Top Of Glory[Esports] Chapter 1

apologize

At three o’clock in the morning, there was still silence in the FP Club base.

The older Internet-addicted young man was half asleep, and the smell of food could be faintly heard from the kitchen on the first floor.

Fade, with a pair of dark circles under his eyes, walked out of the room like a ghost to look for food, but bumped into the hill-like Venus at the top of the stairs.

“Fuck-”

Fade was born and raised in the south of the Yangtze River. He had a thin frame and was thin, so he was inadvertently pushed back by Venus’ muscles.

“Shh.” Venus winked.

Fade accompanies him and leans on the railing to look down——

There was someone sitting on the valuable leather sofa on the first floor of the base.

The man seemed to be young. Even though he was sitting, he was still tall and thin. The hood of his black sweatshirt was buttoned up. His small face was tightly covered by a black mask. He was sitting carefully against the edge of the sofa.

“Brother Goddess, who is this? Is he cosplaying?”

“I’ve been sitting there for almost an hour, motionless and not even playing with my phone. It’s amazing.” Venus had long been immune to her nickname and touched her chin, “Qiao Qiao deliberately teased him. I guess he was the culprit who framed us yesterday.”

Fade was originally interested in watching the excitement, and he was no longer sleepy. When he heard these words, his face turned dark instantly.

“It was his grandson who caused me to be scolded all day and all night——”

“Are you He Chen? The brother who caused our base to be disconnected from the Internet?” Qiao Zhi had been busy with public relations all night. He yawned and held a cup of coffee freshly ground by his aunt to continue his life.

He estimated that his power was enough, but he arrived belatedly, as if he had just gotten up.

He Chen nodded cautiously, “I’m sorry, this was not my intention.” He hesitated for a moment and then said, “I can cooperate with you in issuing a document to explain this matter.”

Qiao Shang looked up and down at the boy in front of him. He was face to face with the boy and could see him more clearly than the two team members upstairs.

The boy was wearing a big mask, with the hood on his head. He couldn’t even see his face clearly, but his peach-blossom eyes and fair skin still made him feel that he was a very beautiful child.

“You know you’re sorry now? You’re covering it up quite tightly.” Even if he was standing in front of a fairy, Qiao Zhi couldn’t easily forgive him and his team members who had been busy all night and were greeted by trolls.

Qiao Zhi sneered, thinking that he was short-faced, but why would he do it if he had already known that it would be embarrassing?

He took Hechen up to the second floor. The sliding door of the training room was closed, blocking all the sounds inside and outside.

Qiao Zhi left a few words and went in.

“I’m sorry, the team has a practice match today, and I’m too busy here to take care of it. You sit here and wait.”

Just a little kid with no hair at all. Qiao Zhi remembered that yesterday the team was ridiculed like a grandson by the whole network and became very angry. He made up his mind to give this kid some color and let him remember it for a long time.

“Practice match?” He Chen usually doesn’t pay attention to e-sports projects. He only knows that FP is a team that plays games.

Qiao Zhi ignored him, stood up and left. He Chen vaguely remembered hearing someone mention a name when he came in, so he finally took out his phone to search.

The popular online game they talk about is POG, whose full name is Pinecle of Glory, and its Chinese name is Peak of Glory. It is a large-scale confrontational online game released by CND for nearly ten years.

The world in the game is divided into four continents, and the continents are not connected to each other.The Northern Continent is barren and cold, with giant beasts appearing frequently, and the severe cold adds continuous damage; the Southern Continent is rainy and miasma, half-human and half-animal are common, and spirits are good at hiding, and the environment is hot and humid, which slows down the movement speed; the Western Continent is rugged with strange rocks, rich in minerals and jewelry, and people are good at fighting and loving money; the Eastern Continent has ups and downs, and the people are good at strange skills and exquisite craftsmanship.

Humans, demons, and beasts from the four continents stand side by side, and they all want to expand their territory and occupy the legendary divine domain in the center of the four continents.People are constantly fighting, and the gods above the gods are indifferent and have nothing to do with themselves, and they are condemned by the Lord God.The contract that could guide the return to the divine realm was lost, and the fragments were scattered in various areas of the four continents.

Since then, the four factions of humans, demons, beasts, and gods have formed a circle, each occupying territory and competing for contracts, all hoping to regain control of the divine domain and ascend to the pinnacle of glory.

