The judgment of the Snake Scorpion Curse is quite accurate.
This rune field was much larger than a normal player’s field from the moment it was established. It was clearly the work of a rune master with a rune field enhancement passive.
On the other hand, it was precisely because of the vast coverage of the field that the caster cunningly positioned themselves at a hard-to-detect maximum distance, even catching the Snake Scorpion Curse off guard.
The Gentlemen Fan and others were counting on this cover.
Taking advantage of the moment when the Rattlesnake and others were immobilized, they quickly retreated, avoiding the operation of guarding the resurrection point that had been going on all night from happening to themselves, and they ran quite swiftly.
Snake Scorpion Curse watched the gradually receding prey with a pair of cold snake eyes, devoid of much additional emotion.
Lowering their gaze and sweeping it around, they finally spotted the two who had just acted.
The one who acted first was clearly the artillery expert from the Mechanical City, and the runemaster who had established the runic field with precise timing was positioned on the outskirts.
In the dim environment, their field of vision was not limited, and when the Snake Scorpion Curse finally saw the opponent’s in-game ID, there was a hint of surprise in their expression.
[Material Main Account.]
Isn’t this the creator of the recovery attribute runes?
It turned out to be not just someone’s alternate character but also a person with Seven Silver Coins.
Obviously, the three who had just escaped were probably a team.
The Snake Scorpion Curse’s interest, which had already been piqued, suddenly intensified. The vines left at their feet could only provide a brief immobilization effect; this was a form of control that had been completed on the edge. Once freed from control, they swiftly left the runic field, and their subsequent actions were executed quite skillfully.
They had long noticed the artillery expert’s adjustment of the shooting angle, and they instantly created three vials of potions with an accelerating effect using the level 80 skill [Speed Concentration], applying them to themselves and the other two squishy professions in their party.
The members of the team spread out in different directions, using the acceleration buff to narrowly avoid a series of skill barrages.
The knight and the priest, lacking a speed buff, were forced to endure a full set of damage, but they did not appear panicked. With a significant portion of their HP bar depleted, they both moved away while recharging their HP values, quickly returning to a healthy state.
In fact, from the beginning of the support, from the moment the two of them appeared to the end of the first wave of output, their coordination was so perfect that it left people speechless. However, Jiang Shi was not satisfied and raised an eyebrow, clearly thinking that Yu Weize had not performed as well as he should have. “The retreat path could have been predicted, why didn’t you choose to pursue?” he asked.
Han Yuze was quite candid, “I couldn’t help it; that old poison is too familiar to me. We’ve crossed paths on the battlefield countless times, and if I don’t pretend a bit, he’ll definitely report to the Crusaders as soon as he turns around.”
Jiang Shi clicked his tongue, “You’re afraid of being reported?”
Han Yuze smiled silently, “Of course not, I’m afraid of someone getting so angry that they die because of me.”
Jiang Shi actually found headlines like “Yu Weize Retires Before Launching an Attack, Crusader Guild Leader Faints from Anger” quite amusing, but considering their current temporary partnership, he decided to be unexpectedly accommodating. “Alright, handle the others, and I’ll deal with the Snake Scorpion Curse.”
Han Yuze naturally had no objections to this arrangement and asked, “Do you have a way to kill him?”
“I can’t kill him.” Jiang Shi was well aware of the level and equipment disparity between the two sides. With the old poison who even Gentleman Fan couldn’t handle right in front of him, there was no point in bragging, so he spoke frankly, “But I can disgust him.”
“Well done.”
The four words were said lightly, with a faintly teasing tone. Han Yuze accelerated with a quick step, moving to the outskirts and engaging the reorganized Rattlesnake team while also offering encouragement from afar, “You’ve got this.”
“You too.”
Jiang Shi continued the conversation, glanced at the location of the Snake Scorpion Curse, and manipulated the runic stones in his hand, instantly creating three new domains.
This was a very direct challenge.
“You guys deal with the artillery, and I’ll handle the runemaster.”
The battle zone was directly divided into two parts.
Under Jiang Shi’s arranged runic field, the Snake Scorpion Curse had a very limited range of movement.
