Swordmanship Veteran's Game Stream Chapter 156
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[The first round of the scrim has ended! Self-Twisted Fate faced off against Just One Bite, and the winning team is Just One Bite!]
Tae-woo's team name was eventually decided as Self-Twisted Fate. As a result of Seo-jun watching from the side, Tae-woo really seemed to have hated that team name.
But what could be done? It was a democratic society.
Just One Bite was the name of the team containing the A-grade AD Carry, Spoon.
The team's ace, Spoon.
And since AD Carries were often teased by being called spoons, it seemed they had simply named it Just One Bite in line with that.
He did not know exactly what kind of meaning it had.
When he was in high school, there was a classmate in his room who would always shout "Just one bite!" whenever they saw a friend returning from the snack bar.
To be precise, he was not a friend but was about Seo-jun's Underling 453, and that student's specialty was showing a single bite that would make even a hungry ghost recoil.
It did not matter whether it was drinks or bread.
If they just allowed it once, half of it would disappear and return, performing a miracle that even surprised Seo-jun.
Was it because of such memories?
Spoon's team name came across as quite threatening to Seo-jun.
“This is commercial time, I see.”
Rumi let out a deflated sigh, as if her mood had cooled down completely from being interrupted while watching so enjoyably.
As a result of observing her for even a short period, she was a hardcore Teusu.
Actually, only Seo-jun was slightly unusual, and most of them were basically Teusu, and there was also a large proportion of Teusu who became streamers.
Ha Yun-ho, Kim Tae-woo, and Alpaca were all such cases.
“Now. I received contact that the next game is ours. Let's enter The League now.”
Since it was a scrim, playing while looking at the chat was forbidden from now on.
They did not leave it up to conscience.
This was because Travel had a separate stream sniping prevention mode. The exact name was Focus Mode.
Once this Focus Mode was turned on, streamers could not load a single chat message. Other Travel channels as well.
And the viewers could check whether the streamer was turning this mode on.
An environment where streamers could immerse themselves in the game was created.
‘Of course, that's an excuse.’
Since it was a mode updated after a streamer with eyes containing four rings in their pupils came out, did stream sniping, got cursed at, and caused controversy, everyone knew that although Travel packaged it well as Focus Mode, that was not its true intention.
Of course, doing it clearly like this was a good thing for everyone. Except for those trying to cheat.
Still, unless a truly massive incident broke out, it was the true nature of human society not to create a system to solve such problems.
The power of Surface, which owned half of Travel and The League respectively, was tremendous.
As soon as the controversy arose, they updated a new mode in just a single week.
Their effort to protect their monopoly could be seen as truly great.
Knowing that if they showed an instance of causing harm to consumers, the courts and governments of each country would immediately wield their knives and rip the company to shreds, they were extremely consumer-friendly.
“See you guys after the game.”
Seo-jun executed Focus Mode.
- Yay, the room manager/host can't see the chat hahahaha
- Now, shall we slowly start having some fun?
- Are you ready, Big Yellowtail?
- Of course, Assassin
- (This comment has died because a manager passed by)
- What should we do if the manager abuses their power?
- Hahaha, they really are abusing it
The chats, which contained such fruitful content, vanished from before his eyes.
[Launching The League.]
After entering the game, Seo-jun received a game invitation message from the tournament operations team.
And as he entered the lobby, he could hear the voices of the commentators broadcasting.
[Now! With player Seo-jun as the last, everyone is here! Wealth Gap vs. Club!]
He was the last one again.
‘By the way, Goblin Club? They really named their team half-heartedly.’
Not that Wealth Gap was in any position to talk.
Bangju's voice could be heard.
[Then we should look at the teams' strengths first, shouldn't we? According to information obtained yesterday, first of all, it seems that Wealth Gap's jungle issue is quite significant.]
[Ah, they had three mid laners, right?]
[That's right. Since top and mid are the most similar lanes, they say the problem with this team is the jungle.]
[Indeed. It's the only position in The League that doesn't do lane battles.]
While top, mid, and bottom lanes fought in a single lane, the jungle was a position that roamed around the spaces called the jungle scattered across the map, hunting monsters and helping out each lane.
