Hope's Prayer, a Priest skill, restores 30% of the target's mana over 10 seconds. With skill rank increases, the maximum restoration can reach 60%, with a cooldown time of 10 minutes.

Currently, Lord Grim is chanting this Hope's Prayer, his mana rapidly recovering, leaving everyone dumbfounded.

Let alone in individual matches, even in team matches, the Hope's Prayer skill is rarely used. Although its effect is amazing, the super-long chant of 10 seconds is too easily interrupted by opponents. Therefore, even if it is used in team matches, it is only to seize an opportunity, chanting for two or three seconds to recover as much as possible. But in fact, team matches rarely get so desperate that mana runs out, and individual matches are even rarer. The only time you'd see a mana shortage is in a擂台賽 (leisaitai, arena-style team battle).

Priests and Guardian Angels won't go on stage for a 擂台賽 (leisaitai, arena-style team battle). As for the two related classes, Knights and Exorcists, who can acquire this skill by attaching it to their weapons, no one has ever made such a choice.

Recover mana during a battle when you're out? And such a significant recovery? All of this sounds good, but in reality, the value is limited. Not to mention that running out of mana is rare, even if it happens in a 擂台賽 (leisaitai, arena-style team battle), a one-on-one duel with a 10-second stationary chant? That's practically treating your opponent like air. Especially when the opponent knows you have this means, they won't give you such an opportunity.

So, could it be used like Ye Xiu, using the opening time to recover? In terms of time, it's sufficient, but the opportunities to use the skill are so limited and require so many preconditions to take effect that its practical value is negligible. For professional players, such extravagance is simply a crime.

So at this moment, everyone looked at Lord Grim as if he were committing a crime; it was practically a crime scene.

The commentators Pan Lin and Li Yibo were already speechless. What about Sun Xiang? Sun Xiang didn't know that Ye Xiu had even used Hope's Prayer. Before, when Ye Xiu said he was going to recover some health, he was stunned for a moment, then realized that a散人 (sanren, unspecialized character) did have this ability. But this guy wasn't anxious at all. He felt that winning against a half-health Ye Xiu was dishonorable! Now it was good; it gave this guy a chance to breathe, wouldn't his victory seem more valuable?

So, knowing that his opponent was recovering, Sun Xiang simply controlled One Autumn Leaf, strolling forward unhurriedly, clearly showing that he wasn't worried about it at all.

"Hehe… Sun Xiang doesn't seem to mind Ye Xiu's actions at all…" Commentator Pan Lin said immediately after noticing this.

"Yes, he is quite confident," Li Yibo said.

"But isn't this a bit much?" Pan Lin said.

"Well, are you talking about Ye Xiu or Sun Xiang?" Li Yibo asked.

Pan Lin looked at Lord Grim, who was chanting to recover mana on one side, and One Autumn Leaf, strolling leisurely on the other: "Well, both…"

It was impossible to continue like this. Did this look like a decisive match determining the life and death of two teams? These two were too unserious. This was the Challenge League finals, not two players sparring in an online game!

"Wait a moment, let me recover some health and mana first."

"Okay, you recover first."

Pan Lin's mind was full of this kind of dialogue that often occurs when players spar, but this was a formal competition, and almost the same situation occurred. Weird? Weird?

"Hehehehe…" Pan Lin didn't know what to say except to laugh foolishly.

On the嘉世 (Jia Shi) team's bench, boss Tao Xuan was personally supervising the battle, his arms crossed in front of his chest, his expression calm. But a closer look would reveal that Tao's hands, crossed in front of his chest, were tightly gripping his arms, with great force.

Without distracting himself like this, Tao Xuan was really afraid of being so angry that he would twitch. Generally speaking, he admired Sun Xiang quite a bit as a player. But his overly conceited nature sometimes gave Tao Xuan a headache.

Okay… Actually, when facing other opponents, Tao Xuan was quite happy to see Sun Xiang's arrogant disdain, and then stepping on them one by one. In those situations, he never felt any dissatisfaction with Sun Xiang's conceit. Even if he did something like this, Tao Xuan might laugh and think it really boosted the team's prestige and was very impressive and bold.

But now, the opponent was Ye Xiu, and Tao Xuan's mentality was immediately different.

This was a very contradictory state of mind.

For example, when Xiao Shiqin said "gg" and withdrew from the match earlier, Tao Xuan sincerely appreciated his approach, but at the same time, he also felt a little regret that it would have been good to consume some of Ye Xiu's energy. But that would have made 嘉世 (Jia Shi) seem too petty and lacking the grandeur of a powerhouse!

You can't have both fish and bear's paw. At that moment, this contradiction was Tao Xuan's true state of mind.

At this moment, Sun Xiang's behavior could also be understood as the grandeur of a powerhouse, but seeing Ye Xiu's Lord Grim constantly replenishing health, and finally even using Holy Prayer, chanting for 10 seconds without being disturbed, Tao Xuan really couldn't calm down anymore.

