Chapter 63: S11, a deck of cards, a high ground, and a path forever—

S11, a single hand of cards, a single high-ground turret, and a towering figure that could never be crossed!

"Die!!" Nuguri gnashed his teeth as Jax slammed his lamp down fiercely!

A strike imbued with the passive of his ultimate burst forth upon Twisted Fate!

Surely, this strike would spell your doom no matter what?

At this hair-raising, perilous moment, a verdant green radiance suddenly erupted on Twisted Fate!

+121!

This clutch heal dragged the near-death Twisted Fate back from the very brink of the grave.

This time, even the casters went wild.

Miller roared at the top of his lungs.

"Shaqima is still not dead! At the absolute crucial moment, the death of the Lee Sin triggered Triumph for him, restoring 12% of his missing health! Triumph saved my life right there!! Shaqima is still dishing out damage!"

"Jax has already tanked the turret three times! His health is in the danger zone!"

Right at the instant the auto-attack fell—

Unable to reach the Caitlyn with an auto-attack, he couldn't trigger life steal.

Four diving against one, yet three were turned around and killed. Although there was an element of recklessness in diving the turret, it was an absolute disgrace.

"How is that possible?!!" Liu Qingsong's eyes were filled with sheer terror.

He had failed to kill Twisted Fate when he was at a mere sixty or seventy health, and now that Twisted Fate had been healed back to over a hundred health, his Thresh required two more auto-attacks.

His finger smashed down violently onto the F key.

His mind went completely blank.

Twisted Fate also lashed out with a counter-auto-attack.

However, killing Twisted Fate now and chipping the high-ground turret down to low health before retreating could still be considered a barely acceptable loss-mitigation strategy.

Swinging his ghostly cyan chain, Thresh whipped it directly toward Twisted Fate!

Instantly, his fingers were trembling.

Twisted Fate's near-death health bar jumped up by a sliver once again! He stubbornly endured a single auto-attack from the support-role Thresh, whose damage was lacking.

A minion died, and Twisted Fate reached level 10.

Yet his attack speed vastly exceeded Thresh's! His basic attack landed on Thresh a step ahead of Thresh's own attack.

The Triumph heal from Thresh's death had already been triggered.

"There's at least a one-second delay on Triumph's healing effect; this time truly no one can save you! Trading two kills is breaking even, but the high ground still has to be handed over to us!" Just as this thought crossed Liu Qingsong's mind—

The double life steal failed because Twisted Fate's attack range was shorter than Caitlyn's.

"Oh my god! I simply cannot believe what I am seeing! This is easily the most mind-blowing scene I've witnessed all year!! Twisted Fate is still not dead! His fragile body has absorbed ten thousand points of damage! But why this time?" Jike asked in bewilderment.

The next moment, he saw Twisted Fate step right up into Caitlyn's face!

"Oh? He actually dares to flash into my face? He just wants to close the distance, use his higher attack speed to get off a strike first, and heal his health back up with double life steal." LWX had anticipated almost every possible maneuver Twisted Fate could make.

Want to kill your daddy?

You're still far from it!

Instantly, his health bar was lifted back above 100!

Burst round, loaded and ready!

Yet at the very next moment—

"The distance is enough! Caitlyn's auto-attack wind-up has started!"

"But it's still pretty good, one versus four and he took down three. It's just a pity he couldn't pull off the quadra kill; there's definitely a sense of regret." Many people thought to themselves.

This time, Twisted Fate was truly doomed.

Everyone watching this scene, including the casters in the broadcast booth and IG's teammates, were shaking their heads inwardly.

Normally, even if they casted five games, they wouldn't go as hoarse as they did today, having already lost their voices by just the second match.

They had only chipped away a little over sixty health from Twisted Fate.

"Is he safe? No! The Caitlyn, who had been constantly chipping away at the turret, has finally arrived! Reverse E skill for mobility, she's diving straight into the turret!!"

"Clack!" Caitlyn extended her slender arm and forcefully pulled back the sniper rifle's bolt.

+39!

By the time LWX realized something was amiss, three of his teammates' corpses had already hit the ground.

This guy's Flash wasn't used to get close to him at all!!

It was used to flash into the minion experience range!

His target was precisely the cannon minion that had been left with just a sliver of health!

Yet Cheng Xuan's brow, beaded with sweat from ultra-high-concentration gameplay, twitched slightly.

This time it didn't crit, but after the turret killed Jax, it switched its target to Thresh!

Coordinating with the turret, two basic attacks—simple basic attacks if there ever were ones—directly took down the half-health Thresh!

