With everybody's approval, Nia pressed on with her pns to gank Apprente Bot. It was scary, but it was something she had to do!

  And so, she used Phantasm to summon her dear twin sister. This granted her invisibility, so was now ready to sy the monster!

  H-Here goes! Nia braced herself as she braved through the jungle.

  The more she thought about this situation, the more absurd it all felt. It was no exaggeration to say that Nia was on her way to fighting the biggest final boss she might ever fa her life. What's more, this scary guy had already wrecked her twice by now.

  heless, there Nia was, creeping up to this god-tier scary dude. At this point, it was hard to tell what was actually scarier here: that Korean monster, or Nia's uny determination to take on this terrifying challenge.

  In short, everything is scary here. But, I'mma do this...!

  She ehe ne and pressed onward. With each step, her heart beat harder and harder. A part of her kept tellihat this was suicide, that she should retreat before she regretted this.

  heless, her legs tinued onward. Nia took multiple deep breaths to dispel all that ay as she forced herself to push forward.

  I'm almost there. Almost. Nia crept ever closer to her target.

  So far, there hadn’t been any signs of the enemy notig her presehe Orc ushing the Turret along with his minions, ag as if he owhe entire his level of coess ar for the course with this guy.

  I REALLY wanna smack this guy...! Nia grumped. She was itg to opetack with Cursed Dagger for maximum damage, but she k might backfire. Against an oppo of this caliber, it was too risky to go for this unguaranteed bo.

  I'll just hit him with the ult. That should be enough. Yeah.

  Her target was almost within reach. The cocky guy still showed no signs of reag to Nia's sneaky approach, which implied he didn't have a Vision Ward hidden around this time. As Nia specuted, the guy was totally absorbed in pushing the ne. He was barely paying any attention to his surroundings at all.

  In fact, he was so determio see this push through that he even cast his ult.

  "Stand yround, grunts! You're not permitted to die until I say so!" the Orc yelled at the minions, f them to stay on their feet no matter how much damage they take. Even if they were to drop to ive damage, the little guys will tinue pushing!

  Isn't it a little te for that? Nia wohis is something he should’ve cast right at the start, right? Back when his minions first ehe tower area.

  The timing was really weird. This wasn’t the kind of mispy an Asian pro would make. But, it wasn't Nia's . The only thing she cared about ushing this guy deep into the tower area and finishing him off!

  Here es! Nia got into position and unleashed Force of Reje. Darkness erupted all around her, rejeg everything in sight! But, somethi wrong.

  "E-Eh!?" Nia jumped. W-Why did he...!?

  Just as Nia unleashed her ult, the Orc rolled in her dire! And, sinia made sure to approach the guy as closely as possible in order to maximize the ult’s push-back effect, the guy ended up rolling past her!

  "N-No!" Nia shrieked. Everything was going acc to pn, but then in an instant, everything crumbled!

  Well, maybe not everything. Force of Reje still hit Apprented pushed him away. However, instead of pushing him deeper into the allied territory, it pushed the guy away toward the middle of the ne!

  Nuuuuuu! Nia cried internally as the entire py crumbled in front of her very eyes. B-But, I still hit him! I even stunned him! I keep attag...!

  Instead over spilled milk, Nia shifted gears and fired a bck bolt at the stunned enemy. WHISH! It was a hit. She he shht before the enemy regained his ability to move.

  Well, whatever. Nia smiled wryly. I mean, when was the st time any of my ganks went smoothly against this monster? Yeah, exactly. So, this much is to be expected. I 't freeze because of a little surprise like this. I have to keep attag!

  She loaded another bck bolt into her crossbow and fired away! However, this time, her oppo was no lounned. So, how was the Korean monster going to respond!?

  Jen-jang! Jin cursed internally at the entire development. His dedu ot-o he still got hit by the Drow’s ult. This was su embarrassing blunder. He surely lost lots of evaluation points because of this development.

  Tch, she also hit me while I was stunned. Jin frowhe slowdown on her arrows is no joke at this stage of the game.

