The Rice-Eating Hero’s Capitalist Streaming - Chapter 10

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The Capitalist Streaming of a Freeloading Hero

Episode 10

The Game of Constellations [Lyka]

Hunter Baek Haram of the Silver Knights couldn’t believe what he was seeing right now.

‘To think it’s possible to solo the Dalgeumsya Wolf like this.’

Actually, witnessing this scene was purely by chance.

Originally, he hadn’t planned to tackle the Dalgeumsya Wolf today.

He just intended to show the guild applicants what the Dalgeumsya Wolf looked like once, then return to Bereshit.

That was definitely the planned schedule up to this point…

But since someone happened to start soloing the Dalgeumsya Wolf, he couldn’t just pass by.

“Wow, that person is really trying to solo it, right?”

“It certainly seems that way.”

“Could we watch for just a bit, Hunter?”

“Hmm… It would make good educational material, so let’s watch from a distance without interfering with the battle.”

Moreover, the man’s equipment looked quite shabby.

While he couldn’t tell what that strange-looking weapon(?) was, at least the armor appeared to be common 1st-tier equipment.

No matter how skilled a player he might be, even Haram, who had been on the Island of Beginnings for 7 years, couldn’t be confident about hunting moon wolves with that equipment.

So Haram was even thinking of helping if the man showed signs of being in danger.

The phrase ‘Hunters are the nation’s shield’ was always the justification for Silver Knights’ actions.

Therefore, he couldn’t just ignore a player in trouble.

But…

Grrrr-!

Thwack!

“W-wow. That’s incredible.”

“What was that wolf skill just now, Hunter?”

“It seems to be Moonlight Rush.”

“Moonlight Rush, wasn’t that unavoidable?”

When the battle began in earnest, the scene that followed was completely different from Haram’s expectations.

‘Is this even a possible fighting style?’

Dodging the unsealed Moonlight Rush raw while landing perfect counter attacks.

Parrying all of the wolf’s wild front paw flurries while toying with the Dalgeumsya Wolf with perfectly fluid movements.

‘This is insane.’

Could Haram himself do this?

Obviously impossible.

What about the guild’s top elite Hunters?

They might be able to do it, but even then it was hard to be certain.

More precisely, even if it were those same people at level 20, they probably couldn’t have shown such performance.

‘Is this what real talent looks like?’

So to show this level of shocking talent as a newbie, you’d probably need to be at least captain-level in Silver Knights.

Of course, it was difficult for Haram to dare imagine and compare the newbie days of those monsters, but that’s how shocking this was.

“Wow… Hunter, players with that level of skill aren’t common, right?”

So when one of the applicants asked, Haram answered honestly.

“Even I couldn’t do that.”

This was talent so impressive that he didn’t even feel inferior about it.

“…!”

And at this very moment.

Rather, pride for his guild was blooming in Haram’s chest.

Why?

‘This year’s knight selection will be quite interesting.’

The fact that such an outstanding player was also preparing(?) for the Silver Knights entrance test was very encouraging for Haram as a loyal guild member.

‘I might meet him as a new guild member soon.’

Silver Knights was South Korea’s greatest guild.

A world-class guild that every Hunter admired.

And the fact that the Mark of Moonlight was the qualification for participating in the selection was already widely known to the public.

So for a player of that caliber to bother performing a pointless moon wolf solo meant he was definitely preparing to join Silver Knights!

At least Haram had no choice but to think this way.

He couldn’t know that several premises he’d formed within common sense were actually wrong.

Like the man being level 9 instead of 20, or not even knowing what Silver Knights was because he’d spent about 10 years in the Other World.

Such truths beyond common sense were things an ordinary person couldn’t think of.

“Wow! He already caught it.”

“He must have gotten the Mark of Moonlight, right?”

“I’m so jealous…”

So Haram gazed at the man from a distance for a moment, then turned away with a pleased expression.

“Now then, you all can become like that too. Right?”

“Of course, instructor!”

“We can do it!”

“So let’s return now. We need to train, don’t we?”

Haram’s steps toward Bereshit had become quite light.

* * *

Brilliant.

And lustrous.

A gentle blue-gold beam of light rising above the Dalgeumsya Wolf.

My heartbeat couldn’t help but get faster seeing it.

Why?

└ Holy shit what’s the Room Owner’s luck?

