Chapter 131 - Chapter 131

Chapter 131

【Read only at hivetoons.org】

-Did he predict it?

-His form is insane from the start.

-Wasn't this guy supposed to get weaker without a sword?

-Wasn't the sword his main body?

-They're talking bullshit lololololol

Thud.

Spoon's skill, having taken a hit to the body, was interrupted, and Seo-jun moved backward while reaching out his hand.

A basic attack.

If mixed in here and there during battle to accumulate damage, it had an influence that could not be ignored.

Thud!

Seo-jun quietly followed the gaze of Spoon, who was hit by the basic attack.

'He seems to be checking.'

Spoon's skill was interrupted right after being hit by the chain, but he could have at least landed a basic attack.

However, he did not.

It was not that he had made a mistake out of panic.

No matter how absurd the situation was, one could not reach Challenger if they could not maintain their composure.

Instead of landing a basic attack on Seo-jun, Spoon had checked where Seo-jun's other chain was headed, thinking of the skill that would soon disappear.

Without moving from his spot, Spoon raised his gun and spoke.

"The chains attacked left and right respectively. I was beautifully caught by the left one."

An effect appeared where the gun glowed and magic power concentrated.

Bang! Bang!

Spoon pulled the trigger. The bullets were fired in a straight line toward Seo-jun.

But Seo-jun stood still without even blinking.

The bullets dissipated and disappeared right in front of Seo-jun's nose.

'He already figured out Luke's basic attack range.'

Currently, Seo-jun and Spoon were in the middle of sizing each other up.

This was the most basic aspect of combat, and those who had built outstanding skills never neglected this basic.

"Firing both to hit at least one is better than a 50% gamble."

"Hmm. I think you're the only one who would call that a 50% gamble, Seo-jun."

The locations Spoon could move to were not limited.

He was free, and out of numerous options, he had simply chosen the one path of approaching Seo-jun diagonally.

Yet, a chain had flown toward that position as if waiting for him, and it was simply left or right?

-Choosing left or right makes it 50%, holy crap lolololol I wish I was that simple-minded.

-For the streamer, this is correct!

-Looking at this, it seems he's going to be damn good at Eric, too.

-Seriously, with this trash champ.

-His pick rate is at the bottom, after all.

Spoon's wariness rose even further, and Seo-jun calmly summoned the next magic circle behind him again.

***

The short trade, which was one-sided for Seo-jun and quite humiliating for Spoon, came to an end.

The two began to adjust their distance again, fiercely looking for angles to attack each other.

A magic circle could be summoned within a 2-meter radius of the caster.

And since the chain also had a range, summoning it behind was an action that incurred a loss of up to 4 meters in range.

However, Seo-jun continued to summon it behind him every time he used the Chains of Destruction.

Actually, Seo-jun only did it because the chain's range was plenty long enough to reach the target enemy even if summoned behind, but.

'Is there some intention behind this?'

Spoon was guarding against and interpreting every single gesture of Seo-jun's.

From the magic circle floating in the air, a chain stretched straight out toward a minion.

Spoon also shot a gun at a minion whose health was almost depleted.

Bang! Bang!

Even while doing so, he did not forget to take up positions and adjust the distance.

'Is it an opening?'

Swish!

He turned the muzzle that was aiming at the minion and pulled the trigger.

Bang! Bang!

Off-beat, the bullets were fired with a one-second time difference, but as Seo-jun took a step back, the magic bullets dissipated in front of Seo-jun's eyes once again.

He did not fall for it.

"You really adjust your distance well. Since you have a knack for this, is it because you usually run away a lot?"

"That's not something an AD Carry user should say."

Seo-jun laughed and let the provocation slide.

-Fact) Strictly speaking, both of them are AD Carries right now.

-The two of them are roasting themselves lol.

-Both their words and distance control are intense.

-The streamer running away? lololololololololol

-If he met a robber, he'd probably say, 'Perfect timing,' and rob them instead?

-Lol, he'd probably love it. Saying he can rob them legally.

-It's self-defense!

Thud!

The chain was fired from the magic circle in the air that reached three seconds.

Spoon was moving without rest, and on top of that, he was focusing on every action Seo-jun performed.

Moving to the left to dodge the skill was not that difficult of a task.

