The leaderboard for the first day of the Nightingale Dark Battle was announced by several administrators in the Dark Battle SN chat group. For some reason, it was quickly leaked.
In fact, it was a Korean gaming media that received this information. The editor of their news department immediately made a news report and published the leaderboard on the homepage of their official website with a striking red title.
Immediately after, an esports media in China also received the news.
He immediately wrote a Weibo post on his official Weibo account to push the ranking list, and specially used the Hot Headlines function.
The official Weibo of this domestic esports media originally had more than 800,000 fans. Once the hot headlines function was used, even at around one o 'clock in the morning, it was quickly seen by hundreds of thousands of players and netizens.
As a result, this Weibo post was quickly forwarded and spread.
Not only on Weibo, but even the major forums of the domestic League of Legends also reposted the leaderboard data.
In less than ten minutes, the first day ranking of the Nightingale Dark Battle had been read more than one million times on the domestic network alone.
Moreover, the number of clicks was still increasing exponentially.
At first, the players of the domestic League of Legends did not know what the "Nightingale Dark Battle" was. When they saw the leaderboard data of more than thirty players, they thought that some media had made a leaderboard for the strength of professional players. They were a little interested and clicked on it.
But with just one look, many players and netizens realized that on this leaderboard, their professional players and Gods were actually ranked very low — —
"Star Emperor" Morning Star was only ranked seventh.
And "Circle God" was actually ranked tenth.
After that, a group of professional players like Snowy Nightsong, Lightless Heart, and Addisi, a group of professional players of the domestic server, did not even make it into the top ten. Several of them were outside of the top fifteen.
Many players and netizens were unhappy:
"How can this be?"
"This leaderboard is a mess, who made it?"
"Why is my Circle God only ranked tenth!"
"Even God Addisi is out of the top 15 —"
But soon, more netizens found something wrong with this leaderboard:
"Wait a minute, spn is actually ranked first. Why is he ranked higher than the two Yonkō's, n and auun?"
"I've never heard of the second, fourth, and sixth 'i's. Where did they come from?"
"Moreover, why didn't they put the other two Four Emperors on the leaderboard? What about f and phenix? "
There were more and more commotion and discussions.
There were also more and more players and netizens who felt that the leaderboards were unreliable. It was simply nonsense. What was the basis for such a leaderboard?
That's not convincing at all!
However, there were also some experienced players among the players of the local server who found the words "Nightingale's Dark Battle" very familiar. After trying hard to recall, they suddenly remembered, as if awakened from a dream.
"F * ck! This isn't some random player strength ranking! "
"The Nightingale Dark Battle. It seems to be a privately organized exchange battle between a group of top professional Gods, right?"
"Right, right, right! It happens every year at the start of the season! "
"Has it started today?"
"Then this leaderboard … should be the leaderboard for the first day of the Nightingale Dark Battle!?"
The other players and netizens slowly figured out what the Nightingale Dark Battle was about from the explanations of the veterans, but when they looked at the leaderboard again, they still found it a little hard to accept.
So this was a leaderboard for the competition?
That couldn't be right!
They had so many Gods on their side, each of them first-rate or even top professional players in the LPL. Even Circle God and Morning Star had participated. How could they only have this kind of ranking?
Right, there was also that God Addisi. He played so well in the LPL a while ago, but he didn't even make it into the top fifteen. It didn't make sense at all!
…
"Damn, there are too many top players participating in the Nightingale Dark Battle this time."
After the leaderboard was announced, Lin Feng gave Shi Hang a call. Shi Hang couldn't help but curse over the phone.
Lin Feng asked:
"How many matches did you play?"
Shi Hang replied sullenly:
"Eight matches, three wins and five losses. I'm directly ranked 18th —"
"Damn, it's really embarrassing!"
Lin Feng couldn't help but frown when he heard this. "How was your own performance?"
In his opinion, with Shi Hang's strength level and his recent form in the LPL, if he could perform steadily, even in the Nightingale Dark Battle, where there were many strong players, he should not be ranked 18th on the first day.
Shi Hang took a deep breath on the other end of the phone.
"To be honest, I feel like I gave it my all today.
"My condition is no worse than when I played in the LPL.
"It's just —"
"My luck really isn't very good today. The opponents I met were a little scary."
Lin Feng was startled. "Who did you meet?"
Shi Hang didn't directly answer, but asked Lin Feng: "Did you see the guy in second place on the leaderboard?"
Lin Feng subconsciously looked at the ranking list that had just been announced in the SN chat group. The second place was a player he had never heard of. His name was simple and only had a letter "J":
"I saw him. Who is this J?"
Listening to Lin Feng's question, Shi Hang couldn't help but answer angrily:
"If only I knew!"
"But I met this guy in three consecutive matches. He was playing as a top laner. In the early stages of those three matches, I played very smoothly in the middle lane. The opposing mid laner was almost completely suppressed by me. In the end, the top laner took down our side lane in about ten minutes. In the middle of the team battle, he was simply invincible —"
"Then the opponent's rhythm was almost completely led by that guy."
"In the end, I met this J in three games and lost all three!"
Listening to Shi Hang's explanation, even Lin Feng couldn't help but subconsciously gasp.
"That good?"
Shi Hang also calmed down a little and replied in a deep voice:
"He's a very scary guy."
"I feel that even if you let Round God come over to play against him, it might be at most four to six. Even Seen, the number one top laner in North America, doesn't have this kind of strength."
Lin Feng's eyes flashed with a cold light.
"There's such a master in the circle. Haven't I heard of him at all?"
Shi Hang shook his head.
"I really can't find anyone who can match this guy. I don't know who pulled him into the group. Maybe someone on the admin side knows the truth?"
…
In fact, even the admins in the admin group were bewildered by this mysterious "J".
Glancing at the list he had just compiled, Nian Thirteen couldn't help but ask in the admin group.
"Auun, do you know who this J. is?"
The admin group was silent for a moment. The other two admins, Rian and Seen, also expressed that they knew nothing about it. They were now waiting for Auun's answer.
But in the end, they were all disappointed.
This was because Auun's reply was only one simple sentence.
"srry, n-iea (sorry, I don't know either)."
Nian Thirteen frowned at the sight and typed,
"This kind of top laner …"
"According to the strength score, he's at least above 85 points. How come I've never heard of him?"
As the only top laner among the Seven Kings, Seen's tone was even more solemn.
"Hireen (13), you're underestimating him. That J. is more than 85 points.
"At least 89 points.
"Maybe even above 90 points."
As soon as he said this, the admin group suddenly fell silent.
Because these people in the group were very clear about the concept of strength score index. Above 80 points was enough to reach the level of a world-class player, 85 was the threshold of the Seven Kings, and as for 90 points …
So far, only four people standing at the top of the world's professional esports pyramid had reached that level.
After a long while, Seen spoke slowly with some difficulty.
"Everyone —"
"Maybe we've found a new Yonkō."
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