The Rice-Eating Hero’s Capitalist Streaming - Chapter 25

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The Capitalist Streaming of a Freeloading Hero

Episode 25

The Game of Constellations [Lyka]

[You have defeated the Abyssal Dark Wraith, ‘Miarenn’.]

[You have escaped the Abyss of Silence.]

Whirring-!

With a cheerful notification sound, pure white radiance burst forth around Leo.

[You have completed the ‘Navigator of the Celestial Expanse’ Quest.]

[Selection: Navigator’s Sword]

[Calculating Quest contents.]

And upon confirming the Quest completion message, he wore an elated expression while catching his breath.

[Selecting a class suitable for the player.]

[3…2…1….]

The first job advancement Quest, also called the ‘first gateway’ among players.

Generally, it takes about 5-10 attempts to clear this job advancement Quest, but to clear it in one go…

It was only natural that Leo’s chest swelled with elation.

‘At this level… my talent isn’t bad either, right?’

Actually, Leo had been feeling a bit intimidated recently.

Ever since he started playing with Dave, he couldn’t help but doubt his own talent.

The more they fought together, the more he felt a kind of wall.

What Leo felt from Dave was a wall of talent that couldn’t be overcome through effort alone.

‘According to hyung-nim, his talent is nothing special, but…’

If Dave had at least shown off, Leo probably wouldn’t have felt so dejected.

He could have just thought of this person as an out-of-spec player and accepted it.

But Dave habitually called himself a talentless player, and surprisingly, he was sincere about it.

So when hearing those words… it would have been stranger for Leo not to feel dejected.

– If even someone like this has no talent, then what am I?

– And I was going around bragging about becoming a ranker…

As his thoughts flowed this way, his confidence inevitably dropped without him realizing it.

‘But now I can be certain. Hyung-nim is definitely a crazy talent monster.’

However, Leo wasn’t a fool, so as time passed, he could tell that Dave’s words were just modesty(?).

So Leo came to respect Dave.

If he hadn’t met Dave…

He himself would still be going around bragging about becoming a ranker with his mediocre talent.

‘Meeting hyung-nim was truly fortunate.’

Moreover, Dave hyung-nim was even generous.

He freely shared high-level information that other players would have tried to hide at all costs, and occasionally gave advice about swordsmanship to help him grow.

– Hey, you should have been more bold there.

– Look. Since you’re being passive here, the opponent’s attack range is widening.

– So in times like this, just go like this swoosh-slash. Okay?

– I’m saying there’s no need to retreat.

From Dave’s perspective, it was just nagging to shave off even a minute from the clear time, but…

It didn’t matter.

To Leo, that nagging felt like tremendous teachings.

‘So if I just follow hyung-nim’s words well… I should be able to take care of myself sufficiently.’

He no longer dared to dream of becoming a ranker.

Rankers were probably a realm that only players with at least Dave’s level of talent could aspire to.

So he would just diligently follow in hyung-nim’s shadow.

If his level fell behind and he couldn’t follow hyung-nim around, that would be quite sad.

[Calculation complete.]

While Leo was having such thoughts, the Quest calculation finished and a new message appeared.

[Conditions have been met.]

[First job advancement successful.]

And Leo, checking the Quest result window with an excited heart, unconsciously clenched his fist.

[Job Class: Tempest Blader]

‘Tempest Blader…? It really turned out just like hyung-nim said?’

As expected of hyung-nim.

He just casually shares information about hidden classes that don’t even show up when searching the Awakened Community, without asking for anything in return.

[Job advancement successful, job stats will be granted.]

[These stats will be lost upon re-advancing to a different class.]

[Attack Power +35%]

[Speed +50%]

[All Stats +20%]

[Critical Hit Rate +15%]

‘Is this… for real?’

He had definitely heard that the stats obtainable from a swordsman class’s first job advancement were only about 20% to all stats and 15% attack power…

Upon confirming these ridiculous additional stats, his respect for Dave hyung-nim grew even more.

[You have learned the class-exclusive active skill, ‘Gale Slash’.]

[You have learned the class-exclusive active skill, ‘Spinning Cut’.]

[You have learned the class-exclusive passive skill, ‘Power of Wind’.]

“Kuh…!”

He wanted to go to a hunting ground right away and start swinging his sword.

While having such thoughts, Rumiell approached Leo.

“Congratulations. You have been reborn as a true navigator.”

“Thank you.”

“Someday, when you return again… I hope the sincerity contained in that sword still shines with the same light.”

As soon as Rumiell finished his dialogue, blue-white currents rippled along his fingertips.

Then those light streams embroidered the space like silk, and Leo’s vision turned white again.

And after a moment.

Ding-!

[The ‘Celestial Ark’ docks at the ‘Alterion Continent’.]

Leo had finally arrived at the continent.

* * *

This Ascetic’s Altar Quest I’m currently progressing has a structure made up of roughly three phases.

First, the first phase is survival.

You can think of it as the first gateway where you survive against endlessly spawning monsters in this ‘Forgotten Ones’ Plain’, which is the entrance to the Pilgrim’s Relic.

Until when?

