Ten minutes. This duration of time wasn't short in the slightest for a duel.
In the early days of the Glory Alliance, matches had a time constraint. In those days, a 1v1 match had a five-minute time limit. If there was no winner after five minutes, the winner would be decided on who had more health left.
The time constraint was originally intended to help out the broadcast, but because of this type of rule, a lot of passive strategies were used. For example, after obtaining a certain lead in health, they wouldn't try to fight the opponent and ran around the map instead to play hide and seek.
In this way, there were a lot more tactical options, but these types of hide and seek tactics were extremely boring to watch. The opponent was depressed and the members of the audience weren't happy. Even the commentators fell speechless when these types of matches came about. As a result, the Alliance quickly called a meeting and they decided to remove the time limit. From then on, no match would have a time constraint. The match would be decided by who lived and who died.
With this, even if the players played dirty, they also needed to take the initiative. Running away and hiding would no longer be the main strategy and the matches became much more enjoyable. Though without the time constraint, the broadcast did find it more troublesome to plan out a schedule, but it wasn't so bad that they couldn't resolve it. Enjoyable matches were also beneficial to their revenue. The broadcast didn't want any boring hide-and-seek matches just to make things more convenient.
The time constraint had been scrapped, but the reason they had chosen five minutes as the time limit had been logical. Five minutes was more than enough time to complete a duel. Apart from dragging the match over the five-minute mark, the strategies used were more of the dirty and cautious types, where the two sides slowly wore each other down.
But the current match clearly wasn't of this kind. One Autumn Leaf's and Desert Dust's intense fighting had quickly demolished a fifth of the surroundings. Where was there any sign of dirty fighting?
Yet in this way, the two sides were unexpectedly locked in a stalemate for ten minutes. This truly was rarely seen. They weren't done yet either. Right now, the two players still had a quarter of their health!
The audience watched in awe. The commentator quickly searched up some data and brought it up.
"10 minutes! Sun Xiang and Han Wenqing have already fought for ten minutes. Right now, the two sides still have a quarter of their health left. If we go according to their pace, the match should take around 13 minutes. Those who are familiar with Glory's records might not think that this time is that incredible, but everyone should know that those extremely long matches are mostly due to dirty fighting. But to be able to achieve a duration of more than ten minutes with such intense direct fighting, this is my first time witnessing such a match in my career." The commentator talked nonstop. Due to the unexpected nature of the event, he hadn't done any prior research. The commentators could only rely on their relatively rich experience to show that this match wasn't ordinary.
How extraordinary was ten minutes? In reality, experienced Glory players could tell that with such intense fighting, it truly wasn't normal. No one really paid attention to the commentator's talking. Everyone was focused on the match.
"Who's going to win?" Chen Guo grabbed Ye Xiu's arm and asked. This match really was even. It was impossible to tell who had the advantage. Chen Guo doubted that she was good enough to tell, so she asked the more skilled Ye Xiu on his thoughts.
"It's hard to tell right now." Ye Xiu said.
"Why?"
"They still have a lot of health left." Ye Xiu said.
