——  The Chinese team’s counterattack in the second game succeeded in equalizing the score. The next game was the Korean team’s home advantage and it was crucial for both China and South Korea. Whoever won this game would get match point.

  The rest time soon came and the captains sat at the command post again. Park Joonseo didn’t hesitate to submit the game mode—economic war!

  The economic war was more stable than the uncertainty of death racing. The two death racing games had a score of 1:1 and it was changed to an economic war in the key game. It could be seen that Park Joonseo was full of confidence when it came to the Korean team’s economic war.

  In addition to the official Miracle map, Park Joonseo submitted the Korean maps Jeju Island and Gangwon-d0. The two maps hadn’t appeared in previous matches and the thumbnails were similar.

  The map had little impact in an economic war. No matter how the map changed, it would be divided into four areas, the southeast, northeast, southwest and northwest. At most, it would have an effect on the wild mobs.

  Li Cangyu didn’t think too much and eventually left the Jeju Island map.

  The map was confirmed and Park Joonseo submitted his lineup.

  The angel summoner Park Joonseo, the terran swordsman Shim Yoocheol, the elf archer Kim Yoonhee, the blood kin assassin Kim Changmin, the white magician Shin Chimin and the angel healer Bae Eunki.

  A careful check revealed this was very similar to the Korean team’s all-star lineup in the first game. However, an economic war required six people and they added a priest to the lineup.

  Li Cangyu had learnt about the configuration of the Korean team before the game. Bae Eunki was an excellent healer of the South Korean championship team led by Park Joonseo. Once again, a lineup full of great gods was sent. It seemed that Park Joonseo was determined to win this game.

  Li Cangyu pondered for a moment before submitting the lineup.

  The demon summoner Ling Xuefeng, the blood kin summoner Qin Mo, the black magician Yan Ruiwen, the black magician Guo Xuan, the terran swordsman Xie Shurong and the anger healer Bai Xuan!

  As soon as the lineup was released, the live broadcast room was filled with comments: [This is the combination of Wind Colour and Canglan!] [Yes, the four people of Wind Colour plus the two people of Canglan. Isn’t this also a luxurious lineup?]

  Li Cangyu naturally had a reason for sending such people. Ling Xuefeng was most used to commanding two summoners and two black magicians. This national team happened to have four members of Wind Colour selected and if all of them were sent, LIng Xuefeng would naturally feel more comfortable commanding.

  Meanwhile, the Shu Bai combination had the strongest survivability of the league. Under the care of Bai Xuan, Xie Shurong could fully act as the front row of this lineup. As long as Shu Bai resisted the pressure, the four people of Wind Colour in the rear could burst out and deal a considerable amount of damage.

  Ling Xuefeng saw this and couldn’t help admiring Li Cangyu’s thoughtfulness and meticulous nature.

  The four members of Wind Colour had a long-term understanding while Shu Bai had first-class senses. This lineup had been temporarily set up by Li Cangyu before the match and after several days of training, a perfect tactical system had formed.

  The domestic audience was right. This was the combination of Canglan and Wind Colour.

  Wind Colour’s strongest control and output combined with the strongest swordsman and healer combination. This was almost an upgraded version of the two teams and had significantly higher strength than Canglan and Wind Colour.

  Kou Hongyi couldn’t help feeling excited when he saw this. “The four members of Wind Colour are all on while the Shu Bai combination is added. This is the first time this lineup has appeared!”

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  “Cat God can always come up with a variety of novel combinations.” Yu Bing couldn’t help praising. “In theory, the strength of this lineup doesn’t lose to the Korean team’s great gods. The key is to see Captain Ling’s command.”

  “If we can win the third game when South Korean has the home advantage then the Chinese team will take the lead in grabbing match point. The fourth game is our home game and the advantage will be big!”

  “Yes, I hope Captain Ling can withstand the pressure.”

  ***

  On the big screen, the game map was shown. Jeju Island was one of the most famous locations in South Korea. The land here was very strange. Jeju Island was once full of magma but over time, it became a holiday destination filled with trees.

  The competition map took a section of Jeju Island and scaled it down. The audience could see that the map was surrounded by vast waters while the island area was divided into the ‘田’ field. This was the standard map in the MIracle economic war. The middle of the map was high ground while the crystal there radiated light.

  Ling Xuefeng stared sharply at the screen. Based on the map panorama, there were no traps on Jeju Island. However, the setting of the wild monsters was a bit interesting. They were groups of magpies.

  Cheng Wei couldn’t help whispering, “Why magpies? Isn’t the meaning of magpies to be messengers? Wouldn’t it be humiliating to lose? It would be better to pick crows.”

