Chapter 33: Thrown Into the Deep End.

If a terrorist is wearing a bomb vest, trusting the explosives disposal unit that arrived at the scene rather than touching here and there to try to dismantle the bomb yourself is the way to increase the probability of survival.

If you don’t know what to do, generally not touching anything is the choice that can lead to the best results.

I had been faithfully following that general rule since joining the call room where the four members of Team Crinex were in.

No one expects much broadcasting-wise from a YouTube editor who was suddenly dragged as a scrim substitute.

There was not a single reason for me to do something first. Now was the moment I had to stay still the most in my life.

As I maintained that silence, the four broadcasters began to ask me about this and that as if they were trying to erase the awkwardness I was emitting.

In Crinex’s case, he organized the titles.

“How should… we call Sol-nim?”

“Ah, yes! You can just call me anything. In-game, you can just call me Jungle and I’ll understand…!”

EunSiyu, who was the origin of creating this situation, was sending me pats on the back that didn’t reach me much, as if she felt something from my voice.

“Sola. You can talk to me as comfortably as usual. And all of our team members speak comfortably to each other anyway once the game starts.”

At the same time, she seemed to be trying to induce others to call me Sol instead of the uncomfortable Soleun as the title they call me by.

“Yeah. Be comfortable with me too, Master!”

Hayan added one word that was not very helpful to EunSiyu’s words.

“Um… Then, Sol-nim. Can I ask you a few things related to the game?”

The next person to talk to me was the Challenger Top, Younggiron, of EunSiyu’s team.

“If you have any preferred champions, can you tell us roughly? There’s not much time left until the start, but I think it would be better to turn the ban pick a little to match Sol-nim anyway.”

“I can handle almost all jungle champs except for the very unpopular ones.

The ones I’ve been playing the most in rank recently are Nidalee and Kindred… I think I can match the other champs that Hyungeuk-nim used too.

Because the champ pool I use in the jungle is similar.”

“Then……”

The conversation about the game between Younggiron and me continued, and it was a few minutes before the scrim was scheduled to start that Younggiron finished grasping the jungler who had come in as a substitute.

“Okay, then shall we slowly enter the room now?”

At that time, team leader Crinex suggested that we enter the private room that had been created for the game that would be starting soon.

I’m almost trembling, but so far, no situation has come that is too much for me or anything.

Since I started to have my voice on the broadcast, most of the contents I had said until just now were stories about the game and were directed at one person named Younggiron.

I had turned off the broadcasts and chat windows of other people early on, so they are not even visible on my monitor screen.

Therefore, I didn’t really feel that I was on the broadcast right now.

I knew it, but it didn’t feel real.

Maybe I was just dragged by two friends who I know well to a match with other friends that I roughly know the names of but it was the first time I was talking with, because there weren’t enough people, and it just happened to be a match.

There are tens of thousands of spectators, but since it’s not displayed anywhere, if I just take it out of my mind, it’s also just a match.

A match where I just have to faithfully do the work that I’m worth with my tier, without thinking about anything else.

But since it’s not just close friends of the same age, but also elders mixed in, I have to speak quietly, less, and respectfully.

I was deceiving myself like that.

“Oh, there are two Siyus? EunSiyuSieun and EunSiyu.”

I barely endured the crisis where that mind control was about to be broken right away by the voice of Crinex reading the name of my nickname, which had quietly accepted the invitation sent by my employer-nim and entered the private room.

Very fortunately, a conversation on the topic of “How is the editor’s nickname EunSiyu?” did not continue on the broadcast for now.

It was thanks to the fact that the first game started before that.

In the case of Legacy of Legend, the way each player selects a champion in the tournament rules is quite complicated.

It is for the fairness between the two camps that are divided.

The process of banning and picking champions, called the ban pick, becomes really, really complicated when you go to pro-level games in terms of its strategic battle.

The ban pick in the LoL-TCup scrim was not that complicated, but it was a process that required much more thought than what comes out in general solo rank.

You have to think about the proficiency of each team member with each champion, you have to think about the synergy with the champion that the opposing team picked, and you have to take care of the team’s composition as well.

I was fitting the team’s pick while discussing with my Challenger top friend Younggiron and my close friend Yu Sieun, who had called me to this match.

I had a rough amount of information because there were friends that I had often seen playing in the opposing team, although I hadn’t talked with them, and I could lead an effective discussion.

Like that, the ban pick process continued, and I was granted the right to select the jungle champion I would play with after all the champions of the opposing team had come out.

It was a situation called the last pick.

The reason why I call it a right is because I can determine the champion I will play by considering the list of champions that have already been selected.

I spoke the name of one champion that came to my mind after looking at the champion composition of the opposing team and our team.

“I think it’d be good to give me Poppy.”

In a match with friends, it is generally good for high-tier players like me to pick champions that have a high high-point or are easy to create variables.

And such champions are generally of the kind that are in charge of dealing damage.

I, who had often been called to matches in my old school days, knew that fact well.

But Poppy is not a champion who deals damage.

Rather, she is closer to a tank-type champion who receives the opposing team’s damage from the front and opens the fight first from the front.

It seems like it’s the opposite of the lessons I’ve learned through experience, but the reason for this pick now was not because I had lost the memories of the matches I had in school days.

It falls under the special clause now.

There are not many cases, but there are times when a few friends with quite a high tier are involved in the match.

If there are friends on the team who possess basic finger movement abilities and can extract value above the tier when the resources are poured into them and information on what needs to be done is entered, it’s not bad to also have a pick that can effectively spin the game since I’m in the jungler position.

This pick called Poppy is also a champion that can do various things like a thug in the early stages, unlike the general perception.

The game started.

I instructed Hayan to place a vision stone in the opponent’s upper jungle in advance, and then protected the back so that the process would go smoothly.

After that, I returned to the base again and moved to the bottom jungle.

I started jungling by catching a few strange-looking bird monsters without receiving the leash from the bottom duo.

While doing that, I was watching how the game was going while keeping my eyes on the mini-map.

I could see the location of the opposing team’s Gold jungler friend based on the information that the vision stone in the upper jungle, which had just been turned off, had brought.

He started jungling with the same camp as me.

The subsequent route is also naturally drawn. It’s either coming into our jungle or ganking the top lane.

I was going to tell them, but I turned my thoughts elsewhere, thinking that the Challenger friend on the team would already be doing it on their own.

I grabbed all the mobs that existed in the lower jungle of our team and then moved to the opposing team’s jungle as it was.

The appearance of the Gold jungler friend, who had disappeared, appeared on the mini-map when I had just installed the vision stone to prevent the masterpiece of twisting the route and was starting to catch the Blue monster.

Let’s synthesize the situation.

The opposing team’s jungler appeared in the top lane, Biyego.

I’m in the opposing team’s Blue jungle.

Our team’s Challenger friend, who had reached level 3 before the opposing Top laner Meokai, is enduring on his own.

Our team’s AD Carry was a champion with long arms, and the sensible Master 300-point AD Carry EunSiyu was trying to put the cannon wave into the opposing team’s turret by using that synergy.

I moved the mouse without even going through the process that could be called a judgment.

I fled from the Blue monster, who had been hit once by my champion’s hammer, as it was and headed to the opposing team’s bottom 1st turret.

While saying a sentence that could be mistaken in solo rank, but can accurately convey the meaning without confusion in the match.

“I’m going to gank bot.”