The Match (2)

Within the forest of the jungle, an assassin silently kills the monsters that spawn whilst he levelled up. Moments later, he quickly made way towards the top.

"Hey! Where's the damn rotation?!" A man by the name of Wenzhou shouted out as he fought off against a man from Ten Swords within the lane. "Where's this damn Revelen?!"

"Hah. You need back up to be able to beat me?" The man that Wenzhou was fighting against sneered.

"You! Just wait till I get my farm!" he shouted out in anger as he leapt forward with his axe. Quickly, he broke the ground around him.

"You're so easy to anger~" The man jumped back towards the turret that protected him, thus avoiding the attack. Soon after, he sent two waves of slashes over to Wenzhou, quickly lowering his HP. "You can't even kill little old me."

"Grr...! You think that turret will protect you?" Wenzhou said as he jumped into the turret that the man was near. Gripping onto his axe, he swept it in an arc, successfully hitting the man. However, in exchange for doing so, he took massive damage from the shots coming from the turret.

"...argh! Damn it!" Wenzhou clicked his tongue as he saw his HP dropped greatly. Hurriedly, he fell back to the open fields. The moment he retracted back, a shadow came out of the bush as it jumped towards the turret.

[ Revelen has killed Yupin! ]

"Hey! Revelen! Where the heck were you?!" he frowned as he saw Revelen coming out of the turret.

"Don't get so aggressive early game and watch the map," he said whilst going back to the jungle.

"Tch!"

...

"Oh! That was a nice kill by Revelen! Yupin never saw that coming!" Charles commentated.

"Yes, yes! His ability to always come at the right timing is scary! The enemy least expects it!" Vick said.

"Yupin must have got confident due to the fight ongoing in the bottom lane, he may have thought that Revelen would have gone there to counter the gank."

"Wenzhou is good at sustaining huh? But he's way too arrogant when it comes to solo battles. If it weren't for Revelen, he would have died."

The two commentators continued talking as the battle continued on.

At the bottom lane, Ensia and Kaisus battled against the countless attacks coming from the players from Ten Swords. The two were in a disadvantageous situation where they were outnumbered by 1.

"...these guys are persistent!" Ensia said whilst hurriedly casting a blizzard spell that froze the ground in front of them.

"Stay calm, Ensia... We'll wait for when Hikari arrives to turn the situation around," Kaisus calmly said as he sent multiple waves of attack to the enemy, pushing them back.

"Hikari? She's being tied up in the middle..." she said. "Won't we die here while waiting?"

"If things go accordingly, then we'll be able to win this."

...

Large bursts of explosion rang through the battlefield as a woman stood at the backlines casting them. Her continuous casting quickly pushed the auburn-haired woman, Hikari back towards to her own turret in defence.

"Ack... These explosions are too much..." Hikari said whilst healing herself. "If I don't do anything right now... Bottom will fall!" she muttered as she quickly sent a pillar of light towards the center of the area.

"Oho! Just face the explosions already! It's a lost cause trying to sustain now!" The woman continued casting as she shouted out amidst the explosions.

"Mm..." Struggling to find a way out of the situation. she turned to look at the map. Seeing Wenzhou stayed at the top whilst Revelen made his way towards her, she thought up of a plan, "Maybe if Revelen comes in time..."

The explosions continued on as Hikari was forced back further to avoid the attacks. However, although she tried to avoid them. Her health still dropped.

Not wanting to lose against the onslaught, Hikari hurriedly casted multiple spells of her own over towards the mage. The two were basically trading damage, however, one side was clearly at a disadvantage in terms of raw power.

"Are we really going at it like this?" she asked as a blazing aura protruded around her staff. "I'm just going to end this now!"

"...ugh!" Hikari grunted as she saw the attack animation. Before long, if the animation completes, she would instantly die. As the blazing force forced itself towards the battlefield, she suddenly heard a quiet voice from the shadows.

"Hikari, White Silence, now!" The voice said.

"Right!" she took a deep breath, calming herself down. Moments later, she casted a silent white light over towards the woman whilst distracted with the blaze that she was casting.

[ Holy Priest - White Silence ]

"...!!" The woman abruptly took a step back from shock. "T-That skill wasn't on cooldown?!"

"I never used it. Where did you get the impression I did?" she said, as she moved towards the middle bushes, quickly making her way to the bottom lane. Simultaneously, a shadow appeared from the top as he swept through the woman, successfully killing her.

[ Revelen has killed Relis! ]

...

"Oh! That was a turn around from Hikari!" Vick shouted out.

"Damn, Ten Swords is being quite overconfident for the first match huh?" Charles said. "First it was Yupin, now it was Relis. Is it because the presence of Shinto is not here?"

"Hmm... Their rotation is falling off. Revelen is going to each lane and just ganking the players on there. What's Trev, Richess and Polin doing? They've been staying at the bottom for quite some time now."

"The three seem to be in a deadlock despite being in a 2v3 situation..." Charles analyzed. "Just what are they planning?"

...

Watching the battle through his television screen, Zayden couldn't help but raise his brow in suspicion. "Huh? What's with these terrible plays coming from Ten Swords?"

The way Ten Swords was playing was as if they are deliberately making the flow of battle go towards Vain Blood's side, which made Ten Swords at a terrible disadvantageous in the early game.

"...are they throwing the first match or something?" he thought to himself. "If this continues on, then they'll surely lose."

Following up with the death of Relis, Revelen scurried behind Hikari as they made their way over towards the bottom lane. The four successfully turned the situation around and from there, the tides of battle went to Vain Blood's favour.

"Oh! The inhibitors down! Is this the end for Ten Swords?!" Vick said excitedly.

"Will they make a comeback?" Charles curiously asked.

At the end of the match, Vain Blood successfully won their first game.

"...just what was that match? Despite seeing Vain Blood win, Zayden couldn't help but feel nothing to the effortless victory. "The way Ten Swords made their play was really anti-climatic... that's quite unusual of them," he said as he scurried over towards his phone. "Well... I'll just see what they'll do in the next match."