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Chapter 7: A Battle Without Regrets – translated by K00st3r and Erialis

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Despite having coht, I continued to be plagued by a feeling of guilt – a feeling that I still wasn’t strong enough Thus, I decided to apply for medical leave and stay hoht so ht to the possibility of us losing a particular match However, I hadn’t expected that ould come this far in the tourna? I couldn’t help but feel a little worried All I could think of was fightingmore levels Will I be able to survive in the midst of six hundred people with my current level of sixty-two? I have no idea! However, the thought "I will lose" still did not cross my mind

With a horizontal slash, I defeated the last monster and brushed my sweat-soaked hair back from my forehead It was only then that I noticed that someone had approached

"Gui?"

"Yeah" Gui approached me, and there was a melancholic air about him

"You’re able to come online this early today?" I asked In my head I wondered, did the professor skip classes too?

"Yeah I usually have more time on Fridays On the other hand, this see," said Gui, a faint smile on his lips

Huh… Well, that’s because I have other classes to attend! I retorted acerbically in ht, haha"

Gui continued to smile, but he could not conceal the forlorn look in the depths of his eyes

That forlorn look shouldn’t be appearing on Gui’s face This isn’t the Gui I know; I don’t want to see him like this!

"I don’t like to see you like this, Gui I much prefer you the way you were before, always cheekily calling , I raised my dao and stalked towards a freshly-spawned batch of ether as he exclaimed in a emotional voice, "I need your answer Only then can I carry on!"

"Huh? Don’t I always answer you by beating you up?" I replied I was i ing

"What sort of answer is that…"

Gui watched me intently, clearlyfor off htly bloodthirsty s very hed heartily as I continued to fight "Yep, I like it ing… Don’t you find it exhilarating?"

"I find it farto see your smile," Gui murmured Then he said, "Do you really like me the way I was before?"

"Yeah!" I ducked to evade an attack, but just as I raisedfrom the forehead of a randoave a lohistle and offered Gui a thumbs up

Gui brushed back his hair with one hand and deliberately struck a graceful pose "In order to rescue Noble Lord Prince, Gui is a one-hundred-percent-accurate shot!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Gui was sent sprawling by the Meatbun that I’d lobbed at hi smile, I retorted, "I told you, don’t call me ‘Lord Prince’! Also, in order to beat you up, I am also a one-hundred-percent-accurate shot!"

Just then, Lolidragon’s voice came over the team channel "Wah! Who’s online? You’re even earlier than me"

"It’s me and Lord Prince," Gui replied

I, on the other hand, remarked doubtfully, "Is anyone on this earth not e is also online?" Doll’s startled voice came over the channel as well

"Looks like everyone’s arrived," Yu Lian-dàsăo added, sounding a with a wolf that skipped work!"

"Yu Lian…" Wolf-dàgē’s voice carried a hint of embarrassment as it came over the channel

A playful notion struck me, and I exclaimed, "Quick, quick! Everyone assemble at the breakfast shop, so that we can be a five-hundred watt light bulb!" With that, I set off at lightning speed for the city, dragging Gui along behind ē to ht bulb, but do you have to stare so at rave;gē, I’ht bulb if I don’t"

"…"

"Prince, do you have the confidence that in?" Yu Lian-dàsăo asked in her gentle voice

"None whatsoever," I replied honestly, but seeing how the members of Odd Squad immediately became a little nervous, I added, "But I have no intention of losing, either"

"No confidence that in, but no intention of losing, either? As expected, that’s soon said, and then broke out laughing

I stretched out ave everyone a confident smile They smiled back at me and then stacked their hands on top of mine

"Odd Squad, win!" I bellowed

"Odd Squad, WIN!" the o, everybody! The final round’s about to start," I said As always, I walked towards the tunnel leading to the arena As always, I felt no fear As always, I did not think about whether I would lose As always, my beloved teammates followed silently behind me

In the instant I stepped into the arena, I hesitated, and then took offaround to look at my teammates, I saw that they were stunned for a aze, they s them to one side

"It doesn’tas our prowess in battle and our unyielding attitude are engraved into the minds of all those present," I said, athered at the center of the colosseuroups here and there

"Everyone, a hundred of Second Life’sin an intense battle for survival Don’t look away, or you’llscene Don’t close your mouths – cheer your hearts out for your favorite tea this entire life-and-death battle for you all today," Xiao Li roared, and he went so far as to hop around in a crazed manner as he clutched the microphone

The atmosphere in the stadiu all around the audience, while the spectators the

I stared wide-eyed, noting that the sight of six hundred people was really so out of the ordinary Worse still, these six hundred people very clearly foreously, confidently, and proudly, I…snuck to a randohting spirit or the aainst a rock, the result will never change!

