Broadcasting Live From Inside An Eldritch Horror Game
Chapter 19: To The Residence of Giants! Part-1.
After confirming that there was no more danger nearby, Zephyr hurriedly opened his system panel to see how many Belief Points he had now, and the result shocked him a lot!
[BP: 34,564]
’Oh my god! Thirty-four thousand!? D*mn!!! That’s a lot!’
When Zephyr had been stuck beneath the shield, he only had around 5000 BP at hand, but now that number has increased by several times!
It was really surprising, but Zephyr also understood that this likely happened because of his amazing show of strength and grit during the piranha attack.
Hundreds of thousands of people started to believe in his capabilities and the possibility of him surviving for a long time, and thus the number of BP he got this time shot up!
’Hehe, this is just the beginning; there are billions of people watching the stream every single day!’
’If I managed to convince such a large population, sooner or later, my ability to earn more BP will increase!’
Zephyr wasn’t worried that he would ever have a lack of BP; in fact, as time passes and more and more people start believing in him, the amount of BP he can earn will only increase with time.
’Okay, I can’t wait anymore; I will do a double pull at once!’
Zephyr didn’t feel like saving his BP at this moment at all; he still had a guaranteed chance to pull a rare artifact from the lottery, so he was eager to start the lottery pull.
’Oh god of gamblers, bless this lowly lamb with something good!’
[Ding! Are you sure you want to buy two lotteries?]
[Yes/No]
’Yes!’
[Ding! Congratulations! You have bought two lotteries!]
[Ding! The one-time guaranteed rare artifact pull chance has been put in effect!]
[Ding! Congratulations! You have successfully acquired the rare artifact, ’Armour of Jauregia’!]
’That’s exactly what I wanted! Phew! Finally, I can have something proper to wear! It’s embarrassing to do a worldwide livestream without having proper clothes to wear!’
Zephyr almost wanted to pat the system on the back to show his respect at that moment.
[Ding! Due to the unique circumstances of the host, the artifact cannot be acquired from the system directly!]
[Ding! Your artifact ’Armour of Jauregia’ has been arranged at a particular place! As you journey forward, you will find the artifact soon!]
’What!?’
For a moment Zephyr felt like cursing at the system for not giving him his artifact right away, but then he realized why the system did that.
’I see... the livestream is still on and can’t be turned off, and if I suddenly bring out an armor out of thin air, it would seem odd and might even seem like a violation of the normal rules of this game...’
’So to circumvent this situation, the system would make it seem that I acquired the artifact on my own from somewhere inside the game...’
’This is clever... but I don’t like this delay... It kind of reminds me of those online shopping delays... the ordered product always used to take two or three days to arrive after being bought...’
Although it was a bit inconvenient, Zephyr could accept this as he also didn’t want to show all of his secrets to the public.
The system was his most important secret, and he dared not reveal it to the outside world so easily.
After sighing and accepting the outcome of the first pull, Zephyr put his eyes on the second pull, but as there were no more guaranteed rewards, his next pull was wasted.
[Ding! Congratulations! You have successfully acquired the item ’Tissue Paper Box’!]
’Tch! I should have known this would happen... My luck is so bad that without a guaranteed reward chance, I really can’t pull anything decent at all...’
Lottery required luck to pull good things, and with Zephyr’s sh*tty luck, it was impossible for him to win anything good from the lottery.
’Sigh, even the tissue paper would need to be found the same way as the robe...’
’I guess every time I pull something physical from the system, it would have to be acquired the same way, as it won’t be delivered straight to me through the system...’
After doing two pulls, Zephyr only had 14,564 BP left, which he didn’t bother using for anything at the moment.
’Anything can happen in this abominable sea of ash at any moment... keeping some BP in reserve to buy clues at critical moments is more important...’
’Moreover, doing a lottery pull will likely not earn me anything at the moment, so it’s better to just keep the BP for now to deal with emergencies...’
Zephyr survived the photon worm bombardment incident mainly because of the clues he bought from the system.
And the piranha monster attack incident made Zephyr realize the importance of having some BP in reserve to buy clues; thus, he was determined to use his BP cautiously.
"It’s already night?... sigh... Without knowing it, I have been in this cursed land for an entire day now..."
With a look of helplessness, Zephyr grabbed his broken shield, found a random place to sit down, and watched the starry sky.
For someone who had never studied astrology and had never learned the skills needed for stargazing, it was very difficult for Zephyr to find the constellation that was engraved on the silver spearhead.
But with his current enhanced physique, his mind was as if it were on steroids, and it worked extremely fast.
It was almost as if he had turned into an insane genius, and with his powerful eyesight, he could easily see things that ordinary people could not.
After just half an hour, Zephyr managed to find the exact ’K’ shaped star constellation in the sky!
Thankfully, the star constellation was not located in the direction Zephyr had met the giant snake!
"I have already slept long enough, and once it’s morning, that laser beam bombardment might happen once again. I need to reach that settlement of giants before morning!"
After looking at the sky, it was clear that Zephyr was likely not too far from the location of that settlement, as the star constellation was only a little bit off from being right above his head!