Chapter 3 – 3. Mead Bread

What is a Coach?
In fact, the roles of coaches and managers in Arena professional teams were not properly defined.

To be precise, what was different for each team was the position of the manager and coach.
In some places, coaches are dedicated to in-game affairs, while coaches are tasked with external affairs, while in others, coaches also interfere with in-game strategy.

Even the range of intervention in strategy was different for each game team and for each coach’s inclination.

When the coach is at the mercy of the players, the coach has little input into team strategy.
The players get the picks and bans they want, and they give little feedback during the practice process.

Then, in this case, isn’t the useless coach getting fired?
I could think about it, but it didn’t matter as long as my grades came out well.
Because it was a world where the result was more important than the process!

On the other hand, there were cases where the coach held the players tight, but not many of them.

‘It’s not easy to fight against young players who haven’t had a social life.’

Each player has a strong personality and has a high salary. Moreover, the average player’s game rank is higher than the coach’s.

Therefore, in the case of players who are a little cheeky, they ignore the coach’s words that are less physical than themselves.
No matter how good you are at watching games, if the Bronze and Silver tiers teach you, you won’t be persuasive! Coaches with lower tiers are sometimes eaten by players.

Nonetheless, if the coach had a high tier, was a senior with years of experience, or had an untouchable career, he could have won over the players.

‘I haven’t seen it much, but.’

I don’t know if that’s why, but most first division teams have more than two coaches.
Some teams even have more than two coaches.
The role of the coach and manager in determining the direction of the team was more important than expected.

But when given a choice between a great player and a great coach, most teams will choose the former.

Just as a student who is already good at studying has no reason to go to an academy, there was a time when an excellent athlete did not need a coach or manager.

On the other hand, coaches and managers, no matter how good they are, cannot interfere with in-game play.
It is difficult to improve the players’ innate physicality.

In the virtual reality professional game industry, coaches and supervisors were in just such a position.
Like Gyereuk, it would be nice to be excellent, but I feel like I’m not the first recruit to run a gaming team.

[First take!]

The players and I sat together in the game monitoring area set aside.
On the huge monitor screen, the game the players had just played was being replayed.

Ryu Seo-yoon, our team’s one-dealer, was a pretty aggressive player.
Beginning with the level 1 line, it presses the opponent roughly and gains the first point.

It was a play that often came out when I was confident in my physical skills.
And her physique is definitely outstanding.

Even with little help from Baek Ha-yan, our team’s supporter who is much lower in tier, I achieved the first kill and leisurely killed creeps to earn gold.

But problems soon became apparent.
The opposing bot line, AD and Support, called a jungler and started ganking.

Our bottom line, which continued to play aggressively, collapsed in an instant.
Ryu showed off a splendid play avoiding the opponent’s skill shot as if desperate, but in the end, supporter Baek Ha-yan died first, followed by death.

Ryu Seo-yoon, who was watching the replay from the side, shouted excitedly again.

“Look! This unnie, she doesn’t do anything in line battles!”
“M-I’m sorry… It was my first time playing this character, so I didn’t know.”
“You shouldn’t have done it the first time!”
“Because it’s practice… I was thinking of doing it.”
“Ha, true”

She drove White White in an instant.
Looking at the scene, it didn’t seem like it happened in a day or two.
Considering Ryu Seo-yoon’s personality, she must have longed for white whenever something happened at the bottom.

I raised her hand to calm Ryu Seo-yoon.

“I just told you. Feedback is my job.”
“Coach. Feedback is something players should do too!”

Her words resonated with me too.
However…

“Feedback is for people with problems. Giving feedback to people who don’t have eyes for the game will lead the team in the wrong direction.”
“Yes? Does that mean I don’t have eyes for the game? Are you saying there is no problem with the white sister?”
“Exactly.”

Ryu Seo-yoon’s face turned red.

It was the first team I saw today, but the internal circumstances were clearly visible.

