That perfunctory defensive maneuver by Luo Tian made Zhang Yiwei want to rush onto the stage and beat him up. This was a competition, how could he be so lax?

But the truth was, patience wasn't something that vanished all at once; it was gradually worn away. Luo Tian was like that, the audience was like that, and even Zhang Yiwei himself was, in fact, like that. If he had maintained his patience and watched the match attentively, he would have noticed Luo Tian's deteriorating control earlier and wouldn't have suddenly realized it just now.

Zhang Yiwei's expression changed drastically, and just as he cried out in alarm in his heart, Mo Fan's Deception finally took action.

Ninjutsu—Shadowmeld Technique!

The 30-second Shadowmeld state allowed a ninja to climb at various angles like Spider-Man, launching attacks from routes that ordinary characters couldn't achieve. Luo Tian had initially been wary of this, but by now, his vigilance had waned. Mo Fan had also precisely targeted this terrain, stealthily closing in on Luo Tian's elemental mage.

A very ordinary tactic, but in this tactic, Mo Fan displayed remarkable patience and focus. He wasn't just strolling casually; he had to ensure he wasn't detected by his opponent, so his control couldn't afford the slightest carelessness. His long scavenging career had honed these two qualities of Mo Fan to an extreme degree, a kind of experience that even professional players rarely had. Luo Tian's control grew sloppy and perfunctory over time, but Mo Fan's never did. When perfunctoriness met focus, the outcome seemed to be decided the moment Deception made his move.

Ninjutsu—Shadow Dance!

As Deception pounced, he immediately unleashed his ultimate skill. Several Deception figures suddenly appeared around Luo Tian, who was already extremely agitated. He couldn't even identify which one was the Shadow Dance's core, let alone react to the attacks in time. Several shadow clones swarmed in, and the combo count in the statistics soared like an exploding hive. Mo Fan patiently waited for an opportunity, so patiently that everyone felt annoyed, but when he finally launched his attack, it was just as decisive and not much less fierce than Sun Zheping's. This was also a habit developed from scavenging. Without this decisiveness, he would have been killed countless times while scavenging.

However, the habits formed from scavenging also gave Mo Fan some less desirable traits along with his advantages. While Mo Fan's attacks were very fierce, they lacked long-term and efficient stability, somewhat like a three-hit wonder. This was because in the process of scavenging, even when he killed an opponent, he usually chose characters whose lives were hanging by a thread. Entangling with a full-health, full-status character in a crowd was akin to suicide for a scavenger.

Frequently killing such characters led to Mo Fan's bursts being relatively short-lived, followed by a sense of exhaustion.

Sun Zheping took out a knight with a 1 minute 17 second burst. Mo Fan, after successfully closing in on an elemental mage, couldn't efficiently end the battle in a short time. Compared to the initial barrage of skills when he suddenly pounced, his continued attacks felt somewhat anticlimactic.

Ordinary players couldn't detect this subtle difference, but experienced professional players like Zhang Yiwei immediately noticed it.

"Opportunity, steady him, steady him!" Zhang Yiwei couldn't help but blurt out, completely forgetting that Luo Tian couldn't hear him. But Luo Tian didn't disappoint him. After being caught off guard at the beginning, he gradually stabilized his rhythm.

"Don't get too complacent." Zhang Yiwei turned his head and glanced at Ye Xiu, who had been smiling with a relaxed expression.

"Heh heh heh." Ye Xiu smiled. Zhang Yiwei turned his head back, and instantly petrified.

Deception's three-hit burst was over, and his attacks suddenly weakened. Luo Tian stabilized his rhythm and was about to find an opportunity to counterattack, so Deception ran away.

Yes, ran away!

The battle wasn't over, Luo Tian's elemental mage hadn't even begun to launch a counterattack, and Deception actually ran away like this. Luo Tian completely hadn't anticipated this. When he went to chase, Deception had already disappeared. Luo Tian was instantly petrified in his seat.

"Happy's player Mo Fan is really unexpected." The broadcast commentator, stunned, couldn't help but keep talking. "But I want to say, this is a thorough scavenger style."

Deception disappeared, of course, only for Luo Tian. For everyone else, they could easily find Deception's location from the God's perspective of the broadcast. He had lurked again, just like at the beginning, following Luo Tian's elemental mage step by step. The match instantly returned to its initial trajectory, but this time Luo Tian was far from being as calm as he was at the start. He frantically searched for Deception's踪迹, but Mo Fan remained as patient and calm as he was at the beginning, seemingly not excited at all by the previous burst.

This was another great quality of scavengers: restraint.

