Gamer Superstar - Chapter 121

Chapter 121: 121 – New Video
The transfer process went smoother than I thought.

The new principal wasn’t too keen on losing a student like me since he knew about my improving grades over the last few months and my growing fame since almost the whole school knew about it, but when I told him what this school had already put me through, all he could do was apologize and sign the transfer papers.

With these transfer papers I went with Selena to Oakland Arts Academy and the transfer process there was also very easy.

After confirming my Artist Rank and doing another presentation of the school with me, they accepted my transfer and I would start studying at the school on Monday of the following week.

I had to pay $4,000 to enroll plus $2,520 for the first month’s tuition, which wasn’t a problem for me with the over $16,000 I had in my account.

That brought me down to just under $10,000, but it was still more than enough for me.

When I got home, my mom and siblings wanted to celebrate and we went out for ice cream.

After that, my routine returned to normal and I focused on editing my videos.

The music battle video was almost finished, my idea was to release it today, so I dedicated myself to editing it for a few more hours, listening to the pleasant sound of the system every now and then.

[Video Editing Lv 14 -> 15].

[Video Editing Lv 15 -> 16]

Since my skills were already at a very high level, I had received fewer and fewer notifications like this lately, so it was good to improve a low-level skill like this.

Especially since each level of the skill gave me so much knowledge about video editing and so much practicality in doing it that the quality of the video increased while the time I needed to edit it decreased considerably.

By 17:00 my video was finished and I wasted no time in posting it to MeTube.

[My First Music Battle! Did I Win?! Vlog #4]

Of course, instead of just posting the video, I set it to premiere mode and programmed it to go public at 6:00 p.m., leaving that one hour as time to attract more viewers to the video.

As I imagined, as soon as I posted the video and subscribers received the notification, the number of people waiting to watch the video went from 0 to 3,000 in just a few seconds.

The video chat, which had been empty, was suddenly full of people who were surprised to see it.

[Eita, is this week’s video coming early?]

[A new video on Tuesday?!]

[Woaahh, will there be two videos this week?!]

[A musical battle by BlackVelvet?! He’s going to destroy it!]

[Who will it be against?!]

[I’m excited to see what a musical battle looks like from a singer’s POV].

[I have always seen musical battles from the audience’s POV, it should be cool to see what BlackVelvet was thinking while participating in the battle!]

Dozens of new messages appeared in the chat every few seconds, while the number of viewers waiting for the video to start slowly fluctuated.

During the hour before the video was posted, I kept practicing my guitar and singing while reading people’s comments from time to time and responding to some people I thought were funny.

Seeing my replies made people excited and wanted to interact with the video even more.

Suddenly, I received a message from a contact who had unblocked my DMs on Instabram.

[Requien: Post the video here too so the Instabram audience can watch it XD]

When I saw his message reminding me of this, I remembered that it was he who gave me some recommendations on what to do a few weeks ago, and I replied to him to thank him, so his messages were now notifying me.

Realizing that the idea he’d given me was a good one, I replied.

[Thanks bro! I totally forgot to post on Instabram lol!]

[Requien: Np!]

Following Requien’s idea, I opened my stories and recorded the laptop screen with the hundreds of messages going up every second.

“Today we have an extra personal video, the vlog of my first musical battle, I hope you like it! At the end there might be a teaser of a new song…” I said laughing.

As soon as I posted this on Instagram, it had hundreds of views within seconds and several people replied or liked the stories, adding to the number of people waiting to see the music battle vlog.

– Charlie’s POV –

Staring at the computer screen with an expectant expression, Charlie was excited to see what this new BlackVelvet vlog would be like.

Ever since she’d started following him, she’d watched everything he posted, both the songs and the vlogs.

Mostly because she realized that he didn’t hide the thought process and decision making that he used in the shows, which was something that taught her a lot as someone who wanted to pursue an artistic career in the future!

Knowing what he was thinking when he interacted with the audience, the order of the songs he sang, the choice of songs for each moment.

What surprised her the most was why he never sang Boyfriend at the beginning of the shows, since that song would probably cause the male audience’s favorability to drop a lot, he preferred to sing it when people already liked him, which wouldn’t affect the rest of the show as much.

Or when he decided to sing The Lazy Song at the beginning of the show to get the crowd going instead of Numb or In The End, which were just as good but weren’t as catchy as The Lazy Song.

Seeing that his next vlog was going to be about a musical battle, Charlie was very excited to find out what his thought process was when choosing the songs and how he interacted with the audience.

Thinking back to when she saw him at school yesterday, a silly smile appeared on Charlie’s face at the possibility of seeing him in the next few days.

Unfortunately, she didn’t see him at school again today.

But there was a problem.

One of the girls commented to other friends about BlackVelvet being able to study at her school, which spread the news to other students in her class, and soon everyone was hearing that another artist AND Rank were coming to the class.

Her class had a total of 40 students, with only 3 students who were D-rank artists, while there were 10 E-rank artists, 20 F-rank artists, and another 7 students with no rank because they hadn’t officially started their artistic careers.

Charlie was one of these 7 students without rank, but this did not affect her or the treatment she received in class.

The students with no rank and the students with F rank were practically the same, the students with E rank were a little more popular, but not by much, while the students who were D rank artists were really popular, and most of the other students tried to please them.

Even though they had only recently become D rank artists and were still at the lowest D rank, they were still D rank artists who were respected.

Her ex-boyfriend, Trevor, was a D-rank artist who focused on classical music, especially piano.

The way he spoke intellectually made Charlie fall in love with him, but with BlackVelvet’s music she realized he didn’t love her that much, so after a short time their relationship ended.

The problem was that since people knew that BlackVelvet was going to study with them, they searched for BlackVelvet’s videos and found her in the audience of his concert singing the song “Boyfriend”.

And since BlackVelvet seemed to be singing it to her in the song, it seemed that the reason they broke up was because she liked BlackVelvet better after hearing him sing that song and wanted to change Trevor.

Charlie knew that this was partly true and partly false, but she didn’t care too much about it.

She didn’t care much for Trevor, and him being angry and jealous of BlackVelvet, who was taller, better looking and more talented than him, made Charlie happy, even if they had nothing.

Even more so, considering how fast BlackVelvet was growing, she knew it was only a matter of time before BlackVelvet’s fame surpassed Trevor’s, and the only thing he could be proud of would no longer be such a source of pride.

Smiling at the possibility, Charlie looked at the timer ticking down on her screen and lay down on the bed to watch this new video of herself, belly down, ass up, legs dangling in the air, a scene that would please any boy her age, but unfortunately there was no one there to appreciate it.

[BlackVelvet is starting a vlog now, open his channel to watch it too!]

She sent a message to her friends in the chat group, but most of them replied that they were already watching the countdown and waiting for it to start after seeing his Instabram post, and the girls who didn’t know quickly opened his MeTube to watch it too.

In the chat group, the girls wondered which E Rank artist BlackVelvet would be fighting, while trying to guess who it was, but little did they know that the artist was someone D Rank, almost reaching C Rank!