At the moment the match started, the holographic screens in front of everyone watching the match displayed information about the two players from a God's perspective.
Zhen Man came over today with her main account. "Toxin Spreading" is her famous account in the game. She used to be the vice president of Fenghua Guild and managed the guild together with Hong Cang. She was discovered and trained by Tang Muzhou. After her debut in the sixth season, she won the runner-up in the individual competition.
Her character is a beautiful woman who is somewhat similar to herself, with big curly hair that makes her look charming and sexy, and a cute little ice snake wrapped around her arm.
Xie Mingzhe ignored her image and quickly observed his opponent's deck.
——Dark card mode.
This is Xie Mingzhe's first time playing the dark card mode.
Compared to the open card mode in the rookie stage, which shows both sides' entire decks, the hidden card mode only shows each other's five cards, and the other two cards can only be seen on the black back, without seeing the content. The countdown time of the hidden card mode has also been increased to 30 seconds, allowing players to understand the deck information and adjust the two hidden cards.
Seeing the neat set of snake cards in front of him, Xie Mingzhe was nervous and excited - he knew that he was facing a top-notch player, and the combination of the deck alone was enough to shock people.
The five cards Zhen Man displayed were all wood cards, including the green "Bamboo Leaf Green Snake", the "Chameleon Snake" covered with gorgeous colorful patterns, the "Silver Ring Snake" with silver-white ring stripes, the pitch-black "Black Mamba Snake", and the extremely small "Blind Snake Group". Xie Mingzhe was dazzled by the different forms of snakes.
Among these five cards, the Green Bamboo Leaf Pit is the card with the strongest single-target attack, the Chameleon is invisibility + single-target control, the Silver Ring Snake is single-target control + single-target output, the Black Mamba is single-target output, and the Blind Snake is group control.
He couldn't see the two hidden cards, maybe they were defensive or healing cards.
Xie Mingzhe put Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, Lu Meng and Xiao Qiao in the open deck, and Sun Shangxiang and Da Qiao in the hidden deck. This deck is the one he is best at, and he doesn't keep changing it - when playing against a master, he must use the most familiar deck, and he will not be able to keep up with the train of thought if he changes the cards temporarily.
In the stands, the newcomers saw this deck and exclaimed at its beautiful style: "This deck can be used to participate in a beauty pageant!" "The combination of handsome men and beautiful women is really pleasing to the eye!" "Is this the deck that was discussed in the group a few days ago?" "There are many solutions to crack it! So why did Tang Shen call him over? Hasn't this deck been cracked by the masters?"
Tang Muzhou wanted Xie Mingzhe to experience for himself how the deck could be cracked.
No matter how much you say, it won't be as profound as experiencing it yourself.
***
The countdown ends and the competition begins soon.
The expert ranking system will not summon all the cards at once for a 7v7 duel. Instead, players can selectively summon some of their own cards, just like playing poker. You can play cards one by one or in random combinations, and you must respond quickly.
To prevent players from playing passively and stalling, when there are no cards left on the field, that is, when a player becomes a lone commander without any cards to protect him, if he does not summon a new card within 5 seconds of the countdown, the system will directly judge him as a loser. If all seven cards are dead and there are no cards to summon, of course he will lose.
In this mode, how to time the cards and how to save the number of cards are great tests for the operator's reaction speed and predictive ability.
Zhen Man first summoned a Bamboo Leaf Green Snake, the emerald green snake slithered on the ground at an extremely fast speed. Xie Mingzhe gritted his teeth and summoned Sun Ce. Bamboo Leaf Green Snake is a single attack card, it can't kill Sun Ce in seconds, but Sun Ce can't kill it in seconds either. The two sides confronted each other for less than 3 seconds, and Zhen Man suddenly used three cards in a row!
A colorful snake appeared beside her, but disappeared in an instant - it was the invisibility of the chameleon snake!
This is where the Chameleon card is strong. Its mechanism is a bit like that of a chameleon. It can change the color of its body to blend in with the surrounding environment, making it impossible for people to see where it is.
Xie Mingzhe remembered that this card also had a control function, which was single-target paralysis. Once a player was paralyzed, he could not use any skills. Once Sun Ce was controlled, there were four snake cards on the field, and Sun Ce was likely to be killed instantly!
But when will it show up? What if Sun Ce activates invincibility and it doesn't show up? Wouldn't that be a waste of the invincibility skill?
Xie Mingzhe hesitated for only 1 second before the chameleon quickly crawled behind Sun Ce and bit him - single body paralysis!
Sun Ce was paralyzed and controlled, and couldn't use any skills at all.
