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Chapter 1397: Blue Rain’s God

Translator: Nomyummi  Editor: Nomyummi

Silence, complete silence.

Neither player knew what the other was doing. Even listening carefully, there wasn't a whisper to hint at the other's presence.

Only the omniscient audience knew that both of their characters were moving.

Lord Grim rolled twice after a Slide Kick, swiftly leaving his hiding spot for another. As for Huang Shaotian's Troubling Rain? As Ye Xiu expected, he had merely slowed and rolled into a crouch, carefully approaching where Lord Grim had been hiding before.

Without any hesitation, sword light flashed, cutting through Lord Grim's previous hiding place.

Whoosh!

Lord Grim had originally settled next to a meter high mud wall. Troubling Rain had attacked with a Piercing Form.

This skill had very high priority, and sword light shot into the mud wall, tearing through it like paper and exposing the upper half of the blade on this side.

A miss. Huang Shaotian made a swift judgement. He immediately had Troubling Rain tug his sword out, but Ye Xiu's Lord Grim had already flashed out from the other side, sending a Laser Rifle his way.

Lord Grim couldn't get that far with a Slide Kick and it barely took Laser Rifle a blink to arrive. However, Huang Shaotian was facing his way, so he could clearly see Lord Grim's actions. No matter what, he couldn't leave his sword behind though, so Troubling Rain fell into a crouch.

Boom!

Half the Laser Rifle smacked into the wall, taking off a small chunk, and the other half shot directly over the wall, brushing right over Troubling Rain's head.

Laser Rifle didn't have the same force that Piercing Form did, and Lord Grim's Laser Rifle was only rank one. Being able to take off a small chunk of the wall was good enough.

Fwip!

Troubling Rain had already yanked out his Silver weapon Ice Rain by now and was hiding behind the wall.

Slide Kick!

On Ye Xiu's side, Lord Grim saw Troubling Rain crouch after he released the Laser Rifle, so he resolutely charged out. However, this was when the audience once again saw an important opportunity on the big screen.

On the screen showing Huang Shaotian's screen, after Ice Rain was pulled out of the wall, his view immediately went towards the small hole that Ice Rain and made. The hole was too small, so it was impossible to see anything clearly, but the moving shadows were clear enough.

Apart from Troubling Rain, wasn't the only other thing that can move Ye Xiu's Lord Grim?

Lord Grim executed another silent Slide Kick, but this time, Huang Shaotian caught the movement through the tiny hole he had made.

They were very close. Huang Shaotian didn't hesitate. Troubling Rain rolled to a stand at once, rolling right off the meter tall wall. Ice Rain's deep blue sword light stabbed down towards the bottom of the wall, but on this side of the wall, Lord Grim, Slide Kicking over, had raised his Myriad Manifestations Umbrella. The tip opened up, revealing the dark gun muzzle. As the deep blue sword light came down, light flashed from the muzzle and a bullet shot out.

Two strikes, a little out of synch. For a moment, it was impossible to figure out who's attack had hit first. Blood splashed from Lord Grim's shoulder, while a bullet found its home in Troubling Rain's side as he rolled sideways across the wall.

Lord Grim's Slide Kick had yet to finish, but that was when he suddenly stopped. He was already pressed to the ground, but after that strike, he became even more intimate with the ground.

Falling Blossom Form! A Level 75 knockdown skill.

It was an excellent follow up from Troubling Rain, but at this time, Troubling Rain had already been thrown into the air.

Floating Bullet! A Level 1 knock-up skill.

One was a Blade Master high-level skill, the other was a Spitfire novice skill. In that moment, the two executed a trade. In terms of damage, Falling Blossoms Form was far stronger than Floating Bullet, but the final result was that one character was flat on the ground while the other flew into the air. It seemed like neither could do anything to the other in that moment.

However, it only looked like that.

Because Lord Grim wasn't Troubling Rain. He had ranged attacks.

Bang!

