Chapter 174: Bloody confrontation at the peak of the Forbidden City

Where the sword energy surged, the rising gale not only tore through the enemy formation but also seemed to want to lift the roof of the center!

The focus fire target was precise; Viego was the first to kneel down dejectedly, Yone's fragile spirit dissipated instantly, and the desperate Aatrox could only fight to trade for Sejuani.

"Although Aatrox traded for the low-health Sejuani, he himself could not escape death! And the three generals in front have all perished, and the bottom duo also has no wings to fly! Don't even think about running!"

"Camille is waiting for the E skill, she will definitely be able to chase; Lux has no flash! She can still be killed!"

Camille waited for the second Hookshot to chase, Varus flashed over the wall to run away.

But Lux could not escape being entangled by the revenge Hookshot.

Wang Duoduo, who was in high spirits, couldn't help but open his mouth: "Fighting three thousand miles in one body! One sword cuts off a million teachers!"

"You hit him, but there is no trace in the vast land! He attacks you, descending from the sky, hard to guard against!"

"This Sylas!!!"

Wawa on the other side seemed much simpler, just holding his head and exclaiming continuously, as if cosplaying a marmot.

Miller's face was so red that he felt his blood pressure was soaring: "Master Ye's Sylas! Every wave of his feels like it's breaking our imagination limit!"

【????????????????】

【Holy shit, awesome! Awesome! Too handsome!】

【Master Ye, my god!!!】

【He is still trying his best! He is still supporting the bottom! He is still saving this home!】

【Prairie! Fire! Hundred! Slashes!】

【Sylas: Look carefully, Fate Sealed is used like this!】

No one thought this wave would end like this.

The DRX crowd all looked dazed, even the usually steady BeryL widened his eyes.

He paused before squeezing out a breath from his throat: "Xiba... is this person a pervert?!"

"Don't be messy, don't be messy, don't be anxious," Deft's voice still sounded as gentle as a stabilizer: "Star-Hoon, the advantage is still very big, let's play the lane swap well, take it slow."

"Jungler, go help Aatrox counter-gank, we play around Aatrox, stabilize the side lanes and operate slowly, according to our way of playing."

"It's impossible for the opponent's mid laner to catch such an opportunity every time; we'll be careful next time, no problem."

1 for 4 plus the dragon rhythm being broken, it was very clear that this wave couldn't be covered up by light words.

But, just after Deft finished saying this.

Everyone seemed to feel again that it didn't seem that bad.

At the very least, Aatrox's advantage was still very big, and DRX would definitely be extremely careful next time they saw Sylas steal Yone's ultimate.

Camille only supplemented one kill, and the disadvantage of the first ten minutes was not something that could be made up for in a while; if she wanted to reverse the equipment gap and beat Aatrox, it would be at least after level 13!

Kingen and Pyosik responded respectively.

Only Zeka remained silent.

He was really a bit shocked.

Zeka understands Sylas, and also understands Yone—but he never thought there would be such a combination, and such an effect!

Just saying, it seemed to be just the release of two keys, E+R.

But if you want to use E to change the mid-air start of R, especially when the angle is not a unified straight line.

The timing of the E release and the perfect R cast animation—even if it's just a fraction of a difference, the final position will be lost by a thousand miles!

The amount of calculation and difficulty involved, those who don't understand the mechanics of these two heroes enough, find it hard to empathize.

However, because Zeka didn't operate it himself and couldn't watch the replay.

So he actually hadn't noticed the most critical point.

12 minutes.

The lane swap phase continued, and EDG should have started to have a comprehensive advantage.

But still the same sentence.

This DRX team, since they could reverse all the way here, absolutely couldn't just rely on a certain player "exploding."

The first game was because Akali was too invincible, and there was no one in the side lanes who could split-push with her; one mistake would lead to being solo-killed, and even under the tower was extremely dangerous, so the EDG crowd hadn't noticed yet.

But coming to this game.

Especially starting from this lane swap phase.

EDG's offense seemed to be inexplicably contained.

Even Ye Bo didn't know where the problem was; this had never been encountered in previous matches, it just felt like the opponent's awareness was exploding...

After all, Ye Bo and BeryL's research directions were completely different, and there were always missing angles.

The answer is simple, still "ward placement."

