[Breakfast4life: "Look at that leap! Yooo! How powerful is that buff you gave him?!"]
[Your Daddy: "Just pocket change to me. Share the stream already, I want more people here to witness this!"]
My legs felt absurdly powerful. I shot four meters into the air as if gravity had stopped mattering, my fist crashing straight into the giant's hideous face. The ogre's skin was as hard as metal, and for a split second I thought my hand would break first.
But it was the monster that flew.
With a single blow, I sent the five-meter giant hurtling through the air, green blood bursting from its mouth as its massive body crashed backward.
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The system voice blasted through my skull so violently it felt like my head was about to split open. For a second, that endless ringing felt more dangerous than the battle itself.
I dashed after the ogre, desperate to make sure it was dead. If the fight ended, maybe the voices in my head would finally shut up too.
But I was reckless. A giant club flashed across my vision so fast that I could not even react. I barely managed to throw my arms up in front of my face before the impact sent me flying, my body smashing into the ground and tumbling across it like a broken ragdoll.
This time, though, the pain was manageable. It still hurt like hell, but at least I could force myself back up immediately. The problem was time. If I did not kill that monster in the next twelve seconds, I would go right back to being the same worthless nobody.
"Fuck!" I roared and burst forward again, ripping across the shattered ground with incredible speed.
[KittyCat: "He's actually pretty handsome. If he wins this battle, I might become a fan."]
[Golden Emperor: "Bitch, go watch your cat videos somewhere else. This livestream is for real men who enjoy bloody battles!"]
[KittyCat: "Fuck you. I can watch whatever I want!"]
"Shut the fuck up, all of you!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, barely slipping past another swing of the club. The weapon scraped across my left arm, crushing the bone with a sickening force. Pain exploded through me so violently I nearly blacked out, but I had no choice except to keep moving.
There was nobody left around me except corpses, the bodies of trash just like me who had died for absolutely nothing. Meanwhile, the elites were off on the other side of the battlefield, busy holding back the lower-level monsters.
"Focus on this! I'll show you all real entertainment!" I threw myself into a flipping dodge as the club smashed toward my feet, then twisted in midair and drove my foot down on the monster's head with every ounce of strength I had left.
The voices in my head died instantly.
The moment my foot connected, the ogre's head caved down into its shoulders, green blood bursting from its nose, mouth, and ears.
I crashed to the ground a second later, and almost immediately, a wave of weakness flooded through my body as the buffs ran out.
[Your Daddy: "Yooooo! He actually did it!"]
The voices crashed into my mind all at once, loud, chaotic, celebrating my first kill like it was some kind of show.
And somehow... it felt good.
[CrimsonDuck: "This stream is insane! Can we get another fight? Go hunt more monsters!"]
[Dimensional Frog: "Let him breathe. He just survived death. Push him too hard and we'll lose a good one."]
I clenched my teeth, irritation rising. None of them cared about me. To them, I was just entertainment.
Just like any other streamer people watched for fun... except these viewers didn't feel human at all.
Who the hell are they? Are they Another?No... that makes no sense. Why would they cheer for me to kill their own kind?
[Your Daddy: "Watch out, idiot!"]
A shadow swallowed me. The warning came just in time for me to realize my mistake.
The ogre...
I had forgotten about it. Its massive corpse was collapsing straight toward me, and my body refused to respond.
A cold wave of regret washed over me. I got drunk on power. And now I was going to die for it.
"No—" my voice cracked into a weak whisper.
Whoosh!
Something soft wrapped around my waist and ripped me out of the way before I could even understand what was happening.
The world spun before I slammed into the ground.
"What the hell are you doing here alone!?" A sharp, melodic voice snapped at me. "If I was even a second late— haaah! Damn it... I'm seriously going to die one day because of reckless idiots like you!"
I forced my eyes open. And the world seemed to stop.
She's... stunning.
A girl around my age stood over me, slightly bent forward, catching her breath. Chestnut hair fell around her face, her brown eyes sharp yet strangely beautiful, like something too perfect to be real.
Her black leather jacket clung tightly to her large breasts, her short skirt barely covering her thighs, fishnet stockings tracing the shape of her legs.
For a moment, I forgot how to speak.
But the chat didn't...
[Your Daddy: "Yo—WHO is that?! Kid, I'm serious, I'll drop a huge buff if you stream fucking her! No— I'll give you a full skill! You HAVE to get her!"]
[CrimsonDuck: "I'll add to that. A body like hers is hard to come by. Let us see her naked. My dick is already hard just thinking about her..."]
[KittyCat: "You're all so fucking disgusting. If he even dares to touch her, I'm out. Actually, I'll give you a skill as well if you don't sleep with her. I can't let any other woman sleep with my man!"]
[Breakfast4life: "Who made you king? Piss off. This dude is ours. We were here first. If we want him to fuck baddies, who's going to stop us?!"]
"What are you staring at?" She covered her cleavage, her furious eyes biting into my soul.
I spaced out for a second. Today's events were too much. I didn't even understand what the hell I was supposed to do now, but the temptation of a skill, and her body right in front of me, made me wish I could really score with a woman like her, especially since she had just saved my life.