Chapter 16 Not Bad

"Not bad," Sun Xiang actually acted like a captain, offering encouragement to Qiu Fei as he returned to the bench. Qiu Fei smiled, returning to his seat without a word, his gaze fixed on嘉世 (Jiāshì) Team's player seats. On the field, there was no verbal exchange between them; everything was transformed into the operation of their characters—attack, defense, movement, evasion. In this match, Qiu Fei had given his all. Although he ultimately lost, there will always be wins and losses in a competition. This time he lost, but next time he would definitely win, no matter who the opponent was.

Sun Xiang encouraged his own player and then glanced at Team Xing Xin. Suddenly, he raised his voice, "It's a bit of a pity that you left a half-health Ye Qiu for me. Winning like this will make people say I'm taking advantage! Oh well, I guess I'll just have to finish this quickly!"

Chen Guo's nose was practically crooked with anger. If she had something handy, she would have thrown it. After shouting that, Sun Xiang strutted toward the player seats. Pan Lin and Li Yibo, in the television broadcast, began their commentary on the lineup of both sides.

"Sun Xiang is the third to fight. From this,嘉世 (Jiāshì) Team's strategic intention for the擂台赛 (lèitáisài -擂台 challenge) is very obvious: to end the battle within three rounds, or at least take three head points," Pan Lin said.

"Well, with the current new format, three head points provide a certain advantage in the team competition. Two head points is only a slight lead. As for entering the team competition with only one head point, it's practically meaningless. They must fight with all their strength in the team competition. As long as they lose, the opponent will have at least one head point. A draw leads to the extra match," Li Yibo said.

"Being able to guarantee not losing into overtime is at least a certain psychological advantage, right?" Pan Lin said.

"That kind of psychological advantage only arises with a substantial endgame," Li Yibo said.

"So, it is generally believed that in this format, the trump card player should fight in the fourth or third position.嘉世 (Jiāshì) Team has placed Sun Xiang in the third position, which is a fairly standard offensive arrangement. But based on the current situation, I think they could be even bolder and fight in the second position," Pan Lin said.

"I think 嘉世 (Jiāshì) Team still has some apprehension about Ye Xiu's strength. Against any other god-level player, they might be more aggressive, but they know Ye Xiu inside and out," Li Yibo said.

"But on the other hand, they also know Ye Xiu very well!" Pan Lin said.

"But the unfortunate thing is that Ye Xiu has now changed professions," Li Yibo said with a smile.

"Okay, Sun Xiang has now entered the player seat. Both characters are loading into the game, and the match is about to begin. The player fighting for 嘉世 (Jiāshì) Team is 嘉世 (Jiāshì) Team Captain Sun Xiang, with his character, 一叶之秋 (Yī Yè zhī Qiū - One Autumn Leaf)! And the player fighting for Team Xing Xin is former 嘉世 (Jiāshì) Team Captain Ye Qiu, now renamed Ye Xiu, the former operator of 一叶之秋 (Yī Yè zhī Qiū - One Autumn Leaf)." As Sun Xiang entered the player seat, the match entered the preparation phase, and Pan Lin began to excitedly introduce the match. From his wording, it was clear from what perspective the audience was anticipating this showdown. Sun Xiang's identity and the character he was using were clearly emphasized, while Ye Xiu's? The emphasis was on his past identity and the character he used to use. Xing Xin and 君莫笑 (Jūnmòxiào - Lord Grim), keywords that should have appeared in the player introduction, were not mentioned at all in this introduction of the confrontation.

"The match is entering the countdown, it's about to begin," Pan Lin muttered.

"This is a duel between 嘉世 (Jiāshì) Team's old and new captains! 一叶之秋 (Yī Yè zhī Qiū - One Autumn Leaf), the character that accompanied Ye Xiu for many years, is currently in Sun Xiang's hands, becoming the opponent that Ye Xiu must defeat today. I wonder what his mood is like now, facing this comrade-in-arms who is the most familiar to him, and perhaps the most intimate. How will he perform?" As if afraid that others wouldn't know where the highlight of this match was, Pan Lin carefully emphasized it again. At this moment, the match officially began.

Both characters appeared in the map simultaneously. Without any hesitation, Sun Xiang was already controlling 一叶之秋 (Yī Yè zhī Qiū - One Autumn Leaf) and rushed up arrogantly. He certainly disdained any tactical positioning. Being able to fight Ye Xiu on the official stage with 一叶之秋 (Yī Yè zhī Qiū - One Autumn Leaf), Sun Xiang originally thought there wouldn't be another chance. He was really a little regretful about that. He really wanted to celebrate his becoming the new master of 一叶之秋 (Yī Yè zhī Qiū - One Autumn Leaf) with a gorgeous victory, and the old master, Ye Xiu, was the best sacrifice in his mind.

He never thought that after a year and a half, he would actually be able to meet Ye Xiu on the field. Although this stage was a little small, the attention this match received was pretty good, especially the media hype, which made him feel that this was a very suitable opportunity to consecrate his banner.

However, due to the rules of the competition, it was impossible to give him and Ye Xiu a one-on-one battle. He could only follow the rules of the competition and look forward to meeting him. Now, he had finally waited for the opportunity to face him, but it was a bit of a pity that Ye Xiu had already had half his health knocked out by that kid Qiu Fei. This made Sun Xiang annoyed. If he could have been the second to fight, everything would have been perfect. But the team wanted to be cautious and insisted on placing him in the third position, and this time the boss, Tao Xuan, personally supervised the battle and agreed with this arrangement, so Sun Xiang couldn't object.

