Streamer Crazy About Slaughter - Chapter 11
**KWAANG!**
With the tremendous momentum of the great sword hitting Hana, her character was quickly bounced against one side of the Colosseum wall.
**PUCK!**
The elf character crashed into the wall with a terrifying sound, and her vitality gauge visibly dropped significantly.
“…This is really ridiculous.”
Feeling a slight sensation like a tap on her back, Hana immediately rose to her feet. A little dust was kicked up, obscuring her vision, but she could see a vague silhouette waiting for her to get up instead of continuing to attack.
Looking at her status window, she realized that her vitality gauge was down to about 20 percent.
Then she glanced at the chat window situated to one side.
[Tullia is still doing better]
[For real, even if Hana does well, Tullia will never lose]
[Is this all everyone can do?]
[LOL, it seems like Tullia is just supporting Hana out of the pleasure of beating her]
Perhaps due to the heated discussions, Hana couldn’t help but chuckle at the rapidly scrolling chat.
Yet, there was one particularly annoying comment that stood out.
‘What? Is this all you guys can do?’
It seemed that those who couldn’t even confirm their tier were the ones chatting nonsense or belittling the streamer. And today, with an unusually high number of viewers, that trend seemed particularly pronounced. Annoying comments kept catching her eye.
With her expression slightly hardened, Hana finally got up and took her twin swords again.
Tullia. It was clear, as a user placed in the Arena Diamond tier, that she was someone Hana felt overwhelmed by.
Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master, Grand Master, Challenger.
In the tier classification of Another World’s arena, the Diamond tier was certainly for top players, representing less than 1% of users.
Considering that she was hovering around the upper ranks of Platinum, it may have been normal for her to feel inferior to a viewer like Tullia.
Yeah, she knew that.
But still, she felt frustrated.
She was aware that she lagged behind in skill and equipment in every aspect, and the more she felt the gap through clashing swords, the more strangely only anger filled her heart.
“Guardian of the Forest.”
As Hana quietly called out the name of her awakening skill, a deep turquoise light began to envelop her.
This was the skill with the longest cooldown among her abilities, akin to an awakening skill.
It could only be used once every 6 hours, and the same cooldown applied in PVP arena matches.
This meant that she couldn’t use this skill while facing others afterward.
‘So, you’re just going to accept defeat.’
What’s the point of playing a game then?
Hana chuckled as she lifted her twin swords.
The brilliant green light began to tint the blades of her swords, slowly adding to their majesty.
“…I can’t win.”
She saw a viewer in front of her still looking at her arrogantly.
A muscular man exuding masculinity. The way he raised a great sword, as if it were nothing, appeared overly arrogant to her.
“Let’s see how long you can keep smiling.”
Muttering, she became aware of her now lighter body and shuffled her feet.
At that moment, she noticed objects around her moving sluggishly.
It was a phenomenon that arose from her accelerated body feeling time move slower to that extent.
In that transcendent sensation, Hana began to swing her twin swords in a trance.
CHA-CHING! CHA-CHA-CHA-CHING!!
In an instant, she pressured Tullia by striking the great sword, the green light continuously weaving through the air.
“Uh…?”
Tullia, who had been holding her great sword blankly, seemed flustered by Hana’s movements, and as Hana threw her dagger powerfully into the air, she kicked off the ground and launched her body into the air of the Colosseum.
That was merely a prelude to using one technique.
The twin swords that slipped from Hana’s hands began to scatter, releasing a colossal turquoise light across the air.
Simultaneously, Hana, while soaring in the air of the Colosseum, began to throw the splitting twin swords indiscriminately.
Ranger class. One of the skills that could be used in the awakened state of her awakening skill “Ecstasy of Spirits.”
Sasa sa sa sa sa sa saak.
“Ah, no, this is a bit…”
Ignoring Tullia’s panicked words, the twin swords continued to rain down on the user like a torrential downpour.
Amidst the countless daggers pouring onto the great sword, Tullia’s HP began to drop rapidly.
[Wow, Hana’s pre-movement is perfect]
[Isn’t this almost on the level of a ranker using it?]
[No way, is Hana really going to win?]
[Wait, throwing daggers like that doesn’t add power at all]
[Isn’t that disruptive?]
[Don’t attract aggro; it’s clearly intense]
[LOL, I purposely ignored her, and now you all give attention to this]
As Hana was confidently predicting her victory and admiring the praises in the chat, she noticed a continually annoying comment.
With over twenty thousand viewers and open chat for anyone, the chat was on fire due to disruptions and aggro.
‘What’s the manager doing? They should have taken care of those disruptive comments.’
At that moment, Hana frowned slightly.
Suddenly, a strong red light burst forth from below.
“Ah?”
As she turned her head from the chat in a daze, she felt a massive beam of red light surging towards her.
“Emergency Evade!!!”
Hana shouted urgently, and her body became translucent, allowing the colossal beam rushing to crush her to pass right through.
“Wait… Are they really using that?”
Tullia, incredulously, just chuckled in disbelief at the sight of Hana using the evasion skill that could only be used once a day in Another World during their PVP.
Tullia had already used the emergency evade while competing in the arena.
As a user of the warrior class, the recent technique that sent out the giant beam consumed most of her stamina, making it effectively a gamble.
And the moment of failure meant she had essentially lost any stamina to block the opponent’s attack.
“Ugh.”
Watching the dagger lodged in her neck, Tullia shook her head slightly while looking at the smiling Hana before her.
