Yu Ke and Lin Xiaorui crushed the opponent 3:0, but the remaining two players were stuck in a stalemate in the semi-finals. In the end, water player Zhao Han defeated Zhu Jianing 3:2 to enter the finals.
"Congratulations to Yu Ke and Zhao Han for making it to the finals. Please welcome the two contestants back to the big stage!"
Amid the enthusiastic applause from the audience, Yu Ke and Zhao Han were called back to the stage by the host.
Zhao Han has won all the games since he started the Freshman Tournament, but today Yu Ke made him feel unsure. In the first round, he played Black and White Impermanence, in the second round, Lu Zhidao, in the third round, Meng Po... Will Yu Ke bring out more new cards in the finals? Where did this mess of jokers come from? He had never heard of them before.
Yu Ke was full of confidence, with a determined smile on his face.
In the middle of the big stage was a championship trophy with a gold base, and next to it was a brand new smart helmet with Tang Muzhou's autograph. The host smiled and said, "Whoever wins the next final will get the championship trophy and the customized helmet. Before the game starts, do you have anything to say to each other?"
Zhao Han looked at Yu Ke, who was a head shorter than him, and said gracefully: "Yu Ke, you are very powerful, but I am also very confident in myself. I hope you can give your best in the next game!" He said this, but prayed silently in his heart: Don't bring out more new cards, he didn't want to see a mess of joker cards.
Yu Ke nodded seriously and said, "Don't worry, I still have a lot of trump cards that I haven't used yet. I will definitely give you a surprise later!"
Zhao Han: “…” No, I don’t need surprises. Can you just use your old card?
Facing the boy's serious eyes, Zhao Han was in deep pain.
Amid the cheers of the audience, the two walked to the swivel chairs and sat down, then put on their helmets and started the game.
The host said, "Now I declare that the championship match of the freshman competition has officially begun! First, please ask the two contestants to draw lots. We see that Zhao Han has drawn the blue side and has the right to choose the map first. Everyone, guess which map Zhao Han will choose?"
——Endless snowfield.
The selected picture confirmed by Zhao Han soon appeared on the big screen.
This is a typical snow scene. Due to the thick layer of snow on the ground, all cards will be negatively affected by "movement speed reduced by 50%". It is very unfriendly to decks that rely on normal attacks to deal damage. If you have not practiced this kind of map specifically, you may make mistakes when releasing skills due to the reduced movement speed.
In addition, the snowy scene is all white and the light is bright, which is not conducive to the lurking of dark jokers. Instead, it is easy for ice-blue water creature cards to blend into the scene, causing visual misjudgment to the opponent. This map was developed by Fang Yu, the ace player of Liushuangcheng Club, and is very suitable for water decks.
There are hundreds of competition maps to choose from in the Star Card Arena map library. Zhao Han chose "Endless Snowfield" without hesitation, and it was obvious that he had planned to use this map to target Yu Ke.
The game starts and both sides show their decks.
The card deck that Yu Ke demonstrated this time included the ghost cards Red Bride, White-haired Female Ghost, Headless Doll made by Gui Sirui, and the new ghost cards Black Impermanence and White Impermanence that just appeared today.
The host couldn't help but speculate: "Two hidden cards, one of which is very likely to be Meng Po, which he used in the semi-finals. What about the other one? Is it a new card?"
Will Yu Ke come up with more new cards? The audience is looking forward to it.
At the same time, the Star Card official forum live broadcast area.
There is a very popular anchor named "White Peacock" who happens to be a student at Imperial Capital University. She was broadcasting this match live. The number of netizens following the match in the live broadcast room has exceeded six figures, and the barrage area is about to explode: "Is this Yu Ke related to Guishen?" "He suddenly took out so many strange ghost cards. Could he be a newcomer that the Ghost Hell Club is training?"
The news of the new joker spread quickly, and soon reached the ears of the new members of the Hell Club who loved to watch the live broadcast.
The two newcomers immediately ran to find Gui Sirui.
Gui Sirui was preparing for the professional league individual competition two days later. When he heard the news, he ran to the training room with interest.
On the live broadcast screen, the game has begun. Yu Ke releases the red and white female ghost and the headless doll to engage in a melee with the opponent's aquarium fish.
Due to the slowing effect of the snow, the attack speed of the headless doll was greatly reduced, and it could not catch up with the agile school of fish at all. The two sides exchanged skills and all lost blood. In comparison, Yu Ke's joker had lower blood volume, and it seemed that the situation was very unfavorable to Yu Ke.
At this moment, Zhao Han suddenly summoned a group freeze, trying to freeze the opponent and destroy a small group. As a result, Yu Ke almost used a clever trick of Meng Po, and force-fed a bowl of Meng Po soup to the opponent's group control card.
