【Heretical Investigation Unit of the Holy Church, 'White Ravens' Squad Personnel Status】
【'Recovery' Aurora: Online】
【'Exploration' Ayano Kouji Sora: Online】
【'Survival' Kaga ro: Online】
【'Collection' Gaho: Online】
Choi Gaho thought. Maybe it wasn’t such a great idea to assign Aurora as Tier 1…
'...No, my judgnt wasn’t wrong.'
While studying VTubers, he ca to realize sothing: gaming skill and popularity didn’t always correlate as much as one might think.
For example, let’s say there’s a viewer base that wants to watch a skilled Labyrinthos player. These viewers… usually watch live broadcasts of active pro gars, or maybe ex-pro gars.
Of course, so pro gars have weak talk skills, so there are also those who look for 'strears who are skilled at both gaplay and hosting.' But usually, they stay within the realm of male or female strears, and very few dive into the world of VTubers.
One more thing.
Let’s assu there are viewers who like VTubers.
They don’t usually expect exceptional gaming skills from them. They tend to look for VTubers with a captivating character instead.
So, ‘VTubers who have both skill and popularity’ are surprisingly rare.
VTubers with overwhelming skill tend to have low popularity, and those who are as popular as large company VTubers are quite rare.
On the other hand, VTubers with overwhelming popularity often have diocre skills, so Choi Gaho had to be careful and balance both skill and popularity when making his selection.
In short, Aurora was an unusual case.
She had both skill and popularity, a great character, and was a woman—no, a minor, at that.
That was why all three teams had selected Aurora as Tier 1.
Of course, it was true that Aurora was quite a ‘my pace’ type, making her a bit difficult to handle.
But still, she was soone he absolutely didn’t want to give to the other teams...
He had no regrets about choosing Aurora for Tier 1, but... for so reason, just her presence seed to make those around her act strangely.
Actually, could she be a creature from the XXP Foundation?
Or maybe a mythical creature from the Cthulhu Mythos?
‘I really don’t want to deal with bugs, so I should wrap this up quickly.’
Choi Gaho thought this and carefully moved forward.
At the mont, Choi Gaho was playing solo.
【Quest Long-term Goal: Track down the location of the Dragon Priestess.】
【Quest Short-term Goal: The mansion's basent entrance is locked. Find the key.】
Choi Gaho checked the quest again.
Choi Gaho’s class was 'Collection'.
This class, along with the 'Recovery' class, was one that made more money in Dungeon Seeker.
Why does 'Recovery' make more money?
It’s simple. It reduces the losses of the party mbers.
If 'Recovery' heals the party’s wounds, it saves one healing potion. And that way, the party can continue exploring the dungeon for longer.
By increasing the party's endurance for exploration, 'Recovery' helps them earn more money.
'Collection', on the other hand, is the opposite.
It allows the player to carry more weight than other classes, and when selling items, extra gold can be earned.
Additionally, the ability to find items or clues within dungeons is excellent.
“I found it.”
Choi Gaho murmured quietly as he hid behind a pillar.
In the distance, a child’s figure appeared.
The child’s body was covered in tentacles. It was the monster that once killed Changyoung.
Having confird the monster’s presence, Choi Gaho took out his walkie-talkie.
“This is Choi Gaho. I’ve found the key.”
[This is Aurora. Where was it?]
“The monster is carrying it.”
Choi Gaho glanced at the monster as he spoke.
[Aha. So that’s why we couldn’t find the key until now.]
Aurora spoke from the other end of the walkie-talkie.
Aurora knew the layout of the mansion completely, but even she couldn’t know everything inside the mansion.
That’s because she had been avoiding monsters actively, so it was only natural she wouldn’t know the exact status of every monster.
[It was a blind spot. So what kind of monster is it?]
“It’s a child. Its entire body is covered in tentacles. I believe it was... the youngest son of the Duke’s third son... at least, that’s how I rember the setting.”
[Oh my, how do you know such a setting?]
“I once played the Labyrinthos PC version.”
Naturally, because he was a Labyrinthos pro gar.
To Choi Gaho, Labyrinthos was a ans of making money, but he still poured quite a lot of affection into it.
Thus, he had played the previous works as well, and even if there hadn’t been a collaboration offer, he would have played this spin-off.
[Then we’ll head over that way too. But we’ll need so ti since we need to prepare.]
“Understood.”
After cutting the transmission, Gaho decided to observe the monster’s status until Aurora arrived. He needed to let her know imdiately if the monster moved elsewhere.
While waiting, Gaho had a sudden thought.
‘By the way, wasn’t there a character nad Aurora Iris in Labyrinthos?’
‘The noble villainess’ and ‘The judge of convenience,’ Aurora Iris.
Coincidentally, Aurora shared the sa na. But it was probably just a coincidence.
She was quite an impressive character.
Aurora Iris was an antagonist who interfered with the protagonist.
Depending on the choice, she could beco the enemy of the protagonist, leading to a death battle between them.
They would have their final battle at the Duke’s mansion, right here.
On the other hand, there was also a route where they beca allies.
In this case, they would uncover the Duke family’s secrets together and end up fighting against the Duke family.
Whichever path, the Duke’s family would perish.
It was only a matter of whether Aurora Iris died or survived.
‘Which storyline is this ga following?’
Choi Gaho beca seriously curious about the Dungeon Seeker storyline, but there was no way to find out.
And then, the sound of glass breaking reached his ears.
Crash!
Glass shards scattered, and sothing flew through the window from outside.
