The Rice-Eating Hero’s Capitalist Streaming - Chapter 23

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The Capitalist Streaming of a Freeloading Hero

Episode 23

The Game of Constellations [Lyka]

‘The Golden Master’ – this guy.

He’s not ordinary.

At least unlike the other guys who’ve given me missions so far… he seems to know quite a lot.

└ He’s telling you to clear it without choosing anything??

└ lol what kind of concept mission is this now? lol

└ Fucking hell, is this some new type of teabagging? lol

└ Hey, student, take down that mission quickly! Our Room Owner tolerates all other pranks but won’t stand for anyone messing around with money~

It seems the other Constellations think this Golden Master guy is just playing around.

Probably because they don’t know that the option to ‘choose nothing’ exists.

[‘Forgotten Tutorial’s Ghost’ has sponsored 15LP.]

└ Interesting.

└ Does the Room Owner actually know?

Well…

Among the Constellations who had been quiet, there seemed to be some who knew what this mission meant.

Gulp-

Actually, that’s not what’s important.

What’s most important to me right now is the choice of whether to put this 50 million won in my pocket or not.

└ What’s wrong, Room Owner.

└ Room Owner seems to be contemplating right now?

└ Is there anything to contemplate about this?

└ Huh…? This wasn’t just a simple prank mission?

The Constellations who finally sensed something strange began raising questions, but I didn’t have the luxury to give them any answers.

I was busy frantically working my brain.

[‘Forgotten Tutorial’s Ghost’ has sponsored 10LP.]

└ Oho?

└ Do you really know something?

How was I working my brain, you ask?

Well, naturally I was thinking through all the various possibilities this choice would bring me… one by one.

So this hidden option that The Golden Master proposed was the type of choice with high risk and high return.

It was in a completely different direction from the route I had originally somewhat decided on.

‘Originally I was thinking of the Tempest Blader job change, which is relatively stable and lets me keep using the Moonlight Sword…’

The Tempest Blader I had originally planned to choose…

Among the 1st tier hidden classes I’d tried, it was both high-tier and the most stable class.

Among melee 1st job classes, it had the most efficient evasion and charge skills, while being able to output DPS almost on par with berserkers.

Though it’s a bit hard to obtain, if you get a wind-attribute sword the potential rises considerably, and it has many good options for 2nd job advancement too.

For swordsman builds, Tempest Blader was one of the top-tier tech trees.

But this class also isn’t one you can advance to without making choices.

First you have to choose ‘Navigator’s Sword’ from the initial options, then during quest progression defeat the ‘Celestial Monster Bird’ to obtain ‘Monster Bird’s Tail Feather’ as the job change condition.

“Phew.”

Actually, most other hidden classes are similar.

Usually you have to select one of the initially given options first, then achieve additional conditions during quest progression.

So the route you can take without selecting any options… as far as I know, there’s only one.

‘To think the day would come when I’d seriously consider that crazy class random gacha on the main server.’

Honestly, if it wasn’t for The Golden Master, I wouldn’t have even thought about this option…

But why?

The more I think about it, the more attractive it feels.

‘In the worst case… even if I get a production class instead of a combat class, that might actually be fine?’

The reason I hadn’t considered this option was because of the painful memories from beta testing.

Since it’s a hidden option to begin with, hidden classes usually come up…

But no matter how hidden, if a production-type class came out, it would basically ruin an entire playthrough.

‘How could I possibly defeat the Demon King with a production class when I couldn’t even beat him with a 0-tier hidden combat class.’

But thinking about it, the situation is different now.

I don’t need to defeat the Demon King here.

Other talented Heroes will take care of the Demon King for me.

Moreover, thinking from an omniscient freeloading perspective, a production class might actually be the optimal choice.

“Hmm.”

After contemplating, I finally squeezed my eyes shut.

So this seems to be the right choice after all.

[You have accepted the ‘1st Job Advancement Success’ mission.]

I absolutely did not sell my soul for 50 million won.

This was a thoroughly rational judgment based on very cold calculation.

…Anyway, that’s how it is.

[Mission success will increase Honor by 1.]

[Mission failure will decrease Honor by 1.]

└ What is it what is it ㄷㄷ

└ He actually accepted it?

└ Whoa;; don’t tell me this bastard knows something about the former Hidden Piece too?

Right.

Since it’s come to this, let’s try to hit the jackpot once.

Who knows?

Maybe my luck will explode amazingly…

And I’ll get an overpowered class I couldn’t even get in beta?

Like an overpowered blacksmith who can repair equipment at 0 cost.

Couldn’t there be something like that?

* * *

Originally, clouds are a type of water vapor similar to fog.

So while they look like white masses from far away, the closer you get, the more their form seems to scatter.

So this pure white mass existing right in front of us might actually be ‘something that looks like a cloud’ rather than an actual cloud.

We pushed through it as we climbed up the rock face, and when we reached the top, we encountered a dreamlike and otherworldly landscape.

This place was the Sky Sea Dock.

And that massive ship floating in the sky with surreal visuals, half-submerged in clouds, was exactly…

[Sky Ark]

The very Sky Ark that every player who graduates from the Island of Beginnings boards.

“We’re lucky, hyung.”

“Indeed.”

As Leo said, we were quite lucky.

The Sky Ark isn’t always docked at the port.

The time the Ark is docked at the port is completely random, only about 4 hours out of 24.

So normally when you come here for job advancement, you have to wait about 2 hours, but fortunately it seemed we wouldn’t need to.

“Hyung, I think it’s this way?”

