An enemy has been killed!

  “Got him!” Roi excimed as his bde cut through Gilbert. With Dan’s help, he finally took down an enemy. It was unfortuhat Dan died in the process, but at least they got rid of one important target. Now, only Howard was left to defend Mid.

  Okay, I'm finally getting shit done! Roi pushed hard and disregarded Howard's feeble attacks. This was the ake up for all the mistakes Roi itted. This py gonna be huge!

  Roi had a ce to break through Mid before the Mid Golem revives. He has been pying like a Broier schmuck for too long, that shit had to stop. And, the first step for redemption was seg Mid here and now.

  The whole thing about Howard’s dreams still weighted on Roi, but this was a serious matd he was a petitive-level pyer. He had to perform even if it meaing in the way of Howard's dream. Deep down, he wanted Howard to win. But, at the same time, he had to do everything in his power to ehis match stayed petitive.

  Therefore, Roi pushed! He struck down the weak minions and attacked Howard. Nobody gonna stop him! He'll make sure this match was ducted with fair and square sportsmanship.

  Okay, the way is open! Roi grinned as Howard finally retreated. It was about damn time because the guy has beeing oack after another for a while now, both from Roi and from super minions. Howard did his best to soak damage for his minions, but no matter how tanky his build was - his HP wast fi long st, Roi forced the Big Shield Dude out of this picture!

  I'mma push all the way while he's goime to end this- ah! A heavy thump resounded behind him. Rocks rose into the air and darted into oral point as if sucked in by a bck hole. Oh damn, the Mid Golem revived!

  Roi was banking on his super minions for this important attack, but the little guys fiheir invasion at the Golem’s area started hitting the revived Golem. Damn, pushing through Mid was impossible now, First, Roi had to take down the Golem again.

  Unfortunately, none of the damage dealers were around right now. Lars was locked in a 2v2 near Bot, Julia ushing Top and Dan was dead. Still, Roi was a bruiser, so his offense wasn't a joke. Together with this st wave of super minions, he’ll take down this weakened Golem on his own!

  Gonna be difficult once Howard returns. Rht the Golem all the way down to 10% HP with the help of the super minions, but the st push will be the real challenge. All his super minions died and a new wave of enemy minions came forth to defend, On top of that, Howard was surely done healing by now and will soourn to defend.

  It was a little odd, though. What was taking Howard so long? The guy should have already returo defend Mid by now. Where was he at?

  Well, no matter. The fewer defehere were, the easier it made Roi’s life. He gonna wreck this Golem and push all the way to the Colossus! That was the least he could do to make up for his tless mess-ups today. He gonna push through all the way!

  At around the same time, Yuel and Lars were struggling against Gregory and Taison. With the entire area covered by heavy rain, the tides were turning around.

  Got him, yo! Lars nded a shht at Taison's chest. Easy hit. Taison was way too slow to get out of the way because of the rain, so it was time for a terattack!

  Shit! Taison gritted his teeth. This fu’ rain was messing shit up! Taison's shots moved in slow motion pared to before and he became as slow as a turtle. The slowdown from Rainstorm shouldn't have been that big of a deal but, in this srs bsns 1v1, even the slightest debuff was huge. Stupid damn rain! But, I still gonna win!

  Taison insisted to fight despite the disadvantage. With his current speed, the usual routine of dodging a shot and then tering gonna be hel hard to pull off, so Taison had to ge his approach. It wasn't the first time the enemy slowed him down in a 1v1, so he knew how to hahis shit.

  He stopped? Lars noticed an easy opportunity and seized it at once. Wham! A direct hit- gah! A ter right away!? Taison fired during Lars's firing animation! Geh! I 't dodge this one!

  Lars successfully seized the inviting opportunity and scored a hit but, in exge, he was hit as well. Taison purposely slowed down in order to have an easier time firing that ter!

  Well pyed, dude. Lars smiled. So, that’s how ya gonna py this, huh.

  While Taison was at a speed disadvantage, he gonna try enf a one-for-oio of successful hits. Taison was leading in term of HP, so if they gonna keep hitting each other one for one - Lars gonna lose this!

  Ain't happening, yo! Lars fired the shot and immediately celed into a roll. It was just by a hair's breadth, but he dodged Taison’s ter!

  Shit! That damn slippery mofo! Taison barked internally. Just a few more hits and Lars will be dead, but this damn rain forced Taison to slow down the pace. tering every shot was an awesome 200 IQ py, but it was going to take a while to kill with it.

  Fortunately, Taison had leeway in terms of HP. Gregory’s protective aura was on and reached all the way to Taison, se k of the damage dealt to Taison was transferred tory instead. Even if Taisos wrecked real hard, it'll be Gregory who'll eat shit instead, khaha.

