I Love Telling the Truth

"Um..." After a long silence, Sunken Crow walked up behind Silver Wolf and spoke. He added coldly, "Wolf Venerable, you're famous."

Silver Wolf turned around and looked at Sunken Crow in confusion. "What?"

"PVP, and Berry Soda."

"What happened?" Silver Wolf opened the player forums and began browsing. "Damn, the recording already has over a hundred thousand views? It's only been half an hour..."

"Yeah. Berry Soda is a very popular streamer."

Thinking about it carefully, the fact that a female player had climbed to thirteenth place proved her ability. A beautiful female streamer with strong skills becoming popular was only natural, especially since this "game" could be considered unprecedented.

"Oh? What did she say about me?" Silver Wolf asked curiously, wondering what the video talked about.

Silver Wolf clicked into it and found an ordinary recording—it was simply a first-person experience of being toyed with by Silver Wolf.

The comments also contained replays from a third-person fixed viewpoint provided by the audience, and the comments were growing at an even more astonishing rate.

Silver Wolf casually scrolled down.

The first highly rated comment was: [What class is this person, anyway? Did she use skills the whole time?]

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[No.]

[Are you sure?]

[I watched the screen recording frame by frame.]

[???]

[The craziest part was when Berry Soda used Illusion. She didn't even move her eyes.]

[Could she have been hacking?]

[Wouldn't that be even scarier?]

[Could she actually be a GM?]

[666, a GM came down to bully people?]

[Could she actually be a fan who happened to match into the same game?]

[Stop derailing the thread.]

Silver Wolf continued scrolling down.

Soon, another batch of highly rated comments appeared, specifically analyzing her: [Analyzing Silver Wolf's true combat power from the battle recording. It is reasonable to speculate that Silver Wolf has a hidden class and is avoiding exposing her skill set.]

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The thread had already descended into chaos.

[This analysis says nothing. The whole fight was just A, accelerate, A. She looks like a pure sword saint.]

[You forgot the hand cannon, didn't you?]

[What about her equipment?]

[Can't find anything.]

[What about her guild?]

[She really doesn't seem to have one.]

[???]

[I checked. She currently has no guild.]

[I remember seeing her with people from Platinum Courtyard before.]

[+1]

[So is she a member of Platinum Courtyard?]

When Silver Wolf saw this, she finally stopped. "As expected of netizens. They can find out anything."

Sunken Crow glanced at the forum beside her. "The forum."

"I know."

Silver Wolf exited the video and checked the forum. Then she saw a familiar name.

["Toyed with by the mysterious player from before, her awareness is extraordinary, as unstoppable as Great Fortune."]

The poster was none other than Berry Soda, and the thread immediately exploded beneath it.

[Early.]

[If this keeps up, Soda Bro is going to become Prisoner Bro. Berry Sis is already a thing of the past.]

[Berry Sis personally confirmed it?]

[What does "this ferocious" mean, Master?]

[So what class is she, exactly?]

[For material needs, please follow xxxxx.]

"What platform does she stream on?" Silver Wolf was now curious about what her opponent was streaming.

"Fish Station."

After quickly registering an account, Silver Wolf immediately changed her username to: Leveling Up Alone.

On the current livestream, Berry Soda had just closed her first-person recording and switched to a third-person replay provided by a fan.

The footage had captured the battle between the two of them in its entirety.

"Come on, I'll show you all again."

Berry Soda sat cross-legged in her chair, her short staff resting casually on her shoulder, though her expression had already become much more serious. "Here."

The video paused.

It froze at the exact moment Silver Wolf attacked the false body's face with a puzzled expression. "Look at this attack of hers."

Berry Soda enlarged the footage. "At the time, I thought she had simply been fooled by me, but from the third-person view, she simply didn't know what my skill did."

The chat immediately began flooding with messages.

[You mean she won because of an information gap?]

[You can tell that from this?]

[Didn't Berry Sis have an information gap too?]

[Soda Bro is actually analyzing seriously.]

[Silver Wolf won't be smug for long. I entered the dueling arena and somehow ended up farming crops.]

Berry Soda ignored the later comments. She dragged the progress bar, moving the footage forward bit by bit. "Pay attention here."

The instant three Berry Sodas raised their short staffs at the same time, the entire dueling arena was engulfed in explosions.

Just before Silver Wolf was about to be hit, she leaped straight upward and dodged the attack, her gaze simultaneously locked firmly onto Berry Soda's true body.

"This isn't a hack? This isn't a hack?" Berry Soda was genuinely stunned. How was this any different from having wallhacks?

When the footage was slowed down further, Silver Wolf could be seen skimming along the edges of various spells while continuously opening fire. The hand cannon followed like a tracking weapon, forcing Berry Soda to keep changing positions and recasting her skills.

"I'm asking you, who can do this?" Berry Soda's voice was filled with disbelief. "That reaction speed and control precision—can a human really do this?"

