After Yuel returo base, he purchased an Lv.1 Windmail. An unventional move, si was usually better to upgrade items to Lv.3 before buying new ones. He already had an Lv.1 Repelling Amulet, which he bought to bat the enemy’s magical p, but he chose to not upgrade it at this time.

  Repelling Amulet granted him HP and magical defense, but no physical defehat’s what Windmail came to fix. While magical defense was valuable against the basid spells of Pyromancer and Lumimancer, physical defense was necessary for tanking minion attacks.

  In addition, Windmail had an aura effect whicreased the movement speed of all nearby allies, simir to how Repelling Amulet had an aura whicreased the magical defense of nearby allies. Both auras were weak while the items were at Lv.1, but just having auras was huge for a Padin. His passive, Holy Aura, granted him defense and HP regeion for each aura item he built, regardless of the item’s level. Therefore, stag two aura items early on gave him more “effective health” overall for the uping operation.

  As soon as his Padin fully recovered, he dashed out of the base. Acc to his estimation, he and Breaker were going to reach the about the same time. She had a head start, but he had the small speed buff from Windmail, which became increasingly more impactful when traveling across a long distance. She might outrun him if she built boots, but knowing her - she probably went for damage. And, even if she did build boots ao ne first, Lars would know to stay bad avoid pig fights when he’s running low on HP, right? Right? I better hurry.

  Fortunately, no disaster occurred. Breaker got to ne a little before him, but Lars stayed in the bad farmed he Turret like a good boy.

  As soon as she returned, Breaker pushed harder than before, no doubt trying to capitalize on Lars’s low HP. Insisting to stay oh such low HP was a rather unusual sario on high levels of py. It’s normally sidered btant overextension, the kind you’d only expect to see from greedy newbies.

  So, how well did Breaker practice suusual sarios? How well with her “orthodox defense” deal with this peculiar situation?

  As expected, she forsook defense and became the aggressor. She robably led to this decision by some bination of the following factors: her limited experieh such silly overextension situations, the salt from her the previous failed attempt to kill Lars and the fact she was almost killed by Lars's Trickshot back then. Perhaps there were even more reasons, but these were the ones Yuel ated for. Thus, he could tell with certainty she'd go on the offensive here, just like he wanted.

  That’s the first mistake Breaker made. Even though Lars stayed in the bad pyed “defensively”, he was like a starved beast. He sistently sought an opportunity to leap on Breaker and tear her apart. The term “pying defensively” didn’t really exist in that goof’s vocabury, he was like a hungry wolf Yuel kept on a leash right now. But, Breaker didn’t see the leash, so she thought Lars was a well-behaved doggy. So, she approached the doggy and poked it, only to be bitten by a wolf.

  Her HP fell all the way to 70% after they exged blows, whereas Lars stayed at 10%. Breaker’s side still held an undeniable advantage, but she must have begun realizing she was doing this wrong. So, after her failed attempt to scare Lars away, she and Night retreated back to the ter of the ne, inviting Lars to leave the Turret a wrecked in a fight.

  It’s unfortunate, her retreat came much faster than Yuel expected. He hoped t Breaker’s HP down to 50% first, but she noticed the pitfall in her aggressive approach too quickly. Regardless, his pn was still very much feasible.

  The twed enemies were now ba the middle of the ne, so Yuel gained more freedom to move around as a melee pyer. He positioned himself on the frontline and body-blocked the shots of enemy bowmen, who were the hard-hitting minions in the wave. In exge for his own HP, he reduced the total damage their minion wave received and gave them a push advantage.

  Of course, this stunt put him in the range of the enemy Pyromancer and Lumimancer. It’s a risk he had been avoiding until now in fear of feeding Breaker, but now he knew such tactics could actually throw Breaker off. In fact, he pyed on the front even more btantly than usual, deg his fearlessness.

  “Could you not rotate your camera so much?” Yuel requested.

  “Hm? Me?” Lars blinked. “Wait, why are you looking at my s while pying? You got your own.”

  “Just getting a feel for the perspective,” Yuel answered. “You’re about to hit Lv.5, right?”

  “Yeah, like one more minion.”

  “Good, make sure you get the st hit. Things are about to go down.”

  “Heh, sounds fun!”

