Chapter 86: Never Had Such a Wonderful Start! The One Clawing at the Air

"Shit!!" Scout instinctively shouted in his native tongue, his eyes filled with disbelief.

It was truly terrifying.

Because they knew their level-one team composition was weak, BLG deployed defenses at the jungle entrances right from the start and clearly saw the EDG members leave the jungle via the river.

Scout had even prudently gone to place a ward in the river early; even if the Volibear had rushed over immediately after hitting level 2, there was absolutely no way he could have made it in time!

There was no reason for the Volibear to have bypassed the vision.

But Scout didn't have time to think about that now.

There is a reason the Volibear is called a stat-check monster; his level-one E skill alone has a base damage of 80 + {11% of maximum health}!

Even without combat runes, a simple E-Q-A from a Predator Volibear could instantly shave off over 200 health!

Due to Akshan's suicidal trading style, the Emperor of the Sands was already down to 60% health.

Leveraging the crowd control from the Volibear's Q skill, Akshan fired arrows rapidly in mid-air, landed early, leaped out, and then hit his Q-A three-hit passive.

Finally, he applied Ignite, directly extinguishing any thought Scout had of using Flash to save himself.

The kill was secured by Akshan's Ignite burn.

"Zhao! Li! Jie!" Scout gritted his teeth in the voice chat.

Meanwhile, the opposing Volibear, as if he had truly heard the communication across the void, flashed a Gnar emote above his head—fingers crossed, looking aggrieved.

"That's not human!" Xika suddenly started screaming: "Targeting my junior! They are targeting my junior!"

"This is really going a bit too far; who could defend against a gank like that? It's like a ghost!"

Kid was still somewhat puzzled and surprised: "Is Jiejie playing the game like this now? Why does it feel like he's on the same path as Ye Bo, like he's been assimilated."

Sun Yalong couldn't tell for a moment if the other person was trolling: "Are you serious? This is obviously Ye Bo's doing!"

EDG invading the top jungle at level one clearly had only one goal.

To completely occupy the vision of the opponent's top jungle!

By bumping into them at the river, it was easy to judge that there was a ward in the river bush, so why didn't they use a sweeper to clear the vision?

Because they wanted to leave it there on purpose to give them a sense of security!

A level-one Volibear without a dash had clearly left the jungle with the main group in plain sight and hadn't shown his face until just now, so naturally, there was no reason to guess the opponent would start in their own jungle.

So, how did the Volibear bypass the vision detection?

Actually, there is only one answer.

Flash!

Since the Volibear has no ability to go over walls, many junglers who take Predator on Volibear also take {Hexflash}.

By having all five people occupy the top jungle, clearing and filling the top vision, and then having the Volibear flash over the wall from the Dragon Pit, he completed a second infiltration.

This play would ultimately only have three results.

The worst result: the Emperor of the Sands gives no opportunities, and the opposing jungler doesn't stubbornly return.

Then the Volibear could also use the vision information gap to guarantee a lead of an entire jungle quadrant from the start, beginning his clear in the opponent's red jungle!

And at level three, he would still have an unexpected Hexflash flank gank position.

The other two are good results.

The first is that the jungler is stubborn, seeing the opponent leave the red jungle and returning to start his clear there.

The top half of the map was filled with EDG's wards; as soon as Trundle stepped into the red jungle, he would be detected, and the Volibear could use the vision gap to attempt a Smite-steal for first blood!

The other result, naturally, is the jungler not coming, which is the current situation.

Akshan's strong level-one trading to lower health, followed by positional pressure, naturally forced the Emperor of the Sands to lean toward the safe side of his vision.

The Volibear's E skill has no pre-cast animation warning when cast without vision; seeing the opponent approach, he cast E, Hexflashed, and landed the Q stun—all in one fluid motion!

"It's passable, Scout has TP, so it's barely acceptable."

"It's not that simple, oh. If I were Jiejie, wouldn't I just counter-jungle his bottom side? The Emperor of the Sands might be okay in lane, but he's not great at fighting compared to Akshan. Now that the Volibear is directly in the jungle, what is Weiwei going to do!"

The Emperor of the Sands respawned and TP'd back to mid.

And as the Volibear circled toward the bottom river, he was indeed, just as the secondary broadcast room guessed, walking toward the bottom half.

Of course, what the secondary commentators could think of, Weiwei naturally thought of too.

"This Volibear might be coming to counter-jungle me."

"The bottom lane seems to have gone, we can come too, do you want to fight?" Uzi asked.

