Chapter 121

The League is a game where you fight by accepting the memories of heroic figures who existed in the past.

The medium for this is the Hall of Heroes, called the Tower of Memory.

In other words, it’s just the game’s shop.

Here, players can also engage in various events.

Yesterday, Seo-jun had stopped by and bought a hero. Since he had no game points, he paid with cash.

This hero was one that Seo-jun used to enjoy playing in the past.

Standing in the center of the Tower of Memory with his match queued up, Seo-jun briefly turned his eyes to check his streaming status.

[Jin Seo-jun – 22,000 currently watching]

The viewer count was increasing.

Since the default setting when entering a category sorts by highest viewer count, Seo-jun’s broadcast was positioned where you could see it with just a little scrolling.

6th place in The League category—that was the position of his stream.

Being in the upper tier among mid-level streamers, there would definitely be viewers discovering Seo-jun anew because of this.

“What hero am I going to play, you ask? Whether I’m going sword, you ask? You’ll see soon enough, so I’ll refrain from spoilers.”

Seeing is believing, after all.

-Not prepared yet lol

-You’re just going to buy a hero in the pick screen and play it, aren’t you? Lol

-Everyone, what do you like? Tell me quickly! It’s starting soon!

-I can see it, I can see it

They don’t believe me.

“Let me show you what a career-experienced newbie looks like.”

Seo-jun’s confident voice flowed through the broadcast.

But when had Seo-jun ever been different?

Whether playing Assassin’s Dawn or when first playing For the Murim, Seo-jun had always been consistent, so his sincerity never reached them.

-Sure you will

-A newbie who skips experience with raw skill lol

-Real talk lol

-Stop talking nonsense and just show us some newbie-like behavior

Now the viewers didn’t expect Seo-jun to fail at anything even a little bit.

Through long experience, they had learned that with Seo-jun’s level of skill, he’d do well at whatever he tried.

However, the only time Seo-jun showed weakness was precisely when he first started a game, so they were looking forward to this.

What kind of weird trolling would he pull this time!

Just as Seo-jun was looking at the chat window with exasperated eyes, a match was found.

When he clicked accept, his body was transported to the waiting room.

A total of 10 people stood in lines of five, facing each other, and Seo-jun’s opposing side was shrouded in dark shadows.

“I got mid.”

In The League, you can select your preferred position before matchmaking, and these positions follow standard AOS rules.

Let’s explain the five positions the game is divided into.

Top.

Among the lanes divided into upper, middle, and lower, this takes the upper lane and is mainly a tank or fight-initiating position.

Since you spend a lot of time alone, your personality tends to become a bit strange.

Mid.

This position takes the middle lane.

Due to geographical characteristics, it’s easy to move to the lower or upper lanes, so it has great influence in combat within the game.

ADC.

The bottom lane—a ranged damage dealer who goes bot.

Support.

A role that goes to the bottom lane with the ADC to assist them.

Jungle.

The spaces between lanes in the game are called jungle, and this position hunts monsters in this jungle while going to help each lane.

These are the most general role definitions for each position, and variations are possible.

However, that’s only occasionally seen in tournaments when team members discuss strategies in advance.

In randomly matched games like this one, 99% of the time people just don’t care what anyone does in their respective lanes.

Unless you pick an obviously troll character, that is.

And the character Seo-jun chose was one that was halfway in that category.

[The memory of Kael, Agent of Radiance, settles upon you.]

[Greetings. Let us hurry forth to judge evil.]

As soon as Seo-jun finished his selection, a sigh could be heard from beside him.

“Ahh…”

Though he immediately closed his mouth since he didn’t really want to fight, the meaning of that sigh was properly conveyed.

-LOL

-So you bought Kael?

-Pulling out a typical one-trick character on the first game, as expected of the streamer lol

-Since it’s come to this, let’s just play all the bug heroes!

Kael, Agent of Radiance.

In the game’s lore, he’s a judge and prosecutor of a religious order blessed by the god of light.

What you need to be careful of is that his operation difficulty is high.

And Kael’s ultimate skill summons a giant sword falling from the sky to execute enemies.

That’s right.

