By killing the Pyromancer, Nia forced the enemy Vampire to rotate to Mid and defend the first g didn’t look like she achieved much. Yes, the exp and gold from the kill were she failed to take trol over the ne due to the Vampire’s timely rotation. She did remove the Pyromancer from the game for a while, but respawn times were short during the early game; the guy will be ba business in no time.

  In truth, what Nia achieved was a great position. However, there was little ce she knew how to best capitalize on it. Oher hand, Yuel kly what could be exploited in such sarios.

  Following the textbook jungling routihe Vampire was supposed to go after the Griffin Camp after finishing the Hyenas. It was a ral camp in the ter of the map which was highly tested by both sides for extra gold and exp. Around this time, the junglers from both sides were supposed to gather around the Griffin Camps and the Mid Laners usually assisted in testing the camps. Fortunately, the Lionfolk on Nia’s team khe meta and was already on his way toward one of the camps.

  There were two Griffin Camps, one in Top Jungle and one in Bot Jungle. As such, usually, one of two sarios occurred: either both sides targeted the same camp and a battle broke out, or they peacefully resolved the flict by trading camps, each taking one.

  However, right now, Nia’s side could take both Griffins with ease.

  “Help out the Ju the Griffin,” Yuel said.

  “Ok,” ered the Top Juhe Griffin was standing right around the er so Nia didn’t even have to stray too far from the o get to the camp.

  Since she unleashed her e on the Pyromancer, everything was still on cooldown. So, she only backed up the Lionfolk with basic attacks. It wasn’t a huge tribution but it helped to defeat the Griffin a little faster.

  Besides, nobody was eveo test the camp. That was only natural, sihe Pyromancer was dead and the Vampire was stuck defending Mid. These two were the prime suspects who were supposed to e here and fight for the Griffin, but her of them had the leisure to do sht now.

  As suia and the Lionfolk killed the Griffin with little effort. However, it wasn’t over there.

  “Signal that you want to attack the riffin as well,” Yuel said.

  “Hm, sure,” Nia followed the instru and pihe riffin Camp with an “Attack” instru.

  The Lionfolk didn’t respond with any maessages or even pings. But, he seemed to uand the message because he headed in the dire of the riffin Camp.

  At least, he didn’t steal my role for nothing. Nia thought. It wasn’t like she fave the guy, far from it. But, at least, he seemed knowledgeable and cooperative enough. The system pced him first during the drafting phase for a reason.

  Nia and the Lionfolk rotated to Bot Jungle and attacked the Griffin there. By now, the Vampire has finished clearing the ne and could test the Griffin Camp. It arent he sidered doing so, judging by the way he traveled toward Bot Jungle as well and stared down at Nia and the Lionfolk attag the Griffin.

  However, the Vampire didn’t dare to test the camp. A smart decision. It’d be foolish to walk into this dangerous 1v2 situation. Vampire didn’t have any tricks for winning such a fight.

  And so, Nia and the Lionfolk secured the sed Griffin. That put both of them ahead of the petition. As long as they don't it any grave mistakes, they'll maintain this advantage for a long time. It meant they'll always be able to buy and upgrade items slightly before their oppos, so they'll stantly be a little stronger.

  “This is how you capitalize on such situations,” Yuel said. “I hope you uand why this worked.”

  “Yeah, it’s smart,” Nia nodded. “Never saw it in Tipmancer.”

  “You wouldn’t find something so specifi Tipmancer. It’s the kind of thing you learn by watg others py or by experience.”

  “Noted,” Nia nodded.

  Due to the short respawn times during the early-game, the Pyromancer returo the ne along with the minion wave. This time, Nia was already prepared for the ining wave, so she executed the proper Wizard farming teique, the one advised by Tipmancer.

  First, she summoned a quid underh the approag swordsmen. It slowed them down and made the bowmen catch up to them. Before long, the entire wave was running through the damaging sand.

  To finish things off, Nia unleashed Windstorm oire wave. She positioned herself as far aossible while firing to take full advantage of the spell's range.

  He burst me down if I get close so let's not do that. Nia o herself. A Pyromancer with a full kit out of cooldown was scary. She has faced many Pyromancers in Duel and they were always a pain. This css was like a marksman, mage, and assassin all packed into ohat’s what you call #banced.

  But, gotta say, this range feels good. Nia smirked. This Wizard gal pletely ed that cheap Pyromancer. With just two spells, she almost wiped out the entire enemy wave and Pyromancer couldn’t do anything about it. Ha! Serves yht. Maybe ime you won’t pick this dumb OP css.

  Despite the huge ne advantage ablished, this Pyromancer was full of himself. His wave was almost dead but he still advao the frontlio unleash his spells on Nia's minions. What a brave guy. Or, maybe he was just dumb?

  Giving me a free hit? Ok. Nia activated Fireball and fired it at the Pyromancer. It erased a nice 25% HP. Fireball had a retively short cooldown, so that Pyromancer might eat another one if he stays here for too long.

  She's adapting. Yuel o himself. It seemed Nia already got used to Wizard. It was evident by how she correctly bullied the Pyromancer with her rahout any advice from Yuel or Tipmancer.

  Of course, part of it was the Pyromancer's obvious overextension. Instead of drawing the fight to his side of the ne and safely bursting minions from there, he set foot on the frontline and put himself at risk for no reason. Such foolishness.

  Unfortunately, Nia couldn’t punish this overextension with a kill right away. She spent two-thirds of her kit on the minions and just now fired her st remaining spell. Still, that 25% HP the fireball took was nothing to s. Three more hits and the Pyromancer will be dead. If he keeps overextending like this, he might wind up dead during the minion wave.

