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    I had just asked the guide spirit to find my daughter through the yer search function, which allowed anyone to search for yers through their names. It was an easy way to add someone as a friend without always having to be in person with them, I believe. It was simple to use but guide spirits seemed to be special assist A.I.s made exclusive to help you do all these things for you, so I just let him do it for me instead. He was amazingly fast at searching and more, so he found what I wanted right away, but there were a lot of people called Dark Reaper with many variations, it seemed to not be an original name.


    Why did my daughter just choose such a weirdlymon name? She should have chosen something more specific and rarer! I mean, amongst the entire server there was nobody called nta, actually! I guess there were not that many Spanish yers? Well, even Spanish yers would think that "nta" was a dumb name so yeah… Maybe she wanted to sound cooler.


    "Let''s see… There are many yers with a name like this, it is insane… However, if we use the filters you said, such as a female character and being near level 200… Um, I guess the number goes down tremendously, despite what you may think, there are a lot of casual yers that never reach that high of a level, or take a long time leveling, so those close to 200 are not everybody… But there is a good chunk, however, if we filter it by females there are… Oh wow, that''s surprisingly short!" he said.


    "H-How many?" I wondered.


    "Three people left! There is DarkReaper2015, DarkReaper678, and DarkReaper2.0…These are all Female characters with a level close to 200… The first one is an… an Oni with the Samurai Job ss, a Human with the Assassin Job ss, andstly a Moon Elf with the Necromancer Job ss… There''s a lot! Okay now, you have to choose who, or we could just send a message to all three," he said.


    "No, no! Wait… If I even send a message, what can I even send? I cannot just go and say: "Hello my dearest daughter!" or something! I am supposed to not reveal my identity! I need to find a way to contact them, know who''s my daughter, and then befriend them and get closer to them all while not revealing I am my daughter''s mother infiltrating in a game for her sake!" I said.


    "Damn it, you''re really so annoying with this stuff… Okay, then what do we do?" he wondered.


    "People in this game resemble their real life appearances, right? Is it due to the scan thing?" I asked.


    "Mildly, but the race can change the appearance a lot, a simple beard can make someone unrecognizable sometimes, or having a different skin color and horns, or for example, you''re covered in leaves all over your body for example," said the guide. "Nheless, do you think you can recognize her based on appearance alone?"


    "Yes! Is there a way to see their appearance?" I wondered.


    "Well, this game has a thing called Ranker Live, which is an option for people to do Live Actions while ying, all these three yers are high leveled yers that do Ranker Lives showcasing their bossing and mobbing while leveling up and gaining more power," said the guide.


    "Bossing and mobbing? W-What is that?" I wondered.


    "This game has special monsters named Bosses, you already fought one, right? They''re super strong and there are certain areas of the world map where these bosses spawn every few days after dying, so people can go proactively to kill them and gain more drops from them, slowly umting them. They have chances to drop amazing crafting items, give good EXP, and more, so every yer at high level goes "bossing" every week, and it is one of the end goals of the game to be able to defeat some of these bosses to gain loot," said the guide. "Mobbing refers to grinding, the act of killing a lot of normal monsters that yers refer as mobs. yers work towards the ability to kill many monsters at the same time and go to special areas infected with miasma and dark energies where monsters spawn at insane rates to gain more EXP and Gold."


    "I-I see… That''s a bitplicated, do people have so much time to do this?" I wondered.


    "Hardcore yers dedicated their lives to games, they usually have ways to make money out of the game through selling items themselves and more," said the guide. "Also, there are several functions that work like real life pages, Ranker Live is a System function that serves like Youtube or Twitch, people in the game show livestreams of them ying, the more people watch, the more views they get and the more ads the game developers can show to people, earning money out of it, which is given to the live streamers as well, well, only a little part of it, but that''s enough to make a living."


    "So that''s how it is! That''s pretty interesting… Is there any other ways to earn money through it?" I wondered.


    ? "There is also the subscriber options and membership options, to subscribe to someone you really like, you can do it for free and always get notifications when they start doing something, and the membership option is people that use eitherrge quantities of Gold or real life money to pay someone every month to get some benefits, such as special chat emojis, or even being able to contact the yer personally and be their friends!" he said. "There''s a lot of fanservice involved."


    "C-Can I be a Live streamer then? It would be fun and I can make money out of it!" I said. "My dream is making money out of the game so I don''t have to work so much every week…"


    "Hm, well nobody watches newbies, so I doubt it will help." He sighed. "But you could try? Anyways, these three DarkReaper yers all have their own Ranker Live Channels, so let''s take a look at theirtest video and let''s see their faces."