For anyone else, they would likely be restricted, but these veteran professionals were used to fighting year-round, so they were naturally adept at adjusting tactics based on the current situation. They simply ignored the not very threatening slow field, rapidly spreading poison zones in selected areas as they danced around.
The same pattern of movement was employed, and Jiang Shi’s subsequent actions followed a similar theme.
Completely disregarding the poison zones in front of him, he forcefully advanced two steps, using the burn field with the highest damage intensity to completely block the rear of the Snake Scorpion Curse, before quickly adjusting his own position.
One was poison, the other was burning, both were damage-over-time effects.
As the Snake Scorpion Curse swept past, they could see that, under this aggressive advance, the runemaster had accumulated three layers of poison effects.
Since the opponent deliberately blocked their retreat, they boldly pressed forward in sync.
Using the poison zone created earlier as cover, the Snake Scorpion Curse launched a strong attack. One poison zone after another spread around them, with various negative effects stacking in overlapping areas, leaving no room for retreat.
The Snake Scorpion Curse’s poison effects stacked quite rapidly, but Jiang Shi’s actions didn’t pause for a moment.
Just as the poisonous stacks reached ten, the runic fields were built layer by layer in an orderly fashion. However, because of the Snake Scorpion Curse’s agile movements, the landing positions of those fields seemed somewhat haphazard. Moreover, the runemaster was primarily a support class, and even if their skills took effect, the damage they inflicted was far from matching the ongoing poison effects. When the Snake-Scorpion Curse’s HP dropped to 30%, Jiang Shi’s HP was already dangerously low due to the horrifying poison effect.
From all perspectives, the Snake Scorpion Curse had the upper hand, but for some reason, when they saw the completely unruffled expression of the Material Main Account character across from them, they had a premonition that something was about to happen.
And at that moment, they saw two beams of light flash from the runic stone in the opponent’s hand.
This is, double-field instant cast?
However, it was clear that now was not the time for surprise.
The Snake Scorpion Curse’s reaction was already very swift, but the opponent had clearly anticipated his sidestepping maneuver in advance. He suddenly saw a beam of light rise from beneath his feet, and immediately, the scenery in front of him changed.
When his vision cleared once again, he found himself in a different location, and the landing spot was right in the center of the left and right runic domains.
Slow, immobilization, dizziness, burning…
For a moment, all the field effects were activated.
The Snake Scorpion Curse looked at the row of DEBUFFs that had instantly accumulated on their body and said, “…”
So, the left and right setup from earlier was for this purpose?
The runic stone with spatial effects, when Jiang Shi first used it, cut off the skill attack of the Rattlesnake’s pursuit team. This time, it gave the Snake Scorpion Curse a peculiar sensation of teleportation.
Under the intense pressure, the distance was directly increased, and Jiang Shi gained plenty of time for his actions.
After performing for so long just now, he was now calmly using the second profession’s sacrificial skill to gradually restore his HP.
Then, he saw the Snake Scorpion Curse, who had just been pushed away, take a confident step forward.
Seeing the runemaster approaching willingly, the Snake Scorpion Curse had no choice but to remain silent.
But what really surprised him at this moment was undoubtedly the runic field from earlier.
If it was as he suspected, the function of this runic stone was nothing short of incredible.
Jiang Shi clearly had no intention of giving his opponent too much time to think.
If the previous encounter was just a warm-up, then now was the official start of the main act.
The second-tier level 75 skill, [Spirit Communication], enhanced the damage of all control-type runic domains during its duration.
During this period of unique enhancement, he simply took out all the runic stones from his bag, one by one, and began arranging them.
While for ordinary players, runemasters had become an almost extinct profession, in the Century Cup League, it remained an auxiliary class with immense potential.
For instance, within the Rattlesnake Guild, the top runemaster player was a member of the league team.
As a teammate of the top runemaster, the Snake Scorpion Curse had a fair understanding of this profession. However, even so, the speed at which the big Materials character was arranging runic fields was still astonishing.
The positions of all the runic fields were precise and seamless, and the process of connecting them didn’t even have the slightest pause.
Just as the previous one was not fully established, a new field was already being laid out, interconnected layer by layer. In a brief moment, an entire world of domains had been established right before his eyes.
