Chapter 129 Intransigence

Xingxin's style of play astonished not only the Xuanqi players on the field, but even their coach, Zhang Yiwei, off the field. How could Xingxin spread out like this without a healer? What arrogance and confidence!

But when he saw Zai Shui Yi Xia and Han Yanrou push their knight towards the guardian angel, Zhang Yiwei suddenly realized. Xingxin still had tactical goals. The first one to take down was their healer. It was orthodox, standard, and not unexpected at all. They just spread out first, scattered the Xuanqi formation, and then began to switch fire, concentrating their attacks. The tactical concept was much more subtle and obscure. In contrast, Xuanqi's team simply rushed head-on towards Han Yanrou, skills flying—a truly crude and unsophisticated opening.

Xingxin's versatile play style meant that by the time their true intentions were revealed, it was likely too late to stop them, as was the case in this match. The Xuanqi knight served as a tactical screen for Xingxin, pushing him a few steps before Zai Shui Yi Xia and Han Yanrou suddenly discarded him and charged towards the guardian angel not far behind.

Xuanqi's guardian angel was actively healing the whole team, with the knight under attack being his main focus. But just a second ago, the two characters attacking the knight suddenly turned their attention to him.

The guardian angel, of course, wouldn't stay put and endure the attack. He hurriedly turned to run, but as soon as he turned, he saw Qiao Yifan's One Inch Ash had somehow snuck behind him, laying down an Ice Array. The guardian angel was caught right in the middle of it. Then a large array was layered with a small array, restricting the guardian angel while assisting Zai Shui Yi Xia and Han Yanrou as they charged in. Their attacks rolled in.

Unable to escape, the guardian angel had no choice but to use skills to resist. He first cast a Holy Shield in front of him, then used Life Activation to accelerate his health regeneration, followed by an Angelic Radiance. With the guardian angel at the center, a halo expanded 360 degrees, inflicting damage on any target it touched and providing a powerful knockback effect that ignored the target's super armor state.

Sun Zheping and Tang Rou's classes had no way to resolve the knockback effect of Angelic Radiance, but they both responded in the most forceful way possible. While Angelic Radiance had a knockback effect, it was only effective at interrupting chanting skills that couldn't be cast while moving. In other aspects of interruption, it was far inferior to grapple-type judgments.

Unable to resist the backward slide, Zai Shui Yi Xia put his heavy sword behind him, his body turning red. The heavy sword seemed to boil with blood as it expanded and grew larger. He swung it down, and blood energy burst out, instantly spreading a bloody mist. It was the Berserker's level 70 ultimate, Wrath of Blood.

On Han Yanrou's side, her battle lance shook, transforming into a dragon. Though her body was retreating, the magical battle aura of the lance surged forward, finally slamming into the guardian angel.

This Angelic Radiance forced both Zai Shui Yi Xia and Han Yanrou back, but neither of them avoided the other's ultimate skill. The Holy Shield summoned directly was unable to withstand the two ultimate skills and was instantly shattered. The boiling blood color and exploding magical battle aura completely engulfed the pitiful guardian angel.

Qiao Yifan's One Inch Ash finished casting his ghost array support and didn't just stand by. He wielded his katana and entered the array, adding his own damage output.

"Too aggressive! Xingxin's response is really too aggressive. You have to remember that they don't even have a healer! They are actually tanking through the damage of the guardian angel's Angelic Radiance just to make an attack." The broadcast commentator exclaimed in surprise.

"The Xuanqi player is in danger now, being attacked from both sides by Xingxin. He can only pray that his teammates come to his rescue quickly. Where are his teammates?"

The broadcast switched to Xuanqi's members. The knight who had previously been under a frenzied assault by Zai Shui Yi Xia and Han Yanrou was now turning the tables and actively challenging them. The launched-away Qi Master had also sprinted over. With his medium-range attack capabilities, a Sky-shattering Cannon was pushed towards Han Yanrou and Zai Shui Yi Xia.

But once again, Zai Shui Yi Xia swayed and circled to Han Yanrou's front, directly taking the Qi Master's Sky-shattering Cannon with his body. Completely unharassed, Han Yanrou continued her furious assault on the guardian angel.

An Angelic Radiance couldn't bring any turnaround for the guardian angel. After casting two instant healing spells on himself, he activated Unyielding Will to increase his defense. Then he frantically rotated his view, looking to see if any of his teammates could come to his rescue quickly.

But before his teammates' attacks arrived, Ye Xiu's Lord Grim and Wei Chen's Windward Formation had both freed up their hands on the Xingxin side to give him some skills to eat. The guardian angel could only rely on the defensive characteristics of his class to continue to hold on. Finally, his own knight rushed to his side, swinging his sword and shield in a Crusader Judgment. Tang Rou's Han Yanrou had no choice but to temporarily avoid the onslaught. But as she retreated, Sun Zheping flashed over again, wielding his heavy sword and actually parrying the Crusader Judgment directly.

