Chapter 16 From Nobody to Nobody Saw It Coming

Jean’s teammates started cracking up one after another.

+8 Pearls

“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 bme/bb. /bbYou /blearned bwhat /b‘bcarry /bbmeans /bband /bnow you’re using it like a bpro/b? Do you even know what that word. means?”

“If you actually carry this game, I’ll snap my bown /bneck.”

None of them took her bseriously/b. They just bthought /bbshe /bwas being bdramatic /band delusional. One even hopped over to Reddit to post:

b“/bbGot /bmatched bwith /ba Bronze at literal zero points today. You won’t bbelieve /bwhat happened.

“Let me guess, threw the whole game?”

“Zero–point Bronze still queueing ranked? That’s wild.”

“Okay now bI’m /binvested. What happened next?”

“The game hadn’t even started yet, and a bunch of us were already trying to get bthat /bBronze to bow out. Not only did he bstay/bb. /bhe hit bus /bwith bthis- /b

“What did he say?”

“Man, why are you dragging bthis /bour like a cliffhanger? Now I really wanna know.”

“bSpit /bit bout /balready!”

“He said he was gonna carry

“Wait, what?”

“Is that pure delusion or bjust /bbrain 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 bthis /bguy tanks the whole bgame/b”

“Go aheade watch. I’ve already epted bthat /bthis match is a lost cause. Might as well treat it blike /bentertainment.”

In League of Legends, you didn’t just y–you could also hop in to watch other yers‘ 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 yers who impressed them. The more power–ups a yer got, onus points the

? 1:|:| ? ? ? ?

7:40 PM b? /b□

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-

“Midne’s too important for someone like you!”

“Just go y support and stop dreaming.”

“You? Mid? Are you for real?”

“bI /bbswear/b, can you stop frencing the game?”

+8 Pearls

Jean didn’t bother responding to the team’s whining. She went ahead and locked in a midne mage without hesitation.

b“/bWait… you’re actually doing itb!/b”

“Can I still bquit /bthe match now?

Toote. You force–quit, you get gged by the system.”

“Whatever. It’s just one game. I’ll survive.”

Jean didn’t check the chat again. She bdidn’t /btype anything else either. She just waited quietly while the game loaded.

At the same time, the livestream room started to flood with yers who had seen the Reddit thread.

“That Bronze with zero points really picked a mage for midne

“Mid’s ball /babout awareness and mechanics. This game’s toast. She’s gonna get

wrecked.”

“Clicked in by ident. Knock on wood. Please don’t match me with bthis /bkind of newbie.”

“Seriously, why isn’t she grinding bot matches first? Jumping straight into ranked is how games get destroyedb./b”

As soon

bas /bthe match started, Jean took control of her hero band /bmade a beeline for mid.

Before getting thrown into bthis /bbook–world mess, Jean had spent a lot of time on League of Legends.

The game wasn’t bjust /ba game to her. It meant something.

Herst life hadn’t been kind.

She came into the world unwanted, and bspent /bher early years like a stray–surviving, but never really bliving/b.

Then came League of Legends. She got bgood/b. Good enough to y for others, to make real money bas /bba /bcarry–for–hire. bThat /bbwas /bhow she camed her first serious bcash/b.

The path to financial freedom had been brutal, but Jean would do anything to make it–anything that didn’t break thew. She never touched blood money, but she worked hard enough to scrape together bevery /bcent 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 bsharp /bsidestepb, /bba /bbaited moveb, /band just like that–she turned the tables and took them down in a perfect reverse kill.

Chapter 16 From Nobody to Nobody Saw it Coming

“No way. That had to be luck. Total fluke y”

In the in–game chat, her teammates were firing off messages like crazy.

+B Pearl

None of them had been watching mid. They were all focused on their ownnes, so theypletely missed bhow /bJean, 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 bkill /bbtool /b

“Wow!”

tually sick!”

“That was actually sick!”

“What just happened? Was bthat /ba lucky y?

“No chance. I rewatched it carefully. bThat /bwasn’t luck–it was calcted. His movement was tight and baggressive/b. He totally outyed the other guy. No way that came from a beginnerb./b”

“Right? He was blow /bon health too, but he stepped forward just to bait the enemy. The moment the other guy took the bait, bhe /bgot outmaneuvered band /breverse killed. It was clean.”

“Gotta be a smurf ount,

right?”

“Doubt it. Most of the big names are ying live right now. Who’s got time to mess around on a smurf ount?”

“bPlus/b, his ystyle’s different. It doesn’t feel like the busual /btop–tier guys.”

“So if he’s not a smurf, who bis /bhe? Don’t tell me some prodigy bjust /bpopped out of nowhere. No way a total newbie ys blike /b

that

“I don’t know either. He goes by Wingre. Anyone heard of that tag before?”

“Nope. First time I’ve seen the nameb.” /b

“Well, looks like Server One just got a new rising star

Jean read the enemy’s y 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 bright /bbbehind/b–together, they steamrolled the enemy team in ba /bfull wipeout Before the other side could respawn, Jean led the bcharge /bstraight through their base.

Gameb. /bOver

The victory screen popped up, and her to

bHe /bactually woul

They barely lifted a finger

teammates just stared at itb, /bstunned.

just stuck in their ownnes, 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 bshots/b, they tagged along, and somehow they walked away with a win. They’d just been hard–earned by a brand new yer,

7:40 PM c

Chapter 16 From Nobody to Nobody Saw It Coming

As soon as the match ended, one of Jean’s teammates jumped into chat, practically tripping over themselves to ask.

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