Right then, on the FAZE side, karrigan’s face had gone completely green.
He had heard K1 was broken through, and had thought to drop down Ramp to take a look at B site and delay a bit, only to get instantly fragged the damn moment he peeked—he didn’t even have time to react!
What the hell?!
karrigan took several deep breaths, forcing himself to calm down and analyze the situation:
The opponents had already planted the bomb, creating a 5v3 post-plant advantage. For the three of them to force a retake was too much of a stretch!
Forget it—better save!
rain and Twistzz immediately fell back to hold angles toward K1, preserving their rifles.
But ropz suddenly thought of something.
He recalled the first half, after G2 won the round, when Meng Lang pushed deep into Ramp to cut off anyone trying to save.
Right now, ropz was near T main; directly pushing Ramp would be a bit of a throw, but he could hold an angle on Yellow!
Time was still on his side anyway! He had a premonition that G2’s economy wasn’t great this round, and they would likely try to push out and hunt the savers.
If he could catch someone in the back, take down a few more rifles—even if he got traded and couldn’t escape in the end—it would still be massively worth it, just like Meng Lang’s Ramp cut-off in the first half.
On the broadcast feed, ropz immediately tucked himself into an inner recess of Yellow like a true “shadow assassin,” silently waiting for footsteps from T main!
Wanjiqi glanced at the minimap and was instantly shocked: “Oh! ropz, what the hell? Hiding in that position?”
“On the T side! Dark sees FAZE choosing to save so quickly this round! Will they choose to chase?”
“Oh! He really did bring people to T main to try and hunt the savers! And the Kid with the AWP is following right behind him! Oh no! If ropz gets a sneaky kill here, the AWP the Kid finally picked up might drop too!”
However, right at this critical moment!
When Meng Lang, controlling his character, entered T main and passed by the Yellow area, his body suddenly and uncontrollably gave an imperceptible “shiver”!
Almost simultaneously, like a conditioned reflex, possible CT positions for the round start, save routes, and an extremely concealed, perfect ambush spot flashed through his mind!
Thus, in a way nobody expected—including the hiding ropz—Meng Lang raised his AK without warning, aimed at that seemingly empty corrugated metal wall of Yellow which actually concealed deadly killing intent, and pulled the trigger based on a profoundly mysterious intuition!
Dada dada dada—!
A full magazine of bullets tore through the paper-thin nuclear corrugated metal wall!
The next second!
The kill feed scrolled by!
【G2-Dark killed FAZE-ropz with AK-47 (Wallbang)】
In that instant, everyone was stunned!
Even after dying, his teammates karrigan and broky, who were spectating ropz’s POV, were dumbfounded!
They knew full well that from the moment ropz settled in until he died, he hadn’t moved an inch!
What the hell was this?!
ropz subconsciously whipped his head around, looking at the admin standing right behind him in the booth.
Recalling those inexplicable anti-strat, anti-read kills from the first half, ropz really wanted to point at Meng Lang across at the G2 desk and ask the admin:
“This guy’s hacking on LAN and nobody’s doing anything about it?!”
The livestream chat instantly went crazy:
【?????】
【Stop with the ?s! If you have the frame, why wouldn’t you shoot?】
【Good headphones are like that; you can hear the enemy breathing.】
【Normal, standard wallbang spot. Molotovs give vision, wallhacks give vision!】
【Admin! Where’s the admin! Go check his screen!】
Wanjiqi was no longer paying attention to the chat. He let out his signature, almost voice-crackling, ultra-raspy guttural cry: “Wooooah—!!! What the hell?! Bro! You’re telling me this is how people get kills now?!”
“Ever since G2 defeated Vitality in the Challenger Stage, it feels like Big Brother ZywOo’s ‘all-seeing power’ has been constantly draining away, and now it has all been poured into Dark’s body!”
“That blind wallbang is too insane!”
And after that round, the scoreline—which had been growing stagnant due to FAZE clawing back rounds—loosened up once more!
G2’s offensive momentum was like a breached floodgate, completely unstoppable!
12–7!
13–7!
...
The score climbed rapidly,
quickly reaching 15–7, match point!
On the FAZE side, the entire team had their heads ringing, battered by this G2 squad that had climbed up from the Challengers Stage—or rather, by Meng Lang, this dazzling newcomer who had stepped onto the Major main stage for the first time.
Their rhythm was completely shattered.
And karrigan’s “god-tier calls” from the early game, praised by Wanjiqi, seemed to have lost their magic by the late game. In the face of G2’s overwhelming individual skill and Meng Lang’s occasional “unconventional” plays, they had all become Wanjiqi’s heartbroken cries of “awful calls!” and “dizzying aim!”
