Ye Xiu's taunt made Parade's Captain Wu Shuai's heart skip a beat.
This trade really wasn't balanced. Happy's healer was trash! But apart from this, was there any other way?
Hesitation was the biggest taboo in a match! Wu Shuai was very decisive. Even though he was grumbling in his heart, he didn't hesitate. He continued to lead his team members towards Little Cold Hands.
An Wenyi didn't say anything else. As soon as he reached them, he cast a Great Heal on his Little Cold Hands, pulling his health up high. And then, Parade started fighting. Seeing Happy's progress, Wu Shuai's cheeks streamed with tears.
This wasn't a question of whether the trade was balanced or not! Whether or not this trade could be completed was a question. Happy's encirclement was much faster than theirs.
"Take him away!" Wu Shuai hurriedly ordered. As they fought, they also tried to push Little Cold Hands further away to buy more time to kill him.
"It's too late." An Wenyi, the An Wenyi who usually couldn't control the situation well even if he tried his best, actually had the time to type in the public chat, and even while his character was being encircled.
Indeed … it was still too late.
Wu Shuai didn't lack judgment. He just wanted to fight for it. It wasn't until An Wenyi's words came out that he understood that Happy had calculated everything clearly. Everything he had done had been for naught.
It was over.
Wu Shuai knew that the outcome of this match would be decided at this moment.
Wu Shuai sighed. Then, he saw his team's healer finally fall. And this Little Cold Hands? Surrounded by them, he still had a third of his health left!
What if he did what they did?
Wu Shuai suddenly had an idea. He wanted to copy what Happy had done to Parade's healer. But before he could give the order, a Satellite Beam shot down from the sky. The pillar of light spun and spread. Parade's players instinctively dodged. The encirclement was broken just like that.
There was nothing to be done. There was no healer left.
Wu Shuai noticed the difference between their current state and their previous state of being Happy. Happy had the support of a healer at that time, and their healer was cut off from the rest of the team. That was why they were able to fight a battle of attrition. But now, even if they had Little Cold Hands trapped within the encirclement, they didn't have any healers to support them. Forcing them to carry out this encirclement would only cause them to lose even more health.
He really couldn't do it anymore.
Once again, Wu Shuai felt that he had reached the end, and this time, he was finally not inspired by anything else. When the sixth member of Parade arrived, they were at a disadvantage in terms of numbers. Without a healer, they were unable to turn the situation around. As for that Cleric, Little Cold Hands, who was considered the weakest in all of Glory, Wu Shuai yearned for him.
At this moment, even if they had such a Priest, would they lose? Absolutely not!
They were unwilling, but they had no choice but to fall. In the end, Parade couldn't beat Happy in the team competition, losing 1-9.
At the post-match press conference, the reporters asked Wu Shuai for his thoughts on the match. Wu Shuai made some casual remarks, but as he spoke, he gradually began to think seriously.
Where exactly was the match point of this team competition?
At the start, everything had been going very smoothly, easily sending off one of their opponents. With such a lead, how could they have been defeated like a landslide in the end?
Wu Shuai pulled his thoughts back to the match and thought back to that scene. They had sent off Happy's Phantom Demon One Inch Ash, surrounded Hai Wuliang, lured Lord Grim over, and then surrounded him. Afterwards, Lord Grim casually slapped out of their carefully prepared encirclement. The reason was that the character who had intercepted him had mysteriously been hit by Sacred Fire and couldn't use skills.
There was no time to think too much about what had happened in the match. Parade casually thought that Lord Grim had added a skill to his Myriad Manifestations Umbrella, but was that really the case?
Wu Shuai carefully thought back to that scene. When Lord Grim had been surrounded, he had immediately wanted to charge out. Sacred Fire was a skill that required a cast time. How could he have stopped to cast it?
It was Little Cold Hands.
It was An Wenyi.
That unskilled Cleric had actually cleverly cast a Sacred Fire at that time, coordinating with Lord Grim's attack, effortlessly breaking out of the encirclement.
Yes, that's right, that's how it was …
And then, Happy counterattacked, scattering their formation, and the tide of the match immediately turned.
The match point was when Lord Grim had instantly broken out of their encirclement. And this had been done by the Cleric that they looked down on, or perhaps the entire Glory scene didn't take seriously! If it hadn't been for that move, no matter how skilled Ye Xiu was, he wouldn't have been able to open a path with a single slap. Parade and the others weren't noobs either!
That guy's luck was that good.
