Strength 2 (Strength growth 1.6→1.7)

Intelligence 5 (Intelligence growth 2.1)

Player has not yet been ranked. After ranking, the starting tier will be Brave Bronze 5, with each tier as one level.

“Maybe this is how ordinary players improve their growth when they can’t create new techniques—play for four or five years, get a dozen pentakills, and it’s still doable.” Ethan Carter muttered to himself.

“Pro, just push. We’re not playing anymore,” said Zed.

No suspense—the base was destroyed at 16 minutes.

System prompt: Congratulations, you have gained 500 mastery points for the champion Yasuo. You can use mastery points to redeem corresponding items in the platform store.

“Why... is it so hot, so hot! It feels like the power inside me is starting to erupt!” Before losing consciousness, Ethan Carter vaguely heard a gentle voice in his headset: Power accumulation has reached the maximum bearable value. Early settlement commencing.

Chapter 9: An Invitation from “Riot”

Ethan Carter woke up, dazed for a moment. “Did I really pass out last night... What does early settlement mean?”

Ethan Carter opened his attribute panel and was startled—it completely overturned his previous understanding of this world’s rules. This shouldn’t be possible.

Ethan Carter Human / Normal human standard parameter: 3

Agility 12.5 (Agility growth 2.1)

Strength 10.5 (Strength growth 1.7)

Intelligence 15.5 (Intelligence growth 2.1)

Player has not yet been ranked. After ranking, the starting tier will be Silver 5, with each tier as one level.

“Settlement was supposed to start from Bronze 5, but now it’s Silver 5. Does that mean my current rank is already Bronze 1? Over-level challenge + creating new techniques + one pseudo-pentakill + one pentakill, and I can achieve this in placement matches? So, one settlement equals five tiers, which is the limit for a newbie.”

“For normal adult humans, the parameter is 3. In every aspect, I’ve already become someone far beyond an ordinary adult...”

Ethan Carter noticed that there was no rank emblem on the back of his hand as described in textbooks. His placement matches were still ongoing.

What he didn’t know was that when the Heroic Star Core calculated his in-game achievements, it didn’t just count pseudo-pentakills, pentakills, techniques, and over-level challenges. It also included: damage dealt to champions, kills, assists, CS, gold, towers taken. Every one of his stats was perfect for his role—he even surpassed the usual definition of perfection!

“Alice Green, Alice Green, wake up!” Ethan Carter called Alice Green to confirm his theory.

Alice Green sat up sleepily, her cute bunny pajamas cut very low at the chest and were unusually sheer.

Gulp. Ethan Carter swallowed hard. Damn, you’re only 16 and already developed like this—how are you going to fight in the future! How will you become someone useful to the country!

Alice Green quietly looked at Ethan Carter, not caring at all that he saw her assets. After all, she’d marry him someday anyway, but...

“Mr. Carter, can you tell me what’s so important that you had to wake me up?”

“I saw you were sleeping in a bad position, so I woke you up to sleep again...” Ethan Carter said earnestly, “Whoa, whoa, easy! Read your attribute panel to me!”

Hearing it was about the attribute panel, realizing it was serious business, Alice Green stopped fussing. This made Ethan Carter appreciate her—he hated girls who delayed ranking up.

Alice Green Human / Normal human standard parameter: 3

Agility 9.8 (Agility growth 1.7)

Strength 13.7 (Strength growth 2.2)

Intelligence 11.2 (Intelligence growth 1.8)

“How come your highest stat is strength, as a girl...” Ethan Carter was surprised at the 2.2 strength growth, then remembered that Alice Green was once known as one of the top ten geniuses in Magic City. A 2.2 growth wasn’t surprising; his own initial intelligence growth was 2.1. It seemed that, in terms of physical attributes, many geniuses were about the same as Ethan Carter, or even stronger.

But that’s fine—bro’s technique... Even if you double your stats in the future, it’s nothing special. Exploring the limits of human growth isn’t a bad idea!

But for now, it looked like he couldn’t beat Alice Green...

“Mm, don’t be discouraged. Everyone says I’m in the top ten of the Bronze rankings, but my stats are higher than all of them. It’s just because I’m a girl, so my combat power rating is bound to be lower.” Alice Green comforted him, thinking Ethan Carter was silent because he saw her stats.

She didn’t know that a flash of realization crossed Ethan Carter’s mind: “So that’s it. Looks like the others’ stats aren’t that great either!”

...

Ethan Carter logged into the League of Legends platform and first checked his account balance: 3,019,713!

Almost 3.02 million—my god! How amazing!

Back when Ethan Carter first started his pro career, even keeping the team afloat required boosting accounts for money. If you had money, who’d want to grind as a booster!

With four little brothers struggling to get by, renting a two-bedroom apartment, the landlady always looked at them like they were a bunch of weirdos—but there was no other way...

What Ethan Carter remembered most clearly was that back then, the five of them had a total food budget of just 20 yuan per night—strictly set. Each person got a big bottle of Nongfu Spring and a 10-yuan pack of cigarettes. Whoever finished theirs first had to borrow from someone else, and if no one lent you any, you’d have to pick up your own cigarette butts...