After both players entered the battle room and completed simple equipment debugging, they began the map selection process. Each side banned two maps, finally leaving Horror Tomb as the chosen battle map. After adjusting the final equipment setup based on the chosen map, they entered the map import page in everyone’s eager anticipation.
During the World Championship, each region was assigned a corresponding commentary booth. The official Chinese commentators sent this year were Xiao Wu and Mao Dou. Mao Dou took advantage of the importing interval to analyze the game situation.
He carefully looked through his materials and spoke to the camera: “This player Jiang Minjun, I believe domestic fans are familiar with him. Among the new generation of Korean professional players, he is currently considered one of the most promising.” At this point, he paused intentionally and smiled meaningfully: “Of course, the reason why this player is famous in China is not entirely because he has been given high expectations in the Korean e-sports circle.”
What he was referring to was, of course, Jiang Minjun’s arrogant remarque, “It’s time for Yan Duzhou to retire,” which caused the Chinese e-sports player to invade the Korean server. However, as an official commentator, it was not convenient for him to say some things. The rest would be up to everyone’s understanding.
Obviously, Xiao Wu didn’t have a good impression of this player either: “This player’s profession is black mage, and his combat style is very similar to Captain Yan’s. They are both explosive and complete damage output. Lin Xiao had fought and won against Captain Yan in the domestic League, so he should be very comfortable fighting the same type of player today.”
Mao Dou nodded: “I believe this will be a very exciting match.”
At this moment, the map importing had already ended, and both players appeared on opposite sides of the camera, beginning their operations.
Xiao Wu was about to analyze the equipment of both players, but when she saw Lin Xiao’s equipment, she couldn’t help but exclaim: “Huh? Lin Xiao’s choice of equipment today is…”
Mao Dou followed her gaze and was dumbfounded, saying, “This setup? No way!”
In the past, Lin Xiao’s equipment choices were mostly focused on cooldown reduction with damage output as secondary. This kind of equipment selection greatly reduced the damage inflicted on the opponent and lowered the threat level of his skills. But at this moment, although he still had a set of cooldown-based equipment, the secondary attribute displayed was even more bewildering – movement speed!
Lin Xiao’s first appearance in the individual competition in the World Championship completely exceeded everyone’s expectations.
Everyone was confused.
Cooling and movement speed? What about damage output?! This is a solo match, bro! Without any damage output to support, what’s the point of fighting?!
“What is Lin Xiao thinking?!” On the bench of the Black Rose team, Xiao Li pouted. He should have slapped his opponent in the face, but with this type of equipment, even if he used all of his abilities, it would not damage as much as an ordinary hit of the other party.
You Jing seemed oblivious to the whispers around him and looked at the equipment data displayed on the big screen. He smiled slightly. “Oh… interesting.”
Inside the battle room, Lin Xiao was completely unaware of all the commotion outside. Under his control, the ghost priest equipped with speed mobility attributes, moved swiftly in the dark environment, like an arrow released from its bow.
When the outline of a figure came into his field of vision, he raised his eyebrows frivolously, and the ghost priest turned around nimbly and directly burrowed into the bushes nearby. Almost at the same time he completed the action, Jiang Minjun’s black mage had already approached.
Frost spell. After a very short chant, a low-level control technique hit the black mage.
Jiang Minjun didn’t expect his opponent to arrive here so quickly and in a moment of confusion, he only saw a red silhouette flashing past his field of vision. Before the control time was over, his opponent avoided his front, circling behind him to block his sight while stabbing him fiercely in the back with something.
What the hell! Jiang Minjun frowned as he watched a tiny fraction of his HP drop. The moment the control ended, the staff glowed with light, and he blindly cast a black spell behind him based entirely on his personal estimation.
This operation was completed in an instant, and he turned his head with satisfaction, anticipating the other party’s embarrassed appearance. However, after a 360-degree scan of the field of view, he was dumbfounded.
Not to mention hitting the target and so on, he didn’t even see a trace of his opponent!
Jiang Minjun’s brows furrowed completely.
This wasn’t right. The ghost priest had just moved behind him and blocked his perspective. It was impossible to completely retreat in such a short time. Didn’t the other party perform an evasive encircling just now? But it was impossible for him to be so confused, right?
As Jiang Minjun puzzled over this matter, the audience watching from the general perspective was speechless.
