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  “Streaming?”

  “Yeah! I’ve read about it ohere seems to be a huge surge of streamers for Fantasy Story Ohe game even provides a ureaming ability; it includes a chat and even the ability for viewers to subscribe and donate.”

  “Huh… But why would I ever do that, Chris?”

  Chris's brilliant idea ended up being somethied to social media's craze: the streaming of dungeon raids and battles, which had been increasingly being more popur.

  The game had been out for barely three days, but there were already hundreds of streams going one very day, and the news reports have stated that streamers that perform the best ive amazing tips to pyers ofte a lot of attention, including subscriptions and donations.

  Donations were also made using real-life money, but the streamer could even choose to immediately receive it as credit, which could give them easy money if they eaihe masses well enough.

  Naturally, even after hearing that, Paul wasn’t really into that.

  As arovert and someoh absolutely no ability to perform a “show” to eain the masses, he would probably freeze iutter while talking, and even more, bee terribly afraid of potential backsh, stalkers, or online bullying.

  So he wasn’t into the idea at all!

  “Why? I mean, wouldn’t you want to earn easy money? Also, you got that amazing trait; you could use it to easily raid the hardest dungeon in town and do a speedrun! I’m sure viewers might be ied in that,” Chris said. “I saeedruns were being pretty popur already. There’s a ranking board in every dungeon based oime; streamers create tent by stantly trying to speedrun it and surpass the previous clear time! It’s also on for streamers to do it in groups and parties; not many do it solo at all! You could be unique in that.”

  “But…” Paul liked the idea, actually, but he wasn’t made for that. “I ’t, I mean... Um, I have a bit of... Err, I am not that extroverted to act like a streamer that would appeal to younger audiences. I think I would e out as weird or dull.

  “Eeeh?! e on, dude, don’t throw yourself down like that! You’re pretty cool when you get serious in the game,” Chris said, patting his shoulders. “And well, leave it to me anyway! How about this? I’ll host your streams and introduce you; you simply have to nod to the viewers a going! We’ll synize our cameras together, so I show two perspectives: your first-person perspective and my third-person perspective! Pretty coht?”

  “Chris…” Paul felt slightly nervous, but he couldn’t help but think the cheerfulness of Chris was quite tagious, especially when he called him "cool." It made him secretly happy.

  Chris was weirdly really good at praising people, despite his teasing and bratty nature, ae ag a bit annoying at times, he pensated by ag nid supportive at the same time.

  He had a weird kind of banbsp;

  “e on!” Chris asked, giving Paul puppy eyes.

  “Why are you so obsessed with the idea? What do you gain? I mean, don’t you earn good money already, Chris?” wondered Paul. “Or do you just want attention and to bee an influencer? I’m not really into that, you know?”

  "Bleh, don’t be s; it’s not that.” Chris sighed. “I mean, well, don’t you want to earn money yourself? It would be a waste to not use your daily OP buff like this. Think about it.”

  “Hmm…” Paul groaned but then sidered that this was a game at the end, so he might as well not care. His identity IRL and his identity in the game were different, and he shouldn’t really feel so nervous. “Well, ok… Let’s try it once. If I like it a some donations, I’ll tinue, but I won’t be a that gets no viewers.”

  “Okay, sure~ I’ll assure you 100% yetting something out of this, bro,” Chris wi him coquettishly as the two made their way to the town square.

  Once more, they waited in lio ehe Dungeon Gate, and ohey got their turn, they quickly took a look at the avaible Dungeons.

  [Beginner Dungeorance: Reerength Tier 1 ~ 3]

  [Avaible Dungeons]: [Wild Dog Pins (Tier 1)] [Blood Bat King’s Cave (Tier 1~2)] [Obsidiaon Lord Lair (Tier 2 ~ 3)]

  There were also additional settings that the two had mostly ig first.

  And that was a difficult option.

  [Obsidiaon Lord Lair (Tier 2 ~ 3)]

  [Choose a Difficulty]:

  [Normal]

  [Hard]

  [Infernal]

  “Before we ehe first dungeon with the Normal Difficulty, each Difficulty increased the number of monsters, their strength, and their hostility, but I think there are higher ces of loot drops,” Paul expined.

  “Then go to Infernal right away!” Chris clicked on it without letting Paul decide.

  “Wait- Agh…”

  [You have selected the [Obsidiaon Lord Lair (Tier 2 ~ 3)] at Infernal Difficulty.]

  [Whenever you’re ready, please touch the Dungeon Gate to teleport inside.]

  [Dispying Clear Rankings…]

  [1: Starlight12: 1 Minute, 11 Seds.]

  [2: ILikeSmokingWeed: 1 Minute, 16 Seds.]

  [3: KneendBeg: 1 Minute, 22 Seds.]

  [4: LadyQueenie: 1 Minute, 27 Seds.]

  [5: NomoresSufferingplz: 1 Minute, 29 Seds.]