    And like that, the guide showed me a few videos of the three girls, they were all ying the game rather interestingly, the first one to see was DarkReaper2.0, who was a Moon Elf, a purple-skinned girl with sharp and long ears and long silvery-white hair, her appearance was like that of an adult woman in herte twenties to early thirties, so she was certainly not my daughter, she was soloing a giant Boss resembling a scorpion in the middle of an arid desert, wow. And she actually beat it at the end by using her abilities as a Necromancer. She attacked the boss with all sorts of Undead summons until it died.


    Secondly, Reaper678 was a Human girl, she was the one that looked the most like her real life probably, but she had long pink hair and was wearing tight ck clothes over her body, she was using her two daggers as her only weapons, which seemed to be infused withrge quantities of dark energies. And she used them to sh hundreds of monsters by running over a volcand, the enormous golems made ofva dropped dead into pieces as she ran around with her daggers, it was a spectacle to behold…


    So these were high level yers, they''re justpletely different, aren''t they? And well, her appearance was not like my daughter, she looked like someone Asian, although Asian women usually look younger than they are, she certainly didn''t look like my daughter.


    Andstly, my onlyst hope, there was a "Rising star" Ranker that had be high level incredibly quickly, in just a few months after starting her new ount, she had reached Level 190 already, and was slowly getting to level 200 already. This girl was dark, blue-skinned Oni, with a big vertically positioned red eye in the middle of her forehead, and two long and blue-colored hornsing out of her forehead, around the vertical red eye…


    She was quite tall, and slim as well, and she wore beautiful samurai armor that was crafted using various materials dropped only by Boss monsters, she also wielded a powerful katana that was able to unleash blue mes for incredibly powerful shing attacks, she was an amazing yer that fought incredibly well, and she even had a friend with her most of the time, that could summon a Phoenix—Wait, she looked a lot like my daughter, if we took away the skin color, horns and that third eye!


    "T-That''s my daughter! I know she''s her!" I said.


    "Incredible, the discerning power of a mother knows no limits…" said the guide.<novelnext></novelnext>


    "Fufu, of course! A mother has to always know and recognize her daughter no matter what!" I said pridefully.


    "I see, well, as you can see, well, this girl is amazing though, she already surpassed the Million Subscriber mark in just like three months since she started? And she got around two hundred thousand membership users that are all simping for her. Your daughter has an awful lot of fans! And they''re all creeps," said the guide.


    "Ugh… So my daughter has be that type of person now? O-Oh well, it is not so bad! R-Right?" I wondered.


    "Y-Yeeaaah… Anyways, she''s earning an awful lot of money, does she tell you this?" He wondered.


    "No! She hasn''t told me anything like that yet! It is a bit dangerous for a girl her age, at only almost 16 years of age to go around with an awful amount of money… But she doesn''t seem to be spending it around on weird things or wasting it either, she''s probably saving it, she hasn''t even told me about it though, maybe because she could think I would disapprove of this as a career…" I sighed. "Well, maybe she''s saving for her future, I believe my daughter is mature enough for that."


    "Wow, did you just figure out all her mind and thought process in just a few seconds? Mothers are really incredible!" said the guide.


    "Yeah, I know my girl more than anybody in the world," I said. "I know how she is, despite showing a cold expression and exterior, she''s a sweet girl that''s also very intelligent and mature."


    "I see, well, how are you nning to get closer to someone so popr in-game? I am pretty sure she got so many fans that she has her DM''s disabled," said the guide.


    "Well, let''s try sending her a message…" I said.


    I quickly wrote something down.


    [Hello! My name is nta, I am a Dryad/Farmer newbie that just started ying, I wish I could have a high level ranker yer to be my coach or something! Would you ept me as your friend?]


    It was simple but it had some charm to it, so I sent it to her.


    And then…


    Ding!


    [This yer had disabled Direct Messages from non-friend yers]


    D-Damn it.


    Then I''ll send her a friend request!


    Ding!


    [This yer has disabled Friend Requests from yers below Level 170 Range or that are not rted to an already added Friend]


    You''ve gotta be kidding me! What was this?! Elena! Why would you be such an asocial person to do something like this to your mama?! This was awful! Why?! Ugh! Agh… Ahh… Sigh.


    I looked into the video, seeing Elena and her friend Anna beating down a powerful boss in the shape of a giant wolf made of darkness named Fenrir, the two girls were demolishing it until nothing was left out but materials…


    "Sigh… I guess I am going to have to do it the hard way. I''ll try to find another way, somehow… But how though?" I sighed.


    "Hmm… Well, you could try being a Live Streamer, if you get popr enough, she might try to befriend you," said the guide.


    "Oh! Good idea! Seems more doable than just leveling all the way to 170!"


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