The King's Avatar Chapter 1004-1005

Chapter 1004: Ninja and Mechanic

Translator: Nomyummi Editor: Nomyummi

“Oh? Life Extinguisher has started to move.” He had originally thought that the two players would need more time to figure out their opponent’s location, but it looked like Xiao Shiqin’s Life Extinguisher made the first clear move. Life Extinguisher turned around, went into a secluded alleyway off to the side, and began advancing forward resolutely.

Pan Lin saw the alley. The direction that Life Extinguisher was heading towards was very obvious. Pan Lin started getting excited: “This direction… Life Extinguisher is trying to circle around Deception. Xiao Shiqin is already aware of Deception’s location. He found out after that Electron Eye. Just what did he see?”

The broadcast immediately replayed the scene from the Electron Eye. Everyone’s eyes went wide, but up until it was destroyed, no one saw anything eye catching.

“How did Xiao Shiqin do it? Coach Li?” Pan Lin asked.

When Li Yibo watched the replay, he had watched even more seriously than anyone else, because he knew that if Pan Lin couldn’t figure it out, the problem would be thrown his way. That was his responsibility as a consultant, but this time, Li Yibo really didn’t find anything from this replay. When Pan Lin asked this question, Li Yibo grunted as if he were about to reply, but then he suddenly said: “Wait, let’s take a look at Mo Fan’s Deception first.”

Mo Fan’s Deception suddenly started moving. He had been crouching down on the corner of a rooftop. At this moment, he drew back from the corner, but he didn’t get up. He simply climbed in this way onto another rooftop.

“Does Mo Fan know Xiao Shiqin’s Life Extinguisher is moving towards him?” Pan Lin cried out in a surprise. Deception’s movements were like a praying mantis hunting its prey.

From the omniscient view, the viewers watching could see the movements of the two characters and didn’t dare to breathe. It was as if saying something would reveal the hidden movements of the two sides, but in the stadium, Excellent Era’s fans were jumping and cheering madly because if this scene continued to develop like this, Xiao Shiqin’s Life Extinguisher would be the ambusher.

This was also why the competitors were sound-isolated from the outside crowd during a match. If not, a warning from a third party could affect the outcome of the match.

“Life Extinguisher is closing in. It looks like his target is obvious. Xiao Shiqin knows that the other side is hiding on this rooftop! But the problem is, that was before. Deception is no longer at that position.”

“Life Extinguisher is still moving forward. Oh…”

When XIao Shiqin’s Life Extinguisher was about to reach his destination, he looked like he was about to send attacks towards that rooftop. Because of his class’s features, Life Extinguisher didn’t need to approach. Right when Life Extinguisher was fiddling around with who knew what mechanical tools, Deception activated the Disappearing Body Technique and slowly climbed down noiselessly from the rooftop behind Life Extinguisher.

Cut Throat!

Deception initiated with an Assassin skill. His knife slid across Life Extinguisher’s neck, and blood spurted out as a ray of cold light flew out. Xiao Shiqin only just noticed. Life Extinguisher didn’t turn his head back and immediately rolled. However, Mo Fan wasn’t slow. With a Broken Flash, he kicked the fleeing Life Extinguisher up into the air.

Storm Shuriken!

Deception swung his hands and a storm of shurikens shot towards the airborne Life Extinguisher. The shurikens wove a net. Let alone in the air, it would have been difficult to dodge even while standing on flat ground.

Life Extinguisher was hit by multiple shurikens. During this time, Deception had closed in. He swung his ninjato and struck Life Extinguisher with Flame Cut. Bang!

At the same time Deception cut Life Extinguisher, Xiao Shiqin had already counterattacked. Even though he was unable to dodge the cut, he was able to turn his body and fire a merciless gunshot at Deception.

It was only a normal attack, so the damage could be tolerated. Mo Fan seemed to ignore it. After getting shot, he leaped up and Bird Fell onto Life Extinguisher.

Boom!

When Bird Fall hit Life Extinguisher, a flame burst forth. That obviously didn’t originate from Bird Fall. Life Extinguisher had stealthily thrown a grenade, which exploded when Bird Fall hit.

Life Extinguisher crashed into the ground because of Bird Fall, but Deception could not follow up. The shockwave from the grenade’s explosion flung Deception to the side too.

“Beautiful!” Li Yibo shouted, “The timing of that grenade was too perfect. Everyone, look. If this grenade had exploded earlier, Deceptions Bird Fall wouldn’t have landed. The shockwave of the explosion has lower priority than Bird Fall. Deception’s attack would have hit Life Extinguisher, and Deception would have dropped to the ground along with Life Extinguisher. However, by having the explosion come immediately after Bird Fall hit, Deception was sent flying away, unable to continue his combo.”

“Shadow Clone Technique!” Pan Lin suddenly roared.

