League of the Unkillable Demon King

Chapter 43: Sword Of The Occult

Shen: [Sword of The Occult! You’re committing a crime against medical officers!] He was filled with righteous indignation as he had Shen’s Surgeon skin on.

Chen Mu: [Am I supposed to surrender myself to be operated on by a surgeon from a women’s hospital even though I have no symptoms?]

Shen: [I get it. You need the little nurse who takes care of men-related diseases.] After typing that, Shen disappeared from the chat.

Chen Mu was not going to care about it. He hurriedly cleared off the enemy minions and started chipping away at the turret. He was ready to roam after demolishing this turret.

Much to his surprise, their mid laner, Akali, suddenly popped out from the side. She was clad in her nurse outfit. Akali: [Dear little brother, I’m here to give you your shot.]

Chen Mu thought, ‘Aww, they know that I love her nurse uniform.’ As Chen Mu thought about the most iconic saved file in the deepest part of his hard drive, he recalled the grief he felt in his heart when the System deleted everything.

Chen Mu would not go easy on Akali just because she was a girl. The moment hey came face-to-face with one another, he cast his Dragon Strike, making her feel his speed, strength, and length.

Chen Mu’s opponents had the right idea and their strategy was definitely correct. Their top lane was being utterly destroyed, and in such a state where their jungler could not rescue it, their next best choice was to switch lanes. Under normal circumstances, their mid laner would not have a level-disadvantage, and sending their mid laner to deal with the overpowering top laner would at least give them a fighting chance.

Despite being a melee champion, it was not easy for Shen to control the minion wave in mid lane. He could still somewhat farm CS and avoid getting suppressed. The main reason for that was mid lane was not as crazy as top lane. There were not many monsters that had a win rate of ninety percent on the Chinese server.

As an example, a premade team of three like Shen’s team consisted of players who played in solo queue games of one thousand and eight hundred ELO points. They had looked up plenty of professional player IDs before this and knew most of their blind pick win rates were at an average of more than seventy percent. Nevertheless, those players had sat through two to three hundred matches to reach that win rate. If this Prince’s win rate remained at ninety percent even after he had played two hundred matches, he solidly qualified to play the game professionally.

To win that many matches in solo queue blind pick matches was not as easy as most people thought. Firstly, there was a chance on would find themselves with teammates who were noobies that simply played champions available in the weekly free champion rotation. After all, what better time to practice a champion or troll people than in blind pick matches. Additionally, a high win rate would increase a person’s chances of matching up against premade teams of five.

The teamwork of a premade team of five could never compare to the teamwork of five solo queue players who were strangers to one another. Certain League gods would play in premade teams to increase their win rates. Therefore, when Shen, Varus, and Akali saw Chen Mu’s ninety percent win rate, investigated his match history, and realized that Chen Mu had not played any games as a premade team, they agreed to call Chen Mu a monster. They were not exaggerating at all.

In Akali’s fight against Prince, she was able to sneak in some CS by being invisible with her W. Meanwhile, her bot laner had just destroyed the bot lane turret and was ready to swap to mid lane.

When one had an advantage in a particular lane, the right way to proceed was to expand one’s control to other lanes. By destroying turrets and capturing drakes, players of the enemy team could help aid the poor Shen economically.

Although Prince was fed, his items fully revolved around damage output. The moment he was put under heavy crowd control, it would be possible for him to be instantly killed with a full combo of abilities.

Chen Mu got Chen Yifei to farm in bot lane and get fed slowly. He also told her to buy items that focused on armor penetration so that she could concentrate on securing kills using her ultimate in team fights.

With Chen Yifei’s skills in League, she would never be able to compete against Varus that had an immaculate CS score, accurately cast his skillshots, and had rather impressive damage. If Chen Yifei wanted to push the lane, she would lose the opportunity to get fed.

Everyone else on Chen Mu’s team was a mediocre player. Therefore, the burden fell on Chen Mu’s shoulders. If he died—even once—the effects of his Sword of The Occult would be rendered useless.

Yet, Akali remained naive to the peril she was in. After observing her movement patterns whenever she turned invisible twice, it was clear to Chen Mu that Akali would always walk toward a low-health minion after turning invisible and then kill it before retreating.

Just as Akali was about to repeat the same technique, Chen Mu cast his EQ blindly and knocked her up while she was still invisible. Then, Chen Mu followed up with a basic attack, Ignite, and Cataclysm. Akali was instantly killed.

“Such good luck! It definitely had to be a lucky guess!” Akali exclaimed to her teammates. By ‘lucky guess’, she meant to say that Chen Mu was merely lucky; that he had not killed her with his own skill.

“What if he predicted your movements? Think of his win rate. It would make sense,” replied Shen. The stress he had felt while playing against Chen Mu was too great. Normally, Shen was easily able to escape the oppression of players with more than two thousand ELO points. However, when he encountered Chen Mu, he was harassed so much he ended up falling two levels behind the latter. Not even switching lanes might have made things worse.

