Chapter 1 The Opening

With the end of the opening match, various news topics erupted.

Although the combination of the four core players of the Tyranny Team made them the most eye-catching team in the new league, the most eye-catching player after the opening match was not Zhang Jiale, Lin Jingyan, Han Wenqing, or Zhang Xinjie.

Lu Hanwen.

Lu Hanwen, hailed as Blue Rain's most important transfer this season. After an All-Star player left the team, he directly played as a starter, becoming the youngest Glory esports player in history.

Lu Hanwen was protected at the post-match press conference that day and did not attend. But could the enthusiasm of the media reporters be so easily dismissed? After the opening match, each team received requests for exclusive interviews with individual players, and Lu Hanwen had become a popular figure at this time.

Was Lu Hanwen's performance really comparable to that of a god-level player? Not necessarily, but the aura of being 14 years old added too many points to him. He already has such strength at 14, and if he continues to improve, what will happen when his skills mature?

Blue Rain's protection of young players was not just blindly hiding them; the ultimate goal was to allow players to grow in a good environment. After the opening match, Blue Rain specifically guided Lu Hanwen on how to deal with reporters, and finally agreed to media interviews. However, the final interview was not a press conference where a bunch of reporters crowded below playing a question-and-answer game. Blue Rain ultimately arranged an exclusive interview with the most influential Esports Home. The two sides found a quiet, undisturbed place, sat down and chatted slowly, and Blue Rain would also make the final review of the news release that Esports Home would eventually publish.

With this arrangement, there was no fear that Lu Hanwen would say something he shouldn't say due to inexperience or childishness, which would affect his professional career. As the most authoritative esports media, Esports Home would not irresponsibly try to get information, catch words, or quote out of context in order to attract attention.

Soon, an exclusive interview with Lu Hanwen appeared on the front page of Monday's Electronic Sports Weekly. Through a question-and-answer format, players learned in detail about this young player who became famous in one battle.

Vigor, optimism, and progress!

This was Esports Home's final evaluation of Lu Hanwen. The interview naturally ended with a blessing to Lu Hanwen. At the same time, it had already aroused a trace of anticipation in the hearts of all Glory fans. What would this youngest player accomplish?

Of course, the Electronic Sports Weekly after the front page also had a lot of other content.

For example, teams that had undergone major changes, their play styles in the opening match were also a topic of great interest. Speaking of play styles, two strong teams showed double-class combinations in the opening match, which were usually rare.

Blue Rain, Tiny Herb.

After having top-notch characters in their respective classes like Yu Feng's Brawler and Wang Buliuxing (Wang Bu Liu Xing), in the team competition, each had a character of the same class in their starting lineup.

Liuyun (Liu Yun), Munen (Mu En). The same classes as Yu Feng's Brawler and Wang Buliuxing (Wang Bu Liu Xing) respectively, were operated by the two new players.

Double-class combinations are extremely rare. Currently, the only active one in the league is Void Team's Double Ghost combination. Fengshan Guiqi (Feng Shan Gui Qi) and Guike (Gui Ke), both of which are Ghost Swordsman classes. However, the Ghost Swordsman class has very different play styles. Formation Ghost and Slayer Ghost can almost be regarded as two classes. Void's Double Ghosts have Fengshan Guiqi (Feng Shan Gui Qi) always playing the role of Formation Ghost, while Guike (Gui Ke) will change its skill list from time to time. They use this method to evolve the changes of the Double Ghost combination into various forms.

Blue Rain and Tiny Herb were a bit better. Tiny Herb was okay, because the Magician class also has a variety of play styles. However, Wang Jiexi is known as the Magician, but his Wang Buliuxing (Wang Bu Liu Xing) is not any of the common Magician play styles, but his own unique set of skill selection schemes. Wang Buliuxing (Wang Bu Liu Xing) does not focus on either physical or item-based Magician styles, but values and uses them all. As a result, due to the limitations of skill points, the skill levels of Wang Buliuxing (Wang Bu Liu Xing) are certainly not perfect, and his skill tree selection scheme is not something that ordinary people can understand.

And right now, Gao Yingjie's Munen (Mu En), who is playing alongside Tiny Herb and Wang Buliuxing (Wang Bu Liu Xing), is neither the common physical nor item-based style from the opening match, but it is not exactly the same as Wang Buliuxing (Wang Bu Liu Xing) either. Current analysis believes that this is in line with Wang Jiexi's way of thinking about the Magician class, but the skill tree scheme is tailored to Gao Yingjie's personal habits and style.

What kind of cooperation will two unorthodox Magicians have? Everyone is waiting to see.

On Blue Rain's side, the Swordsman class has no clear system differences. It's just that various sword moves are selected and matched according to personal preferences. Yu Feng's Brawler is not as unique as Wang Buliuxing (Wang Bu Liu Xing), and Liuyun (Liu Yun) is a very conventional Swordsman. What kind of sparks can these two of the same class create? The report also made some analysis of the opening match, but it was not deep enough and still needs to be seen in the long run.

