Alliance: If you block my contract, I will just start!

Hearing the dragon's mournful cries echoing in their ears, the SN team's voice chat suddenly fell silent.

The one who suffered the most was not anyone else, but the ADC Sima Laozei.

He barely spoke during today's best-of-five series. He didn't congratulate his teammates when they carried, nor did he criticize them when they underperformed. He simply focused on farming and dealing damage, doing his job well.

If he loses this game, he will miss the World Championship again.

He is always referred to as a top AD carry and is often compared to top players like Uzi by netizens. However, sadly, the top ADC in the eyes of netizens has never stepped onto the world stage.

Can an ADC who has never played in the World Championship be considered a top-tier ADC?

He didn't even have a chance to prove himself!

As the game reached a desperate juncture, a hint of confusion flashed across that face that was neither crying nor laughing—

Where does his future lie?

"Defend the tower well, there's still a chance."

Snake's encouragement rang out again.

At this stage of the competition, words are meaningless; "opportunity" is their only remaining hope.

……

With the help of the Baron buff, the EDG team quickly returned to base to upgrade their equipment.

Shen Lang immediately pulled out his resurrection armor, and the others also spent their extra money on rage potions or witchcraft potions.

The meaning is clear: they want to use this Baron Nashor to end the game directly.

Strategically aggressive, EDG was very conservative tactically. They did not rush to push from the bottom lane, but instead brought the minion wave to the mid lane first.

As the minion wave pushed into the tower, iboy went forward to attack the tower, while jiejie and abin came directly from the jungle to the sides of the outer tower.

As long as the SN team defends the tower, those two will decisively engage in a team fight.

At this point in time, the outer turret's damage output is not high, and even if SN wanted to fight, they wouldn't fight here, so there was no need for discussion, and everyone voluntarily chose to give up the middle outer turret.

Then there's the inner tower in the middle lane.

Sima Laozei tried to clear the wave, but with Xayah's current equipment, it was a bit difficult to clear the wave strengthened by the Baron buff. As the EDG team pressed forward, he quickly chose to give up and decisively controlled Xayah to retreat and create distance.

The inner turret in the middle lane was destroyed, followed by the turret in the top lane.

Only after taking down all of SN's outer turrets did EDG adopt a 4-1 split push strategy to advance.

At this point, the Baron buff duration was running out, but it was enough to get to the high ground. SN's bottom lane high ground tower wasn't very healthy, so Garen pushed the Baron buff minion wave in, and the tower was quickly destroyed.

"SN should try to initiate a team fight. They haven't had a single head-on team fight in this game so far. If they continue like this, I feel like they'll be outmaneuvered by EDG."

Crystal spoke up.

Given this situation, defeat is inevitable. The best course of action now might be to choose to die standing.

The SN team thought the same thing.

So when all of EDG climbed onto SN's high ground through the bottom lane, SwordArt made a decisive move.

Titan used Flash, then quickly unleashed his Q skill.

The skill accurately hit the prince in the crowd, and the Titan also used his displacement to close the distance and released his ultimate to lock onto Kai'Sa behind him.

EDG quickly countered, with Meiko immediately unleashing his ultimate ability and then using his W skill on Nautilus.

However, SN's real killer move wasn't Nautilus, but the Gragas behind him.

The hacker unleashed his ultimate ability on the crowd, [Exploding Barrel] exploding and blasting the Jarvan IV, who had been hooked by Nautilus, into the high ground tower, while also scattering the rest of EDG. Then, as the Jarvan IV landed, the hacker used his E skill [Meatball Impact] to stun and control the enemy, while Sima Laozei activated his W skill to unleash a barrage of attacks...

"Gragas' ultimate was perfectly executed, blasting Jarvan IV into the high ground tower. His teammates' crowd control was also flawless, Xayah landed her [Robin Hook], and Jarvan IV was instantly killed!!"

Miller's voice grew louder and louder.

If the equipment difference between the two sides is not significant, then SN might actually have a chance in this round.

Unfortunately, it was already a bit late to start making efforts at this point.

Shen Lang didn't have Flash, so he didn't choose to target the backline, but instead focused on attacking the frontline Titan.

Under Garen's damage output, Titan's ironclad armor was like paper. Even with the double resistance bonus from the Aftershock talent, his health still dropped rapidly. Garen didn't even need to use his ultimate; he easily took down Titan.

Other members of EDG are also involved.

Bin immediately used his E skill to kick in, targeting Xayah in the crowd.

Even though Sima Laozei used his ultimate skill in time to avoid damage, iboy, who was knocked into the ground by Titan's ultimate skill, decisively used his ultimate skill to enter the fray.

The players on EDG are all incredibly strong, while Shen Lang, who was the best developed, fell behind.

Despite iboy not getting many kills in this game, the team's economy was strong, and with the added bonus from the dragon, Kai'Sa quickly took down Xayah's remaining health.

SN quickly shifted their focus to Kai'Sa. Meiko quickly used his E skill to get to his ADC's side, and at the same time used the last moment of his ultimate to apply crowd control, creating space for his ADC to deal damage.

ACE——

The system prompt sounded soon.

The team fight quickly came to an end. Despite SN's excellent team fight initiation and the early kill on the Prince, they ultimately lost this decisive team fight due to the huge economic gap.

"Get it!!!"

iboy shouted loudly, putting aside the whole game, at least he had a blast in this team fight. Isn't the point of playing Kai'Sa to use your ultimate to enter the fray and reap the rewards?

"With my mighty brother here, there will be no surprises!"

Meiko laughed along.

Although today's best-of-five series was somewhat tortuous, the final result was still good. Shen Lang's seemingly unusual choice of Garen proved to be a crucial factor in the game.

The crystal shattered.

The SN members took off their headphones in a daze, their feelings a complex mix of emotions.

If Shen Lang had appeared at the beginning and then defeated them with overwhelming force, perhaps everyone wouldn't have felt so bad.

Unfortunately, the reason everyone felt so upset was that Shen Lang didn't appear in the first few rounds of the game, giving them a glimmer of hope for victory. However, that hope was then trampled on by Shen Lang himself.

If you never see hope, you won't feel pain.

"Brothers, it's my fault, I didn't play well."

Maple felt extremely guilty, and countless scenes from the matches kept replaying in his mind.

If he hadn't been so eager to kill Shen Lang in the fourth game, would the outcome have been different?

If he hadn't been scared at the start of the final game and had successfully taken down Garen, would they have been the ones cheering in the middle of the stage?

If we pay more attention to the details of the laning phase, will everyone be free of regrets?

Unfortunately, there is no such thing.

"Don't be silly, everyone is responsible for losing the game, it's not just one person's problem."

Snake stood up, smiled, and patted Maple's head.

Upon hearing this, everyone went over to pat Maple on the head to comfort her. Being beaten up by Shen Lang was absolutely understandable.