Chapter 22 – Curious Streamer

The Knighted Lobby was filled with many people on weekend nights as people didn't need to work and wanted to have fun. It boasted considerable traffic with users and streamers.

Random posts kept appearing on the forum, usually featuring big streamers who managed to gain achievement, tips and tricks, and someone who found a new route.

A big-time streamer with an average of 20K viewers, Flexy, tried to find some information about tips and tricks to win the program he was invited to by the Knight's Journey's marketing team.

He wanted to find StoneSword's video on the forum and learn from it. Not only that, but he also wanted to create an ideal plan to clear the stage as fast as he could with a newbie who was potentially not that good at the game.

However, everyone on the forum constantly mentioned the same user today.

"Who is this Breeze?"

The top to the fifth post mentioned the same name but with a different title.

[Look at my butt! Huh Ah knight got kicked on the butt by Breeze!]

[Slapping Hutch! Breeze causing the system error lolol]

[Front spin and split in half! First managed to solo Trouser the Thrower, Breeze!]

[No one can doubt Breeze's skill!]

[Breeze's wall run and analysis]

Flexy caressed his chin in wonder. He opened the thread, and saying that he was surprised to the point he jumped from the bench wasn't an overstatement.

'This guy is nuts!'

The first video Flexy watched was the wall run and three-sixty axe spin. He was impressed by the movement and the fact he could pull such moves, not just one, but many times. That meant Breeze didn't pull it out of luck, but due to his skill!

Flexy proceeded to the other threads and watched all the videos. He couldn't help but grin when he saw Breeze slap Hutch and kick Huh Ah knight.

'Good job!'

Just like everyone else, he was also a victim to those people. So he was pretty satisfied when he watched someone else manage to exact the victims' revenge against those two knights.

At the end of the thread, the link to Breeze's link was attached. Flexy found it and curiously clicked on it, bringing him to Punch's website.

"Oh? He's live streaming now?"

Flexy crossed his legs and rested his chin on his hand, smiling softly. He was interested in how Breeze played live and how many viewers he got.

"Damn, 500 viewers?" He exclaimed in surprise, "And this is his second day streaming? Yoo! This guy has crazy growth! He's even faster than me in newbie days!"

It only drove Flexy's curiosity even further, so he decided to seriously give the stream a go.

At this moment, Breeze had gotten a new quest, the next one after [Knight's Lament] called [Knight's Retirement]. After defeating the advanced party, he charged with the other knights toward the main barbarians' army.

However, something strange happened.

"Why does he ride with another knight?" Flexy muttered as he saw Breeze standing on a horse behind another knight.

Every player would get a horse when they reached this part. Even if this was a new route, Flexy knew that having a horse was a default as there was a horse riding tutorial at the start.

Unless… Breeze couldn't ride a horse. But there was no way someone who finished [Knight's Lament] and soloed Trouser couldn't ride a horse, right?

Curious, he decided to bring up a virtual keyboard and started to type in chat.

— Why does he stand on a horse like that?

— lolol look at him

— lololol

— This dude is posing on a horse!

The chat was moving so fast that his text just got buried with the others.

Flexy frowned and scratched his hair.

'Damn!'

He didn't know that getting attention in newbie chat was so hard. The only way to get the attention would be sending a donation, but Flexy thought spending money for such a silly and obvious question wasn't worth it.

'Let's move on. This guy is good at getting the viewers' attention. If he becomes big, I will definitely hear about him again.'

As a streamer, Flexy thought that doing something new would definitely interest people. No one had ever done wall run, three-sixty axe spin, soloing Trouser, and standing on a galloping horse. So he was impressed by this newbie.

But that wasn't Flexy's goal visiting the Knighted Lobby today, so he closed the stream when Breeze jumped toward the middle of the barbarians' army alone.

He closed the Punch website and moved to the community forum while thinking, 'Is there any chance he also got invited to the program?'

If that was the case, then the program would be interesting.

'I will know about it in four days. If I am not wrong, Biozone Entertainment will announce the participants that day. I will ask Lisa later.'

A smile appeared on his character's face under his helmet. StoneSword's participation was already predictable. Flexy also had someone else in mind.

However, the three newbies that would participate in this program weren't that predictable, as he didn't quite understand how the marketing team would pick them.

What Flexy did know, however, was it would be interesting if a wild card appeared from those newbies and stole the spotlight from the veteran streamers.

'That would be fun.'

And so, Flexy returned to his speedrun's research.

***

Meanwhile, Max was currently in the middle of chaos, surrounded by barbarians' army in the second main story he got.

Brandishing his rare axe in his right hand and a crude one in his left, he roared loudly.

"Come, barbarians! Give me your blood!

— Blood!

— Blood blood blood!

— Our axes crave blood!!

— Hyahaaa!! Let him again, guys! He's planning to massacre them all!

Max was really motivated. The reason was clear. It was because he got another mission from his viewers.

[Bloodsucker has started a mission.]

[Stream Mission: Kill every barbarian in the army.]

[Reward: 100 diamonds per kill.]

Five minutes had passed since he got this mission and advanced toward the barbarians' army. And currently, Breeze's kill count had reached 12.

This was Max's chance to fill the system quest's progress. He still needed more than 30K diamonds to finish it and get the B-Grade nutritional supplement he badly needed.

"Lemme suck all those diam– I mean blood until you have none! I will kill at least 100… No, 200 barbarians today!"

— Please stop!

— Hahaha! This guy is crying.

— Rest in peace, money.

— Only money can make Breeze get this motivated.

— We will remember you, Bloodsucker.

— I want to be Breeze

— ^^ Dream on!

— ^^ I will