translator: Ciel
Qin Mo won the first game on his home court, which was something expected by many people. Taking advantage of the intermission time, Ye Chao posed a question to Wu Zewen. “As someone who used to play summoner, in your opinion, what strategy should Qiu Yuan used if they want to win against Twin Stars?”
“My research in the area of tactics is not particularly deep,” Wu Zewen answered seriously. “I’m afraid I won’t be able to answer this question satisfactorily.”
Ye Chao: “…”
He was really too honest. Not even a little bit of god Chuan’s glib tongue had been learnt.
“Then, what about yourself?” Ye Chao asked. “What kind of playstyle do you prefer the most when facing a melee opponent?”
“I’d prefer using guerilla warfare tactics in a swamp map, meticulous pet positioning in a maze map, or a map with obstacles,” Wu Zewen shook his head. “However, Xiao Han is an assassin. The maze map doesn’t restrict assassins much, and obstacle maps cannot prevent Qin Mo’s ‘Skyward Sword’ group attack. Thus, since Qiu Yuan are going against Han Mo, I would surmise that they are likely to pick a swamp map.”
Liang Ru nodded in agreement. “You have a point. It is quite likely for Qiu Zongping to select a swamp map for the second game.”
“He played too conservatively in the first game,” Wu Zewen explained. “Against Qin Mo, it is best to take them by surprise and press the advantage. After all, against Han Mo, wanting to hold on to the later stage is quite a difficult task.”
“It seems like Qiu Zongping needs to carefully consider his choice of map and secret book for the second game,” Ye Chao nodded.
***
The rest time ended quickly, and the second match began. As Wu Zewen predicted, Qiu Zongping selected a swamp map, ‘Nanjiang Poison Swamp’.
As this map was previously used by Zhu Qingyue in the group stage, various teams have also developed ways to fight on such a map. Due to the environmental effect of 1% blood loss per second across the entire map, the poisonous gas could speed up the rhythm of the game, and could also supplement the lack of output from the players.
Qiu Zongping was aware that wanting to tangle with Han Mo in the later stages was very difficult, so he made the decision to play quickly. With the map supporting his and Yuan Xi’s output, they could quickly kill one of the Twin Stars.
As for the secret books, he simply selected the damage transfer book of ‘Grafting Flowers’, which was more stable than ‘Tall Mountains Flowing Waters’. The chaos control secret book would not be useful in the event that Han Mo moved separately, while the damage transfer secret book could be used to transfer the impact of Xiao Han’s output to Qin Mo. Yuan Xi brought along the ‘River Sunset’ secret book with a chance of triggering an instant death if the opponent’s blood volume was under 30%, which could be used to kill an opponent at a critical moment.
Qin Mo also selected his secret books quickly. Once the 10-second countdown ended, the map was loaded, and the game immediately began.
As expected, Qin Mo and Xiao Han once again moved separately, one to the east and the other to the west. As both sides closed in, Qiu Zongping and Yuan Xi also separated, preventing Qin Mo from once again using the ‘Tall Mountains Flowing Waters’ secret book to cause massive chaos with their pets.
However, because Qiu and Yuan were both remote outputs, even if they were standing at a distance, their pets could still cooperate.
The distance between both sides kept shrinking. Qiu Zongping quickly summoned a chariot on top of a stone platform not too far away, intending on blocking Qin Mo’s advance. At the same time, he used qinggong to jump ten metres away, placing another three chariots across stones that Xiao Han had to pass through. In this manner, four chariots were used to obstruct Han Mo.
“Using pets as obstacles; Qiu Zongping has a thorough understanding of how a summoner controls the field,” Wu Zewen noted.
Ye Chao offered his agreement. “This way, as long as Han Mo draw near, Qiu Zongping can use the chariots to knock them into the swamp.”
“However, the collision may not work,” Liang Ru pointed out. “It’s possible to dodge with qinggong.”
Xiao Han was not worried about this. Although there was a chariot occupying the stone, he fearlessly leapt over. Just as Qiu Zongping controlled the chariot to smash him, Xiao Han suddenly jumped up to avoid the impact, splitting into multiple shadows with ‘Thousand Lights Ghost Walk’ to chase after Qiu Zongping!
Although this method sacrificed five shadows, it gave him the chance to attack the summoner at close range—— Deadly Ice Silkworm!
Xiao Han started with the assassin’s big move. With one strike, Qiu Zongping lost 20% of his blood, and at the same time, his cast was interrupted.
