<h4>Chapter Ch136 - National Competition – Assassin 1</h4>


    <i>trantor: xiin


    </i>


    <i> editor: kara</i>


    The randomized map results came out. There was no Night of the Full Moon or the top of the Forbidden City. It was the ‘Desert Temple’.


    It was a map that had appeared before. It was surrounded by t desert, and the remains of an ancient Egyptian temple covered most of the middle of the map. The temple had three floors, and there were several hidden tforms on the top and narrow sewers on the bottom. Only the middle of the temple was very open, and it had a dry fountain in the center. The venue wasrge enough for ten people to y a teampetition in.


    Thementators didn’t need to evaluate and say it, because the audience could already see: This was a map that suited professional assassins.


    Ambushes could be set up from anywhere; sneak attacks could happen anywhere; and it was also suitable for closebat.


    Now, the only question was: Who would be able to snatch the advantage? As everyone knew, one of the biggest advantages an assassin had was the ability tounch a sneak attack.


    At the start of the countdown, the two assassinsnded facing each other, looking at each other from a distance of over 20 meters away, with the fountain between them.


    The audience was very nervous! They rubbed to clear their eyes, wanting to see who would take the lead.


    The reason for this was that, in this fight between Vantico and Odin, it was no longer a question of who was better, and who was inferior. It was a question of which school of assassins would flourish in the future, and which school would have to quit the mainstream stage!


    When the countdown had ended, everyone’s jaw dropped.


    Nobody had tried to gain an advantage, and nobody had entered stealth!


    As soon as the countdown had ended, the two assassins had moved directly towards each other.


    Thementators also instantly got to work, “They didn’t enter stealth! The two of them are preparing to fight it out directly! It can be seen that Odin started with a ‘sh’, and Vantico started with a ‘Bow Walk’––”


    The two movement techniques brought them together, and the two assassins entered each other’s attack range within two seconds of the start of the match, meeting to the left of the fountain.


    In the first wave of attacks, their des only struck once each!


    They could see a bright white, sh-like sh in the air. Then, the two people had already switched positions, and their health hadn’t changed at all.


    The scene seemed to freeze, and it was as though time had slowed down due to the strong tension during the confrontation. Then, Vanticopleted his turn using the technique, ‘Lotus Walk’, and his two daggers turned into virtual shadows at the same time––


    It was just like a hurricane had squeezed through narrow cracks, like turbulence had forced through the narrowest part of the river. The surging force was bound and forced through a well-tempered track.


    The narrowest part of the river also moved the most quickly. The track wasn’t free, but in exchange, it pushed the limits of speed and strength!


    Thementator called out the name of the technique, “’Wind Pressure’! Vantico came up and used his main DPS technique!”


    Odin was first to take a step back, and then, he attacked even more quickly. In his right hand, Song of Triumph instantly started up a continuous stream of counter-attacks!


    Vantico’s ‘Wind Pressure’ was like a charging stream of strength while Odin’sbo was like a spider web that spread out quietly––it appeared gentle and leisurely on the surface, and sometimes, only a trace of it could be seen. If it wasn’t for Vantico’s de moving to meet it, it would basically have been ignored.


    However, nobody believed that this was harmless. This was because the dagger, Deep Silence, was waiting behind it, and Deep Silence was like the fangs of a dragon.


    “It’s four attacks per second now, and it’s gradually speeding up! They’re about to enter the rhythm of a de fight!” Thementator cried passionately, “Do both sides intend to start de fighting!?”


    Less than a secondter, the othermentator immediately spoke up, “It’s now more than six knives per second and still increasing at the speed of light! Odin is forcing Vantico to fight!”


    Thementator didn’t have enough time to exin the situation. He’d never before seen such a cruel and violent method of coercion before.


    The sudden strong pressure smashed apart Vantico’s n to escape in an instant. He gritted his teeth and used the skill, ‘Eagle w’––this technique used the hook w to hold onto the enemy’s neck, shoulder, or elbow, and it used the strong grasping characteristics of the hook w to limit one side of the enemy’s range of movement. Apart from him, no other yer had ever been able to use the hook w as a weapon at such a close range.


    During a de fight, this move was deadly.


    “ng––”


    There was a loud noise, and the hall suddenly fell silent again.


    The ‘Eagle w’ hadnded, but it hadn’t hit the position Vantico had aimed at––Odin had held the dagger, Deep Silence, up and aimed straight at his golden hook’s ws. Both sides fell into a temporary stalemate, and the rhythm of the de fight had also slowed down.


    Odin had lost 1% of his health from the shock of the hit, but his golden eyes seemed to brighten.


    Vantico, who was the closest person to him, even felt that he’d heard him say, “Interesting.”


    Thementators were exining eagerly, “Vantico avoided making a mistake! He didn’t fall into Odin’s dominant fighting rhythm and broke through with his technique!”


    “Sure enough, he doesn’t want to take the risk of de fighting with the great demon king!”


    The next second, the two assassins attacked at the same time!


    Odin’s body spun, and heunched a double attack, shown by two snow-white sword lights that shed across Vantico’s body––onending against his dagger and the other slicing gently across his throat!


