The Rice-Eating Hero’s Capitalist Streaming - Chapter 89

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The Capitalist Streaming of a Freeloading Hero

Episode 89

Constellation’s Game [Lyka]

When I opened my eyes.

Whoooooosh—!

The first thing I felt was the fierce sound of wind beating against my ears.

Next, what came into view was a sheer cliff and the massive castle wall connecting between them.

The sky was clouded in ash gray, and mixed snowflakes scraped past my cheeks like blades.

“Ugh, it’s cold.”

Jisang Yu shivered as he looked around.

The place we were standing was a small operations room-like space prepared on top of the castle wall.

And in the center of it, equipment symbolizing five different military branches was displayed.

[Please select your military branch.]

As the system message appeared in the air, Inwook Jeon moved first.

There was a time limit for position selection, but aside from me, there was no reason for anyone else to hesitate anyway.

“Well, for me.”

He picked up the heavy steel shield and one-handed axe on the far left without hesitation.

His appearance possessing a Kingdom Elite Soldier looked quite convincing.

[Inwook Jeon: ‘Shield Soldier’ selection complete]

Jisang Yu moved next.

He headed toward where the battlefield first aid kit and buff flag were placed…

“I’ll go with this then.”

[Jisang Yu: ‘Medic’ selection complete]

Then Chloe Kang naturally walked toward where the staff was placed.

[Chloe Kang: ‘Combat Mage’ selection complete]

While the three of them selected their respective positions, I was repeatedly deliberating between about two choices in my head.

‘I guess… either shield soldier or archer.’

Why one of those two?

My current mission is… to gobble up the entire 3000LP prize money.

└ Why is this participant looking for an empty house during position selection?

└ New viewers welcome lol

Well… digging ground doesn’t give LP, you know?

As for position, I can just go anywhere, right?

└ Because… our room owner tends to use whatever he can get his hands on.

└ Though the weapon he uses best is a shovel…

Some of the regular Constellation brothers in my room seemed to already expect that I’d look for an empty position.

But honestly, this wasn’t that hard to predict.

Frankly, whether it’s the position-specific 1st place prize or the total 1st place prize…

Both of these are money I can definitely get if I just plan the strategy well… wouldn’t it be nonsensical for Geon-ryul to give this up?

└ Rice Eater mindset lol

└ But why do I feel like I’m getting convinced too? Damn

In that sense, I quickly got into position analysis.

First, the absolute top priority to avoid is close-range DPS.

Well, since this is content where everyone competes with equal specs… it’s not like I couldn’t beat Seong-hwan Lee…

But there’s no need to enter a position with two of the top skilled participants and struggle for 1st place.

Mage isn’t easy either.

Chloe Kang next to me is already quite a tough competitor… and Kwon Yuna, a level 47 fire mage, didn’t look easy either.

Then healer?

Healer isn’t difficult to compete for, but it’s a position that’s completely impossible to attempt.

It’s a role where you can’t do anything without divine power.

So in the end…

Only tank and ranged DPS remained.

Sorry to Inwook who just chose tank.

This much is nothing.

“Hyung, aren’t you choosing?”

When our eyes met, I suddenly felt soft-hearted.

Right.

You try getting 1st place in the tank position, Inwook.

Surely Seong-hwan won’t throw away swordsman and come in as heavy infantry.

Ding—!

[You have selected the ‘Archer’ position.]

└ But room owner, isn’t there a high chance Seonghwan will come to tank rather than close DPS?

└ Not higher, probably about fifty-fifty lol

└ What’s with pretending to be soft-hearted lol You just ran away avoiding Seonghwan lol

Oh my, unnecessarily sharp.

Let’s not nitpick about such things, brothers.

└ Still, it’s not bad seeing room owner shoot arrows after a long time

└ True, Dave’s archery is amazing to watch.

└ Room owner can shoot arrows too?

└ Yeah, there are many new viewers today, probably many seeing this for the first time?

While chatting briefly with the Constellations, the participants who came with me stared at me with quite puzzled expressions.

“Hyung, you didn’t pick the bow by mistake, did you?”

Actually, Chloe Kang who saw me handle a magic gun might not be impressed, but it was natural for the other two to be surprised.

“I didn’t pick wrong, so don’t worry.”

“Wow. I’m looking forward to it.”

“My class is kind of a mixed bag…”

As I was roughly deflecting, a system message appeared before all of us again.

[All personnel have completed position selection. Combat will begin shortly.]

