Chapter Twenty-Five: The System Guides Me to Become a Professional Player?

“But, to play Master Kong at my level, it’s not just about positioning. You need awareness, mechanics, attention to detail, and even a strong sense of the overall situation—you have to be complete in every aspect!”

“If I were to solo Master Kong against Haoran, I’d still have a hundred percent confidence I could beat him!”

Whether it was for the sake of the stream or he truly believed it, Yifan spoke confidently to his viewers.

Naturally, a wave of mockery followed.

After all, having just been thoroughly defeated twice in a row, Yifan hadn’t even managed a single clean solo kill against Haoran. Most viewers didn’t care about the subtle details; from what they saw, Haoran was skillfully controlling the game, recalling to base and taunting, while Yifan seemed completely helpless.

All he could do was call his teammates over for a group fight…

The same scenario played out in Li Zhien’s stream. Though she wasn’t lane-matched against Haoran, she didn’t feel any resentment—she simply sensed that the streamer named Haoran on the opposing team was truly strong.

At this rank, top players were everywhere in the peak matches. Haoran’s name was new to her, but Li Zhien quietly made a mental note of it.

…

That evening, Lin Hao tallied the rage points he’d earned that day.

Actually, after every match, he could use the rage points immediately. But to keep his stream continuous, Lin Hao refrained from opening the system or redeeming rewards in the middle of a session.

As soon as he accessed the system interface in his mind, he noticed the system level had upgraded to Level 2.

“Congratulations, Host. The system has reached Level 2; the system shop is now available!”

A shop? That meant he wouldn’t have to rely on those pitifully low-probability raffles anymore?

Nice!

Identifying himself as notoriously unlucky, Lin Hao let out a long sigh of relief.

He opened the shop. The first thing that caught his eye were two categories: purple for heroes, and gold for personal abilities.

The purple hero section contained national server skill points for all heroes in King’s Glory.

Once redeemed, the system could instantly grant Lin Hao national server level on any single hero.

While it wouldn’t immediately send a top national ranking badge to his account, Lin Hao could play that hero up to the national leaderboard anytime.

The national server skill would give Lin Hao not necessarily the absolute ceiling for that hero, but at least the highest level—enough for a national badge!

But when he looked at the prices, Lin Hao was stunned.

Every hero had a clearly marked price, purchasable with rage points—but they were outrageously expensive…

Each cost started at a million rage points.

And Lin Hao’s stream ran during prime time, from 7 to 11 at night.

Four hours, about ten matches.

But since the chance of matching with streamers (which doubled rage points) was so slim, and not every game would infuriate opponents, tonight Lin Hao had earned 56,300 rage points.

That was after he’d mastered how to enrage enemy players—on his first day, he’d only gotten fifteen thousand.

So, to select a national server skill by choice, at fifty thousand rage points a day, it would take about a month to save up.

Lin Hao then looked at the gold section, labeled “Personal Ability.”

There was script-level positioning, wallhack-level awareness, prophet-level prediction…

Each required ten times the rage points of the purple skills—a staggering ten million!

No wonder.

Lin Hao had been lucky enough to draw a gold skill from the card pool before, and now he could really feel how incredible script-level positioning was!

Having a national server skill didn’t mean you’d dominate King’s Canyon.

Among the top hundred peak players, who didn’t have two or three national badges?

National badges weren’t that rare.

In those games, picking a national badge hero just meant you weren’t trolling or throwing.

Even with national server skills, you could still perform poorly.

But gold skills were different. They represented the pinnacle of human capability.

For example, with his current level of positioning, Lin Hao was undoubtedly the best among all players!

Moreover, gold skills could synergize with hero-specific national server skills. With his enhanced positioning, his Yuan Ge could now potentially rank number one nationally!

…

So, it’s better to stick with the raffle.

The math was simple: about a month to save up for a national server skill, half a year to a year for a gold personal ability.

In contrast, the cheap 160-point raffles in the card pool seemed like a bargain!

Without hesitation, Lin Hao dumped all his rage points into the card pool.

As he expected, streaks of blue light flashed before his eyes.

He was starting to feel numb from the draws, but all he got was “Thank you for participating.”

Finally, in the last thirty draws, purple light flashed!

“Congratulations, Host! You have obtained the national-level Guan Yu skill!”

Guan Yu! Not bad!

Lin Hao quietly absorbed all the national-level Guan Yu skills. With just a blink, he now possessed the prowess of a national Guan Yu.

He still didn’t know the odds or if there was a guaranteed system in the card pool.

But judging from the past two days, it seemed he could draw a national skill with a day’s worth of rage points.

So why save up for a hero in the shop? The raffle was the way to go!

Lin Hao was about to exit the system, delighted, when curiosity got the better of him.

“So, system, why did you open this black market shop for me? You know as well as I do, after exhausting myself to enrage opponents, I can only earn around 50,000 a day. With those skills costing millions or even ten million, I might as well just stick to raffles!”

“Friendly reminder, Host: the rage point multiplier may increase depending on your opponent’s identity.”

“I know that. Streamers like Yifan already give triple rage points, but I can’t run into streamers every day in peak matches, and triple isn’t that great anyway.”

“Please note, if your opponent is a professional player, you will receive a higher base multiplier than with streamers. Additionally, you’ll get extra bonuses based on their popularity and influence.”

Lin Hao paused.

A new idea blossomed in his mind.

This… was the system hinting for him to become a professional player.

Normally, matching with streamers in peak games was rare, and their rage point bonuses were limited.

But if Lin Hao became a pro and started playing in tournaments…

Wouldn’t all his opponents be professionals?

And pros would have higher rage point bonuses than streamers!

It would be a rage point paradise!

Lin Hao felt a surge of excitement.

However, to enrage pro players, he’d first need to surpass their skills.

Otherwise, in pro matches, if he was constantly targeted, becoming the weak link, and then shamelessly recalled to base to taunt, he’d just be the clown for his opponents and spectators, making a fool of himself and only increasing his rivals’ satisfaction.

He’d have to develop gradually. For now, he’d stick to peak matches and try to match with streamers as much as possible. Pro play would have to wait until his skills were even stronger and his hero pool deeper!