It was a great opportunity to fire a ter back at Beat. However, Jaiden waited for a moment. He deyed his shot even more than st time. Yet again, he caught the sneaky Pirate sidestepping to the side ahead of time. This was the cue!

  Again!? Kai gritted her teeth. There was no way she mistimed her sidestep this time too. That shot came way too te. It’s almost as if the oppo waited for her to sidestep, then fired.

  Did he figure me out? Already? Kai had no other expnation. That bastard in front of her khat Kai was relying on patterns for her dodges. It was the first time they met in the game, yet Renegade has already found a way to shut down her prized evasion.

  Will high-level pyers always figure me out this quickly? Kai shuddered. It was the sed time it happened.

  This eat of the 2v2 she had against Yuel and Lars after meeting them. Back then, Lars also deyed his shots in order to hit her. She ter lear was Yuel's idea, which made sehe guy dissected pyers as a hobby so, of course, somebody like him would be able to figure Kai out.

  For the most part, she was fih that development. Big brain pyers like Yuel were one in a thousand, if not rarer. Kai cluded she won't run into such oppos all too often, if ever.

  Yet, there Renegade was, standing in front of her as if mog her y. The guy figured her out in a couple of minutes.

  It gotta be THAT guy. Kai still remembered the boy who rubbed her the wrong way the first time they ied oage. He insulted Kai in a totally different manner from TheLegend, who turned out to be a me loser. This guy, Renegade, was a pletely differe.

  TheLegend insulted Kai in order to stroke his own ego and make his pals crack a ugh. It was easy to tell the guy was just trying to make himself look important, so it came as no surprise he turned out to be utter trash.

  Oher hand, Regendae didn’t care for such petty things. His antagonism toward Kai was much more real and direct. The guy was filled with malice. He couldn’t five Kai’s existence for whatever reason.

  And here he was, standing in front of her, trying to prove that everything he said was the truth. That Kai wasn’t a strong pyer, that she had no p the petitive se, and that she was trash because she was a girl. Renegade nning to beat her to a pulp and turn all these insults into facts.

  Like hell you will! Kai raged. You think you’re so good? Fine, let’s have at it! I’ll mop the floor with your stupid face!!!

  Kai charged forth. She was going to force this fight into close quarters since Renegade was good at dodging bullets from afar. It’ll be eveer if she mao get into melee range and make use of her cutss. At that point, she’ll have the fight in the bag.

  I’ll destroy him. I’ll kill his ass. Only thoughts like that swirled inside Kai’s head. She demanded nothihan the plete ruin of her oppo.

  “Wait, Beat! Kai!” Vi failed to get the amazon’s attention. It was bad! Terrible! A disaster in the making! Beat activated her accursed Pheromone Buster mode again! I have to do something...!

  “Pitiful,” Jaiden shrugged in disappoi. Beat sealed her fate the moment she charged in. As Jaiden thought, that girl was bad. She didn’t deserve to be any team’s captain, not even Stratus’.

  “I’m ready,” Rio informed.

  “Do it,” Jaiden nodded.

  On and, Roi rolled forward into the enemy's blind spot.

  "Wha-!?" Vi was the oo excim. He wasn't the target of the attack, so he saw things clearly from the sideline.

  The enemy ancer, Lapce, closed onto Beat at some point. With a single roll, he appeared right behind her! It wasn't hard to imagine what manner of disaster will follow. "Beat! Dodge-"

  It was too te. The spell was already cast.

  "Shit, what the-!?" Kai froze in pce. Literally. A frosty breath covered her from behind, turning her into a human-sized lump of ice.

  When the hell did he get behind me!? Kai roared internally. How did I make such a mistake!? Damn it!

  It was embarrassing. She should've paid more attention to her surroundings. A ancer sneaking up to her like this was a scrubby blunder.

  How e I didn’t see him!? Kai ranted. Was I too absorbed in the fight? Yeah, I probably was. That’s a mispy on my part. But...

  "How e you didn't warn me!?" Kai demanded from Vi.

  "Apologies! I didn't notice him until it was too te!" Vi dashed to Kai's side like a madman. He had to get there at all costs, or else this situation will end in a tragedy.

  Thankfully, he was l nearby the eime, searg food opportunity to step into the fight. So, it didn't take him long to reach the se.

  BAM! The enemy delivered one headshot on the frozen Kai. It dealt hefty damage and reduced what little HP she had to 20%. She was two hits away from dying.

  BAM! Another headshot. But, this one didn't affect Kai's HP in the slightest.

  A golden aura of invincibility surrounded her and Vi, nullifying all damage and CC. It adin’s Aegis, the ultimate shield that nullified all sources of attack!

  "Tice supp," Jaiden praised the Padin's quick response.

  Thanks to Bckhole’s quick response, Jaiden only nded one headshot on the enemy. He shaved off a nice 14% thanks to Gunslinger's 100% crit headshots, but the Aegis pletely ed his sed headshot. Even though Jaiden had an easy frozen target right in front of him, he couldn’t do anything to Beat.

