Glory [e-sports]

translator: xiin

editor: apricot

FTW’s tactics were very interesting. Even Chen Feng, who was off-stage, was surprised.

They hadn’t practiced this line-up, and Lu Feng had never taken out his space-time knight during practice either, but they were still able to achieve amazing results.

When the space-time knight joined the team fights, Yue Wenle became the one escorting the lane soldiers.

Yue Wenle’s storm hunter wasn’t very useful for dealing damage in team fights. When he used his talent to the extreme, he was flexible and could move around at high speeds, and he could work miracles when he split off from the main group.

There was no way for Chen Feng to think about how they were communicating. He could only look at how the match was progressing and be pleased with the team’s rapid growth.

The space-time knight was able to cooperate perfectly with Wei Xiao, match perfectly with Ning Zhehan, and even play out a beautiful combo with the medicine warlock.

When it came to Wei Xiao and Ning Zhehan, Lu Feng’s shields and ultimate moves were always released on time, allowing them to release their core skills repeatedly.

Lu Feng and Bai Cai’s combo could be called the most critical part of the whole scene. He basically didn’t use his ultimate move to bring back the dead. Instead, he gave everyone’s skill cooldowns back to them at the most precarious moments. Bai Cai also showed himself to be a qualified medicine warlock, controlling his teammates’ health bars as they plummeted and rose back up like a rollercoaster, ensuring that they never ran out.

It was unknown what the mood was like in the canyon, but the audience watching the game felt like their hearts were about to jump right out of their chests.

“F*ck, f*ck, f*ck me! It connected! Their skills were seamlessly connected once again!”

“The space-time knight is working miracles with the medicine warlock!”

“I’ve seen double support before, but I’ve never seen such an arrogant double support!”

“The great demon king lives up to his name, he’s still the daddy of the whole scene even when playing a support talent!”

“Who said Close is an orphan player?”

“Who said that the great demon king can’t cooperate?”

A whole series of questions appeared on the live broadcast screen. The die-hard fans couldn’t even type properly because they were crying so hard it was difficult to breathe.

Close wasn’t an orphan player.

The great demon king was able to cooperate.

It was just that no one had ever given him a chance.

Three years ago, the Team of Gods hadn’t needed it. His fellow brothers were too strong, and they could become the world champions of the team competition by playing however they liked.

In the past three years, Close had tried everything he could when faced with the empty FTW.

Cooperating, controlling the arena, snatching up the rhythm like a tyrant…

As long as they could win, he could do anything.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to cooperate, but who was he supposed to cooperate with?

The team needed him to fight one against five.

The club needed him to hold up the skies for it.

The fans were waiting for him to create the myth of a lone hero.

Over time, how could he still remember what cooperating was?

He was too used to having to bear all the burdens on his own. How could he trust others?

No one thought about these things, and no one cared.

The darkness behind the brilliance had always been ignored.

Only Wei Xiao had managed to break in.

He trod through the mud, slipped past the stains, and lit up the lonely and cold darkness, having found the real Close.

That strong yet gentle Close, the cold yet detailed Close whose silences contained all kind of passionate emotions.

In the first wave of encounters in the jungle zone, the four people from FTW surrounded and suppressed L&P’s top-laner, jungler, and support with the speed increase given by their double supports.

Skills flew all over the sky, and the damage dealt exploded. Yuan Ze, Gary, and Mo seemed to be like drops of water hitting magma, evaporating into nothing instantly.

Wei Xiao got rich from being fed a triple kill, and FTW’s momentum soared like a rainbow!

Yuan Ze fell to the ground and stared at the darkened screen.

The situation in the canyon was disadvantageous, but it seemed like a window had opened up in his heart, letting in endless rays of warm sunshine.

Bit by bit, drop by drop… The distant past echoed in his mind, coated in a golden light.

A long drawn curtain faded, and everything seemed to shine bright.

Yuan Ze had been infuriated when Yan Jiang signed the transfer agreement. He ran over to question him. “Are you just going to disregard Close like this?”

Yan Jiang looked calm; his pair of black eyes seemed untouched by the world. “What do you want me to do?”

Yuan Ze had been left speechless.

Yan Jiang paused for a moment, then ultimately said this: “You know, Lu Feng…”

Normally when they were at the base, they all called him Close and almost never used his real name.

Others were addressed by their names except for Lu Feng… This was something they’d tacitly agreed because they’d all more or less guessed at Lu Feng’s background. After all, they were all living in S City.

Yuan Ze clenched his fists. “Since you know, why do you have to go?”

Knowing that Lu Feng was trying to save FTW, why did he insist on leaving?

