nycdaug Chapter 1 The Golden Touch
Chapter 1 The Golden Touch
Late 2024, IG training base in Shanghai.
"Shurima, your emperor has returned!"
Beside Mu Chun, the man wearing black-rimmed glasses suddenly turned around, his eyes widening in disbelief behind the lenses. He opened his mouth, but in the end, he could only sigh helplessly, "Fine, whatever makes you happy."
Then, he locked in Bard, saying, "The enemy is Kareem, just stay put, I'll roam and find my rhythm."
If you look closely, you'll notice that Mu Chun's seat and the floor displayed on the computer are both the fourth one, which belongs to the AD position.
From the moment he locked up the Tsar, all eyes were on him.
After all, their opponent is the all-star IG team that has been marketed for a long time. Everyone wants to put on a great performance against star players and find a job before the transfer window closes.
Mu Chun coughed lightly, "It's alright, trust me."
The support player just sighed, "It's okay, it's okay, we just need to focus on our own game. I'll put two cups of coffee under your tower for you, Azir, just take care of the pressure yourself."
He had already assumed that Mu Chun had given up on himself and didn't take the training match seriously, but he didn't understand why Mu Chun wasn't like that in his memory.
The final lineups for both sides have been determined.
Blue Team All-Star Class:
Top laner TheShy: Vayne
Jungler Jiejie: Vi
Mid laner Rookie: Sylas
ADGALA: Kalista
Support Meiko: Renata
Red team's youth training cannon fodder:
Top laner wjl: Aatrox
Jungler JT: Xin Zhao
Mid laner xt: Syndra
ADChunfeng: Tsar
Support CZ: Bard
[Host detected to have selected a non-AD role hero; random talent selection is in progress...]
[Congratulations, host! You have obtained the random talent: Midas Touch]
[Midas Touch: A general talent that ensures you can last-hit every minion you want, always finding the safest lane when rotating. Dominate the minion wave! Remember to buy Cull!]
[Friendly reminder: Don't go there when you're defending the base!]
Mu Chun was reborn, reborn into the body of an eighteen-year-old boy with the same name as him.
The original owner was a troubled boy who ran away from home at the age of sixteen. Fortunately, he had good talent and stayed with IG as a youth training player. At that time, IG was in a slump, and players TheShy and Rookie left the team.
Under such circumstances, the original owner's talent was indeed impressive, and he quickly received the promises from the management, who promised him a first-team contract when he turned eighteen.
But Mu Chun, who was reborn, knew that all of this was fake. At the end of 24, IG would assemble an all-star team and undergo a major reshuffle of management.
As an unknown youth trainee who had just turned eighteen, he was unlikely to have a contract. Sure enough, the person who made the promise was soon fired.
Even if everyone agrees, the fans might not. His replacement of GALA's fans would be unhappy, and his starting position with the other five players would be even more unhappy. They don't want their favorite players to mentor newcomers.
Therefore, Mu Chun was not pretentious and, with great self-awareness, went to various clubs for trials at the beginning of the transfer window.
But the system was both its strength and its weakness.
This bizarre system prevents him from playing normal AD carries. When he does, he's like a complete beginner, unable to figure out the path. He has to choose some strange and unusual heroes. Fortunately, it also provides random talents and hero proficiency compensation.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have any heroes he knows how to play.
With the support of the system, the results of the trial training were obvious.
"What do you play as AD carry?"
"The Tsar Snake Woman"
"...I'm asking about AD."
"That's right, Azir and Cassiopeia are playing AD carries."
The silence in the training room at that time was deafening.
However, some enthusiastic teams, upon learning that he could play Azir, asked him if he would be willing to switch positions to play mid lane. After all, players who can play Azir are rare talents in the LPL, almost like phoenix feathers.
Unfortunately, due to the bizarre system, he couldn't change positions, and the other side's enthusiasm was quickly dampened. He was carried away, chair and all.
Even RNG wouldn't accept it, and they weren't even willing to give them fifty yuan for travel expenses.
Disheartened, Mu Chun returned to IG, and the entire roster of players was present, ready for a practice match.
