translator: Oyen
Qin Mo knew very well that the key responsibility for the defeat in the second round laid with him.
Sang Jun selected a multi-layer spatial map, which greatly restricted Liu Hong’s play. At that time, Qin Mo subconsciously thought that the other party would play slow by sending a meat shield and healer, so he let Shen He play. After all, Shen He had a fast pace, his control and attack were not weak. He could cooperate with Han-Mo to play a fast break. In fact, this game was more suitable for sending Pei Yu. If Han-Mo took Pei Yu to play, everyone could fight air combat directly in the second level. Pei Yu would control the field, Xiao Han and Qin Mo would join hands to fight the enemy.
However, Qin Mo had a preconception that the other side would send Chu Jianxin. If Pei Yu fought Chu Jianxin, the output would not be enough, so he sent Shen He.
In the final analysis, it was his own misjudgment of Dynasty’s lineup.
Qin Mo was not a god, it was impossible to guess right every time, and there was no need to cover up his mistakes. After the end of the second round, he took the initiative to tell the players frankly. “I have a wrong judgement in this round, Xiao He, you don’t have to feel guilty, you’ve nothing to do with it.”
Shen He was lowering his head to reflect. Hearing this, he immediately raised his head. “I didn’t play very well in this round…”
Xiao Han gently encircled Qin Mo’s shoulder and whispered. “If you lose, you lose. There is no need to feel embarrassed. There is no rule that the commander can’t make mistakes. Everyone won’t blame you, don’t put pressure on yourself.”
Qin Mo was indeed very strict with himself. Before every competition, he had to stay up late to study his opponent, speculate on his opponent’s possible map selection, lineup layout, and think of several sets of counterattack strategies, and Xiao Han saw in his eyes how hard he was. In today’s game, he did make a mistake in judgment, because Sang Jun knew him so well that he unexpectedly used the same lineup for two consecutive games and dug a pit for him from the map selection stage. It was also normal for Qin Mo to be accidentally hit.
At Xiao Han’s gaze, Qin Mo nodded lightly. “I know, there is no need to entangle after the game. The key lies in the next round.”
He quickly adjusted his state and glanced over the players present. What’s rare was that the Mojue’s team members did not blame him, but looked at him with trust——obviously, even if he as the captain lost the game by a command mistake, everyone was still full of confidence in him.
Qin Mo’s mood eased a lot, and his expression was no longer tense. “Don’t be careless in the tiebreaker game, Qingyue, will you come with us?”
Zhu Qingyue chuckled. “No problem.”
Zhu Qingyue’s seniority was the oldest in the Mojue team, and his debut time was earlier than Twin Stars. Moreover, unlike Liu Hong who changed from healer to output, or Qin Mo’s departure for three years, and changed to play swordsman. Zhu Qingyue had never stopped playing for many years, and he was a consistent auxiliary player. His stability in the face of the competition was even far better than Qin Mo as a captain.
In the tiebreaker game, if Twin Stars took Li Muran to play a late game, or Liu Hong to play fast break, there would be a certain chance of winning.
However, bringing Zhu Qingyue was definitely the safest way.
Mojue’s team members also knew Qin Mo’s consideration and had no objection to his decision, so they immediately came forward to cheer for the three great gods.
***
On Dynasty side, when Sang Jun came over, Chu Jianxin couldn’t help giving a thumbs up. “Sangsang is really awesome, not many people can pit Qin Mo!”
“I’m just lucky.” Sang Jun smiled slightly.
“Now it’s a draw 1:1, how do we play in the third round?” Lin Yao asked.
Sang Jun touched his chin and thought for a moment. “Mojue should seek stability and bring out their strongest lineup.”
Chu Jianxin frowned. “The strongest lineup you’re talking about, is it …The combination of the three great gods of Han-Mo-Yue?”
Sang Jun nodded. “In this three-players competition, Zhu Qingyue mostly took Li Muran to play ‘double guarantee one’ lineup. However, this strategy is only applicable to the crispy opponents. Our Dynasty has captain Chu, a powerful meat shield. So, Mojue won’t be able to fight if they just bring one output. The safest way to do this is to bring Zhu Qingyue or Li Muran with both Twin Stars as output. Which one to bring, it depends on whether Qin Mo wants to rely on the healer to delay to the later stage, or let an auxiliary to help control the field.”
