With Beat out of the picture, it was time to party hard on Mid!

  “Okay, let’s take the tower!” Jaiden ran toward the enemy’s tower area.

  “Yes, let’s do it.” Raymond also ehe tower area.

  They had a full squad of minions tanking the tower’s shots, so they were free to wreck the Turret to their hearts’ tent. Or, so they thought.

  “Not so fast!” Lars emerged from the jungle, right behind Jaiden. BAM! HEADSHOT!

  “Wha-!?” Jaiden jumped. “Already here!? Dang, that’s not good!”

  Terrripped Jaiden, freezing him i was the beast. The executiohe deadeye sniper. Gunz was here! And, the beast was out for blood!

  “W-We better pull away!” Jaiden rolled across the tower area, heading deeper into the ne. He had to get away, or else a bo of headshots will assault him- BAM! CRITICAL!

  Another bullet, another headshot. Jaiden just recovered from the roll, but a bullet already found its way into his skull. It was amazing. Gunz’s bullets were attracted to Jaiden’s head like mags. There was no escape from them.

  Until Jaidees enough distance, he won’t be safe. Nobody was safe against this raging phenomenon.

  Yes, it henomenon. That was no human being assaulting Jaiden right now. It was a natural phenomenon that created bullets and hammered them into people’s skulls. That was the only way to describe Gunz’s unnatural accuracy.

  BAM! Another bullet. This one didn’t hit Jaiden, but it clearly hit something. There was an impact sound and everything.

  Did he miss me? Jaiden wondered. Nah, no way. That aimbot never misses.

  Gunz must’ve hit something. But, what? Or rather, who? There was only one possible answer.

  “Ray, you better get away from him!” Jaiden warned. As he feared, Raymond was much slower oake.

  Unlike Jaiden, who ran for his life at a moment's notice, Raymoreated slowly ahodically, getting as many shots as possible on the Mid Turret on his way out. He didn’t uand the gravity of this situation!

  “Why are you so flustered?” Raymond’s tone was eerily calm despite the terrifying situation. It’s like he didn’t register Gunz as a threat at all. “There are two of us here and Gunz is alone. We got the advantage.”

  “Well, yeah, but...” Logically, Jaiden uood that the odds should’ve been in their favor. However, hard as he tried, he couldn’t shake off the sense of dread.

  If I get within three meters of that monster, he goear me apart. Jaiden gulped. Fighting Gunz just oaught him a harsh lesson. It was impossible to bat this monster, or was it…?

  “I’d really appreciate your help.” Raymond stood up to the monster. He fired Squall, then immediately summoned a Jet Stream between himself and Gunz.

  “Crap!” Lars rolled away in the nick of time. I’ve seen this setup like a huimes today. Ya ain’t hittih this crap again!

  The moment Lars saw the Squall, he k gonna hit if he didn’t move. Distance didn’t matter against that setup. The Jet Stream granted Squall an ued boost and distahat caught Lars off-guard many times today. But, enough was enough.

  Heck yeah, git rolled! Lars recovered from the roll and fired, aiming at Nirvana’s head for that sweet critical damage. BAM! HEADSHOT! At least, it should’ve been...

  I missed...? Lars couldn’t tell what just happened. He ate a ter-attack before he had time to process the situation.

  The enemy fired a gust of wind that traveled through Jet Stream, gained sudden acceleration, and then crashed into Lars before he had the ce to fully sidestep it.

  Thankfully, the damage wasn’t that high, as it was the case with most mages’ basic attacks. heless, eating too many of these ters won’t be healthy.

  More importantly, how did Lars miss his shot in the first pce? His aim should’ve been spot-ohe bullet whiffed. How? Why?

  Maybe I fudged something up. Lars looked at the Jet Stream again.

  The wind current blew against him, which meant his bullets slowed down as they passed through the Jet Stream. On top of that, the bullets’ range was shorter.

  But, Lars ated for all of that. From this close, none of these factors should’ve been being a problem. Lars’s bullets should still be able to reach their target no problem. As such, there was no expnation for that whiff.

  I’mma just go for it again. Lars fired one more time, aiming at the Aeromancer’s upper body. This time, I’mma nd this headshot for sure!

  But, he didn’t. Yet again, his bullet missed.

  Nah, I didn’t miss. Lars grihat dude sidestepped it!

  This time, Lars had no doubt in his mind. His aim was on point, yet the bullet failed to graze Nirvana’s head. Why? Because the guy moved aside right before the bullet reached him!

  I knew he was good, but not THAT good! Lars felt something burning inside him. This dude was awesome!

  Lars was using Gunslinger, his stro form, ahere was somebody who could stand up to him. It was the best thing ever! Lars definitely had to win this one!

  Let’s see here. Lars stopped for a moment to better assess the situation. The wind is making things easier for him. I gotta figure how to py around that first.