  A golden protective aura enveloped the two enemies as they made their retreat. No amount of damage or CC could do any harm to them.

  But, Aegis only sted a short time. This fight wasn't over yet!

  "Rio, wall them off," Jaiden requested.

  "Got it," Rio summoned a wall of ice ahead of the enemy, cutting off their escape route.

  "Shit!" Kai heard an icy sound cue. An ice wall was about to appear! No way! I won't let you block me off!

  If the enemy locked her out here, it’ll be over. Aegis's prote will end shortly after and Kai will be as good as dead. She couldn't let that happen. She won't go down like this!

  Therefore, she rolled forth. Before the Ice Wall even began appearing, Kai was already rolling!

  "Nice rea," Jaiden whistled in surprise.

  Beat rolled through the Ice Wall blockade before it formed. The ice wall molded itself ience a split sed after that. The wall forced the Padin to a halt, but it failed to capture the main prey.

  In fact, this Ice Wall became a traitor. It walled off Jaiden and Rio, so they couldn’t pursue their fleeing prey.

  “My bad," Rio apologized. He set up that wall to imprison the fleeing prey but, instead, he imprisoned Jaiden and himself.

  "No biggie," Jaiden said. "We’ll just have to use our Invincible Triangle. Nash, you're up."

  "Heck yeah, finally!" Nash fshed his teeth. It was the grin of a vicious beast, excited about the idea of driving his fangs into somebody’s flesh. Especially, this time, it was double the fun because his target was a girl. He gonna wreck her so hard, she'll think he was the stro man oh. She might even fall for him, huehue.

  "Let's go!" Nash rolled out of the jungle and intercepted the Pirate.

  "Shit!" Kai gritted her teeth. Where did he even e from!?

  It incer. With just 20% HP, her ces of escape were slim to none. However, that didn't mean she was going to give up.

  I'm not dying here! Kai decred. She turned around, showing her back to the Viking. Then, she cast Backfire on, propelling herself deeper into allied territory.

  I gotta get to the tower. Fast. Kai gulped. This was a race. She had to reach the Turret before the Viking ered her.

  "Whoa, o!" Nash grinned as the Pirate flew right past him. It should’ve been crystal clear to the girl that she was done for, yet she was still radiating su intense fighting spirit. Not bad, girl. But, you ain’t going anywhere!

  No prey could escape from the jaws of the StormMonster. As Nash gave chase, the entire world around him slowed down, like a film pying in slow motion. He saw every motion, every twitch, in iail.

  His body felt light like a feather. Every motion was natural and effortless. He could tell exactly what he should do , without even spending any time thinking about it.

  He hurled his axe ahead of him. It flew past the feeling Pirate, driving right into the ground.

  Did I just dodge it!? Kai surprised even herself. In her current agitated state, she barely even heard the axe being flung. She juked to the left at the st moment, but she didn't expect to actually dodge anything with such clumsy timing.

  heless, the axe passed right by her side without hitting. She still had a ce to escape-

  Whish! A teleportation sound. The Viking blio his axe and appeared in front of Kai.

  Your ass is mine! Nash swung his axe and dug it into Pirate's chest. That erased a sweet 10%! Everything was going acc to his ingenious pn.

  From the beginning, Nash wasn't aiming at the Pirate with his Axe Throw. Like, what would be the point? The girl was already on her death bed. A hit from Axe Throw wasn't going to deal much damage anyway. And, hitting her with the throw meant stig the axe into her back, which would only allow Nash to blink that far.

  That ain’t good enough. I wan ahead of her! That’s why, instead of wasting time aiming at the girl’s baash lodged the axe into the ground ahead of his prey. It allowed him to outrace his oppo in a blink of an eye. He was as fast as the Fsh!

  Now, all Nash had to do was swing at the oppo in front of him. Oack already ected. One more hit and it’ll be over!

  What I do here? Kai bit her lip. There's nothing, is there? Her Dodge Roll was still on cooldown. Her Backfire on was also out of ission.

  There were only two skills still avaible for her. She had the option to switch her gun for a cutss, or to summon the Kraken. Unfortunately, with her low HP, she had no hope of winning a melee fight. And, the summoning animation for Kraken was way too long. The Viking will cut her down before the Kraken es out.

  So, Kai was already dead. She actually allowed these bastards to take her down this early into the game. She thhly lost tade. Fug hell...

  Fine! If I'm going to die anyway...! Kai drew her cutss. She was going to swing and swing and swing! She won't go down without inflig any damage on her enemy!

  "Whoa! What a crazy chick!" Nash was taken back for a moment.

  At this point, most prey would resign to their fate and cease resistance. But, this girl was like a wild beast. Sensing danger, she shed out with relentless bites! The aggression was overwhelming enough to faze even Nash for a moment.

  Mad respect for that petitive attitude. But, it's over. All Nash had to do was bring down his axe once more. So, he did just that. The axe hacked through the Pirate’s ned cut her across the torso, exeg the fugitive.

  You have killed an enemy!

  “Hell yeah! Let’s go, let’s go, let’s gooooooo!” Nash wasn’t do, far from it. There was one more rat in the area, trying its best to flee the se - the Padin!

