Zhang Jiale stared intently at the approaching Deceitful Rain, his eyes locked on his hands.

Predicting a ninja's attack was the most effective method, and according to Team Tyranny's research on Mo Fan, this ninja player didn't seem to use the common ninja technique of obscuring hand seals with a slanted posture. This was perhaps because he often completed his attacks with hand seals during ambushes.

But at that moment, Deceitful Rain's figure tilted.

Not using it often didn't mean he couldn't. Moreover, what team was Mo Fan on? With teammates like Fang Rui and Ye Xiu, wouldn't they remind him to make good use of such a practical technique?

He really shouldn't have taken a chance! Zhang Jiale sighed. How could a team that had reached this stage leave such a big opening for others to exploit?

Zhang Jiale controlled Dazzling Hundred Blossoms to move horizontally, allowing him to observe Deceitful Rain's hand movements. In actual combat, this was a technique to force the ninja to attack sooner. Because ninja players didn't want their opponents to see their hand seals, but they also couldn't keep tilting their bodies to hide their hands. Tilting too much would turn them around, making them lose sight of the enemy.

But at this moment, Deceitful Rain coordinated with Dazzling Hundred Blossoms' movement and took a few steps sideways as well.

Zhang Jiale wanted to move further horizontally to get out of view, but he couldn't. If he continued to move left, Dazzling Hundred Blossoms would jump into the lava. The terrain here was narrow, and there wasn't much horizontal space to move.

Even now, Dazzling Hundred Blossoms was only two or three steps away from falling into the lava, making people's hearts clench.

Deceitful Rain suddenly attacked at this moment.

He had been slanting his body to conceal his hand movements for so long, but the attack he unleashed wasn't a ninjutsu that required hand seals, but a ninja tool skill that could be used directly.

*Peng!*

A cloud of purple smoke bloomed, quickly spreading and expanding.

Ninja tool? Smoke Bomb.

The purple smoke instantly swallowed Deceitful Rain's figure. Without any terrain for concealment or ambush, Mo Fan used a skill to create concealment. Dazzling Hundred Blossoms was only two or three steps away from the lava. He could use the smoke bomb as cover to move forward, and with a simple knock-up, he could send him into the lava, ending the match!

At this moment, everyone thought so.

Mo Fan too, released the smoke bomb to create such a decisive opportunity. Deceitful Rain's figure had already begun to move as the purple smoke began to spread. This was a small trick he had gradually learned and mastered after entering the professional scene. Moving while the purple smoke spread made it harder to detect his figure. Although the space gained was greatest when the smoke bomb had fully spread, the purple smoke flowed slowly at that time. If a character moved quickly through it, it would disrupt the rhythm, and experienced players could roughly determine the ninja's location by judging this.

The movement in the smoke needed to be coordinated with the speed of the smoke's spread. Surviving in the professional circle required attention to countless details. There were too many strong players here, and any slight flaw could be exploited.

Mo Fan's movement speed was well-controlled at this time. Accompanied by the rhythm of the smoke bomb, he seemed like a wisp of smoke, drifting away lightly.

Dazzling Hundred Blossoms!

Mo Fan had been closely monitoring his target, but at this moment, on the edge of the lava, two or three steps away, a hundred flowers bloomed!

The spreading light and shadow instantly concealed Dazzling Hundred Blossoms' figure.

Continue forward? Catch Dazzling Hundred Blossoms in the light and send him into the lava?

If it were a player like Han Wenqing from Team Tyranny, he would probably do just that. But Mo Fan wasn't. The dazzling hundred blossoms light and shadow gave him no certainty, so Deceitful Rain stopped and remained shrouded in smoke, waiting for an opportunity.

Similarly, grasping opportunities, Huang Shaotian was an expert, quick, agile, and deadly. Mo Fan couldn't compare to Huang Shaotian on this level, but he was more patient. He could watch opportunities slip away and still maintain a calm state of mind.

For example, right now, Deceitful Rain stopped moving forward, so how could Dazzling Hundred Blossoms continue to stay in this dangerous position near the lava?

The opportunity to push him into the lava was lost. Many people felt regret, and many people thought that Mo Fan should have attacked just now. Only Mo Fan didn't think so, and he didn't regret it.

Zhang Jiale, on the other hand, was very disappointed!

Placing Dazzling Hundred Blossoms in such a dangerous place was his bait. He had prepared four plans, waiting for Deceitful Rain to rush up and then send his opponent into the lava.

But the opponent actually gave up, he didn't rush up.

Was it because his hundred blossoms light and shadow were too much?

Zhang Jiale was self-reflecting. But wouldn't it be too obvious to just stand there without making any response? Just like now, he could certainly continue to let Dazzling Hundred Blossoms stay near the lava, but doing so would also make people realize that there was a trick.

It wasn't that his acting was too much, it was just that the opponent was too cautious!

Dazzling Hundred Blossoms left the dangerous position, but he couldn't continue to just use the hundred blossoms style without doing anything else. The consumption of the hundred blossoms style was very high. In the past, in Hundred Blossoms, he and Sun Zheping, one sold mana and the other sold blood. Their styles were not suitable for the individual competition, where the players take turn to fight one by one. Fortunately, at that time, the individual competition was always a three-person battle, so it wasn't obvious. If they were to switch to today's five-person individual competition in the playoffs, their blood-selling and mana-selling partnership would be very awkward.

