Chapter 166

-Mods, hurry up and open the door!

-Why can’t the mods open Point betting!

-Why are the Wave Faction guys making a fuss here? LOL

-You guys go to the Wave’s stream instead

-Nah, it’s boring there and we’ll lose anyway

-No way! I can see the future where we win here, eat worms, and destroy the nexus! LOL

Though it was still early, there were many regrets.

It could be because they chose positions wrong, or because there wasn’t enough time yet, or because their teamwork weren’t meshing well.

Whatever the problem was, they needed to overcome it. Otherwise, dangerous situations could arise.

Capsules were an essential expense for Seo-jun, so he was in a different position from others who could do without them.

That’s exactly why he’d naturally make them practice properly.

‘Let’s win first and think later.’

They needed to win the immediate game.

If they win a teamfight here, they could end it right away. Their current position is in the jungle close to the enemy base.

[But Seo-jun-nim, wouldn’t it be better to target them when they’re killing the worm?]

If they fall back a bit more, there was the Canyon’s Unwelcome Guest.

Targeting that timing would have a higher chance of victory.

[If we wait until then, we won’t be able to end the game. It’s better to win here and finish it, no?]

[Hahaha. Yes!]

-So decisive

-Good thing Windstorm Sword is left. If it had been Yoon-ho…

-Even Windstorm Sword can’t win against that, you know?

-I don’t know about that, but if it were Yoon-ho, the streamer wouldn’t have chosen to fight LOL

-For real lol

Originally it’s high risk, high return.

Seo-jun didn’t charge at the approaching enemies.

He planned to counter when they came.

Being outnumbered means the possibility of positioning as desired is low.

Unless there’s a narrow space to lure them into.

That’s why from now on, instead of rushing out carelessly, he needed to stand still and pay attention.

He deflected flying arrows and exchanged glances with Windstorm Sword.

[Just hold one person down.]

[I can definitely do that much.]

More than definitely doing that much, if it’s Windstorm Sword, he could probably finish them off and come help.

If Seo-jun manages to mark the three of them well.

Precisely, Seo-jun and his two clones.

It’s not 5 vs 5, but it’s a teamfight situation.

Since the enemy has three people coming together, it’s impossible to fight separately with the clone.

Arrows came flying along with skills.

Wave was at the front, with the ADC and jungler attacking from behind.

Windstorm Sword naturally took on the support, Mental.

Mental is a support, but since he has CC skills, it’s better for Windstorm Sword to quickly take him down and come help Seo-jun, which they had already agreed on through eye contact.

Skills flew over and the moment kama was swung.

Seo-jun visualized everything in that space in third person and reconstructed it.

The paths of enemy skills and the positions where they needed to be blocked were drawn in his mind.

The important thing is that in the image drawn like this, Seo-jun himself is one but not one.

This way of perceiving space in third person is usually used when coordinating with allies.

‘This could be considered an ally too.’

Actually, the act of perceiving space is done instinctively, so there’s no need to analyze it.

Seo-jun first deflected an arrow that arrived. By slightly turning his body to the side as he deflected it, a small bomb like a grenade passed by his body.

This alone gave Wave the turn. The arrow had departed from the bowstring a bit early but timed to match Wave.

But there’s no need to worry.

Clang!

The moment the bomb passed by, the clone that had been moving in advance half-covered Seo-jun’s left side and blocked the kama.

-Damn

-This guy really has two brains, doesn’t he?

-I believed in the 5252 clone!

“By the way, my colleague has quite a long lifespan.”

“It’s shouldn’t be that long!”

Seo-jun passed by the clone and thrust his sword at Wave. It was an honest attack aimed at his side.

“It seems like it’ll be enough until the fight ends.”

-LOL talking on

-If he loses after saying that, it’ll be total humiliation

-Ugh. Can’t stand it. That guy’s been showing off since earlier, so I’m giving him a 10-minute chat ban. I’ll take full responsibility.

-Joseon’s Assassin! Joseon’s Assassin! Joseon’s Assassin! Joseon’s Assassin! Joseon’s Assassin! Joseon’s Assassin!

-Is this mod quality? Is this mod quality? Is this mod quality?

The weapons of Wave and the clone that had been attached fell away, and an arrow flew from Wave’s right side to provide cover.

Bang!

Also, the small bomb that had bounced off the ground a few times and fallen some distance away exploded from behind.

Even as the arrow flew over, Seo-jun maintained his honest attack, so Wave moved his kama along with his body’s center to the center to block it.

Slightly, but if Seo-jun didn’t give up on his attack, he could block it and let the arrow hit Seo-jun.

Only then did Seo-jun abandon his attack and turn his body to avoid the arrow.

If he had been 0.1 seconds later, the arrow would have hit him directly, it was that close.

‘This is enough.’

That slight change would make it difficult to block the clone’s attack going for his side.

