At this moment, those who were happy for Ye Xiu or worried for Zhou Zekai didn't really understand the current situation. From start to finish, the only ones whose emotions hadn't changed were Team Samsara and Zhou Zekai's teammates.
Because they understood Zhou Zekai's personality and style the best. Their silent captain, who was regarded as the number one player in Glory, never seemed to have any pride or arrogance in his bones. Long-ranged classes playing close combat? That was the arrogance of a reversal of the game's settings. How could their captain have such a silly idea? He had fought like this only because the situation called for him to fight like this, and then he had done it. That was all.
Cheers and screams were fine. It was reliable. After all, this was an extremely high level of skill. It was an extremely beautiful play.
But to talk about a peak or a revolution, that was nonsense.
Pan Lin's explanation had even made Samsara snort in disdain. Then, when Ye Xiu had slapped him in the face, they had all rejoiced in his misfortune.
Because they were the same as Zhou Zekai. They knew that this kind of play could make people scream, but it wasn't enough to restrain an expert like Ye Xiu.
As a result, they had never thought that Ye Xiu would be crushed by Zhou Zekai like this. What they saw was an exchange of attacks. Zhou Zekai had the health advantage, but he was still able to forcefully trade with Ye Xiu's Lord Grim. Even though he was on the losing end, the exchange could lead him to victory.
The battle continued.
At a very high tempo.
The normal audience didn't know the truth of the situation, but the pro players didn't. At this moment, quite a few people were already secretly calculating the exchange of attacks between the two players to determine who had the advantage.
Zhou Zekai had the advantage.
Zhou Zekai had the advantage.
Zhou Zekai had the advantage.
This was the judgment of Zhang Xinjie, Yu Wenzhou, and Wang Jiexi.
The other players who hadn't finished their calculations immediately stopped. These three had all reached the same conclusion. What difference could there be? At this moment, Zhou Zekai had the upper hand.
"But the way he's playing is still very risky," said Thunderclap's Xiao Shiqin.
Everyone nodded.
Although Zhou Zekai had the advantage in the exchange, this required very precise control. But right now, he was fighting in close combat with an unspecialized, and he was in a passive position. The slightest carelessness could result in a mishap. Until the end, it was hard to say who would win and who would lose.
"But it looks like those guys from Samsara are having a really easy time!" Yu Feng said.
These pro players were seated in the VIP seats in the stadium, facing the stage. They were also quite close to the player seats of the two teams, so they could clearly see the expressions of the players on both sides.
On Happy's side, there was a lot of interaction between the players. Their expressions were grave, and it was clear that they had realized where the problem was and were assessing the situation.
On Samsara's side, everyone's expressions seemed much more relaxed. Occasionally, they would whisper to each other, but it seemed like they were just casually chatting.
"Zhou Zekai isn't completely in a passive position. He's trying to break free, which is restricting Ye Xiu to a certain extent, helping him gain a bit of the initiative," Zhang Jiale suddenly said.
"Right," Han Wenqing nodded.
"Ye Xiu's situation might be worse than we thought," Chu Yunxiu said.
"It feels like he's riding a tiger and can't get off?"
"It's like that."
"Zhou Zekai, this guy is really watertight."
The pro players had reached a consensus. Ye Xiu wasn't like what the audience had seen. After breaking Zhou Zekai's Ejection Body, he hadn't taken the initiative the entire time. His actions were the same as Zhou Zekai's previous display of the Shooting Body Technique. With his character's health falling behind, he couldn't easily let go of this rare opportunity to engage in close combat. No matter how difficult it was, he had to stay close to Ye Xiu. When Zhou Zekai tried to break free, he would do everything he could to stop him, and Zhou Zekai would use this opportunity to create a trade. This was what the pro players had analyzed. Zhou Zekai was taking the initiative to some extent.
It was hard to get off.
Indeed, it was hard to get off. Ye Xiu might not have known that he wouldn't be able to win if this trade continued, but what could he do? If he let Cloud Piercer pull away, it would only be more disadvantageous for him.
As the battle continued, the health of the two characters decreased. Cloud Piercer was a bit faster, Lord Grim was a bit slower. In the end, unspecialized characters had the advantage in close combat. Only Zhou Zekai could still trade with Ye Xiu in this situation. By relying on his health advantage, even though he had lost more health, his health was still higher than Lord Grim's. This became more and more obvious as time went on. Gradually, the normal audience began to notice this. Voices of doubt and discussion began to appear in the stadium. For a moment, they thought that Zhou Zekai was in trouble. But looking at it, if his health continued to decrease, he … seemed like he would win?
