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Just as Sejuani was about to collide with Draven, Su Mo activated his E skill, "Pathfinder Axe"!
Two flying axes whistled out, directly interrupting and knocking back Sejuani in mid-air! At the same time, they slowed down Aatrox, who had used Flash!
"Interrupted!! Mozi perfectly interrupted Sejuani's Q with his E skill!" Guan Zeyuan screamed.

Draven did not run away the moment the control was interrupted.

W speed boost activated. Attack-move!

The flying axe slammed into the sword demon.

One slash, two slashes! Triggering a deadly rhythm.

Zeus's health was already low, and this terrifying burst of damage reduced him to near-death, forcing him to retreat towards the tower.

Su Mo used Flash to get past Sejuani's body and landed a precise Spinning Axe!
"EDG.Mo has killed T1.Zeus!"

"First Blood!"

A thunderous cheer erupted from the crowd!
"First Blood!! Despite being surrounded by Ueno, Mozi managed to kill the Sword Demon!!"

Draven, having secured First Blood, instantly cashed out his passive ability, "Draven's Alliance," with coins clattering across the screen.

Oner's Sejuani, seeing the situation was not good, tried to turn around and run away.

But how could Su Mo let him go?

Catch the flying axe, refresh your W skill, and accelerate your pursuit!
One slash landed on Sejuani, and her health dropped by a large chunk.

Without Flash, Sejuani struggled to move due to the Red Buff's slow effect and was relentlessly slashed by Draven all the way to the jungle entrance.

"Double Kill!"

Double kill!!
Three minutes into the game.

Draven secured First Blood and a Double Kill, and with the massive passive cash gain, his economy instantly took the lead in the game.

Three minutes and forty seconds.

Su Mo's Draven has reappeared online.

His inventory prominently displayed a Stormbreaker Greatsword with a high attack power bonus and a pair of Boots of Speed. Meanwhile, Zeus on the opposite side had barely managed to buy a Longsword and a piece of Cloth Armor with his meager savings.

In the early stages, this was a despairing numerical gap.

As the minion waves converged, Su Mo didn't control the wave; instead, he simply wielded his double axes and crossed over the melee minions.

Zeus gritted his teeth, maneuvering Aatrox behind the ranged minions. He attempted to probe Draven's positioning using the first edge of his Q ability, Darkin Blade.

The dark red sword blade slammed down.

Instead of retreating, Su Mo pressed W [Blood Rush], which greatly increased his movement speed. His body became a blur, and he deftly dodged the center of the knock-up from the Sword Demon's Q1. A spinning axe slammed into the Sword Demon's face!
"Clang!"

The high amount of physical damage dealt caused the Sword Demon's health bar to drop significantly.

The axe bounced up, and Su Mo lightly clicked the ground with his mouse, precisely landing on the spot, refreshing the cooldown of his W skill.

Accelerating again, the second throwing axe landed!
Zeus was terrified and had no choice but to use his E skill, Shadow Dash, to retreat to the turret behind him.

"This is unplayable." Miller shook his head repeatedly as he watched the scene from the commentary booth. "A greatsword against a longsword. Draven's slash was so powerful that even Aatrox couldn't withstand the bone plating. Zeus can't even get into the experience zone now; he can only stare blankly at the minion wave from afar."

Gasps of astonishment echoed through the stands of the Copperbox Stadium. For European audiences accustomed to the physical, hand-to-hand combat of the main event, this blatant numerical superiority and violent aesthetics presented a powerful visual shock.

In the jungle, after Oner's Sejuani respawned, the top half of the map was completely overrun, leaving Oner with no choice but to retreat into their own blue buff area.

At 4 minutes and 20 seconds, Sejuani reached level 3 after clearing the blue buff and gromp. Oner knew that going top lane would only result in a double kill, so he could only turn his attention to mid lane.

"Sang-hyeok, I can come mid, he doesn't have Flash." Oner communicated in voice chat. Xiao-Yue's Annie had used Flash in the previous game and it was still on cooldown.

"You can watch, I'll go first." Faker's eyes were focused as he controlled Lissandra to press forward.

Just as Annie stepped forward to use her Q skill to finish off the cannon minion, Faker decisively used his E skill [Glacier Path] to extend his Ice Claws, then used his W skill [Frost Ring] to immobilize Annie in place.

Sejuani bursts out from the river bushes, preparing to follow up with her Q skill, Arctic Assault, for a combo.

However, Xiao Yue reacted extremely quickly. The instant the Ice Maiden used her E skill, he had already cast his own E skill [Lava Shield] to provide speed and damage reduction.

The moment the dizziness ended, Xiao Yue used his W [Burning] skill, which had a passive stun effect, to spray the two people in the face.

With the added movement speed, Annie swayed her hips and narrowly dodged Sejuani's charge, escaping back to the tower with a sliver of health.

"It's a pity, he was just a little short of dealing damage." Faker shook his head.

Oner sighed. Having failed to secure a kill on the mid laner, his rhythm had completely stalled.

Five minutes exactly.

The sound echoed through the canyon as the Void Larva in the upper river and the first small dragon (water dragon) in the lower river spawned simultaneously.