Lord Grim, still on the ground fired, another shot. From this perspective, the strike from Troubling Rain that pinned Lord Grim to the ground had given the latter to perfect angle to shoot from. If his Slide Kick had continued for another step or two, then it probably wouldn't be nearly as comfortable.

Another bullet flew.

Troubling Rain hadn't been tossed too high by the Floating Bullet. At this distance, for a ranged attack, it was far too close. At such a distance, the travel speed of their skills didn't even matter anymore, even if the skill Lord Grim was using was the relatively slow Stun Bullet.

Huang Shaotian adjusted Troubling Rain's position in the air, but in the end, he still failed to dodge this close ranged attack. His character froze in mid air, his adjustments futile. Three booms of cannonfire from down below, too close to dodge, not to mention that he was stunned right now, and three anti-tank missiles erupted against Troubling Rain one after the other. Flames and smoke bloomed in the sky, suspending Troubling Rain in mid air. By now, Lord Grim's knockdown debuff had worn off and a chain of bullets erupted from the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella's muzzle.

Gatling Gun! Ye Xiu attempted to continue juggling Troubling Rain in the air, and with Lord Grim back on his feet, he was free to chain even more attacks after closing in.

However, Ye Xiu's opponent was Huang Shaotian.

His character bore the title of Sword Saint, and his strength was recognized as one of the top in Glory.

As soon as the stun effect of the Stun Bullet passed, Troubling Rain moved.

Falling Light Blade!

Troubling Rain made himself plummet from the sky and Ye Xiu hurriedly adjusted Lord Grim's angle, bullets chasing after the Blade Master. Unfortunately, as soon as Troubling Rain readjusted his pose, he immediately switched to a different skill.

Guard!

Plink! Plink! Plink! Plink!

Silver weapon Ice Rain swept down horizontally in front of him, guarding against the hail of bullets. Bullets! It needn't be said what precise mechanics this required. However, Ye Xiu wasn't dead. After several bullets were blocked, he once again readjusted Lord Grim's angle. With a shift in sword light, his attack glanced away from Ice Rain's blade, but Ice Rain was already sweeping out, slicing a circle through the air.

Headwind Strike!

Troubling Rain's body spun like a drill, parallel to the ground, his sword stabbing through the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella's bullet rain, straight into Lord Grim.

Blood splattered, forming a circle in the air. Lord Grim's Gatling Gun stopped.

"Spectacular! Absolutely spectacular! As expected of Huang Shaotian! As expected of the Sword Saint!" Pan Lin cheered without a care in the world.

From a mere wall between the two, to their exchange, in this short period of time, they had unleashed a flurry of changing skills. In the end, Huang Shaotian's skilled bladework broke through Ye Xiu's close ranged bullet rain with a Headwind Strike!

Last round, Lu Hanwen had broken through Ye Xiu's offensive and successfully counterattacked using Headwind Strike. This time, Huang Shaotian had managed to overcome his passive stance and take the initiative with a Headwind Strike as well.

Then, Huang Shaotian displayed his array of Blade Master skills, more precise and experienced than Lu Hanwen.

Troubling Rain, still spinning in the air, didn't even bother landing. His bent legs kicked out, pushing off the mud wall behind him.

Meteor Form!

This was the fastest trick in a Blade Master's repertoire, and with the boost Troubling Rain gave himself from kicking off the wall, his body seemed to transform into a shooting star.

The deep blue sword light flashed at the front, drawing a blue streak that darted forth. Then, in the path that the blue light took, a dark red replaced it, blooming and spreading. It was the blood that this strike had drawn from Lord Grim.

"That's damn cool!" Pan Lin yelled. The bloody line that the blue light had drawn, the scene of it erupting in the air, it was so cool he was almost crying. Secretly, he promised himself that he would go back and replay this moment in slow motion a hundred times after the match.

"As expected of Huang Shaotian!" Li Yibo could only find this one sentence to express himself and display his shock in that moment.

The timing, the use of the environment, the mechanics, all of it, the top of the top.

This was Glory's top player.

And this match was a battle between two of the very top players of Glory.

