CH 16

Name:Sweet Alpha Author:
Spoils of war 

Editor: MinMin 

Ryan’s finger went across the glowing screen, constantly switching between various cool mech skins. Many of them were limited editions that could only be obtained after gaining a certain level of battle honor. They could not be bought with money. 

This account was at the highest level, King, but it meant nothing to Ryan. 

He just thought the special effects were very cool. 

As for the skill effects, job combinations, and faction strategies… 

How would he understand a single thing? He was only an omega. He was not interested in fighting and killing, but acted interested because he was indulged by the Lord Marshal. 

He was definitely a wise and kind partner. 

Yan Weiliang gave himself a full grade. 

Chu Yuwen’s attitude toward him was also quite strange. 

Maybe the Marshal valued him, but that did not feel like the right thing to do. A few days ago, he was left at home like a decoration. But even if the Marshal acted indifferent, he showed unintentional tenderness. 

Chu Yuwen’s attitude towards outsiders was never this gentle. 

The light in Yan Weiliang’s eyes flickered. He wanted to test Chu Yuwen’s tolerance for him. 

He was happy to step on Chu Yuwen’s bottom line.  

When Chu Yuwen became unhappy, he would be the happy one. 

Ryan exited the cosmetic section and opened the inventory, checking Chu Yuwen’s weapons. 

Ion cannons, shotguns, railguns… All of them were powerful, well-designed, and expensive. 

He also saw many familiar items inside, such as a Universal Shield and a Thousand Chance Umbrella. 

And… a Fuxi zither. 

Why are they so familiar?

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Among the two hundred and fifty-six jobs that can be chosen, bard is one of the few unremarkable ones not with Yan Weiliang. 

As soon as he pulled out his SSS-level mental power, he would play the pacifist bard like a god of war. The bard player, Liang Shangyan, single handedly took victories in the arena, sweeping across like a reaper, totaling all the points in the large faction war as MPV, becoming the top of the list as combat bard, and topping the second bard on the list by dozens of galaxies. 

He was on par with Wen Buyu, a swordsman of the swordsman class, a job known to have high attributes and combat power.  

They belonged to the same human race, but they chose different factions. One chose the imperial royal family, and the other chose the imperial military—the game’s power division was linked to the real world, so the reason why this virtual game has not died out yet is because all the major forces in this game have invested their own resources, which could be regarded as a contest of strength in the virtual world. 

If there were strong players without a faction, they would definitely be approached by all the major forces. After all, the strength of the characters in the game was linked to the user’s actual mental and combat powers. If the player was strong in the game, it meant the same held true in reality. 

To put it bluntly, this game was also a way to recruit talent. 

Liang Shangyan and Wen Buyu were two of the strongest fighters in the Galactic War. In the faction wars between the royal family and the military, they had to fight each other, often resulting in ties. Sometimes one side narrowly wins, but the next time the other side will win it back.  

The top management of all the major factions knew very well that Liang Shangyan was the Third Prince, Yan Weilaing, and Wen Buyu was the Marshal, Chu Yuwen, since it was not possible to find such a strong and equal pair in the whole empire. 

Yan Weiliang and Chu Yuwen obviously knew who was playing behind the avatars. 

Yan Weiliang registered the game a few days later than Chu Yuwen. When he started playing, Chu Yuwen was already an undefeated legend with eight hundred consecutive victories in the arena. 

At that time, Yan Weiliang had just started the game after two hours. Without completing the main quests or leveling, he went directly to the arena to challenge Chu Yuwen.  

The newly created account wore only the starting equipment, which included the weapon, which was the beginner bamboo flute. To dare to challenge the invincible myth was simply a hilarious joke. No one knew where this fearless noob came from. 

The crowd of onlookers was waiting for a funny match. 

Chu Yuwen guessed the identity of the challenger. For the sake of fairness, he also removed all his equipment and replaced his weapons with the beginner’s wooden sword. 

The two sides fought in the most primitive way.  

That is to say, it was a battle only based on the actual mental and combat powers. 

In the end, it was Yan Weiliang who took the victory, ending Chu Yuwen’s winning streak as the count returned to zero after the eight hundred and first match. 

Then Chu Yuwen’s beginner wooden sword belonged to him. 

A game feature in the arena was that the loser would randomly drop a piece of equipment, and the winner would take it as a reward. In the best-case scenario, it is something the victor can use, if not, they can choose to sell it.  

Those who do not have a single piece of equipment on them would be denied entrance to the arena. 

Afterward, Chu Yuwen and Yan Weiliang fought numerous times in the arena, with a winning rate of fifty-fifty, but none of them could win more than three matches in a row. The two most powerful players in the game have such a bad record of winning streaks, but no one dared to laugh. After all, they were not fighting against ordinary players. 

After hundreds of fights, Chu Yuwen won many items from Yan Weiliang, and Yan Weiliang also picked up countless pieces of Chu Yuwen’s equipment. 

Having different jobs and specializing in different paths, getting each other’s equipment was useless. However, being able to snatch it from the other party gave a great sense of accomplishment, and it looked good collecting dust and filling up space in the inventory.  

Ryan looked at the familiar equipment in the inventory. These were Chu Yuwen’s spoils of war, as well as the shame of his defeat. 

Although his backpack was also filled with Chu Yuwen’s things, he would rather lose space in inventory than sell or destroy them. 

But Yan Weiliang also did not want his things to appear in Chu Yuwen’s inventory. 

Other than that, this Thousand Chance Umbrella and Fuxi Zither were the most handy weapons he ever had. Fuxi Zither in particular, took a lot of effort to forge. When Chu Yuwen got it, he was so angry that he exited the game.  

Then the next day, when he came back to the game, he hit back harder and won Chu Yuwen’s favorite weapon, the Changyang Sword. 

Ryan clicked on the Fuxi Zither and four options in small characters appeared next to the weapon—[Equip. Fragment. Reforge. Destroy.]. The first line was gray because swordsmen could not equip bard weapons. 

Ryan lowered his eyes and did not hesitate to click the last option. 

It was his. He would rather destroy it than let Chu Yuwen have it.  

Chu Yuwen’s face changed. “Ryan, stop—”

[Are you sure you want to destroy ‘Fuxi Zither’?]

Before Ryan could click on [Yes], Chu Yuwen snatched the optical computer back, leaving Ryan empty-handed. 

Ryan turned to the other with a puzzled look. Chu Yuwen’s eyes were slightly cold, and his face was unsightly.  

Ryan tilted his head and looked very innocent. “I did not see what I was clicking earlier. When I saw a box pop out, I wanted to click on yes…did I do something wrong?”

Chu Yuwen calmed down, looked at the screen, and clicked [No], breathing a light sigh of relief. 

“No, it is nothing important. If you do not get the game, you do not have to play it.” Chu Yuwen changed the topic, “What is your personal terminal? I just remembered that we have not added each other as friends. I will add you.”

It was better for the little guy to focus on the chat app. He could not let him destroy items with this game. All the items in this inventory were very valuable… 

…that included the most worthless beginner bamboo flute. 

They were his spoils of war, a glory of his. 

“Oh, okay.” Of course, Ryan created a fake personal terminal, as he was smart enough not to dwell on what happened just now. 

Nothing important? 

Yan Weiliang lowered his eyes. 

But they look very important to you.