In addition, teams like Tyranny, Hundred Blossoms, and Wind Howl... All teams will receive media reviews after the opening match. It is hard to say whether these reviews are in place, but at least at the player level, they need this more professional analysis to help them understand the connotations of the game.

In contrast, the Challenger League, which also ended its opening match, only occupied a small half of the page in the least eye-catching place in the Electronic Sports Weekly on the same day. Half of this small half page was about how prosperous this Challenger League was, and then it listed which teams were from the former professional circle. Of course, Excellent Era, as the top priority, was also greatly praised. As for the Happy Team, it was actually mentioned. Although it was only a sentence: "The Happy Team, which has received much attention recently, easily obtained full marks in the first round against an incomplete opponent."

Although it was only one sentence, it can be seen that Esports Home paid attention to and looked at the Happy Team differently. This is the only one among the 14,218 teams that specifically reported the results. Even Excellent Era was only put together with other struggling professional teams, with the sentence "all got full marks" brushed over.

Even so, Chen Guo was quite dissatisfied when she read the report. She felt that the team they encountered was so funny, and there was such a ridiculous thing as two people being absent, that they could have written more! Little did she know that the names of the 14,218 teams participating in the Challenger League were all kinds of strange things. If you specifically picked team names to complain about, Worldwide Insomnia would not necessarily be ranked. As for the matter of two people being absent, I don't know how many happened in the first round. Two people were still few; there were even cases where none were present. Worldwide Insomnia themselves completed this breakthrough in the second round. They didn't get a single point in the first round, and knowing that their opponent was strong, this team simply disappeared without saying hello in the second round. The Happy Team crushed their first opponent in this way.

The next day's second round of the professional league, the focus was of course the continuation of the first round. Chen Guo originally wanted to follow the trend and broadcast the Blue Rain Team's game, after all, Lu Hanwen is now the first highlight of the new season. But when she looked at the schedule, Blue Rain's opponent was the Misty Rain Team, a typical middle-to-lower team. It didn't seem to make much sense for Blue Rain to play against such a small team. Even if Lu Hanwen played well, it might be considered limited.

Then Chen Guo scanned the schedule again and saw that there was a match between Tyranny and Royal Wind.

The Royal Wind Team had Tian Sen and a Sweeping Monk, famous characters and roles. With the four core players, there seemed to be more highlights in this game.

Chen Guo's choice did not disappoint him. This game was of a very high standard. The stable performance of the four core players deprived the Royal Wind Team of all hope. These four people, who had only just gathered together this summer, seemed to have been cooperating for a long time. The tactical literacy of the veterans is definitely unmatched by young people, especially since these four are all ace level. The Tyranny Team seems to have skipped the running-in period directly and has begun to adjust to efficient operation.

In the same round, strong teams scored satisfactory points. Except for the Hundred Blossoms Team. They didn't seem to have found their former feeling. In the second round, they faced the weak Radiant Team and only got three points in the end.

Two rounds of matches ended, and two weeks also passed in a blink of an eye.

Professional players only aim at professional games. Apart from games, they actively train and adjust their state to serve the games. What about the Happy Team? They have to be much busier. In addition to hard training, everyone is still led by Ye Xiu in the game to run around for the Boss.

Zhan Lou Lan and others from the Yizhan side withdrew, but the other guilds are still the same people. All in all, the strength of Zhan Lou Lan and their elites is missing. And the other teams no longer have professional players to help. Over the past two weeks, the Alliance Army of Ye Xiu and others has naturally achieved the most outstanding results. Ye Xiu classified the materials he got.

Everything seemed to be developing in an orderly direction. But at the end of this week, on Monday of the new week, the list of opponents for the new round of the Challenger League came out. Happy Team's opponent: Wuji Team.

Compared to those flowery team names, the name Wuji Team is considered low-key. And this seemingly standardized format seems to be telling the team's origin.

Wuji Team, the team relegated from the professional league in the seventh season.

In the eighth season's Challenger League, they fell in the final decisive game.

They did not give up. Now that the ninth season has arrived, after winning a beautiful start, the Wuji Team and the Happy Team actually drew together like this.

This result made the corners of many people's mouths twitch.

But after a while, those players who had been waiting for the Happy Team to make a fool of themselves cheered.

On the Happy Team side, with Wei Chen as the representative figure, their faces were quite ugly.

Although they were the losers of last season, the Wuji Team was also from a professional background. The three years in the professional season allowed them to accumulate a little foundation. In any case, they are many levels stronger than "Worldwide Insomnia".

Chen Guo looked at Ye Xiu with some worry. At this time, she hoped to find confidence from Ye Xiu. Ye Xiu did not disappoint her. After seeing this lineup, he looked relieved: "It's not Excellent Era, not bad!"