The Strongest 32 Associations
The Order wasn't the only Association whose Team in the Team vs Team segment that made it into the 16th placements of the Association vs Association segment of the Global Tournament; there were the most obvious ones like the Guerilla Guild, the House of the Knights of Raoundozia, the Sharpened Vanguard Hall, the Gold and Silver Guild, the Trinity Hall, the House Sunbreaker, even the Black Lotus and other such as the Divine Gates Hall.
Hell, even some like the Hundred Flowers Hall managed to get to the preliminaries and wee just a shy 2 victories away from managing to enter the 64th placements, even without them any longer having Sash, their prime and most perfect commander ever; only to have lost, of course, and also lost quite some fame due to even failing to get past the preliminaries.
In the previous Team vs Team segment, the Gold-Silver Team was first, the Knights of Raoundozia Team were second and the Quintessential Team was third, leaving the Guerilla Team in fourth place, to the pain and horror of many, of course. Similarly, such teams' Associations were also now inching closer to the 'finals' of the Association vs Association segment. So far, up to the 32nd placements, there was a bit of intensity and some excitement here and there but, unliked before; the 16th placements were even more raging and unbelievable as the Associations going against each others in this phase were more than top-priority that one would normally see only at the last few phases and not in the middle of it all, for example.
There was the incredibly shocking, unexpected and harrowing and distressing battle between the House of the Knights of Raoundozia vs the Guerilla Guild; yup, that way and just like that, these 2 behemoths that have been rivals as the best and top 2 Associations in the world in the player's eyes was 'prematurely' having their 'final' fight already unlike most fans who believed it would be in the finals.
Though there was quite the shockingly less amount of use of players this time around, the rivalry and the competitive spirit of these 2 Associations, forces; against one another was more than enough for even the fans of each to turn crazy, loco by spinning around on their seats at the crowds and for the viewership to either indifferently react and just waiting for it to unfold or as there was some hidden excitement and expectation from the Associations they've heard so much after digging just slightly into Rising Essence's matters, ah.
Another of such was the Gold and Silver Guild vs the Iron Will Sect; basically, a fight between Founding Clans. With the Sun Clan, already acclaimed as one of the best Associations from this Global Tournament and the Ross Clan, whose strength, though not impressive in the same terms as other Founding Clans in the tournament even as they were indeed pretty strong as a team, was also more than know now that both their Team and now their Association got so high up into the placements of the Global Tournament.
Then, there was the Sharpened Vanguard Hall vs the House Sunbreaker. Though the Gold and Silver Guild had the Lunatic Archmage and seemed to do just as fine as they did on the Team vs Team segment, on the other hand; the Sharpened Vanguard not only seemed to do even better with a much bigger number than just 10 members of such going against another 10 as well, but they also swiped through their enemies even through the last 2 placements phases as if all of their enemy Associations in this Global Tournament were nothing more than a regular Association going against the top-notch of the entire game which arose many support and cheering from the crowd.
Selina was the House Sunbreaker's leader, and just as she was as marvelous and enigmatic as Baston when it came to most players of Rising Essence who still had not had a chance to see her and her people in action that much and as even their previous Association vs Association fights weren't flashy at all, their going into this segment all the way to fight for the 16th placements was but one more of the greater eye openers for the viewership of New Earth and crowds at Main Kingdom.
The League of the Black Lotus vs the Frozen Maiden Sect was a battle that everyone else was also very inching to witness; as the strongest League known to date with the complete ignoring-operation against The Order, by the players, their strength was 'fully' shown off in this Global Tournament as they weren't as incredible as the Gold and Silver Guild nor the Sharpened Vanguard Hall when defeating their enemies. But still, they did so all the time and even in the same exact way, blowing away the minds of anyone that witnessed their fights as well as becoming mesmerized from it. Just how strong is the Black Lotus? Surely... they can't only just do the same strategy over and over again, right?
Anyways, another such 'epic final' battle was that of the Trinity Hall vs the Divine Gates Hall; an elite-pro player Association vs a Founding Clan's official Association. The Divine Gates Hall was already so very well known to be the Yun Clan's Association, if it wasn't that obvious from the way in which the 'True Dragon', aka the Yun Clan's Young Master who flaunted his Hall's position as the Hall Master in the 1v1 segment.
Tong Tao, the Leader of the Trinity Hall wasn't one to be nervous about this match up, but it wasn't completely the same for the rest of his team, even considering that of which were in the upper echelons of the Trinity Hall and close to himself. Even though he had full confidence that his people could deal with it and not fail him, the truth was that his Trinity Hall's morale was now low thanks to that...
Lastly, the second most worthy battle to speak of was that of the Golden Spirit Sect vs the Benevolent Kind Heart Sinners League... quite the naming sense, aye? This was also a battle between 2 different Founding Clans, one was the Jones Clan's Sect Association and the other was the Fosk Clan's League Association; respectively.
