Glory [e-sports]
Chapter 11: Idle Grandmaster seeking abuse online

translator: xiin

editors: apricot & juurensha

There was no doubt about it, this fellow had gone completely crazy!

Bai Cai retorted, “Are you really treating my China competition zone like there’s nobody left? Believe it or not, I’m going to find a big guy and blow you up!”

Wei Xiao sighed lightly, “If you can get Close here, I’ll thank your eight generations of ancestors.”

Bai Cai suspected that he was cursing him, and he even had the evidence, “You go wild, then!”

Wei Xiao was currently caught up in his excitement and urged him, “Stop dragging your feet, can you find people or not? If not, I’ll head over to your Weibo and appeal to your tens of millions of fans…”

“F*ck.” Bai Cai was scared of him now, “You just wait!”

Wei Xiao really waited obediently. He sat there motionless in his e-sports chair, his body seemingly boneless as he lay back. His eyes were fixed on the word ‘Victory’ on the computer screen.

Some people were natural born warriors.

His boiling blood needed an outlet.

Was he just looking to win?

No, what he wanted was to have a proper fight!

Ten minutes later, Bai Cai finished pulling the group together, and the name of the group was incredibly cocky––’Idle Grandmaster seeking abuse online’.

Grandmaster Wei: “Bai Cai, f*ck your daddy.”

Bai Cai: “Are you not idle?”

Wei Xiao: “Do you really think of yourself as a f*cking pimp?”

Bai Cai: “Being a pimp is still better than serving you.”

Wei Xiao didn’t talk any further nonsense with him and changed the group name himself.

So, the few professional players who’d just come in watched the group name change from ‘Idle Grandmaster seeking abuse online’ to ‘Invincible Grandmaster seeking defeat’.”

Yu Fei: “……”

Chen Chao: “…………”

Xia Dan: “………………”

Blue: “……………………”

For a moment, they couldn’t figure out which group name was cockier!

Bai Cai saw that everyone was there and didn’t bother with nonsense. He laid it all out and said, “Everyone is an old customer here. It’s time for Grandmaster’s regular bout of madness. Oh, it’s the regular distribution of benefits. Old rules, half price promotion, wheel war.”

Brother Cai purposely paused for a moment, then announced, “In order to inspire everyone’s fighting spirit, there’s an Easter egg this time.”

These were all old customers. None of them felt that these two pieces of work could arrange any normal Easter eggs.

“As long as you’re able to win against the Grandmaster in a solo match, no matter who it is, the Grandmaster will provide lifelong training partner services for free.”

The four people in the group: “F*ck! The stakes are so high!”

“Lifelong training partner?”

“Free?”

Wei Xiao was calm, “That’s right.”

Yu Fei, Chen Chao, and Xia Dan’s blood heated and they were caught up in the moment, “I’m in!”

Blue pondered for a moment and stretched out a small feeler, “It’s a little difficult to win a game. Can killing him once count?”

The other three were shocked by Blue’s shamelessness and spoke out one after another––”Old Blue, what’s the matter with you?”

Yu Fei: “As the strongest top-lane in the country’s servers, how can you be so… quick-witted!”

Chen Chao: “You’re making me, the national server’s mage king, feel ashamed of myself, hey!”

Xia Dan: “Can you guys have a little ambition? For better or worse, we’re all professional players. Where’s our professionalism? Integrity? I’m different. I feel that I should get the Easter egg as long as my arrow is able to hit the Grandmaster.”

Bai Cai rolled his eyes. Sure enough, he who stays near vermilion gets stained red, and he who stays near ink gets stained black. Thinking back, these four people had been pure and flawless when they first met Wei Xiao, just like granny gray in the training room next door. Now…

Where did these old beasts come from?!

It was no wonder the China competition zone was in such a slump. It would be strange if they were able to obtain a championship with their hopes pinned on these unambitious things!

Wei Xiao sent a smiley emoticon, “Coming or not?”

Three of them all agreed in unison, “Coming!”

It was impossible for them to bargain. At the very least, those who had already dumped six figures worth of money on Wei Xiao would never miss this half-price discount opportunity.

