Chapter 16 From Nobody to Nobody Saw It Coming
Jean’s teammates started cracking up one after another.
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“Where does this guy get that level of confidence?”
“That was pure cringe. Do us all a favor and just log out…”
“Typical newbie energy. All bark, no game.
“You’re killing me. You learned what ‘carry means and now you’re using it like a pro? Do you even know what that word. means?”
“If you actually carry this game, I’ll snap my own neck.”
None of them took her seriously. They just thought she was being dramatic and delusional. One even hopped over to Reddit to post:
“Got matched with a Bronze at literal zero points today. You won’t believe what happened.
“Let me guess, threw the whole game?”
“Zero–point Bronze still queueing ranked? That’s wild.”
“Okay now I’m invested. What happened next?”
“The game hadn’t even started yet, and a bunch of us were already trying to get that Bronze to bow out. Not only did he stay. he hit us with this-
“What did he say?”
“Man, why are you dragging this our like a cliffhanger? Now I really wanna know.”
“Spit it out already!”
“He said he was gonna carry
“Wait, what?”
“Is that pure delusion or just brain damage?”
I vote both”
“Seriously, are all newbies this clueless now?”
“Original poster, you’re down bad. I’m mourning for you”
“Drop the username. I gotta see this mess.”
For real I need to witness how this guy tanks the whole game”
“Go ahead come watch. I’ve already accepted that this match is a lost cause. Might as well treat it like entertainment.”
In League of Legends, you didn’t just play–you could also hop in to watch other players‘ matches live.
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All you needed was their ID and you could spectate their game as it happened.
was over, spectators uld send “power–ups” to players who impressed them. The more power–ups a player got, onus points the
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Chapter 16 From Nobody to Nobody Saw It Coming
“I’m picking mage. Going mid,” she typed casually into the team chat.
Her teammates jumped on her immediately-
“Mid lane’s too important for someone like you!”
“Just go play support and stop dreaming.”
“You? Mid? Are you for real?”
“I swear, can you stop freelancing the game?”
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Jean didn’t bother responding to the team’s whining. She went ahead and locked in a mid–lane mage without hesitation.
“Wait… you’re actually doing it!”
“Can I still quit the match now?
Too late. You force–quit, you get flagged by the system.”
“Whatever. It’s just one game. I’ll survive.”
Jean didn’t check the chat again. She didn’t type anything else either. She just waited quietly while the game loaded.
At the same time, the livestream room started to flood with players who had seen the Reddit thread.
“That Bronze with zero points really picked a mage for mid lane
“Mid’s all about awareness and mechanics. This game’s toast. She’s gonna get
wrecked.”
“Clicked in by accident. Knock on wood. Please don’t match me with this kind of newbie.”
“Seriously, why isn’t she grinding bot matches first? Jumping straight into ranked is how games get destroyed.”
As soon
as the match started, Jean took control of her hero and made a beeline for mid.
Before getting thrown into this book–world mess, Jean had spent a lot of time on League of Legends.
The game wasn’t just a game to her. It meant something.
Her last life hadn’t been kind.
She came into the world unwanted, and spent her early years like a stray–surviving, but never really living.
Then came League of Legends. She got good. Good enough to play for others, to make real money as a carry–for–hire. That was how she camed her first serious cash.
The path to financial freedom had been brutal, but Jean would do anything to make it–anything that didn’t break the law. She never touched blood money, but she worked hard enough to scrape together every cent she could.
pped back to the present, Jean focused on the screen. Her hands moved fast and fluidly.
In one dean moment, she dodged everything the enemy threw at her. A sharp sidestep, a baited move, and just like that–she turned the tables and took them down in a perfect reverse kill.
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“No way. That had to be luck. Total fluke play”
In the in–game chat, her teammates were firing off messages like crazy.
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None of them had been watching mid. They were all focused on their own lanes, so they completely missed how Jean, a zero- point Bronze, had just pulled off a clean solo kill
Meanwhile, the stream chat for the match was exploding.
Viewership was spiking fast, and the screen filled with flying messages.
“That Bronze mid solo killed–and it was
was a reverse kill tool
“Wow!”
tually sick!”
“That was actually sick!”
“What just happened? Was that a lucky play?
“No chance. I rewatched it carefully. That wasn’t luck–it was calculated. His movement was tight and aggressive. He totally outplayed the other guy. No way that came from a beginner.”
“Right? He was low on health too, but he stepped forward just to bait the enemy. The moment the other guy took the bait, he got outmaneuvered and reverse killed. It was clean.”
“Gotta be a smurf account,
right?”
“Doubt it. Most of the big names are playing live right now. Who’s got time to mess around on a smurf account?”
“Plus, his playstyle’s different. It doesn’t feel like the usual top–tier guys.”
“So if he’s not a smurf, who is he? Don’t tell me some prodigy just popped out of nowhere. No way a total newbie plays like
that
“I don’t know either. He goes by Wingflare. Anyone heard of that tag before?”
“Nope. First time I’ve seen the name.”
“Well, looks like Server One just got a new rising star
Jean read the enemy’s play like a book. Before they could even act, she called for backup in team chat, jumped in first, and kicked off the fight. Her teammates followed right behind–together, they steamrolled the enemy team in a full wipeout Before the other side could respawn, Jean led the charge straight through their base.
Game. Over
The victory screen popped up, and her to
He actually woul
They barely lifted a finger
teammates just stared at it, stunned.
just stuck in their own lanes, not expecting mid to be blowing up the scoreboard.
Bronze newbie has cked up kill after kill, went full god mode, cleared mid, and wiped out every threat on
All they had to do was follow her lead. She called the shots, they tagged along, and somehow they walked away with a win. They’d just been hard–earned by a brand new player,
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As soon as the match ended, one of Jean’s teammates jumped into chat, practically tripping over themselves to ask.
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