Indeed, no one can stop it.

The passive of Li requires two consecutive basic attacks or three skill casts to accumulate a Silver Blade enchantment, which can unleash a powerful spell-based basic attack. This mechanism determines that he can not only be a mage but also become an assassin.

In this game, Rong Yi stacked full physical attack and high damage penetration at the cost of zero defense. He is so fragile that even clearing minions can take away half of his health. However, in this situation, he has not been caught and killed even once, maneuvering freely with high mobility.

Whenever the enemy’s attack appears, he retreats from that side. His blade deeply cuts into the weak defense of the opponents and repeatedly breaches it, gradually breaking through their lines.

After losing two side towers, Rong Yi no longer risks his life to push the remaining towers. Instead, he starts to rotate, control the lanes, and seize resources. Everyone stops launching strong attacks and revolves around Rong Yi, seeking opportunities to engage in team fights in the jungle.

The defensive formation of the opponents has been completely disrupted, forcing CH to fight back.

They cannot stay under the towers all the time because they need to manage the minion waves.

If they don’t manage the minion waves, VIT will seize this opportunity and control all three lanes simultaneously, causing more than just one tower to fall.

CH is forced to engage in team fights in the jungle.

From the audience’s perspective, CH’s defensive tactics have been completely shattered. Li has been leading in economy all along and hasn’t even used a single crowd control skill in team fights, as if navigating in an empty realm.

He has stacked high attack and penetration, combined with the continuous high attack damage from the ADC’s Ci She Dagger. One breaks through defenses, the other compensates for the attack. Even CH, as a whole, appears fragile in front of them, like paper.

The entire defensive line collapses starting from the team fight.

VIT seizes the opportunity of winning a team fight, taking advantage of CH’s reduced numbers, controlling the lanes, and taking down another tower, advancing straight to the high ground.

At this moment, CH’s territorial advantage has been completely shattered. VIT controls the tower defense business, and CH can only resist and counterattack on the bottom lane.

Eventually, VIT chooses the bottom lane as their point of entry. This move is truly ruthless.

By choosing the resource area in the bottom lane while the mid lane tower still stands, their members have no risk-free path to retreat other than the top lane.

Although they have an advantage in the mid lane, CH cannot spare any manpower to explore vision and resources there. It’s meaningless.

In the 35th minute, in VIT’s steady operation, CH’s high ground tower is broken. They failed to manage it properly, and VIT had a 2,000-gold lead in the team fight on the high ground, leading to a complete wipeout.

VIT: CH, 1-0, winning the first half.

The arena is filled with thunderous applause and screams. Some people jump onto their chairs and slam their hats, while others wave LED signs and shout until they lose their voices. Both the live audience and online viewers are caught up in the excitement.

Everyone is discussing this match, studying VIT’s new tactics.

There is no doubt that it is dazzling and sharp. CH is the wall, and VIT is the knife gleaming with a cold light, slicing through the iron like mud.

“CH had a win rate of 99% with this tactic this season! Today is the only time they have failed!”

“They even won against VIT in the previous match! But today, VIT turned the tables!”

“In just a few days, this confrontation has been terrifying, this competition is thrilling! Regardless of the outcome today, we should thank both teams for the fantastic competition they have brought us. And I have to say, this is perhaps the most exciting tactical confrontation in history!”

The audience is ecstatic.

The commentator is absolutely right.

In the past, domestic teams in the country have always focused on individual style clashes and individual skill performances. Year after year, it was nothing more than one player’s highlight overshadowing another player’s highlight, and fans arguing over which player’s position was better.

They had never seen anything like this year, where the overall level has been elevated to a new level in e-sports. Whether it’s individual player performance or team cooperation, it has become a matter of tactical strategy.

How could one not be filled with passion?

During halftime, CH requested an extended break, and the halftime break was extended to half an hour.

Outside, the atmosphere was blazing, both sides’ training rooms were filled with tension, and the atmosphere was unprecedentedly suppressed.

CH’s team continued to discuss tactics.

Is there anything they can do at the moment?

Yes, in the next game, we can’t let VIT dictate the pace.

This defensive system, which has had an almost 100% win rate since the playoffs, can no longer be used.

They have their determination.

On the field, being complacent will ruin their chances of victory. They will no longer have any illusions about playing well against VIT.

Moreover, they themselves have been constantly digging into the fatal flaws of this system, which Rongyi has already noticed.

