translator: Oyen
Mojue lost to National Grace team in the first round, which surprised many netizens. After all, Mojue was the favourite to win the championship this season, and National Grace team was currently ranked fifth in the scoreboard, not a first-class echelon. However, it also proved that the game couldn’t only look at strength, sometimes, careful tactical preparation could also achieve the surprise effect.
There weren’t many people in the league who could pit Qin Mo, and because of this, Li Junru’s tactical layout in the first round had been appreciated by many great god players.
Even Nie Yuzhu, who seldom gave his praise said. “Li Junru is really a woman who is comparable to a man. In the future, we can’t take National Grace lightly.”
On Dynasty’s side, Chu Jianxin was gloating. “Hahaha, how can I be so happy that Mojue lost?”
Sang Jun was speechless at his blunt statement. “Don’t say that in front of the reporters…”
“I know, my EQ is not that low!” Chu Jianxin waved his hand. “Also I only said this to you privately as we always don’t hide any secrets to each other.”
Sang Jun’s mouth curved slightly. “Qin Mo will definitely counterattack in the second round, or else 0:2 lost will be Mojue’s black history.”
“I think so too.” Chu Jianxin nodded in agreement. “Mojue could be pitted in the first round because it was National Grace’s home game. From the mode to the map and then to the double build player to change to output, Junru set all of these for Qin Mo in advance. In the second round, it is not so easy for National Grace to win.” He paused and touched his chin thoughtfully. “What mode do you think Qin Mo will choose?”
Thinking for a while, Sang Jun replied. “If there is no accident, it should be escort mode.”
Chu Jianxin was surprised. “Didn’t they choose the secret letter mode at home in Changsha before? Mojue’s five output will have a great chance of winning in secret letter mode!”
“I’m not sure either.” Sang Jun looked at Qin Mo’s calm expression on the big screen and whispered, “I just think that with his character, he should get up from where he fell. He lost in escort mode in the first round, and he may continue to choose escort mode in the second round.”
***
During the intermission, National Grace’s fans shouted in unison to cheer, and countless voices gathered together like a chorus, soundproof room could not isolate the enthusiasm of fans.
However, Qin Mo was not affected by the cheers of the other fans. He was drinking water and discussing countermeasures with his teammates.
After hearing him finish the arrangement of the second round, Xiao Han could not help laughing. “Junru should have never thought that you would arrange this way.”
“Indeed.” Zhu Qingyue smiled. “I didn’t expect this either.”
Other players were also full of excitement. Seeing this scene, Ye Chao couldn’t help but comment. “It seems that Mojue’s players were not affected by the defeat in the first round. They laugh happily and relax.”
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As soon as the voice fell, the referee gestured to the soundproof room as a hint for the second round to start, and Qin Mo sat back on the command position again.
In Mojue’s second round, Qin Mo submitted the game mode and a map.
He quickly chose ‘escort mode’ and ‘Orchid Valley’ map.
When these two messages displayed on the big screen, a deafening jeering broke out in the audience—— Qin Mo, you unexpectedly imitated Li Junru!
Watching the live broadcast, Mojue’s fans were also speechless: “God Mo directly copied sister Junru mode and map, why are you so lazy!”
“No, what god Mo means that he can’t lose twice in the same map!”
“He lost in Orchid Valley in the first round, so he needs to win back in the second round, that’s god Mo’s spirit~~”
Li Junru also didn’t expect Qin Mo would choose the ‘Orchid Valley’ map again.
But soon, Li Junru understood Qin Mo’s intention—— wind direction.
In the National Grace’s last round, the wind direction of this map was southeast wind, but the escort’s route was to the southeast corner. In this way, as long as Mojue pursued from behind, the poison powder sprinkled by Li Junru and An Ling would go along the wind, expanding the scope, and quickly stacking the poisoning state on all Mojue’s players.
In this Mojue’s home game, the wind direction and escort route would not change, because of the exchange role, National Grace needed to pursue and intercept the escort team, and they could only act against the wind. If they sprinkled the poisonous powder, it would not expand the scope, but instead it could be greatly restricted because of the wind.