The chain hit the ranged minion behind him.

"You shouldn't keep hitting the minions."

The minion wave consisted of three melee and three ranged.

"Why?"

"Well, obviously... Never mind."

Spoon held his tongue.

Could even that appearance be an intentional setup?

Each team's minions marched in a single file along the path from the Nexus, and upon meeting the enemy, they formed a battle formation.

The three melee minions tanked in the front. And the three ranged minions attacked from afar the melee minions fighting in the front.

The stats of each team's minions were identical.

Therefore, depending on the heroes' intervention, the position where the minions of both teams met and fought was adjusted.

Closer to the turret, further from the turret. Or in the middle, exactly like their initial state.

The method was simple.

If one hit the minions less than the opponent did, the allied minions died faster.

Then, the enemy minions, who had cleared the opposing ones, advanced and fought upon meeting the new minion wave.

At this time, the position drew closer to the allied turret, which was expressed as pulling the lane.

If one hit them more than the opponent did, the allied minions advanced.

This was expressed as pushing the lane, and the act of pushing and pulling the lane advantageously according to the situation was none other than lane management.

The core of lane management was the opponent.

Yet, Seo-jun was not even paying attention to Spoon right now and was simply attacking the minions whenever he had a spare moment.

He was pushing the lane recklessly.

However, Spoon was not fooled by such an appearance.

'There is definitely an intention behind this.'

The reason he had been hit by the chain in the beginning.

It was because Seo-jun had acted clumsy and pretended not to know his skills to catch him off guard.

Thus, Seo-jun's current reckless, newbie-like behavior also clearly had some hidden intention.

'Pushing the lane is indeed good in most situations.'

As much as one cleared the minions quickly, they could unilaterally initiate trades when the opponent attacked minions, or join first when a fight broke out nearby.

However, if it were always advantageous, everyone would have tried to push the lane.

The current layout of the fight was a state where Seo-jun held the initiative by controlling the distance, but as Spoon gritted his teeth to dodge, Seo-jun lacked the closing power to make a kill.

And although Spoon was dragged around by Seo-jun, since he had a mobility skill, he possessed the closing power to narrow the distance, trade hits, and force a fight where one of them would die.

"Seo-jun, you know that keeping this layout is advantageous for you, right?"

Bang! Bang!

A bullet was lodged between a minion's eyes.

"Hmm, since I haven't been hit even once by you, Spoon, it must be advantageous, right?"

Seo-jun also laughed and fired basic attacks to push the lane.

A vein popped on Spoon's forehead.

However, he calmed down.

He was a newbie who was skilled enough to not get hit even once through distance control against a Challenger AD Carry.

If he got agitated by the strange remarks, he would be the one to lose.

"Shall I hit you once right now?"

"Then I will hit you with my skill."

"Oh dear. I'll have to pray that it keeps going like this."

It was advantageous for Seo-jun to keep this layout going, and Spoon needed to turn it around.

'But what if he pushes the lane?'

Pushing the lane meant getting further away from one's own turret.

If Spoon used his skills to initiate a fight when they were close to the allied turret, Seo-jun could just move a little and enter the bunker called the turret.

After that, he could just adjust the distance again and happily fling basic attacks or chains.

But what if the lane was pushed, getting further from the turret, and he initiated a fight then?

It was advantageous for him.

The problem was, he had also realized that Seo-jun was not the kind of person to do something disadvantageous on purpose.

So, although he wanted to choose maintaining the status quo.

'It can't be helped. Let's focus more and do it.'

Spoon found it hard to just let this pass.

-What are you doing? Getting destroyed by a newbie.

-He lost all initiative lol.

-If you get destroyed by distance control, why play AD Carry?

-This is a Challenger AD Carry?

He was also a streamer.

And before being a streamer, he was a Challenger.

'Whatever he's thinking, I will crush him with mechanics.'

Spoon waited for the lane to be pulled.

***

-Streamer, pushing the lane here isn't going to be good.

-Leave him be, he must have his own thoughts.

-Streamer, just take last hits or go fifty-fifty, it doesn't matter anyway since you have the range advantage.

-No backseating.

-It's not like you're going to roam anyway.

-Sigh. These Teusu and their backseating, seriously.

