BXBX NOVEL Chapter 132 132 - Climbing the Ranks
Chapter 132 132 - Climbing the Ranks
"Do you know what song you\'re going to sing first tonight, BlackVelvet?" Jason asked as we arrived at the bar.
I looked into the camera for a few seconds and explained. "I\'m still undecided between two songs. I\'ve got two really good songs to get the crowd going, The Lazy Song and A Bar Song, both of which really fit the mood of the bar and whenever I sing them both the crowd gets excited".
"The thing that leaves me in doubt is that I always sing The Lazy Song at the beginning of the show, which can leave the audience who already know me a little bored, but A Bar Song is great to end the show, as it\'s a song that describes all the processes of the party, from the beginning to the end, where the audience is already looking for somewhere else to go". I explained it all this time.
Jason nodded, understanding what I had said so far.
"Look, did you notice that a lot of people recognized me and waved at me on the way here?" I asked as I pointed around.
Jason was surprised and filmed around to show that there were indeed several people pointing at Noah and waving or commenting on him.
"Since a lot of people know me, I don\'t have to worry so much about singing The Lazy Song to get the crowd going at the beginning, so I plan to start with Numb, one of their favorite songs, and leave The Lazy Song for the end, before A Bar Song." I said as I smiled and waved to a group of girls who waved back at me.
"So if you were in a bar that didn\'t know you, would you still sing Numb as the first song?" He asked, pointing the camera at the girls, who were surprised to see his camera and smiled as they waved back.
Maybe they knew about my vlog?" I thought in surprise.
"If they didn\'t know me, I would definitely start with The Lazy Song, it\'s very important to use one of your best songs to start the show and get the crowd going, but always save your best song for last, because the first impression is the one that sticks, while the last impression is the one that will cement their impression of you until they see you again," I explained with a smile. I explained with a smile.
Whenever Jason had a new question, I would answer it with great dedication until he understood everything.
Of course, the video wasn\'t just Jason asking me questions, there were also our normal interactions and jokes from other videos, and I wouldn\'t put all of his questions in the video, otherwise it would get boring.
I would just pick the best questions with the best answers and put them in the video to make it a little more informative but still keep the essence of just a light and fun backstage video of a new artist.
Spending the evening like this was more tiring than before, but not by much.
The most interesting thing was that by answering questions for him for several hours, I got another level in Teach!
[Teach Lv 30 -> 31].
Over the past week, my other skills have also improved significantly.
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| Character Status
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| Name: Noah Black
| Title: Endurance, Tuned Ear.
| Level: 01
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| HP: 150/150
| MP: 68/150
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| Weight: 85 Kg -> 72 Kg
| Strength (STR): 13 -> 14
| Dexterity (DEX): 13 -> 13
| Constitution (CON): 14 -> 15
| Intelligence (INT): 14 -> 15
| Wisdom (WIS): 11 -> 12
| Charisma (CHA): 14 -> 15 (14 + 1)
| Agility (AGL): 10 -> 12
| Luck (LUK): ??
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| Skills:
| (Haircutting Lv 31 -> 32), (Teaching Lv 29 -> 31), (Singing Lv 33 -> 36), (Guitar Lv 34 -> 37), (Krav Maga Lv 27 -> 29) (Music Editing Lv 20 -> 23) (Programming Skills Lv 26 -> 27), (Soccer Mastery Lv 11 -> 12), (Cooking Lv 23 -> 26), (Spanish Language Mastery Lv 14 -> 16), (Driving Mastery Lv 13 -> 14), (Stage Presence Lv 7 -> 12), (Video Editing Lv 14 -> 17), (Piano Mastery Lv 7 -> 9), (Acting Mastery Lv 4 -> 5), (Motorcycle Driving Mastery Lv 1 -> 6). ..
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For a week of development, that was a lot of progress.
Unfortunately, my mana was still recovering very slowly, so for the coming week, I decided to look for a way to really speed this up. I hadn\'t even used the Observe skill this week and my mana still hadn\'t returned to 100%.
From what I remembered of the anime and novels I\'d read in my previous life, one of the things I could try would be meditation, since that\'s what the protagonists did in those worlds to regain their mana.
