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Chapter 374 - 136: The Troops Have Yet to Move, but the Game is Already Afoot! The Frenzied Pre-Match Jockeying of Chinese and Korean Players!_3

Chapter 374: Chapter 136: The Troops Have Yet to Move, but the Game is Already Afoot! The Frenzied Pre-Match Jockeying of Chinese and Korean Players!_3

Clear Rain’s response was extraordinarily fast, casually tapping the spacebar in midair to immediately cancel the glide trajectory of his grappling hook.

While still in midair, he clicked both the left and right mouse buttons, preparing to fend off the opponent’s fully charged Dragon King Break.

But Water was even craftier; as Clear Rain’s sword began to glow red with the attempt at Waving Swords, Water swiftly sidestepped to the left, cancelling his charge and unleashing a right-click ordinary attack.

The longspear’s ordinary attack drew an arc in the air, directly hitting Clear Rain just as his Waving Swords stance had ended, causing a stagger.

Then Water followed up with two left-click ordinary attacks, stabbing forward with the longspear like the tip of a needle twice more.

Clear Rain, clad in golden armor, lost almost half his armor gauge from this combination of attacks from the opponent’s golden longspear.

He hurriedly dodged backward to escape the attack, while holding his longsword in a charging position, seemingly preparing to release Sword Qi.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye, lasting barely two seconds.

And yet, the two opponents had engaged in at least four waves of mental contest!

The instantaneous changes in the duel between top players dazzled the audience in the live stream room.

In Water’s live stream room, the Korean fans collectively reached a climax, with a chorus of cheers sweeping through.

"Good!!"

"That’s the way to fight!"

"Smash him hard!"

"He’s live streaming too! Make him lose face!"

Meanwhile, in the game.

Seeing Clear Rain power up, a mocking smile curled at the corner of Water’s mouth.

"What era is this, and people are still using garbage weapons like the longsword?"

In the first month after Eternity had launched,

the longsword was by far the most popular weapon among all players.

Everyone understood the principle that a longer reach meant greater strength, and the longsword’s reach was based on its Sword Qi, which was not easily deflected.

As long as you were beyond a certain distance, even if the opponent deflected your Sword Qi, they couldn’t knock the weapon out of your hand.

It was essentially a weapon that allowed for long-range luck-pushing, avoiding direct confrontation.

If you hit, the opponent loses health.

If they fend off your attack, you remain uninjured.

For this reason, many longsword players were derogatorily called ’sword qi dogs,’ considered the lowest rung in the weapon’s disdain chain.

Of course, people cursed,

but the game still had to be played.

If you can’t beat them, join them!

In the first month of Eternity’s launch, you could say that in a game of 60 people, almost more than 40 were wielding longswords of various qualities!

But with the end of the first month came the beginning of the preliminary rounds of the selection tournament at the start of the second month.

The skills of the players improved rapidly.

Especially for some experts, the advantages of the longsword’s Sword Qi had completely evaporated.

You can use your Sword Qi all you want; I don’t even need to bother deflecting it.

I’ll just sidestep and avoid your Sword Qi, closing in on your face to start an ordinary attack combo.

This is particularly true for players who loved to use Sword Qi but hadn’t delved much into other tactics.

Once they found themselves in close combat, they panicked, fumbled, and ultimately conceded defeat.

And now, seeing Clear Rain charging his longsword, Water shook his head in disdain.

"So this is the level of players from the Huaxia Nation, top-ranked players still using Sword Qi, or is it that Huaxia players only know how to play with longswords, this garbage weapon? Heh."

"Watch me effortlessly dodge..." Before he could even finish his thought of ’dodging,’ Water’s expression froze.

As he spoke, he indeed performed just that action,

holding down shift to prepare for the side-step dodge and ready to strike with his sword at any time.

But the next moment, the blue glow on his opponent suddenly vanished, and instead, an ordinary attack was executed.

Unlike Sword Qi, an ordinary attack would cause the opponent to stiffen on the spot.

Water had just been hit with a stagger and hadn’t yet managed to make a move,

when he saw Clear Rain dodge to the side.

But in the next instant, he drew back and unleashed another right-click ordinary attack, striking diagonally at Water, continuing to lock Water in a staggered state!

The audience on-site might not have understood what was happening, but Water’s eyes involuntarily widened in shock!

No...

This guy...?

Why was his dodge so fast?

Normally, dodges are used to cancel the recovery period of various attacks.

But in Water’s view,

Clear Rain seemed to be...

actually using his goddamn attacks to cancel the dodge recovery period?!?!

How on earth did he manage that?

Water had played this game for hundreds of rounds.

During that time, he had tried to input an attack command while dodging.

But it was to no avail.

It seemed as though the recovery from a dodge couldn’t be canceled.

One had to wait for the dodge to finish before any subsequent command would initiate.

Yet Clear Rain had firmly accomplished it!

It was as if his dodge had only covered half the distance before it was forcibly stopped, and then he pushed his sword straight into Water’s body!

And because of this,

the brief stagger caused by the longsword’s ordinary attack, of slightly over 0.6 seconds, was perfectly chained by him!

Less than a second had passed, and Clear Rain had already performed a second strike.

And he continued following this routine, dodging, then using an ordinary attack mid-dodge to cancel the recovery and land another hit on Water.

The third stagger!

Finally, even the viewers not as skilled in the direct broadcasts from both sides sensed something was off.

Because they watched as Water’s Walnut just stood there, frozen in place for two whole seconds!

In this kind of competitive game where reactions are measured in less than a second,

what does standing still, staggered for two seconds imply?

Charging up three stages of the broadsword’s blue gauge only takes 2 seconds, after which one can deliver a full-on attack that takes down an entire health gauge of golden armor!

This means that, for the time during which Water was staggered, if there had been someone else nearby, they could have fully charged three stages and unleashed an explosive assault on him!