There was only one person, the one dealer, Ryu Seo-yoon.

The highest tier within the team, a position where you struggle alone among team members who have no passion, and a position where you have to carry the team.
The whole situation was pushing her to work hard.

Besides, she was actually good at her best game.
Even in the replay from earlier, if the support white white had caught her sight better, if she had a more sophisticated skill shot, she could have survived enough and reversed the kill score.

“Coach. I saw that you came a while ago and don’t know me well. Either me or this team is doomed.”

Ryu Seo-yoon smiled and looked back at her teammates.
Her teammates averted her gaze or seemed uninterested.
Through the profiles of the girls I saw yesterday and the current atmosphere, I could see that Seoyoon’s words were not lies.

However,

“No”

I flatly denied it.

“Our team’s problem is Ryu Seo-yoon, you.”
“Yes?! Under… Haha…”

Ryu Seo-yoon made an absurd smile.
The most passionate and good at games, no matter who sees her, she is the ace of the team, and she never imagined that she would be singled out like this.

Actually, I didn’t really mean it.

If I hadn’t awakened to the ‘selling coach system’ yesterday, I wouldn’t have set up such a confrontation with her.
Perhaps, except for her, the rest of her teammates either recruited again or formed a strategy with only plays that support AD.

I opened Ryu Seo-yoon’s status window through the selling coach system.

[Ryu Seo-yoon
Nickname: Ryu
Tier: Master 897
Most Pick: Artemis

Obedience: -10
Growth rate: 0%

Physical: 17
Mental: 5
Stamina: 7
Judgment: 13
Cooperation: 7]

It was an ability he acquired after awakening to the selling coach system.
Ability to see objective indicators of users playing ‘Arena’.
Unfortunately, it was only available to female players.

I haven’t seen many female pro gamers yet, so it was difficult to gauge how high her stats were.
However, what is certain is that he is at the highest level among the players on our team in terms of his physical abilities.

“What’s wrong with me?”

Ryu Seo-yoon asked in a cold voice.
I lightly glanced at the rest of the players.

Anyone can see that Seoyoon is doing the best, but the reason why he dared to pick her up and argue with her.
It was because of all her players, she was the most serious about the game.

According to the preview profile, she was the only one among the players who would have nothing left if she quit being a professional gamer.

In other words, Ryu Seo-yoon was a player with the passion and background that would not leave the game team even if I sold it a little hard.

‘I can only hope that her mentality will endure’

It was a concern that her mental score was only 5 points for her, but I had no choice but to believe that her high fighting spirit would cover that part for her.

“Ryu Seo-yoon, this is the second team, right?”
“Yes. What about it?”
“And the tier is Master. He’s the tallest on the team.”
“Yes. Is there any problem?”

She raised her head.
Of course there were no problems. But I intend to force it.

“Compared to Tier, I’m not good at it. The opposing bot duo seems to be about Diamond, but it exploded from the laning match.”
“That’s because the white sister is not even at the platinum level. She’s honestly a pro gamer, so does it make sense that her tier is Platinum?”
“Hey… “

The white man flinched and shuddered.
Ryu Seo-yoon was now glaring at me. It was a look full of poison.

“So are you going to lose?”
“Yes?”
“If it’s only natural for us to lose a game if our supporters fail, then you won’t be able to become a professional gamer in this team anymore.”
“……”

Quit being a pro gamer
Perhaps thanks to her shocking words her, she shut her mouth.
I took advantage of this gap and added more dill.

“I looked at the profiles of our team members. Ryu Seo-yoon, if you stop being a pro gamer here, is there anything you want to do?”
“…Ha, that’s absurd.”

[I sold Ryu Seo-yoon. Growth rate increases by 10%.]

[You have acquired 1 selling point.]

A meaningful information window came to mind.
The result of the first sale.
It was the first way to develop players using the sell-coach system.

If you raise the growth rate through selling like this, the player’s stats will grow faster than usual.
Blowing your nose without touching your hands!