Qin Mo had continued using qinggong to jump over the chariots, and at this time, approached Qiu Zongping from the east. The longsword in his hands was thrown out in a straight line, and with the targeting skill ‘Unrivalled Sword’, Qiu Zongping was directly stabbed in the chest.
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Xiao Han’s next critical attack ‘Meteor’ was transferred onto Qin Mo, causing his blood volume to fall to 80%. Realising that the other side used the damage transfer secret book, Xiao Han immediately stopped attacking.
Seeing this, Yuan Xi immediately summoned his mechanical horse—— the moment the large-scale control effect was released, Qin Mo and Xiao Han were immobilised with fear.
Immediately, Yuan Xi followed up with his own mechanical chariots, sending the opponent nearest to him into the swamp. Hit by the chariot, Xiao Han fell into the poisonous waters, and had three layers of poison stacked on him in moments.
With Xiao Han in the swamp, only Qin Mo was left on the shore, and was in a position vulnerable to Qiu Yuan’s attack.
Qiu Zongping immediately summoned the mechanical snakes to encircle Qin Mo. “Hit him quickly!”
Qin Mo was entangled by Qiu Zongping’s mechanical snakes, and could not move for the time being. Happy, Yuan Xi broke out the summoner’s big move. Above him, the mechanical hawk spread its wings, sending a rain of weapons falling from the sky, depleting Qin Mo’s blood volume to 55%!
However, he only had time to release this one skill, before he was suddenly interrupted—— Xiao Han’s response was very quick, decisively using ‘Golden Cicada Shell’ to escape the control and fly out of the swamp, landing behind Yuan Xi and interrupting his next cast with a ‘Rainbow Through the Sun’.
Realising that Yuan Xi’s rhythm had been interrupted, Qiu Zongping immediately cooperated by controlling the field, releasing the mechanical horse to control Xiao Han with fear. However, Xiao Han immediately used the qinggong skill ‘Darkness Valley’ in response, vanishing from sight.
Although Qiu Zongping had been unable to control him, at least Xiao Han was forced away, and Yuan Xi’s output would no longer be disturbed.
Turning around, Yuan Xi immediately continued attacking Qin Mo, releasing the mechanical snakes to bite him mercilessly, further lowering Qin Mo’s blood volume to 40%.
As long as his blood volume was under 30% and he was inflicted with the weakness state, the instant death effect of the secret book ‘River Sunset’ could be triggered.
This was a golden opportunity!
Yuan Xi was both nervous and excited, constantly staring at his computer screen and squeezing the mouse in his right hand. His skills of mechanical snake, chariot, hawk, and horse were all in cooldown, while the cooldown of the mechanical rats was over. Stacking the weakness state was not a problem, but Qin Mo still had 40% health, and this extra 10% could not be slowly grinded away with ordinary attacks——
Thankfully, Qiu Zongping’s consciousness was first-rate. Having long since realised that Yuan Xi’s big moves were all in cooldown, he decisively summoned his own mechanical hawk for a wave of damage. Although his pet did not deal as much damage as Yuan Xi’s, it was just enough to lower Qin Mo’s health past 30%.
The moment Qiu Zongping’s attack ended, Qin Mo was left with 25% blood. Yuan Xi also stacked three layers of weakness on him.
Now, as long as they used the secret book ‘River Sunset’, they would be able to instantly kill Qin Mo.
Excitedly, Yuan Xi activated the secret book, but——
Although Qin Mo had fallen, the prompt ‘[Dead Soul] has killed [Ink Mark] did not show up!
What was going on right now? Yuan Xi couldn’t help but freeze momentarily.
Qiu Zongping was constantly alert, and immediately shouted on the team channel. “Danger! Retreat quickly!”
However, just as he retreated a few metres, a black-clothed assassin suddenly appeared out of nowhere, stabbing him from behind—— Meteor, Deadly Ice Silkworm!
The audience was extremely surprised to see that Xiao Han, who had just appeared, was in the terrifying state of full blood and blue, with all skills available!
What was going on? Didn’t Xiao Han lose blood earlier? Furthermore, many of his skills should be in cooldown.
Wu Zewen turned to look at Ye Chao.
Blinking, Ye Chao finally reacted and offered an explanation. “Qin Mo wasn’t killed by Yuan Xi’s secret book just now. Instead, he committed suicide.”
Surprised, Wu Zewen adjusted his glasses. “Suicide? Did he use some sort of special secret book?”
“En,” Ye Chao nodded. “There is a secret book in Peerless Jianghu that produces this effect. It’s called ‘Reminiscence’.”
