Chapter 145 Is it really okay to court death like this?

Over the next two days, apart from attending classes, Luo Chen spent his time holed up in his room playing video games. Perhaps because he had stood by and refused to save her, Luo Tianyi had been glaring at him with resentful gazes all these days, which made him feel somewhat unaccustomed to it.

After playing games for the better part of the day as usual to get a feel for the controls, Luo Chen began preparing for his evening live stream. At the very least, he needed to give his younger sister a heads-up to prevent her from disturbing him while he was streaming. If she were to barge in during the live broadcast, it would spell serious trouble.

In the evening, during what was normally the busiest hour on the Stardust Platform, few streamers were unexpectedly seen broadcasting at this time, and quite a few uploaders had even staggered their video release schedules to avoid it.

Everyone knew that during the hours Luo Chen streamed, most of the audience on the Stardust Platform would flock to watch his broadcast. If they didn't stagger their times, the viewership for their own streams would plummet drastically, making it far better to simply tag along and watch the spectacle instead.

This also annoyed a section of viewers who disliked gaming streams; they wanted to watch something else, but there had to be other streams available at that moment to begin with!

Yet this overbearing phenomenon also left some viewers and uploaders quite discontented. Although this situation was entirely the spontaneous behavior of other uploaders and viewers, they inevitably directed a sliver of that grievance toward Luo Chen.

Weren't your gaming skills top-tier? Weren't you going to clear the game hitless from start to finish? Just let there be a single slip-up during your gameplay, and see if we don't flame you to death. After all, flags shouldn't be set so casually.

Luo Chen, currently busy preparing his stream, naturally had no idea that the resentment certain viewers held against him was reaching astronomical heights, eagerly waiting for him to make a mistake.

At precisely seven o'clock in the evening, Luo Chen started his broadcast on schedule, and the viewers who had been waiting in boredom swarmed in instantly. His previous Assassin's Creed stream had been insanely cool, leaving late-arriving viewers full of regret for missing the whole thing. Although it had been recorded into a video, how could that ever compare to the thrill of watching a live broadcast?

Consequently, within a remarkably short span of time, the vast majority of active viewers on the platform crammed into this tiny streaming room.

Not long after the broadcast began, the live viewer count had already reached a full twenty million. Even Luo Chen was quite surprised. He had assumed that during his previous Assassin's Creed stream, a combination of lucky coincidences had gathered seventeen million concurrent viewers, which was basically an unsurpassable myth; he never expected to break that record once again this time.

Luo Chen's follower count hadn't even reached twenty million, and generally speaking, pulling around ten million viewers during a stream was already considered quite impressive. However, those tuning in were not just his fans, but also onlookers looking for excitement, uploaders with various hidden agendas, and people waiting to watch a joke unfold for all sorts of reasons.

All sorts of ghosts and goblins had gathered together, making many insiders break out in a cold sweat on his behalf.

Facing over ten million viewers, even Luo Chen, who had seen his share of grand scenes, couldn't help but take a deep breath before speaking up:

"Hello viewers and fans, I am your streamer, Pure Innocent Angel. Welcome to my streaming room!"

Even though it wasn't the first time they were seeing Luo Chen's face, the fans still erupted into excitement, flooding the screen with comments over and over again. For a moment, the entire display was occupied by the barrage of comments. Without lowering the transparency, one could barely even make out Luo Chen's face.

[Little Angel! I want to bear your children!]
[Spit it out, what on earth is the game you're streaming today? My OCD has been driving me crazy for days!]
[Hitless? Could it possibly be Super Mario?]
[Move aside, upstairs. Does Mario even have difficulty settings?]
[Maybe it's a special version, who knows.]
[Begging for news about Luo God!]
[Seconding that! Are they siblings or lovers? At least give us an answer!]
......

The reason the fans were acting so frantic was mainly because Luo Chen rarely showed his face, let alone replied to messages or comments. There were simply too many things the fans wanted to ask.

Some obsessive-compulsive fans declared that they simply couldn't stand it. If any other uploader had dared to act like this, they would have turned from fans into haters long ago—but who told him to be the almighty Angel?

There was no help for it; waiting it was then.

Facing the questions raised by his fans, Luo Chen merely smiled and had no intention of answering. Sometimes, leaving a sense of mystery and letting the fans speculate on their own was also a good approach, which similarly helped boost one's popularity.

Pushing these trivial thoughts aside, Luo Chen switched the screen to the game interface. Once the stream officially got underway, these fans wouldn't have the bandwidth to ponder about other things anymore.

The game Luo Chen had chosen for this stream was God of War III Remastered. In terms of both background lore and visual fidelity, the God of War series could be called nothing short of epic. Titans standing hundreds of meters tall, the pantheon of Greek gods, and grand battle sequences were all vividly portrayed within the game's visuals.

However, relatively speaking, the game difficulty of God of War III was likewise extremely high. The enemies here were unlike those in Assassin's Creed, where most targets could be dispatched with a single fatal blow. Particularly on the highest difficulty, enemy health pools were massively increased while the protagonist's attack power was nerfed, making even a fight against a small mob a bitter struggle.

The backstory of God of War III roughly involved Kratos adjusting the timeline to return to the past, joining forces with Gaia, the Mother of Gods, and leading the Titans to the present day to storm Mount Olympus and wage a decisive battle against the gods!

As a classic franchise, even though it hadn't been released on the PC platform, quite a few viewers had played it.

Once Luo Chen selected to start the game on the screen, the difficulty options for God of War III were presented to the audience:

Spartan (Easy)
God (Normal)
Titan (Hard)
Chaos (Very Hard)

Seeing that Luo Chen had chosen the final difficulty—Chaos (Very Hard)—without a moment's hesitation, the fans who had played or understood the difficulty of God of War couldn't help clicking their tongues in amazement. Was the almighty Angel really planning to clear the game hitless on Chaos difficulty?

Under the Chaos difficulty of God of War III, let alone encountering major bosses, the moment more than a single high-tier unit appeared on screen, the combat became tremendously difficult. Throw in a few minor mobs to harass the player, and forget about going hitless—even staying alive would be a miracle.

Choosing this kind of difficulty and aiming to go through the entire game without taking a single hit—could the almighty Angel possibly be looking to challenge the absolute limits?

This was a live stream!
Was courting death like this really going to be fine?