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Published at 24th of August 2021 12:05:15 PM


Chapter 30: My Teammates Are All Crazy Chapter 30

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Tamago: Haha! Many thanks to Ezgi for their donations~! You get another early chapter today~!

Ok, Tamago stands here in black and white before you to make a confession. I have made another translation error: Some ‘Flash’ are actually not ‘Flash’ when it comes to assassin-class demons. They are called ‘Teleport‘.

Teleport generally cost lesser time than running, whereas Flash costs no time. This is an ability unique to assassins.

Please forgive me for this mistake I hope you enjoy this chapter!

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The perspective of the livestream is from a bird’s eye view where nothing can evade it and both parties’ locations are clearly displayed. (E/N: KnB intensifies)

Nevertheless, in the split second where Frozen Heart insta-killed Peacock Plume, both live commentators of the Preliminaries are struck speechless.

The reason for this is simple – In that split moment where Frozen Heart was lurching towards Peacock Plume, he never once stopped!

What does this mean?

It’s either this was an unintentional gank, and Frozen Heart was solely able to catch up purely by chance;

Or Frozen Heart’s player GF calculated the exact amount of time required to Flash over.

That said, how much control must one have over the match, to be able to arrive right as Faar’s mana is depleted, accurately linking up to Peacock Plume and collecting her head?!

【How exactly did this happen? How did Frozen Heart arrive here?】Candy’s tone is as if she’s saying “Who am I? Where am I?” 【Let’s take a look at the replay of events just now!】

The unforeseen assassination from just now is displayed on the screen.

In the beginning, one can only see Faar dodging Peacock Plume’s barrage of attacks while continuously spamming her 2nd ability. Her mana was depleting at a hair-rising pace then. Obviously, the end was in sight.

On the other hand, Frozen Heart finished clearing the jungle monsters and directly flew towards the Mid-Lane. The snow-white silhouette made a pencil-sharp trail as he closed in on Peacock Plume’s position. Right before he made his first step into the bushes, he released his 2nd ability Snow Allure, linking right to his target – the Peacock Plume who was backing away at that last instant.

And then, from behind, he swiftly instakills!

【We can see here that starting from the moment Frozen Heart stepped into the battlefield to the moment he finished his assassination, he never once hesitated throughout – This is a wholly intentional gank!】Halfling concludes.

【Yes, that seems to be the case.】 Candy backs him up. 【Replay the video for a second. Yup. Stop right there. Almost at the same time where Frozen Heart begins making his way towards the Mid Lane, Faar also retreated. She was kiting. I suppose it’s at this specific moment that Leaf received some sort of instruction.】

【This is too spectacular!】Halfling can’t help exclaiming.【It shouldn’t be left unsaid. This is a play which only PG is capable of. It’s way too risky! If there was even the most minute mistake, Faar would have been counter-killed. At his level, Frozen Heart totally wouldn’t have been able to take any damage. A 2-for-1 this early in the game is totally not worth it!】

【But PG did it!】Candy should originally explain things from Blink’s perspective, engaging in a to-and-fro with Halfling, but her mind is now filled with that fine play from just now. 【Ye Zi’s motion control is good. GF’s instakill is also good. They totally exhibited the strength of a Top 8! I think that so long as PG keeps up this momentum, this season’s PGL is sure to be quite interesting!】

While the two were commentating, Ye Hong’s Faar had already replenished her mana at the turret, heading back to the Mid Lane to engage in a battle of creeps and gold with the revived Peacock Plume.

Frozen Heart also finishes cleaning the Top Jungle of its monsters. In the process, as the enemy Jungler is charging out to gank the solo-laner, he boldly lunges out to encircle the enemy, cowing the foe into fleeing.

Guessing that the enemy Jungler is planning to kill the Top Jungle’s last monster then gank the mid-laner, Jing Yu smiles serenely: “Ye Zi. Again.”

His tone is especially relaxed, entirely lacking the rigidness from their previous practice matches. Obviously, he doesn’t care the slightest least about this unknown, unseen, and unheard of team.

If others are the one displaying such a behaviour, it’s called ‘underestimation’. Yet when Jing Yu is the one like this, it’s called ‘victory’s already in their hands’.

This point makes Qin Fei feel particularly intrigued – The match has only ensued for a couple of minutes, how is Jing Yu able to determine the difference in their strength so quickly?

Because the truth does indeed tell Qin Fei, Jing Yu is truly able to determine it accurately:

System: 【Frozen Heart, First Kill!】

System: 【The enemy Peacock Plume has been slain!】

System: 【Frozen Heart, Double Kill!】

System: 【The enemy Burial Sword has been slain!】

This time, when Jing Yu heads out to gank the Mid Lane, not only did he manage to successfully instakill the Mage, he even collected the head of the enemy Jungler who came to help on the way.

Qin Fei can’t resist a low chuckle. Ye Hong is already actively boasting: “So savage ah, Little Goldfish!”

Luo Yiming can’t hold back from saying: “Goldfish, don’t just focus on the Mid Lane, come to the Bottom Lane too ma**! The enemy marksman retreated at just the half-blood mark. How boring is that?!”

