Chapter Four: The Sixth Teammate

【Public identities established. Regional points: 0. Worlds requirement: 2400.】 【Qualifier Three will run beneath a public scrimmage. The Midnight layer is invisible to ordinary viewers.】 Pei Jin whistled. “Two matches at once. Our sixth teammate is learning to have fun.” That was what they called the system: their sixth teammate. It supplied a base, a schedule, and rewards, while remaining ready to delete any one of them. At 11:50 p.m., Echo began a streamed scrimmage against a second-division team called Iron Curtain. Viewers saw the standard Mirror Market map. Echo saw pale faces behind every shop window. At midnight, red text covered the broadcast interface. 【Qualifier Three: Mirror Hunt.】