Vanguard of the Eternal Night (BL)(Complete)

Chapter 57

Chapter 57 - Silly, Innocent Interstellar People

Due to the emergence of White Thousand Degrees's website last month, the income from non-commercial licensing fees had been reduced by a third.

This month, however, that same income had exploded over the course of a single day and was climbing up exponentially. All of this was due to the fans' spontaneous behavior.

There was a reason for this behavior, though. After all, when a mysterious, masked contestant suddenly unveils his face, they would inevitably draw in a large amount of new fans--ones who are commonly known as 'face cons'.

In the interstellar era, other than appearance, most face cons also cared about the contestants' temperament, identity, speaking ability, and so on. From a comprehensive point of view, they appreciated handsome men and beautiful ladies, to the point where they would even score them.

So, for these face-con fans, fabricated virtual faces that didn't match their owners would obviously pull the score down. Others, who had distinctive and impressive characters, would become popular even if their appearance value wasn't high as long as they had a unique personality and charm.

Face cons had quite a high level of influence and sway. After a large number of them went to create websites of their own, the influx caused the licensing revenue to soar; after they all became more interested in simulation video games, Ecom's sales indicators were also pushed up, and after they all rushed into e-sports, they triggered an appearance value massacre amongst e-sports contestants.

This non-professional ranking of e-sports contestants mainly originated from Cross Star Province's e-sports entertainment forum, Star Cat. This Alliance-wide e-sports forum covered a very wide range of discussion topics, ranging from technology to beauty to gossip.

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It should be explained at this point that the Chaoyang Alliance had a total of six star provinces.

As a municipality, the Earth District was located in the second-largest star province and accounted for less than 1% of the total population in the Alliance. However, as the origin planet for humans, it enjoyed a transcendent status above its peers.

The Alliance sprawled out over a massive stretch of territory, and the distance between regions was calculated in light years. Because of this, transmission and movement of information was relatively slow. In fact, much of the information from the Earth District's League had only just been put up on the various Alliance-wide discussion forums.

It was at this point in time that the spontaneous push from fans created the first wave of momentum for Earth District's League contestants.

This was especially true for the champion contestant. His reputation and title as a War God hadn't even begun to resound across the Star Province Competition yet when fans had already pushed his appearance value all the way to the top of the league rankings, basically charging his way in with no opposition, leaving the fellows in other regions staring rather foolishly in shock.

Yesterday, the Star Cat forums were still discussing the situation around the Provincial Competition, debating which district's teams were stronger; today, many people suddenly discovered: The 'Four Beauties of E-sports' had changed? Eh? Which district's newcomer was so fierce?

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This craze was inevitable every time the A-League district competitions ended for the year. Now, all discussions forums and media were following the trend, naturally forming an atmosphere of 'everyone from the Alliance is following e-sports'.