Black Online

Chapter 269: Stream of the Strongest

2nd floor, Winter Village, the Hero Statue Square, late in the night.

"Uwo... uwo..."

The baby Hero pointed towards the statue, recognizing the young man, and Opal gently touched his head.

"Yes, he is the one..."

She whispered into his ears.

At that moment, as the locals were about to start heading back to their homes, they suddenly heard shouting.

"THEY HAVE RETURNED!"

The locals looked confused, asking, "Who has returned?" and then they looked towards the village gates.

Battered and beaten, but still smiling, the guards, who were presumed dead, stepped into the village, limping and covered in dirt.

"Oh my god!"

The family members of the guards immediately ran over to them and gave them the tightest hugs ever.

Opal hugged her baby against her chest and, with teary eyes, looked at the guards, wishing to see a familiar face.

And at that moment...

From behind the guards, a familiar-looking man stepped forward, and he looked around the village, as if he were looking for someone.

At that moment, he caught sight of the teary-eyed Opal and the baby in her arms, and without further ado, he immediately started making his way over to them.

"Husband!"

Opal cried tears of joy, and then her husband embraced both her and the baby while the baby, Hero, kept making happy sounds.

"...Whew."

Onion let out a sigh of relief after seeing him return back home in one piece, and then, again, he looked at the statue.

It was all his doing...

He put his hands together, whispered a prayer, and closed his eyes.

...

[You are dead!]

Floating in a dark world, Fang Raon stared at the notification in front of him with neither happiness nor sadness.

It was indifference.

’I am dead... Oh well. I had already been preparing for this. Anna will be so pissed at me.’

Fang Raon sighed, and then he pulled open his interface, and for the last time with his account, he pressed the log out button.

His consciousness immediately traversed back into the body lying inside the Virtual Reality Pod, and slowly, his eyes opened.

"Yawn..."

Fang Raon stretched his arms above his head, and then he climbed out of the pod and let out another loud yawn.

He was tired and hungry.

With tired steps, he quickly went to take a quick trip to the kitchen, and his heated food was already waiting on a tray.

Instead of eating in the dining hall, he headed straight back to his room and sat down at the desk by the window.

While eating, he opened the computer.

’I wonder how my video is doing...’

After going to the Lagless website, he checked the current stats of his video, seeing that it had pretty much reached the peak number of views.

[143,456 Views - 4,354 Likes/115 Dislikes]

’It won’t get much more views than that.’

Fang Raon then checked his current subscription count and noticed that it was also quite low compared to other popular LaglessTubers.

[Subscriptions: 121]

’To get more subscriptions and even more views in the first video, I would need to start making more videos.

’However, I am just so busy that I don’t have time for it, and I also really want to start streaming in the future, but it’s hard when I am so busy.’

He thought.

BANG~! Out of nowhere, the door of his room banged open, and angry-looking Anna marched in like a drill sergeant.

"BROTHER!"

She screamed, and seeing him just chilling by the computer, eating delicious food, made her really pissed off!

"I know what you’re about to say. Nothing will change. I’ll respect my promise, and I will still keep helping you.

"Just get me the new game card, and I’ll speedrun the first floor tomorrow so I can join you immediately for the boss raid of the second floor."

Fang Raon said.

"We had such a good start with the completion of the King Angry Rat quest, and you received such a powerful Innate Skill too!

"Now, you’ll be level 1 and much weaker as a result. It’ll take you a long time to catch up now!"

Anna shouted, huffing and puffing in anger.

"It’s just the Newbie Floors. Level 1 is fine for those. I’ll eventually reach level 2. Sure, I highly doubt that I will get Innate Skill as powerful as Heat Gaze, but I’ll make it work somehow."

Fang Raon said.

Sure, it stung him to lose such an amazing skill, but in the end, he didn’t think that he needed it to be successful.

"I’ll get you a new game card. And as a reward for the completion of the Secret Quest, I got really good items, but I will sell them and use the money to purchase you better equipment."

Anna said.

"...Secret Quest?"

Fang Raon raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, that was apparently a Secret Quest. Everyone participating in the mission got their own special rewards."

Anna said.

"...Oh, wow."

Fang Raon said.

He let out a sigh of relief, as he was worried that once he returned to the second floor, those angry players might hunt him down for lying about the reward!

Now it made it seem like he was always aware of the Secret Quest. It worked well to his favor.

"This is the last time you do something as stupid as this. Is that understood? You’re lucky that this was just the second floor.

"On the 20th floor, if you happened to die, then that would be pretty damn annoying. Do you understand, brother?"

Anna asked angrily.

