Chapter 845: The Honest Person Goes Berserk

Westdoor revived and stepped out, like a frightened little kitten, trembling, cautiously returning to lane.

A clean and neat solo kill made Westdoor fully awake. He realized his stereotype of Easyhoon was completely wrong. Easyhoon is indeed a kind and honest person, but absolutely not a meek and weak player!

Fist ranked him fifth in the Top 20, which is very reasonable!

And he himself was probably an old fool who couldn't even make it into the Top 50.

Westdoor completely straightened his mindset, closely watching Lu Xi An's every move; each time he stepped forward to last-hit, it felt like walking on thin ice.

The mid lane advantage had already been completely seized by Easyhoon.

One could even say that, without jungle interference, Easyhoon was invincible in mid lane—whether he mounted Westdoor's face for a burst shot or pressed Westdoor under his crazily output, Westdoor could only submit.

The good news is that Ziv's Galio also reached level six, a Galio who had taken the ultimate Hero Entrance, possessing semi-global support ability, able to provide some help to mid lane.

After another minute, Mountain's Prince also reached level six.

The LCK commentators wanted to see some excitement; seeing the white light of leveling up on the Prince, their tone became excited: "AHQ's top, mid, and jungle finally all have their ultimates—let's see if AHQ can regain the initiative on the battlefield!"

Although it wasn't the Galio composition they had practiced many times, it was still a system centered on Galio, and some tactics were actually shared.

As time approached nine minutes, AHQ's support sneaked into VG's blue buff jungle, placing a fake ward behind VG's duo. Then Galio teleported down, coordinating with the jungle Prince and the duo to execute a 4v2, successfully tower-diving and killing Xiao Duan's Karma.

"Damn, this Galio is so sneaky!"

Xiao Duan complained glumly in VG's team channel.

No one replied to him, because the fight was still ongoing.

At the same time the Prince made a move in the bottom lane, Liang Yan once again acted against Westdoor.

Easyhoon had already picked up his first complete item, Blade of the Ruined King; Liang Yan landed steady control, and Easyhoon unleashed damage without pressure—in under two seconds, the two easily completed a third tower dive kill on Westdoor.

"Rampage!"

Lu Xi An went 4-0, and the cold system announcement echoed in the Wu Han Sports Centre.

"The Marquis's damage is too exaggerated!" Su Xiao Yan slightly covered her lips, eyes wide in surprise.

"But this wave..." Miller stroked his chin, looking at the screen switched to the bottom lane view on the big screen: "VG doesn't seem to be gaining anything—kills are one-for-one, AHQ's top lane has no one clearing minions, yet VG's bottom lane likewise can't farm, and then AHQ jointly pushes down VG's bottom tower, while VG pushes mid together with their jungle."

"It's just a matter of who can grab the first blood tower."

The big screen split in two, both sides going all out to destroy towers.

But a few seconds later, AHQ voluntarily stopped the tower‑destroying contest; Galio was the first to cease fire, directly recalling in place, and shortly after the Prince also left the bottom lane, spear in hand.

Because AHQ realized they couldn't win.

Four people being unable to take down two sounds absurd. The fact is, in the earlier laning phase, Westdoor was crushed so badly that out of his 60-plus last hits, about eighty percent were tower hits; taking tower hits isn't inherently problematic, but the pressure shifted to the turret—minions kept streaming into the tower, and the turret isn't invincible, so it definitely loses health.

When VG's jungle began to tear down towers, AHQ's mid turret had already been whittled down by minions and Easyhoon to nearly half its health.

When AHQ's bottom four started to tear down towers, VG's bottom turret was still almost at full health.

The two sides start from different lines, so naturally the time to reach the finish differs.

In theory, Prince plus Little Cannon truly are a golden tower‑destroying duo.

But don't forget, Lu Xi An already has a major item, and his level is higher as well.

With a crashing collapse sound, a line of red text appeared above everyone's screen: "【An allied defense turret has collapsed!】"

Liang Yan saw the enemy not contesting the first blood tower, so he also withdrew early; thus this first blood tower was taken solely by Easyhoon.

Su Xiao Yan groaned: "Ten minutes, four kills plus a solo first blood tower—good heavens, just how fat is Marquis Lu Xi An going to get?!"

Miller continued: "The main reason is that VG's first two waves were too brutal—Jiao Shen laid an ambush once, bringing Sheng Qiang Ge for a second round, and Ximen outright collapsed, after which it was a relentless downhill."

"AHQ had no choice but to cut losses in time; the Prince came over to start the dragon." Guan Zeyuan looked at the big screen: "VG looks like they have no intention to come interfere, so AHQ should be able to smoothly take this first dragon. Well, it's better than nothing."

"An Earth Dragon… that really can only be described as better than nothing."

This version's Earth Elemental Dragon is the only one among the four elemental dragons that gives a buff which does not affect hero stats; the effect is that the buff bearer deals extra true damage to epic monsters and turrets—one Earth Dragon adds +10%, two add +20%, three add +30%.

That sounds decent, but the problem is that this buff only works if you can hit the enemy turret or if the enemy gives you a chance to steal the big dragon.

As things stand now, AHQ will find it hard to get a chance to make use of the Earth Dragon buff.

Meanwhile, while AHQ was down below fighting the small dragon, VG's two jungle players started attacking the freshly respawned Xia Gu Xian Feng.

Watching VG easily take down the Xia Gu Xian Feng, the AHQ head coach watching the stream backstage put on a pained expression.

Trading an Earth Dragon for the Xia Gu Xian Feng, VG profited enormously again.

VG itself is an early‑game aggressive composition; now, with the core Lu Xi An already enormously fat, and having easily secured the Xia Gu Xian Feng, the pace inevitably speeds up further.

Put bluntly, AHQ will die even faster.

The AHQ players on stage were not yet utterly despairing; they felt they still had a chance, discussed it, and decided to first play defensively while waiting for Galio's and the Prince's next ultimates to come off cooldown, then look for another opportunity.

Westdoor barely steadied his mindset, nervously returning to lane.

As soon as they engaged, Lu Xi An unleashed a full combo of his ultimate.

Rat‑tat‑tat‑tat‑tat!

In one second, Orianna lost a third of its health.

Westdoor gritted his teeth and used Flash.

Easyhoon coldly pursued, side‑stepping to keep up the barrage.

The Holy Spear Baptism ended, leaving Westdoor with half health.

Zhu Mei emerged from a side path.

Westdoor could barely bear it, only able to retreat into the inner side of the second mid turret.

VG's mid and jungle together swiftly pushed the current lane, grouped up to invade AHQ's jungle, took a stack of F6, then emerged from the jungle.

Westdoor had just caught up to the minion wave before the turret; seeing the situation, he had no choice but to fall back again. Zhu Mei was holding her ultimate, while Westdoor's Flash had just entered cooldown—a single snipe could send the turret to heaven. Westdoor sought stability, so he simply retreated beneath the high‑ground turret.

"Just push." Liang Yan calmly commanded in the team channel, directly crushing the Vanguard's Eye to summon the Xia Gu Xian Feng from the void.

After a brief charge, the Xia Gu Xian Feng slammed headfirst into the turret.

Lu Xi An slid in, firing a few pew‑pew shots, and took down the second turret.