Chapter 63: Otto Skipping Work to Play Honkai Impact 3rd?
Meanwhile, in Europe, at the head office of the Schicksal Consortium...
"Lord Otto, you have been playing games for nearly half a day. The documents are piling up like a mountain!"
Amber looked at the blonde man before her with a look of utter helplessness, but the other party acted as if he were completely deaf, focused on controlling Valkyrie Pledge to "shoot down a plane" in the Memorial Arena. In a literal sense, he was shooting down a plane, as the boss of this Arena stage was a fighter jet. After a series of maneuvers, Otto successfully secured a high score and let out a long, satisfied sigh.
Seeing Otto finally set down the controller, Amber felt a surge of joy. She assumed it was finally time for him to get back to work. Instead, Otto picked up the controller again and clicked on the Everlasting Memory chapter, clearly intending to continue playing.
"Lord Otto..." Amber urged once again.
"Amber, work can be done at any time. But if I am not the first to witness Theresa's heroic and valiant figure, that would be an absolute dereliction of duty on my part as a grandfather!" Otto answered Amber solemnly, his eyes never straying from the computer screen for a single second.
Amber was beyond frustrated. Witnessing his granddaughter's performance? He clearly just wanted an excuse to slack off!
"Besides, this massive consortium doesn't just consist of me. Pushing all the work onto my head isn't right, is it? I think that girl Bianca from the Kaslana family is quite promising; why not let her act as my proxy..."
Amber coughed a few times: "Lord Otto, I must remind you that Lady Bianca has already taken on three times her usual workload on her own initiative. She hasn't closed her eyes for nearly three days."
"Is that so? Then let Siegfried, the head of the family..."
"Lord Siegfried... having finally seen his second daughter establish a successful business, has gone back to the Kaslana ancestral home to offer sacrifices and thank the ancestors for their divine intervention."
"Siegfried isn't even from Shenzhou; what is he doing offering sacrifices? I think that guy just wants to be lazy too."
"You have no room to talk about others..." Amber sighed. She truly didn't know what kind of magic this game called Honkai Impact 3rd possessed. Usually, Otto was diligent and quite efficient, but since this game appeared, he had become even more "diligent"—except that diligence was spent waking up early specifically to start gaming... often playing for the entire day.
This wouldn't do! If this continued, the entire consortium would be ruined! Shut it down! It had to be shut down! If it wasn't, Lord Otto would never work seriously, and Schicksal would have no bright future!
"Look, I'm not the only one slacking off. If you don't believe me, why don't you call Welt Yang and see?"
"Eh?" Amber stepped away to make a call, only to return with an incredibly strange expression. The one who answered wasn't Welt Yang, but his wife, Tesla. She told Amber that during this period, Welt had also been like a man possessed, playing Honkai 3rd like crazy...
In fact, it wasn't just them. The famous singer, Miss Robin, had originally scheduled her album release and signing event for today, but upon hearing that Honkai 3rd was updating, she postponed it immediately. At the Herta Game Studio under the Interastral Peace Corporation, Lady Herta usually loved having people come for testing, but today, there was no testing at all. Even in some ordinary companies, many people were calling in sick for various reasons—fever, cold, you name it—just to take the day off. The most absurd case was a game studio owner who went into the office only to find that every single employee except himself was "sick"... so he promptly sat down and started playing Honkai 3rd himself.
"And... even Lady Theresa is playing this game!" Amber saw the familiar ID on the streaming platform and held her forehead, feeling a splitting headache.
This game called Honkai Impact 3rd had radiated across the world at a terrifying speed since its launch. With the added popularity of a global star like Eden, it had become a household name. Furthermore, the inclusion of many real-life prominent figures—such as her boss Otto and Anti-Entropy's Welt—naturally piqued people's interest.
According to commercial reports, after seeing a game demonstrate such terrifying money-making potential, Amber had briefly fallen into a delusion: Is making games really this profitable? It wasn't that Schicksal lacked a game development department, but in terms of pure revenue speed, they couldn't even catch up to a tiny company like miHoYo! The most ridiculous part was that it was that Kiana from the Kaslana family—the one everyone used to call a "salty-fish paramecium"!
Now, even her boss was playing Honkai 3rd relentlessly. Amber felt her worldview crumbling. Is this game really that fun?
There was no other way. In times like these, she had to call for "external reinforcements." Amber sighed and dialed a mysterious phone number. Not long after, Otto's office door was slammed open!
"Otto! I heard everything from Amber! As the leader of Schicksal, you are taking the lead in playing games during work hours!"
The woman who burst in was, naturally, Kallen Kaslana! Kallen's appearance was indeed extraordinary; Otto jumped in fright and snapped to attention immediately!
Amber remained calm: "Don't blame me, Lord Otto. Some of these contracts really cannot be delayed any longer."
"Kallen! Let me explain!"
"Explain? I'd like to see what you have to say for yourself!" Kallen rushed to Otto's side in a huff. Following Otto's finger, she looked at the screen and let out a gasp. "Oh! Isn't that Theresa! Such a cute Theresa! It reminds me of when she was a little girl..."
"Right, right! Kiana from the Kaslana family made this game. Kallen, didn't you and that child get along quite well?"
"I've heard about it recently, but I haven't had time to pay attention because of work... I didn't expect Theresa to be so cute in the game?"
"Do you want to try playing? It's very interesting."
Amber, who had just thought Otto was finally going to be taken down and forced back to work, froze.
"Eh?" Wait, what was the situation? In just a few sentences, even Lady Kallen was going to start playing! "Uh, um, Lady Kallen..."
She spoke up to remind her, and Kallen finally snapped back to her senses. She cracked her knuckles with a series of pops: "Fine, Otto, you actually tried to drag me down with you?"
Otto defended himself: "How could I! Just let you experience it! Experience it! Five minutes. After five minutes, I will absolutely start working immediately!"
"Really, only five minutes?"
"Mhm!"
Kallen gave Otto a suspicious look, sat down in his chair, and picked up the controller. "Only five minutes! Whoever goes back on their word is a little pig!"
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