Chapter 186: Untitled

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

The morning training was mainly aimed at individual aspects, the stats analyzer of the two battleteams stood behind and recorded each of their results on clipboards.

During their first time experiencing the colored blocks program with sound, with the exception of the Mo Huaifeng who could still hold on, everyone else screwed up.

Ji Zhiyao was a little dazed. As the sound in his ear-mic was slightly softer and also lasted for a very short duration, it was indeed a little challenging to react accordingly.

He could not help but glance in the direction of Vita battleteam. The whole of Vita had practiced with this program previously and were obviously already accustomed, everyone was deeply focused. Ji Zhiyao took a few glances, then looked away, and immersed himself in the screen before him.

An hour later, his vision was slightly blurred, but the results on the screen had gone from 0 to 21 seconds.

The best result in Mix was still by Mo Huaifeng, 39 seconds. Yet he himself wasn’t too satisfied.

Ji Zhiyao was second.

Because of his hand injury, Xiao was only given half an hour of training time by their coach. His results also weren’t too ideal, only 18 seconds.

As if he could sense their dejection, the stats analyzer said after recording their results, “There’s still a long time, take it slow, don’t be anxious. Have all of you forgotten the times when you were shivering from being dominated by Coach Kang?”

Ji Zhiyao: “I practiced on this for so long, in the end, I’m back to the state before professional training, it’s comparable to my hand speed at the very start, downright trashy.

The stats analyzer tapped his head with his notebook. “Are you going to continue?”

“To yield to the dark and evil influences, I dare not, I dare not.”

“That’s much better. If you lose your will to fight at the start, how will you hang on at the end? You too, Xiao, stop wearing that face of woe, this isn’t your true capability at all.”

“I know, I’m simply musing over my youth that will never return.”

“What?”

“Back then I was also a prominent figure who could be Captain’s equal, who would think that now…”

Mo Huaifeng: “Are you still dreaming?”

Xiao was extremely insulted, but he didn’t dare to utter a word.

Training with the colored blocks program ended. For the next hour, the stats analyzers pulled out a file of videos and sent them to each person, instructing them to analyze the videos in detail.

Ji Zhiyao had received a compilation of exciting cuts of past junglers’ handling.

He opened the first video. The video was edited with great thought, but the only regret was that each video was either completely narrated in Chinese or Korean, with no subtitles, it left him wondering from which corner had the stat analyzers and coaches dug them out from.

He quickly brought out his notebook, taking down notes as he watched. Sometimes when the junglers made a mistake in calculating the distance or were especially accurate, he would even note down several stats and do some simple calculations, working very diligently.

By the time he had finished the entire video, almost an hour had passed.

It was already past 12 in the afternoon. Park Jun Ji walked into the training room and announced that they could break for lunch.

To cater to the varying tastes of the members from the two teams, two domestic ladies were specially hired, one of whom was Chinese. Everyone in Mix was very satisfied and their fatigue from the busy morning vanished.

After lunch, they rested for about 20 minutes, then the group training began.

Ji Zhiyao, Xiao and Xiaofei did not have accounts in the Korean servers and so created one each. For the first three days, the three of them were directed by their coach to play matches by themselves to experience the atmosphere of the Korean servers and familiarize themselves before they returned to training with Vita.

Ji Zhiyao carried an ID that he randomly came up with and entered a regular 5v5 game, preparing to get some practice. He selected an assassin that he used quite often, then the match began.

Although everyone in this match was in the Bronze rank, Ji Zhiyao felt that at least two of the opponents were using alternate accounts. Their handling was brilliant.

As this was a regular match with average players, he won the match in no time and clinched the MVP title.

Because of the easy win, Ji Zhiyao’s mood also became much better.

Hence he entered a ranked match.

Yet he almost screwed up.

Not too long into the match, Ji Zhiyao cleared up his own jungler and was quietly intending to go help the mid-laner gank on the opponent. Yet the opponent was very strong with counter-ambushing and had immediately signaled to the jungler. And their jungler was already very close to the bushes by the lane, he jumped out immediately when he saw the signal, Ji Zhiyao was caught off-guard, hurriedly retreating after he lost half of his health.

But the opposite jungler’s speed was almost twice as fast as his, finishing him off in an instant!

“F*ck!”

What’s with this oddly fast speed?

He stared at the screen before him that had turned black and white, a thought suddenly dawned upon him as he recalled about speed class that Kang Kyung Chwa had told him about previously, Ji Zhiyao hastily clicked open the equipment stats and realized that the opposite jungler was already wearing two pairs of accelerated boots.

Sure enough!

He did not expect to meet such an opponent in a regular ranked match, Ji Zhiyao clapped his hands slightly excitedly, when he respawned, he did not even bother to hide it and dashed off again to the opponent’s jungle and pestered the jungler.

The jungler was also very confused, not knowing why Ji Zhiyao was only clinging onto him. Yet Ji Zhiyao’s handling was superb, his hand speed was fast, he had no choice but to throw himself into dealing with him.

Then it was as if these two junglers had become stuck together. Ji Zhiyao would die once, then the opposite jungler would die once.

As Ji Zhiyao played, he found it more and more interesting, even wondering to himself as he played, how he would be playing if he himself became a speed class player? In the entire match, Ji Zhiyao died a total of eight times, but deep down he was extremely excited.

The match ended, he gestured agitatedly to the stats analyzer.

The stats analyzer was shocked and walked over, asking, “NoHomo why is your face glowing, are you running a fever?”

“No, no, Old Ning, look at this.”

The stats analyzer followed the direction of his finger and looked towards his screen and almost gave him another hit on his head. “Look at what? At your wonderful results of 6/8/3 in a regular match?”

Ji Zhiyao tugged at the corner of his lips. “This result was just an accident, what I’m telling you to look at is this.” He tapped on the equipment stats of the opposing jungler.

The stats analyzer understood then. “Speed class? I remember you once asked Kang Kyung Chwa about this.”

“Yes, I did.”

He touched his chin. “Old Ning, are you well-versed in such a style? If I want to go down this path, what thoughts do you have?”

The stats analyzer glanced at him in surprise, then said, “Come with me, don’t disturb their training.”

Ji Zhiyao agreed, stood up and followed the stats analyzer out of the training.

“My knowledge is not considered in-depth, but I still know quite a bit.” The stats analyzer said, “Speed class is not as simple as what you see, do you think just buying a few more pairs of accelerated boots is all? It has very high demands for the professional quality of players, once your speed is raised, there are many aspects to take into consideration, response capacity, the ability to play by ear, handling skills, none are dispensable. I can tell you, in the whole of China, whether in the past or present, no eSports player has tried his path, including our Captain.”

“Why? Because it’s too difficult?”

“What else? What do you think the reason was?”

He frowned, then added. “Actually there aren’t many foreign players with this style, they’re mainly concentrated in South Korea. But I must admit, once you become adept at this, it would definitely be an advantage. Do you know of A.K.?”