Until this ‘compass’ item drops.

Ding-!

[You have dealt critical damage to the ‘Prism Hound’!]

[You have successfully defeated the ‘Prism Hound’!]

[You have obtained the ‘Compass of Light’ item.]

Originally, if the drop rate screws you over, you waste a ton of time here…

If it dropped in about 30 minutes, I did well today, right?

└ Oh, this seems to be the compass the Room Owner mentioned.

└ It totally looks like an artifact ㄷㄷ But since it’s a quest item, I probably can’t take it with me, right?

The reason why the time until this drops is considered phase 1 is simple.

You need this to find your way to the second location, the ‘Valley of Silence’.

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Compass of Light

Category: Quest Item

Level Restriction: Cannot Equip

Grade: Legendary

Tier: –

Durability: 10 / 10

Possessed Effects

All Stats +1

A compass that guides light to pilgrims.

The Compass of Light will know the correct answer.

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The item’s information window has some mystical-sounding text written on it, but ultimately this is just telling you to follow the compass needle.

I already know this fact, but… this golden compass needle is designed to always point toward the direction of the final destination, the ‘Ascetic’s Altar’.

To reach the ‘Ascetic’s Altar’, the field is structured so you must pass through the Valley of Silence…

So ultimately, following this direction will naturally solve everything.

‘This is the only helpful item in this unhelpful Quest.’

└ But Room Owner, couldn’t you have just skipped the farming? It’s not even a system requirement… you could have passed if you just knew the way, right?

The Constellation’s question was quite sharp, but I immediately shook my head.

Unfortunately, that’s not the case.

If that were possible, I would have skipped phase 1 immediately after finishing farming and headed straight to the Valley of Silence.

I don’t know who designed this space, but… Pilgrim’s Relic is a field where memorizing the path is nearly impossible.

This insanely random field changes the position of all structures randomly every time you enter.

From farming items to the initial Quest rewards.

Almost every element is random… this ‘Ascetic’s Altar’ could be called a Quest obsessed with gacha.

-So brothers, you have to get this to proceed to the next phase. Got it?

As my kind explanation was added, the Constellations’ satisfied reactions followed.

└ Wow, Room Owner’s explanation is clean.

└ So if we listened to this lecture, we could do it like Room Owner too, right?

└ As if;;

└ Setting aside not being able to go to ■■■… even if they sent me back there, I definitely couldn’t do it?

└ For real lol no but Quest difficulty is literally hell ㄷㄷ;; If it were me I would’ve already retired before phase 1 even ended;

I don’t know exactly why, but… the Constellations really like the hidden information I have.

It’s not like they can utilize this information right now though.

So from my perspective… as long as I don’t reveal my hand completely, there’s no reason not to use this knowledge.

Why?

Because it makes money!

[‘Collector of Sorrows’ has sponsored 10LP.]

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

The reason viewers steadily increase every day is probably here too.

Hmm.

What do these guys who aren’t even players use game information for?

‘I’ll probably find out naturally as time passes.’

Anyway, once you get the compass like this and arrive at the Valley of Silence, the second phase begins.

And this second phase actually has the simplest keyword.

That’s breakthrough.

Kugung- Kugugung-!

Running through those menacingly rising rocky canyon passages and traversing them as quickly as possible is the key point of this second phase.

-Alright, I’ll pass through here quickly, brothers!

└ What do you do in this phase?

-It’s just a place where you dodge and run to finish.

└ …?

└ What the hell is that…

Of course, evil traps lurked throughout the canyon, and annoying monsters called ‘Relic Wraiths’ constantly launched ranged attacks.

Taat-!

But for me, this was the easiest phase.

What I mean by that is…

-Now, here you duck slightly like this to dodge!

Piing-

Shwaeaek-!!

-From here, you can’t step on the ground.

Kugugung-!

-Because the floor collapses like this.

The trap patterns existing in this Valley of Silence are the only area in this Quest that isn’t random gacha.

So following what my body remembers.

Tat- Tadat-!

I can just instinctively run forward and clear it?

└ Professor;; The pace is too fast;;;

└ Ah hahaha so you just have to keep running while dodging everything hahaha

And had about ten minutes passed like this?

Ttiring-!

Finally, the System Message I’d been waiting for appeared before my eyes.

[The mist of silence clears.]

[You are granted qualification to enter the ‘Hall of Truth’.]

That was the System Message announcing that the final third phase, the ‘Hall of Truth’, had opened.

[You can now choose only one path among three.]

[1. Path of Courage]

[2. Path of Wisdom]

[3. Path of Faith]

[On which of these three paths does the truth you seek lie?]

So this is a similar concept to the five choices in the Celestial Expanse Navigator Quest.

It doesn’t blatantly determine class direction like the Navigator equipment choices.

But I know this choice somewhat influences the probability when the final class gacha proceeds.

However…

[Choice has been cancelled.]

[No choice was selected.]

Unlike the Celestial Expanse Navigator Quest, there’s a way to not choose anything here?

-Now, Golden Master. This is what you wanted, right?

So Golden Master brother.

The LP you’ll sponsor me… you should start charging it up now, right?

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