The Jones Clan brought endless streams of love, cheering, support and more than anything, panties. Because! The 51-player group of the Golden Spirit Sect was nothing else but 51 armed players wearing a mechanized ultra-tech from Main Kingdom, which was obviously much higher than that of New Earth's current and even 1-2-3-decade's future of it; and among them were 3 people wearing an incredible unique and potent Mecha who would always take a position in the middle of all their battles.
One of those Mecha-riders was none other than that horny young girl almost a fine young woman whom Yun Beishang and Yona saw flirt and wiggle on Jones Clem's disciple; student. Namely, she was Jones Clem's niece, Jones Reta, and her partner in crime was none other than Fass who is Jones Clem's one and only student who will most likely, presumably to take the role of the next Clan Head of the Jones Founding Clan.
Jones Reta was a Prodigy Pilot, her uncle, Jones Clem, was a Legendary Gunner and his student was a Fallen Hero. But just like the rest of them all, everyone wore the same mechanized ultra-tech armor to the battlefield, enchanting right away all men who ever laid their eyes on their 51-player group and slowly making those female specimens give in to the romance of mechas!
Lastly, but also the most obvious one, was the battle between the League of The Order vs the Glorious Gods Sect. Similar to the Sharpened Vanguard Hall, the Glorious Gods Sect make use of military strategy, taking too much 'goodwill' from advantages against the enemy Association and mobilizing of their players with utter calculation as well as not bothering about the risks of casualties involved in even the minor of tasks.
On the other hand, The Order was already magnificent enough in the Association vs Association segment's preliminaries and, now that they fought that one battle against the Imperishable Guild, their credibility to win over a few more matches was notoriously raised the fuck up. Naturally, this was due to the use of Yao Yao's Godly Elemental Divine Citadel from before, who instead of simply casting that skill for protection, The Order rather chose to use it for the annihilation of a fearful army of low-incomplete Legendary Hidden Classes.
It was no joke, when the crowd saw the Imperishable Guild's blatant op skill that allowed Sylda's people to turn like her, 'Imperishable'; most felt the bumps in their goose harder and harder on their skin, almost making them want to take a shower right away to get rid of the feeling. All of them, naturally, thought of the very same thing as any intelligent person would. Can that be used for more than just 50 players all at the same time, at once?
Hmm, anyways. Such were the last 32 Associations standing to vie for the firs place of the Association vs Association segment. And it was even more so for the battle between The Order and the Glorious Gods Sect, which the winner from it would have an opportunity to allow their Association to grow incredibly higher than even the rewards offered by the first place of the Association vs Association segment!
Now that there was something to lose, while also not even having it in the first place but whose only chance at getting it was to battle and win, no matter what. The dummy human nature of the crowd and the viewership turned even more incandescent, becoming even far more expectant than that of other battles of the 16th placements, and instead, becoming just a bit more than that of the House of the Knights of Raoundozia vs Guerilla Guild.
This 16th placements phase was bound to be the separating of between the strongest forces out there! Even though it was already strong vs strong, the weakest will be put down, and the stronger will continue to vie for more and more with thorough battling. Even though some may even lost to other who were just as strong, seemingly unfair to their 'true strength', they would still be the ones that didn't managed to overcome a strong foe already, not worthy at all.
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Peaceful Rain Villa, Living Room. It was 11:59 am as there were two people alone in the Living Room, cuddled together.
On a 4-seater sofa, Yun Beishang had his arms behind and to his sides, resting them onto the right arm of the sofa as it was placed with the left arm directly facing the extremely large TV screen. On top of his body, two huge, greater and fuller than meaty melons, rested on the right side of his chest and even hung out slightly over to the right of his body.
Ellie's body was thoroughly placed on top of the left side of his body with her plump bottom against the sofa's cushions, to the unfortunate Yun Beishang who wanted so badly for them to rest on himself instead. Even then, her massive mountainous prides of Heaven were still capable of even hanging out from the right side of his body, giving his ribs on that side the soft and warmest sensation ever.
They were both clothed, naturally, and as they both looked at the TV in front of them, Yun Beishang opened his mouth to ask while Ellie had her right ear onto his collarbone, hearing his heart beating and seemingly sensing his naughty mind being self-restrained all he could. "How is it going then, is Cindy doing good at the Crestfallen Industry? She hasn't logged on in a while..."
"Heh~," Ellie, still with her right ear on his collarbone, snickered playfully before squinting her eyes and then closing them to speak out. "She's fine~, 'that' age for her is coming, and the preparations have to be made. Mn, Bei Bei, if you need to take a huge and long trip away from here, would you please also bring her over? I am asking... just in case."