Deception suddenly used Shadow Clone Technique, instantly teleporting to Life Extinguisher’s side, but before he could attack, Life Extinguisher raised his arm. His punch seemed to instantly expand as it flew towards Deception.

Mo Fan reacted extremely quickly. Deception stepped to the side and the Rocket Punch flew past him. By the time he turned back, Life Extinguisher had already rolled to the side. In his original location was a small gadget instead.

Bang!

Air Compressor’s unique sound effect was extremely distinct. A high pressure air blast was released. With the distance between them, Deception had no way of avoiding it and was instantly sent flying into a wall.

Life Extinguisher half squatted on the ground. His hands never stopped to rest. Mechanical Seeker, Air Drop, Predator, Cruiser… All sorts of offensive Mechanic gadgets barraged Deception. At the same time, under the effects of an Amplifier, all damage from his skills was instantly doubled.

Boom boom boom boom boom……

All sorts of noise erupted. Deception had only just crashed into the wall, and in the next second, he was covered by fire and light. Apart from gasping at Xiao Shiqin’s combo, nothing else could be said. He had clearly been the one ambushed, but a short moment later, he was the one dealing more damage to the ambusher.

What could be done? This was a game after all. If this was real life, Deception slitting his throat would have been enough to instantly kill him, but in the game, life was a calculable statistic. A sneak attack would only let you seize the initiative. It wouldn’t let you win with a single strike.

Excellent Era’s fans had been worried for Xiao Shiqin the previous minute. Now, they were cheering again. The ones closest to Happy continued to shout.

“Did you see that? That’s true skill! Skill!!!”

“Fucking scrap picker, go pick up trash!”

Just when the crowd was riled up, Life Extinguisher stopped attacking. The numerous bright lights receded. In the hole blasted apart by this fierce wave of attacks, there was no Deception to be seen. The only thing that lay in the hole was a charred scarecrow.

Ninjutsu – Body Replacement Technique!

Body Replacement Technique and Shadow Clone Technique were similar, but because the substitute was a scarecrow, it was easy to distinguish it from the real body. It was mostly used as an escape tool. However, in the pro scene, there was no such thing as an absolute escape. A winner had to be decided in a match. Body Replacement Technique was often used like Shadow Clone Technique in this case. It was the sign of a sneak attack or a counterattack.

As soon as Xiao Shiqin realized something wasn’t right, he immediately stopped attacking.

Where did Deception’s real body go? Life Extinguisher spun around in a circle, but he didn’t see any signs of Deception.

The teleportation range of Body Replacement Technique wasn’t very large. Deception should be within his line of sight, but he wasn’t. That could only mean one possibility!

The earth beneath Life Extinguisher suddenly started rumbling. A blade leapt up out of the ground. However, Xiao Shiqin already knew what was coming. When the effect of Underground Tunneling Technique was cancelled, Life Extinguisher had used Rotor Wings to fly up into the air.

Underground Tunneling Technique missed. Life Extinguisher immediately threw a grenade as a congratulatory gift. Deception hastily dodged and threw several shurikens at Life Extinguisher, but as the number one Mechanic, how could Xiao Shiqin’s control over Rotor Wings be questioned? Life Extinguisher weaved around in the air, dodging all of Deception’s shurikens.

Mo Fan saw that he couldn’t get anything more and began retreating, but with the other side looking down from above, it wouldn’t be easy to run. He could only use a skill: Ninjutsu – Smoke Bomb.

Thick purple smoke pervaded the area. The user of the skill would not be affected by the effects. Mo Fan had his Deception turn around and run. However, Xiao Shiqin immediately had his Life Extinguisher fly lower to the ground. The air flow induced by the rotating Rotor Wings dispersed the thick smoke. Not long afterwards, Deception was uncovered.

Mo Fan saw that quietly slipping away was impossible. He quickly formed a hand seal. While the cover from the smoke bomb had yet to be completely blown away, he activated Shadow Dance.

Upon seeing this, Xiao Shiqin had Life Extinguisher throw down an Electromagnetic Coil and then used a Rocket Propellor. Despite having the absolute speed advantage, he didn’t retreat. Instead, he continued to throw down all sorts of tools in preparation to face Shadow Dance directly.

Mo Fan didn’t mind. His goal was still to retreat. Shadow Dance was merely a distraction. Seeing that Life Extinguisher’s attention had been attracted, his real body immediately ran outside of the range of Shadow Dance’s heart, causing the numerous shadow clones to disappear, but then several Rising Winter Melons hovered over his head and exploded. The skills wantonly used to contest Shadow Dance weren’t wasted. They actually headed straight for Deception.

