Chapter 46 – 46. Suzaku (4)
‘Have you been fed?’
Seeing Han Tae-seop enter the capsule with his face reddened, he smiled.
In the first set, even his soul was robbed, so he must be out of his mind.
The gaze that looks blank somewhere is definitely a mesmerized expression.
‘I shouldn’t have reacted like that already. What I prepared is still left.’
It is only I who can make Lee Ji-hye run errands, but she is guilty of daring to run errands.
It couldn’t have ended like this.
Of course, match-fixing requests were also the cause, but…
‘What’s more upsetting might be the errands…’
In any case, the game moved on to the second set.
Banpick is back again.
Conqueror chose a jungle character as his first ban his, as if he had given up on the first set of strategy, one-deal killing.
‘You’re trying to target Lee Ji-hye’
It was a part where we could clearly see who had a hand in the ban-pick strategy.
[BA Battle: Going to kill the opponent’s bottom again this time.]
On the other hand, I haven’t changed my strategy.
The only difference is that the bottom destruction combination is not used, and the strategy to dry Han Tae-seop to death is the same this time.
The ban pick has been completed.
Team Battle Angels
Top: BA Carrywoman (Hercules)
Jungle: BA Wisdom (cockatrice)
MID: BA Luna (Cerberus)
AD Carry: BA Ryu (Artemis)
Support : BA White (Gabriel)
Team Battle Angels
Top: Conquerer Ko Tae-soo (Ganesha)
Jungle: Conquerer Shin Yooseong (Fenrir)
MID: Conquerer Kim Ki-soo (Hyunmu)
AD Carry: Conquerer Han Tae-seop (Hydra)
Support: Conquerer Yeji Shin (Aphrodite)
[BA Battle: Kang Yul, Han Yuna. You always push the line to make only the confluence angle.]
[BA CarryWoman: Yes]
[BA Lunar: Yes]
[BA Battle: Freezing the bottom, Jihye Lee focuses on the bottom]
[BA Wisdom: Yes]
Line freezing.
A strategy that benefits from keeping the line formed by creeps on both sides along the line close to your tower.
If you pull the line like this, the opponent will inevitably have no choice but to eat CS near your tower, which means you will be vulnerable to ganking or roaming.
Also, in the case of a 2:2 battle between the bottom duo, the length of the run to the tower is longer, so it is easier to die while running away.
However, this strategy was also not used often at the pro level, because it was so easily destroyed in matches between teams of equal level.
If the opponent’s bot duo’s combination is stronger in line play, you can push the line to the end even if you freeze.
Even if the line battle is weak, you can push the line by ganking or roaming.
Like this, line freezing had the advantage of forcing the opposing liner into an unreasonable position and preventing it from eating CS, but there were many ways to break it, so there were few cases where it was significantly effective.
Nevertheless, why did I bother to bring out this strategy?
[BA Battle: Can you do well?]
[BA Ryu: Yes]
It was because he thought that Ryu Seo-yoon, who caught Artemis, would be able to overwhelm Han Tae-seop.
That’s how you clearly show the difference between classes to him.
To the point that I will never be able to enter the game scene again.
When the match started, I got out of the capsule and watched the broadcast.
“Ryu, first take the 2nd level and make an aggressive deal exchange.”
“As for the bot composition, Battle Angels are good. Hydra has a short range, so there is no way to avoid it if you trade deals from a distance like this!”
“For now, we have no choice but to endure with Aphrodite’s persistence… I can’t stand being attacked again and again like this!”
The game started running as I expected.
Artemis was also a late-game AD, but it was stronger in the early stages than Hydra, which needs to increase the number of heads by leveling up.
At the same time, if Baek Ha-yan receives the buff from Gabriel and uses the range to exchange deals aggressively, it will be one of the strongest combinations among bot lane combinations.
The line freezing was completed before anyone knew it, and the Battle Angels bot duo stood in front of the frozen line and began to keep the Conqueror bot duo from eating CS.
It was a hydra that tried to eat even the experience points, but it was beaten and kicked out.
In the end, Conqueror had no choice but to call the jungle.
However, this part was also expected and the combination was made.
The cockatrice given to Lee Ji-hye is an appropriate character to counter incoming characters.