Kael’s ultimate is cool. It has romance that stimulates men’s fantasies.

High difficulty with flashy plays.

What does that mean?

-The streamer probably isn’t a Kael one-trick though

-No matter how much of a sword god you are, you can’t resist a judgment sword falling from the sky lol

-Who showed the streamer Kael videos yesterday lol

-Thinking of that Kael one-trick bastard I met yesterday makes me angry again

-Suddenly everyone’s suffering from group PTSD lol

A lot of mains get created.

The “one-trick” that gets attached after hero names here refers to people without skill who just choose that hero in any situation or matchup purely for their own enjoyment.

When you get these people as teammates, that match is almost guaranteed to be a loss.

The reason profanity reflexively comes out even while naturally thinking Seo-jun will do well is because they’ve been screwed over by these people so much.

Kael was one of the representative six one-trick characters.

‘The perception is exactly the same as seven years ago.’

Seven years is enough time for massive changes to occur several times over in a game.

Yet they still have the same perception.

‘Kael is a classic.’

A value that doesn’t change easily.

He likes it.

If The League users had heard this, they probably would have collected all sorts of question marks and curses.

As Seo-jun wore a satisfied smile, the selection time ended.

[3]

[2]

[1]

[The game will begin.]

They were summoned to the respawn point called the fountain.

Seo-jun headed to the middle lane—mid lane—corresponding to his position.

He encountered an enemy walking toward him.

-No invasion, no defense lol

-They’re beginners after all

-Doing what you want is right

In the MOBA genre, there are monsters that periodically appear in the three lanes (like the soldiers in For the Murim), called minions.

And invasion refers to everyone rushing into the enemy camp together to fight before these minions appear.

Since this is unranked—the beginner tier—they don’t really pay attention to such elements.

“Hello? Nice username!”

The enemy aimed his crossbow over Seo-jun’s head.

The hero embodying memory on the opposing side was Shan the Tomb Raider. A crossbow-using hero.

“Thank you.”

Seo-jun expressed his gratitude while stepping back slightly.

-Why aren’t you talking casually?

-Are you righteous faction now!

-This polite appearance is very fake

“Come here.”

“I don’t want to.”

“Ah, damn.”

Seo-jun is close-range and the enemy is long-range.

Right now, without minions to serve as shields, it would be difficult for Seo-jun to gain an advantage no matter how well he fought.

[A good choice.]

Kael’s reverent voice echoed in his head.

‘It’s been a while.’

The League had a conversation mode with the hero whose memory you’d accepted.

This conversation mode could increase fun during games through casual chat or enhance immersion.

But its original purpose was always to serve as a guide for beginners, just like now.

[The sword cannot match the crossbow.]

[There are several means to offset this. Radiance’s Blessing is precisely one such method…]

And the current content was definitely dialogue that appeared because Seo-jun hadn’t done the tutorial.

Seo-jun frowned.

Because rather than small game tips, it was explaining his skills from the very beginning.

-This is obviously tutorial content, right?

-This is how the game company thinks of users lol

-No, streamer, you said you looked everything up yesterday!

The viewers’ intuition was sharp as always.

Seo-jun immediately brought up the settings menu and turned off conversation mode.

“Don’t need it.”

The reverent voice that had been earnestly explaining disappeared as if a phone call had been cut off.

-Lol

-Explanation main out!

-Game company: Ah, just listen a bit! lol

[Minions are spawning.]

In one corner of his vision, the map showed minions advancing. They’d arrive soon.

“From now on, get ready to take a one-sided beating.”

The enemy gripped his crossbow with both hands, aimed at Seo-jun, and began taunting.

He looked ready to shoot the moment Seo-jun entered range.

He came up to just in front of the turret’s firing range to taunt Seo-jun.

-Believing in range alone and acting cocky toward the streamer lol

-But close-range is disadvantaged

-You’ll normally get one-sidedly beaten lol

Range can be considered almost absolute in combat.

That’s why game companies make various adjustments to create balance.

By setting ranged characters’ basic attack values and body health and defense lower.

And for close-range characters, they create structures to overcome that range disadvantage.

“Kael has movement speed and invincibility skills, right?”