(**ma 嘛: a whining sound at the back)

“What’s so bad about that?” Jing Yu doesn’t even turn his head, “I see you’re pushing the towers quite well ah? Don’t forget, this is a tower toppling game!”

Luo Yiming instantly turns into a pufferfish, sulking softly: “How can toppling towers compare to collecting heads…”

As the Mid Lane has been ganked once, Halfling and Candy were both ready for this 0 for 2. As a matter of fact, when Frozen Heart took to the Mid Lane, Halfling was already running his mouth off:

【Frozen Heart is headed to the Mid Lane again. Is he getting ready to gank Peacock Plume once more? Faar retreated! Peacock Plume Ults, but still misses! Faar pulls close! And he eats Peacock Plume’s Radiant Light to the face…… With this, Faar is now at low HP! But Faar still attacks! Frozen Heart links up!!!】

A brilliant live commentator is able to use his own voice to move the audience’s hearts. Clearly, in this regard, Halfling performs very well.

Following his increasingly emotional tone, the bullet comments shooting across the livestream’s screen drastically reduced. Almost everybody’s hands stopped what they were doing. Bating their breaths, they keep their eyes peeled for the next series of events.

【Frozen Heart, first kill!】Halfling is nearly screaming out this line.

Yet, right as that fight finishes, they spot Burial Sword Teleporting out from a bush, heading directly for the low HP Faar. Nearly at the same time, Faar forks out a Flash to slip back within the base of his turret, narrowly dodging a killing blow. Frozen Heart immediately lunges at Burial Sword, opening a dogfight with him!

The Top Squishy is challenging the Top Jungler, what is the result?

【Burial Sword Ults, Frozen Heart dodges! Frozen Heart links up to Burial Sword! He closes in, he Ults, and he CC’s him!!!】Halfling thinks his own voice is going hoarse from all this hollering, 【Burial Sword’s blood bar is plunging at a dangerous speed! He regains freedom, and immediately uses Flash to escape. Frozen Heart also forks out a Flash without a moment’s pause to tower-dive. He ganks! He double-kills!!!】

Candy: 【My God, this really is……】

Halfling: 【Frozen Heart safely evacuates the turret! That was a spectacular 0 for 2! ……Alright, we are now showing a replay of that 0 for 2 just now. This really is too inspiring! PG’s side didn’t make any mistakes. This player, GF, appears to have a good foresight. His grasp over Blink’s movements is as if he’s got them running in the palm of his hand. This is way too unbelievable!】

Candy: 【That’s right ah. If not for the fact that the livestream’s lagging by a few minutes, I’d still think he’s peeking on us!】

Halfling: 【Uhm, cheating by peeking should be impossible… However, it’s true there exists some amount of risk within online tournaments. Therefore, in the stages after this, those teams that manage to get into the Elimination Round shall play offline.】

Candy: 【Really? Why didn’t I hear about that?】

Halfling: 【In that case, you must have not taken a look at the 《Demon Lord》Officials’ Weibo last night.】

【Ah, did the game officials announce it?】Candy’s eyes light up. 【In other words, we will soon see the real faces of the pro-gamers then?】

Halfling: 【Indeed, you’re right! I really want to know whether team PG looks as savage as we imagine them ne. Hahaha!】

Having watched up to this point, Fang Luofan feels there isn’t any more question about the result of this match.

As a pro-gamer team, Blink’s foundations haven’t been stabilized yet; many of their players still make mistakes in their performance.

If even he noticed these problems, Jing Yu would have undoubtedly seen through them much earlier. Afterall, Jing Yu is a person who is extremely sensitive to gold. Just by looking at the rate of Blink’s progress in gathering gold, he would surely have come to that conclusion.

Since there isn’t any pressure in winning this match, Fang Luofan no longer considers the match seriously. He turns on the bullet comments.

The instant he removes the filter, he’s flooded by a whole screen of “Frozen Heart”s.

【This Frozen Heart is 666**!】

(**666 / 6 = Amazing~! ; Not = Hell)

【This Frozen Heart’s got to be a fake one!】

【Frozen Heart, gogogo! Goldfish, gogogo!】

Following closely, somebody asks “Goldfish” is who? Immediately, a bunch of people shoot back the bullet 【@Gold Fish not Salted Fish】.

Thus, the entire live stream is covered by a mob of 【@Gold Fish not Salted Fish】thereafter.

Frozen Heart’s reputation…… Is he really that popular?

Fang Luofan retains his flabbergasted expression as he scrolls down to look at the comments below the livestream. Unexpectedly, majority of the comments are also about Frozen Heart:

【My family’s sweetie pie finally isn’t a Flower Vase anymore! These eyes are brimming with tears!】

【I’ve decided! From today onwards, I’ll play Frozen Heart!】

【There’s already a single and double kill. Will there be a triple kill, quadrakill and pentakill?!】

【I’ve seen this anchor’s videos before. Still thought it was all fake. But I didn’t expect his Frozen Heart to really be so 6!】

Fang Luofan is just scrolling through the comments when he suddenly hears a cry of shock coming from his earphones. It’s from the live commentator, Candy.

