Chapter 10: This guy is a helper.

Now I’m completely used to the routine.

Wake up in the morning, go to school, and right after, head straight to the gym for an hour and a half of exercise to build basic physical strength. And when I get home, I press the computer power button without hesitation.

My current tier is at the beginning of Master.

With average team luck, I’ll probably be able to escape Master and set foot in Grandmaster within this week.

The essence of ranked games is that those who are going to climb will climb, but how long it takes is inevitably influenced by team luck to some extent, so there’s a certain amount of luck involved.

In the first place, that’s the driving force that makes users overly immersed in the game called Lock.

From the moment you can say that it wasn’t solely your fault, but because of the mistakes or skills of your teammates that you lost, you become lenient with yourself and have an indulgence for mistakes.

So, with the thought that you would win if only your teammates were normal, even if you lose, you naturally shout for the next game while angry.

Because you think you’ll win if only your teammates are normal.

It’s the typical type who can’t think about their own skills and acts up.

It can be said that those who shout absurd things like “If only I had done this, I would have been Master,” or “If only I had done that, I would have been Challenger,” belong to this.

Of course, no matter how much you say it with your mouth, your tier won’t change.

“Hmm. Hmm. Well, are you all here?”

—True Hi.

—Let’s go!

—Hi.

—Doesn’t this friend go to cram school?

—Lock is life, what cram school…

“It’s not bad to go to cram school, but it’s a waste for me.”

Regardless of my academic ability, I was going to enter the academy and debut as a pro before high school anyway, so solving problems at a desk was a waste of time and money.

Of course, there will come a time when I will continue my studies, but that was enough to think about at that time, like in my previous life.

—Is college important when you can already make a living just by streaming?

—The problem is that if other middle schoolers follow this, it’s f*cked up.

—lol.

—It’s a possible remark because her average viewership is already 1000.

—Her average viewership is crazy.

—How is a middle schooler’s stream 1000 people?

— It hasn’t even been a month since she started Lock streaming.

—True Kyaaak.

—Scary.

—How far will this middle schooler grow?

—I think it’s just right now.

—What?

I lightly ignored the chaotic chat window and logged into Lock.

—Do you have to buy champions with money?

I caught a newbie’s question in that chaos.

Sometimes, when I select necessary chats like this, I feel like I’m training my concentration.

“First of all, all champions can be used for free, and you buy skins with money.”

Even right now, the number of champions is almost over 160, so which newbie would buy them all with full payment and start the game?

I heard that during the beta test period, there was a limit on champions and a forced tutorial with only those champions, but the game company immediately withdrew that system due to fierce negative evaluation, and I think it was the right choice.

What game in the world makes newbies unable to even play the champions they want and only makes them do tutorials?

“So if you’re a newbie who just wants to take a look, you don’t have to spend money.”

—Clean explanation is True level.

—Ah lol, don’t spend money and donate to me lol.

—It’s true that True doesn’t get anything even if you buy skins.

—lol.

—Money will come in if her name-branded LOC World Cup skin comes out.

—lolololol.

—How can she sell it if she doesn’t have her own skin?

—How can she have a skin if she hasn’t won?

—She’s a middle schooler, so it might be possible someday.

—There’s no such thing.

—Solo queue and team games are different.

—If she wins, I’ll definitely buy the skin.

It’s a pity that I can’t even say that I have three skins with my name engraved on them.

‘…Come to think of it.’

Let alone my prestige skin, even the champion to put it on hasn’t even appeared in the game yet.

At most, it was mentioned once or twice in the story.

I think it came out next season.

“Oh, really.”

—???

—Why the sudden outburst?

—I don’t know, but I’m sorry, please just spare me from the lawsuit.

“No, that’s not it, it’s because there’s a champion I want to play but I can’t.”

—You don’t have the skin, right?

—Roughly meaning donate.

—lololol.

—I got it, I’ll give you pocket money from my wallet.

—Lock level.

“No, I can’t buy it with money. It hasn’t been released yet.”

—? lol.

—Imaginary champion.

—It surpasses the fear that a hunter can come from either side of the Twisted Forest in the mid lane.

—Damn lol.

—No matter how I think about it, she’s not normal either.

—Actually, the talent was already there when she cursed…

—lololol.

—Where is there a normal person among those who play Lock?

— All.

—G.G. if you’ve imagined a super elementary school champion, True.

