Chapter 4 - 4 – First Stream

Chapter 4: Chapter 4 – First Stream

A white flash burst, and his vision changed.

Clang! Crash!

"Arrgh!"

Loud sounds of metal met with the others, and screams filled with pain echoed in the surroundings.

'What?!' Max looked confused. His ears rang from the loud sounds that suddenly attacked him.

What was it? The world around him looked real. Many people were fighting using swords, spears, and bows in the distance.

"Wake up, knight! Move! Don't lose your mind at a place like this!" A middle-aged knight shouted near his ears, causing him to be surprised.

'The game has started?' Updated from novelbIn.(c)om

Max had finally realized it as his mind began working again. The graphic looked similar to the real world; that was why he froze for a few seconds.

Horses went back and forth. Screams echoed once again, and a sound of metal clashing echoed all over the place.

This was a battlefield.

'Is this war?' He wondered.

It felt real.

He couldn't see much due to the smoke rising and dust kicked by a lot of knights running around to beat their enemies.

"Get up! Pick your weapon, or you won't survive!"

The knight from earlier pulled him up from the trench and pointed at a pile of weapons on the side.

At that moment, the world froze still, and a blue window popped up in front of him.

[Tutorial!]

[Pick a weapon of your choice!]

Four weapons lit up with a blue light as the surroundings turned black and white.

Facing the strange phenomenon, Max actually calmed down instead of panicking.

He sighed in relief and muttered, "Phew... This is truly just a VR game."

Ding!

— Ah! Fresh blood! His account was just made a few minutes ago.

— No way. You're right!

"...!"

Suddenly, another window beside the game announcement popped up at the corner of his sight.

It surprised Max and caused him to flinch slightly. He quickly glanced and noticed it was a chat window.

'I have a viewer already?' He thought, not expecting him to get a viewer this fast.

In fact, there was a number at the corner of the chat window.

Max wasn't discouraged at all. Instead, he was happy with their reaction.

'What's left is for me to finish the tutorial with a flying color.'

[Axe selected!]

The game announcement rang again after he decided to use the axe and returned to where he was before.

"I see you have chosen your weapon! Now, let's dep– Duck!"

Max didn't even spend a second after hearing the older knight's words. He immediately rolled on the ground, using his old knowledge of parkour, and evaded a flying arrow.

He was lucky. Due to his reaction, he managed to dodge the surprise attack.

However...

THUD!

"He's dead?!"

The tutorial knight's fate wasn't good enough. Another arrow coming from the same direction pierced through his head, killing him immediately.

— Wow! That newbie is lucky!

— I thought he would die from the silent arrow. Tsk! I was wrong!

— Hahaha, he looks so flustered!

Chat was moving rather fast, and Max noticed that some new viewers had joined his stream. He now had around 9 viewers watching him, expecting him to be bad at the game.

He wanted to talk to them, but there was no time. The game couldn't be paused unless he was in a cutscene!

The knight near him was killed one by one, leaving only him. An army of barbarians appeared in the distance, holding various crude weapons in their hands.

At that moment...

Clap clap clap!

A knight on a horse charged in by himself while holding a silver sword from the distance. His figure looked so gallant, and there was a name above his head.

[Knight Captain Hutch]

He noticed Max lying near the trench and shouted.

"Follow me, soldier!"

— Ooh! Hutch appeared!

— That damn handsome knight. I want to punch his face! Even his voice is so good!

— Agreed! I hate him, but I love him!

— Newbie! What are you doing? Follow that person!

"Ah!"

Max was too stupefied by the sudden death of the knight in front of him and forgot that he was still in a tutorial stage.

The Knight Captain's shout and chat nagging saved him and snapped him out of his thoughts. Another game mission appeared in his vision.

[Tutorial!]

[Help Knight Captain Hutch and eliminate the barbarian army!]