"Am I seeing things? WE's bot lane got completely steamrolled?"
"Mystic! You've got to pull yourself together!"
"What's going on? Am I still half asleep? How is WE's bot lane getting crushed this badly?"
"C God, what are you doing, C God?! Stop! Are you trying to destroy WE?!"
"Enough with the drama, guy above."
"C God is absolutely brutal. Is he really treating a pro match like ranked?"
"Lmao, C God says he's here to finish a boosting order."
At WE's player desks.
Mystic stared blankly at his gray screen, unable to speak for a long while.
Seeing his expression, Xiye quickly said, "It's okay, Chen Shengjun. This is only the first game. Besides, it's just a regular-season match. Losing isn't a big deal."
"Keep your head together," 957 added. "Look, their top and jungle dove me too."
While Condi focused on bot lane, Ning Wang certainly hadn't been sitting idle.
He had not only invaded Condi's top-side jungle, but also kept helping TheShy build a lead.
By now, the score had reached 7-0, and WE's situation had completely fallen apart.
Of course, bot lane was unquestionably suffering the most.
At this point, whether Mystic was in the game or not barely made a difference.
Even if he stood under his tower, killing him wasn't much harder for the opposing Kalista than last-hitting a siege minion.
As for Condi, his bold pregame declarations had given way to silence.
As WE's playmaking engine and undisputed centerpiece, he had suffered an unprecedented defeat at the hands of a rookie ADC!
Even against SKT at the recent MSI, he hadn't felt this helpless!
The match continued.
While laning, Rookie kept moving his camera to watch his ADC hopping back and forth at the enemy's bot inner tower. The sight made him wince. "You're really treating them like they aren't even players."
Ning Wang, meanwhile, laughed happily. "Nice work, C God!"
Lu Chen smiled. "Let's get into their base first. Nobody on their side can stop me right now."
As he spoke, he and Baolan had already demolished the bot inner tower.
They then escorted their minion wave straight toward the inhibitor tower.
"That's enough!"
On the other side, Condi finally couldn't take it anymore. "We've got to collapse on him, right? If he keeps pushing like this, he'll take our Nexus!"
It was only twelve minutes in. They couldn't just give up their inhibitor tower, could they?
How was that any different from surrendering?
Besides, what gave an ADC the right to play this arrogantly?
Was this guy really not afraid of getting engaged on and instantly killed?!
"We do need to catch him," Xiye said, glancing at bot lane's inhibitor tower before moving Kassadin toward it.
Mystic and Ben also forced themselves to rally, joining Condi's Gragas as they headed toward their own base.
"Is Chen Yu really not leaving? This is going to be a four-on-two collapse!" Miller exclaimed. "WE is absolutely determined to take this Kalista down!"
Wawa laughed. "Honestly, though, this Kalista really is playing a little too arrogantly. WE must have finally had enough. But is she seriously still not leaving?"
Rita considered it. "He probably wants to outplay them."
"Lu Chen, Kassadin's heading over," Rookie warned over voice chat, making his own way toward bot lane.
"Got it." Lu Chen stood outside their base, auto-attacking minions one after another, with no intention of running.
TheShy was still calling out, "I can TP!"
Lu Chen chuckled. "Okay. Wait until they surround us, then TP."
Although they were ahead this game, TheShy's Cho'Gath had a hard time getting his hands on 957's Kennen. Being unable to start a fight had clearly left him dissatisfied.
That was why he was so eager to join the action now.
Before long.
Xiye's Kassadin emerged from the jungle behind them with a Riftwalk.
Condi, Mystic, and Ben also came down from their base to surround them.
Bzz-
The glow of Teleport lit up on a blue-side minion beneath the inhibitor tower.
"Ignore the Teleport! Kill Kalista first!" Condi ordered without hesitation. "Dump all your damage into her!"
"Okay!" Ben's Karma immediately used an empowered E, shielding all three of them and speeding them up as they charged forward together!
Gragas led the charge, launching his E straight at Kalista.
As expected, she dodged it with a hop.
Kassadin also used R to close in, throwing out Q and E to knock a chunk off Kalista's health.
"Baolan, engage on Kassadin!" Lu Chen directed calmly.
Without hesitation, Baolan activated his ultimate and E, then turned and used his Q-W combo to knock Kassadin into the air.
Kalista immediately began hopping around Kassadin while attacking, driving spear after spear into him as though they cost nothing!
"I'm losing health so fast!" Xiye sounded a little panicked.
At this stage of the game, a Kalista this fed dealt incomprehensible damage.
"Don't panic!" Condi hurriedly threw his ultimate behind Kalista, trying to blast her back toward them.
But the next second.
Lu Chen abruptly stopped attacking. Instead of auto-attacking, he took a small ninety-degree turn backward, stepping just beyond the radius of Gragas's ultimate!
"Huh?" Condi froze for a full second, his mouth slightly open. The sound slipped out before he could stop it, his expression utterly stiff.
How the hell did that work?!
Behind him, Mystic hurriedly fired his ultimate, Chain of Corruption, hoping to lock Kalista down.
But Lu Chen began hopping again, easily dodging the chain.
One hit, two hits-in moments, Kassadin dropped below half health. Xiye could only burn both R and Flash to escape over the wall.
Lu Chen didn't pursue him. He simply turned and began auto-attacking Gragas, constantly repositioning to kite him.
Skill after skill sailed past him, yet none could connect!
"I'm here!" TheShy charged forward eagerly the instant he landed.
Before he could even reach them, Lu Chen had already pressed E to rip out the spears.
"IG Chen Yu has slain WE Condi!"
"Dominating!"
"It's over." Mystic and Ben looked numb, almost ready to stop resisting.
There really wasn't much point in resisting anyway.
Cho'
Gath closed in, Alistar pressed forward, and Kalista unleashed a barrage of explosive damage.
In the end, TheShy chomped down one kill with his ultimate, while Lu Chen picked up another double kill.
"IG TheShy has slain WE Mystic!"
"IG Chen Yu has slain WE Ben!"
"Godlike!"
A string of kill announcements flooded the screen.
Lu Chen's score shot straight up to 7-0!
Even worse, Kassadin, who had already escaped, ran into the approaching Rookie in the jungle and was finished off by Syndra's ultimate.
WE's four-on-two collapse had ended in a four-for-zero trade!
Miller drew in a sharp breath, his face full of shock. "Only one line comes to mind: slaying amid the mortal dust, slipping free of naked blades! This Kalista genuinely didn't get hit by a single skill!"
Wawa shook his head. "After that fight, WE has absolutely no chance left."
Just as he said.
From there, the match was essentially garbage time.
Lu Chen advanced as though nobody stood in his way, taking Baolan with him and pushing straight through bot lane.
WE could only retreat to their Nexus turrets to defend. Anywhere else, they would get dived!
Meanwhile, the rest of IG followed Ning Wang and cleared out every jungle resource, picking off the outer towers one by one.
By eighteen minutes, the gold lead had snowballed to nearly ten thousand!
IG didn't drag things out. They grouped bot, pushed in, and destroyed the Nexus turrets.
WE barely put up a defense, seemingly having given up-or rather, choosing to preserve their KDA.
With no hope left at all, protecting their KDA was a reasonable option.
The clock stopped at 18:32 as the red-side Nexus exploded.
IG led WE 1-0!
(End of chapter)
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