Chapter 5
Who Dares Stand Against Me!
The Challenger tier leaderboard tracking post by Qiong Wang Ye started updating at nine in the morning. Every hour, the leaderboard standings would update once.
Exactly at ten o'clock, the data post updated.
Tens of thousands of domestic server players had already begun frantically refreshing the page a minute or two prior, trying to get a first look at the latest battle results.
The page refreshed successfully; there were no changes in the Korean server's Challenger tier leaderboard standings over the past hour.
But below the list, the match history of a group of domestic server gods had undergone some changes.
Among them, Shuang Leng Mo He had not started playing ranked today, so his LP remained the same as the day before;
Re Kai Shui had just gone one win and one loss today, with his LP only increasing by a negligible amount.
After that, the two peak domestic server players from the Maple Team, Jiu Yue Qing Kong and Jian Ren Ni Tian, who carried the hopes of countless domestic players, unfortunately had not started playing either, their data remaining unchanged like Shuang Leng Mo He's.
The final update was the latest match history screenshot of Hook and Dancingshoe.
They had started ranking at nine-thirty this morning.
Exactly at ten o'clock, just a minute or two before this post updated, the duo had just finished a match.
Victory!
This green "Victory" text on the screen made all the forum-browsing players rejoice!
This was a great sign!
Two days ago, when the god Hui Qi Lian Dao and the god Wu Xie played duo, hadn't they won every single match?
They even went on win streaks, achieving a glorious consecutive win streak!
So maybe... they could pull off another run like that today?
If they could replicate yesterday's or the day before's performance, then even putting aside the account of the god Hui Qi Lian Dao which had just entered the Korean Challenger tier, at least the Dancingshoe account of the god Wu Xie had a great chance of breaking into the top five of the Challenger leaderboard within a single day!
Just imagining this was enough to make the domestic server players' blood boil with excitement!
Damn it, who said the domestic server has no talent?
We don't just have Shuang Leng Mo He. Even a mysterious god like Wu Xie can easily tear through your Korean Challenger tier like hot knife through butter, completely unstoppable!
Of course, there were also a few domestic server players who viewed the situation more objectively and rationally.
In the comment section below the post, a player pointed out that while Hui Qi Lian Dao and Wu Xie's duo queue performance over the last two days was indeed due to their outstanding skill, it was also because their identities were still unknown to the top Korean pros.
Without being targeted, climbing was naturally a bit easier.
But now it was different. The IDs "Hook" and "Dancingshoe" had already echoed throughout the Korean server, at least catching the attention of the top Korean players.
After this, if they were targeted, their climb as a duo would likely become exponentially harder.
This analysis was indeed highly convincing.
But more domestic players didn't care about this tight logic.
They firmly and stubbornly believed that their two domestic gods could create another miracle win streak on the Korean Challenger ladder today!
...
Time ticked to eleven o'clock.
Once again, countless domestic players frantically refreshed the forum post, waiting for a new round of match updates.
At exactly eleven, Qiong Wang Ye's tracking post updated once more.
The players eagerly scrolled down, and what caught their eyes was the latest ranked performance of Hook and Dancingshoe over the past hour.
Following the win that ended at ten o'clock, it was another consecutive victory!
At this moment, almost every player watching the post cheered in front of their screens!
A win streak!
As expected, all that talk about Korean pros starting to pay attention and target them, or how the higher they climbed, the stronger the opponents and the harder the games would be—
To the gods Hui Qi Lian Dao and Wu Xie, none of that mattered at all!!
Damn it, they were just going to crush them to pieces once again!
Today... let's go for an absolute win streak!!
...
From then on, Qiong Wang Ye, the thread creator, increased the update frequency from once an hour to once every half hour.
The main reason was that Hui Qi Lian Dao and Wu Xie's climbing efficiency was simply too terrifying!
A ranked game took only fifteen to thirty minutes, and the results came out rapidly.
It almost never dragged into the ultra-late game.
And the results...
What was even more shocking was that they continued to storm ahead on a massive win streak!
For Qiong Wang Ye doing this, the massive crowd of domestic players guarding the post was naturally thrilled—
After all, what could be more satisfying than always getting first-hand, real-time match reports?
Especially when these reports were always good news that made them jump for joy and clap in celebration!
...
At eleven-thirty, the data post updated.
Hook and Dancingshoe won another game.
A 12-game win streak.
Countless domestic players guarding the post erupted in cheers.
"Oh oh oh, a win streak!"
"Awesome, absolutely awesome!!"
"Hahaha, beautifully done!!"
At exactly twelve o'clock, the data post updated once again.
Needless to say, the solid wall of green wins was enough to prove everything.
As for the comment section below, it had long been flooded page after page by countless forum users.
"Oh my god! Another win!!"
"Oh my god, are they really going for an infinite win streak!!?"
At twelve-thirty, when the data post updated this time, no new match record appeared.
For a moment, the domestic players fell into an anxious and tense wait.
During this wait that felt as long as a year, at one in the afternoon, the burning-hot players frantically refreshed the page again. Finally, the latest match report met their eyes.
A 13-game win streak!
In an instant, it felt as if a massive weight had been lifted off every domestic player's chest.
Letting out a long sigh, they stared with excited, wide eyes at the latest victory of the duo.
This feeling was exactly like drinking an ice-cold Sprite in the early summer heat.
Refreshing to the bone!
Utterly satisfying!!
In the comment section below the tracking post, comments of the same style began to flood in.
It was countless domestic players who couldn't contain their excitement, wanting to shout a dominant and arrogant declaration:
"Who dares stand against them!"
"Who dares stand against them!!?"
"Damn it, I just want to ask, who else is there!!!!!!—"