"Even though Cloud Piercer is losing health faster, it doesn't seem like … he's losing health faster than Lord Grim, right?" Pan Lin finally understood the situation. He spoke carefully.
"This is the advantage he accumulated early on!" Li Yibo spoke up. He was quite confident in his early on advantage. Everyone had clearly seen the headshot from the Thunder Snipe. What had already happened couldn't be changed, right?
"If this continues, Ye Xiu will … will …" Pan Lin stuttered. He didn't dare to say the word "lose".
"We can't jump to conclusions until the very end." Li Yibo said seriously. Pan Lin couldn't help but glance at him. Was this the same person who had fought with him to praise Zhou Zekai's victory?
"He's at red health!" Pan Lin shouted.
Red health meant less than 10% health. Even though it didn't affect a character's condition, whether it was a player or a pro player, they would often treat red health as a sign of danger.
The first to enter red health was Lord Grim. Zhou Zekai's Cloud Piercer still had 22% health. Compared to the initial gap, Ye Xiu really had closed it a lot, but it wasn't enough! From the previous exchange, if Lord Grim used 10% of his health, he would be able to deal around 15% of Cloud Piercer's health. It was a 1: 1.5 exchange. In a professional match, this exchange was already quite impressive. If it were a normal match, then there was no way Lord Grim would agree to it.
But for this match, this ratio wasn't enough to close the previous gap. In the end, the two sides' health fell to 22% to 10%. With a 1: 1.5 trade ratio, this was clearly an impossible task.
But …
1: 1.5, this was only the final value for a certain period of time. And in this period of time, there would be countless exchanges of attacks, so it was impossible for the ratio to be exactly the same every time. There might be some that were even higher, but right now, Ye Xiu needed to create an even higher ratio. He needed to achieve an exchange of at least 1: 2.2 in order to have a chance of winning.
Not everyone could calculate the numbers so accurately, but even a noob could tell that Ye Xiu wasn't in a good position with his health.
The audience could stop to analyze and discuss, but the match on stage wouldn't. 22% to 10%? That was just an instant ago. In the blink of an eye, 20%, 9%!
A 1: 2 trade!
The audience wasn't too perceptive. After all, they weren't so meticulous as to use numbers to calculate. But the pro players were abnormally sharp. Was Ye Xiu going to go for the final burst of power?
Cross Slash!
Seeing where Cloud Piercer would land after this jump, Lord Grim rushed forward and used a Cross Slash to meet him. The horizontal and vertical slashes formed a cross of sword light.
Bang bang bang bang!
Gunshots rang out. In this match, Cloud Piercer never stopped shooting. From the moment he met Ye Xiu's Lord Grim, Cloud Piercer had been shooting nonstop. He used his shots to attack. He used the recoil to control his body. He used his shots as a close-range weapon.
This time, sparks flew from the bullets. The Cross Slash's cross of sword light wavered like a ripple. Cloud Piercer's shots actually hit the Cross Slash that Lord Grim had dodged.
Long-ranged attacks had far less priority than close-range attacks. Of course, they couldn't affect the Cross Slash, but the consecutive hits had more or less created some movement and displacement.
The sword light flashed, hit!
There was only one splash of blood. Lord Grim's Cross Slash had first been a horizontal slash, and then a vertical slash had been dodged by Cloud Piercer.
Zhou Zekai had actually dodged a Double Slash with precise controls …
The crowd burst into thunderous applause. This sort of brilliant play was always welcomed by the audience.
But the pro players who knew better felt that there was no need to do this. Cloud Piercer's health was double that of Lord Grim's. There was a lot of room for him to trade. If he fought over every detail and played too meticulously, it would be easier for him to make a mistake and give Ye Xiu an opportunity.
"At a time like this, we might as well go all out!" Void's Wu Yuce said.
"It's better to be careful. Don't forget, Lord Grim has healers," Zhang Xinjie said.
"Healers can't heal much at a time like this, right?" Micrograss's healer Yuan Baiqing said. With the way the two of them were fighting, there was no need to even think about casting skills. As a result, Lord Grim, as an unspecialized, could only use the Cleric's instant cast skill, "Lesser Heal". However … …
Everyone immediately thought that Lord Grim's Myriad Manifestations Umbrella might have some other healing skills added to it.
For example, "Great Healing" and "Holy Healing" were both instantaneous healing skills.
Even though Lord Grim could only use Tier 1 skills like these, Instant Heal skills had long cooldowns and large amounts of healing. Even if it was only Tier 1, it was enough to be a life-saving skill in a situation like this where the character was in critical health.
"Is he preparing to heal?" The pro players all grew nervous. They realized that the true moment of victory had only just arrived.
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