This is a point in time where resource decisions need to be made.

"Chen, attack the larvae directly," Su Mo calmly gave the instruction over the voice chat.

At this moment, Su Mo had completely controlled the top lane minion wave. He pushed a large wave of minions with siege minions right up to T1's top lane turret. Zeus, trying to farm this wave of minions, was pinned to the turret's edge by Draven and landed three consecutive hits, dropping his health to below half.

Ah Chen's monkey swaggered into the upper river and comfortably began soloing the Void Larva.

Meanwhile, on T1's side, Oner, seeing the dark upper half of the map, had no choice but to turn his guns towards the bottom lane.

"Let's take the dragon to trade for resources." Faker calmly made the decision. "Zeus, stay put and don't die. Let's make our move in the bottom half of the map."

At 5 minutes and 40 seconds, EDG secured three Void Larvae, while T1's jungler and bot lane duo took down the Water Dragon.

"It was a very standard mirror resource exchange," Guan Zeyuan analyzed. "T1 was right to take the Water Dragon to stop the loss, but EDG got the larva, and with Draven's pressure, the top lane tower's plating will be completely eaten up."

Six minutes and ten seconds.

The road has reached a point of qualitative change.

Su Mo cleared out a melee minion, and Draven flashed with golden light, reaching level six.

Meanwhile, the Sword Demon under the tower was pitifully only level 5, and had even run out of health potions, with his health remaining at around one-third.

"Chen, you don't need to come. Go check the bottom lane." Su Mo glanced at the minimap; the monkey was farming his own Krugs.

Before he finished speaking, Draven, carrying two throwing axes, strode directly into the attack range of the T1 turret.

Zeus's pupils constricted sharply. No jungler, no minions pushing into the tower—he was going to dive in head-on?!

The turret's red laser instantly locked onto Draven.

Without the slightest hesitation, Su Mo unleashed his ultimate move, [Cold-Blooded Pursuit]!
Two enormous battle axes rolled along the ground, crushing the sword demon's body and pushing his health bar to the edge of lethality.

Zeus gritted his teeth and activated Q1 under the tower, attempting a final stand.

Su Mo didn't retreat, but stepped forward to meet the sword demon's blade, unleashing a basic attack followed immediately by his E skill, "Pathfinder Axe"!
"boom!"

The Aatrox's Q1 animation had only just begun when Draven's flying axe abruptly interrupted him, knocking him back against the wall.

The battle axe whirls back, and the second stage of the ultimate skill's damage sweeps past.

Su Mo caught the flying axe that bounced back, withstood the second hit from the turret, and finished off the enemy with the final blow.

Blood splattered everywhere.

"EDG.Mo has killed T1.Zeus!"

Solo kill! A pure lane-versus-lane tower dive solo kill!

After killing the enemy, Draven had less than 200 HP left. He activated his W skill for a speed boost and walked out of the turret's range without looking back. "He crossed the line!! Level 6 against level 5, he tanked the turret and killed Aatrox!!" Rita excitedly clutched her chest. "Mozi's E skill interruption was too fatal, Zeus didn't even manage to land a single Q attack!"

In the T1 booth, Zeus stared at the gray screen, his hand gripping the mouse letting go limply.

despair.

This gap cannot be bridged by tactics; it requires an almost insane level of precision in controlling distance, damage, and skill casting animations.

Seven minutes.

Good news has arrived from the bottom lane.

Knowing that the top lane was completely beyond saving, T1 shifted all their focus to the bottom half of the map.

After Faker's Lissandra reached level six, she cleared the mid lane and immediately ganked the bottom lane with the resurrected Sejuani.

"They're coming, retreat!" Zeli of Leave sensed the danger and tried to pull them away.

However, Gumayusi's Jinx had set traps to block the way in advance, and Tahm Kench used Abyss Dive to flank from behind.

Faker flashes and uses his ultimate, Frozen Tomb, to freeze Lulu, and Oner's Sejuani follows up with crowd control.

T1 executed a perfect four-man gank on the second tower, resulting in Lulu's death. Leave's Zephyr used both summoner spells and her ultimate, managing to escape back to the second tower with a sliver of health while clinging to the wall.

"Nice! Sang-hyeok's roaming was just in time!" Oner shouted in the voice chat, trying to boost morale.

"Ignore the top lane, push the tower plates." Faker remained calm. T1 then chipped away at the two plating layers of EDG's bottom lane turret.

Miller looked at the holographic map: "T1 has regained some rhythm. They can only play around the bottom lane now. Feeding Jinx is their only chance of winning."

Eight and a half minutes.

The director abruptly switched the camera back to the upper half of the view.

Su Mo's Draven returned to base to replenish supplies, crafting the Vampire Scepter and the Pickaxe.

At this moment, Oner's red buff in the upper half of the map respawns.

After Draven finished pushing the lane, he didn't go to touch the top lane turret, but went straight into T1's red buff area.

Oner's Sejuani is working hard to take down the red buff, but her health is below half.

Suddenly, from around the corner in the jungle, an executioner carrying two axes and grinning maliciously emerged.

There was no communication, no probing.

