The Order At The 16th Placements!

"Well, what do you think? Little Ya-your little monkey wasn't able to teleport us to such a little distance without harming our HP to almost 80% of it, so I had to do lots of jobs along with Itnia to recuperate everyone's HP. Xiao Ruo took out herself 7 out in 20 seconds while Zi Fei alone took out 20, aren't they amazing? Oh right, even Miriam had to help me with the healing and couldn't do much of attacking so that's why it took us more than a minute to destroy the enemy Association group. Because Yao Yao was too busy doing the incredible feat with her manipulation of the Core Elements, I didn't wanted her to become mentally fatigued by helping me heal and most of our maids are buffers rather than healers in the light-clothing side so..."

Yun Beishang attentively listened to his darling's report, Natalia had a fervent but calmed expression as she spoke and both her hands took one of Yun Beishang's onto her chest as she kissed it constantly every few words she spoke. Her expression of her eyes closed and her puckered lips lightly tapping his knuckles and the back of each of his fingers overall gave Yun Beishang such a warm heart.

"Also, Sash was a bit shy, hmmm... now that I think about, it... shy-sash-sashy... Hehehehe~! I'm gonna tease her about it later, 'Sashy', now she's gonna be your Sashy, hehehe." Yun Beishang also thought about it, and felt that Natalia was a genius rarely seen every 100 million years, he felt completely funny on her take of Sash's name and tried his best to maintain a fine, neutral face to Natalia's completely giggling and girly-childish behavior as she swung his arm up and down; left and right.

"But she did well, mn. She is so amazing, having that purple lightning dance along with her, she is really beautiful. Hey, Beishang, when are you give her your 'power', hm? She looks to be hurting whenever she is using her own skills and talents, please help her, alright?" Natalia then continued speaking about Sash, not wanting to simply call her out Sashy from her evaluation from that first battle in the Association vs Association segment. Then, as she let her left ear rest on his chest, she immediately after stood up slightly and gave him a smooch, before continuing. "The maids were incredible, I've seen videos of the Guerilla Guild, Knights of Raoundozia and those of the Gold and Silver Guild as well as the Sharpened Vanguard Hall of their members operating in a construction to deal with an Enlightened grade BOSS and even some high level Heavenly grade field BOSSes. They are fast, proficient and concise. But our maids, with Itnia, Yao Yao, Estel's and Diana's help are even faster, accurate and hardworking. I have faith in their abilities, I think they deserve a little 'something' after the Association segment is over? How about you give them a month's rest and buy them dozens of clothes for each? Hehe, I'm sure that'll win you the hearts of the doubters quite fast, hehe."

"Alright, alright. Someone is content, not feeling gloomy anymore?" Yun Beishang spoke right as Natalia finished her own giggling words, he felt his heart completely exposed as it thumped out towards his Naty's left ear and as she delighted herself on that feeling. After nodding lightly to his words and ignoring his mild teasing tone, she said almost as if in a dream, "Your heartbeat, hmmm. So different from before, I like it so much better~. Mm, Beishang... can you hear our baby's heartbeat?"

Hearing her most softest of tones and her gentle voice, Yun Beishang inwardly trembled as he marveled. With a tighter grasp on her right hand with his own 'jailed' hand by her own, he answered her lovingly, "Mn, I can. He's healthy, and so vigorous too. Why? Curious or worried?"

"GASP!" Instead of responding, the almost-falling-asleep Natalia suddenly sprung her body up once again and twisted her upper body to look back at him, her eyes... oh... her eyes were smiling so brilliantly and magnificently. "Really? He?! How did you know?! I haven't even gotten checked, I was still going to wait for Yun Yun's return and, and ah..."

"Okay, alright- hahaha... calm down, little Naty, okay?" Yun Beishang also sprung himself up a little to take the wrists of the more than joyous Natalia as her brain was about to melt down from mirth. Natalia then slowly calmed down amidst the curious gazes around her as she blushed a little tiny wee; she fell her left ear back onto his chest and listened to his heartbeat with deep interest, taking it as the same as the 'he' inside her belly's heartbeats sounding just the same.

On the extremely large TV screen, the next battle was already in motion with The Order this time facing the Imperishable Guild, Sylda's Association indeed. It was a pity since, Yun Beishang was already spoiled on Sylda having lost to Yunalesca sacrificial Light Core Element bombardment onto all of Sylda's troops and whose skillset seemed slightly weaker against the Light Core Element itself.

But, no matter what, since that was only a spoiler, Yun Beishang wouldn't be a bitch nor a child about it and watch it all the same along with the rest of the maids and his women. In this one, he was even expectant to see Sash's more incredible performance compared to the 64th placements battle from before and to Zi Fei and Sammy's highlights that he was mentioned of before.

Of course, he wasn't just expecting something only from them, but it was mostly due to the way in which he was already unknowingly ruined of the fun from expectation by a silly Natalia, no biggie.

