translator: Oyen editor: Ciel
The second game was Qin Mo’s home game. He selected a beautiful map, ‘Peach Blossom Forest’, which was a dungeon that netizens were very familiar with. There were many monsters in the map of Peach Blossom Forest, and players could easily get experience points there. The map created for the competition also retained these monsters.
Unlike Snake Cave, the mobs of Peach Blossom Forest didn’t chase after players. They were limited to moving within a certain range, and would automatically return to their original positions after exceeding that range. Thus, it was impossible for Sang Jun to aggro all the monsters around like he did in the previous game.
Moreover, Peach Blossom Forest’s mobs didn’t poison people, but that didn’t mean that they could be ignored—— they were long-range magic-based monsters who actively attacked people within their range, and players hit by their spell would be forced asleep for 2 seconds.
Sang Jun was surprised to see this map—— In the last game, he selected a monster map to pit Qin Mo. He didn’t expect Qin Mo to choose the same kind of map again for the second game.
Was this his way of showing respect?
“It seems as though this game is going to be troublesome.” Sang Jun smiled.
“En,” Chu Jianxin replied, “It doesn’t matter, let’s do our best.”
***
Back on the live commentary, Ye Chao posed a question to Tan Shitian. “Peach Blossom Forest’s monsters will cause 2 seconds of sleep if their attack lands. Moreover, they use long-range magic spells. What does captain Tan think is advantageous for Twin Stars in choosing this map?”
Tan Shitian thought for a few moments. “Qin Mo’s swordsman has many control skills. When necessary, he can use the monsters to help him control the field, blocking Chu Jianxin to reach Sang Jun. Alternatively, control Sang Jun, before killing Chu Jianxin.”
Ye Chao nodded to express his agreement. “In the last game, Sang Jun used the monsters to deal damage. In this game, Qin Mo seems to want to use the mobs to control the field.”
“How will captain Chu deal with this?” Liang Ru smiled.
The game would start soon. Both sides were loaded into the Peach Blossom Forest map. Pale pink flowers fell from the sky, covering the ground with their petals. This sort of gentle scene was particularly suited to be a dating spot.
However, the Peach Blossom Forest known as the holy land for dates had a tense atmosphere today.
The four players acted almost simultaneously. Quickly avoiding the mobs, Qin Mo and Xiao Han ran to the middle of the map. Sure enough, Chu Jianxin and Sang Jun were also there.
After both sides met, they tacitly agreed not to attack each other first, instead choosing to explore the area around the peach blossom tree.
Everyone was an expert, and making low-level mistakes in their movement and positioning was impossible. In addition, this game was very crucial; Qin Mo couldn’t afford to lose, while Sang Jun wanted to win, so both sides played very carefully.
There were three monsters around the peach blossom tree. Seeing that the peach blossom demon dressed in pink was circling the tree slowly, the four players carefully avoided her operational range, so as to avoid getting hit.
Seeing another small monster coming out from behind the peach blossom tree, Qin Mo suddenly spoke. “Get ready!”
As soon as he spoke, the longsword in the hands of the white-clothed swordsman was flung out decisively—— Drifting Sword! Riverbound Sword!
Qin Mo stabbed Chu Jianxin with his longsword, nailing the tank to the peach blossom tree. At the same time, he hit Sang Jun with his other skill, flinging the assassin ten metres back in an instant!
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Xiao Han immediately followed up by smashing a series of attack skills on Chu Jianxin. However, Chu Jianxin wisely replied with Kuangdao Gate’s protective skill ‘Only Me’, causing a golden shield to appear around Chu Jianxin. Seeing that the 3-second damage reflection skill had been used, Xiao Han immediately halted his attack.
After the first exchange of skills, Twin Stars had not received an obvious advantage. Qin Mo used the penetration skill ‘Drifting Sword’ and the repulsion skill ‘Riverbound Sword’, while Xiao Han used his attack skill ‘Meteor’ which had a relatively short cooldown time. However, Qin Mo managed to put Sang Jun to sleep, as well as forced out Chu Jianxin’s damage reflection skill, making it impossible for him to use again for the next 30 seconds.
Without this damage reflection skill, Xiao Han’s output could not be restrained.
The 2-second forced sleep ended quickly. Sang Jun wanted to escape the monster’s attack range, but Qin Mo suddenly appeared before him and landed several successive general attacks, triggering the deceleration effect of his weapon. Sang Jun, who had his movement speed lowered, was once again hit by the monster and forced into another 2 seconds of sleep.
Sang Jun: “…”
God Mo had dug an extremely deep pit!
Desperate, Sang Jun simply forced his way out of the control with stealth, quickly returning to Chu Jianxin’s side.
Seeing Sang Jun approaching, Chu Jianxin immediately knocked Xiao Han down with ‘Sweeping Eight Wastelands’, making him dizzy for 2 seconds. However, Xiao Han had long since predicted this, so he did not hesitate to use ‘Golden Cicada Shell’ to resolve the control and escape, before turning back to use a three-hit combo of ‘Rainbow Through The Sun’ on the invisible Sang Jun.