Su Mo swung his axe directly at Sejuani, a critical hit! Sejuani's health instantly dropped to zero!
"Xiba!"

Oner was so frightened that he abandoned the red buff and used his Q skill to pass through the wall of the Baron pit, fleeing for his life.

Su Mo stood in the jungle, comfortably taking the red buff.

In EDG's voice chat, A-Chen couldn't stop laughing: "Brother Mo, you're just strolling around the enemy jungle, you look more like a jungler than I am, the real jungler."

“His jungle is mine now. You go and control the river.” Su Mo’s tone was calm, as if he were simply stating an objective fact.

Nine minutes and thirty seconds.

The second wave of Void Larvae spawns.

This time, no one dared to contest it. Achen's monkey, in conjunction with Draven who had the red buff, easily took down the remaining three larvae, accumulating six stacks of the larva buff.

With Draven back in lane, armed with the Red Buff and six stacks of the Larva Phantom, Zeus's Aatrox had completely lost his gaming experience.

He could only stand near the second tower's self-isolated bushes, watching from afar as Draven hacked away at the top lane tower, one strike at a time.

Nine minutes and fifty-five seconds.

Accompanied by the gnawing sound of Void Larvae, T1's top lane tower, which had held for less than ten minutes, collapsed with a roar.

The game time has not yet exceeded ten minutes.

A cold, impersonal system notification popped up at the top of the screen:

EDG.Mo has destroyed the first turret!

Ten minutes later, the game time entered double digits.

After Su Mo's Draven destroyed the first tower, he still showed no intention of returning to base.

His health was near full, and his mana was also quite good thanks to the Vampire Scepter. With six stacks of Void Larva buff, he was like a tireless propulsion machine.

"He's still not leaving?!" In the commentary booth, Guan Zeyuan looked at Draven, who was still pressing in front of the second tower and cutting off the minion wave, and his voice was full of disbelief. "Is Brother Mozi not planning to let Zeus play the game? Less than ten minutes in, pressing in front of the second tower and cutting off the wave, this is even more outrageous than Gwen in the last game!"

Miller shook his head repeatedly: "There's nothing we can do. T1 can't control him at all right now. Oner's Sejuani is going to the bottom lane to find a rhythm, and Faker's Lissandra is being held back in the mid lane by Xiaoyue's Annie. Whoever goes to the top lane is just giving away a double kill."

The air pressure inside T1's voice chat was terrifyingly low.

Zeus's Aatrox stood at the edge of the second tower's attack range, watching Draven recklessly catch his axe in front of his tower. His fingers gripped the edge of the mouse tightly, his knuckles turning white from the force.

His spirit was being worn away little by little by this endless torment.

"I can't go top, Sang-hyeok-hyung. Can you find a chance to make a move? If he keeps pushing like this, the top lane inhibitor will be destroyed." Oner had just finished farming the Gromp in the bottom half of the map, and his tone was filled with a deep sense of helplessness.

Faker glanced at the disastrous state of the top lane and frowned. "I'll push this wave and head over there. Zeus, save your abilities, don't get one-shotted. We just need to force him away, whatever we do, don't engage in a direct fight."

“Okay…” Zeus took a deep breath, his voice a little hoarse.

Eleven minutes later, the minions in the middle lane converged.

Faker's Lissandra used her Q skill [Ice Shards] to quickly clear a wave of minions, then immediately retreated and disappeared from EDG's vision.

"Lissandra is missing, she might have gone to the top lane," Xiao Yue reminded him in the voice chat. His Annie immediately moved towards the bottom half of the map to prevent T1 from using a feint attack.

"I understand." Su Mo's tone remained calm and composed.

At that moment, Draven had just brought a wave of cannon minions to T1's second tower.

Su Mo glanced at the minimap. In the lower half of T1, only Jinx and Tahm Kench were visible, while Sejuani's whereabouts were unknown.

Instead of retreating directly, he positioned himself in the gap between the second tower and the high ground tower, continuing to cut off the newly spawned wave of minions.

"Mozi is dancing on a knife's edge!" Rita clenched her hands nervously. "Not only is he not leaving, he's going to cut off the minion wave right in front of T1! The Ice Maiden has already ganked him!"

11 minutes and 20 seconds.

Faker's Lissandra emerged silently from the bush behind the red buff in the jungle, extending her E skill, Glacial Path, towards Draven with its icy claws.

At the same time, Zeus's Aatrox activated his ultimate ability, "Destroy," and like a beast unleashed, his Q1, imbued with crimson sword energy, slammed down on Draven.

"T1's mid and top laners are double-teaming! Mozi is positioned too deep!"

Faced with this seemingly inescapable predicament, Su Mo's eyes showed no panic, only extreme focus.

The keyboard clicks are crisp and rhythmic.

Just as Lissandra's E skill was about to land, Su Mo clicked the mouse, and Draven slid to the side, not only dodging Aatrox's Q1 knock-up, but also leaving behind a spinning axe in place.

Faker landed with his second E skill, and his W skill [Frost Ring] exploded instantly!

But in the very same frame as he landed, Su Mo activated his E skill, [Pathfinder Axe]! (End of Chapter)