TORFOM

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Editor: Uncia, Sahloknir

Proofreader: DarkSapphire 

[Welcome to Summoner's Rift]

When the game loaded to Summoner's Rift, Lin Xizhou swallowed nervously. The groggy feeling from before was gone. During the ban and pick phase, he chose Tahm Kench while Northland chose Kai'Sa, the same champion he had been playing frequently these days—also, the same marksman that won his team the final match of the championship.

Lin Xizhou didn't have the courage to ask about North God's identity directly on the in-game chat, and could only control the chubby, toad-like figure to follow Kai'Sa. He watched his champion sway with each step—due to his size.

The other teammates were obviously very calm about this username because there were many accounts with 'Northland' across different servers. It was near impossible to know if they came across the real deal in a ranked match. Only Lin Xizhou was uneasy, for fear that his playing was too horrible for North God.

As someone who didn't play this game often, playing with Northland in the laning phase exhausted almost all of his concentration. He would freeze lane, tank skills, and be careful not to take CS and kills. In less than ten minutes, Ji Beiling's CS was ten ahead of his opponent.

Their opponents were obviously two strangers that were matched together because of their lack of cooperation and awareness, just like two desperate monkeys playing. Ji Beiling's ability to push a large wave of minions under the enemy's turret as a late game champion like Kai'Sa showed how powerful he was.

He was actually prepared for a messy performance from his support, Congee. After all, the younger man used to main ADC. He didn't expect Congee's basic skills to be much better than what he had imagined. His support did well in warding, freezing lane, and blocking skills. The younger man's ability to seize opportunities was also very good, punishing the other ADC every time for overextending.

This game was too easy for them to abuse their weaker opponents. Ji Beiling's Kai'Sa could get one guaranteed kill in each engagement. They almost destroyed the bot lane's inhibitor turret even before the first dragon.

When the opposite team ran back to their fountain with low HP from the bot lane inhibitor turret, Lin Xizhou used Tahm Kench's ultimate and drove the enemy from across the map for Kai'Sa to harvest, and Ji Beiling immediately picked each of them off to receive a pentakill—both players in the duo were having an excellent experience!

Maybe from how bloody the enemy bot lane was beaten, the enemy ADC decided to afk in the fountain while the other teammate typed to ask in all chat.

Lockly: [Are you the real North God?]

Unfortunately, the Nexus crystal exploded and [Victory] appeared on the game screen. There was no chance to send a reply.

Ji Beiling glanced at the time. The game lasted long enough for him to purchase the skin.

He moved his mouse. This kind of enjoyable game experience was rare in the Chinese servers. In the previous livestream, during most of his 5v5 or 3v3, there would be a troll, a feeder, or, in a rare chance, a normal player.

Sometimes, he would be extremely annoyed with the game, but with how harsh the Korean server is with Chinese professional players, put him in a tough spot during his livestream because he couldn't play on the Korean server without getting reported and banned.

We're sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we're going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.