But this answer, for Ye Bo, who doesn't play support himself, is extremely difficult to discover from the OB review!

The details of the support item!

Since the deletion of the ancient version of the green jungle item and the sightstone, the only vision item left is the support equipment.

And the three types of support equipment all need to "upgrade" through different task methods—and only after completing the first upgrade will the support item become a "sightstone" with three wards.

So why, in the entire 2022 season before the S-series group stage, it was all hard supports...

Suddenly, after the group stage, it became a version of enchanter supports, or rather "poke-push enchanter supports" overnight?

Most people just copy the cat and draw the tiger, and lane priority contest is only the first layer of meaning.

Or it can be said to be a "by-the-way" benefit.

In BeryL's understanding—{Spellthief's Edge}, which can be stacked to upgrade the fastest, requires poking and auto-attacking defensive towers to consume stacks and accelerate the evolution speed.

That is to say.

Whoever can frequently touch the opponent's heroes or defensive towers can withdraw the extra economy of the support item in advance and have three extra wards in advance!

What is the concept of three wards?

In the case where the jungler and support will probably change to {Oracle Lens}, one support item is equivalent to the opponent's entire team's wards!

Then, how big will the time gap be between support players?

If someone with a heart observes, they will find that BeryL has completed the upgrade ahead of the opponent's support in a full 20 out of the 21 matches played in the S-series so far!

Most of them can be 2-3 minutes ahead.

One of the most terrifying games was even ahead by an outrageous 7 minutes!

That is, BeryL completed the evolution at 8 minutes, and the opponent's support could only complete it at 15 minutes, playing the game with half the vision for 7 minutes!

Plus BeryL's vision research is already top-notch, treating every ward as a treasure and making the best use of everything.

This is why: Deft is the AD with the fewest deaths in the semifinals, and Zeka and Kingen are the players at the forefront of solo kills in each position.

They certainly have their own playing styles and personal strength.

But more so, it's because someone is escorting them, allowing them to let go and perform!

And the only game where BeryL lagged behind in support item evolution was a Yuumi game they picked in the play-ins!

That game was DRX against a wildcard team, and the whole team had huge single-lane advantages in all four lanes, but it was such a game situation, yet it was still much slower than the opponent's support!

This is actually easy to understand; after all, Yuumi generally cannot easily get off the car to auto-attack people, and can only use the Q skill to trigger the support item, so the efficiency is naturally low.

That is to say, after that game, BeryL was very firm about not picking Yuumi anymore.

And don't look at Lux running around, but BeryL was always detailing the stacking of the support item wherever he went—including the first wave of bottom lane ganks, even when he saw Sejuani come out, he still had to turn and throw E, just to exhaust the stacks on his hand!

Lux actually got the evolved support item before the 8-minute Herald fight.

If EDG chose to fight head-on at that time, it's hard to say they wouldn't have been threatened by vision, or hit by a flank or crouch counter-attack!

As for Yuumi?

It was precisely because this lane phase ended too early, and Beryl and Deft were clearly intentionally not letting the Yuumi scrape up stacks during the lane phase; at this moment, their support item was still at least one-third away from completion!

14 minutes, Aatrox and Camille were split-pushing in the bottom lane.

Aatrox gave a lot of pressure on health trades, pressing in front of the tower... and there was a Sejuani with a cat over the wall!

Aatrox, as the fattest person on the whole team, should naturally receive more care, whether it's from the opponent or his own side.

However, Aatrox didn't seem to have any killing intent, just like he was guarding against the jungler, even though Sejuani had already scanned the bush and there were no wards.

Sejuani gave up and turned to farm the Gromp—but she didn't know that she was completely detected by a ward that shouldn't have appeared in a "trivial" position at the blue buff intersection!

Lux again, just like 8 minutes ago, flashed over the wall and Q-E-R were released together!

At the same time, Viego also came to the top lane to launch an attack on Sivir!

"DRX's signature multi-line synchronous strangulation!"

"Flandre is so miserable... How many times has he been messed with like this in this game? He finally got a little better, and Lux combined with Aatrox's burst almost killed him instantly!"

"But Viper?! He is operating!"

Yuumi couldn't follow the AD; it was most suitable to follow the jungler during the rhythm time.

