Our win over Ukraine made us the second team to 5:0—or 10:0 if you considered the individual score—our opponent besides Snowy Cathaya. Our dominance stunned everyone in the WEL for a while.

To be honest though, I thought that even the internationals would have a mix of weak and strong teams. Many servers were weak, so their champions could only be the champion of the weak. They would be lucky to make it to the eighth-finals of the China server, much less the world stage where the best teams in the entire world came together to decide the strongest of them all. The outcome of our battle was the perfect example of this.

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The first thing we received after we exited the battle room was a thunderous applause and a resounding cheer. Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls had put our mettle to the test and came out shocked at how strong we were compared to the other teams. This was good news of course.

After we returned to the waiting area and took our seats, Rose served each of us a cup of tea and praised us, "Well done 5:0ing Ukraine, hehe. And Lu Chen, the way you PvP is seriously imperious. I can’t believe you actually managed to 2:0 that Seven Degrees Below Zero twice in a row! He was quite the famous player...