Chapter 408 – 408. Being a Pro (7)

The screen changed to reveal Hua’s face.

It was a very tired and irritable impression.
What was certain was that her condition was worsening in real time thanks to her reliance on the drug.

‘So who would resort to drugs or something?’

This is because it is a natural training method that makes you stronger with sex instead of medicine.
Compared to stimulating drugs, you could call it pure vegan!

‘If regular players see it, cheats and medicines are both there.’

Nonetheless, there is no fear that this fact will be discovered in any case.
If I just keep my mouth shut, our players will be honorable for the rest of their lives.

The game was running towards the end.
BES pushed the Battle Angels more and more aggressively to finish the game before Ragnarok.
However, the more hastily you step on it, the easier it is to get your feet twisted and fall.

The combination of BES was nothing like taiyaki without red beans without Hua.

The Battle Angels players were aiming for that part and boldly team-fighted each time Hua missed for a split push.

“GODOG goes in!”
“Hua! No Hua!”
“Teleport falling backwards!”
“The teamfight is already over! Sia succeeds in assassinating the BES bot duo!”

But when Hua appears, he quickly falls back and kills time.
As if the goal was to make the game sluggish rather than winning teamfights.

And if that was the goal, even if it succeeded, it was very successful.
BES couldn’t finish the game in the end and faced Ragnarok.

Before I knew it, the game time reached close to an hour.

“The moment has finally come. Now the shop is no longer available!”
“It’s a fierce bloody battle from point to point! But now we have no choice but to win.”
“From this moment on, you must never die! Because it doesn’t respawn!”

Athletes preparing for the final engagement.
Accordingly, commentators and casters could not hide their excitement.

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Early in the third set, the Battle Angels seemed to have the upper hand.
However, Hua’s performance gave up all the gains he had gained in the beginning.

The community was filled with regretful exclamation.

[Oh really… It was good at first, but why did it become like this?]
[I should have rolled the snowball I got from the laning match, but I kept getting fired.]
[You guys just lose lol]
[It’s ridiculous to be eliminated in the quarterfinals. Please win.]
[Even your opponent can’t finish it lol Are you going to go to Ragnarok?]
[Wow, Sia is crazy. She kills it there and comes out.]

I expected it to some extent, but as the match actually got longer, the fans’ nervousness only grew.
Among the Korean teams that made it to the quarterfinals, there was also Mad Tiger Gaming, but everyone had a vague feeling.

Even if you fight Battle Angels in Korea, it is not easy to win Mad Tiger Gaming, which loses in very high cases.
After all, the Battle Angels, who are the 1st in the ACK League and have reached the World Championship as a tier 1, have to play an active role.

But, did the earnest prayers of the fans reach the sky?

As Ragnarok started and the map started to get narrower, BES mistakes popped up one after another.

First of all, the biggest mistake was that right before the shop disappeared, players who had already picked up a full item must take an elixir, but Chan9, the one-hander of BES, forgot it.

“Chan9 players… Looking at it now, it looks like you didn’t take the elixir?!”
“Ah, this is a bit of a fatal mistake. Any other position would be fine, but I should have taken the one deal.”

The elixir was the final item that temporarily raised a character’s stats.
There were cases where elixirs were strategically used at early to mid-game timing, but since they were expensive and time-based items, they were rarely used unless it was a really important moment.

So, in other words, it is mainly used only when the item window is full and you can no longer use it even if you earn money.
And that meant that if the item window was full and there was money left, not buying the elixir would be a loss.

Especially on the Ragnarok page, where the store is no longer available, there was no reason not to buy it.

That wasn’t the only mistake BES made.
Top player 7890 went too far and got beaten up by Ryu.

Thanks to that, player 7890’s physical strength is about half.
It could be seen as a very fatal mistake in a situation where he could not recover his physical strength again.

“The situation is very good right now!”
“Moreover, the Battle Angels composition was originally a teamfight composition! It is much more advantageous in Ragnarok than a combination of BES that is good for split push!”
“It’s a hopeless situation for BES. In the meantime, BES has benefited from the one-on-one composition and the one-by-one structure, right? But now the map is so narrow that I can’t play well!”

Every time the map gets tighter, BES gets cornered.
From the standpoint of BES, where Hua can solve something only when the free deal angle comes out, I had no choice but to pay attention.

And Battle Angels’ victory plan has become very simple.
If Hua’s location was correctly identified on the already narrow map and only checked, he would never be able to enter first.

It was a team fight in the 55th minute that put an end to the game.
Now that the environment has really become difficult to hide anywhere, BES’s top player, 7890, boldly took the initiative.

