[Top 1. WynterRain. Archmage. BR 901,459]
[Top 2. NightFall. Barbarian. BR 14,130]
[Top 3. Natalie. Rogue. BR 12,890]
“WynterRain?”
“WynterRain?”
“Who’s he?”
“I think I’ve heard of him?”
“Did you just say WynterRain?”
“He’s a professional gar! How could you don’t know?”
“BR 901,459? What the hell?”
Hiro could feel his body suddenly reacting strangely. His muscles tensed up and he couldn’t move. His body started producing an excessive amount of sweat all of a sudden.
‘How could that be? WynterRain? is that Yuujin?’
‘No–’
‘No—’
‘There must be soone else using his userna for fun.’
‘But, how could he reach 901,459 BR within a month? Is he a masochist? No way, it’s impossible to do that even if he was a masochist. World level cap won’t let any player surpass that BR at this mont.’
Hiro couldn’t move his neck, he kept staring at the giant screen and his eyes were fixed on the first row on the leaderboard.
Even so, the title that had been given to him as the Top 1 CBT player was still embedded in his avatar.
[Glitching]
The Top 100 players display on the screen disappeared again after experiencing a glitch.
The others wondered again while Hiro was still staring at the blank screen with the sa feeling.
[Glitching]
[We apologize for the inconvenience]
After displaying an apology ssage, the top 100 players leaderboard returned to normal and NightFall took the first place again.
“What just happened?”
“Where did WynterRain go?”
“Why didn’t he win the top 1 rank?”
“Is he a cheater?”
“Yeah right, he must be a cheater!”
“I’m very sure, he’s a cheater!”
Hiro closed his eyes after hearing the various accusations directed at a userna he knew all too well.
Even though he wasn’t sure that the userna was used by his brother, still, hearing people refer to the his brother’s signature userna as a cheater was a huge insult.
“SILENCE!”
Hiro suddenly shouted in a loud voice and managed to stop all the whispers that made the atmosphere in the Beginner Town square area turn very noisy.
All eyes turned back to Hiro with displeased looks, so even frowned in front of Hiro before finally deciding to leave the place.
“What a freak.”
“For soone with only 14 thousand battle ratings, he is too arrogant.”
“I’d better go ho and sleep.”
“Disappointing.”
It didn’t take long for the square to return to its normal silence.
However, Hiro was still standing alone at his place. At the sa spot, not moving an inch.
His mind was still stuck at the mont when his brother’s userna, WynterRain, rose to the top of the rankings, surpassing his own, NightFall.
Hiro didn’t know why it bothered him so much. He tried to push the thought out of his head.
But he couldn’t, he was reminded of the list of 1000 CBT players that Anonymous had sent to him before he decided to log in to the ga.
From the 1000 player nas, he rembered very well that all players used real nas instead of usernas like his.
And from the 1000 identities he had known, Hiro also knew that Yamaguchi Yuujin’s na was not listed there.
He then rembered that there was another leaderboard display he had encountered in his HUD system. Right on the icon of the leaderboard nu.
He imdiately checked it.
This ti, the nu displayed the complete nas of players, sorted by the player’s battle rating.
Hiro quickly scrolled down and saw how many numbers were listed on the leaderboard.
As he expected, the total number of CBT players was 1001.
1001.
The additional 1 player was him.
After he realized that sohow he managed to join the mysterious CBT version without doing any registration the first ti he attempted to try the VR machine, Hiro got goosebumps.
It looked like soone had prepared all of this.
But what for?
For helping Hiro harvesting LSC? No–way, it couldn’t be that simple, is it?
As for the other 1000 players, all of their userna looked familiar to Hiro because he had read them before,
in the [1000] file sent by Anonymous.
Sohow, the 1000 nas listed in the file very accurately displayed the sa 1000 nas as the players listed on the leaderboard inside the ga.
Whoever Anonymous was, Hiro was sure, Anonymous knew sothing that he didn’t know until this mont.
And once again, he checked carefully the usernas on the leaderboard list, but still, Hiro was sure that WynterRain didn’t exist in the list.
