Meanwhile, a crowd gathered at the fountain closeby to the marketplace of Mondstadt.

"Welcome to the very first meeting of the Union of Mondstadters!" Margaret, who seemed to gather everyone there, said.

Anthony raised his hand.

Margaret allowed him to speak.

"Er, since when was this… union formed?" Anthony uneasily asked.

Margaret sweetly smiled, "Just right now actually! Which is the perfect time to form because we need to discuss something very important!"

Everyone else was uneasy, but they all leaned in to hear the big secret-

"So, could we maybe ask the Fontaine person to change the cereal food? Because I think that mysterious Cereal person we saw yesterday should have that name. Cereal is a dumb name to call a food anyways, even if the food is good."

Everybody groaned and started to leave.

"Wait! You guys didn't even listen to my focus topic! I didn't even start talking about why we're actually here!"


Cereal

Yeah, so I do all of that…

And then?

I transformed into a titan and punched him in the face.

...Jaeger.

This is like the 16th time you've told me some kind of variation of this story.

Hey, it happens often.


Venti

You know, he doesn't usually do this sort of thing, but this is kind of an important question he needs to ask a friend of his.

So, teleporting over to Liyue to the place that Venti knows would be a great popular hangout spot of a particular friend of his would be, he immediately throws up his arms, preparing his greetings…

Only to have to dodge a large stone flying straight towards him.

"Woah!" Venti shouted, eyes wide, "No fair! I wasn't even planning on doing anything bad!"

Straight ahead was Morax, the geo archon, who was looking extremely annoyed at the sudden appearance of his old friend, who simply sighed, "I thought you would know the dangers of suddenly teleporting into a populated area, considering that you yourself is the 'expert' in being human, Barbatos."

Venti shrugged, "Yeah, my bad," Venti said before looking around to confirm there's nobody around, which happened to be a building (He actually just teleported to Morax directly. Morax would hang around Morax along anyways, so it's not like he actually lied.) and leaned in, "So, uh, how's it going?"

Morax leaned back into a chair he grabbed from the side, "Relatively well, how are you?"

Venti gave a cheerful smile, "Oh! Pretty good! I haven't gotten blackout drunk in like, a solid 2 days!"

Venti then turned a bit grim as he remembered what he was here for, "But uh… Have the er… Celestia guys told you about anything recently?"

Morax didn't show any shock at the name, but he did hesitate one bit, as if contemplating all of his conversations in the past few years to remember anything that stuck out, "No? I don't believe they've heavily interfered in a while… Why are you asking?"

Venti had a confused look on his face, "Then, er, this weird robot thing named Cereal isn't from Celestia, then?"

Even Morax looked confused for a moment, "Isn't that… A new food?"

Venti snapped his fingers at Morax, "Yeah! That's what I was thinking too! I thought that Celestia was just making new things or something, but cereal just got made like, I dunno, a few weeks ago? I don't think that they'd let something down here with the knowledge that I'm Barbatos so soon. Or like, at all, actually. Wait, why did he even tell me that part?"

Morax closed his eyes in a disappointed fashion, "Barbatos, I believe that's something you should've started the conversation with."

Venti thought this for a moment, before simply saying, "Ehe? Sorry? Er, if you don't know anything about him, then I'm probably fine with messing around with him, he doesn't seem too bad… Although…"

Morax raised his brow, "Although?"

"Yeah, so when I was about to teleport to him earlier, I kind of got a message from… Well, I want to say Celestia, but I really don't know, but essentially, they just told me to 'buzz off for a moment something funny is happening' and I have… No idea what that means."

Morax blinked.

"Barbatos. Again, why did you not talk about this at the beginning of the conversation?"

"...Ehe?"

Venti ended up having to dodge several more rocks that day.

Fortunately, Morax (Zhongli, cool name) decided it was safe enough to talk to Cereal, but to just keep him at an arm's distance.

Well, I'm sure freaking them out a bit with hilariously freaky wind schedules counts as an arm's distance. Besides, it was just payback for freaking him out about revealing his identity in public.

Also, thinking about threatening to shoot him with a bow didn't leave a chill down his spine.


Cereal

...Repeat that to me?

Eh? I'm just saying that gamers with completely normal names are ridiculously strong, like, as I said, Micheal.

Michael? Really? Second strongest gamer? That… Doesn't work inside of my head. I would've thought all of the strongest gamers would be edgelords or something. You know, their names having random X's and their names are in latin or something.

Well, Skryb is an edgelord half the time, but yeah, you remember how I said that gamers usually fight with other gamers with the same name? Michael is a pretty common name, so a lot of gamers use it as their name since it's their own name that they don't really want to part with, so all of the Michaels get in copious amounts of fights to determine who's the true Michael. Which is nicknamed Michael 1, since he's number 1 of all Michaels.

...Alright… That, from my limited perspective, makes sense.

So, then, why is Skryb apparently the strongest, if he doesn't get in as many fights as the Michaels?

Plot armor lmao. Also his 'serious' fighting style consists of turning into a small ass ball that's hard to hit and spamming AoE attacks from portals, and nobody deserves to fight against some asshole doing that.

