Chapter 259: The Ice Age

Spades placed the metal box filled with strong acid on the alcohol lamp and loosened his thumb over the pressed hole.

The particles inside the box were corroded and turned into a viscous black liquid that flowed down his fingers like a very dark coloured blood.

The 'blood' drips onto the outer flame of the alcohol lamp and is burned again, giving it a peculiar flame-coloured reaction.

The original orange-red hue of the outer flame changes to an unsettling greenish-purple, jumping restlessly as the liquid drips from the box.

The dull green light of the fire reflects Spades' shadow shakily on the tent, which dances with teeth and claws as if Spades were hiding a monster-like spirit inside his body that was about to burst out of him during the burning of these particles.

The liquid extinguished the alcohol lamp three times as it dripped, Spades took it for granted and lit it again, waiting until he was sure he had burned all the liquid out of the box before he held the burning solid block of alcohol in his hand and extinguished it.

After packing the remaining alcohol and acid in the package, Spades changed his clothes, knelt down to lace up his snow boots, casually gathered a rash jacket and got up to gather the rest of the items, mainly the remaining acid, fuel and solid alcohol and some food.

--These supplies were bought and brought in by Spades at an outside shop.

The shop system is disabled in the game pool, but of course Spades will not normally need to carry food or a change of clothes for himself.

Because he's always been a quickie, in the words of his new teammate, the Inquisitor of the Gods - Spades likes to get through the game violently, which is good, but it's also bad because it destroys the integrity of the game.

Usually when Spades enters a game, the monsters can't even wait for him to eat his next meal before the game is already over with his absolute victory.

This is why, in the later stages of the training process, the judges of the Gods of Revolt were so anxious.

The Killer Sequence, last year's championship team, is undoubtedly a strong individual fighting force.

Last year's Killer Sequence was a dark horse to all the old guild teams, and I have to say that none of the five players were easy to beat, not to mention the perception-breaking top aces like Spades.

The long whip sweeps out in all directions.

Even the deer hunter's high-minded reformer had to grit his teeth and sigh, admitting that this guy didn't need any weapon modifications at all -

--Because the weapon is only an accessory to Spades, an optional add-on, and whatever weapon Spades uses, he himself is the most potent weapon on the league field.

No reformer has the courage to say that they can transform an existing Spades into a better weapon.

Because Spades is already the best.

--This is the common knowledge of all players in the game, like the unshakeable common sense that the earth is round and that the earth revolves around the sun.

But the Killer Sequence, a young championship team, has a rather fatal weakness - and that is the fact that all five players in the team are main attackers.

No shield, no control, no roaming, and the most outrageous point is that there is no tactician in the team.

Last year's win was due to Spades' sudden and overpowering performance, which caught the other teams off guard.

But after a year, this one-man tactic has gradually become less and less broken in the eyes of other guilds in group battles than it was at first.

Because while Spades is perfect, his teammates are not.

After a year of study and research, almost every guild team has developed a number of tactical guidelines based on the skills of Spades and their teammates, as well as each other's playing habits.

Hearts of the King's Guild have put their tactics against Spades out in the open - back-up nurse plus double control.

This tactic won't kill Spades, but it's enough to make the other four drink.

Just as all the guilds were gearing up to give the fledgling and determined Killer Sequence a real run for their money in the next tournament, Spades did something that once again blew everyone's mind - the

-- He poached the Deer Hunter's tactician, [the Inquisitor against the Gods].

The entire game's forums were in turmoil for a dimensional week, all discussing the matter, with almost every player putting a question mark under the announcement of the Slayer Sequence's acceptance of the [Inquisitor of the Reverse Gods].

What type of player are Spades?

Anyone who has seen him play will have a deep understanding of the man's "uniqueness". This guy is a fairly typical main attacker character, tripping mines, sweeping lines, pushing bosses at the bottom of the level, and beating his opponents in lightning speed to win, even posting an outrageous 1-5 record in the semi-finals.

In the absence of a tactician, Spades is the heart of the team.

But again, Spades was conspicuously remiss as the centrepiece, as he barely communicated with his teammates during the game, and of course when the other guild teams followed up with game replays, they had to admit that Spades really didn't seem to need to communicate with his teammates.

Because if he communicates, his teammates don't always follow him, so he simply doesn't communicate.