  Jaiden and Rio chased the guy from behind, so the Padin headed in the only dire he possibly could. He was running toward his tower, straight into Nash’s embrao homo.

  e at me, bruh! Nash became a goalkeeper. It was a b role in Soccer but, in Cssmancers, it was da shit! He stood in the Padin’s path, denyiry into the tower’s area.

  “This is a disaster! A tragedy!” Vi cried out. Two agents were chasing him down from behind and a gatekeeper stood in his way. It incer most foul! The enemy pressed Vi between a rod a hard pce. Doom was immi.

  “Chessmaster! Orders, I beseech thee!” Vi pleaded to the only person who could flip this disadvantageous situation on its head. Maybe there ening somewhere. Perhaps there was a weakness in the enemy’s formation. Vi prayed it was the case. He didn’t want to abandon hope until the very end!

  “Hmm,” Yuel bit his lip. He overclocked his brain to simute numerous lines of py, but nothing worked out. The enemies encircled the area perfectly.

  Vi’s best bet would’ve been to take a sharp turn toward the jungle, but the Gunslinger dehat option. While the ancer was chasing Vi in a straight lihe Gunsliuroward the jungle and circled around the area as he chased.

  As a result, Vi found himself caged iriangur formation. The three enemies were like three points of a triangle, with Vi imprisoned in the ter. No matter in which dire he’ll choose to run, there will always be somebody to intercept him.

  If he tried to turn around, the ancer will be there to stall him. If he ventured into the juhe Gunslinger will cut him off. And, if he tinued running along the he Viking was waiting to execute him at the end of the road. There was no escape from this triangle.

  “Your best option is to keep running toward the tower,” Yuel delivered the bad news. “If yoing to the juhey’ll intercept you and gang on you. Oher hand, if you get close enough to the tower, they might give up.” I highly doubt that, though.

  “O, dios mio! Why such a cruel fate must befall me!?” Vi mented. He was still alive and kig thanks to his tankiness, but only 50% HP remained. If he gives his pursuers just a few more opportuo hit him, he’ll die a terrible death.

  Following Yuel’s advice, Vi pressed on along the ne. His pursuers were still behind him and only hit him on a while. That much damage was still fi definitely hurt, but Vi will survive it.

  The real problem was the gatekeeper in front of him. If Vi had Dodge Roll, he could’ve attempted to roll past this guard. As, he panicked hard during this escape operation and spent the Dodge Roll prematurely. Also, he spent his Justice Strike as well.

  In other words, Vi was like a gunman with ay barrel. He only had his legs to carry him. By relying on fual movements alone, he had to somehow sneak past the gatekeeper and reach the safe haven. Indeed, at this critical moment, he shall bee the Ultimate Gatekeeper Sneaker-

  "Whoa!?" Two hands grabbed Vi before he could even begin maneuvering! The Viking locked him into a suplex!

  , the wrestler flung Vi backward like a rock. That set Vi at least ten steps back. The gatekeeper won this one.

  Shortly, the Gunslinger and nce caught up. The three enemies locked Vi ihe Bermuda Triahere was no escape from this immi doom. Vi struggled his best until the very end, but there was no hope of winning this 1v3.

  You have been killed!

  "Heh,” Vi smiled meaningfully as he gazed toward the ceiling. “All good things e to an end one day.”

  "What are you ag all 'cool' about?" Kai jabbed with her elbow. "You just died."

  "Why yes, indeed. I have perished. Such is the iable fate of all living beings. heless, I must say, those three made my heart skip a beat."

  "Huh?" kai raised an eyebrow.

  "Such teamwork! Such synergy!" Vi sang praises. "None escape from the grasp of The Barmuda Triangle of Certain Doom!"

  "'Certain Doom'?" Kai gave him a look. "You realize you're talking about our oppos, right? It's like you're saying we've already lost."

  "Indeed, we will lose terribly if we uimate their Bermuda Triangle of Certain doom.”

  "Yeah, whatever," Kai shrugged. "I'll get them ime."

  “I just told you to not uimate them,” Vi still had shivers dang across his skin. Renegade, Lapce, and StormMonster orchestrated a sequence of pys that was nothing short of ingenious. They crushed Vi like a bug, but he didn't even feel bad going down like this. It was simir to being stomped by a pro. It was an honor, not a tragedy.

  This Bermuda Triangle was bad news. It had the potential to trample all over Stratus. The st time Vi was this excited about unknown pyers was back wheched Yuel and Lars pying against the Leopards.

  No, perhaps the Bermuda Triaopped even that performa was swift, calcuted, aructive.

  Vi knew better than anybody that the amount of excitement he felt directly attested to the power level of the skill. After all, he was the Arbiter of Talents. The cooler the talent seemed, the more overpowered it was.

  Therefore, there was no doubt. This Bermuda Triangle of Certain Doom was going to run amok. This was but a prologue. The Bermuda Triangle hasn’t unleashed its full potential yet. Renegade, Lapce, and StormMoill had more in store. Much more.

  DarkestCymore