400 - Big Mama and the Soup Gang 5
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The knights of the Fabius family and the aunties from the adventurers' town vanished into the tower, serving as a warning about this gimmick's fake safe zones-
Or so I wanted to say, but the viewers' attention had long since shifted to Irene's character quest.
"Now that I think about it, that's true. Grace started as a 3★ and made it to 5★, and Katie evolved from 4★ to 5★. It's about ti for a natural 5★ to reach 6★ too. But calling it an achievent... seems a bit off. It's probably just a trigger, and she might pull off so miracle during a boss fight."
-Honestly, finding two people isn't exactly what I'd call a miracle lol
-Is she going to learn so seriously miraculous holy magic that makes her current spells look like child's play?
-Reddit says getting six stars is super hard, so I'm excited
-Why do these Yankee friends keep going on about eggplants? Do they really love stir-fried eggplant that much?
-Laughing my ass off. LMAO translates to 'eggplant' in the translator. It's probably a typo plus auto-translation issue.
Well, it's not every day you see an NPC companion born as a 5★ evolve into a 6★, so it's natural to be excited.
Han Se-ah's stream attracted millions of viewers, with Kim Seok-hyun, aka the Sword-Wielding Warrior, close behind with his niche hundred thousand viewers. But this didn't an the streaming market had solidified into a two-horse race between first and second place.
Given Heroes Chronicle's real-ti gaplay, viewers who weren't playing themselves had no choice but to hop between different streams.
Why?
Because even the most popular strears could only produce so much content in a day.
They'd watch Roland's combat highlights, then Kim Seok-hyun's mad movie, followed by Han Se-ah's 40th floor main quest summary, then Kim Seok-hyun's beginner swordsmanship class... Even then, they'd only have four or five videos to watch in a week.
The minority of 'female cam viewers' who weren't after Heroes Chronicle content but pretty female strears would lap up even mundane videos of Grace, Irene, and Katie chatting while camping during exploration. But viewers seeking ga content had no choice but to look for other strears.
"You've seen soone who wasn't a companion reach 6★? Got a video? Oh, I had to block that because trolls kept popping up. If you whisper the address or video na, I'll check and show you guys."
[Roland's Hefty Warhamr donated 10,000 won!]
You'll probably find it if you look for Monk Yuna's channel
"Wow, using a donation for this. Thank you."
That's how big data accumulated.
With so many viewers, there were just as many strears, so all sorts of information piled up. And since this wasn't a ga enjoyed only in Korea, but across the East and West, the speed at which information accumulated was staggering.
No one had cleared the tower faster than Han Se-ah while accompanied by a natural 5★ companion. But quite a few people had t or beco socially entangled with natural 5★ companions, so they must have read what those people wrote on the internet.
Just look at that Yuna monk's channel that viewers kept asking if it was viral marketing or not. As the channel na suggested, it was a vlog-style channel of a monk interested in virtual reality gas who entered a temple as an apprentice priest to learn about the fantasy world's religion.
"So a 5★ priest beca 6★ while she was training nearby and recorded it? But the achievent level... saving children from a high-rank monster's rampage with bare hands... Is that even possible?"
The terrifying execution of cyber detectives who dug up even channels with less than 100 average views. The viewers moved as busily as if they had fire in their eyes upon hearing about Irene's character quest.
Throwing a rock at a hornet's nest would cause less of a commotion.
"What are you doing, Irene?"
"Oh, Roland. I'm just... practicing so holy magic. You never know when you might need spells other than protection."
While the others in the party, accustod to death, continued exploring without a word, and Han Se-ah seriously debated with viewers whether "saving the aunties" was the quest or not, Irene fidgeted with her fingers, manipulating divine energy.
As I was getting bored of peeking at Han Se-ah's stream, I approached Irene. She flashed a bright smile, but it definitely seed less energetic than usual.
The corners of her eyes trembled slightly as she tried to curve them upwards, and her lips, attempting a cheerful smile, quickly drooped. Though her gentle voice and neat appearance remained unblemished, she was clearly different from her usual self.
'That's exactly the face of a newbie adventurer about to break through.'
And this reaction was very familiar to .
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Raei Translations
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In the adventurer and rcenary industries, people drop like flies. Of course, Hans who charges headfirst into monsters lives more dangerously than Jas who farms in the fields.
