The opponent mage must not have been expecting to meet Fairy Song in the midlane. As soon as they met in the middle of the map, WIND did not immediately begin clearing waves. Instead, he sent a ‘?’ emote.
Zuo Tao responded with the same emote, and, having once more met another professional player on a random game, he began typing on the keyboard.
【(World) ZZ: Are you really WIND himself?】
【(World) REBORN-WIND: It’s me. A fan?】
Xiao Cheng’s guess was reasonable. After all, the other party had switched lanes with the mage at the beginning of the game even while being a support. Apart from being a fan, he couldn’t think of any other reason someone would do such a thing.
However —
【(World) ZZ: That’s a beautiful thought.】
【(World) ZZ: You’re not very good at clearing minions.】
【(World) REBORN-WIND: … /sweat_wipe.jpg Are you sure you’re not on the wrong lane?】
Zuo Tao rolled his eyes and didn’t respond. He focused on the game.
Through the team voice chat, Ding Lei said, “Tao’er, why do you sound aggressive when you talk to WIND?” Although Zuo Tao was never one to shy away from cursing people in the game, he wouldn’t fight every single rando they come across. He would usually tolerate noobs as long as they weren’t playing too badly.
Mocking someone this way so straightforwardly, it was obviously a personal grudge.
Ding Lei continued, “WIND is also a former member of FTU, right? Haven’t you been a fan of that team this whole time?”
Zuo Tao, disgusted, answered: “Stop talking nonsense, I’m only a fan of FIRE. WIND has nothing to do with it.”
【(World) REBORN-WIND: Think it over, my friend. Although Fairy Song can deal damage, she’s too fragile. Don’t you want to switch back after all?】
【(World) ZZ: You talk too much.】
Xiao Cheng smiled indifferently. He didn’t pay much attention to the other player any longer. It wasn’t until the game hit the five-minute mark that he realized something was wrong — there was something wrong with this little fairy. She positioned herself strangely, making him move too deep when he tried to chase her, all while wasting his skills, all while receiving basic attack damage.
At the REBORN club.
Xiao Cheng frowned and extinguished his cigarette.
“What’s wrong?” REBORN’s coach, Zhang Ce, moved to stand behind Xiao Cheng.
“This Fairy Song’s good,” he said. Curiously, he added: “Did Fairy Song receive a buff?”
He thought of the support substitute over at Wildfire, who had played a training match using Fairy Song against GGF.
Zheng Ce: “There’s been no buff. What’s up?”
“I feel like this player’s game awareness is up to par with professionals,” Xiao Cheng answered.
“Pro?” Hearing this, Zhang Ce leaned forward to check, and he quickly realized what was happening. “No wonder, it’s ZZ.” He crossed his arms across his chest and said, “You probably don’t know since you’ve just gotten back, but ZZ is currently the most popular companion player signed with Little Bear TV. He’s skilled, and talented. Other teams have been inviting him nonstop to join as training partner, but he rarely accepts those offers.”
Remembering something else, he continued: “A while ago, we also sent him an invite to enter the youth training camp, but he refused.”
Xiao Cheng: “Why did he refuse?”
Zheng Ce’s face twisted. “He said he could come to our team, but only if he was going to be a starter.”
Xiao Cheng: …
Ending the topic, Zhang Ce glanced at his phone and said, “Damn, the team’s fans are still tearing it up with Wildfire’s. Why did you insist on going to FIRE’s livestream just because you had nothing to do?”
The smile on Xiao Cheng’s face faded. “I’m doing it for REBORN. The team is so new and needs more exposure. At least we’re still being talked about, right? And our Weibo followers are also increasing, right?”
Zhang Ce sighed. “Although that’s true, this kind of trend is nothing good. Worst still are those CP fans of yours who are still cursing FIRE until now.
Xiao Cheng didn’t respond. He wasn’t actually expecting Song Shihan to respond to what he’d done in his livestream this afternoon.
