Chapter 26: All-Star Escort!

The honor of being the first King wouldn't affect Jiang Ming's promotion for reaching the top of the server, but if he could have it all, that would naturally be excellent.

The first match around two in the afternoon was won very smoothly; some grind-obsessed players who stayed up all night were probably already asleep, and many who wanted to take a dirty shot at Jiang Ming never expected him and YY to settle things so quickly and start the climb-to-the-top livestream in the afternoon.

【666, one hundred victory points!】

【Strongest King, Strongest King, charge, Ah Ming, the Ming Army is the best.】

【Damn, streaming at noon, Old Jiang, you're this, bro, you and I are heart-to-heart while you and I use our brains.】

【To be fair, clearly JM is a night-owl streamer with the bonus of being a college student, yet his schedule is terrifyingly regular.】

【The one above, did college students eat your rice? Our schedules are very regular, okay.】

【JM queue up quickly, the live rooms of pro players next door seem to be all online, they're going to snipe you.】

Snipe me?

Looking at the bullet comments, Jiang Ming frowned.

Under YY's big move, those pro players or high-score players from other platforms might not have had no reaction, but he didn't expect them to come so fast.

Indeed, from the perspective of a pro player, if he let Jiang Ming make such a big fuss to snatch the first King of Zone One and livestream the climb to the top, it would be a bit of a loss of face.

"Brother Ming, we're queuing too!"

"Best if we can queue with Brother Ming. Damn, wanting to snipe our boss, did they ask us?"

In WeChat, several members of his own NXG sent messages.

Since Riot opened the S3 season and updated the ranks, Jiang Ming had also assigned everyone the task of climbing to become the King of Zone One.

And it was that kind of hard requirement, the kind that must be completed.

First, to prepare for better treatment when signing the team livestream contract with Huya, which YY reorganized in advance; second, to facilitate external promotion.

He didn't want his own NXG, after entering the LPL regular season stage, to have a personal introduction under the livestream camera as a Diamond player from some zone.

People with high rank points don't necessarily play pro, but those who can't even get their rank points up definitely can't play pro.

The famous assertion by a certain pig head that rank points are useless should just be heard and ignored.

GodV, as the Diamond II Emperor, crushed Left Hand, the second best on the Korean server, because he had the skill to climb up himself, not because a Diamond II can really crush the second best on the Korean server.

"YY platform makes empty boasts: can a random King suppress pro players?"

"The first King of the server and the strongest person of the server, to whom will the glory fall!"

"Pro players announce sniping JM, many random Kings join the challenge queue."

"Newly established, a certain Shark livestream platform announces providing a huge bonus for climbing to the top; the title of LOL Strongest King causes players to go crazy."

On the internet, regarding the JM climb-to-the-top event YY platform made such a fuss about, industry insiders, while sighing at the other side's sensitivity to shifts in traffic trends, were also astonished by the decisiveness of the decision-makers.

Investing so many promotional resources to bet on a single streamer, even to the point of squeezing the traffic of other streamers on the platform, can the cost be recovered?

And various discussions questioning Jiang Ming's strength didn't arise out of thin air.

The discussion spread from the WE bar; WE fans thought promoting a random streamer as the number one mid-laner of the server was extremely ridiculous, after all, he hadn't even fought against the World's Number One Card in their hearts, so WE fans with grievances began leaving comments on the social media platforms or under the live rooms of various pro players, with the aim of striking down the claim that JM is the strongest mid-laner of the server.

As for some random Kings who joined midway, some wanted to make a name for themselves by stepping on JM, while others were simply bounty hunters, or came to climb for personal points.

"Queued in!"

On this day, countless players waited by Jiang Ming's live room, and when he entered the draft mode room, they couldn't help but perk up.

"Quick, quick, quick, see which streamers or pro players we ran into."

"Damn, PDD is here, gogoing is here too!"

"Let me see, over here Factory, Smile, UZI are all in, wow, won't they all be in the same match?"

NXG basement.

"Who of you got in?"

"Damn, it's all pro team people, they really came to snipe the boss."

"No, why does it feel like the game company did it on purpose? Is there such a coincidence? The boss is one match away from King, and then they all run into each other."

"It's normal, there are only so many high-score players; matching at the same time has a high probability of grouping together."

"Did none of us get in?" AD Xu Jing felt a bit regretful; he had the live rooms of the entire WE team open on his webpage and was still looking forward to fighting the number one AD.

"I queued with Brother Ming!"

Suddenly, the jungler Shi Zhenyu took off his headset and said to the teammate beside him.

"Oh, really?"

"Awesome, Stone, if you protect the Emperor successfully this time, a promotion and raise are right around the corner."

The others lost their mood for queuing; either they moved stools behind the jungler, or they directly found the teammate's ID, waiting to observe after the opponent entered the game.

The jungler queued up; that would be a greater help to Brother Ming than any of them entering the game.

Coincidentally, on the other side, the mid-jungle duo happened to be the WE mid-jungle pair, Ming Kai and Ruofeng.

(gogoing: Hello JM!)

(tabe: Queued with JM, little dog, our luck is good; JM, can you give us a friend slot after the game ends?)

(JM: Hello both of you, I'll add you.)

"It really is a classic plot."

Looking at the chat box, at each familiar ID, Jiang Ming couldn't help but shake his head.

Besides his own NXG jungler Stone, the top laner was gogoing from the OMG team, and the bot lane duo was UZI plus tabe from Royal.

And on the opposing side, judging from the feedback of the live room audience, besides the top lane being PDD from IG, the other four were all from WE.

"A true—All-Star match."

Jiang Ming had a bit of a headache.

It wasn't that he worried about not being able to handle the ultimate combination of the WE four plus PDD; not to mention that the three on his own top and bot were all capable people, even if the other positions were random players, as long as the jungler was one of their own, winning this crucial match wasn't a big problem.

Just after this match ends, he will likely be targeted in advance by WE's delusional fans.

As the most terrifying mob in the 2013 LPL, they even forced some players to spontaneously organize the "Anti-Pressure Bar" to stand against them; their combat power is evident.

"Ban Zed, ban JM's Zed."

On the red side, Weixiao hurriedly typed in the chat box.

As an AD player, he knew all too well how much threat an assassin with terrifying strength posed to himself.

If Ruofeng on the first pick wanted to play, it was perfectly fine; if he wanted to play his signature card, Zed would be a mandatory ban option.

One knows one's own capabilities; having practiced for a while yet still failing to grasp the essence of the assassin, he had not been swayed by a few words of flattery from fans into feeling invincible.