However, the growth rate gradually decreased over time, so it had to be managed by steadily selling.

In addition, selling points were also obtained.
Selling points allow you to purchase items with special effects through the store.

According to what I looked at, the point shop was lined with items that could be considered superpowers.

This morning, after combing through the selling coach system, I found this information.

“Coach, do you really want to fail?”

Ryu Seo-yoon, whose face looked like he was chewing shit, said with anger.
I stood up from her seat without saying a word to her and looked down at her.
The difference in their height made her stare at me even more ferociously as she involuntarily stepped behind her.

“I said this because I was betting my life on being a pro gamer, but whenever I had a chance, I was blaming others or the team. It sounded like he was doing his best of him.”
“So you’re saying 1v5 by yourself? Arena is a team game! What else can you do here?”
“That is the mindset. The attitude that you are doing your job. From my point of view, Mr. Ryu Seo-yoon is quite lacking.”
“Am I lacking?”

As the atmosphere gradually escalated, the other team members were also watching us.
In particular, White Baek, who was one of the causes of the fight, seemed at a loss.
There were players like jungler Lee Ji-hye who didn’t seem interested at all.

“Then coach, would you like to play mid 1v1 with me?”

After touching her ego, a pretty good proposal came up.
Mid 1 vs 1, the so-called mid bread.

It was a game that pro gamers often play to practice the laning phase.
It is a game method that requires high physical skills because you only fight one-on-one with the opponent without the intervention of other lines or junglers.

And in normal cases, coaches are less physically capable than players.
Of course, if you have a good physical, you will become a player, but there is no reason to become a coach with low salary and low awareness.
Perhaps Ryu Seo-yoon was aiming for that part and suggested mead bread.

But I nodded.

“Good. And if I’m going to do it, I’ll make a bet.”
“Ha… Like. What are you betting on?”

He looked down at her and she said.

“Listen to the person who won”
“Don’t take that word back”

Seoyoon Ryu put herself in his capsule with a confident smile.

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Ryu Seo-yoon couldn’t understand the thoughts of the new coach.

No matter how you look at it, you are the ace of this team.

If you go out, this team really becomes a team for viral marketing, with nothing to do with anything other than appearance.
Do coaches really want that?

“……”

Even going into her capsule, she couldn’t clear her confused mind.

It was a very frustrating situation.
There was a time when he worked as a bench member in his former team, Cosplay Katz of the 2nd division, and was replaced by the starting lineup to make his debut.

At that time, she had a high solo rank ranking, so she was a promising prospect in the gaming community, but due to the pressure of her debut match her, she completely ruined the game.

The situation right now feels like it’s getting dark before her eyes in her.

After she lost the game, she did not play as a starter for a while and her contract her expired and she was released.
And the place where she barely settled after continuing her wandering life is her third division team her, the Pink Angels.

Even though she wasn’t known for being good at it, she figured that once she started playing, she would be somehow. If she was good at it, she thought, she would be able to carry, no matter how bad the other teammates were.

Of course, the reality was grim and now it looks like he has been kicked out of the team.

‘Why should I worry that I, who is the best, will be kicked out? What did I do wrong to do this to me?’

She bit her lip.

To be honest, she was quite excited when she heard that coach Kim Jung-soo, the coach she used the nickname Battle during her current job, would join.

The parent company, Phone Company, did not simply create a gaming team to attract aggro!

She had expectations
Battle Player was a bench member at the end of his active career, but as a first-generation pro gamer in Arena, he was a gamer who was called the best in the past.

‘You can win. Anyway, I’m a retired gamer.’

Okay. You just have to win.
According to her coach her, if she is not a pro gamer, she has no idea what to do.
But as far as she was in the game, she was confident.

Here he just needs to respawn like a dog after beating his coach and re-picking his teammates.
Ryu Seo-yoon ran the arena with a burning desire to win.