Jihye Lee, who started in the upper jungle early on and moved down to the bottom just in time for her opponent’s ganking.
As expected, when Conqueror’s jungler, Fenrir, comes to push the line together, he appears from the bush and casts his petrification skill his.
Conqueror’s bottom duo, who had already lost their health in the deal exchange, could not help Fenrir.
Still, the nimble Fenrir tried to get out of the encirclement and run to the tower, but it was not easy because the tower was too far from the frozen line.
[First take!]
“First Blood! Ryu’s Artemis ate first!”
“Ah~ Conqueror’s Tae-seop Han. Will it be really painful? CS is still 10. I’m drying it too seriously.”
“Looks like I need help from another line. At this rate, the next 30 minutes will pass before the Hydra will do its job.”
The Conqueror’s second nightmare was beginning.
This is because the Conqueror, whose back was on fire, tried to free the bottom freezing by calling in the mid laners and top laners, but even that was not easy.
To go roaming, you have to push the creeps in your line first.
If you leave your seat without managing the line like that, it will be an instant to push the tower against a character with good line push ability.
Mid Cerberus is a character whose line push ability is top-notch in the arena.
It only takes a very short time to push the line with the flames emitted from its three heads.
On the other hand, Conqueror’s mid-character, Hyeon-moo, is a character who tends to eat the opponent’s push.
This meant that our team had the initiative of Son and Mid.
“Is the mid-tower destroyed already?”
“The opponent is Cerberus, who has a fast line push, but it’s like this because he keeps roaming! Hyeonmu’s movement speed is slow, so he’s not a good character for roaming!”
“But to release the bottom line, both mid and jungle have to go!”
Top laner Kang Yul was also given Hercules, a confident and aggressive pick, so he was unstoppable in pressuring his opponent.
Take control of the entire line and shake it.
Thanks to the Conqueror’s jungler abandoning the bot line from the middle and ganking with the top, he succeeded in killing Kang Yul, but the effect of CS, which was constantly abandoned at the bottom, was greater than the profit gained.
‘It’s almost over.’
“The one-deal CS gap is 3x!”
“Even if Han Tae-seop failed, did he fail too much? As a Conqueror, I have no choice but to endure it somehow until I go to the full-tem match.”
“Then how many more minutes do we have to hold out?!”
“You have to hope the Battle Angels make a mistake. With the current gap, that kind of mistake will have to happen a few more times!”
The commentators were also convinced that a reversal was almost impossible.
Crossing my arms, I made eye contact with Han Tae-seop, who was seen on the broadcast screen.
An anxious expression.
Seeing him wandering in the jungle while continuing to make meaningless movements made me smile.
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[Conquerer Han Tae-seop: Hey fuck, release the bot!]
Just as the game situation was tilted, the atmosphere at Conqueror was also the worst.
In particular, Han Tae-seop, the leader and the eldest among them, was completely out of his mind.
[Conquerer Han Tae-seop: The opponent keeps freezing the bottom, but what are the other lines doing?! Aren’t you supposed to benefit from something else or come for support?!]
[Conquerer Shin Yoo-seong: Hyung, there is no other line or initiative right now, so we have to endure! Just throw away the bottom and come up!]
In the end, Han Tae-seop had no choice but to play mid-lane or roam the jungle to take away friendly jungle camps.
If the current game had a normal flow, it would have been natural for the Battle Angels to be at a disadvantage in battle compared to the Conquerors who joined early and rushed around.
However, perhaps it was because of Conqueror’s bot duo, who didn’t grow so much, Conqueror wasn’t a threat at all even though they had an advantage in numbers.
And the situation is in the second half of the game.
A team fight took place in the canyon between the jungles located at the bottom of the map, where the guardian Buddha was.
It was a teamfight that took place when the one-hander Ryu of the Battle Angels was in the well, and it was a small teamfight with more players on the Conqueror side, 4:3.
[An ally has been attacked. Cockatrice → Fenrir]
[An ally has been attacked. Cerberus → Aphrodite]
But the result was just the opposite.
The teamfight started when Fenrir, Conqueror’s jungler, bit Cerberus, the midfielder of Battle Angels.
Inish was great. The only problem was that he didn’t have a deal to kill Cerberus in one shot.