And the reason why both ADs were in the top lane was because Sylas needed to stand in the mid lane to roam, and walking the side lane would waste his advantage—Varus couldn't split-push with Sylas, so he could only let Yone continue to suffer.

But this wave, Viper also stood up.

Varus used E-R together, but Sivir still reacted accurately and used E to block the vines, while also using her ultimate to accelerate to dodge Viego's W, and then flashed to dodge the slow of Final Spark!

Lethality Varus didn't have the ability to stand and trade to begin with, and Sivir was still the existence second only to Sylas in development.

Under the acceleration of {On The Hunt}, Sivir started to reverse the situation, frantically walking and auto-attacking, bravely counter-attacking!

"Oh, Pyosik's W was actually dodged, shouldn't have saved the flash... don't die, don't die!" CT shouted nervously: "Fortunately, Viego finally flashed to pull away, but you say this flash-W stun wouldn't have been better!"

The Roaring Emperor said a fair word: "This wave really has to be said that Viper's operation is exquisite, almost achieving perfect handling, worthy of..."

"Zeka!?"

"How! How is this happening, Zeka! Really can't be like this... really can't be solo-killed again!"

The two on the LCK commentary stage hadn't finished speaking, and the director, who couldn't keep up at all, had already cut the lens to the third battlefield that happened almost simultaneously.

And when the lens switched over, what they saw was Sylas walking out of the defensive tower leisurely.

Yone was tragically killed under his own first tower!

Looking closely at the camera in the lower left corner, you could still see Zeka trembling as if he was frightened by something when he was killed, and then his face became full of confusion, as if he was still saying something.

It seemed to be saying "Impossible, absolutely impossible."

The director quickly cut out the mid-lane replay that was missed.

Sylas brought the minion wave into the tower, showed off, {Everfrost} started to fix him, Q-W-A finished, and then E pulled out, a smooth tower-diving poke.

Because he knew Yone still had flash, Sylas didn't use Everfrost + Fate Sealed under the tower, as it was very easy to be dodged by flash.

Yone was obviously still a bit unconvinced at first, chasing out to cut a few times while you had no skills—but immediately cleared his head and knew this was a futile effort, hurriedly E-ing back to honestly last-hit the tower minions.

But in the replay's spectator perspective, it could be seen that Sylas didn't leave.

Just approached the bottom river and stood against the wall.

Yone was still reporting the information that Sylas had disappeared to his teammates.

Just saw Sylas E onto the wall, in the shadows, throwing the chain diagonally toward F6 without vision, and then flew in the air to perform {Hijack - Fate Sealed} again!

Like a "red light sword" inserted straight out from the F6 pit, drawing a 7 in the air!

The second set of cooldowns refreshed, the A-Q-W-A after the knock-up landing didn't even give Yone a chance to raise his hand!

However.

What was Zeka "impossible" about?

Clearly, it was impossible for him not to realize that Sylas still had ideas about him, and it was obvious that the opponent could only sneak to F6 to make a move.

So... Zeka was even deliberately not shrinking in the tower.

Doing so wasn't because he was stupid.

He understands Yone, knowing that this hero has an unknown "cold knowledge":

"Yone's R cannot be cast 'without vision'!"

Perhaps because this skill is too overbearing, it's a hidden mechanism added by the designer—that is, all enemy troops within 300 units of Yone's R landing point, even if they are not in the ultimate range, will be "automatically exposed" to the opponent the moment the spell is cast!

That is to say, even if Sylas sneaks to the F6 pit.

As long as the opponent casts R, Zeka would immediately see his figure revealed through the wall, thereby easily positioning or dodging, or even counter-killing!

Zeka was absolutely certain of the existence of this mechanism.

However, there was none.

He didn't see any warning throughout the whole process! Sylas just rushed out inexplicably!

Of course, Sylas didn't violate this mechanism.

It's just that Zeka got it wrong.

This "warning mechanism" of Yone is not a hint before the ultimate hits—but a warning triggered in the vicinity of the ultimate coverage the moment the spell is cast.

This doesn't blame him, because if Zeka hadn't personally tested the linkage of the two.

Just using Yone, the owner of the Fate Sealed skill, he would never be able to use this effect in his life!

