Threshold Has No Substitutes

Staff helped Fireline offstage as the venue chanted Threshold's name for the first time. Over the next six days came three wins, two losses, then two more wins. Probability Debt followed like invisible rain: a bus tire blew, training accounts were frozen by mistake, and a fragment of peanut shell cut Wildgoose's throat before a match. Each event was ordinary enough. Together, they suffocated. After eight rounds, Threshold sat seventeenth at five wins and three losses. To reach the top sixteen, they had to defeat undefeated Skyvault Academy in under thirty-two minutes. Then the league received an anonymous complaint that Wanzhao's wrist failed registration health standards.