Chapter 429: Temporal Rewind

Chapter 429: Temporal Rewind

At the awards ceremony.

The Dwarf Empire team, as the runner-up, didn't even have the qualification to step onto the stage.

The team competition was different from the individual competition.

In team competitions, aside from the champion, the other ranks like runner-up and third place often had an element of luck.

In the individual competition, the ranking was much more significant due to the group stage mechanism, making the top two places highly valuable.

Additionally, team competitions involved too many participants.

As a result, the event organizers couldn't afford to give out so many rewards.

If you gave a B-level skill book as a reward to the runner-up, people would call you stingy.

But if you gave an A-level skill book, it might feel like the runner-up didn't deserve such a high reward.

So, they simply chose to reward only the champion, leaving the other teams out.

At this moment.

The same three familiar figures took the stage to present the awards.

Mr. Liu Jinglong, the Vice President of the Global Transfer Association.

Ms. Daphne, from the International Sub-Professionals Association.

And Cathy, the honorary president of the Global Adventurers Association.

Interestingly enough…

Perhaps deliberately, Cathy wore a red qipao, a traditional Dragon Kingdom dress, as she walked onto the stage in high heels, with a charming smile on her face, standing right next to Ling Zhan.

The red qipao even had a golden five-clawed dragon embroidered on it.

Paired with Ling Zhan's Dragon Kingdom battle robe, her tall, supermodel-like figure made it almost look like they were a couple to some spectators.

Li Chaoge frowned, quickly standing on Ling Zhan's left side, glaring warily at the older woman.

"Congratulations on winning the championship!! Well done!"

"You are all the pride of the Dragon Kingdom!"

As a fellow Dragon Kingdom native, Liu Jinglong couldn't hide his joy when he took the stage.

However, despite the praise from this top-tier figure.

The members of the Dragon Kingdom team sighed quietly.

Sigh!

Throughout the entire team competition, it seemed like they hadn't even fought more than five times.

Saying they won the championship by doing nothing wouldn't be far off.

While everyone sighed.

Ms. Daphne was already stepping forward with an assistant, bringing out the pure gold championship trophy.

It's worth noting.

The trophy wasn't made of ordinary gold.

Instead, it was crafted from a rare S-level metal.

However, no matter how rare the material, you couldn't just melt it down.

What followed was the usual formalities and congratulations.

Leaders from various nations offered brief speeches of congratulations.

Prince Saint Louis of the Holy Light Empire, as the host, personally took the stage and delivered an incredibly long and tedious speech.

While congratulating the Dragon Kingdom team, it was obvious that Prince Saint Louis was gritting his teeth through his words.

Finally, they moved into the photo session.

After all the dry formalities ended.

Under the expectant and joyful gazes of the crowd.

Several beautiful women in Dragon Kingdom qipaos walked up with ornate boxes.

The organizers had prepared these women to wear the national attire of whichever country won the championship.

"You've got to admit, the Dragon Kingdom's qipao is the best-looking!"

"Yes, it combines elegance and sensuality."

"When I get back home, I'm buying one for my wife to wear at night."

"Hmm? Why only at night?"

"..."

"Before we hand out the rewards, I have an announcement to make!"

"The FMVP of this year's team competition goes to Ling Zhan!"

Liu Jinglong took the microphone and made the announcement.

Whoosh!

The crowd burst into applause.

No one was surprised by the FMVP selection.

It was completely expected.

If Ling Zhan hadn't been chosen as FMVP, that would've been a real scandal.

"Alright, first up are the skill book rewards. Open them now!"

Ms. Daphne said with a smile.

Click!

At that moment, fifty qipao-clad women simultaneously opened the ornate boxes.

"Holy crap!"

"It's the S- level universal skill, 'Temporal Rewind'!"

As soon as they saw the glowing skill book inside, the audience and even players from other countries couldn't help but exclaim in shock!

[Temporal Rewind (S-): You will return to the state you were in four seconds ago. During the rewind, you are immune to all damage and cannot be targeted. Upon successfully rewinding, a reverse time air explosion will occur at your original location, dealing massive damage to enemies in a certain area.]

Remarks:

1. This skill only applies to yourself; any equipment or items you lost or destroyed four seconds ago will not be restored.

2. The cooldown for this skill is 5 minutes.

3. The cooldown time will not be affected by the 'rewind' effect.

This skill book is obtained from the level 100 legendary secret realm dungeon 'Time Wormhole.'

Currently, the Global Transfer Association controls this secret realm dungeon.

This skill book is an incredibly rare time-based universal skill!

And remarks 1 and 3.

Clarified that when using this skill, all of your own states, including health and cooldowns, will revert to what they were four seconds prior.

But the cooldown for this skill itself won't reset.

Otherwise, it would break the game, allowing endless uses.

"I'm speechless! In past team championships, they only gave out A+ level skill books!"

"And now they're giving out an S- level skill book this year! It's unfair!"

Someone complained in disbelief.

"Well, it's probably because Liu Jinglong specifically requested it after seeing this non-specialist from the Dragon Kingdom. The crazy part is, the request was approved!"

"Liu Jinglong is a crafty one! Other countries won championships before, and he never requested anything. Now that his own country won, he goes and pulls strings!"

"Alright, enough complaints! Do you even know what contributions Liu Jinglong has made to all races? He earned this! Stop whining!"

"..."

All the members of the Dragon Kingdom team were overjoyed when they saw the skill book.

None of them had expected the reward to be the 'Time Wormhole' S-level skill book!

The annual supply of these books is already small.

And this time, they brought out fifty of them as rewards!

This must have emptied the inventory.

However...

This also showed how much importance the officials placed on this event.

"Alright, everyone, go ahead and use the skill books right now."

"It'll make it easier for the staff to record."

Liu Jinglong said with a calm smile.

Everyone nodded.

Buzz!!

In the next moment, waves of mysterious energy rippled through the air.

Under the envious eyes of the crowd, every member of the Dragon Kingdom team fully absorbed and learned the skill.

The once-golden glowing skill books dimmed, turning into blank, useless tomes.