2023, winter is coming.
World Cup regional qualifiers were held for each continent, but the focus of the world was the World Champions League.
Battlefield's largest event where all the prestigious clubs gather to determine the world's best.
Although Seo Moon-yeop and Pietro have not been able to join the stage yet, the players called the top 3 have joined the World Champions one after another.
Four clubs could be narrowed down to win the World Champions League.
Paris Lumiere BC.
Berlin Blitz.
New York Bears.
LA Warriors.
First of all, Paris Lumiere BC with Nathan Bernach.
In this year's European Champions Championship, they overwhelmingly defeated Berlin Blitz, proving that they are the best in the world.
In particular, the play of Nathan Bernach, who is more mature than last year, was scary.
However, not to be outdone by this, the Berlin Blitz dramatically reinforced its strength by recruiting Shuran from China.
This was evaluated as one of the gods of director Emre Casa, and made me look forward to the match against Paris Lumiere BC.
Of course, weaknesses remain. A lot of pressure is placed on Daniel Mantz, the world's best supporter and mainstay of the Berlin Blitz.
Fortunately, Seo Moon-yeop pointed out this point in advance, so coach Emre Casa was also struggling with countermeasures.
On the American side, the New York Bears participated in the World Champions as usual this year.
The New York Bears, who are ridiculed for not being able to win the World Champions Cup until now since 2016, should now come down from the top 3.
However, it was clear that they were still a strong team with few opponents in North America.
In addition, Gerald Walker's skills improved significantly, and this time he was determined to break the stronghold of the top 3 by winning the Player of the Year award.
The Los Angeles Warriors, which Roy Meyer is holding on to, also participated in the World Champions.
LA Warriors, a rising star who won the World Champions in 2017 and were runners-up in 2019 and 2020.
They were determined to lift the World Champions Cup again this time and push out the New York Bears to enter the top 3 club.
However, compared to that ambition, the LA Warriors have yet to come up with a clear countermeasure, being hit directly by the trend of the classic tank-oriented 'power game' declining.
Even the nemesis of the power game called fake tank tactics appeared, but it was not highly evaluated in that only Roy Meyer believed in it.
Supporters even demanded a manager change, so the LA Warriors had to perform well in this World Champions.
***
It was at the height of the heat with the World Cup, but there was only one game that fans around the world were interested in in the World Cup Asian regional qualifiers.
That's Korea versus Japan.
Of course, I wasn't interested in the rivalry between the two countries.
It was simply because Seo Moon-yeop and Pietro decided to start.
Because of this preliminaries, Baek Ha-yeon of Paris Lumière BC also returned home as soon as the first round of the World Champions was over.
"uncle!"
Baek Ha-yeon gave a lively greeting.
Seo Mun-yeop, who was doing weight training in the training room, found Baek Ha-yeon.
"Hayeon is here. I watched the game yesterday. How did you manage to play without being on the bench?"
"Uh huh, do you know how important I am to the team? Would your uncle be surprised if he found out? It's like I have the key to winning the World Champions Cup."
Baek Ha-yeon sighed loudly. It was so cute that Seo Mun-yeop naturally laughed.
"know. I got a special assignment to mark Daniel Mantz."
In the European Champions League final, Baek Ha-yeon continued to start and marked Berlin Blitz ace Daniel Mantz.
The player to mark Daniel Mantz, who is a support but very fast and active, was Baek Ha-yeon, who was quick on her feet and had teleportation and even a whip.
Baek Ha-yeon continued to interfere with Daniel Mantz, who had a lot of work to do with her persistent mark.
"Did I do well?"
"Yeah, good job. He has grown a lot."
Seo Moon-yeop patted Baek Ha-yeon on the back.
-Target: Baek Ha-yeon (human)
-muscle strength 80/82
- Agility 90/90
- speed 95/95
- Endurance 78/80
-Spirit 81/81
- Skills 73/75
-Aura 70/70
-Leadership 87/95
- Tactical 70/86
-Superpowers: teleportation, rope
Strength, endurance, and technique all improved.
