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Chapter 54 – Chain Reaction
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[Notice] Today, for the first time in a while, I’ll be collaborating with the teacher in the Dark Zone!
Hello everyone! It’s Harmony!
I’ve posted this notice on the café and TreeWiki personal site, but today I’ve returned with a Dark Zone collaboration instead of the usual trash game. Hehe. Teacher Yoo Jin, who started with me, has been really into Battle Royale lately.
I heard that…she’s participating in the Asia preliminaries, and it makes me wonder if she’s truly talented or what. Anyway, yeah.
I’ve been rambling a lot, but today I’ll focus mainly on the main mission. Haha. I feel like I’ve been putting it off too long with all the other stuff.
Of course, I don’t think we can dive straight into the mission from the start… Yoo Jin, who I haven’t seen in a while, will probably drag me to the shooting range as soon as we start.
I need to brace myself already…ㅠㅠㅠ
It’s really hot these days, so be careful of heat stroke and sunstroke, and for those with lots of money, I hope you blast the air conditioning all day~~~!!!
I wish only good things for Noknyangdan fans!
Harmony.
And Yoo Jin.
Recently, the hottest figures in the Dark Zone community were undoubtedly these two.
Their meeting started by chance, leading them to encounter the Unauthorized Zone.
The tutorial overlapping with a PVP zone, something that couldn’t have been intentional, was already enough to make waves, but the exposed skills of the user Yoo Jin were like pouring gasoline on a blazing fire.
However, as if that wasn’t enough, her extraordinary performance in both the main mission and various PVP modes, along with successful sniping suppression, made her presence even more impactful.
If forced, one might dismiss it as manipulation, but the ongoing legal proceedings updated daily showed Harmony was genuinely serious about addressing the situation.
Although the fire had subsided over time, the resulting chain reaction remained.
Having experienced all sorts of bizarre events, Harmony adeptly handled them, gaining additional viewers who were previously stable at around 50%.
Another beneficiary, Yoo Jin, became an unprecedented broadcaster with thousands of viewers on average, thanks to Harmony’s solid streamer mentorship, despite having started her streaming journey not long ago.
It wasn’t just a win-win; they had brought each other complete success.
Naturally, this indicated how quickly the two had grown close.
“Ah! Teacher! Over here, here!”
The shooting range.
When they first started the Dark Zone, Harmony’s appearance, like one forced to wear ill-fitting gear, had changed. Now, Yoo Jin saw that Harmony had begun to exude a sense of ease.
Soldiers aren’t born; they’re made, and Harmony, at some point, started looking comfortable in her bulletproof vest.
Mint-colored ears perked up as Harmony looked directly at Yoo Jin, showing a welcoming gesture.
“You seem to be doing well. You look bright.”
“Of course. Streamers are always like that. We don’t have any special strenuous tasks, and our job is to eat and rest well at home, right?”
“No way.”
“Oh.”
Teacher appearance! Teacher appearance! Teacher appearance! Teacher appearance! Teacher appearance! Teacher appearance!
Yoo Jin, the streamer world’s monster rookie, is a goddess!
Collab with Yoo Jin is classic lol
Haha lol, trying to place them on the same level as Harmony?
Harmony thought the teacher was a pig like her? Trying to rub off but got cut off?
As Harmony deflated like a balloon from the harsh rejection, Yoo Jin added with a smile.
“At least do some cardio. Two days ago, you had a pizza mukbang with four slices at three in the morning, right? If you keep eating like that, you’ll end up with rice cake abs.”
“Ugh…you know me too well….”
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
Busted Harmony LOL
Chubby Harmony getting wrecked by Yoo Jin who averages 1500 damage per match in Apex LOL
Saying you’ll get stronger means you’ll bulk up LOL
If that logic is true, then I’m getting stronger every meal LOL
Two days ago.
Rarely awake at dawn, Yoo Jin drank a glass of cold water and was about to go back to sleep when Harmony’s broadcast notification popped up on her phone.
Curious, she tuned in to see a girl with light brown hair similar to Harmony’s in-game avatar munching on pizza under the title ‘ThisIsReallyTheLastOne)DawnPizzaMukbang.’
It was a mukbang that matched the word “omnomnom” perfectly.
Too sleepy to chat, Yoo Jin let it pass, but the memory lingered in her mind.
“…You’re not a trainer by profession, right, Yoo Jin?”
“I could be. Don’t let your guard down.”
“Ugh….”
And so, the small talk ended.
The topic shifted to the Dark Zone, where Yoo Jin naturally became the instructor and Harmony the cadet.
This meant Yoo Jin intended to revamp Harmony from the ground up.
“Since it’s a game, I won’t explain disassembly and reassembly. Just learn malfunction handling, tactical reloading, and semi-auto rapid fire. Even that will take a while.”
“Uh…I was thinking more of the CQB videos I saw on Yourspace, but I guess not.”
“That’s more advanced. It’s something you tackle once the basics are solid. Frankly, I don’t know what you watched, but it’s better to just learn from me.”
”Confidence”
Sister, my Johnson is acting weird…
This is the authority of someone with dozens of consecutive wins in Apex?
One of the world’s seven wonders) What does Yoo Jin do?
