LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 9
Shall I tell you a little story from the past?
[Estasha Latias de Kaizen Princess, one day I’ll burn you alive in front of the imperial citizens on a cross.]
Talking about the imperial palace makes me feel too upset right now, so let’s go further back in time.
I lived alone with the woman who gave birth to me in a semi-basement single room.
I don’t know if she had been there since I was born or if we moved here when I was very young.
In my oldest memory, a child was desperately crying. But in the space covered by thick smoke, the woman never responded to his pleas.
I could never escape from that semi-basement single room my whole life. My legs were the problem.
The exact medical term was hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), but I only learned that later when I became interested in this field.
The woman’s emotions were always filled with hatred.
She hated the cramped semi-basement, she hated the drunken people screaming in the early morning, she hated me, who was nothing but a burden, and ultimately, she hated herself.
During the time when others were picking out school bags with their parents, she suddenly vanished.
Since the age of three, I had been too tired to cry, and I had never cried for that long again in my life.
I managed to be miraculously rescued three days later because I cried desperately until blood came from my throat.
I realized the harshness of the world at a young age.
I was a useless person in the eyes of society.
In any group, I was just a burden and an object of disgust.
Unless I had something special to offer them, they would have discarded me at any time.
Thankfully, I was more mature than my peers, and I presented that as my strength.
I clung to studying, comforting myself by imagining that if I were born 10,000 years ago, I would have fallen off a cliff and died the moment I was born.
I didn’t need to be overwhelmingly good at it. Just like how a 1st grader in middle school would find 1st-grade elementary school math easy, I decided to get ahead of others.
Even knowing that I would eventually be caught up, I couldn’t give up.
But I was overlooking this society. The world we live in wasn’t just a simple place of knowledge competition.
What about the place to stay? What about food?
While others had time to study, I had no choice but to desperately look for places to work.
And when my salary first hit my bank account, I despaired.
The creditor’s debt collection notices, and my mother’s missing person report led to the disposal of our semi-basement. Since then, inheritance procedures had begun, and I was stuck with her debt of 1.24 billion won, which I didn’t even know about.
That day, I finally broke down and cried quietly.
If there’s another life, I want to live as the richest person in the world.
*
“Na-me, the game has started! What should I buy first?”
Ah-rin clung to me, looking like she would cry again.
Well, in contrast, the game requirements were clear.
“A sorcerer’s staff and one potion. Stick close to me.”
We destroy the enemy fortress. The penalties given to both sides in the process are equal.
The simpler it is, the clearer my mind feels. That was the secret to how I managed to survive in this third ridiculous life.
Woosh The wind gently breezes. There are a few clouds, but who cares.
“Hello, Liri.”
“Hmm? Don’t get me wrong, Jim is definitely not asleep! Oh? Do you know my name?”
Despite the other three teammates still being in the Starting Village, I could talk to the fox merchant Liri. I felt amazing and gently patted her head.
“Thanks. I’ll rely on you again today.”
I handed over five silver coins and tried on the soul reaper’s ring. The intermediate potion was a bonus.
The air of the battlefield is cold but refreshing.
“This feels weird! But it feels like I can’t fall off Na-me!”
Ah-rin becomes a fluffy cat, flying around my head.
“It’s a skill. If you think you want to fall, you can, but it will be dangerous. Stick close and shoot arrows when you see the enemy.”
“Okay!”
“Read this in the meantime.”
She’s an elementary school student, so she should be able to read this much, right? I handed her the manual with the skill explanations.
“I’ll… try my best!”
Familiar scenery of the forest, which I’ve seen 50,000 times, unfolds. I can now remember where the red-speckled mushrooms are located.
The jungler, who had been waiting at the red location, welcomes us.
[Lucalis: Are you NoName?]
So that’s how the chat looks normally. When I was trapped in the capsule, every character was garbled, so I always blocked chat during the game.
After hitting the spawned red five times, we head to the bottom lane.
The champion I’m currently possessed by is ‘Kai’Sa’.
A girl isolated in the demon world after separating from her parents, who accepted the power of demon beasts to survive desperately has a tragic backstory.
As a result, her entire lower body and part of her upper body are covered in rough crustacean-like material.
On the enemy side, a pirate beauty and a mechanical monster, both often seen in League of Legends, take the lead on the bottom lane.
Soon, six soldiers join the confrontation.
“Aim for that red-haired girl with arrows. Even if you misjudge your aim, you can still redirect it to some extent.”
“I’ll try!”
Ah-rin cutely shoots the arrow, but it gets blocked by a soldier. She lets out a sound of crying, but I comfort her, saying it’s okay.
In level one, we need to focus on eliminating soldiers rather than trading damage.