Many FAZE fans in the livestream chat were simply paralyzed with shock, their minds blank.
“Today, the four ‘apex predators’ in the Legends Stage all successfully defended their thrones. Surely it won’t be our FAZE, this galactic battleship… that breaks the streak, right?”
That kind of thing… please no!
Right now, only a tiny sliver of faint hope remained in their hearts.
The 23rd round of G2 vs FAZE!
Match point had begun!
G2 began this round with three Outside and two Inside.
However, when Wanjiqi saw Meng Lang—uncharacteristically—climbing up to the T-side second floor with Aleksib, his heart suddenly lurched, a familiar premonition welling up inside him!
He shouted with wide, shocked eyes:
“Wait! This positioning!”
“Could it be… G2 is going to…”
Just as expected!
G2 showed no hesitation or waiting this round. The moment their teammates got into position, a terrifying barrage of utility instantly poured forth!
Main smoke!
Yellow molotov!
Squeaky grenade!
Vent smoke!
Secret molotov!
The standard A site execute package, executed flawlessly in one go!
The next second!
Meng Lang engaged directly!
From below Outside, the Kid threw a precise high flash, sending the AK-wielding Meng Lang leaping up onto Main!
Meng Lang rushed forward!
The instant he landed, his crosshair was already locked onto karrigan, who was blinded by the Main smoke.
The Inside execute perfectly masked the footsteps overhead!
Bam—!
A single bullet drilled into the skull!
“G2-Dark killed FAZE-Karrigan”
At the same time! huNter- on Inside also threw a perfect smoke flash, sending NiKo bursting out through Squeaky!
Coordinating with Meng Lang charging out from Main!
The two were like demons born from smoke, erupting simultaneously from two directions!
Forming the lethal “Twin Ghosts Pounding the Gate”!
NiKo immediately took down rain on entry, but was traded by broky.
The AK in Meng Lang’s hands was like a tyrant of thunder!
They killed my teammate!
He flicked his crosshair!
Flicked around with precise aim and slammed broky—who was trying to steal a kill from beneath Third!
Then he strafed to the side of the A bombsite, instantly deleting Twistzz behind Barrel—who had witnessed everything but hadn’t had time to react—then whipped his muzzle toward Yellow and sprayed wildly through the wall!
ropz, hiding inside Yellow, managed to get two return shots off before Meng Lang snapped onto him with a flick and took him down with a headshot!
ropz’s head snapped back in a tactical recoil,
eyes closing.
Tired. Just end it all!
The top-right of the screen went crazy!
【G2-Dark killed FAZE-broky with AK-47 (Headshot)】
【G2-Dark killed FAZE-Twistzz with AK-47】
【G2-Dark killed FAZE-ropz with AK-47 (Headshot)】
Quad kill—!
“Oh! My god! A quad kill!”
“The demon king descends! Right under the Director’s nose!!”
Wanjiqi roared with every ounce of strength, his voice completely distorted!
“This round, Dark—right in front of Twistzz—completed the ‘Outside Speedrun Legend’ that he crashed on in the first half, and even coordinated with NiKo coming through Squeaky for a ‘Twin Ghosts Pounding the Gate’ from Main and Squeaky! And relying purely on his own power, he started spinning on the Inside! Successfully completing the final harvest of all CTs on the A bombsite!”
“Hiss—! This round is simply the descent of a demon king!”
“You have to take every chance to kill him! If you don’t kill him! He’ll just smash you to death!”
“Dark! You simply cannot be carrying any harder today! On this final round, he killed the match entirely by himself! Hell—even after his teammates threw their utility, they didn’t need to plant the damn bomb!”
“What the actual hell! Why does this Dark seem to get stronger the more he’s studied!!”
“I can’t anymore, brothers! I’m taking damage! Why the hell does this streamer feel like he’s getting his face slapped?! Cough cough cough—! I really can’t take it anymore, brothers! This streamer is gonna die cough cough cough—!”
Wanjiqi burst into a violent fit of coughing from the excitement!
In the match.
【T Victory!】
The final score was frozen at 16–7!
This meant that on the first day of the Legends Stage, G2 had defeated FAZE—defeated the very FAZE that had 3–0’d them in the recent Katowice final, nearly giving them a mental block!
At the same time, G2 became the first team in this Antwerp Major Legends Stage to pull off an “upset from below”!
And on his very first day entering the Legends Stage, Meng Lang put up a terrifying 31/11 K-D, with an ADR of 145.4!
The international community was in an uproar once again!
Dark?
The kid who said in his Challengers Stage interview that he wanted to become Top 1?
What?!
How is this guy still killing people after entering the Legends Stage?!