Full-time: The Strongest Sniper

In this round, Happy's opponent was a player team called Rift Team. Even so, Xiao Nai and Ye Xiu still watched their previous match videos. However, this time it was Qiao Jingjing who found the team's information first. It turned out that although it was a player team, it was actually a team formed by online streamers. Xiao Nai was quite surprised by this; he didn't expect that the streamer profession he created would now be influencing the Challenger League.

These past few days, Qiao Jingjing has been watching Glory livestreams whenever she has free time. The streamers from the Rift team already have a certain level of popularity, and their recent victories have significantly increased their fanbase. Given their precedent, it's estimated that many skilled Glory streamers will participate in future Glory Challenge tournaments. Xiao Nai even wondered if the Challenge tournament might eventually become a league for non-professional streamers.

Of course, although they are all skilled streamers, their strength is only comparable to that of elite teams from various professional guilds. Compared to Xiao Nai and others, they are still just ordinary players. Therefore, the Happy team felt no pressure at all in this match.

But the situation was completely different for the Rift team on the other side. They were initially cheering when they saw that their opponents were none other than Excellent Era, but their cheers instantly vanished when they realized that their opponents were Happy...

After all, Zhang Jiale, Wei Chen, Lord Grim (who is suspected to be Ye Qiu), and Yi Xiao Nai He (who has defeated professional players) are all in Happy. In addition, Qiao Jingjing, who is currently very strong, is also very clear that they are no match for Happy.

In the ninth round, Happy swept their opponents without any suspense. As the competition progressed, Glory players' recognition of Qiao Jingjing's strength was increasing. However, some still expressed that as long as Qiao Jingjing did not personally compete in offline matches, her results should be questioned.

Although everyone now acknowledges that Qiao Jingjing has strong Glory skills, which was already proven during the All-Star event, some people still question whether she has reached the professional level.

Of course, this mainly refers to the paid haters from Qiao Jingjing's rivals. Don't be fooled by the fact that Qiao Jingjing hasn't filmed any new projects lately; her weekly competitions have actually increased her screen time. As a result, her TV dramas and movies released this year have benefited from the popularity of the show, giving her already excellent works even greater exposure. These are all factors considered in next year's award evaluations. Naturally, celebrities with similar resources or labels to Qiao Jingjing are unwilling to sit idly by, hence the numerous comments predicting the downfall of her career.

Qiao Jingjing didn't care about any of this, because Xiao Nai had told her about it long ago. The way to overcome these doubts was simple: just win a beautiful victory in the offline competition. After all, esports is a sport, and results are everything. As long as you achieve results, those so-called doubts will just be fuel for your future popularity.

Just after Happy swept their opponents, Team Excellent Era unsurprisingly crushed them as well, securing their place in the offline tournament ahead of schedule.

"Sigh~ If only Excellent Era could have been eliminated here." Chen Guo said with some regret after seeing the news of Excellent Era's victory.

Xiao Nai simply smiled at this, because he was very clear that apart from them, no other team could pose a threat to Excellent Era in this season's Challenger League, and that they and Excellent Era would eventually have a showdown.

The Christmas event for Honor will end on the 27th, marking the complete conclusion of the event.

All players who owned socks were waiting for the final moments of the event at midnight to maximize their profits. After all, they might be able to acquire even more socks during this time. The members of Team Happy were in the same boat. Although these matters could now be handled by the guild leader, Wu Chen, how could Ye Xiu and the others sleep soundly without personally making the selections and choices regarding the reward redemption?
During this period, everyone not only used their own accounts, but also created many alt accounts to participate in the activities. Even the limited-time training was completed on the event map.

The way to redeem the socks this time is very simple. Obviously, the creators realized that if they had made a special NPC for redemption, given the physical model of Honor of Kings, wouldn't the area around the NPC be overcrowded? So this time, the way to redeem the prize is very simple. Just use the sock in your backpack, and Santa Claus will fly above you on a sleigh full of gifts and drop the gifts directly into your backpack.

As midnight struck, countless Santa Clauses descended upon the glorious sky, instantly covering it with shimmering lights and dazzling aurora borealis. Gift boxes rained down on the players. Many tried to snatch them, but this was more of a cutscene; the gifts simply flew directly into the players' inventory, making them impossible to touch or claim.

This time, the rewards for redeeming honor items were extremely generous. Even purple-level equipment and items weren't qualified to appear on the system's announcement panel, but even so, the system's official WeChat account was still flooding the announcement channel at an alarming rate. Various orange-level materials, equipment, and even skill books were inundating the announcement channel.

The Happy Guild members reaped a rich harvest this time, handing over all materials and equipment to the guild. The only pity was the limit on the number of socks each account could possess, resulting in several alternate accounts obtaining skill books that couldn't be traded, much to Xiao Nai's frustration. Then, Xiao Nai shamelessly blamed this on Zhang Jiale and Wei Chen, who were in charge of the skill strategy team.

After all, if they hadn't yet figured out how to obtain all the skill books from level 70 to 75, they wouldn't be so short of skill points.

Zhang Jiale and Wei Chen rolled their eyes at Xiao Nai, but didn't say anything more. After all, their direct confrontation with Excellent Era was just around the corner, and they needed to collect enough data before the final battle so that Luo Ji could build a data model and maximize their skill points.

However, the equipment of the Happy team has been upgraded again. After all, the equipment rewarded for the first kill was limited and could not be used to equip all the Happy characters with level 75 top-level orange equipment. Now, however, they are all covered by level 75 equipment. In fact, everyone's weapons are self-made equipment developed by Xiao Nai. In addition to weapons, everyone also has a different amount of self-made equipment.

It can be said that the characters of Team Happy have now undergone a significant transformation, which is why Xiao Nai dares to directly mock Zhang Jiale and Wei Chen. After all, as the only self-made equipment developer in Team Happy, his achievements during this period have been quite outstanding. In comparison, their achievements in skill books are indeed somewhat lackluster.

This is why they could only glance at Xiao Nai, but couldn't say a word.

"Actually, encountering Excellent Era right now is the best outcome," Xiao Nai said, glancing at everyone's situation. (End of Chapter)