[Breaking News) A while ago, Yena, the incredible character, appeared on a broadcast jpg.]
Author: LilyLily
(Lily looking confused while receiving gold coins)
They poured in a whopping 500 gold coins for this broadcast, LOL!
Thought it was a guy, but the voice is amazing, must be a girl, right?
The surprised look is so cute, LOL!
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─Crazy, she’s like super pretty LOL!!!
─Wow… speechless
─This dude already made his ID Lily
└From today, I’m part of the Lily squad. All others, get lost.
└? Is this guy out of his mind? What’s my business in all this?
└That’s nonsense, I made mine three years ago when Deoen came out.
└Everyone above, just get out of here.
└Lily’s not even a streamer? Just a user?
└Is there a problem with rolling Deoen rumors in the forum?
─Is Yena a goddess? Is Yena a goddess? Is Yena a goddess? Is Yena a goddess? Is Yena a goddess? Is Yena a goddess? Is Yena a goddess? Is Yena a goddess? Is Yena a goddess? Is Yena a goddess? Is Yena a goddess? Is Yena a goddess? Is Yena a goddess?
─But spending money like this is crazy, one broadcast costs ten million, LOL! Is this real?
└Honestly, seems a bit excessive. Yena looked like she regretted it a bit.
└Seemed a bit rushed and random, but it was hella funny though, LOL!
└For real, LOL.
─Starting character research from today.
[Breaking News 2) Lily reportedly cleared the tutorial without any combat support, yep jpg.]
Author: LilyLily
(Lily sitting on a chair looking up blankly)
Heard she caught a wild boar with the trash sword you get at the start, yep.
So it seems she didn’t get any combat support and just cleared the tutorial immediately.
Didn’t someone do that in Cross before? I don’t think there’s anything left aside from the lucky reroll catches.
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─???
─?
─Come on, that’s just a lie.
└But it doesn’t seem like a lie.
└Can’t you see her pure eyes?
└Right?
└Honestly, that sounds ridiculous. The trait looks movement-related, how do you catch it with a stick?
─If you told Cross to do it again, there’s no way they’d do it.
└Didn’t it take like 5 hours or something back then? It got legendary treatment and all.
└Honestly, that’s more about guts than skill, LOL. Who catches a crazy wild boar without getting hit for 5 hours?
─Don’t slander Lily! If she caught it, she caught it, period! Ugh!
└Please just get out of here…
└Yeah~ this place is already taken over by BabyLily squad~ if you don’t like it, go create your own gal!
─As expected, it’s about Yena-sama, this is a ten million-worth rumor, LOL!
─I hear there’s a duel going on.
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A duel, huh.
I’ve had my fair share of duels.
The Celestial Race was revered by many races, but they were also a target for challenges.
Of course, those challenges didn’t apply to the Celestials themselves.
After all, the challenges were directed only at the races that bore the blood of the Celestials or had some connection to them.
Naturally, I was bound to receive numerous challenges, being one of those with the blood of the Celestials.
I raise my spear.
“…So, what are you doing?”
“Oh! If it’s your first time, you might feel a bit hesitant.”
A modern person wouldn’t just swing a weapon at someone in virtual reality without a thought.
Most people tend to shy away from attacking others.
Yena, on the other hand, thought, “This much is necessary!” and donned a strange bear costume.
Purely decorative, with no special stats or magic attached.
Inside the bear costume, Yena waved her dagger around.
“Just let me know when you’re ready. You really don’t have to worry. No one will say anything if you take it slow.”
“Let’s start.”
“Alright, just a moment… Huh?”
I hold up the plain spear.
“No, let’s do it right away.”
“…Uh.”
Yena nodded in surprise.
The curtain completely envelops us, and the message “Duel Start!” echoes in the room.
A timer displaying 10:00 appears in the air.
That’s probably ten minutes.
As the timer hits 09:50, Yena stands still.
Is she conceding the first move?
‘I won’t pass that up.’
It’s been a while since I’ve fought.
And this is my first battle since becoming immensely weaker.
Being strong is nice, but being weak doesn’t mean I can’t show my strength.
“Eh?!”
I was always the ‘weak one’ there.
■
I dashed forward, quickly closing the distance with Yena.
Yena, slightly flustered, deftly dodged the thrusting spear.