Lin Xiao’s ghost priest, running faster than a rabbit, was one thing, but what was even more weird was that he didn’t even cause any harm. Just now, after controlling the opponent, he actually jumped directly behind the black mage and stabbed him in the ass with his staff?!
That’s right, the staff poking was directed at his ass!
The Korean fans who witnessed the whole thing had a complicated look on their faces. On one hand, they couldn’t help but want to laugh like the other onlookers, but on the other hand, they couldn’t laugh at all.
– You’re supposed to be a long-range spellcaster class for heaven’s sake! What kind of hero pokes people in the ass with a stick?!
If they still had some hope that Jiang Minjun could teach him some small lessons up to now, the series of operations that happened the next minute completely shattered their hopes.
He was running fast, really running too fast! Coupled with Lin Xiao’s prediction, he had already started moving before Jiang Minjun began to chant. In this way, the moment the skill was cast, he had already perfectly avoided the landing point. How could he give the opponent a chance to hit him?
In the time it took to chant a skill, Lin Xiao maneuvered the ghost priest to retreat into the darkness again as if he had never been there. Glancing at the values of both sides, a casual smile formed at the corner of his mouth: “Tsk, with this level, do you still dare to compare yourself with Old Yan?”
His gaze firmly locked onto the black mage in the center of the screen, and his mood was very good. Although he didn’t know whether or not this person was related to the account-banning incident at that time, it didn’t matter because he had decided to blame everything on him anyway. He was just so willful, and there was nothing wrong with that!
With the typing of the keyboard, the ghost priest seemed to be a shadow shuttling across the map. From time to time, a little red riding hood with a cloak flashed past Jiang Minjun’s black mage, but without giving him any chance to react.
At this moment, Jiang Minjun finally realized the impact of the movement speed attribute of this equipment. With a tight frown, his face had turned livid.
It seemed that every control skill that hit him was accompanied by this guy’s intentional or unintentional harassment. With such a technique, the rate of decline in blood volume was very slow, which basically showed that there was no concept of “damage” in the opponent’s choice of equipment.
Normally speaking, putting this kind of equipment in an individual competition was tantamount to digging one’s own grave because there was no possibility of killing the opponent. However, at this moment, it was Jiang Minjun who felt extremely uncomfortable! After several attempts at attacking, he discovered something that was hard to accept. He couldn’t hit his opponent at all!
The opponent’s pitifully low output could at least wipe out some HP, but his missing hits had basically zero output.
Seeing the black mage randomly flinging his skills around like a fool under the opponent’s control, there was an eerie silence in the entire venue. The audience was somewhat confused. This was supposed to represent a world-class competition, but now it felt like watching a monkey show.
Fifteen minutes. Unknowingly, fifteen minutes have passed since the start of the game, but of the two characters on the field, one still had 90% health, and the other even had 100%!
If this continued, unless one player chose to forfeit, this match was likely to last for three days and nights! Actually, perhaps even three days and nights won’t be enough… At present, Lin Xiao has significantly slowed down his attack speed after using more than half of his stamina bar. He waited until he replenished it for another skill before launching a new attack.
Although the damage caused by poking someone with a staff was pitifully low, at least there was still some damage. Was this a strategy of using a skill for half a day in order to indefinitely prolong the match?
The referee team had never experienced such a match. They couldn’t issue yellow cards because it was clear that the contestant was actively playing. They couldn’t give warnings because it was clear that the contestant was actively playing. They couldn’t force the end of the match because it was clear that the contestant was actively playing…
There was no solution!
Everyone felt that this endless road was simply driving them crazy, and they could only place all their hopes on Jiang Minjun.
GG! Give up! Surrender! You can’t hit the opponent at all anyway! Even Korean fans began to think like that in their hearts.
At this moment, Jiang Minjun seemed to be on the verge of breaking down; however, his remaining self-esteem prompted him to keep going, so he never chose to type “GG”.
As long as he hit once, he would surrender! This was perhaps his last struggle deep in his heart.
Compared to the crowd almost dying of frustration, Lin Xiao appeared much happier. He hummed a tune while operating and laughed, in a good mood: “Hehe, have you ever experienced despair…”
At the same time, the ghost priest rushed forward and poked the black mage in the ass with his staff again.
