Chapter 535: Unleash Unrivaled

The match finally settled at just over twenty-four minutes.

This was the last match of the first day's schedule in the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational main event, and also the shortest of the six matches played that day.

At the moment the TSM base crystal exploded, the crowd again erupted in a unified cult-like chant, but this time, people gave the entire team due respect:

"VG!!!"

"VG!!!"

"VG!!!"

Gangzi took off his headset; beside him roared deafening cheers, before him on the settlement screen was a splendid 14-2-7 score. Gangzi drew a deep breath, turned his head to look at his own support, his face still bearing a hint of disbelief.

"Feeling good?"

Xiao Duan asked with a grin.

"Good..."

Gangzi murmured, then suddenly broke into a grin, revealing an extraordinarily brilliant smile,

"Damn, that feels awesome! It's better than playing a hundred ranked games!!"

Xiao Duan froze for a moment, then exclaimed "Holy shit!", raised his thumb and praised:

"Awesome, Fanzi Ge, your awareness—Xiao Duan I can't even catch up to your dust!"

For Xiao Duan, playing ranked isn't fun; it's a torment…

……

LPL livestream room.

"Congratulations to VG for winning another match, which also means VG has earned two points on the first match day of this MSI, the qualification outlook…"

"Tsk!"

Wawa hadn't finished speaking when Guan Zeyuan cut him off,

"I think with our strength, we don't even need to talk about qualifying—qualifying is certain; now I only have one question: Can VG actually qualify with a perfect record!"

"Oh? You can see that, Professor Zeyuan, you're full of confidence in VG!"

"That's a must."

Miller, smiling broadly, took over the conversation,

"I think qualifying with a perfect record might be a bit tough, after all this is an international tournament, not our LPL, but fighting for first place in the group to qualify is definitely doable!"

"Right. Then we should also say to the summoner friends watching the screen: after this match ends, today's MSI schedule is also over, but don't go anywhere yet—there's more exciting post-match interview coming up. So before the interview begins…"

Wawa glanced left and right at the two commentators,

"I'd like to ask the two teachers to evaluate this match that just ended—where do you think VG played best just now?"

Miller chuckled:

"Actually there's not much to review; the strength gap was too huge, so this match from start to finish can be summed up in three words—a crushing victory!"

Guan Zeyuan hehed and said:

"Never mind other things, I think today VG's two matches, our Shuijing Ge, is absolutely the biggest winner, winning so hard it's numb!"

"How so?"

"Just now I secretly glanced at the tieba, and one poster said it particularly well: 'Some people thought they came to MSI to broaden their horizons, little did they know they came to sweep the board!'"

"Oh! Wonderful!"

"Hey? It doesn't hurt, this description is too fitting!"

Livestream chat:

【Awesome, it's still the old anti-brother who's talented!】

【There's actually no book by the anti-brother in the bookstore, I smashed the bookstore, brothers, did I do right?】

【In this final match today, Shuijing Ge really had a blast!】

【This can be said to be Kryst4l's battle to wash away his stigma—before, his little cannon was described as one fish four kills, but from today on I'll also remember his 1v2 annihilation of TSM!】

【Shuijing Ge's MSI debut this wave I give full marks!】

And in the NA livestream room, the NA region audience also turned on self-mockery mode:

【Tell a joke, WildTurtle said before the match he'd teach Kryst4l how to be a person, but ended up getting 1v2 double killed】

【WildTurtle come out and get beaten!】

【You call this VG's weakness? Then just how terrifying is their ceiling!】

……

After finishing their second match, the G2 group returned to the hotel and watched the broadcast of VG's this match in the hotel's training room.

On the wall of the training room hung a fifty-plus-inch LCD screen, the live broadcast image frozen on the settlement panel after VG defeated TSM.

14-1-5 of the little cannon,

5-1-11 of Vi,

The team's kill ratio was 24:4,

A complete slaughter from start to finish.

After the match ended, the training room fell silent for a moment.

Perkz was the first to break the silence. He put the popcorn bucket on the coffee table, then rested his hands behind his head and leaned back on the sofa, imitating the LPL commentator's tone in a low murmur:

"Congratulations VG... again swiftly and cleanly dealt with the opponent..."

Zven, hearing that, teased:

"If you don't go apply to be a Chinese commentator, you're quite the spitting image."

Perkz ignored him, turned his head to look at Tang Anna, who was thinking about something,

"Won't you say something, coach?"

A subtle quiet arose again in the room, and an unspoken sense of pressure quietly spread through everyone's hearts.

Tang Anna stood up with her notebook, walked to the wall, pulled over the movable tactical whiteboard, grabbed a handful of colorful magnetic pins from the small box, and her calm gaze swept over everyone:

"Sit down, let's start the meeting."

When everyone's attention had shifted to her, Tang Anna stood before the whiteboard that had a Summoner's Rift map posted on it, and said:

"You all know the schedule, right? We have two matches tomorrow."

"My demand hasn't changed; we must win both."

"Well, one of our opponents is VG."

Tang Anna looked at everyone, paused, feeling their solemnity, and finally revealed a faint smile. She nodded, then turned and stuck a blue pin onto the holy spring located at the lower left corner of the Summoner's Rift map, and at the same time said:

"Tomorrow we are blue side, we get first ban and pick; on the surface it looks advantageous for us, but we all know Liang Qiji excels at setting traps on the red side."

"Even if we don't fall for it, he will surely use the red side's counter advantage to neutralize our overall advantage in BP."

"So don't think we can gain an advantage over VG from BP; to win, we must honestly triumph through our lineup and actual gameplay in this match."

"Based on VG's performance in each lane in today's two matches, let's first determine a few possible lineups we might use tomorrow."

"Lu Ka, you go first."

Perkz sat up straight on the sofa, his eyes on the Summoner's Rift map on the tactical board, thought for a moment, then lifted his gaze to look at Tang Anna:

"First I want to emphasize one point: mid lane lane control. Mid lane must have lane control no matter what; otherwise the jungle will definitely not be held, and we will surely lose…"

The meaning behind the words is that relying solely on oneself, the jungler definitely cannot hold the jungle, but Jankos, sitting in the back, showed no displeasure at all; instead, he smiled.

The more one understands last year's G2, the clearer it becomes how terrifying that guy is.