Master Achieved
Lee Ji-Zero: "Viewers have increased a lot. Congratulations, Siyeon."
Siyeon: "Thank you. It's my first time receiving such attention while streaming."
LatestTV donated 100,000 won.
Lee Ji-Zero: "Now that you have a camera and microphone, you'll soar to new heights."
LatestTV: "Oh, it's really Jiyoung here."
LatestTV donated 100,000 won.
Lee Ji-Zero: "Hello, unnie. What brings you here?"
LatestTV: "It's me. I came to see Jiyoung. By the way, I wanted to check out the Arena too."
Lee Ji-Zero: "Hehe. Nice to see you."
LatestTV donated 100,000 won.
LatestTV: "Then, take care. I'm heading out."
Lee Ji-Zero: "Yes, unnie."
Siyeon: "Wow, thank you for the 300,000 won donation from LatestTV."
Lee Ji-Zero: "It seems you've already left?"
Siyeon: "Thank you so much. It's amazing that you help someone like me in a hobby room."
Lee Ji-Zero: "You have great skill too. Without me, you would have been smashed in no time."
Siyeon: "Thank you so much. Zero-nim."
Lee Ji-Zero: "No, it's nothing."
It was unexpectedly gratifying to have increased the viewers of Siyeon's stream. If viewers who like Animal Kingdom Arena come, they will visit a lot. Currently ranked second, and among current rankers, she has the highest win rate, so she might take over first place soon. Even for top rankers, rank is important, but win rate is the most important thing. If the win rate is the highest, I think it's possible to take first place someday.
"How was it when you played against Mina?"
Siyeon: "She played really well. It was like facing a 9-stage mode."
"Wow, that's impressive? lol"
"She really is a talent."
"What is 9-stage like then?"
"Have you never done practice mode? There are 1 to 10 stages, but even 6 was tough for me."
"6 stages is exactly the area of effort."
Siyeon: "Then, I'll rotate the matching."
AI battle mode difficulty settings: 1 stage Unranked, 2 Bronze, 3 Silver, 4 Gold, 5 Platinum, 6 Diamond, 7 Master, 8 Grandmaster, 9 Challenge. Rankers can defeat 8 stages or higher, and 10 stages is truly the realm of gods. Truly overwhelming skill that seems to have used high-performance beta, and special abilities, so it's impossible to win. The game developers must have deliberately created an AI that can never be beaten. Mina has won up to 9 stages, but has never won against 10 stages. So, in AI battle mode, you can practice enough and rotate matching, or just rotate matching. Siyeon continued rotating matching and achieved 5 consecutive wins. 5 consecutive wins against users of the same rank is really amazing skill.
Siyeon: "The game is going well today."
That day, Siyeon rotated matching and took over first place, achieving a win rate of 66% and finally reaching Master. The news spread quickly among users who do Arena, and viewer count broke 1000.
Mina might not be famous among Arena players, but my broadcast viewers have increased a lot, and it's often mentioned in the community. The match between ranker and Mina is naturally an interesting topic. Since I can't match with the ranker, it's something I can only do with Mina.
In the hunting ground, the easiest 1-1, I almost died. In 1-2 it was dangerous, and after that I got better, but the first time was very impressive. If I had died in 1-1, I would have been the first person in the world to die. Of course, I wasn't pressing well at the time. If I had pressed well, that situation wouldn't have happened.
“Would you like to learn Arena too? Just practice enough in practice mode.”
“Can I? I wanted to try Arena once too.”
“I’ll teach you well. I hope you don't get discouraged even if you can't.”
I entered the practice mode as per Mina's advice, and chose my main character Lester Panda. I haven't seen anyone using Lester Panda in Arena, but Mina showed it first in practice mode. Practice mode has 0 stage practice mode and 1-10 stage battle mode. First, of course, use the mode where it stays still like a sandbag to learn the range and judgment of skills. And there is a 0 stage mode where the opponent AI chases and only attacks, to practice avoiding opponent skills. And start from 1 stage seriously and actually fight the AI. While practicing to avoid attacks in practice mode, although I knew the range and judgment of opponent skills, it was too difficult to avoid attacks. I knew it wouldn't hit, but the distance touched. I tried to press guard or counter, but it was already hit. How does Mina avoid it all?
“Mina, no matter how hard I try, it doesn't increase.”
I said with a dejected expression. After 10 minutes of practice, now I can avoid long-range attacks by running, but I still can't avoid skills well. Without a doubt, many users' big data predicts how I will act. Clearly, it must have high-performance beta. Still, the conscience part is that when using long-range attacks, it doesn't use prediction shots. But in reality, it will definitely use prediction shots and I will definitely hit.
“For now, how about gradually increasing the difficulty from 1 stage?”
“Yeah. I won't lose to 1 stage, right?”
“Jiyoung, fighting.”
“Yeah.”
Following Mina's advice, I started from 1 stage. The opponent character was a rabbit from ground animals. Count started, and I kept distance from the rabbit. I thought about doing 1 stage on stream, but today is Sunday, so I held back to give rest to the twins. I played cautiously, tense about being attacked by the rabbit, and the rabbit ran away after approaching. I felt strange and approached while narrowing the distance to the rabbit, and the rabbit slowly approached me. When the rabbit approached, I pressed the guard button, and the rabbit ran away far again. The rabbit was quite timid. Seeing the rabbit scared by my Lester Panda's wildness, I smiled and chased it. But on the other hand, I maintained tension about when I would be attacked. So, time passed and the eye contact continued, and the game ended with time over. Ultimately, we recorded a draw without hitting each other once.
After seeing Mina's max level rabbit, I could no longer look down on the rabbit. Mina's rabbit was extremely strong. So, I couldn't hide my tension.
Mina stroked my head and smiled. But, suddenly the rabbit attacked and my Lester Panda got hit, I would definitely lose. But since he doesn't attack, it seemed like he was scared for nothing.
“Then, I'll do it one more time.”
“Jiyoung, fighting.”
“Yeah. This time, I'll play aggressively.”
Once I realized that the rabbit doesn't attack, my confidence rose. Isn't it just following and pressing skill buttons? This isn't a duel, it's hunting. Count started and I ran to the rabbit for hunting and blindly used skills. But the rabbit jumped and dodged my skill. I thought strangely, thinking the rabbit can be agile, and ran again to use skill. But again, the rabbit jumped and dodged and ran away leisurely. I had no choice but to look at the back of the rabbit that ran away leisurely with a dejected expression. I paused the game for a moment and called Mina.
“Mina, the rabbit is too fast.”
“Hut, too cute.”
“I ran to the rabbit and used skill right away, but the rabbit jumped and avoided.”
I explained the whole story to Mina. It seems suspicious that the operators raised the difficulty only for me even though it's 1 stage. In 1 stage, shouldn't I just run and use skill to hit? How do I win from 2 stage with a fast rabbit from 1 stage? Will I not even be able to do proper matching?