The 32nd placement battle started with the members of The Order coming out right away having already built a kind of 'siege weapon' perhaps that looked like an anti-aircraft missile launcher that was made from a durable brown-orange wood material and whose 'missiles' were simple thick as fuck javelins with a length of about half a meter and 30cm in girth. That crazy.

In any case, they left a few Maidens behind, one was an Elements Prodigy while the other two were both an Otherworldly Elementalist. Meanwhile, everyone else from The Order marched forward in a regular non-fastened speed towards the center of the arena. On the other hand, all of the Imperishable Guild members all moved together forth and along with a Sylda who was riding a shadow-energy-flame-like horse that was 3 meters tall from its feet to its back, allowing Sylda to be more visible than ever.

It would probably be the most dumb thing to do, allowing one's captain of the crown of the team to appear so out in public like that, but from Sylda, it was all different instead. She appeared valiant as she trotted with her horse forward and her people behind her, seemingly giving each of them a buff that allowed them to actually keep on with her already incredible speed. It was no mount, it was obviously a skill.

The way in which the buff worked was like giving each of her people's lower legs the ethereal image of a shadow-flame-like armored horse leg that brought them not only speed, but also vitality; endurance. This was the enormously kind of support skill that can make entire armies fall, it was even more so because of the fact that the UI from the streaming feature of the forums told Yun Beishang that their altogether speed was of 170% Movement Speed while Sylda's Movement Speed was of 175%.

If anything, it was even more so of an overpowered skill since Yun Beishang wasn't sure of the limit capacity of people that Sylda could support with such a skill because he saw, last time at the 1v1 segment, that this skill of hers was efficient depending on her Hidden Stats thanks to her Imperishable Legendary Hidden Class.

At the same time, Yun Beishang knew that she had other skills of the same supportive kind, and that could even connect with one another. For example, if she used another skill of such support-like qualities, she would be able to immediately grant it to everyone who has that armored horse legs-buff instead of needing a casting time for reaching everyone or some extra consumption of her mentality.

Because, of course, though one had skills for their own Hidden Class, the mastery of each was the most important as one could do so much and so incredibly with the Hidden Stats that they develop along with their ordinary class, let alone a Hidden Class itself. If it was already difficult to incorporate one's Hidden Stat as an ordinary class player, then as a Hidden Class player, it was already implausibly difficult to master one's Hidden Class, let alone the addition of incorporating one's Hidden Stats to their playstyle and even features in-game.

In this case, as Sylda moved forward with her shadow-flame whatever the fuck kind of horse and as she instantly supported all of her people, demonstrated how clever, skilled and comprehensive Sylda was to these matters of Rising Essence to Yun Beishang. And now that she easily brought 50 players to her side, well, behind actually; the troops accompanying her weren't simpletons that could lucky our into the Global Tournament so far.

There were a plethora of melee players, while only a very small part consisted of magical players, and among those, two of them were an Entwining Dragon and a Dancing Phoenix; the rest were all Dimensional Architects, Ancient Alchemist Ancestors and a single Grand Shaman. As for the melee players, well, they were rather unique because all of them were of fairly different classes but all of them wielded a retractable spear and a coffin shield.

Also wearing medium-heavy plated armor and a morion helmet as they all had, though not a furious-like expression, it was quite a stern one that emanated pure strength as well as confidence in their Leader.

On the other hand, The Order was being led into a rush to the center, at a mild speed, by Natalia while Itnia was all the way to the back with the two maids that were assassins, both Darkness Dao to protect incoming projectiles by moving her slow body around in case there was some special item used or a long-cd skill.

Natalia, this time, looked ferocious actually. She had a very serious expression on her face while Yao Yao followed her with a calm face and Diana constantly moved left and right from behind the two of them, scouting and asserting the following events that were about to take place.

A few minutes passed and, Diana immediately after began ordering the Maidens around before then telling Yao Yao and Naty a few things before entering a formation made by 10 melee class Maidens. Sammy, Estel and Xiao Ruo surrounded a few medium-clothed Maidens in a protective formation while Sash, Zi Fei, Cyn and Yunalesca all took a different stance among the formations, going alone and intending to move around the incoming battle however they wished; assisting Maidens and Ladies whenever it was needed while also doing their best to facilitate the battlefield for them.

Then, another minute passed, but as they were for about only 30 seconds away from each other, both parties stopped on their tracks and merely remained on their spot as they faced each other. There were now only 1,000 meters between each other, more or less, and all they needed to do was to either do some small movement-placement skill or buff long-cd for Movement Speed once and they'll simply arrive to one another in a jiffy.

A few groups of Maidens changed their spot and moved from one side to another in formation still, while the Imperishable Guild members separated themselves in 5 different groups, 10 from the magic classes and the other 4 as a Team of 10 players. Men and women armed to the teeth and beautifully were looking quite mighty under the mild light of the sun shining upon them, but making not a single glint on any piece of their armor; or eyes.

Natalia slowly appeared before the Teams formed from The Order, she gracefully stepped out from the 'crowd' of The Order and appeared in Sylda's eyes while having a big, gentle smile on her face. Sylda took a few meters forth with her shadow-flame horse and made it bow towards Naty, to which Natalia smiled openly even more and waved her arms above her head and jumped a few times; content.

