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Ch72 - Provincial Competition - Elemental Dancer

    <h4>Chapter Ch72 - Provincial Competition – Elemental Dancer</h4>


    <i>trantor: xiin</i>


    <i>editor: kara</i>


    The first round of the Second Star Province’s provincialpetition ended one weekter.


    The remaining 8 yers in Group C included 3 contestants from the Earth District (Odin, who had drawn no opponent, was one of them), 3 from the Xian Qin District, and 2 from the Orion District.


    Odin finally drew an opponent for his first official match. His opponent was a female mage contestant from the Xian Qin District with the ID ‘Geng Chen’. She was an elemental dancer.


    She had previously lost in the National Championships and dropped down to the provincialpetition. Her highest ranking in the A-League was 35th nationwide. Many people felt that she was one of the two strongest contestants in Group C, and many people had already expressed their regret for Odin, who was facing Geng Chen in his first round.


    (Little Vic: You ignorant mortals ╭(╯^╰)╮)


    Additionally, Geng Chen’s profession, the ‘elemental dancer’, was a very rarepound profession that was often regarded as a ‘melee mage’. In fact, it was actually quite simr to a melee mage, except for the fact that she didn’t attack physically despite being in closebat.


    The only reason why she was a closebat profession was: her spells all worked best at close range.


    .


    Before the match, the two contestants drew lots on the stage.


    Geng Chen was a rarely-seen female contestant and was very popr within her own Star District. Many males in the audience cheered loudly when she came up onto the stage––it was said that she’d also been given a very high-profile proposal on stage before.


    However, this reaction couldn’tpare to the hysterical screams of the female audience that rose up when Lord Four finally came onto the stage––


    They were going to die! It had already been two months since they’dst seen their War God!


    Nobody knew what they’d been through over thesest two months! Other contestants would continue to show off and make waves after being confirmed as a God, but why had this iceberg War God disappeared from the scene and refused to show up even during the provincial games? They could only see him in the arena!


    Even while the fans were crying over Lord Four’s iceberg behavior, they were equally fascinated with his coldness.


    It was worth mentioning that the Earth District was the most sparsely-popted district in the Second Star Province, so the audience base was actually very small. However, many of Lord Four’s fans were from the other Star Districts. They had beenpletely stunned by the War God’s heavenly beauty and were no longer able to climb out of the pit; quite a few female fans had never watched e-sports before, but because Lord Four’spetitions were like watching a movie, they’de to watch the live version of the movie directly...


    .


    At the same time, the twomentators for the provincialpetition had already turned on their mics. As usual, it was abination of one male and one femalementator: the femalementator was a professional live-broadcast anchor, who hadmentated on somepetitions before. Her speaking style was very bold, and the audience had strongly requested for her to be chosen; the malementator was a retired contestant who’d been a coach for several years, had rich e-sports experience, and could make up for some of the shorings of the femalementator.


    At the moment, the femalementator was saying, “The result of the lottery ising out, yes! The first map is a in. This is a very bad map for assassin contestants.”


    Femalementator: “Our War God also became famous for his aerialbat though!”


    Malementator: “In the final analysis, aerialbat still requires something to support it, if it’s not a flying machine, then it has to be wings. Unfortunately, this map didn’t provide him with any way to fly, so...”


    Femalementator: “A grounded phoenix is inferior to a chicken?”


    Lord Four’s fans protested right then and there, “You’re the chicken!”


    The femalementator apologized immediately, “Oh, oh, oh, apologies. I’m the finger lickin’ good KFC chicken! I should’ve said ‘dragons in shallow water will be yed with by shrimps’ instead!”


    “......” Geng Chen’s fans also protested, “You’re the shrimp!!!”


    The femalementator quickly apologized again, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I’m a golden phoenix tail shrimp!”


    Malementator: “......” I’m hungry now.


    .


    By this point, the two contestants were already in the middle of the map.


    As thementators had just said, this entire map was very t and dry. There were cracks and ravines threading through it that looked extremely scary. These ravines were very deep; deep enough to kill. There was barely anywhere for contestants to stop themselves halfway through the drop, and it was very difficult for them to climb back up.


    There was an old ginkgo tree on the edge of the cliff, its golden leaves drifting down after they fell.


    Additionally, there was nothing to block either of their visions, and both contestants could see each other’s movementspletely.


    Femalementator: “How t! It’s as t as my chest! There’s even concave parts!”


    Malementator: “Now then, if an assassin contestant wanted to sneak attack, they would basically have to rely on being able to go into stealth right at the start of the match or the deep trenches in the ground.”


    He’d just finished speaking when the countdown ended. As expected, the assassin, Odin’s figure disappeared.


    .


    To be honest, as an elemental dancer, the thing that Geng Chen was most unafraid of was thebination of stealth and a closebat attack.


    Why?


    Because, almost all her spells were closebat, wide-ranged attacks! Other professions might be worried that they’d have difficulty finding an assassin when they sneak in close, but elemental dancers really didn’t need to worry about it.


    At the start of the match, Geng Chen drew on the red ribbons around her wrists and ankles and turned in a graceful arc––elemental dancers were very attractive to watch, because they used their dance moves to rece the casting gestures and perform spells.