  This was aremely dangerous situation for the Pyromancer, yet all these siderations seemed to go way over his head. Instead of retreating, he unleashed Fme Wave and Pilr of Fire on Nia's wave. The spells delivered sizeable damage that almost rivaled Nia’s, but the range difference was a huge factor.

  pared to how Nia safely bombarded the enemy minions from afar, the Pyromancer had to veo the frontline and put himself in dao get any work done. Naturally, that reckless a was rewarded with a fireball to the fabsp;

  BAM! Another 25% HP gohe Pyromancer was too te to retreat from the frontline.

  He's so weak. Nia giggled to herself. This was felt like fighting a Bronze rank scrub ihere was zero logic to his pys and he apparently had zero matchup knowledge. Nia was the stronger one here. She could easily push here for free!

  "Wait," Yuel said. "o get carried away. We don't have vision of the enemy jungle around Mid. The Vampire might be pnning to rotate over here. I haven't seen him for a while now."

  "Oh, ok." Nia retreated without pressing onward with her minions. For a moment there, she fot there were other pyers involved in this match. That was dangerous.

  Just a few seds ter, the Vampire really showed up on the ne. Luckily, Nia was already outside his reach. With net to gank, the Vampire only helped the Pyromancer clear out the remaining minions and the.

  "Phew," Nia sighed in relief. “Almost died.”

  "Yeah, pretty sure that would have beeh if you didn't retreat in time," Yuel nodded. "More than anybody, the Mid Laner must always watch out for ining ganks. Mid is gankable from two sides, so it's always safer assume a gank might be ing unless you k positions of all enemies."

  "You really know a lot about this game," Nia nodded.

  "Well, I'm hoping to bee a pro pyer one day. And, it all starts from taking the regionals this year."

  "That's an ambition. But, doesn't this team suck? I heard it never wins."

  "That's in the past," Yuel procimed. "This year, Stratus got a det team. Though, the clubroom ditions are terrible, not going to lie.”

  “Hm?” Nia titled her head. “What’s the problem with it?”

  “Are you serious? Just look at this basement."

  "I like it. It's dark and calm."

  "That's not a healthy enviro for club activity."

  "Hmm, ok." Nia shrugged auro the game. The minion wave was ining.

  Yet again, Nia easily gaihe upper hand thanks to her spells’ high damage and le. Her Quid and Windstorm bo elimihe enemy bowmen and brought the swordsme away from dying. Meanwhile, the Pyromancer didn't get lift a finger on Nia’s wave because he was way out e. Serves him right.

  Even with only 50% HP left, the Pyromancer wasn't afraid of advang to the frontlio clear minions. What an absolute mad d. Nia could easily reduce that HP to a measly 25% with a single Fireball.

  But, she didn't do so. Instead, she attacked the enemy swordsmen with basid let the Pyromancer farm on the frontline. Once all enemy minions were down, Nia retreated to dodge any potential ganks. As Yuel said, she always had to watch out for those when in Mid.

  "Any reason you didn't shoot him?" Yuel asked.

  "He'd just run away afterward," Nia said.

  "True, even this suicidal fellow will probably figure he better recall when he’s left with only a quarter of HP. But, so what of it? You'll win the her way."

  "It's a waste. I kill instead."

  "But, you 't kill him immediately," Yuel g Nia's level. She was going to hit Lv.5 with the wave. "I see. Iing approach. Okay, that’s an option.”

  Did he really figure my pn? Nia stared in suspi. ESPer firmed. Or, maybe an alien.

  “Okay,” Yuel tinued as if he didn’t just read Nia’s mind. “If you're not going to pressure him right now, might as well take the hyenas in Bot Jungle while the Pyromancer is busy clearing."

  "Sounds good," Nia retreated from the ne and headed to Bot Juhere was o worry about the Pyromancer pushing because all his minions were out of the picture, so Nia could do whatever she wanted right now. She could even take a nap and nothing would happen. Probably.

  After farming the hyenas, Nia hit Lv.5. That unlocked her ultimate: Meteor. It was a key part of her evil pn.

  It was a good thing she leveled up to Lv.5 over here without the Pyromancer seeing it. The guy might bee wary of her if he sees her leveling up. The game pyed a special animation for that to make it easier to see when enemies and allies leveled up. The animation showed the exact level the pyer reached, so now it showed Lv.5. If the Pyromancer were to see this, he’d realize things were bad for him.

  Grahe Pyromancer could still check her level oatus s. But, that required him to be actively ied in her level. Frankly, he didn't seem smart enough for that kind of stuff.

  "This should help you pn, right?" Yuel smiled like a know-it-all.

  "Ah, um, yeah," Nia stared at him in suspi. Did Yuel suggest to farm the hyenas because he figured Nia's Lv.5 pn? Definitely a mind reader. Scary.

  When the minion wave arrived, Nia executed the usual routine of Quid into Windstorm. The Pyromancer didn't suspect a thing and advao the frontline like always. This fool had no idea what was ing.

  Nia fired Fireball, which erased 25% of the Pyromancer’s HP. However, this Pyromancer knew no fear. He just ighat damage and proceeded to clear the wave. After all, until now, Nia didn't have any means to quickly delete the remaining 25% HP.

  But, things were different at Lv.5. Nia unleashed Wizard's ultimate: Meteor! The Wizard stretched her arms toward the sky and summoned a huge meter.

  The Pyromancer panicked and rightfully so. He activated Burning Spirit in a feeble attempt to escape but it was too te. The radius of Meteor was too big to escape from it oion without a leap skill. It was over.

  You have killed an enemy!

  DarkestCymore