Chapter 369 – 369. World Championship Group Stage (17)

Cyber ​​Akuma was destroyed, but the players entered the waiting room with sullen expressions.

“Everyone did a good job. It’s an all-time record that won’t happen again in 14 minutes!”

Even Hwang Ji-yeon praised the players and showed a confused expression of joy, but the players did not change.
I realized it was time for me to step in and appease them.

“Good job everyone. You can play the 10-minute game again next time.”

At those words, their faces brightened slightly.

There is still time until the next game.
We relieved our disappointment by watching the other games in Group A.

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Taiwan eSports supporter, Bang Bang, was not happy at all even after winning the remaining matches in Group A.

It was because the match between Battle Angels and Cyber ​​Akuma was stuck in my head.

‘How can he win like that?’

With a sense of danger, hair stood up all over her body.
It felt like a predator had appeared in the Serengeti grasslands, where only herbivores live.

The feeling that her companions have been eaten one by one and that it is finally her turn.

Bang Bang gritted his teeth.
He never wanted to face a meaningless end.

Even his team, Taiwan Esports, had a final record of 3 wins and 2 losses, the same as Cyber ​​Akuma.
If they beat the Battle Angels here, they will advance to the round of 16, otherwise they will have to play a ranking match.

But even at such an important moment, the situation was hopeless.
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t seem to beat the Battle Angels, who finished the game in 14 minutes in the previous game.
As long as you don’t use expedients.

‘Huh?’

But then, one person stood out to him.

In front of the waiting room, there was a person leaning against the wall with a stuffy look.
He looked tall enough to be 2M tall, and on this hot day, he was wrapped up tightly so that no skin color was visible, so I couldn’t tell who he was.

“Drink if you want to win.”

As he cautiously approached, the unknown spoke in a low-pitched voice.
And a plastic bottle containing an unknown liquid that is handed out to him.

“…Who are you.”

Bang Bang glared at him with ferocious eyes.
But he didn’t open his mouth any more, just turned around and disappeared at the end of his hallway.

‘I should have reported it.’

Left alone, Bang Bang looked at the plastic bottle in his hand with a disgusted face.
He wasn’t sure what, but he seemed certain that he had been given a chance.

I will do anything as long as I can win.
Surely you didn’t think so.

He gripped the bottle tightly.

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The last game of Group A and the last game of the group stage is approaching.
If we win this game, we will advance to the round of 16 with all wins in the group stage.

“Be vigilant until the end and win!”

Hwang Ji-yeon said with fighting spirit.
Then, the players also slowly made their way to the stadium with determined faces.

The audience was screaming with anticipation, perhaps because of the match we had previously shown.

‘I don’t know how it will be this time.’

In the match against Cyber ​​Akuma, we were able to win much easier than we thought because the opponent was so scared of us.
However, Taiwanese esports, which we will face this time, will never be the same as before.
This is because it was a team famous for its belligerence, which did not yield to any strong team.

The game started while I was thinking.

The commentators also clearly expressed their expectations for our match.

“Because of their impressive appearance in the last match, many experts have high regard for Battle Angels.”
“A little while ago, I also talked with American commentators. The chances of winning Battle Angels are very high! I am really looking forward to that!”
“Because they are Battle Angels who show a lot of different strategies, I wonder what they will show us this time?”

According to Hwang Ji-yeon, she has no plans to use any special tactics in this game.
Just as she often does in Korean leagues, she intends to pick and shoot tier characters.

After a while the game started.
Taiwanese eSports, the opponent, also seemed to be trying to make a combination they were good at by taking a pick they were confident in rather than using a unique strategy.

After the ban pick was over, both teams passed the very early half while defending against invades without difficulty.
Although it was a Taiwanese eSports game where he exchanged one loss with Cyber ​​Akuma, he surprised the commentator by showing that he was holding up much better than that.

“He’s doing better in line battles than I thought.”
“Cyber ​​Akuma is a defensive team and Taiwan eSports is an aggressive team, so there were many opinions that if it collapsed, Taiwan eSports would collapse even faster, but it was very different from what I expected.”
“Still, I don’t think I’ll beat the Battle Angels. The Battle Angels continue to gnaw through opponents!”

Then, it was at the bottom line that something strange happened.
The moment Ryu Seo-yoon’s skill was missing in the situation where he was playing the lane without difficulty, Bang Bang, a supporter of Taiwan’s e-sports, clung to him.

“Uh… !”

It was very good focusing.
Coincidentally, Ryu Seo-yoon was in a slightly forward position, and the CC was properly connected, so he fell into a crisis in an instant.
Baek Ha-yan tried to suppress the damage as much as possible by asking the opponent’s one-deal, but in the end, both of them ran back through blinking.

“Taiwan Esports!”
“Battle Angels’ bot duo is a strong enough line to be a carry role within the team, and they trade deals very well against them!”
“It’s unfortunate that it didn’t lead to a kill, but it’s an angle that can be won enough with the following dives.”

As predicted by the commentators, a great operation began with the jungler and mid laner nearby.
Our players were also moving as much as possible in line with the opponent’s movements, but it took a while to join because Lee Ji-hye was in the upper jungle.