"Sure thing, Anna. I won’t do anything like this anymore. I will listen to you from now on."

Fang Raon said with a smile.

"...Good!"

Anna raised her chin haughtily, and she then stomped out of the room and slammed the door behind her.

Fang Raon finished eating, and he then pushed the tray aside and then typed "DeadPixel" on the keyboard and hit ’Enter’.

The streaming website opened up in front of him.

’What are the players doing currently...’

He felt curious and pressed the "Most Popular Streamers" tab and came across several streamers with hundreds of thousands of viewers.

However.

Right at the top, there was the clear number one streamer, currently with over a million viewers—somehow.

It was a streamer called "LeonHardt."

’LeonHardt... Could it be the Leon D. Hardt of Dead Redemption? The strongest player in the entire Black Online?’

Fang Raon gulped.

If he really was the strongest player in the entire Black Online, it would make sense why he had over a million viewers.

He really wanted to watch the best player do his magic!

With an excited look, he grabbed the mouse and double-clicked on the stream, and the stream opened up on the screen.

The chat window was on the subscription-only mode, but it was still moving so fast that he could barely see anything.

The stream title was "Exploring the new floor—56th floor—with the rest of the Dead Redemption members!"

At the stream.

He saw a silver-haired man—handsome like no other—standing by the window, looking outside at the police officers surrounding the place.

As the camera turned, he saw other people there with him—but he only focused on one person—and it was Lock Manchester.

’It’s really him...’

Fang Raon narrowed his gaze.

’I wonder what is going on. Are those locals police officers? That is interesting. I don’t think there have been any police officers on any other floor that I’ve encountered.’

Fang Raon thought.

At that moment, the camera turned to the stairs, and from there, two people walked downstairs—he recognized both of them.

One of them was his brother, Fang Raizen, and the other person was Kerr Gehram!

’What an insane line-up.’

Fang Raon sweated coldly.

...

56th Floor, Cliffside City, Hotel Abronus, currently surrounded by the police officers of the Cliffside Yard

"It looks like they are planning to breach."

Hermes Moon giggled.

The officers of the Cliffside Yard were gathering over at the southern gate, and they brought with them some breaching tools, such as sledgehammers and crowbars.

"Haha!"

Leon laughed, and he then grabbed the floating camera beside him and made it point straight at his face.

"For the new viewers, we’ve just started exploring the new floor of the 56th, and we happened to find something interesting.

"Cliffside City is not a Safe Zone, but it is being policed by the Cliffside Yard. They investigate and then arrest anyone breaking the law.

"And those breaking the law will be thrown into jail. So in here, you don’t get banned from the city but get thrown into jail instead!

"I don’t know how long a player is forced to be in the jail, but since the ban from the city is usually one month, I assume that you would need to spend that long in jail too.

"That’s a very harsh penalty!

"You basically cannot play the game at all for one whole month. With the ban, you can at least explore the world outside the city.

"But not in here!

"So why are we being currently chased by the Cliffside Yard? Well..."

Leon wryly smiled and turned the camera to point towards a yellow-haired man, who was acting innocent.

"Rasmus, want to explain?"

"I am innocent!"

Rasmus shouted.

"...So it wasn’t you who waltzed into the mayor’s office, made fun of his wife, and then ran off with his prized antique vase?"

Rook asked.

"It was... not not me."

Rasmus laughed.

Everyone just rolled their eyes, as he was the guy responsible for their current dilemma, as they couldn’t explore the floor in peace because of him!

SMASH~! At that moment, the southern gate was breached, and the Cliffside Yard officers started flooding inside the hotel.

"Enough of chitchat. Who wants to handle these officers?"

Leon asked.

"Whose turn is it?"

Hermes asked.

Everyone thought for a moment, and then one by one, they turned to look at the ugly-looking Seonwoo Kim.

"Kim, do you mind?"

Leon asked with a smile.

"...Fine."

Seonwoo Kim said, sounding very unfeminine even when she spoke, and she then started making her way downstairs.

"Follow her."

Leon told the camera, and it flew after the troll-like woman, and soon, the camera witnessed the sight of the door blasting open.

Cliffside Yard officers stormed inside, weapons in hand, and then—they felt the ground shake—as the heavy-armored Seonwoo Kim made her way down the stairs.

"Surrender now!"

The Police Chief screamed.

"No."

Seonwoo Kim simply replied with her ugly voice, and she then pulled out her heavy greatsword from the back.

She was the strongest Tank in all of Black Online, and she was also the ultimate goal of Fang Anna—she was the one that she had to defeat to become the strongest Tank in the tower.