LOL: The Joy of Being a Chinese Mid-Laner in the LCK
Chapter 16

Three Brand New Titles

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Letme's words were undeniably meticulously planned, and after speaking in that passive-aggressive tone, he directly shifted the conflict and focus.

The RNG fans in the live stream, who had been feeling wronged, thought about it and realized, "That's right, that bastard deliberately came to leech off our popularity!"

Instantly, the comments in Letme's live stream became even more sophisticated.

"LOL, I knew it."

"Ignite dog is here to leech off popularity~"

"Deliberately targeting Ranger? No wonder, can these dogs who like to leech off popularity just die? So disgusting!"

"Brothers, don't go adding him as a friend to blast him, and definitely don't go search for his stream. He wants to leech off popularity? We won't give it to him!"

"Exactly! That's right, let that popularity-leeching dog die! If that idiot dares to edit it into a short video and post it on Douyin or Kuaishou, don't watch it either! Piss him off!"

"To be fair, Junze's mental state is truly stable. He truly lives up to being the LPL's number one top laner. Amazing~!"

In a private room at the Shanhai Internet Cafe in Modu.

Xu Junyan, who had just finished a game, naturally had no idea what kind of peculiar mental victory method Letme and Xiaohu were using to tame the Royal Hooligans over there.

After the game ended, his gaze was fixed directly on the computer screen, the LOL client, and the ID named [minnaaQAQ].

But upon closer inspection, it wasn't quite like that, because Xu Junyan's gaze lacked focus at the moment, as if he were staring into empty space.

"Title: [Tiger Emperor in Spring, Trash in Summer]

Annotation: When equipped, the overall proficiency of all heroes during the Spring Split will increase by one major level. Additionally, please note that this title has a negative effect. If worn during the Summer Split, the wearer's overall proficiency for all heroes will decrease by one major level. If worn during the World Championship, the wearer's overall proficiency for all heroes will decrease by three major levels, and there is a chance of triggering some unexpected idiotic plays."

"Title: [My Hands Are Really Shaking]

Annotation: When equipped, as long as you do 10 seconds of finger exercises before a game to loosen up your fingers, the wearer will receive a '2-3 people will absolutely not be able to kill you' special rule-based buff for the next 30 minutes. This title has a negative effect: after 30 minutes, the wearer will experience a one-minute hand-shaking side effect (Warm reminder: Receiving feedback from teammates while your hands are shaking will randomly reduce the duration of the hand shake. Practicing finger exercises daily also has a chance to randomly reduce the duration of the hand shake)."

"Title: [Peeking in the Dark! Sharp Eyes]

Annotation: When equipped, you will gain a pair of sharp eyes that can keenly perceive all subtle facial expressions, thoughts, and intentions of your teammates in an instant. This will allow you to make clearer judgments and reactions regarding the current situation. For example, after confirming that someone on your team has smiled, you smile as well, which can ensure your own complete safety."

Xu Junyan stared at these three new titles for a long time. These were all newly revealed.

The first title came from the game that hadn't started in the first match. He had typed a few lines in the public chat, which seemed to have broken Xiaohu's mental state, thus revealing the title [Tiger Emperor in Spring, Trash in Summer].

It was quite a peculiar title, even related to the seasons and climate. But it was better than nothing; at least he could genuinely use it during the upcoming Spring Split.

The second and third titles both came from when he typed 'you pro' after the game ended.

At that time, the system's prompt was that Letme was mentally broken, and Xiaohu was mentally broken, and then broken again.

"Hands are shaking, sharp eyes."

Xu Junyan chuckled and shook his head, finding it quite interesting that the names of these titles were quite profound, and he liked them very much.

As for the effects of the latter two titles, Xu Junyan felt they were great. Although the second title had a side effect, the '2-3 people will absolutely not be able to kill you' rule-based buff was incredibly overpowered.

The last title seemed useless at first glance, but upon closer consideration, if it were used in conjunction with the first title he obtained, [I just don't ban Galio], it would be invincible.

The bonus from [I just don't ban Galio] gave him near-invincible macro vision, game sense, and other abilities. On this foundation, if he could also constantly perceive people's thoughts and see through everything, wouldn't he become a true operational genius, a truly formidable commander in the canyon?

If before, with only the title [I just don't ban Galio], Xu Junyan still had to consider that his overall operational and command game ability was barely on par with Faker, Clearlove, and others, now he had completely surpassed them, even to the point of crushing them!!

Xu Junyan equipped all three newly revealed titles at once. He withdrew his gaze, grinned, and sighed, "A bountiful harvest."

He suddenly started looking forward to the next time he encountered those RNG dogs on the Korean server. He could crush and humiliate them again, venting his anger, and at the same time, unlock new titles, making himself stronger. It was simply killing two birds with one stone.

No, to be precise, it was killing three birds with one stone.

Because at the same time, he could also climb ranks by stepping on RNG's trash former teammates. After half a month of closed-door training, he had successfully climbed the ranks and reached Challenger. Challenger 823 points.

How to evaluate this score? It looked quite high, but in reality, it was just so-so. He had only just crossed the threshold into the Korean server Challengers, considered a low-ranking Challenger in name.

It couldn't be helped, as it was currently the preseason. Many Korean server Challengers were going all out to climb ranks frantically to improve their hidden scores. Coupled with the foundation of their previous season's scores, the current number one on the Korean server had a particularly high total score, a full 2500 points.

If he wanted to crush the current number one on the Korean server under his feet, it would conservatively take at least another half a month of playing.

"Hmm?"

Suddenly, Xu Junyan let out a soft "hmm?" because he noticed the green dot on his account's friends list was blinking again.

After the game ended, his friend requests had exploded. It was obvious that this was all from the die-hard Royal Hooligans. He had humiliated Letme and Xiaohu, and how could this loyal and filial group of Royal Hooligans restrain the anger in their hearts?

Therefore, after the game ended, he calmly rejected a batch of them.

It was just the powerless rage of losers. This was only the beginning, and Xu Junyan was actually looking forward to their continued pathetic displays of impotent rage.

After rejecting that batch, no one else added him. After all, Korean server accounts were not like Chinese server accounts; obtaining them had a certain threshold of difficulty.

Xu Junyan didn't find it troublesome and calmly clicked on the friend request list, about to reject them, when he noticed that the name of the applicant this time seemed a bit familiar.

[want to breathe]

Translated, it meant 'want to breathe'.

"Mid laner from the last game?"

Xu Junyan suddenly recalled.

Since it wasn't one of RNG's sycophantic fans, he didn't reject it. He accepted the friend request, making this player named [want to breathe] the only friend on this account.

Ding! Almost immediately after adding them, a new message came through.

[want to breathe]: "thank you."

Xu Junyan blinked and sent back a question mark.

In a short while, he received the other party's English reply: "Thank you for what happened just now. Thank you for speaking up for me."

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