"Frozen? How? Is it Falling Ice?" Pan Lin cried out in surprise . Falling Ice was the skill Big Ice Spirits used to attack with . Currently, the camera was on the Deception which had ran the furthest . His form was enveloped in mist, blurry from Eight Note's point of view . Falling Ice? There was no hint of any Big Ice Spirit using that attack from the audience's omniscient view . The freeze effect from Falling Ice wasn't certain either . What sort of luck would you have to have in order to make sure that each hit was a freeze at such a crucial time?
What was it? As everyone mired in their bewilderment, the second Deception that charged turned into a block of ice with a pop!
Two? Everyone remained dumbstruck, and Mo Fan began to hesitate as well . The remaining Deceptions became uncertain . After spreading out, they weren't strong and were quickly destroyed by the spirits . Mo Fan paused, but knowing that there was no other choice, he had all the Deception clones make a run for it .
Pop pop pop pop… .
Miraculously, all the escaping Deceptions were turned into blocks of ice .
At the same time, three clones, clearly having left the range of Shadow Dance, shattered with the ice encasing them .
The shattered ice, along with the other two frozen Deceptions formed a circle . This circle wasn't some random circle . It had blocked Deception's escape and pulled away the heart of the Shadow Dance, causing the three clones to disappear at once .
"Ice Line!!!" Li Yibo suddenly realized, crying out his discovery .
Everyone who heard this immediately understood .
Ice Line, the Elementalist's Ice Line skill .
An Ice Line would be left wherever the ice elemental power touched . The Ice Line would form an enchanted area within one second, and afterwards, whoever touched the Ice Line would be frozen with a 100 percent chance . . .
The skill that Li Yuan had set into his Eight Note's staff was no longer Teleportation, but Ice Line . It was an Elementalist skill, but right now, Ice Line had turned into the key skill that would turn the tides . A skill set into the weapon having such a crucial effect was definitely more than worth its while!
With only two frozen Deceptions left, Eight Note's spirit army would easily surround them . Li Yuan clearly had a masterful grasp of the freeze time, replenishing his summons as he had the two Deceptions surrounded .
He didn't use this chance to summon any Spirit Kings . Perhaps it was because he didn't see the need, or maybe he thought that the opening created by summoning Spirit Kings would be too big for this situation .
When the two ice blocks cracked open and the two Deceptions charged out, the spirits immediately swarmed over .
The broadcast director, thinking that nothing significant would occur, had already switched the shot to a replay of Li Yuan's Eight Note using Ice Line . When Deception used the Substitution Technique to try and escape, his Eight Notes began to cast Ice Line . Everyone, including Mo Fan, had been focused on the army of spirits, not Eight Notes . This Summoner, that seemed useless in a direct battle, had become the key .
"Switch back! Switch back!!" But not two seconds into the replay, one of his colleagues cried wildly for him to switch back to the shot of the ongoing match .
"What?" The program director fumbled, realizing that they were probably missing a spectacular play from the other side .
Two seconds was enough for everything to change .
The camera switched back to the match .
Of the two Deceptions that came out of the ice, one had already disappeared while the other was on his way to disappearing . . .
Shadow Clone Technique!
Deception, who had just escaped from the ice, immediately used Shadow Clone Technique . This real body was, naturally, the one that attempted to escape, so the two clones were left behind . One immediately disappeared because it left the range of Shadow Dance . The other was instantly blasted into smithereens by the siege of spirits .
Deception's real body didn't escape so successfully .
After that false alarm, Li Yuan didn't relax from relief, instead raising his guard, watching out for such a possibility . This time, he had considered the Ninja's escaping ability when he swarmed the other with spirits .
The shadow clone was instantly destroyed, but his real body didn't manage to escape immediately either .
Lightning!
Falling Ice!
Under Li Yuan's personal direction, the light and ice element spirits immediately struck with their long ranged skills . The two attacks were both priority attacks, blocking Deception's escape route, especially the light element large spirits' Lightning . A row of Lightning striking down at once formed a wall of electricity .
Break through forcibly!
Mo Fan, with no other choice, made his choice resolutely . Without hesitation, Deception charged out straight through the Lightning . The Lightning struck, but Mo Fan was pretty lucky; the stun didn't activate . However, right after, a row of Falling Ice descended . His attack came right after the Lightning . Since Deception had charged right through the Lightning, he wouldn't be able to dodge this one… .
A chill enveloped him from head to toe . A 100 percent freeze? It didn't have that, but this strike had activated the 50 percent freeze . Deception could still move, but he had been slowed by 50 percent . . .
