49: Chapter 49 This game is quite interesting.

Liu Yang's fingers paused for a beat on the keyboard.

The tutorial prompt box popped up. He didn't skip it, reading through every single guide.

Moving, attacking, casting skills, recalling, buying equipment.

With his dota foundation, he memorized these basic operations in just a few minutes.

But he still noticed a few things.

No denying.

After opening the item shop, recommended builds were placed right in the most prominent position, available for one-click purchase.

You just press B for the recall skill; there's no need to buy Town Portal Scrolls.

The jungle has no trees, the vision is clear, and there is a Honeyfruit on each side of the river.

Although he knew about these changes from the official website beforehand, seeing them with his own eyes, Liu Yang was still a bit worried.

"It's been simplified to this extent; I wonder if it's actually fun."

He muttered, then exited the tutorial.

On the main interface, the "Start Game" button was lit up.

He clicked it.

Match found, and the champion selection screen popped up.

Liu Yang chose Ashe.

His teammates and opponents also locked in their champions one after another. The lineup was similar to the classic dota lanes: top lane, mid lane, jungle, and bottom lane support. He understood it at a glance.

The loading screen ended.

The full view of Summoners Rift unfolded on the minimap, with three clear minion lanes visible.

"Welcome to league of legends."

As the system prompt faded, five people rushed out of the fountain.

Following the system prompts, Liu Yang bought a Doran's Blade and a Health Potion, then controlled Ashe to head towards the bottom lane.

He still remembered when he first played dota; without any guidance, he didn't even know what to buy at the start. In this regard, league of legends did a great job.

The support was a Sona, following behind him.

The laning phase began.

Because of his dota experience, Liu Yang didn't mindlessly go in to fight like a complete newbie; instead, he harassed while focusing on farming.

Although it wasn't very familiar or fluid, the opponents were the same, perhaps even worse than him, so their health was gradually whittled down by his kiting.

He didn't rush to pressure during the first few waves of minions, just steadily securing the last hit on every minion.

There was no denying, so he didn't need to be distracted by calculating his own minions' health.

He could put all his attention on the two opponents.

The opposing ADC was Miss Fortune, and the support was Teemo.

Miss Fortune was positioned very far forward, using all her skills on the minion wave, pushing very aggressively.

Liu Yang wasn't in a hurry, constantly harassing her.

He was waiting.

The next wave pushed to the river entrance, and Miss Fortune stepped forward to last hit a cannon minion.

That was the step.

Liu Yang's fingers had already pressed down.

Flash.

Ashe's figure instantly teleported forward, and her W, Volley, was cast simultaneously, slapping the fan-shaped arrows onto Miss Fortune's face.

Miss Fortune was slowed.

Sona's Power Chord followed up immediately.

Liu Yang activated his Q skill, Ranger's Focus, and Ashe's basic attacks poured onto Miss Fortune like raindrops.

Miss Fortune used Flash to run back, but she was already stuck.

Coupled with the fact that Miss Fortune's health had already been whittled down extremely low, there was no chance of escape now; she could only trade damage head-on.

Sona also flashed in to follow up, casting Exhaust on the opposing support. Teemo tried to use his Q to blind Ashe, but the blind hit the cannon minion instead.

Although all players had various mistakes—Liu Yang even auto-attacked minions twice—at this moment, these mistakes became part of the purest joy.

Liu Yang's entire body was even trembling slightly, unable to be controlled, caused by extreme excitement.

The next moment, Miss Fortune finally fell. Liu Yang's fingers were still tapping on the keyboard, but he couldn't suppress the smile on his face.

First Blood.

"Awesome."

He leaned back against his chair and took a deep breath.

It was only after the fight that he realized his heart was beating quite fast.

There was no denying, so he could keep pressuring, only needing to focus on farming and the opponents.

There were no trees, so after placing wards in a few bushes, he didn't have to worry about being ganked or someone circling around trees to ambush him from behind.

Equipment was recommended with one click, so he could finish buying items and head out just two seconds after recalling.

Dying didn't cost gold, so he didn't have to be constantly anxious and afraid of losing money upon being killed.

Before actually playing it, he had been worried about these simplifications. But now, he understood.

After removing these annoying elements, league of legends was left with only the core gameplay.

The battle of minion waves, the battle of positioning, the battle of skills.

He gripped the mouse tightly again.

For the rest of the match, he became more and more immersed.

Every time Ashe fired her ultimate, it accurately hit key targets, and Sona's ultimate even controlled three opponents in team fights twice.