Especially when he thought of Song Shihan ruffling that boy named PINK’s hair as if to comfort him right before he ended the livestream. Something gloomy rose in Xiao Cheng’s eyes.
Zhang Ce didn’t know what was going on in Xiao Cheng’s head, but he saw something that made his throat click. “Oh, great. Looks like ZZ is also Song Shihan’s fan, and he’d been talking trash with your fans not even ten minutes ago.”
Zhang Ce’s eyes were dark. “What kind of coincidence is this? You should be careful. Suppress him as much as you can.”
Xiao Cheng: “En, don’t worry about it.”
The game reached 12 minutes.
Although he didn’t want to admit it, he had to say that Xiao Cheng was indeed stronger than GGF’s STAR. The game has been going on for so long and Zuo Tao had yet to find a chance to kill his opponent, so all he could do was find opportunities to fight and decrease his health.
To be honest, he was getting impatient.
Zuo Tao recalled to the base, staying in the store for a moment. He sold an equipment he had already completed and replaced it with ‘Ghost Lady’s Jade Soul’.
Ghost Lady’s Jade Soul was the most powerful magic item in the game 《Rising Wind》. Its passive was that the lower the health of the user, the higher the damage bonus. It scaled depending on health, going from 10%/30%/70%.
The only downside was that it required the user to take damage while dealing. Requirement to achieve the highest damage was high; after all, it was highly likely that the hero would die from taking damage before they could even cast all their skills.
Players buying Ghost Lady’s Jade Soul were akin to gamblers buying lottery tickets.
The random enemy jungler started to make noise —
【(World) I am Xiao Tiantian: Ghost Lady’s Jade Soul? Hahaha, ZZ, even you won’t be able to do it. Your courage to buy the lottery is commendable, though.】
【(World) I am Xiao Tiantian: You can always beg god Feng1Wind to take it easy on you for a bit, at least you can still lose with some dignity.】
【(World) I am Xiao Tiantian: Can God Feng reserve a friend slot for me later?】
Zuo Tao ignored the enemy jungler, deliberately catching the minion attacks on the lane. He calculated how much damage the minions would inflict on him.
Ding Lei, who had been forced to play support, walked upstream and said, “Enemy jungler is at the blue buff.”
Just as he finished speaking, the jungler who was supposed to be busy with his blue buff suddenly ran out of the bush, flashing behind Zuo Tao to keep him from retreating. WIND saw an opportunity and moved forward —
Ding Lei was startled, rushing towards the midlane and even wasting his flash to shorten the distance. Still, no matter how fast he moved, it was obviously too late, he could only yell: “Be careful, Zuo Tao, careful!”
“Shut up!” Zuo Tao answered, his ears ringing.
Compared to Ding Lei’s panic, Zuo Tao was calm and focused. He ignored WIND who was rushing towards him and instead threw his crowd control on the jungler. He only had 50% of health left, bumping his damage by 30 per cent. His damage skill and basic attacks would be enough to burst the jungler down.
He was obviously someone who underestimated Fairy Song. Watching as his health bar rapidly turned grey, he panicked, rushing to use his last damage skill before he died.
Zuo Tao only had 6% health left.
He could almost laugh. “Thanks for the divine assist, idiot.”
This meant that he only needed to lose a little bit more health to reach the maximum 70% damage bonus from Ghost Lady’s Jade Soul. In the midgame, it was devastating damage.
WIND witnessed what happened and, as expected, retreated. But Zuo Tao still had his flash. He took minion damage and flickered in.
Another minion’s damage reached Fairy Song, leaving only 5% of her health, activating the 70% damage bonus passive.
The moment he landed, he simply used a basic attack, not even using any of his skills. He turned around with confidence.
The in-game kill announcement came —
【DOUBLE KILL!】
Ding Lei, who had finally arrived at the midlane, shouted in excitement, using his hero to rush around the little fairy. “My peach, you’re a god!!! I declare! You are!!! The Fairy Prince of the great canyon!!”
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