DEFEAT

  Once again, Fiona found herself staring at these blood-red letters. It was the sed game the Valkyries lost in a row. Both times, it was a teammate’s bluhat led to this oute.

  In Game 2, elia overextended and got tered by Hitter and Average. In Game 3, Karen insisted on giving chase after Athena, only to get double-teamed by Athena and Avergae.

  And, both times, I specifically warhem against these pys… Fiona sighed.

  For the most part, Fiona believed she was doing a det job domestig Karen and elia into good obedient girls. About 95% of the time, the two troublemakers faithfully followed Fiona’s instrus. This was a huge step up pared to when the club was only formed.

  heless, that remaining 5% is still an issue. Fiona thought. In high-level games, one mistake is all it takes to lose the game.

  Essentially, Karen and elia were like dormant voloes. Most of the time, they posed no danger. However, when they erupted, the results were devastating.

  And, this issue bees that much bigger when the enemy is aware of it. Fiona thought. I suspect Athena has already profiled Karen as an impulsive pyer, and I have no doubt Yuel Fermond will do the same after examining today’s footage.

  A public scrimmage was bound to expose the Valkyries’ weako everybody. Furthermore, anybody could easily purchase a repy of the match directly from Proter, and it was not just a raw video but an ied in-game repy data with all the advanced analysis features.

  In most sports, pyers would kill to get their hands on i least half as detailed as this. For the most part, it was only possible in bames like chess.

  Yet, Cssmancers has such features as well. It is both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, the accessible repys helped the Valkyries prepare for today's scrimmage. Oher hand, StormBlitz also prepared for today’s scrimmage by using the same exact teology. It was a double-edged sword, the downsides of which were seen clearly in games 2 and 3.

  In a simir fashion, StormBlitz dominated game 4 as well. At this point, the Valkyries' morale was noticeably plummeting to the point they were barely posing a challenge.

  Even Andira is underperf now. Fiona sighed. This is starting to feel like a rerun of the Leopards scrim…

  Unlike Karen and elia, Andria was always level-headed. She was not the type to give in to momentary temptations and such, therefore her issues did not e to the surfa the form of overextending or pig unfavorable fights.

  Instead, Andria's issue was her motivation. The more the team lost, the less the girl was motivated to fight for the win. Instead, she became preoccupied with not losing even more, whiaturally transitioned her into a defensive pystyle.

  Before things got to this point, Andria actively tried to find weaknesses in Adapting's pystyle. She even tried to bait him into unfavorable positions. Essentially, she ying for the win.

  Unfortunately, unlike how things pyed out with Venus, Andria could never make Adapting it a mispy. heless, her frequent attempts kept Adapting on his toes. He had to think twice about ung offense or rotating to another ne.

  However, at some point along the way, Andria had simply given up ohing. As a result, the Valkyries fell into a dysfunal state by game 4. The enemy ran all over them at this point.

  elia tinued being a tig bomb that blew up at random points, Karen picked unnecessary fights, and Andria stopped g. As a result of all of this, Lua also started losi and got distracted by the ive atmosphere around her, which led to a couple of uncharacteristic mispys.

  It appears that everything is up to me. Fiona thought. But, one chess piece ot wiire game when the position is this disadvantageous...

  Despite the sorry state of the team, Fiona tried her best to not lose heart. She tinued weaving one quick py into another in the hope of taking down StormBlitz. She believed that exeg successful pys would lift the team’s spirits aore their fidence.

  As, she never quite achieved anything notable. She scored a handful of kills by finding a few rare opportunities, but overall, there was almost nothing she could do against StormBlitz’s iron-cd defense.

  More often than not, the enemy slips away in the end. Fiona frowned. Repeated failures like these are not healthy for the team's morale.

  As, hard as she tried, Fiona could not achieve any more than that. StormBlitz simply did not give her the opportunity for that.

  I was hoping their defense would start crag as time goes on, but so far it hasn’t happened. Fiona thought. Despite how much they are dominating the game, they are still cautious enough to not it any mistakes.

  Most likely, the defeat StormBlitz suffered in the first game was still fresh in their minds. Because of that one bluhey refused to let their guard down evehey had absolute board trol.

  Well, this is to be expected from petitive pyers. Fiona nodded in approval. I have heard that the petitive level in the West is g pared to other parts of the world, but the skill of the Leopards and StormBlitz inspires fidence.

  In particur, StormBlitz was a miracle of a team. They did not even have a coach, yet their petitive level remaihis high over the years.

  Oher hand, the Valkyries did have a coach, but even that did not help them to overe this adversary...

  DarkestCymore