Then, Natalia muttered to herself 'phew, let's start now then, Little Diana...'; and right after, The Order marched forth at max speed without the use of any Movement Speed buffs and with the lone wolves like Sash and Zi Fei disappearing from the spot all at once!

At this sight, Sylda suddenly frowned and felt quite a huge pressure overwhelm her shoulders for a moment; to which she then rose her sword in her right hand and yelled out to charge before taking the lead herself!

It was an intense moment created from a pause, a silence; and as both parties took less than 25 seconds to almost reach each other, a sudden flaming explosion that was mainly a source of light occurred and invaded everyone's eyes including the crowd around the arenas. It was situated right in the middle of the entire arena, right where both Associations were going to meet.

And... it just so happened that right after that sudden flaming explosion went out, Yun Beishang saw a familiar scene unfold.

Little Yao Yao Yao, Godly Elemental Divine Citadel!

PAK-KA... TSHIIIIN~~!!!

In one mere moment, an entire citadel that was 270m x 270m big materialized in front of anyone and, its one and only Core Element used for its immediate construction was that of the Fire Core Element. At the sight, Sylda was utterly impressed, her beautiful pitch-black eyes in-game turned quite incandescent from the flaming scenery unfolded before her.

But as a Leader, Sylda maintained her stance and still rushed madly at the citadel before her without uttering a word to her people; as her people didn't needed because they had full trust in her and Sylda wasn't worried because she had full confidence in them!

And just as Sylda made her way into the citadel, she saw the godly-angelic image of Yao Yao who had her eyes turned into fiery, beautiful combination of red and orange as well as golden and to her back were a couple of ethereal fiery wings of a golden-orange tone. Seeing this, such a beauty, floating in the sky all mightily and without worries after appearing out of nowhere; made Sylda stop on her tracks for a little while. Enough for all members of The Order to be more than ready and positioned for the assailing of all the members of the Imperishable Guild.

As Sylda was looking above in the sky, the footsteps of her people awakened her back to the present to which she then lowered her gaze, and met Diana's who was calmly standing just 100 meters before her and with a group of 7 maids with their classes varying in-between Mindless Slaughter Swordswoman, Grand Spear Dao, Close-Combat Mage, Half-Immortal and even Anima Soul.

As for Sylda, though she also had an even greater variety for melee ordinary classes, she had them all with pole arm proficiency and mastery as well as with ordinary skillsets for pole arms despite the different preferential weapons from their own classes. And just as the battle was about to start with Diana and the Maidens behind her taking a few steps forward towards them, Sylda acted.

Bvvvooong~...KSHANG!

Immediately, all of the armored horse legged players got an extra few pieces of armor to themselves, some had shoulder pads, some had a torso or half of it, some even had a crotch piece or a buttocks-piece; but all of them, without one of them missing, had an image of a different weapon or set of weapons in their hand or hands. Ethereally, as if it wasn't there, but at the same time, as if it was complementing them by changing the nature of their retractable spears to their preferential weapon.

This was the type of synergy that Yun Beishang was thinking of, and Sylda even used the one that was the most fearful of them all, it allowed all of her people connected to her Imperishable Legendary Hidden Class skills to also turn 'Imperishable'!!

Though it was for a short period of time, to that of 100 seconds, all of them had the same qualities and advantages that she had as the Imperishable Legendary Hidden Class that Sylda is. Though it was much more lower than the real deal, it was nonetheless, like having an extra Legendary Passive Class added to her 50-player group in but an instant and without side effects, that was just wonderful!

But, Diana who witnessed all of this and though she didn't had a Title nor enough Mental Power to see all of this like Yun Beishang could, she was way too comprehensible to not notice the danger that those ordinary players could now bring to her Order. But she remained professional, and as always, with an experienced and calm expression on her face as she faced them.

At this time, the TV screen showed many other figures coming from all sides as they all had some flaming energies coiling around each other. Sylda and the members of her Association lifted up a right or left eyebrow at this, and without needing to communicate verbally, only a mild glance was needed for them to change their positions to receive the incoming new Order members.

Yun Beishang smirked at this scene, a quick-paced brutal battle was about to unfold, and he could already sense Sammy marking her next few targets while boringly puffing out strands of air from her mouth right next to a few Imperishable Guild members but no one was noticing her. At the same time, he checked with the remote control Sash's side, in which she was slightly hidden behind a few flaming towers, kneeling with her hands harshly grasping at her wonderful long spear that her beloved created for herself.

Both commanders, at the same time, initiated the beginning of this more than amazing 'final skirmish'. Diana's order was slightly longer, but her movements were the fastest as she approached Sylda in but a mere moment!

"GO!!"

"Go! Fight!!"

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Let It Rain's Note: The 16th placements title is for the fact that they had already won. Next chapter will be the end of this 32nd placements battle arena and also, the more descriptive one (or the only one to-be) will be the final one that The Order fights, as I also need to give some 'screen' (?) to some other groups ^_^.