—Is it a rainbow reflection champion?

—Damn, if that kind of f*cking thing comes out, the update day is the service end day.

—lol.

I express my regret that a champion with that childish reflection skill will someday come out, and at the same time, I send moderate comfort in advance that Lock will not be ruined for a while even after that comes out.

“Well, now I’ll spin the roulette.”

No matter how much my priority is rank climbing, from the moment I turn on the stream, I have to throw something for the viewers to enjoy to some extent.

So I made the roulette.

The first game after starting the stream is unconditionally decided by one of the champions whose names are written on that roulette.

Now that I’ve already bought the latest VR device, actions such as adjusting the area ratio of the roulette to pick the champion I want with donations are prohibited, and just anyone who pays 1,000 won can spin the roulette, which already has a fixed list.

‘Still, I have to go with a champion that can be used in mid.’

It’s inevitable that the fundamentals are flawed, or choosing a support or a champion specialized in one is a loss for other teammates playing ranked games.

Especially since I’m not in any other position, but a mid laner.

The royal family needs to fulfill its obligations.

—Thump. Thump. Thump.

While I was thinking about this and that, the roulette was already spinning.

The roulette, which stopped before long, pointed to one of the mid mage champions with clear strengths and weaknesses.

—lololol.

—It’s a non-mobile champ.

—She has to be…countered, right?

Her attack skill range is quite long, and she has a semi-global ultimate, so kill catching is not bad.

However, the problem was that the current meta itself was not able to show its strength because all kinds of assassins were running rampant.

“Well, at least it’s fortunate that it’s not something strange like last time.”

I haven’t put in any strange champions since I accidentally picked a utility-only champion and lost when I first started this roulette, but it’s a streaming anecdote that always comes to mind.

“I’m grateful for that level.”

It’s not even for one person and it’s not targeted, but it has a CC skill—a skill that stuns the opponent.

“Then, shall we start now?”

I caught the match as it was, and the accept button popped up before long.

—Grandmaster let’s go.

—Even if we win all today with 15-minute surrenders, we won’t be able to go because of the physical score lol.

—Then let’s at least set up a launch pad to escape Master.

It was almost impossible for the champion from the roulette to be banned, and it was no different today, so I picked him without much difficulty.

The familiar announcement sound, and the game began.

The champion I’ll be facing is one of the assassins who are going crazy these days.

My side has a longer skill range, so-called arms, so I can harass in the laning phase itself, but from the moment the opponent learns all three normal skills, you should die the moment you try to pressure the opponent by going out of our camp.

Especially when both sides have some items, a squishy mage has no lane initiative the moment he gets hit by a shuriken.

To summarize, it’s a matchup that’s theoretically advantageous, but actually ends the moment you make one mistake.

Of course, the opponent has many more opportunities than me.

It’s no wonder that these kinds of champions are prevalent these days.

Well, this is only in solo queue.

The story is different in the pro scene, where theory can be implemented to the extreme and with high probability.

And I was someone who had lived virtually my entire life in such a place.

“Maybe the opponent hasn’t played an assassin before?”

Even after getting two solo kills, the opponent immediately made his last gamble as soon as he reached level 6 and could use his ultimate, but it was no use.

First, dodge the first shuriken with stop moving, and then use the cc skill to predict where the opponent who disappeared with the ultimate will appear.

Since it was barely within the range of the first turret, the opponent’s HP quickly decreased while stunned.

Right after that, I pulled back diagonally and dodged the shurikens that came several times as an auxiliary effect of the opponent’s ultimate.

Right after that, I finished off the opponent who fell back due to lack of HP with my global ultimate.

“Laning phase is over.”

—That’s a f*cking bug.

—Did you dodge all of that?

—If you really dodge everything and hit everything, you win lolol.

—Maybe the real bug is our hands?

—lol.

—What’s with that movement…

—If there was no hand cam, it would have been called a helper.

—Damn, I can’t do that movement even with VR.

—Isn’t that dodging by prediction rather than dodging by movement?

—It’s almost precognition.

—I understand what it means to be in the palm of Buddha’s hand.

So the game that was crushed from the beginning was won without any problems.

However.

The only problem is—

“What’s with that person’s movement…wow…it’s unbelievable?”

The usual ranked game video, which went without any problems on my stream, became a hot topic elsewhere.

“I think that person is definitely a helper. You should report them.”

So I was framed.