Chapter Thirteen: The Final Counterattack

  "What else can I do? Just give these newcomers a little momentum."

  The Earthshaking Divine Ox twitched its lips and said, "You're not unaware of the situation with new students. Every year it's the same thing, and some people even believe that the college is real until the unified exam. Now, after physical examination, they directly take the entrance test. Although it's a bit strict, it can also make them face reality faster."

  "I think it's precisely in such situations that one can truly see the potential of a new life."

  "It's just that unfortunately these clueless newcomers will have to suffer."

  "We didn't come this way either? For them, if they can adjust their mindset early on, whether it's suffering or being frightened, it's all worth it. It's better than not taking it seriously at all and being kicked out in less than a semester."

  "Alas, I don't know how many of these people will be able to smoothly earn enough credits and advance to sophomore year."

  "Why bother worrying about so many things? With the effort you put into worrying about them, you'd be better off thinking about yourself. Have you all received your retention penalties yet? With this damn buff, all benefits are reduced by 50%, but failure penalties remain unchanged. If it weren't for the fact that repeaters can apply to be teaching assistants and get an extra stipend, life would be unbearable. This year, if we still can't advance to sophomore year, the retention penalty will double, and our fate will be... Heh heh."

  As he said that, the emotions of several other teaching assistants suddenly fell. The good mood due to the previously favorable situation was instantly gone.

  The battlefield channel suddenly fell silent.

  After a while, the divine cow finally let out a sigh and said listlessly: "Hurry up and push it, I still have electives later, continuing to fight like this doesn't make any sense."

  His words suddenly accelerated the pace of the Tianhui teaching assistants.

  At this moment, the Earthshaker's Blink Dagger has just been bought out, and Meckan of the Omni Knight is also ready. With these key equipment in hand, the Heaven's Glory assistant coach already has the ability to take the high ground on offense. As the three lanes advance, the Heaven's Glory assistants quickly brew up a new wave of offense, pressing straight into Night Stalker's mid two towers.

  After the Battle of Nikan, this is the second real battle that can determine the direction of the war!

  If they can team wipe the enemy again, those with vision can try to push high ground or even break through. Even if they can't take it down, they can turn around and take out all of Night Mare's outer towers. At that point, Night Mare's heroes will lose all external strategic strongholds and can only stay on high ground playing mahjong.

  On the contrary, if Nightmare can repel Heavenly Radiance and even turn around to annihilate a wave, the advantage accumulated by Heavenly Radiance in the battle of Meat Mountain will be eliminated by half, and the situation will become unclear again.

  It's a matter of victory or defeat, and although there is no penalty for failing the entrance exam, both sides' assistant coaches are taking it seriously. Even Dannaika arrived early at the tower, this is the real 5v5 team battle!

  At this point, Hu Shiming was no longer of much use.

  The battle around the two towers is a purely force-based confrontation. It's about the ability of both sides' assistant coaches to seize opportunities and the equipment advantages accumulated in the early stages. There are no shortcuts in this kind of fight, and Hu Shiming himself was also aware of this point, so he only paid minimal attention to this battle.

  He put his main energy into completing optional tasks.

  The assistant's words just now have already explained a bit, this battle won't last too long. If Tian Hui can win this war, or even break through directly, the battle will end faster, and there is not much time left for him to complete his mission.

  We must speed up now!

  With the attribute of rebirth, it is impossible to complete the task by fighting head-on, and must rely on the power of the troops. Although because of the prophet's reason, all three routes are closer to Ye Mei's side, but since the middle route has gathered all the heroes of Ye Mei, Hu Si Ming is not afraid that someone will find trouble for himself. Even if it's Dian Hun, in this situation, he must consider the overall situation.

  After confirming that all five of the Nightmares were immobile, Hu Shiming appeared on the upper road with a sense of relief.

  The moment to test your knife-sharpening skills has arrived!

  In front of the Nightmares' Twin Towers, the ghouls and treants clashed, completely unaware of the sinister Hu Si Ming lurking behind them, fighting with all their might. The torn flesh and tree sap splattered everywhere, then slowly disappeared as time passed. Hu Si Ming was adapting to this battle while using the school emblem's scouting technique to grasp the ghouls' blood volume.

  The first attempt in actual combat is indeed very difficult.

