translator: Oyen editor: Ciel
“You guys stand back,” Qin Mo quietly instructed on the voice channel. “I’ll finish him.”
The four people immediately moved away from the garden, leaving Qin Mo’s white-clothed swordsman standing alone in the middle, calmly waiting for the challenge from the other side.
Because the big trees of the garden blocked his line of sight, Qin Mo did not see Xiao Han and his team just now. Coupled with Xiao Han’s assassin turning invisible, Qin Mo would naturally lose the advantage of the first attack, because in a one-on-one battle, the first party to move could always deal more damage and use more control skills to take the lead. If the other player did not react in time, they would almost certainly become passive, and could only wait to be beaten.
The newcomers seated around Xiao Han thought that the swordsman named ‘Ink Mark’ would lost—— after the captain showed up, any set of critical attack moves would give him a huge advantage.
Xiao Han did not disappoint his players.
He moved Thousand Miles Ice behind Ink Mark, then suddenly burst out a wave of damage without the other party being aware, the dagger in his hand shooting right for Ink Mark’s unprotected back in a series of assassin’s skills—— Rainbow Through The Sun! Rainbow Through The Sun! Rainbow Through The Sun!
Critical hit, critical hit, triple combo!
The beautiful three-strike combo was smoothly executed; the daggers glinting with a cold light multiplied from one to three, and then into numerous weapons that shot out from Xiao Han’s hands to strike the white-clothed swordsman in front of him. In an instant, the dense daggers seemed like a rainstorm, dazzling under the sunlight, which made people afraid to look.
Hiding in the distance, Mirage could not help exclaiming, “This assassin is an expert!”
Little Medicine Fairy could not understand the situation in the garden, and only felt that the assassin had made a very sharp move. Still, her heart was with her teammates, and immediately responded with “Ink Mark is level 25, Thousand Miles Ice is only level 22; Ink Mark’s level is higher, he is sure to win!”
Hiding a Dagger Behind a Smile laughed and agreed. “That’s it, you’ve got it!”
Elegant Leaves was calmer, and continued to stare at the scene in the garden. He had the strangest feeling that the three level gap wasn’t big, and that Ink Mark’s win was uncertain!
At this time, Xiao Han followed up with his next skill—— Meteor!
This skill was a close-up assassination technique, which allowed the assassin in the distance to sneak up behind the enemy in an instant, striking their heart to achieve a fatal blow!
The assassin dressed in black wore a black mask on his face, and looked very mysterious. With this movement, people would only feel that the shadows before them had moved; in fact, Thousand Miles Ice had already appeared behind Ink Mark, decisively piercing his heart with a dagger, causing Ink Mark’s blood volume to drop from 100% to 50%.
Of course, being knocked down to half blood was not the result of this skill alone. Rather, it was the total damage caused by the combination of the three-stage ‘Rainbow Through The Sun’ and ‘Meteor’. But because the operation of Thousand Miles Ice was so quick, this series of skills was released in three seconds, making it seem like Ink Mark lost half his health instantly, causing everyone watching from afar to feel extremely shocked!
Even Qin Mo couldn’t help being surprised—— little did he expect the assassin to come so quickly, and with such fierce offence!
In an instant, he judged that he had met an expert assassin.
The other side blocked his own perspective and successfully launched a sneak attack, taking the first opportunity to knock off 50% of his blood at once.
If this series of simple and sharp operation occurred in the arena, if the opponent’s psychological quality was poor, they would likely be shocked to the point of collapse.
This kind of repressive play could only be achieved by true experts—— once the first chance was seized and a huge advantage was gained, the opponent needed to withstand a greater pressure to fight against them. With this psychological pressure, it was easy to make mistakes, and this person obviously wouldn’t let go of the opportunity.
But who was Qin Mo?
Even though he left the professional league when he was young, Qin Mo had once been the trump card of the Wind Colour team, and had also participated in the world competition. His experience was not in the least comparable to that of an ordinary person.
This kind of situation was one he had seen many times, and he was long accustomed to them.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
Ca atf wbwfca ktfc tlr yibbv kjr gfvemfv, Hlc Zb lwwfvljafis gfrqbcvfv. Ktf ktlaf-mibatfv rkbgvrwjc bc atf rmgffc revvfcis aegcfv jgbecv, atf rkbgv lc tlr tjcv rkjslcu ab atf ifoa jcv gluta oifzlyis, vgjklcu akb yfjealoei jgmr yfobgf tlw. Ktlr kjr obiibkfv ys jc lcmilcfv rajy atja vlgfmais qlfgmfv atf bqqbcfca’r jyvbwfc—— Vkbgv Lbglhbc, Vkbgv Ejlc Efwcjca!
It was the Heaven Sun combo that Elegant Leaves had seen so many times!
Elegant Leaves was shocked by the fact that Ink Mark suddenly turned back and struck violently; the two sword arcs drawn had almost hit the same part of the assassin’s body, which satisfied the precondition for the following Heaven Sun combo.
