69novels Chapter 180: Elimination Rounds End, Mid-Season Strategy Meeting
Chapter 180: Elimination Rounds End, Mid-Season Strategy Meeting
In terms of tactical awareness, the members of Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy are by no means inferior. When the Soul Masters and Soul Instructors are nearly a hundred meters apart, the most important thing for the Soul Masters to do is to quickly approach the Soul Instructor.
The five members of the Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy did indeed do just that, but advancing under heavy fire came at a price. Strong enough Soul Masters could afford these costs, but those of average strength often fell on the way.
Caught off guard from the start, and even directly injured, the five members of the Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy were naturally not strong enough under the threat of Long You and others' soul guidance turrets, so their only outcome was to fall on the way of their charge.
"chichi"
A slight hissing sound rang out as the muzzles (and gun barrels) of the soul-guided turrets, which had become scorching hot from unleashing their full-power attack, began to retract, and the five soul-guided turrets began to disintegrate.
The match ended with Shrek Academy decisively winning. The reserve team displayed unexpected strength and demonstrated a variety of combat tactics that surprised many other academies.
They returned to the waiting area with light steps. Here, Long You and the others could hear the murmurs around them and see the wonderful expressions of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy not far away.
"Well done, shall we continue to watch?"
After Long You and the others returned, Zhang Lexuan immediately came to greet them, both to express her welcome and to ask them further questions.
"Stay and observe. We are just the reserve team. A temporary victory does not guarantee continued success. We still need to learn more from the Sun Moon Empire regarding the tactics and strategies of Soul Masters."
The necessary strength has already been demonstrated, and the fact that Shrek Academy remains as powerful as ever has been deeply ingrained in the hearts of every student present. Therefore, there's no need to continue building up personas; the real priority is to take this opportunity to thoroughly investigate the specific strength of our future opponents.
Having passed the elimination rounds, Shrek Academy has earned the right to enter the academy's viewing area to watch the game.
Sitting comfortably in a soft chair, sipping a beverage provided by the competition organizing committee, Long You adjusted his glasses, which were designed for keen observation. The Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy had already entered the arena. Although Shrek Academy hadn't fielded its full-strength lineup, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy had.
This is the perfect opportunity to probe the opponent's strengths and weaknesses. Long You needs to confirm whether the captain of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy is indeed a Soul Saint. If he is a Soul Saint, what are his main abilities? What are the effects of his Soul Skills?
The more thoroughly they understand this information, the better Shrek Academy will be able to prepare when facing the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
Xiao Yan sat on Long You's shoulder, playfully swinging his legs, while the Martial Soul of the Witness Book in Xiao Yan's hand was rapidly turning the pages, with lines of text appearing one after another.
"The Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy is indeed powerful, and their method of using soul tools is quite different from ours!"
"It's certain that the combat methods are different. The Sun Moon Empire has always been developing soul tools, so their experience, tactics, and combat methods in using soul tools are definitely richer."
The combat tactics we're using with Soul Guidance Masters are actually something I've figured out myself over the past few years. Our use of Soul Guidance Devices is inevitably a bit rough around the edges, which is why I'm staying to observe.
Even if the Sun Moon Empire doesn't go all out in the current arena, they will definitely reveal their combat philosophy and strategies during the battle.
By absorbing this knowledge, our arena tactics will become more flexible, instead of the current reliance on overwhelming firepower. We've had quite a few sparring matches within the school; you should have already noticed that once overwhelming firepower fails, we have to revert to the old methods of Soul Master combat.
"That's true. In just this short time, I've seen the Sun Moon Empire change their tactics several times. It seems that for them, martial spirits and soul skills are supplements to soul tools, unlike us where soul tools are supplements to martial spirits."
"Soul tools are a supplement to martial souls, and this concept cannot be changed. Just learn the routines; otherwise, forcibly changing the core concept will easily result in something that is neither fish nor fowl. Moreover, I personally do not believe that soul tools should be superior to martial souls."
Alright, the battle is almost over. I have a feeling that people from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy will be arriving soon. Remind Teacher Fanyu to handle them.
Those two team leaders from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy don't seem like easy targets. Senior Sister's strength is sufficient, but she shouldn't be taken advantage of because of her age.
After Long You finished giving her reminder, Bei Bei glanced at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy members who were already leaving the stage, then got up and walked towards Fan Yu's direction. As the captain of the reserve team, it was Bei Bei's responsibility to handle this formal communication with the team leader.
As expected, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy came over, and Long You observed the fourteen participating team members from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
There's nothing particularly noteworthy about the seven members of the main team. Ma Rulong, the main team captain, is indeed a Soul Saint level player. If it weren't for the reserve team, Long You would definitely focus his attention on him. But not now. The siblings Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen from the reserve team are attracting Long You's attention more.
[They're both Soul Kings, and there's a strange connection between these siblings. It seems to be a Soul Fusion Technique, but the Insight Glasses can't seem to figure out exactly what it is.]
But it doesn't matter. Being able to detect these things gives Long You the right to warn the entire team to be careful.
Long You noticed that Xiao Hongchen had been looking at Huo Yuhao and Song He with a provocative gaze the whole time he passed by Shrek Academy's seating area.
However, Huo Yuhao, who was somewhat naive, didn't notice Xiao Hongchen's gaze at all. He hadn't exerted himself on the field, and Huo Yuhao was full of energy. The match just now had broadened his horizons, and he was now looking forward to the start of the next match.
To be honest, Long You was also looking forward to the next match. One of the teams in the next match was the Star Luo Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy, and Long You remembered that this year's Star Luo Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy had a princess. This princess possessed the same Star Crown Martial Soul as the Star Luo Emperor watching the match from the city wall.
