Following Ellen's advice, Julia moved toward Top before she even received permission to strike. Thanks to that, she arrived in Top shortly after Rosemary.

  "Just remember, July," Ellen whispered through private unication. "Your main goal here is to stop this push from happening. Getting a kill on Rosey is a ra bonus but it's not the focus."

  "Yeah, I get that," Julia said. But, I'm definitely going to MURDER this stupid wolf! She'll pay for what she's doo me!

  Though it happened a while ago, the memory of dying at Rosemary's hands was still fresh in Julia's memory. That oh forced Julia to cool down her aggression and py defensively instead. It ruined everything Julia po achieve in this game.

  So, it ayback time! Julia will not only stop this push, but she'll also KILL that damn wolf! It'd be the first time Rosemary dies in this game, so that’d surely score Julia tons of points!

  I do it! Julia advaoward the enemy wave. Unfortunately, by the time she got to the se, Rosemary had already taken out most of the minions.

  Tch, she's fast. Julia clicked her tongue. She got here just a few seds earlier but she's almost done, and she only used basic attacks. That's some bullshit levels of being overfed.

  As a basic-attack-reliant css, Werewolf was supposed to be slow at clearing a full minion wave at this stage in the game. Simir to a marksman, Werewolf had to wait for the tter parts of the game to be able to dispatch minions quickly.

  But, this bitch is so fed it's like she’s already ie-game. A shiver ran across Julia's arms at this realizatioe how strongly her fighting spirit was burning, she still felt a chill. She was about to go up against one hell of an oppo.

  But, I win this! I HAVE to win this! Julia took a deep breath and pushed forward. She's definitely going to zo before I reach the wave, but I came prepared!

  As expected, Rosemary immediately respoo Julia's arrival. She finished slig off the st bowman, the forward without any warning! A Grievous Assault was ing straight at Julia!

  Heh! I khat's how you'll do it! Julia was already aiming her Blink in advance. So, as soon as the wolf woman jumped at her, Julia teleported ahead! The two of them practically switched pces in an instant!

  Phew, okay! Julia exhaled in relief. This one py was a success but it was too early to celebrate. The fight was just getting started, so Julia had to keep ing strong pys!

  As soon as she popped up at the new location, Julia unleashed Fme Wave in the swordmen's faces! From this optimal position, the fmes hit both the swordsmen and the bowmen, just as pnned!

  The swordsmen were already injured earlier by allied minions, so Fme Wave easily erased the remainder of their HP. As for the bowmen, they were far squishier in the first pce, so of course the Fme Wave one-shot these dumbos.

  Judging by the oute alo was difficult to believe Julia was underfed or that she had been turtling most of the game. The py was so fast and aggressive that it surely made Julia appear dominant.

  Surprised? Julia gri her oppo. I’ve been lying low most of the game because your stupid ass killed me, but I’ve been preparing for this moment all along!

  Yes, Julia had been turtling the whole time in the ne. However, the items she built were actually offense-oriented! She had been waiting for this kind of eback all along!

  Furthermore, even though Julia was gging behind on gold, she chose to spend some of it to buy Blink. It was an immensely helpful tool for Pyromancer, a css that didn’t have access to any leaps, teleports, or dashes.

  Just by adding Blink into her arsenal, Julia was able to py around Werewolf’s Griveous Assault as if it was nothing. Without this handy utility skill, she would’ve been ripped to shreds by that savage attack.

  But, thanks to all these preparations, Julia smoothly dodged the enemy’s attack while simultaneously wiping out Rosemary’s squad. With this opening py, Julia was off to a strong start!

  But, of course, the enemy was quick to respond. Rosemary seemed like the type to never be fazed by anything around her, no matter how ued. What an annoying bitch.

  “AWOOOOO!” Rosemary howled loudly and rolled straight at Julia!

  As always, that dang girl didn’t waste any time. Her Grievous Assault had just whiffed, she should’ve been hel salty about that. A, it felt as if Rosemary was almost uned. She simply moved on to the py as if it was nothing.

  Shouldn’t you at least stop for a moment to sider whether to retreat!? Julia pined. Or, at least think for a moment about how to best attack me? Something? Any pauses at all? Julia gritted her teeth. Bitch is like a mae!

  Ironically, it was ultimately Julia who found herself fazed here. She was too stunned by the fact that her oppo wasn’t surprised by any of this at all. Her rea grew slower as her brain was filled with pointless questions.