Players in the game can purchase and choose different characters according to their preferences for PVP confrontation. The map is randomly refreshed to one of the four continents. Two teams compete for contracts that appear randomly on the map. Whichever team member takes the contract first to climb the divine domain behind the opponent’s area will win.

There are three battle routes; the two teams that are successfully matched each have five people, and the selected characters can be combined freely.The place of birth determines the attributes of the hero, which are mutually exclusive, and the adaptability to the map also varies.Five players can play various coordinations.

He Chen probably understood this game, and once again received overwhelming abuse from the entire Internet, he adjusted his mask unnaturally.

During this period, an aunt brought in a glass of water and thoughtfully asked him if it was hot. He Chen shook his head.

He knew he was wrong, and although he wanted to apologize and compensate as soon as possible, the other party was obviously angry, so he had no choice but to wait, and his eyes fell on the big screen next to him unconsciously.

The projector outside the training room was playing an interview. The person being interviewed was the auxiliary captain of INVE.

In the training room separated by a wall, Qiao Zhi looked at Applejack and smiled angrily.

“What do you mean? The contract has not expired yet, do you want to refuse the game?”

Since Cider dared to be tough, he naturally had already prepared his words, “Although the contract has not expired yet, my contract only has one month left.”

“So? You’ve found your next home, and you don’t want to continue in FP?” Having said that, Qiao Zhi was no longer in a hurry, leaning on the table with his arms folded, his eyes filled with fire.

FP has been established for eight years and can be considered a veteran club in the local competition.

The coming and going of people is inevitable.Everyone is in love with each other, so we can get together and part ways easily.

Who are you threatening now that you are on stage?

And Qiao Zhi’s statement about not being cold is false.Others have come and gone, that is a personal choice, but Cider is different from others. He debuted in FP and was personally selected by Lin An from among the newcomers.

Qiao Zhi always regarded him as one of his own.

Thinking like this, in addition to anger, there was also disappointment in his eyes.

Cider didn’t dare to look directly at Qiaozhi, only staring at the ground.

He knew he was in the wrong, but now that the matter had come to this, Cider still had the courage to put forward his opinion, “Even if our team includes youth trainees and can have competition-level support, I am the only one who can fully count on it.”

“I heard…Brother Rui went to INVE and the signing fee increased to 3,000.”

Venus frowned when she heard this, “Are you comparing yourself to Brother Rui? He was already above the first-tier level three years ago, and…”

If Chi Rui hadn’t left, Apple Cider wouldn’t have made it into the FP first team. His level was honed over and over again in games.

“But, FP’s current choice is just me, right?” Cider heard this, and the three guilts he originally felt disappeared. “Last season’s support team for the domestic championship team was very popular no matter where they went. But the team was only willing to increase my signing fee by three million.”

Qiao Zhi looked down on his small-minded appearance, but FP currently did not have players who could take on the support position, and this youth training session was too young.

He tried to reason calmly with Cider: “The signing fee is negotiable, and with the endorsement and live broadcast platform contract fees, your annual income will not be much less than 3,000.”

In the custom server, the bp countdown sounds.

Captain Lin An, who had been silent until now, suddenly said: “Fight? Or not?”

Cider was silent.

Lin An listened to the whole process and never expressed an opinion. Now he felt very interesting and smiled. He raised his eyes and glanced around, and landed on the cider calmly.

Their captain has always looked like a gamer, and seems to care about nothing except games and competitions.

But now that Cider was staring at him emotionlessly with a pair of amber eyes, he actually felt a chill on his back.

FP captain Gloam serves as the jungler in the team.

He is only 23 years old and has been in the game for five years, but he has already won the POG Global Finals twice. He broke several official records when he entered the competition for the first time. The Thor champion skin from the Gloam Finals that year is still at the top of the global sales list and is overwhelmingly ahead of the second place with double the amount.

It’s not that no one doubts: other players also have superb skills, and there are countless junglers who are good at playing Thor. Gloam’s natural ability to win the championship cannot be underestimated, but why does he have such an exaggerated victory?

“Because he’s handsome.”

Hechen’s finger scrolling through the social media platform’s updates paused slightly and stopped on a photo.

In the photo, the tall young man is facing the beam of light, with a pair of eagle eyes with slightly upward tails, a careless smile and an undetectable look.

The team uniform was slightly raised, and the national flag hung high behind him.

“Twilight has arrived, and the gods are wintering.”

“Congratulations to Gloam for breaking South Korea’s three-year reign as the POG Global Finals champion and ringing our bell to the world!”

