Chapter 296: Positive Feedback
Master Yi swung the longsword in his hand, continuously attacking the blue buff.
His movements were smooth, the impact felt satisfying, and the combination of actions with attack sound effects gave a visceral sense of each strike cutting into flesh.
Soon, the Gromp fell, and a blue buff appeared beneath the Sword Saint’s feet.
Master Yi’s health was still relatively healthy. Jia Peng nodded in satisfaction and continued clearing toward the wolves.
Chen Mo had removed the rune system and made numerical adjustments to compensate, so new players wouldn’t find jungling so difficult.
In truth, jungling shouldn’t have been that hard in the first place. In Chen Mo’s previous life, *League of Legends* had runes and masteries that made jungling on a low-level account extremely taxing—slow and health-draining—even with a jungle item. As a result, few players jungled until they reached around level ten; everyone just ran 2-1-2 lanes.
This was very detrimental to popularizing the jungle role.
So Chen Mo specifically made some changes to encourage players to practice jungle champions more.
But before Jia Peng could even finish clearing the wolves, a shout of “First Blood!” rang out across the entire map.
Jia Peng was stunned. What happened?
Looking closely, he saw that top lane Garen had already given up first blood, and the enemy top laner, Malphite, along with the Sword Saint, were already pushing the tower.
Jia Peng: “…”
He’d been so focused on jungling that he hadn’t noticed how Garen died. But Jia Peng was also puzzled—how had he died just a few minutes into the game?
Since this was a random teammate, Jia Peng didn’t want to say too much. He continued clearing his bottom jungle.
Then Garen spoke up: “Sword Saint, can you come help me? I can’t fight two people alone.”
Jia Peng sighed helplessly. “If you can’t win, just play safe under the tower. Wait for me.”
Garen: “Oh.”
And Garen actually obediently stayed under the tower, idling.
Jia Peng felt a bit drained, but at least this Garen wasn’t feeding anymore.
When he moved his camera to top lane, Jia Peng also glanced at the enemy Sword Saint.
So cool!
Not only was the model different, but even the animations were unlike the original Sword Saint’s. This Carefree Swordsman Master Yi moved like those graceful, ethereal swordsmen from wuxia novels—very agile. Every swing of his sword left a flash of cold light, incredibly stylish.
Then he looked at his own default skin and immediately felt it was unbearable to look at.
Jia Peng sighed helplessly and went back to clearing his red buff.
But before he finished, another announcement rang out: “An ally has been slain!”
Jia Peng checked—bottom lane Vayne was dead.
Jia Peng was completely baffled. Here he was, farming in the jungle, and bad news was coming from all directions!
Chang Xiuya explained, “This guy… he was too impulsive. He charged in 1v2…”
Jia Peng shook his head helplessly. He wanted to type “stop feeding,” but after a moment’s thought, he deleted it and typed instead: “Keep it up, everyone!”
The enemy bottom lane—Miss Fortune and Soraka—were both low on health, but even after killing Vayne, they kept pushing the wave relentlessly. Chang Xiuya was cowering under the bottom tower, trembling, doing her best to use her skills to hit the minions.
Jia Peng saw a golden opportunity. After finishing his red buff, he immediately flanked from behind and said to Chang Xiuya, “It’s okay, follow me quickly!”
Chang Xiuya frantically cast her E on Jia Peng, giving him a shield, then spammed her Q and W all onto Miss Fortune.
“Whimsy!”
With Lulu’s shout, Miss Fortune turned into a harmless little critter. Jia Peng clearly had no intention of being kind to animals and hacked away at Miss Fortune.
“This will be a harsh lesson!”
The Wuju Sword Saint swung his longsword. With the red buff’s slow effect and bonus damage, he quickly cut Miss Fortune down. His health was still healthy, so he charged straight for Soraka.
One slash, two slashes, three slashes…
Master Yi’s attack speed was very fast. Finally, after an Alpha Strike, Master Yi killed Soraka as well and escaped the tower’s range with a sliver of health.
And all the players watching this fight heard Master Yi’s words.
“Watch and learn.”
“Double Kill!”
The announcement sound effect rang out across the entire map, and a special double-kill icon appeared in the center of everyone’s screen, complete with Master Yi’s portrait.
Chang Xiuya exclaimed in surprise, “Wow, Jia Peng, you’re amazing!”
Jia Peng felt a little embarrassed and grinned. “Heh, it’s nothing, nothing. They’re just bots, after all.”
Even as he said it was nothing, Jia Peng was secretly thrilled. The positive feedback from the system for this kill was spot-on, making him feel great.
In MOBA games, getting a kill is relatively difficult. Triple kills, quadra kills, and pentakills are even harder to achieve.
In *COG*, there wasn’t such rich positive feedback. Killing someone just gave a dry system notification—no real feeling.
But in *League of Legends*, this positive feedback was enhanced in every way.
When a champion attacks an enemy champion, they have a special attack line. For example, Master Yi’s line is: “This will be a harsh lesson!”
After securing a kill, the system announces to all players, “An enemy has been slain,” and displays the portraits of the killer and the victim, with the background color indicating red or blue side.
If special conditions are met—like double kills, multi-kills, ace, or legendary streaks—there are special voice announcements and unique icons to display them, visible to everyone.
After the fight, if the champion survives the kill, they’ll say another special line to show off. For example, the Sword Saint’s line is: “Watch and learn.” (Chen Mo had taken inspiration from certain video montages.)
If other players happen to have that champion in their field of view, they’ll hear the line too.
Even though he was killing bots, Jia Peng still felt a warm glow inside. He recalled and bought items.
*League of Legends* made the B key the dedicated recall button. New players could recall from anywhere when low on health without consuming any resources. Jia Peng found this very convenient.
After buying items, Jia Peng headed out again. After clearing a few more jungle camps, he set his sights on top lane.
Top lane Garen, after dying once, obediently stayed under the tower. Fortunately, this was only a beginner bot, so both sides left each other alone.
Following the tutorial, Jia Peng held down the Alt key and pinged the “On My Way” icon. With a crisp “ding,” Jia Peng was certain that Garen had both seen and heard it—unless he wasn’t at his computer.
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