NOVEL ONLINE FREE B4 | Chapter 50
Somewhere in Dimensional Block #108
Astrid frowns as she opens the livestream showing her sister before immediately finding her and Luna stuck underwater in the middle of an ocean. Then she glances at the corner of the livestream to find an icon with three bars. And after selecting it in her mind, the bars extend to show a few options.
The first option is something that says 'Viewing Rooms' while the second option lets her follow the user she is watching to let her know if anything important is happening to her. Such as her fighting a mini boss or boss monster in the dungeon.
So she immediately selects that option to follow her before looking at the third option that appears. One that lets her sponsor her sister through burning System Items in order to give her sister whatever form of energy the user uses. Which would be soul for her sister.
Astrid ignores that option for now before selecting the viewing room option out of curiosity. At which point she finds more screens and messages appearing explaining what it is. Which pretty much comes down to it being a feature that allows people to set up large viewing rooms where they can commentate on the Dimensional Champions competing in the dungeon with an audience watching them.
They can even charge for entry into their viewing room once three days have passed since the start of the championships.
But for now it's free for anyone to enter all viewing rooms.
So Astrid just enters the viewing room that has the most people in it out of curiosity. At which point she finds herself appearing within a large stadium with hundreds of people appearing all the time. Probably all people who also decided to enter the most populated room.
And the moment she appears, she hears a rather excited male voice shouting, "And look at her go! Those piranhas don't stand a chance against the Reaper herself!"
Astrid looks up right as a female voice responds to the male one, saying, "They never did and never will, Joe! Y'know, at first I was afraid of the Reaper, and I doubt I was the only one. But watching her now makes her seem a lot more normal, don'cha think?"
That makes Astrid frown for a moment, only for her eyes to finally settle on the two people speaking, along with the livestream they're floating next to at the center of the large stadium.
A livestream showing her sister as she annihilates a school of piranhas with rather clear irritation showing on her face.
"I understand how you feel," the commentator known as Joe says, making Astrid glance at him again. "Seeing the Reaper floundering around underwater while being assaulted by piranhas even if she is annihilating them with ease makes it a lot easier to see her in a light that's not terrifying. But I'm sure some of us will be feeling that fear again when she goes up against some truly terrifying opponents later on."
"You're probably right about that," the unnamed female commentator responds, although Astrid gets the feeling the two commentators are twins or at least siblings judging by their appearance. "But how bad must the Quantum Reaper's luck be to end up in the middle of an ocean of all things?! Only a few other Champions ended up in the ocean!"
As if to showcase that, several other livestreams appear around the stadium showing other Dimensional Champions. Some of whom are in jungles, others regular forests, and some are even underground.
But only three other Champions are in the ocean with Alexia. And none of them look too happy either.
"Wait, look here! One of the Champions has already found a mini boss!" Joe exclaims, bringing Astrid and the many gazes within the audience over to look at a screen that soon appears in the place of Alexia's screen. With Alexia's screen moving off to the side. And within the screen shows a man who many in the audience recognize as the King of Heaven. The last surviving ruler of the angel species.
On the screen, the angel king is seen flying high in the sky above the clouds as he grits his teeth looking at the large flying serpent in front of him.
One that is nearly fifty levels above the angel king.
That poor king just can't catch a break…
Astrid frowns as the audience watches him struggle against the flying serpent, with some of the audience seemingly growing invested and even happy about the seemingly impending death of the king. No doubt all people of different Dimensional Blocks from the Block he is the Champion of.
And that alone reminds Astrid of something very important.
Everyone may be here for the Reset, and they're all watching these livestreams, but that doesn't mean none of them want to kill each other.
Because it is still every Dimensional Block for themselves.
Astrid grits her teeth a little at that thought, only to notice some of the audience looking her way. Probably because she's a Class S species.
She ignores them all though as she focuses on her sister's livestream, which soon appears at the center of the stadium again after the angel king miraculously manages to escape from the mini boss alive. Albeit not unharmed. Discover hidden content at My Virtual Library Empire
Which disappoints a lot of the audience, proving just how bloodthirsty they are.
What surprises Astrid though is that despite their obvious fear of Alexia, they all seem to at least be neutral in regards to her. In fact, a lot of the people seem very interested and excited to see her feats in the dungeon.
I guess the System hyping her up to everyone has some benefits. If it makes her the only one who isn't a universal target for the people's hostile intent that is.
Astrid narrows her eyes a little as her sister teleports through the ocean seemingly at random, only occasionally killing monsters that show up as she does so.
But will they still feel this way when she kills off their Champions?