However, when facing VIT, they have more than one strategy.

They have always been relying on their experience to find the core winning method of this season. Taking experience to the extreme might be the correct answer.

The second game of the first round begins!

CH is audacious. In the previous game, they were beaten so badly by Li, but they insist on not banning him and still use a similar high-defense system.

However, there are slight differences compared to the previous game.

“Huo Shen, Niao Zu, Huibai Zhi Zhu, ADC Langren, Support Da Di Zhi Mu (Mother Earth,), but without Flash, and with Hurricane.”

A very uncommon lineup.

When CH plays a defensive system, they have always focused on high defense. But this time, all five members of the opposing team have one characteristic.

They are all extremely fast.

Huo Shen gains a noticeable speed boost within his skill range, Niao Zu naturally moves 1.25 times faster than other heroes, Huibai Zhi Zhu has high mobility, Langren can repeatedly jump and accelerate in terrain.

They are coming in aggressively.

“CH changed tactics directly after the previous game! Five high-speed heroes, what are they planning to do? Do they want to cut off the communication between VIT members?”

“That makes sense. Whoever they chase will die, who can outrun them!”

“Interesting.”

Rong Yi chose Yin as the first pick, swapped it to Xiao Yin, and then picked Tan (Tan Shen) as the second pick, giving it to Wu Dao Gu.

It’s VIT’s convention that Yin and Li can only get one each. As expected, CH is clearly not taking it lightly. Seeing that Rong Yi didn’t pick Li, they gave it to him as the last pick.

“Li is banned!”

Rong Yi chose the Key of Memories.

“VIT’s support has chosen the Key of Memories. VIT’s strategy… He locked it in! Is it a mistake?”

“Why did Easy lock in the Key of Memories?”

Rong Yi didn’t give the Key of Memories to Hui Mao, but picked the hero himself!

Support going mid, no one expected it.

A faint smile appeared on Xiao Yin’s lips.

On the other hand, Hui Mao muttered attentively, “Choose your own hero. I am a mature support.”

He chose the damage-oriented hero, Silver Hook (Yin Gou).

It’s too similar.

This scene is too much like the support and midlaner swapping positions.

Even the referee team paused for ten seconds, waiting for the page to load, and stood up to ask VIT if they needed to switch lineups.

After receiving a negative answer, they looked shocked.

The live audience, the commentators, and the spectators outside were all shocked.

[“What kind of strategy is this?”]

[“Easy’s famous battle of the season, the Torture King with Silver Hook, is now in the hands of Xiao Hui Mao”]

[“And the Xiao Hui Mao’s rising star, the Little Key, is now entering the battlefield in Easy’s hands.”]

[“It’s actually quite miraculous. Today, whether it’s VIT or CH, they have brought us new and unconventional tactical experiences.”]

[“But it’s not unreasonable. You see, Easy is a player who excels at all support roles, and Hui Mao is also a player brought up by Rong Yi. They must have a profound reason for choosing this way.”]

Soon, everyone will know what this profound reason is.

At the moment CH’s lineup was chosen, VIT’s tactics had already taken shape.

At the beginning, CH aggressively scouted the vision and opened resources in all directions. Xiao Yin went straight to the top lane, avoiding confrontation with Wu Dao Gu, who also went top.

After finishing top lane, they moved to the mid lane, with Rong Yi hiding in the back, using the Key of Memories skill to run away whenever they saw someone, showing no intention of fighting.

The bottom lane was the same.

Today, Ci She’s approach to farming was different. Instead of choosing burst marksmen like Huangnv, he picked the sustain-oriented Shark Bone and gave half of the economy to Hui Mao.

Rong Yi had the lowest economy in the first eight minutes, with everyone else averaging a thousand gold more than him.

Meanwhile, Hui Mao seemed to be farming like a semi-midlaner.

“VIT is playing very… cautiously?”

Outside the game, Lin Yi and his partner exchanged glances. “It’s completely different from the previous game. They’re being mysterious and paying a lot of attention to vision. They create fake vision when clearing waves.”

“VIT doesn’t usually create fake vision, but they’re doing it quite frequently this game. They spend a lot of time hiding in the bushes.”

His partner continued, “Of course, CH is also quite cautious. They are fast and efficient in scouting vision. So far, neither side has made any major mistakes.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the first skirmish broke out!

