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

"Nice!!"

Wang Ke's eyes were filled with tears.

Twelve years!

Since he first encountered League of Legends in 2013, no one knows how he has spent the past twelve years!

For twelve years, he longed to be able to go down to the diamond once.

Years ago, whenever he heard the announcement over the loudspeaker at an internet cafe that "the player currently surfing the internet on machine number 1 is a Diamond-level player from Ionia," he would be green with envy.

And now, he accomplished in just five days what he couldn't do in twelve years!

"Dude, it's just a diamond rank upgrade, no need to get so worked up."

Song Wen's sultry scent once again flooded Wang Ke's mind.

Wang Ke ignored Long Aotian beside him and excitedly took a screenshot of the rank.

"You know nothing! I'm a Diamond now, so I don't have to spend ten dollars to buy a screenshot of the homepage when I write novels anymore."

"I don't think that will work," Song Wen said. "I see that everyone online is a master or a champion. You're only a diamond, so you still need to practice."

Song Wen muttered a complaint, then asked:

"Speaking of novels, how are the results lately?"

Wang Ke's excited expression quickly faded, and he appeared somewhat embarrassed.

"That's fine."

A few days ago, the bounty hunter did bring them a surge in traffic, and Wang Ke seized the opportunity to release a new chapter.

However, there is not much overlap between the live streaming audience and the novel reading audience, and these people are just there to watch the drama unfold. After the brief surge in popularity, Wang Ke's novel returned to being ignored.

Upon hearing Wang Ke's words, Song Wen didn't say anything more.

In fact, his live streams haven't been doing much better these past few days.

Although he's now a diamond instead of a silver one, on live streaming platforms, diamonds are indeed as common as dogs.

Although Song Wen's foul mouth and Wang Ke's long and complicated sentences created some entertainment value, the popularity of the live broadcast room improved slightly, but it was still far from enough to secure a contract with the platform.

If the platform doesn't sign a contract with you, it's basically the same as entertaining yourself, because the platform won't give you traffic or exposure.

Without the support of popularity, although the two quickly reached the Diamond rank, once they reached the Diamond rank, Song Wen was still able to maintain his dragon-like status, but Wang Ke had clearly started to fall to the bottom.

"This won't do," Song Wen began to think. "We need to generate some traffic, or maybe we should try to scam that pig-headed sorcerer again."

"You even made that 'Pighead Warlock' stop streaming. I heard he was so angry after the stream ended that he almost had a stroke and had to be carried out. Besides, he's always smurfing in Silver rank, the chances of running into him are too small."

"What should we do then..." Song Wen sighed. "S6 is about to start, we have to hurry up, otherwise we won't be able to make it to next year's competition."

At this point, Song Wen seemed to have thought of something and asked again:

"By the way, did the LPL win the S6 World Championship?"

Upon hearing Song Wen's words, Wang Ke couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Winning the championship, winning the top eight championship. One round of sixteen, two rounds of quarterfinals, didn't even make it to the semifinals. Teacher Dafei won another championship, becoming a three-time champion."

Wang Ke has a very deep impression of this year.

The LPL's strength that year was far inferior to that of the LCK, with all three teams being eliminated early, making it known as the darkest year for the LPL in the history of the World Championship.

Upon hearing Wang Ke's words, Song Wen's face showed a surprised expression.

"That noob Dafei, a three-time champion?!"

But then he confidently added, "Even in the real world, he's still a bit inferior to my six-time champion."

Wang Ke's expression was somewhat intriguing.

"To be honest, do you know why you're a six-time champion instead of a seven-time champion?"

Why?

"Because in my world, Faker is an unprecedented and unparalleled six-time world champion. In 2025, T1 fought their way from the top 17 to win the World Championship. A six-time world champion is the limit of what we novelists can imagine, but it might not be the limit for Dafei."

Wang Ke's original intention was to remind Song Wen not to be overconfident, but he didn't expect that Song Wen's focus was not on that at all.

Even if Faker is a six-time world champion, and so is he, we're still equals.

What he was more curious about was—

"What the hell is the top 17?"

Wang Ke gazed leisurely out the window.

"Once you get over that mountain, you'll see the top seventeen."

Song Wen followed Wang Ke's gaze and looked towards the mountains in the distance from the town.

"Guess what I saw?"

"What?"

"I saw several large words—'A dump truck fell from the sky.'"

Wang Ke spoke with a dark expression:

"I envy you, you still have the mood to joke around."

"Then what should we do?" Song Wen chuckled and shrugged. "We can't really go into the arena to fix screws. Let's rest for a couple of days and watch the World Championship. I also need to understand what the highest level of competition in this world is like."

Wang Ke's eyes lit up when Song Wen mentioned the World Championship again.

"Hey bro! I suddenly have a bold idea! Who knows, we might both become super famous! But it all depends on whether you have the mental fortitude to handle it."

Song Wen was stunned for a moment, while Wang Ke on the other side had already opened the writer's assistant and started typing away on the keyboard.

[The darkest hour for the LPL!]

In 2016, three LPL teams qualified for the World Championship: EDG (first seed), RNG (second seed), and IM (third seed).

At this time, the young Song Wen was a high-ranking streamer. When asked by fans for his opinion on this year's World Championship, he said, "Without streamers this year, LPL has no chance of winning the championship."

Song Wen's words quickly caused a huge uproar, with fans angrily denouncing him as a traitor and a Han loyalist. However, Song Wen seemed unfazed by these malicious attacks, even escalating his rhetoric.

"EDG is trash. They're good at domestic games but terrible at international ones. At best, they'll make it to the quarterfinals."

"RNG is in a similar situation. Does UZI deserve to win a championship? Unless Riot Games moves the event to Iceland. But would Riot dare? They wouldn't. If UZI were to actually compete in Iceland, the island would be gone by the time he finishes playing. RNG should just go home in the quarterfinals. Otherwise, who's responsible for global warming if they play too many games?"

"IM? Never even heard of them, they're in the top 16."

After typing the last line of the outline, Wang Ke began to add details.

He began to recall the highlights of LPL at the S6 World Championship.

On September 30, 2016, the 2016 World Championship officially began. EDG was placed in the weakest group, Group C, which contained no LCK teams, and not even the number one seed from any of the five major regions.

Just when everyone thought EDG was a sure thing to advance, they lived up to expectations and pulled a huge mistake in the first game, losing to the wildcard team INTZ, perfectly fitting into the lower ranks.

Looking at what Wang Ke had written, Song Wen's face showed disbelief.

"Dude, what you've written is way out of line! Even novels wouldn't dare to make things up like this. You're not allowed to slander our State Grid like this!"