A sword honed for two years, unsheathed today!

Three in the afternoon.

A luxurious villa beside the Huangpu River.

This was IG's team headquarters.

A young man dressed in white pushed open the club's front door in the sunlight.

The young woman at reception looked at him curiously. "Hello, can I help you?"

"Uh..." Lu Chen rubbed his nose. "My name is Lu Chen. I'm here for a tryout."

"A tryout?" Confusion flickered in her eyes, then she seemed to realize something. Her expression instantly lit up with excitement. "You're C God?!"

Lu Chen froze. "You know me?"

"Of course!" She smiled proudly. "I play League too. How could I not know the famous C God?"

As she spoke, she gave Lu Chen a careful once-over. "Hmm, I figured you'd be young, but I didn't expect you to be this handsome~"

It was the MSI break, with no matches being played.

As a result, discussion of the ID Chen,Yu had remained one of the hottest topics in League of Legends!

Most people who followed the scene knew that a monster with an absurd win rate had reached the top of the Chinese server.

Yet nobody knew who he actually was.

Naturally, plenty of people grew curious.

Quite a few were even urging the major teams to sign Chen,Yu just so they could see what he looked like onstage and satisfy their curiosity.

It might sound ridiculous, but in truth, many so-called "fans" were only there for the entertainment.

Whenever there was fun to be had, they were often more eager than anyone...

Soon after the receptionist made a call, two figures in suits appeared in the lobby in less than thirty seconds.

Upon spotting Lu Chen, they walked straight over.

"Hello, you must be Lu Chen? I'm Su Xiaoluo, IG's manager. This is our coach, Mafa."

Su Xiaoluo reached out and shook Lu Chen's hand, smiling. "I never expected the legendary C God to be so young."

Coach Mafa also greeted him in Chinese, with a slightly odd accent. "Hello."

Despite his accent, his Chinese was actually quite good.

Back then, Coach Mafa had come to the LPL together with the Mining Duo, Rookie and Kakao.

Their Chinese was so fluent that some people jokingly called IG esports' premier Chinese-language academy.

Lu Chen nodded politely. "Hello."

"You came at just the right time. Come with me," Su Xiaoluo said, looking rather excited. "There's a scrim going on right now. We'll use it as your tryout."

Meanwhile.

In the training room on the second floor.

A Best of Three scrim was underway.

The two teams were IG and EDG.

The first game clearly wasn't going well for IG.

In the top lane, TheShy was struggling to break through A Guang's defensive Maokai.

Worse, his impatient aggression had made him Clearlove's primary target.

Before ten minutes had passed, he had already given up two kills.

In mid, Rookie was as impressive as ever, but he wasn't crushing Scout so hard that Scout couldn't play.

In the jungle, Ning Wang was bold with his mechanics, but the crafty veteran Clearlove had him running in circles.

As for bot lane...

It was miserable. Utterly miserable.

To be fair, West wasn't nearly as bad as the rumors made him out to be. At the very least, he could hold steady when he needed to.

He could manage to survive lane against an average AD carry.

Unfortunately, the newly debuted prodigy iBoy had an extremely aggressive style and exerted relentless pressure in lane.

With Clearlove constantly visiting bot as well, IG's bottom lane had nearly been blown wide open!

No kills had been conceded, but just ten minutes in, the CS deficit had already passed forty, and their outer turret was almost down to a sliver of health.

Simply put: unplayable.

Sure enough.

After a fight broke out over a river rotation at fifteen minutes, EDG traded one kill for five. IBoy's Caitlyn claimed a quadra kill, and IG was aced.

Once IG typed GG in [All], the players on both sides left the game without needing to discuss it.

"..."

For a moment, the training room fell silent.

The five IG players sat in their chairs with their heads slightly lowered, all looking grim.

Kid, Duke, and Yu Wenbo, who had been watching nearby, were also somewhat stunned.

That game had been downright ugly. They had been steamrolled in barely over fifteen minutes.

Sure, scrims were supposed to expose problems, but surely not everything should be a problem?!

Other teams were finding gaps and patching them. When your entire team was full of holes, where were you even supposed to start?

A game like this wasn't even worth reviewing, because this was simply the limit of the players' abilities.

You couldn't expect West to pull off some mechanical miracle, dodge every skill, and turn the tables when Clearlove came to gank, could you?

If he could actually do that, he wouldn't be West...

Just then.

The training room door opened.

Su Xiaoluo walked inside and clapped to draw everyone's attention. "Everyone, let me introduce someone."

He turned, patted the young man behind him on the shoulder, and announced, "This is Lu Chen, the new player who will soon be joining IG."

As he spoke, Su Xiaoluo smiled. "I'm sure you're all familiar with his Chinese-server ID: Chen,Yu!"

In an instant, the atmosphere in the training room changed.

Everyone's thoughts shifted away from the scrim they had just played as they looked at the young man in white with surprise and curiosity.

So this was C God, the monster who had stormed to the top of the Chinese server with an outrageous 85% win rate?

Well, he didn't look quite as superhuman as the rumors suggested...

"Welcome, welcome!"

Rookie was the first to react. As IG's longtime captain, he greeted Lu Chen with a warm smile.

"Bro! You're finally here!" Kid hurriedly rose from his chair as well. "Getting you here was no easy feat! You have no idea-I've practically been worrying myself gray lately!"

Behind him, TheShy, Baolan, and the others also greeted Lu Chen.

Lu Chen wasn't shy around strangers. He grinned, showing a row of white teeth, and his clear eyes seemed to

sparkle. "Hi, everyone. Just call me Lu Chen."

In seemingly no time at all, everyone began warming up to one another.

Ning Wang, who had always been carefree and outspoken, laughed and called out, "C God! Come on over! We got absolutely destroyed last game. Hurry up and save us!"

He clearly hadn't spared a thought for West's feelings, even though West was sitting right there.

But West merely stayed silent and said nothing.

After all, he really had been the weak link in that last game. That was a fact.

Su Xiaoluo stepped in at the right moment. "Lu Chen will play the next two scrim games. It'll be a good chance to give him his tryout."

"Okay." Lu Chen nodded.

A faint stir of emotion rose within him.

It had been two years since he transmigrated into this world.

He had spent those two years grinding away on the Rift, finally maxing out his attributes, without playing a single official match.

Now that he was stepping into the spotlight, he naturally intended to take the competitive stage by storm.

Starting right here, he would let his edge shine without restraint.

It was only a scrim, but it was enough to serve as his true debut.

A sword honed for two years, unsheathed today!