  Unlike the straightforward gameplay, the battlefield's reconnaissance information, firing speed, and trajectory are more complex and difficult to grasp accurately. Hu Shiming must synthesize these factors to decide when to fire the final charged shot. The most difficult part is that his charged shot only deals 24 damage, similar to a regular mage soldier!

  To know, in the game, controlling a hero's damage output is at least twice this amount, or even triple!

  Extremely low attack, longer range, unfamiliar bullet trajectory, further increasing the difficulty of replenishing. A whole wave of soldiers was consumed before Hu Shiming finally hit a charged shot on Ye Wei's mage soldier, successfully grabbing the first replenishment.

  Optional task information is updated accordingly.

  Kill 5 neutral creeps or enemy soldiers, current progress 1/5.

  After having a successful experience, the next kill was much easier. Without anyone disturbing him, with the arrival of the new wave of minions, Hu Shiming consecutively killed two more. It was also at this time that the fierce battle in the mid lane thoroughly erupted.

  As Tianhui's troops approached the tower, the Shadow Shaman took a bit of risk and stepped forward to launch a Thunderclap, trying to quickly clear the soldiers with AOE damage at extreme distance.

  The Earthshaker's reaction was extremely fast, and with a single flick of his wrist, the Shadow Shaman was stunned in place.

  The curtain of war is lifted!

  Tian Nu Fa Shi hinted at giving himself a full magical immunity, and boldly charged forward. Ancient Seal, Mysterious Radiance, a set of explosive moves directly point-killed the Shadow Shaman.

  As the best assistant for Nightmared, Shadow Shaman was well aware that victory or defeat depended on this wave. For this reason, he had saved up money in advance and hadn't even updated his equipment, just to prepare for this moment. The kill prompt on the battlefield had barely appeared when Shadow Shaman chose to buy a revive, right in front of Heaven's Glory assistant, at the outermost part of the second tower!

  This decisive move gave Dagna enough confidence, he rushed up from behind the tower and launched his petrification technique once again.

  Shrouded in grey light, even if the remnants of Tian Nu's magic hadn't dissipated yet, they didn't dare to resist head-on and were forced to turn around. The assistant instructors of the Nightmares Corps took advantage of this opportunity to launch their long-planned counterattack!

  The Dark Lord strikes first, summoning the darkness to descend.

  Dianhun also launched a big move, creating a terrifying storm eye on his head, and strongly rushed to the back row of Tianhui with Dark Night Demon King, planning to focus fire and kill Quan Neng instantly. Apparently, in the previous team battle, Quanneng Knight's key blood addition and magic immunity put him on Ye Mei's must-kill blacklist.

  They can't fight a team battle without killing him first, this is the consensus of the Nightmares' assistants!

  Noticing the movements of two enemies, Tian Nu didn't understand their intentions. The powerful slowdown effect of Atos' staff greatly reduced the speed of the Dark Night Demon King. However, before he could make another move, PataPata Bear activated his Shift skill and rushed towards Tian Nu. Under the attack bonus of his ultimate skill, the burst of 12 consecutive hits was enough to instantly kill anyone!

  Seeing this, Tian Nu Fa Shi had no choice but to use his Shockwave Shot, slowing down PaPa Xiong.

  One second later, Shadow Shaman's TP landed. Seeing the bounty next to him was just marked, he immediately used Sheepstick and inserted it directly into the center of the battlefield!

  A group of snakes emerged, and the Nightmares' output immediately skyrocketed.

  At the same time, Electric Soul had already rushed to the side of the Almighty Knight. The static connection continuously launched a series of swift attacks, and the ultimate skills Storm Eye and Plasma Field were also activated simultaneously, instantly bursting out astonishing damage. Although Dark Night Demon King was a bit slow, after the slowdown effect ended, he also rushed up, and before the Almighty's magic immunity skill CD, he preemptively silenced him!

  The all-around knight who was forced to charge forward immediately fell into a relatively dangerous situation.

  At this moment, the Prophet joined the battlefield. Seeing Almighty being attacked by Electric Soul on one side and chased by the other, he immediately released the Sprout skill, summoning a thicket of trees to trap Electric Soul. Then, the Prophet summoned Tree Warriors to harass Electric Soul. With the addition of Golden Hand, Fake Legs, and Small Electric Hammer, plus the full-map damage of Natural Fury, the Prophet's output was quite impressive.