Genting: You're supposed to teach us skills, but you're going to perform magical arts?

At the start of the match, Wang Teng played Bard the Fighter, a lineup he had secretly learned from Ye Fan's previous qualifier strategy, hoping to learn from the enemy's strengths to defeat them and severely suppress Ye Fan.

His roster is highly complete.

I've farmed Shen and Illaoi to 3 stars, Bard and Aphelios are 2 stars, and there's a spare 2-star Bard lying on the bench.

This setup reliably forms a synergy of 4 Fighters, 1 Titan, and 1 Bard, maximizing front-line tankiness. Bard's AoE damage also gets stronger as the fight progresses, making it virtually unstoppable at this stage.

Logically speaking, this quality surpasses all other lineups at the same stage, and it has no rivals.

Unfortunately, he ran into Ye Fan, who pulled out two two-star, five-cost monsters in 3-2.

The pieces from both sides clashed instantly.

Wang Teng's 3-star Shen lived up to his reputation. His massive energy shield covered his entire body like a tortoise shell. When the Dragon Girl's claws tore at it, they only sparked weak flames and couldn't break through the defense at all.

At the same time, Bard's horn sounded, and together with Aphelios's sword array, it continuously left fatal marks on the dragon girl's body.

Ye Fan's Dragon Girl's health was visibly decreasing, and the situation was once at a stalemate.

"Is this the true value of a 3-star warrior...?" Ye Fan frowned slightly.

However, just as the Dragon Girl's health was about to run out, her rage meter instantly filled up!

"hold head high--!"

A deafening dragon's roar echoed across the chessboard! The Dragon Girl abandoned the direct confrontation, her massive body soaring into the air, her wings whipping up a gale, ignoring the immovable 3-star Shen before her, and descending from the sky!

This scorching dragon breath bypassed the front row and slammed into Bard's face in the back row!

boom!

Without front-line protection, the fragile character instantly lost half its health, and the burning effect caused its health bar to drop like a faucet turned on.

Almost simultaneously, a flash of silver light appeared beneath Kindred's feet, creating an immunity field covering four squares.

No matter how powerful the opponent's attacks were, they couldn't budge the Dragon Girl who was within the area of ​​effect.

After a long and drawn-out battle, the game went into overtime. Wang Teng's 3-star Shen's shield finally broke, and his health plummeted, but Ye Fan's Shyvana remained standing.

Ultimately, relying on the overwhelming attribute difference of the five-cost cards, Ye Fan's pieces tore apart the opponent's lineup and secured this crushing victory.

Wang Teng stared at the message of crushing defeat on the screen, slammed his fist on the keyboard, and looked extremely grim. He couldn't understand how the lineup he had secretly learned could be so easily defeated.

Wang Teng is already the strongest among the remaining contestants. After defeating him, the subsequent opponents will be even more vulnerable.

Ye Fan relied on this five-cost lineup to push forward all the way, securing a winning streak, rapidly recovering his economy, and keeping his health above the safe line, reaching 3-6 without any pressure.

After three rounds of battle, Ornn's artifact progress bar finally reached its maximum, and with a flash of golden light, the first artifact was completed.

Ye Fan quickly picked it up, and the moment he saw the prop clearly, he blurted out excitedly:

"pretty!"

—The power of the three!

The dealer finally had a change of heart!

This amazing item is a perfect fit for Kindred, as it increases both damage output and attack speed, completely making up for any equipment shortcomings. Now, you'll have even more confidence to win!

Without hesitation, Ye Fan dragged the artifact directly into the equipment slot of the two-star Kindred.

Instantly, Kindred's stats skyrocketed, with attack speed, ability power, and health all increasing across the board. Her previously weak damage output, lacking equipment support, suddenly experienced a qualitative leap.

Looking at the core output point that had taken shape, Ye Fan smiled with a sense of confidence. Now, this set of Thousand Jewels and Nine-Five truly had the capital to dominate the entire field.

After forging the three items, Ornn continued to work diligently on the chessboard, waiting for the next opportunity to forge a divine artifact.

Ye Fan wasn't in a hurry. What he needed to do now was to maintain his winning streak, snowball his economy, and raise his population to level 9 to complete the final piece of the 9-5 lineup puzzle.

In the following 4-1 rounds, the third Hextech Enhancement arrived as expected.

