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Chapter 23




Chapter 23: My Teammates Are All Crazy Chapter 23
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Luo Yiming’s Dark Cupid is not let out in the end. However, this is also within Jing Yu’s range of expectations, so he says, unruffled: “Let’s pick demons ba. Yiming, what do you want?”
Luo Yiming puffs up his cheeks, tone full of discontent: “True Arrow la. Other than True Arrow, there’s only Chronos left la. Can’t use it la.”
“Okay.” Jing Yu instalocks True Arrow.
Upon seeing them snatch that marksman, SoS can only go for another character. After a brief period of time, they finally lock the mid-laner Peacock Plume and solo-laner Death God — both OP demons.
“I really don’t understand why all these pro-gamers like to use OP demons. How can doing that show off your skill?” Ye Hong locks his own Scarlet Fury in contempt.
Beside him, Qin Fei also locks Lilith without missing a beat. His reason is only one word: “Lifeline.”
All Demon Lord gamers generally all have one or two lifeline demons. Take for instance, Jing Yu’s Frozen Heart, Ye Hong’s Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, and Luo Yiming’s Dark Cupid.
Qin Fei naturally has his own lifeline, and that is Lilith. It’s only a pity this demon isn’t suitable for jungling, so in the last PGL, he didn’t have many opportunities to use it in a match.
But in the past two days of practice, he finally managed to use it to his heart’s content.
Jing Yu is suddenly very curious: “Han Ge, who is your lifeline?”
“Chronos ah.” Han Leng answers without pause.
“Huan? But that is a marksman……”
“Oh, nobody told you? Before Yiming came along, I was pg‘s original C position.”
Hearing this line, Ye Hong suddenly wants to stir things up a little: “Why don’t we try double marksman? Skip the support……”
“Hold it.” Jing Yu stops him in time, strangling a fearsome idea while it’s still in the cradle, “Our pg is so headstrong. Without the support, are you intending to compete in who sends the enemy more heads?”
Ye Hong: “The winner is Yiming, no questions asked!”
Luo Yiming: “Oi!”
While chatting, the enemy has already chosen Burial Sword and Ariel.
Jing Yu looks at both sides’ chosen line-up and advises: “It’s best to choose Sariel for support.”
“Sure thing.” Han Leng instalocks Sariel.
Luo Yiming helps Jing Yu pick Frozen Heart: “You still want this one?”
“Naturally.”
“OK~” Luo Yiming instalocks Frozen Heart.
And then, SoS locks Chronos. With this, both parties’ line-up has been finalized:
pg: Lilith, Scarlet Fury, True Arrow, Frozen Heart, Sariel
SoS: Death God, Peacock Plume, Chronos, Burial Sword, Ariel
“Woah! Our line-up ‘s the exact same as the last practice match!” Luo Yiming sighs as he switches demons with Jing Yu.
“The demons banned are also exactly the same.” Ye Hong coolly adds this line, then resentfully declares, “If they’ve got the guts, they should let out my Nine-Tailed Demon Fox. Let me quintuple-kill.”
Hearing this, Qin Fei scoffs, “Who knows when I can use my Lilith till.”
“A quintuple-killing Lilith can probably only last till the Qualifiers.” Han Leng shrugs, “If anything, Jing Yu’s Frozen Heart is probably the only one that’s safe.”
“Hahaha! Who will ban Frozen Heart ah!”
Luo Yiming slaps the table while laughing, earning a glare from Jing Yu: “Don’t set a flag for me!”
Both sides adjust the demons’ abilities and equipment at top speed. When the countdown has ended, they enter the battlefield.
While staring at the loading interface on his screen, Jing Yu inhales deeply once — This time, he must definitely win!
The moment the System gives the signal to start the battle, both sides leap out to charge towards their respective jungles.
This time, on pg‘s side, the first one to make a move on the Red Demon is the support. After causing aggro**, both marksman and jungler open their onslaught of attacks. From start to finish, the jungler does not deplete his Smite.
(**causing aggro: Drawing attention from NPC, so the allies can defeat it without damage)
Han Leng’s Sariel tanks a large portion of the damage before Luo Yiming’s True Arrow finishes off the Red Demon and races down the Bottom Lane.
Jing Yu’s Frozen Heart opens attack on the forest monsters in the vicinity. The first kill enables him to rise to Lv. 2, gaining the ability Flash. That said, he still only has a third of his health remaining.
Frozen Heart floats over to another forest monster unhurriedly, forks out his Smite, and then instantly tops up his blood.
