Chapter 3 The Third Round of the Arena

The third round of the arena quickly began. Happy's side was Mo Fan and his Deception, who had just entered. On Tyranny's side, Zhang Jiale had gone through such a battle just now, and his consumption was also huge. Dazzling Hundred Flowers's life and mana were only a little bit left, and he had no combat power. There was no suspense in this round.

Even so, Mo Fan did not change his cautious nature. After the start, he was not in a hurry to approach.

However, in this small arena map, what can you do even if you are not in a hurry to step forward?

Chen Guo had followed the entire season's competition at close range, and with so many experts around her to give pointers every day, her knowledge was no longer what it used to be. Looking at the two characters posing before the fight, she suddenly realized something.

This arena map, and Ye Xiu's unspecialized class head-on fight, is somewhat disadvantageous for Tyranny. However, this is an arena, and the map selection is for everyone to use. What about the others on Happy's side besides Ye Xiu?

Chen Guo certainly knew the arrangement of Happy's members. After Mo Fan, Su Mucheng would go on, then Fang Rui, and finally Tang Rou.

Mo Fan's firework-style play requires a wide range of advances and retreats. Su Mucheng's Gunner's advantage is super-long distance, and the more complex the terrain, the greater the space for Fang Rui's dirty play.

But now, the arena...

Without any cover, with only such a large space, the styles and advantages of these three players from Happy are all somewhat restricted on this small map!

This is the complete reason why Tyranny chose the arena map. A frontal strong attack forces Ye Xiu to consume, and after Ye Xiu leaves the field, the arena will become Tyranny's advantage.

Zhang Jiale did not insist too much and quickly left the field. Tyranny's third player to enter was Qin Muyun.

Qin Muyun's character, Zero Degrees Celsius, is a Sharpshooter. This arena map is also slightly cramped for the Sharpshooter profession. However, Qin Muyun is a master of positioning. In such an open space without any cover, positioning will become a crucial offensive and defensive method. Although Qin Muyun's profession is also slightly limited on this map, his outstanding talent can be brought into play on this map.

The Happy players off the field all looked solemn, obviously realizing this earlier than Chen Guo. Chen Guo then understood why her calculations were not feasible. Because the next few Happy players will face serious map restrictions, Ye Xiu has no way to hold back. He must do his best to win advantages for Happy and reduce the pressure on the next few.

Ye Xiu has done a great job. Lin Jingyan, Zhang Jiale, facing these two strong players, he can be said to have successfully taken down two of them. Happy now has a whole head start in terms of the number of players. Can the three of them equalize the score in the face of a disadvantageous map?

Mo Fan's match against Qin Muyun began. Mo Fan was still not in a hurry to charge, but what about Qin Muyun's side? Zero Degrees Celsius raised his hand and started shooting. The distance between the two characters' refresh positions at the start was already within the Sharpshooter's range.

Crisp gunshots instantly echoed throughout the arena. Mo Fan's Deception twisted and turned, trying to use rapid changes of direction to cut into Qin Muyun's blind spot.

But the next scene made everyone have a clearer understanding of how high Qin Muyun's positioning and movement skills were.

In the arena, on this small map that was considered unsuitable for ranged professions to perform, Qin Muyun was actually kiting.

Zero Degrees Celsius was not just shooting blindly, he was also maintaining movement. And every step was responding to Deception's movements. The distance between the two characters was sometimes close and sometimes far, but after a few turns, it would always return to the initial interval.

There were no usable map scenes. This was a very pure contest of movement skills. But in just an instant, the difference was clear.

Mo Fan was able to escape successfully from the chaotic online game battles of thousands of troops, so he naturally had extraordinary positioning and movement skills. However, dealing with that kind of chaotic scene is still very different from the current one-on-one duel. If Mo Fan grew up groping in the wild, then Qin Muyun is a product of the most standard professional system. His positioning and movement are meticulous and precise, and every step has an extremely clear reason and logic in it. This is the combat method accumulated over ten years of professional development in Glory, and it has been tempered by thousands of trials. Qin Muyun is executing and completing it meticulously.

Tyranny's products are no longer just brave and good fighters. Qin Muyun and Song Qiying, the excellent rookies who have appeared in Tyranny's team for two consecutive seasons, both have the mark of their vice-captain Zhang Xinjie: rigorous and precise.

In the battle of positioning, Mo Fan lost, lost clearly and completely. Compared to Qin Muyun's precise positioning, Mo Fan's movement seemed ambiguous. Many times, he himself did not understand why he took this step. His operation was only an instinctive intuition, a habitual performance. And this is the biggest flaw in players from non-professional backgrounds, which is now completely revealed in Mo Fan.

