Chapter 31 Don't do fanfiction! After experiencing inhumane physical torture...

After enduring inhumane physical training, Ethan began an even more painful life.

In the morning, we first learned about today's task objectives. After learning about Starfall, we were told that we should stretch our muscles and bones. We created a new training ground in another dimension specifically for physical training.

First, of course, is hand-to-hand combat, without using weapons or magic. Although Ethan is the one taking the beating, he gradually learns some things from it, such as how to dodge and avoid the next attack, or how to protect vital areas to minimize damage.

When Ethan was exhausted, Starfall solemnly told him that he still had to use magic to fight. Without stopping for a moment, Ethan was forced to start fighting again.

Ethan: QAQ

Fortunately, this was an alternate dimension created by Starfall, so no matter how you fought, you would be restricted to a certain distance. The magic attacks wouldn't damage anything else. At most, Ethan might be a little disheveled in the fight, and Starfall's clothes would be slightly dirty.

Ethan, who has repeatedly felt like he's brushed shoulders with death: QAQ

At noon, Starfall and Ethan mixed potions together. Starfall was an all-around teacher, especially teaching what he was best at, so Ethan had a fairly pleasant time.

Aside from the potion smell being a bit pungent, before he successfully changed the potion's smell, the bubbling potion would emit an indescribable medicinal odor, the kind that would completely kill your appetite just by smelling it.

Starfall instructed Ethan on how to add the ingredients: "0.7 grams, just 0.7 grams is enough. Are you sure it's 0.7 grams? If it's too much, it will dilute the efficacy of the other herbs."

Ethan squinted, pressed his face against the potion cauldron, and rubbed the meager amount of precious herb powder between his fingers. The powder slowly fell into the blue potion, and in that instant, the potion turned green.

"Alright." Starfall was also closely observing his technique: "That's enough, put it away."

Ethan stood up, relieved. This was an extremely challenging potion-making process. He'd only been allowed to watch Ethan try after Starfall, who had seen his progress, and thankfully, he succeeded.

"Drink it." Starfall gestured for him to drink the first high-level potion he had perfectly made: "This is one of the potions that helps your body function properly."

Ethan's eyes lit up. If he learned one, how far away would the others be? He wouldn't need to bother Master Starfall anymore; he could maintain his own body, although he would lose interest in opening blind boxes.

Ethan drank it all in one gulp, finishing his main potion-making exercise for the day. He still had enough time left to brew many more potions he knew how to make.

For example, the healing potions and blood-replenishing potions that were consumed in large quantities in the last battle are very important potions. Making more of them will save more people in the next battle.

Starfall stood by with his arms crossed, watching Ethan, who had been busy brewing hundreds of healing potions, and on a whim, built him a special room not far away to store healing potions.

The afternoons are harder to endure than the mornings and noon, because as the guardian of Starfall City, Ethan's job isn't simply to appear and defeat enemies when battles break out; he also has a lot of official duties to attend to.

Official documents are usually piled up and stored in the Guardian Base. In addition to their own rooms, the Guardian Base also has its own offices. Ethan went to see it and found it to be quite large.

However, Ethan wasn't used to handling things at the Guardian's Base, so he moved all the documents back to the Starfall alternate dimension, to a place similar to a living room, where he buried himself in processing them.

When Xingyun was bored, she would stand next to him and watch how he handled things. Occasionally, she would offer guidance on some of his more serious mistakes. Otherwise, she would just stand by and watch the birth of Ethan, the corporate slave.

Ethan, exhausted from handling official business: QAQ

After finishing his work by evening, Ethan finally had some free time.

During this time, Ethan can do whatever he wants. He can choose to read books that interest him, study university-level knowledge, learn other things that interest him, and browse the internet for information.

His daily routine consists of deleting comments in X's comment section that insult his mother, liking comments that insult his scumbag biological father, and then normally retweeting a few friendly tweets, usually from various protection associations.

Some of the Starfall people are really good at cursing; Ethan even created a new account on the forum to argue with people.

Is the current Guardian the lover of the city's will? Did the current Guardian rise to power by selling his body? What kind of drug did the current Guardian give him to make the Starfall City Will so indulge him?

Ethan was furious. People were spreading rumors about him as if they were true, and some were even confidently discussing with others that they would buy his ass.

Seriously? I really want to go to your IP address and have a proper chat with you guys.

Ethan watched as all sorts of things were said on the forum, a mixed bag of opinions, some even giving him a female identity and making him completely oblivious to the world around him with Lord Starfall.

Ethan clicked into a fanfiction and found that she was a blonde, blue-eyed bad woman who manipulated Starfall, but gave him no real love. Even when she unexpectedly had several children, it was only a purely exploitative relationship.

Wow!

In this fanfiction, besides being Starfall Lord, he also has ambiguous relationships with his Guardian colleagues, and even involves their city will.

Even when she was caught having an affair with her lovers by Xingyun and the children, she showed no remorse. This fanfiction creator also portrayed Xingyun as broken and jealous.