  Tan Shitian explained, “The magpie is the national bird of South Korea.”

  Cheng Wei was stunned and looked over at him. “The national bird? There was such a thing?”

  Tan Shitian nodded. “Yes.”

  Cheng Wei scratched his head. “You know so much.”

  Tan Shitian smiled and joked, “I have great talent and have as much knowledge as five carloads of books.”

  “…” Cheng Wei made a disgusted spitting action and Tan Shitian gently patted him on the back. “Why are you spitting? Are you happen?”

  Cheng Wei couldn’t bear it and formed a fist to punch him. Tan Shitian flexibly evaded and Cheng Wei couldn’t stop. He happened to hit Li Cangyu’s shoulder, who was sitting next to Tan Shitian.

  Li Cangyu turned back doubtfully. “Why are you hitting me?”

  Cheng Wei blushed and immediately retracted his hand. “N-Nothing…”

  Li Cangyu stared at Tan Shitian who was trying hard to suppress his smile. Tan Shitian put away his smile and continued to watch the screen.

  The map preview finished and the players sat in front of the computer. Ling Xuefeng took advantage of the map loading tie to quickly say, “Shu Bai will go in the middle, Yan Guo will go up and I will go down with Qin Mo.”

  Everyone typed ‘1’ to show their understanding.

  The South Korean team’s splitting method was also conventional. Park Joonseo and his old partner Shim Yoocheol were in the middle. Kim Yoonhee and Kim Changmin were in the north while Shin Chimin and the healer Bae Eunki went down.

  Park Joonseo’s angel summoner played an auxiliary role in the team battle. Combined with the healer, the Korean team’s lineup was quite defensive. When necessary, there could be two healers and it was suitable for dragging out a team battle.

  The Chinese side was mainly based on output. Xie Shurong might be the anti-pressure front row but he also had a strong output capacity.

  A strong output team met a strong defensive team, just like a spear and sword colliding. In the end, either the shield or the spear breaking depended on the performance of the players. Their mental state was very crucial.

  However, from the opening, both sides seemed to have no intention of starting a battle.

  30 seconds after the start of the game, the mobs refreshed on time.

  The magpie should be a ranged mob and might deal negative states. It just wasn’t sure what the negative effect was.

  Ling Xuefeng told them, “Wait.” Then he used the banshee to pull one of the magpies and quickly killed it with an ordinary attack.

  The slain magpie suddenly screamed and just before it died, its wings fluttered and countless feathers filled the air with a golden glow around them. Ling Xuefeng immediately looked at the banshee’s negative state to judge that it was the ‘dizzy’ effect.

  Many Miracle bosses had a form of ‘self-detonation’ where they dealt damage to the players as they died. The wild mobs on this map were obviously inspired by those bosses.

  Unfortunately, the Chinese team didn’t fall into the trap.

  Ling Xuefeng was cautious enough to use his pets to test it and understood the magpies’ skill for his teammates.

  “The magpie will blow up when they die. This will release the dizzy effect and the range is 1 metre in diameter.” Ling Xuefeng spoke in the voice channel. “Everyone should take care to avoid it, especially Ah Shu.”

  Xie Shurong instantly typed: [Understood.]

  The four ranged outputs could stand in the distance and weren’t affected by the magpie’s dizziness. However, Xie Shurong was a melee and it was easy to be caught if his reaction speed wasn’t fast.

  Thanks to Ling Xuefeng’s tip, Xie Shurong was naturally more cautious when playing against the mobs.

  He would jump over and stab the magpie with a simple attack. Then he would immediately jump back to Bai Xuan’s side to escape the magpie’s skill.

  This flowing operation caused Shim Yoocheol to feel admiration.

  Perhaps it was God’s care for the Chinese team. The splitting method of this game coincidentally had the Xie Shurong and Bai Xuan combination in the same area as Shim Yoocheol and Park Joonseo. A swordsman with a healer against a swordsman with an auxiliary reduced Xie Shurong’s pressure by half.

  If the opponents were ranged classes then it would be very hard for Xie Shurong to kill these self-destructive mobs.

  Now he was facing Shim Yoocheol and the two short-ranged swordsman couldn’t control each other.

  At the start, Shim Yoocheol would occasionally rush to cut at Xie Shurong. As a result, Bai Xuan would give a small healing skill to fill up Xie Shurong’s blood. Shim Yoocheol seemed to feel this was boring and ignored Xie Shurong.

  Xie Shurong also didn’t want to hit him since Park Joonseo had the ability to heal. Instead of wasting his energy, he also killed the magpies.