A simple home-and-away exchange made the wind turn to its own advantage.
Qin Mo’s thinking was indeed quite flexible. After losing in the first round, he unexpectedly thought of countering the opponent with the same map so quickly, such a strong ability to adaptability worthy of the league’s most powerful tactical captain at present.
After submitting the game mode and map, the lineup needed to be submitted immediately.
Many netizens were guessing: “Does god Mo also want ‘offensive as a kind of defense’ playing method used in the last round?”
“Will Mojue go with five outputs?”
At this moment, five players’ IDs appeared on the big screen—— Northern Lights, Bright Moon Clear Sky, Silence, Thousand Miles Ice, Ink Mark.
Mojue didn’t send five outputs to go offensive, he sent a meat shield He Beiguang, auxiliary Zhu Qingyue, and a healer Li Muran, in addition to Twin Stars Han-Mo—— they used a defensive lineup. Although the main T He Beiguang was not as good as Dynasty’s Chu Jianxin and Frost Moon’s Xiao Pang, and the healer Li Muran was not as good as Sky’s Zhou Xuewei, but they had a first class level assistance in the league, Zhu Qingyue. On the whole, a few teams could break this defensive formation of Mojue’s five players.
Seeing this lineup, Li Junru knew it would be hard to fight in the second round.
After a moment’s consideration, she had to send out a full-output lineup of double poison masters, a swordsman, an assassin and a long-distance guqin player.
The defensive ability of Mojue’s five players was so terrible that even the National Grace’s five outputs could not necessarily break their defenses, and if they had four or three outputs, there was no need to play. Such a formation would only be digging their own grave at a later stage.
Therefore… it was better to stake all in one throw, fighting in the team battle, and look for the opportunity to kill the escorts.
After both sides confirmed the lineup, Li Junru began to ban the secret books. She banned the most common use of defensive secret books ‘Immovable Mountain’, ‘Vajra Sutra’ and as well as the powerful group healing secret book ‘Questioning Heart Sutra’. Then, she grabbed the healing abolishment secret book ‘Pivoting Heart Sutra’ first.
“This is the usual secret book to be banned during the away game in escort mode.” Ye Chao commented. “Which is reducing the opponent’s defense and healing skills.”
“Let’s see how Qin Mo will choose,” Liang Ru added. “I think he will likely choose control secret books to slow down the pace.”
However, as soon as she finished speaking, Qin Mo immediately slapped her face, and took two consecutive group attack secret books.
“Cough,” Liang Ru felt awkward. “As the commentator, I’m used to being slapped in the face, I don’t feel any pain.”
“En, just get used to it.” Ye Chao smiled. “In fact, Qin Mo is tearing down National Grace’s secret books. Mojue’s five players defense is already quite strong, by taking down some group attack secret books, it will be easier to fight.”
“So, it’s like this, he is not in a hurry to take control secret books, he snatches many output secret books in the first few turns.”
“Because the priority level of control secret books is not that high, Mojue’s lineup consists of auxiliary, healer and meat shield, with so many defensive and control skills, he’s not afraid to be charged. This is like last week when he played against Graceful Beauty, In the game with Zhu Qingyue, Qin Mo ignored the control secret books, while in the game where Zhu Qingyue was absent, he gave priority to ‘Tall Mountains Flowing Waters’ chaos secret book.”
“It seems that Qin Mo really trusts in Qingyue’s release control ability! Whether Qingyue is present or not will greatly affect the order in which he chooses secret books.”
“Indeed…”
Both commentators explained while chatting. Soon, both sides finished selecting secret books.
In order to lower National Grace’s group attack ability, Qin Mo took away ‘Heartbroken Grass’ secret book, which was poisonous group attack skill, and the slowdown group attack secret book ‘Merging Water and Sky’, but there were too many output secret books, and Li Junru still grabbed a lot of powerful group attacks and single target attack.