  His exp lead is eveer than I expected. He may be a goof, but his st-hitting skill is top notch. Instinct? Yuel smiled wryly. The preparations were done. All that’s left was to pull the trigger. He advanced even more boldly, taunting his oppos. Anytime now.

  “Tch, these cocky scrubs are so damn annoying!” Jennifer ranted. Seriously, what’s with that attitude? First, they didn’t bother banning her Pyromancer, as if she’s not a threat at all. And now, they’re ag all fident with their overextension, thinking she gonhem get away with this shit. Hell no! That Trickshooter was on his st breath and that Padin totally gon burned pying on the frontline like that. She’ll rek them both!

  With the Trickshooter at barely 10% HP, there’s no way he could advao the front to help the Padin whatsoever. In other words, the Padin was totally on his own on the front li’s basically the same mistake these scrubs made st time, but in reverse. Last time, the Trickshooter charged in alone while leaving the Padin behind, and now the Padin advanced solo while the Trickshooter couldn’t follow up. These guys had abysmal teamwork.

  “Let’s rek this Padin scrub.” Jennifer grinned.

  “So, should I go in?” Albert asked.

  “Yep, go AAAALLLL in!”

  “Got it.” Albert nodded and activated Blinding Light. While his Lumimancer charged energy, he blinked forward with Fsh, appearing right in front of the Padin’s face. Right then, a fsh of light erupted from the Lumimancer, robbing the Padin’s vision.

  “Good! his!” Jennifer circled to the Padin’s right and unleashed Fme Wave. Without his sight, he had no way to block the spell! He had no idea where it was going to e from!

  From the right! Yuel o himself and activated Divine Shield, blog the ining Fme Wave.

  “Wha!? How!?” Jennifer jumped. He was blinded! He shouldn’t have been able to see it ing! How did he ter her Fme Wave so easily?!

  Good, I pulled it off. Yuel breathed in relief. For a while now, he had been pying while watg Lars’s s instead of his own. He adjusted himself to moving the Padin from Lars’s point of view, so the fact his own s went white didn’t matter at all.

  With Breaker’s Fme Wave wasted, they were now in a great position to mount a terattack! “Go! Finish the Pyro with your ult!”

  “On it!” Lars charged in without a moment’s hesitation. Low HP? Tremendous danger? Who cared about that crap, yo. He just wao get some kills!

  “It’s time for a trick show!” The sound cue of Trickshow resouurning Lars’s Trickshot and Trickslide into spammable skills. He slid straight ahead, gunning for Breaker.

  “He actually moved forward!?” Jennifer . What’s this situation? It’s she and Albert who initiated this fight. They were the aggressors! Yet, these scrubs pretehey were the hunters and Jennifer was their prey! Raaaaaaaaawr!!! She gonna kick their asses for sure!

  That Trickshooter couldn’t do shit with just... just.... 17% HP? Huh? What? When!? Oh shit, it’s that Fme Wave the Padin absorbed earlier with his Divine Shield! He used the absorbed power to heal the Trickshooter! Nughhhhh! It’s like Jennifer healed that scrub herself!

  With 17% HP, things were quite different. The Trickshooter was no longer as easy to kill, especially sidering the aura prote of Padin’s Repelling Amulet. But still, Jennifer was at 70% HP. Did they really think they could take her down like this? She gonna wreck them for sure-

  “Would you stop already!?” Jennifer roared as a holy bde crashed on her from the sky. She was silenced and slowed, both her fighting and esg options were sealed! Don’t you mess with me! I’mma take you down with basics then. e at me, scrub!

  Instead of fleeing, she stood her ground and shot fireballs at the approag Trickshooter. No matter what unfavorable factors were in py, she maintained a stroal image. It’s the image of her crushing these two scrubs with her own two hands! So what if she was restricted to just basics attacks? Bring it on! That’d only make her victory look that much cooler!

  As, her first fireball missed. And, her sed fireball missed. And, her third fireball missed. Eh? W-What’s going on!? Shivers ran across her arms. The Trickshooter moved all over the pce, like a damn cockroa steroids!

  Are you for real? Jennifer had no idea what to say. She was simply dumbfounded. Her instincts screamed to retreat and her Pyromancer already took a few steps back. But, escape? Really? In this situation? Didn’t she imagine herself crushing this suicidal Trickshooter? That glorious image of her standing on top of the crushed Trickshooter... it grew hazy.

