Chapter Four: The Underrated Bracket

They didn’t panic. Marcus brought the team back to one instruction. “Watch the vision. Not the health bars.” Jordan placed a second Ward at the choke point, backed by a Sentry that revealed the invisible wrap. Caleb didn’t chase the squishiest support. He broke the enemy’s formation first, forcing their BKBs to be spent on the wrong targets. When they tried to retreat, Nick cut the Creep Wave on the flank and Isaiah held the ramp, denying them any clean movement. When that defense ended, nobody on Harbor Wolves was shouting. They just pushed the lane back out and kept walking, like people who had crawled out of deep water and discovered there was still a road ahead.