Chapter 88 - Championship (6)

"This assassin user is already a first blooder! She had been taking the first kills!" one audience shouted emphasizing Claire's contribution to every match they played.

The next moment, the gaming forum site had almost crashed because of the spam-like posts and comments of the community. 

It had been crazy hype since morning and now that the final battle was on, the netizens were very keen on following the updates of the tournament.

The hastags #FirstbloodChampionship and #AssassinSupremacy once again flooded the social media.

"I will no longer say that the Chronos squad has a lot of potentials. It's wrong! Instead, I will say that this group has met the expectations that I placed on them! They are legit great players!" the older commentator muttered on the screen while the map showed that both sides were just near the boundaries of their territories on the middle lane.

"The mutant beast has already spawned! And the Chronos squad is going in its direction already? But the Lee Gaming squad was also just near their location..." the younger commentator narrated. Mostly, players do not attack the giant mutant after it was spawned. But he had already declared that the Chronos squad was too hard to predict. So, he did not dare make another comment. He just narrated the actions of the players!

Meanwhile, on the players' lounge of the Lee Gaming squad, all players do not seem tense even though the first blood was taken by the Chronos squad. 

Brent was even sitting with his legs crossed and gently swung his foot. William was also moving his head on the tempo of the background sound from the battle. The three female members also showed a small grin on their lips.

To say, the first blood of the Chronos squad was not enough to give the Lee Gaming squad players a pressure.

"Our levels are still higher than them! Let's pursue their mid and force our way to destroy their tower! We can do it!" Brent commanded and signaled all his members to gather on the middle lane. 

Even if it does not bother them greatly, the members immediately understood that they have to reclaim their first blood loss. 

The first kill from their squad already gave the Chronos assassin an advantage on the overall stats. 

But since it was a 5 v 5 map, it won't be divided into their team. Only Claire's assassin took the benefit of it, drastically increasing all her stats by two points.

All audience quickly focused their eyes on the large screen after the first blood.

William's tank was the first to engage in close combat. His character was a tyrant of the mountains that had an appearance of a masked bear. But because of their character upgrade, he looked like a bulky beast full of muscles.

"Launch attack!" Brent signaled once more and the rest of the team marched forward.

For some reason, their opponent did not stop them. They knew that the Chronos squad was still on the middle lane since it was the last location where they saw them.

William swiftly pressed the ultimate skill of his character and its body instantly flew like a torpedo spinning rapidly towards the Chronos territory. It was an aggressive spinning that would last for two minutes. 

As the character entered the tower range, the defensive mode immediately activated. The middle tower instantly attacked William's character.

But he did not mind the attack from the tower and still continued to spin forward. He was anticipating the members of the Chronos squad would face him eventually but no one appeared on the tower.

"Check the map, they are not here!" William spoke after he passed the first tower of the Chronos squad and curved towards the jungle area. He suddenly felt suspicious.

"Nothing on the top lane and on the bottom lane! They are farming?" the fighter user of the Lee Gaming squad guessed.

"AHA! They are on the giant mutant area! Let's contest!" their mage user was the first to notice the characters of the Chronos squad circling the giant NPC.

Just like what the commentators announced, the Chronos squad was aiming to get the aid of the giant mutant. They were attacking the NPC with all the skills they got.

"Come on, die, die, die!" Clark murmured while assisting her team in attacking the giant mutant. Like normal gamers, he was too anxious that the last hit of the NPC would be stolen by their opponent and they would lose the kill.

"They have seen us! Just be careful," Claire quickly told her teammates.

"Just attack as much as you can," Stephen said while his character was throwing rain of arrows towards the giant mutant.

With their cooperation, the HP of the mutant had been down to 35%.

At this point, William grimaced after realizing that he had cast his ultimate. He was the tank and he should initiate any fight. However, with the absence of his ultimate skills, he would be too vulnerable!

The swirling torpedo movement would suppose to give him immunity from all damages until the movement wore off. 

"Sorry, my ult is not yet available!" William sighed and told his teammates the cool down time of his skill.

"Yeah, you have cast it earlier. It should take some time! But my ultimate is ready whenever we engage in combat!" the mage user commented. 

"Let's wait for the HP of the giant mutant to decrease until it's 10 to 5%. By that time, your cool down is already available," Brent suggested while calculating the time and the damage of the Chronos squad towards their target.

"Alright!" their teammates quickly went to the sides and just watch in the distance while the Chronos squad continued to attack the giant NPC.

Seeing that the movements of the Lee Gaming squad characters halted, all audiences immediately understood!

"The Lee Gaming squad will definitely contest! They are just waiting for the beast to have a lower HP!"

"It's possible that they can steal the giant mutant! Their HP is still full! And the Chronos squad's HP was less than half already!"

The crowd began to speculate. One squad had been throwing all their skills and inflicted damages to the giant NPC while the other squad was just waiting to steal the kill!

On the side of the Chronos squad, Sofia had already noticed the figure of her opponents. All the characters were just on her line of vision.

"Just attack! Prepare for the clash!" Sofia stated.

Her tank had been receiving damage from the giant NPC and it almost remained 25% in the bar. However, her expression was still calm as her tank continued to absorb the damage.

"Are we going to clash?" Clark reluctantly asked. He was too worried about their HP.

"Oh my gosh! They really have found us! They will surely try to steal this giant NPC! Should we stop attacking, Sof?" Joey reacted again and quickly asked Sofia.

"Continue! Let's get this NPC no matter what!" Sofia spoke mildly as her fingers moved fastly on the screen of her mobile device.

"Okay, okay," Joey nodded and felt extremely tensed. Their group does not have a fighter. If they go on close combat, it would be troublesome for them to survive!

The waiting had almost worn out the patience of the Lee Gaming squad. They just continued to watch as the HP bar of the giant mutant slowly dropped.

"Damn! These Chronos squad! Even if they are already cooperating on fighting the giant mutant, their damage is still too low! They are lucky that my ultimate is still in cool down or else, they had been wiped out by us!" William complained about his seat.

"It should be about time!" Brent chuckled after noticing the sullen face of William. It was ironic that the man would wish that their enemies would get a high damage!

"Okay, my ult is available! Attack!" William ordered and without waiting for another second to pass, his character bolted like a flash of lightning. His body spun continuously towards the giant mutant.

Seeing that William had already initiated the attack, all of his teammates followed to send an attack.

In just a matter of a second, the HP of the giant mutant rapidly decreased by 4%.

Brent noticed that Sofia's tank, CEO UNRIVALED had the most low HP among all the Chronos squad players. Since the tank had been absorbing all the attacks from the giant mutant, her life was greatly compromised. As for her teammates, most of them had still over 50% of their HPs.

"Team, use all your skills!" Brent commanded. 

The clash between the two squads was inevitable! Even if the Chronos squad wanted to escape, they would not dare do it. Otherwise, their effort of decreasing the HP of the giant NPC would be harvested by their opponents.

When William's tank collided with the area of the giant NPC, Brent quickly glided to the side and positioned his marksman to aim for Sofia. He was certain that just by three hits of his marksman, Sofia's tank will die... or so he thought?

In the next seconds, the bullets from Brent's marksman flung out and struck Sofia's tank!

Undeniably, the three gunshots sound from his weapon stimulated the excitement of their audience across online and on the gym.