This dangerous situation wouldn't let him take his leaving . The swarm of spirits encircled Deception completely . It wasn't that there was no way out, but there was no chance given for escape . The escape skills of Ninjas had been considered when Li Yuan made these arrangements .
"I guess… that's it…"
Deception's health was about to hit zero, and Li Yibo finally made this conclusion .
Even under Li Yuan's careful, meticulously planned encirclement and direction, everyone watched with their hearts in their throats as Deception's health dwindled .
He didn't give up . He didn't give up until the end .
In the encirclement of spirits, Deception darted this way and that, trying to break out . He used all the tricks he had up his sleeve . Dart for an opening, killing his way through, open feints, sounding the east while heading west… As expected of an escape artist like Mo Fan, he had a plethora of tricks and schemes . Several times, he had charged out of the encirclement, but because he was unable to fully shake off the spirits, he didn't manage to fully escape .
Deception fell, but this match wasn't perfect . While he was over here trying to escape with everything he had, he had taken the time to suddenly throw a shuriken over at Eight Notes .
At that time, it was very crucial that he focused on blocking Deception's way with spirits . Li Yuan's judgement was very precise . If he had Eight Notes dodge and relaxed his grasp over the spirits, then Mo Fan would've gotten a chance . Thus, he didn't dodge the shuriken, and had Eight Notes take the damage . The damage wasn't much at all, and it was quite a shame, since it meant that this match wouldn't be a perfect . However, Li Yuan didn't bother pursuing this perfection, only wanting to continue the match steadily, and gaining a compliment from Pan Lin and Li Yibo .
This strike became the only damage Eight Notes had taken in the entire match, losing him 2 percent of his health .
The system didn't judge it as a perfect victory, but a loss of 2 percent of his health was probably equal to a perfect in the eyes of the audience . The value and advantage a perfect gave wouldn't be impacted any by this loss of 2 percent health .
The crowd erupted into cheering . Blue Rain had brilliantly made up a match after the two losses prior .
"Unfortunately, Mo Fan has lost this match, falling behind by a huge amount," Pan Lin said .
"This gap is only the result . If we really consider the actual progress of the match, then, while he hadn't managed to deal much damage, what sort of atmosphere surrounded this match? It was tense! Very tense . From this, it's clear that the two opponents were evenly-matched . Though the result is very one-sided, but against a Summoner, one successful ambush from Mo Fan could mean his victory," Li Yibo commented .
"That's true . Though Mo Fan lost, he performed well this match," Pan Lin agreed .
"Yes, and in a match of equal strength, what would become the deciding factor? The home game advantage! Li Yuan's victory was built primarily on his brilliant grasp and usage of his terrain . His playstyle and strategy was founded on this map, and his actually performance was flawless . A very spectacular battle indeed," Li Yibo said .
However, the audience in the venue clearly wouldn't be able to analyze things as objectively as those two .
Last round, Mo Fan had used a tree to squash their God Huang Shaotian, and then narrowly won against Li Yuan as well . A rookie accomplishing a 1v2, especially when one of the opponents was Huang Shaotian, was a huge blow to Blue Rain's morale . Today, his victory against Song Xiao had Blue Rain' fans even more displeased . Seeing such a brilliant counterattack from Li Yuan, it would be a waste if they didn't take the chance to unleash a wave of mockery .
Li Yuan was still in the player booth, so he couldn't hear the applause, so the Blue Rain fans' cheering didn't last too long . When Mo Fan walked out of the player booth and came offstage, mocking applause and jeers also arrived like a tidal wave .
A rookie player generally would have a hard time facing such a situation, especially when they lost an almost perfect match to their opponent in the group arena . That was burden for the entire team and put great pressure on them . However, Mo Fan remained emotionless, as if none of this had anything to do with him, as if he were a bystander, walking right back the way he came . His reaction, or lack thereof, had the audience soon losing interest .
To Mo Fan, the jeers weren't just because of the match . The ones guiding the fans in the audience stands were Blue Brook's higher ups, and scrap picker Deception had been a huge trouble to them . Some of them had even been scrap picked by Mo Fan before and never managed to get revenge .
Now that they had a chance for revenge, they would naturally put their all into guiding these jeers . Yet Mo Fan's reaction had them losing interest .
"Not bad," The jeers that filled the stadium didn't bother Happy's members . Ye Xiu stood and spoke to the returning Mo Fan . "You might not have dealt much damage, but you've at least depleted a lot of his mana!"
"Yeah," Mo Fan nodded and returned to his seat .
Chapter end
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