League of Legends: Reborn in Season 3, Tuning the Entire League

Chapter 285 This will be a massacre!

It's clear that Ocelote is trying its best to cater to the tastes of its new jungler and coach.

The dinner prepared was naturally mainly Chinese food.

However, to Shi Zhenyu and Shi Jing's dismay, although both are Chinese dishes and both are called sweet and sour pork ribs, the sweetness levels of the two are completely different.

Imagine what it would feel like to eat chocolate dipped in white sugar?
Yes, this is probably what the ribs at G2's welcome dinner tasted like.

If you didn't know better, you'd think G2 didn't welcome them and were deliberately messing with them.

Even so, the two of them couldn't show that they disliked the food, and could only grit their teeth and finish the plate of ribs.

After the club staff helped them to their rooms to rest, they had just closed the door—

"vomit……"

"Are they planning to eat sugar as their main meal?"

"I feel like my pancreas is screaming in agony."

"Ha, I used to think only Americans ate like this..."

"No wonder when I watch videos on Bilibili, I always find those foreigners so strange. They come to China and say 'delicious' for everything they eat, as if they don't understand the differences in food at all."

"It's probably just like the two of us now, too embarrassed to say it to each other's faces."

"Ah, I miss our NXG cafeteria."

"Don't think about it, get some rest. There's practice tomorrow, Stone. Your bet agreement needs to at least make it into the LCS to break even."

Shi Jing was very responsible. He reached out and patted Shi Zhenyu on the back, indicating that the other party should go and rest first.

The room G2 prepared for them wasn't small; there was a wardrobe near the door, and the washroom was to the right rear—it was a standard two-person room.

After finishing with the luggage, Shi Jing spoke:
"The current version is different from the one before the Spring Festival. I'll go check on the training matches of your future teammates."

"Thanks, Jing-ge."

Shi Zhenyu didn't stand on ceremony with his own coach either.

Having left the same club and moved to a new environment, it's natural to help each other out.

To gain the trust and harmonious relationship of teammates in a professional team, the most direct way is naturally to impress them with your performance in matches. If a coach assists in this process, the time required will be significantly shortened.

G2 Club's schedule is not much different from NXG's;

Or rather, ever since NXG won the championship with an undefeated record, LOL teams from all major regions have been consciously or unconsciously moving closer to them, the only difference being the amount of training they do.

The next morning, Shi Zhenyu, who maintained his good routine at NXG, got up around ten o'clock as usual.

The base was quiet, and I didn't see any other teammates; they were probably still asleep.

He simply went to the restaurant first and ate two pieces of bread with milk for breakfast.

Considering he was unfamiliar with the area, Shi Zhenyu didn't go out of the base for morning exercise. Instead, he did the same set of exercises he had learned at NXG in the open space in front of the club.

After completing the entire routine, about half an hour had passed. Including getting up and washing up, it was nearly 11 a.m. when Shi Zhenyu finally saw G2 staff members walking around the base.

The Berlin neighborhood where G2 Club is located has a distinct old-town feel. Its vibrancy is nowhere near that of Shanghai, and even falls short of the bustling streets of Nanjing. When Shi Zhenyu visited the area last year, he was genuinely surprised for quite some time.

Fortunately, he was not the kind of "big colony" who had unrealistic fantasies about the outside world, so the environment had little impact on him.

Seeing that his teammates seemed to need to sleep for a while longer, Shi Zhenyu simply asked the staff next to him for directions to the training room, intending to go there to warm up first. Fortunately, after confirming that he was coming to Europe to compete, he learned a lot of everyday vocabulary from NXG's English teacher, and now, with gestures and words, he was able to express himself clearly.

It can only be said that G2 is just like those clubs that blindly imitate NXG, only focusing on the workload on their exaggerated schedule and copying it blindly, without noticing that Ming actually gave them a lot of extra rest time behind the scenes.

Shi Zhenyu did this not because he wanted to establish a "hard-working persona" at the new club.

As the champion jungler of Season 3, there's really no need for him to act this way when facing a group of teammates who haven't even made it into the top league yet.

He simply didn't want to easily break the routine and training habits he had developed at NXG.

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.

If he becomes a "good-for-nothing" right after leaving NXG, his teammates will probably laugh at him behind his back.

Besides, in order to get the real money in the betting agreement, he also needs to maintain a good competitive state.

Upon arriving at the training room, Shi Zhenyu briefly adjusted the computer. G2 had prepared excellent peripheral hardware for the players, which was considered high-end on the market, even to the point that he was somewhat unaccustomed to it.

So the first thing he did when he turned on his computer was to lower the game settings.

Ming kept every reminder in mind: the computer configuration used in the LCS region is definitely not much higher than that in the LPL, let alone the secondary league. So, if you are used to high-end computers, you will need to spend a lot of time adapting to them on the field. It's fine in ordinary matches, but in key matches, these seemingly small details can become problems that affect the outcome of the game.

