Chapter 1 The Inconspicuous Xingxin Team

Xingxin Team only received a single sentence in the newspaper, and even that was only as a supporting element, drowned out in the massive amount of information in the newly concluded round of professional matches. It was truly too unremarkable.

Team Wu Ji, a team with professional origins, already received very little attention one year after being eliminated from the league. The attention directed at Xingxin Team was, from the very beginning, abnormal. Ninety percent of the players who came to watch Xingxin were hoping for them to lose. If Xingxin had truly been beaten to a pulp, they would have definitely made a big fuss, but now that Xingxin had won a great victory, they naturally remained silent. No one would jump out and make noise.

The vast majority of players didn't buy the Electronic Competition Weekly to read about the Challenger League.

The third round of the professional league, which had just ended last Saturday, continued to bring the novelty of the new season to everyone. And the most eye-catching player was still Lu Hanwen, the Blue Rain Team's youth who broke the record for the youngest professional player. In the Blue Rain Team's home match against Team Royal Wind that ended on Saturday, Lu Hanwen amazed everyone. In the team arena, he was the first to fight and consecutively defeated two of Team Royal Wind's players. In the third battle, he faced Royal Wind's ace player, Tian Sen, and the alliance's veteran god-level account, Sweeping Monk, and his vigor did not diminish. Although he ultimately lost to Tian Sen, he stole the spotlight. Many people even felt after the match that if Lu Hanwen hadn't fought two consecutive battles and his character, Liuyun, had more health, he might have succeeded in slaying a god in a one-on-one battle with Tian Sen.

Almost no one cared about the final score of this round's match between Blue Rain Team and Royal Wind Team. Everyone was talking about this team arena match and the tactics that Blue Rain Team had begun to show after three rounds.

Dual Swordmaster.

Huang Shaotian's Yu Xiao Sheng Fan and Lu Hanwen's Liuyun both appeared on the team competition's roster. Blue Rain had entrusted this newcomer with such an important position as an offensive vanguard, a position formerly held by Yu Feng, with such confidence and boldness.

Speaking of Lu Hanwen's character, it was definitely not weak. If Blue Rain could arm a Yu Xiao Sheng Fan, then as long as they had enough materials, they could arm a Liuyun again. However, professional players' characters were often adjusted according to the operator, and it was rare to replicate two identical characters for two different players to use.

Liuyun's equipment was not a copy of Yu Xiao Sheng Fan, but the number of silver equipment on his body, ten in total, was at the same level as Yu Xiao Sheng Fan. There were four different pieces, and the most eye-catching was, of course, the weapon.

Yu Xiao Sheng Fan's silver weapon, the light sword Bing Yu, was surrounded by an indistinct, flickering blue light, while Liuyun's silver weapon was a heavy sword: Flame Shadow.

Heavy swords and light swords were two extremes in swordsman weapons. Light swords were the fastest and lightest, while heavy swords were the slowest and heaviest. However, the physical attack power of a heavy sword was much better than that of a light sword.

A swordsman wielding a light sword and a swordsman wielding a heavy sword were completely different styles. In the current professional circle and even the entire Glory circle, light sword swordsmen were the majority, or katana swordsmen. In short, they relied on attack speed and liked to use continuous high-speed attacks as a means of combat. Lu Hanwen's Liuyun was an anomaly in the trend. He abandoned the fast and light light sword and chose the heavy but powerful heavy sword.

This question had been discussed ever since Lu Hanwen first controlled Liuyun to battle. Now, after the third round, Lu Hanwen's strong performance had silenced some of the naysayers. However, many experts also pointed out that because he was a newcomer with a new character, Lu Hanwen and his heavy sword swordsman Liuyun were somewhat unexpected. As the league continued, after each team thoroughly studied him and his character, it remained to be seen whether Lu Hanwen's strong performance could continue.

This problem is very common in the league, and is called the rookie wall.

This refers specifically to some talented and outstanding rookies who show their faces and grab attention when they first enter the league. Then, as their opponents study and become familiar with them, their performance may become worse and worse. This situation is the so-called rookie wall.

The performances of the rookies after that varied. Some crashed into the wall, suffered a setback, and disappeared from the crowd, starting to adapt to the professional league again. Some actively adjusted and continued to perform steadily, but their performance after that would never be as eye-catching as it was at the beginning of the league. As for those who regarded the rookie wall as nothing, and continued to be strong as always, apart from the initial generation where everyone was a rookie, only two rookies in the history of the league had done so.

One was Wang Jiexi, the current captain of Team Micro Herb, who started playing in the third season of the professional league; the other was not in the league at this time, but was struggling with Team Excellent Era in the Challenger League, Sun Xiang, the best rookie of the seventh season of the league.

