Chapter 57 – 57. Promotion Candidate Match (2)

“Hello! Greetings from the Seoul Esports Center!”

A competition to determine the teams advancing to the 2nd division promotion round of the virtual reality game arena.
The third place match of the promotion candidates match has begun.

The winning team will advance to the semi-finals, where they will face the runner-up team.

Efforts for half a year, decided by best-of-three matches.
For the participating teams, it was an important match that could be a crossroads in their lives.

But in fact, the promotion playoff was not a popular tournament.
It was a once-in-a-half-year opportunity for the players, but for the audience watching the league, it was just an aungdam of the lower league.

Watching the first division was also a busy fan.
Even if you dig a little deep, it was up to the 2nd division.
The match for promotion candidates in the 3rd division is truly their own league.

But today, the story was a little different.
The 300-seat esports center was packed to capacity.
In addition, it is said that the highest number of people participated in the in-game viewing through the capsule.

The staff and officials of the competition management side were strangely nervous.

‘Let’s not make a mistake.’

If I made a mistake on a day like today, I could have been stuffed into the Internet forever.

‘Because of those bastard Battle Angels or something…’

While the staff were busy moving, they secretly glanced at the players standing on one side of the field.

No one mentioned it, but everyone knew why there were so many visitors today.
It was because of the only team that came in 3rd place in Group B.

I would like to know how crazy it would be if only one team in the 3rd division had an impact on the league, but looking at the results, I couldn’t take it lightly.

The team that received more attention and had a lot of fans than most 2nd division teams was the Battle Angels.

‘Anyway, as long as it’s just a pretty face, it’s fine.’

The grunting staff glanced sideways at the Battle Angels players.
I said it in a bad way, but when I saw them up close, I couldn’t help but admit it.

It couldn’t be bad to look at as all the female players with outstanding looks gathered together as a team.
Sometimes, when they were talking to each other and even laughing, it was as if flowers were blooming around them.

Of the few hundred people in this narrow arena, it seemed natural that most of the eyes were looking at these players.

‘What’s the coach thinking when he’s surrounded by players who look like that?’

The staff’s eyes landed on a man in the center of them.

He was a man with a slightly fierce appearance, but he was constantly injecting something into the girls.
If she were herself, she would have been nervous just standing next to them, but she had the guts to envy.

‘I guess I’m used to it because I’m stuck with it every day. Envy.’

The staff took a deep breath and started working again.
The game was about to begin.

###

Before the game started, I called the players together.

“How is everyone feeling?”
“Like!”

Baek Ha-yan answered my question with a smile.
Had she ever been in a bad mood?

I stroked my hair without even realizing that innocence.
The white cheeks her turned slightly red.

“It won’t be too difficult today. Don’t be careless though. Unless you want to end up like the Academy League Finals.”
“Yes!”
“You, who are white, pay particular attention to control. If you don’t do what I taught you, I’ll show you hell after the game.”
“Ugh…. Yes…”

Immediately leaving the sullen White White alone, Han Yuna, who had fallen to one side of her, looked at me.
Han Yuna, who did not know that she would be looking at her, was startled and met her eyes with mine.

“Why, why… “

Her voice trembled, as if embarrassed.
She talked to the players and got along well, but she still had a cold war relationship with me.
She was thoroughly excluded to the extent that it could be considered bullying, so my attention was burdensome.

I beckoned her to come closer.
Even with her shy expression on her face, Hanyu came right in front of me.
She was about the same height as me, so her eyes met without lowering her head.
Her heart pounded all over again.

“Your role is very important today.”
“……”
“You have to work harder than usual.”
“I know… “

Han Yuna avoided my gaze.
Like it or not, I continued the conversation.

“I will give you a special mission.”
“A special mission?”
“Okay. From now on, I will tell you the weak point of the opposing mid laner.”
“……”
“All you have to do is follow what I tell you. Can you do it?”
“… Depends on what it is.”

Hanyuna said softly and tossed her hair back, but she couldn’t calm her tone as she jumped up excitedly.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been receiving attention, so I’m secretly happy even if I pretend not to be.

As expected, no comments were scarier than malicious comments.
Even Hanyu, who had been bouncing around like that, was secretly hoping that she would take care of herself as well.

“Then remember what I’m going to say from now on.”

And I gave her some of her rules.
After hearing my strategy, Hanyuna asked in a worried tone.

“Can I really do what the coach said? First of all, I think the opponent’s mid will have to play aggressively in the lane battle, right?”
“You just have to trust me and do that.”
“All right.”

Hanyuna reluctantly nodded her head.

###

The match has begun.

Han Yuna, the character she handled the most, she turned into Hyunmu and headed for her mid lane.
As she walked along, her mind was full of worries.

‘It’s the opponent’s blue dragon, but if it fails, the laning match will be ruined… ‘

Hyeonmu basically had strong defensive power, but it wasn’t strong in laning.
If the strategy the coach told you to fail, you will have a tougher laning match than usual.

‘Okay. Even if it fails, it’s not my fault, so let’s do it hotly.’

Creeps from both formations rushed in, and a full-scale laning battle began.

And as expected by the coach, the opposing mid laner traded deals very aggressively.
Han Yuna, not confident in her physical abilities, had no choice but to give up her initiative as usual and run away near the tower.

