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The Lulu from 'that era.'

Anyone who remembered those days couldn't help but tremble at the mere sight of Lulu.

Whether they were players who enjoyed the game.

Or developers who created it.

The nightmare of Lulu at launch had become a massive scar, impossible to erase, lingering deep in everyone's hearts.

Back then, Lulu was a character that had halved both the battlefield and the player count.

In just one week, concurrent users had dropped by more than half.

Everyone united in a single cry.

This game is doomed.

There's no future left for it.

Thanks to that, in mere days, the sales and stock price of Celt of Heroes' developer 'Milesian' plummeted so hard that it drove countless people into the waters of the Han River.

Lulu was a hero with truly fraudulent performance.

Generous parry hitbox.

Sturdy self-sufficiency even when building pure damage items.

And overwhelming power that crushed opponents flat.

She was like an insurmountable mountain. The peak that players could now barely scrape out after immense effort was something even a user who'd only been playing for a week could pull off effortlessly.

Naturally, the game turned into a contest of who could play Lulu better.

A ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠fight between eight side characters and two Lulus.

Even if all eight quit the game, it wouldn't affect the outcome in the slightest.

The battlefields of Celt of Heroes were completely broken.

Once it reached that point, most people simply abandoned the game. In the end, the developer made a desperate decision to save it — they ripped out all four of Lulu's limbs.

Concurrent user destroyer.

New player guillotine.

The bitch who ruined the game.

Elementary school hero.

MDC (Motherfucking Dogshit Character).

Spear-wielding orphan.

With only those humiliating nicknames, Lulu was shoved straight to the bottom of the abyss.

A hero who triggered mass hysteria and floods of curses the moment anyone even suggested the slightest buff.

A hero who could never be buffed, no matter how bad her metrics looked.

A hero who might as well have been deleted.

A hero the developers had essentially publicly declared they'd given up on.

A hero flawed from the very design stage.

That was the current Lulu.

She had become a legendary Pokémon that no one touched once the game reached even a moderate skill level — existing only in fan art and secondary creations.

—But now.

The very Lulu who'd been written off as complete trash—

Was about to reveal her 'that era' form.

And in the upper tier known as Master, no less.

Everyone held their breath as they stared at Ha Yunseo's — that is, FurryWheelSlayer's — personal screen.

On the surface they hurled fierce criticism at Lulu, but deep down, every Celt of Heroes player still cherished a soft spot for the adorable little dinosaur.

They were all secretly hoping to see Lulu ruthlessly carve through her enemies.

—However.

<…Hmm. The enemy Kartia comes pretty often, huh.>

“Didn’t the Kartia just now feel way too obvious?”

<……Did it?>

“………Yeah. Well, still, taking one with you isn’t bad, I guess.”

—Five minutes later.

<What a shame. Kartia came at such a perfect time.>

“……Uh. That last one… you really shouldn’t have gone in… right? Wasn’t it way too obvious?”

<Was it?>

“You popped out of the bush on the side path for a second and went right back in. ……Did you really not see that?”

<As expected of Cloudy. Your observation skills are impressive.>

“No…!! Wait, that was literally impossible to miss!!!”

The overwhelming performance from earlier had vanished. All that remained in CloudySky’s stream was a solo queue headbutt dinosaur.

<Kartia’s friend is pretty good. They know exactly who to focus.>

“Noooo… This is……”

CloudySky spoke in a voice that sounded like she was about to cry.

“Three people were just standing there bold as brass near the glen, and you still charged straight in, Master……”

“There was nothing ‘too bad’ about it!?!?!?”

The game had already reached mid-game.

While they waited for the epic dungeon room of Túatha Dé Danann’s King · Nuada near the glen to open, the enemy Dungeoner-positioned Kartia and Wanderer-positioned Healer-Cheren meticulously secured vision and circled the area.

Ha Yunseo’s Lulu still stood in the glen, pressuring a siege tower that hadn’t even lost half its health yet. Behind her, the low-health knight was slowly recovering using his passive that restored health while out of combat.

Meanwhile, Lulu’s teammates, losing the power struggle, were trying to contest the Wanderer-only object Briid’s Fruit that spawned by the river on the right side of the map.

CloudySky immediately caught it and spoke up.