Because Yone cannot use any skills, including flash, when casting the ultimate, and there is no way to change direction halfway; the casting point is a fixed starting point, so it will naturally be detected.

But Sylas's "Parallel Fate Sealed" operation—at the first moment, the opponent was not in range at all!

No vision + super long-range start, relying on E displacement to close the distance, and then entering the coverage range.

So.

"This is an operation that only Sylas can perform!"

Sylas didn't have the ability to push the tower after all, and the mid-lane first tower was always in a stalemate, which was also the reason why DRX was at ease letting Yone confront the opponent.

But this solo kill.

The mid lane was suddenly wide open, and the first tower without plates was very fragile, and was pushed flat in one wave.

The fall of the mid first tower is fatal for lane swap operations; this point has been shown countless times in EDG's previous matches.

The consequence is that DRX's operational front suddenly began to become chaotic, and no matter how good the vision is, it is difficult to resist the frequent looting caused by the lack of mid-lane minions.

"EDG's double carries are exploding!!!"

"Sylas came to the top lane after pushing the mid first tower, helping Sivir break the opponent's low-health top first tower in one go; this wave directly smashed DRX's defensive formation to pieces!"

"Master Ye created a solo kill again! This is the fourth solo kill in this BO5! This feels like it's about to break the BO5 solo kill record?!"

【Solo kill! Still solo killing!】

【Don't know if it breaks the record, but this should be the mid-lane matchup with the biggest gap in the finals, too fierce!】

【I told you all before that EDG came to fight a nest, just teasing you~】

【This is really convincing; Viper is easy to say, but Master Ye's one made me sweat!】

【It's just like playing Gomoku; you are a supreme genius who can find the optimal solution every wave, having already connected four pieces—but the opponent backhands a five-star chain bead right on top! What are you supposed to do!】

【Mainly because the upper limit of Sylas is really too high; it's not the upper limit of the hero, it's the limit of the player's imagination!】

The situation started from these two first towers and truly appeared to have a huge tilt.

Of course, the main thing is... "Sick cat" is about to start showing its power!

The Yuumi who had been silent all game was repeatedly exploited by DRX for her hero flaws in the early game, causing EDG quite a bit of trouble.

But as the publicly recognized T0 hero in S12, the gold content of a 100% ban/pick rate.

The little cat is not a vegetarian!

Sylas with a cat is almost equivalent to getting a {Rabadon's Deathcap} that adds health and shields, and his damage and combat power instantly soar to a higher level!

A wave of jungle arrests, a set of skills almost killed Viego from full health!

16-minute dragon fight.

DRX still wanted to try to contest, but Sejuani Q-Flashed R to forcefully initiate on Lux who was "standing in front."

Sylas stole the Final Spark with Hijack, killing the fragile Lux from long range with a single blast to the rear!

BeryL was still thinking about the same idea as the 7-minute wave, using his worthless life to swap out the opponent's several ultimates to gain a frontal advantage—anyway, Lux at this point, in a frontal team fight, only has functional utility left.

Just didn't expect that, although they were tricked out, the opponent's combat power far exceeded their imagination!

In the end, BeryL calmly commanded to give up and started to delay as much as possible.

Even the Herald fight in the next wave was given up, and even lost the bottom second tower because of this.

But BeryL knew very well.

The situation is here, their offensive in the early game of this game has completely failed, and now there are not many cards in their hands, and it is very likely that only the last chance is left...

It is the opportunity he "sent" out!

Approaching 20 minutes.

Both sides started to gather at the Baron.

Aatrox did not go to the bottom lane to split-push with Camille because he was the most important combat force on the front line; being restrained by Camille allowed EDG's front line to be even more unscrupulous!

But Yone had just cleared the minion wave in front of the high ground gate.

Suddenly, he leaned back one step.

Camille outside was still waiting for the next wave of minions to arrive, continuously exerting pressure on the high ground.

"Yone TP'd!?" Wawa looked at the TP light beam lighting up behind DRX and exclaimed.

"Are they not wanting this high ground anymore!"

According to reason, there is no reason to TP directly like this, after all, Camille will be at the gate with the next wave of minions soon.

But Yuumi's combat power is becoming more and more apparent in these few minutes, and DRX no longer has the possibility of winning a conventional battle.

