Total Victory
Amit was having a blast in the tournaments. You could not die here. You got ranking points, but could not die here, so if time allowed, you could kill all you wanted and not suffer any setbacks.
The point of the tournaments was just another game mode. While the first one was called being in the open world community, Amit and Xi and even Mitsuru and other gamers found solace in the online world of the internet tournaments in Eve, where they battled it out over fire and ice totems, and even got to use original, the communities terms for the only in the tournament power ups, that were used to increase your health, strength, defense or reflexes, and even your luck at times. Xi got a strength power up and committed himself to what he termed dominating other opponents. He was rank 1 again. He admitted he had not been checking the scores, what he called the scoreboard of loser's terms, the DELO ranking list. DELO stood for death elevator linking order. It was a linking order, or ranking list, the community was using in the game world with the dev team to track the statistics of who was being the best player. The highest kill count was the most satisfying term. The others were health gained, health lost, times defeated, and others like critter kill counts and offline database terms like time spent online last online, and time spent online how long you had been offline, where Zero_Nocturnal was studied quite a bit much earlier as having not been ever one online, when he was noticed playing his hacking tricks with the community.
Xi and Zombie_Hunter clashed in the tournaments. He was defeating him by a slight of hand trick known as HP-Trade, which used 50 MP points, which stood for magic pool points, to trade your current HP, where HP stood, or equaled to some community members who typed this way, their language characteristics called odd by the ones who called themselves the mega-users of the world. They were the normal ones, they claimed, and the others who were not them said they were not wrong. When HP was understood, it meant health points. This way of speaking, they said, was a normal thing to do. It excited some and trounced others. But it also spoke none of speculation and was not indecent to do this sort of thing, they quite strongly in the community determined.
Xi and Zombie_Hunter were clashing. They had been fighting for rank 1 on the kill charts. They were both flashing from killing people while they were fighting. They called this, termed by the community that it was epic to do so, and friendly to a fault, soul chasing. They were fighting as big God's and not as characters any more. The soul chasing meant they killed other foes who were weaker than them, and were in their own words, unable to kill each other. Xi was still on his Ritaltin regiment. Amit did not know anything about this. Mitsuru and Xi's friends had known. All the way back at class some sat, unable to play Eve, taunting their fingers by waking up to the reality, termed the loser's quest, of just succeeding in the offline world, they told Xi later when he told them of the battlefield of chance he had played in with Amit's Zombie_Hunter. They called him a cool little kid and he was certainly, they said, kind of the champion, but his rank 1 player ship was not being surpassed. He could still win the ¥65,000,000 prize if they were not careful, they decided.
On Mainland China was there they decided they were. Xi was in his house. He had his stuff at Mitsuru's. Her old-style Japanese apartment complex world view was his most considered topic when he was at her house. He thought her room smelled awful. He said it was promoting the world view she was in. She used Febreeze and talked to him about using other tools to sate himself while he was playing with her character Auria, like her offline world items, the broom in one case, or the mop and bucket in another, or even the kitty litter scrubber, where he was annoyed time and time again, he surmised, as this was his chance to make her character Auria suffer. He placed his contents into the bag and dumped them into the bin outside. It was a garbage container. And he relinquished using the tools of the offline world to talk some sense into Auria's humanoid living being brain matter relinquished, who told him to go wash his hands. He was scrubbing and she was taking off her game device. She took a bath and he was amused. He was going to sneak a quick look. Instead of jumping into the bath with her like he wanted to, he sat in her room and continued to play Eve. He had his Ritlatin back at his house. He parents found him with the police in tow. They returned him to a jail cell and said he was peeking in on people who did not want him around them at that point in time. Mitsuru came and said that was not the case. She spoke to the community, and they released Xi without issue. Xi was now allowed to go to Mitsuru's place. They took him off the Ritlatin and he considered it better. Without it, he was more himself. He and Mitsuru, who were both Eve players, played Eve together at her house. They played at Xi's only in their dreams, they considered, because his parents were home and they wanted to not waste the WiFi's power energy signal transmitter fluid, which they said was a Chinese-language way to say that the WiFi at Xi's place was limited. They got unlimited WiFi and he used his parents WiFi now. It was not quicker. It was just the same as at Mitsuru's house now. His father tried Eve out sometimes as well. He considered it very much well loved by the community for its efforts. But he would not lose to Xi. He was now a player with Xi's mother, and those two played it off and on as well. They began to become rank 1 often times like Xi had done so. This meant he had new villains in his life. The werewolves were now unlocked as a player class, not, he termed how it had been falling into his lap to consider. They were playing Eve without him sometimes. His mother played a character named Xi's Mom, and his dad was the same, he considered himself a simpleton, so he went with the peculiar title, a name rather, of Xi's Father. He used the Chinese characters to say he was in fact Xi's Father, the player character, not anyone's real dad, of course, he considered them noticing, but it could be just the fact, he said was his own dark store terminology, for being a real dad on the internet, and also someone people could pick on. His mother was furious with Xi. He was now playing Eve while eating dinner with the family. She took his headset away and he held his controllers in shock. He quickly got back online and managed, he felt, because it was a dangerous thing they had done to him and he felt it was not loving him back for what he had done, so when he logged off securely, it was in a safe zone.
At the living room opera house, they played Eve while Xi watched some, what he called, boob tube. It was the television in their living room whose game controller he was holding, unlike his parents, who were relaxing while playing Eve, or focused on strongly securing action, or making odd motions like it was, termed by them, Rolex-watch time, not Chinese-language time. He called them from the school phone, which meant they were in office. It was an odd term to use, he decided, but he also said his lingo was good to use. They were now Eve players. All around the world, Eve's player base seemed to be gathering steam for a major released. The dev team, the community who ran the game, had found that there was enough time to go to manage Eve. They played sometimes as well. A rank 1 player by the name of Dev_Team_Havoc was playing in Eve. He was rank 1 and had over 10 million kills. This was not a test. He was playing Eve. He was not testing the game. He played in their cubicle world as Amit was doing so as well in his apartment complex, almost late enough at night to be considered late-night playing time, which was a term used by the community to be playing Eve at roughly commensurate with dangerous hours. These were times when you could lose sleep or become lost to the world. Eve was called a strange time to house someone in.
It was a long and dark world to cozy up in. But they had a lot to manifest in its destiny times.
They were now on the encore district of Eve's launch. In 10 days, it would become Version 1.0.b:e, which meant the beta was ending, and new stuff was going to be added, like critter kill counts and updated Chinese-language emotes that were for sale, or for free, they had not decided this facet of their product just this very yet, at this place in the time zone they were in.