Chapter 10: A New Genius Mid Laner! Another Path?

Ye Bo first took a breath and accepted all the friend requests in his list.

Before, he had no choice.

Now, he really had to compare them well!

He counted them up; there were 19 friend requests in total.

If Ye Bo wasn't mistaken, the notes attached to them covered nearly 17 LPL teams.

"What a display!"

However, Ye Bo was actually quite surprised; he hadn't expected that he, a mere solo-queue player, would receive this kind of treatment.

But in reality, the situation was not quite what he had imagined.

In recent years, the LPL had clearly begun to show signs of a talent gap, and the officials had been vigorously developing the LDL league since 2021, implementing a series of measures.

Those who came to make contact at this moment were all managers from various teams' youth training or secondary squads responsible for recruiting players, whose primary job was to keep track of the latest intelligence from the Canyon and the Korean server.

If they were slow to act, they wouldn't even get a taste of the hot stuff!

Moreover, Ye Bo had completely underestimated his own existence.

If he were still just the "one-trick pony" assassin that his "original self" was, then no matter how explosive his popularity was yesterday, and even with the traffic from the unexpected incident with Bin, it would be absolutely impossible to gain such high regard from the youth training managers of various teams.

Originally, these youth training managers were indeed just acting out of professional habit, like spectators eating melon seeds.

After hearing the news last night, they had casually studied the match history of the Canyon account [Forty-Year-Old Aunt Wants to Go Pro].

But it was precisely this study that, as they delved deeper, suddenly made their eyes light up!

Because they discovered that this person didn't seem to be the kind of "one-trick pony" they had assumed!

Given the environment of high-ranked games on the Chinese server, even if Ye Bo deliberately waited a while before queuing for the next match, it was impossible for him to avoid being "banned out."

Just during this week of climbing the ranks, when Akali was banned and the team composition really wasn't suitable for picking the other two assassin heroes, Ye Bo would occasionally pull out a game or two of Galio, Lissandra, or Seraphine.

He really didn't like playing these kinds of heroes.

But in order to complete the mission sooner... well, climbing the ranks, it's nothing to be ashamed of!

And although the hero proficiency gained from "minimum subsistence aid" was only barely level five, just barely passing—meaning it was at a basic level where he could get by in a match—

It was certainly more than enough for playing ranked.

The various youth training managers immediately became interested and, through their own means and methods, quickly found the match recordings of this account for these heroes and studied them overnight.

After watching them all, they were even more shocked and pleasantly surprised!

"Although it doesn't look as inspired as his Akali, it's very clear that he truly understands the game; he's not just filling in!"

"If someone plays assassins well, their mechanical foundation certainly can't be bad. If they can even play these utility heroes, it shows their game sense and team synergy won't be too bad either."

"Mechanics, game sense, vision, coordination... and even a bit of shot-calling!"

"My goodness, this feels like a huge treasure!"

"I feel like I've seen the next Knight!"

"Three minutes! I want all the information on this person!"

Similar opinions and exchanges appeared in the mouths of almost every youth training manager.

In the current environment of the LPL division, the two positions most in need are Mid Laner and Support.

By comparison, Support is lacking because there are few people who choose it in the first place.

And Mid Lane is lacking because the difficulty of breaking through and making a name for oneself is very high, very great.

But relatively speaking, the value of breaking through is also the highest.

So when a high-performing mechanical player appeared, who didn't seem to have any fatal flaws in their hero pool and could climb to the top ten of the Canyon with a terrifying win rate, and had even just solo-killed a current first-tier LPL mid laner head-on...

With multiple buffs stacked, it could only be called a perfect foundation!

In the eyes of these coaches, a new genius mid laner had absolutely been born!

Ye Bo chatted briefly with each of these people.

However, the process and responses for everyone were about the same.

They all hoped he could first arrive at their offline base for a trial; if the results were indeed good, then they would sign a contract directly and, provided he "met the league's conditions for entry," bring him into the first team "as soon as possible."

If this were the naive Ye Bo of the past, he might have really gone off happily.

But because of the "experience" of knowing about RNG's operations, Ye Bo was currently a bit hesitant to trust these professional teams.

"Why does it always feel like... they're all just painting a pie in the sky!"

Although he could understand that it was unlikely for a professional team to give him any substantial promises right off the bat.

But to have him choose a team right now to go for a trial and sign a contract, wouldn't that be equivalent to gambling again on whether there might be another RNG in there?

Ye Bo couldn't predict the future.

Just then, Ye Bo noticed messages sent from two other friend requests.

One was noted as [Huya Live Streaming Specialist].

[Hello Mr. Ye Bo, I am the person in charge of the League section of the Huya platform, and I sincerely wish to invite you to cooperate...]

[Received: "Streamer (Ye Bo) Streaming Agreement".pdf file]

This was the first time Ye Bo had seen such a formal official contract.

And when he curiously clicked to open it—

He was directly shaken to his core by the striking long string of zeros!

"How much!?"

"One million!!!"

For an eighteen-year-old boy, the largest number he would encounter in daily life would rarely exceed four digits.

This was even just the "signing fee," not counting other income.

Ye Bo didn't know the ins and outs of the live streaming industry.

He only knew that one million was absolutely an astronomical figure for him right now.

If he remembered correctly, the so-called "number one pick" of the LPL youth training camp over the years had a maximum capped annual salary of 500,000.

That is to say, if he took the youth training path, even if he truly succeeded in overpowering the genius youths from all over the country in the training camp and topped the list as the number one pick, it would still be far less than what he would get by signing this paper now.

As for the various top salaries of those professional players, in an era where the live streaming industry hadn't yet crashed, the top tier wouldn't be much different.

"Hmph, trying to test a cadre with this!"

"This guy is still a hot commodity~"

Ye Bo forwarded this contract document, along with the chat history, to the [Loving Family (3)] group chat.

Afterward, he closed the chat window without replying.

Although the shock and impact were indeed quite significant.

But after a brief moment of excitement, Ye Bo wasn't actually affected by it.

He was very firm and had no intention whatsoever of changing the goal he had always held.

He was even more expectant of everything that was about to come!

The greatest use of this contract was that he could now prove to his mom and dad, put their minds at ease, and prove that he could indeed make a living from this.

And there was another friend request, noted as "Chujun."

And.

The other party's first sentence successfully attracted Ye Bo's attention.

[Brother, I just watched quite a few of your stream recordings, and I heard you often mention that you want to go pro, is that right?]

[If so, I might suggest that you don't be in a hurry to sign with a team.]

Once again, emphasizing! I won't write the youth training part too long, everyone rest assured!

This is just a springboard for the protagonist, a small stage to truly prove himself.

After all, there are too many examples of people who crush both servers in rank but are nowhere to be found in matches; you could easily find a dozen such people in LPL and LCK. It's not very realistic to enter the first team just because of rank performance.

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(End of chapter)