“All our teammates went to eat the fruit. Briid’s Fruit is an object that gives wanderers cooldown reduction, amplified healing, and a ton of experience. In a disadvantaged situation like this, there’s no choice but to grab it anyway.

It’s a shame we can’t secure vision… but there’s still some time before Nuada appears, so a quick recall and slowly pushing vision should still be doable.

By now the enemy should have full vision of our positions, so Kartia and Cheren will probably come to kill Lulu, right? Master should notice and immediately start retreating… Uh? Wait, Master?”

Even though it was time to retreat, Lulu suddenly accelerated, dashed past the tower, and charged straight into the enemy territory.

The knight looked startled for a moment, then calmly engaged.

But it was only a clever smokescreen.

Pretending to fight, the knight used a large greatsword thrust motion to create distance and flee.

And as if passing a baton, the Lancer-Kartia’s ultimate activated from the side.

A massive horde of shadow black horses charged across a long rectangular zone like a stampede of water buffalo. Kartia and Healer-Cheren rushed in with an enormous movement speed buff.

Lulu and Kartia collided in an instant.

For a brief second, CloudySky thought, With that monstrous physicality from earlier, couldn’t she win this? But the moment it became a 2v1, Lulu helplessly took the beating.

There was no trace of the monstrous parry reactions or mind games she’d shown before.

She was full of holes.

‘…It feels disappointing somehow.’

That was what CloudySky thought.

Of course, asking someone to block every single attack in a chaotic 2v1 fight was incredibly harsh. Still, the monstrous physicality from before had somehow made it feel possible, so the disappointment was inevitable.

Lulu fought hard, but the healer’s disruption skill and the knight’s sudden ambush thrust after repositioning finally brought her down.

And then countless Mia Pings rained down on Lulu’s corpse.

Also known as question mark pings.

It was a beloved Celt of Heroes culture where allies would spam the screen with ? whenever someone made an embarrassing mistake or did something completely braindead.

Her teammates were gently laying a white cloth of question marks over Lulu’s cold corpse.

The enemies who had just cut down Lulu immediately rushed together into the epic dungeon Túatha Dé Danann’s King · Nuada.

The teammates who had just recalled spat curses at Lulu while desperately trying to interfere, throwing themselves into the dungeon late.

But the result was a crushing defeat.

It was obvious from the start.

The announcement rang across the entire map.

Thanks to recent buffs, Nuada’s buff was now slightly better than Balor’s.

It was safe to say victory was nearly impossible now.

At the same time, the surrender vote popped up.

V V V V □

Four approval votes shot up as if they’d been waiting for it.

FurryWheelSlayer didn’t press anything, but she was forcibly surrendered anyway.

—Fwooooooooosh!!!!!

—Boom!!!!!!

A brief silence followed.

“………….”

<………….>

Ha Yunseo spoke first.

<…What a shame. I didn’t expect the knight to run away like a coward. I thought he’d fight me since the tower was there.>

“……Right now, that doesn’t seem like the problem……”

<Doesn’t it?>

CloudySky covered her eyes with both hands. The small sigh that escaped her was filled with lament and frustration.

CloudySky had always placed extreme importance on macro play and game operation.

Most of the guides she posted on the CeltIn Gallery were about macro and team play.

She was almost pathologically obsessed with it.

To what extent? Even on her days off, when she visited other streamers’ broadcasts, she would spam an enormous amount of macro feedback in chat.

Viewers would say “the whip rain is coming,” and “whip rain” eventually became the term for CloudySky’s fiery feedback.

Just two days ago, she had visited SejiSeji’s broadcast — who was somehow struggling in Master — and unleashed a massive downpour of whip rain.

After getting drenched by the relentless storm multiple times, a completely soaked SejiSeji finally begged, “…I get it… Cloudy… please stop……” Only ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠then did she let up.

Because of that, CloudySky was often invited as a coach for streamers’ internal scrims.

Every time, she would respond with an equally massive amount of whip rain, and it eventually became a sort of initiation ritual for new scrim teams.

Once a streamer tournament began and teams were formed, each team would randomly visit CloudySky to get evaluated. They would then neatly edit the footage of their members getting brutally whipped and upload it to YouTube.

Community users would then listen to CloudySky’s feedback for each team and predict the tournament winner.

That was how sharp CloudySky’s eye for team macro and operation was.

And right now, the person putting that very CloudySky through hell was sitting right in front of her.