Only these two completely ignored the rookie wall. Apart from them, even the golden generation, Zhou Zekai, Tang Hao, and even Zhao Yuzhe, who won the title of best rookie last season, were all affected by the rookie wall.

The rookie wall is objective. Therefore, each team is particularly careful about how to overcome the rookie wall. Taking Team Micro Herb as an example, Gao Yingjie, the genius player who has received much attention, was not used impatiently after being signed as a formal player. He started as a substitute and adapted to professional matches little by little. Because of the limited number of appearances, he can be said to have given up the selection of the best rookie himself, but this gradual approach also allowed Gao Yingjie to smoothly cross the rookie wall. In this season, Gao Yingjie is a second-year player who has some experience and has adapted to the rhythm of professional games. If he encounters any problems, he will not be as embarrassed as a rookie.

Different players are suitable for different ways to overcome the rookie wall.

Gao Yingjie has a soft personality, so the team helped him choose this balanced way to get through the rookie wall. Although it is a pity that he cannot compete for the best rookie, it is more suitable for Gao Yingjie's development in the long run.

What about Lu Hanwen of Team Blue Rain? He was protected in the first round and did not attend the press conference, but after the second round, he was led to the interview stage by Yu Wenzhou, the captain of Team Blue Rain, and Huang Shaotian, the ace player.

The reporters naturally paid special attention to this newcomer, but after this face-to-face contact, even the reporters felt that Team Blue Rain's protection of Lu Hanwen in the first round was completely unnecessary!

This young man was active, energetic, generous and cheerful. He was not afraid of the reporters' long guns and short cannons at all. He dared to say anything and dare to talk about anything. Of course, such outspokenness was also a bit lacking in tact, but he was only a fourteen-year-old child. It would be a disappointment if he had even learned to be tactful. It was already commendable enough that Lu Hanwen was not stage fright at such a young age. In comparison, Gao Yingjie of Team Micro Herb was one year older than Lu Hanwen, and had one year of professional experience. Now, he was not as neat as Lu Hanwen when attending press conferences.

After the third round of the competition, how could Lu Hanwen, who performed so well, not come out and let everyone see him.

This fledgling teenager not only quickly triggered fans' praise, but also became the darling of the media. At the press conference of Team Blue Rain, no one even answered Huang Shaotian's questions. Rather than listening to that guy talking nonsense for a long time, it was better to listen to Lu Hanwen's occasional silly mistakes!

In this issue of the Electronic Competition Weekly, Lu Hanwen directly squeezed into the headlines, and was undoubtedly the brightest person in this round of competition. However, the Electronic Competition Weekly is a comprehensive publication after all, and its reports will not be biased towards any team. Therefore, in addition to praising Lu Hanwen's continuous excellent performance, it also mentioned the issue of the rookie wall.

As for some local media in Blue Rain Team, they had no integrity at all.

These media are not e-sports publications, but they all have sports sections, which naturally include the continuously popular e-sports, especially Glory e-sports, in recent years.

And these local media have a particularly obvious bias. The local media of the Blue Rain Team described Lu Hanwen as unparalleled in the world. What rookie wall? In their opinion, Lu Hanwen will become another newcomer after Wang Jiexi and Sun Xiang who will directly crush the rookie wall.

However, these media will not be wishful thinking, and their analysis is also reasonable.

Wang Jiexi's playing style is unpredictable to the point of perfection. The unpredictability of the magician has no precedent to be figured out at all. For Wang Jiexi, the major teams crashed into the rookie wall and broke their heads and bled for a whole season. When they figured out some tricks, the season was over, and Wang Jiexi was in the limelight from beginning to end.

And Sun Xiang, on the other hand, is a great god from a small team. No matter how great he is, the pattern of a small team also limits the achievements he can achieve. The goal of each team is to defeat a certain team, not a certain person. Therefore, there is limited energy to study Sun Xiang, who comes from a small team, no matter how powerful he is, because you are not our competitor at all! And Sun Xiang is strong, so this limited research, of course, can not restrain his performance, so Sun Xiang's rookie season was also smooth sailing.

These two rookies who crushed the rookie wall have certain reasons. The local media of Team Blue Rain now say that Lu Hanwen will also do so, so naturally they cannot just say it without any basis. Therefore, these media finally found a reason that was somewhat convincing. That is Lu Hanwen's personality.

This young man, although young, is fearless, and is a model of a newborn calf not afraid of tigers. And these media believe that Lu Hanwen, with such a personality, will not be cowardly when encountering any difficulties, and will actively face them. Wang Jiexi made it impossible for the opponent to build a rookie wall at all, and Sun Xiang was because the rookie wall built for him was not strong enough. And Lu Hanwen, many people believe, is a rookie who can completely destroy the rookie wall.