"..." Nor Yun Beishang nor Ellie were stupid; Ellie was also more than clear of Yun Beishang's thoughts and motives for the next few days and should already be aware of what he can do here on New Earth. There was no way for this conversation to speak of little things of life as if a bunch of married couples were now badmouthing one another after having met at a place. As such, he rubbed up and down Ellie's left upper arm with his left hand and took a deep breath, to which he then answered lightly. "Okay, I have no problems with it and instead, I'm more than willing..."
"...What is it?" Ellie maintained her silence for a good while but her breathing became visibly calmer; after a bit more of time, however, she lightly punched Yun Beishang's right chest and asked him with concern and her eyes rolling under her eyelids.
"Then, sigh, what about Nora? Nora Béart, you know, that incredible sexy, tempting and seductive young woman that is who knows how old and whose disappearance has left me hurting for quite a while...?" All Ellie did after hearing his words was to open her eyes... and blink, blink and oh, also to blink in slight speechlessness before answering her man's dumbest worries.
"Who knows... maybe you'll find something good on that 'travel' time? Hmmm, anyways, I'm feeling quite like a teaching so-and before anything else, nope! I didn't meant roleplaying; what I meant was, ask and I'll answer... if I c-" Yun Beishang suddenly interrupted Ellie who was already back into having her eyes closed and resting her right ear on his body, which made her lift up her body a little, frown at Yun Beishang and then bite his chin before going back to her resting mode. "If you can, I know I know... It's okay, I won't be pushy, Katia already showed me how to be patient, siiiiiigh~."
"...Hmph, okay." Grinning caringly towards her, Yun Beishang squeezed Ellie into a gigantic tiny ball as her mountains were shaped in many ways by his right arm over and over again, and he only stopped once she gave out the third sigh out of muscle relaxation. "Then, Ellie, please tell me if it would be okay to bring out Tonkia, and anybody else to New Earth."
"Oh! So you're finally showing concern for your about-to-be giving your children out into the world of the living wife from Main Kingdom? Wow, here I thought you were too busy thinking of younger women with seductive bodies too much, way to go, Bei Bei💓."
"..." Yun Beishang had nothing to say, he wasn't good with words, and he wasn't good with being proper. He could only be shameless and honest, and hope for people to not dislike him, kind of. Well, anyways, he still got so much pussy like this that he wasn't worried about them growing distant from him, besides... those women also looked for him, it wasn't his fault to grow confident, alright?!
"Cough, my lovely Ellie, you know I'm not like that. I don't cheat, I only recruit more fellow sisters for you, Natalia, Cyn and so on~." But who was Ellie? Naturally, Yun Beishang couldn't hope to outsmart her with just one sentence to either sent her into speechlessness or to make her fall into silence out of not knowing how to proceed. Instead, Ellie ruthlessly interrupted him with her nose closing his mouth and keeping it from opening as it laid on top of it at it center, and said with her eyes upturned at his, "Bullshit, Yao Yao is young, yet you still fuck her even more times than Estel. She is different too, you know? Estel can't take much of you, even Itnia can't, yet they are almost of the same age but you keep on pestering Yao Yao every 2-3 hours for a session of life-talking. Then there is Zi Fei and Xiao Ruo, what the fuck is that of being not a fucking-machine? But even then, you do not even get into Cyn's pants nor try to plow that desperate Sam who thirsts everytime she sees you. As for that Sash...y? Anyways, what are you waiting for? A miracle? A date? A natural disaster or something? Fuck her brains out! She is shy, not stupid! She's a woman, not a dating game character, fuck them all or I won't even let you touch my breasts anymore-aangh... I meant, after today, okay?"
Just as Ellie was lecturing Yun Beishang, his eyebrows jumped once as his hands snaked their way into her bosom just like they did when they first met, accurately and predatory-like. Reaching out to touch those boundless softness bags of meat, he implemented all of his skills, easily shutting her mouth up and forcing her to extend the time-limit of his new 'quest' and its conditions.
'Sigh... to think I'm still 'clueless' according to my lovely and adorable and also not at all bratty Ellie. Oh my, oh my...'
And just as Yun Beishang had his thoughts run amok as his hands gave Ellie the opportunity for her entire body to commence trembling for a dozen seconds for the second time in the same minute; the extremely large TV screen turned up as an endless plains filled with coliseums who in turn were full of arenas, appeared and made the eyes of the two of them to drift toward it.
On the screen, a simple message but that was impossible to miss due to it being the only thing showing as the camera angle went to show all the 32 remaining Association groups as well as some part of the few-billion large crowd all around the 8 arenas and the first 16 Associations then about to fight on it.
As many names from Associations appeared on the screen after a little while, along with the previous message from before; it was read as 'Association vs Association 16th placements commences in: 00:00:10' and then, one pair of the Associations names caught Ellie's and Yun Beishang's attention as well as anyone else watching this from their homes.
'The Order vs Glorious Gods Sect'
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Let It Rain's Note: Calm down~, they haven't forgotten about YB's question~.
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