Being Alive Was Hurting Your Combat Power

Rui'anli's crowd-control skill was dodged by Fulina's clone. Fiora's first skill, Pierce, hit Fulina and slowed her, and with her own high durability, she managed to buy herself a little time to escape.

Clear's Rui'anli wasn't so lucky. Qianhe controlled Fulina and used her first skill to hit Clear, resetting her ultimate's cooldown. He then used the second dash of her ultimate to deal burst damage, and Rui'anli went down in just a few seconds.

"Woohoo~ We're taking off!"

Yet: "That was a great engage, He'er!"

Qianhe grinned, baring his teeth. "Of course. Who do you think your daddy is?"

Ji Chengyan spoke in a low, extremely cautious voice. "Don't get carried away."

As captain, Ji Chengyan seemed much more mature and steady than his teammates and was often teased by netizens for being an old cadre. But it was precisely his steadiness that had earned YH a place among the twelve teams.

Although they had just killed the enemy mage and forced GOD under its defensive tower, making it look as though they could pick up more kills and gain an advantage, Fiora hadn't used her ultimate, and the marksman Sun still had a considerable amount of health.

There was still a chance they could be counterattacked.

Shi Mu had half his health left. He retreated to the small jungle camp and quickly analyzed the battle in his head.

"A Zhen, engage."

"Okay!"

He Zhen had already stacked his passive. Now that the captain had given the order, he charged into the enemy group with his first and second skills and knocked them airborne with his ultimate. Qianhe took most of the damage, and his health plummeted.

Linked to Wantonly by a chain, Sun showed no fear. He controlled the little robot to add damage, and a flying cannon shot from his second skill caught Qianhe where he was headed and sent him back home.

Wantonly went from a dog being chased and beaten to a daddy fighting back, and his back straightened at once.

"A Zhen, that engage was so cool!"

He Zhen pressed his lips together in a smile. He had finally secured an advantage for the team. "It was all thanks to the captain's shot-calling."

And Jin's guidance.

The snacks in the lounge were gone, so Brother Qian went out to pick up the second round of takeout while Wu Jin rested her head against the sofa and leisurely watched the match.

He Zhen's play was much steadier than in the previous game. He was visibly more confident.

Coach Ming took a blanket and laid it over Wu Jin. Although the lounge was heated, he couldn't help feeling that the young girl would get cold.

"I don't need it..."

"Hey, yes, you do. You young people don't pay attention now, but once you get older, you'll ache here and hurt there. You'll have plenty to suffer through then."

So Wu Jin closed her mouth.

She knew better than to argue with older people.

"Sweetie, the milk tea you wanted is here! And fries and burgers too!"

Brother Qian walked in carrying several bags of takeout, and the three settled down comfortably to eat and watch the match.

Clear, the first to die in this battle, blew at his bangs. "Was my being alive hurting your combat power?"

"If you know that, why are you asking?"

"Get lost!"

The fight around the second bottom-lane tower was raging. Shi Mu searched for an opportunity on the outskirts, while Lion's Alas had taken a beating in the team fight and used a mobility skill to escape.

This was the chance Shi Mu had been waiting for. He followed his second skill with his ultimate and bit down on Alas. Even when Lion reacted and tried to take the damage and fight back, it was no use. Sea Shark tore him to shreds in an instant.

Lion covered his face in despair. "Aaaaaah, that's so inhuman! Brother Mu was actually waiting there to ambush me!"

Heart: "Is this your first time experiencing Brother Mu's methods?"

With two YH teammates dead, Ji Chengyan hurriedly called for a retreat. GOD invaded YH's red-side jungle from the upper blue-side jungle and secured the main vision.

GOD chipped down the blue side's middle tower. The middle tower was extremely important in a match, and losing it also meant YH would lose control of its jungle. Qianhe would have a hard time in the latter half of the game.

While Shi Mu farmed the small monsters in the enemy blue-side jungle, Sun farmed the small monsters in their own jungle, gaining more room to farm and more gold. YH, with only three players left, could only stick together to avoid being picked off again and had no time to spare for the jungle.

