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br>Then she reappeared under her outer tower.
She’d dodged the knock up! And the Jarvan IV now stood at the edge of the outer tower’s range!

It was time for Zeng Rui to make his play.
He was still inside of Kalista’s body in spirit form.
The second part of Fate’s Call, Kalista’s ultimate, was all on him.
He aimed at the Jarvan IV and barreled towards him! As he left Kalista’s body, his Alistar regained its physical form.
And then he slammed into Jarvan IV, knocking him up! He followed up with Pulverize! Alistar balled his fists and slammed them into the ground with every ounce of strength in his body.
It carried such an immense force that Jarvan IV was hurled back up into the air before he even landed.
Alistar then ran past Jarvan IV before turning back around and Headbutting Jarvan IV towards the blue outer tower!

The outer tower targeted Jarvan IV and started firing energy shots at him, each consecutive one dealing more damage.
Tang Bingyao hurled a fast moving spirit spear at Jarvan IV–Pierce! And then followed up with auto attacks.
Jarvan IV tried to run away, but his flag-toss combo was still on cooldown.
And to make matters worse, Zeng Rui’s Alistar cast Exhaust on him.
A debilitating aura fell over him, decreasing all his stats including his movement speed! More and more spirit spears pierced his body and remained lodged there, until his health fell to 10%.
Tang Bingyao activated Rend.
Kalista ripped the spears out of Jarvan IV’s body with a flick of her wrist, shearing away the last of his health!

《You have been slain!》

The game announcer’s voice rang in Huang Yang’s head as he stared at his grey screen, dazed.
The gank had looked foolproof.
A surekill.
An easy way to get back into the game! He only had to land his flag-toss combo and his Botlaners would do the rest! She was running away! Why… He didn’t know what to say or think.
There was only a jumbled mess in his mind.

The players from the university ’s second team fell silent.
They stared at the large LCD screen above the soundproof booths, absolutely speechless.
Just a moment ago, they were picturing the glorious scene of their team picking up two kills and then maybe a tower or the Dragon.
They’d already been saying as much to their friends around them.
And now, now the university’s main team lost the 3vs2.
Jarvan IV died and it remained to be seen whether Xie Qing’s Morgana and Qiu Le’s Tristana could save their own skins.

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Zeng Rui glanced at Tang Bingyao and smiled.
He said over the team’s voice chat, “Good job.”

Tang Bingyao nodded at him.
Then she looked back at her screen, at Jarvan IV lying dead on the ground, and smiled.
“Mhm!”

Zeng Rui also looked back at his screen and added, “Let’s focus.”

Tang Bingyao and Zeng Rui shifted their sights on Morgana and Tristana.
They chased them down the lane, until the two players from the Shanghai University of Finance team reached underneath their outer tower.
All the while, Lin Feng’s Yasuo and An Xin’s Sejuani had run down the river and into Red Team’s Jungle.
They’d arrived behind the bot lane’s outer tower.
Together with Tang Bingyao and Zeng Rui, they towerdove Qiu Le’s Tristana and Xie Qing’s Morgana.

An Xin’s Sejuani was already strong enough to take a couple of energy shots from the tower and survive.
And with the four of them together, they were more than strong enough to burst both Champions from the Shanghai University of Finance down.
But Tristana still had her Flash and Rocket Jump up.
She jumped over the Sejuani and then flashed away, reaching all the way back to the inner tower in a matter of seconds.
Team Shanghai didn’t give chase.
They killed Morgana and then shifted their focus to the Dragon, which they killed uncontested.

The spectators in the university’s clubroom couldn’t believe what they were seeing.
Their team, one of the best university teams in all of China, was getting their asses handed to them by a high school team! More embarrassingly, the high school team had two girls on its roster! And both girls were playing better than their counterpart on the university’s team! This went against everything the audience knew about the game!

        “Those girls… They’re great!”
        “Shit man… Is this really happening?”
        “Oh my god…”
        “I can’t believe my eyes…”

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        “They’re actually good!”
        “Keep it up, girls!”

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Shanghai University of Finance’s esports team was one of the best in all of China.
But they’d gone into this game vastly underestimating their opponents.
This mindset was easy to fall into, and incredibly difficult to get back out of.
But they were really good players and they formed a very strong team together.
They talked through the problems over the team’s voice chat and recognized that they had to take this game seriously.
This game was going to be a lot more difficult now than it should’ve been, seeing that they were already at a large deficit.
But the game had still only just begun.
There was plenty of time to make up for their mistakes.
And they were fully convinced that they had the skill to make up for those mistakes!

Over the next several minutes, Shanghai University of Finance’s esports team finally showed up.
It started in the top lane, where Fiora picked up a solo kill on Zhang Hao’s Rumble by beautifully outplaying him.
This was followed up by Luo Yu showing to the world why teams from the LPL were scouting him.
He found an opening to activate his ultimate skill, Destiny! The fog of war dispersed from the map.
He could see everything and Teleport anywhere within a large circle around him.
He chose the bot lane.

Playing cards spread out in a circle on the ground, opening a gate.
Luo Yu’s Twisted Fate stepped through it and appeared right next to Tang Bingyao’s Kalista, a Gold Card already hovering over his head.
He threw it at her and stunned her, then killed her with the help of Liu Ye’s Tristana and Xie Qing’s Morgana.

Luo Yu’s timing was perfectly in-sync with the respawn timer of Dragon.
Huang Yang was already waiting there for them.
The four players from the Shanghai University of Finance took the second Dragon of the game.
The advantage that Team Shanghai had built up was quickly disappearing.

Luo Yu stared at his screen, focused.
He’d made mistakes early on in the game because he didn’t expect Yasuo to be all that good.
Now he was trying his hardest to make up for those mistakes.
And it was working.
But there was still a way to go before they could  think about winning this game.
He said over the team’s voice chat, “We have to bring that Kalista down a bit more.
Look for a chance to kill her again.”

Huang Yang glared at his screen.
At the Kalista.
He said, venom thick in his voice, “Leave that to me.
I’ll get her!”