Chapter 561

Score arrived at the top lane, without a word went in and unleashed a combo.

This wave was the second wave Smeb picked up after returning to lane; the rear minions had already been slightly damaged by Smeb, Score cast one Q and the three rear minions were instantly cleared.

"……"

Smeb restrained the urge to question, silently took the remaining three front minions and then retreated.

Score, who had lost half a wave's gold and an entire wave's experience, also left the top lane without looking back.

The two waves together exceed ten minions; a level‑5 Braum cannot possibly tank that much focused fire to hold the wave, so the wave pushing into the tower is certain, allowing Smeb to retreat safely. The next wave is a cannon wave, which will very likely get stuck in front of Braum's tower, bunching the red side minions into a focused‑fire formation; then Smeb only needs to wait for the wave to push back, and even if he stays off‑lane for a minute, at most he loses the experience of three minions—something the already‑collapsed Braum can easily accept.

So Smeb took the opportunity to go back to base, then returned to lane at a leisurely pace.

VG side, Liang Yan, who was about to head out, had planned to give Braum a boot‑camp combo, but seeing the situation he knew there'd be no chance soon, so he turned to his own lower jungle, collected the two monster groups that had respawned after being taken by the male gunner, also grabbed a river crab, then glanced at mid lane—Easyhoon was already somewhat worn out—so he came to mid lane and pushed a wave to let Easyhoon recall.

At this point the game time was around seven and a half minutes; our side's second blue buff, which had been taken by the male gunner, would respawn in about half a minute; Easyhoon conveniently went back to base, then after heading out again picked up a wave and took the blue buff.

Meanwhile, facing a Syndra who had already reached level six and would not be lacking mana for the next few minutes, Jayce's prospects began to look good.

But Liang Yan's plans went beyond that.

A mantis that opened with two kills, if it does nothing for several minutes, is practically begging for divine retribution.

So after Easyhoon returned to lane, Liang Yan also went to mid lane, again helped Easyhoon quickly push a wave, then in front of Pawn took Syndra away and headed straight for the blue side's upper jungle.

Pawn felt a sudden tension and quickly signaled Score, who had just finished clearing the three wolves and was about to take his own side's newly respawned second blue buff.

Score switched his view over and took a glance, couldn't help but curse "fuck", immediately turned direction and walked down the small path, planning to place a ward at the end of the river wall on the left side of mid lane to observe the enemy's detailed movements.

Pawn reminded him to be careful, after clearing the lane he also came over, and after the two met up they approached that grass patch, planning to first use a skill to scout the vision before going up to place a ward.

As a result, at that very moment a ball suddenly flew out of the grass.

「Wow! The fat general's reaction was a bit exaggerated, he used Flash to dodge the Marquis's Scatter the Weak ambush! But Score didn't react in time and was knocked up on the spot! Jiao Shen leapt up and cooperated with Syndra's Energy Burst to instantly kill Score! 」

「The fat general also decisively knew he couldn't Flash and probably couldn't run, so he chose to counterattack! After landing a point-blank Accelerated Cannon shot, he switched to hammer and began smashing wildly! Bang bang a few hammer strikes later the Marquis's health was about to bottom out, so he quickly flashed! 」

「But the fat general still had a skill in hand! Sky Vault leapt up, basic attack followed by a Thunder Strike, instantly emptying Syndra's remaining health! 」

「The moment the Marquis hit the ground, Jiao Shen pounced up and snatched Pawn's kill with a claw! 」

「One for two! VG still came out ahead! 」

「Jiao Shen took another kill, this mantis is getting absurdly fat! 」

「Moreover, those two remaining monster camps can also be taken; although Smeb wanted to come over to help defend, Sheng Qiang Ge's wine barrel also arrived, so if Smeb dared to come over and cause trouble, it would be like delivering meat straight to our mouths! 」

「Smeb definitely wouldn't dare come; whether we can still eat this wave of minions is the question. 」

「Ah… that really is a huge wave of minions. 」

「Lan Bo unleashed his ultimate, directly clearing the wave with his ult! 」

「Alright, then there's no point. 」

Liang Yan seeing that also gave up the idea of following up with a wave on Lan Bo, instead he took KT's blue buff and Magic Swamp Frog, then returned to base.

Score couldn't swallow that frustration, after respawning he headed straight down lane again, threw a skill at the minion wave and took Jinx away, then aggressively charged into VG's blue buff jungle.

In mid lane, Pawn didn't even want the minion wave, he just came over to protect Score.

Deft cleared the minion wave in a few moves, then also ran toward the river.

Liang Yan entered the jungle from the lower high ground gap, placed a ward through the wall into the blue buff camp grass, and happened to see the male gunner use a wall-burst Q to pull away the blue buff.

Liang Yan glanced at the bottom lane duo's position and instantly made a decision.

「No need to come. 」

Before his words even fell, Liang Yan directly activated the mantis's ultimate, entered stealth into the grass, and struck the blue buff's butt—being lured by the male gunner toward the river—with a Void Spike, then followed up with AQ and Smite, instantly securing the blue buff.

The cooked duck flew away, Score was furious, relying on his team's numerical advantage, he directly quick-drew his gun and slid toward the mantis.

Liang Yan ignored him, pressed S in place to twitch a bit, then jumped away.

「……」

Score was so angry his lungs felt like they'd explode, but he had nowhere to vent, because losing the Smite fight was his own problem, unrelated to his teammates.

So he could only slam the mouse a bit to vent a little of his anger.

「Leaving. 」

Pawn pinged the mid lane minion wave that was about to enter the tower, indicating he needed to go back to clear the lane.

At the same time, VG's duo had also cleared the minion wave under the tower, turned aside and entered the jungle, and Syndra's figure had already disappeared from mid lane.

If they continued to linger, KT, having lost their numerical advantage, would surely suffer a major setback.

Score was extremely unwilling, not even getting a Magic Swamp Frog, why did I even come here?

But his teammates had already turned and headed back to lane without looking back; although Score was very angry, he hadn't completely lost his reason, so he could only follow them out of VG's jungle.

However, Score's performance this wave wasn't completely useless; at least he prevented Syndra from getting the blue buff, which will make Pawn's lane much easier.

Unexpectedly, this actually harmed Pawn.

Both sides returned to mid lane and picked up another two waves; Pawn was still in good shape and wanted to take one more wave before heading back, but unexpectedly, when the minions started fighting, Syndra was nowhere to be seen.

Pawn thought for a moment, feeling Syndra should have gone back to base to replenish her blue, so he casually threw out a Miss ping, placed a Speed Gate and fired a shot, then switched to hammer and jumped up, planning to expend all his abilities to quickly clear the minion wave and return home.

But he didn't expect that, at the moment he jumped up, a Weakness Ambush came flying from behind the red side's F6 camp, through the wall from the small path's shadow.

At the same time, the mantis jumped out from the small path connecting the red side's lower jungle.