Stab.

The attack succeeded as he thought, and Wave panicked.

Since it was an ultimate clone, a mark appeared as well.

And.

‘Now.’

Seo-jun, who had seized the flow, erased the smile that had been hanging on his lips.

He was already concentrating to the maximum, but now he needed to do more than that.

The task of handling two bodies simultaneously is perhaps something only Seo-jun can do.

Because it requires recognizing the actions of two bodies as one unit.

For example, when swimming, people splash with their legs while pulling water with their arms and turning their heads to breathe in between, all simultaneously.

This is also multitasking. And the reason this becomes easily possible is because it’s repetitive work that you quickly get used to.

Because it’s repetitive work, once you get used to it, your body reflexively moves without thinking, requiring no consciousness.

No, rather, if you become conscious of it, your body can get tangled up.

Then how does Seo-jun move simultaneously?

The answer lies in the fact that for Seo-jun, fighting movements are as unconsciously performable as repetitive work, even if they’re not repetitive work and even if the postures to be taken change rapidly every moment.

Of course, the spatial vision that grasps everything at a glance, quick judgment, and actions close to unconsciousness.

Continuously coordinating these three without rest was an enormously concentration-demanding task even for Seo-jun.

‘Anyway, it’s possible.’

Two shadows began pressuring Wave with perfect coordination.

It wasn’t one blocking while the other attacked.

Only attack, all-out.

Despite the interference from arrows and bombs, Seo-jun prioritized only attack from the moment Wave lost the flow and pressed forward.

It looked like two masters ganging up on one person.

Wave couldn’t properly respond and his health steadily decreased.

-Wow, he’s still dodging or deflecting ranged attacks while doing that lol

-When he really can’t dodge, the clone attacks while taking the hit instead

-Wait, is Tali really unable to land a single hit with 0 stacks?

-He just landed one lmao of course on the clone!

-Ah, the Wave fanatics are banned so it’s peaceful now that Joseon’s Assassin is banning them

When Wave’s health had dropped to about one-third, Seo-jun smiled again.

“Now you can’t act carelessly, can you?”

Seo-jun turned away from Wave with his clone and began heading toward where the enemy ranged heroes were.

* * *

[Windstorm Sword–> Mental]

Windstorm Sword quickly dealt with Mental.

Originally, focusing is important in teamfights.

In constantly changing battles, when you catch one person from the enemy team, everyone concentrates fire to immediately retire them.

But in the recent engagement, there was no need to worry about such things.

More than being outnumbered.

‘The three enemies are too busy handling Seo-jun-nim to have any leisure to target me.’

This was certain.

Windstorm Sword had trusted Seo-jun from before the fight and focused entirely on dealing with Mental without even looking that way.

As a result, Mental died without being able to stall for much time.

Both the skill gap and being a support contributed to this.

Windstorm Sword turned around.

Now he should go help.

But.

“Huh?”

Four people.

No, including Seo-jun’s clone, five people were close together in a tangled mess.

‘A brawl?’

No.

As the fight came into proper view and entered his sight, he could see.

‘What is he doing?’

Seo-jun was persistently targeting one person. While deflecting, dodging, and blocking attacks flying from the side, behind, and front.

And Wave and 1898 were close to Seo-jun. They seemed to be trying to stop him somehow. But their attacks weren’t bold.

“If we don’t catch him now, it’s over!”

“Damn! That clone! We can’t even attack that clone!”

Why would it be over?

Windstorm Sword, who had been watching the fight in a daze, recalled the enemy health before the 2 vs 4, no, 3 vs 4 fight.

‘Ah!’

He realized why the enemies were desperate.

Zen isn’t originally used like this. Absolutely not.

It’s a hero that hits with basic attacks and escapes with skills.

That’s why when it reaches the late game, Zen’s mark damage is high. 70% of damage dealt.

Instead of having no attack skills, if you land many basic attacks through clones, you can expect high additional damage.

And currently, the enemy health was below one-third.

Right now, the bomb mage Seo-jun was targeting would die the moment the mark exploded if he took just one more hit.

‘He’s holding their lives hostage.’

No wonder the attacks seemed desperate yet cautious.

Wave and 1898 were essentially on death row, set to die the moment the clone exploded.

Seo-jun had used this to his advantage.

The previous battle situation became vividly clear.

“For now, we have to guard our base, so even if we die, let’s just pour everything out! We have to do something!”

Since the clone was about to disappear soon, the enemies finally abandoned their lives.

[Execution Scythe]

[Bombbringer’s Lunch Box]

[Great Explosion]

The charged crescent-shaped sword energy, CC skill, and the bomb mage’s ultimate were fired at Seo-jun like a last desperate struggle.

The crescent-shaped sword energy shot at a much faster speed than arrows, and a bomb that would blow up an entire area rose up and fell vertically to explode.

