translator: Oyen editor: Ciel
After the first game, Ye Chao glanced at Cheng Wei. “God Wei, your poisonous milk is indeed effective. You said that Xu Lang would win, and he actually lost.”
Scratching his head, Cheng Wei smiled. “Then, I’ll predict that Xiao Han will win the second game. Let’s see if it will work?”
“I think Xu Lang might have been stunned silly after losing to god Han in the first game,” Liang Ru added. “It is crucial for him to adjust his mentality in time.”
“The more experienced the players are, the more they are able to stabilise themselves, and play at a normal level in important competitions. On the other hand, newcomers who think highly of themselves often win a few games and think they are great.” Ye Chao commented. “As a result, in important competitions, if their mentality is not adjusted well, it is easy for them to be soundly beaten by opponents.”
Liang Ru offered her agreement. “God Han’s oppressive style just now is capable of triggering a psychological collapse in his opponents.”
At this time, Xu Lang’s mind was indeed in a mess. Xiao Han completely disrupted the rhythm of the game, his control skill was wasted, his attack skills were evaded, and he couldn’t escape. The feeling of being controlled by others the entire time was not good. He wanted to take advantage of his sect’s strength in single-target output to fight Xiao Han head-on. As a result… His combo was interrupted before it could finish.
Xiao Han was completely different from the assassins he met in the arena previously. Xu Lang wasn’t sure how to play the second game.
Before the start of the game, Xu Lang had decided to use the Red Maple Villa map as his home map. The terrain was complex, allowing him to hide in the house and sneak attack Xiao Han. However, after the first game, he suddenly doubted the feasibility of his tactics. Xiao Han could enter a state of invisibility. If he chose a villa map, would Xiao Han make use of this to secretly attack him? Xiao Han’s offensive was so fierce, if the assassin snuck up on him again, would he once again be slaughtered?
Soon, the second game would start. This time, Xu Lang would choose a map.
There were many maps in the official map library, with Red Maple Villa being in the fourth row of the third page. He had memorised this map long ago, but… should he still choose this map?
The more he thought, the more undecided Xu Lang became. Only when the 30 seconds countdown was coming to an end, did he choose the Red Maple Villa in a hurry.
“It’s the first time that someone actually used all 30 seconds to select a map,” Liang Ru mused. “Didn’t he think about it before the match began?”
“He must have thought about it before the game. However, his hesitation shows that the first game obviously hit him hard,” Ye Chao commented bluntly.
“Hesitating before the match is a big taboo in competitions,” Cheng Wei sighed. “If he begins to doubt himself, the second game will become even more difficult, because he’s facing the world-class expert, Xiao Han!”
——Xiao Han had never hesitated on the field.
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This was an excellent location for an ambush. From here, he could observe his opponent’s actions through the window. Moreover, Xiao Han didn’t use his invisibility skill, so Xu Lang was able to see Thousand Miles Ice walking towards him.
The moment was now!
The moment Thousand Miles Ice passed by the door, Roaming Sand suddenly darted out. In his hand, the bone fan unfurled, striking Thousand Miles Ice across the face!
This was the bone fan flow’s big move, ‘Dongpo Painted Fan’. Not only could it not be dodged, it also caused a lot of damage, and could stun the opponent!
Xu Lang was overjoyed upon seeing that Thousand Miles Ice was inflicted with a stunned status, and immediately opened a series of moves—— Bone White Grief, Whirlwind Fan, Throat Locking Slice!
With these four consecutive single-target skills, Thousand Miles Ice’s health bar was cut by half. Xu Lang finally regained some confidence.
Unfortunately, the stun control only lasted for three seconds. The moment the control ended, Xiao Han immediately opened the skill ‘Darkness Valley’, and his assassin became invisible!
It hadn’t been easy for him to get an advantage, but the assassin suddenly vanished, causing Xu Lang to feel increasingly anxious, and his palms began to sweat. He hurriedly controlled his character to leave the room, intending to go to the open space outside. However, the moment he stepped out of the room, he found a sharp dagger in his back!
Meteor, Meteor, Deadly Ice Silkworm!
The terrible damage caused by the assassin’s three skills once again ate up over half of his health bar!
Xu Lang immediately turned around to retreat, but Xiao Han once again used ‘Phantom Dreaming’ to block his field of vision.
The flowers blooming across the screen made Xu Lang want to cough up blood. Because Thousand Miles Ice had been invisible just now, he was unable to locate the assassin. As a result, he suffered a wave of attacks from behind, and his vision was impaired by the illusion control.
By this point, Qin Mo was certain of Xiao Han’s victory.
If it were a high-level professional player, they would not have selected a map suitable for ambushes when facing off against Xiao Han. This was because Xiao Han was strongest at sneak attacks, and counter-attacking tactics. With his skills, he could easily sneak up on others, and kill them with a wave of critical attacks, causing them to collapse. On the other hand, if others wanted to sneak up on him, as long as they didn’t kill him in one wave, he could always find the most appropriate moment to become invisible, before turning the tables.
Xu Lang was a good example of this. He successfully sneak attacked Xiao Han in the beginning, only to be counter-attacked after his combo was completed.
Now, Xiao Han was controlling the flow of the game.
Once the game was controlled by Xiao Han, victory was no longer in sight for his opponents.
“This Xu Lang has been directly overwhelmed!” Shen He praised. “By the way, master, if you were controlled by god Han’s illusion, how would you fight back?”
“Continuously use qinggong to pull apart the distance,” Qin Mo replied. “Forcibly drag out the three seconds of illusion control.”
If it had been Qin Mo, he wouldn’t have hesitated to continuously escape with his qinggong skills. Even if the qinggong power bar was emptied, at the very least, he would have escaped Xiao Han’s attacking range.
