The Valkyries started the game on a strong hey caught the enemy off-guard with a hyper-early attad killed Average, the enemy Juhis achievement opehe door to multiple bes.

  First, the trio dived deeper into eerritory and stole the enemy’s Wraith Camp. "Andria, take this buff aurn to the ne," Fiona instructed. "elia, let us clear the nearby wolves as well."

  "Gdly!" elia followed the pn with great enthusiasm. After all, she and her allies had just successfully puhat Average plebeian for opposing elia's rule. Now, she was also going to collect taxes from the enemy's nds, as punishment for the whole ordeal. This was very mu lih how a noble dy should carry herself, ohoho!

  And so, the two nobles made quick work of the enemy’s Wolf Camp. After that, elia headed to Top Lane, her mainnd.

  sidering the location she was ing from, she had no choice but to pass through eerritory as she ehe ne. heless, she strode proudly through it without a care in the world.

  Hmph. Try to y a finger on me if you dare. elia lifted her . I'm already a level ahead of you, almost two. You will not dare.

  Indeed, Hitter didn't approach her. That peasant knew his pd allowed the o pass through his territory without punishing her for it.

  Truth be told, the man was very eager to strike this arrogant intruder. However, he was told to stay his hand.

  "Are you SURE this is alright, man?" Roi asked again. "This chick is totally ag cheeky! We gotta punish her, right?"

  "Yes, and we will," Howard reassured. "But, now is not the time. She's almost two levels ahead of you, and you know how much levels matter this early."

  "Yeah, you're right..." Roi ceded. "But, I'm totally going to get back at her for all this! I’ll avenge my bro, ain't nobody gonna stop me!"

  "It'd be best if you let it go for now," Howard advised. "The st thing we need right now is somebody ag recklessly aing killed as well.”

  “Yep, true that.”

  “So, before you do literally anything, stop to think for a moment about how the enemy’s shot-caller might exploit it. To put it simply, think of her as mini-Yuel who is always out there, trying to find an exploit in anything you do."

  "Dang, she's that good?"

  "It's hard to tell, so better to assume the worst,” Howard said. “At the very least, that early attack she unched is very remi of Yuel's shenanigans."

  "Yeah, true." Roi nodded. "Giving me fshbacks, lol."

  "As it should. So, operate uhe assumption that if you do anything careless, their shot-caller might punish you hard for it."

  "Alrighty, noted."

  With that said, Howard himself also had mixed feelings about that turn of events. I hope there aren't any scouts from Utopia here today. If they see us messing up like this against an amateur team, it might be reason enough to disqualify me on the spot.

  Acc to the Utopia representative, leading StormBlitz to victory this year should automatically grant Howard a ticket to their team. But, surely, it was just as important for the team to “look good” while taking the . In other words, embarrassing mess-ups like this will be frowned upon.

  We have to this game ly without any more mistakes. Howard asserted. But, that early momentum they built isn't anything to s. I already see that their Jungler is taking full advantage of it.

  After stealing the Wolf Camp, a ward showed that Rosemary headed to the Hyena Camp . She was fully i on stealing all the avaible camps in Top Jungle, quite the bold "princess" she was.

  And, that wasn't the end of Rosemary's expedition. After sweeping the hyenas, she already set her sights on the arget.

  "Andria,” Fiona called out. “Let us clear the griffins."

  "Your wish is my and, midy." Andria bowed theatrically and joihe queen at the Griffin Camp in Top Juhis was the only camp at the moment that Fiona could not effitly clear by herself.

  After the Overlord and the Dragon, the griffihe stro creeps in the jungle. As such, to properly dispatch them, it was best to team up and also activate a couple of skills.

  "AWOOOOOOO!" Fiona's Werewolf howled across the area. The skill revealed all enemies in the viity, but that was just a sedary effect. The main be of Chilling Howl was the buff it granted, which temporarily empowered Fiona's basic attacks and grahem Lifesteal.

  In addition to using Chilling Howl, Fiona also used Grievous Assault. She leapt at the nearby Griffin and assaulted it four times in succession with her razor-sharp cws.

  Each ssh ted as a basic attack despite ing from a skill, which meant the bes from Chilling Howl were in full effect. Together with the buffs, this Grievous Assault reduced the griffin to a mere 20% in one fell swoop. From there, it was just a matter of nding two more quick basic attacks to seal the deal.

  This quick progress might have made it look as if the Griffin Camp was a fast clear, but that was not the case. After all, there were two griffins in this camp. Fiona’s assault only handled one of them.

