Re-Awakening: I Became a Pay To Win Boss Monster - Chapter 530: Quarterpounder69
Chapter 530: Quarterpounder69
A shiver ran down Rael’s spine. This was the first time he had heard her acting so… creepy.
“I think I understand what you’re getting at. Give them a sample, take it away, and then make that sample cost a gazillion.”
[Mmm… Well, you can think of it that way. In the end, the method to achieve followers is to make people feel like without you, they can’t live properly,] Gaia said. [That’s the fastest and most efficient way I can think of. It would give you enough of a reputation and myth to become a constellation if you do it in a couple more worlds.]
Alright. Rael sighed, and without wasting another second he pressed “Yes.”
This time, there was no earthquake, or so he thought.
Within just a few minutes, he saw people running outside his boutique. He left the bathroom and went outside to take a look. To his surprise, there were thousands of players running toward the city center, with the majority of players opening their streams.
Closing the door, he turned to Vatyra, Uriel, and Burger, who were all eating turkey without a care in the world.
“What?” Vatyra tilted her head, taking another bite. “You wanna go out there? Be my guest.”
“Not really… I know they’re all running toward my Dimensional Shop. There’s no point wasting time,” Rael replied. “Though, seeing players move that freely and carelessly made me nostalgic.”
“Is that right…” Vatyra raised a single turkey bone and pointed it at him. “Did you call your wife?”
Rael flinched. “…I forgot.”
“Then get to it,” Vatyra said with a chuckle. “I’m curious what the royal palace could offer me in terms of food. This here is already delicious… My mouth is watering just thinking about it.”
“Fine… I’ll do that now,” Rael replied and went ahead and bought the item from before.
• Spatial Communication Bubble (Uncommon): 10 Premium Coins
He couldn’t activate it by himself, as he needed a woman to do it for him.
However, right as he took a single step toward her, a figure ran past the window. At first, Rael didn’t think much of it, but whoever that figure was, it stopped him from approaching Vatyra.
Rael’s brows furrowed as he stashed away the communication bubble inside his inventory, and then stepped out of the boutique.
The players bumped into him, but they couldn’t even make him budge an inch. Nonetheless, the players ignored him and continued running to the center.
Rael tried to spot that figure from before, but he couldn’t. There were simply one too many heads.
Should I enter the Mind Realm and look around? Maybe the Prophetic Realm so I can turn back time slightly… Rael sighed and then, unbeknownst to all players present, he channeled Time Mana inside his heart.
In the next instant, he snapped his fingers, stopping time in a whopping 17,552-meter radius.
His MTP was being eaten away at a rate of 0.1% MTP per second, so he couldn’t maintain this time freeze for long.
But despite that, with every single player frozen in place, Rael tip-toed around each one, inspecting them.
Sure, he might be wasting a little time, but even so, he moved fast. So fast that, within just a few seconds, he managed to scan thousands of players.
And yet, the person he was looking for was nowhere to be seen.
Maybe I imagined it? Rael thought. With how little I’ve slept lately, maybe I…
He trailed off, spotting a figure in the back alley.
It was a man wearing a silly jester outfit and a top hat. It was a ridiculous set, one that would invite mocking.
And yet, as Rael navigated through the players and arrived in front of the man, he couldn’t help but feel his heart rate speeding up.
The man had black hair and green eyes. His build was skinny, with barely any muscle being noticeable.
Rael chuckled in disbelief. Even as much as I tried to escape reality, I wanted my appearance to remain the same as real life.
And now, he was looking down at the spitting image of himself. Just as a player all those years ago.
—Quarterpounder69 (Player) [Level 19] [1,220/1,220 HP]
It was funny.
The man in front of him looked so happy.
How could he be happy and unbothered when his life was shit?
His sister was comatose in the hospital. Even worse was the fact that she could hear everything. Every single word and story, every confession that he had made.
Melissa heard everything.
Rael clenched his fists in anger.
And yet, he had no right to be angry at this man. After all, this man was himself. All the choices and all the bad decisions that would be made if Rael simply didn’t unfreeze time here and intervened would remain the same for this man.
The only difference is the release date of Sketa Online. It released a few months ahead of schedule… But even then, at that time I was running around gambling houses and getting involved with shady people.
Rael sighed. “You’re lucky Melissa made a wish… How could I not grant it?”
The wish for the Melissa of this timeline to have a brother by her side. A wish to not be lonely.
Rael snapped his fingers, unfreezing time once again.
The players continued to run ahead, unbothered by the dirty alleyway. As for Rael’s past self, he suddenly took a step back, his eyes narrowing.
“I’m not offering quickies. Fuck off,” he said sternly.
Rael’s brows twitched. “Mind if I call you Altros?”
Altros’s eyes widened. “What…? What kind of NPC are you? I remember signing some shit where my full name won’t be disclosed in this game, even to NPCs. Are you some kind of administrator? Heh give me some money, would you? You see… You kind of interrupted me while I was in the middle of something. So what do you say? Care to help an active player out?”
“I’m not an administrator,” Rael said, trying his best to hold back from punching the shit out of this guy as he put on a fake smile.
“While I might not be an administrator, I am…”
