Shadow Flame focuses on shadow-attribute damage supplemented by fire-attribute damage. However, with warlock skills, no one is primarily concerned with the damage. Warlocks' control and status skills are what people find most uncomfortable.

Shadow Flame is no exception. In addition to the initial burst of damage when it ignites, the flames persist for six seconds, dealing damage every two seconds. This damage can interrupt chanting. Sword magic masters can instantly cast Wave Sword, but Wave Formation skills require chanting. The presence of Shadow Flame undoubtedly greatly interferes with the sword magic master's rhythm.

But when was this ball of Shadow Flame released?

Everyone was so busy admiring Harris' Wave Sword and Wave Formation that no one noticed at all.

Xiang Yuanwei was also taken aback and didn't dare to rush forward rashly. But if he didn't advance, Wei Chen wouldn't miss this opportunity. Dense Curse Arrows suddenly burst out of the flower bushes, obviously having been charged for a long time.

Shadow Flame doesn't affect character movement, so Xiang Yuanwei quickly controlled Harris to dodge and tried to retaliate, but he then realized that he only had Circular Wave Sword available as an instant-cast Wave Sword.

Circular Wave Sword, as the name suggests, doesn't attack in a straight line. In team battles, it can often have a surprising effect. But in one-on-one battles, with only one target, even if it takes an arc, the endpoint is still there. Aside from ambushes in specific environments, using Circular Wave Sword in a head-on battle only gives the opponent more time to dodge.

But, aside from this sword, all other Wave Sword skills were on cooldown.

Xiang Yuanwei immediately realized that he had probably fallen into a terrible trap. Almost all Wave Sword skills were on cooldown, and Wave Formation was difficult to cast due to Shadow Flame. These six seconds were deliberately created by the opponent, and he wouldn't let this opportunity pass so easily, would he?

In the blink of an eye, Circular Wave Sword was still unleashed. The sword sent flowers and grass flying, leaving a clear arc trajectory. It would be unbelievable if someone standing on this stage couldn't avoid this. Xiang Yuanwei had no choice. He didn't have time to adjust, so he could only strike back to put some pressure on the opponent, even if that pressure was extremely weak.

And then, retreat...

Xiang Yuanwei desperately made Harris retreat, trying to create some distance. He realized the dangers lurking around. The opponent wasn't just hiding his character; he was using such an ordinary action to elicit his response and then arrange a targeted strategy.

Old and cunning!

Xiang Yuanwei gave Wei Chen this assessment while controlling his character to run. Actually, he initially thought his opponent in this match would be Ye Xiu, and he was preoccupied with that unspecialized character's strange and unpredictable tactics! But unexpectedly, he encountered a warlock, an extremely sneaky warlock.

Harris kept backstepping. Xiang Yuanwei didn't dare to let his character turn around directly. He had to watch what kind of attack this sneaky warlock would use to hinder him. But to his surprise, there was nothing, absolutely nothing. The flower bushes were silent, and Windward Formation seemed to have suddenly disappeared.

What was going on?

After backstepping a couple more times, Xiang Yuanwei suspiciously stopped Harris' retreat.

The audience burst into tears.

Xiang Yuanwei couldn't see what Windward Formation was doing in the flower bushes, but they could! Windward Formation, that sneaky warlock, was lying on the ground, casting a spell. The constantly gathering energy, which any player familiar with warlocks could recognize at a glance, was Death's Door, the warlock's level 70 ultimate skill, Death's Door!

Using the cover of the terrain and understanding his opponent's psychology, Wei Chen brazenly had his Windward Formation chant this time-consuming and mana-intensive Death's Door without any control over his opponent.

"Go, go!!"

Many viewers were already shouting anxiously, and even the players from Team Miracle, Xiang Yuanwei's teammates, were standing up with clenched fists.

However, Xiang Yuanwei cautiously, carefully, and gradually moved Harris, sword in hand, toward the flower bushes where Windward Formation was hiding.

Caution wasn't wrong, but at this time, the cautiousness infuriated the audience.

When the black energy gathered on the Hand of Death in the flower bushes where Windward Formation was hiding spread to the point that the flower bushes could no longer conceal it, Xiang Yuanwei realized something was wrong. If he still couldn't figure out what this was, he would be unworthy of being a professional player.

Run?

Too late!

Death's Door's attack range was already large, and coupled with the fact that this warlock, Windward Formation, had an extremely exaggerated attack range, this Death's Door definitely wouldn't leave him any room to escape.

Fight!

Xiang Yuanwei made a quick decision. Since he couldn't run, he could only rush forward and try to interrupt the skill. Death's Door needed the character to maintain it even after it was released, so the possibility of being interrupted existed from the beginning of the chant to the end of the skill.

