Chapter 87

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Translated by Jinmu

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“Other content?”

A somewhat sudden question.

At the puzzled expression, Avant-garde added an explanation.

“It’s to show the viewers an appearance of Black Dragon-nim different from until now. Since a streamer is always a profession fighting with content.”

– The young friend knows a thing or two.

– What content today?

– What about tomorrow?

– What after this?

– That… stop that…….

[Defamation Sponsored 1,000 won.]

[Fact) It’s our loss if Black Dragon does something other than walkthroughs.]

– Uh?

– True;

– Bang-ga bastard, quickly retract that.

– Let’s go as a walkthrough streamer.

Seeing the viewers’ reactions, he could roughly gauge the feeling.

“Hmm.”

An appearance different from until now.

Although the majority were viewers hoping for walkthroughs, standardized content is bound to become poison.

Wouldn’t it be good to show a different form of play once in a while.

“Understood. From now on, I will progress walkthroughs off-stream.”

“Pardon?”

– ?

– No, wait a minute.

– Let’s communicate.

– I didn’t say anything;

At the words spat out casually, the chat window went into emergency mode.

Seeing even Avant-garde widening his eyes in surprise, a chuckle escaped his lips.

“That’s a joke. We’ll keep walkthroughs as the main content, and I’ll show you other things once in a while too.”

“Phew, I really thought I was falling into the abyss.”

– Phew.

– Avant-garde almost quit streaming.

– Thank you thank you thank you…….

The relieved Avant-garde and viewers.

Watching that sight, Han-bit turned his gaze to the map and pondered for a moment.

‘In that case, should I try making it myself.’

Whether it was a coincidence, new elements were contained within the process needed for armor crafting.

Establishing a few plans, Han-bit turned his gaze to the camera.

“Shall we do some farming first?”

***

“Hmm.”

The forest near the private area.

The vanguard Liwei, sitting on a tree stump, sank into thoughts while letting his blue spear rest.

Because the heat hadn’t subsided since facing Black Dragon.

“It’s a shame to leave it like this.”

Already a year having passed being active as a vanguard belonging to Qingluo.

Enjoying competition, Liwei had thrown down challenges to various powerhouses.

Not simply fights clashing weapons, but trying to gauge his own limits through all sorts of forms of competition.

The numerous strong individuals faced in that process.

Even within the highest-tier talents called vanguards, their levels varied severely.

However, Black Dragon was somewhat different from them.

A feeling different even from hidden masters out in the wild who didn’t rise to be vanguards.

“There were many speculations though…….”

News floating around the Korean community had also reached China.

Because things ranging from hidden skills to episode resets were inevitable for anyone to take an interest in.

Harboring curiosity about Black Dragon’s identity was also natural.

Although none of them held significant persuasive power.

“Liwei.”

At that time, a group of colleagues looking around the private area vicinity approached.

As employees of Qingluo, they were striving to raise earnings.

“Did you find anything?”

“…No. As you said, there was nothing. It seems to be solely Black Dragon’s party’s deed indeed.”

The woman, vice-captain of Liwei’s team, let out a sigh.

They had been speculating that the opening and clearing of the private area was a task carried out on a faction level.

Along with the certainty that digging up the inner story would be helpful to Qingluo as well.

“Like I said earlier, Black Dragon is different. Chasing after useless speculations will only result in wasted effort.”

“If a newly appeared player shows that kind of appearance, it can’t be helped. I’m in a position where I have no choice but to suspect.”

Having had to judge merely with insufficient information, the woman poured out her perceived unfairness.

Furrowing her brow, she turned her gaze and stared at the streaming broadcast.

“What’s with the hunting all of a sudden?”

The employees continuously observing the situation wanted to find clues from Black Dragon’s actions.

However, setting aside the Ifrit episode, he was moving to the snowy mountain to obtain materials.

Pondering for a moment, the woman turned her gaze to the cave where the private area was.

“First, we’ll have to tackle the private area. Let’s enter quickly.”

“No, I’m not going.”

“What?”

At Liwei’s firm reply, the woman spat out a flabbergasted voice.