Seo-jun, who was hitting the minions whenever there was a gap while adjusting the distance, looked at the chat window and thought.

"Uh? Why is pushing the lane bad?"

Although there were viewers who told others not to backseat, Seo-jun was not the type to particularly stop the backseating.

Rather, he welcomed it.

"Hmm."

"May I tell you?"

"Yes, please tell me."

The lane was pushed.

And Spoon, who had been waiting for this moment, used a skill.

[Quick Shot]

Spoon kicked off the ground and dashed at a fast speed.

"Because they can approach and initiate a fight like this."

Spoon's arm, having narrowed the distance to the maximum range of Quick Shot, moved to aim at Seo-jun.

Currently, the distance to the turret was long. Even if Seo-jun kept pulling back from now on, they could engage in quite a few trades.

But at that moment, Spoon felt a sense of déjà vu.

"You said approaching like this is a disadvantage?"

It was because the skill did not activate when he tried to link it. There was only one case like this.

When the skill was interrupted from being hit.

"Huh?"

When he quickly looked back, he saw a chain lodged in his back.

A chain coming out of a magic circle that was hidden right against the back of a minion, making it hard to see.

Goosebumps broke out.

Predicting the location was one thing, but if the prediction had failed, the chain would have been fired straight toward Seo-jun instead.

"What on earth..."

The moment Spoon realized he had got something terribly wrong, Seo-jun was talking about something else.

"Why? Why is the enemy coming to you on their own a disadvantage? Isn't it an advantage?"

In truth, there was no special calculation.

He had simply pushed because they would pick a fight if he pushed.

It was the same now as it was seven years ago.

-Kyah.

-Did he plan it out this time too?

-I'm curious to see what kind of dog logic he will deploy!

Spoon shot his gun in a sense of crisis.

Bang!

The first shot hit Seo-jun.

Bang!

However, Seo-jun deflected the second shot by throwing a sphere.

-Kyah!

-He pulls off something rare just like that.

-As long as you don't get hit by the second bullet, Luke's attacks are a joke.

"Huh?"

And this time, Seo-jun did not widen the distance. Rather, he approached him.

Like a swordsman fighting in close quarters.

"I think this will be better."

Seo-jun grinned.

And as Seo-jun approached him, something caught Spoon's eye in the area behind where Seo-jun had originally been standing.

[Chains of Destruction]

'A magic circle? When on earth did he...'

He quickly realized when it had been made.

The chain was fired. It had been three seconds.

Chrrrrrck!

Seo-jun was between the magic circle and Spoon.

Thus, it was a risky play where he could have been hit himself if things went wrong this time too.

However, the chain grazed past the side of Seo-jun's neck by a hair and lodged into Spoon.

Thud!

-Crazy lolol.

-He hides it well and lands it well.

-Do you have to predict everything 3 seconds in advance every time you use a skill? How do you play Eric?

Spoon's health had decreased to the point where he would die if he took just one more skill hit.

"Huh?"

Seo-jun could read Spoon's bewildered emotions.

-When did it drop that much?

-Eric's skill damage itself is quite high, after all.

-Wow. Then is he getting a solo kill on a Challenger?

-Let's go!

[Chains of Destruction]

'If I land it one more time, I'll get him.'

A magic circle appeared 2 meters in front of Seo-jun, behind Spoon.

Despite the urgency, Spoon quickly scanned his rear and spotted the magic circle Seo-jun had just summoned.

"What will you do now?"

Spoon had no room to speak. Instead, he answered with bullets.

Bang!

It seemed he had made the decision to pull back.

Since running away blindly was more dangerous, he pulled back while shooting to keep him in check.

Bang!

The second shot.

Seo-jun only deflected it in midair with a sphere again and did not take any other action.

Spoon passed behind the magic circle that had appeared behind him.

"You should have just stayed still."

Seo-jun, who was leisurely watching the scene, spoke slowly.

"Wh-what?"

"It's been three seconds."

A chain was fired from the magic circle.

Not the spot where Spoon had originally been, but the opposite side.

To the place where Spoon was currently standing after fleeing.

Chrrrrck!

Thud!

[First Blood]

[Sword God --> FrustratedSoWentUpperbody]

In the air of the battlefield, a shocking announcement appeared for those who had not seen the fight.