A battle was on the verge of breaking out, and viewers across both live streams held their breath in suspense.

Aside from [Abyssal Lord] taking First Blood early on, the Blue team hadn’t won a single small team fight since. They lost a 2v2 in the mid lane, and the bottom lane was an absolute disaster—the marksman and jungler were practically driven into a state of silent despair.

Meanwhile, the Red side’s marksman had collected 3 kills, and their mid laner held 3 kills as well.

With a kill score of 6:1, no matter how one looked at it, the Red team was bound to win this team fight.

Ye Shaoyang typed out: “Everyone turn on voice chat.”

The game had a built-in voice channel. His teammates quickly tapped the speaker icon in the top left corner, immediately hearing a clear, refined male voice in their ears: “Everyone, don’t cluster together in a moment. Split up and hide behind the tower. Their [Holy Paladin] has team-wide crowd control.”

The Blue team’s minion wave was rapidly cleared out by the 5 members of the Red team.

The exact moment the Red minion wave entered the tower, the thick-skinned and meat-shielded [Holy Paladin] took the lead and leaped straight in!

As the tank with the thickest armor in the whole game, the Holy Paladin’s health pool was double that of anyone else.

With him charging in like this, even if several Blue team members combined their firepower, they might not necessarily be able to kill him.

“Fall back. Don’t hit the Holy Paladin—focus solely on clearing the minion wave.” Ye Shaoyang rapidly dragged his mouse to scan the opponent’s positioning, speaking at a lightning-fast pace: “Support, use your speed buff. Berserker, loop around from the left to stun their marksman! He’s hiding right there!”

As Ye Shaoyang spoke, he placed a signal ping in a blind spot on the map, indicating the enemy marksman’s location.

In reality, the enemy marksman’s position wasn’t visible within their line of sight.

However, the enemy support had shown his face. The positioning between a support and a marksman followed a clear pattern; the marksman was bound to be in the bush directly behind the support, which was currently the safest position to deal damage.

Hearing his command, the two players immediately sprang into action.

The support and the Berserker suddenly activated their speed buff and charged forward. Everyone assumed they were going to head-on clash with the Holy Paladin, but unexpectedly, the two looped around from the left side, flanking straight to the backline and slashing their blade into the bush!

Almost at the exact same moment, three dark shadows silently emerged—

Night Envoy, Abyssal Gaze, Bloody Vengeance!

Pressing three abilities in rapid succession—apply mark, apply mark, detonate marks—Ye Shaoyang’s hand speed was outrageously fast. Before the enemy marksman could even realize what was happening, he was instantly taken down by his full combo.

——[Xiao Bai ([Abyssal Lord])] killed [Mo Mo Ah ([Sharpshooter])]!

The Berserker’s control effect could only stun a target for 1 second.

And Ye Shaoyang only needed that exact 1 second to execute a kill.

What was even more infuriating was that immediately after securing the kill, he swapped positions with his dark shadow, vanishing straight back into the bush.

Xie Yu stomped his feet in fury: “Is our marksman an idiot? Dying the moment the team fight starts, dealing 0 damage?”

The marksman player was equally enraged: “I was hiding in a bush! How was I supposed to know they would suddenly loop around?”

Xie Yu didn’t bother arguing with him: “Quickly kill the rest of them and push down their mid tower!”

However, the Blue team’s [Holy Spirit Archer] possessed a massive advantage—out of all marksmen, he had the longest attack range.

This was precisely the key reason why Ye Shaoyang had instructed his teammate to pick Holy Spirit Archer right at the start.

At this moment, the Holy Spirit Archer was hiding far in the distance, rapidly killing off the minion wave.

With an ugly expression on his face, Xie Yu charged forward alongside his teammates, forcibly taking out both the marksman and the Berserker in one swoop.

However, right before the marksman died—he finished clearing the minion wave!

Without a minion wave, defense towers would strike any enemy players entering their radius, each hit hurting more than the last—a barrage no one could withstand. Xie Yu had half his health chunked off by the defense tower, forcing him to split up from his teammates and retreat. During the retreat, he happened to bump into the enemy jungler lurking in the bush. Seeing that things looked grim, the jungler immediately vaulted over the wall to flee. Xie Yu chased him all the way and cut him down at the river course.

Xie Yu claimed another kill.

In this single team fight, he secured three kills—a Triple Kill!

The live stream chat was flooded with “Fish Bro 666”, yet he felt extraordinarily uncomfortable.

Could this team fight be considered a win? They killed 3 enemies while only losing 1 of their own, so on the surface, it seemed like a victory.

However, they failed to push down the mid tower, and the Abyssal Lord had escaped!

Furthermore, after instantly deleting the marksman…

He actually ran off to the top lane to push the minion wave?!

In a typical ranked match, a player doing this would be flamed to death by their teammates. You just dump your full combo, run away, and ignore whether your teammates live or die? While everyone else is fighting a team fight in the mid lane, you freaking abandon it halfway to push top lane?

Xie Yu was angry enough to smash his keyboard.