GALA was the last to be signed. After all, the new management had always wanted to sign the older brother to complete the three core players of the S8 championship, but the older brother was unwilling to come back, so they chose GALA as a second choice. This match was more like a trial for him.
All of IG's other AD carries have gone out to find jobs, and Mu Chun was inexplicably pulled into this scrim match as soon as he returned.
Am I really going to face GALA in my very first game after respawning?
me?
He entered the training room in a completely dazed state, but after coming to his senses, he confidently locked down the Tsar.
GALA himself is not an aggressive laner, and his support Meiko's laning ability has declined after many years of playing.
As for me, Mu Chun, I've just turned eighteen. Should I avoid their sharp edge?
Two soldiers and two cappuccinos, the advantage is on my side!
Welcome to Summoner's Rift!
"How about you switch lanes?" the mid laner suggested tentatively.
At this point in the game, lane-swapping detection hadn't been implemented yet. The best solution was for the bot lane duo to switch to the top lane to avoid the strong laning phase of the enemy's Kalibr duo.
"No trade!"
The top laner refused decisively. His opponent was TheShy, who, even though he was past his prime, still managed to become famous for a while after a solo kill in the LPL. A solo kill in a scrim, even if it didn't make him famous, would have made other teams forget about it and he wouldn't have to run around looking for teams to sign him.
Mu Chun coughed lightly twice, his tone calm, "I don't really want to switch lanes either. Let's just keep playing. Bard can roam freely anyway, I'll get back to farming soon."
He paused, then added, "Trust me."
With the [Midas Touch] talent, his development speed will be very fast, and he also has a teleportation ability.
On screen, Tsar and Bard arrive at the bottom lane, and Mu Chun immediately places Sand Soldiers in the mid bush.
Instantly, the Sand Soldier revealed Kalista and Lenata in the bushes, and under Mu Chun's control, the Sand Soldier stabbed both of them with a single shot.
The Tsar then turned and dodged Lena's Q skill.
This caused Bard, the support behind him, a lot of trouble. He was trapped in the middle bush by Lena's missiles, and then GALA's Kalista spear pierced him again and again.
Mu Chun simply retreated while attacking, and the Sand Soldiers couldn't poke the two opponents at all. With only Doran's Ring, his damage was negligible, and he and GALA's Lethal Tempo were both fully stacked.
Bard immediately used his Heal and Flashed into the tower, thus saving his health from being killed by Kalista's Spear of Despair.
Mu Chun also lost some health. Bard placed two cappuccinos under the turret and then recalled to base. "Hold on, their damage is too high."
Instead of hiding under the tower, Mu Chun waited until the enemy pushed the minion wave forward.
He knew that when that time came, he wouldn't be able to stay under the tower and show off his minion wave; he would be tower-dived!
He pressed himself against the wall, reached the vicinity of the intersection of the soldier lines, and placed the sand soldiers at the maximum distance.
At this moment, the Karsa-Lie combination, who were slowly pushing the minion wave, naturally noticed this and immediately moved forward to suppress them.
Mu Chun wasn't greedy. With the blessing of [Midas Touch], he knew the kill threshold of every minion like the back of his hand. With a single thrust of his spear, he pierced through two low-health front-line minions. The moment he got the forty-two gold, he immediately retreated into the tower.
Bard quickly returned to the lane, and Mu Chun finally had the right to legitimately farm minions.
As Karlie and his companion reached level three, a large wave of minions blocked their tower. At this point, the two ignored last-hitting minions and focused solely on pushing the lane.
"They're going to tower dive," Mu Chun immediately said, signaling for the support to move forward.
As the support moved forward, Mu Chun immediately placed sand soldiers and frantically attacked the minions in front of the tower.
Bard, who went forward to assist, was inevitably beaten down to a sliver of health. He only managed to save his health by drinking a health potion and a cappuccino under the tower.
As the support retreated, Mu Chun's sand soldiers took advantage of the time the support was being attacked to poke the minion wave until it was low on health, and then he used his Q.
The sand soldier swiftly charged forward, finishing off the remaining low-health minions along the way, and Mu Chun's Tsar leveled up to level three.
Just as Mu Chun and the support were relieved that the tower dive crisis had been averted, Jiejie's Vi, operating between the first and second towers, had already cut off their own minion wave.