That was why Lee Daozai and M were able to entrust the rest of the SSK team to Park Canlie while they were focused on helping Han Shihao break through the bottleneck.
Or perhaps, the word "entrust" wasn't really appropriate.
Because from the establishment of the SSK club until now, the young director of the club had always been personally in charge. Whether it was back then or now, although he always stood behind the scenes, it was this young director who had supported the entire SSK club all the way to the height and status it had today in the professional esports circle.
Everyone thought that the core of the SSK club was Han Shihao, the world's number one mid laner.
But very few people knew that the SSK club could lose Han Shihao, the leader of the Yonkō, but it absolutely couldn't lose Park Canlie, the director.
Even without Han Shihao.
Team SSK would still have a strong mid laner who could hold up the stage.
Even without core players like Mafa, Cube, Ray, and Wolf, as long as Park Canlie stood behind the scenes, the world's strongest team would always be able to bring out batch after batch of core players that would dominate every professional season with a steady rhythm that would make one's scalp tingle with numbness.
Don't forget —
Even though the current batch of SSK's five main players had shone brightly on the international stage, they were still the best of the best.
But before Mafa and the others, SSK had actually changed more than one or two batches of main players, and the entire team had gone through more than one major overhaul.
No matter how the lineups were adjusted, no matter how the players who played for the home team were replaced.
SSK had always stood at the same height.
And all of this, without any exaggeration, was almost all thanks to the young director alone.
Strictly speaking, even Lee Daozai and M back then only amazed the world's esports circle with their unparalleled individual abilities and their individual identities as professional players. But this kind of individual contribution … was perhaps not much better than Park Canlie.
The two of them had contributed two honorary seats to the Korean esports scene in the world of professional esports.
Park Canlie, on the other hand, had single-handedly brought up an entire legendary team.
It was not easy to judge who was superior.
Because of this, Lee Dao-jae and Masayoshi, the two legendary seniors of the previous generation in the Korean eSports circle, never treated Park Canlie as a senior. Most of the time, they treated him as an equal.
Hearing Park Canyeol's straightforward question, M didn't try to hide anything. He answered, "Yes.
"Not bad."
"These few days, it's working."
However, such an answer did not seem to satisfy the young chief supervisor of the SSK Club. Park Canlie raised his eyebrows and laughed.
"So, just a little bit more."
M heard the playfulness and ridicule in his tone, but the top legend of the previous generation of Korea did not seem annoyed at all. He adjusted the flat-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, pointed at Park Chan-yeol, and shook his head with a smile.
"You, are you blaming us two old fellows now?"
Ordinary people wouldn't have the guts to do so.
But Park Canyeol seemed to be an exception. In response to M's question, the chief supervisor of SSK only shrugged.
"I just think that if the two of you personally come forward, we should be able to succeed immediately."
M shook his head and sighed.
"It's difficult."
"Even we can't do much for this kind of thing."
"To this extent … it's already an unexpectedly satisfactory result."
Speaking of which, it was a little embarrassing. The two pillars of the previous generation of the Korean professional eSports circle, the two legendary existences who were like the soul of the previous generation, had come forward for the first time. Yet, they had run into a wall as soon as they came forward. It was a little unjustifiable.
But naturally, there was no way to blame them.
This was not even a hurdle for the Seven Kings to advance to the Yonkō (Four Emperors). It was a challenge to reach the realm that existed only in theory above the Yonkō (Four Emperors). The difficulty of this matter was perhaps even more difficult than the Korean team winning the World Championship Trophy for five or six consecutive times.
"We have done everything we can."
At this time, Lee Dao-jae finally opened his mouth. His tone was as calm as ever.
It sounded simple.
But only Han Shihao, as the person involved, and M, as an old friend of many years, knew that Lee Dao-jae's words did indeed represent a considerable amount of weight.
This was because, with the arrogant personality of the previous generation's King of Korean eSports, he had actually chosen to imitate his greatest rival's operation and playstyle to help Han Shihao train. This was definitely the biggest compromise and sacrifice he could make.
Since he had already reached this step, there was indeed nothing left for him to do.
So M nodded again to express his approval.
"Yes."
"We have done everything we can."
"Although we can't be sure, at least it should have helped Shihao shorten some time."
But whether it was M, Lee Dao-jae, or Han Shihao himself, they still couldn't give a firm judgment. How much time and progress had been shortened, and how much was left …
Park Chan-yeol narrowed his eyes.
"So, we still can't be sure."
"Maybe if I'm lucky, I can make a breakthrough in the arena tomorrow."
"Or maybe I can only wait until the end of this year's finals."
The two legends from Korea's previous generation fell silent as he muttered to himself.
Putting aside their hard work in training with Han Shihao over the past few days, their main goal from the beginning was to help Han Shihao successfully break through to a new realm above the Yonkō (Four Kings) before the finals. Then, he would be able to crush God- Hand of God without any suspense and win the World Championship trophy again.
This would also give the LPL division another heavy blow.
It would also further affect and even destroy the layout of Interference No. 1 and the others in the new season next year.
But now —
The result seemed to be the same as a few days ago.
Han Shihao still couldn't break through.
They still didn't know where the critical point of the breakthrough was, whether it was close or far, how close or how far it was.
If they couldn't achieve this goal, then to put it bluntly, their hard work over the past few days could be considered as "useless" to a certain extent.
Because tomorrow's final battle was still in suspense.
Still …
It wasn't certain that SSK would win.
Lee Dao-jae shook his head and looked at Park Chan-yeol.
"Over here."
"How is it?"
Hearing Lee Dao-jae's words, M looked over again. Looking at the junior supervisor of SSK Club in front of him, M smiled slightly.
"Chan-yeol, your progress should be better than ours, right?"
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