He instinctively goes back to the livestream video, just in time to catch the System’s announcement,【Frozen Heart, Triple Kill!】

What situation is this?!

Halfling: 【Frozen Heart triple killed?! What happened there!?】

Evidently, even the live commentator Halfling is also at a loss.

However, the blame also cannot be laid on him. Just a few minutes ago, he saw Frozen Heart jungling uneventfully in the Bottom Jungle and so turned his gaze to the current solo-laner Qin Fei, wanting to see how he performs after the switch in positions. Yet, unexpectedly, within a matter of seconds, Frozen Heart actually ganked three demons in the Bottom Lane?!

Thankfully, there is still the replay to show him what they missed – On the display, Frozen Heart was indeed jungling as he was supposed to. However, just as he finished off the last monster, he seemed to suddenly realize something, floating down in the direction of the Bottom Lane.

His single 2nd ability directly skips past the wall to hook up to the enemy marksman. Pulling himself over, he slashes off the marksman’s remaining blood with a single AA, then continues to use his newly refreshed Teleport to link up to the enemy support. Having dodged the enemy’s CC, he pulls himself close, yet doesn’t actually attack. Instead, he charges into the nearby bush and unleashes his Ult!

Having just rushed over, Burial Sword hasn’t even managed to make one move before he’s frozen solid in the bushes. At the mercy of Frozen Heart, he’s finished off with a series of attacks from Frozen Heart.

History always astonishes people with its repetition – in yet another face off between these two junglers, Burial Sword’s defeat is once again the one that’s announced.

At this moment, the enemy support Jinghua Shuiyue is also assaulted by Luo Yiming’s Centaur. After ganking Burial Sword, Frozen Heart swiftly heads over to finish with an AA, easily collecting his head.

Just like that, Frozen Heart accomplished a triple kill within a short space of time, totally not allowing people the time to react!

This seamless procession doesn’t allow Halfling to explain step by step at all. Thankfully, he’s been a live commentator for  many years. He quickly locks on the key to this 0 for 3:

 【It’s right here! Burial Sword appeared once in the Mid Lane! Although it was only for a split second, it didn’t escape GF’s notice. He immediately guessed that Burial Sword’s heading down to gank the marksman!】

【So he gave up on jungling, and he headed down to make the first move!】Candy finally reacts,【Come to think of it, this is still the first time he’s heading down the Bottom Lane ne!】

Halfling: 【Player GF really is too unbelievable. It’s either he doesn’t gank, or the moment he ganks, a bunch of heads are sent flying!】

Just like that, the livestream’s covered by an insane collection of【A bunch of heads sent flying!】bullets again.

In the eyes of the audience, Jing Yu’s triple-kill is indeed awe-inspiring. It shouldn’t even need to be said how using Frozen Heart, 《Demon Lord》’s Top Flower Vase, heightens that.

However, being their Coach, Fang Luofan has some traces of suspicion on his face after seeing that display.

Based on what he sees, Jing Yu totally didn’t need to head down the Bottom Lane. It’s not as if Luo Yiming and Han Leng are vegetarians**. The enemy marksman and support were only left with a thin sliver of blood. They are completely able to off them. Even if they had no way of laying the approaching Burial Sword to rest with them, it’s not as if they’d be threatened. Frozen Heart should still be able to clear the last monsters without disruption.

(**Vegetarians 吃素: refers to the carnivore and herbivore men archetype where carnivorous men are more accomplished and ruthless, leading them to be Alphas, while herbivore men are Betas, second choice and inferior)

What the hell are they doing?

–What else can they be doing? They’re messing around ah!

Luo Yiming: “HAHAHA, Triple Kills! , we’re aiming for Quadrakill!”

Ye Hong: “When Burial Sword revives, I’ll kite Peacock Plume down to you!”

Luo Yiming: “The moment my Bow is out, I’ll make a sieve out of them with my attacks!”

Ye Hong: “And then I’ll follow it with my Ultimate! Make them have a good swim in a sea of flames!”

Han Leng: “……The two of you, back off a little ah. Don’t steal Goldfish’s kill.”

Luo Yiming: “We won’t, we won’t. Hahaha, I really want to see the enemy’s expressions now!”

Jing Yu smiles helplessly – I shall go wild with you guys……

But he feels so happy ah~

Qin Fei who’s sitting by the side slants his head and glances at Jing Yu. He smiles indulgently.

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Maralynx says: KnB, old but gold. Takao, go! Also, The original line when JY orders YZ to co-op is: ‘Ye Zi. Let’s go again.’ I changed it to: ‘Ye Zi. Again.’ to emphasize Jing Yu’s confidence and arrogance. Also, I understood the potential of this line. If handled correctly, it could give you shivers down your spine, especially with the description that was before it. We are aware that our GoldFish is a feral dog, and this just shows it.

Tamago says: Your Lie in April feels! Also: GoldFish: Woofwoofwoofwoofwoof!  Sleepy: …… [Buries the lower half of his face in his palm, looking deep in thought] [‘Heavens, how can this little thing be this cute?’] GoldFish: ……Woof?

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