Shen Huai knew this wasn’t the best way to split the lanes, but he was always too lazy to argue with others. Besides, he didn’t have much trouble dealing with the warrior segment of the match.
The 6V6 attack and defense mode borrowed from ancient Chinese traditional warfare. Players were automatically divided into attackers and defenders. The attackers’ victory condition was to break through the city gates and destroy the flag inside the city, while the defenders’ task was to destroy the enemy’s barracks.
In the attack and defense battle, each time you killed an enemy player, you would gain attribute bonuses. Besides that, there was another crucial point—minion farming.
At the 3-minute mark in the game, both sides would automatically send out soldiers. The team that first killed 100 soldiers would gain an attack or defense vehicle. These vehicles had very high damage, and the team that first gained the vehicle’s assistance would often have a significant advantage. This made minion farming a must-learn skill for team battle players.
Shen Huai quickly exited the city gates, hid in the bushes, and had Yuxue Feifei jump onto a tree.
The soldiers from both sides clashed, with the enemy being a Gunner and Holy Light.
The ADC (referring to long-range physical professions) and healer combo was very common in professional arenas. They were hard to kill, and if you wanted to develop peacefully, you had to endure the Gunner’s long-range harassment, making them very difficult to deal with.
The Gunner had the highest attack speed among the Gunner branches, mainly relying on skill-enhanced normal attacks to deal damage. Their sustained output ability was very strong, making them excellent in 6v6 team battles.
Although Yuxue Feifei was also a Gunner, she was a Sniper in the Gunner branch. Her characteristic was an extremely long range, especially in prone sniping mode, where her maximum range could reach 2000 meters, almost two-thirds of the siege mode map. However, her attack speed was very slow, and skill release required aiming and charging. Each bullet fired needed to be chambered, making the operation quite cumbersome.
This was also why there were very few top snipers. Compared to the explosive output of mid-to-long-range Gunners and the all-around functionality of summoning Mechanics, Snipers were considered the least rhythmic output profession.
But if you could shoot with unerring accuracy like Song Xueyang, that was a different story.
The enemy Gunner guessed their professions through the personnel distribution on other lanes and typed a line.
[All] [Nanke Yimeng]: “GG! Free win!”
This sentence was obviously meant for Shen Huai. There were many who played Snipers, but few played well. Coupled with the fact that there were hardly any masters in the almost extinct Assassin profession, it indeed looked like they were giving the opponent a free win.
The Gunner was very confident, especially after knowing that he was facing a Sniper and an Assassin. He boldly entered the bushes with the healer.
In the game, the outcome often hinged on the first few tenths of a second. Shen Huai attacked the moment the Gunner entered the bushes.
His attack speed was extremely fast. The Gunner was a beat slow in reacting, and when he wanted to counterattack, he found that the Assassin had already triggered a four-hit combo and vanished from sight!
The Gunner was a bit dumbfounded. He felt like he had just entered the bushes for a second, so how could this Assassin have hit a four-hit combo so quickly? You should know that players who could hit an Assassin combo effect were already few and far between, let alone at such a fast speed.
The invisibility effect triggered by the Shadow Mark only lasted ten seconds. Shen Huai marked the enemy Holy Light with his mouse, and Song Xueyang immediately understood and fired a shot at the healer.
The black-clad Assassin broke stealth, and a gunshot rang out. The Holy Light was so startled that he almost threw his mouse, but he quickly realized he hadn’t lost any health.
Song Xueyang’s shot not only missed but also exposed their positions. The Holy Light quickly retreated, “The Sniper is in the tree!”
The Gunner aimed at the tree branch and used an Elastic Shot to knock Song Xueyang back, then activated “Rapid Fire” for a barrage of attacks.
The Gunner’s attack speed was terrifying, especially after activating Rapid Fire, where he could shoot four or five bullets per second. Song Xueyang, who fell from the tree, immediately lost a third of his health.
Shen Huai flashed in front of Song Xueyang, charging straight at the Gunner.