I looked at the frontlines of the three camps There, at the forefront of the three caerman warrior, a human warrior, and a holy

"H should take care not to become the deceased" Who? Who was it who said that this is a case of sour grapes?

At that moment, the members of Dark Emperor filed over to stand next to us

"What do you think our chances of victory are?" Wicked askedas my chest!" (An A-cup…it hurts to ady Looks like that abusive streak inlooked at y You’re so flat that you don’t even have any chest muscles to speak of"

You damn kid; I’m still an A-cup at the very least, okay?

"Be careful, this battle will be very dangerous," Wicked said His broas creased orry as he looked atWu Qing carefully instead!" Sigh! I’d originally intended not to think any issue, but now that I’ve said it, I guess it’s all right I hope that Wicked will take good care of lanced worriedly at Wu Qing, but he and Wicked both pretended to look at ly

Perhaps they don’t want to let others know? After all, this kind of thing isn’t that common, and not everyone is as open-minded as I am and able to accept this kind of BL relationship

Good luck, brother! Sister will always be supporting you silently, I thought as I looked at my little brother with tears in my eyes I threw a sympathetic look Gui’s way as well It can’t be helped, who asked my brother to fall in love with Wicked! Poor Gui

Without waiting for the three of therave;săo, you should come over here! It looks like the battle’s about to start As soon as it begins, we’ll have to pay attention to the situation and look for a new spot where we can avoid trouble accordingly" Yu Lian-dàsăo nodded in acknowledgment

"Prince, both you and Yu Lian must be careful Remember, you are both very irave;gē looked at n, he turned towards Lolidragon and Doll "Lolidragon, you must make sure that your ene to sacrifice yourself Also, Doll will be depending on you, although so on Doll…"

Lolidragon sē, Gui will be in your care," said Gui He looked at Wolf-dàgē, a fragile, gentle, and subrave;săo’s shadow smiles scared hiin" The referee once again shouted those faun, everyone stood stock-still and re as well The atmosphere was such that no one dared to exhale, and a silence had fallen over the entire battleground – the type of silence that ca except for erman stood – not bad, his– to the right, where the super cool-looking huood, that cold expression really pisses me off – and lastly to the holyirly beauty for a ht? I speculated

In the end, it seemed like the beastman warrior couldn’t stand the silence anyesture at the human and holyman The human warrior fixed hiave an unconcerned ser at the hu the silence in the entire arena The e

In contrast, "Kill!" was all that the hu enemies

The holyman warrior, however, maintained his relaxed pose He stretched out a hand to stop theforward to join in the fray "The clam and the crane quarrel; the fisheruy; he really is a sneaky bastard

I rave;săo to where I was, I took advantage of the chaos to stealthily slip through the battle zone from behind While everyone’s attention was on the battle between the humans and beastmen, I snuck up and hid behind the holymen’s alliance This place should be a safe spot for the tiht

There was a tap on my shoulder, and I turned my head to look One, two, three… Ten people Excellent, the members of Odd Squad and Dark Eain, I looked forward at the scene of the grand melee

It really is a chaotic battle! The situation before us could only be described as one co in technique Often, individuals couldn’t tell who they were attacking, nor did they knoho attacked them Still, the players couldn’t be bla After all, since they were being squeezed together like the meatballs I make, it was already atheir weapons around Technique? Forget it

Before long, there were already dozens of bea into the sky

Suddenly, the huan to bellow desperately, and it see members of his alliance to come over and do battle with the members of the holy about when I saw the battle grew closer and closer to where the holyroup of particularly outstanding fighters to charge directly at the holyht!

Finally, now even this side of the arena is no longer safe I looked over roup, take care! Don’t go head-to-head with them; no one is allowed to fly away, you understand aze steadily

"Scatter," I then cohtly, I spotted an area behind the an to h we attracted unwanted attention a nu the way, I never retaliated Instead, I relied on e like mad, or usedto run for my life Luckily for us, the situation on the battlefield was truly chaotic, and I only needed to flee There wasn’t really anyone as free to pursue h occasionally there would be so stuff like "coward" or "lackey" after us Hreen mountain and one will not have to fear for lack of firewood to burn", understand?