“Right. We should be able to enter through there.”

As we entered the dock, a familiar NPC came into my view.

Hair with subtle intersections of silver and gold.

A man wearing a pure white uniform that looked like both old sailing clothes and sacred priest robes… embroidered with golden constellations.

“New navigators have arrived.”

He was exactly the owner of this Ark and the 1st job advancement Quest NPC, Rumiell.

[Guide of the Celestial Expanse, Rumiell]

“Ah…!”

Leo, standing face to face with him, had an expression of considerable admiration.

And for good reason… This NPC called Rumiell has such a uniquely dreamlike and sacred atmosphere that he stands out even within the Lyka worldview.

They say Rumiell is the most popular NPC ranked number 1 in the Awakened Community.

The reason is probably his pretty and handsome face that’s so beautiful you can’t tell his gender at first glance.

└ Nice- welcome to the Ark.

└ It’s been a while since I’ve seen Rumiell-sama lol

When I first encountered Rumiell, I probably had an expression not much different from Leo’s.

That’s how shocking Rumiell’s visuals were, harmonizing with this special background.

Of course, from my perspective having stepped on the Island of Beginnings over a thousand times…

All the scenery unfolding before my eyes felt as familiar as déjà vu.

So I could recite even the first line this guy would deliver to us word for word.

I didn’t memorize it.

It got memorized.

“Are you truly prepared to leave the cradle of dimensions?”

As expected… exactly the same without a single word wrong.

Oh, by the way, what he calls the ‘cradle of dimensions’ refers to this Island of Beginnings.

“The moment you board the Ark, there is no path back. All you can leave behind is a single footprint.”

└ Damn- even after all this time, Lumiel’s lines still give me chills ㅠㅠ

└ Isn’t it his appearance that’s amazing rather than his lines?;

Phew, typical appearance-obsessed Constellation bastards.

└ Let me redo my 1st job change too, Miel ㅜㅜ

└ For real lol I could do well if I tried again too, Miel hyung ㅠㅠ

Well…

Regardless of what reaction we showed, Rumiell opened his mouth again toward us with an expressionless face.

“Are you… ready to depart?”

As I always feel, this guy has absolutely zero interest in players.

He just stands in his assigned place and does what he must do like a hamster wheel.

Perhaps this aspect of Rumiell might be why he’s so popular among players.

Once you board the Ark and go to the continent, there are no more NPCs like this.

What does that mean?

It means the natives of the continent are no different from regular people, unlike the Island of Beginnings NPCs.

I heard some players have trouble adapting on the continent because of that.

“…”

While I was thinking such thoughts, Leo, who had entered the dock before me, naturally approached Rumiell.

Now, if he passes in front of him and steps onto the deck, the 1st class change Quest [Navigator of the Celestial Expanse] will naturally begin.

The moment he receives the Quest, that player gets sucked into a space of another dimension.

Does the entire party get sucked in?

No.

This Quest can’t be done as a party.

Well, making class change Quests impossible to do as a party is perhaps natural…

Leo, knowing this fact, hesitates slightly and looks in my direction.

Meeting his eyes, I gave him one last word.

“Go in first. Don’t forget what I told you earlier.”

“Yes, hyung-nim. Send me a message when you arrive.”

“Okay.”

Watching him, concept-obsessed Rumiell added one more line.

He probably sensed that Leo was hesitating to board the Ark.

“Fear is natural. But wind that stops moving is bound to rot.”

Hmm.

It’s been a while since I heard this line too.

“I will board the Ark.”

At Leo’s words, Rumiell slowly nodded.

“You have made your decision. Then the sky will guide you.”

After Rumiell finished speaking, Leo took steps toward the deck.

Then, as soon as his steps touched the Ark…

Whoooong-!

His figure was enveloped in brilliant light and slowly disappeared.

[Party member ‘Leo’ is proceeding with the ‘Navigator of the Celestial Expanse’ Quest.]

[The party has been disbanded.]

So now it’s my turn.

Step-

Without hesitation, I moved my steps and approached close to Rumiell just as Leo had done.

Then Rumiell opened his mouth again with that same expressionless face.

“This Ark moves with the footsteps of those heading toward freedom. Will you become one of them?”

Another line I’ve heard before.

I nodded and answered.

“Yes. I will board the Ark.”

“Good. May the God of Light be with you.”

As Rumiell’s line ended, a path leading to the deck appeared before me just like with Leo.

[The ‘Navigator of the Celestial Expanse’ Quest has occurred.]

[Would you like to proceed with the Quest?]

But here, I must not immediately enter the Quest like Leo did.

Of course… it’s buildup for the class random gacha.

“Before that, Rumiell-nim, I have a request.”

At my words, something that could be called an expression change appeared on Rumiell’s face for the first time.

“There aren’t many requests I can fulfill for you. Well, let me hear it.”

And the Constellations, sensing something was up, started getting excited.

└ What is it what is it;;

└ Curious curious

└ Was there some hidden route here too?

└ For now, this person has straightened their posture.

└ Ah lol since when is 1st class change this interesting lol

Then I took out an item from my inventory.

[You have taken out the ‘Fragment of Radiance’ item from inventory.]

Luck-based damn class gacha.

No… a special miscellaneous item I bought from the trading post for a hefty 500LP right after deciding to take the [Seeker’s Altar] route.

Seeing the small fragment in my hand, Rumiell’s eyes widened considerably.

“…!”

Toward him, I added one more line.

“I want to stop by the Pilgrim’s Relic.”

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