Chapter 5: Master or Bronze is the same

LOC, short for Lock.

The beta test was a common AOS-style game using a keyboard and mouse, and in fact, it recorded a normal and moderate number of users for about three years.

But then, rumors about VR suddenly came out from Tior Games, which made the game, and by the time people came to their senses, the VR device made by a single game company had overturned the world.

The game that the company, which became a unicorn—a dinosaur company—in an instant, re-released by pushing the performance of the device to its limits was Lock.

Perhaps because of that, the conflict between the old users who only used the keyboard and mouse and the new users who were familiar with VR devices has continued to this day.

Of course, whether on the internet or in the pro gaming scene, the side that used the first-person mode in conjunction completely trampled the side that didn’t, so the flame war had virtually ended long ago.

But there are always remnants.

[Middle school girl announces climbing to Challenger with shackles]

—(Video_Link)

Is this real?

└What are shackles?

└Playing Lock without using VR.

└How is that even possible?

└That’s why it’s called shackles.

└lol.

└The keyboard is invincible and the mouse is god!

└We’re from the Lock Keyboard Association.

We welcome the middle school girl’s rank climb.

└lol the old people are excited.

└You’ve already lost the debate, so you have to cling to something like this~.

└Do you think pros use VR because they’re stupid?

└But is she a middle schooler?

└Just looking at the thumbnail is reassuring.

└lololol.

└G.G. if you’re a Lock Gall troll who will rush in.

└Are you having a police station gathering?

└Probably soon.

[Middle school girl’s voice]

—(Audio file-Play)

└?

└These guys didn’t lie for once?

└Heaven.

└Her voice, heueung.

└Hehehe, come here!

└Isn’t she showing her face?

└She hasn’t, but it’s just a guaranteed super pretty angle.

└It’s a crime not to be pretty with that body.

└It’s Lock level to evaluate a middle school girl’s body at 3 am.

└lololol.

└The root of all evil…

└The time of the real ones.

[Why is she good?]

—I went in because my heart told me to, and I watched for a bit, and she’s just strangely good for Gold?

└She’s just really good.

└Her macro decisions when her teammates were all getting destroyed and only she was winning were just amazing.

└Her win rate is over 80%.

└It doesn’t make sense unless she made a new account.

└She just doesn’t get hit by non-target skills.

└She wins all the mind games, it’s just f*cking insane.

└I get hit by everything even with VR.

└10,000-hour Lock bros get cut by a middle school girl.

└lololol.

└The fact is that our tier hasn’t changed while she’s climbing from Silver to Plat…

└It hasn’t changed? It’s going down?

└’Tier Normalization’.

└lolololol.

└New account deletion users cheering.

└God Rise.

└Just do balance patches, you f*ckers.

While the chaos continued, her tier continued to rise.

“Why is she getting gloomier?”

“What…I’m sleepy…”

It’s only the second period, so I’m short on sleep.

Let’s skip why the school class unit was changed to the sleep unit. I’m tired.

“How late did you play Lock yesterday?”

“I don’t know. Until I lost?”

Around 3 am?

Around that time, regardless of my performance, it was still low tier, so it became a battle of who had more trolls on their team, so it was easier to just turn it off.

“How far did you climb?”

“Platinum.”

“It hasn’t even been a week since you said you’d raise your tier.”

“Isn’t this slow?”

Normally, if I wanted to, I could go from Silver to Diamond in less than a week.

I’m spending time going to the gym to prepare for pro and doing some jogging to build up my basic stamina, and anyway, my current status is a student, so it wasn’t a very fast climb.

“Already Plat…?”

“What was all the time I spent on Lock for?”

—Taken immediately.

“One thing is for sure, Eunseol is more talented than you guys.”

Judging by the fact that more than half of the boys who were eavesdropping on our conversation from the next seat became gloomy, they must be below my tier.

Anyway, the girls seemed to have realized that I started living a life where I invest all my time in Lock except for school hours and exercise time, and they clicked their tongues.

“Wow. Eunseol is really into it this time…”

“She doesn’t talk about Fraud or ST these days, so it seems like she’s a little serious.”

“That’s right. Come to think of it, she doesn’t fangirl these days either.”

“Is Lock that fun?”

“If you can handle your parents disappearing?”

It’s not a problem to type in chat.

This game, as it’s called virtual reality, allows you to change the champion’s facial expressions and voice chat in the first-person perspective.

If you turn on that function without knowing anything, you could hear some very creative swear words.

For reference, I didn’t particularly want to know, but I found out by watching the trolls do it.

“Then I should watch first and decide. You said you’re streaming again these days, right?”

“It’s nothing special, just the screen and a cam of me hitting the keyboard.”

“Her average viewership is over a hundred.”

“What? Already?”

Eunchae was surprised and asked me, sticking close to me.

“There aren’t any weird people, right? Should I be your manager?”

“Well…not really?”

If they see the notice that I’m a middle school student, everyone becomes a good person.

And in fact, thinking back to my pro days, I could just laugh off the occasional obscenity or criticism of my skills.

They were even cute compared to the demons who were really crazy about Lock.

“It’s easy to tame viewers.”

“Ooh…a pro streamer.”

“Do you accept donations too?”

“I only opened up the 1,000 won ones, but they donate a lot?”

