Chapter 184 – 184. Round 2, VS Hercules Blackforce (1)

The match between Hercules Blackforce VS Battle Angels is approaching.

League officials, including the community, couldn’t help but look forward to it.

[Battle Angels say their form has gone crazy lately, will they finally catch Hercules?]
[The pseudos started again. How do Battle Angels catch Hercules?
[How many times have you already caught them in scrims?]
[Scream Dor came out again. Originally, Hercules was famous for being a team that skimped on scrims. You know the personality of that bastard, Genius.]

Thanks to that, a huge number of fans flocked just for ticketing, and the server went down for a while.
This has never happened before in the history of the 2nd division, so I was able to feel the popularity of Battle Angels all over again.

“We need to shoot another PV using the Battle Angels players. Now or sometime I will enjoy this popularity again.”
“Under… What if the Battle Angels get promoted? The second division will be back to the old level.”
“If that happens, you only do good things in the first division. Because we raise them and give them to other teams.”

Since the teams operated by the 2nd and 1st divisions were different, the league management started to say this and that.
The abnormally popular phenomenon of the Battle Angels was both good and frightening.

“…That said, there’s no specific way to do it, so the only thing you can do is pray.”

It would be nice if Battle Angels ran a sister gaming team like Mad Tiger Gaming.
The management team had no choice but to keep their mouth shut while imagining nonsense.

Meanwhile, one of the protagonists of the controversy, Genius, was about to die.

‘The match starts in an hour.’

His legs his trembled and he constantly bit his nails.
A small amount of blood was dripping from his fingers, but he didn’t care at all.
No, he couldn’t care.

‘Coaches and coaches think I’m still joking around.’

Despite losing to the Battle Angels several times in the last scrim, Hercules didn’t feel the slightest sense of danger.

The reason was different,
It was because of Genius himself, who usually played scrim games with less energy.

It was because he practiced so sparingly and threw when he wasn’t good enough, so he expected it to be the same in the recent match against Battle Angels.

But in reality it was the other way around.
After he tasted the unusual Ryu’s skills, he played hard games several times, and as a result, he was defeated several times purely based on his skills.

‘Can I win this time, this time?’

He was not confident
Of course, he was confident to win.

‘How can there be such a monstrous bitch?’

He was a player he was sure was under him just a few weeks ago.
But what about now?

In the second division, she overpowered herself, whom she thought was the best talent her, and she was shining before she knew it.
Her own talents her in front of her were like fireflies in front of her sun.

He bit his lip hard enough to bleed.

Ryu, who had ridiculed and even advised him so much, found out that he was a player with talent that surpassed him?

‘This is so, so unfair!’

He’s been playing for years, and he’s brought the team out of trouble with years of carry.
However, if that meant his skills had increased, it was n’t.
It even seemed to fall off with age.

On the other hand, what about Ryu?
She started coming up from the 3rd division, and her skills gradually improved, and she grew up to the point where she even took control of herself.

The results in just a few weeks were unbelievable.
No, maybe I didn’t want to believe it.

‘Somehow… I have to win somehow…’

I wanted to believe that it was just an illusion.
In fact, I wonder if he was unknowingly straining himself during the scrim match.
It was a story with a possibility because he was always a habit of not doing his best unless it was a real fight.

‘Okay… There’s no way I’d already turned her on to her. We’ll show it again in this game. That you are forever under me That my talent is not dead yet.’

He gritted his teeth and returned to the team.
The team members who were preparing to enter the stadium immediately smiled brightly as soon as they saw him.

“Can you carry me today?”
“…Yes?”

Genius’ expression wrinkled a little.

Even if it wasn’t so, it seemed that the top of his head was spinning as soon as he saw it in a mad game.
Do I have to do it again?

In fact, it was the path he chose, but he can’t stand the anger that is rising today.

Can’t you guys do it for once?

“I will try again today.”

However, being introverted, he had no choice but to answer in the end.

Genius changed his attitude his, but the team members who did n’t notice just passed him by, patting him on the back.
Genius had no choice but to move his heavy steps and make his way to the arena.

“Waaaaa!!”

A small shout is heard.

Then, the Battle Angels players appear on the other side.

“Waaaaa!!!!!”

The sound of cheering as if the stomach had grown.
Indeed, when he turned around and looked at them, he seemed to know the reason for the cheers.

Girls who shine even when they are still.
But even for the sake of their dreams, they are proudly standing in the arena.

