Chapter 22

Although Zhou Xian and the others were somewhat worried about Lai Yiming, when the match began, they found that the opponent, Changsheng Club, had also sent out a warrior, and it was even a brute force warrior.

"…The opponent from Changsheng Club is also a warrior, and a brute force warrior at that. In the previous matches, we have seen that the tactics of the Changsheng Club branch are quite unconventional. It’s unknown how Longmu Club will respond."

The host's voice echoed.

At this moment, Xu Tianyun came to Zhou Xian's side: "Old Zhou, this warrior is a luck-based fighter. Could it be that the opponent also has the idea of taking on two at once?"

"It seems so, but we don’t know how Old Lai will respond."

The brute force warrior's fighting style was quite 'wild.' Once he got an opportunity, he would unleash a full set of powerful moves and combos, completely relying on luck. To put it in one sentence, it was the opportunist strategy of 'beating the master with a flurry of punches.'

"It’s fine, as long as Old Lai performs steadily, luck-based strategies won’t be much of a threat." Tao Shan waved his hand from the side.

"Yeah, that’s right. Old Lai’s fighting style… What the hell is going on?!"

In the scene, Lai Yiming had equipped a shield. Xu Tianyun almost shouted out loud when he saw this.

"Old Lai isn’t a shield warrior, why does he need a shield?!"

Warriors have many classifications, such as brute force warriors and berserkers. The shield, as an equipment, is chosen by shield warriors, but shield warriors usually only appear in dungeons. Few competitive players choose shield warriors, just like how pure healer Taoists are rarely seen in matches because their role in competitive mode is limited.

"Don’t rush, let’s watch slowly. Old Lai must have his reasons for doing this." Zhou Xian knew that Lai Yiming must have his own considerations.

It’s not that berserkers can’t equip shields; all warriors can choose shields as their equipment. Lai Yiming’s decision to equip a shield during the match clearly had its own considerations.

"Yeah, it seems Old Lai is preparing a strategy specifically for this warrior."

Just as they were talking, the first match was entering the final countdown.

However, the moment the match started, the members of Longmu Club almost fell off their seats.

—Lai Yiming actually charged out just like the brute force warrior from the opposite side!

The two immediately engaged in close combat, each unleashing a set of skills on the other. Their fighting methods looked identical at a glance!

"Is Old Lai also going for the luck-based strategy?"

Xu Tianyun was dumbfounded.

"Can’t you see? Pay attention to the health bars." Zhang Taihao seemed to be annoyed and said a sentence.

Health bars?

Zhou Xian immediately noticed the health bars above their heads.

Both of their moves were similar, looking like a direct confrontation. But after paying attention to the health bars, Zhou Xian realized Lai Yiming’s intention.

"So that’s why he used the shield!"

In direct confrontation, the shield could play its maximum role. Although the shield would affect attack power, the benefits of the shield far outweighed the loss of a bit of attack.

"Because the opponent is using a wild, luck-based strategy, the shield can gain significant benefits at this moment!"

If the opponent used guerrilla tactics, the shield’s role would be much smaller. But in this close combat, both sides had limited space to maneuver, and the terrain restrictions made it impossible for the opponent to quickly create distance. Lai Yiming could directly use his attacks to block the opponent’s movements, thus engaging in a direct confrontation.

The brute force warrior from the opposite side probably didn’t expect Lai Yiming to charge out just like him, which likely turned the tide of the battle.

This battle, which looked like a chaotic fight by a beginner, actually contained Lai Yiming’s understanding of the opponent’s fighting style, control of the terrain, and judgment of the situation.

This was definitely not a method that ordinary people could think of.

In the end, when Lai Yiming was left with one-third of his health, the opponent was finally defeated.

In every match, the winner would recover one-fifth of their health. Lai Yiming, who had only one-third of his health left, recovered to more than half after the match.

At this moment, Changsheng Club was preparing their second player, a summoner who could control two lines.

"Another trouble." Xu Tianyun looked at Changsheng Club, and Huang Yingyue seemed to feel the gazes of the crowd, then looked back at the members of Longmu Club.

At this moment, Lai Yiming didn’t plan to rest. He simply put away the shield, chose the terrain, and started the match.

"Lava terrain?"

Lai Yiming chose lava terrain, where the landing spots were very few, and most of the area was covered by lava. Standing on it would deduct health, making it a very troublesome place.

"Why did he choose such terrain? Old Lai only has half health now, this terrain is not in his favor!" Tao Shan couldn’t help but worry when he saw this.

Although so, with the experience from the first match, they couldn’t say much about Lai Yiming’s actions.

The match started quickly.

The summoner immediately summoned a divine beast and two skeletons upon entering the arena.