Although Frozen Heart is indeed a squishy, his blood sucking abilities can also be considered quite potent. Simply by having Smite, it is equivalent to keeping a second bar of health on him.
Therefore, in this game, Jing Yu doesn’t return to the turret. He successfully cleans all monsters in the Bottom Jungle, then drifts over to the Top Jungle to continue jungling.
After swiping clean every monster in their zone, Frozen Heart hits Lv. 6 and gains his Ult.
Jing Yu clicks open both sides’ gold to sneak a glance. Gauging that it’s about time for the enemy Burial Sword to gank someone, he promptly floats to the Mid-Lane’s neighboring area, keeping a watchful eye on all movements on the mini-map.
“SoS is quite careful ah?” Ye Hong has been waiting for someone to gank him. In fact, he has even flaunted himself openly for a few times. Yet, the enemy jungler’s just refusing to show up.
Jing Yu doesn’t reply. Looking at the situation on the mini-map, it seems that all Top, Middle, and Bottom Lanes aren’t experiencing any real difficulty. As a matter of fact, Qin Fei is even about to push the enemy solo-laner back into their turret…… Right! It’s the Top Lane!
Jing Yu directs his Frozen Heart towards the Top Lane at once. Almost at the same time, the enemy solo-laner comes back to life. Death God’s sickle hooks Lilith as if wanting to haul her into the tower with him. Burial Sword, who has been hiding in the grass plains and not showing his face up till now suddenly scuttles out, directly unleashing an Ult on Lilith!
Yet, just as Burial Sword is releasing his Ultimate, a flash of cold light links up to him. Following closely, Frozen Heart’s silhouette suddenly lunges out at him. A thunderous snow storm traps Burial Sword and Death God in its circle, mercilessly freezing the two demons to the base of the turret.
“Set Death God aside. Co-op Burial Sword with me.” Jing Yu orders abruptly.
Qin Fei “En's in reply.
He lets his own Lilith bulldoze Burial Sword. Within that split instant, she sucks away nearly half of Burial Sword’s blood.
With Lilith tanking the damages, Frozen Heart unreservedly goes on the offense at the base of the tower, easily taking down Burial Sword’s head.
The First Blood has been made!
“Evacuate!”
Following Jing Yu’s order, Frozen Heart leads the way out of the enemy’s turret with Lilith following closely behind. At that moment, the enemy Ariel forks out his Ult. The blood of all members of the enemy’s party sharply rises.
Death God’s blood similarly rises above 80% within a split second. He takes chase, wanting to gank the low health Lilith.
But he didn’t expect that after Lilith took two steps, she would turn tail and Ult on him!
Following closely, a flash of cold light suddenly lands on Death God — Frozen Heart still hasn’t left!
With this, shortly after Burial Sword’s ‘noble’ sacrifice, Death God is also sent back to the revival point with a few moves from Lilith and Frozen Heart.
“Fuck!” SoS‘s solo-laner loses his cool, “Lilith actually still has her Ult! Why didn’t she use it just now?!”
“It must’ve been left to defeat you.” The equally defeated jungler lets out a sigh, “As expected of Qin Fei. Such a good actor.”
On pg‘s side, Jing Yu is also mildly surprised: “You know how to act?”
Qin Fei raises his brows: “What gave you the impression that I don’t know how to act?”
Jing Yu doesn’t hesitate: “Luo Yiming.”
Luo Yiming: “???”
Qin Fei can’t resist a laugh: “Don’t look at the fierce way I play. Strategies? I do know a few.” Pausing here, “Afterall, I was also a jungler in the past.”
The desire to smile is imminent. Yet, Jing Yu can’t be preoccupied with smiling right now; Upon arriving at the Bottom Lane, he sharply commands Luo Yiming: “Marksman, assist in conquering the Demonic Disk.”
“Coming~” Luo Yiming gleefully navigates his True Arrow over to the Demonic Disk. Clearly, he does not put the matter of their words to heart.
Fang Luofan monitors the game situation from behind the five people, his eyes full of shock.
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Though he already knows Jing Yu has good situational awareness, he is still taken aback by his performance just now — Upon seeing the enemy solo-laner act as if he was being suppressed, Jing Yu immediately knew the enemy was kiting. Subsequently, despite the option of separating ways with Lilith to each solo Burial Sword and Death God, he actually gave the order to focus all damage on Burial Sword. Was it because he had already guessed that the enemy support would Ult at that time?
