I'm a platinum-level author, so what if I play professionally?

At the entrance of EDG eSports Club.

A chilly wind blew by, making Song Wen and Wang Ke, who were standing at the door, appear particularly desolate.

To Wang Ke's surprise, the first team to send them a trial invitation was EDG.

But on second thought, it makes perfect sense.

After all, among domestic clubs, if we only consider management, then EDG is definitely number one.

After receiving the trial invitation, Song Wen and Wang Ke first underwent an online assessment.

For online assessments, EDG will arrange for players from the club to participate in match training.

This put no pressure on Song Wen at all, and even Wang Ke successfully passed the online assessment.

After all, the ones being evaluated are just some of EDG's substitutes or youth training players; the starting players don't have that kind of free time.

After passing the online tryouts, the normal procedure is to come to the EDG team for an offline tryout.

This trial training process can last anywhere from a month to a couple of weeks.

But like all protagonists in wish-fulfillment novels, their trial period only lasted two days.

The only result was that he was kicked out.

Abu looked disgusted after seeing Wang Ke's information.

At 23 years old, he was at the bottom of the rankings in King of Glory. Although his awareness was good, his skills were terrible.

After he angrily rebuked the teaching assistant who was in charge of assessing Wang Ke and made him participate in the offline trial training, he directly issued a notice to Wang Ke to pack his bags and leave.

Are you kidding me? At 23, some professional gamers have already retired and gone to sell meat floss pancakes.

Who can accept a 23-year-old newcomer?

As for Song Wen, he took the initiative to leave after seeing Wang Ke fail the trial.

"That Abu is fucking disgusting," Song Wen couldn't help but say. "Guess what he said when he talked to me alone? He said I have a lot of potential, but my vision is too narrow. He said something about how one general's success is built on the bones of ten thousand soldiers, and that I shouldn't give up my career path for a friend."

Wang Ke couldn't help but want to laugh.

"So you kicked his ass?"

Wang Ke's mind was still replaying Abu's desperate, piercing screams.

"So what if I kicked his ass? If this bastard wasn't bald, I would have kicked his balls too."

Upon hearing Song Wen's words, Wang Ke sighed.

"Actually, what Abu said makes sense. At my current age and skill level, it's almost impossible for me to join a professional team."

"Brother, stop talking about this," Song Wen put his arm around Wang Ke's shoulder, "Do you think I'm an ungrateful person? Without you, where would I be? I'm a six-time champion, let alone carrying you through your professional career, winning a championship with you would be a piece of cake. Besides, didn't you get responses from other teams? You never wanted to stay with that trash team EDG in the first place."

The two enjoyed a meal of Lizhuang boiled pork by the roadside, and were very satisfied.

"GT also sent us a tryout invitation..." Wang Ke said, only to find a new email in his inbox halfway through, "It's Snake again."

Wang Ke recalled that in his novel, Song Wen won the championship with Snake during S6.

Sure enough, Song Wen's eyes lit up when he heard Wang Ke's words.

"Snake is great, let's go to snake!"

Wang Ke hesitated for a moment.

After all, a novel is a novel, and he was somewhat worried that the gap between reality and fiction was too large, which might be a blow to Song Wen.

However, they don't have a better option now. As far as he knows, the GT team is really not very strong. After the Spring Split this year, they were directly relegated to LSPL.

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Snake Esports Club.

Zhu Kai was chuckling as he flattered Zuo Wu.

"Brother Zuo, it has to be you. Let Zitai and this Song Wen come for the trial together."

Zuo Wu smiled smugly, thinking he was a true genius.

"But this kid's name is interesting," Zuo Wu said, looking at the documents in his hand. "His name is Song Wen. Have you read that novel?"

Zhu Kai nodded upon hearing Zuo Wu's words.

"Of course I've read it. Who in the e-sports circle hasn't read that novel? That author is a real beast. He might as well have just abandoned it."

The two chatted as if no one else was around, completely unaware that Wang Ke, who had just finished his trial training, was sitting next to them.

Snake's trial training consists of two parts.

The first day consisted of two rounds: solo and internal battles. Those who did not perform well were eliminated.

Wang Ke has just finished a solo match with a player from the youth training program, a best-of-five series.

The opposing player was also a jungler, but mechanics were clearly not Wang Ke's forte, and he only managed to win one solo match.

For Zhu Kai and Zuo Wu, Wang Ke's head was already marked with a half-X, clearly indicating that they didn't care about Wang Ke at all.

"Do you think it's possible that he really has some kind of precognitive ability? Maybe Song Wen will really be the champion of S7."

Zuo Wu started teasing.

"It's really hard to say. Maybe we should skip the trial and just let him join the team."

Zuo Wu watched the game between the two players.

"However, this Song Wen is actually quite capable, as he was able to fight Zi Tai to a standstill."

Although Zz1tai's performance has declined drastically recently, he was once a top mid-laner in the LPL.

Moreover, during this period, I trained for a long time to get back into form for Snake's tryouts.

Without even thinking, Zhu Kai said:

"Although it looks about the same now, Song Wen is already going to lose."

"laugh."

He heard someone laughing.

Zhu Kai turned his head and looked at Wang Ke with displeasure.

"What are you laughing at?"

Wang Ke shook his head. "It's nothing, I just thought of something funny."

Feeling humiliated by being openly mocked by a kid who came for a trial, Zhu Kai pressed on relentlessly, asking:

"Do you think there's something wrong with what I said?"

Seeing that Zhu Kai was about to press further, Wang Ke, knowing he was likely to be eliminated again, simply countered with a question:

"So why do you think Song Wen lost?"

