I Have a Reason to Hate Streamers

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[Author: XuGuanyu]

[Title: This game really pisses me off]

(Attached video: Video of a Protector getting pushed towards the dead)

(Attached video: Video of a Protector getting hit in the back of the head)

I’m matching in the Arena and got stuck with this crazy b*tch, and it was a mess the whole game.

Push up, push up, push up, push up, push up!

To clear out the dead, I had to hit in the back of the head and run away.

If I keep this up, I feel like I’ll get a mental illness, so I just rage quit.

But judging by the reactions, it seems like my translation was off.

I’m really losing it with this game.

Seriously, buff the Protectors if you don’t want to die!

[Comments]

– I got humiliated for over 10 minutes, lol.

– Getting hit in the back of the head is just so annoying.

– But how can you not land a hit? Is it perhaps your tier?

[Author: Winston L. Potter]

[Title: Turned into a tea bag while playing the Arena]

[Recommended: 127(101)]

What do you mean by that?

(Attached photo: Archer caught in chains)

(Attached photo: Archer being dunked in seawater)

(Attached photo: Archer being pulled up again)

(Attached video)

This insane girl chained me up and kept dunking me in the sea until I died.

At first, I was thinking about surrendering and leaving, but…

I got curious about how far it would go, so I just stayed.

In the end, I died from asphyxiation because of the chains.

The enemy was an Assassin, and I think she was American.

Only they’d brew tea in seawater, you know?

But how do you read her nickname?

It doesn’t seem like English.

[Comments]

– Looks like it might be some Asian characters.

– Her expression looks like she’s living in a different world, so funny, lol.

– It’s in Korean, it says Gawol.

└ What’s that mean?

└ I don’t know, only the creator would know.

– Wasn’t she the one in that Protector humiliation video earlier?

[Author: Nikolai Zyuganov]

[Title: Looking to change classes, need recommendations]

(Attached video)

I met an Assassin in the Shadow Arena, but I was a Berserker.

I couldn’t land a single hit and lost.

I felt humiliated until the moment I died.

Isn’t this supposed to be my winning matchup?

Today, I felt the limits of my talent.

I think it’s time to look for a different class.

Is the Inquisitor any good?

Just recommend melee ones; I won’t play a cowardly character.

I also won’t touch the Assassin line.

[Comments]

– Just do better, you sucked.

└ Stop being a whiny b*tch!

└ Vodka123/Vodka

└ Okay, I’m going in right now.

– I see that guy’s videos popping up a lot these days.

– Looks like he got executed.

……

– I surrender, brother.

└ I was a bit harsh too.

└ I recognize you as a Warrior.

*

[Timer 3 – Alarm rings after 04:32:11.]

As long as time allowed, I kept running the Arena.

It seems like the qualifiers are ending, with everyone’s level rising a lot.

I guess the players who joined for fun have all dropped out by now?

At this point, you can’t survive unless you’re serious about the game.

Only about a day is left in this phase, and the next will be the last of the second qualifiers.

They seem determined to only leave the cream of the crop, as the scale of dropouts is overwhelming. They say the spectator feature will be unlocked next time… but that probably has nothing to do with me.

It seemed like the final phase would truly be a high-level game.

In other words, it felt like something was still lacking.

The opponents I met today weren’t necessarily bad.

They all had the basics covered, and it showed that they had their own strengths.

Yet, compared to professional level, they were still far behind.

Thanks to that, I was able to enjoy myself well enough.

[Do you wish to craft 100 blessed recovery potions? Y/N]

[Crafting in progress… 16 minutes 39 seconds remaining]

Their skill level was such that I didn’t feel guilty stepping on them.

At the same time, there was a gap wide enough to do weird antics without a care.

In this condition, my restless feelings collided with reality… leading to some excessive behavior.

“Puhuhuh…”

Honestly, it was just too funny, what could I do?

Personally, the most fun was when I hung the Archer on my back.

I was worried about what would happen if I surrendered, but the opponent also seemed curious about my antics.

I dunked her in the sea dozens of times and pulled her back up, yet she never left.

The fortunate thing was that most of them were foreigners.

Their nationalities barely overlapped, so they probably just thought it was some weird girl.

Skill is something that grows as you play, right?

It must have been a good experience for them.

Anyway, right now I wasn’t feeling well enough for PVP.

My head felt hot and dizzy, so I probably had a bit of a fever.