Hyunmu shook the ground and charged towards the Battle Angels players who were united.
The Battle Angels players scattered left and right in an instant.

Thanks to that, no player hit the ultimate, but Ryu, who was in an unfavorable situation, blinked.
Seeing that scene, Hua boldly aimed at Ryu.

It was a super special move that utilized the dash skill and flashing.

“Ryuuuuu!!!”

However, with Tinkerbell’s exhaustion, Cockatrice’s ultimate, and Ryu’s moving, Ryu survives with nearly half of his physical strength.
Too many resources were invested to save just one moment, but that was enough.

At the same time as Hua’s entry, GODOG and Sia from the tower also entered BES’ main unit.

Kraken’s ultimate hits the jackpot on BES’s main force, which was rushing to support Hua’s charge.
And Sia’s assassination show started.

After performing a one-com on Hermes, who was the first one in front, he briefly turned around to avoid Medusa’s ultimate and immediately counterattacked, putting him in a dying state.
The dealer, Chan9, tried his best to the end, but even he could only survive.

Chan9 stood by the sidelines and watched Hua at the end of Ragnarok.

Player 7890, who had gone deep into the Battle Angels’ camp, collapsed before he knew it, and Hua was left alone, desperately resisting.
But it didn’t take long for her to be subdued as well.

No matter how good your physical skills are, you can’t survive when your CC skills are connected.
Hua’s Ares met her death faster than it entered.

All that was left was the daughters Chan9 and Xian’s Medusa.

After catching her breath for a moment, Sia charges at the rest of the BES once again.
Chan9 and Xian blow away their blind skills.

Sia, who had no survival skills including blinking, met her death, but thanks to this, BES had no means to resist.
As the last remaining player finishes, a strong cheer erupts.

Wow!!!

Regardless of which team they cheered for, it was a splendid and cool teamfight.
However, since it is a situation where even passing each other’s fists is fatal, the result of a somewhat one-sided exchange of 1 to 5 only came out.

“GG!!”
“Battle Angels manage to take the win by defending the incoming Hua well!”
“Now we really have one step left. If we win the last one, it will be the semifinals of our dreams!”

Along with the exasperated voices of the commentators, the players who looked very tired came out of the capsule and returned to the waiting room.
It was not strange at all even if my whole body was exhausted after playing a game that lasted almost an hour.

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“Good job.”

As the players entered, I personally hugged them one by one and praised them.
Even though the girls were shy, they didn’t avoid my arms.

Or very aggressively digging in.

“Ughhhhh… It was so hard… I worked hard while thinking of the director… “

Ryu Seo-yoon rubbed her face against his chest while making a crying sound.
I, who had been stroking her hair, was able to escape only after stroking her back.

“I’m almost done now.”

Once the fuss had subsided, I spoke in a confident voice instead of immediately giving feedback.

“Only one final step remains.”

As I expected, the opponent is already very tired.
It’s probably going to be too much for the 4th set.

In fact, Hua’s physical performance gradually deteriorated over time.

‘It’s probably going to suck.’

Then it was time to put an end to the final set.

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Lee Ji-ah secretly grabbed her own chest, which was beating her wildly.

Won

I’ve already played dozens of matches and experienced countless victories, but this time it was different.
In an important game where his or his teammates’ dreams were at stake, he showed his worth and led to victory.

If you were to pick the main role behind her victory, you wouldn’t be able to choose her.
In particular, it was not an exaggeration to say that he brought BES to its knees with his assassination play at the end.

‘More… I want to do better.’

Lee Ji-ah turned her eyes to the side when she realized that her strange desire was swaying.
There was a man who had been a strong pillar in her heart throughout the game.

The person who helped her to pull herself together in the end by holding her mental in the moment of crisis.
Even if the world collapses, the person who will remain by his side and be on his side.

If I just followed his instructions, everything seemed to work out.
In reality, smiles bloomed on the faces of her sister and colleagues who won the game and loved her.

And there’s a fourth set that could be the last of the quarterfinals.

Jiah Lee looked at her director with her cold eyes.
It was something she realized after competing in the World Championships, but she felt that maybe she wasn’t here yet.

The opponents are veterans who have been pros for at least two years.
On the other hand, she was a fresh blue rookie who had just turned 1 year old.

The number of games was infinitely short, and because of that, I was restless and panicked over trivial things.
Even if you look at the mistake in the 1st set, it is the same.
Didn’t I completely let go of my hand because I couldn’t do anything because I was embarrassed?

After all her troubles were over, she called her director.