Chapter 152

[Defeat]

– What the hell is going on?

– It’s a god game doing god things, what’s the problem?

– Is this a game where I have to lose after getting 20 kills? For real? LOL

– The healer didn’t heal, so we should lose, right? LOL

└ But I got 20 kills though?

– Isn’t the healer supposed to remove danger and protect allies…?

– How are we supposed to win with these worthless kids? This is the best we can do.

“Hmm…”

[20/0/3]

The fall damage system has definitely been researched.

Although the judgment was a bit strict, outside of specific cases, it seemed okay to consider it the same as reality.

However, there was an operational issue; because my combat power was oddly high, my allies generally had lower combat power than the enemies.

Therefore, I should have been responsible for continuously exerting influence across the map, but I couldn’t do that due to the series of battles with the earlier knight.

There are times when it’s impossible to win with only two players, and this was exactly that kind of situation.

Additionally, due to the constantly changing respawn locations, it was difficult to predict lane formation points like in LoL, so I needed to seek ways to respond flexibly.

Well, one cannot be full from the first meal.

As I gradually progressed through the game and grasped the concepts, a way forward would eventually open up.

“Every time I carry, I keep losing. No matter how I think about it, I feel like I trolled hard this match, but can we still win? Ah, seriously, I really can’t comprehend this game.”

The knight awkwardly smiled and removed his gear.

[‘JusticeIsAlive’ donated 10,000 won!]

– Kim Young-kwang! Kim Young-kwang! Kim Young-kwang! Kim Young-kwang! Kim Young-kwang! Kim Young-kwang!

Before long, the knight had earned the nickname ‘Kim Young-kwang’ among the viewers.

He was being praised as someone who continued to fight without giving up despite suffering seven falls and five penetrations.

– Hell’s diamond queue from the first placement;; This isn’t easy at all.

– Did you see? If you don’t have team luck, even No Name can’t rank up to Diamond.

– It’s disgusting, the teammates are trolls.

– This is the cursed level where the healer has to make 20 kills and still lose, LOL.

– Kim Young-kwang broke the 10-game losing streak, LOL. It’s quite unfortunate that seven of those were ace games.

– If you want to win, you will lose; if you want to lose, you will win.

“This game is tough.”

I’d rather tackle the math problem I solved earlier; it was easier.

There’s no answer here.

“Let’s move on to the next game.”

* * *

No Name was surprisingly more popular among foreign audiences than in Korea.

If the typical roadmap for a top-star idol is to steadily conquer Korean music broadcasts and aim for the Billboard charts, then one could say that it’s somewhat similar to the case of the ‘Chae Na’ who first dominated the Billboard charts and was later reverse-exported to Korea as a millennium idol.

If there’s ‘Legacy of Legends’ in China and ‘Resonance’ in Sweden, Americans take great pride in ‘World of Arcelia,’ believing it to be a game uniquely cultivated through their own culture.

Of course, while Wearsoft’s largest shareholder is affiliated with a Chinese company, that’s how people perceive it.

In Europe and America, there’s a culture that values storytelling over rankings and competitions, widely spreading among the general public.

Outside of a few true gamers, what mattered was how diverse the story was and how variously the open world could interact.

That’s why in ‘World of Arcelia,’ videos discovering undiscovered quests or introducing bugs on specific maps always filled foreign audiences’ VTube lists.

And then, suddenly in mid-April, Wearsoft announced that it would revamp the Nightmare Story for about a month.

They stated that all difficulties had been cleared and they aspired to show new stories, but that was merely a public reason.

Many knew the real reason was that they couldn’t handle a flood of bugs in a short time.

However, above all, a notice informing people that Adella would no longer be found in the game due to ASI’s license expiration came as the biggest shock.

Instead, to appropriately reward No Name, who became the first user to clear difficulty 10/10/10, Wearsoft announced that it would hand over the open-source clone of Adella for non-commercial purposes.

[This is a clear infringement of intellectual property rights. We hope you will fulfill the contract.]

