novelraw Chapter 136 - 111: Testing Skills 4
Chapter 136 - 111: Testing Skills 4
He didn’t want his ranked journey to become a boring series of games where his opponents surrendered the moment they entered.
Lin Ye clicked "Match" again.
This time, his matched opponent was a female assassin wielding two daggers, who looked incredibly agile.
Rank: Silver III.
[Battle Start!]
This time, his opponent wasn’t scared into surrendering.
The instant the countdown ended, her figure flickered, transforming into an afterimage as she cut in from an extremely tricky angle toward Lin Ye’s rear flank.
She was fast—definitely an expert among ordinary prospective Martial Artists.
But to Lin Ye’s dynamic vision, her every move was like a slow-motion shot, slowed down tenfold.
Riddled with openings.
Lin Ye didn’t even move his feet.
He just flicked his wrist.
The black spear in his hand, though launched second, struck first.
The tip of the spear drew a perfectly straight black line through the air, precisely striking an inevitable point on the female assassin’s forward path.
POP.
A soft sound.
The female assassin’s figure froze mid-air, then dissolved into a shower of light particles.
[You have won the match!]
An instant kill.
Lin Ye retracted his spear, remaining silent.
He found that even with [Crush] turned off, the result wasn’t much different.
His current base stats were just too high.
So high they were completely beyond the comprehension of players at this rank.
Strength, agility, reaction speed...
A complete, all-around crush.
These people weren’t even qualified to be his training dummies.
Without giving it much more thought, Lin Ye queued for another match.
The third match: an instant kill.
The fourth match: an instant kill.
The fifth...
The sixth...
...
Over the next hour, Lin Ye’s ranked matches turned into a one-sided slaughter.
Not a single fight lasted longer than five seconds.
Not a single opponent could withstand more than one move from him.
Only two lines of text alternated endlessly on his screen.
[You have won the match!]
[Searching for your next match...]
His winning streak was accumulating at a terrifying rate.
「One hour later.」
[Congratulations! Your rank has been promoted to Gold IV!]
Lin Ye glanced at the time and continued with a blank expression.
Match, load, instant kill.
Tedious, but efficient.
「Two more hours passed.」
When Lin Ye once again sent a Platinum-ranked opponent flying with his spear, the system’s pleasant notification tone finally sounded again.
[Congratulations! Your rank has been promoted to Platinum I!]
Before he knew it, Lin Ye had reached the highest rank in the Prospective Martial Artist division of *Martial Arts Peak*.
He stopped matching and opened the leaderboards.
First, he looked at the main leaderboard for his server, [Prospective Martial Artist Division - Area 11451].
This list displayed the top 300 players on this server from all over the Great Xia.
Lin Ye’s ID—Goblin Soldier—was starkly displayed in fifth place.
Lin Ye switched the filter and opened the local leaderboard for his city, Dongjiang City.
This leaderboard was a more direct reflection of his standing among his peers.
Lin Ye remembered clearly that his name had previously been ranked below a thousand, completely unnoticed.
But now, his rank had shot up to twenty-first in the entire city.
Lin Ye’s gaze slowly drifted upward, toward the names at the very top of the list.
The top five players in Dongjiang City were all Platinum I, without exception.
This meant that the ranks in the Prospective Martial Artist division could no longer serve as an accurate measure of their strength.
The current rankings were more of a composite score based on their win rates, hidden MMR, and even their records in the higher-tier official Martial Artist divisions.
Lin Ye’s gaze finally settled on the ID at the very top of the list.
Blood Moon.
In the myths and legends of the Great Xia, Wang Shu was also a representative of the moon god.
’If I’m not mistaken, this "Blood Moon" must be Xue Wangshu himself.’
Lin Ye opened his match history.
Longest winning streak: 69 wins.
His last virtual competition in the Prospective Martial Artist division was two months ago.
Clearly, he could no longer find any worthy opponents in this division.
’Over three hours of tedious smurfing hadn’t been for nothing, after all.’
His current rank and hidden MMR were now high enough to be matched against opponents on the same level as the top geniuses in Dongjiang City.
In fact, because of his terrifying winning streak and nearly unbeatable win rate, the system, in an attempt to "balance" him, would now match him with opponents even stronger than those geniuses.
’This was exactly what he wanted.’
After confirming he was about to step into the true realm of genius-level battles, Lin Ye made a final micro-adjustment to his health distribution.
He reset the health ratio for P1 and P2 to 1,000 / 10,998.
All preparations were complete.
Lin Ye clicked the ranked match button once more.
As his rank and hidden MMR skyrocketed, the time it took to find a match became noticeably longer.
The seconds ticked by.
After more than three minutes, the "Match Found" notification finally chimed.
[Match Found!]
[Loading map: Suspended Arena]
Light and shadow shifted, and Lin Ye’s figure materialized on a circular platform constructed of pure white metal.
The platform floated above a sea of clouds, surrounded by an endless sky, offering an incredibly vast field of view.
And across from him, another figure, also holding a spear, slowly materialized.
[Platinum I] Goblin Soldier VS [Platinum I] DealWithIt!