The Boss's swordsmanship changed in a thousand ways yet returned to the utmost simplicity. Its movements stayed within a hair's breadth, without any dazzling, chaotic flights across the arena. It merely seemed to pace back and forth elegantly, yet it toyed with every high-level player like fools.
In just a short time, more than seventy players had been killed three times each by the Boss. The difficulty of the World Boss shocked the entire world. Players in the livestream chat howled that the Boss had been designed far too hard, completely unbalanced and utterly unreasonable.
But the High-level Players themselves did not see it that way.
"Wonderful, wonderful, truly wonderful!!!" In another distant factory, within an utterly ordinary vat, a brain entered a state of excitement beyond its limits.
He was the world's second-ranked esports player, known online as Hua Xian.
He was a martial arts fanatic, born with an intense interest in arts of power.
In his world, all knowledge was there for the taking, and every kind of martial art was no exception. Interest was the best teacher. He immersed himself in learning every martial art, then discovered that his talent seemed rather good as well. So he absorbed everything into one whole, brought forth the new from the old, forged his own path, and became the world's second-best esports expert.
Above him stood Dark Abyss.
But he refused to accept Dark Abyss.
He believed Dark Abyss surpassed him through extraordinary talent and reaction speeds beyond human limits, not through a love for Martial Arts.
He and Dark Abyss were friends offline as well. He understood him too well. What Dark Abyss truly loved was not the supreme martial techniques within games, but tilling the fields and blending into the dust with the world.
Perhaps that was another