Chapter 1 The Commentary

"Zuo Chenrui's commentary has quite a few sharp points. Perfect, we'll use his review to take a look at our last match today!" Ye Xiu said, waving the newspaper after taking it from Fang Rui.

Then, regardless of whether they had appeared in the last match, they all headed towards Happy's strategy room. Even Mo Fan, who was usually aloof and independent, seemed more proactive this time, entering the strategy room first, though his expression remained indifferent.

Inside the strategy room, everyone now had their fixed positions, and they took their seats one after another. After Ye Xiu entered, no one chatted idly anymore.

The projection screen was lowered, and Ye Xiu sat down at a computer to pull up the replay of the last match.

"The first match of the individual competition... Well, there's not much to say about this one. The Hundred Blossoms kid was too nervous. This problem..." Ye Xiu looked at his teammates from Happy. If anyone in Happy was nervous, it could only be one person. Ye Xiu's gaze turned and finally landed on a laptop.

The new season starts in September, and school also starts in September. It was a bit difficult for Luo Ji, a top student in the mathematics department of a key university, to give up his studies to specialize in the Glory professional circle. However, over the past year or so, Luo Ji has also deeply fallen in love with Glory. He was also reluctant to give up his identity as a professional player. Luo Ji, who was struggling between the two, was temporarily at school. When there were matches, he would fly to the arena himself.

Fortunately, Glory is an e-sport. Even if Luo Ji wasn't in the team, as long as he was online, he could still cooperate and train with everyone. However, since Luo Ji was at school, he still had to spend a lot of time on his studies and couldn't stay completely synchronized with Happy. Happy could only try to arrange some of the more important things during the times when Luo Ji could participate, and then communicate through the internet. For example, right now, although Luo Ji wasn't physically present, there was a laptop on his seat, and he was participating in the meeting via video, giving off a strange vibe.

"There's not much to say about this problem either. It mainly needs to be overcome by oneself. In my experience, try to concentrate as much as possible during the match and don't think too much. It will help to some extent," Ye Xiu said.

"Yes, yes, yes..." Luo Ji's voice came from the laptop, and everyone looked at him with strange expressions.

"The second match was Baozi's. Baozi, look at the score they gave you. They gave you 10 to 0 points. Do you know what that means?" Ye Xiu said.

"What does it mean?" Baozi asked.

"It means that you played very well at the beginning, but then you didn't play well," Ye Xiu said.

"No wonder I lost!" Baozi said with a look of sudden understanding, hitting his left palm with his right fist.

"Well... let's take a look at the replay of Baozi's match!" Ye Xiu said, opening the replay of Baozi's match against Zhang Wei.

A huge image of Baozi's match appeared on the projection screen. And this wasn't a video playback, but a file recorded by Glory's built-in recording program. Now, when opened with a special player, you could freely change the viewing angle and speed.

Ye Xiu dragged the match directly to the moment when Baozi and Zhang Wei met.

Zhang Wei started with a molten lava bottle, and Baozi flew over with a Powerful Knee Strike...

In the first half, Zuo Chenrui gave Baozi 10 points. What are 10 points? Only a flawless, impeccable performance deserves 10 points. It's extremely rare for anyone to give 10 points. But for Zuo Chenrui, who could give beauty 10,000 points, what were 10 points? He was not stingy in this regard, just like his thoroughness in criticizing people.

10 points...

Ye Xiu held the newspaper and didn't know where to start for a moment. Baozi, like Tang Rou, was a newbie who started playing Glory in the tenth server. Two blank sheets of paper, Ye Xiu had watched them fill them with content. Tang Rou's painting had clear lines and a clear thought process. Ye Xiu could see the logic and Tang Rou's thoughts in every stroke. But Baozi, Baozi's painting was the legendary abstract painting. His playstyle, his logic, had little or even no similarity to that of a normal Glory player, but sometimes it could have unexpected effects.

As Baozi's skill continued to improve, even Ye Xiu would accidentally fall for his tricks during practice. And Ye Xiu had been trying to understand Baozi's thought process, such as reviewing the replay together after practicing with him and asking Baozi to explain some of the things he couldn't understand.

Baozi also scratched his head in many places, obviously having forgotten his thoughts and ideas at the time. This wasn't because Baozi was scatterbrained. Glory duels had a fast pace, and many times the operations were done without thinking, as subconscious reactions and judgments. Not many players could completely remember every detail of a duel. In Happy, the player who could do this was called Luo Ji, not Baozi.

Although he couldn't get all the answers, Ye Xiu gradually began to feel at ease after listening to some of the things Baozi could explain.

Baozi wasn't without logic, but his logic was more imaginative and unconstrained. This was an innate imagination and observation, which was very similar to Wang Jiexi back then. The difference was that Baozi had only been playing Glory for a little over a year, while Wang Jiexi had been playing Glory for much longer before becoming a professional player. His foundation in Glory was much more solid than Baozi's.