  The two sides reached a consensus and in the initial stage of killing mobs, the middle area was peaceful and the two sides regarded each other as air.

  To the north, the Yan Guo double magicians met the Kim Yoonhee and Kim Changmin combination of archer and assassin. They couldn’t beat each other. After exchanging one wave of attacks, they ignored each other and peacefully made money.

  However, the situation to the south was particularly fierce.

  The white magician Shin Chimin and the healer Bae Eunki, the two female players happened to encounter Ling Xuefeng and Qin Mo.

  Ling Xuefeng definitely wouldn’t be polite to them!

  Chapter 333 – China VS South Korea (Demon King Ling Xuefeng)——

  It had been three minutes since the game started and the first wave of mobs had refreshed. The two South Korean players watched Ling Xuefeng and thought he would peacefully kill monsters to make money.

  Unexpectedly, Ling Xuefeng suddenly summoned the crows and decisively released Cover the Sky!

  A large group of black crows screamed and flew towards the Korean team members, instantly blocking their vision.

  The Korean healer Bae Eunki reacted very quickly. After her vision darkened because of the crow, she realized the other person might break out their skills and used Purification to get rid of the negative state.

  Ling Xuefeng’s eyes were cold as he ordered on the voice channel, “Strike!”

  Qin Mo had studied with Ling Xuefeng for two seasons and was used to his master’s rhythm. He instantly summoned the blood spider and blood snake, applying three layers of bleeding to the opponents before opening the pet skill, Blood Snake Winding!

  The flexible blood snake tangled up around the priest’s feet and the bleeding state increased to four layers, causing 15% blood damage!

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  Bae Eunki used Holy Light Surge and filled up her own blood.

  Then the next moment, Ling Xuefeng summoned the banshee and used Witch Demon’s Curse to pull the two of them under the tree before summoning four skeleton infantry and using Skeleton Explosion!

  The blood of the two people fell to 70%. The truly depressing thing was that this group attack killed the magpies that refreshed on the trees. The magpies exploded and caused the South Korean players to be hit by the dizziness effect.

  Kou Hongyi hit the table and laughed wildly, “Hahaha, is this what it means to lift a stone and hit your own feet? The South Korean team’s map actually pitted the South Korean players!”

  There was a small smile on Yu Bing’s cold face. “Captain Ling used the map environment by having the banshee pull them into the range of the magpies. This allowed the magpies’ dizziness to control the two of them.”

  As the two opponents were being controlled, Qin Mo used the big move Blood Bat Festival!

  Ling Xuefeng also followed with the demon summoner’s big move, Demon God’s Descent!

  The two big moves hit and the blood of the two opponents plummeted to 30%.

  The dizziness effect was finally over. Bae Eunki quickly pressed the shortcut key in order to open the group healing skill, otherwise, they would both die…

  Divine Blessing!

  The instant skill added blood and restored the two people’s blood to 50%.

  However, Ling Xuefeng and Qin Mo suddenly switched targets from the healer towards the white magician Shin Chimin.

  Bae Eunki was stunned and wanted to add blood to her teammate, but it was too late.

  It was unknown when Ling Xuefeng’s banshee had moved to another tree and the banshee used Charm to pull Bae Eunki to the tree. There was a blood spider next to the banshee and the silk net bound her in place!

  It didn’t matter if the healer’s body was fixed in place since she could still add blood.

  The key point was that Ling Xuefeng’s positioning was very accurate. He pulled her with the banshee so that her teammate was just out of her maximum healing range.

  Bae Eunki could only watch worriedly as Ling Xuefeng and Qin Mo released their skills and killed Shin Chimin.

  —First blood!

  Despite the other side having a healer, Ling Xuefeng used the exquisite operation of switching targets, displacement, calculating the healing range and other sophisticated operations to successfully kill the white magician of the Korean team.

  The audience had to admire Captain Ling’s strong senses and skills.

  In particular, many fans wanted to shake the screen with excitement when they saw the handsome and indifferent male god on the screen.

  Even Li Cangyu couldn’t help admiring this man.

  Ling Xuefeng always played with a violent suppression style on the field. The South Korean team’s two female players were too careless. They actually thought Ling Xuefeng would make money peacefully? Too naive! He was just waiting for a more appropriate opportunity.

  Seizing the opportunity to kill the opponents in seconds, this was Ling Xuefeng’s style of playing the game.

  Chapter 334 – China VS South Korea (Tearing Through the Defense)——

  It was unexpected for the white magician to be killed by Ling Xuefeng. Park Joonseo was very surprised and couldn’t help asking, “What happened?”