Above all, I remember that the tactic was 61 before, but now it was 70.
His tactical understanding has grown significantly while carrying out important missions in the European Champions League.
'Because I kept observing and chasing Daniel Mantz, who had great tactical skills.'
It was as if Daniel Mantz gave Baek Ha-yeon a quick tutor on tactics.
Anyway, I was proud to see my nephew almost completed as a player.
Now it has reached a level where it can compete for the starting position in Paris Lumiere BC. He has high leadership and tactics, so he can cover the lack of physical skills.
"By the way, Uncle. Has your uncle grown a bit bigger?"
Baek Ha-yeon said while touching Seo Moon-yeop's shoulder and arm.
"Ha Yeon-ah, that's actually true."
Seo Moon-yeop said with melancholy eyes.
"Actually, my uncle has deliberately left strength as a weakness for humanity. So that you don't get too frustrated seeing the perfect me."
"..."
"But I think it's about time for Uncle to break the seal. Now, my uncle's strength is no longer a weakness. He's just made perfect. It's so flawless that it will give you an image of being inhuman."
"It's okay, Uncle. Because my uncle has a personality problem. I think it will continue to be a hit with a character like Devil's Talent."
"The devil's talent? Isn't that expression cool too?"
Baek Ha-yeon broke into a cold sweat and fell away from Seo Moon-yeop, who was obsessed with the expression devil's talent.
Baek Ha-yeon left to see Baek Je-ho, her father and national team coach.
But before long, another player came to Seo Mun-yeop.
"crying! Owner!"
It was Lee Na-yeon, who was newly selected as the national representative this time.
On his tear-stained face, it was written, 'It's the first time I've worn the Taegeuk mark, so I'm very burdened'.
"Yes, Netty. Why are you looking for this owner who is called the devil's talent?"
Lee Na-yeon had no time to feel a sense of incongruity in Seo Moon-yeop's tone of voice.
"I'm starting tomorrow. What should I do!"
"What should I do? I have to compete."
"I heard that the coach plays an important role in supporting the owner, Pietro and Ha-yeon. I have to do well to lighten the burden on the three of you..."
"Yes, it is an important role. but it's netty Is it true that you just called Pietro your brother?"
"It doesn't matter! As soon as I was summoned, I will play tomorrow, but it's not an A match, and even the opponent in the first match of the World Cup qualifiers is Japan! Can I do well?"
"Yeah, no. you probably won't It's because he calls a old man like Pietro his brother. Since when did you become like that? Did you make friends on the rooftop?"
"Aww! how how!"
Nayeon shook her head violently. It seemed that he couldn't even hear Seo Moon-yeop's nonsense.
Seo Moon-yeop sighed and decided to comfort Lee Na-yeon like an elder.
"It's Netty. Let's imagine eating pork belly in a wrap."
"I want to eat."
"Yes, I will buy it for you. Just imagine I am the main pork belly, Baek Ha-yeon is the rice, and Pietro is the lettuce. Then what are you?"
"Ssamjang?"
"no. You're a garlic-like kid who's good enough even if you're not there. just put it in It's delicious even without it."
"···Really?"
"okay. It seems like I said it was important with the intention of encouraging you, but it's actually a lie. You just have to jump up and down, fire arrows, and smoke as you always do."
Only then did Baek Ha-yeon's expression calm down.
"And that. You know that your products sell like hot cakes in Japan, right?"
"Does it sell well in Japan?"
Lee Na-yeon only knew what was selling well, not sure in which country it was selling particularly well.
"It's not even a fuss. Four bromides, uniforms, replicas, fans, and even figures. It's very upsetting."
"Is that enough?"
Nayeon's eyes widened.
If you get to know Lee Na-yeon, who became rich with related products.
YSM kept it without selling it to a club that offered a huge transfer fee because it would continue to generate a lot of income from its portrait rights.