And the more Camille plays, the stronger her single-lane advantage will be; if they really play until after 30 minutes, even Aatrox might not be her opponent!

Not to mention the later Yuumi is, the more terrifying her buff is!

DRX must find an opportunity to be able to roll the snowball again, control the situation before 30 minutes, to have a glimmer of life.

And this wave—they are preparing to use the bottom high ground to try to swap for Baron!

Yuumi cannot do vision by herself, she must have a mount to take her to do it, and the safest one to do vision is naturally Sejuani.

But the safest one, sometimes may also be the most dangerous one.

In the 16-minute wave, Lux had deliberately "used her life" to trick out the opponent's flash... Sejuani's flash didn't refresh this time!

"It's now! Open!"

Varus R-Flashed over the wall, never expecting the opponent to open his Sejuani like this, and was bound on the spot!

You have to know, this is Sejuani!

It's very laborious for the opponent to kill her, and the 4v4 counter-attack on their side, the opponent can hardly have any ability to parry!

But this wave is five people on the opponent's side.

In an instant, Lux connected Q, Viego started Heartbreaker and landed, Aatrox used Q-E to pull the blade, Varus exploded the corruption mark, and Yone directly used E skill to cross the wall!

"Wow! Five!"

"Get off the car, get off the car!"

Yuumi's first reaction was to immediately reverse R to cover, and Sylas and Sivir rushed to connect.

Yuumi opened the chapter, and at the same time, frantically pressed W to swap cars toward the teammates who came to connect behind.

However, just as Yuumi left Sejuani's body and was flying toward Sylas, Aatrox forcefully used Q-Flash to pull forward again!

The extreme sword edge, with timing calculated to an absurd degree, knocked the flying Yuumi down!

Kingen's Aatrox in this game can simply be called "man and sword as one," using the Darkin Greatsword as if it were his own arm, and has shown this kind of long-range blade edge knock-down operation with time accurate to the point of being bizarre more than once!

Yone immediately rushed forward to connect Fate Sealed, aiming at one pig and one cat.

"I TP, I TP, place a ward!"

"Don't! Keep pushing!"

Ye Bo knew that Camille TPing over at this time had no meaning; she had already walked to the high ground tower, and continuing to push was the most guaranteed correct decision.

Ye Bo E rushed into the crowd—but he didn't steal Yone's ultimate this time.

Because the damage in the front was not enough, if he R'd in and couldn't reduce the number of people instantly, he would easily fall behind the enemy.

{Chain of Corruption} was stolen and thrown backward, hitting Yone who landed after R!

"Don't care about him! He doesn't dare to come in!"

BeryL saw that the opponent wanted to use the "spread" of the Chain of Corruption to persuade them to separate the battlefield, just like what they did in the second dragon fight.

But the situation of the two waves is completely different!

We have five people, and in this matchup, even if we are really spread and bound, so what!?

However, seeing this scene, Ye Bo's eyes suddenly flashed.

"Can fight!"

Sivir immediately howled the war cry, and Sylas rushed into the enemy formation with acceleration!

Corrupting Chains is spreading—the cheap part about this skill is that every time a spread is completed, it continues to spread backward starting from the newly infected enemy.

This is why DRX didn't retreat, because to retreat, those who didn't eat control had to retreat together, otherwise they would continue to pass it backward, instead pulling the formation even more scattered!

DRX just let the bottom duo retreat, and the three melee heroes directly hard-topped and forcefully ate it; anyway, they were sure that the remaining two people didn't have enough damage to kill!

However.

Sylas rushed into the crowd, but didn't make a move at the first moment, and even pressed the S key.

The three people on the opponent's side were still attacking with auto-attacks and non-displacement skills in the rooted state, harvesting the cat and Sejuani, while the two in the back row aimed at Sylas and attacked.

What was Ye Bo waiting for!?

He was waiting.

For the {Withered Marks} being generated one by one on the opponent's body.

The next moment, a scene that made everyone even more shocked—even more impactful than all the outrageous operations in this game—appeared!

Varus's ultimate has a high 1.0 AP bonus, and Sylas's damage is naturally very high.

But even so, everyone on the opponent's side who ate the wither would definitely have at least half of their health left.

But Yone, who was at the very front.

Was actually... melted by a light chain strike while he still had more than half of his health!