After respawning, Qianhe went top to clear the minion wave, and Lion returned to mid. The four GOD players used their advantage to take the first dragon, while Ji Chengyan and Heart were pinned down so completely by He Zhen in bottom lane that they didn't dare make a move.

Fiora currently had the second-highest gold in the entire match and dealt extremely high damage. Ji Chengyan was cautious and didn't dare fight her head-on.

At ten minutes, both sides were looking for openings and testing each other. Ji Chengyan and Heart stacked their passives in the middle-lane brush, while Wantonly deliberately positioned himself forward to bait them.

Lion: "Get here, quick!"

Qianhe: "Coming, coming, coming!"

Sun had only just taken a step forward when a big golden rat suddenly passed through him. Lion flashed in after it, knocked Sun airborne with his first skill, dealt the full damage of his third skill, and made a perfect exit with a final passive. Working with Qianhe, he killed Sun in an instant.

Lion chuckled. "Sun's still too young."

"Hahahahaha, that felt good! He killed me in that earlier exchange. This is what they call a gentleman's revenge, repaid in ten minutes!"

Yet also snorted with laughter. "You two really are devious."

"What else? Old ginger is spicier!"

On the other side, Sun, who had been killed in an instant, stared blankly. What had just happened? Why had his screen gone gray?

YH immediately started the dragon. Shi Mu was in the red-side jungle and pressed the group-up signal. They could only trade dragons.

Once the dragon fight started, Qianhe and Yet led the charge toward the upper half of the map. Lion flung a fan at the dragon to see if he could steal it, but of course that was impossible. Shi Mu pressed Smite, secured the dragon, and retreated toward top lane.

Yet activated his ultimate and knocked Shi Mu away. Lion dashed in and followed up with his first skill to deal damage. Shi Mu's gaze sharpened, and his fingers moved across the keyboard so quickly they left afterimages.

He instantly swapped to a life-saving item and used the passive dash that granted invincibility to open up some distance. Yet pursued him relentlessly into the defensive tower, but Shi Mu moved around extremely quickly and even dodged one of Alas's fans.

Shi Mu led Lion away, then returned beneath the tower and picked up a health pack to recover. Linked to Wantonly by a chain, He Zhen advanced and attacked, but with poor conditions for dealing damage, he could only leave Heart badly wounded and failed to finish him off.

[Qingqing: Time's play here was so precise! He swapped items super fast, slipped away in a flash, and even led Lion around by the nose.]

[Wu Hu: That was a shame for A Zhen. He was just a little short of taking Heart down, but Heart used Heal!]

[Wu Hu: That was such an exciting exchange! YH has regained some confidence now!]

[Qingqing: The ten-minute rule lives up to its reputation.]

The ten-minute rule meant that once a game reached ten minutes, players couldn't afford to get picked off whether they were ahead or behind, or the other side could easily overtake them.

YH controlled the minion waves to keep GOD's attention on bottom lane, and Ji Chengyan secretly took down their middle tower. The match reached a strange balance again, but soon Qianhe and Yet worked together to take two towers in top lane in quick succession, turning the situation around.

He Zhen gripped his mouse nervously, his eyes fixed on the screen without blinking. The words Wu Jin had said at the club suddenly came back to him.

"To play Fiora, you have to learn to stir up trouble. You make your own opportunities by fighting."

Stir up trouble.

Those words played over and over in He Zhen's mind. Looking at Yet and Lion in front of him, his gaze suddenly grew resolute.

"Brother Wantonly, give me the chain."

Hearing his name called, Wantonly responded with a couple of "oh"s and fastened the safety chain to He Zhen-a treasure of a chain that could let him retreat quickly in a dangerous situation.

He Zhen spun around in place a few times. Seeing his chance when the two stood together, he sent out his first skill and followed it forward, landed a basic attack, then immediately used his third skill to knock them both airborne.

The GOD players' brows twitched when they saw Fiora suddenly charge out. Was the youngster really this fierce?!