If I met a pro, I couldn’t guarantee the outcome of a match.

Besides, my score was stable enough already.

Since it had come to this, I decided to kill time with content I’ve been putting off.

When feeling unwell, it’s important to have times like this to rest.

[Sigma e-Sports Luce has started streaming!]

Just then, some good news came to me.

I immediately pulled up the stream on my screen, and a smile crossed my face.

Luce is great for consistently streaming.

I do tend to target streamers frequently, but I don’t not watch streams either.

In fact, I watch them quite a lot.

I found that playing solo games can be surprisingly boring.

Since Infinity Black is an RPG, leveling up and basic resource collection must continue.

I mostly prefer hunting alone, and repetitive hunting can’t always be fun.

When I start missing the smell of people, I end up putting on a stream like this.

– How do you think the Arena will go? Hmm, hard to say.

– Of course, I want to win. That’s my goal, so please watch over me.

– Possibility, eh. It’s a tough goal, so achieving it will feel rewarding, right?

– Since the Paladin buff came through, I’m feeling pretty hopeful.

Luce, who had started streaming, was defeating her opponents more smoothly than before.

At the beginning of the Arena, her matching luck had been terrible, and she was weak as a Paladin back then.

With the buff patch implemented now, she was winning matches left and right.

The skill differences of the opponents she faced were quite clear.

In the past, she had to flip unfavorable matchups, but now the games flowed one-sidedly.

It seemed Luce was quite surprised that she was performing this well.

– The Guard gauge has definitely gotten stronger. Should I take out a few of my defensive traits?

– Nerf? Just yesterday it was a dark age.

– Who do you want to face in the group stage if you make it to the main event? Hmm, I’d prefer to avoid my own team.

– Ah… a revenge match. Definitely want that opportunity.

Luce’s voice dropped a little.

Last year, Luce and Sigma e-Sports faced a European pro team in the International War and lost devastatingly.

It was a complete defeat, ending the season with a 16th place finish without even a proper resistance.

What made it even more heartbreaking for domestic league fans was that her score was her career high in the Korean League last year.

Infinity Black’s performance in the Korean League has not been strong in International Wars.

There have been many attempts to analyze the reasons.

The direction of the pro teams is wrong, the heated siege is an issue, the Assassin line is weak, the absolute population is too low, etc.

I don’t know what the actual reason is, but it was clear it wasn’t being fixed.

– I just saw the list of Arena survivors? Well, I guess I can consider myself confirmed in the upper ranks.

– Should we check it out a bit? I’m curious about who you’ll face.

– The sorted link is… Oh, here it is.

Luce disconnected from matching.

Changing the game wouldn’t change the content anyway.

In the last phase, match points become meaningless, and her score was not at a level to worry about elimination.

Continuing to play all she’d do was stomp on bugs.

Eventually, the broadcast screen shifted.

The familiar site banner was from the most famous strategy site in the country.

The posts contained a list of pro gamers, famous streamers, and Korean players who are in the Arena’s stable ranks.

Luce started slowly commenting on the players, one by one, from the top.

– There are quite a few familiar nicknames.

– Looks like a pro gamer will win the Arena… Hmm, I think the same.

– In fact, the practice volume is on a different level. The quality of internal coaching and analysis would be different too.

– But I don’t think it’s guaranteed that a pro will win. You never know when a dark horse might show up.

– Isn’t unpredictability the charm of e-Sports?

Most would probably say good things.

Luce’s attitude towards others was quite cautious.

She wasn’t trash-talking before matches, and gossiping about other players in private would only lead to controversies.

So I wasn’t particularly interested in Luce’s assessments of pro players.

To me, pro gamers were merely tasty opponents. Nothing more, nothing less.

Still, the reason I kept listening to the broadcast was that… if I scrolled down, the chances were that my nickname would soon appear.

A mention of my favorite nickname!

What an exhilarating sense of anticipation.

When I saw the name ‘Gawol’ as I scrolled down…

I cranked up the volume.

– Gawol is on the list too. And they’re even in the upper ranks.

– That’s impressive. There are really only a few amateur players left in the country.

– I totally get what the Traveler said. You must be really strong in one-on-one matches.

– By the way, the Traveler hasn’t accepted your friend request yet, has he?

– Maybe personally doesn’t like you?

My head tilted in confusion while I listened to the broadcast.

Did the Traveler send me a friend request?

What does that even mean?

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