But Xu Lang didn’t do this. Firstly, he wasn’t clear where Thousand Miles Ice’s position was, so he didn’t dare fly around casually. Secondly, he flew away in the last game to avoid Xiao Han’s pursuit, but failed to escape in the end, which caused him to hesitate at this critical moment.
Cheng Wei was right—— hesitation was a large taboo in competitions!
Even if he only hesitate for half a second, it was enough for Xiao Han to find an opportunity!
Xiao Han was very decisive. After the big move of Shadowless Dragon was used, the assassin entered the stealth state, and immediately broke out a wave of damage. Using three consecutive attacks of ‘Rainbow Through The Sun’, the dagger in his hands cut deeply into his opponent’s back!
At this time, Xu Lang had just started using qinggong to flee, but it was already too late!
After producing a beautiful consecutive attack of Rainbow Through The Sun, Xiao Han immediately followed up with Thousand Lights Ghost Walk!
The audience witnessed an absolutely ridiculous scene. Xu Lang was flying blindly, trying to widen the distance between himself and Xiao Han while blinded by illusions, while Xiao Han’s shadows chased after him, never leaving his fleeing figure by more than a single step. Xu Lang flew away, and the shadows attacked him all the way!
As a result, when the three seconds of illusion control ended, Xu Lang found that the flowers before his eyes disappeared, only to be placed by the grey screen that represented death.
——[Thousand Miles Ice] has killed [Roaming Sand]!
When the prompt appeared, Xu Lang finally realised the bone-chilling fear of being eradicated by the invisible assassin.
—— The most terrible difference in strengths wasn’t in the fact that he lost to a single person, but that he didn’t know how he died!
—— The most shocking incident wasn’t his failure to escape the illusion control, but the moment the control ended. The flowers blooming before his eyes faded away, only to be replaced by the grey screen of death!
Xu Lang didn’t know what to say. He couldn’t accept the results of these two games, but there were also no excuses for him to hide behind. The difference in strengths between him and Xiao Han was simply too large for him to feel envy or hate. Instead, what he felt was deep fear and admiration.
Ants might be jealous of bees, which were only slightly larger than themselves, but couldn’t dare envy the elephants.
Xu Lang suddenly felt that before Xiao Han, he was really just a tiny little ant.
After winning two consecutive games decisively, Xiao Han took the initiative to send a message on the public screen: “Thanks for letting me win [smile].”
This was something he sent almost every time he won, which Qin Mo had supposedly taught him.
Xiao Han didn’t take the opportunity to ridicule Xu Lang, but instead showed the demeanor that a professional player should have. He even took the initiative to walk over and shake hands with Xu Lang.
“God Han, you’re really amazing.” Xu Lang replied, embarrassed.
“I’m flattered,” Xiao Han smiled. “There are many other powerful professional players; I’m just one of them.”
This sentence was full of self-confidence. At the same time, it clearly told Xu Lang——he was but a frog in the well. Professional players were much more powerful, and god Han was just one of them!
There were experts like Qin Mo, Qiu Zongping, Yuan Xi, Chu Jianxin, Lin Shuangcheng, Su Cheng, and so on. Xu Lang obviously had no chance of winning against any of them.
Xu Lang, who was slapped in the face, walked down the stage in dismay. Still, he pretended to be calm in an interview with the reporters. “In fact, it doesn’t matter whether I win or lose. I’m just here to participate in the competition. Cough, I won’t come back next year.”
Seeing this, the audience began to send impolite comments on the screen. “Saying that professional players were only at that level, but as a result, he was soundly beaten to death by a series of tricks!”
“Professional players are only worth that much, yet he lost two games in a row!”
“The pros are just like that. He was beaten black and blue, yet he doesn’t even know how to move properly!”
“Are you ready to admit it? Xu Lang, don’t be a pussy. You should have said that I, Hu Hanshan, will come back next year!”
“Being beaten by god Han made you lose all your confidence already, right? That’s great!”
The audience was very lively. It seemed that Xu Lang’s open mocking of professional players had not yet been forgotten by the netizens.
In fact, professional players were not as simple as Xu Lang assumed. Behind their victories and defeats, they persisted in boring training every single day. This sort of hard work was only experienced by those who were esports players themselves.
Like every chinese novel goes, no zuo no die, Xu Lang, don’t flount your “skills” la, even Shen He could’ve killed you ah. Also pfffttt Cheng Wei’s poisonous milk doesn’t work on Xiao Han whos immune to LXF’s glare! Really want to see a true battle between MoMo and Xiao Han actually….
Thank you for the chapter la!
+1 Awaiting the match between Qin Mo and Xiao Han!~
Xu Lang is far from Xiao Han lol, how can a mere normal player wants to compete with world class player? 😏
I love gacha, all the MMORPG that I played, all have gacha 🤣
Xiao Han and Momo’s battle, stay tuned~
👏 👏 👏 Congrats to Xiao Han! As expected.
Thanks for the update!
You’re welcome~ ❤
Xiao Han is so handsome~ (୨୧ ❛ᴗ❛)✧
Haha I bet that after this victory he will definitely go to Qin Mo to get some praise lol So Xu Lang was really just someone who was passing by… Underestimating the professional players sigh… He won’t be mentioned anymore right?~
Thank you for the chapter! ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎
he won’t be mentioned anymore, just a passerby lol~
Xiao Han wants a candy from Qin Mo 😍
You’re welcome~ ❤
I reaaaaaaly want to see a match between Xiao Han and God Mo 😍 I’m looking forward to it, thanks for the chapter 💕
You will see it soon~
we all knew he doesn’t have a chance right from the beginning. when qin mo analyzed that even shen he can win against xu lang, xiao han’s victory is already sealed