“Then, shall we also use two output to fight?” Chu Jianxin asked.
Sang Jun thought for a moment. “Captain Chu, Lin Yao and me, with a meat shield and double output, can at least achieve a balance with Mojue’s lineup.”
Without any doubts, Chu Jianxin simply nodded. “Alright, let’s do it!”
He never questioned Sang Jun’s decision, because he was self-aware and knew that his tactical awareness was far worse than Sang Jun’s. When Dynasty entered the new project, he should have let Sang Jun be captain. However, Sang Jun hated facing reporters and was tired of various sponsors’ social parties. Chu Jianxin took the initiative to take the position of captain. In his view, there was no need to make a clear distinction between brothers, captain and vice captain were just names. He wore the captain’s title, and the command was in Sang Jun’s hands, there was nothing wrong with it.
***
After deciding the lineup, the captains of both sides submitted it to the referee respectively. The third round finally started after the rest time passed.
Map selection and banned stage would be automatically skipped in the tie breaker game, the system would directly select the map randomly, and the referee would announce the lineup configuration.
On the live broadcast screen, a map was selected—— Qixing Cliff.
Qixing Cliff’s terrain was extremely steep. It was a rock maze located on the top of a high mountain. There were many large and small rocks in the maze, among which seven stone pillars towering into the clouds were arranged according to the position of the Big Dipper. After the start of the competition, the whole map would slowly rotate counterclockwise, but the players in the maze couldn’t detect the map rotating, so it was easy to get lost in the stone array.
Seeing this map, Ye Chao immediately gloated. “I didn’t expect that the system would randomly pick such a difficult map! Qixing Cliff, this is the only rotating maze in the official game map library!”
Liang Ru rubbed her temple. “Maze map is already a headache, not to mention the rotating maze. How to judge the position of the player in the middle of it?”
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In order to make it easier for the audience to understand, the director kindly put a panoramic top view on the big screen. From the top view, they could see that the seven stone pillars in the Qixing Cliff map happened to be in the shape of an inverted spoon, just like the Big Dipper. At the top of the seven stone pillars were a big dipper’s symbol of Alpha Star, Beta Star, Gamma Star, Delta Star, Epsilon Star, Zeta Star and Eta Star.
Many audiences expressed their sympathy on screen: “Dear god Han, do you remember these names?”
“It doesn’t matter, god Han only needs to follow god Mo!”
“Who said Xiao Han will be in the tie breaker game?”
“To fight with a strong team like Dynasty, Han-Mo must play! I just don’t know who the third person is…”
The audience had a heated discussion. At this time, the list of players from both sides was finally displayed on the big screen.
Chu Jianxin, Sang Jun, Lin Yao VS Qin Mo, Xiao Han, Zhu Qingyue.
“It is actually Zhu Qingyue!” Seeing this, Ye Chao couldn’t help but be surprised. “This lineup is really shining like stars, all of them are world-class players!”
“This is the first time I have seen the combination of Qingyue and Twin Stars.” Liang Ru carefully analysed. “Is it a slow formation in which Twin Stars output in the front row and Qingyue protects in the back row?”
“From the past competition, it should be like this. Qingyue’s protection ability is first-class. The invincible Cyan Rain Curtain in 5 seconds alone can make the opponent have a headache.” Ye Chao smiled, “but Chu Jianxin’s protection ability can’t be underestimated. As a professional master T, it’s not so easy to kill his teammates under his eyes!”
On the surface, the lineup of both sides were equal.
Dynasty was a meat shield with two outputs, while Mojue was an auxiliary with two outputs, if it was brought to the late game, no one could take the opportunity.
The game would soon begin. While the map was loaded, Qin Mo gave an instruction. “I will put a mark after I enter the map, and you will move in the direction I marked.”
“This is the best.” Xiao Han agreed. “What alpha, eta, I really can’t remember.”
