Glory [e-sports]

translator: xiin

editors: apricot & juurensha

Wei Xiao’s voice came out of his phone’s speaker, “What was that sound? Old Bai, did you smash the keyboard with your face?”

To hell with smashing the keyboard with his face! It’s your God Lu’s sports water bottle that was shocked into falling to the ground by your words!

But did Bai Cai dare to say so?

He didn’t even dare to breathe too deeply.

Lu Feng bent over and quietly picked up his water bottle.

Bai Cai opened his mouth and wanted to say hello, but Lu Feng stretched out his index finger and made a gesture against his lips.

Bai Cai: “……”

F*ck!

Wei Xiao, who was on the other side of the phone and didn’t know anything, was still in a state of disappointment, “They’re all professional players, but how could the gap be so big? Yu Fei and the other three added together can’t even compare to one of Close’s fingers.”

When he heard this, the corner of Lu Feng’s mouth curved slightly.

Bai Cai could see it very clearly, and he just wanted to escape and preserve his own life.

“Say, why is Close so strong? Two years ago, he pressured me until I lost my breath, and two years later… Oh, he’s probably forgotten who I am by now.”

Bai Cai thought in his heart: He remembers, he remembers very clearly. Kid, you just spoke half a sentence, and he smashed two million on you!

Wei Xiao sighed with too much emotion, “People are really different. A genius like Close can only be encountered by luck and won’t be found on demand.”

Bai Cai really wanted to roll his eyes: Is it it fun for you as a GENIUS with capital letters to say such a thing?!

“Old Bai,” Wei Xiao was perplexed, “Why aren’t you talking?”

Bai Cai glanced at Lu Feng, seeking instructions.

Lu Feng glanced at Bai Feng’s cell phone, indicating that he should reply.

What could this cabbage do?

He could only steel himself and go up.

After spending over a year with Lu Feng, he had built up quite a bit of understanding and foresight.

He thought about Lu Feng’s purpose and understood the score in his heart.

“If you want Close…” Bai Cai’s heart shivered when he said these words, but he forced himself to remain calm, “Then come to FTW.”

Wei Xiao was silent.

Bai Cai snuck a glance at Lu Feng and saw him staring at the cell phone. He felt that he’d already figured out the ‘Emperor’s wishes’ quite well and continued to exert himself, “FTW’s starting line-up just happens to be short a person, you can come fill that position.”

“Can you decide that?” Wei Xiao made a dismissive sound and said sourly, “Didn’t Close decide on someone a long time ago?”

The person he’d decided on is you!

Bai Cai didn’t dare to say it out loud and instead took a detour, “Anything’s possible as long as the contract hasn’t been signed.”

Wei Xiao was self-deprecating, “Nah, it’s still possible to run off after going to the base.” He was talking about himself.

Bai Cai was worried that bringing up old history would make Lu Feng unhappy and interrupted him, “Do you want to come or not? As long as you want to, I promise we can reach an agreement!”

Wei Xiao: “Not going.”

This heartless little beast!

Bai Cai didn’t dare to look at Lu Feng. He just felt that his back was cold, and the floor heating in the training room seemed to have disappeared instantly!

“What are you holding back for? Based on your level, FTW would sign you based on a casual solo match. The signing fees now are even higher than they were two years ago. Even Little Ning got three million. If you come… wouldn’t it be several times higher!”

Bai Cai was very confident about this. Just based on the two million that Captain Lu had spent on the ‘vanguard’, this stinky kid Wei Xiao was still worth a lot of money!

Wei Xiao drawled, “What’s so good about playing professionally? I don’t want to win the championship, and I’m not interested in team competitions. As for the money, I’m making so much now I can’t spend it all. Any more would be a burden.”

Bai Cai’s lips twitched. You’re really an unambitious One Lamp Grandmaster who wants nothing from life!

However, the problem was that if you were really unambitious and wanted for nothing, then you wouldn’t f*cking stay up in the middle of the night and abuse four professional players until their wallets were empty!

Bai Cai beat him with a heavy hammer, “FTW has Close.”

Wei Xiao made an ‘Ah’ sound. Based on the sound, he seemed to be really sad.

Bai Cai accurately poked at his weakness, “If you come to FTW and see Captain Lu all the time, won’t you be able to solo with him whenever you want to? I’m not exaggerating, but our God Lu can promise to accompany you until the end.”