Seo-jun said quietly.

The minions approached.

And Seo-jun used the minions as shields to close the distance.

The enemy reduced the minions’ health with his crossbow while backing away to maintain a certain distance from Seo-jun.

Seo-jun carefully observed the enemy’s body.

Kael’s passive skill.

[Eyes of Battle]

The god of light is also known as the god of war.

Kael, agent of such a god, received several blessings, one of which was this passive that allowed him to constantly see enemy weak points—Eyes of Battle.

Currently, one spot on the enemy’s body had divine white light forming a small circle and flickering.

As he continued staring at that spot, a humming sound effect played.

“If I stab there, I gain instant movement speed and attack speed.”

Since additional damage would also be dealt, the most important ability for Kael was the skill to target these weak points.

The weak points constantly changed.

Whether you moved far away and approached again, didn’t attack for a certain time.

And finally, when you successfully hit a weak point.

If he succeeded in hitting a weak point, the next weak point would immediately be generated.

That could be a circle like now that needed to be stabbed, or it could be a trajectory that needed to be traced.

After attacking the next weak point, another weak point would appear.

If you successfully attacked weak points a total of 3 times within a certain time period, then you’d accumulate one stack that allowed you to use a skill.

[Radiance’s Blessing]

A skill that temporarily grants immunity to crowd control and invincibility.

The second skill to overcome close-range disadvantage.

“They say Radiance’s Blessing is that good?”

Looking at just the effect without conditions, it’s good enough to be considered one of the best skills.

“That invincibility skill? Sword God, can you even use that? I haven’t seen a single person among all the Kaels I’ve met who could use that skill.”

But the enemy asked. He seemed to think he was talking to him.

-A Kael one-trick saying this lol

-Other people gave this bastard weird confidence lol

-No wonder he gets called a one-trick

-Honestly, the weak point slashing has decent difficulty, but you need to hit 3 randomly generated weak points within a time limit? That’s hell lol

-Plus opponents can also see weak points generated on them, so they can respond lol

-The streamer should be able to use skills easily though

As the viewers said, the reason for Kael’s high difficulty was because of the supposedly randomly generated weak points.

But really, would a game company hate regularity?

Seo-jun had known the answer since seven years ago.

‘Let’s see if it’s changed once.’

Seo-jun immediately burst out from behind the minions.

The crossbow that had been targeting minions swung toward Seo-jun.

“Die!”

Thwack!

The first shot missed as Seo-jun unexpectedly changed direction.

The second arrow grazed him and his health decreased.

As Shan, who fires powerful shots but reloads a bit slowly, was loading his third arrow, the enemy entered the very edge of Seo-jun’s range.

Clang!

A sound like breaking glass rang out.

Seo-jun’s extended sword had struck the white light circle—the weak point.

“Kgh.”

Even before a new weak point could appear, Seo-jun’s sword was already moving, utilizing the increased speed to its fullest.

A moment passed and a new weak point appeared. And Seo-jun continued his movement without stopping.

Clang!

The diagonal line of light that had newly formed shattered.

And at that moment, the enemy had finished loading his third arrow, ready to aim at Seo-jun’s head.

“See you later.”

Since he’d gotten close, the enemy thought he could deal significant damage if he just hit the head.

Clang!

But even during that time, Seo-jun had unhesitatingly attacked up to the third weak point.

‘Blessing.’

Seo-jun’s body, having accumulated stacks, was surrounded by gentle white light.

[Radiance’s Blessing]

Whoosh!

The third arrow flew precisely toward Seo-jun’s head.

However, instead of piercing Seo-jun, it bounced off.

“What?”

The enemy who had fired the arrow widened his eyes.

The viewers were equally surprised.

-???

-What the hell

-Damn, that was fast

-Did he memorize the weak points???

-If weak points could be memorized, any dog or cow would play Kael

-No seriously, what was that?? Lol

The reason was all too simple.

It was because the time from when Seo-jun hit the first weak point until he used the skill was only 2 seconds.

“Now you’ve seen it, right? Kael’s skill.”

“Yes… yes?”

“I’ll show you plenty more from now on.”