The enemy has a strong two-level composition. If the enemy gets to level two first and tries to pressure us, we may be forced into a situation where we have to reluctantly take out soldiers.
Fortunately, the enemy’s harassment level wasn’t high either.
I quickly eliminate the soldiers with Kai’Sa’s abilities and take out the enemy’s damage shield as a bonus.
The second wave rushes in. A soldier from the first wave still survives on our side.
As I pretend to move sideways and back off, when the enemy tries to eliminate their last soldier, I focus on dealing damage to the pirate girl with basic attacks and my Q skill.
The mechanical monster tries to stop me with its anchor too late, but I had already anticipated that and withdrawn my body.
The pirate girl, confused, instinctively pulls back her body.
It seems she doesn’t understand that if she hesitates in the trading mechanism, it could lead to a larger loss.
Before the second wave of soldiers arrives, I proactively attack to drain their health.
Not wanting to lose, two bodies suddenly lunge forward.
From the feeling, they seem to want to escape the inevitable meteor attack and gather resources in the meantime.
I approached as if to respond to them but then steered my path sideways again.
Only one stone that didn’t even hurt grazed me.
“Ah-rin, heal!”
“Got it!”
Suddenly, my movement speed and attack speed increase.
Basically, Kai’Sa has exceptional stats at low levels, but her range is short.
But if I increase my movement speed, controlling a range of 25 becomes no big deal.
I land a basic attack and quickly retreat.
The pirate girl tries to hit me, but the distance has already widened, causing her attack to fail.
Using that gap, I retaliate with another basic Q.
The two soldiers I had damaged earlier disappear under two hits from six missiles. The remaining two are the girl’s share.
This time, as she entered my range, I tried to respond with a quick reaction with a basic attack, but my increased attack speed just barely allows me to land another hit.
Six surviving soldiers join the battle, bombarding the pirate girl. In contrast, the four that hit me are a cute number. The mechanical monster looks clueless.
I thought I had done enough and tried to escape, but Ah-rin hits the arrow right this time.
“I hit it this time!”
She complains to the supporter while being upset.
Just as I intended to use potions while cleaning up the remaining soldiers,
Her passive stacks had not reset yet.
[W-Flash-Basic-Q]
In an instant, the pirate girl’s heal and Flash burst forth, debuffing me with Exhaust, but it was already too late as I had poured out all my skills.
[(All) MintChocoRiceBurger: You’re dying to that in a block! LOL]
After that, the lane phase went smoothly.
Due to the top and mid combining for ten deaths, surrender votes began as soon as it hit 15 minutes, but with the duty to win for Ah-rin, I couldn’t agree to that.
I eliminate the mid and jungler who came to support the bottom to reset the game.
Kai’Sa has builds that focus on physical or magical.
But a so-called hybrid build doesn’t get much recognition since it’s a mediocre scaling that hinders the carrying potential of a ranged DPS.
But what if I apply overwhelming growth and heavily invest in items?
I transform into a versatile champion capable of engaging, poking, initiating, and kiting.
“Wahoo!!! Let’s go! Na-me, wipe them out!”
Charging at the enemies at an estimated speed of over 300 km/h.
I assassinate the only hard CC of the enemy team, Nautilus.
Ah-rin’s ultimate activates like a symbiosis without me saying anything.
When playing Kai’Sa in a one-versus-many situation, the most important point is to minimize the number of enemies as much as possible.
This principle applies to any champion, but Kai’Sa must utilize it more delicately.
[(All) MintChocoRiceBurger: Now you’re dying to a basic Q? This is ridiculous! LOL]
Tanks, bruisers, or assassins collapse evenly in front of Kai’Sa and Yuumi.
Even though only three people were left in the team after the top and mid already surrendered… Ah-rin expressed her gratitude to the jungler who had stuck with us till the end.
[Na-me is so cute: Thanks for sticking around till the end!]
[Lucalis: Thanks for the bus! Seriously, your friend is really good!]
[Lucalis: Why are you here with that skill?]
Now that I’ve kept my promise with Ah-rin, it’s time to leave the game.
“Did you have fun?”
“Yeah! Will you play again in the future?”
“I have homework to do.”
“That… I can do that later.”
“You came late again and got scolded by Teacher Cheol-min.”
“Teacher doesn’t really like me…”
“If you come early and help clean the classroom in the morning, they will like you.”
“Really…”
“But let’s play a board game after capsules come out.”
“That sounds good! Should we play Halli Galli or Monopoly?”
“Anything. Just wait a moment; I have something to do first.”
“Okay! I’ll prepare in advance.”
With my few friends, I left a short message for the three members of the clan “PleasePlease” I got to know somehow, the Rammas one-champ jungler “No Anger Just Hardworking.”