“No wonder I constantly feel like my IQ isn’t enough,” Liang Ru sighed. “God Mo’s ideas are so innovative!”
Clicking on the battle statistics panel, Ye Chao focused on a small line of text—— Ink Mark has used the secret book ‘Reminiscence’, Dead Soul has used the secret book ‘River Sunset’!
Qin Mo’s reaction was faster than Yuan Xi’s by 0.5 seconds. It was this quick response at a critical moment that gave his secret book priority over Yuan Xi’s.
—— ‘Reminiscence’, a special secret book from Luoying Valley with the effect of restoring a designated teammate to their initial state at the expense of oneself.
Initial state, which was a state with full blood, full blue, and all skills available for use.
Since this was a secret book that ‘sacrificed oneself’, it was seldom used in the online game arena. No one expected that Qin Mo would use it in a competition.
With this, Qin Mo sacrificed himself, allowing a full-blooded Xiao Han to fight a 1V2?
This approach caused many viewers of the live broadcast to sigh. “From god Mo and god Han; this must surely be true love!”
“With my sacrifice, I’ll give you the opportunity to kill everyone you please. Saying that it isn’t true love is not justified!”
“God Mo deliberately attracted the firepower of the double summoners from the beginning, and when he was about to die, he decisively committed suicide to protect god Han!”
“This is how you show true love!”
Amidst the audience’s jeers, Ye Chao sighed. “Qin Mo’s tactics are really unpredictable!”
“In fact, he could have continued to bring a purification secret book or the ‘Big Dipper’ secret book that he brought last round,” Liang Ru mused. “After all, the double summoners combination has too many control skills. However, Qin Mo changed his tactics in the second round, causing Qiu Zongping and Yuan Xi to fall into his trap once again!”
“Qin Mo is a strong tactical player who is good at thinking and innovating,” Wu Zewen commented seriously.
Even if he won against his opponent, he did not want to reuse the same tactical routine.
In this round, Qin Mo and Xiao Han split up to test if Qiu Zongping had brought along the secret book ‘Tall Mountains Flowing Waters’. As a result, Qiu Zongping used the secret book ‘Grafting Flowers’ to transfer Xiao Han’s damage. The moment Qiu Yuan joined hands to attack him, Qin Mo guessed that Yuan Xi had most likely brought an output secret book, and were aiming to kill him as quickly as possible.
Yuan Xi did not use his secret book, but instead continued to use various skills to suppress his blood volume. From this, Qin Mo ascertained that the secret book Yuan Xi brought with him was ‘River Sunset’ which had the highest output, but the strictest conditions—— only once the opponent’s blood volume was under 30%, and they were inflicted with the weakness state, could the secret book’s ‘instant death’ effect be guaranteed.
Thus, after his blood volume fell below 30%, Qin Mo vigilantly used his secret book ‘Reminiscence’—— sacrificing himself to protect Xiao Han.
Although it seemed like Xiao Han was facing the unfavourable condition of a 1V2, Xiao Han was full of blood, full of blue, and had all his skills available. On the other hand, Yuan Xi had paid a great price to kill Qin Mo, and most of his skills were on cooldown. Qiu Zongping was in a similar situation, with many skills on cooldown and a limited amount of blue left. After Xiao Han used ‘Shadowless Dragon’ to interrupt his casting, Qiu Zongping fell into a completely passive situation——
In the arena, Xiao Han’s explosive output knocked the half-blood Qiu Zongping down to 10% residual blood in an instant. Qiu Zongping summoned his mechanical puppet to flee, but Xiao Han did not give him the chance, instantly disposing of the puppet and using five shadows of ‘Thousand Lights Ghost Walk’ to surround the summoner. Following that, a single skill of ‘Rainbow Through the Sun’ was enough to take away Qiu Zongping’s head.
The moment Qiu Zongping died, Xiao Han and Yuan Xi were locked into 1V1 combat.
Yuan Xi had been affected by the map’s poisonous gas, and was left with around 80% of his blood at this point in time. Thankfully, most of his skills were off cooldown. Knowing this, Xiao Han decisively retreated while in stealth, to avoid being charged at. Once his own skills were off cooldown, he could confront Yuan Xi once more.
Yuan Xi’s explosive power was very strong, but Xiao Han had restarted from a state of full blood halfway through the match, while Yuan Xi only had 80%. In the end, although Yuan Xi managed to lower Xiao Han’s blood volume to about 20%, he could not avoid Xiao Han’s pursuit, and could only fall under Xiao Han’s dagger.
