Chapter 846: Ah ah ah, don't wow!

Twelve minutes in, AHQ's middle second tower fell!

VG's pace is too fast!

After pushing the middle second tower, Pig Sis hasn't yet withdrawn; the threat remains, Zilean doesn't dare approach, the Valley Vanguard continues advancing toward the high ground tower following the minion line.

AHQ had never encountered such a vicious play; in panic, they had no time to think, and hurriedly sent someone to fall back.

Liang Yan feinted with a shot, then immediately brought Easyhoon straight down the bottom lane.

AHQ had only a tiny cannon left here farming; they dared not act recklessly in front of Pig Sis and the 4-0 Lu Xi An; upon seeing VG's people arrive, they instantly used a rocket jump to flee to the second tower.

Liang Yan and Easyhoon saw this through the vision provided by the minion wave pushing into the tower; they didn't even show their faces, ate the freshly spawned third group red buff in the jungle cleanly, then returned to base.

AHQ's bottom tower was subsequently destroyed; Sima Laozei picked up a tower for free.

LMS commentators kept exclaiming:

"Whoa! One vanguard took three towers! My goodness..."

"Is this VG? This pace is basically unstoppable, way too crazy!"

"How scary… wait, no, this is the gap between our second seed and the world's top-tier strong teams; our coach really ought to face this!"

"Actually saying this is useless; we've said it countless times last year and the year before, and we got taught a harsh lesson in the Intercontinental Tournament too—over and over, but we never improved."

The middle lane's first and second towers collapsed, equivalent to AHQ's entire defense line being wide open; the two side lanes lost the middle lane's cover, could not support each other, and instantly became isolated enclaves.

VG's vision naturally pushed forward, except for keeping vision at two or three key positions, all other vision was used for offensive vision.

AHQ's disadvantage on the two side lanes isn't actually big; even the top lane's Malphite, despite missing many minions while supporting the bottom lane earlier, thanks to the champion's strong mechanics, could still trade evenly with the big tree; the bottom lane needs no saying—the tiny cannon, after all, took a head and still has a tower, and in fact his development is even somewhat better than Sima Laozei's.

But, the middle lane collapsed too severely.

Westdoor could no longer lane against Easyhoon at all; after discussion, AHQ had no choice but to swap Zilean to the bottom lane, letting him afk farm near the second tower, letting the duo come to mid lane to hold down, while Malphite remained top lane.

VG executed a lane-switch maneuver, easily breaking through AHQ's top lane and taking another defensive tower. By now, AHQ had lost all three of their outer towers; outside the base only the upper second tower and lower second tower remained, one above and one below, looking like two extremely distant horns askew on a huge bull's head, utterly devoid of deterrence and offering no protection whatsoever.

Meanwhile, VG had lost only that initial bottom tower.

Sima Laozei basically received no special attention this game; he isn't the team's core, and this Miss Fortune pick was mainly intended as a mid-to-late game safeguard under the incense burner system. With VG's early-game offense proceeding smoothly, Sima Laozei basically doesn't need to participate in team fights, having been assigned by Liang Yan to farm in the bottom lane, his treatment similar to AHQ's Zilean—afk farming, happily idle.

Easyhoon's time spent on the lane keeps decreasing; at this point he is close to two completed items, his wave-clear speed is blazing, finishing a wave in a few seconds, and the rest of his time is spent roaming on his own or following Liang Yan.

A Lu Xi An at fifteen minutes nearing two items with tier 2 boots gives AHQ an immense threat; anyone who sees Lu Xi An in the jungle can only turn and run.

But one can't always escape, so people still die, causing them to become even more timid, not daring to place vision at all.

One's own territory becomes others' backyard; jungle resources are inevitably plundered and consumed.

Ten minutes ago, Mountain's development was still okay, keeping pace with the timeline, but since the fall of the middle first tower, as wave after wave of jungle monsters were turned against him, his development slowed more and more; by now, the Prince and Pig Sis also show a fairly clear equipment gap, his level has dropped by one, and it continues to widen.

Around seventeen minutes, after VG's members returned home to rest and regroup, they headed out again.

Easyhoon finally obtained his second completed item—the Black Cleaver.

Miller exclaimed: "Good heavens, seventeen minutes with a Ruined King plus Black Cleaver?! Marquis, is this development really overly exaggerated?!"

"Tanky and damaging, this Lu Xi An is truly unstoppable!"

Liang Yan went out and only collected a pack of three wolves and F6; the remaining Magic Swamp Frogs and Stone Armor Beetles were left for teammates laning on the two side lanes to help eat, while he himself headed straight for the enemy jungle.

Although AHQ cleared some jungle vision while VG's members were home resupplying, the respawn timers of their six jungle monster groups had long been memorized by Liang Yan.

Mountain had just finished clearing two monster groups in the lower half when Pig Sis already appeared in his upper half, followed by a Karma dedicated to vision.

VG only had two people invading; Mountain still wanted to call teammates to hold the line, but soon Lu Xi An also finished clearing the minion wave and came from mid lane.

Seeing this, Mountain felt a bit numb, and could only tell teammates not to come.

The vision of the entire upper half once again fell entirely into VG's hands; AHQ's people could only retreat to the high ground, then detour from the high ground up to the top lane.

The route is a bit far; by the time AHQ's defenders arrived at the upper second tower, Flandre's big tree had already pushed the minion wave into the tower, and VG's mid‑jungle support had long been waiting there.

The position had been blocked off in advance by VG; AHQ's four defenders dared not enter the tower, and could only hide behind it, tossing ranged abilities to clear the wave.

After one wave, the turret lost half its health bar.

AHQ knew this tower couldn't be held; expecting the second minion wave to inevitably take it, they made a bold decision: send Mountain to the lower half to link up with Malphite, together stealing the second small dragon.

This is yet another small earth dragon.

Two small dragons together grant AHQ a 20% damage bonus against towers or epic jungle monsters, and this bonus is true damage, unaffected by double resistances. Given the current situation, AHQ simply cannot push the minion wave forward; pushing towers is impossible, but stealing a dragon still has a slim chance, and this is also AHQ's last hope in everyone's heart.

However, the dragon pit is warded.

Mountain's dragon steal was discovered; VG, not stopping, after taking down AHQ's upper second tower, continued to group up and charge toward AHQ's high ground.

AHQ panicked, hastily recalling Malphite, but left the Prince to continue soloing the half‑health small dragon, because stealing the elder dragon is their only hope for a comeback.

But, VG's offense was excessively fierce.

By the time Malphite returned to the fountain, the top lane high‑ground tower had already been torn down by VG.

"Still not retreating? Still want to keep tearing?!"

"Ah ah ah, don't wow!"

The LMS commentators wailed, their voices full of terror, but aside from letting out those two cries while watching VG continue to destroy AHQ's top‑lane crystal, they could do nothing.

VG had no reason not to destroy.

Not to mention that Malphite had just returned to the fountain; AHQ was already outnumbered; even in a 4v4, VG held a crushing power advantage, and without the high‑ground tower's protection, AHQ had no basis to engage VG in a team fight.

In the end, AHQ's four members could only stand behind the crystal, symbolically tossing a few abilities to hold off, then watch VG destroy the crystal.

VG finally withdrew, leaving behind a collapsed crystal ruin and a heap of chaotic minion waves.

The Prince hadn't even finished off the small dragon…