Chapter 47: Why Is This Guy Using Magic in a Match? (7/7)

Prompted by the commentators, the audience immediately shifted their gaze to the OB camera in the bottom left corner.

The cooldown of the Malphite's ultimate ability still had ten seconds remaining before it would fully reset.

Ten seconds was more than enough time for the enemy duo to run back under their turret.

Even if his ultimate was ready by then, did he seriously expect to dive under the turret and fight them to the death?

Malphite was a short-ranged hero whose damage could only be delivered in close combat, and without his ultimate available right now, it was practically impossible for him to catch up to Sylas and Jarvan IV.

"Leaving two waves of minions under the turret unharvested just to chase someone, does that make you happy, you moron?" Some bullet comments expressed their displeasure with Cheng Xian.

No matter how well someone played, it was impossible to please everyone, let alone certain viewers who just wanted to flame for the sake of flaming.

As long as internet trolls existed, the virtual world would remain an endless night.

And right at this moment.

Just as the Malphite was halfway through his pursuit, he suddenly stopped.

"You are going to lose."

"It happened! The in-place flash to dodge the skill!" Miller went crazy, slamming the table and springing to his feet, choosing to stand while commentating.

"His flash should be off cooldown by now." Doinb glanced at the top right corner, noting the game time had reached the 12-minute mark. The flash Malphite used in the opening phase had finished cooling down.

"You, you, you, you, you..."

He hadn't flashed forward, he hadn't flashed backward, nor had he flashed left or right.

This was one of the random cards he had synthesized before the match.

"You will, you will, you will..."

How could he not loathe that Malphite?

By the same logic, when executing an in-place flash, although the physical position did not change, the game system registered that you disappeared from your original spot and reappeared instantly right back there.

"Right, let's not get angry." Doinb took a deep breath as well.

The speed was so astonishing that Tian didn't even have time to react.

In-place flash!

He had been utterly disgusted by the opposing Malphite this game; first stealing his blue buff with Comet in the early game, and then appearing out of nowhere to disrupt and gank randomly.

The figure moved like a fleeting shadow, rushing at lightning speed toward Malphite, right at the very instant he felt the skill was about to land.

...

Yet they waited in vain for Malphite to use any displacement, feeling only a blur before their eyes. Staring closely once more, Malphite was still lingering right where he started.

2 seconds.

Tian had written the script in his mind, and executed it accordingly.

This was no longer a matter of second-level or millisecond-level reactions; this was a frame-level reaction!

It was fundamentally beyond the limits of the human eye to judge.

Mainly because there was neither rhythm nor sequence to it; he simply ganked entirely on a whim.

The more he lost to someone like this, the angrier Tian felt inside.

Swish!!

"How could this... this..." Tian muttered, lost in a trance.

"Tian, how much longer on your EQ cooldown?" Doinb suddenly asked.

Of course, if it were merely to this extent, it wouldn't have been enough.

"It's fine, if he flashes, I'll follow with my flash, EQ-flash to knock him up. I still have that much of a reaction speed." Tian glanced down at his skill cooldowns.

Ganking the mid lane twice.

...

Only under the establishment of various harsh prerequisite conditions could an in-place flash achieve a success rate in dodging skills.

Not only did Cheng Xian dance, but he also spam-clicked voice lines to taunt them.

The moment he executed his EQ, his fingers had already dropped onto the flash key.

Malphite's taunting voice lines continued to ring out.

The underlying principle was:

Press fast enough, and the voice lines would overlap.

"Run away, FPX! That bastard's micro is simply not something your tier can handle!"

And then appear again in the subsequent frame.

1 second.

The bullet comments exploded into the earth's core, a uniform stream of question marks drifting across the screen.

Cheng Xian accelerated his keystrokes.

The sparse audience in the venue suddenly erupted into a thunderous round of applause.

"It's over, this play is dimensional降维打击!"

Throughout this process, invincibility frames existed.

"My E skill is only three seconds away too."

"What the hell, is Ma-ge not even pretending anymore? He's straight-up pulling out magic on us?"

Not only did the bullet comments blow up, but even IG's team comms erupted with endless cries of "Holy crap!"

"This..." Rita was dumbfounded.

Instead...

