Easy and Stress-Relieving

"……"

Lu Ze stared at the mission prompt, feeling somewhat speechless.

His system always seemed to mistake the illusions he created for actual worlds…

Clearly, this "alternate dimension" referred to the "Immortal-Demon Gorge."

As for the imbalance between the righteous and demonic factions…

It wasn’t that Lu Ze had designed the heroes with wildly uneven power levels—it was just that the righteous cultivator characters aligned better with the tastes of the righteous faction players.

More players meant more deaths, naturally.

As for the system’s task…

Lu Ze frowned in thought for a moment.

Buff the demonic cultivators?

That was a simple and effective solution.

But doing so would undermine the players’ foundation.

The biggest taboo in MOBA games was balance disruption, especially arbitrary hero adjustments.

Even if Lu Ze went through with it, players might not accept it.

No matter how overpowered an evil little mage became, it would never be as popular as Yasuo.

"Set all the bots to demonic faction roles and crank up their skill level…?"

Lu Ze muttered to himself, but quickly shook his head and dismissed the idea.

Not many people played against bots.

And no matter how high the skill ceiling was, they couldn’t kill that many players.

Unless the abilities broke the existing template…

Wait a second!

A flash of inspiration struck Lu Ze as he recalled a special bot mode from his past life that had once taken the gaming world by storm—

[Doom Bots].

Back then, the designers had whimsically created a bunch of ridiculously overpowered heroes to troll players, only to find that players actually rose to the challenge.

With that kind of death rate, hitting 100,000 deaths in a week was completely normal!

Lu Ze immediately saw the potential.

He could even throw in a skin as bait to lure players into getting stomped.

Given these cultivators’ stubborn refusal to admit defeat, they’d probably line up to feed kills every day.

No time to waste—Lu Ze got straight to designing.

But first, he logged into the server backend to have the Fragment of Heavenly Dao issue a global announcement.

The Fragment of Heavenly Dao was perched atop a colorful mushroom, watching with amusement as players battled in the Immortal-Demon Gorge.

Lu Ze smirked.

Well, who would’ve thought this guy was a Teemo enjoyer?

Truly fitting for the Fragment of Heavenly Dao…

Lu Ze guessed the Fragment probably wanted to join in, but it only liked stomping noobs. Playing on equal footing with the cultivators was beneath its dignity, so it refused to participate.

Hold on…

Lu Ze’s eyebrows rose as an amusing thought occurred to him.

The bots in Doom Bots weren’t on the same level as players at all…

Didn’t that perfectly match the Fragment’s requirements?

With that in mind, he cheerfully waved at the Fragment:

"Seems you like playing Teemo? Perfect timing—I’ve got a job for you…"

……

……

Thunderpeak Mountain, Azure Cloud Pavilion.

Zhong Yi stared greedily at the massive wave of minions about to crash into his tower, practically salivating.

After his research, lane assignments had stabilized, and Zhong Yi had found his new role—top lane.

Whether it was Nasus or Yasuo, there was room to shine.

Lately, he’d been especially fond of Nasus.

Nasus’s Q ability was called [Siphoning Strike].

Each unit killed permanently increased the skill’s damage, making it a pure scaling champion.

Zhong Yi’s favorite line to his teammates lately was, "Don’t rush, wait till I hit 1,000 stacks."

"One cannon minion, two cannon minions… Yes! Time to ult and stack!"

Zhong Yi watched as Shen Yan’s three-wave slow push finally reached his tower, drooling at the sight.

"Brother Zhong, your skin’s nice, but your mechanics need work."

Shen Yan and Zhong Yi were old rivals, always trash-talking each other.

Shen Yan’s champion pool mostly consisted of top-lane juggernauts, so they’d clashed many times before.

This time, Zhong Yi was 0-3 in the early game again.

But he wasn’t worried—he had absolute faith in Nasus’s scaling.

Once he hit 500 stacks, it was game over.

"Just you wait till I hit a thousand stacks…"

Zhong Yi gritted his teeth as the minions entered tower range, immediately activating his ultimate.

"Well, you’d better hurry…"

Shen Yan grinned.

His favorite champions were mostly hammer-wielders.

This game, Shen Yan was playing [Mordekaiser], a demonic hammer-user.

"Wait, you’re not—"

Zhong Yi suddenly had a bad feeling.

"Haha, get in here!!"

Shen Yan pointed at Zhong Yi, dragging him into the [Realm of Death].

This was an isolated dimension where only the caster and the target existed.

In other words—no minions.

Zhong Yi’s mental state shattered. His jaw dropped, veins bulging in his eyes.

"You bastard—"

"Let me out!!!"

"I’ll duel you at the Heavenly Profound Sect after this!! Just you wait!!"

"Ahhhh my cannon minions!!!"

……

……

Zhong Yi finished the game in a daze.

Every time he tried to farm, that bastard Shen Yan would ult him.

At this point, Zhong Yi couldn’t tell who the real Nasus player was—him or Shen Yan.

Winning with only 200 stacks thanks to his teammates left him feeling hollow.

"Nasus is too weak early… Maybe I should find a way to safely leech XP?"

Reflecting on his matches, Zhong Yi realized he kept dying trying to get early XP and started brainstorming new strategies.

Just then, a new system announcement popped up in his face.

[New Event: Happy Bots, Stress Relief~]

[Recent feedback suggests bot difficulty is too high. Adjustments have been made: Bots’ spirit stone acquisition rate has been reset and will now scale with their own progression, no longer increasing over time.]

[After hard training, cultivators can unwind in bot matches~]

[During the event, defeating bots will reward skins and titles!]

After reading the announcement once, Zhong Yi thought he’d misread it and went over it several more times.

"Wait…"

"Did Junior Brother Lu grow a conscience?? They nerfed bots AND added skin rewards???"

Zhong Yi was stunned.

Was this the same Lu the Demon he knew?

The previous bots were hard because their gold income was fixed.

No matter how hard players fought to kill a bot, they’d recall only to find themselves half an item behind…

Now that the mechanic was gone, what challenge did bots even pose?

Absolutely none!

Looking at the [Devil Teemo] skin reward, Zhong Yi felt for the first time that Lu Ze might have had a change of heart.

He remembered spending 2,000 spirit stones just to roll for a Zhuge Liang skin last time…

Now, Lu Ze seemed as benevolent as a paragon of righteousness.

Teemo might be universally hated, but who would turn down a free skin?

Still fuming from Shen Yan’s torment, Zhong Yi suddenly felt like "bullying some bots" sounded pretty good.

"Now this is truly relaxing and stress-relieving..."

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