Despite the ASI production company warning of legal action for license violations,

[Entering a personal open world isn’t legally our property, right? You guys take care of it.]

Wearsoft showed no sign of concern, brushing it aside. After all, a producer with only one ASI entity was no threat to the headquarters.

Instead, they successfully created an image for themselves as the good guys, protecting players’ childlike innocence.

As the game NPC roamed the VR world gaining cult popularity, those wanting to know her backstory turned their attention to No Name’s broadcasts.

The inciting incident was a post by game critic ‘Esten Merlin.’

[Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Reflecting on Mephisto’s Wednesday and the Dead Cat Bounce]

[The dead cat beat the living demon.

Adella’s narrative, as mentioned in a post three years ago, has yet to be widely known, and I find it quite regrettable.

However, the deviation sparked by bugs has culminated in the most successful conclusion possible, and you must keep an eye on their journey. (to be continued)]

In internet broadcasts, the conservative attitude of Vox Media has drawn attention to the streamer.

Thus, it was only natural that the public would become interested.

However, as days passed,

and even a week passed, No Name’s Twish channel remained closed.

With each passing day, the number indicating the recent broadcast simply increased, showing 9 days ago, 10 days ago, and so on.

Confused viewers went to VTube and left comments one after another.

– When is No Name planning to broadcast again?

└ What country’s IP is this? LOL

└ Just subscribe to VTube; there’s so much content to watch.

└ What’s VTube?

└ Replay review.

└ Replay masturbation.

└ What?

But guided by the algorithm, they eventually reached Mephistopheles’s final battle, and they couldn’t help but be astonished.

‘Quantika Procilio.’ The 6-circle magic, better known as ‘Hellfire’ by various magic scholars in Korea, was cast by a 14-year-old student.

Even in a game world, one must grasp the theory to use magic.

But this was magic close to quantum statistical mechanics rather than thermodynamics.

Regular figures in this industry continued to raise questions about how a kid knew about supersymmetric gauge theory or the concept of topological twist in string theory, but it soon got buried in the tide of VTube.

[NoName Official]

[Evolution #WorldofArcelia (5/5)]

[Best Comment]

-(20:12) The Demon Lord has descended! Dou Dou has appeared! [Likes: 4.3k]

└ Explode, reality! Burst, synapse! Vanishment dis warudo! [Likes: 2.8k]

└ So cringe LMAO

– (20:59) If you want to call me the Demon Lord, go ahead. [Likes: 3.1k]

└ LOL can’t call her the demon lord, but can call her mama?

└ How could she attach part of the Aura Heart to her head? Is this also a type of Unique Magic?

└ If No Name is just cute, that’s okay by me~

* * *

[No Name Minor Gallery]

[Concept Post]

[Goodbye~][28]

(7 consecutive falls of No Name.mp4)

LOL that’s hilarious! And he died five more times after that, LOL.

[Comments]

– In the end, we lost this match, LOL.

– His comedic sense is insane, LOL.

– As long as it was fun, that’s all that matters.

[What is No Name?][19]

(No Name Black Board.jpg)

(Brocard’s Problem.jpg)

After a long time, No Name (middle schooler) was solving an easy problem, so I wondered what it was and looked it up online, but this was still an unsolved problem? What is this?

Did he really know and solve it properly? Are there no friends in the gallery who are good at math?

[Comments]

– No way, but even if he’s smart, he shouldn’t be that far gone.

– How is this an unsolved problem?

└ Fermat’s Last Theorem is also based on middle school math, right?

– I’ll ask the MathOverflow people once and come back.

– Hurry up and tip the media! Make No Name more famous!

– If he gets famous, he might not stream anymoreㅠㅠㅠㅠ

└ Oh no…! Then hide No Name!

– Still, it’s been a while since the placement exam broadcast, I’m really happy.

└ Who knows when he’ll come back, it’s so sad…

* * *

The placement exam can simply be summarized as a complete mess.

From the first game, it jumped straight into a diamond-tier match, and before I could react, the game was over in an instant.