Go!

The audience shouted in unison. They all felt that, at this distance, the attack range of a sword magic master's skills wasn't a big threat. A Wave Sword could sweep over, and the Death's Door being controlled in the flower bushes would be immediately interrupted.

Xiang Yuanwei thought so too.

Harris charged forward, brandishing the short sword in hand. Magic fluctuations surged, flowing on the blade.

Draw the sword!

The short sword was swung!

Boom!

A muffled, strange sound as if it could penetrate several spaces.

A rotating black door connected to another world slowly turned, standing directly in front of Harris.

What the heck!

Countless viewers fell out of their seats.

This Death's Door actually stood directly between the two of them.

If Xiang Yuanwei had discovered the situation earlier and turned around and ran like a noob, he might have been able to jump out of Death's Door's control.

But he was a professional player, and high-level experience told him that running was impossible at that time. So he approached, he tried to interrupt, and then he realized that he had walked directly to the Death's Door.

Even Death's Door was probably surprised. It had probably never found such an easy prey. The black tentacles formed from the door had barely extended half a meter when they touched Harris's shoulder.

Xiang Yuanwei didn't even have time to dodge or react before he was entangled by the black tentacles, and then he was easily pulled into the door.

Death's Door came and went quickly. In a one-on-one battle, Death's Door sought damage. As for the control and restriction effect, because the warlock needed to continue to maintain the Death's Door, even if it restricted the target, it couldn't free up its hands to supplement other attacks.

But this attack from the magical world of another dimension was not easy to bear. In addition to the damage, the character was also thrown around, disoriented.

Rain of Confusion, Six-Star Light Prison, Ghostly Shadow Entanglement...

Wei Chen calmly, and with slow hand speed, cast the skills he had prepared one after another.

Harris's body was filled with various unfavorable statuses. The character was confused, then bound, then controlled, then imprisoned...

Wei Chen's attack rhythm was well controlled. An old player who couldn't control the rhythm would have no need to continue fighting in the professional arena, no matter how much experience they had, they would have no means to use it.

Xiang Yuanwei refused to give up, but after several struggles, he failed to break the situation, and Harris finally fell.

Wei Chen won, and Xiang Yuanwei left the stage in frustration.

His heart was full of "ifs," if this, if that...

But there were no "ifs" in the competition, and these "ifs" would be transformed into experience to help a player grow.

Wei Chen left the stage with a cheerful expression. He treated the boos in the arena as illusions, and his pace was light as if he were ten years younger.

"With this old man's presence, it's a piece of cake!" Returning to the player's seat, he accepted everyone's blessings and boasted shamelessly.

"Amazing, amazing!" Ye Xiu didn't even mock him.

"What's going on? Why is it so harmonious today?" Chen Guo found it very surprising. It was abnormal for Ye Xiu and Wei Chen not to mock each other.

"Hehehe..." Ye Xiu chuckled dryly but didn't explain.

After listening to the praise and boasting for a while, Wei Chen probably had enough and shook his head. "I'm going to the restroom."

"Huh?"

Watching him walk away, everyone was stunned. They had all taken care of that before the match! Only one individual match had taken place, and only so much time had passed. Why did he need to go again so soon?

"He... he's actually not as relaxed as he looks," Ye Xiu suddenly said.

"Ah?" Chen Guo was stunned.

"He didn't say a single word of trash talk throughout the entire match," Ye Xiu sighed.

Chen Guo continued to stare, gazing at Wei Chen's back. Although he had the same smug posture as when he left the stage earlier, Chen Guo seemed to see a hint of fatigue in him, a fatigue that was being concealed.

And over here...

"It's my turn!" Su Mucheng stood up. She was the second player from Happy to appear.

"Good luck," everyone said.

"It's Su Mucheng." On Team Miracle's side, the unlucky trio looked at the name of their former teammate on the electronic screen and then watched Su Mucheng walk onto the stage.

"Leave it to me." Wang Ze seemed quite confident. He was placed in the individual competition because he wanted to face Su Mucheng.

"Good luck, it's time to prove yourself!" He Ming said to Wang Ze.

When Wang Ze was in Excellent Era, he was never considered a core player. Players in his position had a very urgent desire to prove themselves.

However, Excellent Era was no more, and he no longer had the opportunity to compete for a position in the team. He now needed to show his level to the entire professional circle. The all-star former teammate, Su Mucheng, was a perfect opponent.

Because this kind of clash was a topic, and with a topic, it would be easier to attract attention.

"Watch my trump card!" Wang Ze went on stage full of ambition.