Episode 12. Face-to-Face (5)
The PD’s eyes went wide as he casually checked his email, just like any other day.
“Ooooh! Rudisa! Rudisa!”
Mr. Ted, who hadn’t shown much of a reaction despite the countless emails sent over the past several months!
A reply had finally come from him.
And what a reply… an extremely positive one!
The PD hurriedly called the direct hotline to the CEO’s office.
“Is this true?”
—Yes! Rudisa! Mr. Ted sent a personal reply saying he wishes to stream on our platform. I’ve forwarded it to Rudisa’s email as we speak!
“Excellent. What about the contract?”
—I’m planning to fly out tomorrow afternoon. We actually have one more user to sign an additional contract with, anyway.
The PD smiled.
With this, Rudisa TV’s personal streaming platform service would successfully launch in Korea.
They had managed to recruit two individuals with potential, as far as they were concerned!
* * *
A few days later.
Cheon Gyeong-u shaved and got dressed for the first time in a while.
Cheon Gyeong-u knew nothing about fashion—not even the first letter of the word—but he did own one custom-made suit that was fairly atmospheric. He put it on and stopped by a hair salon to get his hair done.
Because today was the day he would sign the contract with Rudisa TV.
‘I’ve really gone and done it now.’
Normally, he could have met and signed the contract inside Face Chronicle. However, Cheon Gyeong-u was currently in the middle of a 40-day quest, making even that impossible.
‘How long has it been since I dressed up to go out… Feels quite fresh. Anyway, it’s that café over there, right?’
Just then, a message appeared on Cheon Gyeong-u’s hologram bracelet.
Cheon Gyeong-u sent a reply saying it was fine. These days he had time to spare, so 5 minutes was no problem at all.
Cheon Gyeong-u, who had entered the café first, sat at the corner window seat where they had planned to meet.
‘Huh?’
But then, a woman came and sat down across from him.
‘Who is she?’
Cheon Gyeong-u glanced at her.
Brown hair parted cleanly down the middle in a style that fell long to her waist, refreshing features, and pretty eye makeup. A black choker crossing her neck contrasted with her pale skin. Moreover, the two shoulders revealed by her off-shoulder top were white and flawless.
No matter how he looked at it, it was a face he had seen somewhere before.
‘Ah, no way…’
Suspicion creeping up on him, Cheon Gyeong-u naturally raised his fingers to his eyes and imagined covering her hair around her shoulder level.
Her face, now looking like a neat bob cut…
Surprisingly, it looked extremely similar to
Just then, their eyes met as she turned her head.
‘What the. Why is she here?’
Convinced she was Elli’s player, Cheon Gyeong-u met her gaze with an uncomfortable feeling.
‘There’s no reason to talk to her for no reason.’
He soon turned away and began searching for articles on his hologram bracelet. There was simply no reason to get close to her.
But just as Ted was about to avert his gaze.
“Ted?”
She spoke to him. It was a clear, but not particularly bright, voice.
“….”
“Nice to meet you. I’m Yoon Hui-su, the player of ‘Elli’.”
“Nice to meet you. I’m Ted.”
“Are you here to sign a contract?”
Unlike in the game, where she kept her mouth shut and just beat up monsters, she seemed like an ordinary woman in real life and spoke naturally.
“That’s right. Are you perhaps a Rudisa TV staff member, Elli?”
“No? I’m also here to sign a contract. I’m waiting for the Rudisa TV staff.”
“Ahh, I got a message earlier saying they’ll be a bit late. About 5 minutes.”
She nodded.
‘So this woman was also scouted as a creator.’
She was more than qualified. Despite playing alone without connections to anyone, she had quite a few fans.
The only questionable thing… was why she, who had only ever soloed until now, was trying to become a BJ streamer? But they weren’t close enough to ask something like that yet.
Then she smiled slightly and spoke to Cheon Gyeong-u. Suddenly, Cheon Gyeong-u felt like her front teeth looked like a rabbit’s when she smiled.
“Um, sorry for attacking you back then. I was going after a demonkin with a bounty on its head… I really didn’t know you were that demonkin at first.”
“Ah, well, it’s just a game so it doesn’t matter. If anything, I… hmm, but back then, you attacked me even while knowing it was me, didn’t you?”
She giggled at Ted’s words.
“Back then, I didn’t want you stealing the monster I had my eye on….”
“Right? I didn’t want to back down either.”
Ted chuckled too.
He hadn’t quite figured out what kind of woman she was yet, but all in all, she didn’t seem like a bad person.
Moreover, the image Ted had of
“Ooooh! Sorry I’m late! Ted! Elli!”
Then, belatedly, a Rudisa TV representative appeared. The man who introduced himself as Peterson was a Caucasian, as expected, and could speak English converted into Korean through an interpreter device, and listen to Korean converted into English.
Peterson treated Cheon Gyeong-u and Yoon Hui-su to coffee, then formally presented the contract.
“Shall we begin the discussion then!”
He talked enthusiastically about the contract-related matters, trying to persuade the two.
A one-year exclusive BJ contract!
Promising a minimum commission on revenue while providing various supplies and conditions needed for broadcasting. Furthermore, there were various promotional strategies such as promotion through Rudisa TV shows.
