The Newbie Is Too Strong's
219. Ahead of the Determination Competition, Grandma Lia's Warmth

The work of professional vrmmorpg e-sport club members is not only limited to playing games in tournaments. Sometimes, we also have to promote products from sponsors. Including today, me and the team went to a remote corner of the homeland to promote the game The Last Gardenia which is a gaming product currently affiliated with the government.

There are still some places in the country that are currently still not reaching the progress of the era of vrmmorpg-based games, especially in the NTT and Maluku areas. Including in one of the areas in the current Maluku area that we are visiting to promote virtual products.

Enthusiasm of the surrounding residents, especially children and parents apparently quite high against vrmmorpg games. Beyond a doubt, it is precisely among young people in this area that if elsewhere usually the most active in the game, it looks reluctant to the existence of the virtual product.

Well whatever it is, it still seems difficult for vrmmorpg game development here. In addition to the lack of facilities and infrastructure, natural factors such as the lack of the presence of psion particles also affect the instability of the game so it is still difficult to implement vrmmorpg-based games in the area.

In between the time of White Star's busy professional club activities, while I still had to keep my presence in school, I always used it to train with Silvia.

After I complained about my problem with her regarding my lack of immunity to poison, Silvia thought of various ways to help me. Well, not that I'm not immune to poison at all. Thanks to my training with Kak Krimson all this time, I was able to increase my level of poison resistance on the B-scale.

However, that resistance is still not able to overcome the poison scale of the teacher who has been training my poison resistance. I need another training ground that can make me able to compete with Kak Krimson. The Alchemist Forest was no longer sufficient as a training ground at a time when the existence of high-level poisonous monsters in the forest had been extremely difficult to find.

Silvia began training me by controlling the flow of mana to the liver and circulatory areas as an emergency intoxication to toxins. Brother Silvia also trained me on how to control the aura around my body in order to also protect me against all kinds of toxins, both gases, liquids, and the like.

Not only that, Silvia also introduced me to the game The Ninth Elvendia, a series of games older than The Last Gardenia. I also lately, instead of playing games in Gardenia, spend more time with Brother Silvia in that game.

If anything worries me, it might be a threatening situation that the Lalania Empire is currently still experiencing. But since Aura was always there in my place just in case, I didn't worry about her much.

Beyond a doubt, the game is very interesting, but certainly interesting in a sense that does not mean it can be compared to The Last Gardenia. All of them have their own unique characteristics that make the game interesting. For The Ninth Elvendia itself, what makes it interesting is that the setting is in a world filled with trees.

The people here are also quite unique. They all have the same look as Silvia in the form of the game, namely long-eared to the side that is unique.

Unfortunately, in this game, there is no such thing as a job class assassin. There are only four recognized classes here - knights, bandits, archers, and summoners - and my character is automatically sidetracked by the bandit class.

After asking Silvia what a bandit class was, it was apparently a class that fought with a knife instead of a sword with high agility. Well, after listening to the explanation from Brother Silvia, I also thought that it was natural that the game system equated the assassin and bandit classes, since their functions were almost the same.

As for knights, apparently it was a kind of class of large sword wielders who preferred defending rather than attacking, the opposite of bandits, similar to the combination between swordsman and shielder it was in Gardenia. Archer's clear. Then for summoners, the class was more or less the same function as a mage who could simultaneously act as a tamer or alchemist.

In the forest of Elvendia, there are more poisonous plants that are very deadly than in the world where I came from. It was there that Silvia and I trained a lot to increase my immunity to poison until the arrival of the professional e-sport vrmmorpg competition.

Time passed quickly and now came the long-awaited professional e-sport competition. Although one club can send a maximum of 10 team members in the match, our club, White Star, only sent 7 players. That's of course the thing until now, our official members only have 7 players.

However, we can still easily penetrate the preliminary round of blocks and advance to the core match. It's only natural given that we are basically a top-ranked club.

If you say there is a difficult opponent to face, it is the tenth-ranked club, Alpaca Night. They were former top-eight clubs two years earlier who were displaced after being beaten by the Black Joker Club. The fate is the same as us, a top club that did not make it through the preliminary round in the previous year about being eliminated by a new club which in our case is the Silver Hero Club.

But we are still lucky about the recap of additional points from the match, our position can still be saved in the place of the last eight.

However, they are not a club that can make us troubled. That is of course about the difference in ability that is still very far between us.

Our opponents in the preliminary round of the block even though they are all weak clubs, it is enough to make us shake our heads about the rules of the race using the royal battle mechanism.