It was, in the true sense, melted!

This was also something Ye Bo discovered in the first game of {Akali's Flying Thunder God}—when Zeka stole Varus's ultimate to bind the opponent's Viego to separate the formation, Ye Bo noticed that a Withered Mark appeared on Viego.

And the final damage seemed a bit wrong!

Zeka obviously didn't notice this point.

Because he didn't wait at all at the time and used the skill directly; if it weren't for Ye Bo's extreme sensitivity to Sylas's damage, he wouldn't have been able to detect it at all.

When reviewing in the field, Ye Bo opened both and experimented.

So he discovered that when Sylas steals Varus's ultimate, he can really trigger the "Withered Mark"!

You have to know... Varus's truly terrifying damage has never been Q-E-R since his rework, but the super-high percentage damage of his W skill!

And this percentage damage is a "percentage AP bonus."

Viego's {Possession} is also not a displacement skill; he was whipped into low health with one lash, and hurriedly forcefully topped the root to possess Sejuani, turning into a pig body.

The fattest Aatrox was also splashed by the AOE and instantly dropped to half health.

And Ye Bo didn't stop his pace, continuing to chase and kill the two full-health people behind the opponent, handing the frontal battlefield to Sivir.

Aatrox smashed down with a Q3, Sivir nimbly jumped away with flash!

Viego Sejuani didn't care and rammed toward Sivir, but Viper reproduced the script-level movement, twisted and dodged with the acceleration of his ultimate, and forcefully held onto his E skill to pull away with movement!

The crazy flying wheels walked and auto-attacked, and the already low-health Viego Sejuani was anxious and slashed down with Heartbreaker, but it was blocked by the spell shield, and then two more wheels killed him.

And Sylas in the back was already like a tiger entering a flock of sheep!

The sudden change caught the DRX

Aatrox, witnessing his teammates about to fall, had scarlet eyes.

With the World Ender acceleration refreshed by killing Yuumi and Sejuani, his wings flapped vigorously with an angry roar as he chased after the Sivir who was closing in.

The lethality-build Aatrox's skills were very fast; a max-level Q was less than 4 seconds, and it had already reset.

Facing the first blade edge, Viper side-stepped and kited, but was still clipped by the edge of the wider "diagonal Q"!

The second blade edge followed closely, and Sivir moved with all her might.

But Aatrox seemed to be performing "Fast and Slow Blades," holding the end of the Q before using E to adjust the sword's position, making it difficult for Sivir to predict and dodge.

The second blade edge combined with The Darkin Blade, stabbing half her health away in one hit, followed by the third blade like a mountain-splitting strike, heavily hacking down on Sivir's head!

"Do you think you can kill me?!"

The throat of Aatrox, who had also finished his slaughter, seemed to contain endless hatred, echoing in the river along with the triple-kill notification!

But behind him, two teammates had also fallen one after another.

"In the end, you are all lambs for the slaughter!"

The Sylas seemed to be howling wildly at the sky, accompanied by the same triple-kill notification, as if he were already standing in the throne room at this moment!

In this canyon, before the dragon pit.

Only Aatrox and Sylas remained.

"Home! Home home home! Must go back!!"

Listening to the urgent prompts, Aatrox's eyes seemed to have been stained red by enemy blood as he held his sword and responded!

He certainly knew there was a Camille at home already attacking the high ground, but this Sylas could not easily let Aatrox recall or TP.

Unless he killed him!

Sylas also suffered the dying counterattack of the bottom lane duo; both of their health bars were less than half.

Aatrox first used QE for a fast-slow blade slash; Sylas wanted to E to the side to get close, but was forcibly hit by this slow blade pull-back!

Fortunately, Sylas used W displacement to stab back and heal, but Aatrox's The Darkin Blade also turned to drain a mouthful of blood.

The two lifesteal monsters were like they were swapping blood types!

Both sides retreated after one hit and kited for a moment, both knowing the other's skills couldn't be held too long, and both were waiting for their own CDs.

Sylas's E2 had a shorter hold time than Aatrox's Q and was about to expire, forcing him to act first, using the QE combo to control the support and then Q for burst.

But Aatrox timed it perfectly, using W and Q simultaneously; Infernal Chains and Q2 came out together, and even while being knocked up by the abduction, he still forced the skill out.