Therefore, Wang Jiexi's imagination was accurate, sharp, and unpredictable, earning him the title of Magician.

And Baozi, limited by his own skills, his imagination sometimes got stuck in a dead end, resulting in some very childish mistakes.

After thoroughly understanding Baozi's situation, Ye Xiu couldn't help but sigh. If Baozi could have started playing Glory earlier and had a longer period of growth, he would definitely be even more terrifying today. But starting now, he still suffered from starting late. Baozi certainly had good talent, but this was no longer an online game. Compared to online Glory, everyone in the professional league was a talented person. And those called Gods were the best of these talented people.

Every newcomer that Ye Xiu found for Happy had a certain amount of potential. But in terms of Glory, they had all been delayed for various reasons. Sun Xiang and Tang Hao, these top Gods of the new generation in the league, were only 20 years old, even younger than Tang Rou and Baozi, but they were already the protagonists of this era.

Ye Xiu had thought more than once that if he could have discovered these people earlier, or if they had become interested in Glory earlier and started systematic training, would they already be members of the pyramid's peak today?

Unfortunately, there were no ifs, and everything could only be imagined. Ye Xiu could only do his best to help these newcomers grow faster. But for Baozi, the help Ye Xiu could give was becoming increasingly limited. Baozi's playstyle was special, and it was his unique talent. If Ye Xiu used the logic of Glory's conventional techniques to demand him, it would be a disservice to his talent. Allowing Baozi to display his uniqueness was something Ye Xiu couldn't give pointers on. In other words, it was up to Baozi's own destiny.

So, what Ye Xiu often did for Baozi now was to help him make fewer mistakes as much as possible. He would remind him of those situations where he was obviously stuck in a dead end, so he wouldn't make the same mistakes again.

And in this duel with Zhang Wei, Baozi was imaginative in the first half, but returned to mediocrity in the second half, confronting Zhang Wei head-on. When asked about the reason, Baozi's answer was truly irrefutable.

"I have more health!" Baozi said.

The whole room was stunned. They wanted to laugh, but they didn't think there was anything to laugh about. Gaining an advantage in the first half, widening the health gap, and then no longer using any tricks in the second half, directly exchanging blows head-on, was a very scientific and orthodox approach. Even the master of the Wretched style, Fang Rui, had in fact taken the same approach in the individual competition against Zhou Guangyi: after successfully using the cooldown ultimate skill twice and gaining a health advantage, he immediately fought Zhou Guangyi head-on.

"Well, this..." Ye Xiu hesitated for a moment and dragged the match to the middle, "Alright, then let's see your duel with him after you had more health."

With more health, he still lost to Zhang Wei, so you could imagine that Baozi still had many problems during this stage. Tactical discussions weren't Ye Xiu's lectures, and everyone was free to speak at this time. The new players and Qiao Yifan were relatively silent, Su Mucheng listened more often, and would only point out things that had been overlooked together, but there hadn't been such an opportunity today. And Ye Xiu wasn't the main speaker at the moment. After starting the analysis of the second half of the match, it became a crosstalk show between Wei Chen and Fang Rui.

"Here, here, at 2 minutes and 41 seconds, you hesitated! You should have just smashed a brick directly into his forehead, wouldn't you agree?" Wei Chen pointed at the match on the projection screen, his tone and manner not at all like he was discussing tactics, but more like he was instructing how to engage in hooligan fights.

"You're right!" Baozi hit his left palm with his right fist again, he's been loving this move lately.

"Even if you hesitated, you shouldn't have jumped back to retreat, you should have just used a Collapsing Mountain!" Fang Rui said.

"Not necessarily, after jumping back you should follow up with a Powerful Knee Strike, that would be very fierce," Wei Chen said.

"Powerful Knee Strike? He'll just catch you with an Shadow Cloak," Fang Rui said.

"So you need to jump back first to avoid the Shadow Cloak, and then counterattack," Wei Chen said.

Fang Rui was stunned for a moment, then quickly reacted, "Damn, you haven't even used the Powerful Knee Strike yet, where did the Shadow Cloak come from?"

"Young people, do you understand anticipating the enemy's moves?" Wei Chen said.

"Anticipate your sister!" Fang Rui was obviously not very polite to this shameless old senior, "Baozi, don't listen to his nonsense, just use a Collapsing Mountain, and you'll definitely knock him down."

"Bah!" Wei Chen spat, "Baozi, trust me, jump back first and then use a Powerful Knee Strike, watch the other side's attack, it's all about timing, and you'll definitely give the other side the biggest surprise."

"Surprise, I like it!" Baozi said happily.

"Mm, mm." Wei Chen nodded with a look of you-can-be-taught, "Rhythm, the important thing is rhythm."

"Baozi." At this time, Ye Xiu called out.

"Huh?" Baozi looked at his boss.

"You hesitated here, don't hesitate next time, react faster," Ye Xiu said.

"Okay," Baozi said.

"Okay, that's all," Ye Xiu nodded.