Chapter 189: Wave Four Begins (2/2)

Arthur heard whispers fro place, and as he turned his head he saw a couple of people staring at hi Quinn waddling back with a bright snature?" Arthur asked hiroup

"Nope," Quinn responded, which made everyone's expression contort into a look of confusion

"Then why are you?" Arthur n, but she proht to my poster or the limited edition keyboard"

"You mean the keyboard you haven't cleaned in a year?" Arthur retorted

"The one that is growing its own ecosystem underneath its keys?" Holly joined in, "That one?"

"Poster it is" Quinn said as he lowered his head in embarrass interviews had slowly approached Arthur, and were now hovering around hiht?" One of the interviewers asked, to which Arthur simply nodded his head

"We'd love to interview you, the first person to share a gliame world" Another interviewer said

Arthur saw the doors to the facility open just in ti him a valid excuse to deny the interview

"Unfortunately, it seeo" Arthur said with a slight smile, "Maybe next time"

"Oh, of course," An interviewer roup walked away towards the doors

"Unfortunately, we still have to wait an hour or so until we can get in," Holly roup of people into the facility

Quinn seemed pretty disappointed when he was reame an hour after us too" Arthur turned around and said, which brightened Quinn's expression so in," Maria yelled out, "You know rouproom and took their usual seats while the developers were preparing

"So, you had fun on your date?" Arthur asked Maria, whose face had turned bright pink after he asked Holly about the bracelet

"I did," Mariaher face, "The reat idea, thanks"

"No probleaze shi+fted to the developers who took to the stand

The briefing started, and it see so that everyone could get into the game faster

There was e portion of the new players were influencers or journalists, and that new protections andtemporarily added to improve their first impressions

There was also a mention that the server wouldn't be up for a fewa new update that even surprised the fix, but rather an autoht Arthur's interest, as he wasn't sure what the update was about or if he was the cause of it, and it didn't seeh the developers had any idea just yet either

Eventually, everyone was led into the capsule room and was sent into the virtual world, or rather, just the white room he was familiar with The server wasn't open yet, so he decided to check out the private lobbies once more As usual, there was the default lobby for beta testers, which Arthur joined

Arthur's surroundings went dark, and once he opened his eyes, he found himself at a beach resort with a nice tropical cliain," Arthur ht towards a nearby tiki bar

"I'll have a pina colada with no alcohol, thanks" He asked an NPC working at the bar, and once he received his drink, he sat down on a lawn chair and waited for the ga

Several minutes later, the server ca while rushi+ng to join it

Arthur finished his drink before slapping the join button, where he was once again thrust into the darkness, before reappearing where he had left off previously

Merlin found hialopolis

He quickly started his streaht away as the approxi was one of his only advantages now that he couldn't monopolise thefeats, which would help hiain additional viewers, but the streamers with dedicated fan bases would have their viewershi+p regardless of what Merlin did, and it was an unfortunate fact that he would lose a chunk of his viewers to them because of it

But the other influencers would likely draw in a crowd that didn't view Merlin's original strearab the attention of curious drifters anted to see what other people were up to while their favourite influencer was learning the ropes or doing boring things like travelling

"Hey guys, I'll just be getting ready for the big raid today We'll be raiding in about half an hour or so," Merlin announced to his strea a shot at the Necropolis"

With that, Merlin e oncechat

It was only now that he realised he didn't have any other moderators for his streaame very shortly