Chapter 136 Off-Season

The dull professional training made even a bothersome thing like Boss-snatching feel like a vacation. The members of Happy endured day after day like this, and no one complained, except for Baozi, who would occasionally yell a few incoherent things. As for Baozi's yelling, no one took it to heart.

In the blink of an eye, a week had passed. In addition to basic training, Ye Xiu and Wei Chen had finally managed to put together the professional training for the several people on Happy's side. However, professional training was relatively much more detailed. In addition to the training content differing because of the different classes, when practicing this step, the training would focus on different aspects based on the different characteristics of the players.

This was the progress of Glory's professionalization over the years. Back in the pioneering era, not to mention being so detailed, even basic training didn't have such standardized models. The earliest training was just for everyone to go to the arena and PK directly. And now, players who came from such backgrounds were regarded as self-taught. However, being self-taught wasn't necessarily bad; whether it was good or bad still depended on the individual.

Ye Xiu and Wei Chen were now just summarizing the professional role training models for the current members of the team. Refining it to the individual level wasn't something that could be completed in a short time. These kinds of adjustments had to be made based on the player's training progress.

The rumors in the professional circle continued to fly for another week, but after the week ended, the real transfer market looked calm to the players. In fact, it wasn't that there was no movement at all, but there had been so many amazing transfers this summer that the numerous players who had their appetites whetted were too lazy to even look at the transfers of lesser-known players.

As the days continued to pass, the major teams successively began to summon their players back to the team to begin preparing for the new season. The professional circle's summer break wasn't like students' summer vacation; if the season started on September 1st, it didn't mean everyone would come back on September 1st to play the game. After a summer, many teams had changed. Tyranny had brought in two famous veterans, Hundred Blossoms was directly rebuilding their core, Team Wind Howl had welcomed the aggressive new core Tang Hao, and Best Rookie Zhao Yuzhe would also be playing as a main force next season. In addition, Blue Rain lost Yu Feng, and Team Tiny Herb even had two all-star level players, one retiring and one being traded.

The team welcomed new players, and the players arrived at new teams. This kind of integration was mutual and took time.

Therefore, although the professional season didn't start until September every year, none of the teams' vacations would last until September 1st. Basically, by mid-August, the clubs would issue a recall order, asking the players to return to the team to begin the pre-season training. Even for teams that hadn't changed much, the players had to find their competitive state again after such a long rest! After all, only a few players would consciously practice extra during the long vacation.

On August 15th, just over halfway through the week, the major club guilds in the game finally breathed a sigh of relief. Starting from this day, the Tyranny professional players who had been tormenting them all summer and causing their income to decline sharply finally withdrew from the game battlefield. Around this day, players like Blue Rain's Lu Hanwen, Tiny Herb's Liu Xiaobie, and Wind Howl's Zhao Yuzhe, as well as other professional players from various teams who had come to play in the game, had also left one after another, but none of their withdrawals were as eagerly anticipated as Zhang Xinjie and Lin Jingyan's.

The order in the game had finally returned to normal.

In the end, the guild leaders just sighed slightly. After all, this wasn't the first time they had experienced this kind of thing. They would experience a similar period of turmoil almost every summer. But this year was truly special. The transfer market was particularly lively, and the game was also turned upside down. Zhang Xinjie, this kind of god, came to help and brought the guild a monopoly-like advantage. This situation didn't seem to have happened before. This summer was truly memorable.

The players' vacations were over, but the transfer window wasn't closed just like that. The managers of the major clubs were still busy, using the last two or three weeks to further strengthen their teams. Especially now that they had begun to gather for training, they could obtain some feedback from the teams and make further adjustments while the transfer window hadn't closed yet.

Experienced players began to look forward to it. Because from past experience, the end of the transfer period was often when some major transfers would occur, and there would often be some unexpected high prices, because there wasn't much time left!

Everyone waited and waited, but another "calm and peaceful" week passed, and there were no eye-catching transfers.

That was how ordinary players saw it, but in the eyes of the people at Happy, a transfer had happened this week that was good news for them.

Excellent Era player Guo Yang, with a price of 2.6 million, transferred to Team Wind Howl.

Excellent Era, the team that refused to be a supermarket after being relegated, had finally lost someone. After all, if the club couldn't convince the player to stay willingly, it was unlikely that they would force him to stay. That would be a lose-lose situation.

Although Excellent Era had brought in all-star players like Xiao Shiqin and Shriveled Lands, they would be wasting a year in the Challenger League after all, and not everyone would look at that future prospect and be willing to sacrifice that year.

Guo Yang was Excellent Era's main player, and his class was Qi Master. His departure would definitely damage Excellent Era's strength, so for the people at Happy, this news wasn't bad. However, the damage was there, but it was limited. Looking at the stats, Excellent Era now had Sun Xiang, Xiao Shiqin, and Su Mucheng, three all-star players. This was something that even the current league didn't have.

