You actually want me to...

Settled: Chapter Nine: This step leads to the abyss of unrequited love.

"Holy crap, you just sold me out like that?"

"Nonsense, why wait to die if you don't sell? What kind of person are you? The fattest player on the field, yet you casually use a survival skill just to get a kill, dragging the team down. We cultivators are ashamed to be associated with you."

"Please, have some humanity!"

When pursuing someone, everyone is friendly and amicable, but once something goes wrong, they immediately turn their backs on you. What kind of winery employee is that?

But there was nothing they could do.

Confined to his spot, he couldn't escape. On the surface, this was a swap of carries between the two sides, but in reality, the best-farmed Jayce not only took down JKL, a bounty hunter, but also thwarted TES's snowballing offensive.

Despite the advantage, the opponent still gained that extra minute or so of development time.

Roland had no choice but to continue using the "fish-catching missile" to chip away at the damage. Due to his overall advantage, his economy was quite good this game, and he had already completed the Lost Chapter early on. The Q skill was a little painful, and now he was only a few minutes away from getting his own Mythic item.

[Those two sluts, they've gone off the rails again, just like before.]

[That's right, if I had such a big advantage, I would have gone for it too. Ah Shui is just suffering from a common problem that all low-ranked players have.]

[What a pity Jayce got such a big kill. Wait, if Jayce is here, what about Graves?]

[While you were discussing Jayce, the player had already cleared the outer tower.]

Graves, huh?

The playstyle emphasizes individualism. Da Huang knew that the enemy top laner was missing, and he signaled for help, but the bottom lane duo still chose to charge in, so there was nothing he could do. Fortunately, the top lane was undefended, so he pushed down the enemy's outer top tower by himself and went back to farm equipment.

Everyone knows exactly what's going on.

If we don't give these two waves a taste of their own medicine, we can't be sure what the next incident will be like. It could be the Dragon Soul Gang or the Great Dragon Gang, both of which are very dangerous times.

But things are different now.

Dying is just a kill, and it doesn't have as much impact on the overall situation as you might imagine. In fact, this death might even trigger your own support player to adopt a "fear of insufficient firepower" stance.

What is the "fear of insufficient firepower" posture?

It's similar to self-defense techniques:

When others are empty-handed, you have a knife.

When others have knives, you have guns.

When others have guns, you have explosives.

When others have explosives, you have missiles.

Don't panic when others have missiles; just have nuclear weapons.

In the context of a match, it means always having more players, more skills, or more vision than the opponent. In any case, you must ensure that you don't die even once, so that you can get a high KDA and collect your prize money from White Crescent.

When KDA involves money, this guy is willing to do anything regardless of the cost.

And indeed, in the next few minutes, TES suddenly adopted an impenetrable operational stance. Although JKL wanted to play recklessly, he simply couldn't muster the courage to resist Roland's prize-guarantee strategy. I was afraid that if he got upset, he might flip the bed over in his sleep tonight, and then we'd all have to play along.

Fortunately, Roland wasn't that ruthless.

After gaining a certain advantage, he keenly realized that he had to fight team fights or take Baron Nashor to turn the advantage into a victory. As we all know, taking Baron Nashor with an advantage is tantamount to giving the opponent a chance to turn the tide. So all they can do is force a team fight.

"Let's force them with the Dragon Soul Squad. They'll definitely engage this dragon. Let's go over there first."

"I'll pull the line a bit, there's a TP (Transfer Tool)."

"I'll go get a red one."

"Then I'll get my eyes checked. Ha Huang is ready to support me at any time."

Seeing that everyone was busy and couldn't go over immediately, and thinking that as long as they didn't go too deep into the river, there shouldn't be any immediate danger, Roland started exploring the riverbed while working on his river-related tasks.