"Many of the Japanese players who will compete tomorrow will be your fans."
"Really?"
"Yes, you are clearly showing your presence to your fans, the Japanese players. When everyone can't take their eyes off you, we're going to kill you. how is it? Can you do well?"
"yes!"
Lee Na-yeon recharged her confidence before she knew it.
However, Seo Moon-yeop had other thoughts in his mind.
'I'm sorry, but tomorrow is my solo performance.'
I couldn't stand it because I wanted to test my body, which had been strengthened by rigorous training.
Tomorrow, as soon as the game started, I was thinking of pretending to be a light check and smashing it.
***
The first leg of the qualifier against Japan was held in Seoul. The second match, which was to be played later, would have to be played in Japan.
Anyway, now it was the home of the Korean national team. The entire stadium was filled with Korean cheering.
"korea!"
"Oh Pilseung Korea!"
As the players from both teams were ready to enter the field, Seo Moon-yeop glanced over the Japanese players.
'so so? Overall, the balance is even and just average.'
It was not exceptional in any one part, and had evenly selected stats without any major drawbacks.
This was the Japanese style that values balance.
It's a style that competes with organizational power in perfect harmony, and in a way, it could be said that it resembles the style used by director Emre Casa's Berlin Blitz.
But it wasn't without its downsides.
It is a three-tank system that emphasizes mobility and reduces the proportion of tanks, but among the three tankers, there was no player with clearly strong strength and endurance.
As the number of tanks is small, the main tanker to handle the enemy's offensive must be strong, but Japan had a chronic weakness in the physical side.
The strength of the Japanese main tanker was 85, the same as that of Seo Moon-yeop.
'This is my meal.'
Seo Moon-yeop already had a picture of victory drawn in his mind.
After entering the center of the arena, they shook hands with each other and returned to their respective positions.
Enter the connection module and access the dungeon.
The first set of dungeons is the Monster Lab.
It is in the form of a tower that descends underground, and on each floor, various monsters that were undergoing biological experiments are stored on a transparent wall made of aura.
This was once a large-scale facility where underground civilizations used to create monsters.
Although it is not an impossible dungeon, it was judged that this was the main production area for the underground civilization's monster corps, so the allied superhuman corps from all over the world were put in to attack it.
Seo Mun-yeop looked at Pietro.
Even small words were passed on to the team members, so we couldn't have a conversation, but we were able to communicate with just our eyes.
'Is this a place you know?'
'It wasn't a very important place.'
'I thought so. Because there was no trace of a new monster being studied.'
It was just a place to print common monsters.
Of course, as it was a monster production area, I had to be careful about the fact that the number of monsters was very large.
The first set match has started.
The transparent aura wall that confined the monster disappeared.
Various types of monsters, mainly plant types, began pouring out.
Seo Moon-yeop, who was in charge of the main order, gave the instructions.
"For tankers and melee dealers. Shim Young-soo pours firepower and hunts quickly. Lee Na-yeon, save your arrows."
In response, Shim Young-soo began to freely use the explosive sphere, which is effective against plants.
Now with Pietro, Shim Young-soo wasn't the main firepower of the Korean national team, so he didn't have to spare his aura.
Quarreureung!
Perong! Fire!
Shim Young-soo put the explosive sphere in the middle of various plant-type monsters.
The tankers and melee dealers who were in the lead began to swing their weapons and slash them.
The 11-member Korean team was able to easily clean up the monsters on the first floor and go down to the second basement floor.
On the second floor, Seo Moon-yeop gave a different instruction.
"Baek Ha-yeon, Lee Na-yeon, follow me. The three of us cross the second floor first. After about 4 minutes, Pietro moved to the entrance on the 3rd basement and joined them. The rest of you slowly finish hunting the 2nd floor and follow me. I understand?"
"yes."
"I get it."
Everyone answered.
Seo Moon-yeop, Baek Ha-yeon, Lee Na-yeon, and Pietro.
It meant that these four would go to the third floor first and approach the enemy camp.