Acquaintance, is he crying after being beaten?

After the Ladder Match began, Lin Xuan was not in a hurry to fight.

He was currently a Master One-Star, so he could first play in the arena to raise his rank to King.

Professionals who want to earn honor need to accumulate battle points, which are arena combat power points.

In the regular arena above King rank, every victory adds points, and every defeat deducts points, with a maximum of three thousand points; the Ladder Match has a maximum of five thousand points.

In addition to this, there are performance points, with a maximum of two thousand.

This means that a normal professional's combat power is ten thousand.

Of course, ten thousand combat power cannot earn an Honor Medal.

To earn an Honor Medal, one needs to continue fighting after reaching the maximum points in these categories.

After reaching the maximum points in both arena modes, additional combat power will be awarded based on victories and defeats.

Among them, the Ladder Match naturally gives higher scores than the regular arena.

Without hesitation, Lin Xuan continued to choose the regular arena.

It was still not difficult.

The battle could be over in about ten seconds.

Similarly, after two promotion matches, Lin Xuan's rank successfully reached the King rank.

Since he hadn't played the Ladder Match, his arena combat power was still zero.

Lin Xuan first tried a regular arena match.

After defeating his opponent, his rank successfully reached King Two-Star.

At the same time, his arena combat power points also began to accumulate.

“Congratulations on your victory! Combat points +100, Performance points +100.”

“Current Combat Power: 200.”

“Even with an over-leveled instant kill, it’s still only two hundred,” Lin Xuan shook his head slightly.

It seemed there was still a long way to go before he could get an Honor Medal.

After all, according to the information he found, the top one hundred Necromancers in Jianghai City had a combat power of ninety-eight thousand.

As for the entire mage class, the highest combat power was one hundred twenty-five thousand.

“The city-level personal professional medal gives double experience, and the city-level general professional medal gives triple experience.”

“Ninety-eight thousand… it seems I still can’t relax.”

After exceeding the combat power point limit for the corresponding mode, the points gained would be significantly reduced.

Lin Xuan felt that before the World Exchange Competition at the end of the month, it might be difficult for him to obtain an Honor Medal.

After all, in the Ladder Match, he might encounter second or third-tier professionals.

Even if some attributes were balanced, anyone who reached the third tier was battle-hardened, some even having lived for hundreds of years.

Lin Xuan didn't know how long his winning streak would last.

He could only try his best.

“Matching opponent for Ladder Match…”

“Match completed. Opponent’s Ladder ranking: 21,205,616.”

“Twenty millionth place? Normally, since I’m starting for the first time, my ranking should be close to mine. Why is their ranking so high?”

Lin Xuan had just glanced at his own Ladder ranking.

He was ranked thirty-seven millionth on the Ladder.

This meant that out of nearly ten billion professionals globally, about forty-five million had activated the Ladder Match.

But in his very first match, he was matched with someone in the middle of the rankings.

It seemed he needed to take this seriously.

Lin Xuan glanced at his rage value, activated Lich King Form, and teleported into the arena.

“Good, the attribute boost from Lich King Form is still active.”

“Now, my two-hundred-fold Splitting Mount Hua damage will increase significantly again.”

The map selection was random.

Lin Xuan quietly waited for his opponent to enter the field.

“Go, Wanqiu sis!”

“Wanqiu must win!”

“Wow, the opponent’s armor looks so scary!”

Listening to the noisy sounds around him, Lin Xuan was slightly startled.

There was even a cheerleading squad in the audience.

Lin Xuan knew the rule that professionals were allowed to watch matches in the audience seats.

Watching required spending gold coins, and the higher the rank, the more money was needed.

Lin Xuan had never encountered this while playing in the arena.

He didn’t expect to encounter such a situation in his very first Ladder Match.

And it was even a family and friends cheering squad.

“But why does that cheering sound feel a little familiar?” Lin Xuan looked towards the audience seats with some doubt in his heart.

He saw that in the audience seats to his right, there were three to five young girls shouting and cheering.

Among them, a short loli with twin ponytails was none other than Guo Miaomiao, the senior sister who had guided him into the school earlier.

“If it’s her, then my opponent…” Lin Xuan turned his head.

He just happened to see his opponent who had finished selecting the map.

