The King's Avatar: Become Stronger After Being Rejected, Don't Agree!

Chapter 73 All-Star Twenty-Four [Part 2]

"Sister Mu Cheng—" Lu Chen couldn't help but chuckle. Earlier, when they went out, Ye Xiu had left Lord Grim's account card in the room, infuriating Su Muqiu, who demanded Lu Chen bring him along too. But today's refusal reward hadn't been used yet—

I feel a little bad for Brother Muqiu.

Lu Chen shrugged.

Then it's Mu Cheng and Sun Xiang —

"Oh, over there is Yang Cong, the captain of Team 301, the number one assassin—but he plays more like a swordsman than Shao Tian." Ye Xiu laughed, pointing to the unassuming player: "The third week of the All-Star Weekend should be Yang Cong's happiest time."

"Huh? Why?" Lu Chen was puzzled.

"He has never used the most iconic assassin skill, the Suicide Shot, in a team match during the regular season or playoffs—" Ye Xiu sighed. "He is not only the captain, but also the tactical core and the pillar of Team 301. If he falls, Team 301 will have no chance to play."

Lu Chen scratched his head: "Using an assassin as the core of the tactics—that doesn't seem right, does it? Oh, right, doesn't 301 have that really powerful guy, the Grinding King? Is his name Xu Bin?"

"Yes, Xu Bin—" Ye Xiu sighed, "Xiao Chen, the All-Star Game is ultimately an entertainment event. Being selected isn't based on skill. Of course, skill is part of the evaluation, but it's not the only factor—like Zou Yuan, he lacks some skill, and he got his place through the Hundred Flowers Dazzling Competition—"

"I understand. So, you mean All-Star players are strong, but not all All-Star players are necessarily strong?"

"Uh... is that right?" Ye Xiu thought for a moment, then stroked his chin. "I guess so?"

"Those facial features over there—um, they're a bit... you know, is that Captain Wang?" Lu Chen chuckled as he looked at the three people against the green background.

A sorcerer, a knight, and a judoka.

Lu Chen was quite familiar with these three professions.

Two opponents are difficult to beat, while one can win due to professional advantages. Of course, in certain specific situations, one might also lose.

"Wang Jiexi, Deng Fusheng, and Li Yihui—and Fang Shiqian, if we're talking about the previous ones." Ye Xiu nodded.

Four All-Star players? Wow, if you think about it that way, they really are the strongest team on paper.

Lu Chen clicked his tongue in surprise: "That Li Yihui's strength, is it as you described before?"

"His strength is also somewhat weak —" Ye Xiu nodded: "If we have to evaluate the strength of professional players in their most normal state, it would probably be the title players that netizens are keen on, then the first-tier, second-tier, and third-tier newcomers who have just come out of the youth training camp.

Of course, this is just under their most normal circumstances. For the players, their condition is also an important factor affecting their performance in a single game. Ye Xiu shrugged: "There's also the map advantage. It's not too surprising for a second-tier player in good condition to defeat a first-tier player in poor condition."

This isn't like what's depicted in fantasy novels; there's no clear or obvious difference between the two.

Lu Chen nodded. Even without Ye Xiu's introduction, he knew who the next two with black backgrounds were.

Tyranny, King of Fighters: Desert Lone Smoke, Han Wenqing.

Pastor Shi Buzhuan, Zhang Xinjie.

"Let's not talk about those two, they just played each other not long ago — the next two teams are fixed combinations, the two who are going to make it to the All-Star team together."

The Void Twin Ghosts, and the Howling Crimes.

Void, Ghost Swordsman of the Array, Ghost Cry of the Mountain, Li Xuan.

Ghost Slayer, Ghost Carving, Wu Yu Ce.

Whoosh, the rogue Tang San Da, Lin Jingyan.

The thief was bewildered and suspicious, Fang Rui.

"That Fang Rui used to be a member of the youth training camp along with Huang Shaotian and Yu Wenzhou, but he was two batches later than them. He was taken out of the Challenger Tournament by Fang Shijing, the second-generation captain of Blue Rain. However, he was too sneaky and didn't fit the playing style of the third-generation captains Yu Wenzhou and Huang Shaotian, so he was taken away by Howling." Ye Xiu laughed.

Indeed, if Fang Rui were with Blue Rain right now, Blue Rain probably wouldn't have a single person on the front line, right? They'd all be playing hide-and-seek and lying in ambush.

Lu Chen, however, didn't quite understand what was so funny.

"The remaining three are all quite capable—that one is Xiao Shiqin from the Thunder team, and he, Yu Wenzhou, and Zhang Xinjie are all one of the four tacticians, the operators of the Mechanic Life Destruction."

That burly guy is called Tian Sen, the captain of the Royal Wind team, and the one who operates the exorcist's sweeping and incense-burning techniques.

"Although Royal Wind has declined somewhat now, they were our biggest rivals back in the first season." Ye Xiu said with some emotion, "Guo Mingyu and Lü Liang were both formidable characters. The former Sweeping Incense Burner was also called a master. In the online game, he, along with Desert Lone Smoke and my One Autumn Leaf, were known as the Three Gods of the Pioneer."

"Time waits for no one," Lu Chen said, his heart filled with longing. "And the last one—"

"Zhao Yang from Linhai, the number one Qigong master, debuted in the same season as Wang Jiexi. He was arguably Wang Jiexi's biggest competitor back then, but unfortunately—" Linhai ultimately limited Zhao Yang's performance.

There's nothing we can do about it. A mid-to-lower tier team is already doing well if they can afford to support one All-Star Qi Master account, Hai Wuliang. They don't have the time or resources to develop other characters. The entire Linhai team basically relies on Zhao Yang for their livelihood.

Zhao Yang is under far more pressure than Wang Jiexi.

Even when things aren't going well for Wang Jiexi, he still has Fang Shiqian, the god of healing. After Fang Shiqian retired, there's Deng Fusheng. He's never lacked talent around him.

And Zhao Yang—

Ye Xiu sighed. Since retiring, he had been busy with Lord Grim and training new talents, and hadn't had time to think about these things. But when he introduced Xiao Chen to him today, memories from many years ago all came flooding back.

Things have changed, people are gone, and everything is over.

Ye Xiu was somewhat lost in thought.

"Hey! What are you daydreaming about? Come on, buddy!" The guy in line behind Ye Xiu patted him on the shoulder and said with some dissatisfaction.

Ye Xiu was taken aback. He looked around and saw that Lu Chen, who had just finished the introduction, had already run to Tang Rou and Chen Guo's side, leaving him alone in a daze.

Ye Xiu smiled awkwardly, apologized repeatedly, and followed after him in a huff.

"What's wrong with that guy? He's staring blankly over there?"

"I don't know, maybe he's putting on a profound act, looking like he's reminiscing about the glorious past. If you didn't know better, you'd think he was the recently retired gaming god Ye Qiu."

Why not Zhang Jiale, the great artist?

"Zhang Jiale is a melancholy young man with red hair. Besides, Ye Shen is the only big-name player who hasn't shown his face yet." Listening to these two brothers chatting and joking around, a young man standing not far from them quietly tucked the red-haired guy into his baseball cap a little.

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