The Rice-Eating Hero’s Capitalist Streaming - Chapter 57

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The Capitalist Streaming of a Freeloading Hero

 

Episode 57

 

Constellation’s Game [Lyka]

 

5 days had passed.

 

And in the meantime….

 

Ding-!

 

[Level increased.]

 

[You have reached level 35.]

 

I had actually reached level 35.

 

“Leo, what level are you now?”

 

“I’m level 38, hyung.”

 

“Wow, I’m finally catching up a bit.”

 

“Eh… if this pattern continues for about a week, I think you’ll overtake me?”

 

In Lyka, even when playing in a party, experience points aren’t divided equally.

 

Lyka’s system had many surprisingly rational aspects, so the experience distribution method was also designed to be proportional to combat contribution.

 

So even if I continued growing in the same party as Leo, what Leo said would happen in the near future.

 

Since I always had a higher contribution rate than Leo.

 

Maybe Leo was amazing for keeping up with my leveling speed when I used all sorts of miscellaneous skills.

 

Anyway.

 

“I’ll stop here for now, Dave.”

 

“Thank you for your hard work, Nobin.”

 

Our four-member Lumentis Party came to an end here.

 

In a very warm atmosphere.

 

“I had fun too. Thanks to you, I collected a lot of crystals.”

 

“Thank you for your hard work too, Rowell.”

 

And perhaps because we spent quite a long time together, I learned various things about Rowell and Nobin.

 

First, I learned that both of them were players from Europe….

 

I also learned that for English-speaking players, their real names are mostly registered as their player names.

 

“So even if we meet outside the Gate, you can just call me Nobin.”

 

“Sure, of course.”

 

“I’m planning to visit Korea soon, so don’t pretend you don’t know me when I contact you, okay?”

 

Additionally, I learned that Nobin was a K-pop fan(?).

 

“But why are you coming to Korea, Nobin?”

 

“That K-pop… what was the singer’s name. Was it KTX?”

 

Excuse me…?

 

In today’s idol world, does even the train hyung debut as a K-pop idol?

 

“Anyway, I have some business to see something there.”

 

I learned later that the male idol Nobin mentioned wasn’t KTX but KTG (Keep The Glow)… they were famous people whose posters were even hanging in my relative’s room.

 

“Are you coming with him then, Rowell?”

 

In Rowell’s case… I learned the unusual fact that her main job wasn’t being a Hunter.

 

“Hmm, probably not me. I’m busy with my thesis.”

 

“Do Hunters in England also write theses…?”

 

“Ah, I’m more of a researcher who loves research rather than a Hunter.”

 

Her main job was being a graduate student at a prestigious university, completing her doctoral program.

 

“So, I can contact you again when I run out of crystals, right?”

 

“Of course. I might hunt here often until around the early 40s.”

 

“Oh, then please make sure to sell all the crystals you collect while hunting to me!”

 

The fact that Rowell’s only reasons for entering Gates were ‘explosion experiments’ and ‘Lumentis crystal mining’ was harder to believe than the fact that she was a graduate student.

 

‘She’s not some Oppenheimer of the Hunter world….’

 

Seeing her eyes sparkle as she explained her research, it didn’t seem like she was lying.

 

“If I can succeed in this experiment I’m currently working on, I’ll be able to truly recreate complete combustion in reality, you know?”

 

What is that supposed to mean.

 

“If I can suppress the thermal dissociation phenomenon that occurs above 2,000°C with magic power….”

 

Even if you speak so passionately, a liberal arts student can’t understand….

 

“So how amazing this is, theoretically I can raise the temperature of flames to a level similar to the sun’s surface….”

 

According to Rowell, Lumen crystals were the most efficient and high-performance material for her explosion experiment medium.

 

Learning these facts, I couldn’t deny that her hidden class, Pyro Sorcerer, suited her quite well.

 

‘She’s definitely unique. Do you need to have an extraordinary play style to get special hidden classes?’

 

Surprisingly, among all the classes I’d seen while playing on the Earth server, this Pyro Sorcerer was the only one I’d never seen before.

 

Maybe Rowell was a player with even more tremendous hidden potential than Nobin?

 

“Well, I’ll contact you again soon!”

 

“Let’s keep in touch often.”

 

Anyway, the two of them logged out first while we felt regretful.

 

Leo and I, who remained, returned to Lumis Domain and settled our inventories while preparing to log off.

