translator: Oyen
The final was still BO3, needing to win two out of three rounds. Mojue won the first round in a home game, and then the pressure would naturally shift to Dynasty team. If Dynasty lost in the second round, it was equivalent to giving up the championship trophy.
Dynasty’s fans stared anxiously at the live broadcast screen, hoping that vice captain Sang could stabilize the situation in the second round. It happened that the footage from the soundproof room of the Dynasty team was broadcast to the screen. The audience found that Sang Jun and Chu Jianxin were talking and laughing, and they didn’t look nervous at all.
“Chu Jianxin and Sang Jun are worthy of the old players who have experienced in the World Competition,” Ye Chao praised, “their psychological quality is first-class. It seems that the defeat in the first round did not affect their mood.” He looked back at Liu Chuan and asked. “What mode do you think vice captain Sang will choose in the second round?”
Glancing at Wu Zewen, Liu Chuan smiled. “Zewen, why don’t you speak first?”
Wu Zewen also did not refuse, adjusted his glasses, and carefully analysed. “Dynasty’s escort mode and treasure hunt mode are very strong. According to my statistics, the winning rates of playing escort mode and treasure hunt mode are 60% and 65% respectively in the regular season. The key to the high winning rate of escort mode lies in the role of Chu Jianxin as a meat shield. The defensive counter-attack of captain Chu is quite flexible and has a strong ability to delay time. The key to the high winning rate of the treasure hunt mode lies in the two assassins, Sang Jun and Wen Hua. The double assassins started to steal the treasure chest and it is easy to control the rhythm of the game.”
As a clean stream commentator, the top student always brought out data in every analysis, especially reasonable.
“Well said,” Liu Chuan immediately nodded in agreement.
Ye Chao was speechless. “God Chuan, you can’t always let Zewen analyse first, and then you just agree with him. Don’t be so lazy, okay?”
Liu Chuan smiled and replied. “Zewen’s analysis is very perfect. It’s enough for me to agree. If Sang Jun does not choose the escort mode or treasure hunt mode, I may eat the keyboard in the live broadcast.”
Hearing this, the audience was speechless, one after another flooding the comment in the live broadcast studio: “I wish to see god Chuan eat keyboard, vice captain Sang chose the secret letter mode to piss him off!”
“God Chuan is so thick-skinned, even if Sangsang doesn’t choose an escort mode or a treasure hunt mode in the end, he also certainly can be shameless!”
“His reputation is already negative. Who believes it?”
“Do you eat a keyboard made of chocolate?”
Wu Zewen had long been accustomed to Liu Chuan’s cheap mouth and replied calmly, “Both modes are possible, depending on which playstyle the commander has more confidence in.”
In Dynasty team’s soundproof room, Chu Jianxin scratched the back of his head apologetically and said, “I have the greatest responsibility for the loss in the first round. I didn’t expect that I would be the first one to be killed. Qin Mo knows my playing rhythm too well, or let us play treasure hunt mode in the second round?”
For this finals, Dynasty team had made full preparations for various play modes and could be adjusted at any time according to the situation.
Chu Jianxin thought he was targeted by Qin Mo, coupled with Zhu Qingyue’s weakness control, he might not be able to play defensive counter attack, so he took the initiative to propose to change to the treasure hunt mode to Sang Jun, with double assassins as the main force to fight sneak attack tactics.
Looking back at him, Sang Jun asked. “Are you afraid of being killed by Qin Mo? Have no confidence in yourself?”
“How can I be afraid of Qin Mo?” Chu Jianxin immediately retorted.
“That’s good, I believe you can,” Sang Jun smiled slightly. “We will continue with escort mode.”
Chu Jianxin: “…”
“Fighting.” Sang Jun patted his shoulder lightly.
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At that moment, Chu Jianxin suddenly felt moved, and it was rare that Sang Jun trusted him like this.
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But Sang Jun’s trust gave him more confidence. Chu Jianxin gently clenched his fist and thought that this round must no longer fall into Qin Mo’s calculation.
In Mojue team’s soundproof room, after winning the first round, the players were in high spirits, especially Shen He, who looked energetic and almost ran twice around the stage. But Qin Mo’s expression was still calm, because he was thinking about the next strategy, and his teammates consciously did not disturb him.
A moment later, Qin Mo said. “I have a hunch that Sang Jun will choose escort mode and continue to let Chu Jianxin play as the main force. In the first round, we took advantage of Qingyue’s weakness control to unexpectedly shift the target and kill Chu Jianxin. In the second round, he was sure to be on his guard. This routine can be used once, but it may not work the second time.”
