<h4>Chapter 371 yer Hub</h4>


    While Anna was cleaning his room, Jesse grabbed the mouse and browsed Martial Online forums.


    Using his free left hand, he typed on the keyboard the keyword ''ss Upgrade'' and then pressed enter.


    Instantly, thousands of posts, some new and some old, appeared on the page. Most were inquiring about token locations, while others wanted to purchase them for a lot of crowns.


    ''Is there anything about levels…'' Jesse curiously rolled the mouse wheel down and only glimpsed at the posts.


    If he read all the posts, it would take him a week alone to reach the bottom. Therefore, to stop himself from wasting time, he simply nced at them briefly. If he didn''t notice anything mentioning unlocking or levels, he simply ignored them.


    As the time moved by and Anna finished cleaning the floors, Jesse finally found a post that captured his attention.


    He double-clicked on the mouse and entered the post.


    The creator of the past inquired about not being able to upgrade his ss, and he seemed very upset over it, calling it a bug and wanting the game developers to fix it as soon as possible.


    Apparently, he had a friend who had already upgraded the ss two times, but he couldn''t do it a second time even though he had a token.


    He included a few of his stats, including his name and level.


    [Name: SoupWarrior]


    [Level: 48]


    "Hmm…" Jesse quickly checked thement section, and it didn''t have a lot ofments.


    The peoplementing seemed clueless, with some calling out the creator of the post for lying to get some clout, as there had been a big influx of fake posts that called out the game developers for the bugs.


    Martial Online had one impressive thing about it—theck of bugs.


    There weren''t any, and therefore, bug report posts have be very famoustely.


    The rest of thements wondered whether it was really a bug, and a few wanted to purchase the token if it didn''t work for the creator of the post.


    "I doubt it''s a bug." Jesse spoke to himself.


    "Did you say something?" Anna was using a wet rag to clean the edges of the door, but then she heard him mutter something.


    "Ah, it''s nothing." Jesse shook his head and turned his focus on theputer.


    ''He is below level 50. I think my conclusion might have been correct. Let''s see whether this user has any new recent posts.''


    Jesse, using the mouse, clicked on the name ''SoupWarrior'' and went to his page, searching for his new posts.


    ording to his ''bug report'', there was another post created two days ago.


    It was a strange rant post, and even the title had a lot of cursing.


    [This game is dogsh*t!]


    With a curious look, Jesse pressed on the post and started reading inside his mind.


    ''This game is dogshit.


    ''This fucking bug needs to be fixed; I lost a lot of money because of that. Since the token didn''t work for me, I sold it to my friend.


    ''However, my friend knew about the issues I had with the token, so I had to sell it for a discount because there was a high chance it wouldn''t work with him as well.


    ''He had also upgraded his ss once beforehand, so this was his second time.


    ''I wanted to be there when he updates his ss to see whether it worked, and it fucking did!


    ''Why the hell do tokens work for some, and some yers drew a short straw and it didn''t work for them?!


    ''Fix this, Martial Company, and you guys owe me a ss Upgrade Token!''


    Jesse scratched his neck and checked thements. It was empty, as it seemed like the post didn''t gain any attention.


    ''This pretty much proved it.'' He thought. ''His friend must''ve been above level 50, allowing him to upgrade his ss.


    ''What a shame that the creator of the post was so impatient. He was perhaps two levels away from increasing his strength by a big margin.''


    Jesse left the post, returned to the front page, and tapped his finger against the mouse.


    ''There is only one way to be sure. I''ll be trying to upgrade my ss every level from now on. I''ll do that until level 100.


    ''I''ll have to start grinding levels soon, but for now, I''ll have to focus on creating new skills and the soul healing.''


    ''This time, I try not to create any suicidal skills. Those suicidal skills were fitting for the Suicide Swordsman ss, which might be one of the reasons why my ss upgraded to that one.


    ''Now, since my ss is de Master, I''ll focus on true sword skills thatplement my style. I''ll also need more skills to teach my students.''


    Jesse looked at hisputer''s monitor and wondered how things were in ForeverStream. It had been some time since he had visited that website.


    After typing its name in the search bar, he pressed enter and entered the website.


    As usual, the most popr streams upied the front page, and the viewer count seemed to have increased as the poprity of Martial Online continued to rise astronomically.


    ''I wonder if Antis is streaming.'' Jesse curiously went to check his followed streams, and to his surprise, he was currently online with 5 viewers watching him.


    He entered the stream and picked up his headphones from next to theputer, then put them on and increased the volume a little bit.


    …


    In a small forest near the edge of the ind, Antis, with his upper body bare, lifted his axe and hacked it down, splitting a log in two.


    "I didn''t think creating a vige would be so… exhausting!" Antis thought out loud with sweat falling down his face, then went to pick up the logs and walked out of the forest.


    At that moment, crude-looking buildings appeared in sight that were built near the edge of the ind. It looked like a vige was currently being built.


    However, it was very slow work, especially alone.


    "Argh…" Antis dumped the logs next to another pile and stretched his arms with an exhausted look.


    In that moment, another message appeared in his chat with a ding.


    [Ambrose: You should be a fisherman. Sell the fish, then pay for some architects and construction workers to build the vige for you. This will take forever otherwise, and the buildings look a little shaky, not going to lie]


    Antis'' eyes bulged in shock as he saw the name in the chat. It was a name that had visited his chat before, but now it''spletely different.


    In the chat, several messages appeared.


    [KieFish: It''s really him! Antis, you weren''t lying!]


    [Wetherman: It''s really Ambrose!]


    "Ahaha, what a surprise…" Antis chuckled nervously and made the floating camera point at his face. "Haha, a few days ago, I saw your name on one of the bounty posters, and I remembered it.


    "Then, I searched for you, and it looks like you were quite popr. Haha, I didn''t expect someone of your status would be visiting my measly stream."


    [Ambrose: Oh :P]


    "A-anyway, thanks for the tip. I might try, but myst sailboat sank!" Antis scratched his hair in frustration. "I can''t really leave this ce without removing my temporary spawn, but I don''t want to leave.


    "So, my only way is to build a new ship. Luckily, I found some blueprints from a nearby cave!" Antis brought out some blueprints, some with ships and some with huts.


    "I don''t know how to use these, but in the top corner of the blueprint, there are a number of things I need. I am stillcking the materials, but when I have gathered them all, I am sure I might be able to create these!


    "This might be another undiscovered game mechanic that would help yers create stuff. I am super excited to find out!"


    [Ambrose: Oh, even I haven''t heard about that before. Anyway, good luck]


    "Thank you, sir!" Antis saluted and resumed working with the vige while asionally talking with his chat.


    At this point in time, the vige looked crude, and it wouldn''t survive a single storm. However, in the future, this ind would be called the yer Hub, the most important ce for the yers in Dark Waters.