[And according to information obtained through espionage yesterday, it is said that the player Wind Sword plays worse than Alpaca.]
[Gasp! Where did you get such high-level information?]
[It's Travel. So everyone, please use Travel! Hahaha! Boss, are you watching? Hahaha!]
Seo-jun was surprised.
He had not expected Bangju to have a side that did that kind of product placement.
It was a wild hosting style, to the point where he wanted to see the viewers' reactions.
[Then let's look at the Club team now.]
[First of all, the point to be careful of would be the A-grade jungler, player Dokkaebi. Naturally, the jungle has the highest influence on the game. In other words, if the jungle plays well, they can win the game, and this team has the best jungler.]
[They are a strong team. Although they weren't selected as a strong team by classification, what kind of existence is a Challenger jungler, really? It's impossible for them not to be threatening! I think it will become a bit clearer if we look at today's scrim results. Oh, by the way, who do you think will win, Mr. Penguin?]
[Naturally Seo-jun—no, Wealth Gap.]
[Do you want to bet on it?]
[Ha! But I'll still bet. If Club wins, this time...]
The ban-pick phase approached, and everyone turned off their audio being broadcasted.
“Let's go with banning the enemies' main picks that we talked about yesterday.”
Ha Yun-ho, who had thought the most about strategy, issued the order.
It was something they had already discussed to some extent beforehand.
Alpaca, who was the first pick, replied.
Although he had said the enemies' main picks, in reality, it referred to a single hero named Lee Sin.
This hero, whose name somehow sounded like a male child born to the royal family of Joseon, was the one that Dokkaebi was best at playing.
After banning Lee Sin, they sequentially banned the most-played picks of the B-grade and C-grade players.
“Huh? At this rate, it looks like they won't ban Kael.”
Rumi said when the enemy made their second ban.
The ones the enemy banned were only heroes unrelated to Seo-jun.
“Do they think it's manageable because of the nerf?”
Since Alpaca was in charge of the bans, he spoke without taking his eyes off the interface in front of him.
“That could be it, or they might want to test it themselves.”
Seo-jun thought as he listened to their conversation.
“It could be a form of check.”
“Pardon? Seo-jun? What kind of check?”
In the end, Kael was not banned.
“If other heroes I can play aren't revealed in the scrims, it'll be bad news for the other two teams in our A-group.”
From the perspective of Seo-jun's team, it was also a good thing since they could hide their strength.
“This is a bit unpleasant, though?”
Ha Yun-ho smiled chillingly.
“It means there's no need to show our cards. Since they'll be shown during the group stage anyway.”
“But they're definitely looking down on us!”
“Well, there might be that sentiment as well.”
Even if they recognized Seo-jun's skill, it did not change the fact that they were a weak team. And The League was a team game, after all.
“Seo-jun. Then how about not playing Kael?”
Ha Yun-ho snapped his head toward Seo-jun, who was standing beside him.
He could tell what kind of misunderstanding he was having.
“Ah, no, that's not it. There are many heroes I can play. Everything is prepared.”
“Whew. But you haven't played a single round with any of them, right?”
The conversation was strange, but no teammate objected.
“I'll go with Kael for now.”
“Yes. But you really have them prepared, right?”
Ha Yun-ho asked once more, as if he was still anxious.
“Of course. Hmm. Zen? That one looked fun too.”
“Zen? Shadowmancer Zen?”
It was a hero that used an additional body made of shadow.
Ha Yun-ho chose the hero with a smirk.
‘Another difficult hero.’
At that level, his nature was...
“Hello. It is an honor to face you.”
After starting the game and heading to the mid lane, the opposing mid laner welcomed Seo-jun.
The opposing mid laner was a B-grade player. Their main position was top, and their secondary position was mid.
Currently, a D-grade player was in the opposing team's top lane.
“You are streamer Moja, right?”
“Yes, that's right. It is also an honor that you remember me.”
Emphasizing the word "honor" felt subtly provocative.
To be precise, the opponent was currently displaying a competitive spirit toward Seo-jun.
