Greatest Streamer System

479  Chapter 479 – Different

Max looked around to see if there was anything inside the vast white space, but all he saw was endless white and nothing else. Looking down, he tried to move his body forward but suddenly his stomach felt funny as if something was coming up his throat.

"Hmph?!"

A nausea struck him for a brief moment, forcing him to shut his eyes tightly as he groaned in discomfort. However, his feeling of discomfort went away shortly after that and he opened his eyes again.

He realized he was in a completely different place from before. A familiar Lobby where his parkour park could be found was visible in his view. A sky could be seen above his head and blue sky with white fluffy clouds could be seen floating calmly along with the wind that blew by.

A tall tree and the usual chair where he sat was at the center of this parkour park and the surroundings were all grass. They seemed alive, swaying gently along with the soft breeze blowing through them.

"My Lobby." He muttered as he tried to move.

Indeed, this place was perfect for testing. He had put many obstacles in this parkour park so he could test them without having to move to another server or a game server. It was all located in a local server.

Now, he wondered how this new virtual reality machine was different from the one he had used before. And whether his synchronization rate was higher or not as this machine was created using his data.

'If I can reach 100% like Atlas, that would be awesome.' Max grinned excitedly.

At that moment, he heard a voice.

"Breeze, are you fine inside?"

It was StoneSword's. A hologram popped up in front of Max when he spoke to him from outside.

Max nodded his head in response, indicating that he was okay.

"Yeah, everything is fine. Just a little bit nauseous earlier when the space changed into my Lobby." He reported everything he felt without hiding it. "It was just a brief nausea and it didn't affect me much. Do you receive any different reports from here?"

"No." StoneSword shook his head, "From here, everything is normal. We will check the machine again later. For now, I have installed synchronization rate monitoring. Feel free to do anything you want there and we will proceed with testing."

With that, he terminated the connection between them and Max was left alone in the Lobby again.

'Right then.' Max muttered before looking around and decided to do some simple movements like jumping and running around just to get used to the new setting. 'It doesn't seem strange in any way. It's better than before;'

Once he felt comfortable enough, he activated the obstacle course and began to run around, jumping over the boxes, rocks, and wooden logs in a simple setting.

It was when he ran around did he notice the difference. His senses were sharper. The feeling of his hand gripping a rusty pipe was way more similar to reality.

As if enhanced by something. The smoothness of the skin when his hand touched the air around him and the smell of greenery and grass reached his nostrils. It was as if he was living in real life rather than inside virtual reality.

When Max realized that, he stopped.

"StoneSword." He called out to no one in particular. He knew StoneSword was listening with the researchers, so he just continued. "What's my SR now?"

"It's..."

StoneSword's voice rang out again as Max waited in anticipation. His answer was something that Max hadn't expected at all.

"...94%."

Max frowned after hearing StoneSword's answer, "Did you just say 94? Why is it decreasing?"

"I don't know." StoneSword replied honestly, sounding confused too, "This is unexpected. We never get such a decrease in sync rate since everything has been normal so far. Let me change the setting a little bit. This might be the cause of your nauseating feeling from before."

The connection between them was terminated once again after StoneSword explained. Max sighed out loud as he looked around his surroundings with a slight frown on his face.

It didn't take long before StoneSword contacted him again.

"Try it again now. Feel free to run around if you want."

"Okay." Max muttered before running around once more and jumped over a rock while doing some parkour tricks here and there.

As expected, the feeling of his body moving in the virtual world was way better than before. It was as if he was actually moving around in reality itself. The senses were still not different, but he felt like the world was his.

All he had to do was focus his mind to do what he wanted. When Max did that, his body reacted accordingly as if it was programmed to respond to his commands.

This amazed him greatly.

'My SR is, without a doubt, increased slightly. I have felt this when I changed VR Capsule back then. Or maybe, the limit of what the capsule can handle with my high SR is increased. That's why it's giving this strange realistic feeling.'

Some people might not like it. There were a lot of them who wanted to enjoy virtual reality as just a virtual. The realistic feeling would be in the way of that as they would feel more immersed than usual.

Still, it wouldn't be a problem for him since he made a living from streaming himself playing games in VR. In fact, the more immersed he was inside virtual reality, the better his gameplay was.

A minute should be enough. He returned to the center of his Lobby and sat on the chair.

"How is it, StoneSword? Any change?"

"Yes. There is a change from earlier."

A voice answered immediately. From the sound of it, he was happy.

"Your SR hasn't changed from before. But... We noticed your performance increased. Can you explain what you feel differently from this capsule compared to our latest model used in competition?"

"It's different." Max nodded his head. "Everything seems real."

"Details please?" StoneSword urged him to continue.

"Well..." Max paused briefly as he organized his thoughts before speaking again, "Every movement of mine feels real. The wind, sensation, everything seems real. It's hard to differentiate this from reality. In my opinion... You shouldn't sell this thing, StoneSword. I doubt it and don't want to try it yet, but... Maybe the pain will also feel real."

After saying that, Max waited for StoneSword's reaction. After a few seconds, he finally replied.

"It's as you said. The pain perception can go up to 100... or even 120%. This is just a prototype, though. There is no need to worry about us selling a defective product. And besides, these are created for Lily. If we want to market them, we certainly will make a slight change to the setting."

"Okay." Max smiled wryly at the siscon's words. This capsule was indeed created to change "I am counting on you."

"Don't worry about it. Now you can rest a little while I change the setting again. We will test it again later."

"Got it." @@novelbin@@

With that, he stepped out of the Lobby and exited the VR Capsule.