Visiting Battle by Overstepping Authority

"Why, Your Excellency? We clearly have no grudge, damn... it!"

"HP -3100! You have dealt a slashing injury to the 'Bandit Leader', triggering a critical hit!"

On Qinglin Mountain, the health bar of the bandit leader emptied, and he slowly fell before Xu Xiaoyou, dropping items all over the ground as the girl flicked her long whip, destroying the entire bandit camp.

For these starter-period NPCs, the appearance of a grade 3 fixer was no different from a dimensional reduction strike.

Wiping the bloodstains from the whip, Xu Xiaoyou retracted it into her hand and pondered while looking at the panel for the Hundred-Bone Whip.

【Item: Hundred-Bone Whip】

【Quality: art grade (Gold)】

【Power: 0-0】

【Damage Type: Slashing injury】

【Usage Condition: Grandmastery of the long whip】

【Soul-bound: Player 0E3604】

【Item Description: Data missing, Warning...... Warning...... Created from the spine of an unknown existence, currently known to possess the ability to slice through space (?)】

Since she no longer had to worry about the offset of her consciousness sea, Xu Xiaoyou spent some time clearing all the commissions in the starter village.

Returning to Peach Blossom Village under the envious gazes of countless newbies, Xu Xiaoyou submitted all her task commissions.

The meager rewards from the starter village commissions were almost negligible; though even a tiny mosquito provides meat, she never expected to make a fortune from such a pittance. Completing the tasks was merely for personal honor points.

Only when personal honor points reached level five could one create a team or guild.

Taking advantage of a rare moment of leisure, Xu Xiaoyou sat on the hillside, pulled off her cloak hood, and let her thoughts wander on the season's main page.

【Season 11 Theme: Matrix Cycle Life】

【Current Season Effect: Matrix Rain】

【Season Mall: Requires players to reach the grade 3 main city, Pangard, and complete the class advancement quest to unlock.】

【Season Chest: None. (Probability of obtaining by killing nightmare-level or higher urban legend lords)】

【Season 11: Matrix Cycle Life Professional League — 'Visiting Battle by Overstepping Authority' registration is now open! (Note: This mode does not allow individual registration; registration must be in the form of a five-person team.)】

【Current Registrations: 125,030!】

【Registration deadline is February 20th. Interested parties, please register as soon as possible; registration will be locked after the deadline.】

The world chat box was currently filled with a stream of team recruitment messages.

"Sea of Clouds: Four looking for one for the qualifiers. Role requirement: attacker. Preferably a melee class, league experience prioritized."

"Nanjiamu: Old guild Golden Navigator is recruiting. There is a vacancy in the main team. Private message if interested. Professional players and street experts are welcome to inquire."

"Big Fish: Led by an old captain with rich league experience. Fair resource distribution, great benefits, and plenty of handsome men and beautiful women. Come quickly!"

"Shadow Weaver Poem: Specializing in shadow striker, formerly ranked 53rd on the Newcomer List. Very strong personal carry ability. Looking for a high-quality buffer team. If the buffer is a high-beauty mother, quality requirements can be lowered."

"Passerby A: Can it be a male mother?"

"Shadow Weaver Poem: No male mothers."

"Passerby B: Not even if I cross-dress?"

"Shadow Weaver Poem: ......Private message me."

There were less than two weeks left before the registration deadline. Not only was her honor level far from reaching level five, but the team configuration she envisioned only had herself and Akabane Tsubaki in a guerrilla role.

Generally speaking, a comprehensive team configuration was as follows.

Commander: The core of the team, possessing the strongest strategic vision and decision-making skills, along with powerful mental fortitude and adaptability. Tactical orders must be absolute. They often have weaker personal combat strength.

Attacker: Responsible for frontal breakthroughs, possessing strong combat power and mobility. They follow the team's advance and cooperate with the guerrilla role to tear through enemy lines.

Guerrilla: Possesses high agility, concealment, and mobility. Responsible for gathering battlefield information, helping teammates plan routes and positioning, and pinning down the enemy commander and buffer to create opportunities for the team.

Support: Responsible for frontal defense, requiring a good overall perspective and support capability. They cover the team's retreat, protect the commander and buffer, and assume the roles of attacker or guerrilla when necessary. Total versatility is required.

Buffer: Responsible for applying buffs to the entire team, providing survival assurance and healing support to ensure the team's overall survivability.

This was what players had summarized through long-term combat, and it was widely considered the most scientific team configuration model. The five roles complemented each other, maximizing a team's performance.

Of course, the league officials did not explicitly mandate that a team must consist of these five roles, but the large guilds on the rankings followed this rule by convention, perhaps because the teams that shone in previous leagues all used this configuration.

However, there were also anomalies like the Assassin's Creed guild, whose subsidiary teams were composed entirely of guerrilla roles and had still achieved outstanding results in previous leagues.

It wasn't that Xu Xiaoyou was just following the crowd, but the characters she drew happened to correspond to four of the positions.

She was still trying to figure out how to convince Angelina; she didn't know which corner of the world Sevia was wandering in; and Bai Youyou was nowhere to be found, nor did she know if the girl was still in Dragonfly Town, not to mention that her condition seemed far from optimistic.

The future looked bleak.

The bad news was too numerous to count on two hands, and the more she thought about it, the more her head ached.

The good news was that she had already thought of a name for the team, so she didn't need to worry about that anymore.

Everything Yuzu Says is Right!

Ta-da! Such a soul-shaking team name, and yet Anya actually thought it sounded terrible. She really has no taste at all, Xu Xiaoyou thought to herself.

On the guild leaderboard, many familiar names appeared.

Queen's Arms | Honor Points: 321,507

Silent Sequence | Honor Points: 110,441

King's Clan | Honor Points: 32,511

Heterogeneous Front | Honor Points: 25,687

Winter Dawn | Honor Points: 25,120

Golden Navigator | Honor Points: 24,793

Assassin's Creed | Honor Points: 22,150

Daybreak Elegy | Honor Points: 21,599

Age of the Dead | Honor Points: 7,060

Flaming Brocade Meteor......

Daybreak Elegy was a subsidiary guild of Life Daybreak Company, and Winter Dawn likely corresponded to the Winter family.

As for Flaming Brocade Meteor, she hadn't expected the Starfall family, one of the Five Great Families of the Universe, to be ranked so low on the leaderboard.

What surprised Xu Xiaoyou even more was that the honor points of the first-place guild, Queen's Arms, were nearly equal to the sum of the top ten guilds. It was hard to imagine just how deep its foundation was.

From Silent Sequence in second place downward, the gap became a vertical drop. One had to know that these guilds all had large real-world corporations and top-tier noble families funneling resources into them; it wasn't hard to deduce that the top players of the first two guilds were likely a whole order of magnitude stronger.

Her ultimate goal was to take the championship of this league and obtain the Sovereign Key of Omniscient Mode.

This meant that all the guilds on the list were, in a sense, her enemies. The influence of a five-person team would certainly not be enough; even if they made a name for themselves, once they were targeted by the alliance of large guilds, they would be isolated and helpless, likely failing to reach the finals.

Besides establishing a team, she would also create a guild, utilizing the influence of the Dark Gold Rose to absorb various lone wolf experts and talents, fully leveraging the players' initiative to build a solid foundation for the league path!