Wei Xiao spoke faintly, “He really can. His physical strength is better than any other man I’ve ever met.”

Bai Cai: “………”

How come perfectly normal words took on a different flavor when they came out of this kid’s mouth!

“So…” Bai Cai struck while the iron was hot, “Are you coming to FTW or not!”

Wei Xiao paused for half a second, “Old Bai, it’s hard to find a balance between life and human affairs.”

Bai Cai: “???”

Wei Xiao let out a long sigh, “It’s impossible for me to play professionally. Just let Close become the one unobtainable thing in my life.”

Bai Cai: “??????”

He’d been doing his best to convince him for ten minutes, but this was the result?!

Bai Cai turned back to look at Lu Feng.

There was no change in Lu Feng’s demeanor. He wasn’t surprised, nor was he too angry… probably.

Bai Cia’s mouth moved silently as he asked for the next set of instructions.

Lu Feng typed out a sentence in the notes of his phone, “Yue Wenle is awake and will solo with him.”

Bai Cai understood instantly!

“Ah, I just saw Old Yue!” Bai Cai’s acting skills were remarkable.

Wei Xiao yawned, “God Le wakes up so early? You didn’t see wrong, right? At this time, it’s only Close who’ll be awake for his morning run.”

Bai Cai was really scared of this damned brat, “Are you treating me like I’m blind? Captain Lu is one meter nine, and Old Yue is one meter eight. You think I can’t tell the difference?”

Wei Xiao: “You have a point.”

Bai Cai urged him, “Do you want to play with our zone’s number one ADC and have a solo match?”

FTW was the championship team of the China competition zone in 2019. As the starting team’s ADC, Yue Wenle deserved his title as number one.

Bai Cai continued, “Old Yue is more than several levels higher than Xia Dan.”

Wei Xiao instantly became spirited, “Alright, will he come?”

Although Yue Wenle had been hammered into exploding by Wei Xiao when he was in the support team, his skill back then was not the same as now. The Yue Wenle who’d experienced several big competitions was no longer an ignorant newcomer.

He was quite looking forward to it.

Bai Cai glanced at Lu Feng and went on, “I’ll ask for you.”

Wei Xiao: “Quickly!”

Bai Cai pretended to push the chair away and shouted into the distance, “Old Yue~”

He then came back to say to Wei Xiao, “I’ll hang up first. We’ll communicate by text.”

Wei Xiao: “’Kay!”

After hanging up the phone, Bai Cai let out a long sigh of relief.

Lu Feng asked, “Stayed awake all night?”

How could Bai Cai not understand what he meant? He hurried to explain, “That kid watched the video of your fight with Gary and it all went to his head. He soloed with people all night.”

Lu Feng: “Who did he look for?”

Bai Cai thought to himself that it should be fine, so he opened his mouth and thoroughly sold out all of these ‘big customers’.

Lu Feng: “The record?”

Bai Cai: “Wei Xiao won them all.”

Lu Feng: “Mm.”

Although it was just a single word, Bai Cai seemed to hear the meaning of ‘that’s about right’ from it.

He was overthinking it, he must be overthinking it!

Their great demon king was a champion machine without feelings. How could he express such a rich level of emotions?!

Bai Cai asked tentatively, “Captain, are you going to solo with him?”

Lu Feng sat down in front of the computer. He turned it on and started checking over it all in one go, “Didn’t he want to?”

Bai Cai: “……”

You were going to do it just because he wanted to?

F*ck, what kind of gay thing was this? As a straight man, he really shouldn’t go and accompany girls to form CPs. His brain circuits weren’t functioning right!

Wei Xiao’s WeChat bombardment came, “How’d it go how’d it go how’d it go?”

Bai Cai really couldn’t understand. How could Wei Xiao, who’d soloed all night long, be so energetic!

Did the word ‘tired’ even exist in his dictionary?!

Internet addict teenagers really couldn’t be provoked.

“He’s here. I’ll invite you.” Bai Cai replied to Wei Xiao.

Wei Xiao was in a good mood, “In order to show respect to God Le, I’ll use a thief.”

Bai Cai’s lips twisted: Just wait for your punishment, stinky boy.

Bai Cai asked Lu Feng, “Custom mode. Captain, what are you using?”