...The more I think about that ball thing, the more it kind of makes sense in my head and I don't really want to live in a world where turning into a ball to fight is a good idea.

Me too, buddy.


Ningguang

Sipping a cup of tea, Ningguang was simply going about her currently relaxed day with minimal stress.

Well, until a letter from Mondstadt got to her desk labelled as urgent. Sure, she'd gotten one a few months ago on the topic of stormterror, and she'd responded to that quickly, but what could've possibly gone wrong now?

As she opens the letter and reads through it, it becomes apparent to her that a lot of things can go wrong.

Such as Jean going insane.

Poor girl, she probably broke from the stress, and now she's talking to me through a letter about… Players, gods… Fair and Balanced Incorporated? PvP? Cereal of all things to name a person? Isn't that food?

Where has her mind been?

And this little warning to 'keep an eye out on any rising criminals with abnormal abilities' because they could 'be the villain player.'

Really, this letter was made quite nicely, but the contents simply don't add up.

Ready to throw the letter away and forget about it, chalking up to Jean simply having a moment of breakdown, she gets interrupted by her assistant saying that, apparently, the messenger 'forgot' to give her something quite vital to the explanation of this paper.

How quaint, it seemed like all of Mondstadt might've reached its breaking point.

Taking the… thing, from her assistant, she puts down the thing on her desks and stares at it for a bit.

It's made out of some kind of metal, in some odd plate-like shape, and it has a giant red button on it.

She has no idea how this thing works, and she wonders why they would've made this seemingly alien and useless item, yet, she presses on the red button anyways, indulging Mondstadt.

...Only to have her figure figuratively shatter as it opens some kind of window to some other dimension, showing some kind of… cat person wearing what she wants to say is inazuman clothing.

"Ah! Alright, ahem, take 2! So, if you're watching this, you're likely the ally of a Hero- ah, damn it… Whatever! First try! So this is essentially Fair and Balanced Incorporated's PvP system! Let me take you through it!"

In the length that… message went on for, she'd decided that she'd never doubt Jean ever again. If anyone asks, she believed every single word on that letter the moment she read it.


Cereal

Jaeger, I'm too weak…

Oh no, what a shame. A robot being unable to work? Who could've foreseen this coming?

I've been going through the same motions for literally hours. Clicking and tapping, I don't even know if I've reached the 100k item mark yet…

How long has it even been? It feels like days have gone by.

1 dayish, it's like morning now, but you started to craft in the afternoon.

What the fuck.

You want me to distract you from your pain by talking about more system troubles?

Please do, I might not last much longer without any distractions.

Yeah, great. So there was this thing in the 1.0 system where damage was based on where you hit, and how hard it was, like every other system, but then that got changed for some BS 'balance' reasons that Aodare made and everything was shit…

CUUUUUT

"I am literal moments away from killing Jaeger and Cereal."

"Jaeger getting isekai'd into some random person's mind was the best thing that could've happened this system. If you enter that world to mess things up, I'll kill you 15,000 times. Twice."

"I am literal moments away from mildly disagreeing with you, Skryb."


Cereal

So anyways, that's how we ended up with 2 3.0 systems for some reason.

Huh… I barely understood any of that.

Yeah, me neither.

...Do you have a tier list or something?

You want a… Let's see here… Modifier tier list?

Yeah, that, sure.

Looking at the tier list in front of me, I see…

Hey, Jaeger.

I know.

Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to put modifiers that have infinite in their name in a PvP environment?

I know


?

And all of these samurai NPCs are now dust, hooray.

Really, great modifier. He had no idea why anyone thought this was a good idea, considering the strength of this quirk, but hey, he wins.

Well.

Is having a god as a yandere really winning? Because sometimes…

He feels the electricity coming up his spine in what he thought was supposed to be an 'sensual' way. This has happened in the same exact way almost 23 different times these last few days.

He sometimes feels like he's losing.


Cereal

I'm throwing in the white flag.

RIP. But you could get to level 150 if you kept up with this for like, another week. Or a week and a half… Maybe 2 weeks.

Not worth it.

I'm done.

I'm never crafting another item again.

Taking my hands off the crafting pad, looking at the thousands of items I now have in my inventory…

I approach the bed that I have and faceplant straight into it.

Jaeger, please make me fall asleep.

Lol sure ggs. I'll sort out these rewards, then.


An:

It feels like with every chapter, my quantity of words is going down lmao.

It's 11 PM here, I wrote an intermission chapter, and I desperately want bed.

I may or may not regret this. (My previous encounters with writing late at night says I will)

[To binge-watch RWBY to write a PvP gamer fic that might last for more than 4 chapters, or to go blind and say fuck it, headcanon it all away.]

[Oh yeah that other MHA gamer fic of mine died. Didn't vibe with me.]

[Probably will focus on a glump (evil) one shot next. And then maybe a pyrovision modifier oneshot. And maybe another upload for this, or if I said fuck it, I'll start that RWBY one.]

[Don't quote me on any of that, I have a terrible track record.]