Chapter 112 An All-rounder's Weakness

It had been a year and a half since the introduction of level 75 ultimate skills. They were no longer in the exploratory stage of the previous season, but were now fully mastered by professional players.

The four level 75 ultimate skills of the Swordsman class—Luoying Shi (Falling Petal Style), Liuxing Shi (Meteor Style), Pokong Shi (Sky-Piercing Style), and Huifeng Shi (Returning Wind Style)—had become important skills for linking attacks, affecting the original skill usage system.

The level 75 update had provided many opportunities for Happy. For example, the large amount of materials looted during the level 75 wild boss battles, and the opportunity to greatly shorten the equipment gap with Team Excellent Era in the previous season's Challenger League by relying on orange equipment during this update…

But for Ye Xiu personally, the level 75 update had a slightly adverse effect.

Ye Xiu was known as the Glory Textbook, an all-rounder proficient in every class, with comprehensive and impeccable experience. However, updates inevitably affected Glory's tactical system. At this time, wanting to continue being an all-rounder required much more knowledge updates than the average person.

Ye Xiu had never deliberately pursued this. He had this title because of years of accumulated strength, a title he naturally possessed. This was due to his early entry into Glory, always being at the forefront of tactical development, and the stagnation of Glory at level 70 for many years.

The level 75 update disrupted this situation to some extent.

Although with Ye Xiu's knowledge reserves and experience, he could quickly come up with many ideas for the level 75 new skills, he didn't have the focused research of those who specialized in a particular class. So when such a major update appeared, Ye Xiu's textbook needed some time to update and revise.

The impeccable all-rounder inevitably had some loosening and cracks during this revision process.

However, this was true for every professional player. Everyone encountered various surprises on the field during the construction of new tactical systems.

Because everyone needed to update their Glory knowledge, and this progress was not necessarily the same. In particular, all players prioritized studying the class they used, and mostly just followed the research results of others for other classes.

In the earliest days, all the experts would gather together for various discussions, and the game had a very academic atmosphere. Ye Xiu had constructive and pioneering ideas and results for many classes, and the name "Textbook" was established from that time.

But with the development of Glory professional e-sports, in today's fiercely competitive environment, it was rare for these top-tier players to sit together and happily discuss new updates.

In this day and age, most people hoped that their research results would never be known to others, and would always be a secret weapon on the field.

Everything had become intelligence, and if used well, could be a bargaining chip for victory.

Such competition made the development of Glory tactics even more diverse.

Previously, all the experts discussed, screened, and practiced together, eventually arriving at a relatively unified conclusion.

But now, everyone went their own way, and the real test was in battle. The resulting techniques were truly diverse. Even among Swordsmen, Huang Shaotian's use of the level 75 four-sword style was difficult to be completely the same as Tiny Herb's Liu Xiaobie, Samsara's Du Ming, or 301's Gao Jie.

Everyone had their own ideas and techniques, and fixed routines were becoming less and less common.

In this context, it was naturally even more difficult to be an all-rounder.

Even though Ye Xiu hadn't deliberately pursued this point, the advantages brought by all-round proficiency were, after all, a little less in this situation.

Especially in the skill system changed by the intervention of the level 75 ultimate skills.

And now, he was facing a class whose system had undergone a major change due to the intervention of the level 75 four-sword style, and his opponent was the guy who wielded the Sword Saint in this class.

Even if Ye Xiu couldn't help but pay attention to Huang Shaotian throughout the season, and wasn't completely unaware of his use of the four-sword techniques, knowing was, after all, different from dealing with it on the field.

"How is it? This feeling isn't bad, right?"

After Night Rain Sounds pierced past Lord Grim with a string of blood flowers raised by Liuxing Shi (Meteor Style), he immediately turned around. During the process, Huang Shaotian also typed a sentence, and then, Immortal Guide!

A stabbing skill with a strong wind effect, mostly used to finish combos. If the target was blown away too far during the process, it would obviously interrupt the combo. But at this time, Night Rain Sounds had already completed a position swap with Lord Grim after Liuxing Shi (Meteor Style). This sword blew Lord Grim away, but immediately after, Lord Grim crashed into the meter-high earthen wall. He wasn't blown far, but instead, the strong blow turned into a strong impact, bringing an extra layer of damage and stagger.

Night Rain Sounds, continue the attack!

But the audience was still puzzled by the sentence Huang Shaotian typed during the combo.

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

"Uh…" Li Yibo was also puzzled.

The message Huang Shaotian typed actually caused everyone to think deeply, which was really too difficult. In general, everyone tried their best to ignore everything he typed. But in this match, facing such a powerful opponent as Ye Xiu, Huang Shaotian didn't have much free time to spam the chat. Thinking about the sentence he managed to type out in such a situation, everyone felt that Huang Shaotian must cherish it very much and wouldn't just type it randomly.