  […]

  Paul noticed the rankings were all quite close; it has been tough petition. And he could also imagihat these were all probably high-level pyers that had just e here to do this; low-level pyers could never pete with these people.

  But perhaps Vd, with his ten-minute buff as the Heavenly Demon, might be able to...

  “Alright, let’s begireaming befoing inside~,” Chris said, quickly managing things. “Let’s create a partner betweewo els and start streaming together.”

  “Okay…” Paul nodded, just clig “yes” to every single atus windopeared.

  Eventually, the stream began, and there were obviously zero viewers. Chris was left as the “manager” of the ehing, making the stream’s title and everything.

  Paul was nervous, standing there in silence, looking at the Dungeon Gate while tightly grasping his fists. The stream had two different points of view: one was of Chris looking at Paul, and the other was of Vd in first person.

  “Is it finally here? Yep, it is! Alright! Hello everyone~!” Chris immediately greeted the two viewers who had randomly appeared.

  [RandomGuy: Huh? Did I click the wrong video? This is not Queenie’s stream...

  [LOLOLOLOLL11: Woah, cute girl…]

  Chris smiled fasatedly at the two enters; this was just the beginning!

  “Heh, thank you~ But my avatar is male, haha! Thank you for ing! This will be a short stream; we’re going to do a speedrun and break the current record in the [Obsidiaon Lord Lair] Dungeon! Are you excited? We’ll totally demolish it~!”

  [3 more viewers have joihe stream.]

  [RandomGuy: Demolish it?? What is he talking about lol]

  [LOLOLOLOLL11: You’re a dude???]

  [Pigster1009: whats this]

  [Lostinthesauce: someoell me what's going on…]

  [5 more viewers have joihe stream.]

  [2 more viewers have joihe stream.]

  [Queeniafan1: whos is this whore lol]

  [Queeniafan1] has been automatically banned by the chatbot.]

  [1 more viewer has joihe stream.]

  [Cluelessguy1: breaking a ranking record? Yeah sure, you’re a bunch of noobs anyways…]

  [7 more viewers have joihe stream.]

  [Handsomebastard69: came for the cute femboy]

  [Husbandomaterial33: Wait, it’s a femboy??? Yoooooo]

  [LOLOLOLOLL11: gay]

  [4 more viewers have joihe stream.]

  [3 more viewers have joihe stream.]

  [5 more viewers have joihe stream.]

  Chris and Paul were quickly shocked; not even ten seds had passed, and over a dozen viewers were ing! Was it Chris's ess ihumbnail that was click-baiting everyoo entering?

  No matter, it was a good opportunity!

  “Everyone’s calling me a femboy now.” Chris thought quickly, deg to ighe ents and start. “So many viewers! Thank you so much for ing, everyone! Now, let’s begin! Vd, are you ready?”

  “Yeah,” Vd said with a calm tone of voice, his aura quickly shifting into one of gold, red, and bck.

  FLUOSH!

  [The Character Background Trait: [Heavenly Demon’s Soul (Legendary Grade)] has been activated!]

  [For 10 Minutes a day, you’ll receive 50% of the Heavenly Demon’s former strength and abilities. And all debuffs and status effects will be celed.]

  [However, your mind and body will be possessed by his unending rage, charisma, and personality!]

  “I’ll show all of our dear viewers… a good show,” he smiled, his transformation giving him a tremendous fidence boost.

  [Handsomebastard69: bruh who is that guy?]

  [Husbandomaterial33: That’s some strong buff; it even has shiny colors and everything.]

  [LOLOLOLOLL11: I don’t care about him]

  [RandomGuy: iing]

  [Pigster1009: mmm]

  [Lostinthesauce: what's going on]

  Paul decided to pletely ighe annoying ents. His eyes gring with golden light, Chris quickly flew towards him, toug his shoulder.

  FLASH!

  And both teleported ihe Dungeon.

  They immediately found themselves at the entrance of what resembled a dark and a castle. In front of them, there were already monsters moving to attack them.

  Over twenty Obsidiaons were all Tier 2 monsters of tremendous strength, whose bck bones were almost as hard as steel!

  To make things worse, they all came equipped with ons made of bones and rusty armor.

  “Graaah!”

  “Let’s begin, Chris. Try to catch up with me; I won’t slow down for you.”

  “Okay~”

  RUMBLE!

  Before Chris could see anything, Paul had already begun, rushing towards the skeletons like a ray of golden light and g against them with his single fist.

  {Bloon Arts}: {Infernal Onsught}!

  Activating his unique Martial Arts, Vd bined his a powers as the Heavenly Demon with his Blood Power, as crimson and golden energies verged into one.

  His Aura surged like a ferocious dragon, engulfing all twenty enemies in a huge explosion.

  BOOOM!

  The Obsidiaons were all torn to pieces, dying on the spot.