The chat paused for a moment, then a sea of question marks floated past.

[?]

[???]

[? I really think she's hacking.]

[Did you girls evolve behind our backs?]

Berry Soda continued, "And look at this ground-assault vine. She knew exactly when to dodge it, then even used its force to hit me."

She paused the footage, then switched to her own first-person view. "I love telling the truth. There really wasn't anything I could do, right? She was like Great Fortune!"

The footage resumed.

When the rubble began flying, Berry Soda used the skill [Illusion: Myriad Manifestations].

"I'm telling the truth here. This was the only option. If I held back the skill any longer, I would already have been lying on the ground."

[Finally, the truth segment.]

[Even watching the replay is terrifying...]

[Soda Bro loves telling the truth.]

[The livestream where we have the most truth and the fewest solutions.]

[An enduring classic: Lost, but lost worthily, which means it doesn't count as losing.]

"..." Berry Soda fell silent for two seconds. "Keep watching."

She continued playing the recording, this time slowing it almost to a crawl.

Frame by frame.

In the footage, Silver Wolf suddenly opened fire at the floor beside her.

Berry Soda, who had been hidden there, was hit and immediately used a skill to pull away.

Berry Soda stared at the screen for a long time without saying anything, leaving the footage paused at the instant she was hit.

At last, she muttered, "The truth is, I had no move."

The chat gradually became serious.

[Did the streamer get marked?]

[Wouldn't it be too late for that?]

[How did she discover her? So many clones suddenly appeared. No matter how you look at it, she shouldn't have been able to find the hidden true body, right?]

[I suspect she has some special passive.]

[Then which guild is she actually from?]

[Good question.]

When Berry Soda saw this, she froze as well. "Oh, right." She suddenly sat up straight. "I still don't know which guild she belongs to."

[???]

[You didn't ask after the fight?]

[She went red-hot and took off the moment the fight ended. What guild was Soda Bro supposed to ask about?]

Berry Soda awkwardly rubbed her nose. "Mainly... how could I have been in the mood to ask that at the time?"

She looked back at the recording. "Besides, she didn't use a single skill from beginning to end."

As soon as she said this, the chat exploded again.

[Here we go again.]

[You've said that eight times already.]

[No way, right?]

[I seriously suspect Soda Bro was traumatized by that beating.]

This time, Berry Soda did not immediately argue back. "Because she's really too abnormal. She's seriously not human. I'm telling you, even if Condemnation came, he'd end up like me. Believe me?"

[???]

[Soda Bro is still stirring things up.]

[Recording it, recording it.]

Berry Soda quickly added, "Don't spread that around recklessly."

"Don't make a fuss..." Berry Soda took a deep breath. "Let's keep watching."

She rewound the recording again.

At that moment, Silver Wolf, who was watching the livestream, had blown a small bubble with the gum in her mouth.

Pop.

The bubble burst.

She watched the livestream, propping up her cheek with one hand. "She's taking this pretty seriously."

She had originally clicked in just to have a look. She had not expected Berry Soda to be seriously reviewing the fight, even picking out her own mistakes one by one.

Silver Wolf did not feel annoyed at all.

On the contrary, she found it rather interesting.

Especially watching her opponent repeatedly study her movements from that battle.

"Here..." Silver Wolf watched the footage. "She misunderstood that."

She opened her friends list and thought about it. Why send a friend request? I might as well leave a highlighted message.

She typed out a passage, but paused before sending it.

"Forget it."

She deleted the overly difficult parts and left behind an approach that was easier to understand and execute.

Then she sent it.

[Leveling Up Alone: Your stats are too high. You have no obligation to defeat an invincible enemy. I suggest making most of the false bodies perform the same action, while having only one false body act differently. Use more movements to confuse your opponent.]

Berry Soda was drinking water. When she saw the message, she immediately sat up straight. "There's advice too?"

The chat also noticed the message.

[What does that mean?]

[The expert has arrived.]

She simulated it in her mind once, then her eyes lit up. "That really is a good idea."

Berry Soda immediately looked toward the message. "Brother, how did you know that?"

Silver Wolf propped up her chin with one hand and casually replied.

[Leveling Up Alone: I just fought you.]

Berry Soda: "..."

The chat exploded instantly.

[Really?]

[Silver Wolf?]

[The person involved is here!]

Berry Soda also became energized at once. "Silver Wolf?"

Silver Wolf watched the screen, the corners of her mouth lifting slightly. Netizens really are interesting.

Berry Soda paused, then coughed twice. "But let's make this clear first. Since the opponent's skills weren't human, this doesn't count as breaking my winning streak, okay?"

[Oh?]

[The Endless Win Streak Method is here.]

[The Soda Bro I know is back.]

[The 66-hidden win streak is here.]

Berry Soda looked seriously at the camera. "This definitely doesn't count."

[Tough-Talking Bro.]

[Soda Bro is being tough-talking again.]