As the map was loaded, Qin Mo immediately acted, Xiao Han and Zhu Qingyue followed him. The three men bypassed the stone group in front, and sure enough, they saw a towering stone pillar. The mark on this stone pillar was Alpha Star, which was arranged according to the Big Dipper. A few meters straight to the south, it would be Beta Star, following Beta Star to the west, it would be Gamma Star. After finding Gamma Star, it would be Delta Star to the northwest.
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, this four stars with the word ‘天’, form a shape of ‘spoon’.
The other three, Epsilon, Zeta, and Eta Stars formed the handle of the spoon.
Because this maze would rotate slowly, it was necessary to find the position of the seven stone pillars quickly before it rotated more than 90 degrees, so as not to completely lose the direction after the map rotated.
Qin Mo moved quickly. Starting from the respawn point, he made a big circle in the maze, quickly found seven stone pillars and marked them on the map.
Watching him shuttling through the maze looking for stone pillars, the audience could not help exclaiming: “God Mo’s sense of direction is so awesome!”
“He knows the Big Dipper Array very well. He has hardly taken a wrong step and found the seven stone pillars so quickly!”
To Qin Mo’s surprise, in the process of finding the seven stone pillars, they didn’t meet Dynasty’s players——that is, there was only one explanation. Sang Jun’s action route was contrary to theirs, and the map was constantly rotating, so they just missed each other in the stone array.
From God’s perspective, the audience could see that at this time, the distance between the players on both sides was actually very close, but there were some small stones in between, so they couldn’t see each other.
“Both commanders already found all the seven star pillars, and they should have a good idea of the direction. So now, who will find the opponent and seize the opportunity first?” Ye Chao was curious.
Map marking would be very helpful to the players. Qin Mo just made a mark on the map when he found a seven stone pillar. At this time, there were seven small dots in his mini map of the competition field, forming a spoon shape. However, the spoon was vertical, while the original seven star array should be horizontal, which meant that the map had been rotated 90 degrees unconsciously.
Thinking about it, Qin Mo quickly made a decision. “Go straight towards the south, we will go to point 4!”
Point 4 was the position of Delta Star he just marked. If his prediction was correct, after marking seven stone pillars, Sang Jun would move to the middle in reverse direction. If they went to point 4 at this time, it might be possible to go to Dynasty’s back.
However, when they arrived at point 4, they didn’t find any trace of Dynasty’s three players.
Qin Mo was puzzled. Suddenly, a bloody light effect flashed before his eyes—— Purgatory Claw!
It turned out that Sang Jun was aware of their intention, and set up an ambush ahead of time.
This Purgatory Claw skill could cause considerable damage, and also produced a wide range bleeding effect. Han-Mo was walking in front when bled by Sang Jun’s claw. Standing in the distance, Lin Yao decisively kept with the poison attack. It was a combo poison attack of ‘Red Crane’s Crown’ and ‘Mandala Petals’, which not only stacked three layers of poison, but also blind both Han and Mo at the same time!
This series of ambushed and sneak attack from the opponent looked extremely unfavourable for Mojue.
But Qin Mo wasn’t worried at all, because they had Qingyue!
A white umbrella embroidered with elegant orchids suddenly falling from the sky, sprinkling a soft rain curtain, instantly removing all the negative states of blindness, bleeding and poisoning on Qin Mo and Xiao Han, and using a soft rain curtain to surround Han-Mo.
The effect of this skill was very refreshing, especially in the hot summer. Many audiences couldn’t help but comment on screen: “I want to stand under the umbrella of the male god!”
“Qingyue’s umbrella is very beautiful, and it can rain. I also want to buy an umbrella that can rain at any time!”
“Contract male god Qingyue, this is the real ‘timely support’!”
Qingyue’s support was indeed very timely. Sang Jun ambushed and took the lead, and the large number of negative states he casted were instantly cured by him.
It was no wonder that Qin Mo was so daring, he rushed forward directly when there were invisible assassins and a long-range poison master on the opposite side, because he brought Qingyue with him, and he was not afraid of the opposite field control—— Qingyue’s field control ability was the strongest!
