translator: Oyen editor: Ciel
The selected map, North Desert Wasteland, was very quickly loaded.
This was a vast desert map with several tall succulents, all of which could be used as obstacles to block attacks. However, the plants were scarce and spread out far enough so as to not affect the players’ vision and positioning. A team of three people could definitely shuttle between plants without being hindered.
At the start of the competition, both sides loaded into different corners of the map, immediately rushing towards the centre as if by an unspoken agreement.
Zhu Qingyue acted as Mojue’s commander for this game. Standing in the back row with Muran, he spoke, “Later, Muran should pay attention to the other healer’s blue. Xiao He should consume first, control the skills and blue. When the other healer is almost out of blue, we push.”
“Understood!” Shen He nodded seriously.
Although Zhu Qingyue was leading the team, Shen He did not have enough output. The other side would definitely think of ways to kill one of them as quickly as possible. So, the three of them had to cooperate very well and not make any obvious mistakes for the opponent to capitalise on!
Sure enough, the opposing outputs Xu Sizhe and Tan Xi quickly came to kill Shen He, joining hands to suppress his blood volume. However, Li Muran immediately healed him with skill.
“The opposing healer is an agility-based healer,” Xu Sizhe commanded. “I’ll control them, you break out and kill!”
Saying this, Xu Sizhe immediately summoned his mechanical horse, wanting to inflict the opponent with fear and take advantage of this lapse to kill…
However, at this very moment, a cyan-coloured curtain of rain rose from the desert sands—— it was Zhu Qingyue’s invincibility array!
This array had been summoned just in time, breaking Xu Sizhe’s control and nullifying Tan Xi’s attacks.
Under the protection of the rain curtain, Shen He was completely unharmed. Li Muran was also able to conveniently toss a continuous heal on him, which quickly filled up Shen He’s blood volume.
Seeing this caused Xu Sizhe to feel somewhat irritable. Mojue’s lineup was basically like a cockroach that couldn’t be killed!
The 5-second invincibility array forced Xu Sizhe to cease his attack, allowing Shen He the opportunity to counterattack with his mechanical rats, snakes, and chariots—— he methodically summoned all kinds of pets to consume Xu Sizhe’s blood. Shen He chose not to beat Xu Sizhe to death, instead leaving him half-death to pressure Graceful Beauty’s healer, who had to constantly heal Xu Sizhe’s summoner.
Xu Sizhe finally found an opportunity after Zhu Qingyue’s invincibility array ended, immediately issuing a command. “Fight!”
However, just as they were about to make a move, Zhu Qingyue suddenly used his transmission array, sending the Mojue team behind Graceful Beauty. At the same time, Shen He used his mechanical horse to control the field with fear. Together with Zhu Qingyue’s attack-boosting array, Shen He crippled Xu Sizhe once again!
The other side’s healer was trembling with fear. Because they had to release control and add blood, their blue consumption was way too high!
Sang Jun, who was watching the game backstage, could not help commenting. “Stepping into a trap without even realising… this Xiao Xu is still too young to face off against Qin Mo.”
“Sangsang, you’re not young, so you should be able to win against this lineup, right?” Chu Jianxin laughed.
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Chu Jianxin nodded in agreement. “When facing god Mo, not using extreme formations and going for stability alone is not enough. If it were us in this match, who would you send?”
“If it were us, this sort of situation would never occur,” Sang Jun replied.
“What do you mean by this?” Chu Jianxin wondered.
“If it were Dynasty, Qin Mo and Xiao Han wouldn’t dare to watch from the sidelines. At least one of them would join the fight,” Sang Jun chuckled.
“That’s true,” Chu Jianxin sighed. “Qin Mo is certain of your strength. If they were facing Dynasty, they would be sorely underestimating us if Twin Stars were to rest the entire game. Since they were facing Graceful Beauty today, Qin Mo obviously wanted to train his team. In fact… the upgraded version of the Qingyue-Muran-Shen He lineup would replace Shen He with Xiao Han, right?”
“En,” Sang Jun nodded. “With this typical double-guarantee formation, having Xiao Han as the output would be extremely terrible. However, today’s opponents don’t require Mojue to use such a strong lineup. It’s possible to send Shen He for experience, and sharpen Qingyue and Muran’s cooperation rhythm at the same time. Qin Mo has always considered things in the long term. According to the schedule, they will play against strong teams in the later weeks, and he will definitely send out some stronger lineups.”
“Ever since you faced Qin Mo in the partner competition, your relationship seems to have gotten better?” Chu Jianxin mused. “How do you understand him so well?”
Sang Jun turned around to glance at him. “Do you mind?”
