Sending Ming Kai from Afar to Pay Respects to Grandmaster! [Please Vote with Monthly Tickets]

[Holy crap! A ghost!]

[What was that? How did Factory Director die just like that?]

[Am I seeing things? Was that a bug?]

[That's insane. Was that One Second Four Break? How could it be so fast?]

[How did Fiora pull that off?]

[So cool!!!!]

[...]

The barrage surged like a rising tide, swelling like the sea in an instant—

Everyone was worked into a frenzy by Fiora's play!

Factory Director's lips were practically trembling as he typed out a line:

[Bro, how did you do that just now?]

After Xu Cheng solo-killed Camille, he stopped moving.

Seeing Factory Director's message, he replied: [How'd I do it? It was just a normal play.]

??????

[Was that One Second Four Break?]

[One Second Four Break? What's that?]

[...]

Factory Director finally understood.

His opponent was definitely a complete beginner. The time he'd spent playing the game might not even be one ten-thousandth of his own.

[It's a Fiora combo. Her ultimate marks four vitals, and the fastest you can hit them all is one second.]

[Ohhh, got it. Then mine should've been, like, a billionth of a second faster.]

Without waiting for Factory Director to ask more, Xu Cheng explained:

[You just need to Auto Attack Flash. It's simple. Attack, then Flash. As long as you get the angle right, you can do what you just described and hit all four vitals as fast as possible.]

Auto Attack Flash?!

Factory Director hadn't even registered the rest of Xu Cheng's message.

Just those first two words made him pause. Every pore on his body seemed to open up, and an indescribable, wonderful feeling rose within him...

A basic attack could be followed by Flash?

Auto Attack Flash?

That was a thing?!

As everyone knew, ever since lantry came up with Lee Sin's R Flash, the move had become world-famous.

After that, people tried R Flash on every champion's ultimate, whether it was useful or not, or followed other basic abilities with Flash.

It had proven to be an innovation worthy of going down in history, adding immeasurably to the spectacle of champion mechanics that came after it.

And now...

Xu Cheng had suddenly told him that you could Flash during a basic attack—and that Auto Attack Flash was the coolest kind!

That answer completely shattered Factory Director's understanding of basic attacks and toppled the worldview and way of thinking he'd built up over the years.

Any champion could perform a basic attack. In other words, any champion could Auto Attack Flash!

As for what made it useful to follow a basic attack with Flash...

Factory Director hadn't thought that far yet. He only knew that, for Fiora alone, Auto Attack Flash was more important than anything else—even more than the so-called One Second Four Break!

[You're a god... No, bro, you invented Light Speed Four Break!]

[Light speed? It's not that fast. Light travels so fast—this is nowhere close.]

[No, I mean... you... how did you do that? How did you even think of a move like Auto Attack Flash...]

Factory Director was struggling to get the words out.

He'd devoted his whole life to LOL. He was a veteran player through and through—not only a professional, but also someone who genuinely loved the game!

If Camille's E Flash E was a new mechanic developed for a newly released champion, and limited to that champion alone...

Then a move like Auto Attack Flash, which worked on every champion, was like R Flash before it. It was sure to spread far and wide, becoming another classic play for hundreds of millions of players and viewers, not to mention professional players!

Calling it a world-changing innovation might be an exaggeration, but it absolutely deserved a place in history—and the title of Auto Attack Flash Grandmaster!

Factory Director had only wanted to test Xu Cheng's skill. He'd never expected to stumble upon such an unimaginable surprise!

Sending Ming Kai from afar to pay respects to Grandmaster!

[It's really not that exaggerated. Try it yourself and you'll see.]

Xu Cheng didn't understand why his opponent was so excited and astonished. In fact, under the game's normal development, Auto Attack Flash wouldn't become a world-famous, god-tier mechanic until S8, two years later.

But when Factory Director saw how nonchalantly Xu Cheng replied, a trace of doubt crept into his excitement—

Could Auto Attack Flash really be that easy?

Then why had nobody discovered it or pulled it off before?

Try it and die trying!

With that thought, Factory Director perked up and prepared to give Auto Attack Flash a try.

And then...

Boom!

Failure!

Boom!

Failure!

Boom boom boom...

Failure, failure, failure!

He tried seven or eight times in a row. By the time the Minion Wave was almost at his base, Factory Director still hadn't managed it a single time—

He was furious!

[You lied to me! You call that easy? You call that something anyone can do?!]

[You're just too slow. Anyone with even a tiny bit of reaction time can do it.]

Xu Cheng had witnessed Factory Director's miserable attempts from start to finish. He was already frowning: [Xiao Kai, I'm not trying to be mean, but that's as far as your talent goes. Diamond is probably your Upper Limit!]

No... I...

Factory Director saw Grandmaster's assessment of him and felt both frustrated and anxious.

How could he let Grandmaster get that impression of him?

Was he really that bad?

Factory Director stopped worrying about keeping an eye out for other people. He left the custom game and decisively pulled Xi Ye and the others in.

Then he said: [You all saw it, right? Give it a try!]

Xi Ye and the others had already been secretly trying Auto Attack Flash on their own. Now that they'd been openly called over, they looked a little awkward.

[Ming Kai, maybe don't.]

[We're all friends here. Making everyone look bad like this is wrong.]

[That's enough. What are we supposed to look at? We don't know anything!]

Factory Director understood at once.

Well, would you look at that? None of you B's can do it either?

In that case, the problem wasn't with him.

It was because the move was ridiculous, not because he was bad!

Still, just to be safe, Factory Director used his authority to force Xi Ye and the others to try Auto Attack Flash a few times.

Did they think they were Grandmaster?

With Xu Cheng, he was meek and deferential. With the rest of them, he came down hard!

Xi Ye and the others had no choice but to grit their teeth and give it a few tries.

The results... were just as painfully bad.

"Hahaha, guys, I'm out of here."

His spirits suddenly lifted, and after convincing himself it wasn't his fault, Factory Director kicked everyone out without hesitation.

Then he rejoined Xu Cheng in a custom game.

[See? Anyone can do it, right?]

Xu Cheng had been waiting impatiently. If Factory Director hadn't promised him 500 extra, he'd have gone to play matchmaking by himself ages ago.

[Right, right, you're absolutely right, bro. I had my friends try it just now, and they could all do it! They picked it up right away. Looks like I really am just bad!]

Factory Director replied with a beaming smile.

By now, he'd completely changed his strategy—

You don't understand how good you are? You think you're bad?

Fine!

I'll give you exactly what you want!

You have no idea how ridiculous your skill is or how talented you are, so I'm going to gaslight you, damn it!

Of course...

That was only part of it. More importantly, after dealing with Xu Cheng up to this point, Factory Director had come to see him as a genuine hidden gem.

Was it really a good thing for a gem like this to realize how strong he was?

That could ruin his future.

Just look at how many Heaven's Prides had gotten arrogant and ended up slacking off. No matter how talented you were, you couldn't beat a pair of worn-out shoes!

It was good. Xu Cheng's modesty and cautious nature were just right!

If one day Xu Cheng stepped out of that Partitioned Booth and entered the much wider world outside...

Factory Director believed that Xu Cheng's expression would be priceless...

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