The summoner then immediately tried to close the distance, maintaining a triangular formation with his three pets to suppress the opponent.

This summoner fully utilized the Taoist’s ability to chip away at health. Although his chipping skills were not of high level, they were very effective at this moment because Lai Yiming only had half health.

However, Lai Yiming was not in a hurry. He just kept circling around the arena, dodging the opponent.

As they chased and fled, more than a minute passed. Although both occasionally attacked, the pace of the battle was very slow.

At this moment, the summoner seemed to realize something and started using long-range attacks like Soul Talisman to chip away at Lai Yiming’s health. Although the damage was low, it quickly wore down Lai Yiming’s health.

Zhou Xian and the others watched this situation and secretly worried for Lai Yiming. At this moment, Lai Yiming only had one-third of his health left, while the summoner still had four-fifths.

Suddenly, Lai Yiming finally made his move.

He immediately used the Blazing Sword technique.

Seeing Lai Yiming use this powerful move, the summoner immediately had his pets block the front.

However, after using the Blazing Sword technique, Lai Yiming didn’t immediately charge forward. Instead, he moved sideways, evading the opponent’s pursuit while looking for a suitable angle.

The summoner knew Lai Yiming was preparing a double Blazing Sword. How could he let Lai Yiming succeed? He immediately had his divine beast and two skeletons block Lai Yiming, preventing his move from hitting.

At this moment, Lai Yiming’s double Blazing Sword was ready, but the area between him and the summoner was blocked by the three summoned pets!

But Lai Yiming didn’t advance; instead, he retreated and looked at the skeletons.

The summoner saw this as an opportunity and decided to sacrifice a skeleton to take out Lai Yiming!

However, something unexpected happened!

Lai Yiming’s single strike killed one skeleton, and without slowing down, he continued his flaming sword attack, killing the second skeleton!

Lai Yiming had killed both skeletons with a single strike!

"This—!"

The summoner’s two skeletons were killed by Lai Yiming, and he was clearly flustered. He immediately retreated, trying to create distance and summon again.

But how could Lai Yiming let him get away? He immediately pursued, preventing the summoner from escaping. However, the summoner still had the divine beast to protect him, so Lai Yiming couldn’t easily defeat him.

"That was the Blazing Sword technique, right? But how could a double Blazing Sword really take out two at once?" Tao Shan was incredulous.

The high-level skill Blazing Sword technique of warriors has extremely strong damage but a long cooldown.

If you control yourself from using the first Blazing Sword technique and wait for the cooldown to end, then use it again, it’s called a double Blazing Sword.

Lai Yiming had just used this move.

However, no one expected that Lai Yiming’s target was not the summoner but his summoned pets!

Not only that, although it was just a double Blazing Sword, Lai Yiming’s move cleared both skeletons in one go!

"Yeah, when did the Blazing Sword technique become an area attack?" Zhou Xian couldn’t help but mutter.

"Although it’s called a double Blazing Sword, there are two damage judgments." Zhang Taihao looked at the three ignorant guys sitting next to him with disdain.

"Uh, so that’s how it is…"

Zhou Xian understood.

Although the "double Blazing Sword" is a powerful Blazing Sword technique, it actually involves two damage judgments. Lai Yiming killed one skeleton with the first damage judgment, and the second Blazing Sword naturally didn’t need to be used. At this moment, Lai Yiming slashed the second skeleton, killing it.

Although Lai Yiming was left with less than one-third of his health, after losing two skeletons, the pressure from the summoner on Lai Yiming was greatly reduced, and the situation on the battlefield was immediately reversed!

"But Lai Yiming’s Blazing Sword technique isn’t that high in level, how could he instantly kill the skeletons?" Tao Shan was puzzled.

"Terrain! It’s the terrain! The lava terrain. The summoner has four targets, and it’s easy to be burned by the flames in this terrain. Lai Yiming killing the skeletons with low health isn’t surprising." Xu Tianyun spoke, as he was also a summoner and knew a bit about this.

At this moment, Lai Yiming was unstoppable, using a set of sword techniques to reduce the summoner’s health by half.

But at this moment, the summoner finally adjusted and immediately used his Mind Summoning technique to have the divine beast block Lai Yiming, then used dual-line control to attack Lai Yiming from both sides.

Lai Yiming took this opportunity to use a zigzag movement to create distance from the opponent.

"Amazing, he turned the disadvantage into an advantage so quickly!"

The audience was also amazed by Lai Yiming’s movements and techniques.

"But if he creates distance, what if the summoner just summons the skeletons again?" someone asked.

Sure enough, at this moment, the summoner was preparing to summon skeletons.

But at this moment, the summoner’s face suddenly changed.

"Mana!" Zhou Xian immediately exclaimed when he saw the summoner’s actions.

