Chapter 7: Artisan Invitation Stone (2)

[Byeolha]

[Let’s go to Challenger, let’s go, let’s go]

[Byeolha]

[Is today’s Master Invitation?]

[Who’s the guest today?]

As the broadcast started, numerous chats covered the sub-monitor.

‘The setup is the same as before.’

I felt familiar because I had been here a few times in my past life.

I waited outside the camera for a while.

“Now, today’s guest is! The mysterious solo queue smasher who sent Han Byeo-ri to Grandmaster, Para!”

I entered the room at Han Byeo-ri’s cue and sat next to her.

As soon as I appeared, the chat started to burn at a level incomparable to just before.

[???]

[Is she really a middle school girl? Is she really a middle school girl? Is she really a middle school girl?]

[????????]

[?????]

“Why are the viewers like this today, I’ll switch to subscriber-only chat for a moment.”

Even Han Byeo-ri couldn’t handle that much firepower, so she quickly changed the setting to subscriber-only chat.

“Now, can you introduce yourself?”

As someone who knows her true self, this formal appearance was funny to me.

“Hello. My name is Yoon Seo-ha, I’m 15 years old. Ah, and I’m a girl.”

[Seo-ha]

[15 years old]

[What LOL Is it the first day of school?]

[My heart, my heart, my heart]

“Okay, shall we solve the question that many people are curious about?”

Han Byeo-ri turned on the Riot client from the desktop and stepped aside.

There was only one thing I had to do.

Log in with the account I’m currently using and display the screen showing the tier.

[???]

[?]

[She’s 800 points in Challenger?]

[Rank 200]

[Yeah, it’s just boosting~ Praising her for getting carried by the Queen Bee]

[If it was boosting or carrying, would she be here LOL]

[Just LOL LOL]

“Um… your tier went up in the meantime?”

“I got lucky.”

When I smiled and met her eyes, she looked flustered.

I deliberately kept quiet because I was curious about this reaction, and it was a satisfactory response.

“Then, shall we start with a simple solo queue for now?”

“Okay.”

I went back to the lobby and pressed the button for solo/duo queue.

“What champion are you thinking of playing?”

“I’ll choose based on the overall composition.”

After waiting for about 10 minutes, the opponent’s mid laner picked Ahri in the pick screen.

And the opponent’s jungler was Vi.

Ahri Vi, a standard combination that often appears in tournaments.

It’s a combination that can put in powerful CC by covering Vi’s chronic problem of ‘going in alone’ with Ahri’s ultimate.

“Hmm…”

I fiddled with the mouse and thought.

Should I pick a champion that can put pressure on 1v1, or should I match the team composition?

[The Black Rose will bloom again.]

Our team’s jungler was also Lee Sin, so I chose LeBlanc, thinking of just overpowering the opponent in the mid-jungle fight.

[LeBlanc]

[Looking at her match history, she hasn’t played her once?]

[???]

“Um… I see a strange chat, you haven’t played LeBlanc for the first time, have you…?”

Where did the honorifics she used until just now go? Han Byeo-ri called me in the tone she usually uses on stream.

Yeah, it’s true that I haven’t played LeBlanc with this account.

“It’s my first time. But I’m good at LeBlanc.”

[I’m good (first time)]

[A middle school girl picking whatever she wants in Challenger… A middle school girl picking whatever she wants in Challenger…]

The game started with the confidently chosen LeBlanc.

****

TOP: K’Sante

JG: Lee Sin

MID: LeBlanc

AD: Kai’Sa

SUP: Lulu

VS

TOP: Nasus

JG: Vi

MID: Ahri

AD: Ezreal

SUP: Renata

‘I’m going crazy.’

An attitude that doesn’t match her age, upright eyes, and a confident appearance.

The moment Han Byeo-ri saw Yoon Seo-ha, she knew at once that she was the one she had duoed with.

But what about the viewers?

They know that Yoon Seo-ha is pretty, but seeing her in person and seeing her on screen are different.

‘What if we lose because of the mid difference.’

It was terrifying just to imagine.

There will probably be all sorts of controversies, such as boosting, carrying, and Queen Bee.

‘That’s why I thought it would be good if she played her main champions.’

The champions Yoon Seo-ha mainly played were Yone and Akali.

I had never seen LeBlanc even when we were duoing.

[Is that Rave real?]

[It’s real?]

[World’s semifinals vs. middle school girl Challenger]

In the meantime, the opponent’s mid laner’s nickname was Rave.

One of the five mid laners representing the LCK (Korean League).

Although he lost to a Chinese team after a fierce battle, he was a skilled mid laner.

‘It’s before the spring season starts.’

This was the time when all leagues and international matches were over.

It was the time when pros who had nothing to do were playing solo queue.