This is so out of character (OOC). This kind of fanfiction is a bit too much. Look at where it matches? This is practically head-swapping literature. How is the personality or behavior similar? Even the gender is wrong.

Ethan quickly glanced at the rest of the plot and found it contained graphic content such as bestiality, multiple people, outdoor scenes, and electric shocks, which terrified him so much that he hurriedly exited the game.

Ethan stared at the endless stream of fanfiction, too afraid to even look at the titles. All he could see was the overflowing creativity, or perhaps fury, of the fanfiction creators. What kind of nonsense was this? He was going to call the police!

Ethan quickly logged into his various social media accounts and posted a tweet.

[Starfall City Guardian - Ethan: I hereby inform everyone that I do not authorize fan fiction. Please do not include me in explicit content, do not create multiple-person incestuous relationships, and do not depict me having sex with children. I am asexual; my gender is that of a Walmart shopping bag. My only emotional trigger is work. If I am seen again in any place I have explicitly prohibited, I will send a lawyer's letter. If you do not answer, I will come to your home for a discussion.]

As soon as the post was published, fans of Starfall City quickly flooded the comment section.

[Can my current boyfriend die by my hand? What's wrong with him?]

Someone replied to it below.

[Is making money easy? Never mind if it doesn't come from Lu Zheng: Does this mean he wants people to stop spreading rumors about him? Has he been reading fanfiction on forums?]

[Can I become rich overnight?: Hahaha, my current boyfriend actually reads this? There are some fanfictions I don't even dare to read, what did he click on?]

[Is the current one dead today?: Can the current one tell me the keywords you're using to view fanfiction? I want to see what you saw that made you so disgusted. It's clear you really dislike it, so I'd like to write something about it.]

[Love Your Father's Love: This is going against the grain, I'll write it down and have a say.]

Is it funny? Ethan looked at his reflection in his phone screen and saw only a desperate straight man.

Don't say he only has teacher-student feelings for Xingyun. Recently, Xingyun has made him feel sore all over and nauseous whenever he sees him. It's just that he's been beaten up too much and seems to have developed muscle memory. The nausea is because he's been given too many potions.

There were too many people. Every time Ethan refreshed his comments, there were many more comments, which were divided into several categories after his post.

The first type is those who mocked him, but they never expected him to actually come to read fanfiction and be mentally tormented by it; they feel they'll laugh for a long time.

The second type is the humble and eager learner. Ask him what he finds shocking, and prepare to add your own shocking insights to disgust him to death.

The third type consists of those who are obsessed with fanfiction and firmly believe that reality is the same as the fanfiction story. They oppose his asexuality and some strongly oppose his denial of having an affair with Lord Xingyun.

The fourth type is the netizens from other cities who are watching the show from the sidelines, amused and amazed, wondering what kind of fanfiction Starfall wrote that could make his guardian issue such a statement? Unfortunately, they are from other cities, and it is difficult for outsiders to infiltrate Starfall City's own forum.

The fifth type is the clueless type. After cursing for a while, they look at the chaotic comment section and are completely bewildered. They grab passersby to ask what happened, but no one pays any attention.

Ethan didn't dare look at his comment section any longer, so he went offline.

Ethan still has work in the evenings.

Occasionally, criminals in Starfall City would refuse to obediently go to jail, so Ethan would politely ask them to go, and then throw them all into jail.

The criminals, who weren't being treated politely, were thinking: "What's with the politeness? Is it just your perception that you're being polite?"

Occasionally, when Ethan gets tired of chasing people, he'll look at the beautiful moon and sigh, then he can avoid the enthusiastic welcome from those around him and some hard objects that could hurt him without turning around.

Then, if Ethan doesn't arrest anyone else in the early morning, he might be taking on a wizard's mission, since wizard's missions require completing a minimum number of tasks every certain period of time.

One reason is that the Wizard's Forum requires reputation points to post, and reputation points can be exchanged for valuable items. Ethan has very few reputation points, and it's very difficult to earn them; he needs to complete many tasks to get even a few.

Ethan? He has no idea when he'll be able to post on the magicians' forum and chat like the other magicians.

Ethan was incredibly envious of the items that could be redeemed exclusively with his credit points. Most people, however, used the points earned from completing tasks to exchange for items in other stores, as credit points had their own separate redemption shop.

The items in the points mall are mostly common and precious herbs and items, while the reputation points mall contains a wider variety of more valuable items.

For example, there are herb seeds that are said to be extinct, magical artifacts left behind by some great magician many years ago, or rare materials for making other auxiliary items, or precious magical potions that are so difficult to brew that you can count them on one hand.

Everything you can imagine and even things you can't imagine is here, and there are also many places where magicians sell their precious but unwanted items, which is why the required reputation points are more expensive.

In short, Ethan wanted to earn more reputation points.

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Author's note: I only realized after writing that my magician colleagues didn't actually appear much in the early stages. Damn it, if you guys don't appear soon, you won't have a chance later on [laughing and crying with face covered] How can I increase their screen time?

QAQ