"This starting map must have been made by Bronya."
There were no verbal hints, yet through a series of simple and clever level designs, players could understand some basic or extended operations. Faintly, one could even see a trace of the previous game, 'Alahato's Pit.'
After continuously jumping onto several raised platforms and killing a few buzzing little bugs with her sword in mid-air, Sirin proceeded almost unimpeded. She even narrowly avoided a small trap set by Bronya—a small bug that suddenly appeared at the Little Knight's landing spot after a jump.
Sirin almost 'flew into a rage' from the small amount of health lost due to the monster, immediately turning around and striking the little bug twice to knock it down.
"Is this all? You think you can ambush me, Lady Sirin?!"
A triumphant expression appeared on her face, and she even started taunting, clearly getting a bit overconfident.
Soon, a patch of spikes on the ground blocked Sirin's path. Sirin tried several times and found that she couldn't reach the other side by just jumping. Everyone's eyes widened, hands on their keyboards, ready to watch He Tun make a fool of herself. But Sirin looked at the bullet comments with disdain and confidently said, "Heh, don't underestimate my dozens of viewings of the promotional video!!!"
Saying this, Sirin leaped again without hesitation, then quickly slashed downwards just as the Little Knight was about to land on the spikes.
With a crisp clink,
The Little Knight's body flew up directly due to the counterforce from the nail and the spikes. Then, a series of clink-clink-clink sounds rang out as Sirin flawlessly controlled the Little Knight to reach the other side.
"This is skill, understand?"
Her lips curled into a smirk, adopting the demeanor of a master.
[Damn it, she's showing off.]
[Tsk, how did she get past? Is this what I came to see?]
[Pfft, making such a fuss over a beginner's level.]
...
Completely ignoring the sarcastic remarks in the bullet comments, Sirin was filled with smugness, completely inflated with pride.
She controlled the Little Knight to move forward, and soon, she split open a stone gate. Bright light illuminated the Little Knight's body, and she passed through the gate into a decaying town called Dirtmouth.
The only elder insect in the town welcomed the Little Knight and, like the village chief in every RPG game's starting village, began to recount the background story of this world to the Little Knight.
"A prosperous insect kingdom, an unknown change, vanished insect folk, a maddening aura, fulfilled desires, graves, and the seal from the opening CG..."
While seriously watching the plot, Sirin extracted what she considered key information from her mouth. This meticulous demeanor made the audience feel a touch of anticipation.
Could it be that in such a short time, Sirin could really figure something out?
Making the Little Knight sit on the charm bench, ignoring the pop-up interface, Sirin frowned and closed her eyes. After dozens of seconds, she opened them, looking at the screen with a serious expression.
Just when everyone thought Sirin would have some profound insight, an annoyed voice rang out: "What kind of riddler plot is this? I don't get it."
[You don't get it, so why are you acting like a pro!!]
[I thought He Tun had gotten smarter, but I guess I was expecting too much.]
...
"Tsk."
Clicking her tongue in annoyance, Sirin closed the empty charm interface and immediately rushed to the right. Soon, she fell from a vertical well into a new map called 'Forgotten Crossroads.'
"Although I don't know what the plot of this game is about, or what I'm supposed to do next, but!"
Sirin's expression turned serious, and she grabbed her nail and charged towards the small monsters appearing on the map.
"I only know that I'm going to go on a rampage!!!"
Little bugs, kill!
Little beetles, kill!
Little flying insects, kill!
Unicorn bugs, kill!
Heaven created all things with insects, insects gave nothing to heaven, kill kill kill kill kill kill!
Minions, kill! Obstacles, kill! Mini BOSSes, kill!
Even the spikes on the road had to endure two nail strikes.
The crisp ding-ding-ding sounds were incessant, and one 'orange juice' splatter after another exploded on the screen.
What Holy Nest, what Kingdom, as long as I, Little Knight, kill everything here, all problems will cease to be problems!
But as she kept killing, Sirin suddenly froze.
She looked at the map in front of her, which seemed to have been traversed before, and asked in confusion, "Did we already go through here?"
Subconsciously looking at the upper left corner, she found nothing there.
At this moment, she realized that the game seemed to have no mini-map.
Bug?
No, with the skill of these two people, such an obvious mistake wouldn't occur, so, is it a game feature?
Was the mini-map removed to deepen the exploration element?
As she thought, Sirin simply gave up on thinking.
Why bother with so much? As long as she could chop everything that moved on the map into orange juice, she would eventually find the way forward!
Continue to kill!!
Seeing this, the audience in the live stream praised Miss Pufferfish for being not only brainless but also small-chested.
She advanced forward, cutting through enemies like slicing melons and dicing vegetables. Aside from occasional mistakes that would cause Sirin to lose a bit of health, that health would quickly be replenished, until she encountered the False Knight, which made Sirin pause slightly.
The False Knight's enormous size compared to Little Knight calmed Sirin's inflated ego a bit, but after a few probing attempts, Sirin figured out the False Knight's attack patterns.
Soon, she swung her nail and began to fight the False Knight.
This beginner boss had almost no difficulty; many people could pass it in one life. Although she ended up with only one drop of health due to being greedy with her attacks, she still barely managed to live up to her previous boasts.
Just as Sirin thought she could continue her relentless advance, she encountered the second boss.
The Traitor Lord.
Recalling the difficulty of the first boss, Sirin confidently swung her nail and charged forward, but seeing her health bar drop to zero within twenty seconds, Sirin fell silent.
No, shouldn't the difficulty between bosses be linear?
Not to mention passing it in one life, but at least let her be evenly matched, have some sense of participation, right?
Looking at the orange juice projectiles raining down, Sirin suddenly felt like she didn't know how to play anymore, and was sent home by the Traitor Lord in just a few moves.
Of course, this alone wouldn't make Sirin too upset; it was just her boasting getting slapped in the face. It was fine, she was used to it. As long as she played ostrich and didn't...
"Hmm?"
Looking at the screen, when she realized that she had to re-traverse the map after Little Knight died, the unconscious question that escaped her lips revealed the turmoil in her heart.
If this was still within her tolerable range, then when she came here again and again, and was sent home by the Traitor Lord again and again, her mentality finally became a little unbalanced.
Half an hour later, Sirin felt she was just a hair's breadth away, but then was sent home by the Traitor Lord's leap and butt-stomp, finally breaking down.
"No, is this game sick!!!!"
At this moment, the smile on Sirin's face finally transferred to the faces of the audience.
[Streamer, don't be sad. Let me tell you a joke. Just now, a Puffer said she could clear the game in one life, but now she's depressed. Don't you think it's funny?]