Chapter 43
Chapter 43
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 43
Chapter Title: No Normals Exist
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Mud War.
A tournament where low-tier Emerald and below League players compete.
Among the tiers Iron - Bronze - Silver - Gold - Platinum - Emerald - Diamond.
Starting from Silver up to and including Emerald, it was a tournament full of variables.
Simply put, it was a low-tier tournament.
There were countless low-tier streamers among internet broadcasters.
Most participants were scouted by the organizers.
And recently, a new hotshot had emerged in that low-tier scene.
"Mungki, is it true you have 2000 games in Silver?"
It was Mungki.
- Yeah
- True
- Checked all accounts, no smurfs, no boosting suspicions
- He said himself he's a jungle ADC main, and yeah, mostly jungle ADC
- Same boot order, same item builds, same spell positions
- No sudden win rate spikes on champs outta nowhere
- Not a shared account, all solo, super clean
"Wow, then... isn't that the whole story? Is there anything hotter than this?"
- He reached Gold once lol
- But doesn't seem to play LoL much lately
- Just scout him anyway
"Of course we scout him, absolutely."
Mud War organizer Bisorong immediately pulled up the scouting email template and quickly filled it out.
He sent it to Mungki without hesitation.
"Are you streaming right now?"
- Yeah
- Check yourself
- What's the point if the guy acts like a ping-pong ball lol
As soon as Bisorong learned Mungki was live, he jumped into the stream.
He confirmed Mungki had read the email and immediately dropped a donation.
- Bisorong donates 300,000 won. Thank you!
[ Mungki, nothing big, just read it comfortably and decide. No pressure. ]
- lmao
- No pressure (while donating 300k)
- This is pure fandom (first time watching)
- Breathe breathe (choking him)
- But isn't being this blatant pressuring?
- 300k isn't pressure money, it's blessing money
- True
"But since you haven't played LoL in a while, you might not be interested."
- Fair
- But what's the role? ADC? Jungle?
"Ah, planning for ADC. Looks like you played a ton of ADC? Not much jungle?"
- Yeah
- True, low-tier ADCs are rare
- Plenty exist, just no entertaining ones for streams
- Whoa
- Whoa
- Nailed it
Bisorong checked the chat reactions while gauging Mungki's expression.
"First, thanks for the donation! Bisorong! 300k donation, thank you! Going for Deep Mung-po triple!"
Deep Mung-pooook.
A nearly 190cm man suddenly shoves his lips at the cam and rubs against it.
'Is this a 100k reaction? That's why three times?'
While Bisorong reeled in shock.
Regardless, Mungki's stream chat exploded.
*3* or =3= emotes from ages ago flooded the screen.
Mungki giving his all on the donation thanks entered Bisorong's view.
- Insane
- lmao
- Lol
- lmao
- Real
- Didn't expect this kinda stream
- lmao super funny guy
And viewers thoroughly enjoying Mungki himself.
'This... isn't all good.'
He'd heard stories from fellow streamers.
Super handsome, and just as charismatic.
'If he's popular enough to pull viewers from my stream... kinda scary?'
He hadn't imagined this level.
Normally, when freeloading on another stream, the freeloadee's viewer count doesn't rise.
Without calls like "Come visit my stream" or "Fire support pls."
Just airing another stream's feed, viewer count stays the same.
But Mungki's live viewers were climbing fast.
Sudden influx spike.
Bisorong realized his own viewers were flowing to Mungki's stream.
All from that bizarre "Deep Mung-po" triple reaction.
As Bisorong felt a strange sense of crisis.
Mungki, who'd gotten the 300k donation, slowly read the scouting email.
"Hmm..."
Made a pondering face for a sec.
"Mungmayusi... Mungler... Mungdam... Mungyper... Mungft... Mungji... Mungkiruv... Ha, what nick do I even use for the tourney...?"
Muttered nonsense to himself.
"I'll do it."
Decided to join.
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Mud War, honestly, one tournament I'd wanted to join forever.
