The Rice-Eating Hero’s Capitalist Streaming - Chapter 78

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The Capitalist Streaming of a Freeloading Hero

 

Episode 78

 

Constellation’s Game [Lyka]

 

Laika Archive is the world’s largest awakened community.

 

Its status was far too immense to simply define it as a bulletin board where information is exchanged.

 

After the Gates opened and the Lika System engulfed the entire world.

 

All data related to Gates that humanity had accumulated flowed into this place.

 

Even all the information in the ‘Awakened Wiki’, the cradle of information most frequently visited by awakened individuals, was based on information accumulated by users of this archive.

 

So for some, this community was a survival guide necessary to protect their lives, and for others, it was also a trading post for striking it rich.

 

Especially for awakened individuals of ‘Runner’ rank or higher who had verified their Hunter licenses, they could access the ‘Deep Archive’…

 

Here, one could frequently encounter information worth hundreds to thousands of LP or more.

 

However, this didn’t mean that Laika Archive was only such an endlessly heavy community.

 

If active Hunters used the ‘Deep Archive’ to share sensitive information, there also existed a space called ‘Public Cloud’ that was the complete opposite concept.

 

This completely anonymously operated space was accessible to ordinary people who weren’t Hunters…

 

Therefore, in terms of user numbers and real-time traffic alone, there were few places globally that could surpass this Public Cloud.

 

But today, in this ‘Public Cloud’, a topic related to Korean Hunters was quietly expanding its presence after a long time.

 

[(General) I spent a fortune to get tickets for the Sangam venue, but damn the facilities here are absolutely insane ㄷㄷ]

 

I bought this from scalpers for almost over 80 LP, so I was trembling until I got in, you know?

 

But the moment I entered the studio entrance, all thoughts of wasted money disappeared.

 

Was Sangam Studio always this big? It seems like the entire place is covered with mana field screens, and my heart is already racing;;;

 

Among the countless topics that swept through this anonymous ocean, Korea’s hunter variety show 【Hunters School】 was gradually starting to become an issue.

 

└ I guess the rumors about hundreds of billions spent on facilities alone were true.

 

└ (Auto-translated) Where is this place? Is it a filming set?

 

└ It’s the Hunter’s School filming set ㅇㅇ

 

└ (Auto-translated) Could you upload more photos? It’s on a different level from European studios. Especially the density of that mana field can be felt even through the screen.

 

└ (Auto-translated) That device on the ceiling, that’s the ‘Lika Synchronizer 7th Generation’, right? The price of one of those is more expensive than the total loot from a decent level 60 dungeon… Is the production cost real?

 

└ Every seat has its own personal observation screen lol This place is truly the pinnacle of capitalism.

 

└ (Auto-translated) 80 LP is my monthly living expenses, but watching awakened individuals’ first mission in such an environment is definitely worth it. I’m envious.

 

└ Wow… I’m definitely going to save money and watch the next mission live. The Sangam scale is really amazing.

 

This was naturally not an easy thing.

 

It wasn’t common for archive users gathered from all over the world to take interest in a specific country’s variety show.

 

So this was possible because 【Hunters School 3】 was a special case.

 

First, the global fandom of Elise the Swordmaster, who appeared as a mentor, was at an tremendous level…

 

[(Verified) Spotted Geomhee near Sangam Studio in spring haha]

 

└ I’m so jealousㅠㅠㅠ

 

└ I heard there really are many people who went to Korea for 【Hunters School】 filming, so it was true. I should have bought plane tickets too.

 

└ (Auto-translated) Elise is too strict as a mentor. But that’s her charm. She must have made someone cry in this mission too.

 

└ ;;This is The Hero’s first time appearing as a mentor this season, what are you talking about?

 

└ She must have appeared on some American variety show before.

 

└ Ah?

 

The previous Hunters School seasons 1 and 2 also had quite a lot of overseas fans, as the subsequently released OTT versions were huge hits.

 

[(Question) Won’t Hunters School seasons 1 and 2 participants appear this season?]

 

└ (Auto-translated) Hunters School is a ‘survival’ format. There won’t be room to bring back dropouts from previous seasons. I heard the production team wants completely new blood.

 

└ (Auto-translated) Seasons 1 and 2 were at the level of local variety shows. But now it’s a ‘global project’ with Elise participating as a mentor. The level difference is too big, so existing participants must have been eliminated in preliminaries.

 

└ ???What global project?? They’re all Korean???

 

└ Fucking lol these multinational tankies making shit up is hilarious lol

 

But if these reasons were all there was, the 【Hunters School 3】 topic would have quickly disappeared without a trace.

 

Since it was still before even the main broadcast of 【Hunters School 3】 had aired… it would have been difficult to attract significant interest from overseas users.

 

So this topic really started to grow after someone watching on-site uploaded a real-time video to the cloud.