Xie Mingzhe secretly exclaimed in his heart, "Oh no!"
Zhen Man's reaction was so fast that the thought just flashed through his mind before the opponent immediately attacked!
As soon as the chameleon controlled Sun Ce, he saw the Bamboo Leaf Green Snake, Silver Ring Snake and Black Mamba snake surrounding him at the same time. The four snakes surrounded Sun Ce from the front, back, left and right. The normal attacks of the four snake cards all had poisoning effects, and the poisoning instantly stacked to ten layers!
The most terrifying thing about the snake siege is the overlapping poisoning. One layer of poison is not bad, but ten layers of poison are deadly. Even Sun Ce, who has a high HP, can't stand it!
The poison was still stacking, and Sun Ce's blood was dropping like a wall. If Sun Ce died like this, it would be equivalent to giving the opponent a card for free!
Xie Mingzhe had no choice but to immediately use three cards in a row to counterattack - at least he had to summon Zhou Yu. Even if Sun Ce died, he could still trigger the joint skills of the two pillars of Jiangdong.
Zhou Yu's iron chain burned the Red Cliff, and Lu Xun's fire burned the camps, and all four opposing snakes were crippled!
Follow closely and release Sun Shangxiang to harvest!
He dared to play like this because there was no healing card among the four snake cards on the field. He didn't know what Zhen Man's two hidden cards were. If he allowed the healing card to restore the HP, it would be difficult for him to hold on.
He can only take a gamble!
After this combo, all the snake cards on the opponent's side will lose all their health. As long as Sun Shangxiang takes action to harvest them, she can definitely kill four cards in one breath.
However, at the moment when he summoned Sun Shangxiang to release a skill, a silver ring snake with silver stripes all over its body suddenly flew in front of Sun Shangxiang like a sharp arrow, spitting out red letters from its mouth and opening its mouth to bite!
The paralyzed Sun Shangxiang stood still like a statue, unable to use any skills!
At this time, all four snakes turned their firepower to kill Sun Shangxiang. The poison of the Green Bamboo Viper, the entanglement and strangulation of the Silver Ring Viper, and the neurotoxin of the Black Mamba, a wave of poison attacks superimposed, and Sun Shangxiang was instantly drained of blood!
Once Sun Shangxiang dies, Xie Mingzhe's deck will be completely unplayable.
Xie Mingzhe summoned Da Qiao without hesitation, wanting to go into seclusion and take back Sun Shangxiang, but the moment he summoned Da Qiao, his eyes suddenly went black - it was the blinding effect of the blind snake group!
Zhen Manka's ability to control the rhythm of her skills really made his scalp tingle.
This was the first time he encountered such a powerful enemy, so powerful that he felt that his opponent knew every move he made, as if his opponent had penetrated into his brain and guessed all his thoughts.
Xie Mingzhe had no choice but to summon Lu Meng and Xiao Qiao to counterattack the group - he could only bet that the opponent would be controlled by him and save Sun Shangxiang's life.
However, when he regained his vision, he found that Sun Shangxiang had been killed, Da Qiao had also been killed, the opponent's snakes had scattered very flexibly, and standing in front of him was a huge golden python!
This python is over thirty meters long, golden in color, with a bloody mouth wide open. Just looking at it makes people feel cold.
Xie Mingzhe knew he was doomed to fail. Sure enough, the golden python used its ultimate move, spun around at an extremely fast speed, tightly entangling all humans in the range - and strangling them to death!
He was almost killed without any chance to fight back. And he didn't even know what happened during the few seconds he was blind.
Xie Mingzhe was extremely shocked and frustrated when he saw the "failure" appearing on the screen.
At this moment, Tang Muzhou's gentle voice rang in his ears: "How is it? Are you hit? Can you bear it?"
Xie Mingzhe took a deep breath and immediately adjusted his attitude: "Okay!"
He was so depressed! Sister Zhen Man was the runner-up in the individual competition. Wasn't it natural for her to bully him? He had only played this game for a few days? How many years had Zhen Man played it and how many competitions had she played? Could they compare?
The important thing is to learn fighting skills from the competition process. This is also the purpose of his senior letting him compete with masters. He must find the gap between himself and the masters as soon as possible!
The opportunity to be beaten by a master is so rare. If he admits it, how can he still call Tang Muzhou "senior brother"? However, Zhen Man beat him so hard that he was a little confused. He didn't know how Sun Shangxiang and Da Qiao died. This was really depressing.