Now, winning was pretty safe, but his plan to perfectly establish Ye Xiu as his stepping stone had been completely disrupted. A half-health Ye Xiu, a victory without honor!

"Ye Xiu, where are you? Stop hiding, come out and fight." Sun Xiang controlled 一叶之秋 (Yī Yè zhī Qiū - One Autumn Leaf) to approach the center of the map. He looked and didn't see Ye Xiu's 君莫笑 (Jūnmòxiào - Lord Grim), so he immediately chatted with Ye Xiu in the public channel.

"Don't rush, let me heal up first," Ye Xiu replied.

Heal? Sun Xiang was slightly stunned. Little did he know that the audience was already booing. As soon as the match started, Ye Xiu's 君莫笑 (Jūnmòxiào - Lord Grim) didn't come forward at all. With the same sneakiness as his teammate Wei Chen, he hid in a corner. Then, he actually started healing himself.

Yes, healing. Even though the skills that a散人 (sǎnrén - unspecialized character) masters are all low-level skills below level 20, in order to let players feel the differences between the 24 professions when they first start playing, these low-level skills are also representative of their respective professions. The priest profession naturally has two recovery skills below level 20: Small Recovery Spell and Small Heal. One is a channeled heal and the other is an instant heal. Although the healing effect is not as good as mid-to-high-level skills, even level 75 priests will never abandon these two skills. Low-level skills also have advantages that high-level skills do not have. Small Recovery Spell has a faster channeling speed, and Small Heal has the shortest cooldown time.

In the professional arena, these advantages are very important. Especially during intense battles, you need skills that can be released quickly. If a Holy Word Heal is channeled slowly, the person who needs to be healed might already be dead.

At this time, Ye Xiu didn't use Small Heal. These instant healing skills have cooldown times, and they're not short. They're usually used to save someone in a critical moment. But channeled recovery spells are fine. They don't have cooldown times, so at this time, 君莫笑 (Jūnmòxiào - Lord Grim) channeled one after another. The white light of Small Recovery Spell never stopped on his body.

In addition to that, 君莫笑 (Jūnmòxiào - Lord Grim) also had Regeneration on him! He was a master of all 24 classes. Among the 24 classes, besides priests, there were also guardian angels who could heal! Regeneration was a low-level skill of the guardian angel class. As a status recovery skill, even priests envied it. It recovered health every three seconds, and at max level, it lasted for 18 seconds. At this time, 君莫笑 (Jūnmòxiào - Lord Grim)'s health was recovering every three seconds. Everyone couldn't tell what level his Regeneration skill was because he kept using it without stopping.

This scene, except for the furious 嘉世 (Jiāshì) Team fans, left everyone else speechless.

Bringing a healing skill to a one-on-one fight? It couldn't be said that this had never been seen before. The priest and guardian angel classes wouldn't participate in solo matches, but within the holy class, there were also two other classes: the knight and the exorcist. Low-level skills below level 20 were common to all classes of the same type, which meant that the knight and exorcist classes could also learn these healing skills.

So, bringing healing abilities and then fighting one-on-one would make someone invincible? Anyone with a bit of experience would know that it wasn't that simple. Knights and exorcists could learn a few low-level healing skills, but the healing effects were far different from priests and guardian angels. First, those two classes had specialized bonuses after job advancement. Second, there was also specialized healing equipment. Healing effects were listed separately from physical attack and magic attack as another attribute. If knights and exorcists wanted to equip healing abilities, they had to make some trade-offs. After these trade-offs, no one felt that their inherent healing abilities were unbalanced.

Therefore, it wasn't rare to see healing skills in one-on-one matches. However, it was rare and shocking to see someone like Ye Xiu hiding his character in a corner and constantly healing himself without any restraint. The audience was stunned.

Even Pan Lin and Li Yibo were speechless for a long time after seeing Ye Xiu's actions at the start.

What an exciting match this should have been! Look at how actively Sun Xiang was rushing! But Ye Xiu's actions from the start had led this match in a perverted direction.

"Ye Xiu's 君莫笑 (Jūnmòxiào - Lord Grim)… is currently healing himself, uh…" Pan Lin commentated, unable to find the passion he had before. He couldn't possibly excitedly shout, "Wow, this is really amazing! The great god hid on the side at the beginning to heal himself, chanting one after another! Recovery spells are never interrupted!" Pan Lin couldn't do it.

"Uh, he's healing…" Li Yibo's commentary was also quite pale at this time.

"The effect isn't as strong as a priest or guardian angel," Pan Lin said.

"That's natural, there's no job advancement bonus," Li Yibo said.

"He doesn't have any healing equipment either," Pan Lin said.

"It all depends on the healing effect brought by the attributes."

"I just don't know if his weapon has healing attributes."

The two chatted in a very uninspired way.

"But with this kind of healing, the mana consumption is too great, right? How will he fight next?" Pan Lin finally found a question worth questioning.

Before the words were finished, a blue light suddenly appeared on 君莫笑 (Jūnmòxiào - Lord Grim)'s body.

"This is?" Li Yibo was stunned, then saw that 君莫笑 (Jūnmòxiào - Lord Grim)'s mana was rapidly recovering.

"Hope… Prayer?" Pan Lin was dumbfounded.

"It's Hope Prayer…" Li Yibo felt like crying. It was really too difficult to commentate on a great god's match. I can never guess what you're going to do!