    Using the precious chanting time afforded by the start of the match, Geng Chen released the ‘wind travel spell’. A group of invisible hurricanes slowly wrapped around her, and then, her entire body floated up into the air.


    Then, in order to prevent a possible closebat assassination, Geng Chen slowly rotated in the air andunched one of the most basic spells avable to an elemental mage: Ice Ring.


    Like most of her other spells, this spell affected everything within a certain range. If the enemy was within a 3-meter radius, they would likely be exposed due to being covered in frost and snow. If they were within 1.5 meters, they would be slowed, and if they were within 0.5 meters, they would begin to take damage. It was absolutely effective in seeing through stealth.


    This was why everyone said that elemental dancers could resist assassins on t terrain.


    .


    However, at this time, Tyron was not as eager to try and gain an early advantage as Geng Chen had expected.


    He crouched on one of the branches of the ginkgo tree and calmly observed the elemental dancer floating in the air from the gaps between the branches and leaves.


    The femalementator had obviously done her homework and said, “As usual, Lord Four is neither too fast nor too slow and shows the demeanor of a general. Will he choose tounch an ambush this time? Or, execute a frontal attack from an unexpected direction? Both tactics have worked very well...”


    She hadn’t even finished speaking when Lord Four finally moved!


    He fell lightly from the tree like a cat, and instantly changed from an extremely quiet state to one of extreme movement as he leaped out like a ferocious cheetah!


    The malementator’s speaking speed changed quickly as he said, “Contestant Odin hase down from the tree and rushed at Geng Chen. It’s obvious that he has avoided shaking the leaves of the tree, which would have exposed his position. Alright, he’s just within horizontal distance of five meters, but there’s still a vertical distance of three meters––he leaped up!!! Odin confidently took off at a 45 degree angle and borrowed leverage from the ground in order to attack Geng Chen head-on!”


    He didn’t even have time to breathe when he saw that Odin’s leap took him just outside the area of effect of the ice ring––1.502 meters away from Geng Chen. His grasp of strength and angle was urate to the extreme!


    The femalementator picked up where he left off: “sh! After arriving into position, Lord Four directly used sh to get close. Now, let’s see if Geng Chen is able to escape Lord Four’s first assassination attempt!”


    .


    In the instant that Tyron entered the ice ring with sh, Geng Chen had already be aware, and her reaction had also been extremely quick––but it wasn’t fast enough!


    This was because the sh technique was already almost at the limit of the movement speed that melee contestants were capable of!


    At that moment, Geng Chen whirled in the air and shifted her metal ankle ring, just in time to sh against Tyron’s dagger with a ‘ng’.


    It was just that Tyron’s short sword threaded through her red silk dance ribbons at the same time, creating a narrow opening and leaving two wounds on her neck!


    Geng Chen herself wasn’t a meleebat profession. After blocking the dagger with her ankle ring, she didn’t stop but instead quickly recovered and made a graceful dance move––


    Her move wasn’t finished, but Tyron’s short sword had already pulled back.


    At the same time, his dagger didn’t stop at all. It slid across Geng Chen’s ankle ring, then stabbed three times as fast as lightning!


    The system determined that this was a five-attackbo made with two weapons, and Geng Chen’s health bar immediately dropped to 80%!


    However, she maintained herposure and continued dancing!


    As she finished her second dance move, the ribbon lingered in the air, and Geng Chenunched a new spell: Eye of the Storm’!


    All of a sudden, the wind around her suddenly shifted from lifting her gently off the ground into a whirling hurricane. The powerful wind buffeted the two yers and caused them to shake in the air.


    Femalementator: “An extremely beautiful assassination! It can be called a textbook approach-andbo attack!”


    Malementator: “Unfortunately, he fell into the elemental dancer’s Eye of the Storm. The storm is the starting move for Geng Chen’s famous airbornebo!”


    .


    Almost every spell of an elemental dancer was continuous and attacked a wide area, which allowed them to execute extremely powerful spellbos.


    Geng Chen was most famous for a set of aerialbo moves: Eye of the Storm (it trapped enemies in the air and prevent them from moving), Ice Shackle (restrained enemies lost the ability to fight back), me Carnival (itbined with ice magic to cause super high damage and simultaneously blow the opponent into position directly above her), Nine Days of Thunder (summoning lightning from the air to attack her current position; the range was very limited, but it would cause damage and paralysis to enemies who were above her).


    If Geng Chen’sbo was finishedpletely, some contestants, who had started off with low health, might be sent straight into critical health.


    Now, she had already finished her starting move.


    Wild storms surrounded her and her opponent. It was practically impossible for any closebat contestant to escape the control of the storm when they were in mid-air with nowhere to borrow leverage from. They could only be pressured back to the center of the storm by the wind.


    Along with her low, murmured chants, Geng Chen’s dancing had reached the next stage: Ice Shackles!


    Malementator: “Last chance! Will he get out of this predicament, or will Odin fall from his earlier advantage straight into disadvantage?! But the question is, how will he get out?”
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