While they were wildly killing in the team fight, they failed to notice for a brief moment that [Abyssal Lord] had slipped away to the top lane. Leading a wave of minions, he destroyed the top outer tower and even pushed all the way near the inner tower, rapidly tearing it down as well.

Did they win the team fight? They won.

But did they gain an advantage? Not at all.

The enemy side lost three players, but his own team lost two towers!

With a grim face, Xie Yu sat up straight and typed with blazing hand speed: “Support, focus on protecting the marksman. Everyone head back to recall and reset, then we’ll go for another wave shortly. I have 6 kills in hand—their gold deficit is too large, they can’t win a team fight against us!”

Indeed, they couldn’t win a team fight.

So next, the Blue team began avoiding fights altogether.

Ye Shaoyang issued commands over the voice channel: “Berserker, go push the wave in the top lane. Once you reach near the river, recall back home.”

“Marksman take the bottom lane wave. I’ll take the jungle.”

“Mid lane group up to hold for a wave.”

“Support, turn on speed buff and assist the jungler in stealing the small dragon.”

“Bottom lane minion wave—marksman and support go clear it. Once pushed to the river, turn on speed buff and head back home.”

The voice continuously echoing through the voice channel was extremely pleasant to hear, and his shotcalling was exceptionally calm.

Taking a bird’s-eye view of all three lanes, he orchestrated the entire map.

The minion waves across all three lanes were kept under his absolute control.

Under his direction, despite suffering a kill deficit, the Blue team maintained a smooth and steady pace of development.

The marksman who was nearly driven into silent despair at the start finally realized what was happening: “Big Boss, are we playing guerrilla tactics?”

“Exactly. The enemy’s economy is far higher than ours, so we temporarily avoid their edge. Drag the game out to the 20-minute mark.”

At this point, even though the Red team players held 9 kills, they felt utterly miserable.

Miserable to the extreme.

It felt like possessing supreme martial arts skill, yet having nowhere to vent their power.

Seeing someone reveal themselves in the top lane, they would head over to encircle top, only for the target to run away the moment the minion wave was cleared. Though the [Berserker] was squishy, he had multiple dash abilities and couldn’t be caught!

When the marksman and support showed up in the bottom lane, they moved in to surround them, only for the support to pop a speed buff and flee again—still uncatchable.

As for the mid lane…

Where was the mid lane’s [Abyssal Lord]?

Xie Yu was shocked to discover that [Abyssal Lord] was nowhere to be seen in any of the three lanes, meaning he had definitely entered the jungle.

Having the jungler push lane waves while he farmed experience and developed in the jungle—he had truly never seen such a mid laner before!

The kill score remained frozen at 9:2.

Whether in kills or gold, the Red team held a massive lead.

Yet they simply couldn’t end the game.

The enemy team was a bunch of squishies, but every single one of them ran faster than a rabbit!

Xie Yu gritted his teeth: “Start the Big Dragon. Force a team fight directly—don’t waste time dawdling with them!”

All five members rapidly assembled at the Big Dragon pit. Their support player was also quite experienced, placing vision wards everywhere around the area. The moment Ye Shaoyang noticed all 5 enemies missing from the map, he immediately pinged a location indicator on the Big Dragon BOSS spot.

The Big Dragon, officially named [Ancient Tyrant], was a crucial neutral wild BOSS in this game.

Upon slaying the BOSS, the entire team’s attack power and defense would receive a massive boost, and minion waves would transform into high-damage Tyrant Captains. At that point, winning a team fight and ending the game in one push would be an absolute breeze.

“Marksman push the bottom wave, jungler clear the mid lane wave. Top laner and support follow me to check the Big Dragon,” Ye Shaoyang’s voice sounded out.

The jungler and marksman immediately followed his arrangements to handle the lane waves, while the remaining three activated their speed buffs and approached the Boss pit.

“Xiao Rui, go bait.”

Having duo-queued with his cousin for so long, Qin Rui naturally understood what that phrase meant.

——To bait meant sacrificing himself to create an opportunity for his teammate.

In the past, he was terrified of dying; whenever he faced high-level opponents, he would be too scared to even step outside his tower.

But things were different now.

Behind him stood Ye Shaoyang.

Qin Rui decisively ran near the Big Dragon pit to bait himself. The enemy support was lurking in a bush on defense while the other four were rapidly bursting down the Big Dragon, which was already whittled down to low health.

Qin Rui was squishy to begin with; running straight into their faces, he was instantly deleted.

However, his brief 2-second appearance granted Ye Shaoyang vision, allowing him to clearly see the enemy’s health status and positioning.

Ye Shaoyang called out decisively: “Go!”

The Berserker, wielding his massive blade, charged swiftly into the dragon pit and executed a direct “Cleave,” knocking three people near the pit into a stun with a single slash!

The next instant, Xie Yu noticed a black eye mark appear above the Big Dragon BOSS’s head.

Oh no!

That black eye was the lock-on mark of the [Abyssal Lord]!