Jie Ke offered a bitter smile: "Do we need to apply Sun Tzu's Art of War just to play video games these days? Though Shaqima's provocation here is a bit pointless; even if his Malphite has an ultimate, there's no way he can fight two of them."

"Beat him down!!" The two spoke in unison, turning around with murder in their eyes.

It had only ever been accidentally pulled off by players stumbling through rare solo queue matches.

Ekko's Ultimate: Chronobreak! (Grade A Card)

"Malphite directly uses an in-place flash to dodge Jarvan's EQ combo! Oh my god, what kind of play is this?!"

The two turned their heads to exchange glances.

"You are going to lose."

"You... will lose." Malphite's classic quote.

However, the level of control required over the player's end was simply too high; it had to be precise down to the millisecond, accompanied by an initial assessment of the enemy skill's velocity and travel distance.

No matter how many times the footage was slowed down, upon reaching the critical frame, the hero would instantly vanish from their original spot.

"You will lose, you will lose, you will lose..."

In the system's card slot interface, a crushed skill card was quietly dissolving.

At worst, he could trade 1 for 1 with you.

Besides, Jarvan combined with Sylas possessed heavy crowd control from basic abilities and more than enough burst damage.

Flash ranked as the highest priority displacement judgment, and two identical selves could never exist simultaneously on the same map.

Attribute: Forces the in-game rendering framerate to be delayed down to a single-frame level!

Effect Duration: 1s (Real-world time)

...

Jarvan passed straight through Malphite's body!!

Right now, inside the game.

...

A mere piece of trash rock, what gives you the right to be so arrogant!

If you were playing a hero with slippery, flexible movement and low skill cooldowns, I could忍.

Beating their chests with both fists, or swaying left and right.

Malphite's flash was back up.

Fingers striking lightning-fast, tapping rapidly on the EQ keybindings.

A golden light emerged.

"Go to the Western Paradise and summon my Lucian..."

The clumsy, goofy Malphite danced in an equally absurd manner.

It was an absolute rule that the self prior to flashing must disappear first, followed by the self appearing after the flash; this chronological order was ironclad.

For non-target skill shots traveling through the air... since the person had vanished, the skill naturally failed to connect.

Yet, Cheng Xian pulled it off.

"Holy crap! Brother Xian, how on earth did you pull that off?" Rookie, who had been staring intently at the mid-lane situation, almost pressed his face against the computer screen.

"Don't be angry, don't be angry, this asshole is using reverse psychology." Tian's eyelid twitched violently as he took a deep breath.

"Then..."

"Still 2 seconds."

The exact moment the FPX mid-jungle duo turned around, Malphite canceled his dance and bolted in the opposite direction.

"Hmph, you think you can just run after acting cool? If I don't smash your dog head this game, I'll hand my LP straight over to you!" Tian snorted coldly.

He wouldn't even give you the qualification for a 1-for-1 trade!

"Shaqima is provoking them! Shaqima's provocation succeeded! Both Sylas and Jarvan have turned around for him!!!" Miller shouted sharply.

"Don't ask, if you ask, it's magic." Cheng Xian quietly closed the system interface.

Within this interaction lay a concept shared by many video games: invincibility frames.

Malphite hadn't built tank items, opting instead for pure AP; his health pool was actually quite fragile and easily burst down.

"You are going to lose."

What could a Malphite possibly have? At most, you could assume he was holding an ultimate.

Rookie had heard of in-place flashing before.

Ctrl+4

He directly started dancing on the spot.

This was simply not an ability a normal gamer should possess, and such a scenario had never even occurred on the professional stage.

Dodging skills with an in-place flash seemed unbelievable, but it was indeed achievable in practice and had even made appearances in well-known top-10 highlight reels.

"Did Shaqima's hand twitch? Why did he execute an in-place..." Before Jie Ke could finish his sentence, his eyes widened abruptly, filled with an incredulous shock!

"What?! He passed right through?!"

In reality, however, he had practiced flashing in the practice tool nearly a thousand times, and not once had he ever succeeded.

"It seems that Bronze players and top-tier players share a certain similarity; they both know how to use the in-place flash." Cheng Xian concluded inwardly.

Perhaps this was the essence of the Great Dao being simple, returning to the state of true simplicity.

7 updates, completed.

My brain feels a bit hazy... going to sleep first...

(End of this chapter)