Weiwei glanced at the opposing Kalista and Renata, then looked at his own Senna and Tahm Kench, and decisively shook his head: "No, no, no, let him have one camp. I should be able to finish this one."

"Then, Young Liu, let's push the wave. Actually, I feel like we can fight them in lane."

Trundle, who was currently hitting the Gromp, retreated while attacking and indeed immediately saw the Volibear appearing from the left, as well as the bottom lane duo rushing over after hitting level two.

Fortunately, Trundle had teammates helping him start the jungle, so his clear speed wasn't slow, and he had detailedly not leveled a skill at level two, just to see if there was a chance for a variation to catch someone.

He Smited the Gromp to take it and used a pillar to slow them before making his escape.

The Volibear only had a Red Buff; due to falling for the opponent's scheme, this small loss in the jungle had to be accepted.

The mid-lane minion wave pushed forward.

Akshan seemed prepared to push and recall.

"Wait, you can find an opportunity to come help me gank. As long as you break his E, he's gankable," Scout said in a muffled voice.

"OK OK, the Volibear is in my bottom jungle, be a little careful."

"Doesn't matter, I can eat two waves under the tower."

On the mini-map, Kalista had already walked toward the tri-bush, returning to the bottom lane.

But just at this moment.

Liu Qingsong, in his role as support, keenly sensed something strange.

"Wait! Why didn't Renata come back with them!?"

"I already gave them my bottom jungle, what can a level-two Renata do... Holy crap!?"

Just the second after Weiwei spoke, Scout was already losing his composure.

Because behind the mid-lane tower, two people walked out.

Volibear and Renata!

After the bottom lane duo met up with the jungler in the jungle, they had actually split up, with the support following to launch a surprise attack on mid!

Fortunately, Trundle wasn't far away and had already returned in a straight line from the jungle.

But since the opponent had shown their faces, they had no intention of waiting.

Akshan had a strong pushing wave; although he hadn't eaten the third wave yet, because of the extra kill experience, he had already reached level three.

And the Emperor of the Sands was still only level two.

"Wait for the support to initiate! Control him, then follow up with skills!" Ye Bo shouted his command.

The Volibear, who had charged to his face with the Q speed boost, paused momentarily.

Renata started with a long-range auto-attack from her pistol, and only then did the Volibear close in to land the stun!

Once the stun landed, Renata steadily followed up with the second part of her Q skill, {Handshake}, and at the same time, the lightning strike exploded down!

And Akshan, using his E against the wall, aimed at a specific point on the defensive tower, swinging into the air with a minimal half-circle "Wall-hugging Tower E."

Akshan's figure "struggled to pass" through the gap between the tower and the wall, finally squeezing through after two hitches, spinning two circles during the 2 seconds of continuous crowd control.

He dealt the spray damage of two circles of E!

The Emperor of the Sands automatically learns W at level one and can only learn Q at level two; he had absolutely no extra mobility at this moment!

Although he had Flash.

But if he used Flash now, where could he even Flash to!?

The Emperor of the Sands had nowhere to escape under the tower, but he couldn't use Flash to actively leave the tower's range; that would only lead to death faster, and he might not even be able to trade a kill.

But Scout, at this moment, saw Renata's health.

Under normal circumstances, level two can withstand at most 4 tower shots, but in fact, after the third pre-heated attack landed, she was already at the limit with a sliver of health left.

Renata had already cast her W, {Bailout}, on herself in advance.

Scout, at this moment, made the only correct response.

He Flashed in the opposite direction to counter-attack, used W to summon soldiers to poke on the spot, and one poke from the Emperor of the Sands emptied Renata's sliver of health—forcing her into the "dying" state early!

The result of this play was that Renata, who could have utilized the dying state to revive and withstand one more tower shot, entered the dying state prematurely!

Just at this moment, Trundle had already arrived at the F6 camp; desperate to save his teammate, he Flashed over the wall and blocked Akshan in place with an Ice Pillar.

He charged over with his mouth wide open, looking to intimidate!

"Jie, stop!"

The original perfect strategy for this wave should have been for Akshan to complete three circles of E, combined with the three-man chain control, to directly kill the Emperor of the Sands, while Renata could revive via W.

But because of the Flash-soldier poke, Renata was destined to die early!

Ye Bo reacted quickly to change the response.

{BLG Scout killed EDG Meiko!}

At the exact moment of the kill, a silver-white mark flashed above the Emperor of the Sands' head, labeling him as a "Villain."

