Chapter 1137: Happy the Dark Horse


    Trantor: Nomyummi Editor: Nomyummi


    Having epted an exclusive interview, Fang Rui naturally wouldn’t call the reporters over and just mess with them. After making his jokes, he answered the questions seriously, from personal to team, and exined his reasons for changing sses.


    In the following issue of the Esports Home, Chang Xian’s exclusive interview naturally made the headlines. This exclusive interview with Fang Rui took the chance to introduce Team Happy’s team structure and future ns after the actual interview. This thorough analysis even caught the attention of the pro scene. After reading it, many of the pros suddenly realized that Team Happy’s current ssbination had many possibilities to it.


    Just considering Fang Rui’s shocking addition, what ss was Fang Rui’s most familiar partner? A Brawler! Coincidentally, there happened to be a Brawler in Happy’s line up as well. Even though Fang Rui had switched sses to a Qi Master, this didn’t mean his familiarity with working with a Brawler would vanish.


    Then, consider Fang Rui’s ss switch. The Qi Master had been Ye Xiu’s most reliable ally when he had built Excellent Era’s dynasty. After that, the Qi Master had consistently been a core ss in Excellent Era’s line up. Ye Xiu was very familiar with working with Qi Masters, and Su Mucheng wouldn’t be alien to it either.


    In addition, Team Excellent Era’s ace had been a Battle Mage. Coincidentally, Happy also had one. It wasn’t hard to imagine that Excellent Era’s traditional strategies would all be realized once more in Happy.


    After this analysis, everyone finally realized how agreeable Fang Rui’s arrangement to transfer to Happy was, as well as how the arrival of a Qi Master would unite Happy. Now, Fang Rui and his Qi Master seemed like Happy’s tactical core, connecting all the pro characters.


    But even if he achieved such an effect, he still wasn’t the core of Happy. Who was the core? Even an idiot would know it was Ye Xiu. And what ss was Ye Xiu? Unspecialized! There was very little high end research done on this ss, so no one was certain what role it yed in the teampetition. This was the foundation on which Happy was built, but it was also the most mysterious. Though Ye Xiu and Lord Grim had appeared quite early on, the people in the pro scene were simply curious. Who would have thought to start researching an unspecialized so soon?


    But now, Ye Xiu really did return, bringing his unspecialized and a team that didn’t seem weak at all.


    If there was anyone that still looked down on Happy before, then they had to change their minds after Fang Rui’s transfer. Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, Fang Rui. This was a team with three All-Star level yers. If this wasn’t worthy of careful consideration, then what kind of team was?


    Naturally, Happy’s characters would be a little weaker, their facilities wouldn’t be as well established, and their finances would also be a little tighter. However, no one dared underestimate them in a match. With three top yers, no one would disregard them as a threat.


    Grassroots?


    A grassroots team with three All-Star level yers? No one could continue calling them such. Were they a dark horse? Would Happy be a dark horse in this season? Just likest season’s Heavenly Swords?


    No... Not even Heavenly Swords was so dark. That was mostly blown out of proportion on purpose. The discussion that arose around them had garnered them more attention from the people. With more attention, there were also higher expectations. Their darkness had been from public opinion.


    As for Happy? With three All-Stars, no one dared to say that they weren’t a dark horse!


    All the Glory-rted forums, all the experts and noobs in the scene, even the pro scene, were discussing what sort of impact Happy might have on this season. Happy had suddenly be much more imposing inparison to when they had fought in the Challenger League. All this came from Fang Rui’s arrival, from Happy’s daring inpleting such a significant transfer.


    This was an attitude, an attitude of the yers and of the team.


    An All-Star yer held Happy in high regard and joined Happy.


    Happy dared to spend this money on an All-Star character, an All-Star yer.


    Happy’s goal was the championship title?


    There weren’t many peopleughing now. A team with three All-Stars was a strong team in the eyes of normal yers, a team that had a right to fight for the championships. Those who were rational were still considering Happy’s ws from different perspectives, but most people had gotten carried away by their excitement over Fang Rui’s transfer.


    Happy, champions!


    There were people who really did dare yell this sort of slogan. Before now, even Seven Fields and the others, who had been loyal since they had met Ye Xiu in the tenth server, had been too embarrassed to face Happy’s goal of winning the championships.


    But now, any random Glory yer could methodically exin how powerful Happy was to you.


    With this transfer, Happy gained the spotlight once more. That was when the Glory gamepany and the Pro Alliance came knocking. They wanted to begin issuing Team Happy merchandise such as character models, Happy style ounts, etc.. The rights to the creation and sale of these products would given to a third party upon joining the Alliance, so they didn’t have to worry about finding someone to work with. As for the profit, all teams would gain the same percentage of the revenue generated. There was little that the team actually had to do. They just had to provide their appearance and then do well inpetitions, gain poprity and promote the sales of their merchandise.


