Am I the only one streaming Sword Art Online on the entire internet?

"Holy crap! This game can disconnect? I'm afraid I'm going to die young because of network problems."

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Meanwhile, the impact of the 10,000 players trapped in Sword Art Online began to reverberate in the real world. And at this time, a group of uninvited guests arrived at Sorin's home.

"Damn it, I told that kid Mo Yulan to stop slacking off at home and come over for a couple of games to warm up so I could send him on the plane. Now look what happened."

One of the burly men lifted Solin off the bed and placed him on a stretcher. Then he turned to a bespectacled young man next to him and asked, "Doctor, I left this kid at your hospital, right next to the club. Is that alright?"

"Let me tell you, Brother Liu, with that kid's usual incredible luck, like he can pull off a flashy dragon attack all the time, he definitely can't die in this damn thing." The young man called the doctor said this, but he still looked worried.

"Hurry up, he's probably doing something over there. If he gets disconnected for too long and then dies, it'll be a problem."

IV. Perfectly inelastic collision

Half an hour later, Sorin finally restored his internet connection, and his perspective returned to first person from third person. When he came to his senses, he saw that Kirito beside him was also in a state of apparent disconnection, so he had no choice but to wait aside and check his character panel.

"So we see this character has 357 HP. I haven't been hit by any monsters yet, so I'm not sure how many hits this 300+ HP can withstand. Let's wait here for my temporary partner to reconnect. By the way, does anyone know what just happened?" Solin tried to ask the viewers outside what had just happened, and also complained about the network issues. "Of course, those who regularly watch my streams know that I die from disconnections far more often than other situations. I hope this game's servers aren't made of potatoes."

We just took the anchor to the hospital, don't worry.

[The streamer was probably taken to the hospital by someone he knows in real life, which is why he was disconnected.]

[Potato servers are so realistic!]

[It's okay, host. I just checked, and this company uses hamster cages for their servers.]

"Is that how it is...? I understand now." Sorin breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the explanation in the comments. Just then, Kirito recovered from his disconnection and reconnected.

“I plan to go to a high-level monster area. There might be some risks along the way, but I will take you there.” Kirito said, while drawing a simple map on the ground. “The area around this village is a level 5 to 6 monster area. Not many people will be coming here for the time being.”

"You seem quite familiar with this game." Sorin was quite curious about Kirito at this moment, after all, this information didn't seem like something a newbie could have. "Did you participate in the closed beta test before?"

"Yes, and among these 10,000 people, there are also more than 900 who have gone through the closed beta test." Kirito answered quite readily. "I reckon your skills won't hold us back. Let's set off now."

He picked up his one-handed sword, stood up, and walked in front of Sorin. Sorin stood to his left and slightly behind, ready to deal with any monsters along the way.

"So it seems we have a veteran beta tester leading the way here. I guess we can take it easy and do some casual fishing in a little while." He continued explaining, keeping up closely behind Kirito.

Running around the map was quite tedious, especially since you had to be careful not to attract too many monsters. After walking for about ten minutes, Kirito stopped behind a small hill, and Sorin stopped as well.

"There's a level 3 monster zone nearby that spawns four monsters at a time. You should be level 2 now," he asked. "Can you handle it?"

“If it’s just a level difference, there shouldn’t be any problem,” Solin replied. “But I remember that the experience reward for quests should be much higher than that for killing monsters, so is it really appropriate to just start grinding without accepting the quest?”

"That's just a perk unique to beginner quests. Other quests usually only give you about 20% of the experience you're currently at," Kirito explained. "Besides, if we don't level up to level three now to unlock the target acquisition skill, it'll be difficult to get through that monster zone ahead."

“Alright, we’ll do it your way.” Solin nodded to indicate he understood, then walked to the edge of the aggro range of two of the monsters, carrying his rapier. “Shall I engage?”

"Let's engage!" Kirito said, grabbing his sword and dashing to the two monsters in front of him, slashing down at one of them.

