In the end, I still lost!
Lin Jingyan sighed as he walked out from the player booth .
Although it was a pity, he didn't feel upset . Losing to Fang Rui was an acceptable outcome .
After all, he was in his declining years, while Fang Rui was at his peak .
In terms of getting rid of the past, it had been two years, yet he still could not forget his Demon Subduer . As for Fang Rui? He had even switched classes . Fang Rui had evidently been more decisive than him in this matter .
I really have turned old, while Fang Rui has a long road ahead of him left!
Looking towards Happy's seats on the other side, Lin Jingyan felt it was a pity that this was a group arena . Fang Rui was not allowed to leave his seat until his role was over . Lin Jingyan wanted to use this opportunity to give Fang Rui his well wishes; he didn't know if the two of them would ever have another chance to face against each other again on this stage .
After gazing in silence at that side for awhile, Lin Jingyan walked down from the stage . His well wishes could only remain in his heart .
Good luck, my friend!
With the end of this fight, the group arena was at the halfway mark . Happy had three players left, including Fang Rui . Tyranny only had two players left .
As Lin Jingyan walked down from the stage, Tyranny's fourth player stood up .
Tyranny's Song Qiying, a Striker rookie . He had joined this season, steadily maturing . It seemed that he would be Desert Smoke's successor . And in this important playoffs stage, Tyranny had the confidence to send him onto the stage . Tyranny was not Happy . They had other options besides a rookie . Even so, Song Qiying had been fielded as Tyranny's important fourth player in the group arena; the team's intent to raise him could clearly be seen .
However, placing him in this position didn't mean he was the anchor of this group arena . From a certain perspective, fielding him as the fourth player showed Tyranny's attitude towards this group arena .
"Tyranny's fourth player is Song Qiying! It seems that Tyranny had no plans of ending this group arena with their fourth player!" Pan Lin immediately started to analyze this arrangement . In the playoffs, the fourth player was oftentimes the team's core player, trying to win the group arena 4-5 to take a two point lead into the team competition . The more aggressive teams would even place their core player third to take a three point lead .
But Tyranny had placed Song Qiying fourth . It was likely that their fifth player would be their core, captain Han Wenqing . That would be the most appropriate arrangement .
Li Yibo had come from Tyranny, and Tyranny's captain and core player had been Han Wenqing for all ten years . The team's captain hadn't changed, and the team's core hadn't changed . As a result, it was hard for the team's temperament to change . Even though Li Yibo had left Tyranny many years ago, he still had a good grasp of the team . But today, Han Wenqing avoided Ye Xiu and didn't even take the fourth position, instead fielding Song Qiying .
The more familiar one was with the team, the more strange it felt encountering something unexpected . When Pan Lin raised the discussion, Li Yibo stared blankly for a long time before replying: "Away teams will often play more conservatively!"
It was a standard response . Li Yibo had lost confidence in analyzing Tyranny as former Tyranny player . The Tyranny today felt too different .
"Well, let's see how Song Qiying performs! It's also quite a coincidental matchup . When Song Qiying first appeared this season, he had to face Happy's Fang Rui," Pan Lin said, "But . . . Fang Rui shouldn't last much longer . "
It could be said that Fang Rui had achieved a 1v2 . He took down Zhang Jiale's Dazzling Hundred Blossoms, using quite a bit of mana . After that, even though he won against Lin Jingyan, it had been a bloody fight . Boundless Sea only had 14% of his health and 11% of his mana left . He was an arrow at the end of his flight .
"Winning for Fang Rui will be difficult, but with Fang Rui's methods, if Song Qiying is too careless, he'll suffer the consequences," Li Yibo said .
"It's unlikely that he'll be careless, no?" Pan Lin chuckled .
Li Yibo laughed as well .
The current Song Qiying was no longer the same Song Qiying as when he first fought Fang Rui . It had been an entire season . As one of the favorites to win the title Best Rookie, Song Qiying had received much attention . Although he looked to be Desert Smoke's successor, his personality was quite similar to Tyranny's vice captain, Zhang Xinjie . He was careful and meticulous . He was young, but with his personality, how could he be careless?
The match began as the two commentators discussed this issue . Song Qiying met their expectations . The match had just started, and his attitude towards the upcoming fight could already be seen .
As he traveled, it didn't matter whether the battle would reach these areas, he would still carefully observe them . His line of sight constantly shifted left and right .
