Chapter 206.1: The mantis catches the cicada, but the yellow sparrow lurks behind!

Their captain had been bullied, so everyone in L&P had to… happily watch the excitement!

VIVI and the other three all acted like they didn’t understand Chinese, and didn’t show the slightest inclination of helping their captain find a way out of his predicament.

Old G was still kind-hearted at the end and showed some respect to Yuan Ze. “Captain, what’s your bet?”

Yuan Ze: “……” He was too lazy to bring it up now.

Gary was still holding onto his fantasy. “What if EVE suddenly bursts out and turns the tables on Y1?”

Yuan Ze: “Heh.”

Old G said sincerely, “Don’t you always say, you’re not afraid of a bowl, but you’re afraid of things?”

This Chinese was so strange that even the Chinese people present couldn’t understand what he was saying.

Yuan Ze corrected him, “The phrase is not being afraid of ten thousand things, but being afraid of the unexpected.”

Gary: “Yes yes yes!”

The truth proved that Old G really loved his captain. As for his captain––

What kind of love could a scum man who’d taught him Martian language instead of Chinese understand?

Yuan Ze finally spoke out his side of the bet, “If EVE wins, then Quiet and Gary will switch teams when FTW and L&P play training matches.”

The two jungler kings: “???”

Wei Xiao looked sympathetically at Old G. He didn’t have to say much, as his eyes said it all: Wake up, you’ve been treated like scum!

Old G felt aggrieved to death. “If I’d known, I wouldn’t have shown you any respect!”

Yuan Ze: “……………………”

Sure enough, he shouldn’t have come back to FTW. This place didn’t agree with him!

As they chatted, the two teams in the live broadcast had already selected their respective line-ups.

In the battle of freedom, most teams would have their own routine line-ups. Surprisingly, Xie He hadn’t taken the immortal warlock.

There was a saying that had been circulating in the Glory circle for a long time: There were two types of immortal warlocks. One was Xie He’s immortal warlock, and the other was other people’s immortal warlocks.

Although Moonlit was well-known in the China competition zone, he was still a bit short of some firepower when it came to the global scene.

The audience in the meeting room were also surprised.

Gary: “Is God Xie giving up?” Although intuition said that they’d lose, they didn’t have to lose so straightforwardly!

Yuan Ze tried to save face for himself. “It should be a new routine.”

It was rare, but Wei Xiao agreed with Yuan Ze. “It’s possible to have the medicine warlock play in the mid-lane.”

This was actually a very interesting setup.

The two teams had both taken the medicine warlock: EVE’s Xie He, and Y1’s Yan Jiang.

They’d taken the same profession and talent, but one was using the medicine warlock to play in the mid-lane, while the other was using it to play support.

Not only did they find it interesting, but the audience at the arena were obviously thrilled as well.

No matter whose fans they were, they all liked to watch the excitement.

They were old teammates who’d now become enemies and had taken the same hero. The scent of gunpowder was extremely heavy!

Xie He really deserved to be the number one prickly thorn in Glory.

He hadn’t taken the medicine warlock for any other reason than to show it off in front of Yan Jiang’s face. He wanted to tell the world that Yan Jiang wasn’t the only one who could play the medicine warlock well!

This battle of freedom.

He was completely freeing himself up and doing as he pleased!

There was a skirmish in the jungle zone at the start of the game as both sides started fighting at level two. The medicine warlock from both sides could both deal poison and heal, making this wave of back and forth very thrilling.

This fight finally ended with both sides losing one kill. The junglers from both sides were the ones to die.

At first glance, it seemed that EVE had taken a bit of the advantage, because First Blood had gone to Xie He!

Yuan Ze crossed his arms over his chest and watched calmly.

Old G sighed. “EVE’s First Blood really means they won’t win.”

Yuan Ze wasn’t calm anymore: Would you f*cking die if you didn’t talk!

Old G continued explaining, “Really, it’s very magical, every time God Xie takes First Blood, EVE will start to stray… wu…”

Yuan Ze stuffed a piece of watermelon into his mouth.

Gary blinked.

Yuan Ze: “Shut up.”

Wei Xiao made a pft sound and laughed out loud: It was such a happy thing seeing evil people suffer a loss!

By six or seven minutes into the game, the difference between the two medicine warlocks gradually became clear.

Xie He’s medicine warlock was an absolute mid-laner talent. It had strong magic attacks and strong ranged damage. It was clearly a talent that didn’t have high explosive power, no control, and no movement skills, but Xie He was able to play out an assassin mage talent effect with it, like the immortal warlock, butterfly warlock, or spirit mage.

Y1’s mid-laner was miserable but couldn’t say anything. It was shameful to take an assassin mage yet be suppressed like this!

After suppressing the mid-laner until they collapsed, Xie He once again went to make trouble in the top lane.

EVE’s jungler and Xie He cooperated very well. He’d just finished clearing up the small jungle creeps by the river and had snuck his way along the grass.

Three against one, Y1’s top-laner was done for!

EVE must have thought so, but the audience who were watching from God’s perspective were very nervous.

There wasn’t only Y1’s top-laner in the top lane. Yan Jiang had led his own jungler with him and went behind Xie He and his jungler. When Xie He used his skills and rushed towards Y1’s top-laner, Y1’s jungler also pounced on him!

The mantis catches the cicada, but the yellow sparrow lurks behind!

This wave of ganking was amazing!

The director gave them a close up. Xie He’s medicine warlock was in its dark form, and Yan Jiang’s was in its light form.

The medicine warlock had two forms. One was the pale and cold duke of the castle, and the other was a sacred physician shrouded in holy light.