Wu Shuai thought through the problem and came to this conclusion. In the end, he still didn't believe that An Wenyi had much skill. He thought that he had just been a blind cat running into a dead mouse. But thinking up to this point, he couldn't help but think about Little Cold Hands' performance this match. Then, he realized that he had appeared at the critical juncture again and again.
Did we … lose to that Cleric?
"That's impossible!" Wu Shuai blurted out.
"What's impossible? What did you just say was impossible? " The reporters were listening to another Parade player answer a question when they suddenly heard Wu Shuai blurt out. They immediately turned their attention to Wu Shuai.
"Happy's Cleric isn't simple," Wu Shuai said.
"Hahaha." The reporters sneered. What were they doing? They couldn't beat Happy, so they didn't even acknowledge Happy's biggest weakness? What a petty person! With your skill, even if you couldn't beat Happy, it wouldn't attract any criticism. Was there a need to defend yourself like this?
Parade's words didn't arouse the reporters' interest at all. They continued their interviews until Parade ended and Happy started again. Then, the first thing they heard Ye Xiu say was An Wenyi's performance.
"Today's victory was all thanks to An Wenyi's outstanding performance."
An Wenyi?
Outstanding performance?
Why did it feel so clashing when these two words were put together? Could they really be put together? The reporters were a little dizzy for a moment.
"What, no one actually noticed?" Ye Xiu asked in surprise when he saw the reporters looking at each other. Then, he asked, "Did you guys watch the match?"
"Of course," the reporters answered.
"Are the technical statistics for this match out yet?" Ye Xiu suddenly asked the Alliance's staff.
"It's out," that person answered.
"Who was the MVP of the team competition?" Ye Xiu asked.
"An Wenyi." The Alliance's staff gave the technical statistics.
"Ah?" The reporters were in an uproar.
Ye Xiu said with a smile, "I'm very happy that the Alliance watched the match seriously."
The reporters were embarrassed. An Wenyi was actually the MVP of this match? The reporters forgot about the interview and discussed it animatedly. However, everyone only had a vague impression of An Wenyi's performance in the match. This was because they already had a certain mentality when watching the match. Matches were supposed to be enjoyed, but for An Wenyi, they had no such mentality. And for these Glory professionals, in the end, they couldn't even tell who was the MVP of the team competition.
Without knowing why, the press conference couldn't continue. The reporters could only ask some scripted questions, such as how An Wenyi viewed his performance in the match.
"At the right time, I did the right thing," An Wenyi said.
"Oh? Can you elaborate? "the reporters asked.
"You guys … should just watch the match!" An Wenyi was speechless. Words were needed to describe the details. It wasn't that he was disdainful. He was just … embarrassed. Because those were his highlights. He couldn't just open his mouth and say, "At that crucial moment, it was all thanks to my Sacred Fire," right? He was An Wenyi, not Wei Chen.
In the end, the press conference ended without a conclusion. The reporters were still wondering in their hearts how An Wenyi had become the hero of this match. After it ended, they all impatiently rewatched the match. And with this mentality of picking out highlights, these professionals quickly realized what they had missed out on in this match. This was simply too unprofessional.
"An Wenyi, did you find the feeling?" the reporters wondered.
An Wenyi, who the entire Glory circle thought was a burden, suddenly became the team MVP. Wasn't this change a bit too sudden?
The reporters from all the major media outlets were already thinking about this question about An Wenyi in their heads. Happy's match against Parade wasn't originally the focus of the report. However, An Wenyi had become the MVP of this match, so this topic was a bit amazing.
And if you wanted to find the most exciting highlight of this match, Samsara's home game against Micrograss and Micrograss' home game against Blue Rain were super duels.
In the end, both matches were won by the home team, with the final score being 7 to 3. And Micrograss' undefeated record in the group arena was finally broken in this round. Of all the insane winning streaks in this season, only Ye Xiu's individual competition win streak had not been broken yet.
And in this round, Wind Howl, who had been flaunting their prowess against weak teams, finally suffered a loss. And this time, their opponent definitely couldn't be called a strong team.
Miracle!
This season's new team, in their own home game, actually beat Wind Howl 7 to 3. In the confrontation between the former Excellent Era players, it was actually the players who seemed to have fallen from grace, the ones who had fallen to Miracle, who won.
With this loss, Wind Howl, who had pretended to be strong after beating weak teams, immediately changed places on the leaderboards. Right now, they were in seventh place with 148 points, followed by Hundred Blossoms, who were only one point behind them. And after that, in ninth place was the recently rising team 301 Degrees. After beating Royal Style 8 to 2, they were only seven points away from the playoff zone.
But this time, 301 Degrees didn't use Life-Risking Strike again.
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