Wei Xiao started up a private room and asked, “Who’s first?”

Yu Fei raised his hand to sign up, “Me!”

The other three fired off sympathetic emoticons at him.

Yu Fei was a jungler. He used assassin type heroes to fight against the Grandmaster, which was another way of saying that he was rushing to his death.

For him to charge in so fearlessly was both admirable and pitiable.

Wei Xiao paused for a moment, then gave him a friendly reminder, “I only want to play thief tonight. Are you sure you want to go first?”

Yu Fei: “Ah?”

Chen Chao was also surprised, “Grandmaster, you’re using thief?”

Xia Dan: “No way, thieves are banned by default!”

Blue said darkly, “Sure enough, this is a treacherous banquet.”

Bai Cai watched how they shriveled up, and his hands felt itchy. It was fortunate that they weren’t his teammates. If they were, he wouldn’t give them heals at all and would directly put a poison ring on their heads, poison them all to death, and be done with it!

These old bastard pros had an exceptionally thorough understanding of Wei Xiao.

For example, Grandmaster never soloed with supports, because as a jungler, one needed to have the graceful demeanor of protecting one’s healer.

For example, Grandmaster was very strong with all heroes and all talent specs, and when he entered customized solo matches with others, he would usually use the hero that the other party was good at to beat up the other party.

Another example of their understanding was that Grandmaster was strongest with thieves, but he didn’t often bring them out to play. He was afraid that he would beat people up until they entered seclusion, only to ruin his own business.

Now…

The four of them all had the same thought: “Is there still enough time to leave the group now?!”

Bai Cai saw through their thoughts as a glance, “Half price discount, with such an attractive Easter egg. If you guys aren’t interested, I’ll call over other people.”

“I’m in, I’m in, I’m in.”

“One can always achieve more as long as they have a desire to do so!”

“Isn’t it just a thief? I’ve survived being a corpse beneath God Lu’s blade before!”

The one who’d spoken was Xia Dan. He hadn’t been much afraid of anything when he’d just started on his career and had bravely signed up for the individual competition. In round one, he’d met Lu Feng. And then…

How could there be any ‘and then’!

Wei Xiao: “Since that’s the case, then Egg God should go first.”

Xia Dan: “Ah?”

Wei Xiao had already dragged him into the match room.

Xia Dan: “Oh shit, I’m not ready yet ahhhhhh!”

As long as they knew the room number, anyone could join and watch the fight.

Wei Xiao and Xia Dan had already entered the canyon, and the people in the group were enthusiastically discussing the match.

Yu Fei: “I’m putting down a 200 yuan red envelope. I bet that Egg God can last for more than ten minutes this match.”

Chen Chao: “I bet 400. Egg God can only last eight minutes at most!”

Bai Cai put down 1000, “Five minutes.”

Yu Fei: “That’s impossible! The game mechanisms are still there. It’s impossible to make a push to the opponent’s crystal in five minutes.”

Blue was pessimistic, “What if Brother Egg surrenders in five minutes?”

Although Wei Xiao had no way to remove Xia Dan’s crystal in five minutes, he could still beat Xia Dan up to the point where he surrendered.

Players could choose to directly surrender after five minutes in a solo match.

Chen Chao was shocked, “That’s not possible. My Brother Egg is a top ADC player in Glory. Where’s his dignity as a professional player?!”

Five minutes later, Xia Dan cried as he came back to the group, “Too fierce, it’s really too cruel. I never want to see another thief again in my life, there’s a problem with this hero. What’s the matter with the game designers? Keep nerfing it, no, just delete the hero directly!”

Chen Chao had lost his red envelope. “Can’t you be less f*cking shameless!”

Then, the mage king Chen Chao was dragged into the match room.

When he went in, God Chao was still a mage king. When he came back out, God Chao was already dead.

Yu Fei, who’d written such a good poem, was also called in.

For better or worse, he was still a jungler in one of the top four teams. God Fei held on, and even managed to show some signs of a counterattack.

