It wasn't that the Titan Team lacked strength. Their abilities were undeniably formidable: Blood-Stained Sands and Destructive Wave were both top-tier, wide-area crowd-control skills. To an Awakened, they were proof of immense power.
Yet the White Phoenix Team had thoroughly outplayed them, seemingly without even trying.
Fu Yiping entered the players' lounge with a grim expression.
The Titan Team's five starters looked utterly defeated, as if that match had knocked the spirit right out of them.
Fu Yiping had meant to give them a dressing-down and single out a couple of them. But the sight left him with a knot in his chest, and he swallowed the reprimand.
Since Ling Feng, the promising star they'd recruited, had grown into an Advanced Awakened, when had the Titan Team's starting lineup ever been beaten this badly?
Scolding them wouldn't solve anything. It would only drag them down further.
"Tell me what went wrong. I saw at least three inexplicable mistakes. The worst was Ling Feng crashing into that pillar while using Cover. There must be a reason. I know him, and he wouldn't make such a basic mistake."
Fu Yiping's words eased the stiff atmosphere in the lounge a little.
Ling Feng said quietly, "I don't know why either. The moment I activated Cover, everything I saw suddenly shifted... I was clearly using Sprint toward Li Kexing, but when my vision went back to normal, I'd already hit the lamppost."
The other players began voicing their grievances too.
Li Kexing said, "President, the White Phoenix Team came well prepared this time! That Puppet Doll—the scarecrow that took damage for Bai Xiaowen—must be a rare item, right?"
Yan Bo said, "My Shadow Cloak hit an illusion. That's suspicious too."
Zhu Yuan, the Arcane Mage, said, "Exactly. And there were two inexplicable uses of