ADAPTED FROM BUTTERFLY BLUE'S NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME, THE KING'S AVATAR
Captain Ye.
Sorry.
I cheated.
The network disconnection. The call to tip us off.
All that is my fault.
You don't need to apologize to me.
We'd better have a talk rather than
wasting time on apologizing and forgiving.
The Warlock's Cloth Armor can increase movement speed.
It's suitable for your Containment strategy.
And the Cleric's Defender will buff the health point.
And this Ninjato,
it has no special attribute, but it was self-made by our team.
If it's possible,
I hope it won't be dismantled.
Now, the Silver equipment is yours.
Using Everlasting's equipment to promote Team Happy's strength
makes me happy indeed.
But what about you?
The day before yesterday, I sold the assets of our team.
Yesterday, I liquidated all the money in our bank accounts.
Today, I am selling to you all the weapons we fought with.
What's next?
I'll figure out a way to stay in Glory.
How?
With your current status, transferring to other guilds isn't easy.
You're right.
My physical strength is not as competitive as younger players.
And I'm not as experienced as other veterans.
I know it's impossible for me to get in now,
but I will never give up.
You seem determined to continue staying in Glory.
Yes.
This is the only thing I can do.
Whether I can do it well or not, I'll do it.
Hi. Please give me another glass of water.
I've thought about it.
It's difficult for senior players like you to adapt
after joining a new team and using new weapons.
You'll lose more badly.
Join Team Happy.
You don't need a loser,
and a snitch who played dirty tricks.
That's right.
I need you to be a negative example in our team.
There are many kids in our team.
When they're lazy,
I can tell them
a young idler will become an old beggar like Wu Chen.
Won't you reconsider it?
Why would you do that?
Because we're the same kind of people.
Even if we're the only one left,
we'll never leave Glory.
TEAM EVERLASTING
SEWER DREDGING
TEAM EVERLASTING
Hey, comrades!
Come here to take a picture.
Let's record this moment.
That's good! Let's get it!
-Come here! -Are you ready?
-Yes! -One, two, three.
-Yes! -Yes!
Silver equipment!
It's Silver equipment!
It's real!
Everyone has a Silver equipment.
I have a Silver equipment too!
That's awesome! Captain!
Thank you, Captain!
Captain, you're so kind!
You're so awesome, Captain!
EVERLASTING
Everything here is made by you.
Without you, there is no Everlasting.
I remember when Everlasting was first established,
we couldn't get enough money.
So you were a captain in the day,
and a worker here at night.
At some point, I was thinking,
just like piecing together a computer with various components,
you made this team an integral whole.
You even sold your Silver equipment
in order to strengthen your teammates' equipment.
You said you didn't care if the Orange equipment was good or not.
The only thing you cared about was the future of Everlasting.
You must be tired.
Have you ever regretted joining Everlasting?
It should be the other way around.
Without Everlasting, I'm nothing.
Although life here was short,
it's the most precious memory of mine.
I don't regret it.
Because everything I did for Everlasting makes me feel happy.
Right.
What's your future plan?
If it's possible, I want to form another team.
Its name would still be Everlasting.
Great.
Be sure to save a seat for me when that happens.
By the way...
Here are your and the guild's accounts.
From now on, Everlasting belongs to you.
You can deal with it at your disposal.
Here you are.
DAWN RIFLE
Captain Wu.
Thank you for never giving up on Everlasting.
But this is the end between you and this team.
Even though Everlasting has been disbanded,
I'm still here.
With these accounts,
I'll keep staying in Glory.
For all of you.
Until the end,
we haven't seen the view of this city together.
A new team formed in an Internet cafe
has defeated professional teams repeatedly.
What's their secret of success?
-Come here! -Today, we're honored to invite
-Bao Zi, come here! -Ms. Chen for an interview.
Here comes the highlight.
My elegant presence.
Hello.
Could you talk about the secret of your leadership
that helped Team Happy perform so well?
Hi, guys.
I'm from Happy Internet Cafe. My name is Chen...
A network outage?
-Are you kidding us? -Ms. Chen.
You got off on the wrong foot.
Dropped the ball at the critical moment.
You looked beautiful.
Guo Guo.
Though we didn't hear what you said,
just based on your appearance here,
it's obvious you are the boss of a top team!
-What do you think? -That's right.
You're awesome, Little Tang.
Without you,
we can't win the seventh consecutive victory, right?
-Yes. -That owes to all of us.
If An Wenyi didn't protect me in the rear,
how could I fight in the front?
Without Yifan's protection, I wouldn't have survived to the end.
Am I right, Yifan?
I can't fight smoothly without Wei Chen blazing a trail for me.
