translator: xiin
editors: apricot & juurensha
How could the contestants on the field fail to understand the situation?
The audience’s hearts had already leapt up to their throats, and the scrolling comments were only rowdier now. “Oh no, oh no! Have the great and little demon kings noticed that there’s two teams yet?”
“Vision is required for e-sports. They must’ve seen it!”
“It’s useless even if they’ve noticed. It doesn’t look like they can get around it.”
“Two teams came. One team has a divine warrior and berserker thief, and the other team has a berserker thief and berserker warrior!”
“More melee teams? The Battlesong Plains attracts so many melee talents!”
“It’s the terrain! The Battlesong Plains is a place where, if you don’t use a close combat talent, you won’t even know how you died!”
Indeed, there was no cover in the Battlesong Plains. Even if players had mage or marksman talents on hand, it was impossible for them to prioritize developing them at this time.
If they pulled out an immortal warlock, they would be sent out of the game even before they could reach level six!
That was why the team that Wei Xiao had just killed, as well as the teams who were rushing over, were all melee talents.
Close combat had both advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage was that players had to get close in order to deal damage, which meant that Lu Feng and Wei Xiao still had a chance to pull away.
The disadvantage was that as long as they were close, then there was no way to avoid their opponents’ skills. With their current HP levels, they were sure to be the first to fall to the ground in a six-man brawl.
This wasn’t a matter of positioning but rather the limitation of the game mechanisms themselves. The system didn’t allow them any room to move around!
What were they to do?
Would the great and little demon kings really end their tour of the doubles competition in the outer zone?
They’d just taken First Blood and hadn’t even figured out their special skill yet. Was it all going to come to an end just like this?
A fan spoke up reluctantly, “Too foul! They’re clearly targeting CQ!”
The announcement for First Blood was sent across the entire map, and the two teams who’d just arrived had naturally seen it very clearly. They didn’t need to communicate and were already tacitly in agreement.
––Kill CQ first, then continue to compete for victory.
The fans really couldn’t be blamed for shouting ‘foul’ and stirring up a fuss about unfairness.
To put it bluntly, they were telling everyone out in the open that they wanted to fight four against two, and it was four people who were at full health fighting against two who were at half health!
But could this really be considered a foul or even unfair?
On the contrary, this was the ‘fairness’ that existed in brawl mode.
Taking First Blood or even snowballing one’s farm to snatch up equipment in the later stages would both run the risk of potentially getting swarmed and beaten up by the crowd.
They’d already established an advantage. If fighting with uneven numbers wasn’t allowed, then how would there be any suspense in the game?
If players got lucky at the start and were able to take First Blood or pick up more equipment, wouldn’t they be able to crush their opponents all the way to the final round?
Where was the competitive spirit in that?
So, letting weaker groups fight with numbers was where true fairness lay.
It wasn’t always a good thing to take First Blood and be the one to stand out right from the start.
The same could be said for the singles competition. The reason why Close had been relatively successful was that he’d made use of the complex terrain of the Moonlight Wetlands to accumulate points and also because other players had an unspoken reverence towards him.
Fear… Fear to the point of a lack of confidence to fight two against one…
Thus it had ended with the great demon king slaughtering his way across the Moonlight Wetlands.
But the mentality of players in the doubles was truly different.
People were afraid of Close, but they weren’t scared of Quiet. There was no fear of the CQ combo when they were teamed up like this.
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With their teammates around, they became more daring. Additionally, they’d run across the great and little demon kings at half health on the Battlesong Plains. If they didn’t rush up to try and fish for an opportunity, then they wouldn’t be living up to their status as professional players!
It was the same First Blood announcement that made people afraid in the singles competition, but in the doubles, it had actually attracted a crowd of hungry wolves.
Wei Xiao spoke in their team chat, “Are they looking down on me?”
Lu Feng: “……”
Wei Xiao: “Seeing that I took First Blood, they must feel that I’m easy to bully, right!”
It really was a bit like that.
So, Little Lunatic Wei got angry, and the consequences were very serious!
Lu Feng asked, “Go for a quadrakill?”
Wei Xiao glanced at the map, and his black eyes flickered, “How could a quadrakill be satisfying enough.”
The corners of Lu Feng’s lips curved. “Don’t mess around.”
Wei Xiao became more enthusiastic. “What’s there to be afraid of? If they want to make trouble, then let’s do something big.”
Lu Feng also looked at the situation, then really indulged him, “Go ahead.”
Wei Xiao grew excited. “You go to the left, I’ll go to the right.”
Lu Feng: “Mm.”
The audience didn’t know how the contestants were communicating. All they saw was that CQ, who’d originally been standing back to back, suddenly separated.
The shadow thief entered stealth mode and hopped to the right, while the death knight put away his long sword and charged to the left.