In a world where comrades die, rookies die, and veterans die if they slip up, human life is treated more lightly than gold coins. Even in 21st century South Korea, one person dies every day from industrial accidents, so how many must die in this dieval K-fantasy world reeking of dark fantasy?
That's why so of the settings I've seen in other fantasy novels are quite applicable here too, which I find a bit funny. Like rcenaries who squander their money on won and gambling because they'll die anyway, or the rcenary group custom of stoically sending off dead comrades.
"Hey, Lukius."
"Hmm? What is it?"
And in the adventurer seniors who took in, and the Rebecca rcenaries that followed, there was sothing called "peeling off the sticker."
It's a vulgar term used by rcenaries, but it doesn't an losing one's virginity in a sexual sense. It ans experiencing the death of family, siblings, or a close senior in the rcenary group.
"In my rcenary group, there were hardly any female rcenaries. How did the Imperial rcenaries handle it?"
"...Ah, you an the nun? My experience won't help. Imperial female rcenaries are bitches with their balls cut off and stuck to their chests, so they acted just like the n - booze and sex."
So, just in case, I asked Lukius, the ex-rcenary, and sure enough, I got the expected answer.
In a dieval fantasy world, there's no such thing as psychological treatnt, so the shock of losing an acquaintance could only be relieved by drinking until you puke yourself to death or venting your frustrations in a brothel. This seed to be the sa in the Empire, as Lukius shook his ssy hair and nodded repeatedly.
Whether in the Kingdom or the Empire, it seems similar that they push you into a brothel to peel off another sticker right after peeling one off, under the guise of comfort. Well, from what I've seen, most cultures are at a similar level, probably because of the Goddess.
"By the way, Sister, you've co past the 50th floor as part of the hero's party, but is this your first ti seeing soone die? How is that possible?"
"She's probably seen people die indirectly, but it's likely her first ti losing an acquaintance."
"Is that so? You must have lived in a good place. Ah, I'm not being sarcastic. I didn't see people die until I left my family too."
Lukius, startled, flapped his hands before turning to look at the won busy preparing dinner. It was a statent that could be taken as rude sarcasm, but it wasn't entirely wrong.
As for , well, I've lived 11 years with adventuring as my main job and rcenary work as a side gig, so I've seen plenty of people die. Having traveled to remote parts of the kingdom with just my body to rely on for gold coins, I know well how commoners exposed to monsters without magical aid fare.
Grace, coming from a country village, must have seen villagers drop dead for various reasons during the village's developnt. Katie, though a young lady, seems to know well how monsters and winter kill commoners, probably due to the harsh nature of the North.
If I had to guess, Grace probably experienced the death of a well-known villager to a wandering monster at least once, and Katie must have lost one or two doting knights who cared for her since childhood.
But Irene's story was a bit different.
"Well, she's a girl who stayed in the temple continuously until she entered the tower for ascetic practice."
"She's the last to gain experience, huh?"
"Shhk― Her heart, dulled by peace, will be sharpened. She'll have to overco it herself."
Though she was raised in an orphanage, it was quite a wealthy temple located in the center of a big city. The only crisis she'd faced in her life was when noble patronage occasionally got cut off or beca insufficient, making fundraising difficult.
To put it nicely, she's a noble religious person who gave up comfort and entered the path of asceticism for her mission. To put it badly, she's a young lady ignorant of the ways of the world who got a rude awakening to harsh reality.
The rest of the party seed to realize this too, as they gathered around Irene. Well, except for Han Se-ah, who was so focused on the character quest with her viewers that she was oblivious to everything else. They all seed to have noticed Irene's state of mind.
Still, her faith wouldn't crumble just because of this, right? Besides wishing she'd truly overco it, is there anything else I can do?
"Dinner's ready!"
Thinking this way, I ate the hot stew, expressed a bit of disappointnt at the reduced at, and went to sleep. The next morning...
"...What's this, Irene?"
"Huh? Oh, I tried applying holy magic a little differently."
Lukius and McDonagh, who stood the last watch, looked at us perplexedly from inside a pure white barrier. Actually, from inside separate small barriers.
She wasn't a flower in a greenhouse, but a bamboo in a greenhouse...
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