Chapter 38
Compared to the quick decision of the first round, the second round obviously dragged on a bit longer. Despite this, no one in the audience dared to raise their hands, for fear of making a fool of themselves in public.
Xia Mo looked at this group of players who just wanted to watch others have fun but didn't dare to join in, and held his forehead helplessly.
There is only one person left, and I don’t know when I can expect him.
As I was silently worried, I suddenly saw a thin figure running towards me from a distance.
“…Sister Mo Se…I…I’ll do it!”
I don’t know if it was because she was running too fast, but the girl was gasping for breath and panting heavily when she spoke.
Xia Mo was stunned for a moment.
Isn't this the carrot lover I'd wanted to become her apprentice with last night while we were picking up equipment? Though young, she's quite polite, always addressing her as "you," practically making her seem like an ancestor.
Love to eat carrots just looked at her with a red face, and when she didn't agree, she jumped up and shouted: "Sister Mo Se, I want to spar with you!"
Xia Mo smiled and said, "Okay, sign up first."
Under everyone's gaze, Carrot Lover filled out the information and excitedly ran to the designated discussion area.
"Sister Mo Se, I'm ready, make your move!"
He loves to eat carrots and is an elementalist. In terms of his professional origin, he is very similar to Xia Mo's star official, both of whom obtain energy from the world.
The only difference is that the star officials use the starry sky above their heads as a medium to attack the enemy; the elementalists are good at using the elements of nature for their own benefit, mainly including the seven branches of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, wind and thunder.
These branches are not independent options, and elementalists can mix them. For example, Qingshui's sister Yun Yao, Xia Mo remembered that she used both water and gold skills at the same time.
From this we can see that the Elementalist is a profession with relatively rich gameplay, because players have different combinations of skills, and the final effects achieved are also different.
In fact, when PKing with others, the profession that Xia Mo finds most troublesome is the elementalist.
Don't think that you are the same as her, both are mages, both have short legs, and are naturally fragile, but you can't beat the elementalist, who has many skills and so many different combinations that it's almost impossible to find the same one. If you are not careful during PK, you can easily fall into the opponent's unique trap.
These are the advantages of elementalists, but those who can integrate these advantages and put them into practice are still a minority.
Obviously, the carrot lover in front of us is not included in this list.
Xia Mo only used the most common attack and easily knocked away more than 1,000 points of the opponent's blood.
The onlookers immediately booed.
"Hiss, this little sister is no good. She turned into a bloody skin as soon as she stepped on it."
"I thought it would be better than the first two, but it's just this level. Damn, it's boring."
"Speaking of which, the attack of Mo Se Boss is too strong. One move deals 1,000 points. How much does her intelligence have to increase?"
"It must be all 5 o'clock."
"Impossible. All the points only increase her spell attack. Didn't you see her dragon battle yesterday? She got a lot of critical hits, which means she not only increased her intelligence, but also [Balance]."
"Oh my god, adding balance has this effect? If I had known this, I would have added some balance too, eh!"
…
The players said all kinds of things, but in the end, the final destination fell on Xia Mo without exception.
They didn't hide their conversation, and both Xia Mo and Ai Chi Luo Gu heard it clearly.
Xia Mo deliberately glanced at the latter: "Are you still going to continue?"
Carrot Love puffed out his cheeks and clenched his fists: "Go on."
After saying that, she took a step forward and attacked Xia Mo.
For someone who loves carrots so much, Xia Mo doesn't even need to think. She can easily avoid them by relying on muscle memory and inertia.
Seeing that her skill failed, Carrot Lover was not disappointed. Instead, her eyes lit up, as if she saw some hope. When Xia Mo dodged to the side, she threw out an ice ring.
Ice Ring is an elementalist's water control skill that can trap the enemy in a ring for 3 seconds.
Just now, Ai Chi carrot didn't dare to throw it immediately because she thought that the big guy in front of her was much better than her in operation. If she used the ice ring at the first shot, she would probably not be able to trap him. So she thought of a roundabout tactic, first deliberately using other skills to distract the attention, and then strike back and catch the opponent off guard.
