Chapter 43
Chapter 43
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 43
Chapter Title: New Month, New Duties
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New month, new duties.
The next day.
The month had changed, and it was now the start of the new month.
⚙ ARCHIVIST'S DUTY UPDATED ⚙ [Archivist's Duty] 1. Breaks are for the dead. Fail to start a stream at least once per day, and you'll be forcibly returned to the Omnia Archive. 1-1. Once you start a stream, you must run it for at least 30 minutes. 1-2. Achieve 500+ followers by the end of this month. [Duty Completed] 2. Create at least one new [Item] entry per month. 3. Create at least one new [Anomalous Phenomenon] entry per month. 4. Fail to uphold these duties, and your Archivist status will be immediately revoked and disposed of. - The Archivist's Duty updates in real time. - There were three key points to note.
The newly added sub-clause 1-2.
And clauses 2 and 3.
For starters, clauses 2 and 3 no longer had the "[Last Month's Duty Completed]" notice now that the month had rolled over.
This month's duties meant I'd have to head to an Anomalous Phenomenon site on foot, just like before.
...Unfortunate if you saw it that way, fortunate if you didn't.
Recently.
For some inexplicable reason.
The Anomalous Phenomenon occurrence cycle had shortened from two weeks to one—doubling in speed.
I'd been inwardly fretting that the "Archivist's Duty" would get even more grueling as a result.
Nope. This seemed more fortunate than not.
Clauses 2 and 3 aside.
The real issue was the brand-new sub-clause 1-2.
[1-2. Achieve 500+ followers by the end of this month.]
Another stealth patch, as usual.
If you're gonna patch, at least pop up a notice beforehand. What's the harm?
What a petty god.
Achieve 500+ followers.
Might sound a bit arrogant, but.
It was such a laughable number from my perspective that I couldn't help but scoff.
The day before, after Ayase's Narak Show appearance.
My follower count had exploded into stratospheric growth.
No joke—over 5,000 new followers just yesterday.
Currently sitting at around 25,000.
Just like Kim Junghwan—the Awakener Association investigator, VTuber expert, and total fanboy—had said.
I could hit 50,000 soon enough.
500 was child's play by now.
As I recalled, I'd broken 500 on debut day and rocketed all the way to 2,000.
In that sense, the new 1-2 duty might as well not exist—no need to sweat it...
...or so you'd think. Big mistake.
Regret it later.
The follower number itself wasn't the point.
The issue was another duty tacked on, and duties update in real time.
Whether that 500 becomes 1,000, 10,000, or 100,000 next—no one knows but Reflecting Myriad Stars.
Yep.
My hunch to stream diligently hadn't been off-base.
Imagine if I'd half-assed it just to check the boxes...
...Ugh.
Don't even wanna think about it.
Picturing myself putting on some fantasy ass show just to grind followers made my skin crawl.
Couldn't predict the future, so scaling up my stream setup first? Solid call.
Anyway, this "Archivist's Duty" update made it crystal clear.
Reflecting Myriad Stars and the Omnia Archive.
They wanted my streams to keep growing bigger.
Unfortunately, I still had zero clue what Reflecting Myriad Stars' endgame was.
No way.
Not seriously planning to amass devotees and take over the world...?
*Bonk!*
"Oof."
A very mild dose of "Blasphemy's Price" came down.
...Nah.
Whew, good thing my patron's no conqueror type.
Anyway.
This "Archivist's Duty" update felt like a warning shot.
Reflecting Myriad Stars wasn't stupid.
They already knew I'd blown past 500 ages ago.
A silent nudge to keep grinding streams hard, right?
...Silent nudge my ass. Felt like straight-up blackmail.
While I was at it.
I scrolled through my wiki entry from top to bottom: [Lee Jia (VTuber)].
📄 Omnia Wiki: Lee Jia (VTuber) 1. Overview 2. Details 3. Streams 4. Trivia Overview and Details were unchanged from before.
But section 3, Streams, was brand new.