Chu Jianxin laughed. “Of course I don’t mind. It’s a good thing to have more friends!”
Sang Jun: “… just pretend that I didn’t ask.”
Turning his head, Sang Jun continued to watch the display. Xu Sizhe was in a dilemma; his combined damage with Tan Xi was high, but it was still lacking just a little. Every time they crippled Shen He, Zhu Qingyue would open a defensive array, or Li Muran would quickly add blood…
It would have been much easier to fight had he brought three outputs just now!
Still, it was too late. Graceful Beauty’s healer had little to no blue left. Although Li Muran and Zhu Qingyue’s blue had also been consumed, they had worked together to protect Shen He, and thus their skills were used alternately. The pressure on them was much less when compared to the pressure on Graceful Beauty’s healer, who had to guarantee the safety of two outputs. Many of Shen He’s pets hadn’t been used yet, and he had saved his big moves for last. In addition, Li Muran had recovered some of his blue, making Shen He’s current state very good.
This game dragged on for fifteen minutes. By this time, Xu Sizhe was getting extremely impatient!
Only now did he personally experience the horror of facing a strong auxiliary. Zhu Qingyue’s ability to stabilise the situation was simply terrible. Whenever Xu Sizhe thought of killing Shen He in one go, Zhu Qingyue would break his plan by weakening the attack, using a defensive array, an invincibility array, transportation array, and so on!
For a long moment, Xu Sizhe even thought that he might have been fighting against the system. How else couldZhu Qingyue successfully predict the timing of their shots every time? Was this the legendary world-class auxiliary?
The audience watching the game was also anxious: “Why are they still full of blood even after I went for a toilet break and ate some fruit? Am I watching a fake game?”
“With Qingyue and Muran protecting him together, little monkey Shen has become an immortal cockroach Shen!”
“If I am Sizhe, I would have surrendered directly. Once the pace is slowed down, Sizhe definitely can’t compete with god Qingyue!”
“Qingyue is the strongest auxiliary, Sizhe is still too young!”
At the seventeen-minute mark, Graceful Beauty’s healer could no longer hold on. Zhu Qingyue seized the opportunity the moment Li Muran reported this in the team channel. “Start!”
The slow pace of the battle instantly turned fast. Zhu Qingyue used a simple ‘White Umbrella Array’ to enhance the team’s attack power, while Li Muran returned Shen He’s blue with his ‘Miraculous Healing Hands’ skill. With the help of two assistants, Shen He’s output soared——
In that instant, the audience saw many pets appearing around Xu Sizhe, surrounding him completely. The mechanical horse’s fear control, the mechanical rats’ weakness-inflicting bites, the mechanical snakes’ immobilisation, the mechanical chariots’ bombing attacks, and the mechanical hawk’s air raids…
Graceful Beauty’s captain Xu Sizhe was the first to fall, leaving the healer with no blue and the assassin with half blue. Very quickly, they too fell under Shen He’s offensive.
The score on the big screen became 0:1. Depressed, Xu Sizhe tugged at his hair. “It’s alright, we’ll fight again in the next game!”
***
In the second game, positions were automatically exchanged. Mojue would now choose the map, while Graceful Beauty could decide whether or not to ban players.
Qin Mo once again sat in the captain’s chair, picking out three obstacle maps from the map library. His lineup of players was He Beiguang, Pei Yu, Li Muran, Zhu Qingyue, and Liu Hong.
Tired of Zhu Qingyue’s ability to drag the game, Xu Sizhe marked an X over his portrait without hesitation. As for the map, since the three obstacle maps were almost the same, he randomly banned two of them.
Up next was QIn Mo’s turn to ban players, and he decisively banned the opposing healer.
He banned the healer? So, did that mean that he wanted to bring his own healer? Xu Sizhe was deep in thought. Watching from backstage, Sang Jun sighed in sympathy. “Don’t think about it, you definitely won’t be able to guess Qin Mo’s thoughts. Your skill level is too different.”
“Yes,” Chu Jianxin agreed. “If you encounter this kind of tactical player, you’d better give up thinking and fight head on!”
After thinking for a long time, Xu Sizhe finally sent out a pure output lineup of a summoner, an assassin, and a swordsman. As a result, Qin Mo’s final lineup caused him to be shocked once again—— He Beiguang, Pei Yu, and Liu Hong. He didn’t bring the healer, but actually brought a meat shield instead??
Xu Sizhe, who guessed wrong every time, was even more depressed. Three crispy outputs was a completely passive lineup when facing two outputs and a meat shield.