A bottle of oil.
A massive amount of oil poured onto the child-like monster.
“Found it, found it, found it, found it, found it, found it, found it.”
Aurora, hanging from a rope outside the window, shouted.
The monster reached out its tentacles toward her, but Aurora swiftly climbed up the rope.
The monster, trying to follow, leaned out of the window.
“Na-rim, throw it.”
At the right mont, a torch fell onto the monster’s head.
“AAAGH!!!”
The monster’s entire body heated up instantly.
It scread and writhed in agony.
But the fire wouldn’t go out.
In fact, Aurora, who had climbed back down, took out another bottle of oil from her pocket and threw it onto the monster.
“...Is she a special forces soldier?”
Gaho muttered to himself.
She’d probably do really well if she had undergone so guerilla training.
After safely acquiring the key, they opened the door to the basent.
However,
“Let’s head back to the village first.”
I said in front of everyone.
“Huh? We haven’t gone back to the village until now, so why suddenly?”
“There are two main reasons.”
The first reason was the food issue.
In Dungeon Seeker, there were negative gauges like 'anxiety', 'fatigue', and 'hunger'.
If any of these gauges were full, the chances of acquiring a status effect increased.
They were essentially obstacles that prevented staying in the dungeon for too long.
Among them, 'anxiety' and 'fatigue' could be alleviated by the 'Recovery' class’s skills.
However, hunger could only be solved by eating, and we had been playing like beggars for quite a while.
The problem was that the number of mouths to feed had increased from 3 to 5, making food supply even harder.
“Then what? Laura, do you want to eat ... After I eat myself, you can leave my wrist and use your revival skill on ?”
Son Narin boldly started saying crazy things.
Look at Choi Gaho. Doesn’t he have a crazy look on his face?
“Cannibalism doesn’t seem like a good idea…”
Gaho frowned at Narin’s suggestion.
Though Narin didn’t an to consider Gaho’s feelings, the suggestion was imdiately rejected.
The second problem was that the difficulty in the basent was going to increase dramatically.
“What’s in the basent?”
“I don’t know.”
“Huh?”
Son Narin blinked in confusion.
What’s in there, even I don’t know.
I rember what was in the basent before, but after that, I have no idea what happened.
In other words, it was a completely unknown area.
Even climbing to avoid monsters like we did before was now impossible. The underground space wouldn’t allow for climbing.
“So we need to regroup here.”
We couldn’t keep playing like beggars, and we needed to prepare thoroughly.
“Since it’s co to this, let’s gather more people. Call Louis and Baruba.”
I said.
The Dungeon Seeker promotion period was ending soon.
This would probably be the final conquest of Dungeon Seeker.
“So you’re not going in, brother?”
Shina raised her voice.
Seeing her, Vincent sighed.
“…Leviathan was the first to find the basent. But now you want us to go in first?”
“There’s no choice! In the first place, the basent door is only this one, and Leviathan didn’t even claim it! They just unlocked the lock and returned to the village. So if we go in first, it’s not a cri, right?”
Shina said with logic.
She was being unusually logical.
It was surprising because she made too much sense.
“And there’s no choice! If we don’t go in now, we won’t be able to close the gold gap! Do you think Aurora will let us have the at to slice?”
“So what?”
“I hate it! I don’t want Aurora to be happy! Do you know how miserable I’ve been because of her!”
…Was she jealous?
Now that I think about it, I haven’t seen Shina and Aurora hanging out much lately.
Looking back, Aurora has been hanging out with Son Narin, Sora, Anna, ro, and Louis, right?
“Hey, Mashina. You said you live in a one-room apartnt, right?”
“So what?”
“Can you grill at there?”
“Hmm…”
When Vincent pointed it out, Shina was a little taken aback.
“Anna, what about Aurora’s house?”
“Aurora’s house is really nice! I know she has a grill she can use inside!”
Why would she have such things, though?
It didn’t seem like she was good at cooking.
“Mashina, if we win, you should do sothing nice for Aurora first.”
“…Do sothing nice?”
“When you get the at, go to Aurora’s house, grill it yourself, and do a teabagging in front of her. If that’s the condition, I’ll go into the basent with you.”
Vincent said.
That annoying Mashina.
What’s annoying is her dishonesty, which drives Vincent crazy.
At least it was fortunate she wasn’t that smart.
“Teabagging? Sounds good.”
Mashina smiled at the suggestion.
Actually, she probably couldn’t do teabagging.
Most likely, she’d just share the at with Aurora and end up getting closer.
But Vincent didn’t say that.
He just didn’t want to deal with Mashina, who was so annoying.
Besides, he wanted to see Mashina getting along with Aurora a little bit.
‘So viewers who like yuri will probably love this.’
Vincent thought to himself.
“Alright! If we win, we bring the at and go to Aurora’s house, right?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s not a tough condition! Let’s go in now!”
【Magic Tower Incinerator Party Personnel Status】
【'Survival' Mashina: Dead】
【'Exploration' Orga Hansen: Dead】
【'Exploration' Muraya Rei: Dead】
【'Recovery' Eleonora: Dead】
【'Collection' Suzuki Toru: Dead】
【Adventurer Guild Resource Exploration Party Personnel Status】
【'Exploration' Vincent Edward: Dead】
【'Exploration' Kanto Akito: Dead】
【'Survival' Shiroki Anna: Missing】
【'Protection' Choi Changyoung: Dead】
【'Recovery' Kazama Izumi: Dead】
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