Chapter 372: Great Skill, Bold Heart

After EDG took down the tower, they retreated like a tide, leaving behind dense wards along the way. Liang Yan scanned and revealed three fake eyes, and together with Xiao Duan they cleared wards while replenishing their own wards, all while pursuing forward.

"Next time, when you don't have flash, don't take such a narrow junction."

Liang Yan temporarily gave Ma Ge a replay, using signals to mark the correct path,

"Missing two or three minions doesn't matter; at this point, if someone dies they'll definitely lose the tower, which really affects the rhythm."

"Understood."

Ma Ge felt ashamed, his face turning red.

Liang Yan continued scouting ahead, seeing the half‑health Snake Girl retreating to base under the tower; he immediately burrowed and threw a projectile, but failed to interrupt her, and the Snake Girl vanished in the recall's tail light.

Liang Yan immediately placed a signal on the enemy's middle first tower:

"Marquis, come quickly, we'll counter‑push a wave, coming straight from the jungle."

Sima Laozei had already revived and returned to mid lane; Liang Yan left the minion wave for him to push, while he himself took Xiao Duan to run into the enemy jungle to meet up with the Ryze who had pushed the wave to under the enemy's second tower, then cut across the enemy jungle toward mid lane.

The three of them grouped together, wandering in EDG's jungle, stuck at the exit of the red side's three‑wolf camp, which put immense pressure on EDG's mid‑lane defenders.

"VG's counter‑attack was extremely swift; after Easyhoon pushed the lane, he came to mid and grouped with teammates! A single ice arrow revealed the three of them, they dared not hold, and retreated straight into the second tower to avoid being tower‑dived."

"The minion wave has arrived; Sima Laozei starts pushing the tower. Although he hasn't completed his build, with attack‑speed boots his tower‑damage speed is not slow."

"Scout couldn't clear the bottom lane minion wave, so he came straight to mid to help defend, while Bo Bi came down from top lane! VG played steadily, no hard push; after chipping away about half the turret's health they promptly withdrew."

"Actually, if we really wanted to push, we could take it down."

"Yes, but there's a chance we could be caught; VG opted for a steadier playstyle."

Liang Yan seized the chance to recall, bought two wards, and together with Xiao Duan quickly refreshed vision on both sides of mid lane before rushing back to farm the jungle.

The two duos in mid lane were trading blows; although Sima Laozei had the edge in combat power, Liang Yan had spread vision, but with no turret behind them they felt uneasy, so even if they could push the wave they dared not do so.

Furthermore, Easyhoon, who was laning bottom, also felt threatened; after the enemy secured their footing, he dared not bring the wave across the river for fear of being caught.

This is the disadvantage of losing the middle first tower; before they could take down the enemy's middle first tower, VG, which had been on the offensive, was forced to switch to a defensive stance.

The second dragon was about to spawn, so EDG started looking for chances to invade VG's bottom half for vision; Ai Luoli and Meiko stuck together like conjoined twins, always moving as a pair, while Scout would head toward them right after pushing his lane.

Once their ultimates and summoner spells were mostly ready, the trio grew ever bolder; Ai Luoli even snatched an F6 right in front of Liang Yan, and as she left she pinged a marker.

Xiao Duan grew angry and shouted:

"Damn, this person is so pretentious!"

"Don't mind him."

Liang Yan remained calm, carefully spreading his vision while timing the Snake Girl's flash in his mind, his peripheral vision never leaving the minimap.

At one moment, Liang Yan suddenly spoke:

"They want to push bottom; Ma Ge and Xiao Duan, come quickly."

"Marquis, fall back a bit."

The bottom lane minion wave entered the tower.

The ward in the Triangular Grass was cleared by EDG.

Ai Luoli, accompanied by Scout and Zet, moved up to start damaging the tower.

Marquis fell back.

Liang Yan stood in the grass between the broken walls; upon seeing Bard appear, he left the grass and stepped in front of Marquis, eager to try.

The duo had already arrived at the jungle exit in front of the second tower.

Liang Yan continued to command:

"Marquis, stay a bit closer to give me vision, but watch out for Bard's ultimate."

"Don't go up; I'll fake it."

"Bo Bi, if Fu Lan Duo doesn't come down, you take the tower."

As his words fell, Bard hid in the grass by the broken wall and unleashed his ultimate; a golden light crashed down onto the heads of the two VG players in the mid jungle.

The mechanic of Chronobreak is that the farther Bard is from the skill's cast point, the longer the delay; the closer, the shorter.

At that moment, the distance between Meiko and Liang Yan was just over a thousand yards, so the golden light arrived almost instantly, landing in only a few hundredths of a second.

Marquis heeded Liang Yan's warning, was already prepared, and simply walked out.

Moreover, Meiko mainly wanted to engage Rek'Sai, who has engage potential; thus the ultimate was centered on Rek'Sai, the real purpose being to force out Rek'Sai's W ability Burrow. As long as Rek'Sai loses his displacement tool, his threat drops greatly, allowing EDG to take the tower easily.

But Liang Yan did not dodge.

Clang!

The golden light struck, turning the burrowing Rek'Sai into a golden statue!

With a wow, the crowd erupted in exclamation.

He remembered to shout loudly:

"Jiao Shen got hit! What the hell! Didn't he react? He has flash and W—how could he just take that ability head‑on!"

"Fortunately Marquis reacted and walked out!"

"However, Jiao Shen still has two displacement abilities; what do you say, EDG—should we try to press the advantage!"

"It seems not a good idea; EDG lacks reliable hard crowd control, any follow‑up could be dodged with flash, and besides Tam is already here—we probably can't kill him!"

"EDG hasn't used any skills; Ai Luoli's Heavenly Sound Wave follow‑up didn't hit Jiao Shen's burrow toward Meiko—instead it would hit you! Meiko quickly opened a tunnel and ran through the wall!"

"Ah?!"

"Jiao Shen actually chased after them alone—what audacity! Sure enough, Meiko turned around and stunned Jiao Shen comfortably!"

"Zet promptly followed up with an arrow!"

"A Guang used his TP!"

"But the teammates are all busy taking down the tower, too far to keep up the damage!"

"Ai Luoli lacks her Q ability, so she can't close in quickly and can't use her spinning kick to knock him back!"

Han Bing walked over and auto-attacked twice!

Scout fired two Twin Fang shots and then there was no further word!

Jiao Shen directly dug a hole and slipped into the river channel!

This Rek'Sai is so slippery, Jiao Shen truly has high skill and big courage!

Moreover, the other VG members stayed far away, having no intention to go up, and Sheng Qiang Ge didn't use TP either, but stayed in the top lane to push the tower!

Wait! Marquis even drove to the river channel to meet up with Jiao Shen!

What the heck, VG!

Destroy the mid lane tower! They want to destroy both of EDG's towers in a row!

Wow, VG! Are you that greedy?

But it seems actually possible: VG's bottom lane has Weilusi who can use a fully charged Q to clear waves from long range, EDG can't push VG's two towers, at most they can push one tower; if EDG really wants to strongly push, Jian Ji can also teleport down to defend!

Yes, and EDG's mid and top lanes have no one defending!