Chapter 454: No Martial Virtue

E flash AQ, after three hits of damage, Mystic only had a sliver of health left.

Ben was still trying his best to move around to help block the barrage of arrows, but it was useless; Sima Laozei rushed in and with a single basic attack took the kill.

【First Blood!】

「Killed him!! 」

「Sima Laozei took first blood from Mystic! 」

「Mom, Jiao Shen's gank this time was too extreme, he's dancing on the blade's edge! 」

「No! I think as a top-tier player, you need to have the confidence to rely on skill to crush opponents head-on! That's why he's the World's No. 1 Jungler! 」

The commentators shouted excitedly.

At the venue, the cheers of VG fans drowned out everything.

In the live stream, the barrage filled the screen:

【Jiao Shen is awesome!!!】

【So cool, no wonder it's Jiao Shen!】

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【Changzhang should still be backstage, not leaving yet? Watch closely, learn well!】

【Changzhang, stop watching, you can't learn it】

【Both are too extreme!】

【Mystic really tried his best; one can only say the Dao is one foot higher, the demon is one zhang higher—Jiao Shen's operation is indeed of a different tier.】

【Jiao Shen's Blue Steel Shadow indeed has a unique charm that no one else has; no matter how many times you watch the ranked highlights, seeing him pull off this operation in a match still gets you excited.】

【Only the name is wrong, never the nickname! That's why he's called Jiao Shen!】

In VG's internal channel, Xiao Duan was loudly sucking up, and the praises of 'awesome' never ceased.

And in front of the stage, in a dim corner of the audience seats, Ding Jun also couldn't help clenching his fists, lowering his voice to shout: "Nice!"

In Europe, at the Berlin G2 base, Perkz turned to the team's assistant coach Lao Zhang and said with a smile:

「Have you noticed that Liang Yan now prefers to play with more skill than before? 」

Lao Zhang smiled and said:

「No, it's just because he really likes the champion Blue Steel Shadow; he simply wants to show off his skill and get a few highlights for her, he doesn't do that with other champions. 」

「Is that so? 」

「Yes, I understand him; in fact, he still prefers to win through strategy. 」

「By the way, I've always been curious—what's his IQ? 」

「Then I don't know. 」

「Is it 108? 」

「I don't know either; maybe you can personally send him a WeChat message to ask? 」

……

During the highlight replay, the director pulled off a fancy move, splitting the screen to show the game footage of Blue Steel Shadow's E flash and flash kick stun on Mystic alongside Liang Yan's player cam.

Wawa saw Liang Yan's curled mouth corner and exclaimed:

「My goodness? Jiao Shen's expression looks like it was premeditated! 」

「It should be called anticipation. 」

「No, he calculated when the female officer would use her flash, that's premeditation! 」

「Well… but to be fair, many players might anticipate it but still couldn't pull it off, or it's hard to be that precise. So bottom line, Jiao Shen's operation is just too top-notch. 」

On the WE player bench, Mystic stared at the screen in front of him that had turned black and white for several seconds.

He had calculated everything.

But he couldn't have calculated that the opponent's operation would be so strong.

He even deliberately timed his flash to the absolute limit, yet he still got stunned by the enemy's flash kick!

Is the opponent really human?

If this were a ranked game, Mystic would definitely think that Blue Steel Shadow was using a script!

That's too exaggerated!

For a moment, the entire WE team's voice channel fell silent.

Condi, who had already arrived near the Magic Swamp Frog camp, couldn't say a word either.

One thing that must be admitted is that the brother-in-law's play this time had no flaw; he didn't even get a chance to retaliate, he started running the moment Blue Steel Shadow appeared.

According to past experience, in such a situation the AD would usually use a summoner spell and the opponent wouldn't chase further; there's an unspoken rule that if you flash, you don't die.

But the enemy jungler completely disregards martial virtue!

Can Blue Steel Shadow not clear the jungle?

He just ganked at level two!

Without burst damage he can't kill anyone?

He kills with pure skill!

Although Blue Steel Shadow didn't get the kill, the assist gold and experience from first blood were enough to make up for the time cost of this gank.

Moreover, after Blue Steel Shadow killed the enemy, he also helped push the lane a bit, scraping some lane experience, which would not negatively affect VG's duo lane, because this wave the brother-in-law couldn't get any of it anyway; after re-entering lane, VG's duo still had an experience advantage; however, for the struggling Blue Steel Shadow, the extra experience gained was like sweet rain after a drought, allowing him to reach level three directly after clearing his second jungle camp.

Thus, Blue Steel Shadow could be considered to have survived the toughest early levels.

This isn't even the worst part.

For Condi, the worst news is that he still can't invade the enemy jungle!

Because both sides' junglers are in the bottom half, putting aside the Xia Lu situation, Zhong Lu Xi Ye Orianna versus Marquis Syndra basically can't get lane priority; if Condi insists on invading, it's basically handing over meat to the opponent's mouth!

Thinking about how Green Steel Shadow's development would go smoothly from now on, Condi felt a bit uneasy.

Backstage, WE's lounge.

Sky half-reclined in the gaming chair before the screen, picked up his bag of chips again, crunching away, his eyes on the picture on the screen, but his face showed thought—clearly his mind wasn't on the real-time state of the valley.

Those sitting behind Sky remained silent. Although Sky was always easygoing with people, even setting aside his many accolades, he was after all the boss of WE.

After a long while, Sky suddenly spoke:

"I don't really understand League of Legends, but I think……"

Sky tossed the chip he'd been pinching for about half a minute into his mouth, freed his hand to grab the mouse, dragged the timeline back to about one minute of game time, then hit pause.

He used the mouse to circle the ward that Green Steel Shadow had placed in the Triangular Grass after it ran down Xia Lu at the start.

"I think from this ward onward, he's already begun setting up this play."

After saying that, Sky turned his gaze to the team's head coach, Homme,

"Coach Hongmi, what do you think?"

Homme is a bit nearsighted, and he has a habit of forcefully blinking, making it look like a facial spasm. At this moment his face twitched twice, he leaned in to closely examine the ward Sky had circled with the mouse.

After a few seconds of silence, Homme mentally went through every detail of Green Steel Shadow's gank play, then nodded:

"Yes, this is his design."

Receiving the coach's affirmation, Sky sighed, picked up the mouse to switch back to the live broadcast, sighed again, leaned back in his chair, and reached for another chip.

This person's scheming is too formidable.