A desire to win, albeit while showing respect.
“Kael got nerfed, will you be okay?”
Seeing him smile, it was certain.
“Yes, well. By the way, Moja, you are that person who died while running over immediately to save Dokkaebi in Ground Zero, right?”
“I also remember the expression you made as you died back then.”
“Because my memory is quite good.”
Seo-jun pointed Kael's sword, wearing a smile.
Moja also responded with a slightly awkward laugh and raised his arm.
The hero Moja had selected was Bikal, the Avatar of the Giant Rock.
The passive skill was Rock Skin.
Bikal's characteristic was that his body could undergo partial hardening.
Hardening was a skill that petrified a part of his own body to reduce incoming damage and apply slowness to the attacker.
However, because the petrified part could not be moved properly, wore off quickly, and could only cover a small area at a time, hardening it appropriately right before getting hit was usually the yardstick of a player's skill when playing Bikal.
Bikal's arm momentarily swelled and turned like cracked grey rock before returning to normal.
‘He intends to hold out.’
As expected, the enemy team seemed intent on testing his skill by directly facing Seo-jun's Kael.
He had to show them just enough.
The minions entered the lane, and they maintained their distance from each other, feeling out the situation by farming low-health minions or poking.
[Dokkaebi --> Ha Yun-ho]
[Dokkaebi --> NotDurumi]
The two teammates in the bottom lane died.
[Sorry. The enemy was lying in ambush.]
[They were there when we were going after leashing.]
Leashing referred to bottom lane players helping their allied jungler when they hunted the first jungle monster, and then heading to the lane slightly late.
However, their lying in ambush on the way meant that the opposing team had not leashed.
“Our Dokkaebi-hyung is quite fast at jungling even on his own.”
Dokkaebi had not received a leash, quickly cleared the jungle monsters alone, and joined while the ambushers were fighting Seo-jun's teammates.
It was an unpleasant blow right from the start.
“Shall we test the waters then?”
Moja bent his waist and slammed his fist onto the ground.
At that, the ground in contact with Bikal's hand surged upward and approached Seo-jun like a wave. It was a speed too fast to completely escape.
The height at which the ground rose gradually increased until it surged up almost like a boulder right in front of Seo-jun's nose, and that boulder exploded with a loud bang, dealing damage to nearby creatures.
It was Bikal's skill, Rock Wave.
‘The radius isn't wide.’
Even though he could not move far away because it approached quickly, he was able to dodge it.
“Try launching it one more time, then.”
Seo-jun adjusted his grip on the sword and positioned himself right behind the front melee minions.
Standing like this, the enemy would feel uncomfortable whenever they tried to land the last hit on Seo-jun's team's minions because of his presence behind them.
The enemy approached closely. Since they had to attack the minions in close range, or use a skill.
As the distance closed, a vital point appeared on Bikal's body.
Seo-jun intended to target that vital point with a horizontal slash.
If even the clothes on the torso swelled and turned to stone, he could just retract his strike for a moment.
However, the opponent reached out his arm and attempted hardening as if he had been waiting. Instead of blocking Seo-jun's sword, he had simply put it out to take the hit.
It was a movement that would be hard to perform if it had not been prepared before the game started.
Seo-jun, who had originally intended to only test him, changed his mind, snapped his wrist inward toward the opponent's body at that moment, and let go.
Then, the sword spun, grazing Moja's fingertips with the scabbard.
At the same time, Seo-jun's hand was also passing above.
The enemy could not cope with the sudden change in the situation.
The enemy's thoughts must have been limited to, at most, blocking the attack with the petrified arm or getting Seo-jun caught.
As a result, Seo-jun's arm moved without obstruction, caught the sword that had spun a full rotation in front of Moja's body, and slashed the vital point just like that.
‘The next vital point is...’
Just as he was about to perform the following combo...
[Dokkaebi --> WildAlpaca]
This time, the jungler died.
- He really is no match for him even with B-grade hahahahaha
- But they'll lose this one T_T
- It's a clash of prideful geniuses
- Is this finally the time his karma gets settled?!