Dead silence.
Whether it was the Nine Provinces forum, the Prison Rock forum, or even the major arena spaces, the instant the announcement marking the end of the recapture battle rang out, all of them fell into several seconds of dead silence.
There was no helping it. It had simply been too fast.
Forget the players.
Even the system's fixed procedure had gone wrong.
At first, it had wanted the players to spectate. In the end, it let every player spectate a whole lot of nothing. If this had happened in Lu Xiu's previous life, it would have counted as a major incident no matter how you looked at it.
Of course.
The system clearly did not think so. It simply played dead, released the announcement, and washed its hands of the matter.
Leaving only the players in complete disarray.
Very quickly, the Nine Provinces forum utterly exploded.
New posts refreshed so quickly that it was impossible to see them clearly.
[Holy shit!!!]
[Did I see that wrong? Or has the system gone insane? We won?! Lu Xiu actually won? How did she win?! And—an instant kill?]
[Case solved! The blackout just now wasn't because the system bugged out! It was probably because the battle ended too quickly—so quickly that the system's spectator view hadn't even had time to switch before the battle was already over!]
[Badass—then the only question left now is: how did Lu Xiu do it? She's only Sequence 2?!]
[That's a full 18 points of basic attributes between them! And that's not even counting the hidden differences. With such a huge sequence gap, the other side must have at least two more years of dungeon grinding than her, right?! Under those circumstances, she could still instant-kill him?]
[A player-made dungeon's verified clear counts as the first