Chapter 14: Overwhelming Talent

Snowball.

It’s a word that collectively refers to how well you can leverage the advantages gained in the laning phase.

Usually, the higher the tier, the better the team, the better they roll this snowball to realize the game’s victory plan.

And usually, one of the criteria for how well you do this is the flexibility of your macro.

“It’s not just the laning phase, this friend is also good at macro, isn’t she?”

The first game was so crushed from the laning phase that I got a quick surrender from the opponent before I could even enjoy the game properly.

It’s like the opponent who should have been snowballed exploded with a bomb collar before the snowball could even roll.

But the second game, where Challenger promotion was at stake, was very different from the start.

—FiloDog.

—Milky Way’s mid is here?

—It seems like True’s MMR is really high now.

—It’s not unreasonable since she was matched with people who were just before Master promotion since she was in Diamond.

—But of all things, it’s unlucky that she’s up for Challenger promotion.

—Get a clue, FiloDog.

—lol.

—She needs to learn after getting crushed by a pro.

—Reaching Challenger and facing a pro are different things.

FiloDog.

He was a player who played mid in Team Milky Way, one of the rivals of ST in the current LOCK—the Korean 1st division of Lock.

In short, he was a current pro, and it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that he was almost absolute in amateur solo queue.

“True-nim, can you win this?”

“I have to win, no matter what. Don’t you see my hoodie?”

“Ah.”

A hoodie that is only bright red, without any combination of other colors.

It was one of the goods that boasted a disastrous aesthetic sense, to the point where serious discussions were needed among ST fans about whether there were any fans—read as suckers—with a deep fandom who would buy this.

But she was one of the suckers who bought it with her pocket money without hesitation, to the extent that ST was her life itself.

It had gotten worse after her pro gamer days, not better.

Anyway, the rival Milky Way was naturally a target to be defeated for her.

“I’m sorry, but even if you two talk to the viewers this game, please don’t talk to me until it’s over.”

“Of course. I’ll help you concentrate.”

“Win and climb!”

—Intense game declaration.

—Really, just this game.

—Gotta go Challenger.

—Quickly go to FiloDog’s stream and tell him to AFK because a middle school girl needs to be promoted to Challenger.

—lololol.

—He’ll probably play harder with that personality.

—ST fan wearing an ST hoodie and facing an opponent in a promotion match?

—Oh sh*t.

—A guy with an unnecessarily strong competitive spirit…

Anyway, a match where the pride of the teams was unintentionally at stake was established.

Of course, it was obvious that it would be a very one-sided trade where Eunseol had everything to gain and nothing to lose, but when did a pro player only play the games he wanted to?

You also have to know how to accept it.

[35 : 57]

It’s already been over 30 minutes since the ban-pick ended and the game started.

“It’s really tight.”

“Both mids are playing so well. Look at that even now.”

He had seen Eunseol’s gameplay videos, but he had only watched them to confirm the helper suspicion, and he hadn’t really analyzed the game itself, so he was purely admiring her macro now.

“Wow. She slightly slowed down the tempo and waited there, and several people popped out of the bush from the opponent…”

—It’s no wonder True’s score rises faster the higher her tier.

—She’s just a god of macro and prediction.

She avoided the opponent’s tricks, created breathing room for her teammates, and her own growth wasn’t hindered.

It was all said and done when even some teammates who didn’t listen to her for about ten to fifteen minutes right after the game started were now obediently listening to her pings, considering it was solo queue.

—It seems like she’ll be good at main-ordering if she goes pro.

—lol.

—But isn’t this just crushing with mechanics?

—I don’t know lolol.

—She takes one person and survives when three people come to the side to cut her…

—She’s just a beast in mechanics and Zhuge Liang in intelligence.

—Wow, both literary and martial arts.

—And she also gave us beauty.

—Damn, suddenly the world seems so unfair.

—All.

—lololol.

—Still, watching this is healing.

So, while the tight standoff continued.

The opponent carelessly put his body into the Twisted Forest full of bushes between the lanes to check vision.

It was a limitation of solo queue, not a pro game, and at the same time, it was an opportunity for the team Eunseol belonged to.