"Using an attack to parry Crusader Judgment!!!" The broadcast commentator was incredulous. Fortunately, the audience could only hear his voice and couldn't see him. The attack rhythm of Crusader Judgment depended entirely on the operator's control, so there was no fixed rhythm. Moreover, the attack power could be stacked, so the commentator really didn't know if using an attack to parry this skill was courageous or completely insane.

The clanging of weapons resounded continuously between the two. The Xuanqi knight player couldn't believe what he was seeing. Someone actually wanted to use their own actions to resist Crusader Judgment. Was this... contempt for him?

Even a clay figure had three parts anger. This unconventional phenomenon happening to him severely wounded the knight player's pride. He used the Crusader Judgment without any regard for anything else. And indeed, trying to withstand Crusader Judgment was a bit forced. After parrying several segments, Sun Zheping's Zai Shui Yi Xia couldn't cope with the opponent's further increase in rhythm. The judgment of a normal attack definitely couldn't withstand Crusader Judgment, so he constantly needed to use skills to collide with it. But skills had cooldowns, while Crusader Judgment's combos didn't have this issue. Zai Shui Yi Xia's skills finally ran out, and when he could only respond with normal attacks, the Xuanqi knight felt incredibly happy. One strike after another, the next few strikes were too much for Zai Shui Yi Xia to parry.

"Idiot! Watch your positioning!!!" Zhang Yiwei on the sidelines roared at his own knight for overwhelming Sun Zheping with his attacks. The knight chased Zai Shui Yi Xia all the way, but in the end, he abandoned the cover he had finally managed to snatch near the guardian angel, leaving the guardian angel alone. What could be the consequence of a healer being completely exposed but to be beaten?

The TV broadcast followed the knight's Crusader Judgment to watch the excitement, but the position he left behind was even more lively. Han Yanrou's battle lance turned and slammed against the guardian angel again. The Xuanqi Qi Master had freed up his hands at this moment, but he wasn't a class adept at close-quarters combat. Medium-range attacks and support couldn't save the guardian angel at this time. Xuanqi's lineup had the knight as their best protector of the healer, but this guy was lured away by Sun Zheping's stubborn response.

When the broadcast returned to this scene, the commentator suddenly realized. Sun Zheping's attack was not only courageous, but also cunning!

The knight player only came back to his senses after the Crusader Judgment was finished. Panicked, he hurriedly turned to save the healer, but how could Sun Zheping let him leave so easily? He chased after him and hacked wildly. The advantage gained from the Crusader Judgment was quickly taken back. Although they were the ones with the healer, trading health wouldn't be a loss, but the problem was that their healer was about to be unable to hold on.

Over there, Lord Grim and Windward Formation, a crossover in movement, under the cover of Lord Grim, Windward Formation actually cast a Gate of Death over there.

Anyone who wanted to step forward now had to think twice. The capture of the Gate of Death wasn't something that could be dealt with by casual action, at least not by these bottom-tier professional players from Xuanqi. So the proposition of saving the healer was now changed to interrupting the Gate of Death. And the caster of the Gate of Death was now under the cover of Lord Grim. The Xuanqi team all turned their firepower towards them.

Zhang Yiwei on the sidelines sighed again. He couldn't even get angry anymore, showing how disappointed he was. Being led by the nose by the opponent like this, the difference in tactical level between the two sides had completely despaired Zhang Yiwei. At this moment, he vaguely felt that even if Xingxin's lineup was unexpected, causing his tactical deployment to fall apart, and even if his tactical deployment was appropriate, but the opponent had Ye Xiu's on-the-spot command, while he, the coach, couldn't do anything on the sidelines, Xuanqi would inevitably be defeated.

He kept searching for loopholes in Xingxin, saying their healing level wasn't enough one moment and that Baozi was a newbie the next, but his Xuanqi's biggest weakness had already been firmly grasped by the opponent.

Coach...

The Xuanqi team, successful because of the coach, and defeated because of the coach. Because of the lack of relevant system coordination, the coach's role was too limited. The most prominent point was in the on-the-spot link. The coach's prior arrangements could fall through, or unexpected situations could arise due to changes in the situation. Normal teams could make timely adjustments and responses by the captain on the field, but what about Xuanqi? Relying on the on-the-spot responses of the players, the tactical level would immediately decline by several levels, and the final defeat was simply reasonable.

Zhang Yiwei, who had been standing anxiously on the sidelines, calmed down at this moment. A certain result, whether good or bad, would always make people feel more at ease. The Xuanqi team's Challenger League journey ended here.

Zhang Yiwei was filled with regret. If he hadn't thought too much, if he had scored one more point in the match with Team Choo, ensuring a qualifying spot first. Unfortunately, it was too late to say anything now. The Xuanqi team was eliminated...