Chapter 9 - Strategy

Lin Yue was an ordinary college student with a slightly obese body. He liked handmade figurines of two-dimensional characters and gaming—especially Diadema. He did not like to go out. Yes, he was the ultimate otaku.

Although he was an otaku, he was unexpectedly popular on the internet. Many beautiful girls cried and scrambled to be shipped with him.

He was a Diadema expert, working part-time to help people train. He was considered a senior in the training industry.

In a faceless world like the internet, abilities were your greatest bonus. Only the strong were worthy of the beautiful. No matter how beautiful the girls were, as long as you were strong, and helped them win ranked games, they would willingly throw themselves at you.

[Little sweet girl, Mengmeng: Husband, let’s call to play at the Relationship Appraisal Center together?]

Once one had attained the diamond rank in Diadema, every ranked game required an admission ticket. Admission tickets could be found in the treasure chests that were dropped when you have killed another player at the castle. If you were lucky, you could get five or six tickets in one try. If unlucky, you might not even find one despite playing overnight. The castle was also jokingly known as the Relationship Appraisal Center.

His newly picked-up third wife was a cute, soft-spoken girl. After Lin Yue helped her attain a diamond rank, the two of them became a couple.

[Brother Yue only loves jungler: You play first, I want to watch today’s game.]

Normally, he would have gone on a massacre after hearing Mengmeng’s cute voice. But today was not such a day.

Today was Rafael’s first game after transferring to VW!

When it came to assassins, eighty percent of pioneer players on the national server would say that the bias in their hearts was Rafael. Just like the bias of mid-laners would always be Phae. When Diadema was not as established, most of the players learned by watching their games to slowly climb to the ranks they have today.

In the first season, Rafael’s reversal in the very last seconds before his character’s death, his clutch pentakills, and his bold stealing of dragons made him a hit. He became the idol of all pioneer assassin players. Water-type junglers were obviously the weakest, but in his hands, it was more fearsome than fire-type junglers. Because of him, all assassins who were masters on the national server had hundreds of records of water-type junglers among their commonly used heroes.

Lin Yue was no exception, he was born to play as a jungler. In his opinion, only sissy men played mid-laners or ADCs. Even if they wanted to play, they should play those that complemented well with junglers. With his thinking, it was impossible for him to not be Rafael’s fanboy.

At this time, they should still be playing the third match now. If I speed through, I can probably catch up with the live telecast.

He opened up the Weibo app but was taken aback by the trending searches.

[vw3: 0sg, the new dynasty is coming.]

[Xiao Di actually shed tears at the scene.]

[In the Interview after the game, Rafael was actually the leader?!]

[Phea and Rafael were well-matched in strength. Impeccable teammates.]

[vw Xiao Di gets revenge on sg Cole for pig rearing.]

[The pinnacle duel of two wind-type adc, the number one adc title in the national server will not be guaranteed?]

What, what, what, what is this? The game is over?

Lin Yue was a little dumbfounded. He hurriedly exited the app and clicked on the official website’s live replay.

***

Two hours ago.

“Welcome to the continent of Ofinika, may the glory of the goddess bless you.”

SG’s new mid-laner Ka Lin did not dare to say a word because of Cole’s oppressing aura, but he was still uneasy. He followed the plan this round and chose a wood-type mage. Since the fire element was banned, the wood element would naturally have no suppression. However, it might not be as effective as a wind-type at defending itself against Rafael’s water-type jungler.

In fact, objectively speaking, facing the opposite lineup, it would be better if the attributes of the ADC and the mid-laner were swapped. The wind-type mid-laner would provide support in the early and mid-game, and the wood-type ADC in the bottom lane would wait for late-game to level up. That would allow the team to be more tolerant of risks. However, with the current lineup, the early kills, golds, and minions must all be given to the ADC in the early game to catch up with the opponent financially.

In other words, except for the top-laner, the whole team had to be Cole’s dog.

