editor: apricot

This gag moment in the commentary could be considered a relief for the audience who wouldn’t be able to see the soul warlock.

Everyone might be unhappy, but it wasn’t to the point where they’d get up and leave.

What were you thinking? This was L&P against FTW!

This was the global showdown against the peak top-jungler combos!

Even if they simply did basic attacks with super soldiers, it would still be a unique fight in Glory history!

Not to mention…

Even without the soul warlock, the battle of freedom would be explosive enough.

Just look at the line-up from both sides.

FTW had the shadow thief in the top lane and blood thief for jungler. Double thief had come out to play, preparing to sweep through the game!

L&P’s top-laner was the death knight, and they took the shadow thief for their jungler. Double shadow went up on stage together, planning to fight across the whole world!

Just from this… what more did they want!

Sit tight and watch; it would absolutely be wonderful.

L&P’s team chat.

Old G sighed. “The little lunatic really didn’t use the soul warlock.”

Yuan Ze: “It’s not like he’s a fool.”

Old G: “……” He always had this suspicion that the captain was implying something, but he had no evidence.

VIVI smiled like a fox. “I feel like Quiet is going to mess with me.”

As L&P’s starter mid-laner, he’d taken the earth mage in this match to balance out their line-up.

FTW had the same idea. Ning Zhehan was using the zither warlock, which tended more towards support and functionality.

VIVI would say this because he knew that the zither warlock was unable to beat the earth mage in the early stages. If Wei Xiao didn’t come to provide support, then VIVI would beat up Ning Zhehan until he was left crying.

The middle lane was an important line for the jungle zone. If it wasn’t held, then it could start a vicious cycle.

Wei Xiao had to help Ning Zhehan in order to play out an advantage in the game.

Gary: “A man after my own heart.” It hadn’t been easy for him to learn an idiom and he had to show it off.

VIVI: “?”

Gary explained: “It means that they’re falling into a trap!”

VIVI: “……” Okay then, he understood half of it.

Indeed, if Wei Xiao went to support Ning Zhehan, then VIVI’s earth mage wouldn’t have any problems protecting himself. Wei Xiao could help Ning Zhehan pressure the lane, but he wouldn’t be able to get a kill. On the contrary, it would negatively impact Ning Zhehan’s development.

Gary wouldn’t go and provide support to VIVI. He would go to the top lane; there was no doubt about it.

When the time came, they’d gank the great demon king to death.

Tsk, just thinking of this made Old G’s scalp go numb––it would feel great!

L&P’s line of thought was reasonable and justified. Wei Xiao really did need to take care of Ning Zhehan more, but…

If a jungler king didn’t go and mess around in the other side’s jungle zone at the start of the game, then he wouldn’t be a jungler king!

Wei Xiao used the kiss of the blood raven as soon as he went out. “Captain~!”

Lu Feng: “Mm.”

Brother Cai went to the mid-lane following their original plan. Little Ning was too slow at clearing the lane and needed his help. When it came to the bottom lane, Yue Wenle shouldn’t end up being abused while clearing the first round of lane soldiers.

Also, if the holy priest stayed in the mid-lane, then he could quickly provide support to the top-jungler zone.

Wei Xiao was going into the other side’s jungle zone. He naturally had to start with the top-jungler zone.

With other teams, he could take Brother Cai with him and go wild, but when he was up against Old Bandit Yuan, he could only go to the top lane.

Other than the captain, no one else could help him.

Wei Xiao dared to go, and Old G dared to wait for him.

Yuan Ze went to the top lane first. He wasn’t anyone else, and would never be afraid of Close.

He tested out the jungle zone vision and understood where he was going as soon as he looked.

Yuan Ze: “Red buff bushes, be careful.”

Gary: “Got it!”

His voice had just fallen when a shadow flew over. It was the blood raven thief’s control skill: Kiss of the Blood Raven!

Whoever it touched would be dazed for 0.5 seconds. Although the control duration wasn’t long, if there was a shadow thief with the shadow attack skill beside him, Gary would be sent away.

Fortunately, Gary had been prepared a long time ago and used shadow attack to mark the red buff. Using the movement provided by his general attack, he pulled away slightly.

Wei Xiao: “Tsk, he’s so slippery.”

There were the expected bursts of exclamation in the scrolling comments. “It really is God G, he even avoided that!”

“How many people have been locked away by Little Lunatic Wei’s blood raven kiss? Gary’s worthy of being the world’s top jungler king.”

“Without mentioning his operations, even his consciousness is great. It’s as if he had vision.”

“Speaking of which, L&P’s crazy. They really didn’t put vision in the red buff bushes.”

“They probably didn’t want to waste it and guessed early on that Wei Xiao would pass by…”

This was what the power of predicting one’s opponents was.

Wei Xiao had been constantly paying attention to the mini map.

Gary could predict him, and he could also predict Old Bandit Yuan.

There was no doubt that the death knight would slide in from the rear; he had to be on guard.

At almost the same time, the death knight’s heavy blade swept across, aiming at the position where the blood raven thief was.

Wei Xiao didn’t use a movement skill, but he had a speed bonus. He also avoided the death knight’s attack with almost no room to spare!

This first, brief scuffle didn’t benefit anyone.

