Child of Destiny

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Chaotic Luck’s lack of experience had finally started to show itself in this match. He was starting to crumble under the pressure and losing his end.

The intense battle earlier had already exhausted him quite a lot, draining quite a lot of his energy and concentration. If another intense battle followed immediately after it, Chaotic Luck would have most likely lost his footing and further drop his focus in the battle.

He was starting to make more and more mistakes in his commands. He was also becoming more vulnerable to his opponent, especially when Sheryl was already warming up and started getting into her groove.

She was starting to get her rhythm and adjusted herself in the battle.

Given the current situation, all the odds of the battle were against Chaotic Luck’s favor, making it harder for him to make a comeback.

He might be the luckiest person alive within the game, but there was only so much his luck could bring him, especially when he was already reaching his limit after the intense battle from the previous round.

He was not sure how he would be able to turn the situation around with all the odds against him.

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Watching Chaotic Luck commit a series of mistakes one after another, David, who was commentating the match, could not help but shake his head. “Rookies. They are too fragile and easy to break with a bit of pressure during certain situations.”

Miss Bunny could not agree more after hearing his words. “He is too inexperienced dealing with the competitive stage.”

“There are too many strong people and more experienced veterans here, who can take advantage of the inexperience that such rookies have,” she added with a sigh.

“Regardless, Chaotic Luck has still performed quite well in the previous round. Even if he may have gotten lucky in the final exchange earlier, his performance before this is still quite good.”

“After all, defeating such a strong Maverick God with such a huge prestige within the virtual world is already quite a huge achievement,” she continued, giving Chaotic Luck quite a huge evaluation.

“Well, he made such a gamble in that final moment and won it despite all the risks. Such a decision is quite like him, I suppose,” commented David along with a bitter smile.

He then turned his attention back to the ongoing match before continuing to commentate on the current battle. “This is going to be a bit tricky for Chaotic Luck to make a comeback now. But even then, it is pretty much impossible for him to win this round.”

“All he can do at this moment is to give as much trouble to Sheryl, draining her energy and concentration to give their next representative of the Empyrean Talons enough advantage for the next round.”

Miss Bunny went silent for a moment, analyzing the details of the ongoing match, before continuing. “Even if Sheryl has prepared quite a lot for this round, there is still a limit on how much ammunition she can bring on the battlefield, particularly the energy batteries for her mechanical torrents.”

“So long as Chaotic Luck lasts a bit longer, he will be able to waste quite a lot of their energies, giving Akailu enough advantage for the next round,” she added.

David smiled before asking. “The question is, will he be able to last that long?”

“Sheryl is also very clear about her advantages and disadvantages, so there is no way for her to overlook such a matter. I am pretty sure that she has prepared quite a few tricks up her sleeves to solve such a problem,” he added.

…

In the private lounge of the Empyrean Talons, the members were also currently discussing the details of the match.

“This is getting more and more dangerous for Chaos. It will only take some time before he loses this round,” commented Leonard with a sigh.

“It is fine,” said Shin before adding. “He has already served his purpose for this Group Battle, even surpassing the goal that we have set for him by a large margin.”

He then paused for a moment before continuing. “The question now is how long he will last and how much energy his opponent will waste to deal with him.”

“But Sheryl will be aware of such a problem as well,” Cloe chimed in with a slight frown.

Shin just chuckled and answered. “Being aware of it and finding a way to deal with it are two different matters. Even if Chaotic Luck is quite inexperienced, his luck has always been good.”

“Defeating Sheryl might be a bit hard for him, but surviving for as long as he can is going to be much easier,” he added.

“But given the inexperience that Chaotic Luck has, I doubt that he will be able to realize this that easily,” commented Arthur, who somehow managed to find a bunch of popcorn somewhere.

Nom! Nom! Nom!

He put a handful of popcorn in his mouth, munching it first before continuing. “But if he keeps this pace and lets that Death Knight protect him while also focusing on defending from other ambushes, then there is a high chance that he can exhaust most of the ammunition of his opponent.”

While the core members of the team were discussing this, Huahua, who was the newest rookie among everyone, could not help but lean toward her brother and whisper. “Is no one going to talk about how Big Brother Chaos manages to change his undead army or anything?”

Her voice is so small and quiet, preventing the others from hearing them.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard she tried, trying to hide it from such a bunch of monsters with quite high achievements in their respective disciplines in the real world was close to impossible.

Their senses were too sharp to miss her words.

“It is not much of a big deal since necromancy is his main class path to begin with,” said Cloe.

“He just happened to stumble upon some poop of luck and somehow ended up with such a special class,” added Arthur before munching on another handful of popcorn.

Shin then went ahead and explained it to her a bit clearly. “Chaos is supposed to have a special necromancer class before, but somehow has gotten a special quest from a powerful existence that leads him to get the blessing of the sun.”

“Then his class underwent a special mutation after, resulting in what you know about him,” he paused for a moment before adding. “In a sense, he is supposed to have a necromancer class as his main class while having a special fire mage class as his secondary combat class.”

“They then fused and gave birth to such a broken necromancer class,” said Leonard, completing what Shin wanted to say.

“But from the looks of it, the necromancer class alone is strong enough to match his Solaris Lich Class. Don’t you think it is such a waste to not have access to both?” analyzed Diablo after seeing what Chaotic Luck could do after losing his abilities related to the Sun Element.

“Well, that is all dependent on him,” said Alucard as he also understood this point since he was in a quite similar situation before.

While they were discussing with one another, a sudden chance occurred in the battle.

“Eh!?”

Turning their attention back to the match, they suddenly saw what Chaotic Luck had done.

“Quite clever,” commented Shin after seeing what was happening.

“Quite shameless as well,” added Arthur before turning to Shin and continuing. “You have thought him quite well.”

The corner of Shin’s mouth twitched when he heard those words before refuting. “Everything is fair in war. It is not like it is against the rules.”

“You have to do everything to win the battle, regardless of what it takes. Using and taking advantage of the surroundings is just one of those things,” Leonard chimed in, shaking what he had learned from the teachings of Joaquin Giovanni and Scar of the Asad Tribe.

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Back on the battlefield, Chaotic Luck had taken a quite ’unorthodox’ take on dealing with his current situation.

He had to constantly hide from Sheryl’s line of sight, not giving him enough vision to snipe him from that skyscraper.

Hiding behind the surrounding buildings might be good enough, but Sheryl also had a solution for that, blasting the buildings where he was hiding with the help of his huge cannons. This cleared her vision line, giving her enough firing line to resume her shots.

Chaotic Luck was having a hard time surviving due to this, giving him more pressure and exhausting him mentally even further.

But this aggressive approach that Sheryl had presented to him had given him an idea on how to somehow turn the situation around.

He had issued a single command to his legion. It was simple and easy to execute the order that did not need any follow-up inputs. They would be able to get the job done even if he did not control them or use any kind of battle formation.

Since reaching the top of the skyscraper, where Sheryl was located, was quite challenging, why not bring her down by force?

He had ordered his legion to take down the building itself, forcing Sheryl to make a choice.

Whether she kept that high ground or threw that advantage altogether.

Either way, Chaotic Luck had created an opportunity where he could turn the situation around.

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