What feeling?

Was it the feeling of being suppressed? Huang Shaotian was probably mocking, taking revenge for the Blue Rain players who were suppressed by Ye Xiu and lost?

Most people thought so. Only the players from Blue Rain and Happy could truly understand the meaning of Huang Shaotian's condensed essence of trash talk.

"Is it talking about this kind of situation where the reaction to the new system is not comprehensive enough and the rhythm is slightly slower?"

Blue Rain's Yu Wenzhou and Happy's Fang Rui almost simultaneously explained what Huang Shaotian meant by "this feeling."

"It's revenge, that's right!" Fang Rui continued to say affirmatively, "Because everyone has been very annoyed by Ye Xiu's Unspecialized this season, right?"

Yes, compared to the unsuitability of the new system, the changes brought by the level 75 ultimate skills, how could it compare to Ye Xiu directly creating a long-abandoned playstyle?

For everyone, that was a completely new system. There was no experience, no ideas, and no one had Ye Xiu's comprehensive foundation. From the initial discovery of the Unspecialized Lord Grim to the official contact in the professional circle, it had been at least two years. But the unfamiliarity it brought had not disappeared to this day. Everyone still had a headache when facing the Unspecialized Lord Grim.

Ye Xiu's 37-round winning streak in the individual competition and his defeating of two people in the playoffs undoubtedly had something to do with the Unspecialized's class advantages.

And now, Huang Shaotian was using this unfamiliarity to attack Ye Xiu, so it was inevitable that he would be a little proud and complain.

Night Rain Sounds completely locked Lord Grim under this meter-high earthen wall. The cover that Ye Xiu originally used to hide himself had now become an obstacle that blocked his retreat. Fresh blood was constantly raised by the sword light, splashing on the earthen wall, dyeing it redder and redder.

Ye Xiu, who had already killed two opponents, had completed a very beautiful individual competition. Even if he lost to Huang Shaotian like this, he shouldn't be criticized anymore. But, he was unwilling!

Everyone at Happy was unwilling. Perhaps they were too greedy, but as long as they saw Ye Xiu on the field, they felt that he would always do something before coming down.

Losing was a normal thing, but to be completely suppressed like Song Xiao and Lu Hanwen, even if the opponent was the top player Huang Shaotian, was an unbelievable thing in the eyes of Happy's players.

Impossible!

Happy's players were thinking so. This feeling in their hearts was even stronger than that of Happy's most loyal fans.

Fan support was sometimes a loss of reason, a completely emotional bias.

But they didn't. The players at Happy were still clear-headed. And this clear feeling in their hearts came from their absolute confidence in Ye Xiu. How could the guy who started from scratch, built a team in an internet cafe, survived the Challenger League, and finally led them to this cruelest playoff stage of Glory be suppressed like this? They couldn't accept it!

"Stop pretending, hurry up and use your ultimate move!!" Fang Rui suddenly cupped his hands into a trumpet and shouted at the field.

His voice couldn't reach Ye Xiu, and the two holographic characters fighting in the center of the field wouldn't react in any way. But the Blue Rain players on the other side of the player seats heard it clearly.

"Ultimate move? What ultimate move?" They wondered, then continued to watch the match nervously.

"What ultimate move?" Chen Guo also asked nervously.

"How the hell would I know! Anyway, there must be one, right!" Fang Rui said.

"There will be!" Su Mucheng also firmly expressed her support.

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

"It should be coming out soon, right?" Tang Rou also said.

"What will it be?" Others were also looking forward to it. They clearly didn't know what it would be, but they firmly believed that there would be one. Happy's players looked like a group of believers, collectively suffering from brain damage.

"Die!!" On the field, Huang Shaotian once again sent a resounding message. Lord Grim's health was now only at 7%. This message seemed to be a death sentence for him.

Whoosh!

But at this moment, the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella suddenly opened. The sword light that Night Rain Sounds suddenly stirred up, preparing to complete the final blow with Phantom Invisible Swords, attacked the umbrella surface.

Not good!

Huang Shaotian's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

If he was just holding up the shield to defend, he wouldn't be too nervous, but this Myriad Manifestations Umbrella was too damn big. With the character hidden behind it, Ye Xiu was definitely going to do something.

"Inopportune words are always your biggest flaw!" A sentence from Ye Xiu popped up on the screen.

Was it because of the gap created by typing those three words? Huang Shaotian subconsciously thought, and Ye Xiu even had the leisure to chat with him at this time, so he had probably completed his response.

Experience and awareness were completely ignited. Phantom Invisible Swords was decisively stopped by Huang Shaotian.

Sword Draws the World!

The Swordsman's Awakening skill, used!