The Road to Godhood in Honor of Kings

"Come on, let's play five-man squad! I encountered some bad players in ranked matches yesterday and lost a star. Now I'm just one star away from reaching the King rank. I really don't understand why there are so many bad players in the King rank..." Sun Wukong complained.

"Monkey, you're so bad. I'm already a two-star King, and you've lost it all?" the fat man couldn't help but mock.

"Pah! Don't think I didn't see your stats. Ever since you reached the King rank, you haven't played any ranked matches. You're afraid of dropping, and you're always bragging to others..." Sun Wukong said mercilessly.

"I was just afraid of running into a trap..." The fat man was speechless.

"Alright, alright, do you guys think we should come up with a name for the team first, and then we can all join a team together?" Xu Xiaomeng said.

"Isn't that easy to say?" Sun Hou said smugly. "Since we're representing Class 4 in the competition, why don't we call ourselves the SB Team, Class 4 Team? What do you think?"

"SB team?" Xu Xiaomeng said, "The more I hear it, the more awkward it sounds."

"Um, isn't this a bad idea? Giving it such a name..."

"Oh, right... never mind, never mind, you guys think of a name..." Sun Wukong was clearly lacking in brainpower.

"How about we call it the Victory Team? What do you think?" Xu Xiaomeng asked expectantly.

"Not very good," Ye Bing said.

"How about we call it the Time Team? That would be so evocative!" the fat man suggested.

"Meaning? Can't you come up with an English team name?" Sun Wukong said.

"What about the Crimson Squad?" Han Cheng asked somewhat embarrassedly.

"Tragic?" Ye Bing thought for a moment: "Tragic, tragic? How about we call it Miracle?"

"Miracle?"

"Miracle?"

……

"Looks pretty good?"

"Hmm, I think it's alright..."

"Then let's call it that!"

A miracle is called a miracle because it is a miracle...

A few minutes later.

On everyone's phone's team interface, the team name "Miracle" was prominently displayed. Everyone had joined this team, and the next step was to change their IDs.

“I think we should just add ‘Miracle’ before the ID,” Sun Wukong said.

"You have no class. You dare to show off with that ID?" the fat man said disdainfully.

"What? 'Adorable young heartthrob'? Does this ID have the nerve to show off? And you're criticizing me?" Sun Wukong retorted.

"A cute and innocent young man?" Xu Xiaomeng couldn't help but laugh: "Hehehe..."

The fat man looked embarrassed.

After a few minutes.

The previously diverse IDs have now all become the same: "Miracle: xx". (Two words were removed and slightly modified)

Han Cheng ID: Miracle: Knight

Xu Xiaomeng's ID: Miracle: Nightmare (This ID is a bit unexpected, but it really is a "nightmare")

Night Ice ID: Miracle: Illusion

Sun Wukong ID: Miracle: Undefeated

Fat Guy ID: Miracle: Never Stop

The team was set up, the IDs were unified, and a group chat was created. That was pretty much it.

Then, it's time for the five-man team to climb the ranks.

"Today I'll show you my King Monkey King form. I just finished 1,111 matches, so I'm obviously invincible." Sun Wukong said, then instantly selected the Monkey King again.

"Uh, speechless." Everyone was stunned. Although the monkey was very strong after it got up, its weaknesses were also very serious.

Sun Wukong has played the Monkey King so many times but only has a little over a thousand games played. I guess this guy is secretly playing other heroes or using a smurf account.

"Monkey, you only play Monkey, your hero pool is too shallow, right? What if Monkey gets banned or picked by someone else?" Han Cheng said. The Monkey issue is a very serious problem. If you only play one hero, you are easily targeted.

"Hehe, I've been practicing some other heroes lately," Sun Wukong laughed. "It's all for that campus tournament, sigh..."

"..."

The lineup was quickly finalized: Sun Wukong remained the undisputed top laner; Xu Xiaomeng was the mid laner, with Diao Chan equipped with Execute; Han Cheng was the jungler, with Miyamoto Musashi equipped with Smite; Fatty was the ADC, with Sun Shangxiang equipped with Flash; and Ye Bing was the support, with Niu Mo equipped with Heal.

The opposing team's lineup is as follows: The top laner is also Sun Wukong with Swiftness, which can be quite useful when combined with the invisibility and speed boost from his first skill; the mid laner is Diao Chan with Purify; the jungler (this time it should be different, right?) is Li Bai with Smite (finally changed); the ADC is Marco Polo with Swiftness; and the support is Zhuang Zhou with Weakening.

The game started the same way as before, with five heroes descending from the sky in a flash. Then, Han Cheng followed the same strategy as last time, with the five of them grouping up to attack their own red buff. After all, Han Cheng was playing Miyamoto, and if they started with the red buff, things would get interesting.

After quickly clearing the red buff, everyone gave the experience to Miyamoto. They discovered that three opponents were still online, with only the support Zhuang Zhou jungling with Li Bai. They guessed that was the case, and they might be ganking, but they probably weren't. Han Cheng used his special ability to scan the bushes and found no one lurking there.

Miyamoto, Niu Mo, and Sun Shangxiang rushed to the enemy's red buff area. Li Bai should be attacking the blue buff, so going to the red buff at this time should be the right thing to do. Moreover, Han Cheng also clearly saw the enemy's blue buff area. Zhuang Zhou had already left, probably because the blue buff was about to die, which is why he left. A support can't always help the jungler; he has to go and support the ADC, right?

"Ready!" Han Cheng said. The other two knew Li Bai was coming. Han Cheng's awareness was quite good; Li Bai arrived very quickly, foolishly attacking the blue buff, completely unaware of the danger. Although it was a high-level game, the opponent's awareness wouldn't be bad either. They consciously moved to the bottom bush, but still didn't notice the three of them.

"what!"

"what!"

"what!"

(Boss, are you practicing swordplay?)

The runes at Li Bai's feet multiplied, quickly triggering his passive skill [Wandering Swordsman], granting him a 5% attack bonus. However, without his ultimate ability, 5% attack power is too little. To be honest, Li Bai's passive skill isn't particularly powerful. 5% only translates to a 50% bonus if you invest 1000 attack power (is the author's calculation correct?), which can be easily achieved with a simple item, and 1000 attack power isn't exactly easy to obtain. Therefore, Li Bai's passive skill is often forgotten; people only know it unlocks his ultimate ability, and that's it… However, in high-level duels, a 5% attack power bonus is still useful, and can even be decisive.

Seeing that Red Daddy's health was almost gone, Li Bai threw out a pile of shit, no, a bolt of lightning, which struck Red Daddy (it seems Red Daddy was showing off and got struck by lightning). However, at the same time, another bolt of lightning struck out.

Then, Red Buff fell. Then, Red Buff's essence flew into the bushes. Li Bai realized something was wrong. All three of the opposing team members had disappeared from their lanes. Something was definitely amiss. However, Li Bai thought they were grouping up to jungle with his team, but he didn't expect them to be jungling here.