The so-called to catch someone off guard, strike when the enemy was unprepared, were the key for Mojue to win the first round. Qin Mo grasped the psychology of Chu Jianxin, and suddenly shifted the target to kill him off guard. But in the second round, once Chu Jianxin was prepared, with his consciousness and reaction speed, the first meat shield of the league wouldn’t be so easily killed by Mojue.
“Then change to an alternative lineup and play a wave with them?” Xiao Han gave a suggestion.
“En,” Qin Mo nodded, “This is the only way, everyone get ready.”
At this time, the second round officially began, and the game room appeared on the big screen. This round was Dynasty team’s home game, and vice captain Sang chose the mode and map.
——Escort mode, map: Qingcheng Foothills.
The audience was not surprised when Sang Jun chose the Escort mode. After all, Wu Zewen also analysed just now that there was Chu Jianxin in Dynasty, and they would be very strong in playing defensive in Escort mode. However, this map surprised the audience, and Ye Chao couldn’t help but roast. “In the semi-final game, there was a waterway escort. In the final game, does Dynasty want to play Escort mode on the mountain road?”
During the regular seasons, the most commonly maps used in Escort mode were plains and valleys map.
In everyone’s mind, the defensive side of waterway escort would have great disadvantages. However, in the semi-final battle with Without Fire team, Qin Mo’s underwater battle gave the audience a good lesson, and everyone had a feeling of being suddenly enlightened—— it turned out that waterway escort could still be played like this!
Today, Sang Jun chose the mountain road, and the audience could not help but look forward to it.
Was it possible that vice captain Sang also had special tactics?
Wu Zewen looked at the aerial view of the map that appeared on the screen and analysed. “To transport the goods on the mountain road, you have to escort the goods from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. Because it is an oblique upward mountain road, the speed of the escort team will slow down. A map with flatter terrain and shorter escort time is more beneficial to the defensive side, while this mountain map is just the opposite. Needless to say, the terrain is steep, and the escort time will be lengthened, giving the offensive side more opportunities.”
“That’s right,” Liu Chuan nodded, “Vice captain Sang should have a special way of playing when choosing mountain roads. Otherwise, he has no reason to choose disadvatageous map himself.”
But the audience was still at a loss as to how Sang Jun would play.
Seeing this, Qin Mo couldn’t guess Sang Jun’s train of thought for the time being. In fact, among several commanders in the league, what Qin Mo admired most was Sang Jun. He never stuck to the previous routines, but liked to delve into new and original playstyle. Every time he played a game, it would be refreshing.
This finals, just like the experts game, should be extra cautious in every move.
Therefore, in the banning secret books stage, Qin Mo directly banned the key secret book of Chu Jianxin’s defensive counterattack flow, ‘Vajra Sutra’ and ‘Immovable Mountain’—— If Chu Jianxin got these two whole-team anti damage shields and whole team reflect damage secret books, he would become a terrible thick-skinned hedgehog. In the regular season, there was a game. The other commander accidentally released these two secret boks, and the result was hit by Dynasty’s counterattack flow.
These two secret books must not be released. As for the third secret book, Qin Mo thought carefully for a moment and banned ‘Besieged on All Sides’—— this was a key secret book in the array flow tactics that Sang Jun once used. ‘Besieged on All Sides’ could form a square array, imprisoning the enemies in the array, fear their opponents and forcibly divide the battlefield. If Sang Jun got it, It would be a great disturbance to Mojue’s attack rhythm.
After banning three key secret books, Qin Mo took two output secret books, Sang Jun followed closely to get a release control secret book, both of them quickly selected the secret books in the library.
Next, there would be one minute of preparation time, and both sides could submit the lineup and secret books to the referee. But both sides were very fast, they already submitted when the countdown reached 30 seconds. Obviously, both commanders already knew what they were doing and did not hesitate at this stage.
Mojue’s lineup was composed of Qin Mo, Xiao Han, Liu Hong, Shen He and Zhu Qingyue. From the lineup point of view, Qin Mo wanted to use Zhu Qingyue’s timely array to control the field, and the other four players joined hands violently kill the escorts. In terms of secret books, all of the four outputs brought the output secret books, and Qingyue had brought a control secret book.
Ye Chao analysed. “This lineup is actually more violent than the five-output lineup, because Qingyue’s weakness would reduce half of the defense power of the escorts, and the buff effect of the ‘White Umbrella Array’ would increase the attack power of the whole team. This was quite terrifying when they were focusing on the attack! From the perspective of all four outputs with output secret books, Mojue took a wave flow tactic.”