After killing Burial Sword, they pretended to slip away. But in actuality, they have been squatting in the bushes all along, attentively waiting to seize the opportunity to gank Death God. From start to end, he co-oped with Qin Fei wonderfully.
This Jungler… Qin Fei really didn’t choose the wrong person ah.
It makes sense too. As a person who managed to use Frozen Heart to climb from the dredges up to Diamond rank, how can he not have some skill?
However, this kind of talent, why is it that he hadn’t been snatched by any e-sports pro-team till now?
Is it just because his best demon is Frozen Heart?
When Fang Luofan snaps back, pg has already conquered the Demonic Disk. Under the Demonic Disk’s help, they tower-dive to slaughter the enemy support and marksman. After toppling the first tower, they sprint towards the second tower to do the same, laying havoc to all that is before them.
The enemy mid-laner heads down to assist the Bottom Lane, but he’s caught up by Ye Hong, who already predicted this in advance. He’s ganked, and eats up a whole Ult to the face.
With this, the score has racked up to 5 : 0. pg is at a total advantage.
Having gained an upper hand in the first half, pg relentlessly suppresses SoS the whole game. In the end, before the first Demonic Dragon even refreshes, SoS‘s towers are already torn to pieces.
Faced with such a outstanding result, Jing Yu can’t shake off the sneaking suspicion that this might not be real.
He knows that after these past two days of training, pg has definitely improved. However, he didn’t expect them to have overwhelmed SoS, a former Top 8, to such an extent.
And yet, this is the reality.
28 minutes later, the match wraps up. pg beats SoS with the battle score of 18 : 7. Luo Yiming’s True Arrow achieves the winning MVP with the score of “11 Kills: 2 Deaths: 3 Assists”.
Seeing this fearsome score, Ye Hong can’t resist sighing: “As expected, so long as we’ve got the advantage, Yiming this little rascal will obtain this kind of unfair score.”
Unexpectedly, Luo Yiming is extremely dissatisfied: “Ye Zi, why the heck did you steal my kill?! I could have quintuple-killed!”
Qin Fei is still studying the post-battle score. Jing Yu hasn’t yet recovered from the shock of winning.
Han Leng stretches his back. Just when he’s about to get up for a toilet break, Fang Luofan suddenly says:
“I just received a message. SoS‘s proposing another two matches. In other words, a Bo3. Rest up for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, we’ll start the second round.”
“Huan?” Every member of pg is dumbstruck. Then… those who want to go to the restroom go to the restroom while those who want to chat, chats.
Luo Yiming: “Just now, I’ve clearly quadruple-killed! Just a little bit more and I could’ve quintuple-killed! Ye Zi, you did it intentionally, didn’t you?”
Ye Hong: “No, no, I didn’t do it intentionally. I did it purposefully.”
Luo Yiming: “How that’s differe… Wha…? You say it again?”
Ye Hong: “Aiyo, isn’t it just a head. round, you’ll get it back. Or are you saying you don’t have the confidence to quintuple-kill?”
Luo Yiming: “What a joke! Quintuple-killing, it’s either zero or infinity for me!”
Han Leng who has just returned from the washroom asks dubiously: “You guys aren’t going to the washroom? 5 minutes is really……”
“Short.” Even before this word escapes, Ye Hong and Luo Yiming have already scuttled from their chairs as if fighting to be the first, charging in the direction of the bathroom.
Jing Yu blankly watches the blurs of their backs disappear with the speed of the wind. Before he comes back to himself, he hears Qin Fei by his side asking: “You’re not going?”
“En. I’m not going.” Jing Yu responds, turning his line of sight back to the screen. He sucks on his bottom lip — It’s fine even if it’s a Bo3! They will win!
Five minutes later, the second round begins. The losing side takes the starting advantage.
SoS begins banning demons.
Initially, they still thought they might hesitate. However, much to their surprise, SoS immediately bans Qin Fei’s Lilith from the last match!
Qin Fei: “Tsk.”
Han Leng: “Tsk tsk. Fei Ge, don’t talk about the Qualifiers, your lifeline can’t even be kept in a practice match ah.”
In the end, the three demons SoS decides to eliminate are: Lilith, Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, and Satan.
pg bans Camael, Black Serpent, and Death God.
Luo Yiming emotionally widens both eyes — His Dark Cupid, finally, is let out!!!!
“HAHAHAHAHA! Finally! It’s time for me to show you what my lifeline is made of!” Luo Yiming laughs madly. Then, right under his excited eyes, SoS instalocks Dark Cupid.
Luo Yiming: “……”
Jing Yu: “……My condolences.”
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