Not A God

Chapter 76

[Yuya Civilisation]

To many of the Yuya people who live a normal life, everything seemed to be very sudden. In just half an hour, a huge storm suddenly broke out on the internet, and all the Yuya people were talking about an ugly looking NPC on the internet and forums. Pictures of the NPC were being circulated all over the place, and the level of fascination was so great that it seemed completely incomprehensible to the uninformed outsider.

Kana was one of them, and she frowned in revulsion at the virtual image projected in front of her.

What was so fascinating about a picture of a low-level civilisation with distorted features that could make people so obsessed?

Kana scanned through the posts, her curiosity getting the better of her. She searched through the posts and learned that it all started with a second-rate online game where the NPC was a character in a new copy of the game. Many people also claimed that the game had developed a new game engine that allowed people to boost their mental powers even by watching the game, a claim so exaggerated that no one with any common sense about mental powers would believe it. But the person in the post swore by it and even gave a link to the live stream for those who didn't believe in it to try it out.

Kana wasn't familiar with this second-rate online game called Otherworld, as she was more partial to another game that had recently become more popular, but she was half convinced by the number of posts on the forums. In order to find out if this was the truth, she clicked into the live stream recommended in the post, the live stream of a big host named Kimes.

The first thing that caught her eyes was a normal otherworldly setting, with nothing special happening at all, but the pop-ups on the screen seemed to be stimulated by the name "Zen". The screen was so thickly covered with text that it was almost impossible to see the game. Before Kana could impatiently send a message asking what the hell was going on, the screen started to change and a thin humanoid figure appeared on the screen.

It was a dark-haired, dark-eyed young man, not too dissimilar to the screenshots of those photos in the previous post, only with a more vivid expression. He was strolling through the wild mountains, and everywhere he passed was filled with scarlet flesh and blood, the sky was dyed crimson with the colour of blood, like a moving natural disaster bringing an unprecedented deadly infection to the entire game world.

Was this the ...... NPC?

Kana had originally harboured feelings of revulsion towards this ugly NPC, but when she actually betrayed her gaze on him, Kana understood for a moment the excitement and fascination of those netizens before. Looking at the fair-faced NPC in the picture, who kept walking towards the camera, Kana's pupils were slowly tinged with a scarlet colour similar to that of the flesh and blood behind the NPC, and she watched the scene in a trance.

Her eyes didn't blink, afraid of missing a single frame of Koshu, no longer feeling the disgust she felt before, but instead filled with inexplicable excitement and joy, like a humble believer seeing the god she believed in.

"...... almost forgot about you guys."

As if remembering something, the in-game Ke Su looked at the players near him. Almost forgot, these leaky ones had not yet assimilated, although the number was small, it was never too much to collect minions.

So, Zen raised his hand and did an [Assimilate].

Meanwhile, in the live stream, Kana heard the NPC on the screen make a sound, a voice that was even more beautiful than she had imagined, so beautiful that it was indescribable. She was so engrossed in it that she couldn't even tell the difference between reality and her dream. However, the next moment, she saw the NPC's white palm facing the camera, and a dazzling light then blossomed, covering the entire screen. The pop-ups that had been an eyesore disappeared in a flash, and the text that had been quickly swept by vanished without a trace.