The Rice-Eating Hero’s Capitalist Streaming - Chapter 88

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The Capitalist Streaming of a Freeloading Hero

Episode 88

Constellation’s Game [Lyka]

A cramped studio apartment in Sinrim-dong Gosiwon.

In the darkness, only the loud clacking of a blue switch keyboard filled the room.

Clack-clack, tap! Clack!

Min-cheol Park (29) gulped down an energy drink while gazing contentedly at his monitor screen.

<Hunters Lounge> integrated bulletin board.

There, his lengthy analysis post that he had just finished writing was climbing toward ‘Real-time Best’.

Title: [D-1] Emergency Analysis. Clearing up all the hype around ‘that level 35’ flooding the lounge.txt

Author: FactsOnlyPanda (Named User)

I keep seeing viral posts from shills saying some level 35 nobody beat an 80-level boss and was better than Seong-hwan Lee, so I’m setting the record straight with facts only.

Your boy analyzed seasons 1 and 2 frame by frame. Trust me and read on.

Mincheol scrolled down to review the photos and comments he had attached once more.

And without realizing it, he burst out loud.

“Nice.”

His post, which was rapidly accumulating views as soon as it went up, was logically perfect even by his own standards.

1. Rootless Hodgepodge Class (feat. Cooling Pipe)

(Photo: Geon-ryul Lee holding a steel pipe / Geon-ryul Lee holding a mana gun)

At first he was going wild with an iron rod, then suddenly started spraying magic bullets like crazy? ㄷㄷ

Anyone who knows the Lika System knows this is bullshit, no need to explain right?

I could understand if they were similar categories, but using blunt weapons and ranged mana guns together is just…

This way you can’t get any equipment mastery passives or anything applied, so you can’t get proper proficiency levels ㅇㅇ

Conclusion: Just flashy variety show concept play. Actual substance approaches zero.

2. Coupling Viral with Chloe Kang

(Photo: Chloe Kang and Geon-ryul Lee standing in poison mist)

This is the decisive evidence. Would the Escul Labs princess be crazy enough to party with some nobody?

The production team forced them together to create a ‘Beauty and the Beast’ image.

Reality is Chloe Kang did all the damage while he just posed on the side. The so-called ‘parasitic player’.

3. Level 35 Boss Solo Kill? (Physically Impossible)

The most ridiculous fiction.

A level 35 killing a level 80, and a boss at that?

Is the system’s ‘level correction’ just decoration?

To deal even a little damage you’d have to target weak points or go for critical hits… but would a boss just stand there and take it?

Normally not even 1 damage would go through.

But he killed it? = Production team left it at 1 HP and let him have the finishing blow for show.

Did you forget they got caught rigging things to promote Yun Gimyeong in season 2?

[3-Line Summary]

He has no skill.

Just a clown for broadcast.

He rode Chloe Kang’s bus.

Tomorrow’s main broadcast will prove I’m right.

Anyone who disagrees doesn’t know hunters.

Agree?

“Perfect.”

When a satisfied Mincheol refreshed the page, the comment section was blazing as expected.

Meaning an explosive reaction.

[Comments]

└ ㅇㅇ(118.235): Wow, that’s so satisfying lol I was also disgusted by that level 35 viral post.

└ HunterKimSsi: Analysis upvote. Honestly, people who stan nobodies while ignoring Seong-hwan Lee and Hajun Park have intelligence issues.

└ LiveViewer: You didn’t go to the scene, did you? The atmosphere there was no joke;; You’re saying that was all acting?

└ FactsOnlyPanda(author): You trust the broadcasting station guys’ directing skills? Fucking naive lol

└ LiveViewer: The atmosphere was one thing, but the actual play itself looked really real though…

└ HunSchool123: The entrance mission is taking place in an artificial dungeon anyway lololol They could easily rig it if they wanted to ㅇㅇ

Mincheol smiled bitterly as he clicked ‘recommend’ on comments that agreed with him.

Public opinion was on his side.

Logically, a level 35 hard-carrying while leaving behind skilled competitors made no sense.

However, one particularly annoying comment caught his eye.

└ Sirutteok: You’re a great fiction writer ^^ None of the facts are right though lol

“Ha, these damn shill bastards just had to…”

Mincheol immediately placed his hands on the keyboard.

This kind of blind shielding needed to be crushed immediately for maximum effect.

└ FactsOnlyPanda(author): @Sirutteok / Does it hurt because I’m hitting you with facts? Are you perhaps the person in question? Or are you family? lol

He giggled as he watched his comment get posted.

The ‘are you family’ sneer was practically a finishing move to shut people up in communities.

“Where do you get off making such ridiculous shields.”

That’s when it happened.

The clock in the bottom right of his monitor changed from [23:59:59] to [00:00:00].

[Notice] <Hunters School 3> : ‘Frozen Seoul’ Official Highlight Teaser Released!

“It’s here.”

Mincheol straightened his posture.

Now it was time for his perfect analysis to be proven through the official video.

He solemnly pressed the play button.

Kuuuuung―!

The video began with majestic orchestral sounds.

The opening was as expected. Scenes of Seong-hwan Lee crushing monsters with his shield and Hajun Park prowling the battlefield like a beast.

The ‘real ones’ were different from their very movements.

“That’s right! This is what hunters are! The fundamentals are different, the fundamentals.”

Mincheol nodded, convinced that his analysis wasn’t wrong.

Hajun Park was also a player discovered in this Hunters School like Geon-ryul Lee, but his level had fundamentals from the start, didn’t it?

