Chapter 50: Perfect Record and the Exposure of Training Volume!

The so-called bold boasts before the match, incoherent ramblings during the match, and silence after the match.

At this moment, the five young men in the PE team, their faces flushed and with no communication whatsoever, perfectly embodied this saying.

In the mid lane, Van's eyes darted about; though he was controlling the best last-hitting Zed, he kept missing last hits one after another.

He felt he was about to forget how to play the game.

Killed alone by the Ahri in lane, then instantly killed by a Lulu polymorph in a team fight, solo pushing...

The only thing that could have saved face, solo pushing, ended with him forced to sing "Conquer" because he couldn't beat his own meat-tank senior brother.

"Just like that, you conquered me..."

It wasn't just the mid lane; the other four were in no better state. In the top lane, Aruka's Camille was treated by the NXG team fight as a large toy; using his ultimate to kite left and right, he still couldn't even touch the enemy Caitlyn's hem.

The bottom lane duo, the strongest in power, were in an even worse state. Nami and Xica; if either of them didn't have a teammate nearby, seeing Ahri and the Imperial Prince meant death.

Xica, responsible for vision, would tremble at the mere sound of the Brand's passive hissing in his headset; he had developed a stress response from being ambushed.

Of course, the bottom lane duo weren't the worst off.

As the jungler, Ziv, ever since the ten-minute mark, faced jungle monsters as if they wouldn't respawn; now, Ziv desperately wanted to go outside the team base to check if the wheels on the bicycle he just bought were still there, or to make sure he didn't sleep with the lights off.

Terrified that a Demacian Gaywen clad in golden armor might leap out from under the quilt!

At 21 minutes and 10 seconds, PE was utterly annihilated after being ambushed by NXG at the Baron pit.

With both the Imperial Prince and Caitlyn alive, Jiang Ming judged there was enough time; the purple side chose not to take Baron Nashor and instead pushed straight down the mid lane, destroying PE's base.

And as the spectacular explosion effect of the Nexus appeared, the PE team members heaved a heavy sigh of relief while collapsing onto their e-sports chairs; the five were nearly driven to autism by the defeat.

Inside the Tencent LPL league trial broadcast room, although the stream switched immediately to another match of the day upon NXG's victory over PE and the Nexus explosion,

it still failed to quell the shock among LOL players regarding the match that had just ended.

【Holy crap, is NXG definitely not playing against bots?】

【Gulp... A 21:2 kill score. Even I, a Diamond player farming Gold, might not be able to produce such a performance.】

【Tencent definitely didn't broadcast the wrong match; someone tell me, were we just watching JM and his NXG teammates queueing in a public ranked match, not a professional selection tournament!】

【Brother, don't fool yourself; I checked the previous match records. PE is not only not bad, but they are a team whose strength ranks in the top three of the selection tournament.】

【Wotan Art?】

【You guys aren't joking, right? Then what was that match about? PE was beaten brutally the entire time; you can't explain that away with just "poor performance".】

【Is there a possibility that JM and his NXG team are just too strong!】

【Having watched the whole match, I must say, the brother above is right; there was indeed a gap in strength, not in individual ability, but in the understanding of team combat, which was on completely different levels for both sides.】

【I am a Diamond 2 player in the first server (image JPG). All five members of PE are Challenger-level players. I was lucky enough to queue against them before and got absolutely crushed back then; I never thought that on the professional stage, these brothers would get crushed by someone else.】

【This NXG team is ridiculously strong, you know...】

【So JM teaches us in ranked, and in the professional tournament, he still has to teach professional players how to play the game?】

The discussion in the broadcast room grew more intense, gradually shifting from the match room to Weibo, Tieba, and other major forums.

Even Tencent didn't expect that a trial broadcast would collide with NXG, who were going all out to test their own level.

21:2!

Under the backdrop of this highly impactful professional selection score, combined with the deep impression Jiang Ming left on the national server player community after reaching the number one spot on the national server via his livestream,

"The Number One on the National Server" and "The Invincible Professional Team"

added together, instantly ignited Tencent's long-prepared promotion for the professional tournament.

The tournament had not officially started, and NXG had only just secured their qualification spot for the LPL league.

Yet the LOL community exploded directly.

#Perfect Record in Professional Selection, NXG Moves as if Through an Empty Field! #

#Beating Challengers Like Beating Bots, How Strong is JM's Game Understanding? #

#NXG Seems Like a Well-Trained and Disciplined Special Forces Unit. #

#A Makeshift Team—No, NXG is Likely the First Regular Army of the LPL. #

#Explosive News: NXG Team's Terrifying Training Volume; After Seeing This, Do You Still Want to Play Games? #

#NXG Team Players' Daily Schedule and Training Table... #

Besides match news, a strangely timed chart was mixed into the hot topics.

It was likely an information board mounted on the wall of the training room during renovation or the purchase of club facilities, photographed by passersby; seeing the online discussion about NXG's professional selection performance today, the photographer thought to ride the wave of popularity and uploaded the photo to Weibo.

If they hadn't posted it, it would have been fine; but once posted, the NXG match, whose discussion volume in the forums was already skyrocketing, exploded like oil poured on fire.

【???】

【This training schedule is definitely not made up!】

【Damn, training until 3 or 4 AM every day is serious?】

【Let me calculate; if we include the so-called tactical study time inside, then each player trains about twelve or thirteen hours a day.】

【!!!】

【Something's wrong, NXG, you guys are really wrong; JM, isn't that some kind of internet addiction concentration camp? Who the hell can withstand training thirteen hours a day?】

【A daily schedule precise to every minute; you tell me this is the kind of arrangement possible for a group of game players?】

【Internet-addicted teenagers... I feel like I am the internet-addicted teenager right now; according to NXG's schedule, playing a game is no different from working.】

【Wake up, your job isn't that long!】

【If NXG really trains their players according to this schedule exposed online, then the disciplined gameplay seen in the video doesn't seem hard to understand.】

【Holy crap, is this the strength of a top student from Jin Ling University? Reaching number one on the national server by playing games, earning millions a year by running an online store, being a flagship-level existence on the streaming platform, and now you tell me even his professional team is more standardized than others?】

【I am also a graduate of Jin Ling University; sorry, I've brought shame to the school (covering face).】

It exploded!

After the terrifying training regimen of NXG was exposed online, the viewership of those brutally one-sided professional matches on the TGA platform skyrocketed.

No one had expected that Jiang Ming's NXG team would, in the blink of an eye, become the first traffic magnet of the LPL professional league.

Not WE, who had won the IPL5 championship, nor the equally famous twin stars IG — but rather a brand-new team founded not long ago by a pancake-selling streamer.

It was almost as if heaven had arranged it perfectly. If Penguin hadn't suddenly decided to do a trial broadcast, or if Jiang Ming hadn't planned to play, using PE to test just what level NXG was at when going all-out, then even if NXG's training volume had been exposed in the end—

Without results to back it up, or without brutally one-sided match footage like now to supplement it, people would at most sigh a couple of times before tossing it to the back of their minds.