When dividing up rewards, Ye Qiu announced two pieces of news:"Good news: It seems Lin Jingyan won't continue leading a group to battle us through the night.""Bad news: Badao's Dominating Strategy appears to be preparing for Zhang Xinjie and Lin Jingyan to fight side by side.
The difficulty of competing with them has further increased.
Those who failed to get the boss in their previous battles should already have felt this," he said."How do we handle this?"¡Corta la Torre de Lulán pidió a Ye Qiu su estrategia."Ye Qiu pointed at Yue Ziting, Bai Xi, Jing Liu, and Wu Jinkui, the three guild leaders: "Why don’t any of your teams have a professional player to help out?"The three guild leaders collectively looked miserable.
"We can't do this ourselves!" Indeed, no professional player's contract required them to help in such situations.
Beyond being the public guild leader, even the club had no reason to order players to assist.
If they were willing to come, it would either be because of personal connections or due to feelings between the leader and the players.However, asking for such assistance involved getting them to put in a lot of effort like Zhang Xinjie’s early mornings and late nights at work.
Without the players’ willingness, it was challenging.
Most professional players were unwilling to contribute significantly.
Moreover, during the summer transfer window, thinking about gathering materials, enhancing their characters, and boosting team performance, only to have teammates traded away halfway through, it felt incredibly unfair.Many of the old practices in the league were fading with its rapid growth.
The fierce battles between top players during the hot summers seemed like they would never return.While Ye Qiu pointed at these three guild leaders for their lack of help, he was also lamenting how the entire league’s culture had changed: everyone had become more pragmatic.
Whether it was the teams or the players, the sentiment of loyalty towards old teams was diminishing among newer players.Thinking back to the early days when Jiashi wasn't as obsessed with commercialization and Tao Xuan shared his passion for victory in matches, only Tao Xuan had truly integrated into this circle completely, constantly adapting and adjusting according to its changes.
Ye Qiu remained true to his love for the game and viewed it as a sacred honor, continuously striving.
This was also what Honor intended: calling it by that name while promoting everything within the game as honorable.
For Ye Qiu and others like him, this struggle was their ideal.Throughout this journey, Ye Qiu saw many things.Back then, his three friends with similar ideals—Sun Xiang and Tang Hao—all changed teams after gaining fame, leaving only Ye Qiu on his original path: pursuing honor through the game.While busy dealing with matters that professional players usually wouldn't bother with, it was all for this ideal of honor.The system seemed to favor Ye Qiu’s side.