If both hit, you could expect Seo-jun to die.

But when the flames cleared, what was visible was Seo-jun with his sword piercing the bomb mage.

And the disappearing clone.

And Windstorm Sword could tell, since he could distinguish between the clone and Seo-jun, the moment the flames cleared.

‘Their positions switched after the explosion.’

Looking at how his health didn’t decrease that much, did he dodge the Execution Scythe?

The sword energy that spreads across an area at nearly the fastest speed in the League?

He could have switched during the much easier-to-time Great Explosion instead. Troublesome, no, amazing skill.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

At the same time, three marks exploded.

[Sword God–> Wave]

[Sword God–> 1898]

[Sword God–> Fuse]

[Triple Kill!]

With the finishing announcement, Seo-jun turned around.

[Let’s finish this!]

“Now let’s push to the core.”

“Yes! But can we end it? There’s only two of us.”

“The lanes are pushed and there’s three of us, you know?”

“The clone isn’t up right now.”

“The skill cooldown is back up.”

“Ah… I see!”

-He keeps doing that until the end lmao

-Ugh, clone master!

-Mods! Hurry up and unban the Wave fanatics! Give them a proper beating

-Let’s just go now lol

* * *

“What should we do?”

Rain made a gloomy face.

They were gathered in the lobby watching the game come to an end.

“It looks like we’re definitely in the hell group, doesn’t it?”

Two days ago they were unsure, but after seeing today, it became certain.

Their group only had strong teams.

Of course, Rain had the same gloomy expression two days ago as well.

“Are you worried?”

The streamer Caterpillar who was beside her asked.

“Yes.”

“Wouldn’t a triple ban work somehow?”

Using all ban cards to target A-tiers wasn’t strange either.

Of course, even with a triple ban, it was unclear whether they could properly stop him.

“But then it would be too much trouble for the others… Especially since Bull-nim also has to face former Challenger Windstorm Sword-nim, even if it was a few years ago…”

Rain’s head turned toward where streamer Bull was.

Bull was a streamer who had a tough guy concept from the early days, befitting his nickname.

The important thing is that this tough guy concept came from the fact that he couldn’t talk well with women.

Just like the current situation.

“…Worry unnecessary. Can handle.”

It was just that he froze up during an interview at a small tournament and got misunderstood as having a tough guy concept, which then exploded and built his recognition as a streamer, but this fact was a secret he hadn’t told anyone.

The fact that he watched animal documentaries every night after finishing his streams and teared up at the cruelty of the wild was also a secret.

At least when it came to gaming, he didn’t get nervous, which was fortunate.

“That guy’s role-playing again.”

That’s not role-playing.

“Why? I thought it was good.”

Another streamer chimed in from the side.

“But you say you can handle it? As expected, our ace! I’ll really just focus on surviving as much as possible!”

Bull nodded instead of answering.

Speaking here would put too much tension in his vocal cords and might cause his voice to crack.

After briefly clearing his throat, Bull spoke. Shortly.

“Will be manageable if farmed.”

However, there was a condition he omitted besides the requirement that he farmed well.

Namely, that he had to choose a hero in a position that countered the hero Seo-jun selected.

For example, if Seo-jun played an assassin, he had to choose a bruiser that could mark assassins well.

In that case, at least stopping him would be doable, he thought.

Of course, this was just his opinion, and this was entirely said to reassure his teammates.

-Can you really suppress that guy?

-Yeah, Goblin did it too, so let’s go with bruisers or tanks and pressure defense!

-Hehehe, that Wave guy was the weakest among A-tiers

-Four Heavenly Kings meta LOL

Bull knew well that there was nothing good about being scared before even fighting.

The problem was that his teammates didn’t stop there.

“Then Bull-nim! When you do the MVP interview later, make a declaration of war like that!”

Caterpillar said while making excited sounds with his mouth.

“That’s…”

Should he really do that?

‘I was just trying to ease their worries a bit…’

“That’s it!”

“Wow. Our team’s also going that route too?”

“As expected, tough guy!”

“Nice!

Everyone waited with interested eyes for Bull’s mouth to open.

-You should also show and prove since that guy did it too, go Bull!

-Every interview is going to be explosive lmao

-You’re not going to back down from this, right? No way, right?

-Then you’d have to quit streaming lol

Bull finally couldn’t open his mouth and weakly nodded his head.

‘Sigh.’

He had tried to help but ended up getting killed by his teammates unintentionally.

-As expected!

-Don’t curse too much, keep it mild lmao

-Remember the opponent is still a rookie streamer, so don’t draw too much aggro

-??? A rookie streamer who draws aggro that well? LOL

-Just go for it! Just win!

* * *

“Now! We’ve brought today’s MVP, three people! But before that, player Bull! I heard you have something to say to player Seo-jun, is that right?”