No holes!
Lord Grim had been trapped, but Ye Xiu's intuition told him that he could only evaluate Zhang Jiale's performance as such .
Ye Xiu had been around throughout Zhang Jiale's professional career . He had watched Hundred Blossom's Berserker and Spitfire rise to fame to Blood and Blossoms dominance in the Glory scene to Sun Zheping's retirement to Zhang Jiale's bitter walk alone . Ye Xiu had been there the entire time, crossing hands with Zhang Jiale at every step .
His thoughts were the same as Sun Zheping's: the current Zhang Jiale was the best that he had ever been because Zhang Jiale had re-found his footing . The years of potential that had been bottled up the entire time were finally being put on display .
Ye Xiu couldn't find any openings, but that didn't mean he could just keeping waiting for one to come .
Zhang Jiale wasn't letting out fireworks for Ye Xiu to enjoy . The bullets fired by Dazzling Hundred Blossoms might not be heavy, but all of them dealt damage . The space that Lord Grim could maneuver around in was getting smaller and smaller, and his injuries were getting heavier and heavier .
Charge!
Lord Grim's Myriad Manifestations Umbrella suddenly opened . It seemed like he was planning on tanking the hits to escape from this predicament, but how could Zhang Jiale not have considered such a simple method like tanking the hits with a shield? As soon as Zhang Jiale saw the umbrella open, he immediately responded .
A grenade was thrown at the edges of the umbrella's canvas . Then, with a bullet, the grenade was knocked over the umbrella, directly into Lord Grim's line of sight .
There was no time for Ye Xiu to react . The grenade exploded .
Remote Control Grenade .
It had less power than the low-level Impact Grenade, but the user could blow up the grenade manually, naturally making it much easier to set off the explosion at a precise timing . The grenade had leapt over the umbrella shield and exploded . Although the damage dealt was low, it had been a direct hit . The knockback sent Lord Grim sliding back .
With Lord Grim swaying from the blow, the umbrella shield no longer fully covered him . Zhang Jiale seized the openings and fired all sorts of bullets .
Boom boom boom!
Light and smoke intertwined, forming a dazzling picture of a hundred flowers blossoming .
Lord Grim had been swallowed by the brilliant light . All that could be seen was a blurry figure . Zhang Jiale didn't relax and continued to throw out attacks at Lord Grim up until even that blur could no longer be seen .
The attacks suddenly stopped .
Zhang Jiale realized that Lord Grim's health wasn't going down .
How is that possible?
There had been no place for him to dodge or block . Lord Grim had been cornered .
The artillery barrage stopped . The light dissipated . All that remained were remnant flames and smoke . In this enclosed space, the thick smoke would take awhile to disperse, but he was able to see what he needed to see . A hole had appeared in that corner of the room .
Zhang Jiale instantly understood what had transpired .
The walls were sturdy, but no indestructible . It just needed enough attacks . Ye Xiu had made a feint, baiting Zhang Jiale to launch a fierce counterattack . By borrowing the artillery barrage and the cover of the dazzling light, he broke through the sturdy wall and escaped .
Lord Grim had taken a considerable amount of damage to pull this off; only 19% of his health remained . However, in what seemed to be an inescapable position, Ye Xiu had been able to force an opening .
He really is hard to deal with!
Zhang Jiale couldn't remember just how many times he had thought this in the past .
Zhi!
A door from the other end opened .
The other side of the wall was the neighboring room . Ye Xiu acted decisively, immediately launching a counterattack . Zhang Jiale had Dazzling Hundred Blossoms turn towards that entrance and started attacking wildly . As soon as a figure could be seen, the light engulfed him . However, the figure appeared shorter than usual was knocked down a lot faster . More importantly, Lord Grim's health hadn't gone down .
Zhang Jiale realized that the situation wasn't good . He quickly turned back, but Lord Grim had already closed the distance . Lord Grim had dashed out from that broken hole . As for what had pushed open the door, it was a Goblin . The Goblin had distracted Zhang Jiale for just an instant .
But an instant was enough . Lord Grim had left behind a shadow as he came through the hole in the wall . He had used Shadow Clone Technique, his fastest movement option, to instantly close the distance .
Dazzling Hundred Blossoms was knocked into the air . The Myriad Manifestations Umbrella transformed in a blur as the Unspecialized Blitz began .
Blood splattered into the air .
Close combat resulted in this sort of bloody fight .
Dazzling Hundred Blossom's health slid downwards rapidly . He hadn't taken any damage previously, so everyone thought that Zhang Jiale would be able to end this match without losing much health, evening up the disadvantage left by Qin Muyun's defeat .
But in the end, he hadn't been able to take care of Ye Xiu in one wave .