Mo Fan quickly realized that he could not get Deception completely close to his opponent by relying on positioning alone. He could only try to choose some attacks. Ninjas also have some mid-range attack methods, so when the distance between the two characters was slightly reduced again, Deception suddenly attacked.

Shuriken!

A shuriken was shot out. The ninja's lowest-level throwing weapon skill, which does not deal much damage, but the slight stun effect it creates is still very good for interrupting chanting-type attacks. However, the Sharpshooter's skills never involve chanting, so the shuriken poses a very limited threat to the Sharpshooter. But Mo Fan chose this skill, but it was by no means random.

At this distance, even if the shuriken hits, the stun it creates is not enough for Mo Fan to launch any offensive, so even if Qin Muyun does not let Zero Degrees Celsius dodge, there will not be any major problems. Many people would probably judge this way and ignore the shuriken.

However, Glory is a very detailed game. The effects of attacks vary greatly depending on the part of the body hit. The shuriken released by Mo Fan's Deception pursued a precise strike effect. The target he chose to attack was Zero Degrees Celsius's right wrist!

In actual combat, the arm is undoubtedly frequently active, and the hit rate of attacking the wrist is extremely low. However, the fighting style of the Sharpshooter profession is that the arm moves much less than those martial artists who attack with fists. Mo Fan accurately grasped an opportunity and launched the shuriken from Deception.

Hitting the wrist, the stun effect cannot be transmitted to the whole body, but it will have a greater impact on this arm. The Sharpshooter is a dual-wielding gun-shooting profession. A brief stun of one arm can create half of the attack gap.

The idea was very clear, but no one could see it at the moment the shuriken was released. The direction of the shot towards the body was completely consistent with the direction of the shot towards the wrist. The slight angle difference was almost indistinguishable at the moment of the shot. By the time the direction of the shuriken was seen, it had probably flown a distance, and it would be too late to dodge.

Ordinary people would not know that there was this calculation here. Seeing Deception suddenly attack, the commentator Pan Lin opened his mouth to shout, but after seeing the skill clearly, the tone of this "shuriken" dropped sharply from extremely high, and the last word "ken" had already exposed his disappointment. Obviously, in his opinion, this skill was useless. Qin Muyun didn't need to pay attention to it at all, and just let Zero Degrees Celsius continue to use dense firepower to hit Deception into a sieve.

But what he didn't expect was that Qin Muyun actually paid attention to it.

Zero Degrees Celsius maintained the attack, but moved out a step, and the shuriken missed.

"Is this necessary?" Pan Lin was stunned. Although the dodge didn't seem to take much effort, in a contest between experts, the waste created by a dispensable operation could really lead to losses in the details.

"Qin Muyun is quite cautious," said Li Yibo. He didn't actually see that this shuriken from Deception would cause big trouble if ignored, but he was right. Deception's shuriken was aimed at the wrist so accurately that Qin Muyun honestly didn't see it either, but he chose to dodge, which was indeed out of caution. Without disrupting the rhythm, he didn't mind doing a little more operation to dodge the attack.

A lack of detail?

Being hit by that shuriken would also be a lack of detail! Comparing the two, he preferred to make some more active responses.

The shuriken missed, and the dodging and positioning made by Qin Muyun were also very appropriate, leaving Mo Fan no loopholes to launch a quick attack.

If this doesn't work, then he can only force his way through!

Deception turned sideways to charge, but just this sideways movement actually drew Qin Muyun's positioning operation again.

Zero Degrees Celsius took a big step across, adjusting his angle of view to see Deception's hand.

Hand seals!

Deception was forming seals, using the small movement of turning sideways to try to create a sudden attack. Qin Muyun did not ignore this common small trick of ninjas. When Deception turned sideways, his Zero Degrees Celsius followed. He saw the hand seals, but the extremely fast movement made it impossible for him to distinguish what ninjutsu it was. But in any case, leaving his original position was always the right thing to do.

Zero Degrees Celsius continued to position himself, with the goal of achieving a position change, changing the character to a new position that could maintain the same attack effect as the previous point.

Zero Degrees Celsius left first, and Deception arrived second.

Shadow Clone Technique!

Mo Fan wanted to use this skill to complete the close approach, but Qin Muyun anticipated it one step earlier. This was the first time Mo Fan was so close to the target, just one step away... But this step away was created by Qin Muyun with his caution and excellent positioning skills. It was a gap in this duel.

Tyranny wins the fourth match in the arena.
Hu Die Lan