In the meantime, the mid and jungle of Taiwan eSports succeeded in returning behind the bottom 1st tower, completing the dive angle.
Baek Ha-yan and Ryu Seo-yoon are completely surrounded and find themselves in a situation where they cannot do this or that.

“The whereabouts of the game depends on whether or not you pick this up cleanly!”
“The composition is very good! Even if Luna tries to join, it will take quite a while!”

At the same time, a whirlpool suddenly appears in the Battle Angels’ bottom 1st turret.
The tower’s Kangyul had fallen behind before I knew it, so I used the teleport.

Thanks to this, Taiwanese eSports got nervous and tried to dive even before the creeps had reached the tower yet.

After looking at each other and attacking Ryu Seo-yoon, the tower aggro bounces off the mid laner.
Ryu Seo-yoon was in a state where blinking was missing, so he could not resist for a while and died right away.

But in the meantime, Baek Ha-yan succeeds in tying up the supporter and the one-dealer of Taiwan esports coming from the other side using CC.

“Do you think I should get out of here?!”
“It’s a pretty big gain to win Ryu! Until now, no team has successfully dived the Battle Angels in the World Championship!”
“Do you go in one more time?! Taiwan eSports!”

And the Taiwanese esports players were greedy and even went into white-white attacks.
The tower aggro bounced off the jungler because the mid laner, which was attracted to the tower aggro, escaped out of the tower through flashing.

However, Kang Yul’s Minotaur, who had arrived by teleport, slammed the ground and launched Taiwan’s one-dealer and supporter into the air at once.

“Aaaaa!!! It’s a big deal!!”
“Dive fiasco! I fought too long with a tower!”
“If this is the case, I think it would have been better if only Ryu had won!”

Commentators scream like screams.
As much as that, the great battle that began with Kangyul’s Minotaur’s CC was dramatic.

When two people completely floated in the air, Taiwan eSports became like a one-man dive.
Still, he succeeded in picking up white white, but he was hit by a tower and disappeared fiercely, and because of that, the remaining supporters and AD dealers had nowhere to go.

Only then did they turn around and retreat a long way, but Luna, who had joined before they knew it, was coming in from the back line.
The Taiwanese eSports mid laner, who retreated a while ago, was already knocked out, and now all that remains are the AD dealer and support, who have lost their health after being hit by towers.

It wasn’t long before the one deal with no health was hit by Kang Yul’s rushing attack and disappeared without power.
The supporter succeeded in falling into Taiwan Esports’ bottom 1st turret, but was unable to avoid Yuna Han’s skill that flew right in front of the tower and died in the end.

In the end, Dive benefited greatly from Battle Angels in a 2-4 exchange.

“If this is the case, the momentum has tilted considerably toward the Battle Angels again, right?”
“If you hand over the initiative to the Battle Angels plane, which has a high level of operation, it will be difficult to stop the rolling snowball, right?”
“Wisdom has already destroyed a lot of Taiwanese eSports mid-tier 1 turrets. The snow ball is already rolling!”

Afterwards, the bot duo of both teams returned to the line and showed completely different aspects.
Although the Battle Angels benefited from the dive, nobody got a kill from the bottom line.
However, when Ryu Seo-yoon and Baek Ha-yan pushed hard, the bot duo of Taiwan eSports was only in a hurry to retreat.

Moreover, it wasn’t long before supporter Bang Bang made a mistake.
I don’t know what happened, but I couldn’t concentrate and got his position wrong, so I gave him a big deal angle.

A Taiwanese eSports team trying to hug a tower after being defeated in a deal exchange.

This time, our team will try the turret dive.
If the opponent went to the siege operation, our strategy was to hit and run quickly using speed.

In the vanguard, Han Yu-na quickly went in first and attacked her opponent’s one-hander, and in response, the supporter fired CC to block the attack, but she used a flash that she hadn’t used before and lightly escaped.

Afterwards, the opposing bot duo, who had lost all their strength, was allowed to dive if they gave a kill so helplessly.

“Then the game broke!”
“I can’t stop… You can’t stop the Battle Angels who are on fire!”
“This is the Dive! Taiwan eSports! Dive is like this! You did it very well!”

Contrary to their ambitious appearance in the beginning, the opposing bot duo continued to show that they could not substitute for our operation.
In the end, our team won the last game of the group stage, the Taiwan Esports match, and we advanced to the round of 16 with all wins in the group stage.

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When the game was over, Bang Bang player couldn’t hold back his anger and slammed his fist on the wall.

“Whoa… “

It was the first time in my life that I felt helpless.
That moment when I couldn’t do anything but panic when I saw my opponent’s physical.

Even thinking about it now that everything is over, it was an embarrassing feeling that made my teeth tremble.

‘Would it be different if I drank the liquid that strange guy gave me?’

He remembered what had happened before the game started.
An unknown assailant who seems to have visited him.
And the unknown plastic bottle he handed over.

But he didn’t drink the liquid after all.
Do you mean to eat food given to you by someone you don’t know what it is?

I still don’t regret that decision, but I couldn’t help but feel something ominous.

‘What the hell is going on… ‘