“Die. Die. Die all of you.” Julia muttered while swinging bad forth in front of her table, as if ting a curse. Enough mulling over her past as. Who even cared about this stupid game anyway? She was going to quit Cssmancers after this match, so the exam didn’t matter anymore. All she wanted was to unleash her pent up frustration, to shut up the bastards who made fun of her efforts.

  Thanks to one of her many Wards, she spotted the Beastmaster trying to clear a Wolf Camp. Oh, how nice. he took advantage of Julia’s death to go clear some camps. Who the hell gave him permission to do that, huh? Huh!? Julia warded that whole damn area! It was her zone! If that dumbass thought she’d let that pass, he had ahing ing!

  As soon Julia respwaned, she purchased Teleport. She was loaded with gold thanks to her sistent ne advantage, so she was gonna spend every st penny to crush the eeam! Hell was gonna rain on these retards!

  Julia instantly teleported into the Juo a Checkpoint Ward set up by the Orc, their Top Laner. It was located right above the Wolf Camp the Beastmaster far right now, how splending. With both the Ord Pirate all the way down in Bot Lahe Beastmaster certainly didn’t expeybody to be here right now. Surprise surprise! Julia was right here, you brainless imbecile retard!

  She sneaked up behind the Beastmaster and assaulted him with the perfect Pyromancer bo. Starting off with Pilr of Fire for damage-over-time, followed by four basic attacks to lower the Beastmaster’s defeh Demonic Arm’s passive. Finally, the coup de grace: Fme Wave straight in his stupid face! Ahahahaha!

  You have killed an enemy!

  “Yeah, that’s right, bitch! Ahahaha!” Julia ughed as if possessed. Her teammates threw fused g her, but she didn’t give a damn, she no longer had any reason to look good in front of these randoms. It was her st Cssmancers match, so she’d have the bst of her life!

  Her pystyle turned more and mgressive with every passing moment. She fearlessly pushed Turrets, even without any Wards around to warn about ining ganks. Not matter how persistently her oppos hugged their Turrets, she applied pressure until they were forced the hell outta there! She was gonroy all their objectives! She was gonna run these fuckers into the ground!

  “Ah! I done goofed!” Ellen cried out. She was fleeing from the enemy Lionfolk with just 13% HP. “I seriously done goofed! Halp! Send halp, somebody! Get that lion off me!”

  “Bring that idiot to the Checkpoint Ward.” Julia pihe map with a crazed smile on her face. “I’ll murder his stupid face, haha.”

  “... got it.” Ellen finally replied, after sizing Julia up for a few moments. If Julia made that request like five minutes ago, Ellen wouldn’t had trusted her to pull off that py. However, right now, something about Julia was... “off”, to say the least. Ever since Ellen roasted her, Julia’s pystyle made a 180. My, I may have been a bit too harsh ohis girl is more iing than I thought, heehee.

  As pnned, Ellen lured Aron, the Lionfolk, toward the Checkpoint Ward. Getting away from a Lionfolk was no easy feat, especially without her wolf mount. Actually, even with Julia’s help, it seemed unlikely Ellen would survive through this, she was just one breath away from death. Well, at least Julia should be able to finish off Aron’s remaining HP.

  Ellen sighed and prepared herself for the lion man’s decisive cw attack... which didn’t e. Oh? Ellen threw a gnce behind her.

  Aron was running over burning ground, the result of Julia’s Pilr of Fire. That girl sure got here fast, but that alone didn’t expin why Aron didn’t catch up to Elle. He definitely had the superior speed and Pilr of Fire just dealt DOT damage, it didn’t have a slow- oh, wait!

  Could it be? Ellen opehe status s. Yes! Julia built s of Infinity! It was an offeem, best suited for fog targets without allowing them any escape!

  s of Infinity added a stag slowdown effect to the user’s magical spells. Pilr of Fire applied multiple ticks of damage, so it became sinking sand that pinned Aron in pce! His leap skill was on cooldown as well, so he couldn’t reach Ellen!

  H-How!? Aron excimed. He wasn’t surprised by the slowdown, he already saw s of Infinity in the Pyromancer’s iory. It’s the Teleport that didn’t make sehe Pyromancer used her Teleport about two minutes ago, so it should had been on cooldown still, sidering a Lv.1 Teleport had a cooldown of 3 minutes.