However, Sang Jun’s target was not Xiao Han. He immediately attacked Ink Mark with ‘Ashura Claw’, forcing Qin Mo’s blood volume to drop. Qin Mo decisively retreated with qinggong to widen the distance, simultaneously hitting Sang Jun with ‘Unrivalled Sword’.
The four men launched a quick battle around the peach blossom tree in the middle of the map, playing both offensively and defensively, causing the scene to be extremely chaotic.
Li Muran had to pause the video and play it back several times to see their operations clearly, so that his analysis could be written down in the word document——
Qin Mo and Xiao Han’s attacks seemed chaotic, but a careful analysis showed that they were using diversionary tactics. They pretended to be targeting Chu Jianxin, but their actual goal was in fact Sang Jun.
When Chu Jianxin’s damage reflection skill was off cooldown, Twin Stars immediately withdrew, widening the distance to consume the other party’s blood from afar. After the protection skill had been used, the two of them would attack Sang Jun once more—— this sort of playstyle was a test of their cooperation and consciousness. Because the cooldown of Chu Jianxin’s damage reflection playstyle was so short, there were only two to three seconds between skills, and they had to firmly grasp the opportunity.
The reason Qin Mo used the monster to force out Sang Jun’s stealth skill was to control his whereabouts, so as to better be able to focus on Sang Jun during Chu Jianxin’s skill cooldowns.
Twin Stars were counting the cooldown times of Chu Jianxin’s skills, and would periodically stop attacking.
However, Sang Jun’s goal was very clear. He had been attacking Qin Mo all this time because he had seen through Qin Mo’s intentions to stop him. Before Han Mo killed him, he must kill one of them, otherwise, it would be very difficult for Chu Jianxin to handle Twin Stars alone.
As Sang Jun’s attacks had not been interrupted, Qin Mo’s blood volume had rapidly fallen to about 35%.
Although both Han and Mo joined forces, they could only do it while Chu Jianxin wasn’t protecting Sang Jun. By this time, Sang Jun still had 45% blood left.
This gap was not big. The next time Chu Jianxin’s damage reflection skill went into cooldown, Han and Mo would join hands once again, and Sang Jun would be in a very dangerous position!
Very quickly, Chu Jianxin’s damage reflection skill went into cooldown. Han Mo immediately seized the opportunity to attack——
Deadly Ice Silkworm, Unrivalled Sword!
Their strongest single-target attack skills were used simultaneously. Together with the damage bonus offered by Xiao Han’s ‘Shadowless Dragon’s, Sang Jun’s blood volume fell to 15% in an instant!
Xiao Han decisively used the secret book ‘Bloody Hand’ to kill him.
A prompt appeared on the screen—— [Thousand Miles Ice] has killed [End Of The World]!
However, after Sang Jun died, the body did not disappear immediately, insteadbut remaininged in place.
Why hadn’t Sang Jun’s body disappeared? Was there a delay in the system refresh?
Seeing that the audience was doubtful, Ye Chao immediately opened the competition statistics panel. “Sang Jun isn’t dead, he can still be saved!”
“Could it be a revival secret book?” Liang Ru questioned.
“Indeed,” Ye Chao smiled. “In this game, Sang Jun has two lives!”
Liang Ru was surprised. “So, it really is the ‘Reincarnation Cycle’ secret book?”
“The secret book was used by captain Chu!” Ye Chao informed.
—— ‘Reincarnation Cycle’, a secret book that gave teammates the option of resurrecting. If they chose to be revived, 50% of the player’s blood and blue would be transferred to the revived party.
If used by a professional output, the amount of blood given to the teammate after resurrection was not much, and the effect was not as good as Qin Mo’s sacrificial ‘Reminiscence’ to restore his teammate to full blood and blue.
However, the key point was that Chu Jianxin was a defensive meat shield player. His blood volume was originally 150,000 units, and half of that was 75,000 units. This amount of blood was enough to fully heal a crispy output!
As expected, Sang Jun’s blood bar was almost full the moment he was revived.
The audience: “…”
Captain Chu was not just a meat shield. This was clearly the work of a strong milk dad!
Qin Mo was extremely shocked. To think that Sang Jun would come up with this resurrection trick; after spending so much effort to kill him, he recovered 75,000 units of blood in one breath. If Qin Mo was replaced with a normal opponent, he would surely want to cough up blood!
However, Qin Mo quickly regained his calm. “Kill Chu Jianxin!”
The resurrection secret book came with a price. In using the secret book to revive Sang Jun, Chu Jianxin lost half his blood volume.
Since that was the case, then they should just kill Chu Jianxin first.
Xiao Han and Qin Mo decisively joined forces to kill Chu Jianxin.