I’m not a miser, but I don’t intend to block incoming money.

I have to change the VR device at home to the latest model soon, but I can’t just ask my dad to buy it for me because my conscience pricks me.

“Then I’ll watch Eunseol’s stream tonight.”
“Should I let you know when to look at stream?”

Hmm.

If they say they’re going to watch, I need to make the chat window a little cleaner.

I have to protect their innocence.

[Lock Gall’s hot topic middle school girl from Silver to Challenger : Day 7]

I changed the stream title.

Personally, after overcoming the nightmare of my debut match and finals with a victory, I feel like my play gets better the more people watch me.

So I just blatantly drew aggro.

[Viewers : 312]

Then, as soon as I entered the game screen lobby, the number of viewers exploded.

It was a surprising increase considering it had only been a week since I started streaming.

—Wow, a middle school girl playing Lock on Friday night.

—This guy’s life is just Lock lol.

—Lord, one more…

—Even a f*cking alpha female girl is addicted to Lock…

—Just a mentally ill game.

—lololol.

—So what’s your tier now?

When it seemed like enough people had come in, I started the queue and started answering the backlog of questions.

“My tier is Plat as you can see, and I think I can probably reach Diamond today if I do well?”

I don’t go to school tomorrow. I can stay up all night.

Of course, my back might not be intact because of our Mrs. Jang, but I’ll leave that to tomorrow’s me.

—When did you start Lock?

I hesitated, I didn’t even remember when that was, so I just said it was about a week ago.

“Oh, but I watched LOCK often.”

As soon as I threw out the bait, the chat window was flooded with questions.

Who is your favorite player, which team are you a fan of, did you watch the last game, etc.

Seeing the chat firepower that couldn’t come from this number of people, I needed to rethink how many Lock players were male.

“Oh, the queue popped.”

I casually accepted the queue that was just caught, and then left the cam screen.

—You’re not going to answer anything?

I knew it, I knew it.

And in less than ten seconds, I came back into the screen with a framed ST uniform with ‘Fraud’ written on it.

Fortunately, this didn’t disappear.

“Is this enough of an answer?”

It’s not just a uniform.

Fraud’s first season.

It was a uniform with an autograph.

—Holy sh*t, that’s Fraud’s first season autographed uniform.

—She’s a real fan.

“I waited in line at a restaurant for two days in a row every evening to get this autograph in person.”

For reference, the first season uniform itself was just bought with money, and only the autograph was received in person.

When that came out, I was a little kid who didn’t even get an allowance. There’s no way I could buy it.

‘…Am I still young?’

Anyway.

—Ah lolol.

—The place where you’re more likely to see ST players than in front of the company building or the stadium.

—Real fan .

—lol I can’t resist that.

When a rare item that fans can’t resist came out, the chat window was quickly organized.

As ST has the largest fandom, the response was quick when I showed goodwill.

Of course, that speed and spread are a double-edged sword.

But I’ve dealt with it before, so I had no intention of going through trial and error while getting cut this time.

“Well, then I’ll start climbing again today.”

—Until when?

“Until I’m sleepy.”

I didn’t particularly care about the opponent’s picks, so I just picked a random champion that I could use moderately in mid as the first pick and continued.

“I opened up a mission, so bet on what tier I’ll reach before I go to sleep.”

—Wow.

—Good sense.

—Isn’t this blatantly collecting money?

—lololol.

—Can I borrow some money?

—You’re crazy to want to get arrested.

—Um lol.

—Isn’t it a safe asset to bet around Master?

—lol.

—No way, you can bet Diamond.

—Yeah, she’s Plat 3 now.

—How many wins in a row do you need to get to Diamond?

—You’ll need 10 wins in a row lololol.

—I’ll bet on a safe asset right away.

Starting with someone, the atmosphere that betting on Diamond was a safe asset spread, and the mission prize, which started at 10,000 won units, gradually increased to over 100,000, and eventually reached 1 million.

This is around 300 viewers…

‘Wait, no?’

Maybe it’s because the inflow is increasing day by day, but another 200 people have joined in that short time.

The mission prize increased even more.

“…Do you guys have a lot of money?”

—Yeah, it’s a safe asset.

—Oppa has a lot of money.

—I can just starve.

—lol.

—It means I can just not buy a skin once.

“This is your last chance, so think carefully again. I’ll give you time to withdraw your money.”

—Bullsh*t.

—Let’s go.

—What’s the penalty if you fail?

—I really don’t know.

—lolol.

—Quickly decide the penalty, streamer.

—[This comment has been blocked]

—What did that guy say to be filtered by a bot?

—Just –Um– level.

—So what is it, decide quickly, middle school girl.

—Can you do an idol dance?

—Hurry.

—On Friday night, these f*cking abyss guys.

I watched the viewers’ struggles through the chat window, banned a few who crossed the line with a few mouse clicks, and gave them the answer they wanted.

“If I don’t reach Diamond before I end the stream, I’ll reveal my face.”

—This is it.

—I believed in you, streamer.

—G.G. if you have good sense.

—lol.

The chat window was already in a festive mood.

‘No way.’

10 wins in a row?

I can do that.

Since anything below Master is not even a playground, it’s just a well.

“You can’t withdraw your money now.”

I saved the VR device money.

Get ready.