"You get out of the tower first, don't worry about me!"

The Volibear helped tank one tower shot and escaped outside the tower with half health.

Akshan fired his double-A crossbow bolts to kill the Emperor of the Sands, then used his refreshed E to swing back out of the tower.

{EDG Ye killed BLG Scout!}

{EDG Meiko - Renata Glasc (Revived)!}

Renata, with an eleven-second respawn timer at the fountain, revived immediately.

The level 2 Trundle was helpless, could only hold back tears, and had no choice but to eat the minion wave under the tower.

"Holy crap! Scout is falling apart!"

"Stop attacking, wait for him to kill, then kill him after he becomes a Scoundrel. I remember killing a Scoundrel gives extra gold!"

When Akshan kills a unit marked as a "Scoundrel," he gains an additional 100 gold.

Which means.

This kill on the Emperor is actually worth 300+100 gold!

"Damn, Ye Bo! This is Ye Bo's design! Nice!"

"Akshan didn't even use Flash. What is this Emperor supposed to do after dying twice at level 2? Haha!"

"Never have I seen! Such a wonderful start!"

Kid let out a joyful laugh, as if he could already see his parents rushing into the late stages of the playoffs, unable to help but excitedly wave his little Geodude in the air.

[No way, treating an old teammate like this? Turn up the intensity!]

[Cheer for me! Give me a cheer, a round of applause! OK?]

[Thief: WDNMD, I didn't see you guys come mid like this when I was at EDG! You start playing like this the moment I leave, right!]

[Kind of funny, why they can play like this now is because the mid laner is different!]

[Isn't it just that this guy lacks discipline? He has no clue about his Emperor's laning ability. If he just acted like a grandson and played safe at level 1, it would be fine. With his kiting, he still insisted on auto-attacking. I suspect if Ye Bo picked Orianna, he could solo kill him at level 1 while at full health!]

[Scout? P-cout!]

To be fair, with the same mage-farming playstyle, Scout's laning style has always been the type that refuses to back down.

Never mind Akshan, even if he really picked Orianna, it might have had the same result.

The Emperor, having died under the tower, looked at the massive wave of minions and felt his heart bleeding.

And when Meiko died, he also sent the same {Aggrieved Gnar} emote as Jiejie.

That chat message really did voice what Scout wanted to complain about.

Why didn't I see you guys play like this before!

However, Scout knew deep down that this was clearly the handiwork of that guy on the other side.

Because he had seen with his own eyes that guy brainstorm these things.

Although the support missed out in the bottom lane, the Kalista alone soaked up all the experience under the tower without any loss; the AD reaching level 6 earlier would even greatly strengthen the bottom lane's "tower dive" capability.

As for the opposing Tahm Kench and Senna, trying to force a dive on a full-health Kalista with both summoner spells at level 2 was clearly too risky.

"My bad, my bad, didn't expect Renata to roam at level 2." LQS forcibly took the blame to ease the atmosphere.

Scout let out a heavy breath; fortunately, having "endured humiliation" at BLG for this period of time, he was used to it and could quickly calm his emotions.

I must win!

I must win!

".I'll play a bit more like a turtle, I can stabilize the lane."

Akshan headed back out, choosing not to buy boots.

Instead, he bought pure, extreme laning items!

Ye Bo picked Akshan this game not only to complement this highly aggressive team composition.

He also wanted to verify one thing.

With a certain item advantage, is it possible to forcibly break through the Emperor's laning?

Actually, Ye Bo had successfully broken through Doinb's Emperor before, so he didn't have a deep sense of the "absolute sense of security" that Li Xianghe spoke of.

Among the unlocked "Proving Grounds" AI opponents, there wasn't a true "Emperor master"; the one with the highest proficiency, Rookie, only played 6 games of Emperor in 2022, with a record of 1 win and 5 losses.

So Ye Bo had no way to verify whether the laning was truly "unsolvable" when facing a top-tier proficient Emperor.

In terms of games played and proficiency on the Emperor, Scout is indeed the best in the LPL.

Seeking answers with questions, feeling the stones to cross the river.

Through three minutes of laning exploration, from Scout's laning style and operational behavior, Ye Bo indeed felt a different realization.

The Emperor's sense of security in lane isn't just because the sand soldiers' auto-attack range can even exceed Akshan's poke range—it's not that simple.

The Emperor's W "Sand Soldier Placement Distance" is equal to his own "Auto-attack Distance," both being 525 yards.