  “Yo, my shots!” Lars pined. “They do nothing!” Even with the speed advantage, Lars couldn't wreck Taison. His shots didn't do nearly enough damage to be deadly.

  Taison was a bruiser so he had det defense. On top of that, like half of the damage Lars delivered was mitigated by Vanguard's ult. So, even though Lars had the upper hand, he couldn't this up. Dang it!

  The rain isn't enough. Yuel expected as much. Rainstave Lars the edge in terms of speed, but the problem ory’s protective aura was still present. As long as Gregory assively proteg Taison, there was no easy way to drive this fight to an end.

  Therefore, Yuel absolutely had to break through this barricade. That was the only way to turn this ehing around.

  Rainstorm slowed Gregory too, so slipping by him should be easier now. A movement debuff wasn’t a huge deal in this cramped area, but it had just enough impact. Gregory still mao block Yuel's path, but it got visibly harder for him. Now, Gregory had to pensate for his slow speed with extra predi.

  Damn, I gotta read that mofo ahead of time. Gregory trated owitch Yuel made. To blo time, Gregory had to anticipate Yuel's movements faster than before. No matter what it took, he'll buy enough time for Taison to this up. They'll win this shit!

  There! Yuel has been running toward the right side in a telegraphed mahen switched to the left with a quick roll!

  Wha!? Shit! Gregory couldn't rea time! He saw Yuel's obvious movements and started moving ahead of time to intercept, but it was a bait!

  Finally. Yuel rolled past Gregory. At long st, he passed through, He got out of the prison!

  “I’m back,” Yuel announced.

  “Only took you a year,” Lars chuckled. “Okay, let's get them! We gonna show them we’re da best around here!”

  “Yeah,” Yuel wasn't too keen on that whole “da best” part, but they were definitely going to prove something big here: they were stronger in a 2v2!

  First, the prote from Vanguard’s ult had to go. Yuel snuck up to Taison and sprayed the guy with Spsh. The protective aura from Vanguard’s ult vanished, so Taison became fully vulnerable to attacks.

  Damn! Where did that fucker e from!? Taison excimed. “Yo, GG! Where are you at, man? You were supposed to keep this guy away!”

  “I 't stall him forever, you know,” Gregory retorted. “You should've finished Lars faster, dumbass.”

  “Who ya call a dumbass, yo!? You wanna go!? Don't make me e over there, bro.”

  “Kek, just focus on the damn fight.”

  “And how you expect me to do that?” This ued development shattered the solid 1v1 tration Taison has been maintained until now. It was impossible to think of this as a 1v1 fight anymore because it became a 1v2 in every sense of the word.

  “I'll be there in a jiffy,” Gregory was running toward the battle se, but his movements were sluggish. This fatass Vanguard was naturally slow and the stupid rain only made him slower. It was like trying to drive a tank through mud.

  “Yeaaaaah,” Taison squinted his eyes at Gregory’s snail pace. “I hope ya gon here before the game is over.”

  You ain't paying attention, dude! Lars fired a shot. Taison wasn’t even looking in his dire right now, so it was a golden opportunity. Bam, easy hit!

  Finally, it was a shot that dealt proper damage as a Carry should. No more of that damage splitting nonseween Taison and Gregory. From now, it gonna be full damage with every shot, yo!

  This was Lars’ seventh hit, so Six Wings activated.

  “I'll knock him up,” Yuel said.

  “Okay, it's showtime!” Lars's body was ready. He practiced enough shots against knocked up dummies to pull off this bo py. Landing all six shots of Six Wings in a row was quite the challenge pared to nding regur shots, but Lars gonna do it!

  Yuel waited for the moment Taison wasn’t looking his way and unleashed Geyser Eruption. Hot water erupted from the ground and bsted Taison toward the sky. This was it, the final act!

  “Fuuuuuu!” Taison roared. These mofos totally got him! Thanks for all the help, GG! Such backup, much support!

  But, I ain’t gonna give up! Taison took aim at Lars while being air-bound. He needed like three more shots, maybe two if he crits. Even though he was high in the air, he gonna finish off that mofo!

  Whish. A ser beam pierced Taison in the middle of the flight, as expected from Lars’s damn accuracy. But, Taison gonurn in kind- eh? A water ball flew right past him, What the actual heck?

  Unlike Lars’s accurate ser beam, the water ball missed Taison by a mile. Pft, what’s with that scrubby accuracy?

  Anyway, Taison gonna smack Lars right back! Bam! A bat darted downwards like a bullet. It gonna hit! ... or not. Damn, it was totally off! What the heck? Taison should’ve been a better shan this! Da best sniper!