The so-called ‘wave flow tactic’ was the tactic in which all the outputs used one wave of violent output to directly kill the opponent. It was not wise to drag the pace with Dynasty, and it was not necessarily successful to kill Chu Jianxin. So with the powerful assistance of Qingyue, Mojue could win directly by killing all the escort team. Qin Mo’s idea had no problem.
Wu Zewen added. “The advantage of the four output lineup with output secret books lies in the team’s output explosion during the team battle. If it is played smoothly, it can kill the opposite side in a wave. But there are also some disadvantages, that is, insufficient control, the fault tolerance rate is very low, once there is a mistake, it is easy to be killed by the opponent.”
Liu Chuan nodded in agreement. “Indeed, although Mojue uses the violence output flow, there is no front row protection, and the lineup will be very fragile. Dynasty will definitely send a meat shield plus healer. If Dynasty guards and drags to a later period, Mojue’s thought of using a wave flow may be not successful.”
As soon as the voice just fell, Dynasty’s lineup appeared on the big screen—— the front row of meat shields was Chu Jianxing, and Yan Qing the healer. The combination of meat shield and healer was the standard of escort mode. The remaining three players, Sang Jun and Wen Hua, two assassins, and Lin Yao, a poison master.
Judging from the lineup, Chu Jianxin played a defensive counterattack in the front row, and the back row healer guaranteed the endurance. Lin Yao’s poison master long-rangely stacked poison to consume opponents, both assassins, Sang Jun and Wen Hua could look for opportunities in stealth, and then they would explode and kill the opponent in second, or interfere with the other party’s output.
This lineup was commonly used by Dynasty in Escort Mode, which was also expected by many people.
However, Qin Mo was very surprised by the secret books brought by Dynasty—— In addition to the necessary release control and control secret books, there was also a secret book ‘Reincarnation Cycle’ carried by Sang Jun.
This secret book had never been used by a team during the regular season, and its effect was to resurrect dead teammates immediately, restore 10% health and 10% blue, and be immune to all damage and control within 1 second after resurrection. On the surface, the secret book of directly resurrecting a teammate could make a teammate stand up and fight again after he dies, but in actual combat, the effect of this secret book was not good, because the situation was fierce, sometimes the player with the secret book had no time to release the secret book, but to die first, or release the secret book to resurrect their teammates, but their teammates only have 10% of their blood, and was quickly killed.
Of course, all this was based on the premise that the players’ consciousness was not strong enough.
To change it with Sang Jun who brought this secret book, with a powerful meat shield teammate, Chu Jianxin. This would be very terrible.
Qin Mo guessed Sang Jun’s ideas from the secret books—— let Chu Jianxin resist a wave of damage. If he was killed, he would immediately resurrect Chu Jianxin. At the moment when Chu Jianxin was resurrected, he directly opened the shield and made an anti damage big move, and then let the healer heal Chu Jianxin quickly. In the end, Chu Jianxin was equivalent to having two lives and could absorb tons of damage.
What kind of tactic was this? Resurrection counterattack flow?
Qin Mo thought it was quite uncommon, and Ye Chao couldn’t help laughing. “This is interesting. Sangsang brought a resurrection secret book, which is equivalent to giving Chu Jianxin two lives. To deal with this kind of resurrection counterattack flow, Mojue must target many points. First of all, you have to stare at Chu Jianxin, don’t let him die so fast, and secondly, you have to stare at Sang Jun and don’t let him use the resurrection secret book…”
“But if Chu Jianxin takes the initiative to die, it is very difficult to prevent.” Wu Zewen added. “He only needs to continuously absorb damage and take damage for the designated target, and Mojue’s outputs will be actively absorbed by him. The key to the game actually depends on whether Sang Jun and Chu Jianxin can complete this tactic.”
Qin Mo quickly adjusted his way of thinking, saying. “At the beginning, kill the escorts as soon as possible, try to kill 4 escorts in the first wave, and pay more attention to Sang Jun in the second wave of team battle. Xiao Han, if you have a chance, you can just go and kill Sang Jun.”
Xiao Han simply nodded. “Okay, I’ll stare at him.”
*
The game began.
The road of this Qingcheng Foothills map was rugged, and the starting point of the team was at the foot of the mountain, so it was necessary to carry escorts to the pavilion at the top of the mountain to complete the task.
On the way, the escort would suffer some losses. After all, the speed for going uphills was slower and it would give the opponent more chances to rob the escort.
However, judging from the overall map, there was a profound theory—— there were no trees to ambush on both sides of the mountain road. Moreover, there were many extremely narrow sections of the mountain road that could accommodate up to four players side by side. This was just like the battle on a narrow pass main road. As long as someone guarded this key point, it was not so easy to kill them.
