Chapter 15 A new task
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Two days passed.
After spending a night in Rosa’s house, Ryan found that his relationship with Rosa seemed to be more than friends now.
He got up early in the morning because the system released a new task for him.
"Random task: It is detected that many readers like Mr. Melton have never rewarded any work when you read web novels. As a result, many excellent stories were dropped in the midway because the writers failed to receive enough support. This task is hereby released."
"Task requirement: Help a new story enter the Power Ranking section of a w*******l site through rewards and encouragement."
“The system will judge whether the task is completed or not. You will be rewarded with 500 experience points and 1,000 mall points after the task is completed. If the task fails, you will be deducted 500 experience points and 1,000 mall points. If the points are not enough to be deducted, you will forcedly be struck by a lightning strike. The task is limited to two months. No additional help will be provided.”
After reading the description of the task newly assigned by the system, Ryan quickly opened the largest w*******l site, n*********d.
He randomly went through several stories in the New Ongoing section but found that all of them were all very milk-and-water stuff. He sighed with helplessness. It's really not easy to find a new story I like!
Disappointed, he entered the newest urban fiction series, his favorite type of novel. Suddenly, the name of a new story attracted Ryan's attention.
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A young man in his middle twenties dragged his exhausted body back into his rental house. The young man was John. He looked very depressed at this time. Just now, he was fired from the factory because he dozed off at work.
With low education and few skills, he had been working in the factory for five years in a muddle-headed manner. Before, he had no dreams and lived aimlessly every day. But this year, he finally had a dream, that was, to be an online writer.
Due to his low level of education and low typing speed, he had to work harder than others. In order to keep the update speed after he was contracted by n*********d, he buried himself in his keyboard and didn’t leave the computer until two or three in the middle of the night every day. That was why he dozed off when he worked during the day. Unluckily, he was caught by the leader today. Given his recent performance, the factory resolutely fired him.
The manager even deducted several hundred dollars from his salary, claiming that his goofing-off at work severely affected the production tasks and caused economic losses to the factory.
He didn’t believe these words; however, he could only complain inwardly. After all, he had a mistake first, and he could only admit that he was unlucky.
After years of hard work, he didn't expect to have such an end.
What annoyed him more was that his colleagues all mocked him after he got the knock, saying that he was daydreaming to be a writer with a high school degree. No one believed he would succeed one day.
The contempt of the leader and the ridicule of his colleagues made him upset and uncomfortable.
"Never look down the poor man," he wanted to tell them. “I believe I’ll come out on top!”
John silently turned on the old computer that had accompanied him for four years. Before he continued to write, he habitually logged on to the website and looked at the data of his viewers, ratings, and supports.
After that, he sat there bug-eyed and gazed at his received gifts. He rubbed his eyes again and again.
Holy crap!
John jumped up with joy, dancing about the room in ecstasy. Suddenly he squatted on the ground and covered his face, crying. After a long time, he calmed down and sat back on the chair.
What did he see just now? He received ten crowns as gifts from his reader! The total value was ten thousand dollars! And he could get one-third from the website as the author.
Of course, the gifts didn’t mean real crowns. Actually, when an author got contracted, readers could buy items in n*********d and send the gifts to them, which was just another way to give money to the author. When readers gave gifts to the author, it was the same as the readers threw pennies at the author for his or her hard work.
The other readers in the Reviews section were shocked too.
"Ten crowns? God!"
"What if the author drops?"
"The rich reader is too kind. He didn’t even ask the author to update five more chapters, otherwise, the author would be dead tired!"
"I like the story so far… All the best, author. Just please, update soon."
"A good book and deserves to be rewarded. Only I will say that this is another piece of gem on n*********d so keep it up till the end!"
John was moved by seeing so many people in the Reviews section encouraging and supporting him.
Especially this reader, who rewarded him with so much money. It was impossible to not be excited. His efforts had finally been remunerated.
He could not wait to tell his colleagues who mocked him that they were proven wrong. But since he had left, he never wanted to see their ugly look again.
"Hello, this is the author of After an Otaku Gets the System. I want to thank all of you and thank those who rewarded me. I will do my utmost to keep up a regular updating schedule and upload chapters with decent word counts. I will work hard to meet your expectations." With that, John directly uploaded a chapter to show the depth of his gratitude.
His novel was recommended in the New Ongoing section of n*********d yesterday and had been liked a lot. But there were few reviews, and he didn't know how he was doing with the story.
He did not expect that one day a reader would have rewarded him with ten crowns!
The gifts were worth 10,000 dollars! And he could earn about 3,500 dollars, which almost equaled to his annual pay of the first year he worked in the factory.
Ryan spent the money just for his task, but he didn't know what his action took for the author.
He rewarded this author because the name of his story attracted him. The male protagonist in the novel After an Otaku Gets the System lived almost the same life as Ryan did.
Therefore, he chose to promote this novel to the Power Ranking section for his own feelings and to complete the task.
Of course, the story couldn’t hit the Power Ranking section only with Ryan’s rewards. Readers’ subscriptions and likes also mattered. More rewards could only increase the exposure rate of the story so that it could be seen by more people. If the author himself worked hard and his story was liked by more readers, it would be easy for the novel to enter the Power Ranking section.
From Ryan's critical eyes, this story was well written. The world background was fair and reasonable; the settings of characters were designed lifelike, and the fast story development made readers comfortable. However, the weakness was that the author seemed to be inexperienced.
Ryan still had a lot of expectations for this book. After all, this was the key to complete his task. 500 experience points and 1,000 mall points would be rewarded after the task was completed. Just thinking about it made him excited.
Of course, he had to wait until the book entered the Power Ranking section. Besides giving rewards and encouragement to the author, he could do nothing else. Now the most important thing for him was the professional exam tomorrow.
He left a review before he turned off his computer.
"A really excellent story. I wish you could go further. Come on."
- Writer