  She upgraded it!? Aron . The Pyromancer’s Teleport was Lv.3 right now, which meant its cooldown was shortened by one minute!

  When a utility skill graded from the shop, its cooldown duration difference was factored right away, even if that skill was on cooldown at the time. Therefore, upgrading a Lv.1 Teleport to Lv.3 while it was on a one minute cooldown - immediately reset the remaining cooldown to zero. It was an niche meily few remembered to put to good use, so it was hard to anticipate this sort of development.

  Did the Pyromancer pn this misleading py? Or, was it just a ce it worked out so well? Either way, the situation was what it was: him against the Pyromancer and Ellen. It was teically a 2v1, but Ellen was running too low to retaliate and the Pyromancer shouldn’t be too hard to scare away.

  Based on Dan’s analysis as the Pyromancer’s ne oppo, she was a defensive oppo who avoided da all cost and ran away at the first sight of danger. Aron developed the same impression as well, as someone who tried ganking her ne many times to no avail. It was like she barricaded herself with Wards from all sides and camped in the ne, waiting for her teammates to push the game forward for her. At the first sight of danger, she left everything behind and fled back to her Turret.

  At first, her camping strategy truly foiled Aron’s ganks, his attempts at ter-Wardihwarted as well. However, over time, he realized there’s no point struggling so hard to pull a gank on her, because the one who felt the most pressured this whole time was the Pyromancer herself.

  She was going to self-destru her own by pying so defensively, Aron just had to lightly push her toward that end. He used her oing strategy against her by faking ganks, making it look like he was going for Mid every on a while, without any iion to actually do so. The mere possibility of a gank immediately made her retreat, stalling her progress time and again.

  With all that sidered, there’s no way this Pyromancer was going to fight Aron head oill had 60% HP and she was down to 40% HP, a scaredy-cat like her wouldn’t take such a huge risk- wha!?

  I’m still slowed down!? Aron just realized the enemy’s Pilr of Fire ced peculiarly. Rather than being pced with Aron in the ter, making it the hardest for him to escape in every direost of the burning ground stretched between Aron and the Pyromancer, f him to crawl toward her. That’s bad, he couldn’t reach her with Mighty Roar just yet...!

  Once he finally got close enough, the Pyromancer activated Burning Spirit. Was she going to retreat? Good, that saved him- No! She didn’t retreat! She kept staring straight at Aron, while backpedaling and shooting him. She just barely kept herself out of the range of his Mighty Roar while b him with quick basic attacks. Am I seriously going to die here?

  “Die. Die. Die! Ahahaha!” Julia ughed maniacally as she fired nonstop at the Lionfolk. She was gonna kill that dumbass! He stood no ce!

  Ahahaha! Die, worm! You thought I don’t know how to fight, right? Think again, sucker! She maintained distance from her foe and bombarded him with fireballs, just like she practiced against Yuel. Yeah, that’s right: trary to what these idiots probably thought, Julia practiced her fighting skills quite a lot.

  Yuel nagged her so much about her tendency to avoid fights, she legit wao murder that jerk a thousand times over. He taught her many bat tactid forced her to practice against for HOURS. She eve over a few times because their practice sted all the way into midnight. It was such a pain in the ass, the only fun part was using Yuel as a practice dummy aing shit outta him. Yeah, that felt good!

  Yuel drilled tless fighting teiques into her brain, like this weird “Blitz Pyromaactic which used Teleport. Apparently, it was used by the best Pyromancer pyer in the world or something. There were many other teiques as well, Yuel tried too damn hard to find a fighting style Julia would want to use in matches.

  However, she refused using any of that in real bat. Why? Because fighting was risky and dying was me, okay? It made her look like a total noob, Lars was gonna think she’s the worst pyer in the world. Pying safe was best way to leave a good impression.

  But screw all that! For her final match, she wao go all out! She eled the fighting teiques she learned, recalling the sweet moments of beating the crap outta Yuel during practice. Maybe she wasn’t strong like Lars or a walking encyclopedia like Yuel, but she watched how they pyed, practiced with them and pyed with them on the same team! She wasn’t some trash who didn’t know how to py Cssmancers!

  Relying on the fruits of her practice, Julia shaved the Lionfolk’s HP with basic attacks while staying out of his range. Once he fell down to 40% HP, she burned him with Fme Wave and immediately followed with Bze of Inferno.

