translator: Oyen editor: Ciel
Qin Mo and Xiao Han went back to the hotel for a nap, returning to the competition venue at 2:30pm.
Groups E and F’s matches were scheduled for the afternoon, with group G’s matches afterwards at 3:30pm. Shen He was arranged in group G, and so would compete at this time. To show their support, Qin Mo and Xiao Han acquired seats in the VIP section of the audience to watch the matches. In order to give Mojue some face, the director focused the camera on the both of them, only to discover both Qin Mo and Xiao Han leaning close and whispering in each other’s ears.
Seeing this scene, Liang Ru could not help but to smile. “Over here, we can see Mojue’s captain and vice-captain sitting in the audience stands. It seems like they are very much looking forward to Shen He’s performance, and so personally came to watch the match.”
“Are our two honoured people going to keep whispering, and not greet our audience?” Ye Chao joked.
Qin Mo immediately ceased all whispers and sat up straight upon hearing this. On the other hand, Xiao Han smiled and waved to the audience, which was broadcasted on the big screen, successfully attracting screams from fans in the audience.
The director then switched the camera back to the commentary platform, and Liang Ru smiled. “Group G is also a group with many experts. Inside this group is Nie Yuzhu, Without Fire’s team captain, He Yue, Frost Moon’s vice captain, Cheng Yuqing, National Grace’s member, and Shen He, a newcomer from Mojue. It is said that Nie Yuzhu is the apprentice of the first captain of the Bronze Sparrow club, Shao Zehang, while He Yue is the apprentice of Seven Star Grass club’s captain, Xue Ke. Together with Shen He, who is the apprentice of Mojue’s captain, Qin Mo… there really are many apprentices in this group!”
“The director only found Shen He’s master on scene,” Ye Chao added. “However, the other masters may be watching the live broadcast at home. All the apprentices must perform well.”
Liang Ru introduced the match lineups for today, which were shown on the big screen. “The first match in group G today will be Nie Yuzhu VS Cheng Yuqing, while the second game will be He Yue VS Shen He. Please wait patiently, the first match is about to begin!”
As soon as the commentary ended, exciting music began to play. Nie Yuzhu and Cheng Yuqing went to the player booths in the middle of the stage, logged into their accounts and put on soundproof headphones, beginning to prepare for the competition.
Xiao Han leaned close and whispered in Qin Mo’s ear. “I’ve met this Cheng Yuqing before during the all-sects challenge arena, her ID is Clear Skies After Rain.”
“En.” Qin Mo murmured. “What do you think of her skills?”
“Her foundation is good, but her consciousness is far worse than Nie Yuzhu’s,” Xiao Han appraised. “There should be no surprises from this individual match.”
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Xiao Han’s judgment was not wrong. Captain Nie was very experienced, while Cheng Yuqing, while a member of National Grace, was still a newcomer. In the end, Nie Yuzhu won the match with a score of 2:0.
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At 3:50pm, Shen He and He Yue took their seats on the stage.
After the commentators analyzed the data of both players for the audience, the competition could begin.
He Yue rolled a high number, and was given the priority to choose the map first. The map she chose was ‘Dark Swamp’, a mysterious forbidden place in southern Xinjiang. The murky waters were full of an unpleasant miasma, and players would be poisoned if they fell in.
“He Yue’s idea behind choosing this map is very clear,” explained Liang Ru. “Her whip is able to displace her opponents, and her ability to control the field is very strong. She can use the map dig pits for Shen He.”
“However, Shen He also has this ability,” Ye Chao added. “He can push people with his mechanical chariots. So, the outcome of the battle will depend on who seizes the opportunity first.”
As soon as the commentators finished speaking, Shen He and He Yue refreshed on the map simultaneously, one at the lower left corner and the other in the upper right corner respectively.
The stones in the middle of the swamp pool were arranged in a disorderly manner, but Shen He had trained on all the maps before the competition. He had familiarised himself with the terrain of this map long ago, and soon controlled his little summoner to jump to the middle of the map. At this time, What Year Is It Today also arrived, with the distance between them maintained at about 20 meters.
This was a carefully-planned distance. The farthest attack range of Xuanbing Palace’s long whip flow was 18 meters, while the summoner’s pet summon range was 20 meters. Obviously, Shen He had a longer attacking range.
Shen He immediately seized the opportunity to summon a chariot behind her, trying to control the chariot to push her into the swamp.
However, He Yue’s reactions were very quick. After ascertaining the distance between them, she immediately realised what Shen He would do next. With the qinggong skill ‘Frosted River’, she stepped on the frost flowers and jumped directly to the stones beside Shen He. The snow-white whip in her hand rolled across Shen He’s waist like a serpent—— the most basic skill of Xuanbing Palace, Gale Whip.
Like its name, Gale Whip was as fast as the wind, lashing out left and right like lightning. In an instant, Shen He’s blood volume had been lowered by 15%.
Liang Ru sighed. “He Yue does have a super-fast hand speed!”
“She’s only tested a series of combos,” Ye Chao added, “Her big move has yet to come…”
As soon as he said this, He Yue flexibly rolled the whip in her hand, accurately circling Drunken River’s waist. This was the most powerful field control skill of Xuanbing Palace’s long whip flow—— Cloud-Destroying Wind!
After successfully tangling up her opponent, she flung her whip into the distance, and the poor shota summoner was directly tossed into the swamp!
Drunken River was inflicted with a poisoned status from the miasma. Fortunately, Shen He’s response was also quick, immediately using his qinggong skill to escape the swamp, landing firmly in the distance.
