Chapter 165

Two swords rapidly approached Wave from front and back.

There was no avoiding it.

Wave looked at their trajectories and realized there was no way he could create a result where he dodged both.

Wave blocked the sword in front.

Stab.

Seo-jun mercilessly connected his next attack.

Wave and Seo-jun’s gazes met.

No matter how much it wasn’t over until death, still.

It was over.

The moment his ultimate was interrupted, he intuitively felt that reversing the situation had become nearly impossible.

But the jungler, perhaps still not giving up or just moving on instinct, aimed his bow at Seo-jun from a diagonal position to protect him.

Pew!

If the mark exploded, he would definitely die.

If he took one more basic attack, it would be the same.

This fight was already over.

Seo-jun, who had glanced to the side, didn’t stop his attack and came to finish off Wave.

He probably wanted to end it quickly since even if he got hit by the arrow, his health wouldn’t drop by much anyway.

But in that moment, Wave couldn’t calmly accept it.

Even if the outcome of the fight was already decided, he couldn’t just take it until the very end.

It would be better to somehow extract more information about his opponent here to prepare for the next fight.

That next fight included not only the upcoming damage trades, skirmishes, and teamfights, but also the next game when they met in the main tournament.

And then.

Clang!

Wave’s clone, which had been behind him, was now somehow beside him.

The clone deflected the arrow flying toward Seo-jun, and Seo-jun stabbed Wave’s body.

Two shadows crossed in their field of vision.

‘So that’s why he didn’t even care. But fighting tangled up like this seems like it would be harder to handle…’

Wave intuited it.

Maybe his opponent had been going easy on him this whole time.

[Sword God –> Wave]

* * *

Navigator’s roar echoed through the commentary booth once again.

“Wow!! That’s even more insane!”

-For real lol

-Just crazy

-Having at least 2 brains means he can’t not be crazy, right?

-Don’t brains originally come in two, left brain and right brain?

-I thought it was cerebrum and cerebellum, learning something new

How many brains he had wasn’t important.

Navigator calmly but quickly provided commentary.

“The mid pride battle goes to player Seo-jun with a crushing victory!”

They had expected victory in the fight, but if it was to this degree, it was right to call it crushing.

-Damn

-So multitasking was possible after all

-I’m going to main Zen right now lol

-Is it Zen this time?

-Fighting two people at once? I can’t resist this

-Please control yourself!

-Yeah, you guys can’t do it

-But what happens if the clones merge like he showed at the end?

Navigator read the chat while commentating.

“What we saw just now was each of them fighting 1v1 separately. But what if the two bodies move like one body, like we just saw? If they merge? I don’t think anyone could handle this alone.”

“But Navigator-nim. I think it was always like that originally…”

Who would fight him one-on-one?

“That’s right. Even Goblin avoided a 2v1, didn’t he?”

“But at least he won that one.”

“Then this game should be the same…”

“We don’t know yet!”

Arin naturally reminded everyone that the game wasn’t over yet.

“Definitely. It’s not over yet. But based on what we just saw, if it goes to teamfights, it’ll be 6v5, so Wealth Gap will probably just win?”

-Did a team member get copied? Lmao

-The Zen forums are going crazy right now

-The Kael forums are going crazy too

-Why Kael again lol

The League’s community LeagueCommunity, among the hero-specific forums, seeing the Zen forum’s posting speed suddenly increase was a natural result.

[Mastery really exists!]

[Zen solo queue let’s go!]

[From now on, we can 2v1 every time the skill comes off cooldown, how can we resist this?]

-Strictly speaking, calling it 2v1 might not be that great since that’s play that gave up the advantage of the returning skill, you could see it as giving up the retreat option

└Fair point

└Just need to reach it no matter what

└Multitasking is godly!

[But isn’t it a bit ambiguous?]

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Deflecting arrows and blocking swords. Deflecting arrows and blocking swords. This wasn’t doing 1 and 2 simultaneously, but rapidly switching between 1 2 1 2 1 2, right?

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-So can you even do that much?

-Didn’t you see the end? Attacking while simultaneously blocking?

└Merging also exists…

-Ban this guy please!

-Our brains originally work like that anyway

[Who owns our forum now?]

