webnovelvip Chapter 73 The Game Was Won
Chapter 73 The Game Was Won
After the game officially begins.
Shu Hua controlled the magical cat Yumi, who was possessing her marksman. She couldn't help but admire her character's fluffy, rounded model and wagging tail at the edge of the minimap, and whispered into the microphone, "So cute."
However, this sense of novelty was quickly replaced by tension.
When the first small-scale conflict broke out in the bottom lane, she was so nervous that she fumbled and swiped the mouse. Instead of attaching to protect her teammates, Yuumi suddenly broke away from her host and rushed straight into the enemy minion wave and the attack range of the enemy hero.
"Oh, I'm so sorry!" Shu Hua looked at her screen, which had suddenly gone black, and slapped her forehead in annoyance. "I... I pressed the wrong button! I didn't mean to rush in that direction."
Although, Shu Hua didn't really know what she should do.
But at least she knew she wouldn't just charge into the enemy ranks and get killed.
As for whether that operation was a mistake, well... it's not something you should ask, so don't ask.
Less than three minutes into the game, Yuumi's clumsy movement resulted in her first kill.
【Cats charge!】
【Oh no, the cat got off the bus!】
[Counter-Master is online and has taken down a target.]
[Was your kill correct?]
[From support to melee, Hua Zai is really capable (doge)]
Xie Xun's calm voice came through the team voice chat: "It's okay, just... think of it as walking a cat."
To be honest, Shu Hua's performance was exactly what Xie Xun had planned.
Or rather, he never included Shu Hua in his combat strength calculations from the beginning.
His Ekko jungle clearing routes are extremely aggressive and precise, often timing his invasions and counter-jungling at the enemy jungler's rhythm.
When the enemy mid laner attempted to gank in the jungle, Xie Xun's Ekko remained standing with a sliver of health.
With a deft phase dive, he dodged the crucial control, followed by a time warp to unleash his passive triple ring, instantly healing with Smite, and then using Time Rift to return to his position a few seconds earlier. Not only did he escape with a sliver of health, but he also managed to steal the opponent's half-finished blue buff.
The whole process was extremely short, and many people didn't even understand it.
【? ? ? ? ? ? 】
【Wait, what just happened???】
Holy crap, this health calculation is incredible! Black Cleaver is seriously brave!
【Art with a sliver of blood!】
No, this was definitely planned, not just luck?
Hmm... hard to say. Let's see if there's any copycat operation. If there is, then it was pre-planned. That would be truly terrifying; skill and daring are both impressive.
Doesn't anyone else think that BlackCleaver's style is somewhat similar to that of a certain retired professional gamer?
[Upstairs, you think so too?]
[You too, looks like I'm not alone, sister~]
Ah, I'm your brother.
【unimportant!】
This needs to be taken seriously, right?
On the middle lane, Longchuan's Olaf displayed the pressure of a world champion, throwing his axes accurately and ruthlessly, firmly controlling the lane.
When Xie Xun's Ekko, with double buffs, roamed to the mid-lane bush, Long Chuan astutely took a step forward, seemingly chasing the enemy's low-health mid-laner, but actually using himself as bait.
Xie Xun understood immediately. Ekko's shadow flashed out of the bushes, and he used Phase Rush to pounce on Olaf!
Longchuan reacted with lightning speed, instantly activating Ragnarok's immunity to control effects, using his spinning axe to slow down Ekko, and then unleashing Brutal Strike for a frenzied attack.
The two engaged in their first head-on 1v1 confrontation amidst the enemy forces!
The axe's shadow intertwined with the energy of spacetime, causing the health bar to drop rapidly.
Xie Xun's Ekko unleashed a time-intertwined force field in an attempt to trap Long Chuan, but Long Chuan made a right-angle move to twist the edge of the force field and then unleashed a final, reckless swing with true damage!
Just as Ekko's health bar was about to run out, Xie Xun pressed the ultimate skill, Time Rift, again.
Ekko vanished instantly, returning to the shadow point he had set up a few seconds earlier in a safe location, leaving only a very dangerous low-health enemy and Olaf standing in place.
Both sides tacitly retreated a step, without pursuing.
In the team voice chat, Xie Xun's voice remained calm, even carrying a hint of excitement at meeting a worthy opponent: "The probing is over. He's used his ultimate; we can catch him next wave. Hua Zai, respawn and follow me."
"Huh? Oh..." Shu Hua didn't expect that she was now immune to being called "Hua Zai" and was no longer embarrassed as before.
Even though this time she called out to Black Cutter, a guy she wasn't very familiar with.
Shu Hua looked at her screen, which had turned gray again. She had probably tried to provide support, but she made a mistake in positioning and got ambushed.
In fact, Shu Hua didn't understand how she died either.
Anyway, the skills are used randomly, and the positioning depends entirely on feel; you go wherever you feel like.
She counted down the seconds and responded in the voice message, "Coming, coming... wait another half a minute."
Xie Xun: "No rush, take your time. You know where I am, right?"
"Yes, I'll still walk on this main road."
Half a minute later, Shu Hua, controlling the newly resurrected Yuumi, stumbled and ran towards her teammates with her short legs.
[Run, kitty! Charge, kitty!]
Is the cat finally going to do something amazing? I can't wait!
Protect our fragile cat!
[Speaking of which, the way Hua Zai dies is always unexpected; his methods are truly something else.]
[+1, every time I thought she was going to be killed, she somehow escaped. I thought she could avoid it, but she just delivered herself to the enemy.]
[In a sense, that's quite an achievement! I certainly couldn't reach that level.]
[Actually, I wanted to suggest that Black Cleaver not call Hua Zai over; her actions are always unpredictable. Black Cleaver might think it's an extremely simple skill cast, but Hua Zai might just miscast it.]