The dark and light sides of the same skin appeared in the canyon at the same time like twins resulting in a very beautiful scene.

Wei Xiao and the others had turned off the live scrolling comments, but if it was on, they would be able to see all the fans’ shrill screams!

Yan Jiang and Xie He.

The physician and the duke.

Light and dark.

Quiet and violent.

All strung together by the medicine warlock talent!

EVE suffered heavy losses in this wave of encirclement and suppression.

Although they were able to kill Y1’s top-laner, they’d lost two people from their own side and a third had been left in critical health. They had no way to protect their top-lane tower.

Once Y1 tore open a gap, EVE would fall into a completely passive situation.

What was fatal was that a team like EVE was most afraid of being tied up like this.

Y1 wouldn’t give up an advantage like this that hadn’t been easy to obtain and showed an unprecedentedly strong play style. Their mid-jungler-support linkage reached new extremes and completely occupied half of EVE’s jungler zone. Not only that, they beat up the bottom lane’s marksman until they remained hidden behind their tower.

The competition zone championship hung on a fine line.

No one wanted to lose!

They were both champion teams and had the same pride, the same desire to win.

Although it was unknown what was said over team chat, EVE miraculously calmed down and began to look for opportunities.

Even if they had to give up a portion of their resources, even if they had to give up advantages along one of their lanes, even if their farm difference continued to increase, they still managed to stabilize their mentalities, like a cheetah holding its breath in the grass, waiting and looking for the best opportunity.

The game was about operations.

But it was also about opportunities.

There were plenty of games where the tables had turned despite a gap in farm of over 8000 gold.

There was infinite opportunity up until that last moment when the crystal exploded!

Finally, 20 minutes into the game, EVE found an opportunity. Their jungler pounced on Y1’s mid-laner who’d moved a bit too far forward. Their support, who was following Xie He, gave the whole team a speed buff and caught Y1 off guard with their arrival.

Even Yan Jiang was unable to prevent this kind of sudden death.

Their mid-laner fell, and their marksman was sniped at. Y1’s jungler launched a set of skills but was offset by Xie He’s switch to his light form…

Three people from Y1 died in a row. Yan Jiang managed to save their top-laner who had high health and defense, as well as their jungler, who had multiple movement skills.

The commentator’s voice was filled with passion, “Beautiful! EVE did a great round there!”

The director displayed a chart that showed the trend of their gold and overall farm. EVE, which had been on the downturn the whole way, gradually rose up because of this round of team fighting. Additionally, they had cleared out the jungler zone and the ancient creature after winning the team fight and reduced their farm gap up from 6000 to 2000.

The total farm gap between the two teams was now only 2000, which was a totally acceptable difference. As long as they were given another chance, EVE could even surpass Y1!

Tension was mounting.

Both sides lost all their outer towers, and they mutually avoided each other’s vision. The attention and focus of all ten players could be felt through the screen.

No matter which side gained the advantage, regardless of which team it was that initiated the same conditions as last time again, it would signal the end of the game.

29 minutes.

30 minutes.

31 minutes.

35 minutes…

The ten players in full gear collided a total of seven times, and it was in vain each time. They didn’t even manage to consume a single resurrection armor.

If it went on like this…

A fight over the ultimate dragon king would determine the winner.

Y1 moved first and started fighting the dragon. EVE clearly knew that they were being lured out, but they couldn’t just ignore the situation.

If they lost the dragon king, then EVE would be done for. They had to fight to the end this time regardless of whether or not it was a trap!

EVE’s five players appeared on camera. Their jungler, CC, was their team commander.

His expression was heavy, and it could be seen from the way his mouth moved that he was calling out ‘Xie’.

The medicine warlock went up!

Xie He took the lead to rush in, locking in on Y1’s marksman and mage despite having no advance vision.

Due to the terrain in the dragon pit, the positions of the two had to be relatively close. The medicine warlock enchanted himself, using Infusion and Render, then finally landed Heaven’s Punishment accurately on the two c-position players from Y1.

It was a series of skills that went out like floating clouds and flowing water, so amazing that it made people’s scalps go numb.

They all watched as Y1’s double c-positions’ health plummeted and they were near a seriously injured state.

And the holy light that was the counterpart to this evil light rose up. The same enchantment landed on those same teammates, and the same Infusion and Render was cast on their bodies, followed by another Heaven’s Punishment, which landed on Xie He’s body!

Yan Jiang’s medicine warlock could save lives and heal the wounded, but it could also kill people without leaving a single trace.

In this short five to six second period, the HP of these three people who’d collided together went up and down like a roller coaster, plummeting, soaring, and then plummeting again…

This heart racing kind of play was already enough to make people’s scalps go numb. What the hell was this double heart racing play!

The watching fans forgot to breathe; that was how thrilling the ten players in the canyon were!

System announcements rang out one after another.

Y1’s marksman died.

EVE’s jungler died.

Y1’s mid-laner died.

EVE’s marksman died.

……

The last to fall was Xie He, who’d taken a double kill, and the last person still standing was Yan Jiang, who managed to survive with the tiniest sliver of health.

The entire venue broke out in fierce applause, and the audience all stood up to appreciate this wonderful battle!

The championship belonged to Y1.

In this year’s European competition zone, Y1 lit up the whole stage!

xiin: and… we’re back. sorry about the extra-long break & thank you for being so patient while i’ve been busy <3 i’m going to give myself leeway to do releases every other day in july to get my stockpiles back up again, and then august will be back to daily releases so that ya’ll can get your daily doses of Wei Xiao crack~