Chapter 504: 493
At the Cola Frenzy Fan Club, Caral hadn’t gone to the drawing ceremony. He sat in the training room’s chair, panting incessantly, as a large amount of sweat dripped down from his chin.
“Idiot Caral!” Mai Coffee pushed the door open and entered the training room at that mont.
“Has the drawing ceremony started?” Caral wiped his cheeks with a towel. For the past three months, it was as if he had been training with a sword at his neck.
In the spirit world, there are a total of one hundred and forty-seven types of legendary equipnt categorized under “swords,” and the epic equipnt is too nurous to count.
Caral couldn’t handle every weapon perfectly, but at least he was very proficient with each type of weapon.
But it still wasn’t enough…
“Not yet, but the old man of Idiot Chairman ca to create a disturbance. He said he wanted to et you guys,” Mai Coffee said, sounding sowhat displeased, and Caral could understand the reason for her displeasure.
Xue Bi’s father hadn’t been seen since the establishnt of the Cola Frenzy team. Xue Bi’s dad was also a real estate developer who hardly understood anything about gaming, let alone eSports—a purely business-minded man.
Although the money for founding the club ca from his father as seed capital, it was Xue Bi and Caral who operated it and brought Cola Frenzy to its current scale.
“Not interested, it’s just going to be so uninformative content anyway.”
Caral wasn’t very interested in these kinds of leadership scrutiny visits. Before becoming a professional player, Caral had worked as a booster, and he did so in one of those boosting studios where the studio’s boss had absolutely no clue about the gas, leaving everything on his shoulders.
Had it not been for a lack of better options back then, he would have resigned earlier; thankfully, Xue Bi discovered him and led him onto a much broader new stage.
But those years of experience made Caral deeply resent these kinds of leaders who “don’t understand anything yet co to spout nonsense,” let alone fawn over them.
“I don’t want to see him either, but the guy is sitting in the competition eting room watching the drawing ceremony. We’re bound to run into him eventually,” Mai Coffee seed quite helpless. “Idiot Chairman is busy dealing with it now.”
“Might as well watch it in the ga then.”
Although Caral said that, he still followed Mai Coffee to the team eting room. All of Cola Frenzy’s players had already gathered in the training room, where Queen i’s drawing ceremony was being displayed on the big screen.
But before Caral could clearly see what Queen i had drawn, a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes walked up to him and initiated a handshake.
“So, you’re player Caral, moving like a dragon and a tiger. Truly a hero cos from youth,” the middle-aged man said, leaving Caral too embarrassed to respond.
“Hello,” Caral replied politely.
Caral had t Xue Bi’s real dad once or twice and had even seen him on TV programs. Xue Bi’s father was a well-known entrepreneur in China, famous to the extent of being a household na.
“So, young man, do you feel confident about the competition?” the middle-aged man asked, patting Caral’s arm.
Caral was about to respond affirmatively, but a sigh-like wail suddenly ca from the training room.
“My God! I’m switching from fan to hater with Queen i like this.”
“Why do I feel like it’s rigged!”
All of Cola Frenzy’s players, whether from the second team or the main team, let out mournful wails.
The middle-aged man also loosened his grip on Caral’s hand and turned his gaze to the live broadcast on the TV.
“What’s wrong?” the middle-aged man asked.
“Our Round of 16 opponent is the Holy Spirit team, and they’re… tough to beat.” Bubble was also frantically rubbing his forehead, always feeling that i, who played the role of the queen, should have been a goddess of luck.
Instead, this lovely Miss Cat was a goddess of bad luck! She had forcibly stuffed the worst draw into Cola Frenzy’s hands.
“The Holy Spirit team? Are they a strong team?”
“The Holy Spirit officially ford a team of AI players,” Bubble explained to his own father.
“AI? Isn’t that just a computer team? Aren’t your athletes strong enough to beat five computers?”
The middle-aged man hadn’t realized how powerful the NPCs of Holy Spirit were. From the way he referred to professional gars as athletes, it was clear that he understood very little about video gas!
“Dad, if you don’t know, don’t talk nonsense! The computer characters in Holy Spirit aren’t as simple as you think; none of our players have ever beaten one nad Thorne,” Bubble said, now so anxious that he kept tugging at his own hair.
When he said this, the atmosphere in Cola Frenzy’s training room fell into a sowhat oppressive silence.
“Little Li, I’ve played gas too, don’t joke with about this. Aren’t the computer characters in gas just for training?” the middle-aged man seed a bit unhappy as he listened to Bubble’s sowhat despondent speech. “Anyway! You must win this championship for ! Do you hear ?”
“Winning the championship of the Holy Spirit League isn’t as easy as picking cabbage!” Bubble had the deanor of starting to argue with his father.
“We are about to prepare for the match, Mr. Yu. I’ve arranged for soone to explain the detailed rules to you, please go outside and listen.”
Xue Bi, who had been silent until now, suddenly chid in. The atmosphere in the conference room, which had seed a bit stiff, sowhat eased under Xue Bi’s guidance. After that, the middle-aged man, led away by the person Xue Bi had called, left with the parting words, “You must win the championship.”
“My parents are also following this competition,” Xue Bi said to Bubble, who was grasping at his hair on the conference table. “They’ve already discussed this matter with your father. Twenty percent of Dispute Company’s stocks is a big temptation for anyone.”
Bubble’s father and Xue Bi’s parents all held shares in Cola Frenzy, and though not enough to influence Bubble’s decisions profoundly, at this mont, his elders felt more like enemies in his eyes.
“I know! But winning the championship of the Holy Spirit League isn’t that simple! That’s why I’m so annoyed with these outsiders… and it’s about more than just twenty percent of the shares!” Bubble said, his gaze suddenly shifting to the array of silver and bronze trophies and dals displayed in the training room.
All of them were silver and bronze… none were gold.
Indeed, Cola Frenzy had been established for eight years and had never won a championship in its history.
Cola Frenzy had always been a mid-tier team in the esports world of Hua Country, the least favored team.
Now, in this Holy Spirit League, Cola Frenzy had advanced to the Round of 16 with the second-highest score, and all Bubble wanted was that one championship! Winning the championship would even make giving up that twenty percent of the shares worth it!
“Let’s go, the first match starts in three hours. You’re not thinking of forfeiting without even playing, are you?”
Caral finally spoke up, breaking the silent atmosphere in the team. He clapped his hands as the captain to rally the wavering players.
“This is a team match! Thorne isn’t so strong that he can beat all five of us alone, and… I’ve been looking forward to facing Thorne for a long ti,” Caral said in a manner that was utterly unspiriting as he attempted to boost his teammates’ morale.
Cola Frenzy’s players were actually amused by Caral’s words, but after everyone laughed, the atmosphere within the team noticeably improved. Ultimately, under Caral’s lead, the entire Cola Frenzy team marched toward their stage to prove themselves.
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