At the beginning of the game, all the Dynasty’s players quickly came to the foot of the mountain to join the escorts.
According to the setting of this map, the defensive side was closer to the escort team, and would reach the starting point before the escort wagon. This was to avoid the defensive side from being killed by the offensive side before they had time to make arrangements. Therefore, at the time when Mojue arrived, the five Dynasty team’s players had already protected the escort team.
The healer was hiding in a safe place behind the escort wagon that couldn’t be attacked. Lin Yao, the long-distance, also stood with the healer. Two assassins, Sang Jun and Wen Hua, were missing, apparently hiding around waiting for an opportunity. Only Chu Jianxin stood in front of the escort wagon proudly, as if to say: Come and hit me.
He was carrying a broadsword, majestic-looking, and had the imposing manner of ‘one man guards the pass, ten thousand are unable to get through.’
Of course, Qin Mo wouldn’t not waste attack power to fight this thick-skinned meat shield, and immediately issued an order. “Xiao Han cut the back row, the other could quickly kill the escorts!”
Xiao Han had the strongest mobility, so letting him cut the back row could interfere with the healer and Lin Yao. Otherwise, if the healer was left unchecked, it would be very difficult for Mojue to kill the escort.
After Qin Mo’s command was issued, everyone immediately began the operation!
Zhu Qingyue increased his vigilance, because he had a feeling that since Sang Jun and Wen Hua were invisible, they would act together to kill Mojue’s output, which would greatly reduce Mojue’s output capacity. So at the moment of the beginning of the team battle, he immediately opened an invincible umbrella array with ‘Cyan Rain Curtain.’
Within 5 seconds of the invincible umbrella array, Sang Jun and Wen Hua could not cause any damage to Mojue’s players.
Although it was only a short period of 5 seconds, it gave Mojue the absolute initiative!
First-class assistance’s consciousness couldn’t be underestimated. Sang Jun originally went into Mojue’s back row with Wen Hua, and wanted to kill Shen He. After all, the existence of Shen He’s large number of pets was a great trouble for Dynasty, and compared with Qin Mo and Liu Hong in the front row, it was easier to kill Shen He that was alone in the back row.
However, Zhu Qingyue’s invincible array made Sang Jun unable to do anything, so he could only continue to hide awkwardly, waiting for the 5 seconds to pass.
At this moment, Sang Jun immediately changed his mind and said, “Kill Qingyue first!”
Compared with Shen He’s pet, Zhu Qingyue’s auxiliary array was more troublesome. An invincible array could completely control the initiative in Mojue’s hands. If he used the weakness control later, it would be difficult for the escort to survive.
What could be done in 5 seconds?
After Zhu Qingyue released the invincible array, he opened the buff array ‘White Umbrella Array’, which greatly improved the output of his teammates.
Then, he threw out the white plain umbrella in his hand, and with exquisite little operation, he made the white umbrella quickly move back and forth among the four escorts, putting all the four escorts in a weak state!
This set of operations also made a row of 666 in the live broadcast room, and most of the auxiliaries weakened 1-2 opponents at most in such a short time. However, Zhu Qingyue controlled the movement route of the white umbrella very accurately, and weakened four escorts in one breath, really worthy of the first-class assistance title.
With Qingyue’s help, Mojue’s overall attack power was greatly increased. Xiao Han cut into the back row and interrupted the healer’s casting. Qin Mo and Liu Hong quickly killed the escort team. Shen He summoned pets to assist in the attack in the back row. In a blink of an eye, two escorts fell under Mojue’s stormy attack!
The audience couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration—— this output explosion was really terrible!
But Sang Jun was not in a hurry. After 5 seconds of invincible time, he and Wen Hua immediately show their whereabouts. They cut the back row together, and directly killed Qingyue with a round of attacks!
——[End Of The World] has killed [Bright Moon Clear Sky]!
This prompt made Dynasty’s fans feel a little comforted, but in fact, Zhu Qingyue had used key skills before he was killed, and accomplished what an auxiliary should do.
Leave the rest of the battlefield to his teammates. Zhu Qingyue adjusted his perspective to the battlefield and began to be a bystander.
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Thanks for the translation! I finally finally caught up……… I didn’t realize there is no resurrection in escort mode….. what have I been reading for 279 chapters lolllll
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I think there’s still resurrection in escort mode, it’s 5s before they resurrect 🤔
Yeah I thought so, so I didn’t understand why the end of the chapter, Qingyue adjusted his view and became a bystander like he can’t resurrect… haha oh well!
lol maybe just to see his teammate while waiting for resurrection time 🤣