Since I lived in a modern world, I don\'t even know if that\'s possible in this world.
One of the reasons might be that the world simply has too little mana and it\'s impossible to recover it faster...
But there\'s no harm in trying, even if it speeds up my recovery from 6 to 12 a day, that\'s more than enough.
When the two shows were over and we were in Selena\'s car on the way home, I decided to check my artist rank again out of curiosity to see how I had grown this week, considering that I was getting millions of views on my channel and my spokify, not to mention that I was getting a lot more attention at the shows in town.
[BlackVelvet - 3,131th -> 1,742th E Rank].
Looking at these numbers, the smile on my face became even bigger.
I was getting closer and closer to the D rank, and with this happiness, I think I\'ll be able to climb the ranks again in a few weeks.
"Why are you so excited?" Selena asked curiously when she saw me smiling.
"My rank, I\'m already at the 1,742nd E rank." I smiled back.
When she heard that, she smiled too, she probably already knew that.
"In the industry, we have a description for the initial artist ranks. The F rank is the rank where those who dream of becoming artists are, the E rank is the rank where those who strive to become artists are, the D rank is the rank of those who actually become artists, and the C rank is where you actually become a real artist," she said. She said. "When you reach the D rank, our routine might change a bit.
I was curious. "What might change?"
"At E Rank we focus on growing your popularity, developing your fan base, growing your brand. In D rank we can start to take advantage of that, brands can start sponsoring you and we\'ll have to record commercials, invitations can appear for you to participate in some smaller programs, we can even do exclusive concerts for your audience." She explained.
"Why wait until D Rank to do this? Aren\'t I close enough in popularity to do that?" I asked confused.
But Selena just shook her head. "Even though you are close to the D rank because you climbed 1,400 places in the ranking this week, don\'t think that climbing the next 1,700 places will be so easy. Popularity doesn\'t consist of concrete numbers, maybe the popularity of people around the 3k position was divided into just a few hundred points between one and the other, but the higher you go in the rankings, the bigger the difference between each place, so the higher you go, the harder it is to climb".
Hearing this, I was a little discouraged. "So it\'s going to take me a few months to get to D rank?"
But she just shook her head. "Don\'t be too hasty, you might be able to get to D rank in a few weeks, but not because it\'s easy to get to D rank, but because you\'re growing so fast. In a few weeks, your popularity could easily be double your current popularity, so I say it\'s best to just wait until you reach D rank for these things."
"That\'s true... I guess I was a bit hasty." I smiled as I scratched my head.
"If an E Rank artist heard you complaining about staying at E Rank for a few months before moving up to D Rank, they\'d probably kill you..." Selena sighed and made me laugh.
She was right, normally artists take years at E rank, I climbed from there in just a few months, which was an unheard of speed for someone without an announcement from someone bigger.
After I got home, I took a shower to wash off the dirt and sweat that was on my body from the concert and looked at the clock.
It was almost 2:00 a.m. and I would have to get up at least 5:00 a.m. to go to the new school the next day.
If it hadn\'t been for the system that reduced my need for sleep, allowing me to get more rest with less sleep time, I probably would have woken up exhausted the next day with only the 2-3 hours of sleep I had gotten that night.
But when I woke up the next day, even though I had the system, I still had to sleep a few minutes longer and couldn\'t do my morning run that I did every day.
Still, I woke up before my mother and siblings, so I took the time to make breakfast for everyone.
They soon woke up and we had breakfast together, with the main topic being the new school I was going to.
Since it was a private school, I had to wear their uniform, which looked like a burgundy suit with the school crest embroidered on the chest.
It wasn\'t my favorite style of clothing, but my mother and Liv said it looked good on me.
We soon finished breakfast and I put on my leather jacket over my uniform and rode my motorcycle to the new school, curious to see what the classroom environment would be like.
But little did I know that while I was curious to know what it would be like to study at this new school, among the students who would possibly be my classmates, there were people who were excited that I would be studying with them, or even people who already hated me and didn\'t want me to study with them.
Even if I had known that, I wouldn\'t have cared.
It\'s not like the attitude of the people and the school I was going to was any worse than the attitude of my previous school.
If it were, I\'d have no problem using my influence to deal with it differently...