The Rice-Eating Hero’s Capitalist Streaming - Chapter 82

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The Capitalist Streaming of a Freeloading Hero

Episode 82

Constellation’s Game [Lyka]

Kim Shinwoo winked while pointing at the splendid Grand Arcana building behind him, and cheers erupted from various parts of the plaza.

Since this was inside a gate that only awakened individuals could enter, there wasn’t the massive crowd like during the entrance ceremony mission filming…

Still, roughly a few hundred people had already set up camp around this filming location and were watching.

Toward those spectators, Kim Shinwoo’s refreshing voice continued to echo.

“This place isn’t just simple lodging! One night here costs dozens of low-grade dungeon looting equipment – truly the pinnacle of capitalism!”

The pinnacle of capitalism, huh.

I never thought I’d experience something like that inside a gate, but it’s a perfect description, isn’t it?

“But don’t worry! Our production team spent some serious money!”

“This time, all 40 mentees who achieved S and A grades will be staying ‘together’ at this Grand Arcana.”

└ Wow, this season they’re letting A-grade stay at Arcana too?

└ Hunters School must have made a lot of money;;

“Our HBC has rented an entire wing of this Grand Arcana for <Hunters School>!”

At Kim Shinwoo’s bold declaration, cheers and applause erupted from everywhere.

Whistling sounds could be heard from somewhere, and the atmosphere was clearly getting more heated.

But not everyone was feeling uplifted by this atmosphere.

This wasn’t just a gathering of S and A-grade participants right now.

The B, C, and F-grade participants who must be feeling like nothing more than extras at this moment.

Perhaps sensing the mood of those lower-ranked participants, Kim Shinwoo continued with a more serious expression and lowered tone.

“But… as you all know, nothing is permanent here at <Hunters School>!”

“Here, grades mean power and rankings mean status…! But that also means if rankings change, anyone! At any time! Can enter this Grand Arcana.”

At Kim Shinwoo’s words, some gritted their teeth and burned with fighting spirit.

“So even if you haven’t entered this Grand Arcana right now, please focus on the ‘Arcana Draft’ that will begin shortly.”

“This entire draft process will greatly influence the main game starting tomorrow!”

Arcana Draft?

The name itself sounds interesting.

I guess they’re calling the lodging assignment event a draft…

└ Wow- the draft should be really fun, right?

This must have been content from the previous season’s format too.

If I’d known this, I should have downloaded Season 2 from OTT over the weekend to study…

└ No, shouldn’t you have obviously studied beforehand?

└ What’s with Dave’s confidence lol

No, it’s not confidence… I came with a light heart today because they said it was just lodging assignment.

If I’d known something like this would happen, wouldn’t I have naturally studied a bit?

└ Acting weak like this, then definitely starting to scheme soon – if that’s Dave, thumbs up.

I can’t give you thumbs up this time.

So from now on, if you know anything, please bestow some wisdom on me?

└ Fuck lol you left it to them?

Even though I said that, our tsundere Constellations explained the Arcana Draft in quite detail.

And to briefly summarize these explanations…

-So… from now on, we get selection rights in order of entrance mission ranking… and with those selection rights, we can either claim lodging or choose roommates – one of the two?

That was roughly the feeling.

└ Yeah, that’s exactly it

└ But well, since Room Owner is 1st place… wouldn’t it be right to definitely choose lodging here?

If you can choose either lodging or roommates with selection rights, simply thinking about it might seem right to choose roommates.

Since there was no discrimination among S-grade participants regarding lodging anyway, it should be fine to enter anywhere.

But this is only superficially true, and lodging is apparently a more important element than expected in this ‘Arcana Draft’.

Especially this lodging drawn right before the main mission.

Depending on which lodging you choose here, it determines what kind of advantages you’ll take into the main mission.

So the start of the draft… always begins with talk about the first main mission.

“Now then, everyone! First we need to give you some hints about tomorrow’s mission, right?”

As Kim Shinwoo began explaining, the impatient Constellations naturally started showing off their knowledge first.

└ It’s definitely going to be a team mission.

Really?

└ Why do you think they had the grade determination battle? One person from each grade will come together to form a team.

└ You can consider this much fixed.

And the Constellations were right.

The first main mission was exactly as the Constellations said – one player each from S to F grades would be selected as one team.

But well.

How teams are selected is what’s important, not the fact that it’s team-based itself.

