MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter
Chapter 1518 The Second Match

Chapter 1518: Chapter 1518 The Second Match

Li Yao’s control of the rhythm was simply superb. Although crossbows had only recently become popular, equipable items like Sleep Darts, Paralysis Darts, and Poison Darts were not that rare.

Many teams used them when fighting tough monsters and bosses.

It’s not just that such items were expensive for ordinary players, but because monsters have resistances to these attributes.

For instance, with sleep and paralysis, a monster would often become much harder to put to sleep or paralyze after being affected three times in a short duration.

Even some monsters have unilateral resistance, rendering these items useless.

Moreover, in the ancient gods’ game, there are so many different types of items available, there are too many alternatives to these darts, like Paralysis Smoke Bombs, Sleep Tubes, and so on.

However, the use of such control items also has many restrictive conditions, so players did not realize how powerful precise control over the combat rhythm could be.

Like Li Yao, using sleep and paralysis to interrupt the Dragon Beast’s barrage of attacks, he has been fighting comfortably with ease until now.

And the originally savage Black Horned Dragon Beast, instead, was being constantly abused.

The audience was thoroughly enjoying the show, as Li Yao could deal damage in close combat, and even when dodging, he wasn’t idle—he used support items to disrupt the rhythm of the Black Horned Dragon Beast.

When the Black Horned Dragon Beast failed to take off for the sixth time and was paralyzed for the first time, Li Yao didn’t focus on dealing damage but shot two Tranquilizing Arrows intended for capture.

The Black Horned Dragon Beast, full of wounds and limping, finally succumbed to the ground, falling into sleep.

"System, hunting successful. Close combat challenge grade S. All required parts destroyed grade S, overall evaluation grade S+. Hunting time four minutes and forty-six seconds, less than five minutes, with a bonus for time efficiency. Final evaluation grade SSS+++."

"Stop it, this isn’t even a challenge."

"That must be a fake Black Horned Dragon Beast."

"Other teams struggle for over an hour to deal with such a creature, but in Prairie Fire’s hands, it’s down in less than five minutes. It’s too fake."

"Exactly, even if the rhythm is good, it just doesn’t feel real."

"It feels like there’s something fishy going on."

"Fishy your sister, can’t you read the stats? Look at the total damage dealt, it’s about the same as those who took over an hour to kill the beast."

"Don’t pay attention to them; there’s always someone trying to stir things up."

"It must be those big guilds, always ready to slander others."

"It’s simple. If a creature that others could not subdue in less than five minutes is easily vanquished by him, and those super-guilds’ superb players have thus far only managed to do so in one hour and six minutes - and that by a special elite class skilled in speed, and only after destroying one part - of course they feel disgraced and refuse to accept the outcome of this fight."

"The guy above, you’re done for. Watch your back for speaking the truth. These big guilds will remember and come after you."

"To hell with them, they can’t take others being better and won’t let us speak the truth. If they’re so capable, let them achieve this level."

The spectators were in uproar, and the commentators fully expressed their excitement. This battle on the plane seemed too surreal,

The gap between the two sides was too great; no wonder the System even awarded an adjusted evaluation.

The most displeased were the three guilds compared with Starfire. Others may grumble a bit without much impact,

But it’s different for them—they were in a competition against Starfire. With two matches remaining, if they couldn’t secure a better evaluation, they would be eliminated.

The last African Team took the stage, and inspired by Li Yao’s performance, the audience on-site was greatly motivated, so the African team also received an evaluation closer to double S, better than the first two teams.

No matter what others said, the official forum moderators acted quickly, placing Li Yao’s video right on the most prominent part of the professional teaching board.

This was almost like a textbook example of combat, and within a couple of days, the same video with various commentators’ analysis would appear on their respective channels.

The battle was truly stunning – the entire fight seemed effortless and smooth. Li Yao did not avoid attacks altogether, but his evasions did not go to waste either; instead, they gave the audience the impression that he was toying with the monsters.

On Starfire’s side, it was time to begin the second challenge, and the order of the teams was switched around.

This time it was the African Team going first, followed by Starfire, then the third team from Korea, and the Americas fourth. This was to ensure fairness.

The third challenge would involve drawing lots once again, but that would be a matter for later.

"System: Killing one monster in the arena will be considered a pass. Destroying three parts on two different monsters to get an S evaluation, bonus evaluation adjustments for fragile classes, using no items for evaluation adjustment, and avoiding all monster hits for a third bonus to determine an S evaluation. Comprehensive combat evaluation."

Everyone furrowed their brows in silence as they looked over the rules and the monster data – this time, it seemed the situation had overturned.

The previous challenge was difficult for melee fighters; this one obviously posed a challenge for ranged fragile classes.

Simply put, professions with strong defensive capabilities had an advantage in this round.

However, those with high defense wouldn’t receive satisfactory evaluations; at the end of the day, to score high, fragile classes needed to participate.

And since Starfire had scored high, with three and a half S evaluations to their half, they were already two behind. They must achieve good results in the next two challenges, or they would essentially be eliminated.

But it wasn’t over yet; regardless of falling behind, as long as the last match wasn’t finished, they wouldn’t give up.

So swiftly, the four guilds chose their representatives, still three selections over three rounds.

Among the monsters in the arena was one the players were familiar with – the Triceratops.

The Triceratops is a very famous monster in challenge dungeons, considered by many veteran players as the dividing line between novices and experts.

After all, it’s not so easy to define who is a novice and who is a veteran, thus came the method. Whether your skills are up to par isn’t just a matter of talk; it must be proven in practice.

And that practice is the Triceratops. The Triceratops is the best monster for teaching newcomers and beginners their lesson.

The reason for this is that the Triceratops is just too ferocious; not just novices, but even experts might get annihilated by it if they’re not careful.

Whether it’s the Triceratops’ charging attack or its deadly thousand-year strike, both moves are notoriously fearsome. Fragile classes, as well as those without shields, may survive a charge attack but would likely be obliterated by the thousand-year strike.

What’s more crucial is the information given by the System: the Black Horned Dragon, a mutation of the Triceratops, even more ferocious and powerful.

If that were all there was to it, perhaps it wouldn’t be too bad, but there was another monster in the arena.

The Hammer Dragon, a new monster, but remembering the recent explosive beast, it wasn’t hard to imagine this was another creature capable of explosions.

Putting two such domineering monsters together, the message was clear: this is discouraging.

Although it was said that killing just one would complete the challenge, to achieve a good evaluation, both monsters had to be eliminated to garner a favorable comprehensive evaluation, and to earn the second S evaluation, certain parts on both monsters had to be destroyed.

To put it bluntly, to win, one must achieve a complete victory...