Achieving a level similar to Seong-hwan Lee within 200 days of first entering a Gate meant he had already proven himself.

But what about Geon-ryul Lee?

‘If Geon-ryul Lee was real, there’s no way he’d be stuck at level 35.’

As expected, when it comes to rigging, it’s HBC and Hunters School.

Even while thinking this, Mincheol couldn’t take his eyes off the screen.

He was waiting for Geon-ryul Lee’s play to appear, but also because this teaser video itself was so flashy and thrilling that he felt drawn into it.

The screen rapidly cross-cut, showing participants’ flashy skill barrages. Kwon Yuna’s blazing flames, Chloe Kang’s poison mist.

And then.

Stop.

Suddenly the music pounding his eardrums ceased.

The screen went black, and only the sound of a chilling wind flowed through the speakers.

[Shuoooo―]

‘What? Is this a broadcast accident?’

The moment Mincheol frowned.

The screen brightened again, and an unimaginable scene unfolded before his eyes.

The heart of ruined Seoul.

In the center of a battlefield where everything was frozen, a single massive ice pillar soaring as if to pierce the sky.

And at the top of that precarious pillar…

A man stood there.

Even in the wildly swirling blizzard, he seemed to feel no cold at all, looking down at the battlefield with an indifferent expression.

In one hand, he gripped a crescent blade larger than his height, emanating a chilling blue aura.

Kwakwakwang-!

The man who leaped toward the battlefield swung his crescent blade like a madman.

And with each movement, the elite monsters were torn apart like pieces of paper.

Kyaaaak-!

And at the center of that spectacular battle was…

Neither Seong-hwan Lee nor Hajun Park.

The camera slowly zoomed in for a close-up of the man’s face.

Then below, brief information about the participant was displayed.

[ Geon-ryul Lee (Dave) / 35 Lv ]

Pat-!

The screen went dark, and only the logo [D-1, First broadcast tomorrow night at 10 PM!] appeared on the black screen.

“…”

Mincheol stared blankly with his mouth agape at his own dumbfounded face reflected in the darkened monitor.

What had he just seen?

Manipulation? Staging?

No, that overwhelming atmosphere was the kind that would be difficult to create even with CG.

And what was that dazzling action sequence at the end?

‘This… doesn’t make sense?’

It was clearly just a brief 3-second cut…

But its impact was as intense and overwhelming as the battle scenes of Seong-hwan Lee or Hajun Park shown earlier.

No… maybe even more so.

‘Is this person called Geon-ryul Lee really at that level?’

But soon, Mincheol shook his head vigorously and came to his senses.

He couldn’t accept it.

The moment he accepted it, his analysis post would become the most ridiculous garbage ever written.

“…Don’t be fooled, Min-cheol Park. That’s all fabricated with AI tools.”

He placed his trembling hands back on the keyboard. His fighting spirit was actually ignited.

They’re pushing him that blatantly?

This was proof that the broadcasting station was determined to deceive viewers.

“I’ll definitely find the fabrication in tomorrow’s live broadcast.”

Mincheol gritted his teeth and replied to his own post.

└ FactsOnlyPanda(author): You got scared watching the teaser? ㅋㅋㅋ That’s hilarious. That’s all CG and wire action. I’m gonna capture tomorrow’s broadcast second by second and expose every tiny detail, so just wait and see.

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Before the position determination battle began, the S-rank participants gathered in the training ground were first grouped into teams of four.

And that group was exactly the same four people who had been grouped together when traveling by carriage.

“Well, since it turned out this way, let’s do our best.”

“Fighting, hyung-nim.”

But this group probably wasn’t really a party concept.

Of course, the better the people who entered together performed, the more it would help a little bit…

Since it was a field where they had to fight alongside thousands of soldiers, it wasn’t a structure where one outstanding soldier could greatly influence the overall situation.

Then why divide into groups of four?

Simply because the maximum number of people who could enter at once was four.

“But cooperation is still possible, right?”

That’s true.

Though cooperation wouldn’t mean much for the final score calculation anyway.

“Alright, next group get ready!”

While I was thinking about that, a filming staff member approached us.

We were the third group, and it seemed our turn to enter had come.

“Don’t forget to turn on your live cams, everyone! If you play without turning on the cam, you’ll have to go in alone again!”

After the strategy was complete, we had to send the live cam recording to the production team, so we needed to be thorough with the setup from the start…

└ First time setting up a livestream cam, streamer? lol

That’s right.

└ To get good footage, you need to set up at least three cams.

└ Yeah, you definitely need at least one first-person perspective and one quarter view.

Thanks to the Constellations, I finished the setup quite smoothly.

But how do the Constellation-nims know about this stuff…?

└ From ■■■ onwards, you can also operate channels on the Laika Platform.

└ Streaming becomes important then, and building channels based on live cams becomes important too.

I couldn’t understand everything due to the noise… but thanks for the tips, hyung-nims.

Anyway…

After finishing the setup with the Constellation hyung-nims’ help, the staff began guiding us again.

“This way.”

Following him, the four of us moved in line toward the inner part of the training ground.

At the entrance to the training ground, an NPC who appeared to be a Royal Elite Guard was waiting for us.

“Will you enter immediately?”

As soon as I nodded, a large portal was created before our eyes.

Ziiing-!

Then as I stepped inside…

[Entering virtual training ground ‘Memory of Grenis Gorge’.]

[Synchronization begins.]

[All participants’ levels are fixed to Lv.50 ‘Kingdom Elite Soldier’.]

[All equipment items you possess are converted to ‘sealed’ state.]

My entire vision was dyed in pure white light.

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