Four Split Personalities

Chapter 2571: Chapter 1214: Free-for-All Match · Mor_2

And Cordova stared in astonishment at Guxiaole, her smile blooming like a flower, and exclaimed, "Is this... the legendary love at first sight!"

"Ah? Sorry, Rain sauce, I don’t actually have any feelings for you three-dimensional men."

Guxiaole replied without thinking, then gave Motan a thoughtful glance and grinned, "Though Silent sauce sure looks like a nice person."

[Such a card!]

Cordova immediately gave Guxiaole a hundred thousand likes in his heart.

Motan, who was inexplicably given a good person card, then awkwardly yet politely smiled, saying nothing.

"Speaking of which—"

Guxiaole’s beautiful eyes flickered with curiosity, "Rain sauce, have you known Silent sauce for a long time?"

Cordova nodded matter-of-factly and laughed, "Yeah, Silent is the first friend I made when I started playing this game. I’m in the public space today because I’m accompanying him. Though, I ended up playing first myself..."

"How did it go?"

Motan couldn’t watch Cordova’s quick match due to Guxiaole’s interruption for a few minutes, so he directly asked.

"How else could it go?"

Cordova smirked and said irritably, "After matchmaking, I went straight into the game, and then the system went nuts, making me appear as a low-consumption Kobold form. I was so mad; I greeted the guy on the opposing team and then transformed into a Rune Body to crush him."

Motan: "Hmm, I feel like that guy you matched against was totally taking your anger..."

Guxiaole: "Wow! Rain sauce, you’re amazing!"

After this brief episode, Cordova explained to Guxiaole how he met Motan, even though he omitted a lot of unimportant details, which still took about fifteen minutes.

And after patiently listening to the whole story, Guxiaole finally confirmed that she indeed hadn’t met this Half-Dragon guy before, and today was their first encounter.

[But something somehow feels unlikely that simple...]

Even while chatting and laughing with the two, the girl didn’t dismiss the sudden sense of connection as an illusion; instead, she grew increasingly concerned.

Though it’s just a game, for Guxiaole, who has been dealing with quirky things since childhood and has a corresponding place on the other side of the world, explaining it away as an "illusion" is the most hazardous judgment.

For most ordinary people, things like the sixth sense or déjà vu are ethereal concepts. But if it happens to a genuine Onmyoji like Guxiaole, the component isn’t simple.

Simply put, for someone like Guxiaole, every discordant moment she senses must have a reason and effect.

Put more simply, it’s because she’s a legit Onmyoji that her sixth sense is incredibly accurate!

Already determined to keep a close eye on Silent sauce, she didn’t appear overly eager outwardly, as focusing too hard can lead to negative outcomes. So after a short chat, noticing Motan seemed in a hurry, Guxiaole cheerfully bid her farewell.

The reason was that she needed to have a heart-to-heart talk with one of her overly exuberant Shikigami.

After she left...

"Sigh~"

Cordova sighed deeply, placed his arm on the shoulder of Motan, who was a head shorter than himself despite being a tall Half-Dragon, and said helplessly, "Sister Xiao Le is really a good girl, pretty and with a great personality."

Motan shrugged and casually said, "Too bad she’s not interested in guys like us from the three-dimensional world."

"Even if she’s interested, I have no thoughts."

Cordova, catching the implicit meaning in Motan’s words, shook his head sincerely, "She’s Japanese-Chinese; she’s only here visiting relatives and on vacation. She’ll go back sooner or later. I can’t accept long-distance relationships, plus, it’s likely she doesn’t fancy us. Even if she does, personally, I prefer girls who give a protective urge."

Motan smirked and dryly laughed, "So what exactly are you trying to say?"

"Can you accept a long-distance relationship?"

Despite being an official member of the FFF Group, Cordova was enthusiastic about matchmaking. He smacked his lips and mischievously said, "Didn’t Sister Xiao Le say she finds you particularly comforting? Want me to introduce you, maybe get her number or something—"

"Not accepting."

Though not entirely against it, Motan opted to immediately block Cordova’s trail of thought, quickly pulling up the panel of indiscriminate matchmaking mode. While operating it, he said, "I’ll go and match up now; time is tight, and tasks are urgent."

Cordova wisely refrained from continuing the previous topic, merely weakly muttering, "Wonder what you get busy with in the middle of the night all the time."

"Just random stuff."

Despite this being a good opportunity to craft a flawless excuse using the ineffective "Knight’s Spirit - Honesty," owing to the soon-approaching time of meeting with Frank Hughes and Double Leaf, the rather rushed Motan responded perfunctorily. Then he pressed the [Match] button on the virtual screen and teleported to the system-generated temporary combat space.

What he didn’t know was that, one second later, besides Cordova, at least five thousand players simultaneously swarmed into that temporary combat room.

The reason was certainly not due to him, whom no one noticed, had almost never appeared in the public space, and wasn’t a famous player in the game.

...

[Combat space generated, Room Number: K307]

[Loading character data...]

[Generating random venue...]

[Load successful, preparing to teleport to the combat space]

[Combat map — Arena]

[Given that you and your opponent both use default settings, players who follow this virtual ID, [Andersen] (Random ID), can search for your match and spectate. Additionally, friends of character [Mute] can also spectate by operating from the attached item within the public space section of the friends list. To change, please return to login space to operate]

[You can view the relevant precautions regarding the indiscriminate match battle by clicking ※hyperlink※]

[Your opponent is: Red Constellation · Awakening Dragon]

[You have thirty seconds of preparation time]

...

As the system prompt vanished, when Motan regained control of his body, he was already surrounded by a vast arena even larger than the comprehensive Knight Combat Tournament finals.

Opposite him stood a human young man, just over 170 cm tall, with short black hair, a well-proportioned face, sharp eyes, and a handsome appearance.

The ID ’Red Constellation · Awakening Dragon’ was his name.

[Apparently... not fake...]

Fully aware of what the ID signifies, Motan took a deep breath, slowly raising his head; he realized two things as his eyes exchanged with those of the young man in white outfit not far away, around the same age.

First, the opponent certainly didn’t randomly pick an intimidating ID as a replacement, but was the genuine article.

Secondly, this genius professional gamer, who already gained fame internationally long before the Realm of Innocence’s emergence and is now the mainstay of the Red Constellation Club, steadfastly in the top ten of the Realm of Innocence comprehensive rankings, currently holding sixth place, [Awakening Dragon] is absolutely not a mere reputation!

He’s strong!

Very strong!

[Even stronger than the Snow Bathing Sword.]

Chapter Twelve Hundred and Fourteen: End