novelODS Chapter 23: Stole Faker's Secret Technique
Chapter 23: Stole Faker's Secret Technique
Hearing Lu Chen's words, Ming Kai and the others were somewhat taken aback; this confidence didn't seem fake at all.
"Huh? That confident? I think Hekkyu, you should just stay with EDG for another year."
"And what about you?"
The next day, Deft looked at Pawn with some confusion.
"I'm recovering from an injury. The manager talked to me, and I'll renew my contract even if I'm a substitute and the salary cap remains the same. I can retire with EDG." Pawn shrugged.
It has to be said that, among all the LPL clubs, EDG, except for Scout, has had amicable partings with everyone.
You, like Tong Yang, were nurtured by EDG until he retired.
"I'll think about it some more. He said he's going to the Demacia Cup. If he can really do it, then I'll consider it." Deft's eyes sparkled as he looked at Lu Chen's figure in the training room.
Perhaps Lu Chen can really bring him the championship.
When Abu heard Mingkai's words, he frowned. "What's wrong? He's your brother, why aren't you as concerned about Scout?"
"I'll make the arrangements. I'll find an opportunity to give him a chance to play during the Demacia Cup."
"Yes, I think he's better than Scout."
Abu smiled, not quite agreeing with Mingkai's point of view. Scout, after all, had experience in major tournaments, and his hero pool was deeper than Lu Chen's.
"Let's wait and see."
At the same time, Scout, the Boy Scout, also heard the news. His gaze became deep. He had endured so much for EDG, and he didn't want to give up the opportunity he had finally waited for Pawn to retire to Lu Chen.
Who wants to play professionally but only be a substitute?
"Little Lu has his eye on your position," Mouse reminded him, though he enjoyed watching the drama unfold.
In truth, he should also be under competitive pressure, but unfortunately, Tong Yang is beyond saving.
Moreover, in the current version, top lane still needs tanks, and the three top-tier top laners are causing trouble.
As everyone knows, you only need to learn three champions to play top lane for EDG.
With Tree of Life, Twisted Treant, and Maokai already enough, Mouse wasn't too concerned about the upcoming new champion, Camille.
What's the point of practicing?
Anyway, they won't use the skills they develop in matches, so even if the stats are amazing, they won't be of much use to EDG.
Scout ignored them and focused on practicing; he didn't want to be a substitute anymore.
Time flies, and countless eyes in the LPL are now focused on the All-Star event that has begun.
As expected, in the blind pick entertainment game, Mingkai's Lee Sin became a football, being kicked around by the opposing team, which immediately became a source of laughter for many netizens.
However, the most popular event wasn't this, but the All-Star Solo Tournament.
"My God! Congratulations to Uzi! He's won his first championship in his professional career!"
That's right, Uzi got 100 CS with Caitlyn in the All-Star Solo Tournament and won the Solo Tournament championship.
His fans were instantly ecstatic, practically betting he would win the "S" tournament.
Just tell me if you brought an S or not!
[Pork offal! Asking for details! Just asking if Kai has ever won an S-series championship!]
[This is incredible! My puppy is a Solo Tournament champion! No wonder he's invincible in the bot lane!]
My dog consistently out-farmed the enemy AD carry by dozens of CS in every game; this Solo tournament championship is well-deserved!
With such limited capabilities, I truly cannot understand what kind of people are criticizing the dog. Those who criticize the dog are simply not Chinese.
[This is ridiculous! Winning an exhibition match is being touted as having incredible laning skills?]
[Fun fact: Uzi has never beaten Deft, Imp, or Bang!]
[Damn it! Do any of them have a Solo tournament championship? What's with the dog's barking?! If my dog hadn't had such bad teammates these past few years, he would have kicked these guys to death in one kick!]
...
Because Mingkai's performance in the All-Star event was mediocre, and Uzi won the Solo tournament.
A storm of collective purges against EDG and other "pig fans" swept through the entire LPL.
Inside the EDG club, Lu Chen watched Uzi on the Solo tournament champion's podium in the live stream, feeling quite triumphant.
After all, this was his first championship.
"Horquel, what kind of champion are you?"
"Your Hyukyu didn't win the World Championship." Pawn laughed. "Back then, your Hyukyu won for a whole year, and then Sungbin and I kicked him to death."
"Damn it!"
Upon hearing this, Deft became somewhat anxious, yet also felt helpless.