After Ye Xiu successively took down two of Blue Rain's players, the atmosphere finally peaked again.

Though those two matches had Song Xiao's steady defense and Lu Hanwen's never-give-up enthusiasm, Ye Xiu's victory still seemed ever so matter of fact. It didn't create the tense atmosphere one expected from a playoffs match at all. Or at least, it seemed that way.

Yet now, Ye Xiu versus Huang Shaotian, Lord Grim versus Troubling Rain, this fast paced offense, the beautiful and dazzling action. This! This was a true battle between gods!

However, currently, it was Huang Shaotian who was performing beautifully, who had the advantage. This match was on Happy's grounds, so the atmosphere had its limits. It was Blue Rain's fans on the away team spectator stands that were cheering wildly.

Changing Spring, Blue River, Chilling Nightfall, Flying Brushstroke, Bound Boat, etc etc.

These were those responsible for managing Blue Brook guild. In the last steps of the season, they had come with their team to the battlefield. This was the benefits of the job, but at the same time, they were the ones who were responsible for leading the Blue Rain fans in their cheering.

"Huang Shao!!!" Blue Rain's fans bellowed under their lead. Changing Spring personally held the flag embroidered with Blue Rain's team logo, waving it swiftly through the air above their heads.

Blue River next to him was also very excited. He wasn't very loud, but his class ingame was the Blade Master. This was the class he loved, and Huang Shaotian was also his favorite player.

Right now, Huang Shaotian's opponent was Ye Xiu, the Lord Grim that had so much interaction with them ingame, that had tormented them until they coughed blood so many times.

Blue Brook Guild's members had been eager to see their team's pro players beat the other up for them. In the regular season, Blue Rain had won twice against Happy, which was great, but unfortunately, Ye Xiu hadn't lost a single round against them in the individual competition.

Then, in the playoffs, he destroyed two of their players upon coming up.

Changing Spring, Blue River and co had sat depressed in the stands. Could it be that not even their pro players could do anything about this guy?

But now, their core, their God Huang Shaotian was on the field. Although Blue Rain was two players down and Ye Xiu had wiped out two people in succession and was at a health disadvantage from the beginning of the third round, Huang Shaotian's spectacular performance had them vibrating with excitement and pride.

See that!? That's Blue Rain's God. That's our God! Blue River thought proudly.

Chapter 1398: This Feeling

Translator: Nomyummi  Editor: Nomyummi

It had already been a year and a half since the new Level 75 skills had been implemented. They were no longer in the experimental stage of last season. By now, the pro players had already completely mastered these skills.

The four Level 75 Blade Master skills: Falling Blossom Form, Meteor Form, Piercing Form and Curving Wind Form had already become core skills in their offensives, influencing the entire system of their class playstyles.

The Level 75 mass update had given Happy many opportunities. For example, all those materials won in the battle for Level 75 Wild Bosses, using Orange equipment from the new update to close the gap in equipment quality between them and Excellent Era...

However, for Ye Xiu as an individual, the Level 75 mass update was a disadvantage.

Ye Xiu was known as the Glory Textbook, a master of all the classes. His experience was incomparably comprehensive. However, the update naturally would influence Glory's metagame. In a time like this, if one wanted to continue being a master of all, then they would need to carry out far more and far deeper research on the new material than others.

Ye Xiu had never gone out of his way to achieve this. His title was from the accumulation of his experience and skill throughout all these years, naturally allowing him to achieve this title.This had to do with a lot of factors, including how he was a part of the very first batch of Glory players, how he was always at the head of the development of techniques and styles in Glory, and how Glory had stopped at Level 70 for so long.

The Level 75 update unbalanced this situation.

Although with Ye Xiu's experience and knowledge he could easily come up with all sorts of ideas upon seeing the new Level 75 skills, he hadn't looked into it like pro players would with their preferred class. So, when this mass update occurred, a textbook like Ye Xiu would need some time to patch for the update.

That unmatchable master of all would naturally crack a little during these patches.