At the same time with releasing the negative states of his teammates, Zhu Qingyue immediately used the invisible array of Cyan Rain Curtain, making both Han-Mo immune to damage for the next 5 seconds.
Seeing the umbrella array, Sang Jun decisively issued a command. “Withdraw!”
Han-Mo would use 5 seconds of invincibility to do explosive outbreaks. Sang Jun naturally didn’t want to confront them at this time. He fought decisively, invisibly bypassed the stones ahead, and quickly disappearred into the maze.
The invincible time of 5 seconds passed quickly, Qin Mo and Xiao Han’s health dropped to about 70%. On Dynasty’s side, only Sang Jung was beaten by Han-Mo, and his health dropped to 80%. Chu Jianxin and Lin Yao were still full of blood.
Just by looking at the blood volume, Mojue was at a disadvantage.
Yet Qin Mo was not worried, swiftly chased them around the stone array with Han-Yue, coming to the next seven stone pillars.
This stone pillar was called Gamma Star, which was located next to Delta Star. Originally, the distance between these stars was 50 metres and took at least 10 seconds to get there with qinggong, but it took them only 5 seconds to reach. From this point, it could be judged that the map had rotated again, causing the original movement route to deviate.
Then, Dynasty team’s players must also be nearby. According to Sang Jun’s character, he might be hiding behind the towering stone pillars, ready for another wave of ambush.
If Dynasty team wanted to win in the Qixing Cliff map, the best way was to fight a guerrilla war, by ambush and sneak attack. First, stacking the negative effect of bleeding and poison, then used the complex terrain to run and hide, while the opponent lost blood continuously, thus opening the gap of blood volume and accumulating advantages until victory.
This kind of tactics to fight and run in the maze was particularly annoying, especially in the most complex maze of Qixing Cliff, which was not easy to find people, and playing guerrilla warfare would make the opponent impatient.
If it was changed to another team, Sang Jun might beat his opponent in such a way.
But he met Qin Mo today.
Qin Mo’s patience was not comparable to that of ordinary people, and his ability to analyse the war situation and read maps was also great. Even if he was hit and created a blood gap, he was still calm as usual. Chasing his opponent to the Gamma Star, ordinary people would be worried about Sang Jun lying an ambush there and considering whether to come forward, but Qin Mo did not hesitate at all. The next moment, he made an operation that shocked the audience—— Skyward Sword!
The swordsman in white suddenly put up his long sword, and the white sword qi quickly gathered together, and like an explosion, the sound of ‘boom’ spread in all directions!
This was Hanhua Sword Sect’s ultimate move, the shock wave gave out an explosion, smashing all the small stone pillars in the map, and the whole map was immediately submerged by flying stones and dust!
Seeing it from god’s perspective, the audience couldn’t laugh or cry—— as the seven stone pillars of the map, Gamma Star wouldn’t be destroyed by players’ skills. However, the small stone pillars around it could be smashed by the big moves. Originally, the three players, Sang Jun, Chu Jianxin, and Lin Yao were hiding behind Gamma Stars and ready to ambush, but now they were surrounded by the collapsed stones.
At the same time, because the swordsman’s ultimate big move was very powerful, the blood volume of Dynasty’s three players had also reduced a lot. Chu Jianxin had a thick skin and his health was still 90%, Lin Yao’s health was reduced to 80%. Sang Jun was beaten by Han-Mo to 80%, and now his blood volume was only 60%.
“There’s still such an operation?!” Ye Chao was also stunned. “Qin Mo’s judgment on terrain is really amazing! There are the most small stone pillars around Gamma Star. He made a big move here, just using the map to surround all Dynasty’s three players! By the way, we almost forgot that he used to play summoner and was best at ‘Cross Encirclement’!”
In principle, Qin Mo’s operation could be called ‘Cross Encirclement’, using the crushed stones formed after the collapse of the small stone pillars around the Gamma Star to surround Dynasty’s three players hiding behind the Gamma Star stone pillar.
Seeing this scene, Sang Jun decisively gave command. “Withdraw!”