'Well, precisely, every tournament on Garden.'
Garden holds tons of platform tournaments regularly, with solid support.
Even sponsors big streamer tourneys themselves.
But those are for known streamers.
No spot for me.
'Mud War happened often before, but I had zero recognition... and too many replacements.'
Low-tier rules: some roles implicitly filled by women, not men.
No room for male low-tier streamers.
"Hoo... Did I grow this much already? Scary for real."
- Crazy bastard
- Why say that out loud
- Sudden chuuni dialogue
- But chuuni lines are decent, why talk like an old-school otaku
- 25 is grown-up age lol
- Post-army, all uncles
- ㅜㅜ
- I'm high school sophomore now, unification before I enlist?
- Open a can of tuna
- ㅠㅠ
Good flow.
Why? Just opened subs button.
- Ttalandda subbed for 1 month. Thanks!
- Mung-op subbed for 1 month. Thanks!
- ShoulderBackNeckPizza subbed for 1 month. Thanks!
- HealthyStretchEssential subbed for 1 month. Thanks!
- MangaLuvko subbed for 1 month. Thanks!
- JjujjuHunter subbed for 1 month. Thanks!
- Lera subbed for 1 month. Thanks!
- Jjining subbed 1 month. Thanks!
- EV subbed for 1 month. Thanks!
- Dalgeun subbed for 1 month. Thanks!
Sub shower ongoing.
And viewers flowing from Bisorong's stream?
Naturally, some hop on this sub wave.
"Sub icons, I'll contact the artist separately, so bear with basic emotes till then. Thanks."
- Polite only now aoo lmao
- Knows grandma's "tab it" tone: me -
- Business mode: ignores friend bonds
Good flow.
Honestly, 10 subs felt huge.
[Current viewers: 743]
[Subs: 121]
10x more subs than expected.
Even 20 tier 2 subs (expensive ones).
No features yet, but 14,500 won over 4,500 won?
"Subs... really, super duper thanks. Tier 2 twenty peeps, so Deep Mung-po x3 then back to stream."
- Calculated af
- Polite mid-this pisses me off
- Mungki, weren't we buds?
- Sir, can't do that here. Tier 2 subbed?
- lmao
- Sub persona just says "Mung" pisses off
- It's Mung sub lol
- What's good about sub?
- No ads, sub icons, cool persona prefix lol
- Got it
- Tier 2 perks?
- Hasn't thought that far~ Took money first~
- Collect first type?
Honestly touching.
If not mid-stream, eyes would've teared.
High chance of choking up randomly at night.
'Hmm... This is genuinely moving.'
When my situation improves, wanna give back to viewers.
Thinking that.
"But auction's this Saturday, so focus on Mark till then?"
Steered stream vibe.
- Yeah
- Mark good
- Mark-only for next few days?
"Mark... nah, just closed Mark, opening again? Turned off cuz no updates anyway."
- Then what
- LoL then?
- You end up on LoL too
- Factorio bye, Don't Starve bye, No Oxygen bye, Letopia bye
- Ttalandda† NecroDancer bye, Ballatro bye
- Bye to low-tier era games that carried Mungki 3 years
- Now PUBG Mark LoL era
"How'd you know, LoL?"
- Obvious lol
- Installed tho?
"Yep."
Left sharp viewers behind.
Logged into LoL right away.
ADC, been ages, hope I'm good?
"Alright, LoL time."
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With that thought, about 30 mins later.
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[Restrictions Applied]
This account has received the following penalties.
- Chat restriction
- Honor restriction
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"Ah...."
Realized why I quit LoL, why I left 2000+ games untouched for dust to gather.
- lmao
- Why can't hold back chat
- But you held for a while
- lmao
- But 1/11/2 AP Shaco support hard to hold lol
- Crime of truth
Current tier: Silver.
"...Maybe pull Enter key for LoL, ah."
Forgotten memory resurfaced.
No normals exist in LoL Silver town.