The match ended here. Twin Stars had won once again.
This round of competition was full of twists and turns. At the start, Qin Mo was crippled by the secret book ‘Grafting Flowers’ and Qiu Yuan’s joint attack. If not for Qin Mo’s sacrifice with ‘Reminiscence’ at a critical moment to exchange his remaining blood for Xiao Han’s blood and blue, with Xiao Han’s condition, he would have lost to Qiu Yuan for sure.
But who would have guessed that Qin Mo would sacrifice himself and allow Xiao Han to fight 1V2? It showed that he had absolute confidence in Xiao Han’s strength, and in return, Xiao Han had not let him down.
The audience’s enthusiastic applause continued for a long time.
Wu Zewen’s evaluation was extremely objective—— Qin Mo is a strong tactical player who is good at thinking and innovating. He was not arrogant, but neither was he complacent, and always focused on the game with the attitude of constantly learning and doing research. From this match, it was obvious that Qin Mo had many tactics, and none of them were repeated. Many secret books unpopular in the online game had been used by him as part of his unpredictable tactics, and when used at a critical moment, could always achieve surprising results.
Leaving the soundproof booth and walking to the center of the stage, Qiu Zongping took the initiative to shake Qin Mo’s hand. “God Mo, I am convinced by my loss today.”
“The both of you have improved a lot,” Qin Mo replied calmly. “I almost lost the second game.”
—— But in the end, you still won.
Qiu Zongping smiled. “It seems like my research on this game is still not thorough enough. I have to continue working hard in the future.”
“Work hard,” Qin Mo nodded. “We’ll meet again in the team fights.”
After shaking hands, the four players left the stage.
Offstage, the reporter excitedly ran up to them. “Congratulations to god Mo and god Han for winning once again! Though, it seems like I keep repeating this sentence…”
“En,” Xiao Han acknowledged. “It’s because we keep winning every time.”
The reporter laughed. “Indeed. If we include the group stage, you’ve won five matchups in a row; this is a flawless record!”
“I hope that we can continue maintaining this record,” Xiao Han nodded.
Turning around, the reporter handed the microphone over to Qin Mo. “God Mo, just now, you used the secret book ‘Reminiscence’ to commit suicide and let god Han fight a 1V2 in his best condition. Why did you want to use such a tactic?”
“I’ve not used it before,” Qin Mo replied seriously. “Trying new things can confuse the opponent. I can also try new tactical ideas with this.”
“Then, you were sure that god Han could defeat both Qiu Zongping and Yuan Xi in a 1V2?” The reporter questioned.
“Xiao Han was at peak condition, while the opponent did not have much blood left. It isn’t very difficult to kill two people under such conditions,” Qin Mo explained. “I trusted that Xiao Han could accomplish this.”
“It seems like god Mo trusts god Han a lot?” The reporter joked.
“Naturally,” Qin Mo nodded. “Provided that my partner is Xiao Han, I am not afraid of trying new tactics and ideas.”
This sentence caused the audience on-scene to scream, while those watching the live broadcast spammed comments about ‘true love’.
Xiao Han had a rarely-seen smile on his face as he turned to glance at Qin Mo. Even his voice had become a little more gentle as he spoke. “Thanking captain Qin for his trust.”
“No need for thanks,” Qin Mo blinked.
At this moment, the reporter had the sudden feeling of being blinded, and quickly rubbed his eyes. “Having won the semifinals, you will be participating in the finals tomorrow. Are you both confident?”
“Of course,” Qin Mo replied calmly. “Our goal has always been the championship.”
Ohemgee. This chapter was so exciting!!! I loved it. BTW, typo “full of bue, and “
Righttt~ this chapter is exciting, especially when Qin Mo sacrifice himself for Xiao Han 😍
Already fix the typo, thank you~ ❤
This match was so exciting! 😝 Didn’t expect Qin Mo to use a suicide secret book~ Looking forward to the finals match~!
Thank you for the chapter 🌸🌸🌸
Yesss, suicide secret book, it’s like redemption skill in GLS right? So sweet for both of them~ 😍
You’re welcome~ ❤
Hmm? In GLS? Was there one like that 🤔
when Bai Xuan sacrifice himself for Xie Shurong in world competition 💕
Ahhh how could I forget that… He also did that for Catgod right? 🤔
The conclusion to every win is qin mo and xiao han’s ‘I love you’s
+1 ❤