└ Lol seeing a light pillar on the Island of Beginnings lol

A light pillar shooting up from a corpse was a phenomenon you could only see when unique-grade or higher equipment items dropped.

Moreover, there was only one unique-grade equipment in the moon wolf drop table.

└ If it’s a unique item dropped by Moon Wolf, there’s only the Moonlight Sword ㄷㄷ

└ Yeah that’s definitely a Moonlight Sword

As the Constellations said, this was definitely the Moonlight Sword.

A unique-grade and 3rd-tier longsword at that.

And the value of this item was…

└ But isn’t the shovel the Room Owner is holding better anyway?

└ Yeah, probably? That’s definitely an artifact, I’m telling you.

Contrary to the Constellations’ nonsense, it was at least 100 times more expensive than my iron shovel.

[‘Would you like to check the information for item ‘Moonlight Sword’?]

‘I’m… I’m going crazy!!!’

So it was completely natural that my heart felt like it was about to explode right now.

If I freeloaded the Moonlight Sword in addition to the 2nd Throne’s mission reward, I might earn almost 5 million won today.

Honestly, I never dreamed I’d be handling such a fortune on day 2.

‘Am I going to become rich soon at this rate?’

So with a pounding heart, I began reading down the Item Information window.

Both corners of my mouth were already twitching uncontrollably.

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Moonlight Sword

Category: Equipment – Longsword

Level Restriction: None

Grade: Unique

Tier: 3T

Durability: 90 / 90

Main Stats

Attack Power +45

– Options

Dark Attribute Attack Power +25

Critical Hit Rate +10%

…omitted…

Wow, 45 attack power?

Max main stat and max critical hit rate too!

Just seeing this much is already amazing, but there’s even a second page in the info window.

And having a second page means it has a unique ability.

Unique abilities are like passive skills that come with Unique-grade equipment and above, but they only have a 30% chance.

Damn…!

This is what happiness feels like!

Click-

But wait.

As soon as I turned the page, the name of the unique ability that caught my eye… something’s strange.

– Unique Effect

* Soul Bound

Soul Bound… you say?

It’s not that Soul Bound that I know… right?

Equipment that is soul-linked to the player.

Am I seeing things right now?

All basic attacks deal 30% more damage, and level restrictions are removed.

Additionally, durability degradation rate is greatly reduced.

…omitted…

But even after rubbing my eyes and looking again, it’s perfectly the Soul Bound unique ability that I know.

Suddenly my head got hot, and both my pupils started shaking uncontrollably.

└ Room Owner suddenly got quiet.

└ Did he get shocked from the loot drop?

Shocked?

I definitely got hit just now.

The worst problem I’d never even considered had occurred.

Is the problem that a crappy unique ability was attached?

No way.

No matter how crappy the unique ability was, I wouldn’t have been this flustered.

Besides, Soul Bound is actually a high-tier unique ability spec-wise.

But the moment this gets attached… the one penalty that inevitably comes with it was the biggest problem.

This was exactly why my pupils had gone unfocused.

– Description

A longsword forged from moonlight.

It contains a cool chill.

* This is an account-bound item. It cannot be transferred to other players.

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‘Of all the many unique abilities, this one had to appear?’

No matter how much I denied it, reality obviously wouldn’t change.

Geon-ryul Lee, the rice-mooching warrior who lost his country, just collapsed to his knees.

* * *

Impressed by the clean epic raid, the excited Constellations kept pouring out praise.

└ Wow, Dave bro, totally agree. 100LP? For showing this much, it’s not a waste.

└ Dave? No, it’s ‘Great’ave.

└ This guy is actually pretty good?

But the rice-mooching warrior who lost his country just couldn’t feel better.

[‘Scoundrel 2nd Seat’ has completed your mission.]

[You receive 100LP as a reward.]

[Your Fame increases by +1 as a reward.]

I even collected the mission reward properly… but it’s still the same.

└ But why does Room Owner look so sad?

└ Even got the Moonlight Sword, isn’t this jackpot?

Why, you ask?

Because my total assets still couldn’t exceed 200LP.

[Current Remaining LP: 185LP]

I just lost 380LP…

[Viewing this week’s average trading price for ‘Moonlight Sword’ item.]

[Average Trading Price: 382LP]

I lost more than double my entire fortune.

‘Why must such trials come to me…!’

So how could the rice-mooching warrior’s mental state be intact?

└ The Moonlight Sword is account-bound?

└ So what’s the big deal about that?