When there was a top-tier piece of equipment in front of you, but you couldn't pick it up, how much restraint would that require for an online game player? Many people would rather die than rush up and try, but Mo Fan never would. He would definitely wait until the opportunity was right, even if it meant missing out.

So when he felt that the current situation wasn't suitable for another attack, he really wouldn't attack, even if the audience's boos were about to lift the roof off. This kind of play style was obviously unpopular.

Unfortunately, such boos didn't make Zhang Yiwei feel any better.

Even if Mo Fan couldn't win over the audience, he could at least win over his opponent. In Zhang Yiwei's eyes, this 1 point was already teetering. Even if Luo Tian didn't dare to be careless again because of the previous lesson, his mentality had already lost its balance. What was needed in this situation wasn't just patience, but also calmness, but Luo Tian didn't seem calm at all. He walked along as if every tree and bush was an enemy, and his spells were flying everywhere.

"Too reckless." Ye Xiu shook his head.

As if Mo Fan had heard this comment, he suddenly attacked at this moment.

"Ah! Mo Fan chose to attack at this time. This time he didn't choose to use Shadowmeld to find an opportunity to get close, but instead directly revealed himself and charged over!" the broadcast commentator exclaimed.

This sudden appearance startled Luo Tian, but he then happily launched an attack. The elemental mage raised his staff, but nothing happened.

"What is Luo Tian doing? Posing?" The broadcast commentator was at a loss.

Luo Tian himself was already in tears. Just as he finished operating, he heard the system's cold prompt: Skill is cooling down.

This kind of low-level mistake happening to a professional player showed how unstable Luo Tian's emotions were at this point. He hurriedly selected skills, but had to personally check which skills were cooled down and which weren't. He had been randomly casting spells all along, as Ye Xiu had said, completely aimlessly. There was no purpose, no rhythm, so much so that he couldn't even remember which skills he had used and which were on cooldown.

So Mo Fan succeeded with this wave of attacks. At the same time, this wave of attacks made Luo Tian despair. His resistance was weak and feeble, and he didn't even manage to stabilize his rhythm like he had during the previous wave. He was like a newbie, randomly using skills in an attempt to escape his predicament.

Even with Mo Fan's lack of stamina, such a response was enough to cope with it, so this time he didn't retreat.

A moment later, Luo Tian's elemental mage fell, and the second match ended.

The final match statistics were announced on the electronic screen, and the venue was immediately filled with boos. 8 minutes and 12 seconds, this match actually lasted 8 minutes and 12 seconds, which was definitely a freak in individual competition.

But no matter what, Xingxin had firmly secured this 1 point.

Mo Fan left the competition seat and silently walked towards the stage.

"Good fight." Ye Xiu patted him, and the others in Xingxin welcomed him with applause. Mo Fan didn't say a word, and sat back in his seat as if nothing had happened, his eyes staring straight at the arena, not knowing what he was thinking.

Xuanqi's Luo Tian also came out of the competition seat at this time, his face pale and staggering.

"A little too flustered!" Zhang Yiwei quickly covered up his inner thoughts again, saying to Luo Tian as he walked off the stage.

"Actually, you've already grasped his weakness, but you haven't been able to turn that into an advantage very well," Zhang Yiwei continued. This time, it wasn't like the previous match where he had just randomly made up a reason to say Fang Daxu was too anxious. In this game, Luo Tian had indeed shown Zhang Yiwei an opportunity. It was just a pity that Mo Fan had decisively made his Deception disappear again at that moment, which made Luo Tian lose his bearings all of a sudden.

"Better luck next time." Zhang Yiwei patted Luo Tian, indicating that he could go rest.

Then in the third match, Xingxin's Wei Chen appeared, with a bit of arrogance on his stubble-covered face. He glanced at the Xuanqi team's player bench and waved his hand, saying, "With me playing, is there even a need to fight? Why don't you just forfeit?"

How could Zhang Yiwei pay attention to that? He nodded to the player who was going to play in the third match, and that player stood up with a whoosh, walking towards the arena with his head held high.

"Actually, there's really no need to fight! What you guys need is 2 points, what help can this 1 point give you? I think you should just play casually, save time and effort," Wei Chen continued to shout.

So the referee on site decisively ran down from the arena and flashed a yellow card at Wei Chen.

"Inappropriate remarks, warning once. If there is any more behavior that violates the spirit of competition, the organizing committee will seriously consider your eligibility to participate," the referee said with a serious face.

"I was just kidding, is that not allowed?" Wei Chen argued, but the referee didn't pay attention to him and turned around and went back to the arena.

"The requirements are really strict now, huh?" Wei Chen said to his teammates at Xingxin in frustration, and then strode towards the arena.