<h4>Chapter 29: A Streamer? ? ? ?</h4>


    Xin directed a simple fire spell toward the Vulture, but it only caused a mere 80% reduction in its health. Thebination of his weak spell and weapon was not enough to defeat the creature in one shot.


    The Vulture screeched and lunged at Xin with its sharp ws.


    Uncertain of how to engage in physicalbat, Xin had no other option but to rely on his sword. With the fire spell still on cooldown, he bravely faced the iing attack and swiftly thrust his sword into the creature''s head.


    When the Vulture''s ws struck Xin''s arm, he felt a slight decrease in his health points. However, he swiftly finished off the Giant Vulture with his sword, causing it to disintegrate into particles.


    Xin defeated the Giant Vulture and received some EXP, gil, andmon items as rewards. But, his encounter with Skrk, the angry woman from before, continued.


    Facing her wrath, Xin saw her name above her health bar and learned it was Skrk.


    Skrk approached him, pointing angrily, and med him for not saving her earlier. Xin couldn''t understand why it was his responsibility.


    "You could have helped me earlier!" Skrk used, her voice filled with frustration. "You let that Vulture chase me and waste my mana! And I fell into the dirt because of you!"


    Xin remained calm and replied, "If you can''t handle a foe, its better not to engage it. It''smon knowledge."


    Skrk''s face turned red with anger and embarrassment, and she addressed Xin, her eyes briefly pausing on his peculiar name, Lord Schrodinger.


    "I''m not an idiot to engage a Giant Vulture!" she retorted. "They roam the skies and attack anyone in sight. I just happened to be passing by when that angry bird chased me out of nowhere."


    Xin was still confused about why she was exining herself to him. "Then . . . I will go now," he said, wanting to focus on his own tasks.


    Skrk grabbed his clothes, causing him to stop. He turned back, appearing calm but sounding annoyed. "What is it?" he asked.


    Skrk seemed baffled as she let go of him. "You . . . you really don''t know me?"


    "Should I?" Xin replied.


    "Of course, you should!" she eximed. "Any sane, healthy young man should know me, Sky! Unless, of course, you''re a woman hiding in a male''s avatar, then I understand the indifference."


    Xin remained silent, not quite sure how to respond to her assumption about his sanity.


    "Wait. Maybe this will refresh your memory." Skrk took a step back and struck a pose as if in front of a camera. "Hello! Hello! Uwu! This is your gaming girl, Sky from Zone D!" She made a peace sign over her twinkling eyes, winked, and stuck out her tongue to finish her whole pose.


    It was so cringe that Xin had to leave the scene.


    "Huuraahh!" Skrk shouted and quickly went after him, blocking his path. "This is the part where you should say that you remember me! I''m a very popr streamer, you know!"


    "Is that so?" Xin replied with little interest.


    Skrk stared at Lord Schrodinger''s unbothered face, feeling her energy deplete under his uninterested gaze. "You really don''t know me? That can''t be . . . is my end truly near? "I deleted my old ount and made a new one to gain more views, but . . ."


    She fell on all fours on the ground. "Is four million views all I could gather?"


    Four million? Xin''s lethargic eyes slightly bulged. He didn''t know much about streaming, but he knew that having that many views would make someone popr online.


    Skrk must have started streaming while he was in aa, so he didn''t know her. He wasn''t into watching streamers, but he asionally saw them in ads and billboards, so he knew the popr ones, even if he didn''t want to.


    "Isn''t four million views already a lot?" Xinmented.


    "Of course not!" Skrk replied with bloodshot eyes. "In the past, I could gain fifty million views! But now, my views are dwindling each day."


    She sighed and looked dejected to the side. "Maybe because I''m getting old. I''m turning twenty, and viewers like fresh faces."


    "You''re still young," Xin tried to console her.


    Skrk slowly stood up, looking like an aging woman. "I''m already in the middle of my lifespan."


    Xin wanted to point out that a human''s middle lifespan was around forty, but he kept quiet.


    However, Skrk''s depressed expression suddenly turned into a bright smile. Her mood changed at a snap of a finger.


    "This is just my third day here. The camera features are still blocked on this newbie ind," she muttered enthusiastically.


    "The four million views is only about the topic of me deleting my ount. Once I leave this newbie ind and go into the world of Eternia to stream my new race and ss, I''ll gain even more views!"


    Xin didn''t quite understand what she was talking about, so he decided to leave.


    "Hey, wait!" Skrk blocked Lord Schrodinger''s path again and put on a flustered expression,plete with teary eyes that avoided his gaze. No man could surely resist this gesture of hers. "Do you want to . . . partner up?"


    "No," Xin replied without hesitation.


    Skrk was caught off guard by Lord Schrodinger''s quick and straightforward response.


    "Huh?! Why? It''d be easier to grind if there were two of us. Look around you. You''d rarely see solo yers. What''s more, we could beat a group of beasts with the two of us working together and gain more EXP. It''s the quickest way to level up!" Skrk urged.


    Lord Schrodinger''s level was 15, and in this newbie ind, yers who reached that level were sought after in a group.


    She was lucky that she found him first. She didn''t see anyone around him, so she assumed that he was soloing.


    Most yers, when they reached level 15 and above, chose to leave the ind. So these kinds of yers on the ind were few.


    ''He must have been on this ind for days now to get his level to fifteen,'' Skrk thought, though she hadn''t seen him around the ind. They must have missed each other. The ind was big, after all.


    "Not interested," Xin replied and went back to his foraging spot while Skrk could only watch him go.


    When Lord Schrodinger''s form disappeared from her sight, Skrk pouted and frowned. "What a strange guy."


    She stretched her arms and let out a deep sigh. She then went back to town toplete more quests while she muttered to herself, "And what kind of name is Lord Schrodinger? Weirdo."