  Another ser beam came flying at him, another hit. Lars was sniping from the ground without any effort. Damn, this was bad! Taison was already down to like 20% HP! Two more hits and he was dead meat!

  He ain’t gonna magically start missing me on my way down, right? Nah, no way. Taison was about to reach the end of the flight, he’ll be heading downwards. Hitting a falling target should be a pretty damn (difficult) task, but...

  Easy, yo! Lars nded every shot on the air-bound target as if it was the easiest thing in the world. Taison was heading downwards now, but that didn’t affect Lars in the slightest. He practiced how to hit targets both on their and on their way down, so he ain’t gonna miss a single shot. Wham! Another hit! Just one more to go!

  I-I’m fucked at this rate! Taison knew death was ing. There’s no way Lars would miss in this kind of situation; dude must’ve been sniper rifle in his past life.

  At this point, there was no ce of outshooting Lars either. So, the only thing Taison could possibly do was.... dodge! In mid-air! I gonna do it, yooooo!

  Right as Lars fired the shot, Taison performed a dodge-roll! In mid-air! Yeah, that shit was actually possible!

  Oh! That’s sick! Lars grinned as his ser beam missed the target. Taison just dodged a K.O. by a few millimeters. But, you ain’t gonna dodge the one!

  That mid-air roll was sick, but it wasn’t enough to throw off the rhythm of Lars’s shots. Even though it was rare for somebody to dodge-roll like that in mid-air, Lars khis ter existed because Trever used that stuff against him. So, Lars got to practice against this tri real fights.

  On top of that. Lars also practiced against such situations in training mode. Yuel used some wizardry to figure a training dummy that jumped high into the air and performed a random roll in the middle of the fall. By repeatedly practig against this wild dummy, this mid-air roll stopped fazing Lars.

  The ter was simple: figure out where the target gonna finish its roll and shoot there. To accurately estimate the target’s position, there was a o know some supah high-level physid stuff. And, of course, Lars didn’t know the first thing about any of stuff! He just wi! Snipping sense, yot him- ah! No way! Just as Lars was about to fire the decisive shot, Taison pulled arick. Dude celed the roll halfway through and turned into a bat!

  Crap! But, I still ...! Lars adjusted his aim. Taison’s bat form was smaller and floated in mid-air, so it was a pletely different type of target to snipe. But, so what of it? Lars just had to strike down that little flying mouse dude!

  I got it! Lars could tell his aim erfect. There won’t be ariow. No rolls, no transformations, and no nothing. His ser gun was 200% locked on Taison. This was the finishing blow, yo! Whish!

  The beam cut through the air on its - agh!? An ice wall appeared in its path! The wall formed just in time to block the beam.

  “N-No way!” Lars’s jaw dropped. His finishing blow was just............... Gaaaaaah!!!

  “No way,” Yuel gasped. When did Het here!? He was supposed to be defending Mid!

  But, that wasn’t the time to wonder about it. Taison still hasn’t gotten away, so this wasn’t over! Yuel could still nd a shot on Taison from this position, so if he just calcutes the right angle- FREEZE! Hoassed by Yuel and unleashed Ice Coffin.

  “Ugh! He froze me,” Yuel informed. “You have to deal the final blow yourself!”

  “On it!” Lars rolled around the ice wall. This kill was right within grasp. Lars just had to aim one more time and fire. Okay, there! This time, the true finishing blow...!

  Lars’s bullet perfectly hit Taison! But, it didn’t do anything.

  Barely made it. Howard sighed in relief as he finished releasing cooling gas into the air. The cold air reached Taison and froze the bat like an icicle. Cryo-Freeze prevehe killing blow!

  The entire assault came down crashing. In the end, Yuel and Lars failed to gain the upper hand in this battle. But, this wasn't over yet! With Howard on the se, this became a 2v3 situation. Now, it was the enemy’s turn to attack!

  “Greg, you and I will focus Lars,” Howard anded. “Tai, join us once you heal a little.”

  “You betcha,” Taison nodded repeatedly. “That’s my kill, ya know.”

  “Even if the game doesn't it t it that way, we sure will,” Howard said what had to be said. This should lower the ces of Taisourely popping out of the ice to chase the kill. That brat eculiar about sg his kills, so Howard always had to be extra careful.

  “Yo,” Lars excimed. “They're rushing me!”

  Damn it! Yuel bit his lip. They came so close in that attack! They almost got that decisive kill! But, instead, the euation flipped its head and now they were in pinch. How did it e to this!?

  “Dude!” Lars called. “What do I do? Wao take on them?”

  “Ah,” Yuel snapped out of it. There will be enough time frets ter. Right now, Yuel had to make a call. “Retreat. Fly out of here with your ult.”

  “But, what about you?”