Cerberus with less than half HP.
He didn’t have a problem with dealing though, as long as he didn’t die.
On top of that, the Battle Angels’ Cockatrice spurred on a counterattack by using blinking as well.
As the ultimate skill ‘Gaze of the Stone’ entered properly, all four Conqueror players were frozen.
The Battle Angels began to eliminate the Conqueror players one by one, who were hardened into petrification.
First, Fenrir, who had entered the formation the deepest, was killed, followed by Aphrodite, who was weak.
When the situation was like that, the number of people was 2:3, and the Battle Angels had the upper hand.
Moreover, one of the two survivors of the Conqueror was Han Tae-seop, who failed to grow.
[An ally has been attacked. Hercules → Hyunmu]
Conqueror’s midfield, Hyunmu, who was not petrified, immediately turned around and tried to run away as soon as the teamfight showed signs of defeat.
However, behind him was Hercules, the Tower of the Battle Angels, who joined by teleport.
In the end, even Hyeon-moo died, leaving only Han Tae-seop in the middle of the battlefield.
Han Tae-seop, who watched all these scenes in a petrified state, felt like his head was spinning.
‘Lost.’
Absolutely too.
I saw the chicken head looking at myself petrified.
It was Lee Ji-hye, the jungler of Battle Angels who caught Cockatrice.
Cackle!!
The cockatrice’s claw cut through Han Tae-seop’s chest.
[An ally has been attacked. Cockatrice → Hydra]
[Double kill!]
The game started to spiral out of control.
Conqueror’s jungle ceased to belong to Conqueror, and all objects were handed over to Battle Angels.
A Conqueror’s one-handed deal that requires dozens of minutes to serve one person.
On the other hand, the battle angels’ one-deal that sucked gold from pre-farming and objects and became stronger in an instant.
There was no way a team fight could be established.
Han Tae-seop shouted in devotion to evil.
[Conquerer Han Tae-seop: Just try to block it somehow! Because I have a core item!]
However, when Han Tae-seop picked out 1 and a half cores, Ryu Seo-yoon had a 3-core item.
[Conquerer Ko Tae-soo: Brother. I lost this plate. Let’s do one last fight.]
The Conqueror’s top laner couldn’t stand it.
As he said, the game had already crossed the 9th ridge.
[Conquerer Han Tae-seop: What did you just say?]
Han Tae-seop doesn’t seem to think so.
[Conquerer Ko Tae-soo: I already lost. It ended when the bottom exploded.]
[Conquerer Han Tae-seop: Is the bottom exploding? Are you saying this is my fault? I don’t have initiative in all lines?]
[Conquerer Shin Yooseong: Brothers, stop fighting!]
The Conqueror had an ugly finish.
It wasn’t a fight until the end, and it wasn’t even a cool siren.
They didn’t play the game anymore because they cursed at each other in the well.
“Did Conquerors give up? Won’t you come out of the well?”
“The game has already tilted. It’s not that I don’t understand.”
Since this image was being sent to the screen as it is, the commentators and casters had to work hard to wrap up and explain the situation.
Of course, there were no audiences who didn’t notice the familiar atmosphere of solo lang.
“Are you fighting right now?”
“Wow, I am ashamed to death. What are you doing at a competition where everyone is watching?”
There were also students who left their seats at the naked appearance of their seniors and classmates.
And finally, Conqueror’s core exploded and the second set was over.
“GG!! The Battle Angels advance to the finals!”
“It’s exactly what a lot of people expected. Conqueror also showed good performance as a college club representative, but he couldn’t beat the professional prep team either!”
Players from both teams came out of the capsule and greeted the audience.
No matter how you look at it, the audience giggled at the atmosphere of Conqueror, which he seemed to have fought.
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It was fun in its own way to see Conqueror’s teamwork breaking down like bean powder.
It could have just been an indifferent victory, but seeing how it was smashed so brutally, I can’t help but think of it as a reaction restaurant.
‘I still have one big one left.’
I glanced at my cell phone.
There was a text message from Areum Han, a reporter at Arena Insight.
[I made an article. Take a look.]
When I clicked on the link she sent, a long article appeared that I could feel the pressure to scroll.