  Bae Eunki wanted to cry. “Ling Xuefeng pulled me away with the banshee at a crucial moment and I couldn’t add blood.”

  Park Joonseo couldn’t help frowning. He already heard that Ling Xuefeng’s banshee play was superb and the use of the single and group pull skills were definitely a weapon that could cut into the opposing lineup. Just now, Ling Xuefeng had accurately calculated the distance, took the healer away at a crucial moment and killed the white magician instantly.

  “It doesn’t matter. You should withdraw first and don’t give them your head.” Park Joonseo took a deep breath and maintained his composure. He placed a retreat mark on the map and Bae Eunki instantly turned to run.

  Ling Xuefeng collected a head and didn’t pursue the healer. He just stayed in place and kept killing the magpies.

  ***

  Everyone finished killing the first wave of mobs and went home to buy equipment. Ling Xuefeng used his economic advantage to buy the demon summoner necklace, Witch’s Contract.

  This was the main necklace of the demon summoner and the effect of wearing it was to ‘increase the crit rate’. Ling Xuefeng usually liked to buy this piece of equipment during the game since it made up for the lack of equipment with crits on his body.

  Bai Xuan gave all his resources to Xie Shurong so he had the money to buy a ring that increased physical attacks.

  “Captain Ling bought a crit necklace, Ah Shu bought a ring with physical attack and Yan Ruiwen bought a ring with magic attack. It seems that the Chinese team is taking the pure output route. Kou Hongyi spoke while looking at the equipment panel. “The next wave of group combat will be the key to this game. It depends on who takes the lead in stealing the ice dragon!”

  The contestants on both sides moved in unison towards the ice dragon.

  The South Korea team’s Shin Chimin might’ve been killed by Ling Xuefeng and had her economy greatly affected but the players on the other roads were in good condition and bought equipment suitable for them.

  Both sides met near the ice dragon’s cave but the commanders on both sides were calm and not in a hurry to start.

  After a moment of standoff near the cave, Ling Xuefeng finally found the entry point for the team combat. “Hit them!”

  At the commander’s order, Yan Ruiwen used the control skill Dark Fear. However, Park Joonseo’s reaction was extremely fast. The moment he saw Yan Ruiwen casting, he summoned the angel pet, the six-winged angel.

  —Angel’s Light!

  The soft white halo instantly enveloped the members of the Korean team. The angel’s big move allowed all teammates within the barrier to be immune to all damage and control for five seconds.

  Yan Ruiwen’s control move was neutralized and Guo Xuan’s Shadow Winding was also blocked.

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  This protection skill was opened just right and the passive Korean team successfully took the initiative. Park Joonseo summoned the light god and opened the skill Light God’s Blessing, doubling the attack power of the whole group!

  The Korean players had a status bonus and released their attack skills towards the Chinese team without hesitation. Tidal Surge, Death Arrow Rain, Hell Flames!

  The light effect flashed on the screen and the Chinese team fell below half blood. The audience started sweating at the sight.

  Fortunately, Bai Xuan quickly cast a healing array and then used the healing chain Holy Star to return blood to his teammates.

  However, group healing skills had a long cooldown time. It would be quite hard for the South Korean team if so many group attacks were released again.

  Ling Xuefeng definitely knew this. He quickly issued instructions on the voice channel. “Ah Shu, break into the back row. Qin Mo, cooperate with him while the others spread out!”

  The group immediately dispersed according to his instructions.

  After five seconds, the Korean team’s invincible state ended. Qin Mo instantly summoned the blood snake and blood spider to let his pets bite the opponents. The Korean players couldn’t stand in place to let the blood kin pets bite them. Everyone started to escape and hide. Bai Xuan released his hand speed to add five layers of Healing Language on Xie Shurong and Xie Shurong took the opportunity to bypass the front row players and broke into the back row!

  “Open big!” Ling Xuefeng sent a command and summoned the demon god.

  The dark god emerged from the ground and raised a death curse. Dark fog spread from him, causing a lot of damage to the enemies who came into contact with this dark fog.

  The demon god’s group attack had the strongest damage and widest range of all the demon summoner’s skills.

  Park Joonseo summoned the snow bird.

  The snow bird hovered in the air and gave a healing aura to all teammates, adding blood. However, the moment Park Joonseo summoned the snow bird, Xie Shurong opened the big move Light and Shadow Rotation!

  The quickly moving sword was like an impenetrable silver net that killed the snow bird in seconds.

  Xie Shurong’s decisive attack directly abolished Park Joonseo’s blood-adding petand caused a lot of damage to all Korean players in range.

