Chapter 134: A Straight Flush With a Joker Part 1
When I first saw that email, I thought it was a spam of so sort. However, there was sothing familiar to the style it was written in and that convinced it was the real deal.
For the ti being, I asked Katsu to clarify this, and sent Pencilgton, the brains of our guild “Wolfgang” a private ssage.
However, if I were to simplify the conversation I had with Pencilgton, it would amount to sothing like this:
: What do you think this guy’s deal is?
Pencil: It really depends on the context, but how much of the “expenses” do you think he’s able to cover?
: Is that what you’re worried about? I don’t know about travelling expenses, but it looks like he’s really desperate to scout us out.
Pencil: Now I’m glad that I don’t have anything urgent to get done.
Umu, it seems that it is impossible to communicate with a madman in a coherent manner. I then asked him if he was going to ask Katsu for the details as well, but Pencilgton seed to be as carefree about this as ever.
However, due to grilling him for a while, I managed to extract the following intel out of him:
GGC…… Or Global Gaming Competition. Just like the na would imply, it was a conference that introduces a vast number of already existing gas, gas that are about to be published and the ones that are already in the making. One of the biggest events like that out there.
In the past it used to be organized abroad, like in the United Kingdom or USA, but supposedly thanks to the financial power of various sponsors the last two years saw the Convention being organized in Japan. And of course, the existence of ShangriLa Frontier was partially the reason for that state of affairs.
No matter the country of origin or the amount of money pumped into making them, gas are just that: gas. And when it cos to ShanFro…… Do I have to say anything?
Until the release of ShanFro, the gadev world was roughly divided into three parts: Arica when it cos to quality, Asia when it cos to plot and character developnt and Europe when it cos to unconventional ideas.
In this country, where about thirty percent of NPCs in gas are antrophomorsized animals, and the rest is just handso guys and sexy girls swinging big swords around and casting magic left and right, it took us our sweet ti to understand that gas in general can be categorized as good and bad.
That is why ShanFro right now is considered as the best example of ga developnt, not only in Japan or Asia, but around the world. In my honest opinion, ShanFro was ahead of its ti by like…… four of five generations?
About half a year after the release of ShanFro, many different companies from all over the world started to announce their new titles. Titles that looked extrely alike ShanFro for so reason. Just like the teor shower that cos once in a blue moon and shines brilliantly in the sky…… I was looking forward to so of those gas, I won’t say.
To reiterate, ShanFro is currently doing better than any other ga out there in the world, with almost half a million players logging into the ga on a daily basis. Whatever system chanic that was introduced to ShanFro, you could be sure that other gas would implent them shortly after. Going back to GGC, I was usually looking at transmissions from it since they would always announce new gas there, but according to Katsu the level of this conference was growing better and better with every passing year.
GGC is a huge stage for professional gars, since lots of companies tend to hire professional players to show their new gas on the newest computers and consoles alike. So why? Why was Katsu trying to recruit Pencilgton and I into helping him this year?
「Apparently he is going to play against soone he doesn’t want to lose to no matter what, and he needs our help to avoid losing by forfeit for not having the mandatory mbers in the team.」
While I was logging out and reading ssage after ssage, I couldn’t help but laugh under my nose. Maybe it’s because of the energy drinks, but those things were making want to laugh even more than usual.
「Now that being said, what to do…… The day after tomorrow, huh?」
Oh well, not that I have anything all that special to do, anyways. It’s not like I need to log in every single day or anything like that. Katsu said that we can discuss the details later inside ShanFro…… Honestly, I had no real reason to refuse.
Long story short, Katsu’s goal is to fill in the missing spots in his team. Still, it was weird of him to think that he would be able to win with a ragtag group of players gathered in a hurry.
I don’t know if it’s okay to let non-professional gars enter any tournant ant for pros like that, but I also can’t imagine that Katsu wouldn’t think about sothing as crucial as that. So I don’t need to worry all that much about it.
「The day after tomorrow…… I will need to prepare various things, if that’s how it’s going to be…… Well then, should I go now?」
All that I have planned for today is to try and clear one quest. It should be a whole lot easier than having to forcefully break through an entire dungeon and fighting a Unique Monster along the way. I could also continue to spam Katsu with emails, or even get on the train and go hunt for so more sh*tty gas that I could indulge myself in. My options remain open.
The GGC itself will last for about three days, but the exhibition match that Katsu ntioned shall be completed in the span of one day, so it won’t take as much of my ti as I was afraid it would. It was also nice that Katsu would cover my travelling expenses, but there was also sothing else: sotis just taking a short break from Shanfro wasn’t that bad of an idea.
「I might as well accept your invitation……」
I send an email like that and then start thinking.
「…… Now that I think about it, does that an I’ll be eting Towa Amane and Uomi Kei for the first ti in real life……?」
Usually eting a true celebrity would sound really exciting…… but we’re already talking quite a lot via email, so it seed sowhat h for at first. But maybe I could use that opportunity to score an autograph for my sister?
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