Swordmanship Veteran's Game Stream Chapter 165
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Two swords rapidly approached Pado from the front and back.
He could not avoid them.
Looking at their trajectories, Pado realized that there was no way he could avoid both.
Pado blocked the sword in front of him.
Seo-jun relentlessly chained his next attack immediately.
Pado and Seo-jun's gazes met.
Although they said it was not over until one died, still.
The moment his ultimate skill was interrupted, he instinctively felt that making a comeback had become nearly impossible.
However, whether the jungler had not given up yet or had simply moved, they aimed their bow at Seo-jun from a diagonal angle to protect him.
If the mark detonated, he would definitely die.
It would be the same even if he got hit by one more basic attack.
It was already a finished battle.
Seo-jun, who glanced to the side, did not stop his attacks and came straight to finish Pado off.
He must have wanted to end it quickly since his health would barely decrease even if he got hit by the arrow.
But at that moment, Pado could not accept it calmly.
Even if the end of the battle was predetermined, he could not just take it until the very end.
It was better to somehow obtain more information about the opponent here and prepare for the next battle.
Since that next battle included not only future damage trades, skirmishes, and team fights, but also the next game they would face in the main tournament.
The clone that had been behind Pado had somehow moved to the side.
The clone deflected the arrow flying toward Seo-jun in his stead, and Seo-jun pierced Pado's body.
Two shadows crossed in his field of vision.
‘Is this why he didn't even pay attention to it? But fighting all tangled up like this seems like it would be even harder to deal with...’
Pado instinctively felt it.
That perhaps his opponent had been going easy on him until now.
[Sword God --> Pado]
In the commentary room, Bangju's roar echoed once again.
“Wow!! This is even crazier!”
-It means he has at least two brains, of course he's crazy.
-Aren't there originally two brains, the left brain and the right brain?
-I thought it was two, the cerebrum and the cerebellum. Whoa, I learned something new.
It did not matter how many brains he had.
Bangju commentated calmly but quickly.
“The mid-lane battle of pride ends in an overwhelming victory for Player Seo-jun!”
-So multitasking was actually possible
-I'm going to play Zen right now lolol
-Is it Zen this time?
-Dealing with two people at once? I definitely can't miss this.
-Please, just resist it!
-Yeah, but you guys can't do it.
-But what happens if the clones coordinate their attacks like they briefly showed at the end?
Bangju commentated while reading the chat.
“The display we saw just a moment ago was only them fighting 1-on-1 individually. But what if two bodies move as if they are one, like just now? What if they coordinate their attacks? I don't think anyone could ever face that alone.”
“But Bangju-nim. I think that was already the case originally...”
Who would face him one-on-one?
“True. Even Player Dokkaebi, who is fighting a 2-on-1, avoided him, right?”
“Still, at least he won.”
“Then this game is also the same...”
“We still don't know that yet!”
Arin naturally reminded everyone that the game was not over yet.
“Certainly. It's not over yet. However, based on what was shown earlier, if it goes to a team fight, it becomes a 6v5, so I think Wealth Gap will just win.”
-Did his teammate just get cloned? lolololol
-The Zen forum is going crazy right now
-The Kael forum is also going crazy
-Why Kael again lolol
It was a natural outcome that the post refresh rate suddenly surged on the Zen forum among the individual hero boards of Liben, the community for The League.
[Zen Solo Queue, get ready!]
[We can do a 2v1 every time the skill cooldown is up from now on, how do you resist this?]
-Strictly speaking, it's hard to say 2v1 is good because that play can be seen as giving up the skill's advantage of returning.
└We just have to reach it no matter what
└Multitasking is god!
[But isn't it a bit questionable?]
Deflecting arrows and blocking swords. Deflecting arrows and blocking swords. He didn't do 1 and 2 at the same time, he just switched between 1 2 1 2 1 2 f*cking fast.
-So can you even do that much?
-Didn't you see the end? Attacking and blocking at the same time?
└Coordinated attacks are real too...
-Ban this guy please!
-Well, our brains do work like that originally.
[Who is the owner of our forum now?]
(Roughly a photo of handsome streamer Seo-jun) It's just this guy lol
-Calling him 'this guy'? Say 'Master' instead.