  The reach redu part of Jet Stream wasn’t the problem. Lars’s bullets had no trouble reag their destination even as they passed through the blowing wind.

  The real culprit was the slowdown the bullets suffered. That made them easier to sidestep.

  On top of that, the Aeromancer was moving fast as heck right now. He has just finished unpag his e, so his passive boosted his Movement Speed through the roof. He was the fastest sidestepper iire world!

  I hafta go all out if I wanhis dude. Lars trated his everything on this one foe. Fet map awareness, fet the other dude on the ne, and fet defending the ne.

  Me vs. Nirvana. Right here and now. Let’s gooooo! That’s all Lars could think about. I’ve been waiting for this the entire day.

  They’ve been g the entire day, but none of these fights truly satisfied Lars. As a mage, Lars wasn’t strong enough to pete with a dude who genuinely mained Mid. And, when Lars pyed Trickshooter st game, Nirvana always dodged fights.

  But now, against Lars’s Gunslinger, Nirvana finally decided to stand his ground and fight for real. It roper duel!

  her side could yield. Lars had to keep fighting in order to protect the super important Mid Turret, whereas his oppo had to push hard because this was a golden opportunity to do so. her of them was willing to give up.

  The’s see how ya hahis! Lars rolled diagonally with bat Roll, getting around the Jet Stream. This thing is in the way. I ’t hit headshots with them slow shots. I hafta shoot fast and furious, yooooo!

  Even in Ranked, few pyers could sidestep Lars’s slowed bullets. However, Nirvana pulled it off without breaking a sweat. Dude was legit fire!

  That’s why I gotta shut him down, right here and now! To do so, Lars had to fire from an angle from which Jet Stream couldn’t interfere. And, his new position erfect to do just that.

  “I’m going all out, yooooo!” Lars booted Fan the Hammer and took aim. BAM! HEADSHOT! BAM! HEADSHOT!

  “Wha-!?” Raymond barely had a ce to flitch. The bullets came flying at him oer another without rest, yet they were all so accurate. As soon as Raymond started sidestepping an ining shot, the bullet has already dug itself into his skull. Gunz was firing like a mae.

  So, this has to be what made Jaiden so ed. Raymond finally uood. Ihis bination of accurad speed is deadly.

  It was one critical hit after another. In a 1v1, nobody here stood a ce against this fwless mae.

  But, Raymond wasn’t fighting alone here. As such, there was no reason to front this beast all by himself.

  BAM! Another sh.

  Raymond already knew he wouldn’t be able to sidestep in time. And, rolling wasn’t an optioher because the enemy’s two headshots crippled him. Such was the be bat Roll grao the headshots that followed it.

  To make things worse, a third headshot will ht stun Raymond. And, it was bound to happen at this point. There was no point iing the iable.

  Instead of fog on dodging, Raymond addressed his ne panion. “Jaiden, hit him with Kraken! He ’t mht now.”

  “Ah, right!” Jaiden snapped out of his analysis paralysis. He has been following the fight from afar this eime, too scared to it to any move.

  Raymond was supposed to fully retreat by now, just like Jaiden did. However, Gunz captured the captain and locked him ihe third headshot ected and stunned Raymond.

  It was a terrible situation for Raymond, but this stun leaked an important piece of information that Jaiden failed to notitil now. The stun effect proved that Gunz used his bat Roll when he rolled around Raymond’s Jet Stream.

  It was difficult to distinguish between bat Roll and Dodge Roll at a gnce, so Jaiden wasirely sure which of the two it was until now. The cripple effect would have been damning evidence as well, but it wasn’t as visually obvious as a stun to a bystander, so Jaiden failed to pay attention to it. But, now everything was clear: Gunz has spent his bat Roll!

  Fan the Hammer owerful tool, but it had oerrible weakness: it couldn’t be manually celed in the middle of the a. bat Roll was the only skill the Gunslinger could use to interrupt his own Fan the Hammer. And, with that already spent, it meant Gunz literally couldn’t move from his spot while shooting right now!

  No matter how much of a monster Gunz was, even he couldn’t disregard the game’s rules. Therefore, he was pletely defenseless against a Kraken!

  “RELEASE THE-”

  “Ack!?” Lars almost bit his tongue. Crap, I fudged up!

  He was so preoccupied with beating Nirvana, that he pletely fot about the existence ade and the threat of Kraken. He was done for! “Nuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!”

  Lars rotated here to defend Mid. However, instead, he somehow found himself overextending on the offense. Gah! We gonna lose Mid because of me!

  It was over for them. Lars will die here, then the enemy will take Mid and steamroll from there. And, it’ll all be thanks to Lars’s carelessness. This oute was like the seleatch against Ellen all ain...

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