Shadow Assassin, Chen Wanqiu.

Well, it was indeed an acquaintance.

The map was selected.

Lin Xuan chose random.

Chen Wanqiu chose Moonlight Forest as her map.

For an assassin, especially a Shadow Assassin who had awakened the Shadow Shuttle skill, this map was absolutely the most suitable.

Chen Wanqiu’s luck was also good.

Since their map choices were different, under random circumstances, the map just happened to be Moonlight Forest.

Being able to reach this rank and ranking showed that Chen Wanqiu’s strength was not bad.

As soon as the match began, the opponent immediately activated the assassin’s exclusive stealth skill.

Lin Xuan also had a headache when he saw it.

He really didn’t have any large-scale crowd control skills.

However, just because he didn’t have them didn’t mean his contracted beasts didn’t.

Lin Xuan did not summon Irena.

Instead, he summoned his pet, Little Bone.

This was hatched from the Skeletal Dragon pet egg he obtained when he killed Irena.

Its appearance was a favorable manifestation of “blackening makes one ten times stronger, while whitening weakens one by three points.”

The other Skeletal Dragons obtained through the Undead Contract were three to five times larger than it.

Therefore, Lin Xuan named it Little Bone.

As soon as Little Bone appeared, upon receiving Lin Xuan’s instructions, it instantly unleashed Howl of the Mountains and Rivers.

This was a super large-area crowd control skill.

The first time he met Chen Wanqiu in the New Student Trial Secret Realm, it was also this skill that drew her out.

However, at that time, it was released by Irena.

As soon as the skill appeared, Lin Xuan instantly saw a figure swaying in place two meters in front of him.

It was clearly controlled in place.

Lin Xuan was not polite.

He immediately used Flash forward, followed by Splitting Mount Hua.

However, just as the skill was about to hit, the figure shimmered and disappeared from its original spot.

“An enviable skill,” Lin Xuan looked at Chen Wanqiu, who had re-entered stealth under the moonlit tree shade not far away, feeling a little envious.

“If I had Void Walk now, I should be able to catch up, right?”

As Lin Xuan was thinking, a dagger flew straight towards his face.

Good heavens.

This Chen Wanqiu was still so devious.

Lin Xuan slightly turned his body, easily dodging the attack.

Immediately after, he unleashed a close-range Splitting Mount Hua.

With a series of bangs, Chen Wanqiu crashed through several trees before finally steadying herself.

Her health bar was at one percent.

It was obvious she had equipment that locked her health.

In the arena, one could not open their inventory or use recovery potions.

Normally, in such a situation, the outcome was decided.

Chen Wanqiu surrendering would be the best choice.

However, Chen Wanqiu seemed to be a very stubborn person.

She struggled to get up and actually cast several healing skills on herself.

Then, she pursed her lips and entered stealth again.

An assassin learning healing skills.

Lin Xuan could only say, as expected of someone from one of the four great families.

Rich and arrogant.

Since that was the case, Lin Xuan prepared to finish her off with a Great Buddha Hand.

Lin Xuan gently raised his hand.

A huge golden palm condensed in the sky above Moonlight Forest.

“Fall!”

With a bang, almost all the trees in the entire Moonlight Forest combat area were flattened.

“What the heck, a rich tycoon, and they even have a health-locking item?”

Lin Xuan still hadn’t heard the victory prompt.

He simply didn’t waste any more time.

He directly summoned two more Skeletal Dragons and had them unleash Howl of the Mountains and Rivers.

Under the control skill, Chen Wanqiu’s figure appeared three meters away.

Lin Xuan used Flash, then followed with Splitting Mount Hua.

Chen Wanqiu’s figure flew out again.

“…”

Lin Xuan was somewhat silent.

He felt like he was being played by capital.

Was this the worth of a young lady from one of the four great families?

Chen Wanqiu still had health-locking items!

However… Lin Xuan looked at the rising Chen Wanqiu and scratched his head awkwardly.

He saw that after Chen Wanqiu got up, she covered her chest with both hands, looking wronged and teary-eyed.

Her eyes were even sparkling.

“Is she… crying?”

Lin Xuan recalled the position of his last palm strike.

He felt something was amiss…