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6. An NPC Who First Watched an e-Sport Match
“Woaaaaaah!”
The crowd of spectators was boisterous at once. Apparently, without Nina noticing from being too engrossed in chatting with Luca all this time, the first match between the White Star Team and the Silver Hero Team was over.
“The winner is Lia, Cleric from Silver Hero Team. Congratulations to our lovely lady, Lia.” Said the MC to brighten the atmosphere.
“Eh, lie. Mr Malik's team lost the first round? And not only that, with a Cleric?” Nina's heart was astonished.
It was only natural that Nina was astonished like that. Cleric's problem belongs to the weak class.
There are 10 types of avatar characters in e-sport games. Five of them were dubbed as main-class characters because of their prevalence of being used in live combat. They were swordmen, fighters, mages, archers, and shields. There are also middle-class characters who actually do not have reliable attack power, but have exceptional skill support. They are tamers and alchemists.
Then lastly, there are the supporting class characters. True to its nickname, this class is not commonly used for one-on-one duels because their attacks are weak and do not have extraordinary skills as well. They are assassin, scout, and cleric.
Typically, they are used as party supporters for dungeon conquest or special in-game party missions or as support teams for group matches on e-sports because of their special talents.
Assassins with their agility, scouts with enemy sense and skill give debuff to the enemy, as well as clerics with healing abilities and skills to give buffs to teammates. Very rarely would anyone be willing to duel one-on-one using those weak characters.
But Lia the cleric in front of Nina at that time, proved that the supporting class character was also able to defeat the main class character. Nina was very sorry not to watch the historic match for focusing too much on Luca.
However, without Nina or Luca noticing, Lia, the cleric of the Silver Hero is staring mesmerized at Luca with a smile typical of women who seemed to just find his first love.
The second match also continued between the fourth person of the White Star Team and the Silver Hero Team. The White Star Team sent Hermanto, a shield, while the Silver Hero Team sent Mark, an assassin.
“What? Again Silver Hero Team sent a supporting class character?” Nina said in astonishment.
“Surely the White Star Team was just off guard, but this time it was an absolute victory for the White Star Team. It was possible that a weak assassin could break through the defense of a shielder.” Nina also spoke while chuckling.
Luca looked at Nina who was showing an expression of certainty underestimating the ability of an assassin. That made Luca frown, unhappy.
Then the match went on.
Quickly, the assassin used his hidden skill.
“Heh, no matter how well the assassin hid, as long as the shielder kept his guard up, the edges of his weak attacks would never break through the sturdy defense of a shielder.” Nina made her comments on the match.
That made Luca grow sulky. He threw his face away in annoyance from Nina.
However, not to Nina's expectations, the assassin appeared - missing for five times while attacking the shield with his dagger without the shielder succeeding in capturing the assassin. Moreover, three of those five attacks were critical hits. The two ordinary attacks of the assassin were not able to break through the shield's defense, but the critical hits of the first, fourth, and fifth attacks were clearly able to shake the sturdy defense.
At the moment when the shield's defense began to appear shaky due to the injuries he had sustained from the critical hit just now, the assassin nimblely utilized his small body, making use of it, sneaking in the area under the shield's head that failed to be covered by his shield then directed his dagger to slit the shield's throat. The shield's health point instantly dropped drastically and reached zero then lost. Victory for Mark, the assassin.
While Luca himself,
“Wah, Brother Mark is enchanting! I like Brother!” Luca suddenly shouted until heard by all the spectators and players who were on the arena, including Mark himself.
It caught the attention of the people watching, including the players, watching Luca with a shocked expression of disbelief.
“Hey, how you speak, Luca!” He was also scolded by his older sister, Nina.
“Exit, Brother is so great. I couldn't bear to cheer, because I also wanted to be a great player like Brother Mark. Anyway finish this I will learn seriously how to play e spot. Brother Nina please teach me yes.”
Luca's next explanation, finally made the surroundings breathe again. Lia who witnessed the unusual incident then laughed out loud due to Luca's innocence. He also became more and more heartbroken even though he had just seen it from afar on the figure of the young man he considered very cute.
“Yes, yes, tonight I promise. It's called e-sport. Can you say it correctly?” Nina said with a sigh.
On the other hand, it seemed that the atmosphere around Team White Star was not good.
“Ah, this makes me very upset. How did our two core players get defeated by the supporting class characters so easily?!” Said Brian, the captain of the White Star Team, with anger.
“Brack.” So angry, he also hit the locker that was nearby.
“Sister Brian, relax. There's still a chance. As long as our third person wins, then the remaining two fights done by us will definitely also gain victory. Then the score becomes 3 to 2 then our team will win.” Malik, the vice-captain, tried to calm the captain down.
“That if win. If until we lose again, then we will immediately lose without the two of us having a chance to compete. After our efforts to practice for months, we will just go home without having time to expend the ability! Aren't you also upset if such a thing happens, Malik?!”
“Yeah, of course I'll be upset, sister. What can be done, the preliminary round is always an individual match. After all, we compiled this sequence of games with careful consideration beforehand approved by both all members and coaches so that there is no room for regret for it.”
“Our number three who will compete in the third match, is someone from the reserve team right? What class? Is he great?”
“Yeah, obviously he's better at dueling than our cleric he replaced. His name is Bento, a fighter. He's still in 3rd grade High School this year, but his talent is promising. So he was entrusted with filling the third-person place of cleric.”
“If not mistaken, the remaining enemy core team is a mage and swordmen like us right? The other is a Tamer. Which do you think they're going to drop?”
“Entahlah Brother Brian. Rather than that, I want to feel like I changed the order of my match to the third if only it could be done.”
“Well, even though in your mouth you said no regrets, apparently you regretted our match order as well. But we just pray that our reserve player can win so that we do not need to regret the sequence of our matches determined at the end of it.”
But beyond Brian and Malik's expectations, Team Silver Hero also sent their backup team in the third match. Moreover, the reserve player class was also the support type, the scout class.