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Chapter 1005: Missing the Crucial Opportunity

Translator: Nomyummi Editor: Nomyummi

“No wonder Xiao Shiqin is one of the Master Tacticians of Glory. His ability to switch targets is very quick and fluid. All sorts of gadgets are rushing towards Deception again, while Life Extinguisher is not in a hurry to head over. He’s just like a general devising a plan. Being such an excellent Master Tactician, wouldn’t he be even more outstanding if he were a Summoner, Coach Li?” Pan Lin said.

“Haha, I know what you mean, but I believe a pro player with qualities like Xiao Shiqin would be able to produce great results no matter what class he picked.”

Li Yibo’s answer was fairly evasive, so Pan Lin promptly gave a laugh as he caught on. “Haha, that’s very true.”

“Deception is now trapped by Life Extinguisher’s attacks. Does he have any method to escape? The Body Replacement Technique is currently on cooldown. Oh, there’s the Shadow Clone Technique! Deception used Shadow Clone Technique. Ah, it’s unfortunate… The Shadow Clone Technique didn’t allow to let him escape from Life Extinguisher’s attacks.” Pan Lin said.

“It seems like Xiao Shiqin was ready for all these methods and enlarged the effective area of his attacks. He should be starting to shrink it now.” Li Yibo said.

“As expected, the attacks are focusing in on the true Deception. Ay, if Deception’s current body is the substitute, while the substitute is the real him, wouldn’t this be an opportunity?”

“Ah!” Pan Lin cried out after finishing his sentence because the Deception that was surrounded by attacks was instantly destroyed. It was impossible for any character to be so weak. Evidently, his theory had been correct. Deception actually used a clone to pretend to escape. This was done so he could lure Xiao Shiqin away. His real body would only start to take action when he got into attack range.

“Haha, Mo Fan actually did it, but the results don’t seem to be too good!” Li Yibo said.

“True… Xiao Shiqin’s target switching is truly too fluid and too beautiful!” Pan Lin gasped in admiration. In reality, this was because Xiao Shiqin’s reactions were a lot quicker than the commentators. When Pan Lin was still talking about his theory, Life Extinguisher had already started to adjust his attacks. When Pan Lin cried out “Ah!”, the attacks were already heading towards Deception’s real body. The clone was simply taken down in passing as it was still within range.

Deception continued to suffer under Life Extinguisher’s continuous attacks. All kinds of gadgets emerged nonstop: ones flying from the sky, ones scurrying along the ground, and even ones coming out from underground. Deception was dodging and running, but he couldn’t even find any opportunities to escape, let alone retaliating.

The broadcast gave a close-up shot of Deception’s Body Replacement Technique cooldown. Under the current circumstances, apart from waiting for the rescue skill to come off cooldown, there seemed to be no way out.

Everyone looked at the stopwatch and counted quietly in their heads.

Three, two, one……

The clock flashed, and the Body Replacement Technique went off cooldown. Deception’s hands started to form the hand signs. The action was so quick that it seemed like a blur for everyone else. His silhouette shook. After the fog scattered, all that was left behind was a straw dummy. At the same time, Life Extinguisher’s focused attacks started to expand and increased in range.

Deception’s straw dummy didn’t attract any fire power. On the contrary, his real body started to receive attacks the moment it reappeared. . Although the attacks were weaker than before, there were only one or two seconds of peace before the attacks focused on him again. The lonely straw dummy was left in its original spot all by itself, and none of the attacks bothered to strike it.

“Xiao Shiqin was vigilant about this and calculated the opponent’s cooldown time. This is one of the biggest differences between a pro player and a normal player.” Li Yibo sighed at once.

Even though he had waited for the life-saving skill for so long, it didn’t manage to save him in the end. Even though there was only one opponent, Mo Fan felt as if he were surrounded by tens of thousands of troops. No, it was even more serious than that. When he was scrap picking, although he was actually surrounded by many, they might not necessarily attack him. The scrap picking areas tended to be areas of conflict, so the players were too busy clawing at each other’s necks. As a result, they didn’t tend to scrap pickers as much.

However, there was only one opponent, so the focus of Xiao Shiqin’s attacks was extremely obvious. Mo Fan tried to control Deception to break out using whatever methods he could think of, but none of them worked. It only took a single person to create such a impenetrable net. It has been a long time since Mo Fan had felt so nervous.

No one was born an expert. Mo Fan had been a noob before too. At the time, he was constantly put in dangerous situations where he was isolated and surrounded by enemies. Slips happened quite a few times. However, as he continued to improve, he could do as he liked in chaotic battlefields. Even if there were occasional slip ups, there were a lot of reasons for it. At least, he had never felt so nervous or felt a sense of crisis again.

Despite having only one opponent attacking him, Mo Fan felt as if the pressure of being surrounded by danger during his days as a noob had returned: He wanted to leave, but there was no way out.

Was this the end?

Amidst all kinds of explosions, Life Extinguisher’s silhouette was faintly discernible, and his whereabouts were still rather ambiguous.

