translator: Oyen
At 7:30pm in the evening, Mojue and Sword Song’s players came to the big stage collectively.
Walking to the middle of the stage, Lin Shuangcheng shook hands with Qin Mo, leaning over to say. “God Mo, please be lenient to me, you and Xiao Han, husband and wife have one mind, and can exert great power. Don’t let me die too miserably later.”
“…” Qin Mo was speechless for a while. “Don’t worry, I will let you die very contently”
“Angry?” Lin Shuangcheng chuckled. “I should not guess it right, you must feel rage out of shame.”
“…” Qin Mo was too lazy to pay attention to his improper teasing, and just glanced at him. “Good luck.”
It was said that cheering on the opponent before the game was a very powerful poisonous milk method, which was easy to make the opponent play abnormally. Qin Mo ‘Good luck’ was obviously an antonym, “Good luck for you too.” Lin Shuangcheng replied decisively.
Both of them didn’t chat anymore, each returned to the soundproof room.
Seeing Qin Mo’s cold expression, Xiao Han couldn’t help asking. “What did he say to you? He laughed so happily.”
“Don’t pay attention to him, he has always been like this, and he doesn’t feel comfortable without making a few jokes.” Qin Mo replied.
Seeing that Qin Mo didn’t want to answer, Xiao Han didn’t ask more questions. He patted Qin Mo’s shoulder and softly said. “You should have a good rest in the first round and leave it to us.”
Nodding, Qin Mo glanced at Xiao Han. “According to the strategy discussed before, you will kill Xiao Song alone in the team battle later. In this lineup of Sword Song, there are many short swords and few longswords, and Xiao Song’s longsword flow is the key to field control. To open the breakthrough of Sword Song lineup, we still need you, our ace output.”
“Ace output? I like this sentence, especially when you say it.” Xiao Han smiled and looked at Qin Mo. “Don’t worry, when have I ever let you down?”
“En.” Qin Mo also smiled, quickly forgetting the unhappiness after being teased by Lin Shuangcheng.
***
The game finally began at 8pm in the evening.
At Mojue’s home court, Qin Mo decided the game mode and map in the first round.
Qin Mo decisively submitted ‘escort mode’ as the game mode, with ‘Sunset Canyon’ map.
The setting of this ‘Sunset Canyon’ map was at dusk. The sunset hung on the horizon, which coated the whole canyon with golden red color. On both sides of the canyon were towering mountains that reached to the clouds, the peaks couldn’t be viewed. If they looked up, they could only see a long and narrow horizon, much like the center of the marching ancient combats.
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However, Sword Song was a team with melee as its core. If Qin Mo chose such a map, once he sent Pei Yu to control the field remotely and Liu Hong to control the field with her trap, it would be difficult for Sword Song’s players to get close. Moreover, the road in the canyon was not smooth, and there were many stone obstacles, which would definitely affect the performance of melee swordsmen.
Seeing this map, Lin Shuangcheng knew what Qin Mo’s idea was. Sure enough, Qin Mo immediately submitted a list of iron triangle defenses lineup, including He Beiguang, Li Muran, Zhu Qingyue, as well as Xiao Han’s violent output and Liu Hong’s trap control——Qin Mo himself did not play.
“Qin Mo has never been absent in four consecutive league battles in the previous two weeks.” Liang Ru commented. “But today, against the Sword Song, he is a swordsman sitting under the stage to watch the battle. Ye Chao, What do you think is the reason?”
Ye Chao replied. “Because Qin Mo is a swordsman and there are so many swordsmen in the Sword Song team, the advantage of the same-sect battle is not great, but the effect will be better if the swordsman is handed over to Liu Hong to control it with traps.”
Liang Ru smiled. “Speaking of Liu Hong’s trap, in the game with National Grace last week, The way assassin Cheng Yuqing uses five shadows to explode the trap is really eye-catching.”
“This style of play was used by Xiao Han when he fought Nie Yuzhu, Without Fire team.” Ye Chao replied. “It was really effective. However, Sword Song team does not have an assassin. So, captain Lin must consider the problem of how to minimize the damage when they step on the trap.”
At this time, Lin Shuangcheng was indeed considering this problem.
He had already thought that Mojue would send Liu Hong to deal with melee combat. Liu Hong only needed to place traps on the escort’s path, and it would be difficult for Sword Song’s players to get close to kill. One person must be sent to be the pathfinder and explode all Liu Hong’s traps, so that the other teammates could confidently output.
—— The most suitable candidate for this trap finder was Lin Shuangcheng himself.
Xiao Song’s longsword current attack distance was farther than him, and it would be too wasteful to ask Xiao Song to step on the traps; his apprentice Xiao Yun’s movement skills were not as good as him, and there was no way to step on all the traps in one go; the other players’ level were not as good as Xiao Yun.
Lin Shuangcheng had the confident to solve Liu Hong’s trap interference, but if he took on this path-finding job, the output would be handed over to Xiao Song as the main force.
Could he believe in Xiao Song?
Thinking of the bright and clear eyes of the teenager, and the earnest way of saying ‘I don’t regret coming to Sword Song’, Lin Shuangcheng’s lip curved slightly, and no longer hesitate to submit the lineup for this competition.
He believed that Xiao Song could do it.
Xiao Song was a highly talented player that he cultivated.
Although there was no title as master and apprentice between them. In Lin Shuangcheng’s heart, Xiao Song was even closer with him than Xiao Yun, the apprentice he received in the online game.
Song Changdong went from the guy who was shy and blushing when he came to Sword Song, and always lowered his head because he didn’t dare to look at him at first, to the vice-captain who was able to play on his own and seriously led his teammates to play the game in his absence.