The support’s item was not sturdy enough to withstand the concentrated damage, as it was late in the game.

—Let’s gooooo!

—Push it through!

—Heave ho!
—Heave ho!
—Heave ho!
—Heave ho!

—Don’t drag the game out, finish it!

—Are we going Challenger??

The opponent tried to defend in their own camp, but due to the lack of vision, they had to watch the buff-giving monster being taken away in an instant and the tower being demolished.

Or just die.

It was practically no exaggeration to say that the game was already won.

“Uh…?”

But at that moment, at the last line of defense, when the opponent’s mid, FiloDog, suddenly initiated, incredibly destructive damage came out.

Even in the situation where they were initiated on, True’s teammates took most of the opposing team with them because they were in an advantageous state, but the fact that it became a 1v1 situation was not pleasant.

“Uh? Uh? It’s not over yet!”

The enhanced minions were continuously reducing the HP of the opponent’s Nexus—if it’s destroyed, you lose—so there was still a possibility of victory in this situation, but it was much lower than before.

Of course, now was not the time to think about that.

‘…First, right.’

She naturally dodged the opponent’s laser skill and hid in the smoke bomb to prevent targeting.

And she immediately cast a skill in front of the opponent who kept moving, shot out a shuriken, and hit the opponent with an enhanced auto-attack.

And at the same time, she turned the cooldown of the shuriken-throwing skill again to do it one more time.

“Got hi……huh?”

Judging by the movement speed, it should have been an unavoidable distance, but for some reason, he dodged that skill.

‘He’s a f*cking active pro, huh?’

He certainly had a move that was different from ordinary people.

So, the opponent who endured a turn and whose skill cooldowns returned spammed skills, but that level couldn’t change the fundamental damage structure difference between a mage champion and a bruiser.

She dodged the stun-laying CC skill with her ultimate, and at the same time, this time she definitely shot the skill at point-blank range.

[True -> FiloDog]

“What the hell is this! I don’t even know when I watch it!”

“The team fight was fun, but what was that last exchange just now?”

The streamers who had been silent began to speak.

It was practically no different from saying that the winner was decided with that battle.

As expected.

In less than ten seconds, the opposing team’s support revived, but the Nexus was already tattered.

So, with a few auto-attacks, the opponent’s Nexus was destroyed.

“I told you. I’d win.”

—Wow.

—Oh, noona keeps her word.

—Different from a nobody, different from a nobody.

—Amazing.

—The teammates threw at each other, but she really caught it well at the end.

—FiloDog immediately cut lolol.

—ST > Milky Way.

—No objections accepted.

—lolololol.

Soon after, the victory screen disappeared, and the brilliant silver emblem symbolizing Grandmaster that appeared on the black screen began to change.

The brilliant silver emblem filled the screen.

“Change the title, please.”

From now on, I’m a Challenger.

MultiNambi and Durang, who are among the most well-known Lock streamers, naturally knew FiloDog’s contact information, who had just lost.

“What? A middle school girl?”

“It’s true.”

“Don’t lie. Where is there such a girl.”

I turned on the video call on my phone at the signal and showed my face to the camera.

“Hello?”

“…It’s true, huh?”

He blinked his eyes several times as if he wanted to organize the confusing situation, and then opened his mouth again.

“What do you think of the Milky Way Academy? I’m really confident in supporting you wholeheartedly.”

That’s real talent.

It was only one game, but he could tell by playing against her directly.

From laning to team fights.

It was definitely not the kind of movement that a simple aspiring pro gamer could do.

Maybe an overwhelming talent gemstone that surpasses him was walking around in front of his eyes.

“No, hyung, why are you suddenly trying to recruit her here?”

“I can.”

“Don’t you see that red ST hoodie?”

“I know. But if she wants to be a pro, she can go to any academy, right?”

At those words, Eunseol’s smiling expression immediately changed.

“Ah, I’m sorry, but I’ve already decided.”

I showed them the announcement on ST’s official SNS that had just been posted.

From the time I came here, the story was already in place.

The team that will be engraved on my uniform is always one.