MMORPG: Martial Gamer

Chapter 1890 1890: Chess Meets a Match

-220!

After being poisoned by Spring Halo's deadly new star, a green number indicating health loss began to float above the head of Greed.

"Continuous health loss!"

Spring Halo's damage was not high, but seeing that faint health loss number, the members of the Holy Hall team showed signs of tension.

There are generally two types of poisons used by Shamans.

Debuffs and continuous health loss.

As the name suggests, debuffs weaken various attributes, such as movement speed and defense, and are similar to control effects.

Although this type of poison is annoying, it can still be managed by skilled players since debuffs are not as powerful as control skills, and this type of poison is relatively easy to dispel.

However, continuous health loss poison is much more troublesome.

The amount of health lost from this type of poison is not very high; currently, the strongest poison on the market only causes about one hundred health loss per second, with skill enhancements bringing it to a maximum of two to three hundred per second.

Considering that players now often have health points in the tens of thousands or even over a hundred thousand, the amount of health lost is almost negligible.

What makes it troublesome is that while players are under continuous health loss, healing spells and recovery skills are basically ineffective, and dispel skills find it hard to eliminate the health loss status.

The most frustrating aspect is that while under continuous health loss, players experience a brief period of forced stiffness due to the decrease in health.

Stiffness is a particularly annoying mechanic in <<Rebirth>>.

Regardless of how short the stiffness duration is, if a class is stiffened, the player's skills and attack actions will be forcibly interrupted.

Continuous health loss occurs once per second, meaning the player's stiffness frequency is also once per second.

Not to mention the casting time for mages; currently, all high-level skills for any class take over a second to cast, attack, and hit the target.

Therefore, once a Shaman poisons a player, during the poison's duration, the player can hardly use any skills except for instant-cast minor abilities, and even basic attacks' combos cannot be executed.

Greed, being an assassin whose primary means is ambush, derives its output from skill combos.

After all, assassins are weak melee classes, and if they fail to kill their opponent in one strike, their survival rate is extremely low.

But now Greed has been afflicted by Spring Halo's continuous health loss poison, rendering them unable to use skills or combos, effectively halving their combat effectiveness.

With the loss of stealth, the assassin's combat power has already dropped by half, and now having lost combos and skills, Greed seems to have been completely neutralized.

"Die!"

Surprisingly, after being poisoned with continuous health loss by Spring Halo, Greed showed no sign of retreating. Instead, they shouted loudly, slashing their blade to cut the vines beneath, performing a roll to get in front of Spring Halo, raising their dagger to stab.

An assassin is still an assassin; even without skills and combos, and without stealth, they remain kings in the duel arena, easily capable of close-quarters combat to kill a Shaman.

-220!

But just as Greed rolled to Spring Halo's feet, another health loss number popped up above their head.

Greed paused slightly, their dagger momentarily stiffening.

Spring Halo took the opportunity to step back half a step, creating distance from Greed, and summoned a green evil spirit with the Seal Book in his left hand.

"Ga!"

The evil spirit opened its mouth, revealing pale teeth, and lunged at Greed.

At the same time, Spring Halo pointed his staff, causing the evil spirit to faintly glow with a green light.

"Not good! It's a self-destruct!"

In <<Rebirth>>, self-destruct is indeed a very tricky skill, but its characteristics are also quite distinct.

Any self-destruct skill will have a precursor before it is released; for example, the faint green light on the evil spirit is a sign of an impending explosion.

Greed, being battle-hardened, naturally recognized the self-destruct glow. Seeing the light emanate from the evil spirit in front of him, Greed was suddenly alarmed and quickly leaned back, pushing off the ground with both feet, launching themselves backward almost horizontally.

"Boom!!"

Spring Halo's evil spirit exploded, covering a radius of 500 around it with the explosion.

Although Greed had dodged the most damaging center of the explosion, they were still caught by the shockwave, which blew Greed aside, causing nearly ten percent of their health to drop.

"Damn! Is it really that exaggerated? How could I possibly dodge that?"

Seeing that Greed had not been killed in the explosion, the members of the Quan Zhen Sect were all astonished, even Spring Halo couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

The explosion range of the evil spirit is quite large, and dodging an explosion under such circumstances is nearly impossible. It was unexpected that Greed's reaction was so swift...

One must know that Greed was still under the continuous health loss status; even in such a situation, being able to avoid the explosion was remarkable. Despite having witnessed Wang Yu's extraordinary skills, Spring Halo still felt astonished at Greed's maneuvering.

Truly a top-tier expert, the speed of reaction was indeed beyond what ordinary people could anticipate.

However, Spring Halo did not expect his evil spirit to kill its target in one go, so the moment Greed flew backward, Spring Halo had already summoned a second evil spirit.

With the blast's momentum, Greed performed a roll and landed gracefully, but before Greed could stabilize, they felt a sense of pressure coming toward them.

"?"

Greed hurriedly looked up, only to see that a new evil spirit had appeared in front of them, its face fierce and emanating a faint green light.

"Wang Defa!!"

Seeing this, Greed broke into a cold sweat, cursing loudly and quickly jumping aside again.

"Boom!"

The evil spirit exploded once more, sending Greed flying.

Spring Halo was known for his meticulous planning; the traps he laid were always interconnected, and he would never allow Greed to escape.

As Greed dodged to the side, Spring Halo calculated Greed's jump direction and anticipated their landing spot. Before Greed could touch the ground, another faintly glowing evil spirit appeared right beneath them.

"!!!"

As a top-tier expert, Greed's reflexes were incredibly quick. Seeing the evil spirit beneath them, Greed pushed off with both feet, landing on the evil spirit's head and using the force to leap in another direction.

"Boom!"

The arena echoed with yet another explosion... Meanwhile, Spring Halo summoned another evil spirit with the Seal Book in hand, and it appeared right at Greed's feet.

One could say that Spring Halo and Greed were indeed opponents of equal caliber; while Spring Halo summoned explosions, Greed dodged them. The back-and-forth exchange of attacks and explosions was continuous, creating a scene so thrilling it resembled a movie, leaving the audience utterly captivated.

The players from both teams were equally thrilled.

After all, every team knows their own experts, and this was the first time the Holy Hall team had seen someone force Greed into such a situation. For the Haphazard Crowd team, it was the first time they witnessed someone continuously dodging under Spring Halo's calculations.