He had known for a long time that He Yue was very strong. However, in today’s match, he realised that Frost Moon’s vice captain not only had first-class consciousness, but also a very quick response. Shen He was beaten by her in this first exchange, and his blood volume went down to 70%.
Taking a deep breath, Shen He began to increase his hand speed and summon pets!
First, he used a mechanical blood cow to block a wave of damage, then used the mechanical rats to bite the opponent and inflict the weakness status…
However, He Yue was very experienced. After being bitten by the mechanical rats, she immediately turned around and pulled away, not giving Shen He a chance to counter. When the weakened status ended after three seconds, she returned and killed Shen He’s blood cow with a few sharp lashes.
Shen He then summoned a mechanical snake as a follow-up attempt at control, and even brought out the big move of the mechanical hawk in an attempt to even out the differences in their blood volume.
However, He Yue was not willing to allow him to recover the gap. Taking advantage of Shen He’s pet summon cooldown, she launched a combo of a wide-area skill ‘Snowfall Whip’ and the single-target skill ‘Shadowless Whip’, causing Shen He’s blood volume to fall below 50% in one breath.
The whip flashed by at the speed of light. Shen He was simply not a match for He Yue.
After exchanging this wave of skills, Shen He’s blood volume was 15% lower than He Yue’s.
Once Shen He hit residual blood, He Yue repeated her moves again, using ‘Cloud-Destroying Wind’ to toss Shen He into the swamp, causing Drunken River to be poisoned to death.
——What Year Is It Today has killed Drunken River!
With the pop-up of the system prompt, the first match ended in Shen He’s defeat.
***
The break time allocated to the individual competition was short, and players were not allowed to leave the stage. Despite being his master, Qin Mo could not go on stage to guide him, and Shen He could only rely on his own understanding to think things through.
Xiao Han was a little worried. “Xiao He cares too much about speed, but it is unwise to fight He Yue based on this. I don’t know if he can figure it out.”
Qin Mo raised his head to look at the teenager sitting on the stage. Although he had just lost, Shen He didn’t seem frustrated. Instead, he was scratching his head, thinking seriously about the earlier match.
Shen He’s mentality was really good. The previous defeat in this match did not affect his confidence, causing Qin Mo to feel somewhat relieved. “He is smart, he will definitely figure it out.”
——The main reason Shen He lost the match just now was because He Yue had controlled the pace of the game. In fact, he shouldn’t compete with He Yue’s speed.
To use a skill, a summoner needed to press the key at least twice- once to summon, and another time to release the skill. On the other hand, He Yue only needed to press the key once to release a skill. In a competition between experts with the same hand speed, the summoner had no way to compete based on terms of pure speed. Shen He’s hand speed was about 350 apm, and He Yue was about the same. Under such a premise, it was not wise to compete based on speed between the mechanism flow and the long whip flow. To win, cleverly using the skills available was needed.
He Yue had completely controlled the competition just now, and Shen He was unconsciously brought into her pace. This was also because He Yue was very experienced in competitions, and knew how to deal with summoner experts.
During this period, Shen He had been studying the videos of his grandmasters’ matches. Li Cangyu and Ling Xuefeng won most of their games with agility, however, Shen He forgot that Li Cangyu and Ling Xuefeng had talented fast hands, whose speeds could rank among the top 10 when compared to esports players worldwide. It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that there would only be one or two such people in a century. Shen He’s top hand speed was far less than that of the two grandmasters, so while their operation could be imitated, the tactics of playing fast couldn’t be blindly copied.
Qin Mo only hoped that Shen He could figure this out as soon as possible. Otherwise, it would be very difficult for him to reverse the situation in the second match.
Wow~ so this Shen He vs He Yue hm…. He Yue seems like a damn good player so I’m worried for Xiao He ah… I know he’ll probably figure out how to even out the playing field but still,,,, so worried,,,, Xiao He jiayou!! Hehe and Qin Mo and Xiao Han personally coming over to spectate the match ne~ they feel like overprotective + supportive parents actually lolol
Thank you for the chapter!!
Xiao He is smart~ He will think of a way 😝
Shen He kalah tapi nggak frustasi malah keliatan imut Kyaaa >w<
Mental Shen He kuat, semoga bisa nemuin masalahnya dan balik di pertarungan selanjutnya. Nggak terlalu berharap Shen He menang, yang penting dia dapet pengalaman dan bisa semakin hebat. OvO
MoMo ama HanHan keluarga kami malah bisik-bisik. Untung pikiran netizen, Liang, dan Ye masih belum bengkok. Www, diam-diam nyebarin dog food XD
Shen He sebagai maskot, dia pasti bisa!
Iya, disorot sama camera malah asik sendiri 🤣
Ahhh~ it ended so fast?! I was so getting into it… ╥﹏╥ The match was exciting even though I wanted to see Qin Mo fight and show all of them that his loss from last time was really because he was not in a good condition!~
Well it seems like I have to wait for it patiently… ” ╮ ( ︶﹏︶ ”) ╭
Anyhow… Shen He fighting!~ ( ๑ •̀ ㅂ •́) و ✧
Thank you for the chapter! 🌹
Lol, cut it for a cliffhanger 🙈
Qin Mo already lost the first match, he will fight Xu Sizhe, I think it’s not worth it 👀
Shen He, fighting!!!
You’re welcome~
you’re doing great baby keep it up!!!!!!!!
Baby Shen He is really doing great!!
I’m glad that Shen he isn’t just going to copy the grandmasters. He has to form his own play style while incorporating what he learned. Prove the people that thinks he’s only able to copy wrong.
Yes, he copied all of the technique, but he still has his own playstyle~