Any swordsman knew that if there was a silent target in front of him, it was easy to strike a critical hit at his opponent’s weak point.
But the target was behind him this time, so how did he determine the correct position?!
Before Elegant Leaves could think about it, he saw the black-clothed assassin getting caught off guard and silenced by Ink Mark, who immediately used the qinggong skill ‘Flicker’. Like a beautiful white bird, the swordsman flew in the opposite direction, quickly distancing himself from the assassin!
This scene surprised the players who were watching in the training room.
Under the pressure caused by Xiao Han, most people would be seckilled directly without ever fighting back, but this person…
He actually managed to complete a clean counter-attack?!
When Xiao Han took the first chance to hide behind him and beat half his blood, he did not seem to be in a panic at all. Instead, he seized the opportunity to fight back in an instant and silenced Xiao Han in place?!
Pei Yu was incomparably shocked.
Captain Xiao Han’s level was clear to everyone, the season’s MVP award was not undeserved. In the professional league matches, Xiao Han hadn’t yet met an equal. His assassin was terrible; not only could he empty his opponent’s blood with quick and sharp attacks, he could also exert great psychological pressure on his opponents with his extremely fast speed, flexible playing methods and erratic movement skills.
Many experts in the professional circle would suffer a lot of psychological pressure when they played a game against Xiao Han.
However, this Ink Mark person did not seem to be pressured at all.
After countering Xiao Han, he cleverly opened the distance, relying on the longsword’s superiority in range to attack the assassin, once again releasing two ‘Sword Horizon’ in the distance.
Of course, the damage caused by the two attacks was not as high as that caused by the three attacks of ‘Rainbow Through the Sun’, and Thousand Miles Ice’s blood volume was only reduced to 75% at present.
After the three seconds of control was up, Xiao Han immediately turned to give chase—— Darkness Valley!
The effect of Darkness Valley made him invisible again, and the doubled agility allowed him to catch up with the other party in the blink of an eye.
Everyone thought that the captain would once again use a set of combos to empty the other party’s blood directly, but to everyone’s surprise, the moment Xiao Han’s fingers pressed the keyboard to prepare a combo, Ink Mark suddenly turned around to use ‘Sword Horizon’!
This was a low damage group attack, but it had an unexpected effect at this moment.
——The invisible assassin had been hit!
——The combo that just started was also interrupted by this trick!
Following this, Ink Mark quickly retreated with ‘Flicker’, once again increasing the distance between him and Xiao Han.
Xiao Han’s qinggong skill was in cooldown; coupled with being hit by his opponent, he could no longer enter stealth to interfere with him. This way, Qin Mo could rely on his distance advantage to gradually reduce the blood gap between them.
But Xiao Han would not stop there. His qinggong was in cooldown, but he had other skills to follow up with.
——Meteor!
Like a ghost, the black-clothed assassin once again instantaneously moved behind Ink Mark. The dagger in his hand rose and fell, continuing a second strike of Meteor!
If the group attack damage caused by the three-stage Rainbow Through The Sun combo was considerable, then the two consecutive attacks of Meteor, which dealt damage with a dagger in close combat to a single target, caused much more damage.
——Ink Mark’s blood volume has dropped to 20%.
This amount of blood lost seemed to be quite dangerous, but Qin Mo did not panic. Once again, he turned around and released a Heaven Sun combo, silencing the assassin before calmly flying away, increasing the distance between them for the third time!
It was only at this moment that Xiao Han’s expression changed subtly.
The positioning of this white-clothed swordsman was extremely flexible, even when increasing the distance between them. In fact, the application of the movement qinggong skill could be called perfection!
This Ink Mark was an expert, and not an ordinary expert.
He was sharp and decisive when dealing with an opponent in battle. Despite beginning with half his blood knocked out, he was able to withstand the pressure to deal with the next situation, and came up with the rational way of narrowing the blood gap by relying on his advantage in range. Xiao Han had chased him fiercely; if he was an ordinary person, Ink Mark would have been out of breath a long time ago, but he was calm enough to wait for an opening.
Xiao Han couldn’t help frowning—— this feeling was very familiar, but he couldn’t identify where he had felt this feeling before.
Qin Mo was also very shocked. This assassin in front of him was too sharp and aggressive; in the face of his lightning-fast attacks, Qin Mo would likely be killed by a set of outbreaks the moment he stopped paying attention. Although he managed to stabilise the situation with an extremely fast response and neat operation, there was a layer of sweat on his palms.
——He had not fought so fiercely with people for a long time.
Just now, he had even brought out the concentration and caution from past matches in the professional league, in order to avoid the other party’s critical strikes.
Still, he knew that if it went on like this, he would be overwhelmed.
——Because the other party was too fast!
