Seeing Luke give up his seat, Marcus didn't stand on ceremony; it had been a while since he last played, and his fingers were itching.
Marcus sat down, logged out of Luke's account, and skillfully logged into his own.
Jack casually picked up another skewer of grilled meat and said to Marcus with a hint of showmanship.
"As long as you don't feed too hard, I can definitely carry you to rank up!"
Ben nodded, as if to prove that Jack's words were true.
"Jack is a Diamond III god. Me and Luke's ranks are too low; we normally wouldn't be able to queue with Jack. The accounts we're using right now are Diamond accounts that Jack specially borrowed from a friend."
At this, Jack rolled his eyes helplessly.
"You two still have the nerve to say that! We've lost all day; I don't even know how I'm going to explain this to my friend..."
Marcus listened and shrugged, his expression indifferent.
"We can just grind the rank back up later."
Luke shook his head quickly from the side.
"Marcus, you don't understand. Today was my first time playing in the Diamond tier. Everyone is a god; it's impossible to win! Not surrendering early is already pretty good, let alone ranking up. By the way, Marcus, what's your rank?"
The corners of Marcus's mouth curled up slightly as he calmly clicked open his profile page.
The three of them, led by Jack, curiously leaned their heads in.
"It's fine, if your rank isn't high, I'll go borrow another one later..."
Jack had intended to say that if Marcus's rank was too low, he could go borrow another account for him later. But when he saw the rank on Marcus's account, the words he was about to say were instantly swallowed back down.
"Holy crap... Mas...Mas... Master? Marcus, you actually made it to Master?"
They had all been playing League of Legends for several years, so they naturally knew how high the value of this rank was. Jack only had plenty of time to play after the college entrance exam, and after two months of grueling effort, he had only reached Diamond III.
Yet unexpectedly, a Master-tier expert had appeared in their dormitory. He had just been so arrogant, saying he would carry someone else and telling them not to feed too much...
"Actually, I was Challenger before... I didn't have much time to play this season because I was retaking my exams..."
"What? Challenger?"
The Master rank had already earned their deep respect, and they never expected that this was just the result of Marcus barely playing this new season.
Jack's face twitched. Compared to Marcus's Challenger rank, his Diamond III was as adorable as a kindergartner's.
"Marcus!"
Jack's attitude instantly became respectful.
"Marcus, can you carry me to rank up?"
Jack quickly put down the barbecue in his hand. At this moment, no matter how delicious the food in front of him was, it wasn't as tempting as a living, breathing god-tier player.
Marcus nodded, seemingly feeling no pressure at all. Anyway, his rank had dropped now; playing in Diamond and Master games was just like a warm-up! Definitely going to carry every game!
Soon, Jack sent a friend request to Marcus, and after Marcus accepted it, the two entered the game. He had originally wanted to call Ben to play together, but Ben was determined to sit on the side with Luke to learn techniques and refused to join the game no matter what. Seeing this, Marcus couldn't really say anything else.
Before long, Marcus and Jack were matched with three random teammates. Marcus was mid, Jack was jungling, focusing on a mid-jungle synergy.
In the champion selection phase, Marcus, who was in the first pick position, didn't hesitate at all and insta-locked a hero that every mid-laner is extremely familiar with: Yasuo.
As the confirm button was pressed, the fourth-pick ADC player typed two lines of text in the public chat.
"Don't tell me you're a feeder Yasuo! I'm streaming right now, don't drag me down..."
Who would have thought that a random teammate would actually be a streamer.
Ben, who was on the side, quickly found the streamer's channel on the Twitch Live platform based on the fourth pick's name.
"Holy crap, look! It's a female streamer! And she has a great figure, a baby face with huge boobs... wow! But why does she only have thirty-something people in her stream? Seems like a newbie streamer."
Hearing this, Marcus also curiously cast his gaze over.
"Tsk tsk tsk, that figure is indeed good... Didn't expect my luck to be so good today, actually running into an opportunity to carry a girl!"
Suddenly, Marcus thought that since he had a system, he wondered if he could bind a cashback target through conversation from afar. If it was possible, he could just watch streams and send gifts whenever he was bored, and he'd be making a fortune every day!
Thinking of this, Marcus quickly typed a sentence to the fourth-pick female streamer in the game's public chat.
"Don't worry, fourth pick, my Yasuo is super pro."
After waiting a few seconds, no system notification sound appeared in his mind. Marcus felt a wave of disappointment; it seemed this path to getting rich wouldn't work.
"Look, the description on her stream says that if you send a 'Plane' gift, you can voice chat and play a game with the streamer! It's too easy to make money as a streamer these days... A 'Plane' is one hundred yuan!"
Sharp-eyed Luke saw the announcement in the female streamer's channel.
For ordinary college students like them, spending one hundred yuan to voice chat and play a game with a female streamer was way too expensive. You have to know, their monthly living expenses were only a little over one thousand yuan. One hundred yuan was enough for them to eat in the cafeteria for three days.
But for Marcus, who now had millions in his hands, this was just a drop in the bucket. Moreover, Marcus had just reviewed it in his mind; the system's binding requirement was to have a conversation with a person of the opposite sex. He had tried it just now, and typing in chat probably didn't count as a conversation in the system's definition.
However, he wondered if a voice call counted?
Thinking of this, Marcus quickly opened his phone, logged into Twitch Live, and to prevent the cashback target binding from failing, he only topped up one hundred yuan first.
Soon, the special effect for a 'Plane' gift appeared in the female streamer's channel.
"Wow, thank you for the 'Plane', MarcX!"
Marcus subsequently typed a line in the stream chat.
"Streamer, can I voice chat with you now? I'm the Yasuo in the first slot!"
The female streamer was stunned; it was her first day streaming, and she hadn't expected that someone would actually be willing to spend the money for a 'Plane' just to voice chat with her. And the other person was just a random passerby she had encountered in the game.
"Yes, of course you can."
Seeing that Marcus had sent a voice chat request, the female streamer immediately clicked accept.
"Hello!"
Marcus spoke first to greet her.
"Ding! Detected that the host is having a conversation with a person of the opposite sex. The host's current heart-throb value is 25 points, meeting the binding conditions. Binding successful!"
Hearing the familiar system notification sound, Marcus was secretly delighted. It seemed his judgment was correct; the system's definition of a conversation was just speaking out loud, but as for whether it was face-to-face or through other means, there weren't very strict restrictions.
Since the binding was successful, if he gave her more gifts after the game ended, wouldn't he make a killing?
Thinking of this, Marcus was a little impatient.