At that moment, the Snake Scorpion Curse had an inexplicable feeling – the runemaster before him was probably even stronger than the top runemaster.
The Snake Scorpion Curse had come just to see who was causing trouble, but at this moment, he suddenly had some subtle thoughts.
Utilizing the poison zone as cover, he intended to retreat, and at the same time, he opened the team’s voice channel and asked, “How’s it going with the BOSS?”
The voice of No One crossed, “It’s almost in the red, why haven’t you returned yet?”
The Snake Scorpion Curse fell silent for a moment, and his gaze swept over the unpredictable figure, “Ran into some trouble.”
No One seemed quite astonished, “You ran into trouble?”
As soon as he finished speaking, the avatars of the members of the third team in the team channel dimmed.
Eliminated.
No One’s tone became even more incredulous, “What’s going on? You guys are actually getting wiped out?”
The Snake Scorpion Curse naturally noticed the kills that the rest of the team had suffered. There was no need to ask; it was undoubtedly the work of the artillery expert from earlier.
Without choosing to offer too much explanation, he said, “I will return as soon as possible, please be more cautious over there. If I’m not mistaken, those Seven Silver Coin people are aiming for the BOSS’s first kill today.”
At this point, the Sword and Wine Guild had been eliminated from the first kill competition due to too many deaths and long resurrection cooldowns. As for the ordinary guilds that had started the game with enthusiasm, there was no need to mention them.
And just as the Rattlesnake and Crusaders were in the final showdown, they were told that even that guild with the unheard-of name, Seven Silver Coins, was also aiming for the first kill?
If this were any other time, it would undoubtedly be considered a joke.
However, just now, the near-wipe of the third team seemed like a special signal.
No One had always trusted the Snake Scorpion Curse’s judgment and said, “Hmm,” and repeated, “So when can you come back?”
The Snake Scorpion Curse’s sprinting steps halted with the appearance of the runic domain in front of him. In just a brief moment of turning around, all the escape routes around him were once again blocked.
He also laid down layer upon layer of poison arrays around him, and his eerie tone showed no emotion as he said, “I’ll do my best.”
After a pause, he continued, “The runemaster on the other side is quite disgusting.”
If earlier there had only been some surprise, at this point, No One was at a loss for words.
The player who was considered by the entire league to be the most disgusting person, still had the nerve to call someone else disgusting?
Was the end of the world coming?
Having been partners for so long, the Snake Scorpion Curse could naturally guess what No One was thinking.
He didn’t explain and continued to engage with the person he was fighting.
To sum up the entire exchange, it was almost a simultaneous experience of an entire series of DEBUFFs.
He was desperately poisoning the opponent, while the runemaster was giving him a special package of control skills to experience.
But under the intense and fierce gameplay, neither could manage to kill the other.
From a certain perspective, even though the Snake Scorpion Curse had an advantage in equipment and level, he was probably still at a disadvantage.
After all, the opposing runemaster had the Return BUFF, and he wasn’t even a level 75 Third-Tier character!
Add in the artillery expert… undoubtedly, the two players who had come this time were much more formidable than the three who had left earlier.
The Snake Scorpion Curse had a premonition that if they couldn’t maximize their resurrection time here, it would undoubtedly become a major problem in the next stage.
In the shadowy, cascading runic field, he could faintly see a figure that blended silently into the surrounding darkness, as if waiting for an opportunity to strike.
After countless exchanges, the Snake Scorpion Curse felt a numbness that he had never experienced in the game.
However, just as he prepared for a full confrontation, he saw the Material Main Account character suddenly appear at the corner of the runic field, which was about to disappear. Without any warning, the character turned and ran without looking back.
A moment later, another figure rushed from a nearby alley, the artillery expert who was guarding the corpses at the resurrection point for the third team. They ran side by side and gradually moved away, their entire figures appearing harmonious and carefree.
Wait, that direction…
The Snake Scorpion Curse’s heart jumped instinctively.
Sure enough, he heard No One’s reminder a second later, “Don’t mind those people, come back quickly, the BOSS is in the red!”
congrats JS, you have successfully made the Snake Scorpion thinks that you’re disgusting lol