Ascyaf O Vivid: The VRMMORPG Story

Chapter 18: The Stirring Stream

Yaka's face changed, like one who would immediately kill anyone who appeared in his sight. However, Yaka still tried to think calmly.

How could he lose face in front of so many people watching the Vera stream? Especially by a mage who never did anything?

"Then just learn that skill!” he shouted, thinking of the mage, Akuji hannyalah a noob who knows nothing.

'Didn't his level rise after all the monsters I had killed?' think Yaka. But—

"Hey, I don't have enough skill points to know."

Once again the answer I gave only made Yaka's anger peak. Does Yaka want to hit him immediately? Akuji felt that maybe that was what Yaka felt when he saw his attack grow fiercer as if releasing his anger towards the cat.

Not only Yaka, the chat stream in the Vera stream also soared. While there are systems where one needs to wait about ten seconds before being able to type another chat to avoid spam, the sheer number of people watching makes the rule seem non-existent. Dribbling the flow into a corner that nobody wants to happen ...

"At the same time my level is not that low to be able to rise without participating know."

... Until another word from Akuji appears. The word 'participation' that immediately brought the poisonous flow to a halt.

Participation, a word that players use to describe a system of sharing experience points in a party in Vivid. It was a system where out of a hundred percent of the experience points that a monster had would be split evenly based on the contribution level of the party members in taking down the monsters.

Contribution not only comes from the value of damage that a party member handles, but also is determined by various other factors such as withstanding damage from enemies, interference given to enemies, and interference, or support to fellow members.

With the basic argument that one deserves as much share as they give, this unconventional system itself is quickly accepted. Although a negative vote on how a contribution is calculated on its own may not exist at all.

Simply put, this system itself is like the antithesis of the party bus system that is common in other games. It was not that a party bus was completely lost, since if players challenged monsters above their level they would gain higher experience points.

However, the basic calculation of experience points that will be received in a party itself has gone through certain algorithms to not tend to greatly benefit players with lower or higher levels. Indeed, a party would gain additional experience points from the 'cooperation' of each fallen monster, although that number was very small even for players at level 0.

So let's take a simple example. How big of a contribution can a level 0 player make to a level 100 monster?

And the situation of Vera's own party, where Yaka had only dropped every monster they had encountered before was enough to explain why no party member other than Vera — who was still level 0 before— levelled up despite their party, even though it was their party, Yaka himself had dropped many monsters. Because of their participation, their contribution was practically zero.

Didn't Yaka know such a system existed? Of course he knew, but his head had been full by himself from the very beginning to not think about it.

After the chat current paused for a moment, it re-flowed profusely as if a dam that had previously held them had broken down.

Burned.

That's the only word that can be used to describe how the chat flow is now. People are busy blaming who is really at fault for the current situation.

Akuji or Yaka?

Isn't that Akuji because he didn't learn important skills like First Aid? And isn't he not at all helpful even to give a simple distraction?

But the sound of belaan came ...

—OK, First Aid is important but it's not like everyone will learn it.

... With that kind of tone. And this kind of thing is indeed common, especially for players who want to become a damage dealer (damage provider). Moreover, the Elementalist Skill Tree itself had the worst distraction ability.

So is that Yaka?

Recalling, the spectators realized that he was the mastermind who brought misfortune to their goddess.

Yaka was the one who invited them into the forest.

Yaka himself ran further into the forest.

With the main focus having emerged, another stream of hatred came. Do the audience need a reason to hate someone? They were not, like how Akuji who had done no real wrong had been bullied before.

It was just that with valid reasons, they could only keep it away worse than what one could imagine.

Yaka has an unusual background? No one cared since their identities were unknown and there was no way they would meet in person!

Vera sighed deeply after releasing another arrow. Looking at the direction of this stream will only get worse before sending a smile emoji and blocking the chat function for this stream to stop forcefully.

There was no way Vera could calm all those people down and disturb the cat at the same time since she did not want to die and waited for the next day at Vivid. Hence, he could only take this kind of drastic step so that such a current would not last longer in his stream.

Moreover, the two people in front of him, Yaka and Akuji only got worse. Yaka kept sending murderous gazes towards Akuji while the young man .. well, just didn't care ....

Vera feels Yaka will beat up Akuji immediately if he is not held back by the cat.

"YIMAAAA!" The cat meowed with a voice that would be considered funny, but not when the huge claws hit Yaka and drained his health in a large amount.

"Battle Chant!" he shouted, activating a Tier 2 Sword Master skill that would slightly increase the resistance and heal himself in order to last longer. Not knowing that the Vera streamers are just cheering in each of the sicucing attacks, hoping for Yaka's death as her health bar continues to fall.

And ...

Paws!

... The last slap came from the cat. Dropping Yaka's effort since the Battle Chant level, one of his survival skills was low since he only continued to improve the skills with attack orientation to maximize his damage output.

With the quick continuation that the cat gave off, Yaka's body was like a service breaking up as his corpse began to spit out a puff of falling mist with a murderous gaze towards Akuji.

'All that's wrong that useless mage!' he thought before his body disappeared. Together the cat's gaze turned to the other members and the audience's emotions dropped.

They do not grieve over Yaka's death, only feeling that this is the unfortunate end for their goddess, Vera who must end her first adventure in Vivid by death.

"Hey, do you have a Dead Playing Skill?" ask the two men.

"Yes?" reply Vera asked. He is a full-fledged beginner at Vivid and hence he follows the advice on the forums to pick up skills that are considered important. But will it be useful? Vera thinks her first day at Vivid is over.

"So you have it? Then just transfer the party leader to me." Akuji says. "Hurry up" he continued as soon as the cat started running towards him. Does he seem to be the next target?

"Ah, uh .. oh, em .. ok?" vera replied doubtfully. Wondering if the status of the party chairman even has any meaning here when switching it to Akuji ...

[You've been kicked out of the party]

... A moment before notice immediately appeared before his eyes and Nuk while the young man himself had run towards the cat.

Does he ... just want to die?

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'Stream is confused.' That's all Vera can think of to explain how this all goes.