Chapter 13: Scary Sister

As soon as you enter the battlefield of Battle of Legends, the first things you see are two attack lanes and the numerous sanctuaries positioned between them.

And in the very center stand the temples.

From the bottom of the battlefield upward, these structures are known as the Blue Team Temple, the Central Temple, and the Red Team Temple.

When a team completely captures a temple, a personal portal opens, allowing one team member to travel to the special zone called the Celestials.

The team member who enters the Celestials gains faster growth and can rejoin the main battlefield through the sanctuaries at any time.

For this reason, it’s common practice to send one team member to the Celestials without fail.

The first phase of the game is to capture the nearest temple and send one member to the Celestials.

After that, the remaining five members, minus the one who went celestial, split up and take positions in the two attack lanes to engage in lane combat.

[NabelAnymore (Warrior), HeyLady (Knight)]

[ForgivenessOverPermission (Archer), AcornDotoss (Priest)]

[ForgivenessOverPermission (Archer): Everyone, push your lane and head to the central temple.]

[ForgivenessOverPermission (Archer): We need to secure position before the enemy’s two members come.]

[NabelAnymore (Warrior): Nice call haha]

The next phase is a battle for control of the central temple, which opens every five minutes.

If a team captures the central temple completely, they gain the right to send another member to the Celestials.

In other words, now two members can grow faster and rejoin the battlefield freely—giving a significant advantage.

Securing the central temple and widening the growth gap from there is the core of the game.

::The Blue Team has captured the Central Temple!::

[ForgivenessOverPermission (Archer): Can I go to the Celestials?]

[NotSausageYou (Mage): Hmm]

[NabelAnymore (Warrior): Usually it’s standard for the archer to go celestial.]

[NabelAnymore (Warrior): But it’s been a while since I played with one, not too sure.]

[SoYoungSoYoung (Priest): Let’s go with that for now.]

In the Celestials, you can farm the game’s special resource, Divinity, at an overwhelmingly fast pace.

The team member in the Celestials can then use a second ultimate ability, called Incarnation, much more frequently.

Using Incarnation drastically boosts combat power.

If that player returns to the battlefield with it active, victory in battle is practically guaranteed.

[ForgivenessOverPermission (Archer) used Incarnation!]

“A maiden hunting under moonlight locks her chilling gaze on the prey.”

[ForgivenessOverPermission (Archer), HeyLady (Knight)]

[ForgivenessOverPermission (Archer), SideRogue (Mage)]

[ForgivenessOverPermission (Archer), AcornDotoss (Priest)]

[NabelAnymore (Warrior): Holy smokes lol]

[NotSausageYou (Mage): What’s with that hit rate? Dang]

[SoYoungSoYoung (Priest): Is this a smurf account?]

[ForgivenessOverPermission (Archer): No, this is my main.]

If the enemy manages to capture even the temple closest to your base, your chance of winning plummets.

Our team has six people sharing limited resources, while theirs might have three farming Divinity in the Celestials.

That’s why controlling the central temple—the butterfly effect’s starting point—is always the top priority.

It’s also the reason early skirmishes with the enemy team are inevitable, and why archers, who are weak early on, are often avoided.

The current meta archer is what you’d call a “late-game carry.”

They spend the early game focusing solely on growth, enduring their weak damage phase, and only start contributing meaningfully mid-to-late game.

In early fights, they might as well not exist.

Even with their long range, if their damage is low, one priest’s heal makes a hit meaningless. If a team needs a ranged damage dealer, it’s more common to pick a mage who has decent early power.

Still, that doesn’t mean the archer’s long range becomes irrelevant.

[NabelAnymore (Warrior): Looks like you didn’t invest in any attack-related traits.]

[NabelAnymore (Warrior): All in on range and accuracy, huh.]

[NabelAnymore (Warrior): Never seen an archer like this lol]

[ForgivenessOverPermission (Archer): Thank you.]

Unwilling to waste the advantage of range, I decided to redefine the archer’s role—not as a damage dealer, but as something else entirely.

I gave up on early-game damage.

Instead, I focused on increasing range even more, chipping away at the enemy constantly like a slow erosion.

The light but persistent damage disrupted the enemy’s focus and tilted skirmishes in our favor.

Plus, special arrows with effects like slow, stun, or silence always worked if they hit.

Sometimes, one of my arrows changed the course of a fight more than a mage’s burst.

With this playstyle, the archer could be impactful even in the early game.

Professional players who are used to team-based games would support an archer until they grew into a deadly carry, but…

[Victory!]

[NabelAnymore (Warrior): Woo]

[ForgivenessOverPermission (Archer): Good game.]

My archer could still hold their own.

It was like a sniper rifle loaded with flashbangs, tear gas, and nets.

I had already confirmed in a 1v1 with Seoyeon a long time ago that this game was extremely realistic.