    In the preliminary ns of the Alliance and the gamepany, someone as popr as Su Mucheng wouldn’t be missing. Evenst season, when she had gone to the Challenger League with the rest of Excellent Era, merchandise regarding her and her Dancing Rain were still popr. Now that Dancing Rain hade to Happy with Su Mucheng, the twoing together as a package was a good thing for the merchandisepany. For example, the hottest merchandise were character models with Dancing Rain’s equipment as a Launcher and Su Mucheng’s actual figure and appearance.


    Inparison, Chu Yunxiu and Misty Rain were in an awkward situation. The yer was ady but the character was a guy, so they couldn’t merge the two together. Thus, in the end, they could only sell Misty Rain’s character model. As for the yer model, those weren’t as popr. Everyone preferred the epic appearance of the character model.


    No one had noticed this situation at first, but by the time they did, teams like Team Misty Rain were rather depressed. With the high status gained by being in the pro scene and the mutual benefits gained along with the gamepany, asking to get the character’s sex and appearance changed wouldn’t do anything to the bnce of the game. However, Misty Rain had been a guy for so long. Everyone was used to it already. If they suddenly changed his sex, then their fans probably wouldn’t be able to ept that, so Misty Rain could only endure it. But this time, after acknowledging the strength of the twin sisters that Misty Rain had contracted, they decided that they would make sure to not make the same mistake and contacted the gamepany to change the sex of the two characters while they still had a little influence.


    Since this change wasn’t a gamechanger, the normal yers didn’t mind the pro scene having this special benefit. In their eyes, it was a good thing for them to align the sex of the character with the yer, especially with two beautifuldies ying two guys.


    For Happy, Su Mucheng and Dancing Rain were good to go, then there was Tang Rou and Soft Mist. With her beauty and grace, she was perfect and the Alliance. The gamepany viewed her as a treasure, finding a talented team to create a model of Soft Mist with Tang Rou’s appearance. Then, they just had to hope that Tang Rou would be able to y well and gain fame. After all, this was apetitive scene.


    For Happy, they had wanted to create three different models and ount cards. Su Mucheng and Tang Rou were good, now there was Ye Xiu, who was an entirely different problem.


    Originally, their hopes for Ye Xiu were even higher than Su Mucheng and Tang Rou. This was a top tier expert that had hidden himself away for all these years. Now that he was willing to show himself, the Alliance and gamepany wanted to take this chance. But when it came to collecting the materials, the gamepany was close to crying.


    Glory had been designed by them. This, naturally, included the equipment avable, and Lord Grim’s mix and match equipment could even cause the gamepany to be lost in wonder. What sort of talent did you have to have to manage to find such an uglybination of equips! When designing the game, they naturally wouldn’t make ugly equipment. The equipment would be perfect and beautiful or have some sort of uniqueness to it that left asting impression. However, why was Lord Grim’s set so ufortable to look at? In that moment, the gamepany had a thought to cheat and modify Lord Grim’s equipment design and make this mix and match a better sight to look at. But it was only a thought. This sort of change would have too big of an effect. Although the design didn’t affect the stats and technically wasn’t a game changer, if they made the equipment look good on Lord Grim, what would they do if the equipment looked terrible when someone else wore it?


    In the end, it was Lord Grim’s abnormal ss choice that made his equipment diverge from the beauty of the game.


    Experts had observed Lord Grim’s current design for a long time, discussed it for a long time, but they all shook their heads in the end and admitted defeat.


    The Alliance was depressed, the gamepany was depressed, but they refused to give up on thinking of a way to profit,ing up with another idea. They were going to make amemorative version of One Autumn Leaf. Yes, that One Autumn Leaf, one with Ye Xiu’s appearance. That would probably make up for many people’s disappointment, right?


    Would it really? Soon enough, someone voiced this doubt.


    It wouldn’t be hard to make thisbination right now. Although One Autumn Leaf already belonged to Samsara, they just had to split some of the profits with Samsara and Happy. The problem was that One Autumn Leaf simply didn’t have Ye Xiu’s appearance, but the model was already very popr. Thememorative version would be simply adding in Ye Xiu’s face.


    Models were based primarily on the impressive designs of the characters. Adding in the yer’s appearance was just to show their love. The Excellent Era One Autumn Leaf had garnered a lot of buyers already and was justcking Ye Xiu’s face. Would adding his face really make any difference? After careful consideration, they hesitated. After all, as yers of thispetitive scene, their value nevery in their faces.


    Why was this Ye Xiu always so troublesome!


    The Pro Alliance and Glory gamepany felt like they were going to cry.