Chapter 1 The Angel's Radiance

Guardian Angel skill: Angel's Radiance.

Forced knockback of characters, unstoppable by super armor or shield obstruction.

After Blue Rain's home game against Happy, countless comments mentioned that if Blue Rain's healer, Xu Jingxi, could have used Angel's Radiance when sandwiched between Boundless Sea and Steamed Bun Invasion, the outcome of that match might have been different.

After the match, there were always ifs and buts. After the showdown between Happy and Tyranny, various ifs also emerged, and Angel's Radiance once again appeared in such discussions.

Happy lost.

Zhang Xinjie's Stone Not Turning's Angel's Radiance might not have been the only turning point, but it was a very important match point in this team competition. Angel's Radiance forced Lord Grim back, and Zhang Xinjie seized the opportunity to have Stone Not Turning rush into the substitution zone. By the time Lord Grim returned to the fight, he was facing Lin Jingyan's Dark Forest.

After the match, another analysis pointed out that after Angel's Radiance, theoretically, the unspecialized Lord Grim could still have intercepted Stone Not Turning before he entered the substitution zone, but Lord Grim was still a step too slow.

Zhang Xinjie's reaction and APM were high, and perhaps Ye Xiu was getting old, or the consumption from Tyranny's individual competition had taken its toll.

No one could pinpoint the exact reason for the difference of a hair's breadth, not even Ye Xiu himself.

What Happy needed to face squarely was the final result of the second round match between Happy and Tyranny: Happy lost.

The match returned to square one, and the two teams would decide the ultimate winner in the third match. Because Tyranny's ranking in the regular season was higher than Happy's, this round would be held at Tyranny's home stadium. However, the main benefit of this home advantage was the box office revenue of the venue and the cheers of the fans. There was no home map selection advantage in this decisive match. The decisive match would be on a completely random map, and one that no *Glory* player had ever seen. This was a competition map library specially customized by the *Glory* game for the playoffs. Before being used, there would be no spoilers of any substance. The map would be randomly generated from the library on the day of the match.

It seemed that neither side had an advantage on the map, but obviously, Tyranny was full of experienced veterans, and their ability to adapt to unfamiliar maps was definitely higher than Happy's rookies.

In addition, although the biggest advantage of home field advantage, map selection, was gone, the home crowd was still there. It was impossible to say that the atmosphere of Tyranny's devilish home stadium had no impact on the morale and emotions of the players.

Furthermore, the third round of the match was only two full days away from the second round. It was impossible for Happy to fly back to H City and then fly back again in these two days. Thus, for these two days, Tyranny could adjust their state in their familiar environment to welcome the final battle, while what about Happy? They could only slowly digest the unhappiness of the recent defeat in an unfamiliar environment.

On the night the match ended, in an unfamiliar city, in an unfamiliar hotel, not many people could sleep soundly.

Chen Guo, who had never been able to hide her worries, obviously didn't get any sleep that night. She wandered around the room, wanting to find someone to chat with, but she didn't dare to disturb the players' rest. Restless, she sat at the computer and wandered around the internet for three or four hours, spending half the time staring blankly at a webpage after opening it.

There was still a decisive match to be played. The match could be said to have just begun. Why was she so nervous?

Chen Guo comforted herself in her heart, and then came back to her senses and glanced at the webpage she had opened. Coincidentally, it was the current voting ratio for the third match between Tyranny and Happy.

Tyranny, 87.3 percent.

Happy, 12.7 percent.

"Damn it!" Chen Guo couldn't help but curse. The voting disparity was too great! In the first match, Happy's home game against Tyranny, most people were optimistic about Tyranny, but Happy won in the end. Thus, in the second match, Happy's away game against Tyranny, although Tyranny still had the advantage, Happy's support rate was pulled up. But why was the disparity so great in this third match?

Chen Guo was annoyed, thinking that this was too unreliable, but deep down, she was very clear that she would be uneasy, and she would be nervous, probably because she subconsciously recognized such a support rate...

Although she had been dazed for half of the three or four hours, she had still read a lot of online comments.

Chen Guo now had a certain ability to distinguish, and was no longer in the early stage of thinking that everything she saw was reasonable. She would not blindly agree with various comments and information on the Internet, even from famous commentators, but would have her own thoughts and understanding. As a result, after reading it, she felt extremely uneasy, because she could only agree with many views and had no way to refute them.

For example, Tyranny's advantage on random maps.

For example, Happy's state adjustment in an unfamiliar environment.

For example, the impact of the recent defeat on morale.

These were all objective facts. Even if Chen Guo didn't want to see them, they were all there.

Especially in terms of morale, Chen Guo had personally experienced it. She could feel the confusion and loss of the Happy members after this defeat.

Everyone in Happy is very strong, they will be fine after a sleep! Chen Guo told herself this, but then she couldn't sleep.

