are incredibly frugal, wanting to conserve every bit of energy while maximizing their gains.

Thus, hunting became an art.

Flowing like clouds and water, pleasing to the eye.

Her prey, or her dance partners, died one after another in these drifting clouds and fell into this flowing water.

……

"ended."

The cleaner casually stubbed out his cigarette and turned to the sorcerer, saying lazily, "When those bastards are defeated, don't forget to make arrangements on how to catch up and silence them."

"This is……"

The sorcerer stared blankly at the bloody storm that was unfolding, a sight that was still pleasing to the eye, a smile always playing on his lips. He asked in bewilderment, "What's going on?"

"It's just that a kid who likes to daydream suddenly realized he should be more serious."

The cleaner shrugged and spread his hands, saying, "The essence of laissez-faire education lies in making the students aware of who they are and understand what kind of person they want to become."

"I don't understand."

“You don’t need to understand, because you’ve always known who you are and who you want to be. As for that silly girl, if we don’t give her a push, who knows when she’ll ever wake up from her daze.”

"I feel like you've done something incredible."

"Not at all, if you hadn't bullied us so badly in the [Questioning and Debating], she wouldn't have gotten to this point so quickly."

"I'm starting to regret it."

"Regretting beating us?"

"I regret not ignoring you and going to help you directly."

Chapter 2828: The End