But it was too late…
Zhu Qingyue’s first-class assistance name was not for nothing. As soon as Qin Mo was ready to use his big move, he already judged Qin Mo’s intention and immediately casted his skill. Immediately after Dynasty’s three players were blocked by crushing stones caused by the big move, Zhu Qingyue’s array was opened —— Silk Umbrella Array, White Umbrella Array!
Using ‘Silk Umbrella Array’ to teleport both Han-Mo and him directly to Dynasty three players’ back and at the same time gave an attack buff to Han-Mo with ‘White Umbrella Array’.
Both Han-Mo had gained extra buffs: attack bonus, critical hit rate bonus!
Aiming at Chu Jianxin, Zhu Qingyue used three consecutive attacks of ‘Umbrella Spin’ and casted three layers of ‘weakness’ on him!
Realising that it was not good, Chu Jianxin immediately put an invisible shield around himself—— resisting all damages within 3 seconds.
However, Han-Mo’s target was not Chu Jianxin, but Sang Jun who only had 60% health left!
Xiao Han decisively opened ‘Shadowless Dragon’ and split into seven shadows with ‘Thousand Lights Ghost Walk’, rushing and killing Sang Jun like a starving tiger! Qin Mo was not idle, using ‘Heaven Sun Combo’ to silence Chu Jianxin in the front row, lest he open the skill of absorbing damage to save Sang Jun. At the same time, he turned around and attacked Sang Jun with ‘Unrivalled Sword’ targeted skill——
Both Han-Mo already had an explosive output, with Zhu Qingyue’s ‘White Umbrella Array’ buff, their output was greatly enhanced. With Xiao Han’s critical attack and Qin Mo’s targeted skill, both of these outbursts killed Sang Jun in second!
Sang Jun: “……”
Looking at the killing prompted on the big screen, the audience looked stupid.
Who said they took Qingyue to play slowly? Who could have expected that Qin Mo suddenly used a big move and trapped Dynasty’s three players with the stone array. Then, by using Qingyue’s buff array, he directly killed Sang Jun in second?!
“In fact, we all guessed wrong.” Ye Chao couldn’t help sighing. “When Zhu Qingyue and Li Muran cooperated in the’two-guarantee-one’ tactic, they were really slow. The auxiliary and milk dad protected their teammate, slowly consumed the opponent, dragged the pace and looked for opportunities… However, when Zhu Qingyue cooperates with Han-Mo, it’s not a slow-moving team, but the most terrible and sharp quick attack team of Mojue!”
“That’s right!” Liang Ru was excited. “Originally, both Han-Mo are fast outbreak players. The purpose of bringing Qingyue isn’t to drag the pace, but to play fast!”
“Qingyue is worthy of being a god level assistant.” Ye Chao praised. “He can protect his teammates in the slow formation and give his teammates the strongest help when playing fast break! He used a teleport array to send his teammates to the best output location, and then gave them a buff to increase god Han and god Mo’s attack. Such unexpected quick attacks directly killed the core output of Dynasty!”
Who said the combination of Han-Mo-Yue was to drag the pace?
In fact, Qin Mo brought Qingyue into battle in order to rely on Qingyue’s strong judgment ability to assist Han-Mo’s output at the most appropriate time. The three teamed up to directly kill the opponent’s core.
As soon as Sang Jun died, Dynasty’s lineup absolutely collapsed.
Of course, Lin Yao and Chu Jianxin were not glass heart players, even if Sang Jun died, they would not give up easily. Not to mention that Chu Jianxin’s skin was thick and resistant to attack, Lin Yao still had 80% of his blood and he could release poison from a long distance in the back row. If one of them could be poisoned to death, Dynasty still had a chance of winning in 2V2.
After all, Han-Mo’s blood volume had dropped to about 60%. Moreover, Zhu Qingyue started with an invincible array and control skills, and his ability to protect his teammates was limited.
Lin Yao seized the opportunity and quickly threw poisonous powder, stacked five layers of poison on Qin Mo and Xiao Han, and aimed at Qin Mo to explode the poison—— Arsenic Frost!
As long as this skill hit, the poison explosion of five layers of poisoning would trigger, even if Qin Mo didn’t die, he would be left with a trace of blood.