That's right!
We've got such a good performance today
due to the joint efforts made by all of us.
Come on. Let me take the lead.
You guys follow me.
-Here. -Here.
-Cheers!
Excuse me.
Liquor is prohibited during the match period.
-Right. -That's right.
-Then, we'd better stop here. -Beer is not liquor.
A cocktail is not liquor either.
Sparkling wine is not liquor.
Red wine is not liquor too!
-Cheers! -Cheers!
HAPPY INTERNET CAFE
Come on!
Come on! We're late.
Quick!
Be quick!
Come on! Can you two hurry up?
Here we are.
Are you tired?
-Yes. -Yes.
If so,
40 more push-ups and 3 groups of sit-ups.
Are you serious, Captain? I can't do it.
Go.
Don't look at me like that.
What did you do last night?
All of you were late this morning.
Being late carries a punishment.
That's the rule.
Captain.
It's not like the time when we were young.
They are all as thin as a shadow.
Even I can't bear to punish them.
You are late and pleading for them?
Twenty more push-ups.
Boss.
That's too much.
Welcome to Team Happy.
What is he doing here?
To install monitors, monitor units, and signal jammers.
Do you know why Captain would recruit him into our team?
I just searched.
The winning rate of Everlasting under Wu Chen was 100 percent.
The middle-ranked team like Jade Dynasty
will be frightened by suppressing tactics, not outflanking tactics.
Wu Chen's vocation can help us strengthen our ranged DPS,
which can restrain Team Jade Dynasty.
So that is what it is.
Captain is forethoughtful.
Then we'll tolerate him now.
If he dares to start any sinister plot...
Mo Fan.
You mean you won't take part in any match.
You want to manage Happy.
Yes.
Here are ten guild cards of the common areas in Glory,
and two of the Heavenly Domain.
That's 12 guilds in total.
Here are all the accumulated achievements of Everlasting's guilds these years.
They can be used for the good of Team Happy.
From now on, you can count on me for Team Happy's supply of materials.
All I want is to keep staying in Glory with these accounts.
But I want you to be a member of Team Happy
and compete together with us.
Think about it.
Wait a second.
Listen to me.
I've had many dreams of returning to compete.
But at this age,
I know myself well enough.
Speaking of age,
Wei Chen has been playing well even now.
What?
It's your business. Don't drag me into it.
I know my limitations.
For me, the ceiling of professional eSports itself is low.
It's not necessarily so.
Wei Chen hit the ceiling years ago.
While he lost his ethics, he also became shameless and dark-minded.
This is growth.
Fuck that growth.
I don't have the energy to diss you.
Wei Chen.
Keep growing.
Go on.
You told me before that it's impossible for you to get in,
but you will never give up
and you'll continue staying in Glory.
So,
these so-called reasons of not returning to the matches,
do you really mean it?
TEAM HAPPY
YE QIU, TANG ROU, QIAO YIFAN, BAO ZI, LUO JI, AN WENYI,
WEI CHEN, MO FAN, WU CHEN
He's so heartless in the match,
let alone in daily life.
Playing hard is what he does best.
The key is that he knows how to play with our emotions.
He'll seize every chance he can get.
We can't even dodge.
It's time to readjust the industrial mode.
We must stick to resist.
Resist!
What are you two doing? Aren't we a team?
Come on, comrade! Resist!
That's bullshit.
-Yifan. -Shit.
I have no idea.
Stop!
What did you say? Say it again!
Don't you hit Yifan.
Get up.
Senior.
Help me!
Stop!
What are you doing?
All right!
Boss.
Who talked shit about me just now?
Do you think when I was in the room, I couldn't hear what you said?
What ears he has!
Playing hard is what I do best?
We were late.
The push-ups were the punishment we deserved.
It's not playing hard.
It's because we didn't live up to your expectations.
Right. It's an encouragement!
What I did is bad for the industrial mode?
No.
You had us train for two hours more. It's not bad for the industrial mode.
It's the way you care about us! You care for us very much!
And you want to resist?
-Uphold! -Uphold!
Uphold!
What do you uphold?
-We uphold... -Captain.
Every decision made by you, Captain.
Yes.
Very well.
Then you three, thirty pull-ups.
Luo Ji and Yifan should be punished too for not reporting the facts.
Ten pull-ups.
You can't be free from this.
But considering you're the victim,
I want you to supervise them until they finish their tasks.
Thirty pull-ups.
We'll be exhausted.
Yes.
Why is Captain not here?
That's right.
Wu Chen.
What are you doing?
Wu Chen.
It's too difficult for us to do 30 pull-ups.
Could you let it go this time?