She surfed the Internet for three or four hours, but still couldn't fall asleep; now, after seeing the newly added support rate vote for the third match after the match, and the gap between the two teams widened instantly, she couldn't sleep even more.

Chen Guo cast a fierce vote for Happy, but the ratio didn't budge. She had no choice but to pout and continue to stare blankly.

Just then, the QQ icon flashed. Chen Guo opened it and saw that it was Ye Xiu.

"You're still not asleep," Ye Xiu asked.

"Neither are you." Chen Guo wasn't happy at all to see that Ye Xiu was also awake, but instead felt a thud in her heart. In her opinion, Ye Xiu was the eternal pillar of Happy, and nothing could shake him in the slightest. But now he was sleepless because of this, so it seemed that the problem was more serious than she thought.

"Oh, I'm getting up to steal some vegetables," Ye Xiu said.

"..." Chen Guo was speechless. You've been by my side for more than two years, when have you ever planted vegetables?

"Why can't I steal your vegetables?" Ye Xiu even asked.

Chen Guo was angry. She hadn't played her farm for many years. The vegetables she planted had never been harvested. Of course, she couldn't steal them again after they had been stolen by others. Didn't he know such basic rules? Was he pretending to steal vegetables?

"Go to bed early, everything will be fine," Ye Xiu said at this moment.

Chen Guo really wanted to ask what "everything will be fine" meant, but with her hand on the keyboard, she only managed to type out an "Oh."

She turned off the computer, got into bed, and tossed and turned. She fell asleep for a while, and then woke up again. She didn't know how many times she woke up and fell asleep that night. When she woke up the next day and looked in the mirror, she had two dark circles under her eyes.

It's too bad for morale! Chen Guo thought, if she went to see everyone like this, her nervousness and anxiety would be obvious, and might infect others.

Chen Guo was feeling depressed when someone knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" Chen Guo asked.

"Are you up, Guo Guo?" Tang Rou's voice.

Chen Guo opened the door. Tang Rou, dressed neatly, was standing outside the door, and smiled immediately when she saw her.

"Didn't sleep well again?" Tang Rou said.

"Why do you say 'again'..." Chen Guo muttered dissatisfiedly, but to be honest, since forming the Happy team, Chen Guo's sleep had indeed deteriorated badly. She was always tossing and turning on match days. She couldn't sleep because she was nervous before the match, she couldn't sleep because she was excited after winning, and she couldn't sleep because she was depressed after losing. When she was a fan of Excellent Era in the past, she only had this kind of performance occasionally, but now that she had joined Happy, from the Challenger League to the Pro League, Chen Guo had countless sleepless nights.

"Hurry up and get ready to eat breakfast!" Tang Rou said.

Chen Guo continued to wash her face, and asked, "Where are the others?"

"Ye Xiu notified us to go to the training room when we get up," Tang Rou said.

"How come I don't know?" Chen Guo wondered.

Tang Rou bent down, picked up a small note from the crack in Chen Guo's door, and showed it to Chen Guo.

"A small note? How old-fashioned!" Chen Guo鄙视.

"Maybe he's afraid of disturbing everyone's rest!" Tang Rou said.

Chen Guo was stunned. This was indeed a silent way to notify people without disturbing anyone, and there was no set time. It seemed that everyone was supposed to rest enough before going.

Chen Guo had no intention of resting. She quickly washed up, and didn't bother to put on makeup. She just went out with Tang Rou with her bare face and two dark circles under her eyes. If she had her way, she wouldn't even want to eat breakfast, but Tang Rou was here, and Chen Guo couldn't bear to let the players go hungry.

After breakfast, the two went to the training room together.

When fighting away, the training room is provided by the home team. All major teams have training rooms dedicated to the visiting team. Teams that used unscrupulous means to win in the early days used to deliberately make the environment of the visiting team's training room worse in order to affect the training effect and mood of the visiting team. Later, the league introduced a regulatory system. Before the game, the league and the visiting team would jointly review the away training room. This crude method was eliminated, and now teams no longer use any means in this regard.

Happy had visited Tyranny's away training room during the regular season, and had used it before the last round of the match. The conditions were quite good. Tyranny's style has never been to disgust opponents in this regard.

When the two arrived at the training room, they saw that Ye Xiu was already there. Also there were Su Mucheng, Qiao Yifan, Luo Ji, and An Wenyi, three young men. The others had not yet arrived.

Chen Guo scanned the room. She couldn't tell if they were in good or bad moods from everyone's expressions, but at least no one had dark circles under their eyes, which was better than her.

After greeting them casually, Chen Guo and Tang Rou found their own seats. No one spoke, and the training room was filled with the sound of keyboards and mice. Ye Xiu got up and waved to Tang Rou: "Here's a video file for you to watch."

"Oh." Tang Rou nodded, accepted the file that Ye Xiu sent, and opened it. It was a compilation of some of Soft Mist's battles from the last match. Ye Xiu left his seat and walked over.

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