 

[(Question) Is it possible for level 35 to solo a level 60 elite wave?]

 

(Video)

 

This is real-time right now, but no matter how I look at it, it doesn’t make sense.

 

Honestly, isn’t this just fake?

 

It was a video showing a 【Hunters School 3】 participant holding a giant glaive…

 

Almost single-handedly sweeping through an elite monster wave.

 

└ That’s either fake or hacks. Level 35 and 60 have an insurmountable stat difference, how can all the attacks hit?

 

└ (Auto-translated) Look at the 0:14 second section of the video. They deflect the monster’s attack trajectory with a 0.1 second difference. This isn’t a matter of level but of ‘synchronization rate’ and ‘experience’. A level 35 with such movements cannot exist.

 

Originally, in this Public Cloud… this type of controversy was the topic that caught fire most easily among Hunter-related topics.

 

Specifically, players confident in their skills would record their live cam videos and anonymously post them on bulletin boards asking for skill evaluation – these were the most popular topics.

 

Of course, not all live cam uploads automatically became hot, and the player’s skill in the video had to be above a certain level for the topic to catch fire…

 

The video currently uploaded to the cloud showed a performance so spectacular that it couldn’t be compared to any other live cam videos uploaded recently.

 

So it was only natural that armchair experts swarmed like bees.

 

└ (Auto-translated) If my eyes aren’t wrong, that participant is accurately hitting only the monsters’ ‘joints’ and ‘cores’. They’re targeting only critical hit paths that ignore level correction resistance. Insane level of control.

 

└ (Auto-translated) This is a provocative script from K-variety. If a level 35 solos a level 60 elite wave, that player should become a global top ranker within a year. I don’t believe it.

 

└ Even if it’s scripted, is it possible to do something like that ㄷㄷ

 

└ The 【Hunter’s School】 production team is definitely obsessed with ratings, right? Anyone can see that’s totally staged ㅇㅇ;

 

└ I’ve been saying this since last season, honestly the entrance missions conducted in artificial dungeons are far from reality.

 

└ For real lol participant Lee Geonyul? Never heard that name before… Probably gonna crash and burn hard once the main mission starts since he can’t fake it anymore lol

 

The interesting point here was that many Koreans actually received the news later than foreigners.

 

Among them, the most absurd were the users of the domestic 【Hunters School】 fandom community.

 

[(Repost) Current status of Cloud hyungs watching the Hunter School entrance mission lololol]

 

(Image)

 

└ Are they talking about Hunters School topics right now?;;;

 

└ Hasn’t it not aired yet?

 

Until previous seasons, 【Hunters School】 related topics only appeared on global communities occasionally after all the juice had been squeezed out in Korea.

 

But this time, topics were being reverse-imported from Public Cloud.

 

Cognitive dissonance was natural.

 

└ What the hell is happening;;;

 

└ Isn’t this HBC viral marketing lol

 

└ No;; Does it make sense that we’re slower than them? Those who went on-site, drop some topics;;;

 

And the fact that 【Hunters School 3】’s recognition started rising in this order was naturally something even the production team hadn’t anticipated at all.

 

The HBC marketing team’s plan was to edit the entrance mission recordings all night, then complete the resources and start full-scale marketing 2-3 days later.

 

So right now… it was essentially before proper marketing had even begun.

 

Anyway, starting with these reverse-imported topics spreading…

 

[(Verified) Kang Min-woo facial expression management fail meme lololol]

 

(Photo)

 

└ What’s with that expression lol

 

└ They said he looked like he had a reality check after seeing some nobody shooting a gun lol

 

└ Is that nobody the protagonist of the Cloud topic that came over earlier?

 

└ For real?

 

└ I forgot the name again. Was it Geon-ryul?

 

Interest in 【Hunters School 3】 began to engulf various communities at an increasingly faster pace.

 

[Breaking] Hunter’s School 3 admission mission site is going crazy right now ㄷㄷㄷ

 

└ I heard there are over 10 entrance mission survivors, is that true?

 

└ Yeah, it’s real. And apparently there are 17 of them lol

 

But considering that this was just the point when participants who had finished the mission were filming the grade determination event…

 

You could fully feel how quickly the issue was progressing.

 

It would be possible to fully sense how rapidly the issue gained attention.

 

└ But honestly, having a lot of survivors isn’t what’s important right now lol

 

└ That’s true lol The most shocking thing is probably that Lee Seong-hwan didn’t get first place, right?

 

└ For real? Seong-hwan Lee didn’t get first place? Are you watching this live right now?

 

└ Yeah, and he almost came in third place too lololololol

 

└ Damn it guys;;; Don’t just keep it to yourselves, give us the details;;

 

Of course, the fact that interest in Hunters School was spreading this rapidly…

 

Was beyond the imagination of Geon-ryul Lee, who was exhaustedly wrapping up the filming.

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