What did they want to do?
Commentator Brother Mouth’s eyes lit up. “Clever! Split up and lead the four of them away from each other. If it’s like this…”
Before he could finish his sentence, his pupils suddenly contracted. “That’s not right, there are still more players to the left and right!”
Brother Cai, who’d originally been sitting quite steadily in the commentator booth, was also a bit surprised.
He’d known from early on that Wei Xiao could cause trouble, but he’d never expected that he’d dare to stir up such a big wave of trouble!
Brother Cai didn’t have to listen to their team chat to know whose idea this was.
Other than the little lunatic, who else would be so crazy!
And only the great demon king could indulge him like this!
Chen Feng, who could see clearly from beneath the stage: “………………”
Sitting diagonally behind him, the depths of Yan Jiang’s eyes lit up with interest.
Those who could understand the situation from just looking at it all understood what was happening. It was only that some of them wanted to curse while others found it really interesting.
Thirty seconds later, the audience discovered something. “Holy sh*t, CQ has really set up a big game of chess.”
“I thought they were making desperate moves to save themselves, trying to avoid being chased and surrounded by four people. I didn’t realize…”
“Oh my god, the Battlesong Plains has been besieged by the great and little demon kings!”
There was no semantics in this statement, and it could even be said that this was an accurate description of the situation.
Close and Quiet had respectively gone to the left and right. They weren’t fleeing like headless flies but were approaching with purpose.
The whole of Battlesong Plains was open terrain. With their perspective and amazing vision, not only had they noticed the two teams of people coming to surround them, they’d also seen the fighting in the distance!
This kind of perspective relied on their positioning. The two teams who’d come to surround them couldn’t see it, and even the audience who had god’s perspective hadn’t paid attention to these other fights. It was only Wei Xiao and Lu Feng, these two demon kings, who had the vision, hearing, and strong insight to discover the confrontation happening on both sides.
What were they rushing over for?
On one hand, it was to pull the two teams over, and on the other hand, they wanted to be the oriole waiting behind the mantis and cicada!
The two of them were at half health and didn’t have time to recover their HP, and their other talents, which didn’t have skill points, weren’t able to deal out any major damage. They would die if they were caught in close combat, and they wouldn’t be able to run far even if they tried to escape.
Sitting there and waiting for death wasn’t an option, so they had to slaughter their way out.
They were clearly a doubles team, but at this moment, the director had to give the two of them a split screen perspective.
At almost the same moment, the shadow thief and death knight both arrived at their target destination.
Wei Xiao pounced on the double thieves and double warriors who had been entangled in a fight.
On Lu Feng’s side, it was one warrior and one thief against a storm hunter and shaman.
Wei Xiao had been in stealth mode as he ran over, so the four people who were fighting in a brawl hadn’t even realized danger was approaching.
In the Battlesong Plains, focusing on using skills to fight impacted the five senses and made it easy to overlook what was going on in one’s surroundings.
Additionally, they were in the early stages of the game, and these players didn’t believe that someone would risk their lives to come over and launch a surprise attack.
Skills didn’t discriminate between targets, and most basic attacks dealt group damage. Even a scratch would be considered a significant loss.
Instead of rushing in, it was better to stalk from the sidelines and wait for the battle to end before coming in to reap the benefits.
Unfortunately, Wei Xiao didn’t have time.
He also wanted to crouch at the sidelines and wait, but the people behind him wouldn’t give him that chance.
So…
The shadow thief approached with a shadow attack. He directly used the First Blood special skill and put up an invincible light shield that covered his head for one second. By the time the four of them noticed the exclamation mark above their heads, it was already too late.
The dark blade pierced into the thief’s chest. That person had originally been hanging on with a quarter of their HP left, but now they directly fell to the ground.
The thief was still in a daze when he died and saw the system announcement.
What, what, what?
FTW.Quiet?
Where had this bastard come from?!
After taking down one kill, Wei Xiao, who had managed to snatch up some more skill points now had three skills.
He used a displacement skill to pull away, then tossed out a shadow dart to slow down the berserker warrior who’d rushed up to avenge his companion.
As an assassin, Wei Xiao’s next target was naturally the flying thief who already had the lowest HP as well as a defense reduction debuff hanging over him.
Choosing to use a flying thief at the start of the game? Had he wanted to avoid fighting in the Battlesong Plains?
Sorry!
Wei Xiao avoided the two warriors’ skills and went straight for the flying thief who only had one third of his health left.
The poor flying thief had been fighting for so long that he’d used up all his skills. At this moment, he was just a fish waiting to be slaughtered, and the only difference was whose knife he would die under.
He would rather die in the hands of the divine warrior!
At the very least, they’d been fighting each other for a while. What was the deal with this shadow thief who’d popped out from who knew where halfway through? That was too much, ahhhhh!