  “Fet about me. Just get out.”

  “G-Got it!” Lars still had one shot left for Six Wings, so he activated his ult: Divine Messehe robotic arms on his back repced the ser guns with rockets and unched Lars toward the sky.

  Okay, good. Yuel o himself as Lars vanished from view. At the very least, they avoided the worst-case sario. Lars’s death would have spelled disaster.

  As for Yuel, his situation didn’t look too promising. He got out of Ice Coffin’s freeze, but...

  “Alright,” Howard ged dire. “Get Yuel instead.”

  “Gdly!” Gregory dashed forward. He totally gonna repay that mofo for the earlier defeat at the jungle and for all the other bullshit Yuel has been pulling from the moment he appeared in Gregory’s life. A single kill wasn't nearly enough to pensate for all that shit, but it was a hel sweet start!

  I 't get out. Yuel cluded. He was injured from the earlier frontation with Gregory and this was a 1v3 situation. So, yeah, he was dead, alright.

  You have been killed!

  “Sorry, dude,” Lars apologized. “If I just killed Tai in the air...”

  “That wasn't your fault,” Yuel examined Mid Lane, where Roi should’ve been keeping Howard busy this eime. Yuel wasn’t paying enough attention to the rest of the map during the 2v2 and that cost him dearly. “Roi, you should have said something about Howard missing.”

  “Sorry, man,” Roi said. “I thought he just went to heal and was gonna e bay minute, so I kept pushing.”

  You should've at least warned us about the possibility. Yuel ranted internally. Howard only made it look like he retreated to heal, while in truth he used that time to teleport into the jungle.

  I’m partially to bme too, Yuel held his head. I wasn’t paying enough attention to catch that. When Howard retreated, I should've pyed it safe and asked Roi to rotate over here to help. Dammit.

  There was no denying it: Yuel got overfident. Even though the 2v2 against Taison and Gregory started off on the wrong foot, Yuel was too fident that he and Lars will win. After all, their oppos were Taison and Gregory, so there was o worry. These two were strong, but Yuel and Lars were better.

  Even with the surprise element of the fight being split into two 1v1s, Yuel was still sure he and Lars will turn it around. He was so eager to get kills and thin out the enemy’s tight defehat it was all he could think about at the time. Therefore, the idea of calling Roi over for help didn’t even cross his mind.

  It was su important opportunity, so Yuel shouldn't have allowed himself to take any risks. Even though he believed the ces of defeating the enemy were high, Yuel should have still asked Roi to rotate for backup just in case... wait.

  Roi is still in Mid! It suddenly struck Yuel. “Roi, retreat! They might be ing after you-” Too te. They were already there!

  “Fuuuuuu!” Roi turned around and fled the Golem's area, but he nded on a bear trap right at the edge of the area. “Damn! Who even pces a trap in that kind of pce!?” Damn you, Eleeeeeen!

  Howard, Taison, and Gregory appeared from Bot Jungle and charged at Roi all at once. Roi was stuck at the Golem’s area thanks to Ellen’s beartrap, so there was no hope of getting out alive...

  You have been killed!

  “Shit!” Roi smmed oable. He was so close! He almost took down the Mid Golem! That would have been such a big py. It would have redeemed at least half of the garbage pys he has been making this game.

  But no, Roi only made things worse again. He was so focused on the Golem that he didn't give enough thought to Howard's movement. The idea of rotating to help in the 2v2 crossed his mind but he wasn't sure whether he'll able to tribute much over there. He believed Yuel and Lars would resolve the 2v2 situation themselves, so his rotation would either look like a y ht even be a mispy.

  So, instead, Roi focused on a Golem. That y where his efforts will surely reize, so it was the best opportunity to redeem himself. But, instead of doing good, he only made everything a huimes worse.

  They got us good with that 2v2 bait. Yuel frowwo deaths and zero kills. We’ve been had.

  And, the storm hasn’t even passed yet. Julia was currently pushing the Golem in Top Lane, she was pletely isoted from her allies and she was deep ierritory. If the enemy gang from Mid e after her, she'll be a gooo.

  “Julia, retreat,” Yuel said.

  “Huh? But, I almost got this. I gonna kick this Golem's ass!”

  “They may e after you from Mid, just like they did to Roi.”

  “Tch, okay,” Julia turned around and activated Jet Stream, which geed a flow of wind in front of her. As she passed through the wind, it gave her a boost of movement speed. That allowed her to quickly retreat from the se.

  The situation has been one disaster after another for Yuel's team, but at least the worst-case sario was averted. Lars and Julia were still alive, so there were still ways to maintain the momentum and keep push. Even though the situation has temporarily bee a 2v4, the battle wasn't over yet!