A man who, in a thirty-two to sixteen match, has a teammate fall in front of him begging for help, Spades can fucking look at him wrong, stabs him with a whip then reacts that he's stabbing his teammate, then immediately goes after the monster after apologizing without any sincerity, would take it upon himself to poach someone else's tactician?!

But no matter how unbelievable the audience was, [Judges Against the Gods] transferred to the Killer Sequence guild as promised, becoming the only non-main attacker - Tactician - in this outlandish team combination.

And the last thing you want to see in this scenario is the other guilds who have been preparing for most of the year to take down the killer sequence.

Because they know exactly how much of a boost the addition of [Inquisitor Against God] can be to a team with players like Spades.

The skill of [the judge of the rebel gods] is prophecy, and he is the best tactician in the game.

The strong combination of the best tactician and the best main attacker can't help but make all guilds desperate.

But soon this despair subsided.

For they were delighted to find that the two best, together, didn't work well at all!

He quickly developed a whole new training program after [the Inquisitor of the Reverse God] joined him, but it's working well so far ......

I can't say it's completely bad, only that it's a shambles.

He asked Spades to obey his command and not to leave the group to attack monsters or opponents until he gave the order, but Spades looked like he was listening, so he was relieved and carelessly put the man directly into the game pool.

Spades is like a wild fish out of water when he enters the game, he disappears in the blink of an eye.

The Inquisitor of the Gods broke down and searched for half a day, thinking that Spades had fallen into the game's trap.

In the end, he was dumbfounded to find Spades in the middle of a bloody mess.

Spades, his hands taut, strangled a monster's head with his whip, dropped it and then dropped it and hid it behind him, turning to look at them as if nothing had happened.

The blood on his eyelashes dripped down, but his face was breezy without a trace of embarrassment of being arrested on the spot, his voice was calm and slight: "Sorry, I just saw the monster, my body was out of control all of a sudden, so I went to kill it, it didn't affect your training plan, right?"

Meanwhile, the other four were briefed in their systems that

[System notification: Congratulations to player Spades for leading the team through the game! Game over!

Spades eases up: "...... Ah, so that's a win?"

Judges Against the Gods: "......"

The other three teammates: "......"

You're laughing, aren't you! You were laughing because you won, weren't you!

Do you want to win all by yourself! Show me a little team spirit!

Over the next few months of training in the game pool, [Inquisitor Against the Gods] was painfully refreshed by Spades in the definition of group play.

--That's a good look at Spades in a group, it's like a fucking war.

In a group fight, while painting monsters, while walking the main game line, whenever, wherever, every second, whenever any teammate doesn't keep an eye on Spades, this guy is gone!!!

By the time a group of people have scrambled to find Spades, there is usually a system announcement that the game has been cleared.

[The Judge Against God] was tormented to the point of nervous exhaustion.

Most of his forays into the game are not to predict the movements of his opponents or the main game line, but basically to find Spades.

Spades is like a child whose attention is drawn away from his surroundings at all times, a child who fights like a champ, moves at the top of the game, and is very competitive but outwardly obedient.

And he's the ungrateful parent who can't control his child and has to spend his days and nights in tears and then look for his lost child in the game like a cheap people finder GPS locator, or the vocal, vocally broadcast kind -

[Spades! Spades, where are you?

[Spades you come out! I won't force you to work with your teammates this time! It's all my fault for being the tactician! I didn't consider your feelings as the main attacker who wanted to win by himself! You're a good attacker, it's all my fault!

Come on out! We're going home! Let's not play games, okay?

After many such instances, [the Inquisitor of the Reverse God] weakly stated that he wanted to be quiet and left Spades alone to wander, no, to train outside, and then he took the other three remaining players to grind and train first, leaving Spades as [wanderer] to cool off for a while.

It would have been disconcerting to see an invincible ace put on the bench like that by a new tactician, but Spades took it well, and he really did listen this time and went off to train alone.

Spades is a very intuitive main attacker, which is recognized by the audience, his teammates and the prophet, the Judge of the Gods.

And the personal training ground he chose to rely on his intuition was this copy of Ice Age.

Spades had a vague sense that something in this copy drew him to it, as if there was a mission inherent in his existence that drove him strongly to this icy world and then to bring the evil things hidden within-

--Total destruction.