novelraw Chapter 9 : Chapter 9
Chapter 9 : Chapter 9
Chapter 9
There were simply too many players who needed “labor reform,” so most of Lanoss’s attention was focused here.
Seeing how furious Victor was, Lanoss felt quite sorry for him.
So he quietly connected to Victor’s spiritual sea and said, “When you smash the rocks, make the commotion bigger. Make the scene more spectacular.”
The voice that suddenly sounded in his spiritual sea made Victor freeze for a moment before he was overwhelmed with joy.
Although the Creator had been asleep for a thousand years, the intelligent races that had survived on this plane had never forgotten Him. Victor had grown up listening to stories about the Creator, and the bright shining point of faith he saw within the faith network was proof enough.
Although this was not the first divine oracle since the great Father God had awakened, it was the first time Father God had spoken to him personally!
Victor was so excited that he no longer bothered to stay angry at those rude players. Instead, he prepared to show his strongest attack to Father God.
Although Victor was a Dark Mage, he was also a Magic Swordsman.
Therefore, there was no need to worry about his attack power or visual impact.
Since the annoying players refused to move aside, Victor gave himself extra acceleration by taking a running start. He stepped on a rock, leaped into the air, then swung his greatsword and used the recoil to propel himself onto a protruding rock halfway up the mountain.
The players who had been chattering nonstop a moment earlier suddenly fell silent as if someone had pressed a mute button. Even the viewers in Lightning’s livestream were stunned.
After a long pause, someone finally exhaled heavily in shock.
“Holy shit, that’s insane!”
One after another, the players regained their senses, though they barely knew what to say.
“I admit moves like this aren’t that rare in normal games, but watching it in a full-dive game like this is seriously shocking.”
“Damn, that was unbelievably cool! What skill was that? I want to learn it too!”
“I can’t wait any longer. Just tell me how much it costs—I’ll pay right now!”
“You bastard with those honest-looking eyebrows and big eyes—you’ve been hiding so much from us?!”
“That was awesome! I can’t even imagine how handsome, cool, and radiant I’ll look when I use that move!”
At this moment Victor was three or four hundred meters away from them in a straight line, but with his sharp hearing he could clearly hear every word of the players’ shocked discussions.
Although they still had no manners at all, their tone was clearly much better.
To be honest, Victor had not expected that a move which was not even a skill would shock them this much.
So when it came time to smash the rocks, he worked even harder.
Pure black magic power poured out. The dark elements in the air transformed into countless flowing rivers that surged into the greatsword. A dazzling “colorful black” shimmered with blinding intensity.
Once the sword had gathered enough power, Victor plunged it violently into the ground. Instantly countless cracks spread in all directions. Nearly half the mountain was covered in fissures filled with surging black power.
“Sweeping the Eight Wastes!”
Before the stunned eyes of countless players, the mountainside shattered. Stones burst apart, debris flew everywhere, and dust filled the air.
“Holy sh—sh—sh—sh—shit!!!”
“AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!”
Some of the players who had ignored Victor’s warning and stood too close were caught in the blast. They were blown away like helpless tumbleweeds and rolled across the ground several times.
“Cough cough cough cough—!”
Lightning choked on the dust, coughing violently as he lay on the ground in utter disarray. Through the swirling dust he watched the young man stride out calmly.
The livestream chat exploded with a single word flooding the screen.
“Cool.”
The players were first stunned speechless, then scrambled to their feet and rushed toward Victor.
Their faces were covered in dust and they looked miserable, but their eyes shone with frightening excitement.
“Victor, Victor! Are you cheating? Because in my heart you’re already a perfect ten!”
“Victor, what blood type are you? Type A? No—you’re my ideal type!”
“The world is so small… so small that the wind accidentally blew you into my eyes.”
Most of the players who had gotten themselves thrown into prison at the start of the game were male.
But at this moment, things like player pride or sexual orientation no longer mattered.
Even with a favorability rating of -100, they bravely rushed toward Victor.
Cringe-worthy pickup lines—awkward and completely inappropriate—were thrown at Victor one after another.
