Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan-Chapter 171 - 148: Player Live Stream, Little Sweetie’s Encounter
Lince was busy with his own important matters and had completely forgotten about the game time.
Meanwhile, the Blue Star Players’ eight hours of game time for the seventh day were about to end.
It was approaching 10 PM.
Before the new inference video was released, videos of Lince, the Chief Player, conquering a Giant Demon City on the Karte Continent had already been recorded and posted online.
They were blowing up on all the major video-sharing websites.
From videos recorded by at least five Players, everyone on Blue Star finally realized the absurd Power the Chief Player possessed.
A city with a population of over four hundred thousand.
Over twenty High Tier Demon Beasts.
Over two thousand Middle-Low Tier Demon Beasts, and the number of Tierless Demon Beasts was rapidly approaching the one-hundred-thousand mark.
He even had a beautiful Tier Nine Peak Dragon Descendant Female Warrior under his command.
The course of the war, the Demon Beasts’ siege, and Lince’s appearance to instantly kill three Peak beings—beings that current Players couldn’t even look at directly.
All of this ignited the audience’s passion.
And to top it all off, the Chief Player had unabashedly flexed his advancement to Tier Eight right in the skies above Farm City!
At this moment, a Level Seven Player who had been taken in by Farm City not only saw his video go viral but had even started a livestream, raking in tons of donations and gift items!
On the livestream, the Player didn’t look a day over twenty-five.
He was a young man, tall and skinny.
He wasn’t handsome, but he wasn’t ugly either.
The Player was currently looking at the live chat with a smug expression.
"You’re asking why I’m brave enough to show my face like this?"
"Heh, I’m not afraid of making you all jealous."
"Even though I’m just a solo Player, I know a few Players from the Countermeasures Bureau who were also in the Giant Demon Farm City."
"Besides, even if I don’t have an official guarantee of safety, now that I’m a member of Dawn City and serve under the Chief Player, do you all really think anyone would dare to touch me?"
"I won’t hide it from you all. Before I logged off, I’d already received recruitment offers from two Players from the ’Demon Hunter Professional’ Corps!"
"So, from now on, I’m a part of Dawn City, a direct subordinate of the Chief Player!"
"You all get how prestigious that is, right?"
The Player’s expression was extremely smug.
He completely ignored the live chat, which was full of jealous and hateful comments.
"Thanks for all the gifts, everyone."
"Whoa, someone just sent a Starship! Looks like plenty of people are willing to drop a gift worth a hundred million Human Alliance Coins."
"The call requests just keep coming, heh heh."
"Alright, let’s connect to the next big spender!"
As he spoke, a new caller’s video feed appeared, taking up half the screen on his channel.
"Huh? This time it’s a pretty young lady."
"We’re in luck, boys! The rich, beautiful girl you’ve all been asking for is here!"
Despite the Player’s exaggerated expression and tone, the girl on the screen maintained a faint, constant smile.
"Good evening, everyone in the stream."
"Hello, streamer."
The girl’s expression was gentle, and her presence was as pleasant as a spring breeze.
The streamer, seeing this, wasn’t intimidated in the slightest.
He immediately laughed.
"Hello there, miss."
"What did you want to ask about?"
"Seeing as you’re so pretty, I’ll make an exception and let you ask two questions. How’s that? Pretty generous of me, right?"
The streamer was quite pleased with himself.
Of course, his good mood wasn’t simply because he saw a beautiful woman, but because of the money and gifts involved.
He was intentionally trying to hype up the atmosphere by offering to answer two questions.
After all, the audience loves to see a pretty face.
The Player naturally didn’t mind keeping her on the call a little longer.
However, in response to the streamer’s words, the girl on the other end said:
"You’re indeed a good streamer."
"But I’ve been watching for a while and have seen the previous calls, so I don’t really have many questions about the Chief or Dawn City."
"The real reason I called in was just to ask one question."
"Streamer, you’re livestreaming so brazenly in the Chief’s name... does he know about it?"
Faced with the beautiful girl’s question, the streamer’s expression froze.
’Is she here to cause trouble?’
But he quickly broke into a laugh.
"That’s a tricky question, miss."
"But to be honest, I wouldn’t be streaming if I didn’t have a leg to stand on."
"Before I logged off, I asked the temporary acting commander of my legion in the game about the livestream."
"He said that as long as the Chief hasn’t forbidden it, it’s fine."
"Besides, since the Chief plans on forming a Player legion, he must also intend to develop a real-world faction. That’s why, from the very beginning, I planned to set aside ninety percent of my earnings. I’m just waiting for the Chief to summon me in the real world, and I’ll immediately turn all the money over to the corps’ account."
"Keeping ten percent for my trouble should be fine, right? What do you all think?"
The audience in the chat and comments section was just there for the drama and didn’t mind things getting messy.
And they were all expressing their understanding.
In the face of the streamer’s explanation, the girl on the call still maintained her faint smile.
"I see. It seems I misunderstood you, streamer."
"However, is the Chief really planning to build his own faction in the real world?"
"But I’m a little curious. Are you sure those were the Chief’s exact words? Are you prepared to take responsibility for what you’ve just said?"
It had to be said, both of the girl’s questions hit the nail on the head.
They even made the streamer’s expression go completely blank.