The graphics and sound were ultra-realistic, and the character responded immediately to my body’s movements.

This VR experience was more than 70% similar to the real battles I faced in my past life.

So, out of curiosity, I tried a few personal experiments…

Turns out, if you shoot an arrow, it keeps flying even past the range.

It doesn’t just vanish mid-air.

“Well, I’m still in the trial-and-error phase…”

I learned to account for arrow velocity and drop, and started using it like a sniper rifle.

The goal wasn’t to deal damage, but to hit the arrow.

As time passed, my accuracy naturally improved.

And just like that, with my new approach to playing archer, I kept climbing the ranks steadily.

Because I could make an impact from the laning phase with long-range harass, my teammates had almost no complaints after the game started.

-Ding.

[ForgivenessOverPermission]

Platinum 72P / 100P

I confirmed that I was now close to my first target rank: Emerald tier.

hen I logged off.

Maybe it was from the intensity of the session, but my whole body was soaked in sweat. I was slightly out of breath too.

At least tomorrow’s the weekend—that’s a bit of relief.

After stepping off the VR treadmill, I headed straight to the bathroom to wash up.

I came out in just thin pajamas and lay down on my bed.

At the same time, my eyes slowly shut.

…Ah, right. I need to text Seoyeon.

[Me] – (Screenshot of my Battle of Legends score)

[Me] – Come to my officetel tomorrow

[Me] – Help me set up for the stream

[Me] – You can sleep over if you want

Tap.

I gently put down my phone and quickly drifted off to sleep.

I was already too sleepy to wait for Seoyeon’s reply.

***

“Finish it, finish it—!!”

[Victory!]

“Yaaaah! Okay! We did it!”

This was around the time when “ForgivenessIsFasterThanPermission” and Navel’s ranked game ended in victory.

Relieved that she hadn’t been demoted to Platinum, Navel beamed and turned her eyes to the stream’s chat window.

“There’s class, there’s style, people. No matter what, I’m not going down to Plat!”

That match was fun lol.

If someone just tuned in, they’d think Navel carried lmao

After watching trolls all day, seeing a tryhard archer is kinda refreshing

That’s the level you need to be if you want to one-trick archer…

Navel was just feeling two things: relief that she could stay in Emerald tier.

Excitement over the great YouTube content she’d just recorded.

Nothing else really.

Well, except…

The archer she’d underestimated had put on a surprising performance, and that moment was stuck in her head.

Even after the game ended, she kept rewatching the replay of “ForgivenessIsFasterThanPermission.”

Thud–!

“Ah, right here. This is where I nearly blacked out. But then—whish! Arrows flying like pow pow pow! Man, it felt like I was watching a movie~ hehe~.”

Wait, is that guy cheating?

Can archers really shoot from that far away?

That range seems broken.

He’s so hyped just ’cause he survived lmao.

Wasn’t he cringing the second he saw it was an archer?

Now he’s all over it.

Quickest 180 ever lol.

Send a friend request and ask for duo queue?

“A friend request? Pfft, how desperate. If it’s fate, we’ll meet again~.”

Still giddy, Navel kept talking into her mic and slowly read the player’s nickname aloud: ForgivenessIsFasterThanPermission.

Now that she thought about it… it wasn’t wrong.

“You win. ‘ForgivenessIsFaster’—you’ve earned your forgiveness. Let’s give it up for this player, everyone! That was some serious show-and-prove!”

Still unable to shake off the impression left by the archer, Navel clapped her hands in genuine admiration.

Then she messaged her YouTube editor, ordering them to prioritize this ranked game for the next video.

The title of the video later uploaded to Navel’s YouTube channel was:

“Forgiveness Is Faster Than Permission.”

Exactly the same as the player’s nickname.

With 1.35 million subscribers, Navel was one of the top Battle of Legends YouTubers, and as expected, the video became a hot topic across online communities.

A completely different way of playing archer.

Highlights of an archer using the “Incarnation” skill to score a triple kill, and more.

If “ForgivenessIsFasterThanPermission” had been ranked Master instead of Platinum, the gameplay would’ve drawn massive attention.

Still, even at Platinum, the hype wasn’t exactly small.

(Navel) That was some Legolas-level stuff lmaooo.

Forgiveness guy <<< total troll history

How did he even climb to Plat as an archer one-trick? smh.

Who even is this Forgiveness guy?

“ForgivenessIsFasterThanPermission”

So… what’s the conclusion?

Girl playing archer?

Should’ve gone priest or something

What kind of archer plays like that?

But they won, didn’t they?

That’s how hard it is to play archer—you gotta bend over backward just to be half decent.

Trash character lol.

A certain Platinum player’s flair for drama.

Yoo Seo-ah’s unique archer strategy was only being seen as that—entertainment.

No one in the Battle of Legends community was seriously analyzing her playstyle.