However, this actually existed for all pro players. In building and refining their new combat system, each person would be met with all sorts of accidents and mistakes on the field.

This was because each person had to update their own Glory schema and this progress might not always be the same for each person, especially since players prioritized their own classes. As for the other classes, they merely had to observe the results of the research of others.

In the earliest times, all the experts would gather to discuss all manner of things and they would manage to bring a scientific air to the game. Since Ye Xiu had many creative and foundational ideas and achievements in all the classes, his Textbook title was set from then on.

However, as the Glory pro scene developed into the competitive scene it was now, there was less and less of a chance for these top players of Glory to sit down and simply chat about the update.

In these times, most people would prefer that what they managed to find out would never be known by any other, forever stay a secret weapon for the field.

Everything had become information that, if used well, could be the code needed to claim victory.

This competition had Glory's technique development growing ever the fiercer and more varied.

In the past, all the experts would come together to discuss, select, experiment, and come up with rather unified answers.

However, everyone walked their own path now, and tested each other's hypotheses in real battle. In the end, the techniques that resulted from this varied. As Blade Masters, Huang Shaotian's use of the Level 75 skills would be different from Tiny herb's Liu Xiaobie, or Samsara's Du Ming, or 301 Degrees' Gao Jie.

Everyone had their own ideas and techniques. A standardized path slowly ceased to exist.

Under these circumstances, it was naturally far harder to be a master of all classes.

Though Ye Xiu may not have aimed to and pursued such an advantage, under these circumstances, being a master of all classes didn't yield as much benefit as it could've.

Especially with the Level 75 skills morphing the entire system of skills.

Now, what he was facing was a class that had experienced a relatively large shift in the paradigm due to a whole four Level 75 sword forms being added. in addition, his opponent was the one with the title of Sword Saint.

Even though Ye Xiu wouldn't neglect to keep an eye on Huang Shaotian, wouldn't be completely clueless as to how he used the four sword forms, but in the end, knowing was different from experiencing it firsthand.

"What do you think? This feeling's not bad, huh?"

After Meteor Form brought Troubling Rain past Lord Grim, drawing forth a stream of blood, he immediately turned. Huang Shaotian even took the time to type out a sentence as he did this, and then, Immortal Guides the Way!

If this stab attack with a powerful blowback effect was used in a combo of attacks and blew its target too far, then it would naturally cause the combo to break. However, at this time, Troubling Rain had already used Meteor Form to switch positions with Lord Grim. This attack blew Lord Grim back, but soon enough, Lord Grim slammed into the meter tall mud wall. Instead of being sent out too far, the powerful blowback effect slammed Lord Grim into the wall, dealing another round of damage as well as a stun.

Troubling Rain's offensive continued!

However, the audience was still pondering over what Huang Shaotian had meant by what he typed just now.

"This feeling? What feeling?" Pan Lin wondered aloud.

"Er…" Li Yibo wasn't sure either.

Shockingly enough, something Huang Shaotian had typed had managed to elicit everyone's deep contemplation. What a rare sight! Usually, everyone would be doing their utmost to try and ignore everything that the typed into the chat. However, in this match, against a strong opponent like Ye Xiu, Huang Shaotian didn't have much energy to spare on flooding the chat. Under such a circumstance, everyone believed that Huang Shaotian would only spare energy on typing something truly meaningful, and not waste it on bullshit like usual.

What feeling?

The feeling of being suppressed? Huang Shaotian was probably mocking Ye Xiu, taking revenge for the two that were wiped out by Ye Xiu, right?

That was what most people thought. The only ones who could truly understand the essence of the trash talk that was compressed into this one sentence was Blue Rain and Happy's players.

"He's probably talking about the slight slip in rhythm due to an unfamiliarity with a new system, right?"

Blue Rain's Yu Wenzhou and Happy's Fang Rui practically gave the explanation for Huang Shaotian's "this feeling" simultaneously.

"It's definitely payback!" Fang Rui continued with certainty, "Because everyone got bullied pretty badly by Ye Xiu's unspecialized."