  You have killed an enemy!

  “Yes! Die!” Julia trembled from the ecstasy. What a rush! Crushing that retard felt so goooooood Ahahaha!

  “My, July, you saved me~!” Ellen jumped on Julia and gave her a hug.

  “A-Ah, w-we’re still pying!”

  “My, aren’t you just the best~ Please let me have your babies~”

  “Creepy.” Julia retorted coldly, but a faint smile formed on her lips. Ellen’s attitude made a plete 180 after that py. Was it because Julia saved her ass? Huh, what a pretentious bitevertheless, after falling out of favor once, being praised agai good.

  My, she’s singing a pletely different tune now. Ellen released Julia auro the game, as her Ranger finally finished recalling back to base. She’s like a kitten who evolved into a lioness, I didn’t think she had it in her.

  “So, what ged?” Ellen asked. “You’re like a pletely different person. Where were you hiding all this hot stuff until now, girl?”

  “I just decided I don’t care anymore.” Julia shrugged. “I figured you’re right, you know? I shouldn’t py Cssmancers anymore if I don’t even enjoy this stupid game. So, this gonna be my st game.”

  “Your st game?” Ellen blinked.

  “Yeah, I’m quitting after this. And if I’mma quit anyway, I just gonna do whatever I want this game.”

  “I see.” Ellen smiled meaningfully. I thought she was triggered because I criticized her, but that’s not it. She just stopped being the frightened kitten she was before because she stopped g about her image. That allowed the lioness inside her to leap into the open. I may have been a little to harsh with her, but... heehee, this is so iing~

  With her awakened fighting spirit, Julia unleashed everything she had on her enemies. She assaulted them out of nowhere, destroyed their Turrets and ravaged them in team fights. The eeam was thrown into a disarray against this ued threat.

  It’s like she’s a different person. Aron frowned. He and Dan already finished profiling the Pyromancer as a pyer with det game knowledge and deaking skills, but severely g in meical skill and assertiveness. She had been pying like a camper the whole match, so that’s how these clusions were reached.

  However, as the match approached the te game, Aron was forced to toss away everything he knew about the Pyromahere was a o reevaluate her from scratch, both as an examinee and as ao deal with.

  Did they let somebody else take trol over the Pyromancer? No, that’s stupid. Aron chuckled. The Pyromancer’s ge was so sudden and so mind boggling that he couldn’t help sidering the silliest possibilities. From a campy and calcuted pyer, she transformed into a brute and reckless fighter. She was like a berserker whose switch was flipped.

  Normally, it wasn’t hard to punish a rampaging oppo, sihey left many holes in their defenses. However, this Pyromancer was well “fed” during the early game. Usually, a pyer became fed through sg many kills, but she ook that initiative. Instead, she dominated her ne so hard she mao outlevel and outbuild most pyers through minion farming alohus, evehere were opportuo punish her, it was difficult to kill her due to her superior stats.

  However, that only applied during the mid game. The match was already entering its te game, with most pyers about to reach Lv.20 and finish their builds. The lead she had until now was about to be beoot. As a css, the Pyromancer’s power curve was geared toward mid and te game, so she’d still have that going for her. heless, soon enough it was going to beuch easier to take her down.

  “Lars, take out their Pyromancer in the fight.” Aron ordered.

  “Okay, got it.” Lars nodded with a smile. “Gotta say, July is putting some real work. Never seen her py this aggressively, it’s pretty sick.”

  “Hm, is that so. I hope you’re not pnning to let her get away with this just because you’re friends.”

  “Nah, no way, dude.” Lars grinned. “I’mma crush her with everything I got! No mercy, yo!”

  “That’s what I wao hear.” Aroly sighed in relief. Arranging a match between friends was a blunder, but it couldn’t be helped because he didn’t know the examinees personally. He just had to pray that Lars and Julia knowing each other wasn’t affect their performaoo much.

  On Lars’s end, there didn’t seem to be any problems. He was a petitive brat and wao test his mettle against Julia, treating her like any other tough oppo.

  But, what about Julia? She seemed to avoid Lars throughout the matd eve him get away with a risky offehat should had been punished, but that was before her berserk switch was flipped. Was she going to fight him this time? The situation wasly fair for her, but how she was going to cope with it would give Aron some insight regarding her mental fortitude. Specifically, how serious she really was about passing the exam and being a petitive pyer.

