Chapter 162.1: This Quiet is no good. Hes not calm enough. (2/2)
Wei Xiao forged onward. His luck wasn’t bad, and he picked up an iron sword and two skill points.
The iron sword was for physical strength type professions. After picking it up, Wei Xiao also allocated the skill points to his shadow thief, and was now two skill points away from activating his light arcs. Unfortunately, the game wouldn’t give him the chance to continue exploring.
There was a row of black magic vines ahead of him. Wei Xiao was just about to cross over it when a floating exclamation mark suddenly appeared over his head. His senses tingled: there were other people around!
And it was another shadow thief like him.
Where were they…
Wei Xiao knew that the other side could also see an exclamation mark over their heads, and they must know of his existence.
There were many heroes in Glory who had stealth skills. Other than camouflage skills that allowed players to integrate into the terrain, skills that had real stealth would give other players a prompt when they approached.
Each talent had its own prompt style. For example, when it was a shadow thief, the exclamation mark would flash, just like this.
Although it was impossible to determine where the other party was, they certainly weren’t far away, and were likely even in the range of attack.
Wei Xiao was unable to judge where the other side was, and the other side couldn’t determine where Wei Xiao was. It was very difficult for anything to happen if this deadlock continued.
What to do?
Many people in the audience had noticed the situation.
Quiet wasn’t known internationally, but the person he’d encountered was a famous top anchor from the South Korean competition zone, Xu Tianqi.
Xu Tianqi was very good at playing thieves. At this time, many people were watching the situation from his perspective.
Fans from South Korea cheered excitedly, “First Blood! Hurry and take First Blood!”
“Who is this Quiet? Never seen him before.”
“FTW’s new jungler.”
The Korean audience who only learned about this now: “What? FTW switched junglers? Did Close retire?”
“Upstairs, didn’t you watch the winter training camp games?”
“What’s so good about watching the winter training camp?”
“Ha, this year’s FTW is really interesting. Don’t underestimate this Quiet.”
“Big brother, abuse him! Let him experience the strength of the strongest thief in our competition zone!”
“Hurry up, take First Blood. Xu Tianqi, you’ll be the number one in the whole world!”
Getting First Blood in the big brawl was different from getting First Blood in 5v5. This First Blood announcement would be announced across the entire map and would be seen by all 100 players who participated in the game.
The honor of being able to obtain First Blood amongst the world’s top players, and in a situation where the game was being broadcast globally was too tempting!
In the Moonlight Wetland, Wei Xiao suddenly cancelled his stealth mode.
The scrolling comments immediately lamented, “This Quiet is no good. He’s not calm enough.”
“Xu Tianqi’s chances of winning are stable. Who would’ve dared to think that the person to win First Blood would be an anchor from our competition zone…”
“!!!”
Even before the audience had finished talking on the scrolling comments, they watched as Wei Xiao turned around from where he was standing in front of the magic vines and used a shadow attack, landing it accurately on the person behind him, breaking the other party’s stealth mode.
Xu Tianqi froze for a moment. By the time he reacted, a series of combos had already swept over, making his scalp go numb.
At this time, the commentators had also noticed the fight. They started analyzing the situation after switching the camera over.
“Quiet is very smart. He cancelled his own stealth in order to lure his opponent in to attack.”
“Based on his understanding of thieves, he knew where Xu Tianqi would launch a sneak attack. This way, he can accurately pinpoint where the other side would approach.”
“There should also be an element of luck behind it. Even if he could judge the positioning of his opponent, grasping the right time isn’t easy.”
The shadow thief had an attack bonus when it attacked from behind. Most shadow thieves would instinctively choose to attack from behind.
It was normal for Wei Xiao to be able to predict this. What was really shocking was his control over the timing.
How had he known that Xu Tianqi would attack at that particular moment?
How had he managed to grasp this timing within only a fraction of a second?
Those who were watching from god’s perspective didn’t understand, because they couldn’t hear the sounds from the game.
Everyone (including the commentators) were still a little unfamiliar with the big brawl map.
Even if they’d tried it on the test servers, there were many details that they may not have noticed yet.
Wei Xiao was different.
He’d prepared very seriously for this opening game.
The reason why he could control the timing so accurately was because of the sound of footsteps.
Due to the Moonlight Wetland’s special terrain, there would be an extremely light sound of footsteps that could be heard within a certain range.
The place where Wei Xiao had removed his stealth had been selected very carefully. It was just under the crawling magic vines.
The magic vines were piled up like a small hill, with countless small vines beneath. It seemed that the swamp was poisonous, the toxins having eroded the small vines into dry, gray husks.
Wei Xiao had tested this effect before when he was in stealth; if he stepped on these vines, the sound of his footsteps would be extra clear. That was why he’d focused on this spot.
In front of him was a hill-like pile of magic vines, and behind him were the withered vines. As long as the shadow thief approached…
Wei Xiao was very focused. After hearing the rustling sound, he turned around and immediately launched a shadow attack on the other shadow thief!