But we must complete what Captain required.
Wu Chen, Captain's not here now.
Why don't you just...
Can't you let us off?
You're putting me in an awkward situation.
You see, we're a team now.
You're a part of us now after all.
From now on, we'll have a lot of chances to be punished together.
Why don't you take it as a welcome gift for our first collective punishment?
What does that mean?
Eighty-four.
Eighty-five.
Eighty-six.
-Eighty-seven. -Actually, Wu Chen is a good person.
I think so too.
Ninety-one. Come on! Ninety-two!
How about our ten pull-ups?
Ninety-three.
How many did we do?
Cut the crap!
How do you feel doing mischief with them?
Clear division of work.
Good teamwork.
You look quite happy.
I am.
Exercise can produce dopamine,
which makes people feel happy.
What is your dopamine?
Glory for sure.
Other than Glory?
Friends who play Glory with me.
I thought after the match with Everlasting,
you'd never accept me.
Pass it to me.
Rather than failing to integrate in the team,
why not manage the team
as a continuation of my life in Glory?
A way to continue my Glory dream.
So what do you think now?
Now?
I feel like returning to my youth in Everlasting.
HAPPY INTERNET CAFE
Captain.
The first player in the Individual Challenge hasn't been arranged yet.
I already made my decision.
Sorry, I'm late.
Make Team Happy stronger.
You should say, "Let's make Team Happy stronger."
-Welcome, Wu Chen. -Welcome.
Let's do it together!
WU CHEN
TEAM CHALLENGE: 1. YE XIU
Ye Xiu?
Shouldn't it be Ye Qiu?
Both of them mean our Captain.
Okay. Let's go.
-Let's go. -Something bad has happened!
Something serious!
Pictures of us were taken.
And it has been put on the cover!
"Beautiful female player fixes the Best Newcomer in advance."
Isn't that you, Tang Rou?
There is more in the magazine.
-There are many pictures! -Are there more?
Awesome. We're on the magazine!
It's not a big deal.
We just drank a little.
Being on the magazine means we're popular now.
That's a good thing.
So, you didn't train with the new tactic at all that night?
Without your instruction, it's useless to train.
Team Happy can thrive without anyone but you.
No tactic is unnecessary.
In a competition,
the more tactics you know,
the more possibilities of a new formation.
That night, we just wanted to relax.
To release our stress.
Professional players are banned from drinking alcohol.
This is our consensus.
Delaying training for the sake of relaxation.
That is slacking, not relaxing.
Respect the competition and your rivals.
Don't expect yourself to be the black horse or the Best Newcomer.
Without a good performance, without excellent strength,
we're nothing at all.
This is not Little Tang's fault.
We went there together.
As for the Best Newcomer, this is not a title she gave herself.
Can you ensure she wasn't complacent after seeing this report?
-Of course not. -No, she wasn't.
For sure.
Yes, I was.
But I don't see anything wrong with it.
We have the strength
and a good grade.
Why shouldn't we be this black horse?
So you're satisfied
only after eight consecutive victories?
We can get ten consecutive victories too.
And the Best Newcomer, I'll get it.
You are so confident.
Little Tang.
With our current strength, I have a good reason to be confident.
So what kind of strength do you think you have?
Little Tang.
I'll show it to you.
Little Tang!
Today's match is the last round of Challengers League.
Being a new team, Team Happy is a real black horse.
It ranks first in the league table of Group B now.
But the gap between them and the second place,
Team Treading Clouds, is not huge.
Team Happy will go first this round.
If they successfully get seven points,
then no matter the results of Team Treading Clouds,
Team Happy will get into the final.
So this round is very important.
Tang Rou, someone took pictures of you drinking in the bar after eight victories.
Have your teammates' mentalities changed after consecutive victories?
What do you think of Happy's overall strength?
-Victory has proven everything. -So what do you think your level is?
I will prove my strength and value in the match.
How?
One-against-three is a masterpiece of Captain Ye.
Have you ever thought of reproducing it to prove your strength?
Sure.
I will do it in the match.
What if you fail, Tang Rou?
If I fail,
I'll retire from the league.
Are you serious?
That's a long shot!
-Isn't that too much? -They will certainly make it.
-Come on! -All the best!
Captain Ye, what do you think of Tang Rou's promise
of achieving one-against three?
She's bold and resolute.
Tang Rou, I heard you're going to compete one-against-three.
I admire your courage. All the best!
I believe in your strength.
It's better to keep a low profile.
Sorry.
It's caused by my neglect of duty.
After this match, I'll make a self-reflection.
It must be profound and touching.
At least 3,000 words, and there's no limit to the number of words.
