Chapter 575: A Chill Down the Back
Xiao Duan saw Deft trying to flee, decisively flashed forward and threw a Winter's Bite.
Deft instinctively followed and flashed.
Mata continued to push forward.
Sima Laozei chased from behind.
Needless to say, Mata's Tam is highly skilled and understands the hero deeply; just seen, after he'd just gone around Bu Long's side, he suddenly lunged forward, a pink tongue shooting out like lightning, finally smacking Big Mouth with a pa sound.
Sima Laozei saw himself slowed and Tam's tongue licking up, anger flared, he flashed and chased, heedless, determined to kill Deft.
Sima Laozei's action left Liang Yan stunned, but it's already happened, he also didn't say anything, stepped forward, EQ combo stabbed at Deft who had no flash left.
Deft unsurprisingly got knocked up, voice trembling, he shouted:
"Can't escape!"
Mata silent for a second:
"Fight! AD has no flash!"
Both gave up fleeing, went all-in counterattack.
Mata chased up, licked Sima Laozei once, his passive fully stacked, then with an aowu bite swallowed him, chewed and spat out, Big Mouth already low on health.
Sima Laozei then realized he shouldn't have used that flash, used heal and turned to run, but Tam's tongue hit him again, movement speed greatly reduced.
"Can't escape, let's see if we can take a head."
Liang Yan hit Deft to low health then stopped, shifted fire and together with Xiao Duan attacked Tam who was fiercely licking Sima Laozei, each landing a basic attack that stunned Mata.
Sima Laozei silently turned back, a basic attack took Deft's head, then he himself was licked to death by Tam flashing in.
Big Mouth feigned death after dying, turned into an exploding zombie, shaking head and swaying, bouncing around Tam who was being besieged by Prince Bu Long, finally a boom—
【DoubleKill!】
Big Mouth's corpse exploded, just emptying Tam's remaining HP.
Sima Laozei got a double kill, but apologized on mic:
"My fault, shouldn't have flashed, I was impulsive."
Liang Yan didn't comfort him as usual saying it's fine, thought and said:
"Still need to pay attention, don't be too impulsive."
"Okay."
Ma Ge is good in this respect: fierce, few words, knows mistakes and can correct.
In the LPL livestream, Guan Zeyuan finished commenting on the teamfight, hesitated then couldn't help saying:
"Three versus two yet got counter-killed one, a bit off, Ma Ge was impulsive."
Changzhang however understood Sima Laozei:
"From the start we've been pressured, it's natural to have some fire, and Ma Ge is originally that reckless AD type, actually this season he's already calmed down a lot."
"Ah don't say, I've noticed indeed, this season Ma Ge hardly ever shows up in a blowout, before it was every few days."
"Hmm, maybe before in OMG no one could suppress him."
"Now I understand, I get it."
……
In KT's internal voice channel, silence lasted a few seconds.
The duo were soaking in Quan Shui.
Deft's screen was still black and white, his hands on the keyboard, no input, he watched the enemy Prince wildly clearing the Xia Lu minion wave, a question stuck in his throat, making him feel awful.
The Prince didn't fully push the Xia Lu minion wave; to reset the clash point of the next wave, he waited two seconds until all blue minions were killed by red minions, then thoroughly cleared the wave.
Watching the Prince disappear from vision, Deft finally couldn't help asking that question:
"How did he get around?"
No one answered.
Everyone was a bit distracted, actually also thinking about this question.
Although Mata was the first to see the Prince, he also didn't know how the Prince managed to bypass the near-flawless vision barrier and appear behind him and Deft.
Although this 2-for-1 trade seemed not to have a big impact on the economy, its effect on KT's members' mentality was extremely severe and profound.
Back online, Deft no longer dared to push the lane lightly—although lane control was actually not theirs anymore—because he constantly felt a chill down his spine, as if a cold draft blew from behind him, and as if constantly stared at by a terrifying gaze.
KT others' psychological shadow not as severe as the Xia Lu duo, but also felt uneasy; no matter what decision they made, unless they clearly saw the Prince's position, they couldn't help but unconsciously think:
Where is he?
The Prince is like a lingering ghost, haunting KT members' hearts, leaving a heavy shadow—this feeling Xiao Huasheng understands all too well.
KT team's condition became off; only Pawn remained relatively calm, but seeing teammates low morale, his mentality also inevitably became a bit restless, leading to the more anxious he got, the more likely things went wrong……
After Pawn left base again, he reached level 6 and unleashed his ultimate, his combat power underwent a qualitative leap; seeing Easyhoon still daring to aggressively push lane, Pawn naturally displeased, after landing a charm, he directly ulted and charged forward.
But he didn't expect the Prince hiding in his rear F6 bush, an EQ stab came out, perfectly timing after finishing a segment of his big spell, Pawn was directly knocked up; then Easyhoon flashed to follow Pawn's second stage big move, perfectly triggering the dog chain second stage immobilize, the Prince followed up with a smack, Easyhoon's basic attack then came, just taking Pawn's head.
"What the hell! Is Pawn sleepwalking? He didn't even flash!"
"Feels kinda like sleepwalking."
"Maybe he didn't think he'd die, after all he still had two ults..."
"Changzhang no need to wash, he's no longer EDG's mid laner; I'd say this game he's just gone crazy, severely underestimated the enemy mid/jungle damage!"
"Indeed too inappropriate, this is mid laner Karma, one RQ plus two-stage explosion damage, one ability can blast half his health bar, plus the Prince also has execute, burst is really high."
"Zhong Lu got blown apart, over six minutes behind by nearly twenty CS, too exaggerated."
Now, all five KT positions have died once, and besides Mata's Tam, the other four are all 0-1.
Leading by four kills while the team trailed by nearly fifty CS, instantly broke KT's self-set economic moat; originally they required that within fifteen minutes, the deficit not exceed two thousand gold, but it was exceeded in under ten minutes.
On the LCK commentary stage, the classic scene LPL netizens love to see appeared, the Rage Emperor started shouting for pizza.
End of Chapter
