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"<span class="mu-s">Ready? Fight!</span>"
You start by twirling your spear - it's a good trick, supposedly to maintain a foe at distance while keeping the pressure.
The idea behind using this move is, in fact, avoiding using the full length to let YanEr come close, where she have a chance to tag you with her fists.
But you will make her work for it. She steps in, you step out with a circular strike aimed at the head.
On a flowing motion, she ducks and barely dodge. Vertical strike. She sidesteps, spinning gracefully. She's breaking the distance.
You turn around her, while she launches a right-legged roundhouse kick, that you met with the bottom of your shaft in her shin. Left hook, blocked by the staff an arm under the spear's blade. She's open, all you have to do is...
>29 : Almost inadvertently won the fight
You pull back your spear, fast enough to prevent anyone in the public seeing fear and defeat in your friend's gaze.
Quick, you need to salvage this. A hint of shake in the voice, sprinkled with false overconfidence.
"Impressive, young mistress! Almost falled in your trap.
That won't happen twice! I'm going all out! Come forth, Silver Warrior Horse!"
You get the spirit horse running once around the arena. She doesn't have any trump - she was good as gone just before.
Her strategy is based on raw excellence. But she's been overtaken in sheer cultivation by a few participants of this turnament, including her cousin.
Alright, Stable Lotus heiress. The Lotus won't help you today. Let's see if you can pull something with the stability.
You charge, sending a wide circular strike. Again, with a vertical one. Come on, YanEr. Read the pattern.
You ready your strike attempting to turn yourself just a little bit more predictable. You thrust.
>89 : Wonderfully played it. Everybody bought your act.
The spear bites in the arena's ground. LienWen YanEr dashes, steps on the shaft, follows with a rising jumped kick right in the chin.
You let yourself fall loudly on the ground.
"<span class="mu-s">And the bold move of the young mistress pays up! With a clean hit taking away one of last year's undefeated Beast Tamer, LienWen YanEr qualifies for the finals! Will she achieve to win against the second one? We'll find out in the finals, after a short break!</span>"
You're swarmed by your friend, telling you you fought very well. The Deer Master even stressed that such a gauntlet have a single winner amidst several very skilled contestants, and reaching half finals is a feat in itself.