However, the route he chose was still the middle road . The viewers had given up on seeing a battle in water or a forest in this map because the manor at the center of the map had indoor rooms, which meant protection to a certain extent . Taking a roundabout route towards the manor had no meaning in this map, which was why neither of the two teams made that sort of choice .
One player towards the front of the manor, one player towards the back of the manor . The two players met again in the manor for the seventh time .
For someone with a cautious and strict personality like Zhang Xinjie, Song Qiying had probably thought out his plan for this fight before he even got onto the stage . When Song Qiying made it to the back of the manor, he didn't go through the back door nor did he jump onto the roof . Instead, he adeptly searched for a window and went in .
The two teams had fought several rounds all inside the manor . Tyranny had a good idea of the structure of the manor by now .
When he jumped through the window, he immediately turned up, left, right, checking his surroundings . Song Qiying quickly grasped his present situation .
He didn't see Boundless Sea . Afterwards, it looked like he already knew what to do as River Sunset walked towards the right corridor . When he reached the second door along the corridor, he went in . He moved step by step as if he were following steps in a guide .
Fang Rui's Boundless Sea was inside the manor too . He didn't have much health nor mana, how could he openly welcome his opponent? Last round, he took a roundabout route to the back of the manor, but he was too in harmony with Lin Jingyan . He didn't want to use the same method twice though, so he had Boundless Sea climb onto the walls of the manor . He didn't climb to the roof, instead climbing onto a balcony and entering the manor through the second floor .
The second floor was much more intact than the first floor . Only two battles had taken place here . Ye Xiu and Qin Muyun had fought here . Ye Xiu had launched a surprise attack onto Zhang Jiale here too, but the aftermath of it was just a hole in the floor .
Fang Rui had Boundless Sea move towards that hole . When he reached the hole, he took a look at the surroundings . After picking a spot, his Boundless Sea crouched down .
Crouch . . .
Guarding a tree-stump and waiting for rabbits . In vast open maps, this sort of ambush tactic rarely worked . It only had value if you knew the target's pathing . But Fang Rui hadn't done any investigation, yet he still went straight for this hole and crouched there . . .
Everyone started wondering when a system notification would come .
If someone just sat there patiently not caring if the opponent actually came or not, how long would the match take? As a result, the Glory had rules to prevent it . The referee could judge according to the circumstances whether the player was complying with the rules and then interfere if necessary .
Of course, there needed to be some concrete rules too . The referee couldn't just start interfering as soon as a character hid behind a corner . The referee could interfere after no target was seen for 18 seconds .
The players familiar with Glory's rules started helping Fang Rui count .
They were familiar with the rules . How could the master of playing dirty Fang Rui not be either? When it became 17 seconds, Boundless Sea switched postures .
Glory's referees weren't machines . This sort of clever loophole in the rules could be denied based on their own subjective views . However, it looked like the referee was okay with Fang Rui's cleverness and didn't interfere after 18 seconds .
Boos started coming from the crowd, from Tyranny's fans . Tyranny's loyal fans were familiar with the rules . They started booing at the referee because they felt that the referee was being biased towards the home team .
The referee ignored them because the boos were quickly suppressed by the applause . Tyranny's fans wouldn't be able to affect a referee's decision . This was Happy's home stadium .
"Fang Rui only switched postures . His goal hasn't changed . Isn't this violating the 18 second rule for sitting and waiting?" Pan Lin called the referee's decision into question .
"The referee can make decisions based on his own discretion . First, the two characters are inside the manor, greatly reducing the search area and increasing the chances that Fang Rui's patience will pay off . Second, Song Qiying's River Sunset is very close by . It's very likely that he'll walk into Fang Rui's range . My guess is that the referee acknowledged the increased success rate, so he judged that it was fair and didn't interfere . If Song Qiying chooses to break away from his current route, my guess is that the referee will probably interfere," Li Yibo was quite knowledgeable about the referee's thought process .
"I see . . . but from a certain perspective, by not interfering, isn't the referee leaking information to the player?" Pan Lin said .
Li Yibo stared blankly . When he looked at the match again, Boundless Sea was no longer crouching, but standing up . Qi was gathering in his palms . However, he couldn't actually see any traces of River Sunset, yet he was already preparing his ambush as if he knew River Sunset was coming .
Silly referee, his decision seemed very rational, based on the circumstances of the match, but Fang Rui exploited it .
This master of playing dirty took advantage of the rules . Seeing that the referee didn't interfere, he judged that Song Qiying must be nearing his ambush location .
Chapter end
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