"Pfft."
"Where does he get that confidence?"
"What kind of cringe edgelord talk is that? Logging off would actually do us a favor..."
"Newbies always love talking big."
"You crack me up. Learned the word carry and started throwing it around, huh? Do you even know what carry means?"
"If you can carry, I'll twist my own head off."
All four teammates thought Jiang Jinran was spouting "cringe edgelord talk." One even found time to post on the forum-
[Got matched with a zero-point Bronze in ranked today. Guess what happened.]
[What? They threw the game and you lost?]
[A zero-point Bronze jumping into ranked? You really don't see that much these days.]
[What happened already? Tell us, OP.]
[The game hasn't started yet. The rest of us wanted this Bronze to have the sense to step aside, but not only did he refuse, he even told us...]
[Told you what?]
[Come on, OP, why are you stopping at a cliffhanger? Now you've got me curious.]
[Can you just say it all in one go?!]
[He said he was going to carry!]
[???]
[Is that blind confidence, or does he have a hole in his brain?]
[That's both blind confidence and a hole in his brain.]
[Are newbies all this fucking stupid now?]
[OP, you're so unlucky. I'll observe a moment of silence for you.]
[OP, give us an ID. I want to spectate, hehe.]
[Shit, now I want to watch too. I want to see all the creative ways this newbie screws OP over.]
[Sure, come watch. I've already given up hope for this match. Might as well let everyone have a laugh.]
In Legend, players could not only play matches themselves, but also spectate other people's gameplay.
As long as they had a player's ID, they could spectate that player's ongoing match.
After the match ended, spectators could also send power to players who performed well. The more people who sent power, the more bonus points the player received.
The reason Fatal's score was so high, ranking first across the server with a gulf between him and second place, was not merely that he earned lots of points from winning. Every time he played, his spectators were as numerous as hairs on an ox, and the points from their power contributions were considerable.
Meanwhile, Jiang Jinran had no idea that quite a few people were already spectating her ranked match.
"I want to pick a mage and go mid."
She typed those words into the public chat, naturally drawing another round of doubt from her teammates-
"Mid is a really important lane. You're nowhere near good enough!"
"Why don't you just be a good little support? Stop getting ideas."
"Mid? Do you even have the skills for that?"
"I can't with you. Oh, great master, can you stop chasing every whim that pops into your head?"
Jiang Jinran ignored her teammates' complaints and locked in a mid-lane mage.
"Holy shit, you're actually doing it?"
"Is it too late to forfeit and quit?"
"Too late. Force yourself offline now and the system will give you a warning."
"Forget it. It's just one match. Grit your teeth and it'll be over."
Jiang Jinran stopped looking at public chat and said nothing more, patiently waiting for the game to load.
At that moment, a flood of players who had read the forum post poured into the spectator stream.
[That zero-point Bronze actually picked a mage for mid.]
[Mid takes a lot of awareness and mechanical skill. This match is done for. They're going to get stomped.]
[Clicked by accident. Bad luck, begone. May I never run into a Bronze newbie like this.]
[A zero-point Bronze-why not play a few more bot matches? Jumping straight into ranked just screws everyone else over!]
Once the game began, Jiang Jinran controlled her hero and headed straight for mid.
In fact, before transmigrating into the book, Jiang Jinran had often played Legend.
The game held a special meaning for her.
Jiang Jinran had not had much luck in her previous life.
Her very birth might have been a misfortune. As a young child, she had been like a homeless stray dog...
Later, she had played Legend and earned her first pot of gold by working as a paid gaming companion and boosting other people's accounts.
The road to financial freedom had been extremely difficult, but Jiang Jinran had been willing to do anything and endure any hardship to earn money. Of course, the line of the law could not be crossed. She had never earned ill-gotten money.
Her thoughts returned to the present. Jiang Jinran watched the computer screen, her fingers moving nimbly.
Everything seemed to have already become muscle memory.
In the blink of an eye, she dodged every enemy skill. With an unexpected maneuver, she deftly turned the tables and killed the opposing player.
[??!!]
[Am I seeing things? Did our mid get first blood?]
[What's going on?]
[A solo kill?! He got a solo kill?]
[Must be luck. Definitely a blind cat stumbling onto a dead mouse.]
In the game's public chat, her teammates had already begun typing furiously.
They were all in their respective lanes on the map and had not seen the details of Jiang Jinran's play just now.
So they had no idea how this zero-point Bronze had managed to solo-kill her opponent!
At that moment, the popularity of the ranked match's spectator stream was also soaring.
Bullet comments began flying wildly across the screen.
[That Bronze in mid got a solo kill, and he even turned the tables to do it!]
[6666666666]
[Insanely slick.]
[What happened? Was it luck?]
[Definitely not luck. I watched his play closely just now. His mechanics were incredibly precise and bold. He had his opponent completely in the palm of his hand. That's definitely not something a newbie could pull off.]
[Exactly. He was already low on health and deliberately moved forward to bait the enemy. His opponent went for the kill, only for this Bronze to unleash a string of moves and completely turn the tables!]
[Is this some big shot's alt?]
[Probably not. Those top players are all in games right now. When would they have time to play on an alt?]
[Besides, this Bronze has a really distinctive style. Nothing like those top players.]
[If it's not an alt, then who is he? Surely he can't just be extraordinarily gifted. I don't believe a complete newbie could pull off plays like that.]
[No idea. I'm curious too. His ID is Sha Yu. Does that ring a bell for anyone?]
[Nope. First time I've heard of this person.]
[Looks like Server One is about to get another god!]
In the game, Jiang Jinran accurately predicted the enemy's decision. Before they could act, she called her teammates over in public chat. She initiated the team fight, her teammates followed up, and they wiped out the entire enemy team!
Before the wiped-out enemies could respawn, Jiang Jinran led her teammates straight in and razed their base.
The match was over!
Her teammates stared at the victory on their screens, still not quite coming back to their senses.
They had won, just like that?
But they hadn't done anything!
They had merely been laning on their own, never expecting victory reports to keep pouring in from mid.
That Bronze newbie had killed one enemy after another, gone legendary, steamrolled the entire mid lane, and taken care of every problem.
All they had to do was follow his commands and move with him. They hadn't needed to worry about anything, and just like that, they had won the game!
They had actually been carried by a newbie!
After a match, the system automatically selected an MVP. Naturally, this match's MVP went to Jiang Jinran.
"Are you some big shot's alt?"
After leaving the match, one teammate hurriedly asked Jiang Jinran in public chat.