What's worse was that Sun Xiang was behaving so calmly. This kind of difference in awareness made Tao Xuan very annoyed with him.

Fortunately, Ye Xiu didn't continue to challenge his heart's limit. After ten seconds of Holy Prayer, Lord Grim finally emerged from that corner.

"Did you come over?" Ye Xiu asked in the chat.

"What, have you recovered?" Sun Xiang replied.

"Almost," Ye Xiu said.

"Almost? I advise you to recover some more. I'm not in a hurry," Sun Xiang said.

"Oh, what's that sound?" In the 嘉世 (Jia Shi) preparation area, a player suddenly heard a strange noise.

The player next to him quickly kicked him and winked. The player understood and looked over, seeing the boss grinding his teeth…

"If I remember correctly, this should be the first time the players have talked during today's match, right?" Pan Lin said.

"Yes, I think so," Li Yibo said.

"Hehehehe." Pan Lin was giggling foolishly again. Finally, the players were talking, but could their conversation have a bit of professional atmosphere? The conversation between Ye Xiu and Sun Xiang was completely leaning towards the player scene that Pan Lin had imagined before.

"Almost there, I don't want you to lose too badly," Ye Xiu continued in the chat.

"I should be the one saying that to you," Sun Xiang said.

"Keep it for yourself!"

"I'll give it to you!"

"Keep it!"

"I'll give it to you."

"Keep it."

The audience was in an uproar, not because of the two's meaningless nonsense, but because during the conversation, Ye Xiu's Lord Grim had quietly detoured and was approaching behind One Autumn Leaf.

"With that strange mix-and-match equipment of yours, do you really think you have a chance to beat me? Have you forgotten One Autumn Leaf's attributes? Do you need me to tell you?" Sun Xiang seemed to have completely entered chat mode, his character not moving at all.

"While Ye Xiu is talking to Sun Xiang, his character, Lord Grim, is tactically moving, detouring behind One Autumn Leaf. Sun Xiang seems completely unaware. He's just chatting and typing. Could it be that Sun Xiang can't touch-type, so he can only look at the keyboard while chatting?" Pan Lin shouted.

"Hehehe…" Li Yibo smiled and glanced at Pan Lin, but saw that his expression was so serious. Did he really think so? A professional player can't touch-type? How could he think of that? Does he have to look down at the keyboard while operating?

"Approaching, approaching, Lord Grim is approaching," Pan Lin shouted. The audience was even louder, seemingly wanting to remind Sun Xiang. On the 嘉世 (Jia Shi) player bench, Tao Xuan couldn't maintain his composure at all. This Sun Xiang was being too childish!

"Ye Xiu's tactical movement is very successful, but the key is to distract the opponent with the conversation first. Now, now he's almost within his attack range. What kind of attack will he choose? His opponent, Sun Xiang, still seems completely unaware!" Pan Lin exclaimed.

At this time, Sun Xiang, who was still chatting, released the latest chat content in the public channel.

"After chatting for so long, how is it? Are you behind me yet?"

"Wow!" Pan Lin exclaimed, and then saw One Autumn Leaf turn around dashingly, facing Lord Grim behind him, holding the battle lance Dancing Rain in his hand, pointing straight ahead.

"So Sun Xiang wasn't as… as… careless as we thought," Pan Lin stammered for a long time, almost saying the word "idiot."

"Hehe, I think such low-level mistakes are unlikely to happen to players at this level," Li Yibo said again in a "I knew it all along" tone.

Sun Xiang launched an attack immediately after turning around.

Dragon Breaks the Army!

One Autumn Leaf's opening move was surprisingly the same as the move Tang Rou liked to use the most, but just from the visual impact of this attack, it could be seen that One Autumn Leaf and Soft Mist were definitely not characters on the same level.

Has One Autumn Leaf's equipment changed?

For Ye Xiu, this was something he could recognize at a glance. It had changed. One Autumn Leaf's equipment had changed a lot. Some parts had been replaced directly, and others had changed in appearance. The club's technical development department wouldn't waste materials just to change the shape of the equipment. Changes in appearance usually meant that the equipment's attributes had been adjusted. In the eyes of the audience, One Autumn Leaf was still One Autumn Leaf, but in front of Ye Xiu, who was extremely familiar with this character, One Autumn Leaf was already completely different.

Dodging Dragon Breaks the Army, Lord Grim used Flying Gun to retreat, trying to create some distance from One Autumn Leaf first.

"Hehe, is this the state of your recovery? Isn't it a little too little?" Sun Xiang looked at Lord Grim's condition and typed another string of words in the channel.

After all, Lord Grim didn't have any job-related bonuses, and it was impossible to wear a full set of healing equipment to fight, so the healing effect was still weak. He had only recovered 70% in this amount of time. Because the healing effect was poor, the mana consumption was relatively high, and it was impossible for Ye Xiu to really recover to full health. In that case, even the mana restored by Hope's Prayer might not be enough.

For a level 75 character, low-level, without job-related bonuses and healing equipment, the effect of the healing skill was still quite weak.