At the same time, her form began to vanish from the Colosseum with the blast of light.
“…I won!!!”
Hana raised her twin swords high, expressing her joy.
Unlike the smiling and overjoyed Hana, who looked like an elf, the reaction in the chat was cold.
[LOL, so Hana won’t do any more arenas?]
[That was a pitiful victory, good job~]
[Tullia didn’t use her awakening or emergency evade at all, for real]
[A disgraceful victory! Hana wins!]
“Ah. What are these reactions, everyone? Winning is winning, and I gave it my all! What’s the problem? I’m Platinum, with lacking equipment, so I had to do this to win against a Diamond!”
Hana pouted, pretending to be upset as she said this, and immediately the chat began to shift, with praises for her victory starting to appear.
However, she knew those were not genuinely congratulatory messages but rather comments typical of “sycophants” trying to appease the streamer.
“Ugh, enough! From now on, I won’t be able to use anything else, so I’ll do the arena fairly, so everyone, stop! Now then, the next opponent is…”
While searching the chat, a particular message caught her eye, causing her to frown.
[Both of them sure can’t use weapons properly, is this fun?]
A viewer who caught her eye during the arena. The disruptive person she had thought was still typing in the chat.
“Manager!! Aren’t you managing the chat!?”
With a sharp voice, Hana stopped calling the next opponent and shouted in anger.
Even though the chat activity was unusually high today, making it hard to manage, this viewer had already annoyed her several times.
—[Manager: Hana, there are too many chats today, so it’s not easy to ban each one.]
The manager’s chat was displayed separately like a whisper, delivering the notification.
“Okay, I understand… but how can there still be disruptive comments without bans? Ugh, no, wait, manager, just a moment, everyone wait a little!”
Manipulating the holographic chat, Hana began to search for the person who had made the malicious comment.
Just because there were twenty thousand viewers didn’t mean that all of them were chatting.
Some were listening to the broadcast while doing other things, while others simply left the stream on like a radio.
Moreover, since the broadcast had stirred things about whether these were cheaters or not, the audience of twenty thousand was hyper-inflated.
As Hana continued to drag the chat, which had been rising endlessly, she soon separated one chat from the stream to create a separate hologram in front of her.
And within it, she began to scroll up to find the viewer who particularly got on her nerves.
After scrolling for a while, Hana finally found it.
“Found it.”
She uttered with a cold smile.
Nickname ‘Lin (rinhh)’
Clicking on the chat history among the streamer-specific buttons next to the ID revealed a stream of chat logs.
—Chat History
[Is this really impressive? That so many people watch just this?]
[If you swing twin swords like that, just quit already.]
[Great swords are just being swung terribly LOL, are those muscles just for show since you can’t even keep your balance?]
[Is this all the level everyone can do?]
[If you throw daggers like that, they don’t have any strength behind them.]
‘Just seeing the ID is infuriating.’
The chats were all disgustingly similar.
Not satisfied with belittling her, they mocked her and the viewers she was sharing the arena with, to the point of absurdity.
With a firm grip on her twin swords, Hana began to speak with a cutting glare.
“Lin. Lin. There’s a viewer named Lin, right? Since the arena started, you’ve been bothering my nerves with your chats. Could you show me your so-called impressive skills and share your Another World ID?”
Repeating the name like a mantra, Hana began to speak while looking at the chat.
[Hana’s really at her limit LOL]
[For real, if you were to chat like that, would it draw attention?]
[LOL, looks like she’s serious about public execution this time.]
[If it doesn’t come out when she speaks like that, it’ll be a permanent IP ban from now on, and you won’t be able to watch any other broadcasts.]
“Unless you give me your ID in Another World, I’ll be permanently IP banned from my broadcast and will report you as a malicious viewer. I’ve warned you beforehand. You’d better seriously think about it for the next two minutes.”
Hana, speaking in a cold and composed tone, brought a chill to the viewers watching the broadcast with her beautiful elf-like appearance.
At the same time, the previously unaffected chat window started filling up as if it were about to burst, rapidly climbing with comments.
[Is Lin afraid?]
[Hey, stop chatting already LOL, Hana won’t even be able to find it if you keep talking!]
[How long has it been since the last public execution? LOL, I haven’t seen Hana this mad in a long time!]
[Honestly seems just pathetic LOL, you should know your place.]
Hana continued to silently observe the chat rising with cold eyes.
On one hand, she felt her annoyance, but at the same time, her prolonged anger kept the chat lively, causing the viewer count to rise in real-time.
It was undoubtedly a not-so-bad choice in terms of broadcasting.
Yet, she didn’t want to show this angry side to her viewers. Who would find it entertaining to watch someone genuinely angry?
It was one of the reasons Hana had felt from watching other streamers, leading her to avoid showing such emotions as much as possible.
‘…Sometimes, I need to lay down the law with these pests.’
Sometimes, showing such a side was necessary.
“You have 30 seconds left, ‘Lin.’ If you don’t write your Another World nickname, I’ll still permanently IP ban you from my broadcast and report you as a malicious viewer. I might be a relatively influential streamer, and I won’t let it go easily.”
Hana steeled herself and slowly began to speak.
The two minutes she had given had now only ten seconds left.
As her hand hovered slowly over the “permanent IP ban” option beside Lin’s character, suddenly, a new chat appeared.
—[Lin: My character ID is Lin (rinhh), so please invite me.]