Tang Muzhou seemed to see through his thoughts and said, "I recorded this game just now. The video from the God's Perspective is clearer. I'll show it to you after the game is over."
Xie Mingzhe's eyes lit up: "Thank you, Brother!"
"You're welcome." Tang Muzhou said gently, "Since you can bear it, why don't you continue?"
"Go on!" The voice that reached my ears had quickly restored my fighting spirit.
***
In the ring room, Tang Muzhou said, "Next, Xiao Liu, you go up, use the wood card."
The newcomer named by Tang Shen had no choice but to step out, and Xie Mingzhe adjusted his mood and continued the fight.
The pressure from this newcomer was obviously much less.
However, Wood-type cards are still difficult to fight, especially the opponent's defense shield. The green transparent defense shield can block all damage and prevent Zhou Yu's fire attack, making it difficult for Xie Mingzhe to continue with the subsequent output.
As soon as Sun Shangxiang appeared, the opponent suddenly used a single control paralysis to control Sun Shangxiang.
Xie Mingzhe was helpless in the face of defeat, but he had already summed up some experience - obviously, these masters had long seen the importance of Sun Shangxiang in his deck, and all used single control skills to target Sun Shangxiang.
Tang Muzhou said: "Xiao Zhang, you are next."
This time it was an earth card, and Xie Mingzhe was overwhelmed just looking at it - three of the five visible cards were stone lions, stone sculptures, and stone giants, and their health points were all over 150,000.
The skills of these earth-related cards are not fancy. Some cards only have one skill, but they are thick-skinned. Xie Mingzhe is most afraid of this kind of card deck with super high health.
The damage calculation in the arena is quite complicated. In addition to health points, there is also defense. The defense of earth-type cards is also very high. When Zhou Yu attacks them in a group, it feels like he is tickling them...
What made Xie Mingzhe want to vomit blood was that when he used Lu Meng's Blindness to control the crowd and Lu Xun to burn the opponent, the opponent suddenly summoned a stone statue and erected a huge stone wall in front of him instantly -
Stone Wall: Reflects all damage taken back to the opponent!
Xie Mingzhe was caught off guard and was directly rebounded by his own fire attack.
This card was hidden by the opponent and was deliberately used to attack him. Xie Mingzhe looked at his own people who were burned by Lu Xun's fire rebound, and felt helpless as he lost to the opponent.
Tang Muzhou: "Go on, Xiao Qin, you go ahead."
This time, we switched to a Fire deck, and it was a Fire deck that was more difficult to deal with than the Bird deck we encountered in the previous arena - Control of Psychic Power!
Before Xie Mingzhe knew it, his character's psychic power was burned to 150 points by the opponent's fire card, and he could only summon 5 cards. 5v7, the consequences are obvious. It was the first time he encountered a deck that controlled psychic power, and he just felt it was novel and interesting.
Tang Muzhou: "Xiaoqi, come here."
Xiao Qi's water card uses a slow control method, continuously stacking water poison on Xie Mingzhe's character card. When it reaches five layers, it freezes him. Xie Mingzhe's head is about to explode. One card is frozen, and then another is frozen. The rhythm is simply messed up by the opponent. This slow death method of the water card makes people particularly crazy.
Tang Muzhou: "Go on."
…
Xie Mingzhe became more and more excited as the fight went on.
He suddenly thought of Ke Xiaoke who had a joker hand in the arena that day. At first, Ke Xiaoke was suppressing him, but then he counterattacked and took away 6 joker cards. Ke Xiaoke said excitedly: "It feels so good to be abused!"
At that time, he even thought that the boy was crazy and was so happy after being abused.
But now, he also has this feeling - it feels so good to be abused!
This was the first time he had seen such a rich and colorful deck, with the snakes' fast poison attack and giant python's stranglehold, the earth element's high defense and counterattack, the fire element's control of mental power, the wood element's defense shield and single-point control, and the water element's slow freezing state stacking...
It's as easy as cutting vegetables for these different decks to beat his character deck.
Especially Sister Zhen Man, who actually used only 6 cards to kill all his 7 cards in one second, and he didn’t even know how his cards died - this is the complete suppression of the masters over the novices.
He just made a deck and won consecutive games to become a Star Card Expert. Compared with the real professional masters, whether it is the card pool, competitive strategy, awareness, or reaction speed, he is still too weak, too weak!
Xie Mingzhe's fighting spirit was completely ablaze, and he couldn't wait to play a few more games with the masters to broaden his horizons and learn more.