The new guy pointed at the screen and said, "Brother Rui, this is Meng Po! A new joker card!"
Gui Si Rui looked at the real-time battle records of the arena with interest and said, "Forgetting skills? This design is indeed interesting."
The next moment, Black Wuchang and White Wuchang came out at the same time. Black Wuchang killed four cards on the opposite side in a row, stacked four layers of marks and cleared the field directly.
Gui Sirui stroked his chin thoughtfully: "Black and White Impermanence? Are these two also the new joker cards that appeared today?"
The newcomer nodded his head in a flurry, "That's right! We've been watching White Peacock's live broadcast. Yu Ke used the same tactics to defeat Lin Xiaorui in the semi-finals!"
But the same routine cannot be used over and over again. Zhao Han is not a fool. He deliberately kept two cards to target the Black and White Impermanence. After the Black Impermanence exploded, he immediately summoned a single freeze card to freeze the White Impermanence who could delay time, and then killed the Black Impermanence!
At this time, Yu Ke had 6 cards left, 3 of which were in critical condition. Zhao Han launched a fierce attack, using the snowy environment as a cover, and took away all of Yu Ke's 3 low-health cards in one breath!
The host couldn't help but say: "Yu Ke is in danger! Although in terms of the number of cards, both sides now have 3 cards left, but the embarrassing thing is that Yu Ke's remaining Meng Po and Bai Wu Chang are both auxiliary cards without any attack skills..."
This is why you have to kill the core output first in a game. Once the output is dead, the remaining supports are just waiting to die.
Zhao Han has three cards, one of which is a crowd control card whose skills have been temporarily forgotten, and the skill is currently still on cooldown; the other two are water-based single-attack cards, and the ranged water poison can be continuously stacked.
Zhao Han was so excited that his fingers were trembling. He felt that he was sure to win this round!
Even if Yu Ke summoned a later-stage ghoul at this time, it would be of no avail. The more corpses a ghoul devours, the stronger its attack power. At this moment, there are a total of 8 death cards on the scene. If the ghoul really eats eight souls, the attack power is indeed terrifying.
But the key is that the more souls a ghoul eats, the bigger it will become, and a fat ghoul will be very clumsy - this is a snowy map, and the clumsy ghoul can't move at all, and there is no way it can catch up with the nimble school of fish!
Seeing this, Xie Mingzhe couldn't help but praise: "This Zhao Han has good awareness. He was on guard against Xiao Ke using the Ghoul and the Black Impermanence to play a double-core late-stage lineup. He deliberately used the snowfield map to break the Ghoul's pursuit."
Chen Xiao smiled and said, "Unfortunately, he doesn't know how deep Xiao Ke's card pool is."
Just when Zhao Han thought he had victory in his grasp, a pure white figure suddenly appeared in his sight.
A beautiful woman appeared on the field. Before Zhao Han could see her face clearly, the long-haired beauty instantly split into three phantoms, which followed behind his three cards respectively - Nie Xiaoqian and A Chinese Ghost Story!
The audience only felt as if there was a gust of white wind blowing past their eyes, and the nimble female ghost suddenly teleported behind the school of fish. Her inky-black hair stretched out and spread, tightly entangling the school of fish, ruthlessly strangling the illusion of the school of fish into pieces!
Zhao Han, who was originally in a great advantage, had no idea what was happening, so Nie Xiaoqian used the 7-second "A Chinese Ghost Story" state to pursue flexibly and killed his three water cards!
Within 7 seconds, three teleportations and three consecutive kills, you can imagine how terrifying Nie Xiaoqian's output is!
Many spectators at the scene stared with eyes wide open, looking at the scene in disbelief.
In the live broadcast room, countless bullet screens appeared, and the number of online netizens quickly exceeded one million in a short period of time.
"Where did this great man Yu Ke come from?!"
"Is the level of Teito University's freshman competition this year so high?"
"Is the second Tang Muzhou going to appear?"
"I think he should be the second Gui Sirui. He used all joker cards. It's rare to find a player who likes horror style!"
"I'm very optimistic about this young boy. He always fights back to the extreme. It's so exciting!"
"A boy who likes horror is super cute. I wonder if any professional club will be interested in him!"
When Gui Sirui saw this scene, his eyes suddenly lit up and he immediately asked, "Do you know who made these joker cards?"
The two new members of the club looked at each other and said, "I don't know. The card maker's logo was deliberately hidden during the game. I don't know what Yu Ke is up to!"
Gui Sirui was stunned: "Deliberately hiding?"
In the official competition, players can choose to hide the logo on the back of the cards. In Yu Ke's cards, except for a few familiar cards with the word "ghost" representing Gui Sirui written on the back, the logos on the back of the other newly appeared ghost cards are all hidden.