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(Random handsome streamer Seo-jun meme) Just this guy lol

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-Calling him “this guy.” Try saying “master”

└Why would I say that to him lol (OP)

-The Kael guys surrendered their forum too LOL

└That’s why they shared their secrets. Shouldn’t we also receive some know-how?

-What about Eric?

└Those guys don’t have regular forum users anyway so there was nothing LOL

└Actually, the post titles from back then. [Are you guys the only ones who get to use such good heroes and suck honey?] [Why don’t you reply to comments?] [Lol even the few who do reply are all guys like me who came from watching lmao]

Navigator’s phone, which had been checking these posts in real-time under the desk, had a restraining hand placed on it.

It was Arin.

Navigator, who had been caught, swallowed his disappointment.

‘I didn’t get to check why the Kael forums went crazy.’

But looking at the general situation, he had a guess.

Thanks to the last post’s comments he’d seen.

-What do you Kael one-tricks think about claiming to be true Seo-jun fanatics?

└We need to show that we’re more fanatics

└How?

└Don’t know, let’s invade for now

└As a passing demon sect member, we can’t stand for this either

‘Probably a fight broke out.’

That kind of thing wasn’t daily, but it wasn’t unheard of either.

Anyway, Navigator was bothered by one of the posts he’d seen earlier.

He also knew the fact that the brain can’t handle two things simultaneously.

Like the post said, you can rapidly repeat tasks 1 and 2, but you can’t use 1 and 2 simultaneously.

And Seo-jun’s play had initially seemed to fall into that category.

Rather than moving simultaneously, it could be explained as performing alternating tasks incredibly fast and accurately.

However, the action he showed at the end.

Seo-jun had moved simultaneously.

This couldn’t be explained by that.

‘Is he really a new species of human?’

Just like with the dull sword, it was simply amazing.

* * *

“Ah! He got cut! Support! Player Mental! He went too deep in lane, didn’t he?”

“Ah, and at the same time, player Seo-jun back at base buys his second rune! The first rune enhanced Shadow Arts duration. What about the second?”

“It’s not a spell rune.”

There were two types of runes.

The first type were runes that taught spells with cooldowns slightly longer than regular skills but useful for various situations.

The second type were runes that enhanced skills.

“This time it’s a rune that extends ultimate duration! He’s really committed!”

“So he doesn’t need extra shadow swaps or additional mark damage?”

“Looks like he’s planning to show off in teamfights.”

Without additional kills in mid, laning ended and Heavy Mental and Wealth Gap traded kills while operating the game without any major teamfights.

“Now one bad teamfight and it’s over, right?”

“Yes. They need to be careful.”

With second towers destroyed and the game in late-mid phase, one bad teamfight near the main base could end the game immediately.

* * *

Mental respawned and rejoined his team, and the moment Seo-jun was killing jungle monsters below, something unexpected happened above.

[I’ll go get vision there.]

[Oh! That looks a bit deep, be careful…!]

[Ah!]

[At least it’s 4v4!]

A skirmish broke out.

On the minimap, blue dots were allies and red dots were enemies.

Seo-jun confirmed through the minimap that enemies had appeared.

‘He did go to a pretty dangerous spot.’

The person who got ambushed was Alpaca.

He’d been too zealous about getting vision.

Seo-jun immediately moved to join them.

[Sorry! I got ambushed! Just leave me and…!]

There was no way the other team members could abandon him.

It wasn’t some shounen manga friendship emotion, just that since they’d been wandering nearby when the fight started, they inevitably got caught up in it.

The problem was Seo-jun wasn’t there.

And it had started with Alpaca getting ambushed.

So.

[Wave –> Alpaca]

The ambushed Alpaca died first, and the team members started retreating to avoid more deaths.

[Let’s back off.]

[We might die more at this rate. Their skills landed well! Damn.]

[Ah. Fear used his ultimate on me so I couldn’t escape. He used it on me.]

[Ugh! Tali mark!]

But Ha Yoon-ho died too.

[1898 –> Ha Yoon-ho]

[Wave –> NotRumi]

Rumi died as well.

Only then did Seo-jun, who had arrived nearby, see Windstorm Sword escaping from the front while being chased by the enemy team.

The enemy team members were also there.