Tyrannical Ambition certainly had four people, but three of those four were already at the end of their careers, while two of Excellent Era's three were at their peak, and one was already at his peak, but his youth gave him room for improvement. This was much rarer than Tyranny's three old guys.

This kind of relegated monster attracted a lot of attention, and no one thought there was any suspense about Excellent Era's smooth return to the league through this year's Challenger League. And the professional teams that participated in the Challenger League in the same year, some were relegated together with Excellent Era, and some had been relegated in previous seasons, or even the season before that, and hadn't been able to return, but hadn't disbanded either. After all, only one team could return from the Challenger League each year, and there would always be teams that were left out.

Sunset Fire was such a tragic team.

They were the team that was ultimately relegated in the sixth season, and then they failed in the Challenger League for two consecutive seasons in the seventh and eighth seasons. Once they were relegated, they would be treated like a supermarket, and after failing in the Challenger League, they might face disbandment. This Sunset Fire team was quite tenacious. They failed in the Challenger League in the first year, and then came back the next year, but unfortunately, they failed again last season.

The Sunset Fire team now only had their captain still sticking to the team. Everyone else who had the strength to stand in the professional circle had already left. The team could only find some players who had been eliminated by other teams and couldn't find a job in the professional league to join. This would be their third time participating in the Challenger League since being relegated, and it might be the last time. After three years of toiling in this Challenger League with meager returns, the team was almost unable to sustain itself. Captain Hu Zeyi was no longer receiving the same salary he had when he was in the professional circle, and the team couldn't be considered professionalized. This time, the last chance, who would have thought that an Excellent Era would suddenly descend, and then turn into a team with three all-stars. When Xiao Shiqin announced his joining Excellent Era, three people from the Sunset Fire team stated that they would leave the team to find work, showing their disappointment.

Sunset Fire wasn't the only team. Xuanqi, the team that was relegated with Excellent Era, was also feeling quite gloomy at this time. If they wanted to break through the Challenger League, they had to defeat Excellent Era. Who wouldn't be nervous about that?

These teams, like Happy, were especially focused on Excellent Era. Now that they had finally waited for Excellent Era to suffer a bit of a loss, but only such a character had left. It was possible that Excellent Era felt that it wasn't necessary to keep him and deliberately drove him away! After all, Excellent Era had successively changed their captain and vice-captain, which was also a very obvious sign of rebuilding.

But regardless of whether they were confident or not, they still had to register for the Challenger League. On Happy's side, Chen Guo finally started preparing to register with everyone's ID cards and game characters. The Challenger League wasn't very strict in the early stages. But the relevant regulations were very detailed, and everything that should be regulated was regulated. For example, underage players without ID cards could register with their guardian's identity, but their guardian had to appear during the later review.

Happy had many young people, but none of them were underage. Chen Guo was preparing to register with everyone's identities, but Mo Fan was a bit stuck. This guy had been at Happy Internet Cafe for half a month, and he was still so silent, with no change from the day he first came. Was he considered to have joined or not?

Chen Guo didn't know at all, and she didn't know what Ye Xiu was planning. Since she was preparing to register, she had to ask.

"Are you registering?" Chen Guo was always straightforward. She didn't explain to Mo Fan. Everyone was talking about this every day. Although Mo Fan never interrupted, he was always listening, so he definitely knew what Chen Guo meant.

"Not interested," Mo Fan squeezed out three words.

"Register him first!" Ye Xiu, who was watching Chen Guo go to greet Mo Fan, had already been paying attention. Hearing Mo Fan say this, he immediately interjected, "There's nothing wrong with registering. If you don't want to play when the time comes, you don't have to."

Mo Fan was silent, neither agreeing nor disagreeing. But after spending half a month together, everyone had more or less figured out this guy's habits. When he was silent, it usually meant that he didn't object. If he objected, he would definitely give you a cold "No."

"ID card," Chen Guo said.

Mo Fan handed it over.

"Will the character be Deception?" Chen Guo asked.

"Whatever," Mo Fan said indifferently. Chen Guo was quite annoyed, but in the end, she still tolerated it.

"The team's name will be Happy, okay?" Chen Guo asked Ye Xiu for his opinion.

"Whatever," Ye Xiu smiled.

"I hope to call it this name." Chen Guo didn't want to be too dictatorial. The name Happy was a bit vulgar, but it had too many special meanings for her. She really hoped to name it this.

"You're the boss. You have the final say. Whoever has an opinion will be fired," Ye Xiu said.

"Okay," Chen Guo smiled.

On the official Glory website, the information of everyone named Happy Team for the Challenger League was finally officially uploaded.