However, the moment Lin Yao pressed the poison explosion skill, he saw a white silk umbrella suddenly open in the air. Lin Yao’s high explosive skill only exploded 2% of Qin Mo’s health!
How could that be?
Lin Yao was stunned for a moment, and soon realised—— It was Zhu Qingyue who opened the auxiliary umbrella array again!
Han-Mo-Yue had an umbrella above their heads. This was the skill effect of the Tingyu Tower auxiliary array ‘In The Same Boat’. This array was not usually used, but it could save teammates at critical moments——a large-scale array that allowed the caster to take the initiative to bear 90% of all teammates’ damage and reduce the damage value to half.
The cooldown time of this skill was longer than the invisible umbrella array.
Zhu Qingyue was originally full of blood, while both Han-Mo had a residual blood. The purpose of Lin Yao used this set of outbreak was to take away Qin Mo to form a 2V2 situation. However, Zhu Qingyue predicted Lin Yao’s intention at the critical moment, and put down an umbrella array, taking the initiative to help Qin Mo and Xiao Han bear and resolve 90% of the damage!
During the existence of the umbrella array, Lin Yao couldn’t kill Qin Mo and Xiao Han in seconds. Even if Zhu Qingyue lost blood, it was meaningless to Lin Yao!
Lin Yao couldn’t kill both Han-Mo, and they were also not idle. Taking advantage of Chu Jianxin’s weakness, they quickly beat his thick skin to half of blood.
This situation was controlled by Zhu Qingyue, it was useless even if Chu Jianxin rebounded the damage, because Zhu Qingyue ‘In The Same Boat’ umbrella array would resolve the damage caused by the rebound…
The audience was worshipping: “The auxiliary can be played like this!”
“Qingyue isn’t playing the same Tingyu Tower as us!”
“It’s really amazing. Twin Stars with Zhu Qingyue’s lineup is simply invincible! Although this umbrella array is not invincible, it has completely shattered the opposite intention of thinking about killing the Twin Stars in second!”
Zhu Qingyue’s ‘In The Same Boat’ umbrella array could take the initiative to help teammates bear and resolve the injury. At the beginning, Zhu Qingyue had been standing in the back row, and entered the battlefield with full blood, he helped Qin Mo and Xiao Han suck off the damage, his own blood volume was not in a dangerous state. In this way, none of the three of Han Mo and Yue could die.
The consequence of three people not dying was very terrible, even if Qin Mo’s blood volume was only 10%, but Qin Mo couldn’t die, what did 10% blood volume matter? He could still play super control field and super high damage!
Finally, when Lin Yao took advantage of the disappearance of Zhu Qingyue’s umbrella array to kill Qin Mo, Chuan Jianxin also fell down…
Captain Chu with such thick skin could fall down so quickly, which showed how abnormal the output of Han-Mo was after Zhu Qingyue weakened his opponent and strengthened his teammates.
Lin Yao was left alone to fight the combination of Zhu Qingyue and Xiao Han, and there was naturally no suspense.
Looking at the word ‘Victory’ popping up on the big screen, Zhu Qingyue smiled and put his hands back. “This maze makes me dizzy. It’s amazing that the Qin team can judge the position of the opposite side so quickly.”
“Your support is just right, you already know what I want to do before I could speak.” A rare smile showed on Qin Mo’s face.
“Don’t compliment each other, you both are very good, and I am also very good.” Xiao Han praised himself bluntly.
Qin Mo: “…”
Although Xiao Han’s words were a bit too direct, but…it was indeed the truth!
Mojue had never used this three great gods lineup in this three-players competition. Today, the audience really realised what a terrible existence it would be when the powerful combination of Twin Stars was with a first-class auxiliary Zhu Qingyue!
HanMoYue was really overpowering xD
Righttt~ They’re a cheat 🤣
HanMoYue was really overpowering :3
Omg, didn’t expect that they would be so strong together…
Awesome~~!
Because of this match I believe that nobody would allow them to play together again xD
Thank you for the chapter~~! 💜💜💜
Twin Stars with attack buff, and the weak the opponent to become a potato 🤣
You’re welcome~ ❤