There are five matches followed by each block consisting of five participating teams. Each match is followed by four teams where each team has four times the chance to compete.

What got us into trouble was that the royal battle match system freed opponents to choose who they wanted to fight first, or the cruel term, who they wanted to get rid of first.

As the seventh-ranked top team, of course our White Star Club will be the first target in the royal battle match. As a result, every game, the other three teams that are our opponents will always work together to get rid of us first.

Of course none of their plans worked. We were able to show who was the boss between us with a clear difference in strength. We easily entered the top eight and stepped into the core tournament.

Then here I am at the moment.

Can you guess where?

Well, you guys surely no one can guess it. To be honest, even now I am still confused where this courage comes from. I who was still a layman with this relationship finally decided to further serious the development of my relationship with Lia.

Yes, I am currently visiting Lia's house.

“Ck. You brash kid who dared to touch my daughter.”.

“Dad.”

Mr. Shamsuddin's sharp gaze was immediately directed at me, but he immediately went soft as soon as Lia found it. However, the killing intent directed by Mr. Shamsuddin to me did not subside either. I can only smile at him.

Frankly, I don't know what to do in a situation like this. I just came here with reckless capital, but that doesn't mean there's anything I can ask about it.

Uncle Heisel had clearly come off the list since he was an old virgin. Brother Derickson although he is friendly to girls, the average girls just think of him as a friend and not one of them has glanced at him as the opposite sex.

Well, I'm basically surrounded by guys who are useless about romance. As a result, I was confused now when I was alone trying to have a deeper relationship with my boyfriend.

However, when the cold atmosphere was between me and Lia's father, a grandmother came out of the room.

“Ah, there is a cute guest today apparently. Is she not the cute boyfriend you're talking about, Lia?”

“Hmm.” Lia agreed while nodding with a reddened face.

I who fear to act wrong can only get busy looking at my own shoes.

As soon as the grandmother looked me directly in the face, trying to look as polite as possible, I greeted her, “Halo, Nek.”

“Hmm? You look a lot like the Handsome Brother I know.”

“Cot Handsome?”

“Yes, she is a half-hearted sister who is actually not blood related to Grandma, but Handsome Brother was the one who took care of and financed Grandma's hospital expenses when Grandma was hospitalized. If I had not recognized all of Brother Handsome's children and grandchildren until now, I would have mistaken you as one of his grandchildren. By the way what's your name, son?”

“Luca Dewantara, New.”

“Even your last name is the same as it is. So where is your family now, son?”

As soon as Grandma asked that, my heart ached a little and was terrified. I'm just an orphan who is currently being cared for by distant relatives. I have nothing that can make Lia proud of me or I can stand confidently as Lia's beautiful, rich, family-of-life partner.

What if Grandma knew that I was nobody? I'm just a piece of trash that has no value in this world? Will he separate me from Lia with contempt? If that happens, will my glass-absorbed heart be able to accept it with a chest? Thinking about it, it scared me.

But there is no point in hiding it. I answered the Grandmother's question honestly without hiding anything about my origins, except for what Aunt Judith asked me to keep secret about me coming from the game world.

Also, the absurdity that would cause others to misunderstand that I was crazy to tell it, about me being a doppelganger who came from the mirror world, an existence whose origin was not from this dimension.

As soon as I told her about my origins to the extent that is acceptable to normal human common sense, the, contrary to what I imagined that I initially thought the Grandmother would call me not knowing myself to have dared to touch her granddaughter, Grandma Amanda, Lia's kind-hearted grandmother, just shed tears of compassion on me and hugged me tightly.

“Take it easy, Son. The world is still full of goodness as long as you can open your eyes. Your life may be difficult. There are many bad people who will insult you. But believe me you can survive. Grandma also used to be an orphan, even heavier than you because Grandma had no relatives.”

“But thanks to Brother Handsome who strengthens Grandma, Grandma can still live happily until there is a good family who finally adopted Grandma.”

“However, Grandma's status is only an adopted child. Grandma's son, Syamsuddin, also had a lot of difficulties in the family because of that. But look at him now, son. He has been successful and able to support his own life then have a family and have children. So, never give up on life.”

Grandma Amanda's gentle touch momentarily warmed my heart. Lia was lucky to have such a kind grandmother.

Sensing that, my heart was full of pain that I was still hiding a big secret from them, regarding me who was an NPC. But how do I reveal such absurd things to them? No, more than that, is my existence indeed acceptable in this world? Can I also be categorized as human from the perspective of this world or am I no different from other game characters, manga, novels, or anime according to the perspective of that world?