In an instant, she sidestepped and instead of attacking with her dagger, she lightly moved behind me.
She seemed to want to see my reaction.
I reeled in my spear, then struck back.
Yena dodged.
Even with the same specs, my opponent was a nimble assassin.
An assassin skilled in ‘movement’ and ‘evasion’ isn’t exactly suited for support in battle.
An assassin holds a positional advantage, moving much faster and unpredictably than the opponent, but using combat support dulls that pattern.
Using it makes that pattern monotonous.
To put it simply, unpredictable movements become predictable.
That’s why assassins are very vulnerable against opponents used to combat support.
An assassin whose movements can be easily anticipated is just like a swordsman wielding a short blade.
“…?”
But an assassin who doesn’t use combat support is different.
They have independent movement routes that create infinite variables outside the set patterns of combat support.
“Pretty fast, right?”
Yena dodged my spear as she moved deftly without attacking.
She intentionally left openings but observed my reactions instead of attacking.
It seemed like a kind consideration, but…
‘Is it okay for me to attack?’
In fact, I was wondering more about whether it was fine to stab with the spear.
Even though it’s virtual reality, can I really kill someone?
It’s not like I’ve never killed a person before, but I haven’t just killed indiscriminately like a pleasure killer.
Aside from humans who displayed hostility, I had never killed anyone.
‘Might as well test my skills too.’
“It’s fine! You can attack!”
Yena yelled at me as I hesitated.
Is that so?
“Well then.”
I swiftly swung my spear towards Yena’s moving path.
Actually, it would be more accurate to say I just ‘stood there.’
“Cough!”
The spear shot forward at a high speed, disregarding the human body structure.
With a sound of clang! Yena quickly blocked with her dagger and was sent flying away.
Yena slammed into the blue curtain.
How did she block that?
It was supposed to be a real attack, after all.
Her bear-like eyes widened in disbelief as she looked at her trembling hands.
Then, as if fueled by some determination, she charged at me with two daggers.
‘The one on the left… is a fake.’
“…!”
Ignoring what looked like an afterimage of the dagger from her skill, I deflected the dagger coming from the right with the tip of my spear.
Clang~ The sound of metal clashing echoed throughout the arena.
Yena retreated once more.
And then she moved once again behind me.
‘It’s a skill.’
Seeing her move backwards ‘for sure’ without any flow of strength or resistance, it seems like a skill that moves her behind the opponent.
It seems like a movement skill.
What would the skill name be… maybe something like ‘Backstab’?
That’s what it was called where I possessed her.
I ended up grabbing Yena’s back instead.
Her eyes widened as if they were about to pop out.
She has a skill that allows her to do that, but I had the blood of the Celestial Race.
Hoo-k!
“What…”
“I’ve won, haven’t I?”
A patternless spear pierced through Yena.
Instead of green blood or organs gushing out, a blue effect took their place.
Only one voice echoed over the battlefield.
[RED WIN!]
Looks like I was Red.
■
[?]
[?]
[?]
[Held my breath and watched.]
[…What the heck did I just see?]
[Is that a newbie?]
[What was that speed just now? Countering a Shadow Leap like that lol]
[??????????????]
[What the hell is this?]
[What the…?]
[Winning against an assassin as a spearman. Is this for real?…]
[And not just any assassin lol, but a ranked assassin vs. a newbie spearman.]
[Info: Not even a spearman, just a beginner with a spear.]
[Whose alt is this?]
As each round of messages went back and forth, the chat window shook, and as Lily began to move in earnest, silence fell. Finally, when it all ended, the chat exploded.
The community members and Twitch viewers who gathered upon hearing the news flooded Yena’s stream like crazy.
Still sitting in disbelief over the battle outcome, Yena stared blankly at the viewer count.
Real-time viewers increasing.
27,901.
31,400.
35,217.
39,51…
“Ah!”
“What’s wrong?”
“The stream just exploded.”
The stream exploded.
Yena let out a hollow laugh.
Everything that just happened felt like a dream.
There’s no way such ridiculous things could happen in succession otherwise.
Instead of turning the stream back on, Yena looked at Lily, who was idly fidgeting with the spear.
“Lily-san.”
And only one thought settled in her mind.
“Do you perhaps plan to stream?”
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