"Nice!" Dylan and Rex exclaimed, punching the air.
"Don't get too happy. Farm quietly, in 2 waves, we take on the first Guardian.
In Arianis, their were multiple map objectives. One of them was the Guardian Sentinels.
These Guardians were large epic monsters that gave a small amount of buffs and stats for each one killed. When four were killed, or after 30 minutes, they would stop spawning, giving way for the final boss:
The Overking.
The Guardians were of 6 major elements with each giving a different buffs:
Fire which gave bonus Physical and Magic damage.
Water which gave healing and increased HP regeneration.
Earth for Physical and Magical resistances
Wind for Movement speed and cool down reduction.
Holy for increased experience and hold gain with a shield that gave Spell shields that blocks the next spell.
Dark for increased Damage reduction and Lifesteal.
Currently, at 10 minutes into the game, the first guardian spawned. All Guardians would spawn at random, and if one guardian spawned twice, the stats gained are added up.
No one in both teams would want his opponents to gain extra stats and buffs. So most team fights occured during this period.
The way a game panned out was:
Early Farming stage, First objective fight, middle farming stage, Guardian Rush,the late game, the Pylon capturing, and Battle for Over King which signified the Pinnacle of the match.
Rex and Dylan proceeded to farm calmly. But that didn't change what happened next.
An Ally has being Slain
Shub-Nigurath has Slain Balmorg
Crea lifted her brow and sighed. This game was going to be hard. Shub-Nigurath was a champion who you wouldn't want to give kills early in the game.
Her passive stacked up her magic damage permanently for each kill she got in minions, monsters and enemy immortals.
When she reached a stack threshold, her ultimate summon would gain more stats.
"She's probably at 100 stack now. Her Dark young should be in its first evolution" Dylan pointed out as he hovered his mouse on War lane. The enemy Shub-Nigurath was flanked by a giant goat-like monstrosity with tentacles protuding off its back.
A thought came to him; since the enemy fed siege Laner was on top side, he could force a trade between himself and the Mac'intyre.
This was due to the fact that he assumed his Siege Laner and Hunter would back him up as they were close by. Just as he was to go in, Crea called.
"Back off and recall. No need to fight now, the first Guardian is about to spawn.
But Dylan seemed not to hear her. His ego has decided for him that to fight now was better than to fight later.
So he used his W ability to make himself invisible, pretending to retreat. His support also walks into a bush to hide the fact of an attack...
Just then, the Yufel used his ultimate ability that gave all allies around him a buff to movement speed and Attack speed with a large shield.
Rakesh popped out of stealth, throwing a poison grenade and a rope trap to root the Mac'intyre.
What he didn't see coming was the Obafemi over the wall.
Ultimate[All In]: Obafemi dashes to an area, smashing his Ogbunigwe and stunning all enemies around. The blade fragments would divide into a pair of gauntlets, giving him splash to his basic attacks and bonus armour and magical resistance. All physical attacks are reflected to the enemy during the duration of his Ultimate (Duration: 10 secs)
Stunned (1.5 secs)
Warriors Slam(Stunned: 0.5 secs)
Shock Shot (Disabled: 0.7 seconds)
Spatial Blast
You have been Slain
Mac'intyre has SlainRakesh
Enemy Double Kill
Mac'intyre has Slain Yufel
Bang!!!
A loud thump resounded on the table, like something heavy had hit it.
Dylan, Rex and even Sheila who was trying out the games tutorial were jolted by the sound coming from Crea's desk.
When Dylan looked over, he squealed as he saw the giant ladies eyes trained on him like some hungry wolf ready to pounce.
"What did I just say? This is why I said you're such a bad player. How do you start up a fight right on an objective spawn?"
Dylan gulped as he stuttered.
"W...w...well um.. I thought... I could win if you guys roamed over"
Rex then sighed and spoke up. "We couldn't, we all pinged the Obafemi roaming to your side of the map"
"Wait, you did?"
"Bro! Didn't you see me go back?"
"I thought..."
"You don't think, you observe. Good one Rex, at least you're knowledgeable about the game. Your problem is you lack knowledge on your roam timers. That Shub shouldn't have gotten topside without your team knowing" Crea cut in as she walked towards the first Guardians spawn platform.