A five-person system required more attention to the balance of consumption than a three-person system.

So, after leaving the dangerous area, Dazzling Hundred Blossoms immediately launched an offensive. At this time, the smoke bomb had not yet dissipated, and Zhang Jiale didn't know the exact location of Deceitful Rain. But the previous standing position of Dazzling Hundred Blossoms near the lava should have been very tempting. Even if Mo Fan ultimately gave up, he wouldn't have been unmoved at the beginning, so where was Deceitful Rain?

Pile on the light and shadow!

Zhang Jiale didn't need to know the opponent's precise coordinates. The hundred blossoms offensive spread out, sweeping an area even more exaggerated than a Launcher.

The light and shadow entered the smoke bomb, instantly stirring the purple smoke, making it roll and surge. Under the changing density, the smoke bomb seemed to be torn apart.

A figure flashed through it, and Zhang Jiale quickly caught it, immediately adjusting his offensive.

Who knew that in this instant of switching fire, another figure suddenly rushed out from the original position.

A shadow clone technique used as bait!

Zhang Jiale was slightly surprised, but he still had time to respond. Dazzling Hundred Blossoms switched his offensive again, and the bullets flew up, instantly blasting Deceitful Rain into a pile of afterimages.

Zhang Jiale was shocked this time. Was the one on this side fake, and the one on the other side real?

He hurriedly tried to switch his attack back, but Deceitful Rain had already rushed in front of him.

In haste, Zhang Jiale only had time to let a blast grenade roll from Dazzling Hundred Blossoms' fingers.

The powerful shockwave instantly spread out, and Deceitful Rain, who had finally approached, was blown away. Dazzling Hundred Blossoms chased after him and continued to attack. And as the shockwave of the blast grenade further spread, it also disrupted the already thin smoke bomb. In the rolling and alternating ups and downs, several figures of Deceitful Rain appeared faintly.

Not a shadow clone technique, but Shadow Dance!

Zhang Jiale had already realized it at this time, but the blast grenade, which was very annoying for Shadow Dance, had just been used. Zhang Jiale had no way to blast open all these shadow clones with one blow.

Several Deceitful Rains rushed out, in different directions, all charging towards Dazzling Hundred Blossoms.

The hundred blossoms style could certainly spread out over a wide area, affecting all these Shadow Dance clones, but the spreading light and shadow came at the cost of reducing the output per unit area. This type of hundred blossoms could only be used for cover, and its power as an attack was too low.

And focusing on one point could quickly eliminate one clone, but there wouldn't be time to deal with the others, especially since there were so many "others" at this time.

So…

Chaotic Lightning!

Ultimate skill against ultimate skill, Chaotic Lightning against Shadow Dance.

Both were skills that required continuous operation, and the quality of the final effect depended on the operator's on-the-spot control. It could be said that the confrontation between the two skills was a confrontation between the operations of the two players.

Various grenades kept flying out of Dazzling Hundred Blossoms' hands, impact, timed, gas... and so on.

There was no time to rest, no time to think. Every operation was just a subconscious reaction. Was every grenade an effective response to every charging Shadow Dance clone?

Some were... some were not...

Because Mo Fan was also operating, because Mo Fan was also responding.

Some clones dodged the grenades, while others did not.

In the chain of explosions, Deceitful Rain's Shadow Dance clones still managed to rush to Dazzling Hundred Blossoms' side.

The ninja's attack was silent, but the blood that sprayed up was still so bright.

The bright blood would soon be swallowed by the fire of the explosions, and then new blood would rise.

Dazzling Hundred Blossoms was already using his firearms in close combat with his opponent. The character's advances and retreats even had the style of a Sharpshooter's gun fu.

But it was still far from it.

After all, a Spitfire didn't have as much close-combat skill as a Sharpshooter, and besides, Sharpshooters themselves had a "Gun Fighting Technique" skill, which was a strong supplement to gun fu.

Zhang Jiale couldn't completely defeat Mo Fan, and Mo Fan couldn't completely suppress Zhang Jiale.

Under sustained resistance, the final determinant of life and death was the blood volume of the two characters.

Dazzling Hundred Blossoms' twenty-one percent health was far lower than Deceitful Rain's, and this health also meant that he couldn't last too long in the fight.

With such health, he shouldn't have engaged in such a skill-and-operation confrontation, but at this time, Zhang Jiale had no other choice.

When Dazzling Hundred Blossoms fell, the explosive light and shadow and gunpowder smoke he left behind hadn't even completely dissipated.

The Spitfire, a class known as the magician of the gunners, ultimately completed a close-range collision with his opponent.

Although the final result was that he lost, his performance was enough to be called wonderful.

"A very exciting duel. I think everyone's regret is probably the same as mine, which is that the time was too short." The television commentator Pan Lin said with emotion at this time.

"Yes." Li Yibo also nodded. There was no need to make too many technical analyses of such a duel. Both were excellent, and both were good.

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