League of Legends: League of Unknowns

Xie Yi stared at the screen for quite some time, barely believing what he was seeing.

How did the Fighting Hawk react and strike in such a short time? When Kha’zix had leapt out from the fog of war earlier, there was no way that he could have seen it coming. Usually, the other players would have been dead before they realized what had happened!

“Could it be that he had foreseen all of this? He could anticipate everything even ahead of me!?” Xie Yi mused to himself as he stared at the Sword of the Occult that had now gathered 13 stacks.

Without any warning, he had evaded Kha’zix just like that, and then stunned him in a mere instant! It almost felt as though Vayne had already been waiting for Kha’zix to leap over, aiming her Condemn at him from the start!

Furthermore, Fighting Hawk, after retiring for so long, was still able to retain his quick reaction and skills – those that would require most professional players to train at least 8 hours a day to maintain!

How did he do it? And how was he able to slay these professionals with such ease and no hesitation!?

How was he doing it!?

…

“Xie Yi. An average score of 23. He barely managed to escape from Vayne.”

“Birch. An average score of 20. Slain twice. He had the chance to slay Vayne but still got slain instead.”

Zhang Aijing started her deduction as she mumbled to herself.

Despite not having Blood Eagle in their team now, Team Sky’s line up was still a top notch one. They had Xie Yi, a professional player with an average score of 23 on their side! The very same Xie Yi who could suppress Lin Dong when facing off one-on-one!

Yet, Aijing had not expected that even a professional player like Xie Yi, who had picked his favourite and advantageous Ahri, was still unable to slay the Fighting Hawk. Not only that, he had had to flee for his life after more than half of his HP had been shaved off.

This was not the first time Aijing had watched Luocheng play a match. She could still remember how astonishingly well Luocheng had performed in previous matches. He had not revealed any skills or prowess that indicated that he could slay a top player in mere seconds right after activating his Ultimate skill!

Yet, he was able to kill Kha’zix while facing off with Ahri, all at the same time. This was clearly a 2 vs 1 situation, and he had crushed it by not utilizing any Summoner Skills – no Cleanse, no help from his teammates, nothing! Ultimately, he was able to send Xie Yi turning tail after almost killing him off!

“13 stacks on Sword of the Occult. Just how strong is this Fighting Hawk?? Sis Jing, are you sure he’s a retiree?” Forgetful Laughter asked.

No one had ever dared to get themselves a Sword of the Occult in the LPL ever, what more, stacking it up to 13 stacks!

If a non-professional player could wreck Team Sky like this, then, how could other professional players who had never even beaten Team Sky call themselves “professional”!?

“Fiddlesticks’ Crowstorm!”

The commentator’s excited voice pulled Forgetful Laughter back to the giant screen.

Sure enough, on the screen, the Support Fiddlesticks fell from the sky as he cast his Crowstorm, Terrify, and Dark Wind, at Luocheng!

“Well, well. Vayne’s as good as dead then!” Forgetful Laughter thought.

Even though Fiddlesticks was a Support, his DPS was not something one should underestimate. If Luocheng’s Vayne were to take in all of that damage after being inflicted by Terrify, she would definitely be killed right away!

Yet, no announcement about Fiddlesticks slaying Vayne appeared on the screen!

Chronoshift!

It was Zilean!

Zilean’s Chronoshift had been cast on Vayne in the nick of time, enabling her another chance at life!

“Oh my God! We had totally forgotten that Team Skycrown’s Zilean has a Guardian Angel!”

Jupiter’s face turned pale as he saw the Guardian Angel being cast on Fighting Hawk’s Vayne.

Just when he had thought that he had slain Vayne with everything he had, they had revived her in that instant!

It was not an easy thing for them to land a kill on Vayne, and now, it was ruined!

Wu Sen’s support was impeccable. He knew that Xie Yi would come back to face off with Luocheng after this resurrection. Thus, he buffed up his movement speed and rushed to Luocheng’s defense!

Sure enough, a huge kiss shape – the Charm spell from Ahri landed on Wu Sen.

At the same time, Varus appeared too. Even though he had suffered a lot of damage, Wu Sen knew that he could not allow them to get close to Vayne’s corpse before she was completely resurrected, otherwise, they could finish her off in an instant!

After tanking Ahri’s attack, Wu Sen did not take a step back at all. No, instead, he put a Ward in the bush behind and cast an Exhaust on Varus!

“Wow! This Support is feeding himself to the enemies, all just to buy some time for Vayne. What a great friend!”

Zilean was a Support after all. His HP and damage resistance were all very low, there was no way he could hang on for more than a few seconds if he stepped up to tank like this.

Yet, to Wu Sen, this was all worth it!

As a Support and as a “big brother”, Wu Sen had been beating himself up over Xiao Bei’s death. He blamed himself for not being able to protect Xiao Bei.

The moment when he opened the bathroom door, that bloodied image that had appeared before his eyes, had stunned Wu Sen in place.

At that moment, he had wished with all his heart that he was Zilean, The Chronokeeper, in real life – Just so he could press his R key and then wait for a few seconds for Xiao Bei to stand back up.

Or perhaps, he could wait another half a minute, and he would then be revived at the fountain.

Yet, that was not League of Legends. It was the reality of a cold, harsh, world.