‘For now, everything goes according to plan. Well, even if it wasn’t planned, it would have happened like this… ‘

She always started by giving up the lead in the middle.
She was not new. Just protecting it for the carry of other team members.
Ever since the Battle Angels were the Pink Angels, she’s been the only mission given to her.

‘Is it now… ?’

Time passed and by the time I took the 2nd level, the opponent’s blue dragon quickly pushed the line and disappeared somewhere.
This was the habit of the opposing mid laner that coach Kim Jeong-soo mentioned.

Hanyuna looked at her mini-map, which was placed in her line of sight.
As promised, jungler Lee Ji-hye hurriedly took level 2 and was approaching the mid lane.

[BA Wisdom: Unnie Yuna, I think you can go in now]
[BA Luna: I see.]

Jihye Lee’s order has fallen.
As soon as Han Yuna’s line was all cleared, she headed for the bush at the lower end of the mid-line.
It was dark inside, so I couldn’t see what was there, but according to coach Kim Jeong-soo, there must have been a blue dragon.

‘I don’t know!’

Han Yuna took the lead and jumped into the bush.
Then, to her surprise her, she really could see the blue dragon hiding inside it.

A startled blue dragon soars into the sky.
However, she soon pours her skills on her as if she met well.

Hanyuna pulled her body behind her and ran away, but she was in no hurry.
On the mini-map, there was Lee Ji-hye waiting for them to come closer.

‘It’s now!’

At the right moment, Han Yuna pulled the blue dragon using Hyeonmu’s Ebb/Ebb skill.
That was enough.

Lee Ji-hye and Fenrir, who came up behind them, jumped up and bit the blue dragon.
Because it was Fenrir with no CC, but strong attack power, the blue dragon’s HP decreased steadily.

“Kooaaaaa!!”

The howling blue dragon hurriedly flashed and ran towards his tower.
However, Fenrir quickly caught up with them by blinking.

Fenrir wields a stretched arm holding onto the blue dragon’s long tail.
The ground turned upside down and a tree was uprooted in the fight between the two giant monsters.

And in the end, the blue dragon’s gigantic body lay on the ground.

‘Well done… ‘

In the moment of Lee Ji-hye, seeing her judgment of her and her fierce attack power of her, I thought of Han Yuna.
I knew that she was Hanyu, who had watched her grow by her side of her.
Compared to the past, how well he has improved and how passionate he is, it’s to the point where people seem different.

Coach Kim Jeong-soo had a personality like a crazy psycho, but strangely, he was making the team successful.
What’s more, she gets along suspiciously well with the other players except her these days.

Watching her children her, who had been bullied like that, tremble and obey her coach for some time, it felt like she had come to another world alone.

‘But this time… Your advice helped me a bit.’

The coach’s advice was that the opponent’s mid laner has a habit of hiding in the bushes for a long time after quickly reaching the 2nd level.

From Han Yuna’s point of view, it was an advice that could only be questioned.
Aren’t the conditions too difficult?
We had to know that the opponent would push the line aggressively, and we had to have a character on our team who would bite and kill at a low level.

However, to speak of the conclusion, I was able to complete that difficult condition with a ban pick.
As expected, the opponent took Blue Dragon with good pushing power and pushed the line aggressively, and our team took Fenrir, which had enough damage even at the low level stage, and successfully ganked.

It was a pretty big achievement for a snowball that was hard to spot and stemmed from seemingly insignificant habits.

[BA Wisdom: Put the ward in the bush below. Let’s catch it next time. I’ll come back after going around the jungle for a while.]
[BA Luna: Okay!]

Jihye Lee’s orders were always reliable.
Hanyuna went into the game with her excitement.

The game was so much fun, probably because I took the initiative in the laning stage for the first time in a long time, no.

###

“The extra team doesn’t have the initiative in all lines right now!”
“Battle Angels players are all doing well in lane. Especially in the case of the bottom line, the extra players can’t even breathe! Battle Angels! It’s a really great performance that seems to show that you’re not famous for nothing these days?!”
“The moment I speak! The match ends when the core of the extra team explodes! GG~”

The extra team that came out of the capsule was in a very gloomy atmosphere.
I have been through all sorts of hardships.

To be sure, we practiced harder than any other team. Not only did they spend their personal time, but they also practiced as a team while reducing their sleeping time.
However, the world was not easy enough to achieve what you wanted if you worked hard.

“Brothers! How long will you be somber! We haven’t lost yet!”

At that time, the youngest member of the team, Kim Ji-yoon, said energetically.
At that, the other team members slowly raise their lips.

Yeah, since when did we feel intimidated by losing a game like this?

It was a team that came up from the bottom.
Just having come this far is an unmistakable miracle!
Let’s do our best with no regrets!

And don’t you know?

‘In the last game, I turned around from a loss to a win’

If you don’t give up, you still have a chance.
I didn’t know if I could use a band electrode this time too.

The members of the extra team looked at each other with eyes filled with sticky trust and smiled.
There is nothing to fear if you are with your colleagues!

“Let’s go! Extra team! We never give up!”
“Go for it!!”

And the second set follows.
The extra team was defeated like a lie.