Chapter 7 - Classic Match (4)

The midgame was clearly in their favor.

After securing the Magical Turtle and wiping four enemies off the map, Seunghoon and the rest of the team didn't rest. They pushed bottom tower cleanly, rotated in mid with White Lotus, and cleared two more waves before backing to reset.

Everything was going well, even if they were a bunch of random.

Seunghoon sat forward in his chair, his eyes locked on the minimap. He dropped a ward near the monster's pit. It was nearing 20 minutes, so they had to take every available resource before the game transitioned to late.

[Red]: Push top next. Warden up in 40.

WhiteLotus pinged in agreement.

Lolo09's score had ballooned since the last fight.

5/1/4

He was a monster now. Unstoppable in skirmishes. He was already spamming emotes after every kill, flexing his gold lead, and rotating with no fear.

And the trash talk started to flow.

[YameteKudasai (All)]: bro is this Arc lobby or did yall just install the game today

[Lolo09 (All)]: their top laner still hasn't bought boots 💀

[Jamino (All)]: nah for real I've seen bots move better than this

[Sweetpie (All)]: just shut up and win already

[WhiteLotus (All)]: can't hear you over the sound of your core exploding

[Yeans (All)]: imagine sweating in classic

[Lolo09 (All)]: imagine feeding this hard in classic

[YameteKudasai (All)]: no no let's give them credit, it takes skill to be this useless

Seunghoon just laughed as he read the flood of chats coming in.

He remained silent as he moved Valea into the river, dropping another ward and clearing a small camp while the chat box became filled with hate messages.

He could've joined in, but it was too tiring.

Heck, he was a monster in that thing. Years of gaming had granted him supernatural reflexes—not just in mechanics, but in the dark art of flaming.

He could type a full essay while in a clash, roast an entire team's ancestry, flame in poetic stanzas, ironic meta jokes, or just raw nonsense that made people annoyed.

But that was him in the past…

Okay?

[Red]: Focus on Warden. 15 sec. Reset if needed.

That was all he typed. It was clean.

Meanwhile, his team kept lighting fire in all chat.

[WhiteLotus (All)]: can someone check if their jungle is real? might be a bot.

[Jamino (All)]: he's farming motivational quotes instead of camps

[YameteKudasai (All)]: mirror mirror on the wall, who's the biggest bot of all?

The enemy didn't respond. They were tilted into silence now.

Seunghoon checked the scoreboard before checking on his own score. 

12 – 2

0/0/9

He hadn't even died yet.

Valea glided across the jungle. Seunghoon momentarily left the bot lane and made his way to the top. He let Lolo09 farm by himself while he moved to help with taking the Warden.

The Gravestone Warden emerged from its pit with a roar, its massive stone body covered in vines and runes. Unlike the Magical Turtle, the Warden was slow and relentless, its glowing eyes scanning for intruders.

Almost the entire team was already there. WhiteLotus targeted the monster, YameteKudasai came up through mid lane to help, and Jamino helped zone the entrances in case the enemy would want to contest.

But there was no contest. The enemy didn't even try.

[Your team has slain the Gravestone Warden.]

"Nice," But Seunghoon didn't even smile. He just cracked his knuckles once, and moved Valea toward mid.

They grouped like a pack of wolves while the trash talking kept rolling.

[YameteKudasai (All)]: Y'all playing Classic Mode but forgot the part where you play

[WhiteLotus (All)]: next game pls bring players not bots

[Sweetpie (All)]: Tsk. It's my teammates. So trash. Literally 1v9 every match

[Lolo09 (All)]: bro is typing more than his gold.

They rotated to the top lane. In 20 minutes, all the outer turret was gone. Then they started diving under the tier 2 turret, with WhiteLotus initiating hard and Valea healing on the side.

[Lolo09 has slain an enemy]

[WhiteLotus has slain an enemy]

[Double Kill!]

[Triple Kill!]

"Oh, come on, this is a stomp," Seunghoon muttered, his eyes scanning the minimap. 

Minutes after, the enemies kept initiating teamfights when they were obviously losing. One by one, the enemies fell to their deaths. The 2nd tier turrets fell, and all that was left was one enemy who was clearing waves alone under the inhibitor turrets.

They didn't even bother resetting anymore. They marched through mid like they owned the whole map.

[Red]: Let's end.

His teammates mostly ignored him. They were too high on momentum. Lolo09 blinked forward and wiped out the last remaining carry with a crit-heavy combo.

[Lolo09 (All)]: 1v1 me in tutorial mode, and maybe u stand a chance

They broke the mid inhibitor in an instant before moving to the top and bottom.

All that was left were the core's turrets.

Lolo09's auto attacks shredded through them like paper. Valea stood just behind him, casting shields and movement buffs every other second. 

The enemy tried to defend.

One by one, as the enemy respawned, they tried to fight off and defend their turret. However, one by one, they also died.

[Jamino has slain an enemy.]

[WhiteLotus has slain an enemy.]

[Lolo09 has slain an enemy.]

[Double Kill!]

[Triple Kill!]

[Quadra Kill!]

[Penta Kill!]

[Wiped Out!]

The Core exploded in a final burst of light.

[Victory!]

Seunghoon leaned back as the word flashed on his screen. It was loud and proud.

"Finally…" He calmly exhaled. 

His screen was filled with the post-game scorecards and endless spam of emojis and chat lines from both teams.

[Lolo09 (All)]: GGs, uninstall and try again next patch

[YameteKudasai (All)]: I'm gonna report their whole team for being a bot.

[WhiteLotus (All)]: Thanks for the warmup, queueing again

Seunghoon just smiled, shook his head, and left the loby.

0/0/16.

It was a perfect game for him without a single death.

Well, he also can't say anything because his lobby was filled with brainless people.

"Alright, 4 more games."

Just like that, he queued once more.