Qin Mo wanted to increase the distance and slowly grind down the assassin’s blood volume, but the assassin was very smart. Knowing that the increased distance would be disadvantageous to him, he followed the principle of ‘quick battle and decision’, and made use of the skill Meteor to advance and chase Qin Mo repeatedly.
Ink Mark was now left with 20% blood, while the assassin still had around 50%.
It was not an option to drag the battle out. Qin Mo’s expression was cold, even as he decisively slid his finger down to the lower left corner of his lightscreen.
The spectators saw the sword suddenly fly upwards. Countless white sword spirits descended from the sky, surrounding the black-clothed assassin——
Sword Rain Fragrance!
He used the secret book skill with a 3-minute cooldown!
Xiao Han had no time to guard against it, and was directly inflicted with a dizzy stats by the sword spirit. Meanwhile, Qin Mo took advantage of these three seconds, and using his highest hand speed, once again hit him with the Sword Horizon and Sword Rain Remnant combo!
Thus, the sword spirit’s three seconds of dizziness was followed up with another three seconds of silence control.
“He used a seamless control?!” Pei Yu stared at the captain’s computer screen in surprise, his expression incredulous.
This so-called seamless control was in fact, an operation by high-leveled players to calculate and connect the time of effect for their control skills. When the effect of the first skill’s control was about to end, the second skill had to be launched, in order to continue the control.
——Ink Mark actually relied on this set of gorgeous operations; in just a second, Xiao Han’s Thousand Miles Ice was immediately frozen in place!
Ink Mark used a series of skills to deal damage equivalent to almost 50% of health, which seemed to be the most powerful counterattack to Xiao Han’s psychological pressure by removing 50% of his health at the start.
Despite the captain seizing the first chance and pressuring the other side’s blood, he was unexpectedly killed by his residual blood opponent at the last moment.
The atmosphere in the training room suddenly turned awkward.
At the beginning, everyone thought that the captain would abuse players from the online game in only a minute. Everyone was expecting Ink Mark to be abused to the point of crying; no one had thought for a single moment that… Xiao Han could lose.
A group of people looked at each other and wondered how to break the weird silence.
Fortunately, Pei Yu was smart enough to immediately reflect on the match’s key points, euphemistically stating, “Ink Mark is two levels higher than the captain, and has an extra secret book skill. MOreover, swordsmen below level 30 have all sorts of control skills, but assassins are unable to control, and their skills are too weak…”
Pei Yu had a good point, but Xiao Han was a professional player. The gap between his level and the skills were nothing in the eyes of the players.
Xiao Han opened his mouth and said directly, “A loss is a loss. Don’t look for excuses.”
His indifferent attitude made the newcomers feel a little relieved, and Pei Yu immediately changed the topic. “Captain, what do you think are the origins of this Ink Mark?”
Xiao Han replied evenly, “He should be a professional player.”
This man must have had a very rich experience in dealing with assassins. Otherwise, he could not have predicted the position of the assassin after his stealth skill, let alone be so calm in the face of the assassin’s fast pursuit.
Aside from being a professional player, Xiao Han couldn’t think of any other explanation.
“Which team is he from?” Pei Yu asked curiously.
“There are so many teams in the new game, it is impossible to judge just yet.” Xiao Han thought for a moment and said, “I don’t want him to be suspicious of us, so pretend not to know for the time being.”
“Okay!”
***
In the game, Ink Mark sent a sentence on the dungeon channel: “I won. According to the agreement, you lead your team to withdraw and the treasure belongs to me.”
“No problem.” Xiao Han resolutely ordered his team to retreat, and sent the other party a friend request, only to receive a prompt from the system——
The other party has rejected your friend request.
“Why refuse?” Xiao Han wondered, “We can learn from each other when we are free.”
“No need.” Qin Mo said bluntly, “I have the advantage of a secret book skill, it is not fair to you, there is no need to continue learning from each other.”
“……” Xiao Han could only helplessly send an ellipsis.
The newcomers in the training room looked at each other.
Unexpectedly, the captain was rendered speechless in front of this person, and in the end, even a friend request was rejected…
So sharp but still not as sharp as Old cat or LXF detecting skills, to be fair is a completely new game and a different occupation.
Aww rejected… better luck next time 😂
Thank you for the chapter!
lol rejected already🤣🤣
nice try but try harder ml🤭🤭
Poor Xiao Han :;( ∩ ´ ﹏ ` ∩ );:
Thank you for the chapter! 😂
Ksksksks the tables have turned.. Xiao Han sends ellipses this time..
No I was literally squealing when I read qin mo won hehe I’m so proud like that’s my baby right there !!!
It is understandable that QM would win since both of them are already equals in terms of skills. But, in the game, QM has the advantage since he is more familiar with the game unlike XH, and that QM is 3 levels higher than XH.
Rejected. Hazukashiiii..
Ayyy no recognition, so saddd :c
Wonder how they will meet again 👀