Chapter 70: The Match (3)


    A witch hunt. Just as the name implied, it is when a group of people, them being the hunters hunt down a single target, which is a witch to no end until the witch dies.


    "Hmm, so this is what the hotel does to those that tried to offer help to Greld? Why didn''t he mention it though?" he raised his brow in suspicion. "Though the better question is, why are they so intent on trying to shut down his business despite already winning..." he murmured as he averted his eyes away from his phone. "Sigh. I''ll think about thister, for now, the match is starting."


    Moving his eyes to the television screen, thementators still continued their conversation with one another as the timer slowly struck down to zero.


    "Will Ten Swords do the same careless mistakes asst time?" Charles asked. "Or will they take a win from Vain Blood?"


    "We shall find out in this match!"


    ...


    Just asst time, Ten Swords chose the ban pick for [Support - AOE Heals]. Although they were first picked for the draft this time, they didn''t ban a carry or jungler role, leaving it open for Vain Blood to ban.


    "...huh? Are they really throwing?" Zayden said as he couldn''t understand the reasoning behind the pick of banning AOE heals. Just as the ban implied, it was a ban where it disabled AOE healing among allies. Once chosen, all types of healing spells that are AOE would be adjusted to a single target heal. "Just what the heck are they nning?"


    Continuing to watch the draft pick, Vain Blood banned the same thing as they did from the earlier game which was [Carry - Close Combat Burst Skill]. At this point, they had the upper hand now as they already shut down the guild''s main carry role.


    From Ten Swords side, the yer toe first was the explosion mage [ Relis ]. Following up with that was [ Revelen ] and [ Rie ] from Vain Blood''s side.


    "...hoh? Rie has joined the fray!" Charles said. "With his buffs and debuffs, just what kind of ys would there be?"


    "Hmm... I wonder! But, it''s weird, they went for him this time rather than Hikari. I wonder what was the sudden change of mind?" Vick asked.


    "Well, in the first ce, Rie should''ve been in thest match no? Seeing as how AOE heals was banned. However, since she was in battlest time, instead of going for a healing build, she went for a more damage oriented build, although it was quitecking in terms power... But damn did that silence worked its magic."


    "Right, right... a holy priest''s damage isn''t all that good, but it does provide good afterburn effects and solid status ailments when needed. Hikari was a good counter to Relis if I say so myself, because of her silencing skills."


    "Hmm... now that you say so, you''re right."


    They continued chatting as the draft continued. Ten Swords followed up picks were a sustaining jungler assassin as well as coverage and shields roamer. The ban''s that soon came after was [ Roam - AOE CC ], a ban in which all roam AOE CC skills will be adjusted to single target ones. Soon after, Vain Blood''s ban was [ Jungler - Sustaining Magic Skills ].


    "...oh? These bans by Ten Swords... now that I see the big picture, their actually forcing their own flow towards Vain Blood with that support ban and then having them forced to do the carry ban first," Zayden thought to himself whilst watching. "Then... If what I think is correct, they''re preventing Vain Blood from going aggressive..."


    After choosing the bans, Vain Blood immediately chose their characters. [ Bunnix ] as well as [ Hikari ] was picked. On Ten Swords side, the final two members of the team were the swordsman sustain carry and another roamer.


    "Hikari and Rie on the same team, huh? Wow! What''s this?" Vick said in surprise. "Looks like Hikari would be the mage of the team whilst Rie will be the support?"


    "This is going to be an interesting game huh? With Ten Swords going for a really defensive uptake with 2 tanks, 1 burst and 2 sustains," Charles analyzed. "And the fact that Vain Blood doesn''t have any AOE CCs to go, it would be really hard to wipe out their sustain especially when they''re squishy. So, would the final pick be Kaisus to maintain bnce?"


    As they anticipated for thest pick, Vain Blood''s choice shook Zayden and thementators. The final pick was [ Ensia ].


    "...!!" Zayden''s eyes opened in shock. Thest pick was a mage, that specialized in burst damage. Looking at the teamposition, it was as if Vain Blood and Ten Swords switched ces, where his ex-guild was focused on burst while the other was on sustain. "...there''s no tank, how are they going to do this?"