He had his reasons for doing this. First, he could block the enemy’s attacks for Song Xueyang. Secondly, seeing an Assassin charging head-on, the enemy Gunner would definitely not dare to continue standing and outputting. Moreover, Shen Huai’s damage increased as his health decreased, so taking this damage was a win-win.
Sure enough, the Gunner cursed “idiot” in his heart when he saw the Assassin charging head-on, but he really couldn’t do anything about it and had to turn and run.
As he ran, he turned his back to Shen Huai, which was exactly what Shen Huai wanted.
He immediately initiated a Shadow Mark, quickly executing a combo of Backstab-Heartstab-Assassinate-Dark Sword, triggering the combo effect of invisibility and retreating immediately.
The Gunner’s Elastic Shot was just off cooldown, and he was planning to counter-control Shen Huai, only to find that the opponent had already vanished into thin air, leaving him with a handful of skills that he couldn’t use.
At this moment, a Qi Master suddenly rushed over.
Xifeng was very straightforward, charging directly from the front, using a control skill Dragon and Tiger Capture, followed by a Thunder Palm to knock the Holy Light into the air. But just as he used Thunder Palm, the Holy Light quickly applied a damage transfer skill to himself. Whether Xifeng didn’t react in time or was just used to pressing combos too quickly, he ended up hitting three Qi Cannons, leaving himself with low health.
The Gunner, who was worried about having nowhere to use his skills, saw the enemy Qi Master charging over alone and even using a control skill on the Holy Light. He happily used an Elastic Shot to knock Xifeng back against the wall, triggering a stun state, and then activated “Rapid Fire” for a barrage of attacks.
Xifeng’s health plummeted. After breaking free from the control state, he turned to run, only to be taken down by the Gunner’s ultimate “Bullet Storm.”
Song Xueyang and Shen Huai both had world-class awareness, and even in the face of serious teammate mistakes, they knew how to salvage the situation.
The enemy healer was controlled, and the enemy output was still focusing on our Qi Master. Without thinking, Shen Huai charged at the healer, using a precise Soul Capture to stun him, quickly following up with a four-hit combo under the Death Mark, while Song Xueyang aimed a sniper shot at the healer.
Nanke Yimeng killed Xifeng, First Blood!
Muwan City killed Sishui Nianhua!
After killing the Qi Master, the dual-wielding Gunner turned around to find that their healer was also dead and decided to retreat, but Shen Huai didn’t give her the chance.
A lone, low-health Gunner was practically a free kill. Shen Huai instantly stepped forward, dealing high critical damage from behind, and Song Xueyang followed up with two normal attacks. The poor Gunner was finally taken down by Shen Huai’s Blade Dance.
Muwan City killed Nanke Yimeng! Double kill!
It was supposed to be an exhilarating message, but the Qi Master in the team wasn’t happy.
“What do you mean? I went in, and you didn’t. I died, and then you went in. Are you selling me out? Got a problem with me?”
Shen Huai ignored him, quickly clearing the wave of soldiers and returning to the city to replenish his health.
Xifeng was even angrier, “Trash Assassin, no awareness at all. No wonder you’ve played over 80 matches and still have less than a 50% win rate.”
In “City of Despair,” after entering the game, you could check the battle records of teammates and enemies, including arena matches and win rates.
The original owner of Shen Huai’s account wasn’t good at PK, so the win rate was like this when he bought it. Today was his first arena match.
“Hurry up and surrender. Why play Assassin? This trash profession can’t win!”
Shen Huai hated it when people criticized professions, so he quickly typed two words, “Shut up!”
Xifeng was the type who got more excited the more others talked back. Before, when Shen Huai didn’t say anything, he found it boring. Now, he directly cursed a string of censored words, “I***, really giving you face, what are you? You guys play, I’m going to feed.”
Not long after he said this, Tianya typed “WTF” in the team chat, and the system notified that Xifeng was killed by Shifenmiao, and Tianya was killed by Shifenmiao.