In exchange, the BJs only needed to help produce one small banner on YouTube for Rudisa TV platform promotion, lend a simple model image, and a few pieces of content for platform promotion.
Yoon Hui-su listened roughly, nodded, and soon signed the contract.
“Do you understand as well, Mr. Ted?”
“Yes. Of course. However, there are a few more things I need.”
From then on, Cheon Gyeong-u spoke his mind.
First of all, his YouTube account was tied up. Therefore, he needed a new account to upload videos made for the Rudisa platform to YouTube.
“Oh, you don’t need to worry about that! We’d actually prefer to give you a creator-exclusive account for Rudisa TV!”
“That’s great. Hm, and there’s one more thing I’d like to ask.”
As Ted had found out, the personal streaming platform
If a BJ got on the Main, their exposure would explode. Attracting viewers depended on the content… but at the very least, they could make an impression.
Ted requested that.
“Oh! We were already planning to feature you on the Main, of course. Hahaha. You don’t need to worry.”
“Ah, what I want is for you to put me on the Main exactly one week from now.”
“One week… from now?”
“Yes. One week later.”
Peterson showed a briefly troubled expression at Cheon Gyeong-u’s words, then asked him an additional question.
“Mr. Ted. What kind of broadcast content do you plan to do in one week?”
“The broadcast content I’ll be doing that day is….”
Soon, upon hearing Cheon Gyeong-u’s words, Peterson’s mouth fell wide open.
The broadcast content Cheon Gyeong-u was planning. It was hot enough to be nothing short of a bomb. And from Rudisa TV’s standpoint, there was nothing problematic about it… truly content that would attract viewers like a bomb!
“Ooooh… dear me… understood.”
Soon Peterson called someone. And then he soon nodded an OK sign to Ted.
It meant they would assign him the Main slot in one week.
“Thank you.”
Cheon Gyeong-u gave a thumbs up.
* * *
Around the time the 40 days were almost up.
The Karon Kingdom had definitely been occupied by the Pixi Kingdom.
Only the final territory,
The Pixi Kingdom employed all manner of schemes and tricks to bestow titles of the Pixi Kingdom upon the royal bloodline, including the Karon Crown Prince.
And those who inherited the weakened royal bloodline had no choice but to fall for that temptation.
Twenty percent of the users left the Karon Kingdom and headed to other nearby kingdoms. The remaining fifty percent remained in Karon, swallowing their anger and vowing revenge. They remained to drive out the Pixi Kingdom, their pride wounded.
Without a focal point, they hoped that
Because of this, the fifty percent of Karon users harboring anger were still hiding everywhere, conserving their strength.
Finally, nearly thirty percent of users immediately switched their nationality to the Pixi Kingdom when Pixi merged with the Karon Kingdom. Their thinking was that there was no reason to suffer in a game meant for fun. Of course, there were quite a few who cursed such people.
Thus, countless users scattered according to their own wills.
It could truly be called an era of chaos.
And on that day.
The sky above one peak of the
Though no one saw, a transparent man leaped out from there.
“Phew. I’ve finally returned.”
The moment the man touched the ground, his transparency faded, revealing a teddy bear head.
He was none other than Ted.
Ted, who had cleared the 40-day quest from Shamushion, set foot on the Face Continent with an exhausted expression.
‘Now… shall I go find Brahman?’
Ted, who had been harboring doubts about whether he needed to attack Pixi.
Over the 40 days… Ted had been able to change that doubt into conviction.
It was precisely because of the sub-quest delivered to him by
‘Sun Liberator… I wondered what exactly he had liberated….’
At the point when the final quest began, Shamushion had said to Ted:
—Sub-quest Occurred—
Sun Liberator Shamushion wishes for you to walk the same path of life as him.
Depending on the success score of this quest
Will you accept?
The sub-quest content that appeared accordingly.
Ted, having opened the detailed status window, nodded.
‘This is an opportunity.’
When more people feel liberated through Ted, the success score of the sub-quest
The higher the success score… the longer the duration of the supernatural ability
Ted opened the status window of the second supernatural ability he had obtained this time,
—Through a connection with Sun Liberator Shamushion, you borrow his power.
(Duration: 10 seconds) (Cooldown: 7 days)
Ted slightly bit his lip.
Borrowing the power of the super-strong NPC, Shamushion? If he, who already crushed NPCs with a 300-level difference thanks to his +19 reinforcement, used
‘With this, I can take on the two Chinese guilds.’
He had never used it even once yet, but Ted could guess from the status window description alone. If he had become that strong when connected to a lesser demonkin, then if connected to someone on Shamushion’s level, it was safe to say he would be virtually invincible for 10 seconds.
‘If I can increase the duration of Connection… I absolutely must do it.’
There were two reasons Ted had been minding the two Chinese guilds until now.
First, he hadn’t had the capacity to protect himself. But now, Ted had the capacity to protect himself.
Second, his family could be put in danger. But that had also been resolved. Cheon Si-u had unified several guilds to create
Foreign news agencies speculated that
‘Now I can reveal myself.’
Having made that judgment, Ted headed toward Tomgrey.
Now, with everything just before it all began.
Because he needed one last piece of preparation.