Online Game: My Decay Drives the Entire Server Crazy

Chapter 58: Lin Ye sweeps the dungeon in one minute and wins the server championship.On the night the preliminaries ended, the entire server was discussing the final bracket. Lin Ye’s team ranked first with a time of 28 minutes, while Qin Wentian’s team ranked eighth with 51 minutes, barely squeezing into the finals. Eight teams, a knockout format, head-to-head duels, winners advance until the champion is decided.

Qin Wentian stood in the Main City Square, staring blankly at the bracket. His opponent was the fourth-ranked team; they were strong, but not without opportunity. If he won, he might face the second-ranked team in the semi-finals. If he won again, he would face Lin Ye in the finals.

”There is still a chance,” he told himself.

He opened his friend list and sent a message to the four mercenaries. ”Finals tomorrow, log on early.” No one replied. He sent it again; still no reply. Gritting his teeth, he transferred 500,000 gold coins to each of them. This time, someone replied. ”Received. We’ll be there on time tomorrow.”

Qin Wentian looked at the cold replies, feeling uneasy. But this was his only hope, and he had to seize it.

At 2:00 PM the next day, the finals began on time. A massive virtual screen appeared above the Main City Square, broadcasting the live combat of the finals. Millions of players across the server flooded into the spectator system, and the number of online users broke the highest record since the server launch.

In the first round, Lin Ye faced the eighth-ranked team. The captain of that team was an Assassin with the ID ”Dark Night Walker,” ranked in the top 20 of the server. He stood at the dungeon entrance with his four teammates, and his expression turned grim upon seeing Lin Ye approach.

”Brother Ye, please go easy on us,” Dark Night Walker said with a wry smile.

Lin Ye laughed: ”Don’t worry, I won’t make you lose too miserably.”

[System Prompt: The match has begun. Both sides, please enter the dungeon.]

Lin Ye led Su Qinghan, Fatty Wang, and Qin Wentian (referring to Qin Wentian’s subordinate, a Commoner Supermarket employee) into the dungeon. The opposing five-man team entered simultaneously. Dark Night Walker had come up with a tactic—avoid a head-on collision with Lin Ye, take a detour, and try to beat him on time. But he forgot one thing: the space-time judgment dungeon only had one route; there was no way to bypass it.

For the first wave of mobs, Lin Ye raised his hand, applied 500 layers of debuff, and instantly killed them. On Dark Night Walker’s side, they were still hacking away at the first monster, while Lin Ye had already run to the second wave.

Second wave, three seconds.

Third wave, two seconds.

First BOSS, five seconds.

Dark Night Walker had just finished the first wave of mobs when a system prompt popped up—[Player [Ye]’s team has cleared the dungeon, time taken: 1 minute 03 seconds.]

The dagger in Dark Night Walker’s hand dropped to the ground. He looked at the timer, then at the second wave of mobs in front of him that they hadn’t even finished fighting, and he was completely stunned.

”One minute? Is this something humans can do?”

His teammates were also dumbfounded. They knew Lin Ye was strong, but they didn’t expect him to be this strong. Clearing the highest difficulty dungeon in one minute wasn’t just a matter of skill anymore; it was dimensional reduction warfare.

[world channel]

[Player ”Wocao Wuqing”: One minute? What did I just see? Brother Ye cleared it in one minute?]

[Player ”Brick-Moving Expert”: It takes me ten minutes just to clear the beginner dungeon, and Brother Ye clears the highest difficulty in one minute. The gap...]

[Player ”Invincible Sword God”: It’s not one minute, it’s one minute and three seconds. But what’s the difference?]

[Player ”Yes Little Follower”: Brother Ye is awesome! The championship is in the bag!]

When Lin Ye walked out of the dungeon, Qin Wentian’s team was still fighting the first BOSS. He heard the system prompt, and the sword in his hand paused for a moment.

”One minute and three seconds...” he muttered to himself.

He thought the equipment he bought with a large sum of money could narrow the gap, but reality slapped him hard. The gap hadn’t narrowed; it had widened. Because Lin Ye was also improving, and his rate of improvement was much faster than his.

”Guild Master, should we keep fighting?” the tank asked.

Qin Wentian gritted his teeth: ”Fight. Finish it.”