  Drow’s passive, Marks of Decay, applied a Movement Speed debuff on hit. To make things worse, the impact of the effect scaled with the Drow’s level.

  At the start of the game, Marks of Decay inflicted a meager 10% slowdown. However, in the mid-game, the number was around 20%. Getting hit by one of these made it almost impossible to escape from the Drow by foot.

  If I try to run, I’ll just keep getting hit. Jin reasoned. So, there’s no point. Instead, I just have to kill her!

  Jin sidestepped the ining bolt while thrusting his sce at the Drow! Unfortunately, with his Movement Speed reduced, his sidestep was slow. As a result, he failed to dodge the predictable enemy shot.

  heless, his oppo will suffer a far graver injury from this exge. WHISH! The sce stretched across the area and sshed the Drow! With just o, 20% of Vanishing’s HP was gone.

  As I thought, her spag isn't optimal. Jin criticized. She's either pying it safe, or she 't read distances well enough.

  Drow was a ranged css like all marksmen, but its attack range was a bit shorter than most. It was on par with Ranger's, which meant it was almost a mid-raaoheless, Drow’s crossbow still had a bit more reach than Orc’s sce.

  She has an advantage of about two steps to work with. Jin thought. But, she seems to be overextending needlessly. Typical amateurs.

  Vanishing must’ve been inexperienced or insecure. Or, perhaps both.

  S-Scary! Nia gulped as she saw 20% of her HP disappear in an instant. Just like that, she fell from almost 100% to below 80%. That was a savage strike! Scary!

  Nia went into this fight with more than 20% HP advantage, but after one exge of blows, this advantage had already shrunk to 15%. All the attaia u Apprehis far, including her ult, only reduced the guy's health from 80% to 65%. What a stubborn monster!

  B-But, it's ht? I have the range advantage. Nia tried to vince herself. I mean, I know Drow's range isly the best, but it should still be better than that whip, right? Pretty sure it is.

  Admittedly, she wasn't 100% sure about the details. It's just that logically it made sehat a crossbow would have a better reach than some bribed whip. But in truth, Nia had never pared their attack ranges.

  Anyway, if he still reach me from there, then maybe I back off a little? Nia took oep back before firing her shot. I 't step too far away. I o keep applying the slow on him, or else he'll run away.

  Drow's passive applied a brutal slowdown but it only sted for 2 seds. Therefore, to keep her oppo detained, Nia had to keep reapplying the debuff.

  H-Here goes...! Nia fired another bolt, praying that she did things properly this time. Surely, after she stepped back, she should be outside the oppo's terattack range, right? As, she was wrong.

  WHISH! The whip cracked once more and sshed right through her!

  W-Wha!? Nia gasped. Did he just step in really fast iween his attacks? I swear he was farther than this just a moment ago. Hax!

  The Orc jerked weirdly before his sed attack. Instead of fully retrag his sce, the whip just snapped ba as he stepped forward.

  Is that the infamous Kia wondered. But, I thought this thing is usually used for defense...?

  Her fusion was only natural. Every time KC was brought up today, it was apanied by a pint about “missing shots”, mainly by Lars who had to face multiple KC-users today.

  Normally, the whole point of g the recovery animation early was to sidestep an ining attack. At least, that's how Nia uood the purpose of this teique.

  But, this is different. Nia shuddered. He used that hack to close the distaween us! It's offensive KC! Scary.

  She wasn't ready for this at all. With this KC hack, Apprentece could practically match the crossbow’s attack range. In other words, it’s as if Nia didn't have a range adva all!

  To make things worse, bowmen started shooting her from behind. These pesky little fellows were uhe effect of Orc's ult, so they refused to die even as Lars and the tuhem down.

  I-I'm in a pincer here! Scary! Nia's flight instincts implored her to run a.

  The entire gank devolved into a mess. Instead of making quick work of Appre was Nia who lost tons of HP. She was now below 60% and things were only going to get worse from here!

  DarkestCymore