While chasing Lai Yiming, the summoner had been using Soul Talisman and other chipping skills. At this moment, he suddenly realized he didn’t have enough mana to use the enhanced summoning!

Summoning a skeleton itself doesn’t consume much mana, but summoning two skeletons requires several times more mana. The summoner wanted to summon two skeletons, but his mana recovery speed couldn’t support it!

The summoner immediately changed his strategy and prepared to summon one skeleton.

But just as he failed to summon, Lai Yiming charged forward again, using a charge to interrupt the summoning, then followed up with a combo on the summoner!

The summoner gritted his teeth and controlled the divine beast to continuously attack Lai Yiming. Both of their health bars were rapidly decreasing.

But in this situation, Lai Yiming would clearly die faster.

However, at this moment, Lai Yiming suddenly retreated, creating distance from the opponent.

The summoner, seeing the opportunity to escape, immediately used the skeleton summoning technique.

"Right in the center of the lava!?"

The summoner, just freed from Lai Yiming’s pursuit, found himself in the center of the lava pool and had to quickly try to escape.

On the other side, Lai Yiming’s Blazing Sword technique was off cooldown, and he used it again.

"I won’t let you succeed, I’ll finish you in one go!"

Although the summoner couldn’t use the "big move" to summon two skeletons, he still had mana. He immediately directed his skeleton and divine beast to attack Lai Yiming, then used Soul Talisman and Poison Spell to attack.

Lai Yiming kept retreating, almost to the edge of the map on the other side.

But at this moment, his double Blazing Sword was also ready.

"Blazing Sword technique!"

This wasn’t Lai Yiming hitting the summoner on the other side of the map, but he slashed the divine beast in one go. The divine beast, already burned by the lava, was instantly defeated by the powerful double Blazing Sword technique.

Then, Lai Yiming used a Wild Charge on the skeleton, knocking it away, and charged toward the summoner!

"He isolated the summoner!"

Xu Tianyun exclaimed.

The summoner’s strength mainly came from his pets, but Lai Yiming had isolated the summoner, completely negating his advantage!

Seeing Lai Yiming coming, the summoner had to retreat again.

But as he retreated, his expression worsened. Behind him was still lava!

The summoner gritted his teeth and used Mind Summoning again to summon the skeleton in front of him.

But just as he did, Lai Yiming used a range skill, Crescent Blade. It seemed Lai Yiming had anticipated the summoner would summon the skeleton in front of him, and the range skill directly hit both the skeleton and the summoner!

Then, Lai Yiming didn’t pursue but took a step back, creating distance again.

"Why did Old Lai give up such a good opportunity?" Tao Shan, seeing Lai Yiming about to win, was puzzled by his sudden retreat.

"Pay attention to the health bar. Old Lai only has a sliver of health left. He might die with just a scratch." Zhou Xian, seeing Lai Yiming’s nearly empty health bar, understood why he did this.

Because if Lai Yiming took another step forward, he would be in the lava, and he would likely die immediately.

The summoner was also very anxious and quickly tried to escape the lava.

The summoner’s health was also low, and he was secretly anxious because nearly one-third of his health had been worn down by the terrain. It wasn’t that his positioning was bad, but Lai Yiming’s attacks were continuously luring him into the lava terrain!

Knowing he couldn’t last long, the summoner immediately charged at Lai Yiming again and started bombing him with Soul Talisman.

Although the skill’s damage was low, Lai Yiming’s condition was clearly at its limit. Just two more talismans, and Lai Yiming would fail!

But just as he emerged from the lava, Lai Yiming’s "Judgment" blade glowed blue.

"It’s Thunder Sword!"

The Thunder Sword is the only magic attack skill of warriors, but although it’s a magic attack, it’s not magic, so it can’t be avoided by positioning or dodged. However, the skill has very low damage and high mana cost, so warriors usually don’t upgrade it.

But for the summoner, who was already out of health, this skill was fatal!

He quickly retreated and threw another Soul Talisman.

Lai Yiming decisively abandoned his prepared move and immediately retreated to dodge.

"Phew…"

The summoner, thinking he had dodged a bullet, was slightly relieved, but his health was continuously dropping because he was in the lava. Although he had a healing spell, it couldn’t replenish much.

He knew he couldn’t hold on, so he gritted his teeth and decided to go all out, placing the skeleton in front of him and preparing to charge out.

But just as he was about to step out of the lava, Lai Yiming walked up, used a Wild Charge on the skeleton, and then slashed at the summoner.

"Looking for death!"

After being hit, the summoner didn’t die. Seeing Lai Yiming with just a sliver of health, he swung his sword and hit Lai Yiming, reducing his health to zero.

Finally, he won!

But before the summoner could relax, his vision suddenly turned black