141: Prologue

On the plane, a thirteen-year-old boy was resting with his eyes closed. The middle-aged woman sitting next to him glanced at him and sighed.

She then whispered to her husband, "Do you think it's a good idea for us to take time off to let him play in the competition?"

She wasn't worried about the child's studies; although Qu Huai was young, his grades had always been excellent.

She just felt that the competition was a bit unreliable.

She couldn't say exactly what was unreliable about it.

Perhaps the emergence of something new made her a bit nervous.

She felt that playing games was fine for leisure, but going to a competition... this clearly fell within her blind spot of knowledge.

On the day the competition was announced, she actually didn't want Qu Huai to participate, but Qu Huai really wanted to play.

And netizens online also said that playing in competitions was very impressive and that you could win prize money and so on.

In the end, unable to withstand Qu Huai's persistent begging, she agreed.

But who knew that her child would advance just by playing casually!

Since he advanced, the Honor of Kings officials also paid for their travel expenses, although she and her husband paid for their own, just worried that it wouldn't be safe for such a young child to travel alone.

But she still felt it wasn't quite right.

Qu Huai was only thirteen years old!

At this age, wouldn't it be better to stay at home and watch journey to the west?

"Don't think too much, the school agreed, it's a good thing," her husband, Qu Chengcai, spoke up. "Think about it, out of over thirty million teams, our son made it into the top two hundred and fifty-six."

"If he can bring back a top ranking, not to mention the prize money, it would also bring honor to our family."

"Besides, the child likes it himself, so we should just support him properly."

Jiang Fen sighed silently, "Fine, I won't say any more."

Her son liked it, and she really didn't need to keep blocking him; it wouldn't be good if he developed an emotional illness.

Qu Huai, at this moment, didn't hear his parents' conversation at all, because he was reviewing game matches in his head.

He wasn't reviewing his own, but the matches of the player named The Foliage is Truly White.

From the day he started playing Honor of Kings, he hadn't had much time to play it.

Coming home from school every day to do homework left little time, and crucially, Honor of Kings had implemented some kind of anti-addiction system for minors.

Players under eighteen could only play for two hours a day.

If it weren't for this anti-addiction system, he would have reached King rank long ago.

Later, after forming a team with netizens and spending time researching tactics, he had even less time to play.

What he did more was review The Foliage is Truly White's playstyle.

He had saved all the game matches played by The Foliage is Truly White back then, and later, they were etched directly into his mind.

Every day when he couldn't play games, he would think in his head why The Foliage is Truly White played like that and what the point of that equipment build was.

Or he would study the equipment and hero skills in Honor of Kings.

He would even think while playing his own games: what would The Foliage is Truly White do in this situation, or what would the opponent do if they were The Foliage is Truly White.

This made him find it very interesting.

Soon the plane arrived at the destination. He went with his parents to the hotel prepared for them by the Honor of Kings officials, and upon arrival, he met his team members.

Everyone met in the agreed-upon room.

As soon as Qu Huai entered, he saw three men and one woman waiting for him in the room.

"I'm Furball," a man with a full beard walked over. "You must be Prologue, right?"

Qu Huai nodded, "Hello."

Then he turned and introduced, "These are my parents."

Jiang Fen and Qu Chengcai greeted them, then spoke, "The journey was long, and he doesn't know the way very well. It just so happened that we were free, so we came along to join the fun. You all must be tired, right?"

"You guys chat first, we'll go order food."

With that, they stepped out.

After all, Qu Huai was the only one here who brought parents to the competition; no matter what, they couldn't let their son's teammates think he was still an unweaned baby.

And although Jiang Fen didn't quite approve, she was able to agree to Qu Huai playing and even put down her work to accompany him—how many parents could do that?

After Qu Huai's parents left, Furball slapped him on the shoulder, "Haha, you really are just in middle school? I'm fucking impressed."

"Every time I called you for a five-stack before, you fucking said you had to do homework every single day. I really wanted to beat you up a couple of times."

Qu Huai: ... "Anti-addiction system."

"Alright," a refined-looking man wearing glasses in the back stood up, "come over and sit down."

"Let me introduce myself first, I'm Ziya."

He played Top Lane; he originally chose this name purely because he thought the name Jiang Ziya sounded quite nice.

Another man, who was a bit short and chubby but looked inexplicably comical, spoke up, "I'm Roujiamo."

Then there was the only female present; she looked quite rebellious, wearing a leather jacket and sporting a head of purple hair.

"I'm Star Chaser - Player Name."

After they finished their introductions, Qu Huai spoke, "I'm Prologue, nice to meet you all."

"Haha!" Furball started laughing as soon as he finished speaking, "Spoken like a primary schooler, hahaha."

Prologue glanced at him, "In that last match, you didn't manage to swap out your Diaochan's Resurrection Armor. Can you do it now?"

Furball: ... Hearing Prologue say this, he suddenly recalled the fear of being dominated by him.

Things like why The Foliage is Truly White's Mage could be so powerful while he couldn't, and then being forced to study frame by frame.

And how The Foliage is Truly White could swap Blazing Embrace for Resurrection Armor in a second, so he had to be able to do it too.

He felt like Prologue's head was just filled with The Foliage is Truly White.

However, under Prologue's abnormal training, the whole team's strength had indeed improved rapidly.

"Let's analyze the other teams," Prologue said no more and took his notebook out of his backpack.

"This is some information we roughly know about the top fifty teams, all analyzed based on their previous matches. We'll start analyzing the remaining teams now."

Furball couldn't help but swallow hard. He leaned over to Star Chaser - Player Name and started being cheeky again, "Only thirteen, and he's got us group of uncles and aunties running in circles."

Star Chaser - Player Name: "Yeah, but among everyone here, it seems you're the only uncle or auntie."

Furball: ... After some bickering, the few of them entered the zone and began watching game replays.

Meanwhile, teams were arriving one after another at various competition zones in the Central Continent.

Among them were players from the other six continents.

The Honor of Kings officials had also dispatched commentators, referees, hosts, and so on to each competition zone.

Time soon reached November 30th.

Tong Ye excitedly arrived early at the competition venue closest to her home, wearing a Diaochan cosplay.

She was with a girl cosplaying Ake, and as soon as they entered, they began to cry out in amazement.

"What a huge venue! This must have cost a lot of money!"

"That's the arena? They'll be competing on stage then, wow!"

"Really! This is my first time participating in a competition event, so exciting!"

They hadn't been exclaiming for long when a staff member holding a microphone walked over.

"Coser, come this way, you'll be sitting over there in a bit," the staff member directed.

"During the opening, you can strike poses in this area and interact with the audience. The camera will be on you then, so remember to manage your expressions."

"We've prepared small gifts for you before you leave. If it's convenient, we hope you two can come to watch the matches every day."