    Looking at the builds and skillsets that have been chosen by Vain Blood, interest piqued within is eyes. "...oh? Ensia went full CC?" Although AOE CCs was disabled, for mages, they still had strong single target CCs along with massive burst damage when used correctly. "...I see. So that''s how it is."


    He nodded his head, as the match soon began,


    ...


    The moment the match started, Hikari, Revelen and Rie headed to the middlene whilst Ensia and Bunnix went on the sidenes. Just like in typical MOBAs, the mapyout was still the same, it was the typical top, bottom and middlene.


    Though despite that, there was a major difference between ssic MOBA and a VRMOBA. It was the fact that there were multiple maps that one can y in. Each having their own environment, terrain and mobs. Thus, it brought more strategy into the game. For the previous match and this one, however, the map was the default stage thus, only teamposition strategies were at y.


    ...


    Magic flew in the air as it collided with the minions in thene whilst also aiming for the enemies. Just like how there were three people from Vain Blood in thene, there was three from Ten Swords as well. It was the tank, Relis and the jungle.


    "Hah, are we starting a fight this early? You know we''ll win!" The tank sneered.


    "Don''t get too cocky of yourself," Rie calmly said as he swiftly sent a gust of wind over towards the enemies. "We have the advantage here."


    "Or do you really?" Relis let out a chuckle as a pir of ze shined down to the area, quickly forcing Rie to jump back.


    "Ugh, these explosions are annoying..." Rie turned to look towards Relis casting from the distance. Keeping her HP and MP in check whilst doing so. "Hikari, get your silence skill next, we can go in for the kill right after when Revelen finishes jungling."


    "Right, I''m one step ahead of you," Hikariughed as she healed Rie back to full health. Momentster, Rie stepped forward as he controlled the winds around him, swiftly, he cleared the second wave of minions with the help of Hikari from behind.


    The moment he cleared it, a pir of ze shined down towards Rie, following up with the pir was the tank who jumped out from the bush to him, raising his axe in the sky, he brought it down to the ground.


    "...argh!" Taking a direct hit from the attack, Rie''s health lowered to the red zone.


    "Ah, Rie!" Hikari scurried over to his aid, however, her skills were on cooldown, thus she couldn''t heal him.


    "Why weren''t you careful?" Relis said as she sent a me shot over towards Relis, killing him.


    [ FIRST BLOOD! Relis has killed Rie! ]


    ...


    "...that was careless of Rie," Zayden helplessly said. "The first blood was given over to them..." he sighed. "Though... never would I have thought that the tank would have gone for a physical build first," he turned to look at the items of the tank. "No wonder Rie let his guard down."


    In a match, one''s equipment build decided how your character would be used. Lack of physical items meant one would deal little to no damage, whilst having ack of defense items meant that one would be squishy and would usually be susceptible to burst easily.


    Unlike the equipment that yers wore in Spiritual Warriors, in the Crystality game mode, the gear that had would merely be only cosmetics. In order to get items to raise one''s stats was to buy items from the in-game shop using goal obtained from farming. Thus, farming was very important.


    ...


    The battle raged on as the match slowly moved into mid-game. From there, the number of team fights and deaths that urred steadily increased. The death between the two teams wasn''t arge gap, however, Vain blood couldn''t be aggressive due to the disadvantage of them being squishy whilst the enemy was able to sustain damage.


    [ Revelen has killed Tronse! ]


    [ Relis has killed Revelen! ]


    [ Relis has killed Hikari! ]


    [ Relis is on a rampage! ]


    "...fall back! We''ll lose if we don''t!" Rie ordered.


    "Argh, I was so close to killing them!" Bunnix clicked his tongue.


    "We need to regroup-" Ensia said as a de flew straight towards her. Quickly killing her.


    [ Yupin has killed Ensia! ]


    "...Ensia!" Rie shouted out.


    "Relis, ult on Bunnix!" Yupin shouted out as he jumped towards Rie.


    "...ugh!" Rie raised his sword against Yupin, however, the man overpowered him, thus forcing him back.


    "...and you''re dead!" he said, whilst ending Rie.


    [ Yupin has killed Rie! ]


    [ Relis has killed Bunnix! ]


    [ Bunnix has killed Relis! ]


    [ SHUT DOWN! ]


    [ Vain Blood Team - Wipe Out. ]