Yan Jiang frowned. “If he has a good relationship with his family, then why would he spend New Year’s Eve at the base?”

Yuan Ze: “…………”

Yan Jiang: “Stop dreaming, he can’t do it.”

No matter what, Yuan Ze was still unwilling to accept it. “But if he can…”

Yan Jiang’s eyebrows shot up, and he stared at him. “Don’t give him the chance to do it.”

Yuan Ze’s heart clenched as he understood the meaning behind these words.

After getting along together day and night for over a year, it was impossible for the five of them to say that they weren’t familiar with each other.

No matter what the outside world said about them being at odds, fighting, or even hostile to each other.

Only they understood each other.

Why had the Lu Family’s child come to play professionally?

Why did Lu Feng’s family turn a blind eye towards him?

Why did Lu Feng hide at the base on his own on all holidays?

Why didn’t Lu Feng receive a call from his parents for his birthday?

Could a young Lu Feng who was like this be able to convince his parents to buy the club?

Even if he was successful, what price would he have to pay?

If that family was like hell, then how could his teammates push him into hell?

Yan Jiang shifted his gaze away and finished what he was saying before. “It’s not worth it.”

Yuan Ze froze on the spot.

Yeah.

It wasn’t worth it.

They’d only gotten along together for a year, and it wasn’t worth having him pay out so much for them.

Little Close was still underage, while they were already adults.

Adults shouldn’t dream.

Yan Jiang took Xie He to Europe, Yuan Ze went to North America, and Kim Sung-hyun went back to South Korea.

Of the five starters, only Close was left.

When Yuan Ze learned that Close had bought FTW, he didn’t sleep for three days and three nights.

Smoke filled his room. He was immersed in all the smoke, but he couldn’t get rid of the haze he’d fallen into.

Pain, regret, guilt.

Even deeper was the remorse.

Why did Close insist on buying FTW even after they’d all left?

Why was this child so silly?

Unfortunately, time couldn’t be reversed. What they’d left Close with was the worst possible result.

In the first year, FTW stopped at the top eight in the world.

In the second year, FTW fell in the elimination matches.

In the third year, FTW didn’t even qualify for the finals.

Each year was worse than the previous year. The words that Yuan Ze had suppressed were almost blurted out: “Is it worth it?”

Lu Feng, is it worth it!

Regret?

Lu Feng, do you regret it?!

Hate?

Close, do you hate us?

After learning that Lu Feng’s shoulder injury was due to trauma and that it was an old illness from three years ago, Yuan Ze had almost been overwhelmed by self blame.

If they hadn’t left or even if he was the only one who had stayed, then would it be… would it be…

What was the point of any ‘what ifs’…

The space-time knight could reverse time.

But they couldn’t.

Looking back at his tacit understanding with his teammates in the canyon and watching Wei Xiao take a triple kill with the space knight’s protection, Yuan Ze finally felt a trace of relief.

During the past three years, he’d felt endless amounts of guilt and had been afraid that he’d destroyed Close.

Now, Close was using the competition to tell him that he was doing great.

He had new teammates, a new FTW, and he was a new Close.

It was all good.

Yuan Ze breathed in lightly, manipulated the blood warrior, and went forth to welcome this new FTW!

***

Wei Xiao and Lu Feng pushed their skills to the extreme in the last team fight. The berserker thief entered the fight with his scythe, locking in VIVI’s spirit mage right away. Reasonably speaking, it was difficult for the spirit mage to be controlled, but Wei Xiao managed to lock onto him, pulling him back and tossing the spirit mage straight into the mobs.

The immortal warlock took advantage of how he’d been sent flying to brush out an arrogant and domineering thousand layers of clouds.

VIVi gritted his teeth and tried to avoid the skills, going all out to play out a strong control skill, in hope of creating an opportunity for his teammates.

Yuan Ze and Gary followed after him quickly, dealing overwhelming damage onto Ning Zhehan and Yue Wenle.

While Bai Cai couldn’t stop their sudden advance, he launched his skills very stably, maximizing the amount of healing by keeping any excess hp healed close to nothing, forcibly protecting their health bars.

At the same time, Wei Xiao entered the fray again. With the shield that the space-time knight had given him, he took away VIVI’s life with his scythe. After refreshing his skills, he sent out another scythe and locked in on Gary.

Gary hadn’t felt this kind of chill run down his back for a long time. “F*ck!”

There was no way for him to run. Years of experience had already given him the answer: there was absolutely no escape!

At this critical moment, the blood warrior used his ultimate move and stood in front of him.

Gary: “!”

Yuan Ze: “Withdraw!”