108 Chapter 108 (1/2)

Chapter 108

James hated BLANK. Well, actually, he loved BLANK. That is, the actual BLANK. Because of this fact, he hated BLANK, the imposter duo that he had to deal with in the real world. Of course, at the same time, he was kind of glad they weren't more like the duo from the anime Rue had mentioned he should watch. If they had been like the actual duo, whom he was positive BLANK had stolen their name from, he would actually be quite screwed. After all, BLANK never lost.

Xander's kids though, were just using the name because of some illusions of grandeur. Though, there was always the possibility Xander had given them the username and introduced them to the anime. He had to have at least seen or heard of it himself, everything was too coincidental not to. In fact, James was pretty sure Xander's whole quest for two children who could become his equals in gaming, stemmed from his knowledge of that anime.

The fact the developer had taken and tarnished something as amazing as No Game No Life, and pulled it through the mud, made James even more determined to win the bet. Even if, you know, his whole existence as a dungeon core wasn't on the line. In fact, James couldn't wait to log back in, so he could see just exactly what else he could do to ensure his victory over BLANK.

His rage over BLANK was still boiling as he began watching the second season of the anime. He was really looking forward to seeing what would happen, considering the cliff they had left him on in season 1, when he received a pop-up notification. The notification flashed across his vision, appearing, rather invasively, over the large, augmented screen he was watching the anime on. Another perk of his AR glasses.

”Who is-” He paused his complaint as another notification popped up. Two messages, in the span of seconds? James really wasn't used to even receiving multiple messages through the day. In fact, other than the occasional message from Rue over the past two days, he was generally what one could consider a hermit. As he saw who the messages were from, as well as their subject lines, he found himself grinning, painfully. Damned Dwight.

From Rue: The patch notes are out!

From Z: MM: They dropped new patch notes! Are you seeing this? Dungeon Wars!!!!!!

Based off of how rapidly both messages came in, James could guess that neither his pixie, nor Z, had actually had a chance to read the patch notes. In fact, he was pretty sure they would have just been released, and so Rue had directly messaged him about it, the moment she got a note about it. He figured, at least, the AI would get a note whenever such things released.

As for Z, if he had to guess, the gamer had an RSS feed set up, to notify him the moment information released. Normally, James just hung out in forums, so he could see the moment information like this dropped…which is why he didn't have an RSS feed set up. Because he had been binge watching anime though, he obviously wasn't watching the forums. Oops.

What surprised him more about Z's message, was the MM notification. It seemed Z had sent this message out as a mass message, which is what MM stood for. When and why the gamer had added James to a MM feed from the guild leader, he had no idea. Though, judging by Z's altruistic character, and his-

Another message appeared, followed by another. Within seconds, James had four more messages on his screen.