Those Sweet Times

Chapter 11 Part 2

Xiang Nuan felt that it was such a pity that Chuyan didn’t sing another

song. Instead, he entered the queue for another game.

This time it was an unranked game.

In Kings of Glory, there's two kinds of game modes, unranked normal

matches and ranked games. The former has no effect on rank, the latter,

as the name suggests, is to earn points to move up ranks.

It’s a common practice to play unranked games first to get used to

playing an unfamiliar champion.

Xiang Nuan, this round, briefly got a taste of Zhang Fei’s abilities.

Zhang Fei’s first ability is “Typhoon”, he swings his serpent-headed spear

in a full-circle around himself, knocking back all the surrounding heroes.

The second ability is “s.h.i.+eld”, Zhang Fei can summon a large golden,

semi-transparent wok to cover himself and his teammates. The wok can

absorb damage, sometimes referred to as an “absorption s.h.i.+eld.” For

example, if the player has a 200 point s.h.i.+eld covering him, when the

enemy deals 300 points of damage to him, the player will only suffer

100 points to his health.

The third ability of Zhang Fei is his ultimate, “Metamorphosis.” Upon

activating his ultimate, Zhang Fei will turn from a ugly man into a

grotesque man. Any enemy who saw his face from the front would be

blinded and stunned. Those who saw his visage from the side would

also back away in fear……

That was the extent of Xiang Nuan’s understanding about this champion.

The actual abilities might work somewhat differently from her understanding,

but she got most of it.

Zhang Fei’s ultimate is very powerful, it can be used offensively and

defensively. Furthermore, after his metamorphosis, all of his abilities

changed. The first two abilities were supportive. After he transforms

into his hideous self, both abilities could deal a large amount of damage,

slow down the enemy, and increase his own speed. He would become

most formidable.

However, it wasn’t that easy to get the ultimate. He had to acc.u.mulate

enough fury to metamorphose.

Xiang Nuan was playing this champion for the first time. As a not so

skilled ranked Silver player, her understanding was relatively superficial.

Nonetheless, she could already sense the potential of this champion.

The most obvious effect she found-- --whenever someone was attacking

Chuyan, by using Metamorphosis, she could push the enemy away and

Chuyan could hide behind her!

Alright, everything was perfect, except…...ugly.

After metamorphosis, Xiang Nuan looked at her champion on the

screen and felt her heart bleed.

She said to Chuyan, “I almost want to play with my eyes closed.”

“Don’t mess around.”

Later on, the two played a ranked game, using her ugly Zhang Fei.

Chuyan was still using Sun Shangxiang.

In the past couple days, Chuyan had discovered the beauty of the bushes.

There were several bushes in Kings Valley, some large and some smaller.

Champions could hide inside the bush and see when enemy pa.s.s by.

That was the reason why Chuyan always asked Xiang Nuan to hide inside

the bushes to watch for the enemy. Xiang Nuan thought Chuyan was wasting

her time and it was only because she was kind enough to tolerate it…...She

only realized its value after she watched the professional teams also play

exactly the same way.

Under the protection of Zhang Fei, Chuyan had other goals than just keep a

lookout for the enemy-- --He wanted to play some tricks with the bushes.

After Xiang Nuan earned enough fury, he let her squat down inside a bush

and he…...went on to entice the enemy.

It was pure and simple bait.

A marksman without the protection of his teammates was an easy target.

When Sun Shangxiang exposed herself in front of the enemy, stealing a

monster from the enemy.  The enemy saw this as a great chance to get a

kill. The one who had been fighting the monster was the champion Liu Bei.

Liu Bei noticed that Sun Shangxiang was so close…...he readied his weapon

to strike Sun Shangxiang, without concern that Sun was Liu Bei’s wife.[1]

Domestic violence was about to take place.

Sun Shangxiang rolled and crawled to get away. Liu Bei thought he had

a good chance and chased after Sun. Then……he was stunned by Zhang Fei

who charged out of the bush without warning.

Zhang Fei and Sun Shangxiang began to wail on Liu Bei together.

They did this several times. Though not successful every time, the overall

result was fairly impressive. Interestingly, on the opposing team, in addition

to Liu Bei, there was also his son Liu Chan. However, Liu Chan was a tank

and not easy to kill. Chuyan only got to kill him once.

Xiang Nuan said to Chuyan, “You’re too sleazy, haha.”

Just then, the enemy Liu Chan began cursing at her on the public chat:

The Zhang Fei on the other side is really dirty! The one in the bush is a b.i.t.c.h!

Uhr……

Xiang Nuan thought that it was quite unnecessary to do that.

Besides, it was Chuyan who was the sleazy one. She felt that she was

being treated unfairly.

Liu Chan stopped playing the game and began ranting. He used all sort

of curses to blast Xiang Nuan.

Xiang Nuan knew there were all kinds of people playing the game, but

she was still quite angry at his words. She didn’t want to bring herself down

to the point that she got into a shouting match with the guy, so she could

only sulk over the situation.

Suddenly, Chuyan responded on the public chat.

Chuyan (Sun Shangxiang of our side): Son, mom has no choice but to

tell you the truth.

Chuyan (Sun Shangxiang of our side): Your uncle Zhang Fei is actually

your real father.

Xiang Nuan: “......”

It was the ultimate way to battle with words. Without a single obscenity,

yet his words could infuriate the enemy and also acknowledge the historical

background of the characters.

Xiang Nuan wanted to salute Chuyan!