As soon as the match began, Yi Tianhua instantly vanished into thin air.
Before Yi Tianhua disappeared, Wen Xiangjie saw him holding a dagger in his hand.
It seemed Yi Tianhua was taking the assassin route.
Since he was an assassin, he would naturally try to get close and launch a sneak attack.
Although Wen Xiangjie didn't have a skill to detect invisibility, the Arrow Rain of Light skill she held from the Elf Queen could also serve to break invisibility.
However, the Arrow Rain of Light had a limited duration, so Wen Xiangjie temporarily chose to bide her time.
After all, she wasn't the one in a hurry.
Yi Tianhua's first skill was invisibility, and his first attack after becoming invisible was guaranteed to be a critical hit; his second skill was a displacement skill, not long in range, but capable of delivering a fatal blow.
From his roommate, he knew that Wen Xiangjie had an area-of-effect skill, so he temporarily chose to bide his time, hoping to use the threat of invisibility to force Wen Xiangjie to use her area attack first.
Unexpectedly, a minute passed.
Wen Xiangjie still showed no intention of using her skills, and was even playing with the Elf Queen.
"Lingling, fly this way ~ That's right, Lingling is so smart!"
Yi Tianhua did not relax his guard just because Wen Xiangjie was playing with her pet; instead, his expression became even more serious.
As expected of Wen Xiangjie, even though she had just entered the combat program, her combat experience was no less than his, who had gone through hundreds of battles.
Now, the passive party had become Yi Tianhua.
Because his invisibility duration only had 1 minute left; if he didn't attack after 1 minute, his first skill would be effectively wasted for a short period.
Yi Tianhua didn't plan to wait until his invisibility was almost over to attack; that would make the timing too rushed and make him more prone to revealing flaws when attacking.
He held his breath and focused, playing a psychological trick; instead of moving behind Wen Xiangjie, he moved to her front right, silently calculating the distance between himself and Wen Xiangjie.
As long as he calculated his displacement distance correctly, even if Wen Xiangjie reacted quickly, she would definitely take a critical hit from him.
However, what Yi Tianhua never expected was that Wen Xiangjie's combat experience was completely beyond his comparison.
When he prepared to make his move on Wen Xiangjie, his killing intent could no longer be concealed.
Sensing the slightly heavier breathing coming from her front right, Wen Xiangjie casually stroked the Elf Queen's hair as if nothing was amiss.
"Lingling, get ready for Arrow Rain of Light."
"Now, unleash it!"
Yi Tianhua suddenly lunged towards Wen Xiangjie using his displacement skill, the dagger in his hand aiming straight for Wen Xiangjie's neck.
However, a burning pain from his hand caused his movements to involuntarily falter for an instant, and at the same time, his figure was exposed beneath the Arrow Rain.
This momentary pause allowed Wen Xiangjie to calmly displace herself one step to the left, dodging Yi Tianhua's attack.
While displacing, an dark red card appeared in Wen Xiangjie's hand; she held the card between her right index and middle fingers, and likewise threw it towards Yi Tianhua's neck.
The card swished past Yi Tianhua's neck, a white trace appearing along the trajectory of the card's attack, and then the white trace was soaked in blood, only then did Yi Tianhua belatedly feel the pain from his neck.
Most critically, with the card's attack, Yi Tianhua received a system notification.
"You have been affected by the opponent's skill. For the next 10 seconds, your attack speed will be slowed by 100%."
Yi Tianhua hadn't expected that Wen Xiangjie's attack would even come with negative effects, and the most restrictive ones for an assassin at that.
It wasn't over yet; immediately after, several more cards appeared in Wen Xiangjie's hand, attacking his vital points.
Yi Tianhua tried hard to twist his body to dodge, but still got hit by several cards.
Immediately after, his status panel was flooded with system notifications.
"You have been affected by the opponent's skill. For the next 5 seconds, your movement will be slowed by 100%."
"You have been affected by the opponent's skill. For the next 30 seconds, your bleeding speed will increase."
"You have been affected by the opponent's skill. For the next 30 seconds, your injured areas will be marked as 'Vulnerable' status; if attacked again, damage will be doubled."
...
A long string of negative effect notifications left Yi Tianhua completely dumbfounded.
No, where did this master of stacking negative effects come from?
One negative effect for every card hit?
If he took a few more cards, he wouldn't even need to play; he'd just be slowly ground to death by cards.
However, Yi Tianhua had not chosen to give up; his displacement skill's cooldown was ready, and he selected a location outside the Arrow Rain's range and used his displacement skill.
The result.
"You have been affected by the opponent's skill. Your energy value is insufficient to use the 'Charge' skill."
Yi Tianhua: ???
This time, Yi Tianhua truly couldn't hold back.
No, how could she even deplete his energy value?
What was he supposed to play now???
Unable to use his displacement skill and with his movement speed slowed by 100%, Yi Tianhua couldn't escape the range of the Arrow Rain no matter what he did.
Yi Tianhua looked at Wen Xiangjie with a face full of indignation.
Although everyone's faces were softened by a light effect, making it impossible to clearly see each other's features, Wen Xiangjie could still feel the accusing glare shooting from Yi Tianhua's eyes.
Watching Yi Tianhua's health bar drop to the bottom, Wen Xiangjie friendly waved goodbye to Yi Tianhua.
"Goodbye."
Yi Tianhua: ???
She's humiliating me! Humiliating me!
And so, Yi Tianhua, filled with grief and indignation, was slowly ground to death by the Arrow Rain's damage and a pile of debuffs.
An assassin, who didn't even touch his opponent throughout the entire match.
This was simply the shame of an assassin!
"Damn it!!!" Yi Tianhua angrily slammed the table.
His roommate, who had been eagerly waiting for Yi Tianhua's match results nearby, jumped in surprise.
Yi Tianhua was addicted to combat programs all day, and in combat, there were wins and losses; he had never seen Yi Tianhua so angry when he lost before.
"Bro, what's wrong?" The roommate cautiously asked, "Did you lose?"
"It's disgusting, truly disgusting!" Yi Tianhua immediately exited the combat program, stood up, walked to the punching bag hanging in the middle of the dorm, and fiercely hammered it.
The roommate watched in trepidation.
Fortunately, this punching bag was produced by the First Military Academy itself, with guaranteed quality, otherwise, it might have been smashed by Yi Tianhua.
The roommate swallowed hard, not daring to speak.
If he wasn't so curious about what had happened, the roommate would have already fled the dorm.
After violently hammering the punching bag for a while, Yi Tianhua finally vented some of his anger.
He picked up his water cup and gulped down the entire glass of water, then plopped down onto the chair, breathing heavily.
Seeing that Yi Tianhua seemed to have calmed down, the roommate, who had been quietly pretending to be a quail, finally approached cautiously and asked.
"What exactly happened just now?"