Both of them dealt control effects that canceled each other out!

The damage exploded on both at once.

A yellow light bloomed on Aatrox first—【Maw of Malmortius - Lifeline】!

Sylas followed immediately, his whole body shining—【Zhonya's Hourglass - Stasis】!

The shield of {Lifeline} and the golden body of {Stasis} both lasted exactly 2.5 seconds.

Because Sylas could use the golden body to stall out his W cooldown, Aatrox's Q3 to press his wake-up wouldn't kill him and would be countered by a drain.

Aatrox simply pulled away early, using the 2.5 seconds of golden body to let his Q skill, which would have entered a 4-second cooldown, sleep early and turn into 1.5 seconds.

"Both players' mechanics are maxed out! This is simply a solo duel at the Peak of the Forbidden City!"

"They are both walking a tightrope! But neither is retreating even half a step, as if only one person must be left standing in the canyon river!"

"Both sides are going to have a second round, but Camille has already pushed down the high-ground tower; Aatrox is very anxious! He is very anxious!"

Waiting for the golden body to end and the Maw shield to disappear, Aatrox was almost immediately impatient and anxious to strike again.

But this time, the fast-slow blade lost its composure due to impatience; Ye Bo didn't use any skills at all, only using movement to predict and dodge!

Q and Q2 came out together, both sides ate one skill each, almost reaching the execution threshold!

Aatrox gripped his Q3 tight, this time not pulling away, preparing for a desperate fight—but at this moment, he saw Sylas deliberately hugging the wall, clearly realizing something.

Aatrox took the initiative to expose a flaw and raised his hand.

Without hesitation, he smashed down the third and most terrifying Darkin Blade!

But at this moment, Sylas suddenly dove and flipped over to the other side of the wall, clearly attempting to dodge the Q3 while backhanding an E2 to complete the counter-kill!

Aatrox's mouth revealed a ferocious smile.

He had already seen through the opponent's plan!

The fast-slow blade, pulled to the extreme, at the very last moment before the blade touched the ground, used the E skill Shadow Dash to suddenly follow, bringing the landing blade edge over the wall together!

No matter what Sylas did after crossing the wall, whether it was a backhand E or a backhand W, he would inevitably displace and rush into Aatrox's face!

This forced Q3 would also inevitably hit the critical strike at the center point!

More importantly, Aatrox's {Eclipse} had reset.

Landing one hit would trigger the shield; Sylas couldn't kill him, but Aatrox's center Q + The Darkin Blade was enough to directly take the opponent's head!

But.

Those cruel, bloody eyes suddenly showed astonishment.

Then they turned into panicked vertical pupils!

Because at the very moment Aatrox was pressing the limit of time to flip over the wall with a slow blade—a figure brushed past him face-to-face.

"E-Shift · Abduct and Thrust"!

A normal backhand W would indeed land on the face, but if it started from inside the wall, using the opponent's position to drill out while synchronized and intersecting, the result would be completely different!

When the Darkin Blade's edge landed, it hit nothing.

The next moment, Aatrox's body was bound and knocked up by the backhand chain.

Sylas landed and was the first to auto-attack with a passive proc, and when the opponent raised his hand for The Darkin Blade, he used the passive-enhanced attack speed to be half a step faster, throwing out the second passive proc again!

Aatrox's arm, holding the giant sword horizontally, stiffened in place for a long while before he covered his chest and fell in disbelief!

The entire Chase Center suddenly boiled over!!!

"He! Counter! Killed!"

"Sylas has become the final winner at the peak of the river! He has become the person standing until the end in this canyon!"

"In that case... wait, no?!"

"No, it seems like sudden death! Camille's decision not to use TP this wave was extremely critical!!! Brother Shengqiang has already brought the wave to the nexus towers!"

"Sylas can still TP over; the fastest respawning Yone still has ten seconds, but he won't make it! It seems he won't make it!"

The TPing Sylas and Camille quickly tore down the nexus towers.

They were also gradually tearing down the psychological defenses of all LCK supporters.

Yone respawned and rushed forward in spirit form.

But when he arrived, the screen had already lost control... he could only watch helplessly as the crystal began to tremble and shatter!

(End of chapter)