Guild Boss's Ambition

There was a bang.

My tower shield and her battle axe both fell to the ground.

As a result, the battle entered a faster pace.

"Is this your tactic?"

"Unfortunately, this is also my strategy."

After losing her long-handled battle axe, the knight girl immediately drew the sword at her waist and launched an impenetrable attack on me with her swift sword skills. However, although the rhythm of the battle has been dominated by her excellent tactics, I am better in terms of grand strategy. Even though her sword skills are also excellent, she is still at a disadvantage compared to my skilled cross sword.

Gah

There is no need for too many fancy moves. Just a shout and a decisive sword strike are enough for me to raise the banner of counterattack.

boom!

My sword chopped down heavily, and in a critical moment, she rolled and crawled to avoid this powerful sword.

The momentum is back on my side.

Observe──See the moves──Counter them──Use them──Crush them

The situation has come to the final step of the strategy.

"It seems that she has no other cards?"

"It's time to wrap up."

After determining that I had an overwhelming advantage in combat power, I immediately launched a relentless pursuit of the Guild President. At this moment, I already had the ability to instantly cast a Holy Shield, and with the hardness of her standard long sword, there was no way she could penetrate my Holy Shield. This also meant that I could use the Holy Shield to exchange damage with her without any loss.

Because she understood the situation well, the president did not act rashly and just defended without attacking.

The continuous attacks from the knight girl just now have greatly depleted her physical strength. Perhaps if I attack her a few more times, she will make some mistakes, allowing me to completely conquer her.

"Hmm?"

Just when the situation was about to be settled, the knight girl launched a final counterattack.

She made a feint to attack to the left.

However, with the Holy Shield, there was no need for me to pay attention to her action. I could continue to attack her center and trade injuries with her. I only needed to hit her once and my greatsword would trigger the life protection mechanism of the fighting arena.

But at this moment, she took a step back.

With a bang, my sword landed in front of her toes.

"Oh no."

I cried out in my heart that something was wrong, and the knight lady took the opportunity to come forward and swung her sword at my face.

[Holy Shield]

Soldier!

The holy shield and the standard long sword collided violently in mid-air, creating fiery fireworks!

when!

Then, a sudden sound came from between the sword and the shield.

It turned out that the knight girl's standard long sword could not withstand the force of the collision and broke into two at this critical moment!

However, even though the sword broke, the knight girl still did not give up. While my cross sword had not yet recovered, she hooked up two fingers with sharp nails, leaned to my left side and stabbed two fingers into my eyes.

"No! This is also a feint!"

While dodging, I sensitively noticed that her steps were slightly reserved, so I also secretly concealed a third of my strength in my own feet.

It happened in a split second. My prediction was right. She had only launched half of her attack when she changed direction from the left to the right. At this time, my sword had already returned to the camp. Relying on the broad blade, I completely protected my front. No matter how sharp her two slender fingers were, they could not penetrate the genuine steel of the sword.

"Hmm? Wait! This is!"

The second change of direction

Because I used the sword to protect my eyes, I lost sight of the knight girl's steps for a moment. At the same time, the knight girl changed direction for the second time, and her right hand no longer maintained the scissors hand attacking her eyes, but turned into a solid hand knife. There was no doubt that her target was my neck!

She wanted to knock me out!

"I won't let you succeed!"

I screamed in my heart, but the feeling of having my feet nailed to my feet enveloped my whole body again. I knew that this was because my body was not used to making such frequent displacements and changes in such a short period of time. My heart and strength were torn into two parts by the knight girl's two changes of direction. But at this moment, I felt an unpleasant touch on my heel -

"Tripped?"

As I stepped back, I didn't raise my heel high enough and I tripped on the ground in the fighting arena.

Then, I fell backwards on the ground in shock.

The knight girl also jumped into the air with all her strength, and punched my breastplate from above with all her strength!

There was a sound.

We decided the winner.

I won.

The president screamed.

"Woooaaaa! I'd have to be crazy to smash my fist into your armor!"