From a visual perspective, it seemed as though the opponent they had gone through so many difficulties to kill had been fully healed in an instant, which was a despairing sight. However, as long as one was calm and analysed the situation carefully, they would realise that after Chu Jianxin gave his blood and blue to Sang Jun, he was not left with much blue, and could not release many skills. Similarly, the revived Sang Jun only inherited half of Chu Jianxin’s blue at the moment of resurrection, so while he was full of blood, he did not have more than 30,000 units of blue, sorely limiting his attack power.
Qin Mo and Xiao Han teamed up to attack Chu Jianxin, quickly forcing him into a residual blood state. However, Qin Mo himself was the target of Sang Jun’s output, and was soon on the verge of death.
Seeing his blood bar flash red in warning, Qin Mo no longer hesitated, and immediately used his formation-type secret book—— Moonlit Wind Formation!
This was a ranged formation that enabled all allies within the formation’s range to recover 5% blue per second for the next 5 seconds.
After releasing the formation, the residual blood Qin Mo died under Sang Jun’s iron claws. His final contribution before his death was to help Xiao Han restore 25% of his blue.
At this time, Chu Jianxin had run out of blue. Xiao Han quickly killed the residual blood Chu Jianxin, before facing Sang Jun, who still had over 70,000 units of blood.
Xiao Han’s blood volume was about the same as Sang Jun’s, but he had a lot more blue compared to the opponent. The two assassins faced each other head-on; gradually, Sang Jun slipped into a decline, and was finally killed by Xiao Han.
***
The score on the screen was changed to 1:1.
“This game was full of twists and turns,” Ye Chao sighed. “I thought everything was over the moment Sang Jun died for the first time. As a result, he was able to come back to life!”
“Vice-captain Sang’s idea is very interesting,” Liang Ru smiled. “The effect of allowing the meat shield to use the resurrection secret book is really great!”
“Unfortunately, Qin Mo used that formation to recover blue just before his death,” Ye Chao shook his head in dismay. “If Qin Mo had not returned blue to Xiao Han, the ending would have been uncertain.”
Liang Ru coughed. “What a terrible thing to say, what ‘before his death’, don’t say such a thing about god Mo!”
Ye Chao laughed. “In the last game, Qin Mo committed suicide when left with 25% of his blood in order to restore Xiao Han to his initial state of full blood and blue. This time, he gave Xiao Han a chance to recover blue before his death. His attitude towards Xiao Han… can only be described as true love!”
“I agree with this sentence,” Tan Shitian chuckled.
The audience watching the live broadcast rapidly spammed the bullet screen, expressing their strong approval.
Qin Mo’s trust in Xiao Han had never been disguised. He would always help Xiao Han before he died, and Xiao Han had never let him down.
“Qin Mo’s choice of Moonlit Wind Formation was not because he guessed that Sang Jun would use the revival secret book, but because of his tactical thinking, right?” Ye Chao questioned.
Nodding, Tan Shitian analysed carefully. “In this round, Qin Mo chose the Peach Blossom Forest map. He wanted to use the monsters to control the field, in order to bypass Chu Jianxin and kill Sang Jun. Although this approach would slow down the rhythm of the battle, it will give him good control of the field. Once Sang Jun is dead, victory would be theirs.”
“However,” Tan Shitian continued. “Sang Jun guessed Qin Mo’s intentions, so he asked Chu Jiansin to bring the resurrection secret book along. Qin Mo’s selection of the blue recovery secret book was just in case, so as to keep Xiao Han in an advantageous position at a critical moment. This game was extremely exciting. In the end, the reason Twin Stars won was because of the different amounts of blue on both sides, which was also Qin Mo’s back-up plan—— the slight advantage of an additional 25% blue gave Xiao Han the advantage in the final wave. It can be said that this had been the most thrilling game in Twin Star’s record in the partner competition so far!”
The audience felt that captain Tan was much more serious about his commentary. Truly, he was much more reliable than Cheng Wei.
“Such a high-levelled fight is a rare occurrence!” Ye Chao was excited. “Up next will be a short intermission; let us all look forward to the tiebreaker!”
The title is Ch1 – Peerless Jianghu? Is that only that way by me?
Aww~ Qin Mo‘s trust in Xiao Han and Xiao Han who don’t let him down~ They’re so sweet 😍 I can’t get enough of them!
The resurrection secret book was really a surprise… Sang Jun really is someone you have to look out for!
This match was so exciting~ I am looking forward to the third match!
Thank you for the chapter ❤️❤️❤️
I think it’s just u? The title is normal here.
Agreee +999 they’re sweet and really trust each other~ ❤
Third match will be the last for this partner competition~
You’re welcome~ 😍
Now the title is also normal by me~ It seems like it was fixed… 😅
The chapter was sooo thrilling to say the least!!! I love it as usual!!!
Thanks, I also love it 😍
Lol tit for tat. In round 1, sang Jin tricked qin mo into using his big skill on the snakes, round 2 qin mo tricked sang jun into using his stealth. Speaking of stealth though, dial han where are all your sneak attacks? I’m confident that between the two assassins, xi so Han is still better in a 1v1.
Oops autocorrect doesn’t recognize xiao and keeps changing it to something weird.