Human is dead

"Nathan Cole collapsed under pressure." "The last washed Human." "A once-great player who forgot how to finish games." The media loved turning his loss into a clean story. Tragedy sells. A fallen genius sells even better. Human being obsolete sells best of all. On stream, younger viewers only remembered the one bad TP, not the years of tight openers and disciplined defenses. They did not remember how many Orcs he had once stopped with a perfect Mountain King Storm Bolt, or how many games he had won by turning a bad position into a locked-down Human defensive shell. That day, he opened the revival season qualifier stream. The chat was a blizzard. The caster desk was already doing the math.