  There? No, damn...! Just as she thought she predicted the Trickshooter's slide, he suddenly celed it and rolled to the other side! What’s this nonsense?! Did he read her mind? ESP?!?!?

  But, the dodges weren't even the most amazing part here. It’s the Trickshots he fired iween slides that struck her with a mixture of awe and terror. Some shots were aimed straight at her, others bounced off a wall and then struck her. No matter the angle he fired from - he never missed! Not even once!

  Jennifer did her best to move around, making it hard for him to aim. Yet, his shots didn’t waver in the slightest. Sure, her movement speed was reduced by the Padin’s Justice Strike, but she should have been able to dodge at least some of these shots. But, they always found their way to her, like goddamn guided missiles!

  Shit, what’s with this damage?! She turned pale. She was at 70% HP whearted, but it’s already down to 30%?! How was that even possible?! Gah, she realized her defense was debuffed too. That damn Padin and his stupid Justice Strike!

  This is bad. Like, seriously freaking bad. She gulped. Even though she moved around to dodge, even though she fired basic attacks - it felt like she was frozen in pce, like a practice dummy for that Trickshooter.

  Did Trickshow always st this long? It was supposed to st only a couple of seds, but it felt like this torture sted ay. She was locked in a cage of bullets, with no way to escape.

  Where was her mental image of victory now? It shattered to pieces. She couldn't see herself winning by any stretaginatioreat... Geh, she had to retreat! Now!

  The sloas about to wear off and she still had 20% HP left. Trickshow had to be approag its end too, so the Trickshooter probably had only one more Trickshot left before it goes on cooldown. At 20% HP, a straight Trickshot wasn't going to cut it. So, he’d have to make it bounce. If she dodges that final shot...! Yes, there’s a ce! She could make it out!

  WHISH. She’d reize this sound effey day. The decisive Trickshot was fired. Just like she trained, she was going to roll forward and-

  You have been killed!

  FIRST BLOOD!

  “Wha.... Ah...” Jennifer sat there like a statue. The Trickshot came as expected and she rolled as pnned... but it still reached her. Just as she fihe roll and stood up - the shot pierced her skull. Not only did it hit despite her roll, but it was a headshot too?! J-Just what’s wrong with that guy...

  “Sorry I couldn’t help more.” Albert apologized as he barely escaped to safety. “Everything was on cooldown. They really pyed us there.”

  “Pyed us...?” Jennifer produced a dry ugh. “You’re saying they phis whole thing?”

  “Not sure to what extent, but I think they were aiming for this.”

  “Pnned... this bizarre py? Heh. Haha.” Jennifer ughed because that’s the only response she could e up with. She was sure the Trickshooter and Padin had shitty teamwork, but what if it was actually godlike? What if it transded everything she traio beat?

  She was supposed to be able to deal with any situation, that’s what she trained herself for and what she prided herself in. But, this development... she failed to eveer it as a “situation to deal with” at first. From the Trickshooter’s reckless charge and down to his hellish Trickshow - everything about that py transded on sense! If it was really pnned by these two, then... wow. Just wow.

  “Welp,” Lars twisted his lips. “The Suppot away.”

  “You greedy bastard,” Yuel smirked. They just pulled off a pretty insane py, but that wolf wasn’t satisfied until he devoured every st oppo. Well, it’s probably this hunger for victory that allowed him to pull off these iunts in the first pce.

  Thanks to “Lars Trickshot Services Ltd.”, they finally found a way to pee through Breaker’s airtight early game defeormBlitz seized the momentum first! They had to roll with it and gain further advantage while it sted! It to Yuel, as the captain and the shot-caller, to ehat was going to happen.

  “grats on the first blood,” Roi said. “Nice beginner’s luck there, lol.”

  “Luck?” Lars grinned. “I’mma kill her twenty more times, ez. Just ya watch, yo!”

  “So,” Gilbert smirked. “If you score less than 20 kills we’ll sub you out.”

  “Geh! N-No problem! Easy peasy lemon squeezy!”

  With this one kill, what remained of the team’s awkward atmosphere irely vahey were joking and ughing again. No ranting, no shifting bme. It was amazing. Lars, the “Momentum Geing Wonder Boy”, was amazing!

  I match, Yuel spent the whole time thinking up ways to improve the team’s morale, to no avail. However, with Lars at his side, he found a solution within seds. With Yuel’s strategy and Lars’s strength - they could pull through anything!