It turned out that while Xifeng was typing, he actively charged at the enemy Elementalist’s face, got hit by the enemy Sorcerer’s Silence, and the Elementalist released the skill “Thunder Spirit Spell,” a skill with very high single-target damage. This skill also had the characteristic of bouncing to other nearby enemy units.
Xifeng got hit by the Thunder Spirit Spell and ran towards Haixing with acceleration. Haixing, being a short-legged Mage, couldn’t outrun him and got hit by the bouncing damage of the Thunder Spirit Spell, losing half his health. The enemy Elementalist wasn’t a rookie either, using a group attack of Thunderous Roar on both of them. Xifeng was close, and Haixing lost a lot of health from the thunder damage bounce.
Finally, Xifeng ran to the bridge and used a Qi Shock to collapse the bridge. Haixing, who was still on the bridge, fell into the water. The water state increased the damage of thunder spells, and the Mage immediately activated the ultimate Five Thunders!
Five cyan thunderbolts descended from the sky with a “boom boom boom boom boom,” directly killing Haixing, and the instigator Xifeng wasn’t spared either, both giving away kills.
You could say Haixing was completely screwed over by Xifeng.
Seeing Haixing dead, Xifeng typed in the team chat to taunt, “Hehe, trash.”
Who was Haixing? He was the most hot-tempered and fierce rocket launcher of the Maple Moon team. If it weren’t for Cang Yu being in the team, he would have cursed long ago. Now, not only was he screwed over, but he was also taunted, and he couldn’t hold back anymore.
“Your mom blew up! Who are you calling trash? You’re so bad, yet you talk so much!”
Finally finding someone to curse at, Xifeng felt full of energy!
“Calling you trash! You little trash, if you’re not convinced, come out and solo! Whoever loses is the son!”
“Good son, call me dad first, and I’ll solo with you!”
“Hehe, just say you’re scared.”
Haixing was so angry he took off his headphones and slammed them on the table. But no matter how angry he was, he still had some sense, knowing that as a professional player, soloing with a random player wasn’t allowed, and if it got out, people would talk. So he took a deep breath, put on his headphones, and continued the verbal battle.
Xifeng: “A bunch of trash, you guys play slowly, I’m going to keep feeding.”
As he spoke, he started typing on the public chat.
[All] [Xifeng]: “It’s impossible to play with such noob teammates. They’re bad but won’t let others say it. I don’t know where they get their confidence.”
[All] [Tianya]: “Aren’t you going to feed? What are you babbling about? Hurry up and feed, dad will carry you to win!”
[All] [Xifeng]: “You think you can carry your dad to win? No need, dad doesn’t want to win.”
[All] [Tianya]: “Hurry up and feed, not feeding makes you a grandson!”
During their conversation, Xifeng gave away two more kills, and the ones who got these kills were the enemy’s output Elementalist! With four kills, the Elementalist directly chose a buff that increased damage by 20%. A cyan thunderbolt came down, and the two of them were almost dead before they even left the city gates.
Shen Huai knew that if this continued, once the Elementalist reached the 50% attack bonus cap, even he wouldn’t be able to turn the tide. So he typed to Yuxue Feifei, “Go to the main gate.”
Then, ignoring the Gunner and healer at the west gate, he activated invisibility and headed for the main gate.
Haixing was burning with anger, no longer caring about pretending to be a noob. He used an Ice Ball at a tricky angle to freeze the Mage, then activated the area skill Ice Storm. The enemy Sorcerer wanted to control him but found that Haixing’s Ice Storm skill just happened to trap him in a dead corner. To get past, he had to take the skill.
Halfway through, he realized he was losing too much health and wanted to retreat, only to be blocked by an Ice Wall. He had no choice but to use a movement skill to pass through the wall, but Haixing seemed to have predicted his landing point. Almost simultaneously, a high-damage Blizzard mercilessly hit him in the face. The Sorcerer’s movement skill had just been used, and he could only watch as his character died with a sliver of health in the Blizzard.
The Sorcerer was really suffering. This Ice Mage was just acting like a noob, and now he was like he was on steroids. This must be a player switch, right? The playstyle was too different!