Honor, glory, victory, matches, leagues… all of these were not important to Wu Sen.

He knew that there was very little that he could do. No matter how angry he was, there was no way he could defeat these two bottom laners from Team Sky. Thus, to express the furious rage in his heart, all he could do at the moment was to buy Luocheng some time – some time for him to get back up and carry on with his killing spree. All he could do was buy more time for Luocheng to make Team Sky and Xu Pingyang suffer! To avenge his friend!

Wu Sen spared a glance at Luocheng’s Vayne.

Good! She had revived!

After quickly throwing a Time Warp on Vayne, he quickly placed a Time Bomb on himself before dashing straight toward Ahri and Varus.

At the last moment when his HP was entirely depleted by Ahri, the Time Bomb detonated above his head.

“Boom!”

A small amount of health was shaved off from Ahri and Varus’s HP pool.

As for Zilean, his corpse had fallen to the ground.

…

Giving the ADC a chance to resurrect and then buffing the said ADC right after her resurrection, subsequently using himself as a bomb to damage his enemies in his last breath.

Wu Sen had done all that he could as a Support, especially that last move – detonating the Time Bomb above his head to further injure his foes. The commentator and spectators were all in awe as they witnessed it.

Every move was perfect. To most people, this was just a “strategic move”. Yet, only the members of Team Skycrown knew what Wu Sen was trying to say!

As Vayne slowly stood up, Luocheng looked at Zilean’s corpse, a flicker of emotion blinking in his eyes.

Cool and proud, just like the eyes of an eagle.

In the eyes of the normies, this was “just a game”. It was nothing but a way to entertain oneself. Yet, was it really “just a game”? Was it just a game to Team Skycrown?

Wu Sen’s actions earlier had been like a moth zooming straight toward wildfires.

But was this the first time they had done something like this? Was this the first time they had leapt into the fire like this!?

Why? What drove these people to continue doing what they did? What drove them forward? What drove them to continue on without fear of getting hurt, getting crushed by the arrogant belittling the society gave them in return?

Passion. The answer was their passion for E-sports.

These people’s hearts were burning with wild, genuine passion for E-sports!

“You love E-sports! Why give up?”

Luocheng really wanted to tell Xiao Bei the answer to that. That there were a lot of ridiculous filthy conflicts and politics in the world of E-sports. Those things would drive the dreamy E-sport lovers to damnation…

Yet, at the same time, if you really loved E-sports so much… so, so much… then who cared how ridiculous it was!? Who cared how filthy it was? There was no way you would just give up!

You must have faith.

Have faith that the shining glory will come. When the time comes – when they all stood on the summit of the world of E-sports, nothing would be able to stop them. Not even the filthy, scummy, Team Sky!

Team Sky was nothing but a stepping stone for them to reach higher, thus, stepping on them was what they were going to do!

Indeed, using a match of a game like this to express their grief and anger did look insanely ridiculous. However, if a child were to still hold his faith for this world of E-sport to his last breath, and if one were talented and worked hard enough, he would most definitely be standing proudly in the pantheon of Champions one day!

If a child could hold his faith like this to his last breath, you would know for sure that this was not “just a game”.

It was a sport! A sport that shed the blood and tears of countless young souls!

A sport that hundreds of thousands, no, millions of people looked up to!

A sport of glory!

Yes, they had to have faith! And now, this Team Sky? The very Team Sky that intended to be an obstacle in their path to glory? They would crush them to pieces and inscribe this story as an epitaph for their friend!

They would make the world-shaking glory of Vayne pawning 100 enemies heads with her bolts and crossbow into a great epitaph for Xiao Bei and as an inscription on the milestone of Team Skycrown’s path to glory! !

…

15 heads pawned.

Not enough. It was still not enough!

Vayne, the Night Hunter, stood up, shrouded in the rays of resurrection.

There were four prey, breathing nervously in front of her. Slay them. Yes. Slay them! After taking their heads, her kill count would then reach 19, which was another great leap to 100 kills.

“Voom!”

Vayne’s silver crossbow’s strings vibrated as it was extended in her hand as she put on her bloodied cape right after her resurrection.

Oh, Fiddlesticks was running?

I’ll be taking your head first!

…

Fiddlesticks was just a Support and he did not have much HP, thus, ending his life required a mere 4 bolts.

“You have slain an enemy!”

16 kills!

…

Ahri wanted to flee as well, but…

One… two… three! Three bolts penetrated her body!

“Killing Spree!”

17 kills!

…

Varus. There you are! Come and get it!

Ah, yes. Ezreal and Jarvan was here too!

“An enemy has been slain!”

18!

…

Renekton!

Renekton!!!

Where are you!?

Da Luo cast his Flash and halted Renekton from fleeing.

19!

“You have slain an enemy!”

“Rampage!”

“ACE!”

…

“It’s an Ace! It’s an Ace, ladies and gentlemen! Oh, Team Skycrown has completely wiped out their opponents! And now, if they were to take down a tower right after this, they will be riding the winds of victory!”

“…wait.”

“Wait…what… No! Team Skycrown is not attacking the towers!”

“This is such a golden opportunity, and yet, they are not attacking the towers! Are they going to teleport back to their base and resupply?”

“Then… Wait a second… Just hold on… They’re ignoring creep-pushing entirely!?”