If you ask how it’s lost when it’s sitting right there in my inventory, I’d call that a lack of rice-mooching sensitivity.

└ Even giving you a hundred concessions that account-bound is a problem.

└ Still, something that didn’t exist before appeared, right? How is that losing something?

They keep cowardly stating facts, but what am I supposed to do about feeling sad!

These Constellations lacking empathy have definitely never traded stocks.

Originally, losses are felt based on the account’s peak, not the principal.

└ Is this guy crazy…?

* This is an account-bound item. It cannot be transferred to other players.

Even reading the equipment option again, I can’t believe it.

How can such low-probability luck and low-probability misfortune overlap at the same time!

└ lolololol shit lol room leader lol it’s just an act, right?

└ No wayㅋㅋㅋ So that sour expression was really because of account binding?

└ Soul Binding is actually a pretty high-tier unique ability though lol

Actually, account-bound equipment isn’t common in Lyka.

Why?

Because account-bound itself was an option that only appeared when rare unique abilities were attached to equipment.

Unique abilities were effects that only appeared probabilistically on Unique-grade equipment and above…

First you had to break through the roughly 30% chance of getting a unique ability.

Then among the countless unique abilities, you ‘specifically’ needed an account-bound related ability to attach, and only then would it become bound equipment…

‘Usually you’d need to pick up about 200 unique equipment pieces for one to appear?’

It was structured so it couldn’t exist commonly.

But that just had to happen to my Moonlight Sword.

This is like having a winning lottery ticket stolen.

And the Constellations who now fully understood my sad story began giggling in earnest.

└ hahahahahahahahahahaha

└ True lololol for someone who used to pick up 0.1 LP scraps lol 380 LP is pretty amazing lol

└ Wow lol at this point their concept has reached some kind of transcendent level lol

It’s not a concept, hyung.

└ Anyway, it’s fun so let’s do it together hahaha

└ Don’t be fooled, guys. That bastard is probably rich. First, that shovel is definitely an artifact. Since he’ll use that shovel anyway, he’d obviously want to sell the Moonlight Sword.

What… did you say?

This clueless Constellation bastard…!

“Phew.”

I’m so frustrated I can’t hold it in anymore.

I guess I need to show them what kind of fight I’m in the middle of.

So I need to display my shovel’s information window right in front of the Constellations’ eyes.

Look, this is the kind of person I am, okay?

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Sturdy Iron Shovel

Category: Equipment – Farming Tool

Level Requirement: 1

Grade: Common

Tier: 1T

Durability: 35 / 35

Main Stats

Attack Power +5

A sturdy shovel useful for digging ground.

It’s solid.

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And the effect of sharing the information window was tremendous.

The Constellations who had been cackling like crazy suddenly went quiet as if they had made some kind of promise.

└ …?

└ What? This is really the information window for ‘that shovel’?

└ Uh… you killed a moon wolf with this?

└ Is this for real?

└ Attack power 5?

└ Is this seriously real????

└ It’s solid lololol what the hell lolololol

They seemed quite shocked.

And rightfully so.

Even I didn’t know I could kill a moon wolf this quickly with something like this.

└ I was wondering how a newbie who hasn’t even changed jobs got promoted… Holy shit, this guy’s the real deal?

But then…

The next moment, a scene that made me doubt my eyes began to unfold before me.

[‘Wandering Goblin’ has donated 70LP.]

[‘Scoundrel 2nd Seat’ has donated 50LP.]

“Gasp.”

The donation notification sound that hadn’t rung even when I stylishly killed the moon wolf suddenly started beeping away.

Even newly arrived Constellations joined in on the donations.

[‘Three-Time Ranker’ has donated 15LP.]

[‘Apprentice Mage Meo’ has donated 25LP.]

It was still just donations from a handful of viewers.

[ON Air : ☺ 9]

But for a bottom-tier streamer like me, it was a culture shock of a scene.

[‘Seeking Cold Law Party’ has donated 33LP.]

[‘Gangji Huni’ has donated 17LP.]

Uh…

Why is everyone suddenly acting like this?

Did everyone finally ’empathize’ with my pain?

I was thinking that when…

Ding-!

The moment I saw the donation message from Count Grape, who hadn’t donated a single penny until now, I had no choice but to prostrate myself.

[‘Count Grape’ has donated 500LP.]

5 million won?

You’re really just giving me this?

“H-Hyung!!”

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