Almost simultaneously, three dark shadows darted out like the wind. All marks burst with a loud boom—the [Abyssal Lord] lurking in the shadows used his ultimate ability, Bloody Vengeance, instantly executing the Big Dragon in a single flash!

——Our side’s [Xiao Bai] stole the Ancient Tyrant from the enemies!

Immediately after, the dark shadows passed through the wall. Ye Shaoyang swapped positions with his shadow and made a swift escape.

The Berserker also rapidly popped his mobility dashes and fled.

The actions of the two seemed to convey a message: Stole the dragon and ran—can’t catch us, can you?

Xie Yu: “I’ll ****!”

In the voice channel, the marksman player shouted in excitement: “Awesome, awesome! How did you even manage to steal the Big Dragon from that?!”

The Berserker who executed the play alongside him also typed out a row of “666”s.

Ye Shaoyang said: “It was thanks to everyone’s great coordination. Bottom lane, take down their inner tower while you’re at it.”

Marksman: “Understood!”

Xie Yu stomped his feet in pure rage!

How could this happen?

Their economy was so much higher than the enemy’s, yet they constantly failed to gain an advantage in team fights.

The imagined stomp scenario hadn’t materialized at all.

Xie Yu took a deep breath: “Just terrible luck, let’s go again.”

His mental state had already been compromised. Holding 7 kills in hand, he was seeing red and wanted nothing more than to terminate the match as quickly as possible. What he failed to realize was that through repeated lane pushing, the enemy team’s gold gap had already caught up.

Both sides entered a deadlock phase.

Ye Shaoyang calmly directed his teammates in wave management, escaping, rotating…

This style of guerrilla tactics drove Xie Yu completely insane with frustration.

The match quickly dragged to the 20-minute mark.

The late game had arrived, and both the mage and marksman had completed their full item builds.

Ye Shaoyang stated decisively: “Group up mid, we counter-attack.”

His teammates grouped up and pushed forward; both sides clashed at the mid-lane river course!

With the Blue side constantly dodging fights, Xie Yu had long accumulated a belly full of rage. The moment his teammate’s [Holy Paladin] charged in to initiate, his hand speed exploded, directly controlling his [Illusionist] to force a kill on the enemy marksman—if he couldn’t spot the Abyssal Lord, he could at least wipe out the marksman, their primary source of output!

Unexpectedly, Qin Rui activated his ultimate ability, Life Shield, just in time.

With this shield applied, the marksman essentially gained a second life.

Xie Yu’s burst combo failed to kill the marksman, and the marksman player Flashed over the wall to escape.

At the exact same moment, Ye Shaoyang, controlling Abyssal Lord, Flashed directly into the enemy backline, instantly deleting the enemy marksman in a flash!

——So your marksman is super well-farmed with high gold?

——I’ll use the “Team Fight Marksman Disappearing Act” to leave him with zero damage output.

This ambush assassination completely turned the tide of the battle.

The Blue side established a 5v4 advantage.

At this point, the performance gap between the two mid laners became fully apparent. The [Illusionist] was exceptionally strong in the early game, but fell off hard in the late game—if his single burst combo failed to kill someone, he was left with no further output.

Conversely, the [Abyssal Lord] was terrifyingly strong once his build matured. As long as he secured a kill, he could trigger Vengeance Mode, resetting his ability cooldowns to continue killing!

——Double Kill!

——Triple Kill!

Three dark shadows zipped around frantically, making it impossible to even track his mechanics.

The enemy carry positions were wiped out in an instant, leaving behind only their tank and support.

The [Holy Paladin] was thick-skinned? The [Forest Envoy] possessed massive healing output?

But what use was having only a tank and a healer left?

A clunky-moving Holy Paladin and a damage-less healer could only be kite-killed from afar by the Blue side’s archer!

Only now did everyone finally comprehend how crucial the “high mobility” Ye Shaoyang mentioned at the beginning truly was.

A clumsy hero like [Holy Paladin], when facing a highly mobile composition, couldn’t exert any strength at all! He dragged his heavy body around, chasing the Blue side’s marksman who was left with a single sliver of health…

Yet he could never catch up.

With the speed buff provided by the support, the Holy Spirit Archer fired while running, shooting down both the tank and the healer!

Securing a Double Kill, the marksman player shouted at the top of his lungs: “Holy crap, we won, we won! Enemy team wipe! I’m about to rank up to Supreme King, ahhhhh!” The player opened his mic in wild excitement, his voice breaking from screaming.

The jungler said: “I thought we were going to lose this match. Big Boss is insane!”

The Berserker player continued to type out a string of “666”s.

It was truly so satisfying.

Having been suppressed and beaten in the early game, a single late-game turnaround wiped out the entire enemy team.

Ye Shaoyang led his teammates all the way to push down the crystal base.

Right before the match ended, he typed a few lines in global chat—

[Xiao Bai]: This is a 5-player tower-pushing game.

[Xiao Bai]: Not a solo showcase.

[Xiao Bai]: Thanks for the game ^_^

Xie Yu: “……………….”