As luck would have it, at that very moment, T1's Dafei happened to use a Seer's Fruit in the jungle. The vision swept across the area, and the information that Yuumi was alone providing vision was immediately grasped by the T1 team. Seeing this, Dafei didn't even hesitate before activating his ultimate. After confirming that the enemy teammate was still some distance away from Yuumi and that his Yellow Card would arrive first, the Twisted Fate with his Zhonya's Hourglass decisively chose to use his ultimate.

"Here! I've caught one who was alone!"

With the Dragon Soul imminent, the remaining four members of T1's army were already not far away. At Dafei's call, the two of them rushed to the location of Yuumi. The card that landed first threw out a yellow card, which, while controlling the generation, also meant that Yuumi could no longer use the W skill to enter the body of teammates to avoid damage for a short period of time.

He seized the opportunity!

However, on the other side, in TES's team voice chat, as the other four members of T1 kept rushing towards the enemy heroes at the entrance of the blue side's jungle, Roland, contrary to his usual behavior, shouted loudly in the team voice chat!

"Quick, quick! Come quick, I've caught four lone ones!"

"what?"

"Hurry up, there's no time to explain!"

As the yellow card control time ended, just as the T1 main force was about to rush in front of Yuumi, Yuumi successfully used her ultimate [Dynamic Wave] towards the enemy's main force. Then, just as Xin Zhao charged forward with WE and Leona was about to use her E, "Whoosh~", with a crisp sound, a blue cold current suddenly surged out, instantly freezing Xin Zhao and Leona, who were at the forefront, in place.

[Imprisoned!]

What the hell?

Oner and Keria were both shocked. "Isn't the cat's root supposed to trigger after absorbing three waves of light? What's going on with this root?" And the damage from the Twisted Fate's WQ + Xin Zhao's WE combo doesn't seem to be working correctly.

Let's take a closer look at the details.

Holy crap?

Eternal Frost!?

When viewers around the world saw this cat activate Eternal Frostbite and its ultimate, unleashing a terrifying 3.25 seconds of crowd control over 1.5 + 1.75 seconds, no one could remain rational, including the LPL viewers who had laughed at him the moment he first saw him build this item from a god's-eye view.

[Holy crap!? This thing can be used like this?!]

[Top-tier understanding.]

I understand the logic, but how come he can even play a cat and still act like he's doing a team support buff?

[Zhao Xin and the woman were both dumbfounded. The cat was right in front of them, yet they couldn't break through that barrier. Perhaps this was the unrequited love of fortune and the ethics of the world.]

Two seconds.

Let alone the professional players of TES, even if you sent someone in Silver rank, they would have arrived on the battlefield by now.

Despite their best efforts, TES couldn't save Roland's Yuumi from T1, but thanks to Roland's Yuumi, they easily pulled off a 1-for-4 feat, securing the Dragon Soul and even taking down Baron Nashor.

With this, T1's game came to an end.

Staring blankly at the highland crystal that had turned into ashes before them, the five members of T1 lowered their heads in the same pose, deep in thought.

This cat... how did it end up with an Eternal Frost?

Final Chapter: Chapter 10: You didn't expect this, did you? This is my usual way of creating chaos!

That night, the hero microphone used by TES during their match against T1 was leaked, and the debate between Roland and JKL about the Mythic item Gale Force quickly became a hot topic on various LOL esports forums. In particular, Roland's response to the commentators' questions about the item Gale Force during his post-match interview was particularly noteworthy. Roland said, "Since he has already built Gale Force, then the Yuumi he is playing should actually be classified as a tank support."

These two events combined made his reputation as a genius once again known to the League of Legends community.

One can only say that eagles soar in the sky, fish swim in shallow waters, and all creatures compete freely under the frosty sky. The small LPL region did indeed hinder his performance somewhat before.

"In a sense, you can be considered someone who is good at support roles."

Looking at the discussions and posts on various esports forums, White Crescent couldn't tell whether other teams thought they knew how to play Yuumi or not. Even from a third-party perspective, Roland's Yuumi seemed to only call for help and jump in to taunt and initiate team fights, without showing the agility and finesse that Yuumi should have as a support.