They hoped that even a single cheesy line might increase Victor’s favorability by one point.
Of course, while some players tried to win Victor back through these roundabout methods, others despised such behavior.
“That’s enough! All of you, stop it! Look at yourselves—do you have any backbone as men left?! Where’s your dignity?! Groveling like this in front of a bunch of data—do you still have any pride as players?!”
A male player scolded the crowd fiercely with an expression of righteous indignation.
When everyone was shameless together, such shamelessness felt completely natural.
But when someone pointed it out directly, everyone felt at least a little embarrassed.
Night Arbiter coughed awkwardly and turned his head aside as if he had never said those cheesy lines. The other players also awkwardly looked away and pretended to admire the scenery.
The “righteous” player who had spoken up looked at them with mild satisfaction.
Then, while they were still embarrassed, he shoved through the crowd, rushed forward, and suddenly dropped to his knees in front of Victor.
He grabbed Victor’s leg and began crying.
“Victor, please! Teach me that skill! I want to look that cool too! Please, I beg you! I’m kneeling and begging you! As long as you teach me, I’ll do anything! I’ll even give myself to you!”
Victor: “……”
Players: “……”
When the players recovered from their shock, they exploded in fury.
“Damn it, beat this shameless bastard to death!!!”
Lightning rushed over and kicked the player twice, giving himself a perfectly reasonable excuse.
“A real man fears no difficulty! I know everyone in the livestream likes Victor. As a streamer who cares about his fans, I must get Victor’s strategy guide for you all! That’s my promise!”
The viewers in the livestream chat were laughing uncontrollably.
The screen was flooded with “HAHAHAHA” and “called it.”
Some kind viewers reminded him.
[Potter, did you forget? My wife’s favorability toward you is -100. Negative one hundred!]
[All of you who keep calling him husband or wife everywhere are seriously shameless! I’m different—I like other people’s wives. From now on, your wife Victor belongs to me!]
Lightning’s face turned green.
But what could he do about the mess he had made himself?
He pretended not to see the comments and cheerfully approached Victor as if nothing had happened.
Unfortunately there were simply too many players trying to get close to Victor.
Lightning tried three times to squeeze through the crowd but failed each time.
Some viewers in the livestream chat began offering advice.
[This game’s NPCs are extremely intelligent. If you try to curry favor with him now among so many people, you won’t stand out at all. Why not hurry up and complete quests instead and leave him a good impression of being hardworking?]
Lightning’s eyes lit up.
He patted the dust off his clothes, quickly got up, and started working.
In 《Legend》, the starting spatial inventory only had three slots, and each slot could only hold up to 99 items.
Compared to other games, this was an extremely restrictive inventory system.
That was why many players initially did not want to take stone-carrying quests—they required too much running back and forth.
But after trying it himself, Lightning actually found it quite interesting.
In keyboard-and-mouse games, large items would simply disappear when picked up.
But here, a real massive stone existed in front of him. After he touched it, it appeared inside his inventory.
The feeling was surprisingly satisfying.
If he had to describe it precisely, it felt like a squirrel happily hoarding pinecones.
Victor, meanwhile, was being surrounded by even more enthusiastic players and was getting a headache.
But from the corner of his eye he noticed that at least one player was diligently working.
Victor could not help but revise his opinion of him slightly.
【System Notification: Victor’s favorability toward you +1. Current favorability: -99.】
Lightning shouted excitedly.
“My favorability increased! So Victor likes hardworking people!”
Lightning’s streamer habit of talking to himself made him forget to lower his voice.
Now every player knew how to increase Victor’s favorability.
Other players: “!!!”
“Damn it! Lightning, you sneaky green-tea bastard—you’ve been secretly acting hardworking behind our backs!”
The players immediately stopped crowding around Victor and rushed off to start working.
“Wife, I carry bricks super fast! I’m the most hardworking one!”
【System Notification: Victor’s favorability toward you -1. Current favorability: -101.】
The player who had shouted “wife” froze in place.
“Why did my favorability drop again? Waaaah…”