Even Wang Ke didn't expect that his rhetorical question would stump Zhu Kai.

Zhu Kai had no idea why Song Wen lost. He just felt that Song Wen was a newcomer, while Zita was a well-known mid-laner who had been playing professionally for so long, so there was no reason for him to lose to a newcomer.

As for game understanding, what does Zhu Kai actually know?

But since Wang Ke had asked the question and Zuo Wu was nearby, Zhu Kai could only stiffen his neck and speak:

"Do you even need to ask? Don't you have any game knowledge? Zz1tai is currently ahead of Song Wen in both health and CS. If he doesn't win, who will?"

Upon hearing Zhu Kai's words, Wang Ke couldn't help but laugh again.

"Have you ever wondered why, given that Zita's skill accuracy is far inferior to Song Wen's, he still manages to gain a health advantage?"

"Because Song Wen was too reckless, he went straight across the minion wave at level one to pressure the enemy!"

"You've seen all this, didn't you notice that Zita lost a minion's experience when he was pressured back then? And now the minion wave is pushing towards Song Wen's tower. With just one more minion, Song Wen can reach level six, and then Zita will definitely die."

Zhu Kai was about to retort when he saw on the big screen that Song Wen, who was controlling the Tribulation under the tower, suddenly leveled up to level six.

Both sides used the same hero. Song Wen, who had reached level six, did not choose to start with his ultimate, but instead started with W. However, he very cunningly did not use any skills.

Startled, Zita immediately used W to retreat.

Song Wen followed up with his second dash, and then unleashed his ultimate skill!

The instant Song Wen's Zed landed, Zita immediately used Flash. However, all of Zita's actions seemed to be within Song Wen's expectations, as his Flash appeared almost simultaneously with Zita's!

EQA to ignite!

Song Wen's absolute confidence in his ability to withstand damage led him to choose to reset his character.

"Snapped!"

The mark of the Shadow Master exploded above Zita's head, and Zita's screen instantly turned gray.

Zuo Wu glanced at Wang Ke with some surprise and said:

"You're quite observant."

Wang Ke knew that sometimes he had to promote himself and couldn't continue to hold Song Wen back, so he immediately said:

"My skills aren't great, but I'm able to reach the King rank because of my brain."

Zhu Kai, standing to the side, snorted coldly.

"Just having brains is enough? Then I'd be a top-ranked player too."

Wang Ke didn't tolerate Zhu Kai at all and spoke directly:

"Only a human brain will do; a pig's brain is useless."

Zhu Kai was furious when he saw that Wang Ke dared to directly confront him.

"What do you mean?"

"Alright, alright," Zuo Wu almost laughed when he saw Zhu Kai's expression, "Don't affect their match."

Zuo Wu had actually been somewhat annoyed with Zhu Kai these past few days.

He felt that Zhu Kai had insulted his intelligence.

When Zhu Kai came to Snake to coach, it was because he was invited by Snake.

But now, he has learned the truth.

During the time that Zuo Wu was in contact with Zz1tai, he learned from Zz1tai that Zhu Kai had no work experience at IG before, and that he was just a fan.

Although Snake's performance under Zhu Kai's guidance was indeed quite good, one thing is one thing: the fact that Zhu Kai treated Zuo Wu like a fool back then clearly became a thorn in Zuo Wu's side.

Therefore, when Zuo Wu saw Wang Ke confronting Zhu Kai, he not only did not express his opinion, but instead sided with Wang Ke.

Having just been humiliated, Zhu Kai was clearly eager to regain his composure and said:

"Winning one game does show some skill, but what comes next is the player's mentality. Compared to Zz1tai, Song Wen is still too inexperienced."

Upon hearing Zhu Kai's words, Wang Ke couldn't help but want to laugh again, but fortunately he managed to hold it in this time.

When it comes to mentality, he felt that probably no one in the world could compare to Song Wen.

Even if Teacher Dafei came, it wouldn't work.

Although Song Wen's world was fictional, it was all based on his own real experiences. If the six-time champion in the novel had any significance, it was that it had already hardened Song Wen's mentality to an unbreakable level.

On the other hand, Zz1tai, as a well-established player, was surprisingly defeated by a newcomer, which put him under much more psychological pressure.

"I think Song Wen will win 3-0."

Wang Ke spoke calmly, appearing confident.

As Wang Ke predicted, the next two games ended even faster than the first.

In the second game, Zita played aggressively, trying to regain his pride, but Song Wen seized the opportunity to kill him in a solo kill just two levels later.

In the third game, Song Wen seized the opportunity and took down Zita in one fell swoop.

After the match ended, Wang Ke glanced at Zitai.

Sitting in front of the computer with a face full of acne, he looked bewildered, somewhat helpless and embarrassed.

Song Wen stood up and extended his hand to the person sitting opposite him.

"You played well, it's normal to lose to me, don't feel guilty."

He looked up in a daze, and saw the man opposite him grinning at him. The man's huge white eyes made him feel like he was staring directly at the sun, and he almost couldn't open his eyes.

Zhu Kai glanced at Wang Ke, feeling very uncomfortable after being repeatedly humiliated.

"What are you laughing at? You can get out of here if you lose the team trial. What does Song Wen's talent have to do with you?"

Wang Ke astutely grasped the problem in Zhu Kai's words and asked:

"What if I win?"

Zuo Wu began to explain:

"Compared to solo play, we place more emphasis on a player's teamwork, such as strategic vision, awareness, tactical thinking, and team coordination. These are more important qualities for professional players."