Chapter 377: Famous

At midnight on May 1st, Passing Rain and Laughing Soul did not go online because both of them did not register for the tournament . They were in a hurry to train, so they decided to stay away from the whole hullabaloo, leaving Brother Jue and Xiao Tan to focus on fighting their preliminary matches . But as the clock struck midnight, only Xiao Tan successfully queued into the preliminary channel . Feng Bujue, on the other hand, received an email from the system .

The subject of the email was: “Congratulations for being selected by the system as one of the VIP players . ” The content was equally succinct . “Dear Mr . Feng Bujue, you have been selected by the system as one of the seeded players for the Tournament for the Best . You will directly be entered into the Battle of the Butterfly and participate in the top one hundred and top fifty competitions . Good luck!”

The mail came at 1 am . Within a few seconds, the list of the ten VIP players were announced on the official website . They were respectively: Sky-Swallowing Phantom Dan, Lying Drunk, Shiva, Yama, Bladeless Swordsman, Uncle Worthless, Xu Huai Shang, Zombie Blade Victor, Matcha Cookie, and Feng Bujue .

After the news was announced, in about three minutes, Feng Bujue’s friend request, mailbox, and duel request lists were flooded by strangers . It was as if his mailbox was infected by a virus . The emails did not come in single file . They came in page after page .

Before this, Feng Bujue had no idea how many emails would fill up one page in the game’s system mailbox . He would always delete emails after reading them, and he had never received a large number of emails at the same time before . Whether he liked it or not, he got something that he did not ask for . A page within the mailbox could show only up to thirty emails in one page, and the platform would also show the first sentence of each email . That night, from midnight until 1 am, the amount of mail Feng Bujue had received reached over a thousand pages . The code of the pages showed 1, 2, 3, 4… 999 pages . If he did nothing, it would not be too long before it went up to more than two thousand pages .

“This game’s system sure is powerful,” Feng Bujue said as he stood staring at the screen . He looked through the pages of emails that he had received over the past few minutes . A normal online mailbox typically has two to three GB of storage and mailboxes in-games are usually smaller, and some even have limited storage . He had already received more than a thousand emails, but the platform is still accepting more . Actually, this was totally expected . In reality, of the ten VIP players, Feng Bujue was the most harassed . The reason was simple . Before the list was announced, he was a completely unknown player . No one had heard of his gaming ID before, so the other players naturally became very curious about who he was .

Let us look at the current combat stat ranking: First-Phantom Dawn (Regulation), Second- [Hidden] (After the list was announced, most players suspected this mysterious player was Brother Jue), Third-Shiva (Brahman), Fourth-Lying Drunk (Regulation), Fifth-Uncle Worthless (This was a professional player not affiliated to any gaming studio), Sixth-Smiling Divine Question (Jiang Hu), Seventh-Vishnu (Brahman), Eighth-Brahma (Brahman), Ninth- Understanding Death (Regulation), Tenth-Bladeless Swordsman (Jiang Hu), Eleventh-Sashimi (Regulation), Twelfth-Yama (Brahman), Thirteenth-Zen Dream (Regulation), Fourteenth-[Hidden] (This was one of the VIP Players, Xu Huai Shang), Fifteenth-Flashes of Sword (Jiang Hu), Sixteenth-Seven Kills (Blade Edge), Seventeenth-Matcha Cookie (Mountain River), Eighteenth-Zombie Blade Victor (Zombie Blade), Nineteenth-Not a Scaredy Cat (Jiang Hu), Twentieth-Pegasus (Celestia) .

After the Battle of the Cowl, Brother Jue used the buff from Soul’s Eye and carved a bloody road for himself, causing Shiva, Understanding Death, and Seven Kills to drop by one spot . Not a Scaredy Cat, who was originally at the twentieth spot, rose to the nineteenth rank, proving that she had gained more strength during this period . King of Shadows, who was originally on the nineteenth spot, had fallen out of the top twenty ranking . Of course, the ranking did not mean anything during an actual battle .

For example, there were two players, with one ranked 50th and the other ranked 80th . The player on the 80th had a mastery or fighting style that happened to hinder the player at rank 50 . If they battled, the chance of victory for the lower-ranking player would be much higher . But this would not change the system’s ranking because the system’s calculation depended on how many times you could win in a possible numerical sequence of battles . Even if you could win a single person in a short amount of time, it did not matter . In other words, the system’s rating method was to take out the two players’ data and then place them into a battle simulation, hence coming up with the result in terms of overall probability . That is used as a basis to form the ranking . Perhaps the lower-ranking player would win a hundred times against the higher-ranking player, but that was pointless in factoring the players’ ranking because players would be sent to fight in one hundred killing games with random players . In the end, probability-wise, the lower-ranking player would end up with a higher number of victories . That was why he would be ranked higher than the one on the 80th rank . That player would win in a fight every single time . For the photon computer, this was just a matter of math .

But now, back to Brother Jue .

It was clear that the other seed players were all famous characters . Even though Xu Huai Shang had chosen to hide the name on the ranking, her situation was rather unique . Even though she was not shown on the ranking, she was a celebrity player . The reason why would be explained later . In conclusion, of all the VIP players, Feng Bujue was the one who was relatively unknown . He came out of nowhere . Naturally, the player base and the public became hesitant, and they became quite suspicious of him .