  As for the riffin, here Fiona had to employ Andria's help. The Sage cast a fireball that erased 30% of the griffin's HP. After that, Fiona and Andria ganged up on the legendary beast with basic attacks. This was the unfortunate part of this clear that was impossible to speed up, at least not to Fiona’s knowledge.

  “Thank you for the help,” Fiona said.

  “You may call upon my services at any time, Your Majesty.” On that note, Andria returo Mid. Oher hand, there was no ne for Fiona to return to, therefore she had to carefully decide on her destination.

  There were two attractive options. She could either rotate toward Bot Juet the riffin Camp, or she could return to her side of the jungle and up all the camps she skipped on during the opening.

  After running a quick calcution in her head, Fiona cluded it was best to sweep through Top Jungle first. The biggest sideration was the fact the Wraith Camp was still online on Fiona's side. This camp provided det farm and a buff to boot, which together were more valuable than the Griffin Camp.

  Furthermore, heading to the Wraith Camp would put her closer to Top. In other words, she would be in a position to gank the ne if an opportunity presents itself.

  Better yet, the enemy would be pletely unaware of that fact. After all, the Valkyries struck Average down before he pced his wards, so it was safe to assume the majority of Top Jungle was currently unwarded.

  Thus, the only outside party who could monitor Fiona's movements iail was the audience. In particur, Yuel and Vi.

  "Oh, so she chose to head to Top!" Vi excimed. "Iing, iing indeed! What is your take on this, Chessmaster?"

  "It's a solid decision," Yuel said. "This will her more exp and gold in total than going after the griffins, not to mention the buff. Also, bonus points if she has any pns of ganking Top, which I feel she does."

  Based on the games thus far, it arent Fiona ragmatigler. She almost always made the right call for her rotations, prioritizing efficy above everything else. In fact, her jungling was so well optimized it was hard to believe she had less than a year of experience.

  She might very well be the best Jungler in the regiht now. Yuel thought. I'd say the only one who gives her real petition is Winner. And, maybe StormMooo, but he hasn't been oage ever since our scrim, aher has the rest of the triangle for that matter.

  As unfortunate as it was to admit, Stratus' Junglers didn't measure up at all. One was a memer and the other was an unreliable sleepyhead, though she has beeing much better in that department ever sihe Leo scrimmage.

  Nia has potential but she needs more polish. She’s too insistent right now. Yuel criticized. So yes, all in all, I'd say that probably makes Fiona the best Jungler in this region, surprisingly enough.

  Vi seemed to agree oter. He has been singing praises to Fiona's performance ever since her debut.

  "She is ihe Pragmatic Scheduler, just as I thought!" He already dabbed her such based on the Leo scrim, and now he was more vihan ever she deserved the title!

  In the same way the La Princess subjected herself to an inhumanly packed daily routine, she also knew as the Jungler. She rotated nonstop from one objective to another with maximum efficy. There were no breaks, s. It’s almost as if she was allergic to the mere idea of having any “dead time” in her life.

  Even now, as she rotated through the camps in Top Jungle, Rosemary was surely thinking about how there’d be some dead time on the way to Bot Juherefore, it was almost certairy to pick up a fight in Top if the enemy gave her even the slightest of opportunities!

  She’s like a living example of a textbook Jungler. Yuel thought. She doesn’t do anything too special most of the time, but each of her pys is polished aimed. She’s like a meta inate.

  This effit meta pystyle was very remi of Fiona’s approach to chess. She was the type of theory pyer who studied tless openings and arras, allowio swiftly defuse plicated board positions.

  Ba elementary school, Yuel sidered himself a fairly strong theory pyer as well. But, he didn't hold a dle to the renowned La Princess. When he had to face her oage, he came to realize just how much ahead of him the girl was.

  Is she going to be the same way in Cssmancers, too? Yuel wondered. she really pick up the game's theory so quickly and reach a petitive level? I've worked hard for two years to get here, ahis girl...

  Perhaps Fiona was really one of the very few people out there who actually deserved to be called a "genius". Yuel generally frowned about how thoughtlessly others threw this term around, but it felt fitting for somebody like Fiona who always found a way to exo matter which sport she dabbled in.

  With Fiona on board, maybe the Valkyries will end up being aeam we’ll have to look out for at the regionals.

  And ihey have been pying a very solid game thus far. There was Fiona, who zigzagged from one er of the juo the other with effit scheduling, but the other members also fared detly in their respective nes.

  In particur, the most iing ne was Mid, where Julia pyed...

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