This martial spirit is quite magical. Long You is very curious about it and plans to take this opportunity to analyze this martial spirit that can cultivate and fight with the help of starlight.
Perhaps because the two sides in the knockout stage often have a huge gap in strength, a total of five matches were played in just one morning.
After watching five matches of mediocre quality, Shrek unanimously decided to "keep the mystery" for the remaining knockout rounds at the hotel.
With a cookie provided by the competition organizing committee dangling from his mouth, Long You was somewhat listless. Xiao Yan, on the other hand, hadn't stopped all morning, trying to gather as much information as possible as quickly as possible.
Soul power can be replenished using the baby bottle soul tool, but the mental power consumed when using the Insight Glasses for insight analysis cannot be quickly replenished.
Back at the hotel, Longyou quickly imported all the valuable information he had analyzed that morning into his tablet and shared it in the newly created online communication group.
After Longyou sent the file, the new group fell silent for a while, then suddenly exploded about fifteen minutes later.
"The captain is a Soul Saint! There are also two Soul Kings in the reserve team!"
"You can't joke like that, Xiao You!"
"Xiao You, is there something wrong with your martial soul?"
"A Spirit Fusion Technique? What is the Sun Moon Royal Spirit Master Academy trying to do?"
"What is this? Shrek Academy's worst lineup in history combined with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy's strongest lineup?"
Everyone had slightly different things to say, but overall, all the Shrek Academy members were worried about the formidable strength of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy team.
"Um, everyone, please be quiet for a moment." Because there were so many messages in the group and they were coming in so fast, Long You had to use his group owner privileges and activate the mute function so that his message could stay on the screen.
"The Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy is very strong, and their Soul Fusion Technique is extremely difficult to deal with. However, we also have our own secret weapons: we have Battle Armor and Soul Guidance Powered Mechs. I believe everyone still has a deep impression of the power of the combination of these two."
My senior brother and I are perfectly capable of handling the fusion skill of Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, the brother and sister.
The only problem we need to discuss now is how to deal with Ma Rulong. He is a Soul Saint, and even if he is a Soul Saint who was forcibly elevated to that level with drugs, Ma Rulong still meets the prerequisites for using an eighth-level Soul Tool.
Therefore, when preparing for battle, we must assume that Ma Rulong can unleash Contra-level combat power. Contra-level combat power is beyond the capacity of our current reserve team to withstand.
"If we want to clash with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, we need to wait until at least the later stages of the competition. That's when I can make my appearance. I'll handle Ma Rulong. Even if I can't win a one-on-one fight, I can at least hold him off."
Ma Xiaotao withdrew from the competition due to injury, and Dai Yueheng is now the captain of the Shrek Academy team, as well as the strongest player on the fourteen-member team. Facing the main offensive threat of a key opponent, Dai Yueheng stepped forward without hesitation.
"Alright, now is not the time to discuss the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. Our roster is not complete right now, and we will need to put in 120% effort to enter the final stage."
There are still two and a half days left in the elimination rounds. In these two and a half days, Beibei, you need to work hard to break through to level 50. Dai Yueheng, you three inner court students need to recover your physical condition as much as possible.
Everyone else, stay quietly in the hotel for the next three days. After all, we only arrived in Xingluo City close to the start of the competition, so make the most of these few days to adjust your condition.
A teacher is a teacher. Although Fan Yu is usually quiet, when faced with a situation where it was necessary to control the pace, Fan Yu promptly stopped Shrek Academy's discussion, which was not very meaningful for the current reality.
“Dai Yueheng, come to my room. Determination alone is not enough to stop a Soul Saint who can unleash the power of a Soul Douluo.”
Seeing that the group had fallen silent again, it was clear that everyone had regained their senses and started to focus their attention on the other reports provided by Long You. Fan Yu immediately sent a private message to Dai Yueheng.
As a Soul Master at the Soul Douluo level, Fan Yu knew very well that a Soul Master with a Soul Power of level 70 or above was definitely not someone a level 64 Soul Emperor could contend with simply by unleashing their full potential. As the current team leader at Shrek Academy, Fan Yu felt it necessary to provide Dai Yueheng with some assistance that complied with the competition rules.
In the blink of an eye, the three days of the elimination rounds passed. As expected, on the afternoon of the second day of the elimination rounds, Bei Bei completed the absorption of her fifth spirit ring (the spirit ring was stored in the spirit ring storage device beforehand), officially becoming a spirit king with two black ten-thousand-year spirit rings, once again catching up with Long You's progress.
After the elimination rounds concluded, the tournament entered a very short break. On this very day, Shrek Academy once again held a strategy meeting in the conference room.
"Le Xuan, tell me about your experience watching the matches these past few days. Although it's difficult for us to get such accurate information with just the naked eye like Xiao You, you should have recorded some of the more noteworthy opponents, right?"
It was visibly that Fan Yu looked a little tired, but as the saying goes, when it's time to step up, Fan Yu has no habit of letting you down.
"Yes, Mr. Fanyu, I already have some recordings of opponents worth paying attention to. However, time is too tight, and I haven't had time to complete the video analysis yet. So we won't show these videos at today's meeting. I will release more targeted video materials after we determine our opponents in the round-robin tournament."
"Well, that's good. Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochen, Gongyang Mo, how are your injuries?"
Having decided to postpone watching the recording, Fan Yu immediately began to move on to the next meeting agenda item.
"I'm ready to play."
Gongyang Mo was the first to speak. As a support-type Soul Master, even if Gongyang Mo exerted all his strength, it would be difficult for him to overexert himself too much in less than half an hour. In addition, due to his Martial Soul, Gongyang Mo's mental strength was quite good. Therefore, with Da Bai's assistance in healing, Gongyang Mo's injuries were fully recovered in just five days.