Chapter 296 - 21: Livestreamer Nao (1/2)
Year 2126 January 2nd, Yggdrasil, Morning
”Tabula.”
”What is it? Are you still trying to admire my beauty?” Tabula asked, tilting his head to the side. It caused his straight jacket like clothes to shake up and down, together with his circular black studded headpiece.
Nao received a sudden urge to gag and almost coughed seeing his body move like that. But he managed keep it down and responded to him calmly.
”Can you not do that?”
Hearing Nao ask that, Isabella let out a rolling eyes emote. A bunch of smile emotes emerged from Tabula before a laugh came out.
”Hahaha! I'm only kidding with you. You said you wanted to continue what you talked about briefly yesterday right? Something about having more free time on your hands?”
”That's right. Due to some...circ.u.mstances, I've retired from my manager position from the company I've been working at. This was to start pursuing a dream of mine. Which is livestreaming!”
”Livestreaming, huh? Can't say I've dabbled much in that area myself. I'm more into the myths behind this game. It's always lovely to see things we don't typically see every day get personified. Plus I've heard the scenery in Yggdrasil is fantastic. Much better than our shithole of a planet. Even Helheim looks better, and it's said Helheim is the land of the dead.”
”Heh, that much I know. I'd rather spend my time watching stuff go down in here than in the real world, so I share your same sentiment. But as we go along journey, I want to livestream the unknown areas we venture into. Mostly for hobby but if we can earn some cash off of it, that wouldn't hurt either.”
”Why do I get the feeling you don't need money by doing this? Well, it matters not. Me personally I'm not against it but if you go plaster yourself over the net with ne tagging along with you two, you'll be a walking target. Are you willing to take that risk?”
”Heh, sounds like the scuffle you had with Trinity was not a mere scuffle. But yeah, I'm resolved to do this. Besides, once people start finding out how special our class is, it's only going to get worse from here on...”, Nao continued to say as he trailed off into his own thoughts.
A momentary silence soon spread out between the three.
”It's only going to get worse from here on? Are you referring to how special our Heteromorphic classes are? I was curious myself as to why we gained three times as much as normal Human classes did. We'll need to be extra careful if we chance upon any of them. I doubt many will show up here considering the difficulty of the realm we're currently in.”
”Right? I'd just like to keep this at the back of your mind when we venture in further, especially when we reach Helheim City, and I'll keep your warning in mind.”
After Nao said that, Tabula nodded his head. Nao didn't know when the discrimination against the Heteromorphic class would start. It could happen within the first year of the game, or it might not spring up till a few years down the line.
Either way, it was inevitable for it to happen. Nao found it a good thing too that Tabula didn't get killed by those Trinity players. They were probably Heteromorphics themselves, as he didn't spot a single Human or Demihuman around his location.
Once people start discovering that there are no penalties to killing Heteromorphic players, the era of PKing will likely begin. Heteromorphics are essentially monsters, but with a player controlling the monster's body. They'll drop equipment and lose their 5 levels upon death and can't do anything about it.
But with that in mind, the three would tread deeper into Helheim. Yet Nao saw Tabula tilt his head to the side causing his body to shake. Nao shuddered again hearing this. Tabula's appearance was akin to that of a monster that ran away from an insane asylum. With his head replaced with that of a squid with four long tentacles going down the sides of his body. The rest of his look was thst of BDSM gear with a straight jacket like bodysuit to boot.
If Nao had to say, he was the embodiment of grotesque. But this was something he had to get used to. If Nao wanted Albedo to be by his side, and possibly Rubedo as well, he needed to make sure Tabula would still create the three and ensure he had the capabilities to alter the two's background information after Tabula retires from Yggdrasil.
But that wouldn't happen for at least another decade and after Tabula joins Ainz Oowl Gown in the near future. So for now he put this at the back of his mind as well. He then saw Tabula speak once more.
”Got it. When will you be starting up this livestreaming service of yours? Do you even have the proper equipment set up?”
Continuing the topic of livestreaming, Nao responded directly.
”I went through the notions of setting everything up this past week or so, so you don't need to worry about my equipment. My dashboard is all prepped and ready too. I just need to crop a good screen size and initiate it. As for when I'd start it...I was mainly thinking of livestreaming our dungeons and overworld explorations. Raids will come later if we meet up with more people. Do you two have any problems with that?”
”None from me.”, Tabula simply answered.
”Me neither! From the looks of it this Icy Soul Wasteland is our next destination then. Its filled with graves and I can hear bones clattering in the distance, so we'll probably be fighting lots of Skeletons. We can clear it in a breeze with your light magic! I bet they're super weak against it!”, Isabella responded while sending out another smile emote.
”Most likely they are. Hold on I'll start it up now.”
The two nodded their heads. The cool thing about being in a virtual world was that he didn't have to actively close the game window. He minimized the screen a bit and saw the main hub. Finding Twitch 2.0 app, he launched it.