“It all depends on Varus now. Cover him when he attacks.” Akali felt helpless. What was the monster doing, bullying noobies in blind pick matches when he should play ranked games?

It was not until after the Akali got knocked up into the air and killed instantly while she was still invisible that she finally believed—her movement patterns had been completely within Prince’s prediction!

Simultaneously, Chen Mu destroyed the enemy top turret. Chen Mu started to fool around after that. It would be stupid if he were to head for mid lane right away. His opponent in mid lane was a champion with four abilities. Not counting his opponent’s passive, Chen Mu would have to fight against sixteen abilities. They might not have had enough damage to kill Chen Mu instantly, but they could spam their abilities to beat Chen Mu to death. It was common for players to blindly pick fights against multiple champions in a lane they had an advantage in.

Such a mistake was often caused by a player’s overconfidence from being at a high level and possessing good items; it gave them the impression that it was fine to not calculate the difference in combat strength between them and their opponents. They would leap into battle, kill a squishy champion, and deliver their own head to their enemies. Of course, they would get a lot of hate from their teammates for allowing their enemies to get fed, or simply because they should have fought against the enemy top laner, etcetera.

Chen Mu glanced at the game duration and went straight to the Red Buff that respawned every five minutes. Assuming that his opponent had killed the Red Buff at the two minutes and thirty seconds mark, the Red Buff should respawn each time at the seven minutes and thirty seconds mark, thirteen minutes and thirty seconds mark, and the eighteen minutes and thirty seconds mark.

The same calculation applied to the Blue Buff too. If one figured out the jungle camp their opponent started with at the beginning of the game, one could roughly estimate the respawn time of the buffs.

Initially, Chen Mu used such analogical reasoning—when the Red Buff on his side respawned, his opponent’s Blue Buff would respawn too; his Blue Buff’s respawn time would be that of his opponent’s Red Buff respawn time.

Soon, Chen Mu came to realize that some of his teammates did not always attack the Red Buff immediately even after its respawn. Therefore, he resorted to memorizing the respawn times with his brain.

As he had predicted, the Red Buff was waiting quietly for the knight that would take its head.

In less than five seconds, Sonic Waves blasted out from behind the wall and a bald head emerged.

The Blind Monk was clad in an Acolyte skin as he happily slammed away at the Red Buff.

The more skillful a player was, the more importance they placed on the buffs. They could earn the most number of buffs if they rushed over to defeat the buffs the moment they respawned.

Chen Mu stood and waited patiently in the brush near Blind Monk’s top side. Chen Mu waited for the white shield from Blind Monk’s Tempest to disappear and for Blind Monk to exhaust his dash ability. Such things would make it easier for Chen Mu to score a kill.

A qualified assassin had to take his opponent’s abilities into account, especially abilities that allowed them to dash.

The moment the Blind Monk used Tempest, Chen Mu knocked the Blind Monk up at almost light speed with his EQ combo. He leaped at him and then followed up with basic attacks.

Chen Mu had just slaughtered Akali, thus, the cooldown his ultimate had not yet been refreshed. More was required of the assassination.

Seeing Prince, the latter’s soul left their body. With the Blind Monk’s item build, Prince’s EQ combo ended up reducing his health into half. With his W still on CD, the Blind Monk attempted to kick his way to escape.

Nevertheless, Prince did not fly as far as Blind Monk had expected to and instead stopped by the Red Buff’s wall. The wall was too thick and Prince could not go through it.

Chen Mu positioned himself in a way that he could manipulate the angle in which the Blind Monk could kick him. If Prince flew too far away, he would not be able to catch up to the Blind Monk. After carefully taking all of Blind Monk’s abilities into account, only then could Chen Mu assassinate the Blind Monk without fail.

Prince’s Golden Aegis slowed down Blind Monk. Chen Mu killed Blind Monk after performing a few more basic attacks. Additionally, he snatched away the dying Red Buff. After doing so, Chen Mu retreated hurriedly. It was nothing but common sense to experienced players to approach the previous scene of a fight. The higher the level of the match, the faster backup would arrive. Certain players were even capable of magically predicting the occurrence of teamfights.

Prince’s current combat strength did not allow him to fight 1V3s yet if he took them all at the same time. That was especially true if he had to deal with Varus who had insanely high damage as well.

After escaping from Baron pit and disappointing his opponents who had come over to provide support, Chen Mu returned to his lane and cleared the minion wave. Usually, top laners had to choose a suitable recall time in order to avoid missing CS. Otherwise, the enemy minions would be wasted and die to the turret. The resources found in the game were constant and wasting them meant becoming less rich.

Sometimes, Chen Mu noticed that when a top laner who was ahead only focused on ganking other laners, they would soon realize that their enemies had leveled up more than themselves after a few minutes. They would only be able to cry over split minions by then.

“It’s fine. We’ll split push. Let’s avoid Prince altogether for now,” instructed Varus.

Prince’s Sword of The Occult had six stacks to it!