Chapter One: The Uncrowned Player Found a Crown

Three months earlier, Han Xiao had anonymously hired him to test it 470 times as a way to break a Korean team's containment formation. On stream the next day, Han Xiao had called it his own “flash of genius.” Lin Jin drove his sword downward. The statue turned to parry. Just before the blades touched, Lin Jin discarded his weapon and punched the statue in the chest. -1. Its last point of health vanished. For two seconds, the entire Cemetery was silent. Then all one hundred champion statues dropped to one knee. Golden patterns buried beneath the ash ignited in widening circles. Lin Jin's battered short sword dissolved into light and gathered into a dark-gold crown without a single jewel.