Back then, Samsung Blue was truly invincible, but who could have imagined that they would be defeated by Samsung White in the semifinals?
Keep in mind that before that match, they had practically dominated Samsung.
"It's okay, Hyukyu. Even though you didn't win the S-series championship, I still have to say Imp is not as good as Deft!"
"Don't let Shengbin hear you say that, or he'll fight you to the death," Pawn said with a smile.
The moment Uzi won the All-Star Solo Tournament, Lu Chen's Weibo and book review section were met with a massive purge of Royal Never Give Up (RNG) fans.
[Idiot author, come out and apologize to my dog!]
Do you even understand the value of a Solo tournament championship?!
[Talkative? When it comes to laning, isn't my dog the world's best ADC?]
...
Lu Chen didn't pay much attention to these comments.
As far as Lu Chen knew, the world's number one ADC was definitely his aunt, but at this moment he didn't know where she was hiding.
If we had to say who the world's best ADC is right now, it would definitely be Bang, while Uzi would at best be the world's best Shockwave.
For the past few days, his daily life has consisted of training, writing, and improving himself, and there haven't been too many surprises.
According to Abu, he is negotiating live streaming contracts with several major live streaming platforms for Lu Chen, but Lu Chen has refused for the time being.
The live streaming contract is an agency contract, and the contract is held by the club. Lu Chen's live streaming sponsorship fees and other expenses need to be split 50/50 with the club.
This is already quite good. Some people still have a 70/30 split, but live streaming is different.
Originally, the revenue from live streaming was split 50/50 with the platform, taxes were paid, and then it was split with the club, so Lu Chen didn't get much money at all.
Most importantly, he now signs a live streaming contract that pays him 1 yuan a month, which is already an astronomical sum.
Therefore, Lu Chen thought that he would talk about a live streaming contract after he officially entered professional competitions, so that the contract value would definitely be much higher.
Currently, his novel has been updated to the point where the protagonist, Lin Tianran, joins the EDG club. EDG was only established in S4, so he hasn't continued with any more plot twists.
After all, for Alliance novels, there can't be too many outrageous plot twists, because human inspiration has its limits, and once it's used up, there's nothing left to write.
The competition should remain the core focus, with daily antics as a secondary element.
Of course, there shouldn't be too many chapters in the competition, otherwise readers will start asking about your family tree.
Lu Chen had seen some authors of League of Legends novels write 5 words in a single game.
The author also enjoys this, believing that the competition should be described in great detail.
Specifically, this manifests as writing two chapters on the draft phase, where the protagonist chooses a hero to elicit a commentary from the audience, and a small-scale description is sufficient.
He revealed a certain hero, the audience shouted, the commentators praised it, and then after a while, he switched to a support hero.
What followed was a classic match, with two chapters dedicated to the laning phase and several chapters to each resource team fight, interspersed with various plot twists.
If you win, that's fine. But I'm afraid some authors write ten or so chapters and then lose, and then they'll be feeding you a lot of money.
"Well, I'll just soak up some of Uz's bathwater today."
Open the code!
Through tireless efforts, his current attribute level has greatly improved.
[Operational Ability: 79]
[Reactive Nerves: 81]
[Game Awareness: 80]
Dynamic visual acuity: 80
With his talent and ability to hold his own, he can be considered a hero in the LPL.
Not to mention that he also gained two talent attributes during this period, namely the ones obtained from completing the tasks of 1 collections and 1 monthly tickets.
[Assassin's Ferocity: When playing as an assassin, your strength will increase slightly, and your timing for entering the fray will be impeccable.]
[Take an unconventional approach: Using heroes with unorthodox item builds or playing unconventional roles can lead to a certain degree of skill improvement.]
Although it wasn't an exceptionally strong talent, it was enough for Lu Chen.
[Reach 3000 reads to extract your talent – a return to the basics]
I glanced at my reading progress and found it stuck around 2000 words, refusing to budge.
This is one reason why online novelists are anxious every day: if you write one thing wrong, it could cause your entire book to collapse.
Let alone a novice author like Lu Chen, even platinum-level authors often have their books collapse.
Lu Chen has been stuck at this level for a long time, and if he can't get to the next level...
What's with all this talk about "little loudspeaker," "Sanjiang," and "forced promotion"? He's destined to be out of luck.
"Enough talk, let's start the code!"
Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, Lu Chen quickly opened the author's assistant app.