I think eight words would be enough.
I'll lead by example.
That incident definitely will not happen ever again.
By the way,
why don't you change Little Tang's first position in the Arena Challenge?
You don't want to let her compete one-against-three?
Can't you tell that she said it out of anger?
I said it just now. She is resolute and bold.
But if Little Tang can't...
It's not that serious.
Sometimes,
we need to return the match to the players themselves.
Isn't that Lin Yi, the Captain of Jade Dynasty?
Hey...
The price we set last time...
No problem.
If you do it well,
we can sign a contract as soon as the match is over.
It's a deal.
Deal.
Ye Xiu, come here. I have something to tell you.
I'm a staff of Glory League.
Your match ID is suspected to be a fake one.
Please follow us to the headquarters.
Right now?
Captain Ye, we're doing our job.
Please cooperate with us.
Also, we need your ID card.
We'll keep it for you temporarily.
This way, Captain Ye.
Wait for a moment.
Can you let my team attend the match first?
After the match, I'll accompany him for investigation.
This is our first time in Challengers League.
Perhaps we're not quite familiar with many procedures here.
But everything was done by me. It's none of their business.
How about this?
I'll go to the headquarters with you.
For eSports players,
every round of matches is critical.
But for the League, truth and fairness are more important.
Please follow us, Captain Ye.
I'll come back soon.
Wei Chen.
When I'm gone, everything will have to depend on you.
Ye Xiu.
Captain, we'll be here waiting for you.
Ye Xiu?
Shouldn't it be Ye Qiu?
"Beautiful female player fixes the Best Newcomer in advance."
The price we set last time...
No problem.
We can sign a contract as soon as the match is over.
-Ye Xiu... -Ms. Chen, I have something to tell you.
Change the application form immediately.
Qiao Yifan replaces Wu Chen for the first round.
Why?
Don't waste time asking.
Trust me.
Audience and friends who are watching our live broadcast,
hello and welcome to the match of the last round
of the regular season of the Ninth Glory Challengers League.
I'm the host, Xiao Luo.
Today, we'll see the match between Team Happy and Team Jade Dynasty.
Welcome to the Glory Challengers League.
Hi, guys. I'm your old friend, Pan Lin.
Hi, I'm Ruo Feng.
There are two teams in today's match.
The veteran team, Jade Dynasty, is one of the best teams in the league.
You'd better not play in this round.
The game starts soon.
We look forward to an exciting performance by these two teams.
Captain is not here.
We need to follow Wei Chen's instruction.
It's all right.
I'll wait for Captain.
In the first round, Team Happy has appointed player Qiao Yifan.
As for Team Jade Dynasty, we have Zheng Shengchao.
Let's invite them to prepare on the stage.
Come on, Yifan!
Come on!
Take it easy and try your best.
Our two players are on the stage now.
Please go into the match room for preparation.
Team Happy appointed their Phantom Demon, Qiao Yifan, again for the first round.
Let's witness the growth of this rookie.
The player from Team Jade Dynasty is also a Phantom Demon.
We look forward to this fight between two players of the same vocation.
Last round of the Glory Challengers League.
Team Happy versus Team Jade Dynasty.
Individual Challenge starts!
The map is the arena in the Desolate Lands.
We can see at the very beginning, One Inch Ash moves first.
He's scouting the arena while moving.
Good. One Inch Ash has detoured to the rear of Anxious Ghost.
His move and choice look more like an assassin,
rather than a Ghostblade.
If One Inch Ash uses Ghost Boundary now,
Anxious Ghost will have to remain passive.
Jade Dynasty's Ghostblade doesn't realize his opponent is behind him.
How careless.
One Inch Ash is going to attack.
It seems that he won't use Ghost Boundary.
He attacked!
One Inch Ash forego using Ghost Boundary
and make a melee attack using Ghost Step and Ghost Slash.
But it seems Anxious Ghost gave an opening to One Inch Ash on purpose.
That's a pity. It was too early for Yifan to make a sneak attack.
If he waited for a while, his rival might have lost his balance.
Go for wool and come home shorn.
He's the first one. It must be stressful for him.
One Inch Ash is very familiar with the terrain.
He escaped successfully. Anxious Ghost lost his target.
At this moment, One Inch Ash is hiding on top of the wall.
It seems he's still observing the surroundings.
Anxious Ghost is very near to One Inch Ash.
He's also moving towards him.
It's a great opportunity.
But I don't understand what he's waiting for.
Anxious Ghost is very near.
He can attack him at any time.
This is bad. His shadow exposed his location.
Anxious Ghost discovered him!
What? Anxious Ghost didn't dodge it.
He got hit! What happened?