The Rice-Eating Hero’s Capitalist Streaming - Chapter 31

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The Capitalist Streaming of a Freeloading Hero

Episode 31

The Game of Constellations [Lyka]

If ‘parrying’ is a defensive technique with a mechanism that deflects attacks, then ‘blocking’ is a technique with a mechanism that bounces attacks back.

So most projectiles that follow physical laws can be bounced in any desired direction using a shield, as long as you understand the angle of reflection well.

The class that utilizes this to the extreme as a counterattack skill is the ‘Ghost Guardian’.

More precisely, it was an insanely difficult technique called ‘Ghost Parrying’.

‘I almost went bald practicing that thing.’

If you hone Ghost Parrying proficiency to the extreme, it’s even possible to deflect a shuriken thrown from dozens of meters away and stick it right back into the caster’s head.

Of course, without the related skills, it was impossible for me to perform it that precisely…

Whoosh-!

Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-!!!

But here, it’s literally half water, half fish.

Even if I just block a poorly aimed fireball and change its direction slightly, hitting one of the ghosts swarming around is no big deal.

Plus, being in a tanker position, I was naturally close to the mobs, so even if I made small mistakes, it would roughly hit something.

Crackle- Whoosh-!

└ What the…?

└ What am I… watching right now?

So our fire mage just needs to spam fireballs roughly in the direction where enemies are.

And then, just like this.

Ding-!

[You have dealt critical damage to ‘Lumen Ghost’!]

[You have successfully defeated ‘Lumen Ghost’!]

Ghosts as fragile as paper can be burned to death in an instant.

[You have successfully defeated ‘Lumen Ghost’!]

[You have defeated ‘Lumen Ghost’…]

…and so on…

How about that.

Not that difficult, right?

└ This is insane;;

└ What the hell kind of move is this?ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ

└ I’m watching but I still don’t know how he did it;;

But I’m not lying, it really isn’t that difficult.

What’s really difficult is perfected Ghost Parrying, this is easier than even Sword-Mind Unity, you know?

Of course, if I hadn’t played as a Ghost Guardian before, I wouldn’t have been able to pull this off so easily…

└ Room Owner’s specialty: Not that difficult (difficult). Not lying (correct).

So our Constellation older brother…

How about you stop wasting time and quickly acknowledge it?

[Constellation, ‘Constellation of the Silent Wall’ remains silent.]

└ Our god has gone quiet lol

If you’re hoping that I might not meet the ‘40% of damage taken’ condition in the main mission… I can only express my sincere regret.

It’s true that I don’t take much damage since I avoid and nullify everything…

The problem is that the other party members don’t take any damage at all.

[Retrieving player’s party contribution information.]

[Player: Dave]

[Damage Dealt: 35%]

[Damage Taken: 87%]

[Healing: 0%]

But I don’t know why my damage share is as high as 35%.

Probably my contribution to Lowell’s fire magic accuracy is being calculated as damage share…

└ I’ve never seen anything like this before guys;;;

└ This is a tank? This is a tank?

Anyway, if this isn’t a tank, then what the hell is tanking?

Takes all the aggro, positions to make it easy for DPS to deal damage.

No matter how I think about it, this is the perfect example of a tank.

└ Uh… I mean, that’s definitely not wrong but… hmm.

└ Watching Room Owner gives me serious cognitive dissonance lol

“Looks like we’re done cleaning up, shall we move?”

“Uh… Yes! Let’s move!”

The party members who had been making dazed expressions at my words frantically nodded their heads.

“What are you doing, Older Brother! You can’t just space out like that.”

“Uh… well… I was just… a bit confused for a moment…”

Leaving behind Bellic who was rambling incoherently, I naturally took the lead in the party.

By the way, something felt empty… I was missing one routine, wasn’t I?

When combat ends, I should be looting, but there are no corpses left.

This is the problem with those ghost bastards.

The dropped miscellaneous items don’t seem particularly appetizing either…

“Hmm.”

Once I finish the class main quest, I should never come back here.

With that thought, I continued walking and soon arrived at the passage leading to the lower level.

* * *

About an hour had passed.

During that time, we had managed to descend quite deep into the abandoned mine.

Naturally, we had quite a few battles in the process, and I had even gained a level.

Ding-!

[You gain a large amount of experience.]

[You have leveled up.]

[You have reached level 21.]

Considering how much I struggled going from level 19 to 20, this was an insane leveling speed.

But it’s not that surprising.

Considering the level range of the monsters I’m currently hunting.

[Lumen Ghost – 46Lv]

The maximum level of monsters I could hunt on the Island of Beginnings was only level 20.

When I’m hunting level 40+ monsters that give at least 20 times more experience, wouldn’t it be stranger if I didn’t level up quickly?

‘I should be able to reach level 30 pretty quickly.’

Roughly calculating the experience, about 10 days should be more than enough to reach level 30.

I gained 1 level in just an hour or two, so why would it take 10 days to reach level 30?

Well, experience tables always increase almost exponentially.

The level range of farmable hunting grounds will also increase, boosting experience gain, but even accounting for that, it should take about 10 days.

Anyway, that means reaching level 30 in about two weeks…

‘I think regular players take about a year to reach level 30?’

Even by my standards, this pace is really fast.

Even recalling my best record from beta testing, I think 40 days was my limit to reach level 30.

“By the way, Dave, you’ve already done your second job advancement, right?”