Although Carrot Lover wasn't 100% sure this one would work, she felt it was pretty close!
I looked at the ice ring expectantly as it flew towards the other party. Unexpectedly, the person on the other side seemed to have predicted it long ago. He did not pause, but instead lightly touched the ground like a dragonfly skimming the water and jumped to the side.
The ice ring missed, and Carrot Lover was stunned for a moment.
What a quick reaction, it looked like he knew she was going to release the ice ring!
Without thinking too much, she quickly threw out another mist of water.
Water mist is still one of the water-based skills. By releasing mist, it can confuse the enemy's vision and interfere with the enemy's actions.
From the attribute point of view, like the Ice Ring, it is a control skill rather than an output skill.
Xia Mo narrowed his eyes slightly, and at the moment the mist formed, he raised his hand and threw out the comet storm.
[Comet Storm: Consumes a certain amount of magic to summon a storm-level comet group, causing continuous damage to enemies within the range.]
Although her vision was disturbed, her skills were not affected.
A group of storm-level comets fell from the sky, rumbling and rumbling. Carrot Lover, who was standing in the range of her attack, had no time to react and was hit instantly and fell to the ground.
The competition ended with the sound of gongs and drums.
NPC: "In the third round, Mo Se wins!"
All kinds of voices suddenly rang out in the crowd.
"I knew this would be the result. It's boring. I waited all this time for nothing."
"Of the three people who went up, only the second male star officer managed to hold on for a few more moves. The first and third, what the hell, they died as soon as they went up. It was so boring."
"Ah, I thought it was quite interesting. Even though it ended quickly, it allowed us to see Mo Se's operation up close. Isn't this better than learning from a video?"
"That makes sense. Seeing it live does feel different. When I watched the street fighting videos before, I didn't think Mo Se was that powerful, but just a few minutes ago, I suddenly felt the suffocation and panic of facing a big boss. If I went up there, I probably wouldn't even last 10 seconds."
"Okay, let's stop talking about this. I'm going to go to the level 10 dungeon. See you later."
…
Some people felt regretful about the sparring scene, while others were satisfied with the moves they had learned. In short, they dispersed while expressing their opinions on the three rounds of sparring.
At this time, Carrot Lover had already crawled up from the ground. She tilted her head and kept gesturing with her hands, as if she was still thinking about why she lost just now.
Xia Mo looked at Carrot who was immersed in his own world and said softly, "The auxiliary route you are taking will not work if you fight alone."
"Huh?" His thoughts were pulled back. Carrot Lover blinked, quite confused. "But I didn't choose Support. I chose Elementalist."
"I know." Xia Mo looked at her calmly. "The Elementalist is positioned as a DPS class, but ultimately, the player has the final say on how to play. You just used three skills. The first one was a normal attack, and the other two were control skills. Isn't that called support?"
An ice ring, trying to trap her; a water mist, trying to interfere with her vision, these are commonly used skills for auxiliary players.
Being touched by Xia Mo, the carrot lover's pupils gradually widened: "How could this happen... I clearly wanted to output, I wanted to be as powerful as you, Sister Mo Se, how did it become a control tactic..."
Is she thinking wrong?
Seeing that the girl in front of her had completed the third round for her, Xia Mo said a few more words: "If you want to focus on water damage, you need to learn skills like [Water Arrow], [Tornado Rain Strike], and [Water Blade]. You have only learned control skills, so you have basically no chance of winning in a one-on-one PK."
It’s okay to use control skills to deal with wild monsters. All you have to do is freeze them continuously and then slowly wear down their health bars. But people are different. People are alive. How can they just sit there like monsters, waiting to be trapped?
I love eating carrots and suddenly it dawned on me.
She lowered her head in shame and twisted her fingers: "...Thank you, Sister Mo Se."
Xia Mo: "No need, after all, you helped me complete the task, so we're even."