And the next moment.

[Soon, the invasion of the ‘Frost Giants’ will begin.]

Along with the warning message, the sound of a massive horn echoed from beyond the castle wall.

Boooooooo—!

“Enemy!! Enemies are coming! All personnel prepare for battle!!”

* * *

Inwook Jeon, twenty-six this year, was originally an ordinary young man from South Korea.

After military service, he graduated from a three-year college… an ordinary 26-year-old man helping his parents run their beef soup restaurant.

His nearly 190cm tall frame and natural strength could have been somewhat special…

But that was about it.

So his life became special thanks to the opportunity called ‘Awakening’ that came about a year ago.

[Ding—!]

[Detecting latent ‘Wavelength’.]

[System compatibility review in progress… Approval complete.]

[Congratulations. You have awakened as a ‘Player’.]

[Access to Constellation’s Game ‘Lyka’ client has been granted.]

[Server: Earth (Earth Server)]

If the opportunity for awakening hadn’t come like this, Inwook would have become a kindergarten PE teacher.

Perhaps due to his experience helping his parents care for his much younger siblings, Inwook was quite suited to taking care of children.

But awakening wasn’t an opportunity that came to everyone, so he wanted to test his potential as a Hunter.

He wanted to show filial piety to his parents who struggled running the beef soup restaurant their whole lives, and in the same context, he wanted to personally support his siblings.

So he became a Hunter.

Fortunately, luck was on his side, and he even obtained a defense-specialized hidden class.

[Conditions have been met.]

[First job advancement successful.]

[Job Class: Iron Fortress]

After awakening, he grew faster than anyone else.

Level 43 in just six months.

His natural physique was a heaven-sent talent for a tanker.

[Wow, at this rate Inwook might become a ranker, right?]

[Mr. Jeon Inwook? How about joining our guild? With talent like yours…]

However, lately he had been feeling terribly frustrated.

At some point, his growth had completely stopped.

‘I can feel the wall.’

This wasn’t simply a feeling that his level wasn’t rising easily.

Rather… it felt like his skills as a tanker had stagnated?

Due to the nature of tankers, solo play was naturally difficult, but when he found parties to join, it was frustrating as if he’d become a babysitter for party members.

Rather than tanking, he constantly felt like he had to clean up after other party members, and as a result, it felt like his combat abilities weren’t improving at all.

That was why Inwook applied to 【Hunters School】.

He thought that if he could learn something from South Korea’s best mentors here, he might be able to resolve this frustration.

‘But…’

Now that he’d actually been accepted to Hunters School and arrived.

Even before properly meeting the mentors, many more interesting things than he’d expected were happening.

First, starting from the entrance mission, he was able to experience high-level cooperative play that he’d never experienced before…

[Yuna! Front, 11 o’clock direction, three ice golems! I’ll push them back with my shield, so please wait exactly 3 seconds!]

[Yes, I’ve secured the range. Give me the signal and I’ll hit them with ‘Flare Burst’ right away!]

He was also able to witness his colleagues’ overwhelming talent firsthand.

[Man, Seonghwan is really unbelievable.]

[How did he catch the rear situation while doing all the tanking on the front line?]

And lastly…

He also met an interesting-looking older brother.

[Rather than excitement… I think relief comes first.]

[What do you mean by that?]

[Because there’s no surer survival strategy than taking one step ahead of others in survival situations.]

Jeon Inwook’s gaze turned to Geon-ryul Lee standing beside him.

The man who no one paid attention to when the entrance mission started, but who rose to 1st place, beating even Seong-hwan Lee and Hajun Park.

At the same time, when entering Grand Arcana… he was the only participant who carefully brought a bath basket.

[Hyung, do you like saunas…?]

It was such an absurd sight that he couldn’t help but let out a hollow laugh, but thanks to that, he’d developed considerable internal fondness for this older brother.

But interesting was interesting, and…

‘Still, a bow though.’

Jeon Inwook clicked his tongue inwardly.

No matter how much of a jack-of-all-trades class he was, choosing a bow in this windy ravine.

Was it because his level was relatively low?

That seemed more like recklessness from lack of experience rather than confidence.

‘This hyung might drop to A-grade or lower in the next mission.’

Click-

Facing the cold wind on the castle wall, Jeon Inwook gripped his shield handle tightly.

To preserve even a little of their interesting hyung’s dignity, it seemed he needed to perform a bit better himself.

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