Looking at the contents, it seems that based on the evidence we received, the other teams who were asked to manipulate were also interviewed.
Once the tail starts to be stepped on, it’s only a matter of time before the head is pulled out.
The article written by Areum noona was meticulously written so that there was no way to escape.
‘Don’t set foot in being a pro gamer again.’
The history of the Korean e-sports industry tells us how sensitive jujakjil is in the professional gamer industry.
I smiled and put my phone away.
Just in time, the team members who had just said hello from afar were approaching.
Ryu Seo-yoon seemed to be missing for a while for the interview.
“I won, but shouldn’t I feel good? What’s wrong with your expression?”
Lee Ji-hye saw my calm expression and approached me.
I shrugged and made a no-nonsense gesture.
We then went back to the players’ waiting room.
After taking the things I had left behind, I planned to return to the dorm as soon as Ryu Seo-yoon arrived.
The Academy League side allocated a part of the university dormitory to use as accommodation.
Thanks to that, I felt like I could take a break right away.
But then, as we were about to enter the waiting room, someone approached us.
“Hey, Lee Ji-hye!”
Looking back, it was Han Tae-seop.
Jihye Lee put on a tired expression.
Neither did I.
“What are you doing?”
“How could this be? You were platinum not too long ago! Isn’t this too unfair?”
“Is it unfair?”
Jihye Lee smiled coldly.
I guess she didn’t expect to hear him say that.
“…I did not know? Originally, the world is unfair.”
“Come back to our team! Wasn’t it me who got you started as a pro gamer? If you come to my team, I’ll push you! Just tell your father…!”
Han Tae-seop babbles as if possessed by something. Lee Ji-hye, who was listening to those words, had a cold expression on her face.
Trying to refute every single thing he said would only turn into a childish quarrel.
I pulled Lee Ji-hye’s shoulders and pulled her out of her shea before things got any bigger.
“You, you… “
Only then did Han Tae-seop see me and take a step back.
“We have a game tomorrow, so we have to go rest.”
This is different from you who dropped out.
And I shut the door
No, I tried to close it.
“Now, wait… !”
Han Tae-seop urgently blocks the door.
The eyebrows of his are furrowed.
I’ve already had all the fun, but I didn’t have time to get into an argument.
At that time, Jihye Lee whispered in my ear.
“Please knead my chest once.”
“…What?”
“Wouldn’t it be direct to get rid of leeches?”
“……”
She decided to follow her word her to her her.
I put her arm around her shoulder her and massaged her chest on the other side, not the part that was touching me.
“Yes…”
Lee Ji-hye let out a low moan.
Han Tae-seop, who saw it through the crack in the door, completely froze.
The look on his face his, as if he had been robbed of something precious, is very spectacle.
Woohyo clothes… ! The best soft touch…!
…… Fortunately, I was standing with my back turned to the other players, so I couldn’t see him violating his chest.
Thud.
And Lee Ji-hye kicked her door shut.
Seeing me making her embarrassed face, she smiled.
“It looked like he had even lost his girlfriend his to a bad coach. Anyway, since you massaged my breasts in public like this, shouldn’t you be responsible?”
“…Okay”
I never intended to break her heart to this extent, but somehow it makes me feel sorry for her.
Anyway, everything worked out.
I nodded her head as I finished massaging her breasts her.
‘Super Lucky!’
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Meanwhile, Han Tae-seop after the door closed.
‘This, these bastards… !’
Conqueror’s players approached him as he was still frozen in the shocking scene.
“Brother…! Wait, look at this!”
They shout urgently and hold their cell phones.
Han Tae-seop glared at them with his eyes wide open.
“… What the fuck is that… ?”
“The knight… ! There was an article about our team!!”
Even otherwise, Han Tae-seop was in the worst mood.
More than this, he wondered if he could be in a bad mood, and news like a death sentence was delivered to him.
“Match-fixing… ?”
“… I think I got caught, what should I do… ? You can cover for it, right?”
The voices of team members full of anxiety.
However, Han Tae-seop did not even notice their worried looks.
He threw his phone on the floor and cursed at the top of his voice.
“Sir baaaaal!! Why are you doing this to me!!”
Conqueror’s players could only guess at his radiant appearance.
That you can live only by throwing away the rotten rope.