Yu Ke hid the identity of the card author. This was also Xie Mingzhe's explanation before the game, because Xie Mingzhe did not want Yu Ke to reveal too much information about Nirvana Club, and he did not want people to know that he was the famous "Fat Uncle".
It is for this reason that a large number of onlookers on the Internet have speculated whether Yu Ke is related to Gui Sirui.
Gui Sirui had never made these cards before, so his first reaction when he saw this was, "Could it be that Yu Ke made the cards himself and hid his own logo in order to keep a low profile?"
The two newcomers looked at each other, and one of them suddenly had an idea and reminded, "Brother Rui, Tang Muzhou is also here today. Imperial Capital University is his alma mater, and we invited him back as a special guest today."
Gui Sirui and Tang Muzhou were both disciples of the Five Elements Founder and had a good personal relationship. Upon hearing this, he sent a message to the other party: "Muzhou, you are at the Imperial Capital University freshman competition, right? Any news on what happened to Yu Ke's joker?"
Tang Muzhou replied in surprise: "Didn't you, Xiaogui, make these joker cards?"
Gui Sirui: “…”
Pretend, try your best to pretend! Tang Muzhou must know something!
Gui Sirui immediately turned around to look for his master Zheng Feng. After hearing this, Old Zheng also ran over to watch the live broadcast with interest: "New joker? Hey, Meng Po's design is good!"
At almost the same time, Ye Zhu popped up in the professional league group and sent a message: "Did you hear about this? There are many new jokers in the freshman competition of Imperial University this year! @歸思睿@鄭峰"
Ye Zhu, who loves to see the excitement, has almost become the "news reporter" of the professional league. Whenever there is any movement, he is the first to come out and tell everyone. Others are obviously still out of the picture and see this news being blown up one after another.
Shan Lan: "A new joker? What's up with Xiaozhu?"
Ye Zhu sent the address of the live broadcast room and said, "I'm watching Bai Kongque's live broadcast. If you're interested, you can come and watch it!"
Coincidentally, Ye Zhu watched the live broadcast because of Pei Jingshan.
Pei Jingshan, like Tang Muzhou, is a graduate of Imperial Capital University, and he has to call Tang Muzhou "senior". This year, Imperial Capital University originally invited him to participate in an event, but Pei Jingshan has a competition to participate in tomorrow morning and cannot leave for the time being, so he declined the school's invitation.
Ye Zhu knew that Tang Muzhou was invited as a guest, so out of curiosity, she opened the live broadcast room of Bai Kongque and watched the live broadcast while eating melon seeds. This beautiful woman is a very popular anchor on the Internet, a third-year student at Imperial Capital University, and happened to be at the school gymnasium tonight, broadcasting the freshman exchange competition live.
As Ye Zhu watched, he felt something was wrong.
I originally thought that these joker cards were Gui Sirui's masterpiece, but the style didn't look like it at all. He was so anxious that he sent the message to the group, and many people came to watch the fun.
The first game has ended, and Yu Ke is currently leading 1:0.
In the second round, Yu Ke chose the map, and he once again chose the Ghost Castle, a scene that Gui Sirui particularly liked from the Hell Club.
During the stage where both parties announced their decks, the five visible cards that Yu Ke announced this time were Black Impermanence, White Impermanence, Meng Po, Nie Xiaoqian and Ghoul, and the two hidden cards were not announced.
Ye Zhu suddenly had a very strange feeling, as if Yu Ke was replacing the deck of the great Gui Sirui step by step.
In the first game of the semi-finals, all five open cards were Gui Sirui's works, and the two hidden cards were Black and White Impermanence.
In the second match, the new cards had an extra Lu Zhi Dao. In the third match, the new cards had an extra Meng Po. In the first match of the finals, which was his fourth match tonight, the new cards had an extra Nie Xiao Qian.
By the fifth round, four of the cards on display were new, and there was only one joker left that Gui Sirui had made. The situation with the hidden cards was still unknown.
Seeing this, Ye Zhu couldn't help but send a message to Shan Lan: "Brother Lan, this Yu Ke seems to be replacing the joker card pool little by little. Could it be that he has made a lot of new cards that can completely replace Guishen's joker card?"
Shanlan didn't know the reason, so he had to ask his master for help.
After hearing this, Nie Yuandao immediately walked over to watch the live broadcast.
In the picture, Yu Ke and Zhao Han have already started a fierce fight.
To the surprise of the audience, Yu Ke once again took out two new joker cards at the critical moment: Ox Head and Horse Face.
The Yellow Spring Road of the Bull-Headed Devil and the Red Spider Lily of the Horse-Faced Devil, a wave of group attacks plus linked skills, directly defeated Zhao Han's deck!
——2:0, Yu Ke takes the lead!
Nie Yuandao looked at the live broadcast and said calmly, "Wait for the third game to see if he will continue to release new cards."