"Today's plot is Lin Lang angrily asking Shockwave, 'What kind of champion are you?!'"
The novel's overall plot has now reached the competition, which is in accordance with the timeline of the novel, although it's the All-Star game.
There was an All-Star event at the end of 2014. Although it was still a makeshift team, under Fujii's planning, it was divided into the Noxus team and the Demacia team.
At this time, the All-Star event was just for the region to entertain itself. Netizens voted to select 10 players. Under Lu Chen's arrangement, the protagonist Lin Tianran naturally participated and became Uzi's opponent.
Isn't that a coincidence?
He immediately rose to fame in the All-Star game, using Jayce and Rumble to completely dominate Strawberry, who was matched up against him, turning the idea that Strawberry would win by giving up first blood into a joke.
Then came the team fights, where he carried the entire game with Jayce and Rumble, earning the MVP award and even leaving behind a famous quote during an interview.
All the boasting and humiliation were just a prelude to this moment.
Writing a book is like making dumplings for vinegar, a repetitive process, even the famous Four Great Classical Novels are like this.
For example, Journey to the West.
The typical plot involves encountering monsters on the journey to the West, followed by the exclamation, "Oh no, senior brother, Master has been captured by a monster!"
Then Sun Wukong went to rescue him, but for various reasons he couldn't defeat him, so he went to various places to ask for help. In the end, the monster turned out to be someone's mount or something.
Then the cycle continues.
"Hello, Penicillin, what do you think was the key reason you were able to win the match today?"
When interviewed by the beautiful host Su Xiaoyan, the protagonist Lin Tianran calmly said:
"I think there are a few key reasons. First, my teammates and I worked together as a team. Second, I am quite proficient with Jayce and Rumble."
"I'm good at hitting Jayce's Shockwave accurately, and I'm good at controlling the temperature when playing Rumble, so I don't easily get overheated."
According to the timeline, the audience would naturally not know about these two jokes, but Lu Chen laughed, as long as his readers knew.
"Is there anything you'd like to say to the audience today?"
"Yes, yes, I'd like to ask Uzi, I won the All-Star tournament when I was 18, what kind of championship did you win?"
Here, Lu Chen added his thoughts on winning today's Solo tournament.
Lin Tianran thought to himself, "Does the Solo tournament championship even count as a championship? It's not as good as my All-Star tournament championship."
As for the "S" championship being referred to by the Royal Never Give Up fans, it's possible they stole Uzi's girlfriend's job and swallowed the "olo" part.
At this point, Lu Chen immediately set a timed release for the chapter. While the vast majority of royal fans were still immersed in the joy of settling scores with various fan groups, Lu Chen's latest chapter was released at midnight, immediately sweeping across the LPL.
Within just one minute of posting, Lu Chen received more than a dozen comments.
[6666! Author, are you out of your mind?! You actually dare to follow current events so closely!]
[I could never fucking imagine something like "olo" being swallowed by Uzi's girlfriend!]
[Haha, that was a well-placed shockwave, not easily triggering red-temperature warnings. Don't think I don't know who you're implying!]
[I really enjoyed what you wrote, but please remember to close your comment section. LOL.JPG]
[Holy crap! They're initiating a team fight when they're behind! I'll just R-flash with Malphite and join the fight!]
Does winning a Solo tournament count as winning a championship?
...
In a very short time, Lu Chen's latest chapter appeared on Hupu and Kangba.
Originally, many posts were from Royal Club fans celebrating Uzi's Solo Championship victory, and many people were holding back their anger. The appearance of this post instantly ignited everyone's enthusiasm.
Countless fans rushed over upon hearing the news, and in an instant, Lu Chen's book review section was flooded with comments, helping him reach 3000 followers.
"I have to say, Uzi's popularity is really useful," Lu Chen remarked, while a line of words quietly appeared in front of his retina.
[Talent Extracted: Return to Fundamentals — Significantly reduces your urge to spam last-hit, enhances your last-hitting fundamentals, and speeds up your hero training, making one day equivalent to a year's worth of progress]
Watching it will make you learn it, playing it will make you an expert, and once you get the hang of it, it's absolutely amazing!
"Tianshan Boy's Kung Fu?" Lu Chen was somewhat taken aback. He had not only stolen Faker's secret technique, but had even surpassed it.
He then received a message from Meiko.
"Brother Chen, I'm in Bengbu! Quick, go check out that genius author's latest chapter! The LPL is going crazy!"
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