└Why would I say that to you? Stfu (Post Author)
-The Kael guys also dedicated their board lolololol holy shit lolololol
└Well, he showed us the secret method. Shouldn't we at least get his know-how passed down to us?
└Those guys don't have active users on their board anyway, so nothing happened lolololol
└The actual list of posts uploaded at the time: [Are you guys the only ones keeping such a good hero to yourselves and enjoying the benefits?] [Why is no one commenting?] [Holy shit lolol the only ones commenting are people like me who came after watching the stream lololololol]
As Bangju was checking these posts in real-time under the table, a restraining hand was placed on his phone.
Noticing the look, Bangju swallowed his disappointment.
'I couldn't check why the Kael forum went crazy, though.'
But looking at the general situation, he had a hunch.
It was thanks to the comment on the last post he had seen.
-Those Kael-pest bastards are saying they're the true dogs and pigs of Streamer Seo-jun, what do you guys think of this?
└We should show them that we are even bigger dogs and pigs.
└Don't know, let's just invade first.
└As a passing Demonic Sect member, I can't hold back either.
'They probably got into a fight, right?'
While it was not an everyday occurrence, it was not unprecedented either.
Anyway, Bangju was bothered by one of the posts he had seen earlier.
He also knew the fact that the brain could not process two things at once.
As the post said, even if one could quickly alternate between tasks 1 and 2, one could not perform both 1 and 2 simultaneously.
And Seo-jun's play also seemed to belong to that category at first.
It meant it seemed possible to explain it as him performing the tasks alternately with extreme speed and accuracy rather than moving simultaneously.
But the action he showed at the very end.
Seo-jun moved simultaneously.
This could not be explained by that.
'Is he really a new breed of human?'
Just like during the heavy sword incident, it was simply astonishing.
“Ah! The support, Player Mental, got caught out! He went in too deep in the lane, didn't he?”
“Ah, and at the same time, Player Seo-jun, who was at the base, purchases his second rune! The first rune was one that enhanced the duration of the Shadow Secret Art. What about the second?”
“It's not a spell rune.”
There were two types of runes.
The first was a rune to learn a spell that could be used usefully, though its cooldown was slightly longer than normal skills.
The second was a rune that enhanced skills.
“This time, it's a rune that increases the ultimate's duration! He's really determined!”
“So he's saying he doesn't need an extra number of position swaps with the shadow, or additional mark damage.”
“It seems he intends to show it during the team fights.”
With the laning phase ending without any additional kills in the mid lane, Heavy Mental and Wealth Gap operated the game by picking each other off without any large battles worthy of being called a team fight.
“Now, if they lose just one team fight, they could go down in an instant, right?”
“Yes. They must be careful.”
With the tier-2 turrets destroyed and the game entering the mid-to-late stage, if a team fight broke out near the base and resulted in a crushing defeat, the game could end right then and there.
The moment Mental respawned and joined his allies while Seo-jun was hunting a jungle monster below, an incident occurred up above.
[I'll go get vision.]
[Uh! That seems a bit deep, be careful...!]
[Since it's a 4v4 for now!]
A skirmish broke out.
On the mini-map, the blue dots were allies and the red dots were enemies.
Seo-jun confirmed through the mini-map that the enemies had appeared.
‘He did go somewhere a bit dangerous.’
The one who was ambushed was Alpaca.
He had gone too far while eagerly securing vision.
Seo-jun immediately moved to join them.
[Sorry! I got ambushed! Leave me behind...!]
There was no way the other teammates could just leave him behind.
It was not a sentiment like camaraderie in a shonen manga; rather, they had just been roaming nearby when the fight started, so they could not help but get swept up in it.
The problem was that Seo-jun was not there.
And it began with Alpaca being ambushed.
After the ambushed Alpaca died first, the teammates began to flee to avoid dying any further.
[We might die even more at this rate. The enemy's skills landed so well! Ugh.]
[Ah. Peer used their ult on me so I couldn't escape. Using it on me of all people.]
However, Ha Yun-ho also died.
[1898 --> Ha Yun-ho]
[Pado --> NotDurumi]
Only then did Seo-jun arrive nearby, spotting Wind Sword escaping from the enemy in front of him.
And the chasing enemy teammates as well.
They were engaging in a chase, throwing skills at each other to keep each other in check.