And of course, Challenger, Yoon Seo-ha’s tier, was a place where pro players often appeared.

‘If it’s Rave… no way.’

When I turned my gaze to the chat, the thing I was worried about was happening.

[Rave and King are duoing?]

[It’s a super tryhard duo LOL It’s a super tryhard duo LOL It’s a super tryhard duo LOL]

[It’s going to be too cruel]

[King is streaming now?]

King, a jungler belonging to the same team as Rave.

His characteristic in solo queue was that he only ganked mid whenever he duoed with Rave.

Jungle monsters? He doesn’t take them.

Level? He doesn’t care if it’s low.

It’s a simple strategy to destroy the opponent’s mid and win by feeding Rave.

But with this strategy, they were ranked 1st and 2nd in Challenger, and they even used it in tournaments sometimes.

‘I heard ImSorry got 20 deaths and got recorded…’

All Han Byeo-ri could do was pray that they would gank other lanes this game.

“Huh…?”

[What was that dribble just now?]

[Wow, if she hits all her skills, there’s no way she can lose the mid-jungle fight]

[Using W to pull Vi’s ultimate timing and turning it around LOL]

[This is the price for ganking a middle school girl This is the price for ganking a middle school girl This is the price for ganking a middle school girl]

From the simple laning phase to small skirmishes and teamfights.

Yoon Seo-ha overwhelmed the opponent’s mid laner, Rave, so much that he couldn’t even breathe.

‘…She’s really an unbelievable monster.’

****

“They say the opponent’s mid is a middle school student?”

“Middle school? Is she a trainee? Or an aspiring pro?”

“They say she’s a girl.”

“What nonsense are you talking about.”

Rave, Kim Hyun-sung, thought that K1ng, Seo Ha-bin, who had been the pillar of the team for five years, had finally gone senile.

He wasn’t at the top of the solo queue rankings because he was taking a leisurely vacation after returning to Korea.

Nevertheless, this was Challenger. Even though solo queue and tournaments are different, it was a place where talented geniuses gathered.

A middle school student in that tier? And a girl?

It was nonsense.

“Look at this.”

Seo Ha-bin, who was duoing right next to him, sent a link through private chat.

There.

[Me? Boyfriend? I don’t have one. Reason… there’s no particular reason.]

He knew Han Byeo-ri because he sometimes watched her stream.

The problem was the girl sitting next to her.

[Height? I’m about 160 now?]

He couldn’t tell exactly because her lower face was covered with a mask, but judging from her long eyelashes and the area around her eyes, she was a considerable beauty.

“This kid… is Para? This person?”

“Yeah. Didn’t you see the community blow up last time?”

“We got knocked out in the semifinals and I haven’t checked since.”

“That’s probably because it’s your fault.”

“What.”

Kim Hyun-sung naturally ignored Seo Ha-bin’s habitual criticism and watched the stream again.

“Hey.”

“Why.”

“Is it really this person?”

“How many times do I have to tell you? Yes. I watched the whole stream that day.”

“That’s amazing.”

When he checked her match history, it seemed that she had been smurfing in the lower Challenger and Grandmaster tiers.

“You know, right?”

“We only go mid.”

If she was really a new talent, she needed a little hardship.

“Did you really react to that?”

This was already the second time.

It wasn’t just a simple Charm, it was used in conjunction with Flash, but she dodged it by slightly twisting her gaze.

No matter how you look at it, that’s a hack user.

No one in this year’s World Championship winning team can do that.

“She’s streaming from a streamer’s house, what hacks. If Han Byeo-ri used hacks, she would have gone to Grandmaster a long time ago, not play 400 games with Yetis.”

“You reacted to her ultimate just now too.”

“Her mechanics are real. Still.”

The current game time was 25 minutes, with the ADC in mid and each laner farming in the side lanes.

“Try to bait her.”

The opponent’s LeBlanc’s KDA was 4/1/3, and Kim Hyun-sung’s Ahri was 0/2/1.

Thinking of showing her the difference between solo queue and team play, he waited in the bottom bush for 30 seconds.

What came after waiting was not LeBlanc, but K’Sante.

“We can’t kill that with just us.”

At that moment when he chose to retreat.

[The enemy team has slain Baron Nashor!]

He heard a notification that the enemy team had taken Baron.

It was a more decisive attempt than the teams that do the so-called Baron circus.

It was a try that could have been a disaster if they were caught since the top and bot lanes were even.

It was his fault for calling the support to the bot lane for a bait play when Baron was up.

“This is gone.”

As soon as Kim Hyun-sung spoke, a surrender vote came up.

[YesYesYesYesNo]

Four out of five people voted yes, and the defeat screen appeared in red letters.

And the result screen followed.

Kim Hyun-sung found himself sending a friend request to the opponent’s mid laner without realizing it.