  A major 4v4 team fight broke out in Mid Las result was going to heavily swing the game, possibly deg the winner. For Julia’s team, which was currently gging behind, winning this team fight was of utmost important, as defeat would spell immi doom.

  An ally has been killed!

  “Gah! You degeing piece of shit!” Ellen roared at Trever. “Are your aiming to bee a chef? Is that why you feeding them so hard, huh!? Well, you sure have talent, because they’re LOVING your free treats! Jesus, at this point an AFK would carry us harder.”

  “Tch.” Trever’s face torted, but he didn’t say anything. Yeah it was true, he fed the eeam pretty hard this game, he couldn’t even argue against that anymore. Sigh, why couldn’t this stupid match just end already? Really, that’s all he was asking for.

  However, not all hope was lost for the team fight. Julia aggressively assaulted the eeam, ign their number advantage. She got severely injured in the process, way more than she should had, but her efforts paid off. Her relentless attacks disrupted the enemy’s formation and turhem into an easy target for her Bze of Inferno.

  An enemy has been killed!

  An enemy has been killed!

  DOUBLE KILL

  “You’re amazing, July! Marry me!”

  “No way.”

  “My, how cruel.” Elleeo be offended. “Atta girl, keep going! We drew them into our territory, we still turables around!”

  “Sure, no problem.” Julia nodded. She was so absorbed in b her ehat she didn’t even notice wheeam fight moved all the way to her team’s Golem. Did Ellen pull the strings behind that relocation? Well, whatever. Regardless of how this favorable situation was created, Julia just had to kill, kill and then kill some more! Ahahaha!

  “It’s time for a trick show!” The sound cue hit Julia like a bucket of cold water. It was the cue for the Trickshooter’s ultimate: Trickshow. Lars fearlessly charged ahead of his team, despite being at 40% HP.

  Julia khis pattern, she saw this py a huimes by now. Lars was ing to murder them, all by himself!

  No matter how heated up Julia became or how little she cared about her as this match, there was still ohing she was relut to do: fight Lars. The way she pyed right now, she easily scored kills against anybody as long as luck was on her side. With her current momentum, if she were to fight for real... she might even kill Lars. Even though she gave up on her exam, she had nht getting in way of Lars’s exam.

  “What are you staring at? Attack him!” Ellen called out, but Julia’s mind was elsewhere. She just stood there, watg Lars slide toward the Clerid tear the guy apart.

  An ally has been killed!

  A typical start. , Lars robably gonna slide toward Ellen and kill her. That was his favorite method of rending asuhe eeam, Julia witnessed tless teams fall prey to his strength. Ah, he was just too cool. All these retards were already dead.

  “Don’t tell me you gonna cover your boyfriend again!?” Ellen grew restless as she intercepted Lars’s assault. This was the third time she faced Lars’s Trickshot, but she still couldn’t ha, her trademark poke-and-run tricks weren’t effective in the middle of an ongoing team fight. Fag Lars’s Trickshow was like challenging a raging typhoon, there’s nothing one could do against that terror. She somehow dodged instah, but her defeat was immi.

  “Listen, I get that you don’t wanna shoot your boyfriend, but this goody-two-shoes aot gon you anywhere!” Ellen argued, while doing everything she could to survive Lars’s bullet hell. “Tell me, you think he gonna like you foing easy on him? You think he’s a loser who runs away from challenges?”

  “No! No way!” Julia yelled. “He’s strong and he likes challenges, way too much even!”

  “Exactly, muscle heads like him wanna pete and e on top. You know who they respect the most? Other strong pyers, the ones who give them a run for their money!”

  “Strong pyers...”

  “You know, I already killed your sweetheart three times this match. I bet he’s head over heels for me at this point, teehee~ My, I already see his love fession ing after the match~”

  “T-That not gonna happen! No way!” Julia trembled. T-That’s nonsense! B-But, there was some sense in Ellen’s words. Whenever Lars was defeated by a strong oppo, he got tenfold more pumped about the game and showered his oppo with praise... probably more praise than he ever gave Julia, holy.

  “Ah! You little...!” Ellen ran out of time, she couldn’t stall Lars much longer and his allies were about to catch up. “Okay, listen and listen well, sweetie! You said it’s your st game, right? Then finish it in a bze of glory! Show him you’re not some chi, show him how strong you really are! He’s going to love you more than ever! Just kill him! Kill him and earn his love! Geh! Just kill him already! Kill him with fire, girl!”