When Wei Xiao collected the flying thief’s head, he also activated his light arc skill.
This sudden attack and resultant assassinations hadn’t taken more than ten seconds of time, flipping the situation on its head.
The shadow thief was still at half health due to the invincible light shield. On the other hand, both of the surviving warriors only had a third of their HP left.
What was worse was that they’d only activated one skill, while Wei Xiao already had his ultimate move.
The divine warrior and berserker warrior who’d been fighting fiercely just a moment ago turned tail to run without a second thought.
Fighting, my ass! As long as the green mountains were there, they wouldn’t lack for firewood; their priority was to get away!
Wei Xiao tsked, “One of them got away.”
No matter how fierce he was, he could only chase after one person. The light arcs had enough range, but brushing them out required stacking skills. Based on the way these two had bailed without even turning back, they definitely wouldn’t give him such an opportunity.
If he only relied on his displacement skill to chase after then, then he didn’t have any way to keep both of them.
Wei Xiao chose the divine warrior and sent him off with a backstab.
After taking five kills, Wei Xiao had already started working on his second talent!
Of course, he wouldn’t switch talents at this time. A blood thief that only had one skill couldn’t compare with a shadow thief that had its ultimate move.
Wei Xiao’s set of operations only took a little over ten seconds, but he’d already left the entire audience stunned.
This kind of thing was possible?!
Thing kind of thing could really f*cking be pulled off?!
At the time, Wei Xiao had been in a situation where he was surrounded by four people who were at full health, and there was no doubt that he would die. However, he took advantage of the distance between him and his pursuers to charge towards another battlefield, completely changing the ending to this story.
There had also been four people over there, but it was a group of four who were fighting each other. Their HP was low, they were in a bad state, and they weren’t prepared for his arrival.
The shadow thief had snatched up a kill first, then easily intimidated the other three using his own farm and skill advantages.
After taking three kills, Wei Xiao no longer feared the incoming divine warrior and berserker thief even if his health had dropped to a third.
A shadow thief who had light arcs against a divine warrior who only had one skill; it was difficult to say who had lay siege to who.
These two players were also left dumbfounded.
The doubles competition hadn’t been online for long, and it was true that many tactics hadn’t been fully figured out yet.
However, no matter how much they’d figured out, things shouldn’t have turned out like this!
They’d originally wanted to chase and kill Quiet and take advantage of easy pickings, yet they’d accidentally sent themselves up like sheep to the tiger’s mouth?
What should they do?
There was only one word spoken in these teams’ team chat, “Run!”
There was no better time to run than now.
Unfortunately, they didn’t have the same luck as the berserker warrior from earlier. As soon as they turned around to run, they were sent flying by a three headed dog.
The death knight who’d transformed into light form moved with incredible speed and rushed over from the other side like a gust of wind.
The death knight who had its ultimate move unlocked was extraordinary; eight skills were enough to send people into seclusion!
There was no doubt that while Wei Xiao took down a triple kill on this side, Close’s death knight had also quickly sent off the two teams over there. He’d been even faster than the shadow thief, since the death knight’s heavy sword dealt an astonishing amount of damage. He’d stormed into the fight and directly sent the two seriously injured players back to heaven. After picking up skill points, he’d sent another soul flying, and the remaining two players hadn’t even reacted to the situation before their screen turned gray.
Wei Xiao laughed evilly. “Captain, don’t steal my kills!”
Light arcs filled the sky as he spoke, smashing into the divine warrior and berserker thief who had been sent flying by Close’s attack.
The berserker thief dropped from full health to being seriously injured. Although the divine warrior had used a defense buff, it was unable to hold off this crushing attack!
The commentator couldn’t help but say, “This damage directly penetrated his defense…”
Wei Xiao’s light arc attack was equivalent to a level six shadow thief charging towards a level two divine warrior and level two berserker thief in a team competition canyon.
Even without mentioning using nine light arcs, even a shadow attack or basic attack would be enough to leave them at critical HP!
Of course, it was impossible for such farm and equipment crushing to occur in a team competition. However, this was the Sky Island of Light. This was a big brawl, and this was the little lunatic who had seized the opportunity to break through and reverse this desperate situation!
At this moment, fans who were still unfamiliar with the new doubles competition and had been very resistant towards the new competition system to the point where they hadn’t even really wanted to watch the game, all grew excited!
This was too amazing!
Other than in the doubles competition, where else could they see such a scene?
They cherished this scene even as they watched it.
Later, the developer daddies might revise the competition system and apply a few patches. When that happened, where could they go to watch such an exciting game that didn’t follow the usual rules, yet was so thrilling that it made their scalps go numb?!
CQ are amazing 😍
thank you for the chapter ❤
Thank you, xiin, for the chapter! Love how Close indulges Quiet!