    Well-trained fighting instincts made Vantico subconsciously use ‘Bow Step’. He retreated one meter away in the blink of an eye and immediately retreated from the range of closebat attacks.


    He followed up with a ‘Bow Walk’ and continued to move away, because he thought that Odin would take advantage of having the upper hand to pursue.


    However... Odin didn’t.


    Odin stood there, holding the dagger, Deep Silence, close to his forearm, and he made a gesture with his finger––


    One.


    Vantico’s eyelids trembled slightly.


    The feeling of being gently scratched across the throat by such a dagger seemed to linger on his neck.


    Vantico stepped back and disappeared amidst the structures, even as Odin did the same thing.


    “The first round of face-to-face shes has juste to an end. Vantico used four techniques in a row, and he really deserves to be known as the runner-up with the nickname, ‘Mysterious Hand’.” Thementator wiped his sweat, recovered slightly, and continued, “His strategy of refusing to engage in a de fight is absolutely correct, but the problem is that Vantico has now created a weak point out of thin air––Odin certainly understands this.”


    At this point, thementators had no way to specte further, because they had no idea how Odin would exploit this weakness. They didn’t even know if Odin would take advantage of it at all.


    The great demon king, Odin, was the grandmaster of e-sports strategy, and anyone who attempted to predict what he would do would be pping themselves in the face. They had no choice but to leave some space for the great demon king to y however he wanted to.


    Before thementators could finish sorting out their ideas, their heartbeats had already sped up again.


    This was because the two assassins were really treating time like it was money!


    Or, rather than saying that, maybe it was better to say that they were saving time!


    They’d just finished the first round of directbat, but the two of them didn’t go off to find suitable ambush locations. They instead wanted to turn back around and take the other party by surprise.


    In this situation, Vantico pretended that he’d retreated, but in fact, he’d found a hiding spot on the upper floor of the temple and decided tounch an active ambush there.


    As for Odin, he was even more daring. He stepped up onto the door post of the temple and found Vantico’s position with a sh––so, to some extent, he hadn’t been predicted incorrectly.


    The two of them met face-to-face on top of the door post. The terrain around them could be described with these words: a single wooden nk!


    At that moment, there was no time for thementators to react. The confrontation burst out like a sh of lightning!


    In this kind of situation, a de fight was inevitable.


    Vantico was instantly stuck in a dangerous situation!


    Song of Triumph’s gorgeous death was approaching. Before the death god could close his, he had to either retreat or kill the immortal death god!


    However, in such a narrow ce, there was no space for the two yers to show their movement techniques. Vantico couldn’t use ‘Lotus Walk’, which was good for movement and turning, and Odin couldn’t use ‘Shadow Dance’, which was good for dodging and back-winding––however, they still had suitable disengagement techniques.


    “Whoever uses invisibility first will lose!” Thementators couldn’t keep up with this dazzling confrontation for the moment. Instead, they could only wait for the slow-motion rey of this wonderful scene in order to exin it properly. Now, they chose to focus on the situation at hand, “Vantico still has ‘Bow Step’, this technique is suitable for instant advance or retreat, and it can be used to quickly cut in or get out of the front lines. However, Odin has ‘sh’, which is rtively more versatile. If the two god-level assassins want to retreat, they can get out of this terrain safely with one movement skill followed by invisibility, but the problem is––whoever retreats will lose!”


    As soon as his words fell, Vantico’s ‘Eagle w’ shed again!


    This time, there hadn’t even been a sound of a sh. In the blink of an eye, his hook w had already left his hand!


    Odin hadn’t used a high-speedbo to force him into de fighting this time. Instead, his dagger, Deep Silence, had been waiting for precisely this moment. At the time when the ‘Eagle w’ had appeared, Deep Silence had already been waiting to strike down on Vantico’s elbow like lightning––


    At the same time, it had sliced across Vantico’s ribs and extracted two drops of ruby red blood, sending them flying through the cold sky!


    The system judged: Disabled state, one-second duration.


    As Odin approached, the dagger moved gently towards Vantico, sending a chill towards his main artery.


    At this moment, Vantico’s pupils contracted.


    Thementator shouted, “Bow Walk! What critical timing!”


    At this critical moment, Vantico used the technique, ‘Bow Walk’, which was very suited for retreating. In the twinkling of an eye, he’d fallen down from the log bridge!


    However, the action didn’t stop there. There was an unexpected change once again!


    “sh––”


    This graceful and startling figure suddenly approached Vantico once again!


    At this moment, the two people’s body postures and positioning remained almost unchanged. It was just like the two outlines on the wooden nk a moment ago yet shifted motionlessly one meter away!


    Odin’s left hand was so stable that the position of the dagger was exactly the same as it had been before, and it was still gently pressed against that same spot––the ce where it had just left a murderous mark.


    ––However, he clearly had had the opportunity to use abo to deal higher damage. Why was he so persistent about slicing his throat!?


    Even Vantico’s brain seemed to nk out for a moment.


    “Two.”


    He heard Odin say this without any fluctuations in his voice.