  The bad thing about the undead was that most of them wouldn’t yield any Blood or Life Energy for both Vd and Chris to grow stronger.

  But their steel-like bones, big beast cores, and the armor and ons they always dropped were good enough to make some money.

  Or for Paul to craft stuff ter.

  But for now, he was fully trated on the game.

  “Wait, Vd, don’t leave me behind! Holy shit guys, did you see that?!”

  Chris talked to the chat as she saw Vd already rushing forward.

  The Dhampir immediately started massag anything in his path.

  His fists moved at lightning speed as explosions of golden fmes and crimson energy engulfed everything.

  The entire Lair was structured as an old castle.

  Currently, there are 100 enemies, including the boss.

  Paul had already iigated the dungeoire yout ohere were five rooms before the boss, eae in a zig-zag order.

  With a single kick, he broke through the gate of ea, demolishing the skeletons with ease and making them explode into pieces.

  Chirs made sure to store everything as quickly as possible, following Vd using his flight skills.

  CRASH!

  With a single punch, he opehe gate of the boss as the Obsidiaon Lreeted them.

  The lugubrious atmosphere and the cold air became even thicker as the entity stood up, its crimson eyes shining brightly.

  “So a new challenger has appeared,” it said. “Now e and-”

  {Bloon Arts}: {Heaven Splitting Fist}!

  Vd didn’t wait for the boss to finish its words before his fists caved through the Skeleton Lord’s head, blowing it up and shattering the rest of its body.

  BAAAM!

  The boss colpsed immediately, without even being able to fight back.

  The entire chat was going insane, but Vd ighat.

  “D-Did you see that?! He one-shotted the boss so easily! What?! And he’s not even high-level! He’s only Tier 2!!!”

  Chris poi Paul in amusement and fasation.

  “What’s my record?”

  Vd looked at the system message.

  [You and your party have successfully cleared the [Obsidiaon Lord Lair (Tier 2 ~ 3)] on Infernal Difficulty!]

  [You have made a new Clear Record!]

  [Clear Time: 54 Seds.]

  [You have obtaihe First Rank in the Dungeon Clear Record!]

  The viewers kept increasing; it went from fifty to a huhen two hundred, five hundred, ohousand...

  There were already some big shots looking at the stream, their faces full of disbelief.

  “W-We did it! I told you guys, hehe!” Chris wi the chat. “54 Seds! New record! All the other losers could only do it within one minute, lol!”

  “What are you doing? Don’t provoke the big shots!” Paul muttered.

  “It’s fi’s just a game after all~” Chris shrugged.

  “Is… that so?” Paul didn’t think so much.

  Some people were already dedig their entire lives and time to this game.

  If they were mocked for their efforts, wouldn’t they retaliate?!

  But that wasn’t something that went through the little and cute head of Chris.

  “Well, let’s do it all ain!” Chris said. “Hey everyone, we’re doing the same with the other dungeons, so stay and see us break every record~”

  And just like that, the pair quickly ehe two other dungeons, clearing them ihan 40 seds each, breaking records once more.

  They were uo ehe same dungeht away due to the 10-minute cooldown, but that was more than enough to quickly eain the chat for this short stream, whily sted fifteen minutes.

  “I’ll edit this and reupload it as a video ter~ Thank you for ing, everyone- Woah!”

  [Handsomebastard69] has Donated 3: “That was awesome dude”]

  [Husbandomaterial33] has Donated 2: “Really cool stuff, you actually did it… femboy is cute too!”]

  [LOLOLOLOLL11] has Donated 10: “Take my money! Please do more streams together!”]

  [RandomGuy] has Donated 2: “You two make a good team NGL”]

  [Pigster1009] has Donated 3: “holy shit the other top pyers are probably shitting themselves out of frustration, lmaaao”]

  [Lostinthesauce] has Donated 20: “cool as shit”]

  “So many donations?!”

  “Eh? Really?!”

  Vd and Chris looked at the chat numbers as they gasped.

  They had no idea it would bee THIS popur!

  At most, Chris imagihey would get a couple dozen viewers, but they were soon to surpass three thousand.

  [LadyQueenie] has Donated 50: “You have potential… Want to do a colb together ter?”]

  [NomoresSufferingplz] has Donated 15: “I’m shocked… But gd that starlight idiot was overtaken”]

  [ILikeSmokingWeed] has Donated 5: “TF was that??? Are you using hacks???”]

  [KneendBeg] has Donated 50: “Holy, quite impressive”]

  [Starlight12] has Donated 100: “Well dohat was incredible! I wonder what Vd’s build is?”]

  “Wait all the top rankers appeared? H-Hi!” Chris muttered nervously. “T-Thank you for the donations… I am overwhelmed by yenerosity. We’ll make sure to do more! Right Vd?”

  “Eh? Y-Yeah…” Vd nodded.

  The two didn’t know what they had gotten themselves involved in!

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