Threshold Has No Substitutes

Their first real argument filled the training room. Fireline called a forfeit pity. Zhao tore up the starting sheet. Chenzhou opened their opponent Northport's statistics. "They average twenty-three-minute victories. We only need Fireline for twenty." The plan used a ranged tank and compressed every play into the opening twenty minutes. It had a fourteen-percent chance. The System's lowest route—letting Fireline fight normally—had only six. Chenzhou refused the lowest route. "Why?" Wanzhao asked privately. "The System rewards me for taking risks. It doesn't give me the right to gamble with a teammate's career." At 19:47, Chenzhou secured Herald. At 19:59, all five hit the mid inhibitor. At 21:03, the enemy nexus exploded.