So from my perspective, the truly interesting talk started right here.

“The field you’ll be entering for tomorrow’s team mission is… a ‘Labyrinth’.”

Oh ho.

A labyrinth?

“What kind of labyrinth will be revealed when filming starts tomorrow, but I can give you about three hints for now.”

└ There aren’t that many labyrinths rookies can enter anyway.

└ True.

“First. This labyrinth’s entry limit is 5 people.”

This is more obvious than a hint…

“Second. This labyrinth’s level restriction is 50. It’s a unique labyrinth that restricts entry for players above level 50.”

Huh? This narrows it down too much from my perspective?

“Lastly…”

Kim Shinwoo looked around the audience and grinned.

“This labyrinth has never been cleared even once until now.”

At Kim Shinwoo’s final words, the audience fell silent as a grave.

A labyrinth that has never been cleared even once…

In other words, an ‘unconquered labyrinth’.

The weight of those words was heavier than expected.

└ What the;;;

└ They selected an unconquered labyrinth as the mission field for a Hunter variety show?

└ Is this something the Administration Bureau could approve?;;;

But thanks to this final hint, I could perfectly identify the labyrinth.

‘An unconquered labyrinth, huh. I should confirm, but…’

Among the labyrinths in my memory, there was only one unconquered labyrinth suitable for use in a variety show.

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On the platform behind Kim Shinwoo, Seo Jihyeok was looking down at the mentee participants with a relaxed expression.

He was smiling broadly and was actually in quite an enjoyable state.

But the source of that enjoyment wasn’t today’s event.

Precisely, it was from last Friday.

It was the intrigue that arose from the entrance ceremony mission.

‘No one expected a participant to defeat Dongjang-gun in the entrance ceremony mission.’

The entrance ceremony mission dungeon was naturally an artificial dungeon that all mentors had finally inspected before it was revealed.

Especially since the mentors’ final confirmation was essential for proper difficulty testing.

Seo Jihyeok had naturally faced the boss Dongjang-gun as well.

Of course, Dongjang-gun at only about level 80 couldn’t properly withstand even Seo Jihyeok’s simple attack magic…

Still, it absolutely wasn’t an existence that rookies who hadn’t even completed their second job advancement could raid.

Certainly, he and all the other mentors had made that judgment.

It was even a judgment that considered the ‘body temperature maintenance gimmick’.

‘So that participant… Geon-ryul Lee is definitely a variable.’

Of course, after checking the clear data, the stats for the body temperature maintenance gimmick that Geon-ryul Lee utilized were at an absurd level.

An enormous buff that inflated his basic stats by nearly 7 times.

Just how much guts would one need to be able to do something like this…

Based on reverse calculations from the stat buffs applied at the time, Geon-ryul Lee had fought Dongjang-gun while maintaining a minimum body temperature of 17°C.

Without exceptional mental fortitude, even a player should have blacked out at that body temperature.

‘This is only theoretically possible…’

If you calculate pure stats numerically, it’s true that even at level 35, you could defeat Dongjang-gun with a 7x stat buff applied.

Though it varies from person to person… if a level 35 receives a 7x buff, they’d roughly equal the stats of someone around level 90.

So among the mentors, excluding himself and The Hero…

Everyone only praised Geon-ryul Lee’s gimmick utilization ability and wit, but there wasn’t really any evaluation beyond that.

But Seo Jihyeok was already 100% certain.

Geon-ryul Lee’s talent…

Would be at a level that wouldn’t fall short even when compared to Seong-hwan Lee, who was called a legendary rookie, or Hajun Park, who received evaluations that he might be even better.

‘Could Seong-hwan Lee or Hajun Park really have played with that level of precision in a 17°C hypothermic state?’

Of course, if they had received the same 7x stat buff, Seong-hwan Lee or Hajun Park could have definitely taken down Dongjang-gun too.

Since they were already at level 49, the amplified stats would have been much higher than Geon-ryul Lee’s…

In fact, considering difficulty alone, they probably would have defeated it much more easily.

Their raw stats alone would have exceeded level 100.

But assuming these two were at level 35?

No matter how he tried to picture it in his head, he just couldn’t see it happening.

So Seo Jihyeok was filled with anticipation.

‘I absolutely must see it with my own eyes.’

What level of performance participant Geon-ryul Lee would show in the main mission…

And just how far he could meet his expectations.

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