Haha, if you’re jealous, hit Tier 2 in Apex within ten days
Despite the overflow of such chats, Yoo Jin continued imparting her knowledge to Harmony.
The playful comments faded as viewers increased, clipping the rare and insightful lecture content.
Combined with fundamental theory, Yoo Jin’s experience transformed the stiff, difficult lecture into something easily understandable, and even Harmony, initially puzzled, began to grasp it after a few tries.
Without much praise, the lesson continued.
Starting with handling the gun, it moved to actual shooting. Unlike reality, the lack of bullet limits allowed Harmony to learn rapidly.
The chat alternated between harsh criticism and admiration. The former when Harmony was learning, the latter when Yoo Jin demonstrated.
After one cycle, Yoo Jin quietly spoke up.
“…You’re definitely more proficient than when I first taught you. Have you been practicing?”
“Hehe, of course. I always go to the shooting range before streaming Dark Zone. Thinking of it as stretching before exercising made it manageable.”
“Good job.”
Seriously, go work out LOL
If she went to the gym instead of the shooting range, the teacher would be clapping LOL
Stretching without exercising LOL Is this phone workout or something?
Lies everywhere LOL
What’s on her belly isn’t fat, but a liar LOL
Of course, the chat was veering off into not-so-great territory.
The blazing fire took quite some time and Harmony’s gym registration proof to extinguish, and once the latter was shown on the broadcast, that topic ended.
It was time to tackle the main mission seriously.
After roughly an hour in-game, the two left the shooting range.
A small crowd had gathered around, but unfortunately for them, Yoo Jin, who believed in growing stronger through hard work, didn’t consider playing with the audience.
Their destination was upstate New York.
Unlike the well-policed lower New York state, upstate New York had become a complete lawless zone, ravaged by the Rust Belt and the Omega virus.
Unknown machines and mercenaries had started occupying the corpse-ridden lands.
That was their investigation target.
Kato’s main bully is gone, so he’s flying high LOL
“Phew… I feel so relieved, so relieved. I even donated to send friend requests and personal messages, begging to be shot in the head.”
Getting shot is better LOL
Are you salty? If you’re salty, you should have played better. Are you salty? If you’re salty, you should have played better.
How do you win against a guy trolling in Grandmaster, Apex noobs
Honestly, this time it was commendable
It wasn’t an honorable death but an execution LOL
The first-place mark appeared before his eyes.
His whole body trembled with excitement, and he sighed in relief. It felt fundamentally different from the thorny path he had faced a few days ago.
A few days ago, despite not matching with Yoo Jin, he played nervously. Experiencing death by gun, grenade, and skill more than five times a day wasn’t a good experience.
Afterward, Yoo Jin readily accepted, even apologizing officially.
In a way, it was a quick resolution.
Today, Yoo Jin had temporarily left the Apex Predator battlefield for collaborations with other streamers.
Kato decided to take this chance to raise his rank steadily through hardcore gaming and avoid further suffering.
And for some reason, he felt like his skills had improved more than usual.
Specifically, having endured so much, he now incorporated previously overlooked aspects into his gameplay, showcasing sharper performance.
Though absurd, it was a beneficial side effect.
“Phew, today’s going well. Maybe because I’m pushing myself, it feels smoother. If I keep this up, I might reach Tier 1 promotion matches in a few days.”
Reluctantly admitting, today’s form is great LOL
Memo… Kato grows when beaten…
Such intense growing pains LOL
If that’s growing pains, I’ll stay a Hobbit LOL
Turns out it was
a carrot and stick LOL
Growing pains.
Perhaps…just perhaps, you could call it that, but it seemed too gruesome to be merely growing pains. It was better to live a comfortable life like the chat suggested.
Anyway, he exited to the lobby as usual. It was a straightforward victory, one worth uploading to Yourspace.
Even just before reaching first place, the word ‘victory’ had flooded his mind.
There was no hesitation in starting the next match.
As the gears turned and the match began, this was Kato’s time to interact with the viewers.
Reading the missed chats, he continued his thoughts. The tournament was only a few weeks away. The tournament rank would close even sooner.
No one was without a competitive spirit. He had hastily decided to participate in the Asia preliminaries under a deal with his well-known pro gamer and coach, Luddite, but since he got the spot, he wanted to claim honor with his skills.
That’s what he was pondering.
Until a donation came through.
Will Kato scrim? If so, what about that user?
“Scrim? Of course, I’ll scrim. Even now, pros are probably scrimming like crazy with Tier 2 players in the tournament rank. Once I secure a spot, I’ll do it right away.”
Asia preliminaries.
And the global finals, the Final Championship.
Each country selects twenty players, picking a hundred participants for the preliminaries. Based on their performance, up to four players from each country advance to the Final Championship in North America.
During this process, they not only compete but also share information. The second most important thing after winning is their country’s victory.
In other words, everyone is both a competitor and a collaborator.
Back to the point, according to that logic….
“And that user…uh….”
He opened his mouth to answer but couldn’t give a clear reply.
“Of course, I have to invite them….”
Though he should avoid overestimating them….
Even so, it was quite difficult to completely dismiss the possibility of the scrim falling apart.
For some reason, that’s what he felt.