That was right.
The Chief had never said that.
Even the temporary acting Legion Commander hadn’t said it.
’But from his perspective, wasn’t it just common sense?’
But no matter how obvious it seemed, the Chief hadn’t said it. The Human Alliance hadn’t expressed its stance on the Chief, either. For him to act this way... it felt a bit like he’d crossed a line.
This Player wasn’t stupid.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have survived the first Inference Day.
So, when he thought of all this, a shiver ran down his spine, and a cold sweat began to bead on his forehead.
His smugness vanished. He immediately tried to salvage the situation, his expression turning bitter. "That’s just my opinion, and a logical deduction at that."
"Miss, you don’t have to take it so seriously, do you?"
"Of course, if I’ve really misspoken, I’m willing to apologize."
"And to be honest, your identity can’t be ordinary, can it? You’re deliberately setting a trap for me!"
"I surrender, I surrender! Please don’t mess with me like this. I’m just a normal, small-time Player, really."
This Player knew when to back down.
His change in attitude was lightning-fast.
This delighted the chat and comments section, with people exclaiming how fast the streamer had changed his tune and chickened out.
In response, the girl on the call simply smiled.
"I’m not deliberately setting a trap for you. I just came on to give you a friendly reminder."
"Don’t ruin the image of our Chief and our Demon Hunter Professional Corps. That’s all for now."
"I’m logging off. Streamer, you should tone it down a bit. This isn’t the right way to make money. Besides, I don’t think the Chief is hurting for your little bit of stream money. Don’t go down the wrong path."
"..."
The girl disconnected.
And the streamer was left stunned for a long time.
’Our Chief?’
’Our Demon Hunter Professional Corps?’
FUCK!!!
Even if the Player was an idiot, he understood now.
’But thinking about it, there are only nine Demon Hunter Professionals right now, and only two of them are women, right?’
’No matter how he looked at it, this girl didn’t seem to be one of them.’
’If she’s not from the Demon Hunting Corps, then is it possible she’s definitely connected to the Chief, and it’s not a casual connection either?’
’A first-wave Player?’
’One of the Players the Chief is secretly on good terms with?’
Thinking about all this, and remembering her warning, the Player suddenly lost all desire to continue the stream.
Until he figured things out, he was terrified of having offended someone he couldn’t afford to, or even the Chief himself.
After all, even though it was a game, you only get one life.
The prestige of the True Game and the massive changes happening in the real world were all tied to the growth of one’s character.
He had finally managed to hitch his wagon to the Chief’s star, and he didn’t want to lose everything.
So, after hearing her warning, the Player knew what was good for him and hastily ended the stream.
「Just as the Player ended his stream, in a bedroom somewhere in the real world.」
The girl was in a wonderful mood.
’Hmph! These second-wave Players really know how to ride on someone else’s coattails. They’ll say anything to make a quick buck.’
’If I knew what Night Owl’s stance on this was, I wouldn’t have been so polite.’
’But this is for the best. I imagine the other Players like him will behave themselves now.’
’No, I have to call Sister Man and have her give Night Owl the full story.’
The girl was none other than ’Sweet Little Cookie’, a Player from the Chosen Group.
As an Elf Player who had just successfully reached Tier Four, she had finally made it just in time to squeeze into the top one hundred Players, successfully obtaining the "Elite Player" title.
Although her Authority wasn’t on par with the Chief or the runner-up, she was an Elite Player nonetheless.
Considering herself an acquaintance of the Chief, she was quite ’enthusiastic’ about protecting Lince’s image.
As for the current situation in the True Game, the titles for the one hundred Elite Players were almost all distributed.
As an Elite Player, having the Authority to suppress regular Players was one thing.
But on another note, something Lince didn’t know was that some of these Elite Players had their own fortuitous encounters due to being in different factions and Races.
After all, the True Game couldn’t possibly be cultivating only a single Player like Lince.
For example, there were items similar to the Book of Truth, a relic of the God of Truth.
Currently, among the Elite Players—including the Chief, runner-up, and regulars—at least a dozen had already obtained relics or fragments of Divine Artifacts left behind by the Deities of the Oakland Continent.
And Sweet Little Cookie was one of them.
She had obtained a relic from the Hunting Goddess, one of the seven Elf Gods of the Elf Empire.
The relic’s effects were related to hunting, and it had also been granted the Authority of Descent on Inference Day by the True Game.
Currently, due to her family background, she hadn’t joined the Countermeasures Bureau, but she had a very good relationship with them—or to be more precise, with Insomnia and Rain.
As the girl began texting Insomnia and Rain, she was also lost in thought.
’I wonder if Night Owl will ever return to the Oakland Continent.’
’It would be so exciting to see his Giant Dragon Body with my own eyes in the game, wouldn’t it?’
’All that Holy Light censorship in the video was really a pain.’
The girl’s thoughts wandered as she reveled in her secret joy.
The boons she’d gained in the game this time made her feel like she could finally catch up to the other Players in her group.
She believed that once she could use her Descent on Inference Day, she would be able to quickly catch up to the top-ranking Players.
To that end, as she chatted with Insomnia and Rain about the online drama, she was also eagerly awaiting the stroke of midnight and the arrival of Inference Day.
