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“It's an enemy! An enemy has intruded!”
A gang member NPC wandering the theater troupe in a certain pattern caught Alpaca's tail.
‘Damn. It's too dense.’
Alpaca immediately used his smoke screen skill and clone skill to disperse the aggro and hung onto the outer wall of the second-floor audience seats.
‘My stamina needs to hold out.’
Stamina depleted every time he did parkour.
If he used wires, adhesive, or other tools, he could have saved it, but Alpaca was currently in the middle of a challenge to assassinate bare-handed.
‘If I fall, they will swarm me just like that and I will be caught helplessly.
But if I climb up, the NPCs are still on alert.
Even if I hold out in one place for a long time, the gang members on the first floor will discover me.
What skill should I use...’
Based on the experience he had accumulated over a period of about a week, he rolled his brain quickly, but to make such worries meaningless.
“Kuhahahahaha!”
Wild laughter rang out, and the sound of something tearing through the air and flying was heard.
*Whoosh!*
Alpaca turned back while hanging.
And he closed his eyes tightly reflexively at the rapidly flying object.
The blade was embedded straight into his forehead, and he, who had been hanging on the second-floor audience seats, fell just like that.
*Thud.*
“Ughhhh! It's a failure again!”
He was ruined.
Every time he died, his reputation dropped, and now, to buy information from the guild, he had to grind his reputation through simple manual labor.
Or he had to proceed with sub-quests, which were another form of simple manual labor.
Both were equally headache-inducing.
He had to deal with Drake somehow using the reputation naturally gathered while assassinating other NPCs, but.
- lolololololol
- He's f*cking bad lololol quit the game.
- Grind go go
- Let's give up on bare-handed now.
The viewers who welcomed his failure more than anyone else.
‘They are evil, truly evil.’
He wondered if they really liked it that much.
Though he thought his broadcast was still not one where toxic people gathered, he knew from his years of streaming experience.
That most viewers harbored at least one toxic trait in their hearts.
['Anon' donated 1,000 won!]
[Bro, a new route to get Drake's location information appeared in the community. Check it go go]
“Oh? Thank you for the 1,000 won donation!”
Yes.
I gain strength because of viewers like this!
‘Wait, no.’
If he actually checked after this, it was bound to be that memes of a real animal alpaca caught on a fishing line, made with crude editing skills, were posted.
‘But getting fooled even while knowing is the destiny of a streamer.’
Alpaca paused the game for a moment and came out to the lobby.
A vast alpine meadow unfolded, and Alpaca sat on a hay-shaped chair.
It was a background that a fan had custom-made and sent as a gift.
‘At first, I wondered if they were making fun of me.’
The chair was much more comfortable than expected, and the scenery was also good.
In the end, considering the fan's sincerity, he set this meadow as the default background.
Puaaaah! Puaah!
When he sat on the hay chair, the animal alpaca residing in the lobby approached him.
Its name was Daebak-i.
It was a famous feature of his broadcast, possessing pure white fur and a cute face full of discontent.
*Spit!*
Alpaca tilted his head to the side as Daebak-i spat.
“Ack!”
Even though he knew the spit was only implemented in graphics because he had experienced it several times, a reflexive reaction popped out.
- lolololololol
- Has Daebak-i arrived!
- When on earth will you get used to it? lolol
- ㅡㅅㅡ
- ㅡㅇㅡ (Spit!)
‘Did they really have to implement even the spitting motion.’
Like this, even loyal fans who created high-quality lobbies would insert at least one toxic element; such was the existence of viewers.
Puaaaaah!
He ignored whether Daebak-i was eating the hay he was sitting on and opened the internet.
“What should I search for? Should I go to the information board...”
- 30-recommendation posts go go
- Discussion board
- It's the incidents and accidents board
- Free board
- No, it's the tips and know-how board
These rascals.
Whom should he blame?
It was his fault for asking the viewers.
“Let's see. It's right there.”
[Summary of the New Route for Drake's Location Information]
The person in the video was extracting information from a gang member in a slightly unique, no, highly unique way.
“Kyaha! There was a method like this. What a grateful person to have let us know about this.”
Alpaca, who also knew how to parry in his own right, quickly brightened up his expression.
Because he did not have to do the tedious reputation grind.
“By the way, both the person who discovered this and the developers who hid such a route seem truly amazing. Don't you think so?”
- Real
- Kya
- The perfection of an open world comes from the details of its freedom.
- Do-sum god-game!
Since the burden regarding Drake's stronghold information had disappeared, Alpaca began to calculate how many more times he could challenge within today's broadcast.
And at that moment, a long donation rang out.
['lololololololol' made a generous donation of 10,000 won!]
[This is probably not the time to be admiring?
lolololololololololololololololololololololololololol]
That was the donation, crammed tightly to the limit of the character count.
Subsequently, a voice chat resounded.