Wei Xiao: “Withdraw?”

Pestering them again would be a waste of time. Not to mention that the death knight was the daddy for all three thieves present in the early stages; pressing hard was meaningless.

Lu Feng made a sound of agreement. “Go.”

Wei Xiao had no movement skills and withdrew to the middle lane without looking back. Brother Cai came to pick him up, afraid that Yuan Ze and Old G would try to prevent him from leaving.

Lu Feng went in a different direction from him. Instead of jumping down from the dragon pit, he hid all trace of himself before concealing himself in the second bush near the top lane.

The audience saw it with god’s perspective and grew excited. “Holy shit, he lives up to being my great demon king!”

“Is he going to mess with Scum Man Yuan?”

“Screw him! Screw him! Screw him to death!”

“Exciting, exciting! When old teammates meet, they should mutually stab each other.”

They watched as the shadow thief slunk into the bushes. He’d obviously judged the death knight’s position based on the direction of his skills and used the movement skill to stack marks on the jungle creep in order to defeat the death knight without another word.

The director was very sneaky. He provided a small frame that showed a close-up of Yuan Ze––

He was staring at the screen, and a trace of suppression flashed in his eyes, followed by slightly raised thin lips and a series of quick operations.

They really started fighting!

A level one death knight and a level one shadow thief!

The heavy blade assault, the shadow blade backstab.

It was at most three seconds!

The shadow thief had the advantage of flexibility. Even if its DPS was lower than the death knight’s, as long as he could avoid the death knight’s heavy blade, he could reduce the damage taken to a minimum. Additionally, his backstab was continuous; stacking up small critical hits would be enough to hurt even the death knight who had a high starting defense.

Commentator Brother Mouth had already started praising without paying any heed to politeness. “It’s a classic shadow thief against death knight routine! No, this is a tactic that the shadow thief uses against all kinds of talents who are strong in the early stages!”

He chattered on for a while. Eurostar-star smiled from the side even as his inner thoughts were full of snark. “Everyone can understand it, but who can f*cking do it?!”

When it came to this kind of micro-operation, even the slightest mistake could be the difference between heaven and earth, not to mention when one was up against Yuan Ze. An ordinary shadow thief would’ve died long ago, without any need to talk about exchanging blood!

Yuan Ze was really familiar with Lu Feng. He’d been caught off guard by his rush into the bushes, but he soon accurately judged the origin of the shadow thief’s shadow attack. The heavy blade’s range wasn’t something that the shadow thief could avoid, and even if he did, then it meant he could no longer hurt the death knight.

Lu Feng stopped while things were still good for him. He made use of his lane soldiers to pull away and went back to his lane.

From the top jungle zone back to the top lane, the shadow thief had never taken any regular steps. Even so, this path was extremely smooth and had maximized his farm. Other than Close, who else could do such a thing as smoothly as floating clouds and flowing water?

The audience felt satisfied just from watching it, and the directors often panned the camera to the top lane so that everyone could see the top lane daddies’ Imperial PK!

FTW’s invasion into the opposite side’s jungle hadn’t been a failure. They tested things out and interfered, while holding onto their own jungle zone.

After returning to his blue jungle zone, Wei Xiao started up his rapid jungle clearing mode.

Gary’s shadow thief and Wei Xiao’s blood thief were both high DPS thieves. They cleared their jungles at amazing speeds.

The director split the display, showing that both sides’ rhythm was similar. Obviously, the skills they used weren’t the same, and their damage ratio was different, yet they still managed to brush out a similar rhythm.

Commentator Brother Mouth pointed out accurately. “The gap between them is less than a second!”

This kind of speed, this race against time. What they were fighting for was the power to gank first!

Everyone understood this, and they all watched on wondering which lane the fighting would break out in first. They were even more curious about whether or not the two sides would choose to provide support in the same lane.

The team chat channel wasn’t idle as they efficiently cleared out their jungles.

Brother Cai: “Why do I feel that it’s safer to go to the mid-lane?”

Wei Xiao: “Go to the top lane.”

Brother Cai: “Can Little Ning hold on? Once you show up at the top lane, V will definitely hammer him until he explodes.”

Ning Zhehan was working hard to clear his lane. “I feel that I can do it!”

Wei Xiao: “Did you hear that? Brother Ning can really do it.”

Brother Cai: “……”

Are you f*cking unable to talk without adding some color!”

L&P had never been afraid of getting predicted by others. They were practically broadcasting this statement to the whole world: “In the first wave, Old G will definitely go to the top lane.”

They weren’t afraid of telling you and almost wished they could shout it out using a loudspeaker.

Come on, come to the top lane.

If you don’t come, then we’ll kill your top laner; if you do come, then we’ll kill you both.

Overall, they never tried to hide. Their actions were simple and rough, aimed at just forcing you to fight!

Wei Xiao understood them well, and he really trusted his captain, but…

He wanted to go answer the call to fight!

He wanted to dampen L&P’s arrogance right from the start.

Teams from all around the world are afraid of you, but we aren’t afraid!

Was double shadow really badass?

Double thief was even stronger!

Wei Xiao wasn’t afraid of Gary, and Close wasn’t afraid of Yuan Ze.

It was time for the title of the strongest top-jungler combo to change!