"Who cares? If they dare to let it go, I dare to take it."

Roland is quite confident in his cat, but the only pity is that as a support, the cat has too little interaction with other lanes compared to other supports. Like yesterday, Dafei could only use his ultimate to find him, but he couldn't take the initiative to go to the mid lane to annoy Dafei, which was quite frustrating.

If you let him play as a crow, he might even dare to use his W skill only on the mid lane minions, just to break the opponent's defenses.

"You... never mind, let's learn about today's opponent instead."

After thinking it over, White Crescent decided to give up. Anyway, Ah Shui didn't say anything, which meant that this guy's cat was actually okay, just with a rather strange style. As long as it could be released, that was fine. The focus was on the new opponent - DFM.

This is a team from the Japanese LJL region, and as mentioned before, they are the team that can trigger the "blood feud" mode in LOL. In today's context, DFM should be participating in the S-series for the third time, and each time they have achieved better results.

The DFM contestants truly embodied classic Japanese romance.

[DFM丶EVI: "What was the most glorious moment of your League of Legends career?"]

[The most glorious moment of my career is right now! Leading the team to the play-in stage!]

This year, DFM miraculously advanced to the top 16 as the group winner, surpassing C9. Then they were immediately drawn into TES and T1. When the LJL commentators saw this group, they were so excited that they almost fainted on the spot.

Originally, the player who played the support role could have been the Prophet, but considering that the points were not yet fully secured and Roland was also very interested in playing against DFM, he was still the support player on the second day.

Top laner EVI, the cornerstone of DFM, a veteran player, is known for his masterful Urgot play, earning him the title of "Old Xu's Specialty".

Then there's AD carry Yutapon, one of the cornerstones of DFM. What's special is that he's a player who switched from top lane to AD carry and immediately became the best AD carry in LJL. I feel it's worth showing this to TheShy, maybe the region will have another strong AD carry?

The reason for directly mentioning the top laner and AD carry is because the other three players in DFM are Korean imports, and "True Ruler Emperor" is a substitute.

If the top laner is the one with the "measuring stick" (a reference to a Chinese idiom), then the Korean players are Steal (jungle) and Gaeng (support). One is the key player who defeated C9, and the other is the core weapon for the team to initiate team fights. However, if the main Korean mid laner Aria is replaced, Gaeng in the support position will have to be benched, because although a team can have three Korean players, it cannot have all three Korean players on the field at the same time.

It's fair to say they're a rather contradictory team.

From the perspective of DFM's career, they are undoubtedly a very inspiring team, filled with the passion of Japanese anime protagonists. But this is a competition. When DFM faces teams from other regions, LPL viewers can still watch and have some fun. But once they return to their own region's teams, they only have one goal for the competition - victory.

It's not a matter of right or wrong, just a difference in perspective.

【Here it comes!】

[The biggest challenge for TES is here today. Win and nothing happens, lose and you're blown up on the spot. Isn't this more exciting than playing against T1?]

Where did the measuring rod go?

[Stop spouting nonsense, like a prophet sitting by the water cooler, making pronouncements about eternity.]

LPL viewers are very interested in today's match, especially based on past experience. When facing teams from wildcard regions, Banhuang often pulls some tricks for them. When the skill gap between the two teams is too large, the team's focus will naturally shift towards entertainment.

First round of bans:

TES: Urgot, LeBlanc, Irelia

DFM: Kitty, Lucas, Graves

DFM dares not compare to 100T. They are now in the position of tragic protagonists in a Japanese drama. No matter who they play, they must go all out. Winning or losing is secondary. They must show this attitude. So, whether it is Luna or Yuumi, the red side must bite the bullet and take on the challenge. They even have to take care of the versatile Graves in the top lane. It's simple... because their top laner is not good at it.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Graves' skill mechanics seem simple; to play him well, you really need to play a lot of games to master him.

One round of PICK:

TES: Lee Sin, Galio, Camille