"So we see that the monsters in this area have upgraded from wild boars to... larger wild boars, so they're still essentially wild boars, and our methods for dealing with them haven't changed much. The thing to be careful of is that each attack from this spot involves two wild boars, so remember not to be greedy with your attacks, or you'll easily get hit by their carts." Solin began his explanation after engaging the enemy. "But first, we need to leave one wild boar alive and then let one of them take the hit from the cart to see how much damage it takes. If it doesn't take much damage, we can try tanking it."

[Looks like it's going to crash]

There's no chance of a rollover or anything like that.

Solin assumed a thrusting stance and charged towards one of the boars. A flash of cold light left a trail of hexagonal red squares on the unfortunate boar. After hitting the boar, he took advantage of the skill's stun to land two more attacks, then jumped to its side.

At this moment, the second wild boar had already assumed a charging stance and charged forward aggressively. Just as the second wild boar began its charge, the first wild boar started casting its charge spell, and then…

He was hit squarely by the charge of the second wild boar, and his own charge cast was interrupted.

"Is there really such a clever design? I thought these two wild boars were monsters and wouldn't hurt each other." Solin was also taken aback by the awkward situation. "This game is just too realistic."

Even while complaining about the game, Sorin didn't stop moving. Taking advantage of the brief moment when the first boar's charge was interrupted, he swiftly swung his sword twice with basic attacks, then quickly moved to position himself in front of the second boar, while simultaneously being in a straight line with the first boar.

As expected, just as the second boar locked onto him and prepared to charge, the first boar rammed into the second boar, interrupting its charge.

[The streamer's micro-management is spot on!]

[The pig ran into a tree, what about you?]

[Upstairs reveals your age]

The fact that both objects stopped after the collision indicates it was a completely inelastic collision.

"We don't know how the AI ​​of the humanoid monsters is right now, but the AI ​​of the beast-like monsters... is pretty much in line with the intelligence of pigs." Solin looked at this funny scene and couldn't help but make a couple more comments. "Judging from this, it should be faster to take down two wild boars than to kill one alone. I guess the design took this kind of trick into mind. Otherwise, if a newbie who just left the starting village faced two wild boars at the same time, they would probably be doomed if they didn't team up."

He even took a moment to glance at Kirito's side, but it seemed that, perhaps because the one-handed sword's damage per second was higher than the rapier's, Kirito had already taken down one of the boars and was currently dealing with another.

Finally, after the two pigs hurt each other for the second time and were scratched by Sorin, both pigs fell down, turned into a blue hexagon and disappeared before his eyes, leaving only the debris on the ground.

He walked over and picked up the pieces of the two boars' remains that had fallen from their shells. However, he hadn't learned any gathering skills yet, so he couldn't extract anything from the hexagonal remains left behind by the boars.

"So we didn't test how much damage the pig would do when it hit us, but what we do know for now is that the thrust skill's damage is pretty good. We just don't know if this game has tactical actions or invincibility frames." Seeing that Kirito wasn't in a particularly urgent situation, Sorin didn't go to help him, but stood there and continued explaining, "So those two pigs just now gave us 15% of our current level experience, which is quite efficient. I estimate we can level up in about ten more minutes."

V. Unexpected Battles

Solin rarely streams MMORPGs, especially early game content. This is because some games inevitably involve tedious grinding or resource gathering during the early stages, and he often gets bored and doesn't know what to commentate on.

So he's just casually playing songs from the background of the live stream, without providing any commentary himself. Listening to LP's songs while grinding monsters is quite enjoyable; at least he's immersed in the process of kiting the monsters, and he's also testing how much his 300+ HP bar can withstand, as well as invincibility frames and tactical actions.

"This game doesn't count tactical actions like rolling as skills. Since it's a VR game, you can perform these actions relatively freely. However, there are no invincibility frames during rolling and diving, which is different from Monster Hunter." Sorin explained this information when he had a moment. "The thrust skill has a very short invincibility frame after the pre-cast animation, about 0.2 seconds. However, if you're not familiar with it, it's easy for monsters to interrupt the skill and cause you to take a hit for nothing."

As he explained, he skillfully dodged the boar's charge, sidestepped and thrust, then canceled the thrust's recovery animation with a normal attack. After two strikes, the boar fell to the ground.

Suddenly, a white light flashed around him and Kirito, and a "Level UP" notification popped up on the menu in front of him. He had now leveled up from level two to level three and could continue moving forward with Kirito.

