Vanguard of the Eternal Night (BL)(Complete)

Chapter 44

Chapter 44 - Individual Competition - Sorcerer 3

After a short, off-court break, the second match began.

The randomized map for this round: Water Mirror City.

It was a map that was very difficult to describe with just a few words. The entire map was filled with smooth, glass-like water, and in the center of it all was a structure composed entirely of mirrors.

Imagine a map that was full of mirror reflections. When someone walked around in this Mirror City, it was likely that their figure would be reflected several thousands of times. Not only was it creepy for themselves, it was also very scary for their opponent--even if they wanted to fight, they didn't know which enemy was the real one! And even if they knew which figure was real, how were they supposed to know which road was passable?

In this map, there was only one way to distinguish between the true enemy and the mirror reflections: Look at the water ripples underfoot. If it was a reflection, there was a gap in the ripples and they didn't fit together perfectly.

However, in such a tense arena, splitting one's attention to observe the ripples at one's feet was really an inhuman task that almost nobody could achieve!

So, over time, this map became a nightmare for many players and an unspoken rule had even developed amongst them: if they drew this randomized map, both sides would secretly agree to never go into the Mirror City! They would simply treat it as a large, empty map and tacitly avoid mutually harming each other.

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The commentators also knew about this unspoken rule of the map. "This map is really difficult to explain in a nutshell."

Female commentator: "Yeah. On other maps, when the fighting becomes intense, the questions are usually 'what is the opponent going to do?' and 'how should I fight?'. On this map, the question becomes 'where am I?' 'where are they?' and 'why am I here?'..."

The male commentator's expression was full of pity for the past as he said, "On other maps, the commentators would say 'the contestant is doing this' and 'this player's purpose is...', but on this map, most of the time I'm saying things like 'yes yes yes, he's there', 'no no no, he should be there', 'this is real, that is false', 'it's too great, the contestants have finally found each other'..."

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While the countdown was ticking, the sorcerer was also thinking deeply: Should I go into the Mirror City?

He belonged to the category of players who were completely unable to differentiate between what was real and what was a mirror reflection once he became nervous. As soon as he thought of the Mirror City, not only would he feel a headache, his feet and everywhere else would hurt too. He simply decided in his heart that he wouldn't set foot in the Mirror City.

--This map had no obstacles at all. Would he even need to stress out about whether or not he could land his polymorph on his opponent?

Maple Leaf was delighted with his decision and waited for the countdown to finish so that he could immediately launch a polymorph on his assassin opponent.

In a situation where there were no obstacles and no neutral mobs, if he could cast his polymorph within the first 0.5 seconds of the match, there would be no way to dispel the skill.

He refused to believe that there would be an assassin in this world who couldn't be dealt with by a polymorph skill! If there was, then he would just use his time reversal and cast out another polymorph!

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At this moment, Tyron's thoughts were focused on: It was really difficult to drag on for 20 seconds.