"Well, she recalled and..."
"She never did. You should at least do a thorough check on your opponents status first before making such a decision"
Rex shut his mouth and began to recall.
"Well, just one Guardian isn't that bad" Crea groaned slightly before widening her eyes to what she was seeing in her screen.
"What in God's name is the Balmorg doing?"
An Ally has being Slain
Shub-Nigurath has Slain Balmorg
Even Dylan and Rex were stunned too.
Enemy has Slain Infernal Guardian and Gained the Fiery Aura.
???
Balmorg - where my team?
Everyone- ??????
Balmorg- Useless Team. Hunter Gap
Crea looked up the roof, as if the words to answer this guy were painted into the ceiling. She felt dejected that she now had to work harder to win.
"Better we surrender now. The Shub-Nigurath has 5 kills now" Dylan dejectedly replied as he slump on his desk. His Rakesh just spawned, but his first defensive turret was under siege before he could do anything about it.
Enemy has destroyed First tower.
Rex sighed. He did his best to assist his friend in bot side, but just as he was to appear to assist with his Argron, the enemy Obafemi popped out and Roared
"YOU'RE DYING TONIGHT!"
ALL IN
SPATIAL BLAST
BLESSING OF THE DARK MOTHER
APPROACHING STORM
AN ALLY HAS BEING SLAIN
Obafemi has Slain Argron
ENEMY Double Kill
Enemy Triple Kill
Obafemi has Slain Rakesh
Obafemi has Slain Yufel.
Now the score board showed that across the board, all his teammates had died more as much as 2 times. All except for Vincent Van Hellsing.
Dylan looked at Crea with a pleading face. He hoped that at least she would do something to help alleviate the enemies momentum. And that incident came immediately.
An Enemy has been Slain
Vincent Van Hellsing has Slain Yang-Han
She had gone topside while all this was happening and assisted Balmorg to kill his lane opposition. Then she began to push for an enemy tower
Your Team has destroyed a Tower.
The First Pylon is about to spawn, prepare to reap the Rewards of the Sleeping One.
The announcer called, a trump of horns echoing all over the map.
The Pylon's were another important objective taken during a game to help in pushing lanes faster. Three would spawn at intervals of 8 minutes. Each Pylon captured would buff Minions and taking one of them would unlock the seal of the 'Sleeping One's; a giant Eldritch entity that spawned from the base and attacked the enemy structures.
The third Pylon would summon a stronger version of the Sleeping one known as the One-Who-Awakened, or in game terms, the 'Ower'.
The enemy seemed to not care about the Pylon spawn, as they pushed their advantage on the bottom Hyper Core defenses.
Crea pinged at the defences and ordered.
"Argron, hold down the fort with the bottom lane, I'll capture the Pylon.
The problem with pylon captures was that in order to capture it, one member of the team had to stay in its range without taking any damage. So it was essentially a 4v5 defense for the team taking the Pylon.
Since the enemy this time didn't seem.interested in taking the first pylon, Crea was obliged to take a free pushing lane easily. After 10 seconds of standing, she captured the Pylon, buffing up all minions map wide.
Your Team has unlocked a Seal of the Sleeping One.
All Minions are enhanced for 2 minutes
The Sleeping one has spawned in the War Lane.
Crea Instantly recalled to help her bleeding out wound of a Hyper lane. And just as he got back to purchase her third completed item, the announcer cried out.
An Ally has being Slain
Enemy Double Kill
Enemy Triple Kill Ascension
Enemy Quadra Kill War Hero.
'Eh?' she almost blurted out, her calm demeanor cracking a bit.
What just happened?
How did they all just die?
I just looked away in the shop for three seconds.
Three!
Her mind rang with so many thoughts.
She looked at the character who was the cause of this mess.
Balmorg!!!
It seemed like the Balmorg had used his ultimate to charge at the enemy support who seemed alone, leading his team after her.
But it was all a trap.
The enemy team popped out of a bush, keeping her team in a CC lock for so long.
And the character that got all the kills
The Shub-Nigurath
BAM!!!
She banged the table again, this time not saying a single thing.
Then she typed a message in team chat in all caps.
-STOP FEEDING-