They were throwing harassing skills at each other during the chase.

What Seo-jun could do now was first help Windstorm Sword create distance, then watch the enemy team trying to take the strongest jungle monster while looking for opportunities.

Canyon’s Unwelcome Guest, Crash.

Users nickname it the earthworm.

A monster with high health and attack power that was difficult to solo and could damage even five people attacking together.

Instead, it was high-risk high-return, giving buffs as good as the risk, and with Seo-jun’s team members dead, the enemy team would naturally target that buff.

The choices in front of Wealth Gap were to keep harassing from a distance to prevent this, fight when they were weakened, or steal the last hit to take the buff.

-Can you steal the earthworm?

-Just have to give up the buff, can’t help it

-Alpaca, let’s step it up

-But why doesn’t the streamer give vision orders or anything? Doesn’t he know map reading?

-He’s probably not doing it on purpose

-As expected, you can’t make fun of A-tiers macro management. Wave was even setting his own traps

-Yeah, and lost 2v1?

-Yeah, and the earthworm gets taken and lose the game?

-3 people cut and 5v2, just wait until they respawn doing nothing lol

Seo-jun couldn’t see the chat.

But he could roughly guess what they were saying.

Weren’t viewers always consistent?

So.

“Everyone, why 5v2?”

Seo-jun whispered quietly. Just for the viewers to hear.

“And if we win here, we can end it right away.”

-No lmao don’t keep trying to have conversations with us lol

-Just give up

-If it’s not 5v2, then what lol

“Oh! It’s Seo-jun-nim!”

When Windstorm Sword shouted to Seo-jun, Seo-jun checked the remaining health of enemies and used his ultimate on the lowest-health opponent.

[Shadow Stealer]

The target was the enemy top laner with low health after the fight.

A shadow was created and immediately reached out.

But among the enemy team, someone had been preparing for this.

So as if they’d been waiting, a skill quickly flew over.

[Bombbringer’s Lunch Box]

A lunch box bag that exploded in mid-air at the desired timing to knockback nearby heroes—the marksman’s survival skill.

The flying lunch box bag exploded. Right next to the clone.

In that moment.

Seo-jun switched positions with the shadow.

[Shadow Arts]

Using the skill to leave a clone in his original position.

Zen could briefly escape being a target during the extremely short moment of switching positions with shadows—this was a advanced technique used by master Zen players.

Seo-jun, now standing in front of the enemy top laner who had turned around, thrust his assassination blade into his abdomen, and when another attack came, this time he switched positions not with the ultimate shadow but with the skill shadow.

“Then it’s 4v3, right?”

Seo-jun, now standing in his original position, looked at the enemy team and told the viewers.

-He didn’t die though?

-Enemy top is really low health lmao

-There’s a clone, so it’s not 3, streamer lol

-What were you trying to do ended up failed

-There’s a mark though

What had happened in an instant.

The enemy team now had to make a choice.

If they killed the clone created by the skill in their midst, the mark would explode and kill the enemy top laner.

If they left it alone to buy time for the top laner’s health recovery, Seo-jun would wreak havoc through that shadow.

This was Zen’s standard play pattern.

The enemy’s decision was quick.

Wave moved.

Seo-jun readily gave up the clone.

Bang!

The mark exploded, taking the top laner’s last remaining health.

[Sword God –> Kadon]

This had been the plan from the start.

Even for Seo-jun, handling three was too much. It would be nice to have them, but not bad to trade one enemy for them.

“Now, Windstorm Sword-nim. We’ve evened the numbers somewhat, so let’s fight.”

Seo-jun smiled and placed his hand on Windstorm Sword’s shoulder with his ultimate clone.

“Numbers? Ah…”

Windstorm Sword turned his head left and right, then grinned as well.

“That’s right.”

-Damn

-Assassin confirmed

-If it’s Windstorm Sword and the streamer times 2? This is winnable

-What are you saying, they can’t win lol the enemy still has 4 people lol You crazy fanboys

-Not even 3 clones, right?

-Wanna bet points?

And Wave let out a sigh of relief.

“Whew! At least we reduced one enemy clone! It’s 4v3, not 4v4, so let’s fight!”

Even though three would be too much anyway, so it was meaningless.