19% . The remaining health on Lord Grim came back to bite him .
Would he be swept away by Lord Grim's combo?
Everyone started worrying for Zhang Jiale .
Ye Xiu's unspecialized had done this too many times in the regular season . Just one bite, and he would never let go .
Zhang Jiale obviously understood this point . Ye Xiu had undoubtedly been their main focus point in their research on Happy . He was an old rival that Team Tyranny was incomparably familiar with, but he just had to switch classes . It had truly been a headache for them .
A class change meant a change in playstyle . However, a person's experience, intuition, knowledge, habits, etc . wouldn't change .
Team Tyranny's Han Wenqin had fought with Ye Xiu for ten years .
Zhang Jiale and Lin Jinyan were the Alliance's second generation of players .
The players, who were most familiar with Ye Xiu and had fought against Ye Xiu the most times, were coincidentally all from Team Tyranny .
The complexity of the unspecialized class put them in a bind just the same as everyone else, but in terms of grasping Ye Xiu's thoughts, no one else had more of an advantage than them .
Time would take away things, but also leave them with things .
Take me out in one combo?
Zhang Jiale was the only one, apart from Ye Xiu, who had experienced four finals . No one had as much experience at the apex of Glory as much as these two had . Zhang Jiale had gotten second place all four times . The experience had tempered his heart even further .
He had experienced the greatest setback four times . It was just a single up-and-down in one small part of a match . For him, it was insignificant .
The second he had been launched into the air, he began resisting . While in the air, Dazzling Hundred Blossoms kept throwing down grenades as if Lord Grim was a piggy bank .
No one had expected Zhang Jiale to actually launch such a powerful counterattack from a disadvantaged airborne state . There were a few grenades that Ye Xiu had no choice but to deal with, but most of them couldn't be dealt with if he wanted to keep his offense going .
Grenades poured from the sky .
Amidst the blooming light, Lord Grim tenaciously moved .
This sort of powerful counterattack didn't force him back . To think that he would insist on continuing his attacks .
Everyone was astonished .
Tyranny's Han Wenqing, who had never known the word "retreat", had backed down in front of Ye Xiu today . But now, it was Ye Xiu who bravely stood his ground in this situation like Han Wenqing would .
A trade!
The pro players watching the match such as Yu Wenzhou, Huang Shaotian, Sun Zheping all saw through it .
Apart from the grenades that would disrupt his offense, Ye Xiu would do his best to dodge the grenades while dealing as much damage as possible to Dazzling Hundred Blossoms .
A trade was a standard group arena method .
What Ye Xiu seeked wasn't a victory this round, but to pave the road to victory for his next teammate .
"Isn't he just trying to make things easier for himself?" Huang Shaotian messaged Yu Wenzhou .
"Maybe . . . " Yu Wenzhou replied .
Some of the viewers watching were hoping to see Zhang Jiale break open the situation . Others were hoping to see Ye Xiu end the fight in one wave . However, the experts all knew that this round would end in a trade .
Finally, Lord Grim fell . Dazzling Hundred Blossoms had 61% of his health left .
Victory?
In the group arena, it was a bit difficult to say who truly won .
Ye Xiu had lost, but he had taken out 39% of his opponent's health, keeping Happy in the lead .
Zhang Jiale had won, but compared to the expectations towards him when he had cornered Lord Grim, the outcome was somewhat disappointing .
Pan Lin and Li Yibo usually gave a summary or a few comments after a round ended, but right now, the two were sidetracking the main topic .
This individual round seemed brilliant and straightforward . Everything had been directly observed by them, but just talking about those points made the two feel they weren't being thorough enough for some reason . What were they missing? The two were puzzled .
As Ye Xiu walked down from the stage, the crowd clapped in approval . This outcome was acceptable, especially that last comeback . It was a bit unfortunate that he wasn't able to take down Zhang Jiale in one wave, but facing these tyrants, hoping for a 1v2 was too much!
Who would Happy field next?
The audience applauded as they fixed their gaze on the big screen . They wanted to know who Happy's next player was .
Mo Fan!
The name appeared .
Mo Fan, known as the Godslayer, had a stable position in Happy's group arena line-up . And his style was recognized by many as very suitable for the group arena .
After his name appeared on the big screen, Mo Fan got up and headed towards the stage . Along the way, he walked past Ye Xiu, but none of them said anything . They just nodded to express "I see you" .
Pan Lin and Li yibo wasn't sure how to summarize the previous round, so they shifted the subject to the next round .
"The Godslayer facing the 61% health Zhang Jiale . " Pan Lin said thoughtfully . Though their starting health wasn't even, if Mo Fan won, another name would be added to the Godslayer's list of kills .
Chapter end
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