"If you aim a little better, you might win."

"Come on, who would have thought that you would fall down by yourself? I haven't done any training for such a scenario!"

"In fact, I was knocked down by you."

"Never mind the swaying or not, I think we should go find a priest to look at my hand while there are still people upstairs."

"Okay, I'll go with you."

It was not difficult to understand. If a person punched a piece of composite steel plate with his bare hands with the force of splitting mountains and rocks, he would of course bear all the reaction force himself. The knight girl's fists and wrists were just mortal flesh and blood. Under the impact force of over a thousand pounds, even if she was wearing gauntlets, she would still not escape the fate of dislocation.

but……

In these few short months, Miss President has made a lot of progress, especially the amazing skills she used to knock me to the ground unconsciously just now. If used properly, I believe that in the future, no matter how strong the shield she encounters, she will be able to play with her opponent with these deadly footsteps and become a unique axe knight.

After this battle, I was also inspired by her broken standard sword.

Maybe I can try to refine this idea before the midwinter competition begins.

……

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4. Midwinter Competition (Little Blue)

(Ulu-Lannon)

Midwinter athletics.

This is a well-known term and one of the characteristics of Mopolis. At this time of year, many foreign travelers will come to our famous border city to watch the competition performance of a group of powerful adventurers. This competition is also the biggest bet of the entire Bright Alliance in December every year.

By the way, yesterday, which was the day before the Midwinter Competition officially started, the odds of betting that our Stone House could get the first place in the team competition were 1:2000, while the odds of the neighboring Tree of Life successfully defending the championship were the hot favorite 1:1.15. From this data, we can clearly see how pessimistic the public is about the strength of our Stone House.

As the saying goes, nothing can change without departing from its roots.

Just like on Earth, there are horse guides for horse racing, and wave guides for football and basketball. Our city's midwinter competition has also published several adventurer lists. The content of these books is not much, but some experts and famous speakers are invited to talk about which player is in better shape this year, and which team has a higher chance of qualifying. This will allow gamblers and spectators to gain a little more understanding of the game before it starts, so that everyone will not be a complete outsider watching the fun, and it will slightly improve people's average quality of appreciating sports. Let's take a look at the ins and outs of the arena.

As a complete layman, I also bought a copy of the Midwinter Competitive Guide compiled by Ziegland Publishing.

"By the way, isn't Ziegland the publisher of a gourmet magazine?"

"Why is it suddenly related to the Midwinter Games?"

"Forget it, forget it. I've already bought it anyway, and it's just a casual book, so there's no need to worry too much about it."

Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle.

This statement is as corny as it can be, yet it is the absolute truth. From the time I traveled to this strange world that seems like a game world, I have experienced many special events, big and small, such as the White Nights, the Marching Wolves, the disappearance of Gu Shan, and even now, sitting together with everyone in the Stone House in this winter competition venue - all this seems to have happened in the blink of an eye.

Fifty years of human life, compared with the eternity of heaven and earth, is like a dream and an illusion...

The most practical one is Kalolo’s red bean bun.

I was chewing a red bean bun while looking through the competition guide with the lady next to me, the president.

"Meng Yizi, have our vegetable greens produced thousands of knots and produced mud and wood oil? (Sister Meng'er, have the results of our race draw come out?)"

"You, swallow the bread first, please? You're like a little kid."

I swallowed the red bean bun and said with a sly smile, "What do you mean by like a child? I am a child now!"

She glanced at me mischievously and said, "Xiao Lan, Xiao Lan, your moral integrity is almost gone."

What does it mean that it’s almost all gone?

This boring thing called moral integrity has been sucked into the black hole ever since I put on the poster girl uniform, okay?

At that moment, I resolutely ignored the president's complaints and reiterated my question: "Sister Meng'er, I'm telling you, when will the draw result for the Stone House tournament be announced? Yesterday, I spent a whole month's salary to buy a ticket for Bai Ye and the others to be eliminated in the first round. If they had drawn the seven major guilds at the beginning, then this month's salary would have hopefully become two months' salary!"