I naturally shrug my shoulders at the passion of the girls who can’t help but cheer for them.

Just then, his eyes met Ryu, who turned his head to the side.

“……”
“……”

We look at each other for a while in silence.
And Ryu Seo-yoon showed a very bright smile and slightly lowered his head.

Where did that leisure come from?

Soon, Genius was able to find a reason to spare.
The girl’s colleagues who have become quite famous now.

There seems to be no shortage of hitting the sides and back.
All of a sudden, they were having a small conversation and laughing.

It was different from his teammates who were regarded as just a lump of his burden.

Haha… I never thought the day would come when I would envy my colleagues… ‘

Genius was a player who lived on his pride.
That’s why, feeling the limit of his talent, he did n’t even make it to the first division team, and he joined the second division team where his teammates seemed insignificant.

Every time he carried a game, he couldn’t stop the fans’ admiration of ‘How can he win with such teammates?’

But now, that choice has come as a poison that eats away at me.
Would he have been able to shine like that if he had joined a better team and developed his skills by facing better opponents?

Of course, it was useless to regret it now.

The game had already started and ban-picking was underway.

[HC King: Oh, it looks like you’ve made up your mind too?]

I heard the voice of supporter King.
Hercules looked at the characters his opponent had picked after idly relaxing.

‘I’ve decided to have a real head-to-head match.’

It was the same in round 1.

Against his team famous for one-deal carry, he pushed through with the same one-deal carry strategy without hesitation.
Even in the 2nd set, I only took 1 kill.

It was an ugly kill score that he ate by dragging Genius all the way to the well.

At the time, he laughed at the choice to his heart’s content.
How pitiful and funny is the outbursts of players who have no talent.

It’s like being hit like a dog, then killing yourself just once at the end and winning your mind.

‘It looks like the ants are struggling.’

But as he remembered the scene now, he felt goosebumps run down his spine.

If he had been in that situation, would he have been prepared to live to the point of being ridiculed in order to make one kill without giving up until the end?

The answer was no.

Perhaps he would have run away like when he met the psychic, and he would have made every effort to reduce even 1 death, let alone 1 kill.

‘Different. It’s different from me.’

Genius swallowed his saliva.
As expected, in front of them, he was just a shadow that would disappear if exposed to light.

[HC King: Hey! Genius! Pick something! Tell me quickly!]

The King’s voice woke him from his thoughts.
Slowly returning to reality, he once again looks at the bottom characters chosen by the Battle Angels.

Tinkerbell and Artemis.

Tinkerbell was a support that sticks close to the ADC and gives powerful buffs, and Artemis is a character known as Ryu’s trademark.

He wasn’t the only character to know that Battle Angels came out with a purpose.

Mid Unicorn.

As a character with no carry ability, a character born solely to become the wings of a one-hander!

All of these combinations showed the intention of maximizing the one-deal carry and making it look explosive.

[HC Genius: I don’t know.]
[HC Ext: What?]

The director’s absurd question came back.

However, the genius player just repeated the same words.

[HC Genius: … I don’t know what to deal with.]
[HC Ext: …… ]

Only then did the other team members of Hercules notice something unusual about Genius.
The appearance of being overwhelmed by the Battle Angels before even starting.

I couldn’t stop feeling ominous.

[HC Ext: Are you okay? You seem to be in a bad mood today… Don’t worry too much and take it easy. I can give you at least one game.]

In the end, the coach is even prepared to give up the game to reduce the burden on the genius player.
It was a conclusion that we could draw because the points accumulated so far were quite good.

However, Genius could not afford to be lighthearted.

If he lost in this match, he would feel like his talent, the only thing he was proud of, would be overwhelmed by Ryu.

[HC Genius: No… I’ll try. Catch the hydra.]

That’s why he also chooses an extreme physical type AD.

Now that this has happened, he has no choice but to overcome all the pressure and prove it.

He still knows that he is above him.

Team Battle Angels
Top: BA Carrywoman (Hercules)
Jungle: BA Wisdom (Fenrir)
MID: BA Luna (Unicorn)
AD Carry: BA Ryu (Artemis)
Support: BA White (Tinkerbell)

Team Hercules Blackforce
Top: HC Solo (Uma King)
Jungle: HC Maple (cockatrice)
MID: HC Bbaaam (Cerberus)
AD Carry: HC Genius (Hydra)
Support : HC King (Hermes)