"Drag the target acquisition skill into your skill bar, then just follow me." Kirito walked over and patted him on the shoulder, then asked, "You said your job was... electronic presenter, what's that?"

“It’s a streamer, you should understand that, right? I know quite a few Japanese people who stream on Twitch.” Sorin tried to communicate with Kirito in English, since his Japanese was really bad. “I opened my stream before entering this game, and now I’m stuck here, but my stream is still running, and it seems to have gained a lot of viewers because of this death game.”

By the way, the streamers he just mentioned who stream on Twitch are actually Yukihiro and Shota Yasuoka. Of course, Kirito probably doesn't know these big names in another circle.

"Is that so? Then you must have played other games before," Kirito pressed. "You were pretty efficient at killing monsters just now. Are you a pro?"

"I wouldn't call myself an expert, just quite skilled. After all, these kinds of action games are all pretty much the same," Solin replied modestly. "Lead the way, at least I won't hold you back, don't worry about that."

[Not quite a master, but still alright. Has the legendary Lin Shen of yesteryear become the old man Suo Lin of today?]

[This is a death game. The GM just said that the death of a character in the game will lead to the death of a person in real life, so Lin Shen should be able to return.]

Is Yanglaoren finally about to transform?

"What are you saying... as if I've only ever slacked off since playing Auto Chess? I'm not that idiot Qin Sanshu." Suolin couldn't help but complain as he looked at the few comments that had just passed by. "It really is a death game, no doubt. I believed what he said. But as a professional as I am, I still plan to make a series of recorded gameplay videos of Sword Art Online. I hope I can finish this series."

Led by Kirito, Sorin used his newly equipped target acquisition skill to safely traverse three monster spawn areas ranging from level four to level six. The monsters here had evolved from beast-like creatures to humanoid goblins as their levels increased. However, due to the quirky translations in some games, Sorin preferred to call these monkey-faced, sore-faced monsters with three red dots that could sweep away one (crossed out) "ghosts."

These monsters mostly carried small daggers and patrolled the fields in groups of three or five. Although they looked weak, the "Danger" markers with red skulls that Sorin saw when using his detection skill were not fake; at least they were quite dangerous to Kirito and Sorin, who were only level three at the time.

"So now we've passed through the territory of these monsters. It seems that most of the humanoid monsters on this level are probably these monsters. As we know, monsters are creatures that are relatively weak in individual combat but tend to gather in large numbers. This is something to be especially careful about when fighting monsters."

Is RRR's individual combat ability very weak?

【Dance X Ghosts Resist】

This isn't a particularly difficult maneuver, at least not for an experienced player like Solin. The Lv1 target acquisition skill has a radius of twenty meters, which is enough for him to scout out the activity range of the monsters well in advance and avoid them, and he can even find time to complete his job of commentary.

"Kirito, I don't think it's necessary to learn enemy detection to get here at this level. If you're in a hurry, wouldn't it be better to just head this way when you reach level two?"

"It's just to increase the margin for error. After all, this game has become a death game, so we naturally have to be careful." Kirito walked a distance and then took a moment to explain, "But when I was in the closed beta, I did run this way at level two, and I died once because I wasn't familiar with it."

“That’s definitely right.” Sorin nodded approvingly, then said a Japanese phrase that stuck with him, “Pressure, Terauchi (approval).”

[24 years old, a live streamer]

What's the point of having such a stinky livestream room?

This process lasted for about ten minutes. Since the two weren't running at full speed, they were still some distance from the village Kirito had mentioned. And this time, another wave of monsters appeared in front of them.

Just as Kirito detected the monsters and signaled Sorin to go around them, a group of four monsters suddenly appeared to their side. One of them was significantly taller than any of the monsters they had encountered along the way, and was carrying a rusty longsword; he was clearly no ordinary person.

"Would you believe me if I said we're in trouble?" Solin pointed to the group of monsters that were clearly spawning on his face, his tone slightly mocking. "And what exactly is the respawn mechanism in this game? Why are there waves of monsters spawning on our faces even though no one here has killed any monsters?"