  Tch, what’s all this dumb stuff I am even thinking about!? Julia shook her head. I have no time to slow down! I gotta maintain the momentum!

  And so, Julia cast Pilr of Fire. Her oppo was currently on the move, so she aimed the AoE under her ow instead. By standing on the fmes, Julia gained a power buff, which she po put tood use.

  “Die, you bitch!” Julia cursed as she unleashed a barrage of basic attacks at the ining predator. She had the range advantage for now, so she was going to take full advantage of it!

  On top of that, some of the items she built gratack Speed, so her basic attacks were pretty fast for a mage. Thanks to that, Julia unleashed heavy damage on the approag wolf!

  By the time Rosemary reached Julia, her HP already dropped from 60% to 40%. This damage might’ve seemed like a humble achievement, but it was quite impressive for a mage.

  Unfortunately, that’s as far as Julia’s onsught went. Now, it was the enemy’s turn to attack! SLASH! Sharp cws traveled across Julia’s torso, rippio shreds!

  In just o, Julia lost 20% of her HP. Yes, orike from Rosemary dealt as much damage as all of Julia’s basibined. It was unreal!

  Fortunately, Julia started this fight at a healthy 100%, so her HP was still in safe territht now. But, for how long?

  With busted damage like that, things gon critical real fast. Julia gulped. I need my spells to measure up to this!

  All her regur spells were on cooldown, but she had access to her ult. It was exactly the trump card she needed.

  And so, instead of retaliating with basic attacks at the predator in front of her, Julia started drawing the AoE for Bze of Inferno. Though, in this case, calling it “drawing” might be a stretch. It wasn’t mu the way of art, that’s for sure.

  Instead of drawing an actual path, Julia simply moved her mouse in circles around Rosemary. This level of “drawing” was on par with a fifth grader’s doodling, but it was the optimal py.

  Sinary just spent her Dodge Roll to get closer, that dumbass won't be able to get out of the inferne now. She'll have to eat this whole ass damage!

  At least, that's how things would've pyed out under normal circumstances. However, Rosemary had one unusual tool in her arsenal for an occasion like this.

  Checkmate. Fiona decred as she activated Shockwave. She picked up this ility skill mainly to ter ancer's Time Portal, but she also took into at how it was an effective ter for Pyromancer's ult.

  Shockwave was too o buy when it only effitly tered one enemy skill. But, when it tered at least two important skills, that’s when it started getting value.

  And so, it was time for Shockwave to justify its cost. While Venus was busy drawing circles, a magical shockwave assaulted her!

  Ihis was a checkmate. Bze of Inferno was the st spell avaible to Venus at the moment, and it will go on a long cooldown after getting interrupted. Venus will bee nothing more than a sitting duck at that point.

  However, much to Fiona’s surprise, the enemy was ready for this turn of events.

  I k! Julia celed her casting animation into a Dodge Roll and got the hell outta there!

  Shockwave retty janky skill. Its startup animation lenty reactable, especially since Julia was fully expeg it. So, she easily rolled out of the AoE’s range in time.

  How do you like that, dumbass!? Get outpyed! Julia gririumphantly after exeg that 200 IQ py. She recovered from the roll and immediately tinued her offense by shooting fireballs at her foe.

  Of course, she would've liked to cast her ult instead, but the darn thi on cooldown because Julia celed it with Dodge Roll. This a ted as an "interruption", so the skill suffered a 50% cooldowy. It sucked ass, but it was a neccessary sacrifice to bait out Shockwave.

  At first ghis py might’ve seemed like a waste. After all, Bze of Infer on cooldown all the same, so what’s the point? Well, there oint. A big one, actually.

  After whiffing the skill, Rosemary was now stu recovery animation for quite a while. Basically, that Shockwave skill sucked ass. Only idiots bought that stupid shit.

  Apparently, the darn thing at one point iime, but CssSoft into the ground. So now, both the startup and the recovery times were absolute rubbish.

  So, by dodging the skill, Julia now had all the time in the world te Rosemary with basics. Eat shit, you cocky bitch!

  This was one of the very few times today that somebody from StormBlitz successfully stumped Rosemary. The calcuted py kicked the dominant queen off the high horse, allowing Julia to seize the momentum of the battle!

  DarkestCymore