I also think that for an artist like Black Cleaver with such low health, getting his hands on a painter seems pretty risky.
Shu Hua manipulated the magical cat Yumi, clumsily attaching herself to Xie Xun's Ike behind him.
Her movement was disastrous. Ekko deftly glided through the narrow jungle pass, but Yuumi, right behind him, crashed into the thick stone wall with a "thud." The little cat model got stuck comically for a moment before tumbling out in a daze.
Immediately afterwards, Ekko turned around and pulled, and Shu Hua frantically clicked the mouse. Yuumi stumbled again and almost fell headfirst into the enemy's vision trap.
Such an incredible feat even made Xie Xun, who was usually so calm, raise an eyebrow slightly.
"Hua Zai, just stick close, don't... never mind." Xie Xun swallowed the rest of his sentence helplessly.
He glanced at the cat icon on the minimap, still struggling against the stone wall, and silently redefined his plan in his mind: in the crucial team fight later, this clueless support would probably only be a healing accessory; he would have to figure out the damage output and tempo himself.
He originally thought that even if Shu Hua's painting skills were poor, he could still do a good job by following orders and performing a skill-based task.
But now, looking at this movement, he's unsure.
The final battle was unsurprisingly held in front of Baron Nash's Pit.
After a symbolic brief entanglement, both sides, including Shu Hua's teammates and Long Chuan's people, retreated in unison, with only the support remaining nearby.
The entire river scene was almost entirely left to the center of the stage – Ike and Olaf.
The real showdown has begun.
The two figures instantly transformed into a dazzling blur in the middle of the river!
Olaf, the berserker from Longchuan, was like an enraged ancient beast, swinging his double axes in turn, accompanied by a wailing sound that tore through the air, precisely blocking every possible angle from which Ekko could evade.
He activated his ultimate ability, Ragnarok, his entire body bathed in a violent red light, immune to all control effects, and charged straight for the core despite being slowed down by Ekko's field!
Each axe throw carried a whistling sound that foreshadowed death, forcing Xie Xun's Ekko to perform extreme maneuvers.
Xie Xun's Ekko is like dancing a death dance on a knife's edge.
He used phase dives for short-range dashes with almost no cooldown, narrowly avoiding deadly axe trajectories with each slide.
Golden spatial rifts continuously bloomed and contracted around him.
He calmly calculated Olaf's attack intervals and axe landing points, maximizing Ekko's agility.
When Olaf threw his spinning axe against the current to block Olaf's flank again, Ekko advanced instead of retreating, executing an extremely tricky diagonal slide that almost grazed the edge of the axe blade, instantly closing the distance with Olaf!
"Draw the kid, Q his real body!" Xie Xun's voice suddenly rang out in the earpiece.
Shu Hua stared intently at the chaotic interplay of light and shadow in the center of the screen, her fingers stiff with tension.
Upon suddenly hearing the command, my mind went blank for a moment, and I reflexively pressed the keyboard.
In her panic, her fingertip, which should have been on the Q key, slipped and slammed hard onto the E key!
[Abundant Energy]
A flash of green light appeared on Yuumi's body, and a pure healing energy wave instantly surged towards Ekko!
Ekko's health was already critically low due to Olaf's frenzied attacks, and he was about to be taken down by the next axe.
This timely green light was like a timely rain, forcefully raising Ekko's health bar slightly!
Although the skills were not what Xie Xun had expected, the result wasn't bad.
Without the slightest hesitation, Xie Xun's fingers swept across the keyboard like phantoms. A burst of golden light erupted around Ekko!
[Time-space fracture]
The golden phantom instantly returned to its place! Ekko vanished from his spot, perfectly dodging Olaf's potentially fatal basic attack, and appeared perfectly positioned behind Olaf in the next second!
At the same time, the precise W skill field left by Ekko in the center of the golden field [Time Crossing] when he teleported to the edge of the field was also triggered at this moment!
dizziness!
Olaf's massive body was firmly bound by the golden force field, and he was momentarily frozen in place!
[Phase Dive] followed by [Time Warp]!
Ekko's figure blurred again, glowing with the power of his enhanced basic attack, and he slammed his staff into the stunned Olaf, triggering his passive [Z-Drive Resonance], causing his three rings to explode!
A massive damage number exploded! Immediately afterward, Ekko's giant Time Wheel swept past Olaf's body, dealing secondary damage and slowing him down!
Meanwhile, Ekko himself gains a burst of movement speed boost due to his three-ring passive!
Everything happened in the blink of an eye!
Olaf from Longchuan recovered from the forced stun, but his health was almost gone! He roared and tried to make a final struggle, but Ekko's accelerated figure circled around him like a ghost, continuously pouring out high damage.
The health bar on the screen reached zero in the berserker's despairing eyes!
[Holy crap!!! A comeback from near-death?!]
[A lifesaver for my cat!!! A stroke of luck!!!]
[Black Cleaver's reaction! That prediction! The key is that Dragon God's W was dodged by Zhonya's Hourglass!]
[A clueless support player pulls off a crucial play! This E key is worth a fortune!!]
[Black Cutter: Plans disrupted? No, plans are rewritten by your mistakes!]
After the 1v1 battle ended, both sides quickly entered into a team fight.
Having lost their strongest damage dealer, Shu Hua's team, led by Xie Xun, quickly won the victory.
Shu Hua was still stunned when she saw the huge word "Victory" pop up on the screen.
She looked at her cat, which had somehow returned to the respawn point, and slowly said, "I think I just... pressed the wrong button."
Xie Xun's deep laughter came through the headset clearly, "It's okay, we won."
"Hmm," Shu Hua replied woodenly.
But the fact that I won while still respawning felt strangely ironic.
I'm not really happy about winning, what's going on?