After the computer was debugged, Shi Zhenyu began his daily training as a jungler: playing mini-games to practice his hand speed, and playing "I Wanna" to hone his mentality.

"Oh, you're already training!"

Shi Jing entered the training room with the current G2 players. As mentioned earlier, he had led the team in training remotely during the Spring Festival. Although the compatibility between the players and their IDs was not yet fully clear, they had reached a preliminary level of comfort.

He clapped his hands forcefully, the crisp sound instantly cutting off the dense keyboard clicks and game sound effects in the training room. "Stone, stop training for a bit."

Upon hearing the sound, Shi Zhenyu quickly took off his headphones, stood up somewhat awkwardly, and nodded slightly to the familiar and unfamiliar faces in front of him, "Hello everyone."

He genuinely didn't hear the sound of everyone entering the training room.

"Let me introduce you," Shi Jing, who had perfectly adapted to the coaching role, said in fluent English, his voice carrying a hint of barely perceptible anticipation, "This is our G2 team's new jungler, a starting member of the S3 champion team NXG—Stone!"

"Hello! Welcome, welcome!" H1Iva, the support player, was the first to wave enthusiastically with a friendly smile on his face.

"Hi, new jungler!" Safir, the AD carry, also raised his hand and greeted him in a calm tone, but his eyes held a hint of scrutiny.

"Wow! I'm going to be teammates with the S3 champion jungler? Awesome!" Unlike his two teammates from Finland and Afghanistan, the German top laner Smittyj was lively and exaggerated in his welcome, even whistling.

However, amidst the cheers of the team members, G2's original jungler, Gilius, appeared unusually stiff. He managed a forced smile, but his eyes held no joy, instead revealing an undisguised sense of disappointment and pressure.

That makes sense when you think about it. G2 is a fledgling LCS secondary league team, and player turnover is normal. But this time is different;

The arrival of this formidable man was a world champion! The intensity of the competition instantly reached hellish levels.

Gilius couldn't help but groan inwardly:
It’s such a rip-off!
Second-tier league jungler versus S3 champion jungler?

The matchmaking system in this Riot Games game is definitely bugged!!!

However, no one at the scene had time to pay attention to him.

"Hello! I'm Luka Perkovic! It's a pleasure to partner with you!"

Just then, a vibrant voice rang out, and a smiling figure stepped out from the crowd.

Shi Zhenyu's gaze was instantly drawn to him. His signature thick, slightly wavy, light golden hair, like corn silk, combined with his tall stature and angular jawline, made the speaker look like a mature young man in his early twenties.

However, the information Shi Jing had given him the night before flashed through Shi Zhenyu's mind instantly:
G2's owner's handpicked successor, substitute mid laner, game ID: PerkZ!

age……

15 years old? ??
What?

Did this foreign kid grow up on hormones? He looks way too mature! Shi Zhenyu couldn't help but think to himself, the contrast between his appearance and his actual age was just too shocking.

"Me too! PerkZ!" The turmoil in his heart did not affect Shi Zhenyu's actions at all. He quickly reached out and grasped the hand offered by the other person. He could clearly feel the strength from that hand and the unique enthusiasm of a young man.

Shi Jing gave a more detailed introduction to both sides. After the players finished warming up in their respective positions, Ocelote and Jens Hilgers also rushed to the scene.

The atmosphere in the training room quietly became tense.

Shi Zhenyu took a deep breath and sat down in his seat.

This first scrim after joining G2 was not only a crucial battle for him to prove that he, the "champion jungler," was not a dud, but also the starting point for him to quickly establish his position in the food chain of this new team.

……

Ocelote and Jens Hilgers stood at the entrance of the training room, their eyes fixed intently on the training area, their faces revealing undisguised anticipation.

Today, G2's opponent is Atrox Gaming from the LCS league.

In the past, this would have been an almost impossible task—the difficulty for a fledgling team in a secondary league to arrange a practice match with a strong team in a top league is unimaginable.

The other party often worries that the gap in strength is too large and the training effect is difficult to guarantee, so they usually politely decline.

However, all these obstacles vanished the moment Stone joined G2.

"S3 Champion Jungler" is a very substantial pass to the top.

The reason is also very simple:
Those LCS.EU teams that didn't even make it to the World Championship this year are eager to experience firsthand just how terrifyingly high-level their mechanics, awareness, and rhythm are, given that the starting jungler of NXG, the S3 World Championship winner.

Atrox Gaming's ability to secure this opportunity as a litmus test is already a test of their abilities.

After all, if they could also figure out some of NXG's core tactics and strategies in the practice matches against them, that would be a huge win.

Shi Jing took in the expressions of everyone around him, a faint smile playing on his lips:

"Assess the situation?"

"No, this will be a massacre!"

(End of this chapter)