With his mind already filled with various kinds of questions, Hiro finally decided to return to Liberty’s house. Liberty was probably waiting for him now because he had been away for too long.
Hiro’s legs felt weak and he walked like an unsteady person, he didn’t care even though so people looked at him with a strange gaze.
Hiro continued to walk like a soulless undead.
He was really confused now.
So strange events seed to keep trying to trap him, making his brain feel overheated.
Finally, after walking very slowly, Hiro arrived in front of Liberty’s house which still looked the sa.
It didn’t change a bit.
He then entered the house, the door was unlocked, hoping that Liberty was waiting in the living room to greet him and congratulate him on his success as the top player in the CBT version.
But, when he entered the house, the living room looked just as empty as before he left.
However, when Hiro directly walked to open the door of Liberty’s bedroom, his knees suddenly limp, seeing the beautiful figure in front of him.
Liberty was sitting while looking out the window, ignoring his arrival.
“Libe?”
Hiro really couldn’t believe what he saw. Even the voice that just ca out from his mouth sounded weird.
But, he ran and hugged Liberty’s body tightly from her back.
He was so happy to see the girl finally woke up.
Hiro could sll Liberty’s sweet scent, her body temperature had returned to normal. The fever has gone.
And Hiro almost forgot that he wanted to tell the girl about all of his achievents.
His first achievent in buying a regular plot that would help him provide passive inco for living expenses in the real world.
His second achievent in getting first place in the CBT version of the ga that further made him more confident to be able to pursue the LSO opening ga prize of 60,000 USD by becoming a top 100 player within one month.
Hiro was very happy with those two things, even though no one realized it and no one would appreciate his achievents.
But he believed that Liberty would be as happy as him after he told everything.
And now, after Liberty has woken up to hear a very long story from him, he didn’t realize at all that Liberty was very shocked by his surprising hug.
Liberty did not return his hug and the girl just froze like a statue without a soul.
After a minute of a warm mont, he finally found sothing that didn’t feel right.
Hiro imdiately let go of the girl and then stared at her awkwardly.
Liberty’s two-round eyes stared back at Hiro, but it felt empty.
She tilted her head as if her mind was now full of questions.
“Who are you?”
“Do I know you?”
“Where am I?”
“What am I doing here?”
“What is this place?”
“Am I already dead?”
“Are you a friend of my brother?”
Hiro didn’t know how to react after hearing nurous questions that ca out of Liberty’s sweet yet beautiful lips.
His mouth seed to have been shut tightly.
“I’m sorry, but, what is your na? How do you know my na?”
Hiro couldn’t answer, he was speechless and his throat suddenly felt very dry.
And before he said anything, suddenly a notification popped out.
Ding!
[An unexpected error occurred]
[The ga server will be temporarily offline for urgent maintenance]
[Forced to Logout Warning!!! (10s left)]
.
.
“Wait, What?!”
[Disconnecting from the server]
.
.
[Disconnected]
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*author special appreciation speech*
Dear Last Shelter Online Readers,
I will introduce myself once again in a short sentence. I am a girl, I have a lil brother with 7 gap years. (If you need more information, read at the review section).
It was a little funny to reveal this, but actually my brother and I could communicate very well only during playing an online ga. Distance doesn’t matter. But, when we grew up, it’s very hard to see each other like in the old days. But I believe, without any words coming out from our lips, we missed each other a lot.
So, one fine day, I suddenly missed him due to the separation we got from COVID-19 lockdown. We haven’t seen each other in person for more than 3 years. The longest yet hardest ti ever in my life. At this mont, I suddenly want to write sothing that resembles the bond between siblings. And thus, Hiro was born and so was his brother, Yuujin.
But ‘Last Shelter Online’ was more than that.
I hope that everyone will enjoy the story of LSO. This is the first ti for to write a novel like this. But I promise, I will do my best.
I made this because the next chapters will be premium.
Once again, thank you very much for reading Last Shelter Online.
I hope that you will always support Last Shelter Online until we reach the final line together.
All Love, Sabet.
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