['SomeIdiot' made a generous donation of 10,000 won!]
[???: If they succeed in that, I will serve that person as my master, receive their teachings, and do a Kyeon-wang until I clear Drake with musou!]
Hm?
“Did someone clear it? No way. No matter what you guys do, I won't get hooked.”
Alpaca felt as if cold sweat was running down his back, even though it was virtual reality.
He was anxious.
Suddenly, the fact that Ettore was caught yesterday came to mind.
No way.
Why didn't he think of it earlier?
While blaming himself, the number of people who simply laughed began to increase slowly in the chat window as well.
People who typed only 'lolol' without saying anything.
Given the nature of his viewers, who could not unite for the life of them, there was only one case where they laughed with one heart.
‘When I am suffering.’
Coincidentally, above the post he had entered, another post that received thirty recommendations was posted.
[Drake Musou First Clear.]
“Wow, seriously. Did you guys even manipulate the recommendations to deceive me? I told you I won't get fooled. You guys are harsh, truly harsh.”
*Gulp.*
While denying it in words, his hand slowly headed toward the post.
And the revealed truth.
A certain man was holding a pipe and lightly beating up Drake.
Really lightly.
At first, this kind of thought also occurred to him.
‘Uh? This seems doable? Maybe Kyeon-wang will be okay?’
But at that very moment, the man on the screen parried the sword and simply dodged the chain piercing from behind with a nod of his head, without even looking back.
His relief flew away, and the series of processes forced him to face reality.
‘I'm f*cked.’
That cannot be imitated.
In the first place, he couldn't even escape struggling with assassination, let alone musou.
So.
“That looks like video editing. Right? Come on. How can a person catch that. Right? Agree quickly. Yes?”
He stepped forward to deny the video.
- No way lolol
- He's rambling lolololol
- Alpaca started denying reality lolololol
- Threat ON
- He's a streamer. If you go to Travel, it's all there.
Naturally, it was not even close.
“Ah, so this person was the streamer who caught Ettore with musou.”
This time, he began to change the subject.
- ??? Was Ettore caught?
- ??
- Alpaca got beaten up by Ettore for 10 hours on the opening day to get the first clear lolol.
Yet there is someone who caught him
- How did he catch him????
His viewers knew how difficult it was to catch Ettore because of his challenge a week ago, which had only wasted time.
In an instant, the viewers' attention was drawn to how Ettore was caught, and Alpaca thought it was a good diversion of the topic.
['ThisIsHowYouCatchEttore' made a generous donation of 10,000 won! - travel clip]
The video donation was played fittingly.
A streamer named Jin Seo-jun grabbed the flail and performed a stunt.
Alpaca, who had already seen it, also admired it once again.
If it were him, how much would he have to practice to be able to do that?
It was a smooth, flexible, yet restrained movement.
- Kya! As expected of Mu-myeong-jwa.
- Wow, seriously insane.
- F*cking comparable.
Unlike someone.
- lolololol
- One has to do at least this much to play musou
- What is the streamer's name?
The viewers seeing him for the first time also seemed surprised.
“And what's even more insane is that it has only been his second day playing the game. I found out about this and was completely shocked too.”
- ?? He is f*cking talented
- Isn't he like an intangible cultural asset in reality?
- He's not a Chuck. Too bad
- I got that, but you still have to do Kyeon-wang, right?
Alpaca's eyes looking at the chat trembled like a sailor facing a violent storm.
From the sky, a voice of someone pathetically saying 'Do you think it would work?' was heard.
Subsequently, the voice chat was turned on once again.
['SomeIdiot' made a generous donation of 10,000 won!]
[???: If they succeed in that, I will serve that person as my master, receive their teachings, and do a Kyeon-wang until I clear Drake with musou!]
“Hah...”
Alpaca let out a sigh as if the ground were collapsing. Subject changed my foot.
He deeply resented his past self who had been rash.
‘I wonder if they will let me off if I broadcast staying up for about three days...’
The method of ending the broadcast by catching Drake did not even enter the category of consideration.
Alpaca, who wore a crying face, shouted in vain after seeing the title of the next post.
[Alpaca, who is trembling because Drake was caught, please raise your hoof lolol]
“Hey! If I had hooves, would I wear shoes? You shoe! You guys, don't press recommendations on posts like that either. I'm already uneasy as it is.”
- lolololololol
- Alpaca's hoof lolololol
- Who is the guy who wrote that? Well done.
- lololol
- ㅡㅅㅡ
[Upvote if Alpaca looking at the community is handsome.]
He liked this one a bit.
Alpaca stealthily entered the post and pressed recommend.
- He's a sycophant!
- Cut off the sycophant!
- Where is the manager!
Consistent bastards.
Alpaca let out a deep sigh and declared surrender.
“Well, a promise is a promise.”
If he collapsed while doing it, the viewers would understand too.
