[RAIDS ONLINE: LUCENT @ RAIDS - Channel]
[Followers: 350,000+]
[Videos: 12]
[Total Views: 11,000,000+]
UR@DUDE: This dude is hopeless. He's seriously fallen for an NPC.
SILVER@SHOELACE: What a loser! Is Selene your new waifu?.. HAHAHA!
MOONSHINE@SELENE: What's wrong with falling for an NPC? You're the hopeless one—you can't even admit you like someone.
MOONSHINE@SELENE: Having a waifu doesn't make someone a loser. You're the loser—you don't even have a real one, let alone a waifu.
UR@DUDE: FAQ YOU, DUDE!
SILVER@SHOELACE: FAQ YOU!
MOONSHINE@SELENE: SUCK IT, HOPELESS LOSERS! Selene would never talk to your kind anyway... HAHAHA!
RAIDS@CURSE: Speaking of Selene, has anyone ever triggered that dialogue scene before?
RING@FORCE: Nope! Never! It's probably part of a new update or something.
MOONSHINE@SELENE: Only those chosen by Selene can unlock that dialogue scene.
UR@DUDE: Shut up, you delusional dude.
SILVER@SHOELACE: As if something like that exists in RAIDS ONLINE.
RING@FORCE: I'm logging in tonight and staying by Selene's side all night.
KCID@EID: Let's prove this Lucent guy is nothing special.
MOONSHINE@SELENE: As if Selene would open her heart to someone like you.
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"GAAHHHH!!!..."
Luel screamed in sheer embarrassment, overwhelmed by the awkward realization that he had forgotten—he was still live-streaming during the raid with SilverPup, even after getting killed by the Rank D Shadow Hyena.
Everyone saw it.
His time with Selene.
The lap scene.
The promise.
One million views. One million witnesses.
Now, with his forehead buried against the hardwood table beside his untouched rice bowl—with what looked like a Century Egg, but was really just a soy-marinated hardboiled egg—Luel tried to melt into the surface and vanish from existence.
—Ding!—
[Notification: Friend Requests (+99), Party Invitations (+99), BlueHeroine (+99), SilverPup (+99), Contract (+1)]
He groaned and grabbed his phone, dreading what he'd find. Among the flood of notifications, a message stood out:
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[RAIDS ONLINE @ LUCENT - Messenger]
DEVOUR@SilverPup: As much as I enjoyed watching your date with Selene at the Moon Server... I gotta say—you're seriously such a noob, Lucent.
DEVOUR@SilverPup: I mean, who the faq forgets there's a Ragnarok Beast behind them? I haven't seen someone get decapitated by a Rank D Shadow Hyena in ages.
DEVOUR@SilverPup: So... here's what I'm gonna do. I'm sending you hundreds of videos about Ragnarok Beasts and Orion-Class Devour players.
DEVOUR@SilverPup: Study them. Learn every beast's abilities and weaknesses. Learn how we fight—how Devour Beast Class players move. Watch how I move.
DEVOUR@SilverPup: Once you're done, ask your precious Selene to let you use the Moon Server's Training System. Practice fighting Rank E to D Ragnarok Beasts.
DEVOUR@SilverPup: What's your Link Force now—10 percent, maybe 12 percent? If you can beat a Rank D Ragnarok Beast with that, we'll start working on boosting your Link Force again.
DEVOUR@SilverPup: Anyway... Pfft!... Do your best, Lucent. Pfft!... So that one day, you can show Selene how beautiful this world is.
DEVOUR@SilverPup: Didn't know you were such a hopeless romantic... Hahaha!
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"GAAHHHH!!!..."
Of course SilverPup saw the video. Of course she wouldn't miss a chance to roast him alive.
But Luel took her advice seriously.
For the next week, he buried himself in the study materials SilverPup sent. Watching countless videos of Devour players raiding, analyzing Ragnarok Beast behavior, memorizing abilities and counters. He even studied SilverPup's own battles, noting her precision and instinct.
Afterward, he spent another week training with Selene using the Moon Server's simulation system—without live-streaming this time. He needed the peace. The privacy. And a break from meme comments.
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[RAIDS ONLINE @ Location – Area CC+1: Barren State]
Two weeks had passed since Luel made his promise to Selene.
Now, he and SilverPup stood in a remote zone within Area CC+1, ready for a rematch against the same Rank D Shadow Hyena that had ended him last time.
"One day... I promise that one day... I'll show you how beautiful this world is."
"...Then I will wait, believing in that promise of yours, Lucent."
And of course, SilverPup wasn't done teasing him.
"Pfft! Don't tell me you're in love with Selene, Lucent... Hahaha!"
"Can you get done with that already?"
"Nope! This is going to last for a while! Look—NPC or not, she's still a girl. When a man makes a promise to a girl, he either dies trying to keep it... or dies for real."
She pointed forward with a grin.
"You made a promise. So now, prove it. Show me you've got what it takes to make Selene happy, Lucent!"
"I know!"
'Charge x Howl — Moonlight'