However, at this moment, he heard a system voice coming from his ear: "Dear Fat Uncle, the number of times you have used Sun Ce, Lu Meng, Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, Sun Shangxiang, Da Qiao, and Xiao Qiao has become 0. The cards are damaged. Please repair them as soon as possible."
Xie Mingzhe: “…”
I almost forgot that the Arena card will be used less every time it dies. He lost seven games in a row and all the cards were broken!
Xie Mingzhe was a little embarrassed and chatted privately with Tang Muzhou: "Brother, all my cards are broken..."
Listening to the depressed voice of the young man, Tang Muzhou suppressed his laughter and said, "Let's stop here for today. You can't digest too much. Let's summarize it."
Xie Mingzhe nodded immediately: "Okay!"
Tang Muzhou said to the people in Team 2, "Everyone, go to training first. That's all for today."
The newcomers looked at each other.
This fat uncle...is worse than I thought!
What exactly did Tang Shen mean by suddenly pulling this person to fight with everyone? The new players didn't understand at all, and they always felt that the statement of "to boost your confidence" was untenable. If they wanted to boost their confidence, they wouldn't bully someone who just reached the Star Card Expert level and didn't even have a complete deck, right?
Did Tang Shen and Fatty have a grudge against each other? Did they drag this poor newcomer here to be used as a punching bag?
Only Zhen Man saw it and sent a message to Tang Muzhou: "You really have good intentions."
Is it worth spending so much effort to train a stranger? What if this fat uncle does not join Fenghua in the future, but creates his own club? Wouldn't that mean he has trained a powerful enemy himself...
Zhen Man's eyes suddenly lit up - perhaps this was Tang Muzhou's real intention.
Personally cultivate the most powerful opponent!
***
After Xie Mingzhe returned to his personal space, he saw that the usage counts of all seven cards had turned into 0/7, prompting a repair. He felt bad about the repair fee. Fortunately, he was not short of money now, and he had acquaintances in the black market. The owner of the Nebula Paper was a typical life player who often went to White Crane Star to collect various materials. There were a lot of repair stones for sale at his stall.
Xie Mingzhe was an old customer, and he negotiated a discount with the boss. He spent tens of thousands of gold coins to buy a batch of level 7 repair stones, and repaired all his damaged cards.
At this time, Tang Muzhou sent him a message: "Come directly to my personal apartment to watch the recordings of the seven games. I will watch them with you and find out the problems you encountered during the games."
Xie Mingzhe wanted to see how he was abused from a God's perspective. He accepted the invitation and came to Tang Muzhou's personal apartment, where Tang Muzhou explained the situation to him while playing the video.
It was not until this moment that he understood why Tang Muzhou designated these newcomers to fight against him - it was to let him clearly feel in actual combat what the outcome would be when his deck was targeted.
This is much better than explaining the theoretical knowledge directly to him. Not only can he understand it better, but he will also have a deeper impression of the games he has played himself.
Xie Mingzhe was extremely shocked, yet also somewhat moved. Tang Muzhou went to great lengths to mobilize the entire Fenghua Second Team to abuse him, just to let him quickly find the flaws in his deck.
How lucky was he to meet such a good senior brother?
Xie Mingzhe was a little embarrassed: "Brother, you spent so much time teaching me, well, I don’t know how to thank you…"
Tang Muzhou smiled and said, "Why thank you? You are my junior fellow apprentice, so it is my duty to teach you. Now do you know what kind of cards you are still lacking?"
Xie Mingzhe nodded vigorously: "Yes! Single control, single attack, control release, protection, all kinds of cards are in short supply!"
The junior fellow apprentice has a high level of understanding. Tang Muzhou praised him and said, "Go back and sort out your thoughts first. After a few days, when you feel that your deck is more complete, I will let other players from Team 2 play against you."
As a top player in Fenghua Club, his senior must be very busy. Xie Mingzhe felt bad for helping him like this, and couldn't help asking, "Will others have any objections to you mobilizing the club's resources to train me?"
"Don't worry about that. I have the final say in Fenghua Club." Tang Muzhou smiled slightly and added, "Besides, they are the ones training you now, but I believe that you will soon become a master that the newcomers in the second team will be jealous of - you can also train them."
“…”
The trust and encouragement from his senior brother were like a stream of warmth injected into his heart, instantly filling Xie Mingzhe with confidence.
Yes, soon he will no longer be the rookie who was beaten by the car battle for seven consecutive games and had all his cards broken.
——Because he has already thought of how to improve the deck next!
The author has something to say:
I skipped the last few games because I didn't want to drag the pace. The main character's deck has too many loopholes and it's meaningless to write about it in detail. It's not that I'm lazy :)