novelraw Chapter 45: Found
Chapter 45: Found
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Win Streak: 489
After toiling for day and night, Quash was just one match away from entering 1st Battle Hall. Right now, dusk was settling outside. The rush and excitement as high as ever.
It was the dusk of day day 6. One more day and the Ranking Battles will be over. Everyone has abandoned sleep to work hard for a better rank. Everyone was desparetly pushing forward.
Quash was the same. Throughout the night, he barely took any rest. The matches weren’t tiring opponents whose stats were near or at Class Limit became more common. Now there were barely any opponent of Quash who weren’t at class limit.
The rank increase was also getting slower. Probably because his win streak scale up was caught up by others collective achievement. The highest rank increase after one battle was 3,589. And it was when he was in the top 200,000.
Now, his rank barely increased by 1,000.
As Quash’s rank went up like lightning, the amount of attention he got also increased. By the time he was in the 5th Battle Hall, the main stream media was already aware of him. They wouldn’t be profesionals if they didn’t notice a 3 digit win streak slapped besides Quash’s name in the Leader board.
The clips that went viral were mostly from the 1st and 2nd Battle Halls. As most of the geniuses of the world was packed in those to Halls. It was unrealistic for the main stream media or influencers to focus on anything beyond and waste their resources.
But the ones there are mostly well known influencers, or main stream media. So there was no place for small influencers. They keep an eye on other Battle Halls as well. Hoping to capture some clip that will make them go viral and change their lives.
And because of that, someone noticed Quash. They saw his ranking and how it Jumps ridiculously high number. They posted about their finding and it instantly went viral.
Many thought it was fake because more than 400 win streak? What kind of joke was that?
But more and more posts started to appear on the Internet. Some times th same rank, sometimes a different rank. Everyone claiming their claim was real but the ridiculousness of the situation made it hard to believe.
There was no concrete proof that this Quash Ogmore person was real. There wasn’t a single clip to validate validate claims. The influencers also can’t provide a clip to the people because of technical reasons.
Although the Academy City allows the media to connect their camera to the Administrative Formation to farm footages, that was the end of it. They weren’t physically allowed in the Battle Halls. It was done to prevent outsiders putting needless pressure on the students and break their concentration.
The medias vision was strictly bounded to the 100 stages of each Battle Hall. They don’t get to see the match making hologram above the arena.
And because of that specific reason, most of the media was focused on the 1st and 2nd Battle Halls.
Because they have to manually monitor every match, find what was the best, clip it, edits it then upload it, it took a team of people’s 24/7 monitoring. The cost for such activity was also very costly because they need to constantly pay to have their cameras connected to the Administrative Formation.
Since they can’t see the match making hologram, they naturally don’t know who is who. They have to ask around to find out. They also add their own commentary on live platforms.
And because of that, it took quite a while to find out who Quash Ogmore was. Someone bribed a student to get a picture of Quash Ogmore and boy oh boy did they like it. He had the looks, the strength and the potential to be the best cash cow.
Bt by the time they did, he was already in the 2nd Battle Hall. The media felt a sense of rush. Who could get him faster.
Clips of him fighting going viral, mout importantly, his ranking. Suddenly, everyone’s attention was on this Quash Ogmore person with a ridiculously high win streak.
Stories of him going viral, someone re uploaded his "ASMR whispering to the ears" and it went viral once again. He was collectively dubbed God of Curses by the masses because they have never heard such toxic but effective cursing.
Someone even uploaded him brutally murdering a girl amd when someone else tried to be the "moral guy", he getting destroyed by Quash with just one line. The clip was uploaded recently when the Internet suddenly got caught in the whirlwind named Quash Ogmore.
It was also instant viral.
People online debated when he will lose his win streak. Many didn’t care just along with the vibe. Sone cheered for Quash while many also pointed out that he probably got low rank at the start, and instead of challenging the stronger students, he became a troll. They criticised him heavily for that.
According to them, if you’re strong, you should fight the strong. But they were mostly ignored. They were probably some jealous bunch who failed at life. There are always people who are jealous of others success.
Quash was aware of these things but didn’t care. He had expected these kind of response. As long as he wasn’t swarmed by hungry paparazzi, it was fine.
Bur he was sure that he will be swarmed by the paparazzi, news journalist and all. Quash was very used to deal with these kind of people. But he has a bullet proof plan to avoid them. Quash couldn’t help but grin evilly at the thought of annoying the paparazzi. They gave him a hard time in his previous life because of his status.
So he wanted to annoy them just for the sake of it.
But he needed to do something about these students who were secretly filing him. They will probably sell these footage to the paparazzi. And exactly because of that, he hadn’t move a single inch from his seat. Calmly waiting for his last match before Hall promotion to start.