The so-called longest reach refers to using the Q ability to poke the sand soldier to the furthest controllable distance, making the distance between the two reach its limit; only after stacking them does one have the so-called longest reach.

Here is where the problem arises.

The Emperor only has one ability to "maneuver" the sand soldiers: Q.

And a level 1 Q has a full 14-second cooldown!

This means whether the Emperor chooses to use Q to "poke" for harassment, or chooses to use Q to "maneuver" the sand soldiers for positioning.

And where to maneuver the sand soldiers—whether it can simultaneously push for last-hitting and handle harassment, or even control the self-kiting while auto-attacking...

All of these require extremely high understanding and proficiency.

If these aren't done well, what "longest reach"?

It's just a long-cooldown mage with 525 yards of range!

Ye Bo became interested in this hero.

He discovered that this hero seems to truly have a sense of "deploying troops and arranging formations" at all times, whether it's simple last-hitting or other aspects.

And without a doubt, once Scout truly bit the bullet and started playing like a turtle, he did indeed bring out the Emperor's characteristics.

All the way through laning until mid-lane level 6.

Ye Bo actually couldn't find any opportunities!

Having obtained the answer, he stopped forcing it.

After all, everyone knew clearly that since Akshan was picked, there was no intention to play for the lane at all.

Of course, laning to level 6 was also because the true power spike of this EDG composition was after everyone reached level 6.

"Jiejie, I'll push the wave and go into the jungle with you."

"OK!"

Ye Bo had just given the command, but didn't expect that in the side river, the ground would suddenly be covered in frost.

Trundle was actually the one to make the first move!

"Trundle is here!"

"I'm coming, I'm coming!" Jiejie instantly stopped hitting the scuttle crab and rushed toward the mid lane.

Weiwei was just passing through while jungling, wanting to come and help Scout with some harassment.

After all, there was even less chance to gank the Gangplank in the top lane, and he needed to ensure the mid laner's development.

For this, Trundle had even given up two camps to the Emperor earlier, to compensate for the minion wave lost under the tower at level 2.

Trundle stepped on [Frozen Domain] and rushed over with a speed boost, not in a hurry to use his pillar, hoping to interrupt the opponent's E.

But Akshan had no intention of using E at all, facing Trundle's face and firing away while moving.

The next moment, a [Predator] wolf-head mark suddenly flashed above Trundle's head!

Weiwei immediately sensed danger and fled toward the tower, placing a pillar to slow down the Volibear rushing toward him.

But Akshan directly "used the pillar" to swing.

He swung and charged toward Trundle!

The Emperor was still a short distance from level 6 and could only command the sand soldier to poke for a slow, but couldn't stop the swinging figure.

"Akshan's damage is very high! This is a 2-0 Akshan who just used Ignite!"

"Wow, this Akshan is completely ignoring the Emperor! Treating you like you don't exist!"

"That's the Emperor for you!"

The Emperor's problem remains the issue of sand soldier control.

Because the Q ability's early cooldown is too long and early-game maneuvering ability is too poor, his already weak fighting ability—once encountering enemies with high mobility—almost can't hit anyone, which is the fundamental reason for his weak fighting.

Akshan was already well-equipped; he just hadn't been able to hit the Emperor until now.

Trundle took the aerial barrage head-on, his health dropping rapidly; fortunately, he hadn't chased too deep, and he managed to escape into the tower, burning and at very low health.

"That's enough, that's enough! The jungler is at very low health, EDG can take the dragon directly!"

"Eh? Can Akshan still force a kill here! He's tanking the tower!"

Akshan activated his ultimate outside the tower, moving left and right, not caring at all that he started tanking the tower.

The sniper scope aimed at Trundle, and he began to charge.

"Block it, block it!" Weiwei, at very low health, said urgently.

Scout naturally didn't need to be told; he stood in front of Trundle to block the shots, the two standing perfectly aligned, fearing a stray bullet might slip past!

But, just as Akshan finished charging.

Ye Bo found an angle.

He pulled the trigger!

The moment the sentinel bullet fired, an ultra-long-range "wall-glitch Flash" caused Akshan to instantly cross the jungle wall from outside the tower—he had actually swapped positions to end up behind the opponent!

The Emperor immediately tried to move to block.

But no one expected Akshan to flash to that position; two stray bullets had already fired, grazing past the gap in the defense!

The burning Trundle was hit in the center of his forehead!