But then, they placed gold on my side and platinum on the enemy side, and the game ended in 15 minutes with the opponent’s surrender.

In some matches, mages and archers seemed overbalanced, while in others, warriors with two-sided axes charged forth, soaking up all the bullets and displaying highlights, making it impossible to properly evaluate the tiers.

In the end, rather than actually trying it out, it seemed more prudent to watch the videos of last season’s top players to understand how team games flow.

[‘3Blue1Black’ donated 209,000 won!]

-Hello, No Name. I heard you offered insightful solutions to Brocard’s Problem at the beginning of the stream, and I came here for that. Could you please explain the earlier part again?

“That’s what?”

– Wow, 100-dollar donation!

– Huh, this person has 340,000 Twish followers, who are they?

– ???

– What is that?

Fortunately, the placement exam smoothly progressed after that, securing a three-game winning streak, now nearing the final match.

[‘3Blue1Black’ donated 209,000 won!]

– There has been a discussion regarding your solution for the ‘n! + 1 = m^2’ problem on MathOverflow. It has become a topic of debate on how the Gauss-Lucas theorem was used in the last proof part, so I came to discuss it with you.

– What are you saying?

– Was it that significant of a problem?

└ This was an unresolved problem!!! I told you!!! (Pattern 78)

– It was a famous problem, right?

– Established in 1876, it hasn’t been solved in a whopping 175 years.

– What is happening in the conversation of geniuses?

└ No Name hasn’t spoken yet, LOL.

[‘CatLoverFirst’ donated 420,000 won!]

– Cancel

– LOL

– Ah, canceling missions cannot be helped, LOL.

– I told you not to break the flow; we were on a three-game winning streak!

– Are you just going to give up like this?

“Um… I didn’t hide anything, but why are you asking to see it again? If you get the gist, the answer will come out, right? Is it a problem with a cash prize or something?”

After that one loss, I felt a little uneasy and thought I’d quickly finish the placement exam and take a shower, but someone showed up to disrupt the broadcast.

Should I just ban them?

[‘EekEek’ donated 1,000 won!]

– Shut up and just watch the placement exam, LOL.

– That’s not fair~~~~

– For real, LOL.

– You can just rewatch it.

└ No Name has blocked it.

└ Ah, that’s right, LOL.

– Our host doesn’t respect even if you give a lot of money, LOL.

– With just a thousand, you could elicit some worthwhile reactions if you play it right.

[‘3Blue1Black’ donated 209,000 won!]

– While it’s not a cash prize, it’s still a historically profound unresolved problem… If you could explain it again, we would like to offer you a fair incentive.

[‘CatLoverFirst’ donated 210,000 won!]

– Ranked games

“Alright, then I’ll politely decline.”

[Searching for matches – Rank]

– Yeah, LOL.

– The manager is doing well, LOL.

– Let’s join the righteous side!

– But seriously, if you solved an unresolved problem, that’s quite impressive, right?

– What’s Terence Tao?

– It’s like Good Will Hunting in real life, wow.

“Everyone, unresolved problems aren’t that significant. If you bring a weird problem no one knows about and claim it’s unresolved, then for example, is 10.4928 times 20.2948 also an unresolved problem? No one has ever solved it, right?”

If it’s a famous problem with a cash prize, that thought may change, but I couldn’t understand the fuss about solving some scribbled idea by a mathematician in a remote corner.

To put it bluntly, if you hang a one-billion cash prize on the news at 9, I can guarantee it’ll be solved within a year at the latest.

“Then let’s say I just couldn’t solve it. There might be an error in my proof, you know?”

[Game Found – Accepted]

“I don’t know what job the viewer has, but if you’re a mathematician, filling in the gaps is supposed to be your specialty, right?”

I recently watched a documentary on Fermat’s Last Theorem that was really interesting, and I’m just saying,

I’m definitely better than some mathematician who kicks the bucket without writing down QED, aren’t I?

I definitely proved it, and you guys can fill in the earlier parts yourselves.

And it’s not because the donation amount is larger that I’m saying this.