Chapter 30 (2/2)

It was the ninth time! It was Rockman’s ninth time, casting his ultimate on Bladesman! This time, Chen Mu took it too far—he Flashed across the wall and cast R. Chen Mu’s champion that appeared in front of Bladesman without warning nearly shocked the latter into a state of paralysis.

Zhao Yin’s teammates shot him accusing gazes. Zhao Yin felt so tilted that he began to tremble in anger. Beads of sweat covered his forehead.

“Tsk tsk. This is unexpected. Who would’ve known that someone as polished as Chen Mu would turn out to be so vengeful?!” Zhuo Xiaobai sighed under the stage.

Lu Ren gulped and gave Zhao Yin a pitiful glance. Chen Mu was not someone one could fool around with. The man had a very vengeful heart—Chen Mu had not cast his ultimate on Gun Dude who barely had any health left and instead insisted on one-shotting the full health Bladesman. It was the work of a madman! It was truly… A work of art.

‘Torture Zhao Yin until he starts shaking. Didn’t you say that you had a thousand and five hundred ELO points? Weren’t you OP? Not so OP now, are you?’

Eventually, the match ended after twenty-five minutes. Bladesman’s final score was 0-10.

“Let’s go and shake hands,” Shi Geng said. To indicate the formality of the tournament, players were required to shake hands with their opponents like how they did in international championships.

[Ding! Mission accomplished. Based on Zhao Yin’s level of fear: received six hundred points.]

Dang, Chen Mu knew that he had not been cruel enough. Chen Mu could not help but feel like he had chosen the wrong champion. He should have chosen a champion that could instantly score a kill with a teeny spell. Perhaps then, he would have obtained a thousand points instead of six hundred. Chen Mu had chosen Rockman partially because the visual effects of the champion’s ultimate were more than over the top. He was naive enough to think that it would be enough to make Zhao Yin fear him. Chen Mu guessed that it was not the case after all.

While the two teams exchanged handshakes, Chen Mu’s mind was busy churning. The System had set the reward limit to a thousand points, but he was only rewarded with six hundred points. It was not perfect. Hence, Chen Mu decided that he had to look more into it in the future.

Zhao Yin’s expression was extremely dark. When he saw Chen Mu extend his hand toward him, Zhao Yin felt like he would do anything in the world to avoid touching Chen Mu’s hand. Chen Mu was such a bully. He had killed Zhao Yin countless times without mercy. Zhao Yin thought, ‘If it weren’t because I’m a man, I would’ve wailed on the spot to make you feel bad.’

Chen Mu kept his hand extended, but Zhao Yin did not move an inch. Zhao Yin’s actions led a lot of people to think that he lacked poise. Hence, Chen Mu thought about turning around and leaving. He did not want to pay Zhao Yin any form of attention because he had already obtained his reward after all.

“Don’t think you’re so great just because you won the match with someone else carrying you. Sooner or later, I’ll return the favor one day.” What Zhao Yin thought was an aggressive declaration sounded like a shameless statement to his teammates. ‘My dear bro, where did you find the courage to say that? You were solo killed eight times in a row. What do you eat to get such thick skin on your face?’

“Oh, by the way, do you have piles? If you do, don’t hesitate to get it treated. You can always talk to me about it,” Chen Mu threw Zhao Yin an off-topic question.

However, Zhao Yin’s face blew up like a tomato. ‘Goddamnit, how did you know?! I’ve never once told anyone about it. Are you telling me you’re medically trained?!’

“What do you mean? Can you treat it?” Zhao Yin failed to realize that such a response would reveal his secret. Everyone’s eyes lit up as if they had been enlightened, asking, ‘Is that so?!’

“Oh, nope. It’s because petty people usually have piles1. I just wanted to verify the validity of the idiom.” Chen Mu turned around and walked away without turning back after saying this.

Everyone around them who had overheard their conversation began to tremble violently in laughter. Even Zhao Yin’s teammates could not hold their laughter in.

Anger began to swell in Zhao Yin until he turned as red as pork liver. He left furiously, knowing that Chen Mu made a complete fool out of him.

“You have such a potty mouth!” Shi Geng could not hold back his laughter. You must be a genius to have come up with such an insult.

“Do we have more matches after this?” asked Chen Mu.

“Of course. However, the squad that we faced just now can be considered one of the stronger squads. The other teams should be easy to defeat except for one. That would be the team formed by the students of Chuzhou University.

“As we all know, university students have a lot of time on their hands. I heard that they’re members of various Esports Clubs. A few of them might be players with two thousand ELO points. Their match is up next. Let’s watch them play,” Shi Geng said.

“Yep.” Chen Mu nodded and watched along with his other teammates the way the team from Chuzhou University played.

The group of university students looked rather different from the crowd. They carried themselves with much more pride and appeared to be more polite. None of them smoked and all of them were dressed in casual attire. Across them, a group of youngsters with hair dyed in wild colors was dressed in pants that were mostly covered in holes to show that they had “personality”.

Nevertheless, personality was no indicator of strength. It was apparent that the students from Chuzhou University were stronger—they obtained First Blood through a solo kill in top lane three minutes into the game. At the fourth minute, their jungler ganked mid lane and scored another kill. By the ten minutes mark, they had slaughtered their enemies to the point where the latter was forced to run helter-skelter. Then, at the fifteen minutes mark, they steamrolled across the map. They made the match look like they were up against AI bots!

“They’re rather strong. We should be up against this squad in the finals.” Chen Mu watched the university students intently, holding back his urge to drool. Once he defeated their team, he would have earned four hundred bucks. It was too lucrative.