"Oh my god, Baili Shouyue!" Sun Yalong raised his hands and shouted: "Trundle is down! Weiwei committed a major crime this time, caught red-handed by Ye Bo!"

"So handsome!" Kid beamed: "The dragon still has to be given up. Akshan is at half health, he should probably recall? But the other side definitely won't dare to contest without a jungler!"

"Ye Bo is so greedy, he's not even recalling... Oh, I get it, he really doesn't treat the Emperor as a human being!" Xika interpreted.

EDG took advantage of the jungler's death to take the small dragon.

Because Ye Bo was short on gold and believed that a level 5 Emperor of the Sands was at least one wave of minions away from hitting level 6, he did not call the jungler to help push, so as not to disrupt the tempo of the small dragon.

Ye Bo had no way of knowing.

That Emperor of the Sands had, while heading to lane earlier, taken two large jungle camps that the jungler had served up on a silver platter!

Weiwei was still frantically apologizing and taking the blame over voice chat.

Scout's face was now so flushed it was hard to tell, and for a moment, one couldn't tell if the two carries possessed the ability to clone themselves.

But when he discovered that Akshan, who had tanked several tower shots and dropped below half health, was actually still returning to push the wave,

he was suddenly struck by a wave of intense excitement!

"Don't talk, don't talk! I can solo kill him this wave!" Scout roared at the still-remorseful Weiwei.

"Bot lane! Go help me check if they've started the dragon!"

He had guessed it; the opponent likely thought he wouldn't hit level 6 so quickly, which was why they dared to come back, and he thought about how to exploit that.

The Emperor of the Sands feigned giving up the lane and acted cowardly, as if startled by Akshan's previous damage.

And as a level 5 Emperor of the Sands with a dead jungler, indeed, anyone would say there was no threat of a kill.

"They've started the dragon, the jungler is there too," Lqs said, standing far off at the jungle entrance to confirm the situation in the dragon pit.

Scout was so excited that even his fingertips were trembling slightly.

Are you not going to die this time!?

Akshan's minion wave was only two minions away from being cleared.

The Emperor of the Sands just seemingly cautiously auto-attacked with his staff to last-hit.

And at the very moment that melee minion died.

A blue glow erupted around the Emperor of the Sands; while instantly leveling up his ultimate with Ctrl+R, he suddenly dashed forward with WEQ!

Scout, with his adrenaline surging, completed this entire series of operations almost the exact moment he hit level 6!

The moment Ye Bo saw the blue glow of the level-up, he was also suddenly shocked, and in that same instant, he seemed to enter an "overclocked" state again.

The spear tips of the sand soldiers had already arrived.

The Emperor of the Sands had almost preemptively pushed out the even harder-to-defend [Emperor's Divide] while in mid-air!

{The starting point of Emperor's Divide is not at the feet of the Emperor of the Sands, but encompasses a distance of about 100 yards behind him.}

In Scout's eyes, this Akshan was already a dead man, about to be pushed into the tower where he couldn't resist and would be killed upon landing.

But the next moment.

Scout's small eyes widened as if they were about to pop out of their sockets, as if he had seen something unbelievable!

Just as the sand soldiers were right on top of him and the Emperor's Divide was being pushed out, Akshan

fired a grappling hook forward.

The [Knock-up Crowd Control] of Emperor's Divide does not take effect the moment it appears, but requires the sand soldiers' movement trajectory to be completed.

However, the [Wall] of Emperor's Divide takes effect the instant it appears.

That grappling hook seemed to grab onto a mass of tangible "air" in mid-air.

Even though there was clearly nothing there, it used the empty air as a pivot point to help Akshan launch into the air!

Performing a frantic "in-place spin" in mid-air!

"Holy crap, what is this!!!"

"Is that a CC cancel? He can even CC cancel this!?"

"Cancel my foot! It looks like the ultimate didn't even deal damage; it looks like it was dodged? That means the Emperor of the Sands missed his ultimate!"

During the frantic mid-air spin, he unleashed dozens of sharp, bone-chilling crossbow bolts, all of which were swallowed by the Emperor of the Sands who had charged in with EQ.

The terrifying burst damage caused the Emperor of the Sands' health to plummet at a speed visible to the naked eye!

He actively dismounted with his E2 leap to dash into his face again, following up with two auto-attacks and a Q.

The Emperor of the Sands was riddled with holes on the spot.

"Dan!!! Sha!!!" Sun Yalong danced around, using exaggerated body language to vent his shock: "Wow, don't tell me even this was in his calculations!?"

