147 - Q.E.D. [Defeat]
"Hmm..."
Research on the fall damage system is definitively complete. The judgment is a bit strict, but as long as it's not specific edge cases, we can treat it the same as reality.
However, operational issues came to light. My combat power is abnormally high on my own, so my allies' overall strength was generally lower than the enemies'. I needed to take responsibility and maintain map-wide influence continuously, but the back-to-back fights with that knight earlier prevented it.
Sometimes games can't be won by just carrying twice over. This was exactly that case. Plus, with respawn points shifting every moment, predicting line formation spots like in LoL is tricky, so I need to explore flexible countermeasures.
Well, you can't fill up on the first drink. As I play more games and grasp the concepts, a path will open eventually.
"You were losing streaks while carrying before. No matter how I think about it, I feel like I hard-trolled this game, but we won? Man, this game is seriously confusing even when I get it."
The knight chuckled awkwardly as he removed his armor.
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"This game is tough."
The math problem from earlier was easier, honestly. This has no answer.
"Let's jump into the next game quick."
NoName was surprisingly more popular overseas than in Korea. If top idol stars typically conquer Korean music shows one by one before aiming for Billboard, it's somewhat similar to the millennium idol 'Cheyna,' who conquered Billboard first and got reverse-exported to Korea.
China has Legacy of Legend, Sweden has Resonance, but Americans took pride in World of Arceria as a game born from their own culture. Sure, Wearsoft's majority shareholder was a Chinese affiliate, but public perception was what mattered.
In Europe and the US, beyond a minority of hardcore gamers, the general public valued 'storytelling' over rankings or tournaments—how colorful a story you spun, how diversely you interacted with the open world.
That's why videos discovering uncharted quests or map bugs in WoA always filled foreign viewers' VTube queues.
Then, mid-April, Wearsoft suddenly announced a Nightmare Story revamp for about a month. Officially to show new tales since all difficulties were cleared, but insiders knew it was to handle the bug flood.
But the biggest shock was the notice that Adella would vanish from the game due to ASI license expiration.
[This is a clear violation of intellectual property rights. We request contract fulfillment.]
Despite ASI's maker threatening lawsuits for license breach,
[Once it enters a personal open world, it's not legally ours anymore? Handle it yourselves.]
Wearsoft shrugged it off without batting an eye. The maker only had one ASI instance anyway—no real threat to HQ.
Instead, they spun it as protecting players' innocence, acing their image makeover. As the game NPC roamed VR worlds gaining cult fame, those craving her backstory flocked to NoName's streams.
It started with game critic 'Aston Merlin's' submission:
From Crisis to Opportunity: Reflecting on Mephisto's Wednesday and the Dead Cat Bounce
The dead cat beat the mountain devil. As mentioned in my submission 3 years ago, Adella's saga deserves wider fame, and I lamented its obscurity. But her bug-born deviation reached the most successful conclusion yet—you must watch their journey. (abridged)
Vox Media, still conservative toward internet broadcasts, spotlighted NoName. Public interest was inevitable.
But a day passed, two days, a week—no Twishi channel from NoName. The '9 days ago' on her last stream ticked up daily.
Clueless viewers flooded VTube comments:
But riding algorithm waves to Mephistopheles' final battle, they were all stunned.
Quantica Prosilio. Known to Korean audiences as Hellfire via magic Vtubers—a 6th Circle spell cast by a mere 14-year-old student.
Even in-game, you need theoretical grasp to cast. But this bordered quantum statistical mechanics, not thermodynamics. Experts questioned how a kid knew supersymmetric gauge theory or topological twists in string theory, but it drowned in VTube waves.
Been a while since NoName (middle schooler) sensei (lol) solved an 'easy' one, searched it up—turns out it's an unsolved problem? Wtf? Did she really solve it properly? No math whizzes here?
The placement test was a mess in one word. First game diamond tier, gone before I could react. Next, golds on my side, plats opposite—ended in 15-min enemy surrender.
Some games mages/archers overpowered, others berserkers tanking cannonballs with double axes for highlights—no tier consistency.
Better watch pro replays from last season first to learn team game flow before diving in.
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Hello NoName. Heard about your insightful solution to Brocard’s Problem from early stream. Could you explain the front part again?
"What's that?"
Placement test went smoothly after with 3 straight wins—last game incoming.
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MathOverflow discussion on NoName's 'n! + 1 = m²' proof. Came to stream for Gauss-Lucas theorem debate in final proof.
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— Canceled
"Hm... I showed it already—if you missed it, why ask again? The equation's obvious. Is there a prize or something?"
That one loss soured my mood; wanted to wrap placement and bath, but now a stream disruptor. Ban?
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Tell 'em to shut up and watch placement lololol
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No prize, but deep-rooted famous problem... We'll compensate properly if you explain again.
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Rank game
"Sure, polite decline then."
Searching...
"Unsolved problems aren't impressive, folks. If anyone's claiming unsolved just cuz obscure, like 10.4928 × 20.2948 is unsolved too—no one's bothered."
If prize-worthy famous, maybe rethink, but hyping some fringe mathematician's notebook scribble? Nah.
Heck, 100 mil on 9 o'clock news? Solved in a year guaranteed.
"Pretend I didn't solve it. Maybe my proof has errors."
Match ready. Accept to start.
"Dunno your job, viewer, but if mathematician, filling gaps is your specialty, right?"
Saw Fermat's Last doc recently—super interesting. Better than dead math guy sans QED, no? I proved it; fill the front yourselves.
Definitely not cuz bigger donation.