  “Kill him... to earn his love...” Julia’s mind was a jumble. She never sidered such a drastic move before. But, maybe it was really going to work!? If she were to defeat Lars at least on her life, he was bound to see her as strong pyer. He’d shower her with praise and bee obsessed with beating her, obsessed with her! Yeah, he’d be totally into her!

  That’s it! Here and now, she was going execute the py that’d steal Lars’s heart! It might be the dumbest and most absurd shit ever, but absurdity never sounded so logical before! It was the way!

  Watch carefully. Where is he going to slide ? That’ll be my ce...! Julia observed Lars’s moves like a predator eying a prey. Even though she really wao go ahead and shoot Lars already, it wasn’t that simple.

  While using Trickshow, Lars had access to an infinite supply of Trickslides. He blitzed from side to side without any breaks, while mixing in a few early cels to throw his enemies off. Landing even a single shot on him was going to be as hard as smag a fly on steroids. Holy, it was above Julia’s skills.

  However, Julia saw Lars’s Trickshow a billion times by now. Really, it was like magic pying out in front of her very eyes. But any magiatter how magnifit, would stop being awe striking after being observed so many times. Yuel even made her practice specific tactics to enhance Lars’s Trickshow, ensuring she and Yuel could back Lars up to the best of their ability. Not only that, but she was even forced to practice tering Lars’s Trickshow, that was Yuel’s way of teag Lars about its weaknesses.

  Therefore, with all of that experienbined, Julia knew both the strong and oints of Lars’s dazzling Trickshow. A slide to the left, a slide to the right, celed into a slide to the left, then... was going to be a cel to the right! There was no doubt!

  Please, accept this burning love! Julia summoned Pilr of Fire and fired four basic attacks in its dire, toward a spot currently devoid of targets. That should do the trick Please die, for the sake of our love!

  A moment ter, Lars slid straight into the burning ground. Pilr of Fire slowed him down thanks to s of Infinity, so he couldn’t dodge the basic attacks Julia sprayed in his dire. Only three out of four attaded, but it was more than enough. Now that her prey was weakened, she unleashed a Fme Wave filled with all her love! She was gonna prove her strength right here and now! He had to be killed for their love!

  You have killed an enemy!

  She did it. S-She freakin’ did it! With her own two hands, she wiped Lars out! Unbelievable..

  “Whoa...” She had no idea how to react. One part of her wao celebrate this victory, while the other part wao crawl under a rod die. Did her intense love reach Lars? Did she impress him? Was he gonna hate her for killing him during su important exam? Did she mess up!? Oh god, which was it!?

  “No freakin’ way!” Lars jumped from his chair. “Julia just wrecked me, yo!”

  “Yes, that’s what usually happens when you charge in alone.” Aron stated matter-of-factly.

  “No, but like, I had no idea she could even py like this. This is bananas!” Lars stared at his monitor, dumbfound. He mixed feints and cels into his Trickslides during Trickshow, yet Julia ered and executed him. Dude, it was... it was so sick, yo! When did she bee so freakin’ strong? He should totally py 1v1 against her sometimes. “Dude, Julia royally kicked my ass this fight. I bet she insta-passed the test with that shit.”

  “We’ll see about that.” Aron stated in his usual indifferent tone. He put a swift end to the enemy’s celebration by leaping on the Pyromancer.

  Even though she mao kill Lars, which was no easy feat, that put her in a vulnerable position. She had to go out of her way to secure all these shots on Lars, making her an easy prey for Aron’s Lionfolk. In the end, all she achieved was exging oh for one kill, nothing impressive.

  An enemy has been killed!

  With the Pyromancer out the picture, the only remaining enemy was Ellen, who quickly got away. Aron’s team should be sidered victorious in this fight, but both teams’ Carries were dead. Before long, Elleurned with full HP to guard her Golem, f Aron and Gilbert to retreat. They won that tough team fight, but without a Carry they didn’t get to do much pushing, what a shame.

  That Pyromancer proved she had some fighting in her, she even scored a fair share of kills retly. However, her fighting style was reckless and she overexteoo often. Holy, at this rate, she... probably wasn’t going to make it. She’d have to put on some truly fasating performance before end game to ge Aron’s mind.