Players from both sides had 30 seconds to choose the secret books. On Mojue’s side, Qingyue brought the omnipotent release control secret book ‘Clear Heart Mantra’, Li Muran and He Beiguang brought the control secret books, while Xiao Han and Qin Mo brought the output secret books. On the whole, they were very comprehensive.
And National Grace over there seemed somewhat like a sword move with side stroke—— all of the players brought output secret books.
Many important group attacks were taken away by Qin Mo. In addition to Li Junru’s ‘Pivoting Heart Sutra’, which abolished healing, and An Ling’s group attack, the other three output players were all brought single target attack secret books, including ‘River Sunset’, which had the effect to trigger death if the health was below 30%, and Zhou Min’s favorite ‘Asura’, which triggered disability by single critical hit.
“This ‘River Sunset’ death secret book has appeared many times in the previous partner competition. I remember this secret book was first used by Qingyue and He Beiguang. This secret book is actually a double-edged sword, if you can quickly hit the opponent’s health to less than 30%, directly opening the secret book to trigger death is a very cool result. However, if the blood volume of the opposite side can not be suppressed, this secret book will be invalidated, and the damage done alone is not as good as a small skill.” Ye Chao explained
“Apparently, National Grace was also struggling in this round and wants to gamble,” Liang Ru replied. “If I guess correctly, they will probably use the secret books to kill the chief escort, who has the most health. If calculated according to the percentage, it will be quite cost-effective to trigger death below 30%.”
Seeing the other side’s choice of secret books, Qin Mo knew that Li Junru wanted to stake all in one throw.
However, he was not worried at all. Even if all the five National Grace’s players chose output secret books, the most important point was the wind direction.
Acting against the wind, the effect of the stacking poisonous attack of their National Grace’s double poison sisters would be greatly reduced, he had a meat shield with more than 100,000 blood, He Beiguang, absorbing damage in the front row; Muran could heal, and Qingyue defended. It was even more difficult for National Grace’s five players to break through Mojue’s defense to kill the escorts.
***
The game soon began, both sides had changed positions, but the escort team still started from northwest. They would escort the wagon along the flower path towards the destination in the southeast.
Orchid Valley map was still full of romantic atmosphere, it became a unique scenery when the players were in such a flowery scene.
However, the players in the game were not in the mood to enjoy the scenery. At the beginning of the game, the players of both sides came to the escort team’s starting point at the same time at a very fast speed.
As in the previous round, the attacker needed to kill the escort team as quickly as possible to intercept with the goods transport, while the defense needed to work hard to protect the escort team from being killed.
However, unlike the previous round, the defense team did not use the ‘offensive as a kind of defense’ hot-blooded method, but rather a stable defense formation. Seeing National Grace’s five girls come to attack fiercely, He Beiguang immediately opened Kuangdao Gate’s skill ‘Bloody Scent’!
As soon as ‘Bloody Scent’ was opened, a red qi airstream emitted around the tall and sturdy swordsman. This airstream would constantly rotate to surround him and absorb all the damage around him! While absorbing the damage, He Beiguang followed with Kuangdao Gate’s anti-damage skill. A long broadsword in the swordsman’s hands stood horizontally at the top of his head, He saw the huge long knife in the hands of the swordsman jerked across his head, absorbing the damage and bouncing it back!
Fortunately, Lin Junru was farsighted and knew it was not easy to attack with a meat shield on the opposite side, so National Grace’s first attack was just a test, not using any big moves.
But, it was also unpleasant for the test attack to be bounced back, and five National Grace players’ health had decreased by varying degrees.
Using He Beiguang, Li Muran and Qingyue together… isn’t this almost like a cheat lmao
Qin Mo came with a good strategy~~!
Thank you for the chapter 💜💜💜
Lol, meat shield, healer and auxiliary, defense to the max 🤣
You’re welcome~ ❤
Oooh super defense formation and using the same map against them. Quick thinking. Guess there will be a third match~
Lol, it’s a draw, this stage doesn’t have third match 😩
Very tough defense formation, who can break it 😏