What Seo-jun could do now was to first help Wind Sword widen the gap, and then look for an opportunity while watching the opposing team attempt to take the strongest jungle monster.
The uninvited guest of the rift, Crash.
Affectionately called 'Earthworm' by the players.
Due to its high health and attack power, it was difficult to hunt alone, and it was a monster that inflicted damage even when attacked by five people.
In return, as a high-risk, high-return monster, it granted a buff that was just as good, so with Seo-jun's teammates currently dead, the opposing team would naturally aim for that buff.
The choices lying before Wealth Gap were to continuously harass them from afar to stop them, seize the opportunity to fight when they were weakened, or steal the buff by securing the last hit.
-Can he steal Earthworm?
-Just gotta give up the buff, nothing can be done about this
-Alpaca, let's pull ourselves together
-But why doesn't the streamer give vision orders? Does he not know how to read the map?
-Looks like he's not doing it on purpose
-I guess when it comes to game-making, he can't compare to other A-grades after all. Pado even dug all his own traps.
-Yeah, but he got wrecked in a 2v1?
-Yeah, and they'll lose the game after Earthworm is taken, right?
-With three people picked off and it being a 5v2, it's correct to just do nothing and wait until they respawn lol
Seo-jun could not see the chat.
However, he could roughly guess what they were saying right now.
After all, wouldn't the viewers be as consistent as ever?
“Everyone, why is it a 5v2?”
Seo-jun whispered softly, so that only the viewers could hear.
“And if we win here, we can end it just like that.”
-No, lolololololol stop trying to talk to us all the time lolol
-If it's not a 5v2, then what is it lolol
“Oh! It's Seo-jun-nim!”
At the moment Wind Sword shouted to Seo-jun, Seo-jun checked the remaining health of the enemies and used his ultimate skill on the opponent with the lowest health.
The target was the enemy top-laner, who had very little health left after the battle.
A shadow was created and immediately stretched out its arm.
However, there was someone on the enemy team who was prepared for this.
As such, a skill flew in rapidly as if they had been waiting for it.
It was a survival skill of the AD carry that knocked back surrounding heroes if the lunchbox exploded in mid-air at the desired time.
The incoming lunchbox exploded, right next to the clone.
Seo-jun swapped places with the shadow.
While using the skill to leave a clone in his original spot.
Zen was able to escape being targeted by damage during the extremely brief moment of swapping positions with the shadow, and he had utilized this.
It was a trick used by Zen mains who possessed excellent timing.
Standing in front of the enemy top-laner who turned around, Seo-jun drove his assassination sword into the opponent's abdomen, and when another attack flew in, he swapped places with the skill's shadow this time rather than the ultimate's.
“Now it's a 4v3, right?”
Standing in his original spot, Seo-jun looked at the enemy team and spoke to the viewers.
-He didn't die though?
-The enemy top has insanely low HP left, so close lolololol
-Just because there's a clone doesn't make it a 3, streamer lolol
-Tried to do something, but failed
-But there's the mark *gasp*
It had all happened in an instant.
The enemy team now had to make a decision.
If they killed the clone right in the middle of them that had been created by the skill, the mark would detonate and the enemy top-laner would die.
If they left it alone to buy time for the top-laner to recover health, Seo-jun would tear through them using that shadow.
It was Zen's standard playstyle.
The opponent's decision was quick.
Seo-jun readily gave up the clone.
The mark detonated, taking the last of the top-laner's remaining health.
[Sword God --> Kardon]
This was his plan from the very beginning.
Even for Seo-jun, managing three was too much. While having more would not have hurt, it was a fair price to pay for reducing the enemy count by one.
“Now, Wind Sword-nim. The numbers are somewhat even now, so let's fight.”
Seo-jun smiled and placed a hand on Wind Sword's shoulder with the ultimate clone beside him.
Wind Sword turned his head from side to side and grinned in the same manner.
-I acknowledge him as an assassin
-Of all people, the ones remaining are Wind Sword and the streamer, these two? Looks winnable
-What are you saying, they can't win lol the enemies still have four people lolololol you crazy fanboys
-And he doesn't even have three clones, right?
-Should I bet points?
And Pado breathed a sigh of relief.
“Whew! At least we reduced one of the enemy's clones! It's a 4v3, not a 4v4, so let's fight!”
Even though managing three was impossible anyway, making it meaningless.