“You’re probably around mid-to-late 50s level.”

“Right? If you were over level 60, you wouldn’t be here…”

“Wow, second advancement hidden classes really are different.”

“I want to advance soon too.”

By the way, it seems like the misunderstanding on this side is getting bigger and bigger.

It seems too late to correct it now.

It seemed like they thought my counterattack performance was some kind of hidden class skill.

“Dave, what level are you really? At least give us a hint.”

“That’s a secret.”

Still, I’ve never directly lied to them.

So I don’t particularly feel guilty about it.

└ Well… the Room Owner has no conscience anyway…

What?

└ Acting all innocent lolol

└ For real lol

Anyway, putting aside the Constellations’ teasing(?), we continued advancing toward our destination.

You’re wondering if our destinations are different?

Strictly speaking they are different, but they’re at almost the same location so it’s fine.

After all, both me and the party leader here need to go down to the very bottom of this abandoned mine.

This guy needs to defeat the giant rock worm boss of the mine to clear his Quest, and I need to find the statue that can only be met after defeating that creature.

Anyway, our party with this common goal grew more coordinated as we moved deeper into the mine.

We also became a bit closer as time passed.

“But why don’t you look for a guild with those skills, little brother?”

“I guess I don’t like being tied down, something like that.”

What was a bit surprising in the meantime was that this guy I thought was at least in his mid-40s was only one year older than me.

Of course, it’s not one year based on 26, but one year based on 36.

This guy was speaking casually thinking there was about an 11-year age gap…

Well, it doesn’t feel bad.

└ Fraud.

└ You clearly look over thirty;

└ Now he’s even lying about his age ;;

-Come on, Constellations. Isn’t that a bit unfair.

└ Unfair my ass.

└ Go look in a mirror.

└ Compare yourself to Leo’s face too.

“…”

As someone who was even told by the ‘opposite sex’ that I was handsome in my younger days, this feels quite unfair.

I mean, how can you use Leo as the comparison group.

Put anyone next to him and even decent-looking guys would all look like squids…

So it seems like wasting more mental energy on this would only be a loss for me.

Just as I was about to get a bit depressed.

Ding-!

[You have successfully completed the mission from ‘Constellation of the Silent Wall’.]

A message to take care of my happiness appeared at perfect timing.

It seemed like 2 hours had already passed.

[You gain 3000LP as a reward.]

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

Nice…!

This is life.

So sweet.

└ Lol what kind of noob earns 8 thousand just from mission money in a day lol

How much do noobs usually earn?

└ Honestly, players who haven’t even done their second job change usually have no viewers?

└ At most 10?

└ I bet none of your party members have more than 5 viewers?

└ 5 is what lol usually it’s 0.

Ah…

I guess I was a bit lucky.

What about rankers then?

└ ???

└ You planning to compete with rankers?

-Not that, just curious haha

└ I saw yesterday that The Hero earned about 300k in a day.

What?

└ It was the day he succeeded in the Karador Raid, so you have to consider that lol

└ Even so, Room Owner also got his job change today…

Suddenly I’m getting super motivated.

300k LP in a day?

Wouldn’t that make you rich in no time?

└ Nah that’s not it.

└ Maintaining ranker status costs a lot too.

└ After doing one high-tier raid, you’d burn tens of thousands of LP just on consumables?

└ And if you break one piece of main equipment, 1 million LP instantly evaporates lol

└ Still, they do earn a ton though.

└ On the flip side, one good drop can earn tens of thousands of LP

For a moment I imagined 1 million LP worth of equipment breaking, and I almost wet my pants without realizing it.

No matter how much you earn, that kind of loss would immediately cause depression…

As expected, being a ranker doesn’t suit a penny-pincher.

“…”

Anyway, while chatting with the Constellations and getting motivated.

Ding-!

[You have leveled up.]

[You are now level 22.]

I gained another level, and we had almost reached our destination.

The time was… roughly 3 and a half hours since we entered the mine.

[You have discovered Lumentis Hollow, Forgotten Forbidden Zone.]

A corner of the dark mine.

A small purple portal about the size of an adult, emanating an eerie aura.

“Finally found it.”

“Everyone do a quick maintenance check…”

Once the simple maintenance was finished, Bellic approached the portal with a determined expression.

An epic monster over level 50 was scheduled to appear once we entered, so it wasn’t unreasonable for him to be nervous.

“Now… shall we go in? Everyone’s ready, right?”

By the way, this bearded guy seems to be quite a scaredy-cat despite his appearance.

But wasn’t he planning to come here without me originally?

Why is he so scared?

Come to think of it, with the original three members… they probably couldn’t have defeated the Crite Wyrm…

“Ready, Older Brother.”

“I’m ready too.”

“I’m ready as well, big brother.”

“Then let’s go!”

Ding-!

[Party leader Rainer Bellic suggests entering the Forgotten Forbidden Zone.]

[The field will change when all party members accept.]

[Do you accept?]

[Y / N]

But this party has me in it, and I’m someone who knows this ‘mineral worm’ very well.

And this guy is….

[All party members have accepted the proposal.]

[Moving to the Forgotten Forbidden Zone.]

Rumble- Grumble rumble-!!!

[You have encountered a Crite Wyrm.]

[The Crite Wyrm casts its unique ability ‘Vibration Wave’.]

One of the few epic monsters that can be easily farmed.

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