However, after the shadow thief used eight light arcs, he went crazy, “Goddamn! Who exactly are you? Gary? Inta? You can’t be Close, right?!!!”

Other than the three men who ranked in the top, he couldn’t think of anyone else with this level of skill!

The group chat that had been noisy and bustling earlier was now as quiet as a chicken.

Chen Chao: “It’s very obvious that the Grandmaster is Chinese.”

Xia Dan: “It’s very obvious that God Lu’s voice doesn’t sound like this.”

Blue: “What I really can’t understand is, how come none of the big clubs have signed him if we have such a big daddy in our competition zone?”

Bai Cai looked very seriously at the game interface.

He’d seen the training match between Lu Feng and Gary this afternoon. Because it wasn’t a customized game, the heroes for the training match were random. He didn’t know if it was Gary’s bad luck, or Lu Feng’s good luck, but in short, Lu Feng had gotten a thief in the first match.

In Lu Feng’s hands, this hero was nothing short of a miracle.

When it came to any kind of top-level operation, there were only moves that you couldn’t think of, and nothing that God Lu couldn’t do.

Most of the world’s top god-level players were good at heroes that had a high level of difficulty in operation. For example, Gary’s signature hero was also a shadow thief.

However…

He’d lost badly at Lu Feng’s hands.

Take the shadow thief’s invisibility and light arcs as an example. Ordinary players could create three light arcs, and most professional players could only create five.

Two years ago, Lu Feng had won the world championship using eight light arcs, breaking the current record.

At the time, the data analysts had said that this was the limit, and it couldn’t go any higher.

Now…

Nine arcs.

It sounded like a simple number, but nobody could know exactly how much sweat and effort had gone into it.

It was no wonder that Wei Xiao would be affected and chase after him on the sly for two years. It wasn’t easy for them to meet again, but Lu Feng had already climbed up to stand at an even higher position.

Glory’s individual competition was the cruelest and also the most authentic event in the history of e-sports.

There was only one person.

Everyone only looked at one person.

Strength was strength. There was no doubting it.

Seven o’clock in the morning.

Yu Fei: “No way, I really can’t anymore…”

Chen Chao: “Old Egg, our two teams still have a training match this afternoon. Are you not sleeping?”

Xia Dan: “ZzzZzzZzzZzz.”

Blue’s reason was quite realistic, “My wallet’s balance is insufficient, I’m leaving, I’m leaving.”

Six hours later, the people who were attacking as part of the wheel race ran off, and the person who’d been on the receiving end was still full of energy.

Bai Cai yawned, “Beast!”

Was he f*cking human?

Being nineteen was great, hey, he was only one year older than Wei Xiao, but how come this difference in energy made it seem like they were a hundred years apart?!

Bai Cai sent Wei Xiao a voice call, “There’s probably a bit over 20,000 in the account. I’ll transfer it to you in a bit.”

Wei Xiao’s voice was a little hoarse. He was inevitably still a little tired, “Old Bai…”

Bai Cai was sorting out the replay videos. In any case, the training room had emptied out a long time ago, so he directly turned on the speaker, “What’s up, did you not play enough?”

Wei Xiao sighed and said, “They all don’t cut it.”

Bai Cai: “Wake up! The only ones who are left are in the support teams or the children from the youth training teams. You can’t even let them off the hook?”

“Ah,” Wei Xiao’s voice was low and quiet, and sounded a little pitiful, “… I really want Close.”

There was a bang.

The sound of something falling to the floor.

Bai Cai turned his head, and sucked in a breath.

There was someone standing at the training room door.

Even if their back was against the light, that height, that figure––

Captain Lu… God Lu…

Was it already time for your morning run?!

Also…

Bai Cai looked at his cell phone that was on speaker, and thought of Wei Xiao’s words…

F*ck, what kind of dangerous wordswere these!

The author has something to say:

God Lu, did you hear that! [Super loud]

Additional note: Regarding the game and competition format, hey, it’s all made up. Don’t bring reality into it, it’s not based on anything. Love you guys!

Juurensha: Oh man, of course Lu Feng heard that.

xiin: Bai Cai’s life is hard…