In Sword Song team, Song Changdong completed the transformation.
Perhaps even Qin Mo was aware of this.
What’s more, Qin Mo and Xiao Han had guessed the possible lineup of Sword Song team. So what? Lin Shuangcheng never cared what others thought of him. He only did what he thought was right. Even if he was guessed by his opponent, he would not change his mind.
——Five swordsmen lineup.
When the lineup appeared on the big screen, there was a cry of surprise from the audience, and many audiences of the live broadcast also commented on screen: “Five swordsmen!”
“I’ve never seen so many swordsmen on the stage together!”
“It’s really worthy of the Sword Song team. There are enough swordsmen!”
“Captain Lin is so willful~”
Qin Mo didn’t feel surprised at all when he looked at the lineup list announced on the screen.
Lin Shuangcheng’s personality was like this, he always used his own way. Even though he knew it would be difficult to fight Mojue’s defensive lineup with this, he was also not afraid. In this world, probably no one could change his mind…
Next was the secret books’ banning stage, the iron triangle defense array of Mojue was very difficult to fight. Lin Shuangcheng’s priority was to ban the most conventional damage rebound, shield protection and healing of escort mode. Li Junru also banned these three secret books when National Grace was fighting against Mojue.
However, he chose a different secret book in the first pick—— Lin Shuangcheng’s first secret book for today was called ‘If The Rabbit Dies, The Fox Grieves’.
Seeing this secret book appeared, the netizens on the live broadcast platform started to comment on screen again: “This secret book has not been used in previous games, right?”
“I haven’t seen it much on the online game side either…”
“This secret book can only be obtained through the single-player secret territory task, the challenge tasks are extremely difficult. I have already died ten times and still don’t get it…”
“I got it after 20 deaths, but I have never used it, still save it in the bookshelf…”
The audience were all discussing how difficult it was to obtain this secret book, but the commentators focused on this game’s tactic. “Captain Lin chose this secret book for a very clear purpose. The effect of this ‘If The Rabbit Dies, The Fox Grieves’ secret book is that when the user dies, he can directly take away any designated player. It’s a very extreme way to die together.”
“Captain Lin directly grabbed this secret book, which should be used. The key depends on who will use it.” Liang Ru was curious.
Next, it was Qin Mo’s turn to choose the secret books.
Qin Mo didn’t pay attention to Lin Shuangcheng’s unexpected idea. He still took away ‘Pivoting Heart Sutra’, the healing abolishment secret book, and Liu Hong’s favorite decelerating secret book, ‘Merging Water and Sky’. Lin Shuangcheng took away ‘Bloody Hand’, Xiao Han’s favourite single-target critical hit secret book, and ‘Sword Remnant’, the high damage close combat secret book, which was easy to use in short sword flow .
Seeing both of them take the secret books one after another, Ye Chao couldn’t help but praise. “Their idea is very clear when choosing the secret books. They tacitly remove one of the opponents and then choose one that they need… It is said that Lin Shuangcheng and Qin Mo have a very good private relationship. When captain Lin was hospitalized for food poisoning in the individual competition, Qin Mo also went to the hospital to see him personally.”
Liang Ru followed. “Although the private relationship is good, they are not polite at all on the field.”
Ye Chao smiled. “Of course, I haven’t seen Qin Mo being polite to anyone. In the individual competition, when the opponent was Xiao Han, he was not polite, and he was extremely serious about the game.”
During their chatting, both captains had finished their selection of secret books.
The next step was for each team member to select what they needed from the secret books grabbed by the captain. Qin Mo didn’t have to play in the first round, so he turned to leave and gave Zhu Qingyue the number one seat command position.
The audiences were shocked to see this: “The commander of this round is Qingyue!”
“I haven’t seen Qingyue’s command for a long time…”
“Qingyue’s style is very different from Qin Mo. Will he stick to stability in this round?”
“Give male god Qingyue some praises!”
Mojue changed the commander, and the director aimed the camera at Zhu Qingyue’s face. With a faint smile on the corner of his lips, he looked very gentle, saying something into the microphone, while He Beiguang, who was sitting next to him, nodded hard.
A moment later, both sides finished choosing the secret books, and the first round finally officially began.
Due to the long and narrow terrain, the players’ respawn points on both sides in this ‘Sunset Canyon’ map were just above the towering peaks. The players could fly with qinggong into the canyon through several layers of stone platforms on the cliff, but because the peaks were too high, it was not feasible to fly up or ambush on the top.
At the beginning of the game, both sides’ players flew down from the peaks in unison. Looking up from the ground, just like dumplings in the sky. Ten figures landed on the ground at a very fast speed.
Their landing point was just in the middle of the canyon, on the route that the escort team must pass.
A few seconds later, the flag with the word ‘escort’ appeared in the field of vision, and next to the wagon were four escorts and a chief escort.
Seeing them appear, Lin Shuangcheng immediately ordered. “Fight!”
Exciting~~!（๑✧∀✧๑）
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Xiao Han’s leadership experience is showing, he was able to guess the all swordsman lineup
Lol, the author seems to forget that Xiao Han also a former captain, and he’s also join many World Competitions 🤣
Ok, this was exciting. This will be the first time we will se the Song team fighting properly and I can’t wait, they are so cuteeeee. With the girls team I was afraid because they are quite a danger since they are so wise and fierce. But here the feeling is different somehow, like anticipating a good fight!! So it feels thrilling rather than tense. Do I make sense? Anyway I am looking forward to this!!
Thank you for the chapter 😘❤️❤️❤️
Lol, because they can’t guess the girl’s though so it’s scary, but Lin Shuangcheng is willful, so even if his tactics is guessed, he will still use it 🤣
You’re welcome~ 😍