“No one has ever farmed monsters here before. You’re right. If someone had, I definitely wouldn’t have chosen this method of action, because I can’t remember all the spawn points.” Kirito broke out in a cold sweat as he looked in the direction Sorin was pointing (although this game doesn’t have such an advanced feature), and his voice trembled. “That’s the map boss that spawns in this area, Goblin Overlord Squirrel… Run!”

“There’s no way to run away now. Think about it this way: if you try to escape, you’ll definitely attract a lot of monsters in your panic, and then you’ll really be done for.” Solin was quite calm this time. He drew his rapier, bent down in a fighting stance, and then uttered that timeless classic line:

"You beast! Come here! WTF!"

VI. Fierce Battle! Goblin Overlord Squirrel!

Sorin was quite satisfied with the Thrust attack, which was a skill with high damage and mid-range displacement at level one. However, he could no longer use the normal attack animation to cancel the aftercast animation and chip away at the enemy's health as before. After all, there were three goblin guards watching Kirito closely around Squirrel, and no one could guarantee that Kirito could keep their aggro steady.

"Or rather, we definitely can't expect Kirito to pull three monsters. If that happens, he'll probably be instantly killed by a single round of concentrated fire." Sorin calmed down when facing the crisis, and even had the leisure to say a few words. "By the way, who came up with these monster names? This guy looks just like that elf governor who can run back from the graveyard, judging from his appearance and weapons."

This thrust attack reduced Squirrel's health by about five percent, but the thrust skill has a cooldown of ten seconds, making it unrealistic to expect to repeatedly use thrust attacks to damage Squirrel. Considering that Kirito is still struggling to survive under the siege of three demons on the other side, Sorin's side must focus on dealing damage rather than trying to outmaneuver and kill Squirrel.

He was practically glued to Squier's small frame as he unleashed his attacks, relentlessly stabbing Squier's body with sword strikes, leaving trails of blood-red hexagons. Even so, Squier didn't seem to be injured at all; rather, the seemingly insignificant damage only fueled his fighting spirit.

"Waaaaagh!" he yelled, nimbly taking a step back to create distance, then turning around and launching a leaping slash at Solin. Seeing this, Solin immediately let out a soft "rua," then rolled to the left of Siqui, causing the powerful slash to slam into the ground solidly.

"No, friend, this isn't right..." He watched the long sword strike the ground with lingering fear, but reality didn't allow him to sigh any further, because Squirrel hadn't died after the sword missed its mark. With his strength still intact, he continued to launch a swift attack on Sorin.

Sorin had just stood up from the ground and hadn't even regained his balance when he saw Squirrel's greatsword coming down at him. In desperation, he could only hold his rapier horizontally in front of him, trying to block the powerful strike.

"DM! Give me a parry!"

However, the reality was that the moment Squirrel's blade touched the rapier, Sorin was sent flying three or four meters away in the direction of the slash. From Sorin's own perspective, he could clearly see that the slash had cost him a full 150 HP points.

[DM tossed a 4D4 with a blank expression, and ended up tossing four ones.]

Now is not the time to complain, the streamer is in big trouble!

"That hurts a bit. One hit and half my health is gone. Is this game even playable?" Solin was also shocked by the extremely high damage value and couldn't help but complain, "Even if it's a boss that's higher level than you, this is too much."

He dodged another attack with a roll, and casually pulled a small health potion from his backpack, gulping it down. This potion could restore 150 health points over thirty seconds, averaging five health points per second. It seemed like this potion could restore half the health of a level three character, but this kind of potion had a fatal weakness: if he took damage again, the healing effect would be immediately canceled.

Solin now even suspects that the recovery value of the [Beginner's Healing Potion] is a tribute to a certain game, since if you change the value, you'll find that it has the same attribute as the mana recovery potion in that game.

"Wait a minute...you're a fxcking animal!"

After rolling over again, Sorin stood up and, just before Squier's greatsword was about to fall on him, he narrowly activated his thrust skill, which was on cooldown, and used the brief invincibility period he had tested earlier to dodge Squier's attack.

The thrust landed squarely on Squier's left eye. When Sorin unleashed the thrust, he was thinking of trying anything, hoping that if the game had a weakness-based critical hit mechanic, he would really be lucky.