What I don’t get is why all these people are eagerly rushing into the h they are contented just to be able to hack at others a few times? Look, of the three alliance leaders, is any one of them in that crowd?

Ah, can’t talk now, there are blades and swords every which way and fists and legs flying everywhere; I’d best focus on dodging them

"Members of the audience, look at this chaotic battlefield where all of the participants are busy fighting According to the latest data, already a hundred and thirty-one…a hundred thirty-five participants have been eliht now, the ones who are garnering the most attention are the three alliance leaders, not one of whom has been eli to ee victorious? Or will it be a case of iant axe has once again met with the cold steel of the human warrior’s sword Which one of theitated that he was practically showering saliva everywhere, but thanks to his report I was able to stay on top of the current situation

Over a hundred people have been eliminated already? No wonder it looks like the sky has been lit with fireworks If eren’t so busy fleeing for our lives, I would definitely stop to adrave;săo, can you still carry on?" I asked worriedly, as she had been dragged along bythe whole time

"I’m fine, and it seerave;săo However, she then added, "What I meant was, all the members of Odd Squad are fine – but it see are in trouble!"

"What?" My brows furrowed together "Where are they?"

"To our left It see to flee obediently"

"Da’s personality, if someone called him a coward or other similar stuff, he would definitely not let the insult slide There’s an eighty percent chance that he would drag Wicked along into a fight with the other party

To save or not to save? Isn’t that obvious! I gave , if I don’t save them, how could we be called allies?Even as I used my dao to deflect the blades of nearby weapons, I asked, "Dàsăo, which group is the closest to us?"

"Wolf and Gui are just behind us"

"Good" I abruptly changed directions and i not too far away froē, Gui, you guys protect Dàsăo for a while I have to go save people," I said

Looking in Ming Huang and Wicked’s direction, I saw that they had been surrounded by four players Wicked was having difficulty defending against three of thehost appearing out of nowhere, I slit the throat of the nearestat their back He did not even have the tiave hi I then proceeded to single out the strongest of the three warriors, and brutally hacked off his arle thrust I drovehi warriors, one had already turned around to facehiesture at estured back at me to say that it was no problele Supersonic Soul-chasing Arrow in my direction, and then I ducked and rolled forward to avoid the arrow When I looked back, I saw that Gui had upheld his clai a hundred percent accurate shot; the translucent arroas planted solidly in the forehead of the warrior who had been chasingwarrior by then, and he was looking ave rave;gē’s side, I grabbed Yu Lian-dàsăo’s hand and, before pulling her away, said, "Guys, continue to work hard and flee for your lives!"

"Prince, you have to be careful of that holy that he will be your opponent in the end," Yu Lian-dàsăo cautioned rave;săo really isn’t an ordinary person, I thought She’s being dragged after me as we sprint, yet she can still speak in a stern voice I’rave;săo" But first, wecrowd With only two hundred plus players re it harder and harder to make use of the chaos to run away Moreover,tiive up

"Prince, the beastman warrior has floay The alliances of the human and holyman warriors have now surrounded the remainders of the beastman warrior’s allies It looks like the beastmen’s alliance is about to be completely wiped out I think the holy out of the three If you have the chance, you should kill some of the members of the holymen’s alliance; otherwise, they’ll have too many members left at the end If that happens, it’ll be difficult for us to win even if we corave;săo said, her tone betraying her anxiety

"Huh… But I have rave;săo’s, and the other hand holding s are busy running, so they’re not free to kick anyone either

"Prince, you can leave ently at on’s enemies probably don’t have the time to hunt her down, plus irls, so the two of they…" I looked at Yu Lian-dàsăo in askance

"This is a tactic to deceive our enerave;săo’s face, but…how odd, why aoosebuht away – and make sure you even the odds between his alliance and the holyman’s Then, when both of them are heavily injured, it would be best if you could make use of the opportunity to stab therave;săo, you really aren’t an ordinary character I’rave;săo’s job in the real world is, I thought even as I dashed towards Lolidragon Luckily for us, she and Doll weren’t too far away

"So I’ll be leaving you with Lolidragon? Be careful, you all," I said worriedly

Yu Lian-dàsăo gave a light knock on my head with her fist "You’re the one who needs to be careful," she chided