If he couldn’t escape, what about attacking him?

When the thought popped up in his head, the silhouette appeared among the lights once again. Mo Fan subconsciously controlled Deception to throw a Shuriken from his hand.

Xiao Shiqin was cautiously controlling his skills. He had witnessed Mo Fan’s excellent escaping techniques. Mo Fan could find opportunities at the slightest opening. However… he obviously lacked experience in high-level matches. If he didn’t use the Body Replacement Technique right away, and left it available to use, it would have made things much harder for Xiao Shiqin. If a skill was used and it failed, it would be useless, but if it stayed unused, it would always stay a threat. The opponent would have one more option to be wary of. Unfortunately, he used it immediately. Next, the cooldown for Shadow Clone Technique was almost up. What would he do?

While Xiao Shiqin was thinking about this matter, something flashed on his screen. As a veteran, he didn’t attempt to work out what it was, and controlled Life Extinguisher to dodge aside. When he spun his view to see what it had been, he saw that it was a Shuriken.

Not good!

Xiao Shiqin’s heart tightened, this dodge resulted in a small pause in his attacks. If this was a normal opponent, they might not be able to grab this chance, but this guy was an escape artist. Would he let go of such an opportunity that he had created?

Xiao Shiqin hastily attempted to correct it, but as he expected, dodging the unexpected attack caused a tiny mishap in his rhythm. Mo Fan was able to grab onto this moment, and Deception’s silhouette rushed out of the fires of battle in the blink of an eye.

“Sigh! It looks like I’ll have to put in a lot of effort again…” Xiao Shiqin thought, but he didn’t expect that Deception didn’t leave after rushing out of his barrage. Deception flicked his hands and several more Shurikens flew out. Deception himself also followed closely behind.

He wants to attack!

Xiao Shiqin realized that Mo Fan wasn’t planning to escape. After looking at the skills he had available, he realized that majority of them had been thrown out already. Deception had left them in the dust.

A skill that was used was equal to nothing! Xiao Shiqin was thinking about it just moments before, but he was now put in a similar situation.

Flame Cut!

Deception slashed down with a Flame Cut from behind the Shurikens. Life Extinguisher jumped aside, and activated the Rotor Wings to start to move. However, before he could move another step, Deception instantly dashed in front of him.

Shadow Clone Technique!

Mo Fan used it to block Xiao Shiqin’s path. When he appeared, an attack was launched by a series of quick hand signs. He didn’t give Xiao Shiqin any opportunity to guess which was the real character.

Ninja Technique: Hundred Streams!

Several streams of water shot towards Life Extinguisher like arrows. Life Extinguisher dodged, but this was exactly what Deception had anticipated. Deception jumped and stomped on Life Extinguisher’s shoulders with a Bird Fall. The moment he pushed down, he swung out the rope’s end on his ninjato. He was able to accurately loop it around Life Extinguisher’s neck with a Body Bind Technique and threw him into the ground ruthlessly.

“He caught him! Deception caught Life Extinguisher! Xiao Shiqin is unable to get away this time.” The commentator, Pan Lin, cried out. The stadium bubbled with excitement, Deception was completely suppressed just moments before, and he was able to suddenly strike back. Audiences loved these quick changes in pace the most. Of course, this wouldn’t include Excellent Era’s fans as the current situation had shut their mouths. They nervously watched Xiao Shiqin’s performance, while they accumulated repelling energy.

“Mo Fan’s wave of attacks is splendid, and the way he grabbed that opportunity was quite exciting. With such a counterattack, the situation should… eh? What?” Li Yibo was just commenting on Mo Fan’s performance, and was about to give new anticipation towards this match. However, Xiao Shiqin’s Life Extinguisher was able to break out within the time it took him to speak.

“Oh no, Mo Fan made a mistake. How could he let Xiao Shiqin break out so easily after spending all the effort to retaliate!” Pan Lin sighed.

“Flying Cicada Double Sting!” Pan Lin suddenly raised his voice.. His shout clearly contained anticipation. Unfortunately, all hope was lost in his continuing sentence. “The Flying Cicada Double Sting missed, it’s too late… If it had been activated just a little bit earlier, it would have been better!”

“Indeed, there seems to be some minor problems in Mo Fan’s linking of his attacks. When fighting against opponents like Xiao Shiqin, even the slightest mistake will be punished…” Li Yibo sighed.

“Mo Fan is still controlling Deception to keep attacking, but the chances are slim…”

“Mm, Xiao Shiqin has already readjusted, he’s just waiting for his skills to come off cooldown!”

“It’s begun!”

“He sent a Predator out, followed by an Air Drop… Mechanical Seeker is blocking the way. Deception has no way of breaking out, he’s facing an encirclement once again.”

“Sigh, what a pity.” Li Yibo shook his head continuously.