The enemy top laner first spotted Xiao Yin in their jungle, and the rest immediately followed, intending to flank them.

Xiao Yin didn’t hesitate and used his ultimate, crossing the river twice and landing near the mid lane.

However, the enemy team followed closely, using Swift Wind to charge forward.

At the same time, a golden light effect from the Key of Memories flashed in the bush, and Xiao Yin disappeared without a trace, returning to his position 0.5 seconds ago and silently slipping into the river bush.

CH lost their target.

They didn’t notice Rong Yi, who had just used his skill in the bush.

Rong Yi had given all the farm to Xiao Yin in this game, and once he maxed out his skills, he rotated between the top and mid bushes, always ready to support his teammates.

He knew CH’s strategy.

Twenty minutes ago.

“In fact, we believe that the key to defeating VIT lies in cutting off their communication. They are closely linked to each other, making it difficult to limit Easy, but there is another way.”

“High speed and high mobility, keeping them in a position that we can constantly scout. They will be very uncomfortable playing like that.”

This was Lu Feng’s conclusion after observing the whole season.

It was correct, but also not entirely correct because the core didn’t lie there.

During the drafting phase in VIT’s training room:

“Our core is nothing else,” Rong Yi said, “They were actually very close to success because a high-speed lineup benefits vision control, and our global information will be constantly interrupted, making us very uncomfortable.”

“But he chose five heroes with burst capabilities, maybe he thought that as long as he cut off our communication, it would be enough.”

Rong Yi continued, “We haven’t thought of this approach yet, or maybe we have, but we didn’t dare to focus on it. Because no one dares to bring out more than two carries specifically for targeted vision control against us.”

This was VIT’s complete version of the answer.

All parameters were input into the model, all hero values were put to the test, and the final result was obtained. Numerous complex parameters such as movement speed, range, attack power, positioning… a large number of parameters were reduced by the formula, and many parameters were excluded from the first correlation in the linear equation.

The first correlation, Vision.

If they could grasp this core, they would have the entire secret of VIT.

CH might have glimpsed some clues, but they hadn’t touched that core yet.

So, this high-speed lineup would make VIT uncomfortable, but they would surely lose.

Moreover, they were facing Rong Yi’s Key of Memories.

“Rong Yi’s Key of Memories is constantly moving between the top and mid lanes! The advantage brought by the high-speed composition on the opposing side is continuously dismantled by him!”

In the twelfth minute, Xiao Yin was once again chased, his skills on cooldown, but the mysteriously appearing Key of Memories pulled him back to his position 0.5 seconds ago. Hui Mao followed up with a Silver Hook to control him, allowing Xiao Yin to escape.

Up until now, Rong Yi hasn’t gained a single gold coin from the minion waves. From the moment he stepped onto the battlefield, his only responsibility remained.

To make sure that no one from the opposing side could catch up to their team.

Xiao Yin narrowly escaped several times, and the emotions of the audience outside were like a roller coaster ride.

If Hui Mao’s Key of Memories was the pillar that raised the team’s overall potential, then Rong Yi… Rong Yi was the trigger for high blood pressure.

His Key of Memories was elusive, impossible to track, appearing and disappearing, as if everyone suddenly gained ten thousand additional displacement abilities.

In the fifteenth minute, the opposing team converged, but Rong Yi preemptively used Flash in the opposite direction, deceiving Lu Feng.

Lu Feng calculated his cooldowns: “Key of Memories’ cooldown! Bet on it, he must die.”

The three members of CH ventured deep into the enemy’s territory, but Rong Yi swiftly returned to his original position with a Flash, which Xiao Yin followed up by taking him away. Then Xiao Yin, along with Ci She and Hui Mao, counter-attacked, resulting in CH losing three members.

It couldn’t be considered a mistake, just a tactical disadvantage that had begun to manifest.

Because their excessive vision exploration led to insufficient defense, continuously feeding their vision back to VIT.

Everyone was screaming, everyone was roaring. Each time VIT’s members were about to be chased to their deaths, Rong Yi would save them. On the other hand, every duck that CH was about to catch slipped away.

The pace had been significantly slowed down, and there seemed to be no way to turn the tide.

VIT ended the game in just twenty-five minutes.

Rong Yi’s Key of Memories record: 0-0-0. He didn’t participate in any kills or assists within the team and didn’t acquire a single bit of economy from the minion waves.