 

“Wow! Today was pretty profitable, wasn’t it, hyung?”

 

“Really?”

 

“When I calculated it, I think I made about 65LP profit.”

 

Maybe because he partied with me, even his play style got influenced, as Leo also settled his daily profit and loss before logging off each day.

 

└ Our Room Owner probably earned about 300LP….

 

└ Including donations, it’s probably close to 1000LP?

 

└ Stop working our Leo for free and share some money, Room Owner.

 

I don’t want to do that.

 

And it’s not like he’s working for free.

 

Leo is earning as much as he works.

 

└ Such an evil boss!

 

No, honestly, excluding donations, what we earned is similar!

 

Leo just has less left because he uses a lot of potions.

 

└ Equality of results is an important law….

 

I love capitalism, you know?

 

If you don’t like it, go find a people’s streamer.

 

“….”

 

In that sense, checking my bank balance that had accumulated quite a bit again, I suddenly felt warm and fuzzy.

 

[Current Remaining LP: 50221LP]

 

Now that the first digit of my balance, which had dropped to the 30,000s, was restored to 5, it felt like vitality was flowing through my whole body.

 

‘If I sweetly suck up the appearance fee from Hunters School, it might quickly recover to the 100,000 range…?’

 

But what about submitting my resume to 【Hunters School 3】?

 

Of course, I submitted it exactly on schedule the day before yesterday.

 

Since Jeongmin cared so much about it, it was only natural to submit an application even if it didn’t work out.

 

“Hyung. But what about the results for that?”

 

“What? Hunters School?”

 

“Yes, yes.”

 

“Nothing came yet. The announcement deadline is until tomorrow, so let’s wait a bit more.”

 

I’m thorough about these things.

 

During my job hunting days, I submitted so many resumes….

 

“Wow, I really hope you make it, hyung.”

 

“Why?”

 

“Well, it would be fun. Honestly, I’m curious about what would happen if you competed with a super rookie like Seong-hwan Lee.”

 

“Ah. I’d like to meet Seong-hwan Lee once too.”

 

I’m curious about how amazing he must be to be so revered in the Awakened Community.

 

His overseas fans are at an incredible level too.

 

“And if you go out there and build recognition, you could really become an influencer too, hyung.”

 

“If you wanted that, you should have applied too. You meet the qualifications, don’t you?”

 

“Honestly, I did consider it a bit, but you know, hyung.”

 

“Know what?”

 

“My dream is to join the Silver Knights.”

 

“Ah.”

 

To understand what Leo meant, you first need to know the most basic format of 【Hunters School】.

 

That is, what the 100 mentees who appear on the show, like me, are competing for.

 

And this was quite simple.

 

The goal of applicants to Hunters School was to make it into the final 5…

 

And the benefit given to those final 5 was joining a top-tier guild ranked in the top 10.

 

So from Leo’s perspective, wanting to join the Silver Knights, there was no reason to apply here…

 

‘No, guild membership is ultimately a free choice anyway… I just need to milk the appearance fee as much as possible, right? Then I can go take the knight selection test or whatever after that.’

 

I was about to say this but decided to hold back.

 

It felt like I’d be corrupting Leo’s pure passion somehow.

 

└ It’s not just a feeling, that’s exactly what it is, you bastard Room Owner.

 

Anyway, after finishing organizing our inventories, we logged out with plans for tomorrow.

 

Starting tomorrow, Nobin and Lowell won’t be able to join us, but even so, the two of us will probably continue party hunting.

 

Since we’ve passed level 30, the hunting grounds might change, but well…

 

[Logout Location: Alterion Continent – Lumis Domain]

 

[Player: ‘Dave’]

 

[Disconnecting from the world of ‘Lyka-Laika’.]

 

[Logout Time: 8:17 PM]

 

With those thoughts, I was exiting the Gate when.

 

Bzzzz-!

 

My smartphone in my pocket vibrated briefly, and when I casually pulled out my phone, I couldn’t help but look quite flustered.

 

[‘Geon-ryul Lee’, you have been confirmed as a mentee participant for 【Hunters School 3】. Congratulations.]

 

Huh…?

 

[For detailed interview schedule and orientation information, please check the attached file…]

 

[…As long as there are no fatal disqualifying factors, the contract will proceed through an offline meeting…]

 

With a bewildered expression, I suddenly stopped walking.

 

Jeongmin had confidently declared it would happen, but.

 

“Whoa.”

 

This… actually worked?

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