"Shaqima, as outplaying as you are, this time you really can't get away." LWX's gaze was ice-cold.

LWX had initially been frantically hitting the turret because, with three teammates and Twisted Fate under crowd control, he had never imagined Twisted Fate could actually play his way out of this alive through sheer mechanics.

He couldn't be killed anymore!

Did this guy... was he playing Twisted Fate or Vladimir?

He gave a cold snort.

Twisted Fate... wasn't dead!!

"Critical Strike!!"

You! Cannot kill me!

Soon, he received another Triumph heal triggered by Jax's death.

Why is it that this seemingly pathetic sliver of a health bar just won't empty out?!

Yet the +39 health provided at the critical moment completely robbed Thresh of his chance to secure the kill.

The healing effect of Triumph definitely wasn't this instantaneous!

Thresh's empowered auto-attack had already been used, and this strike was nothing more than a standard support's basic attack.

"It's the double life steal runes from Bloodline and Ravenous Hunter! I noticed it at the start of the match, and I initially thought Twisted Fate took double life steal just to survive under pressure in the top lane... But I never expected double life steal to save his life at this most crucial moment and turn the tide of the battle!" Miller's voice was hoarse.

Twisted Fate, whose health bar had been pulled back up, lashed out with a basic attack, landing it squarely on Thresh.

"But the second bullet comes with the Headshot effect! This shot is guaranteed to crit!"

This time, absolutely no one could save Twisted Fate anymore.

"It's over, despite the heavy losses. But we already have a massive advantage in this game." LWX let out a light breath.

Logically speaking, Twisted Fate, who should have been left with a mere 33 health, would have perished under Thresh's basic attack.

"The thought process was good, but what a pity. Over 200 damage on a crit, you simply can't heal that back up with your pathetic life steal." LWX didn't take it to heart; his sniper rifle was already raised and aimed at Twisted Fate.

After all, Twisted Fate was a shutdown bounty.

And Caitlyn, holding her passive Headshot, dealt at least over 200 damage per shot!

His basic attack was unleashed almost the exact moment Jax died.

Observing Twisted Fate now, he had a mere 80-odd health left.

"Even Thresh's puny basic attack could eliminate him!"

The burst round emitted a crisp sound as it was loaded into the sniper rifle.

"Yet taking the third hit of Jax's ultimate passive basic attack left Twisted Fate with only 33 health!!"

As a beam of white light soared into the sky, LWX's expression shifted drastically.

Twisted Fate, left with a mere three health points, stood firm like an unyielding god of war guarding his fortress.

His eyes widened abruptly.

Liu Qingsong felt a chill run through his hands and feet.

A support needing two auto-attacks?

"Leveled... leveled up???" LWX subconsciously glanced toward the enemy cannon minion that had just died beneath the enemy turret.

"Jax, who tanked the turret three times, has fallen!"

The casters spoke on stage, and Thresh in the game did just that.

Bang!

A critical bullet spun rapidly in a spiral through the air, trailing a wisp of lethal gunpowder!

The Flash that had just come off cooldown was pressed instantly!

"Who told you that Flash can dodge Caitlyn's basic attack? Don't mess arou—" A cold laugh formed in LWX's mind.

However, Caitlyn's solid gold-generation in the bottom lane had also allowed her to complete her mythic item.

Helpless against the fact that Shaqima's various maneuvers were simply too astonishing, almost every combat clip of his was worthy of a top-plays compilation.

"One versus four! Triple kill! Shaqima is still not dead! Thresh's Triumph has sustained his life once again! His health has been pulled back to 200! He is safe!"

Thump!

Flash!

"Another critical strike!"

Combined with the Headshot, Twisted Fate, sitting at double-digit health, was bound to die no matter what.

This guy...

"The shot dealt 113 damage! Twisted Fate's health drops back down to double digits."

Upon leveling up, his health bar instantly ticked up by a small fraction.

Driven to the desperate wall of exhaustion, there was no possibility of a comeback.

He had stubbornly swallowed that critical hit raw.

"He even calculated that? After going through such a prolonged and intense battle, his attention was still sharp enough to spot an upcoming low-health cannon minion... This guy..." LWX felt his hands and feet turn icy cold, as if plunging into a frozen lake.

Was this the guy the coach described as relying entirely on luck and cheese tactics to win matches??

Was he facing a professional player, or some reaction monster equipped with a hundred-core processor?

Thanks to the generous benefactor 'Yi Shi Dong Ming' for the 1500 book coins!

Bowing in gratitude!

Thump, thump, thump!!!