- Kya!
- Cool Alpaca!
- Is the title of the next broadcast the New Year's waiting room?
- Let's set a Guinness World Record for the longest streaming time in the world lolol
- Anyone want to bet whether a new Assassin's Dawn game coming out is faster, or him succeeding in Kyeon-wang is faster?
- In effect, declaring that he will die while only broadcasting in this life, shiver
Or not?
Alpaca glared at the viewers.
By the way, the thought occurred to him that doing a joint broadcast would be fun.
- But inviting that streamer as a guest seems like it would be fun.
- I just went to the community to check, and he is seriously f*cking good lolol
Coincidentally, chats that seemed to read his thoughts were also posted.
However,
“First of all, please do not do things like mentioning me in that person's broadcast. That is a nuisance.”
In matters like this, caution must be given beforehand, and firmly.
- Yes
- Yep
- Yep
The fact that he was a second-day streamer was a concern.
There was no way he had done a joint broadcast, and seeing that he was sailing smoothly, he might needlessly interfere.
He might also find it burdensome.
‘Hmm.’
At that moment when Alpaca was contemplating, a Travel notification popped up.
Alpaca, who checked the notification, widened his eyes as if it were unexpected.
“For now, I'll stop the broadcast here today.”
- Today, I acknowledge.
- The next broadcast won't be turned off for life, so if we get angry about ending the broadcast now, we have no conscience lolololol
- Real lol
“Good job.”
[The broadcast has ended.]
On that day, a joint broadcast announcement was posted on Alpaca's fan cafe.
<><><>
Meanwhile,
Movie Soft, which possessed more than ten subsidiary developers worldwide.
Someone flung the door open and entered the office of the president of Movie Soft Korea, which developed this Assassin's Dawn: Shadow in the City.
“President. We have a big problem.”
“What is it?”
Yves Paimo, the president of Movie Soft Korea, turned his chair to check who the employee who had just entered was.
Kim Yun-chan.
He was a highly optimistic subordinate.
“A Ruler has been caught, President.”
“...”
“Through musou.”
At the slightly troublesome content, Yves Paimo requested a detailed explanation.
“Who is it?”
“Drake.”
“Ah, then it doesn't matter. It's about time he got caught. Isn't that guy the weakest of them all.”
The serious eyes of Yves Paimo relaxed completely.
“But if people start to wonder about the Fragment of Order...”
Yves Paimo cut off Kim Yun-chan's words.
“Enough. It's a useless worry.
It is true that if the Fragments of Order are already fully gathered, it will disrupt what we planned, but the person who personally designed and put the device to prevent them from gathering into the game was you.
Why are you acting like this.”
The Fragment of Order could be obtained every time a Ruler was caught through musou.
And one character among the Rulers could not be caught by skill alone, no matter how outstanding, and required the help of a certain skill.
They had designed it so that it would take quite a lot of time for users to unlock that skill, meaning there was no need to worry particularly right now.
“I know that, but complacency can lead to unexpected disasters.Moreover, that person was a streamer. He just caught him. Simply by walking in.”
“For an optimistic guy, really.”
“It's a gut feeling, a gut feeling.”
“Shut up and do your work.
Wait..., just now?
Then does that mean you were watching a stream right now during working hours?”
“...Oops. I shall be going now.”
“Hey!”
<><><>
The next day.
“What are you doing?”
“Just looking up some information on game skills.”
Tae-woo shook his head as if it were pathetic, watching Seo-jun peer into the community from the seat next to him in the taxi.
“Don't get into stuff like that.”
“...Shut up. It's because I have something to double-check for the joint broadcast.”
Because the joint broadcast was suddenly scheduled, there was not much time to discuss, but how to lead the joint broadcast had still been discussed.
“Why are you even tagging along, Tae-woo.”
“I also wanted to see that hyung after a long time.”
“What about your broadcast?”
“I'll just go to a nearby capsule room and do it.
It runs fine even with that.”
‘Sigh.’
Seo-jun let out a deep sigh.
The dignity of the veteran streamer shone.
“We have arrived.”
The taxi driver announced that they had arrived at the destination, and they paid the fare and came outside.
“Let's see. I've been here a few times, so follow me.”
“Sure. But, what did you meet him for?”
“That hyung also did rookie discovery content.
We met back then.
Of course, I was in my fourth year and you are on your third day, damn it.”
Although he spoke that way, there was no sign of him being truly jealous or falling into self-deprecation.
Since Tae-woo was also a person who had endured a long, difficult period and eventually succeeded.
He knew the fact that comparison with others was meaningless and that oneself was what was important.
Tae-woo was able to reach the destination only after wandering around for about thirty minutes.
‘I thought you said you had been here.’
Seo-jun shook his head and pressed the bell.
*Ding-dong.*
After a bit of time passed, the door opened, and a person came out from inside.