That's right. In regards to having trouble adapting, how could the changes brought on by the Level 75 skills compare to Ye Xiu bringing back a completely discarded ancient playstyle?

To everyone, that was truly a completely unfamiliar system. No experience, no ideas, no one had Ye Xiu's comprehensive knowledge either. For the unspecialized Lord Grim, from the original discovery, to officially engaging in the pro scene, it had been two years if your rounded up. However, this unfamiliarity had yet to disappear. No matter who was met with the unspecialized Lord Grim, they were overwhelmed.

Thirty-seven consecutive victories in the individual competitions, then wiping out two people at the very beginning of the playoffs. This intimidating record of Ye Xiu's had at least some ties with the advantages that his unspecialized class brought him.

But now, Huang Shaotian was using this unfamiliarity against Ye Xiu, so his triumphant jeer was understandable.

Troubling Rain had Lord Grim completely pinned on that meter tall wall. What Ye Xiu had originally used to conceal himself was now exactly what was cutting off his escape. Sword light splattered blood onto the wall again and again, slowly dying it crimson.

Ye Xiu's defeat of his two previous opponents meant that he had already beautifully accomplished his mission in this group arena. Even if he was killed by Huang Shaotian here, it wouldn't matter. But, they weren't satisfied with just that!

None of Happy's members were satisfied. Maybe they were too greedy, but just seeing Ye Xiu on the field, they felt that he wouldn't be defeated without doing something shocking.

Losing was normal, but being completely suppressed like Song Xiao, like Lu Hanwen? Even if the opponent was Huang Shaotian. It was completely incomprehensible to Happy's members.

Impossible!

Happy's players thought. This feeling in their hearts was far more intense than even the most loyal fans of Happy.

The support of the fans was sometimes completely irrational, blinded by emotions.

But they weren't like that. Happy's members were clear headed and yet this sharp feeling came from their utmost confidence in Ye Xiu. How could that guy, who started from nothing, who took an Internet cafe team through the vicious competition of the Challengers League into the cruelest stage of Glory, the playoffs, be suppressed like this? This was unacceptable!

"Stop pretending! Hurry up and use your ace!!" Fang Rui suddenly cupped his hands around his mouth and roared at the stage.

Ye Xiu couldn't hear his voice. The two characters fighting in the projection wouldn't be able to react at all. Instead, it was Blue Rain's members on the other bench that heard him.

"Ace? What ace?" They wondered aloud, nervously watching the match.

"What ace does he have?" Chen Guo also asked nervously.

"How the hell would I know? Either way, he definitely has one!" Fang Rui replied.

"Definitely!" Su Mucheng determinedly expressed her support.

"Then hurry up!" Wei Chen slapped his leg.

"He's going to use it soon, right?" Tang Rou said.

"What will it be?" The others all wondered in eager anticipation. Though they had no idea what it was, they were certain it existed. Happy's members seemed almost like a bunch of cult members, all blindly believing.

"Die!!" On the field, Huang Shaotian once again sent a message. By now, Lord Grim only had 7 percent of his health left and this message was almost like a death sentence.

Whoosh!

But then, the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella suddenly opened. The sword light that Troubling Rain had gathered, preparing to unleash the last strike to Formless Phantom Blade, hit the surface of the umbrella.

Not good!

Huang Shaotian felt his heart leap.

If it was just holding up a shield trying to endure the hit, he wouldn't be so nervous, but the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella was so damn massive when opened. Lord Grim was hidden behind it and Ye Xiu was definitely trying to play some sort of trick.

"Not saying the right thing at the right time is your greatest flaw!" Ye Xiu's message popped up on the screen.

Did he leave an opening by typing that one word? Huang Shaotian subconsciously wondered. If Ye Xiu had the time to chat with him, then the other had probably already prepared his trick.

Experience, awareness, everything sparked and burned. Huang Shaotian resolutely canceled Formless Phantom Blade.

Sword's Divine Judgement!

The Blade Master Awakening skill, activate!

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