"How can anyone be like you, secretly blackmailing your own guild's team..."

"What does it mean to blackmail your own guild's team?"

I pretended to be indignant and defended myself: "I bet with the mentality that if they really lost in the first round, then our guild's losses can be relatively reduced! From an economic point of view, this is called diversification of investments! And Bai Ye also bet on her own elimination. Do you think I should bet with her?"

"Hey, hey, hey, you said that as a contestant, she went to place the bets herself?" the president asked nervously.

"Of course not. The one who placed the bet for her was the goddess of the fashion store," I recalled.

"Bai Ye is planning to have a fake match?"

"No, she promised me that she would try her best, but she would definitely be eliminated in the first round."

Hearing this, Meng'er stroked his chin and fell into deep thought. He said, "But with Raftan and her level, it shouldn't be easy for other teams to beat them except for the seven major guilds, right? Hmm? Wait! Are you saying that Bai Ye is planning to cheat when drawing lots so that we will draw the seven major guilds in the first game?"

In fact, I don’t know Bai Ye’s plan either.

I answered truthfully: "Bai Ye didn't tell me the details, but I guess she also planned this way."

Meng Er angrily scolded: "She is cheating like this."

I laughed and said, "But is cheating in an underground casino really considered cheating?"

"So it's an underground casino - that's right! They are all in the same nest, and at best it can only be considered a case of thieves robbing thieves."

Meng'er didn't seem to have a good impression of underground casinos. She showed a gloating smile, then looked at the competition guide, pointed at one of the forms and said, "Hmm? The number of teams in this year's competition is much larger than in previous years. There are a total of 150 teams here. If each team plays for ten minutes, they will have to play for at least ten hours before we can see the championship game."

Ten hours?!

Thinking about sitting here and watching them fight from morning till night, I felt a sharp pain in my butt.

Sitting for a long time can easily cause hemorrhoids, and nine out of ten men and ten out of ten women have hemorrhoids. To avoid hemorrhoids, we must avoid sitting or standing for long periods of time, do pelvic floor exercises frequently, and regular physical exercise is also the key among the keys!

It’s a pity that as someone aiming to be a task appraiser, how could I miss such a valuable reference opportunity as the Midwinter Competition?

No matter how long the race is, I have no choice but to fight!

"Anyway, there are only two kinds of people in this world, those who already have hemorrhoids, and those who will develop hemorrhoids. Even if I get this unspeakable occupational disease because of my work, I'm just slightly advancing the course of my life! Besides, as a mysterious fairy, as a cute lolita, how could moles and hemorrhoids happen to me!"

Just as I was thinking about things that a normal girl would not think about, Bai Ye, who had disappeared for the whole morning, suddenly appeared.

As soon as she showed up, she brought me good news: "I just went to draw lots, and our opponent in the first round is Team Life Tree B."

Although her tone was extremely calm, the news she delivered to us was undoubtedly the most devastating news.

But because I had already given Meng'er psychological counseling in advance, her reaction was not that strong. She just covered her head in pain and reminded and warned: "Bai Ye, you know what you have done. And what we in the Stone House pursue is not the so-called victory. Even if the opponent is the Tree of Life, you have to give me some face."

"Don't worry, I've already thought of several good ways to help you achieve the best of both worlds."

Facing the gloomy face of the young lady president, our necromancer threw her a wink in a very charming way.

Bah!

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Seeing this, Meng'er punched Bai Ye directly in the face, but the latter was prepared and blocked her punch.

"I'm sorry, there was a mosquito and I didn't hit it." The president's daughter said calmly.

"There are more and more mosquitoes in our city of Mopolis in winter recently──" the necromancer smiled brightly.

We were all used to this kind of confrontation between Bai Ye and the president, so I just let them argue with each other while I looked up the competition guide and found the page with the list of adventurers in Group B of the Tree of Life.