After saying that, without further delay, he pulled out the little black horse and returned to the ruins of Cartaya to report.
The sacred but desolate astrology tower still stands on the ruins. Whenever Xia Mo looks at this scene, he always thinks of Quinn, who is old but unwilling to surrender.
Despite being banished to a remote ruin, far away from the royal city, Quen still holds on to his beliefs and shares his experience with every adventurer who comes to visit him.
Xia Mo took a deep breath solemnly and stepped into the Astrology Tower.
Quinn, dressed in a black robe, was already standing on the platform.
"Kid, I saw your sparring. It was pretty good. You've won three matches in a row. You're worthy of being my apprentice, Quinn."
Ding, as Quinn finished speaking, the sound of mission accomplished rang in his ears.
[Successfully complete the career mission [Sparring], experience +1000, silver coins +10]
[Obtain Intermediate Red Medicine*2, Intermediate Blue Medicine*2]
【Obtain Teleportation Scroll*1】
[Obtain skill [Starlight] blueprint*1 (to be learned)]
It was still the same regular rewards, and Xia Mo felt nothing.
After all, she didn't do the professional mission for the experience points and coins, but to learn skills, so she didn't care about the reward given by Quen. It was enough to make sure there was a teleportation scroll in it, so as to avoid having to rely on flying birds like the first time.
His attention fell on the last skill blueprint. Xia Mo clicked on it and studied it on the spot.
[Starlight: (Single Attack + Continuous Damage) Consumes (Level + 8) * 3 mana points, dealing two consecutive spell damages to a single target. Attacks are more effective at night than during the day (Special: When used against nocturnal monsters, damage is increased by an additional 30%). Casting time: 1.5 seconds, Freeze time: 6 seconds (Under Cooldown Compression, freeze time is reduced to 5.1 seconds)]
A very good single-target skill, it also comes with a continuous damage effect and is more convenient to use than [Comet Storm].
[Comet Storm] Although its attack is very powerful, it also consumes a considerable amount of mana, using more than 200 mana points at a time, which made her feel very painful when fighting the dragon.
But no matter how painful it is, the dragon is the world boss. In this special situation, it is natural to use all the powerful skills one by one.
But in normal times, the cost-effectiveness of [Comet Storm] is a bit low.
Xia Mo has always wanted a single-target skill between [Starquake] and [Stardestruction], which would make it more convenient for daily monster hunting.
Unexpectedly, Quinn was so thoughtful to send one to Xia Mo. He was so happy that even his eyebrows were more curved than usual.
After praising her as per the routine procedure, Quinn went on to assign new professional tasks.
"You have a talent for astronomy. The weather is nice these days. Take some time to go to Finnat Heights to observe the stars and record their shapes and movements."
[Professional Mission: Go to [Fennat Heights] to observe the stars and record your observations (observation time at least 90 minutes)]
It took a full hour longer than the first stargazing mission. Xia Mo thought about it and decided to find a relatively less busy time to complete the mission.
After accepting the mission and leaving the Astrology Tower, Xia Mo did not use the teleportation scroll, but rode a horse to Luwalu County.
The teleportation scroll is not easy to come by, and buying it separately will cost extra money. Xia Mo doesn't want to waste it on it. Anyway, she is already level 13 now, and there is no rush, so she simply chooses to ride a horse which is not very costly.
After running for more than half an hour, Xia Mo arrived at Luwalu County.
Relying on her memory, she went to the place where she had delivered letters for the mayor before, but found that Andrew was not there, so she had to try the warehouse.
Fortunately, Andrew was counting goods at the door of his warehouse. Xia Mo saw him from a distance and greeted him with a smile.
Andrew was quite surprised: "Young man, what are you doing here? Did the mayor ask you to deliver a letter again?"
Xia Mo dismounted and bowed politely: “Dear Mr. Andrew, there is no letter this time.”
"So what are you doing...?"
Xia Mo smiled and said, "I want to buy some goods from you."
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