But he became the well-deserved MVP selected by the referee panel.

With two games concluded, VIT: CH, 2-0!

At the moment when everyone took off their headphones, the cheers outside the arena were about to lift off the roof. The deafening screams and chants overwhelmed the sound system in the arena, and the lights were scorching.

In just an instant, the restless online discussions came to a halt, and everyone was left with just one phrase shouted along with the commentators.

“Congratulations to VIT for winning this year’s domestic championship!”

“Congratulations to all members of VIT, Yin, Easy, Hui Mao, Ci She, Wu Dao Gu, Shu Pian. VIT has made a fresh mark in this year’s playoffs, leaving the traces of a blade.”

“It was them who eliminated redundancy, polished off the dust, discovered new stars. It was them who used sharp blades to fight with even sharper blades.”

The closing ceremony on the field quickly began. Lin Yi was an emotionally charged person, and his voice almost choked with tears.

The scene was actually quite funny.

Rong Yi himself wasn’t accustomed to such sentimental occasions, but a smile appeared on his lips as well.

No one dislikes being a champion.

He had won the domestic championship five times before, and this was the sixth time, but it was his first with VIT.

Hui Mao and Ci She were already crying, tears streaming down their faces. They were young and inexperienced.

They were both products of QILIN’s youth training, and they had never imagined that they would be able to win a trophy so quickly, that they could aim for the highest position so soon.

Shupian also cried uncontrollably, saying, “What do I do? I’ve really freeloaded the championship trophy. What do I do? I’m willing to train until I cry next year. Captain, you guys are too amazing. Thank you for wanting me–“

Xiao Yin turned back and called Rong Yi, “A Yi.”

He reached out his hand to him.

Rong Yi didn’t move.

He knew very well that at this moment, not going up to receive the award would be disappointing, but he didn’t move. He knew the insurmountable difficulties he faced.

For so many years, it had been the same.

In the past, he had felt a slight regret due to his teammates’ neglect and prejudice, but now, he no longer had such people around him.

The people around him loved him, admired him, and cared for him.

He had no regrets anymore.

Rong Yi smiled and said, “Go out quickly and see your starlight rain!”

The red carpet was already laid out, and gold and silver glitter fell from the ceiling, with silver and blue lights shimmering, dazzlingly beautiful.

Suddenly, the wind picked up, and a silver light flashed overhead. It was a straight flagpole, with a vibrant flag unfurled behind it.

The silver and blue flags, with the silver wolf head shining with an imposing aura, seemed as if it would come alive, exuding an awe-inspiring presence.

Xiao Yin bent down and held his hand.

“Come with me.”

Rong Yi was pulled up from his seat by him and followed him outside.

He didn’t know where Xiao Yin was taking him, but he saw the excited smiles on the faces of the others and followed along.

He was familiar with Xiao Yin’s character. He would never force him to face the cameras.

The path they were being led on now was towards a mysterious and particularly large theater backstage.

There were two large theaters in the e-sports building, originally a theater that had been renovated and divided. Usually, only one of them would be used for events.

Now, this theater was empty, but the stage was filled with starlight. Colorful paper was falling from above, and the big screen in the middle displayed the camera shots of the audience.

“Come.”

Xiao Yin lowered his head and protected Rong Yi as they walked through the corridor. At this moment, in the arena just a wall away, cheers erupted like flames, shaking the entire venue.

“Easy, Easy!”

“Team Rong! Team Rong! Is Team Rong behind? Team Rong—”

“Holographic projection imaging,” Xiao Yin whispered. “There are no cameras here, only mirrors. Look up.”

Rong Yi looked up and saw Xiao Yin walking forward, his figure appearing on the screen, on the other side of the stage. It was an exact replica.

It was very strange.

They were on one side, and the audience was on the other, as if they were separated by a different time and dimension, coming together for this extraordinary championship award ceremony.

“So… so magical.”

Rong Yi carefully held Xiao Yin’s fingertips, then looked at the audience on the screen and let go.

Dots of light fell all around him.

He felt a bit at a loss. “I really, really didn’t expect that it could still…”

“That it could be like this.”

Xiao Yin gazed at him, with Hui Mao, Ci She, Wu Dao Gu, and Shu Pian behind him, all looking at him with smiles. “The boss came up with this idea in just a second.”

“It’s been five years, A Yi. Come and see your own starlight rain.”

“We’ll accompany you.”