September is a delicate season.

She was like a graceful girl who was about to change into a dress called autumn; The afterglow of midsummer is the last strand of light yarn tied around her waist, and the pressure of school and the haze of quarterly reports are like a pair of safety pants under the light veil.

Well, let's get down to business......

This September of 2055 undoubtedly belongs to a thriller paradise. After the preliminaries of the Pinnacle S2 began, Dream Company took the opportunity to launch a set of corresponding publicity plans to hype up this competition. In just a few days, all kinds of news related to it have been spread in all the media, and even many mainstream media outlets who are dismissive of the game industry have reported on the matter, and its social attention can be said to be unparalleled.

In the gaming circle, this game has become the most eye-catching focus battle in recent years.

The time point of the five-month service launch, the form of team battles, and the ranking method of the point system...... It is not difficult to see that this preliminaries system has a faint meaning of "testing the quality of the studio".

If the final ranking of S1 is unconvincing due to too many unpredictable factors in the finals, this S2 ...... At least in the preliminaries, there are no excuses for the teams.

In fact, most game studios have reached a consensus - the results of the preliminary round of Pinnacle S2 are likely to determine the true power ranking of each studio in the minds of the majority of players.

Therefore, for those well-known game studios, from the moment of midnight on September 5, a fifty-day dark war has begun......

Every day, the points they publish on their official website are an important cornerstone of victory.

And for those professional gamers who are regarded as "stars", it is also a protracted trial.

The outcome of each round, the course of each team fight, and even every point of survival lost in every duel...... All of them have the potential to have an impact on the team's preliminaries standings.

From the perspective of a casual team, 36 games is just 36 wins and losses, and theoretically, 108 points is the best result.

But from the point of view of a professional powerhouse...... A score of 108 is just a "pass". "All wins" is a must, as a team that wants to compete for the championship, in the preliminaries of the big waves and sands, you didn't even get a full victory, so what confidence do you have to win all the way in the knockout round?

On the basis of winning all, they also have to ensure that every game is won in the least cost and in the most efficient way as much as possible...... Only the team that achieves this to the extreme will be able to reach the top of the preliminary standings.

To put it simply, teams that are looking for a preliminary ranking will have to take every game and moment seriously and not miss out on every one of the thirty-six valid points matches. It's impossible for them to play with the attitude of "it's good to win in the end" like casual players, who are destined to pay more than the average player because ...... That's what makes it a "profession".

"Playing games with a salary" is never so easy as it seems; To be fair, it's more stressful than doing something else with a salary. Although the times are advancing, the stereotypes in people's hearts still exist...... No one would say that a footballer is "playing football with a salary", and no one would say that a swimmer is "playing with a salary", but the "professional gamer" industry is always judged by people wearing colored glasses.

In fact, there is no essential difference between a professional gamer and a professional athlete, both require talent, hard work and a little luck, as well as experience, skill, resilience and professionalism. The biggest difference between them is that one side uses physical equipment or venues as a competitive tool, while the other side uses a virtual electronic program as a competitive carrier. It would be obviously unfair to look at the latter carrier differently simply because it has a greater tendency to entertain than to exercise the physical or mental power of the participants.

This time, Dream Company paid attention to this when promoting Summit S2 to the general public outside the gaming circle. One of their advertising slogans was "I don't understand why anyone can support themselves by playing games?" Let's take a look at what makes them so special. ”

As soon as such a slogan came out, not to mention the group of players who were involved in games, even people who knew nothing about the game industry or had never been in contact with thriller parks became interested in this "pinnacle competition".

And this qiē...... It's all the foreshadowing that Dream Company made for the "live broadcast" in the second half of the preliminaries.

By the end of September, when this kind of hunger marketing of "only hearing the news, not seeing the shadow" mobilized people's curiosity, Dream Company took the opportunity to release a message - "Three days later, a public tender will be held for the live broadcast rights in the second half of the preliminaries." ”

This hand not only allowed them to recover all the previous publicity costs, but also made a lot of money......

Of course, that's all for later, and at least until September 20, no one knows that the later matches in the preliminaries will be livestreamed. At the moment, most players are still focusing on how to play their game well.

Almost no one noticed...... At the beginning of this 50-day preliminaries cycle, Ragnarok begins...... The truth has been quietly revealed.

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The main universe, the frontier of the scorched earth of chaos.

At the edge of this void, there stands a huge door—the Gate of Nothingness.

...... year The battle between gods and demons was earth-shattering. In the end, the god of the gods used all his divine power to seal the demon into the door with a lifeform with the dual characteristics of gods and demons as a sealing hub.

After countless years...... The Ancient Demon Guardian managed to escape from the seal by absorbing the demon-fighting qi oozing from the door, and was nowhere to be found.

Fortunately, the seal of the gods is indestructible, and even after losing the "wedge", it still persists for a long time.

Correct...... Today is the end of these days.

Kerakala ......

After a dull crumbling sound, the pitch-black door shattered to pieces.

In an instant, an unbelievably dense Ultimate Demonic Qi swept out of the door.

Then, heavy footsteps came from the door......

Bang, bang, bang......

A colossal shadow walked unhurriedly out of the door, and with each step it took, the whole earth shuddered.

But...... Just as it was about to reach the door, just one step away, it stopped.

"Huh?" It muttered to itself, "Am I staying in 'nothing' too long...... Or is there something strange happening in this universe......"

As he spoke, it raised a hand (front paw) and extended it out the door. Outcome...... In less than two seconds, its hand burst open from within.

The pitch-black demonic blood flowed down, and it exuded a mellow, fierce and distant smell like old wine.

This...... It is the most extreme "demon" that possesses the signs. From the perspective of counting, every drop of blood on its body, every breath it exhales, is all highly condensed energy. Compared to those mortal things that exude a fishy evil aura from the inside and outside of the body, it is simply a world of difference.

"Is this really the 'universe' I used to be in...... Why is the 'pressure' so small......" Fighting Demon withdrew his hand, and the black, fibrous matter repaired its stump at a speed visible to the naked eye, "It seems that it will take me some time to adjust to this new environment." ”

As it spoke, it had already used its magical energy and began to correct its body.

Wrapped in demonic energy, its size began to shrink rapidly, and gradually ...... Became humanoid.

Finally, after about three minutes, "it" became "him".

At this time, the fighting demon has turned into a naked human man. It is about 1.9 meters tall, well-proportioned, and has a gloomy appearance. He had skin as white as frost and black hair that was naturally curly. Looking at his exposed body, there is nothing different from ordinary people.

After the transformation of "Hu ......", the fighting demon took a deep breath, and then he stepped out of the door that had trapped him for more than a billion years (the feeling of time in "nothing" would become infinitely long), and officially stepped into the main universe of Horrorland. R1152