On the screen, Chi Rui, who was being interviewed, was demonstrating the skills of the auxiliary hero Artemis to pull the moon bow. The host asked him: They are both domestic champion skins. What do you think of the sales volume of “Si Ming” being “zero” different from that of “Thor”?

“Look at it objectively.” Chi Rui smiled without any dissatisfaction on his face. “As we all know, Gloam not only has good skills, but also has good looks. The victory that year was of epic significance to the domestic competition. Isn’t it natural to sell well? But if you care so much, I have no objection to helping me increase sales.”

The reporter’s expression changed slightly and he changed the topic.

Chi Rui said something else, but He Chen didn’t hear it clearly. His words were covered by a loud slamming of the door.

Qiao Zhi opened the door and wanted to leave with a worried look on his face.

Behind him, Cider said to Lin An in a deep voice: “No matter what, what I said is indeed the truth.”

“I’m leaving. You can’t find another assistant who can pull the Moon God’s moon bow six times.”

Fade tried to smooth things over, “Let’s finish the game first, don’t let Royal watch the fun…”

“It’s okay to fight, but I want a commitment from the captain and Manager Qiao.” Cider lowered his head and gritted his teeth, “My level and worth are here, so it’s understandable that I want to be treated better.”

Venus didn’t understand him very well, “What are you doing? One word is a skill, one word is a value. Can you be where you are today without FP?”

He didn’t have bad intentions, he spoke more straightforwardly, but he accidentally stepped into the apple cider minefield.

“That’s it, you always say, without FP, there would be no me -”

Applejack burst out suddenly, tugged on his team uniform, and pointed to the silver embroidered “Applejack” on his chest, “But I won the games one after another, and I stayed up late to practice my skills. What does this have to do with the team? Wherever I go, people say I’m lucky. If I hadn’t entered FP, how could I be where I am today -”

“Really?! We are in the same team, why can I only come in after I kowtow like the smoke rising from my ancestors’ graves? How strong are you?”

“Okay, shut up.” Qiao Zhi took a deep breath. He really couldn’t refute the fact that cider can draw a six-month moon bow, but…

“Apologise.” Qiao Zhi pointed at Lin An, “Apologise to your captain.”

“Don’t mention anything else. I just want to ask you if you remember when you first joined the team and lost the game, who accompanied you to practice all night and asked you questions frame by frame.” Qiao Zhi felt chilled for Lin An, “Do you still remember what you promised me?”

Cider turned his head, still scratching his neck stubbornly.

“If you don’t want to fight, then let’s fight.” Lin An tapped the keyboard twice with his fingers. The character in the game opened his spear and launched a move in the air.

“Old Tao, contact Lay and ask him to come up and fight.”

Cider didn’t expect that Lin An didn’t even have a word of advice, so he just made the decision and blushed on the spot.

Coach Tao and Qiao Zhi looked at each other, both of them a little hesitant.

Lay was indeed the most eye-catching player in the previous youth training camp. He was signed by FP to the second team at the end of the youth training camp.

Lay is talented, hard-working and has a promising future.

But…

His current strength is still nothing compared to Apple Cider.This is where Lao Tao and Qiao Zhi hesitate.

Cider is transferring now. No matter how you say it, he is not authentic.

But does FP really have so many choices?The Spring Split is imminent, where can they find a first-tier player?

Qiao Zhi winked at Lao Tao. The villain just did it himself. Lao Tao hadn’t spoken yet, so he asked him to smooth things over.

Lao Tao frowned, still hesitating.

You can pinch your nose and compromise today, but what will you do next?

If this set of threats is effective, how will the team manage it in the future?Is it possible that as long as you have an opinion, you can be satisfied by just making a fuss?

The complicated silence in the room spread silently, until a voice suddenly sounded——

“Excuse me, please…can I try?”

Lin An raised his head, as if he had just noticed this side, and looked up and down at this uninvited guest.

Several other pairs of eyes in the training room also looked at him in shock.

“What are you trying to do?” Qiao Zhi had a splitting headache. He didn’t want to deal with this guy who had inexplicably cut off the power in the villa area, and he didn’t care whether to seal it or not. Anyway, we will solve it together later. “Can you play the practice match? Or can you use Artemis to pull six full-moon bows?”

“Anything is fine.” He Chen lowered his head, his eyes partially covered by his thin forehead hair under his hood.

He said, “I’ll help you play a game, and then we’ll talk about cutting off the power.”