"Scout got played by Ye Wen, damn it!" Xika was also so shocked he was beaming, too busy to even troll.

The director quickly provided a replay.

In slow motion, the speed at which the Emperor of the Sands acted was already shockingly fast, an operation with a reaction time of almost under 1 second.

Of course, Akshan's actions also looked extremely simple, as if he had just thrown an E forward.

It didn't seem difficult at all, not even needing 1 second.

But Kid, who had the best mechanics among them, was staring intently at the replay, as if he had spotted the secret.

"Wait..." He stopped his two partners who were howling, his tone grave: "Something's wrong with Ye Wen's play here!"

"He took an extra step! And why did Akshan 'bounce' backward!"

"If it weren't for that step 'bouncing' backward, even if he had used his E, he definitely would have been pushed back by the Emperor of the Sands' ultimate! The coverage area behind the Emperor of the Sands' ultimate is huge!" Kid said decisively.

The director seemed not to have understood either, so he doubled the slow motion and replayed the key node.

This time everyone saw it clearly, just as he had said.

In that instant, it looked like Akshan had just thrown an E, but what he actually did was take a step forward first, and only then used E.

And it was precisely this step forward that changed everything.

[Damn, I think I know this! The 'Braced E'!]

[Master Ye taught Fei Fei this move before!]

[Don't badmouth Master Ye, that's called 'exchanging techniques'! But Old Li later said on stream that doing it that way was indeed better.]

Sun Yalong squinted at the pop-science experts in the chat.

Actually, the technique of "Braced E" cannot even be considered a technique itself.

It is a mechanic "not written in the skill description."

It can be summarized in one sentence: "Use it against a wall, and you can move backward!"

But because of this simple effect, many people who use it unintentionally only think they made a mistake—because using E at close range theoretically deals very low damage.

But if one deliberately uses this operation as a technique,

one can produce an "extra displacement" effect.

It is equivalent to the E, which originally has 2 stages of displacement, being able to forcibly create a 3-stage displacement effect, achieving unexpected practical value.

"Holy cow, if that's true, this Sun guy is actually a bit of a freak!" Kid was still ruminating.

"That means Ye Wen's step back wasn't a mistake; it was a deliberate attempt to get close to the wall, and then use the backward displacement of the Braced E to dodge the Emperor of the Sands' ultimate, and he even did the air-claw + in-place E!"

Sun Yalong was full of disbelief: "Can it really be that bizarre?"

"Feels like a lucky shot, right?" Xika was a bit skeptical.

Both of them were once professional players and knew very well how difficult it was to make such a decision in that instant and actually execute it.

"This must have been calculated on purpose! Otherwise, he wouldn't have taken that step! Just using E directly would have been a lucky shot!"

"This Ye Wen is simply a young version of Rookie! Holy crap, it's too damn scary!"

The excited Kid couldn't help but roar, giving the highest praise in a way that acknowledged him as a successor!

The livestream chat was exploding with massive amounts of messages!

[Really? I don't believe it!]

[He can react to this? Bro is scripting, right! Is he even human!?]

[Reported! Already reported!]

[Whatever the operation is, I only know that Dan! Sha! is getting extra food in the POW camp!]

[Zhong Fei is discussing techniques with Da Fei, and you? Xiao Fei? Whose kid are you, do you even have a seat at the table!]

[Ye Wen isn't good enough; he didn't even flash the 'You're Panicking' emote, I don't approve!]

That step forward was indeed an operation Ye Bo deliberately performed.

Because without that step forward, once the opponent used the mid-air preemptive push, it was very likely that the distance would not trigger the Braced E.

But the specific timing still had to rely on bumping into it; there was no 100% certainty of success.

Even after entering the overclocked state, he still found it difficult to clearly perceive the subtle differences in timing, and he hadn't had the chance to use the newly unlocked functions of the codex yet.

All Ye Bo could do was perform every operation he was capable of, and leave the rest to fate.

But when Akshan counter-killed his opponent,

everyone could see it.

The laning phase was over!

A truly wonderful start like never before.

Next, it was time for the ahead-in-farm Akshan's showtime!

The operation has been restored in the chapter notes!

I originally wanted to write 5k, but I accidentally wrote it wrong~,~.

5k+8k, I will finish this match tonight!

[PS]: It will most likely be after 12 o'clock tonight, probably early morning, because it's 12 o'clock noon now, and I guess I'll be up by tonight.

Thanks to the brothers for the monthly tickets!

Thanks to the brothers for the support!

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