3. Streams 3-1. Stream Features Despite her stunning looks, she's got a rough, gravelly mouth on her. Unlike other VTubers, zero pretense or airs—chats even joke she's gotta be a guy in drag. Her streams are variety smorgasbords with no main content, but she clearly has a god-given talent for it; every format she tries blows up. High Confession Stream - The Legend Begins. Less her carrying and more her devotee viewers stealing the show. A glimpse at the average caliber of her audience. Horror Game Stream - All-Time Legendary Broadcast. Lee Jia turned a one-hour horror game into a six-hour-plus marathon. (She screamed exactly 215 times, for the record.) Loder Batch Exam - Legendary in a Whole Other Way. She ate a lifetime's worth of insults in one day. Bonus: Preserved forever as a toxic troll in the Loder gallery. Ayase's Narak Show - Another legend, but carried not by Lee Jia—by Reflecting Myriad Stars grabbing her by the scruff. Thanks to Their perfectly timed personal deliveries of "Blasphemy's Price," it wrapped up to rave reviews from the fans. ...One thing I'd always wondered.
Who the hell writes these super subjective yet spot-on wiki entries?
Is it some "Omnia Archive program" software?
Or my subconscious handling it?
Probably.
High chance it's the latter.
'Cause most of the subjective bits ring true for me.
Take [Ayase's Narak Show], for instance.
Yeah, I think Reflecting Myriad Stars hard-carried me by the collar too.
If I hadn't faceplanted that spectacularly at the end, would it have gotten this much love?
...Nah.
Gotta give credit where due, ugh.
I kept scrolling down the wiki.
3-2. Game Skill Her skills aren't just trash—they're apocalyptic. Horror games? Apocalyptic fail. AOS games? Apocalyptic fail. At this point, you wonder if she has even one game she's good at. Devotees roast her for it: "Pocket skill that big and you suck at games?" Ah.
This one's got me wondering too.
Me.
Do I really suck at every game?
I've even got a stream concept planned around it.
Starting today.
Gonna dabble in every genre out there.
Strategy sims.
Dating sims.
FPS.
RPG.
Puzzle.
Roguelike.
Shooters, bullet hell, adventure, action, rhythm, and whatever else.
Surely, as a human, I'll stumble onto one I'm decent at if I shotgun enough.
...Or not.
Maybe I'm not human, so zero good games.
3-3. Stream Rules Not officially codified, but tacit rules exist. 1. No insulting Reflecting Myriad Stars or the Omnia Archive. - She laughs off personal jabs, but draws the line at Them or the Archive—straight ban. Archivist material right there. - That said, she'll let "playful" insults slide. Glimpse of her cheeky hypocrisy. 2. Trash-talking others is insta-ban. Ayase digs get her roaring in maximum rage mode. 3. Turret spam and copypasta policing? Insta-ban. 4. ... In just one month.
Tons of new stuff added.
Wonder if in six months or a year, just reading the wiki'll eat up all my time.
Having finished the updated wiki.
I plopped down in my PC chair to start streaming.
That's when it happened.
A call from the Awakener Association.
New Anomalous Phenomenon spotted—could I come right now?
I said yes without hearing the rest, threw on some clothes, but.
Immediately took it back.
The reason...
[Oh, and FYI, not Yoo Euisul this time, but another Awakener and...]
"Next time."
[B-But it's a pretty reliable Awakener, and not just one—a full party of five...]
"Still next time."
No Yoo Euisul.
No deal.
All that favor I'd built up.
Per her, Anomalous Phenomena resolution hinges not on headcount, but individual skills and items.
Yoo Euisul's skill: Immunity to all mental attacks.
Yoo Euisul's item, Iron Sword No. 3 effect: Can sever target's properties.
Theoretically.
She's one of a kind—able to solve virtually any Anomalous Phenomenon.
Of course, purely theoretical. Anomalous Phenomena are living bundles of chaos, and chaos drops people into hell.
However.
With my ability to wiki-format target intel and preempt the chaos.
"Theoretical invincibility" becomes "practical invincibility."
So, to max my survival odds, I'm teaming with Yoo Euisul for every site dive.
Plus.
Haven't even done the Association's Anomalous Phenomenon training yet.
If the cycle was still two weeks, I'd have charged in regardless, but...
Now at one week, I've got breathing room—postpone it.
Streams take priority right now.
Desk, monitor, keyboard—all brand new.
Not enough? Got three full spare setups: desks, monitors, keyboards, mice, towers. All configured.
...Yeah, dumped every penny from weeks of streaming.
Worth every cent.
Beats scrambling to a PC bang in a panic.
Finally, I hit the stream start button.
Stream title.
[Narak Show Recap & Game Safari]