  However, the South Korean team had a double healer lineup. Park Joonseo’s snow bird might be killed but there was the priest Bae Eunki.

  Bae Eunki immediately cast a large healing skill to return blood to her teammates before stacking up Healing Language.

  The two sides exchanged a wave of skills but not one person died. Kou Hongyi couldn’t help saying, “This is a strong team vs strong team! The Korean team’s defense ability is truly very strong. Park Joonseo’s pets can give his teammates a barrier while Bae Eunki’s healing level isn’t weak. If the Chinese team wants to find a breakthrough, it depends on Xie Shurong…”

  He had just said this when Xie Shurong shifted targets and used Spirit Lock to stun Bae Eunki.

  Previously, Ling Xuefeng had suddenly changed targets to kill the white magician and Bae Eunki was psychologically prepared for this practice. The moment she became dizzy, she used Purification to solve the problem and walked to the side to move away from Xie Shurong.

  As it turned out, it wasn’t that easy to escape from a sticky swordsman!

  The little brother of the Flying Feathers team’s three swordsmen was very experienced in killing healers. In the past, Bai Xuan had been killed 10 times by Xie Shurong in one game and received a psychological shadow.

  Bae Eunki had never faced Xie Shurong and she greatly underestimated the level of Xie Shurong’s stickiness!

  She had just run to the side to avoid the swordsman’s attack and didn’t expect that in the next second, Xie Shurong actually came from behind her and used a simple move to interrupt her blood adding skill. Bae Eunki was a bit upset and evaded in the other direction. As a result, Xie Shurong kept catching up and interrupting her skills.

  Bae Eunki, “…”

  Was this swordsman made of sugar?

  The South Korean players found that their healer was chased by the other side’s swordsman and turned back to deal with Xie Shurong. At this moment, Ling Xuefeng suddenly used Cover the Sky!

  The group of crows swirled in the sky and completely blacked out the vision of the South Korean team.

  “So beautiful!” The just interrupted Kou Hongyi immediately spoke again, “The timing of Captain Ling’s move was just right! If you closely observe the positions in the game, you will find that while Ah Shu went into the back row to interfere with the healer, the Chinese players scattered and the South Korean players became more concentrated!”

  “It was a trap.” Yu Bing continued calmly. “Captain Ling had Ah Shu enter the back row to interfere with the healer and this distracted the South Korean team. In fact, the most important part of a team battle is that everyone’s ideas should be synchronized and the firepower concentrated. Once distracted, it is easy for the other party to seize the loophole.”

  Xie Shurong’s positioning was very flexible and the speed of his ordinary attacks dazzling.

  In the fierce battle, he suddenly smashed into the back row and easily disturbed the other side’s formation. Ling Xuefeng seized this opportunity to completely blind them using the crows.

  The thing that made the audience laugh was that Bae Eunki opened the instant big move, Divine Blessing because she was too nervous.

  This was a healer’s big group healing skill and the effect was quite powerful. The white light would quickly spread to the surrounding teammates and return a large amount of blood.

  In fact, Ling Xuefeng used the crows to black out the vision of the South Korean team and didn’t rush to attack. Instead, he used the banshee to pull Bae Eunki to the side, directly wasting her big move!

  After losing her vision, Bae Eunki blindly opened the group healing skill. It was because she previously had her healing interrupted by Xie Shurong. In the state of blindness, her teammates would be easily killed if she couldn’t add blood.

  Apparently, she underestimated Ling Xuefeng’s foresight. Ling Xuefeng’s distance calculation was so accurate that he once again used the banshee to pull her away and her skill only restored Park Joonseo’s blood!

  “Release your skills and kill the priest first!” Ling Xuefeng ordered calmly.

  Yan Ruiwen and Guo Xuan had been working with him for a long time and were familiar with the captain’s rhythm. The two of them aimed at the priest Bae Eunki and quickly stacked five layers of Death Mantra on her. At the same time, they applied the negative state Soul Curse.

  Qin Mo wasn’t far away and had the blood snake bite Bae Eunki to apply three layers of bleeding. Ling Xuefeng also summoned four skeleton infantry and exploded them. Not to mention Xie Shurong had been staring at the healer and slashed at her, not allowing her to release any blood adding skills.

  Bae Eunki used the instant skill Holy Light Surge to restore her blood but it unfortunately wasn’t enough against the Chinese team’s full outbreak.

  There was a loud bang and Bae Eunki fell to the ground.

  The South Korean players finally regained their vision only to see their healer being killed.

  The Chinese team finally seized the opportunity and was the first to tear through the South Korean team’s defense.