There were three best performance videos from the Abyss Temple, with the first featuring Can Xin and a shield warrior named Fried Rice.
In the best performance clip, the shield in the warrior's hand emitted a crimson glow and suddenly struck an Alchemy Mantis, causing sparks to fly. The scene then abruptly changed.
The Alchemy Mantis was helplessly knocked into another Alchemy Mantis nearby, and the camera quickly zoomed past the gap between the two mantises, closing in on the Elemental Mage Can Xin standing behind them.
Can Xin's character had black hair and red eyes. Cold runes appeared on his hands, and as a smile appeared on Can Xin's face, the magical runes in his hands quickly formed into frost. The scene followed the release of an ice spike, rapidly pulling back as the ice spikes burst from the ground, instantly piercing and freezing the Alchemy Mantises into ice shards. The scene then froze at this moment.
Extreme Ice Banquet, a skill that Elemental Mages learn at level thirty-eight. Can Xin must have learned this skill early using some special equipment.
If we have to describe it, this segment is just a common scene where a shield warrior gathers enemies, and then an Elemental Mage wipes them out in one go.
But...
"The editing is so cool."
"Did the Abyss Temple have a professional field photographer? This is totally at the level of a game promotional CGI."
"Do we have such photographers?"
Mo Shigui listened to his teammates' discussions without saying much. This kind of footage, along with the editing rhythm, didn't seem like something a field journalist could produce just by carrying around camera equipment.
This was an official recording video. In Can Xin's highlight moment, with the camera close-ups and the quick-paced editing, along with the skill's performance itself, at the moment Can Xin unleashed the Extreme Ice Banquet, it was as if he were a legendary spellcaster who had mastered countless elements, capable of destroying all material and biological entities with a mere wave of his hand.
Such footage should only exist in game promotional CGI. In fact, these three best performance clips could already serve as promotional CGI for Holy Spirit, the kind of promotional clips that would make casual players want to buy the game after watching them.
Mo Shigui logged into YouTube, found the official Holy Spirit account, and located the video titled "Tower of Trial First Layer Holy Record - Abyss Temple."
There weren't many comments on the video yet, but Mo Shigui believed it wouldn't be long before the screen was filled with comments. Right now, there were already remarks like "Million-dollar editor" and "Stop trying to fool me with CGI."
"Captain, do we have one?" A teammate remembered that they had previously also secured the first-layer Holy Record.
"No," Mo Shigui searched the official website and was disappointed to see that the Dancing Nuclear Guild's name was nowhere to be found, as all the instance records had been taken over by Abyss Temple.
"Captain, how about we raid it again? We can't just give up in front of the Abyss Temple, right?" Ion Spark suggested.
"You just want to get on TV," Rain Song retorted mercilessly.
"Damn, don't you want to be featured in the best performance? I never knew players' battle performances could be used as CGI," Ion Spark shot back.
Impressive.
Mo Shigui watched the three best performance clips again. Even though he had been playing games for many years, the thought of his best moments in battle being so finely edited made him eager to give it a try.
To put it simply, no matter how impressive the Dancing Nuclear Guild was, it was still a group of young people with an average age of around twenty. Mo Shigui himself was only twenty-seven years old.
As young players, or rather as all players, what do they want most?
A chance to show off. Any player in any online game wouldn't miss an opportunity to show off. In MOBA games, ending the enemy with a pentakill, being top of the leaderboard with the most kills on the battlefield, or recording and uploading an outstanding performance to video-sharing websites for admiration...
These are all opportunities to show off that players never refuse. Mo Shigui knew the disappointment of having done a few incredible moves, only to have no one else notice.
But the Holy Spirit's best performance system seemed to... give Mo Shigui and a bunch of other show-off-loving players a big help.
It automatically recorded players' remarkable operations during instance raids and preserved them with CGI-level editing and camera effects.
Who could resist that?
Mo Shigui realized that if this Holy Record system had been launched earlier, players would probably have been thinking about how to perform cool moves during instance raids from the start.
The key point was that these highlights would be showcased on the Holy Spirit's official website for all to see.
Many potential players considering playing Holy Spirit are probably constantly refreshing the official website!
Mo Shigui knew that if he secured the Holy Record, or even all the Holy Records in Holy Spirit, the traffic and popularity it would bring to the Dancing Nuclear Guild would be... enormous.
First, he had to set the best time for each instance record!
"Let's raid it, why not." Mo Shigui felt his seldom felt passion rekindle.
"You're awesome, Captain!" Ion Spark cheered, but what Mo Shigui said next left him dumbfounded.
"Ion Spark and Bunny Fur, you two go rest for now. To break the Abyss Temple record, we need a change in lineup." Mo Shigui said.
"Huh? Captain, you... that's not fair! Aren't I the highest DPS in the team?" Ion Spark was eager to be featured in the best performance. His mind was full of cool moves he hadn't yet executed when Mo Shigui kicked him out of the team.
"Our previous record wasn't the limit, but if we want to set a record that Abyss Temple can't break, you and Bunny Fur's operations are... not precise enough." Mo Shigui hesitated but chose the term "not precise enough."
"The captain thinks we're noobs." Bunny Fur understood what Mo Shigui meant.
"We're noobs, Captain, don't you intend to pull in some professionals? Are they those pros?"
Ion Spark didn't dare to complain further. Mo Shigui was a coach for a professional team, and Rain Song was a retired pro player. Who knew how many pros the two of them knew.
"Not sure, I need to ask... Also, I read the Holy Record rules. As long as more than half of the team are guild members, the guild's name can be listed on the Holy Record, so hiring external help is allowed," Mo Shigui said.
"Abyss Temple might be doing the same thing, inviting their pros to run instance records." Ion Spark suddenly realized Abyss Temple could do the same.
"They're already doing that. Can Xin and Wu Yan are retired pros. Next, we might see a warrior named Anemia and a sniper named Arrogant, making it an all-star team," Mo Shigui explained.
In the professional circle, Abyss Temple was jokingly referred to as Evil Valley because their players' IDs were all like this with disabilities.
"I've always been curious if there's a healer named Steel Plate?" Ion Spark asked again.
"There is," Mo Shigui confirmed.
"Setting instance records in Holy Spirit feels like competing in the All-Star League for Dispute." Bunny Fur said quietly.
"The flames of war have ignited. All major guilds will go all out," Mo Shigui said, "If I weren't worried about my boss docking my pay, I might have pulled in our active pro players. But of course, that's just a spur-of-the-moment thought."