Sure enough, at the beginning of the game, He Beiguang opened his defensive cover in the front row to forcefully absorb damage, giving Liu Hong and Pei Yu an excellent environment to output. Liu Hong stayed behind He Beiguang’s shield to place traps on the ground, while Pei Yu stood far away, using the penetrative effects of his sound waves to attack from behind obstacles…
Group freeze, single target silence, single target dizziness…
Pei Yu’s remote control field was very annoying. However, Graceful Beauty couldn’t break through He Beiguang’s obstruction and Liu Hong’s serial traps. After the three-minute mark, Liu Hong broke out with Pei Yu’s remote assist, killing the opposing assassin. The situation began to tilt, and Graceful Beauty was quickly defeated.
Xu Sizhe stared blankly at the score 0:2 that had appeared on the screen, feeling somewhat lost.
Ye Chao’s words were still venomous. “The Graceful Beauty team originally only had 2 points. After losing two games today, 4 points will be deduced from their score… the first team with negative points has appeared in the Peerless Jianghu alliance!” Here, he paused for a few moments before continuing. “If Mojue is the alliance’s learning tyrant, then Graceful Beauty is the alliance’s academic scum. There are differences between people, and the fact that is most despairing is when people who are better than you, work harder than you—— from today’s game, it is clear that Qin Mo has worked hard to come up with new lineups. However, I’m sorry to say; Xu Sizhe, I have not seen the characteristics of Graceful Beauty at all.”
Worried that Ye Chao’s poisonous words would provoke netizens, Liang Ru immediately cut in to mediate. “The score of -2 points really doesn’t look too good.It seems that Graceful Beauty’s players need to work harder.”
The live broadcast room was flooded with mocking comments: “- 2 points, the first negative-point team in history is worth remembering!”
“Having been given a negative score by Mojue, does Sizhe want to cough up blood now?”
“Poor Graceful Beauty. Not to mention that they don’t have enough points for other teams, they even owe 2 points!”
“How can they repay the points they owe? Do they need to work for the alliance to pay off debts? 2333!”
Xu Sizhe couldn’t hear the comments, but he could imagine the audience making fun of this -2. Qin Mo had to be laughing at him……
Out of courtesy, both captains should shake hands in the middle of the stage before and after the game to show friendship. Xu Sizhe bravely walked to the middle of the stage to shake Qin Mo’s hand. To his surprise, Qin Mo actually whispered. “Work harder. Think about your players a little more, don’t let them feel that they have followed the wrong captain.”
Stunned, Xu Sizhe raised his head, meeting Qin Mo’s incomparably calm expression.
There was no ridicule or sarcasm. It was a purely objective sentence from a senior to a junior.
At this moment, Xu Sizhe realised that he was nothing at all in Qin Mo’s gaze—— not worth caring about, and certainly not worth despising or ridiculing.
An elephant was not so idle as to laugh at an ant, because the ant, when compared to an elephant, was simply… too small.
Qin Mo regarded him as an insignificant person, while he racked his brains in order to defeat Qin Mo, to the point where he had ignored the most fundamental responsibility that he as a captain should have paid attention to.
This was really the biggest joke.
Watching Qin Mo walk away, Xu Sizhe clenched his fist.
In fact, there was no great hatred between him and Qin Mo. However, it was his original dissatisfaction and prejudice that had accumulated with time, until it blinded his eyes.
-2 points. This ironic score was the most direct warning to him as a captain.
So… it was time to let go.
He couldn’t just think about how to defeat Qin Mo all day long; it was a fool’s dream.
Qin Mo had nothing to do with him. Xu Sizhe should fulfill his duties as the captain of Graceful Beauty. He had seven teammates following him, and he could not let them regret their choice.
Taking a deep breath, Xu Size turned and walked off the stage. This time, he no longer set his sights on Qin Mo. In his gaze were his waiting teammates, a group of energetic young people with their own dreams.
Finally Xu Sizhe has realized it!!! So will he continue being a captain? I wish there was an extra story about him since i‘m very curious about his future…
Thank you for the chapter~~! 💜💜💜
He will, but I’m not sure if he will become better, he just a side character with no CP lol, so no extras 🤔
You’re welcome~! <3
What a pity~ 😪
Xu size will grow up with time and tempering from the harsh realities of life. Anyway, Sang Jun reminds me of Captain Tang from Time team pining for dense kitty Chen Wei. Sang jun just borrow Captain Tangs’ mwthod and push him down and tell him straight to his face in plain words you like him. Don’t force him to do anything but make him LISTEN
now that you finally let go of your animosity towards qin mo and really think about your duty as a worthy captain, maybe i can even cheer you on. i don’t actually feel happy to see their pitiful state, rather i feel uncomfortable and even feel bad for their team. but now, you can finally think straight