The moment they destroyed the enemy Nexus, Liu Yang glanced at his stats.

Legendary.

He leaned back in his chair and flexed his wrists.

A results screen popped up on the screen.

"Congratulations on completing your first match. Test server exclusive rewards have been issued."

A treasure chest opened automatically.

A line of text jumped out on the screen.

"Obtained Epic Skin for Ezreal: PsyOps."

Liu Yang clicked on the skin preview.

On the screen, Ezreal was wearing a futuristic suit full of technological vibes, with gauntlets glowing with a cold light, and every skill effect had been re-rendered.

Mystic Shot had turned into a high-speed particle beam.

When using Arcane Shift, the whole champion would Flash with light.

Trueshot Barrage was even more exaggerated; when the massive energy arc swept across the screen, the entire effect became colorful.

"Holy crap."

Liu Yang stared at the screen for quite a while.

He knew about dota skins; changing a color scheme or a cape was the limit.

Although the dota 2 trailer showed a few brand-new hero skins, compared to this one, they were still garbage, beaten by dozens of streets.

This skin almost completely remade the champion.

Although the store wasn't open for this closed beta, Liu Yang saw a note in the skin details.

[Above Epic skins, there are Legendary and Ultimate skins. Stay tuned.]

"Such an awesome skin isn't even the best one?"

"What would Legendary and Ultimate skins look like?"

Although Liu Yang usually didn't spend money on games, at this moment, he had the thought that he must buy an Ultimate skin to try it out when the time came.

He took a few deep breaths to suppress the shock in his heart.

He originally wanted to continue playing Ashe, but now, he chose Ezreal without hesitation.

After that, the second match, the third match.

Almost as soon as he finished one game, Liu Yang would start matching for the next, his facial expressions constantly changing with the ups and downs of the game.

"What game is this?"

As another new game started, Liu Yang had just completed a 1-for-1 trade with the opposing bottom lane AD when a voice sounded from behind him.

He turned his head.

A thin guy wearing a white T-shirt stood behind him, his hair a bit long, covering half of his eyebrows.

"league of legends, closed beta."

Liu Yang took off his headphones.

"You haven't heard of it?"

"I've heard of it, made by IceFrog."

"I just didn't manage to grab a closed beta account."

The thin guy stared at the game screen without blinking.

"It looks pretty fun. Can you let me try?"

The thin guy pulled up a chair and sat down next to him.

Liu Yang hesitated for a moment.

"Have you played MOBAs? How about I teach you the tutorial first?"

"No need."

"I've played dota before, and I've been watching from behind you for a while. I understand all the controls."

Seeing this, Liu Yang nodded.

Such a fun game; he indeed wanted to let others try it too.

Liu Yang gave up his seat and stood to the side to watch.

The thin guy operated Ezreal as he respawned from the fountain and continued walking towards the bottom lane. He tested his skills on the way and already understood the gist of it.

Soon, he was back in the lane against the opponents.

Liu Yang stood to the side, ready to give reminders at any time.

"The opponent is Ashe, her ultimate is crowd control. The support Malphite's ultimate is also very strong; you must be careful."

But the next instant, before Liu Yang could finish his sentence, the thin guy directly dashed onto Ashe's face.

The opponent fired an ultimate right at him.

Liu Yang cursed "not good" in his heart, only to see Ezreal move upwards to dodge Ashe's ultimate.

But at the same time, the opposing Malphite also charged over.

Ezreal, however, cast his ultimate on the spot.

But just when he was about to be hit by Malphite, Ezreal actually used Flash during the ultimate animation to dodge it and adjust his position.

Then, with a silky smooth combo and cooperation from the support, he directly double-killed the opponents!

"Holy cow!"

Watching this scene, Liu Yang was stunned on the spot, even unable to help but exclaim.

He had been playing for half a day; let alone performing it, he hadn't even seen such a maneuver!

"I was scrolling through Douyin earlier and saw a blogger say that many skills in this game can be combined with Flash when casting. I just tried it, and I didn't expect it to actually work."

"This game is interesting. I like it."

"I'll definitely play it every day when it goes into public beta, and I'll climb into the top 100 on the ladder by then."

The league of legends closed beta didn't have a ranked system open, so the outside world still assumed league of legends used ladder points.

"By the way." While recalling to resupply, the thin guy turned around. "My name is Wenbo, my friends call me Ah Shui, and we can play together when league of legends goes into public beta."