Lu Feng: “Ice hunter.”

This was the hero Yue Wenle was famous for, the one that Wei Xiao had once pressed down and smeared all over the ground.

Wei Xiao saw the hero that ‘Yue Wenle’ selected, and the excitement he felt in his heart experienced a discount.

Thieves didn’t have a natural advantage over hunters.

But a shadow thief was definitely an ice hunter’s nightmare.

There were quite a few talent builds for hunters that could engage in close-combat, and there were even summoner-class builds that had the power to fight against a shadow thief. It was only the ice hunter who couldn’t hold up against the shadow thief when it came to melee.

Yue Wenle was the top ADC in China competition zone’s, but that was in 5v5.

There was a big difference between team competitions and individual matches. For example, with the ice hunter build. Although it was difficult for it to gain an advantage in solo matches, it became a big daddy in team games.

As long as there was a support to protect him, once the ice hunter powered up, its ice arrows could shatter the skies and destroy the earth.

Not only the squishy thief, even a grand paladin would have no way to survive beneath its arrows.

Yue Wenle was very strong. In the China competition zone… no, he was one of the most famous ADCs in the world.

However, he was taking an ice hunter to solo against Wei Xiao’s shadow thief, which was like hitting a stone with an egg.

When faced with the loading interface, Wei Xiao was disappointed.

Using the ice hunter to win against his shadow thief… there was only one person in the world who’d done that.

That was Close from two years ago.

Sigh, why did he have to encounter Close?

During the winter vacation of his third year in high school, he really shouldn’t have clicked in to watch the live broadcast of the global finals in a moment of curiosity!

Wei Xiao, whose thoughts had wandered, caught some differences when he came face to face with this ice hunter.

This ice hunter… was very detailed!

He seemed to know that Wei Xiao would stalk him when they were level one. His movements were extremely delicate, perfectly avoiding all possible angles of attack while simultaneously not missing a single soldier!

The small soldiers were worth experience and money. Experience was used to upgrade and enhance the skills, and money was used to buy equipment to strengthen DPS.

In MOBA type games, personal skills and awareness was important, but without economy, everything else was empty talk!

The so-called individual player’s ability wasn’t based on an illogical ability to take down a level ten when they were level one, but more focused on a professional player’s ability to seize and control resources, be able to farm more efficiently, and level up as quickly as possible. All of that plus their individual operations was what really made for a showy display.

Wei Xiao was able to hold down professional players because he had a very unique talent when it came to ‘snatching economy’.

Pressuring the lane, killing soldiers, controlling the jungle creeps, and even getting the last hit for a defense tower, were all details that he kept track of himself. Don’t look down on the details––economy was accumulated bit by bit just like this!

Wei Xiao’s first attack was only able to slightly glance off the ice hunter. At the same time, he also lost a chunk of health from an ice arrow.

“Not bad!”

Wei Xiao sat up straight.

He calculated the time needed to clear the little creeps that would come out of the bushes to the left, but unexpectedly, the ice hunter shot out an icy cold arrow…

For the first time, Wei Xiao, who could control his own health and damage to the utmost, had been counter-calculated!

His basic attack hadn’t even made it when the little creep was stolen by the ice hunter!

Only the last hit would count for experience and gold. Wei Xiao had worked busily for a good while, only to end up giving away all the benefits to someone else.

“Having experience in big competitions really makes a difference.”

Wei Xiao calmed down and continued looking for opportunities. His eyes remained fixed on the ice hunter, taking in his positioning, his operations, the way he linked skills, and calculated his CD (skill cooldown) time…

For some reason, he felt that there was a strong sense of familiarity.

Two years ago, he’d been shot to pieces by an ice hunter who was just like this.

At the time, it had been Close.

Now, it was Yue Wenle.

It was two different people, but why were there so many similarities?

There was only one answer––　

As Close’s teammate, Yue Wenle could solo with him however and whenever he wanted.

Yue Wenle’s current play style must have been personally taught by Close!

A fire erupted in Wei Xiao’s heart.

Damn it!

The one thing he wanted but couldn’t obtain, was something that was at another person’s disposal!

The author has something to say:

God Lu, your family’s little lunatic is eating vinegar hahahahahahahahahahaha

Juurensha: WX, just join the team gdi