There was no peace in team SG, everything depended on their abilities. Ka Lin had just been promoted from the youth training team, and this spring season was his debut, so he had no right to speak in the team. Compared to Cole’s title as the number one ADC on the national server, he was like an insignificant ant. Even if he was on the main team, no one would care about his feelings.

After Ka Lin left the base, he went from his jungle into the opposing jungle to get vision. He planned to plant an enslaving skill in their jungle before returning to his own. The mid-laner’s first task was to figure out which jungle the opponent was starting from.

On the screen, the mage wearing a limited edition torn sack costume cautiously hid in a bush in the middle lane and began to summon enslaved souls. The activation of this skill required the player to stand in place for one second and could not be interrupted.

Ka Lin took a glance at the vision provided by his top-laner. He could see that VW’s top-laner, Ah Pi, was already in position to clear minion lines. Generally, if team fights were to start in the opposing jungle, the top-laner would not return to push the minion line so early, so VW should be starting in SG’s territory. He had to inform his teammates as soon as possible so that some of his teammates could head up the top lane to defend. At the same time, they could interfere with Rafael’s development while VW was distracted.

“VW should be starting on our side. I’m in the bush next to the bottom lane. There’s a lot of fog here, and I haven’t seen anyone—”

It happened too quickly. The moment he pressed to activate the enslavement skill, four burly men jumped out of a nearby bush and blocked his escape route. In an instant, he was almost dead.

The mage in the torn sack was taken aback and quickly flashed into the tower but his movement was slowed down by the red jungle buff’s attack. The light-type support on the opposite side had already guessed his intention and took the lead in defending the tower. After reaching the tower, the support did not attack him but simply blocked his way. This allowed the following wind-type shooter to take the first blood.

“First blood! VW Xiao Di assassinated SG Ka Lin.”

A huge announcement was hung in the sky of the Ofinika Continent.

“What happened just now?! What a beast!! Four people squatting in the middle lane?!! What kind of genius strategy is this?!”

“Four players in the middle lane just to protect the ADC and get the first blood??? Unbelievable!!”

“Under such circumstances, it’s impossible for the mid-laner of SG to defend! Unbelievable … In less than a minute, VW got the first blood?! This sets a new record for the fastest first-blood in the league!!!”

All this happened within seconds, leaving no room for Ka Lin to respond, and his screen turned black and white. The commentator roared into the microphone in shock and could not even speak properly. There was no sound in the auditorium, and many people stood up unconsciously.

“Hahahahahahahahahahahaha, their mid-laner didn’t react at all.”

“Brother Yin, your operation is really too brilliant. Now, Di Di is leaking oil from his wealth.”

The voice channel of team VW was about to blow up, and everyone’s face looked like a smiling sand sculpture. Even Chu Ke could not help curling the corners of his mouth.

SG was completely caught off guard.

“Don’t keep laughing. Xiao Di, follow our jungler. Mother, go to the bottom lane to protect the tower.”

Only a wave of minions had been released, and the bottom lane tower had only lost a quarter of its health. However, due to the death of SG’s mid-laner right at the beginning, their jungle was now VW’s playground. The jungler had to give up the monster buff he was in the midst of fighting. Three swaggered and ransacked SG’s jungle. No one dared to stop them, and even if they tried, it was to present their heads as gifts.

Exiting the jungle, Xiao Di was very happy. Besides being fat with the gold and experience gained from the first blood, he also ate up the two monsters in SG’s jungle. The second fattest was Yin Yu, who ate a red buff from the bottom lane, a red buff from the opposing top lane, and finally harvested his own jungle. Now, he was at level three and a half. Even if the two small monsters in the bottom lane were taken by the opposing ADC, this wave was still a smooth profit.

Returning to the minion line, Xiao Di was already level four and a half, which was a level and a half higher than Cole. At the line, Cole had no way to fight against Xiao Di, so he could only grit his teeth and hide under the tower while watching Xiao Di pressure his lane.