Meeting in the tenth server

Part 1

The constant tapping on a keyboard and the clicking sound of a mouse sounded louder than it should be in the almost empty room. Besides himself no one else was here – here meant the trainings room of the Esports team Excellent Era. At the moment it was summer break, so most of the professional gamers, his teammates, had left and tried to relax a bit with their families at home. For him, the club building was his home. His parents were dead and back then he barely had the money to pay rent for a flat, so when he became a part of Excellent Era he decided to live there, since it was more convenient for him and his job as pro player and it meant less expenses. Why wasting money to rent something, when he also could stay at the club, where he hadn't had to pay or care for anything, well besides things like clothing or toiletries? Also living in the club building made it easier for him to play Glory – the game, which caused the Professional Alliance to be created in the first place. Su Muqiu was the star of Team Excellent Era. He was considered to be the best among all the pro players – even the best among the so called god level players. Even when he lost a match, everyone knew that no one could compare to him. His knowledge of the game itself was astonishing and something remarkable. Adding to this he also was the player with the most titles and awards – no one doubted that Muqiu would go down in Glory's history. The life as professional gamer was quite short, especially for those of the first generation. When the Alliance had been created a player had to be at least eighteen years old and with twenty-five a player was already considered old – too old. Of course, there were chances that a team would keep their player, even when he was older than twenty-five, as long as the player did not drag down the team or no better suited player was insight. Players of the first generation hadn't switched their teams – if they left the team than simple because they decided to retire. This was also Su Muqiu's plan. Team Excellent Era was his home, was his team and to say it in a melodramatic way, they were his family. Despite their current winning, pardon, losing record, Muqiu had not even once thought to leave the team. There were many other teams out there that wanted him, but until now he always had refused and he would do so in the future as well.
During the summer break there also were many transfers, so Muqiu had to deal with all the invitations from other clubs, although the team had made a statement at the last press conference that Su Muqiu would stay the captain of the team. And if he still was the captain then how could his contract not be extended? How could he suddenly leave the team for a different club? But strangely no one seemed to care. Even the media was still guessing whether he was transferring this year or not – somehow everyone had forgotten about the press conference. Or they acted like this to make things appear more interesting than it actually was? Or they hoped for him to transfer, so they could make a big deal out of it – well, it would be a big deal anyway, but with Excellent Era first stating that he would stay and him leaving then, would be even bigger! Honestly, he did not look for this kind of gossip, but it was hard to ignore. Differently than most other pro players, he often spent his free time with playing in the normal servers. He had at least one account for every server, except for the newest, the tenth server. He was too busy with his other characters and helping his team's guild Excellent Dynasty that he had not made another account for the tenth server and he was not in a hurry to do so. For the guilds it was important to gain as many achievements as possible, like the first kill of hidden bosses or dungeon records, but for him in his free time he did not care much about such things. Excellent Dynasty had enough experts to ensure a lot of achievements and therewith rare materials.
His sister Mucheng, on the other hand, had made herself an account on the tenth server and she seemed to enjoy it every much – thanks to her the guild gained many rare materials and was on the top of the leaderboard. She was also the one, who urged him to come to the tenth server, because there was a very talented player. Muqiu was indeed curious about said player, but robbing in talents was the duty of the guild and not his. Now that he had more free time due to the break he could pay a visit to the new server and take a look at the player his sister talked so much about. To be honest, Muqiu was a bit jealous that his sister praised another man so much. They were surrounded by young, talented and good-looking men, like Zhou Zekai, but she had never made such a fuss about any of them. His brother instinct immediately assumed that Mucheng may be interested in the other player, despite not knowing him. If this was like in her dramas than the other one should be either a very handsome and intelligent young man – probably with a dramatic background and rich parents – or the other one was a pervert, a psychopath that tried to lure innocent young girls into his house and then do something horrible to them – but before that could happen the hero, in this case Muqiu would play the role of the hero, would save the girl. If he had to choose between those two options, Muqiu obviously would choose the first one. His sister deserved a nice relationship, although the thought of it made him a bit sad, since this would mean less time for them together, but they both were grown-ups and had to go their own ways.