At this moment, Ye Fan has 8 people, more than 90 gold coins, and his health is still at the safe level of 55 points.

His winning streak completely eliminated any worries he might have had.

The Hextech runes slowly unfolded, revealing three Prismatic quality runes!

Ye Fan glanced at them and his gaze immediately locked onto one of them—a high-end shopping item!

This Hextech ability can increase the shop's refresh level. At level 8, it has a higher chance of refreshing five-cost cards, which is a huge boost for his Kindred 95 build!

Without the slightest hesitation, Ye Fan directly selected high-end shopping, and then with a wave of his hand, spent gold coins to instantly reach 9 population.

He then sold Bard and bought a Raven from the shop to put on the field.

At this point, his Kindred 9-5 lineup was basically complete, only lacking a Sylas.

He had already sold a two-star Jarvan IV during his previous losing streak, so now he just needs to keep Lux and Garen.

The fourth stage of the match had become Ye Fan's personal showcase.

After each wave of battle ends, a series of question marks will pop up in the public chat from the opponent.

It's absolutely outrageous. We were on a losing streak and barely had any health left, but suddenly we leveled up to level 9 and pulled out a fully-fledged 9-5 lineup.

Wang Teng watched as he suffered a series of defeats, his health plummeting, and then looked at Ye Fan's luxurious 95 lineup on the chessboard. His face turned pale and then red, filled with jealousy and resentment, yet he was helpless.

Ultimately, he was eliminated in rounds 4-5, but before leaving, he typed in the chat: "Your luck is truly outrageous!"

Ye Fan glanced at the public chat but ignored it completely, focusing entirely on drawing cards.

With the support of high-end shopping, Ye Fan was frantically playing the D card at level 9, spending gold coins like water.

Soon, Ye Fan pulled Garen and Lux ​​to two stars, and decisively sold them to unlock Sylas.

The lineup is complete.

Time has come to round 5-1, and the wild monster phase has refreshed again. This time, the dealer is no longer targeting Ye Fan.

Ornn unleashed his full power once again, forging a second divine weapon—Sniper's Focus!

Ye Fan threw the equipment directly to Kindred. With the double divine equipment, Kindred's output was off the charts. One arrow could take away half of the enemy's front row health, and the back row could be killed instantly.

At this point, only three players remained on the field. The other two, seeing Ye Fan's lineup, had already given up resisting and were only hoping to minimize their health loss and survive as many rounds as possible.

5-3 rounds, final round.

At this point, Ye Fan finally upgraded all the chess pieces to 2 stars, and the lineup was completely complete.

At this moment, only one person remained outside, with only 15 health points left.

Although the opposing team's lineup was also complete, it was still like a paper toy in front of Ye Fan.

The moment the battle began, Ye Fan didn't even look at the situation.

He simply picked up his water glass and took a sip, when out of the corner of his eye he caught a fleeting glimpse of silver light in the center of the screen.

That was Kindred's stealth attack.

A silvery-white afterimage streaked across the sky, creating a massive domain barrier in the center of the enemy's chessboard.

The next second, Ye Fan heard a crisp sound of a headshot—

boom!

Even through the screen, you can feel the terrifying kinetic energy contained in that arrow.

The opponent's prized 2-star front-line fighter suffered a precipitous drop in health before Kindred, who possessed Trinity Force and Sniper's Focus. Kindred's health bar collapsed like a cliff, and she didn't even have time to activate her skills before turning to ashes and disappearing from the chessboard.

There was no fancy tug-of-war, and no suspense whatsoever.

Just three seconds later, when Ye Fan put down his water glass, a message popped up on the screen: "Victory, first place!"

"it's over."

Ye Fan leaned back in his gaming chair and let out a long sigh.

Seeing his health still hovering at a dangerous 55 points, Ye Fan's lips curled into a playful smile.

From the initial six-game losing streak and selling blood to the mid-game push to level 9 with only 55 health remaining, this game was less about luck and more about a complete gamble.

And now, he's won his gamble.

After the host announced the scores and the list of those who advanced, Ye Fan walked out of the venue.

As soon as he came out, he saw Wen Ruanyu standing there with a gentle smile, not saying a word, just staring at him.

Ye Fan greeted him with a smile.

But what he didn't know was that at the exit of another group of matches.

Xie Ruyan stood quietly in the twilight.

A pair of eyes were fixed on his back.