“Are you kidding? How are we supposed to clear it without you? Our other two vanguards from Qingluo are both far away.”

“You all can progress it amongst yourselves. Since it’s a place Black Dragon succeeded in clearing, it wouldn’t be impossible with your specs.”

“What ridiculous… Do you know Odin’s raid group is coming down here too? What are you gonna do if we clear it slower than them?”

Odin, one of the vanguards called a crystal of talent.

He had declared he would abandon clearing episode 8 a mere 10 minutes ago.

And news was added that he was heading to this private area.

“Since Black Dragon has already succeeded in clearing it, the order is meaningless. Rather, proving ourselves to each other might be better.”

“Proving? Proving what?”

“The access rights to the private area are swayed according to Black Dragon’s will, aren’t they? Isn’t it better to catch his eye?”

“If you say you’re catching someone’s eye, it’s unconditionally the weird direction. If you’re gonna go pick another fight, please just stay put.”

Swish-

Jumping up from his seat, Liwei shouldered his spear.

“I will definitely go see this match through to the end.”

“No, not a match but… Hey!”

Ta-dat!

Liwei dashing out before her words even finished.

A player capable of catching up to a vanguard’s speed did not exist here.

“Starting again.”

Holding her forehead, the woman let out a deep sigh again.

Words simply don’t get through to Liwei when he catches sight of a competitor.

Knowing that too well, she had no choice but to watch him leave.

“How did it end up like this.”

Half a year ago, the woman applied directly to Liwei’s team.

The reason was exactly one.

Because he was incredibly handsome.

The day she coincidentally bumped into Liwei at Qingluo’s headquarters, her life’s career path changed.

It took less than a day until she entered his team as if bewitched.

“I must have truly been crazy.”

A reason worthy of being pointed at if anyone saw it, but if they actually saw Liwei, their thoughts would change.

Even though his face was literally the only thing she liked about him.

Even though it was truly just that one thing, it stole a person’s heart.

Even when she was furious up to the top of her head because of Liwei, it was to the extent of melting away upon seeing his face.

“Haah…….”

Letting out a deep sigh anew, the woman shook her head and reined in her mind.

Turning her gaze, she looked at her subordinate employees and spoke.

“Follow me. We have to clear it even if it’s just us.”

***

“It’s my first time coming this way in a long while too.”

The snowy mountain near Ifrit.

Upon arriving at the sunken canyon, Avant-garde spoke while looking around the surroundings.

“It’s not an easily accessible place.”

Forests and slopes settled with snow, and monsters caught their eyes here and there in the canyon.

This is a zone where monsters of level 30 and above are distributed.

Mostly animal-type monsters like wolves and deer.

“But what kind of farming are you doing? I haven’t heard of items specifically dropping around here though.”

There are quite a few players hunting on the field.

Because continuing to push episodes only leads to hitting a wall in progression.

Whether for leveling up or earning money by selling loot, the field was an absolutely necessary hunting ground.

However, the monsters around here had low efficiency, so people seeking them were few.

“There are 2 things to obtain. One is a spider’s poison fang imbued with chilling cold. The other is a tough hide of a snowdrift deer.”

“…Pardon?”

Avant-garde was flustered.

Because the things Black Dragon mentioned were materials that could be obtained very rarely.

As it was purely the realm of luck, it wasn’t a problem to be solved with a walkthrough either.

“Would you be okay? There is no pity system, so there’s a possibility it could take a long while if things go wrong…….”

– Rare of rare.

– There’s someone who farmed a month for a poison fang and couldn’t get it.

– Does a snowdrift deer even come out?

– Isn’t it better to just buy it at the exchange?

– Yeah since you have lots of gold, let’s look out for mental health.

– Poison fangs are listed at 2 million gold right now.

Avant-garde of course, and the viewers also expressed concern.

Loot that is simply difficult to obtain probabilistically.

Although they can be used for weapons and armor, the performance they showed was far too ordinary compared to the effort of obtaining them.

“It’s fine. It won’t take long.”

Han-bit also knew well that they were materials difficult to obtain easily.

However, a method to reduce the time existed.

‘Come to think of it, I’ve never hunted properly.’

Hunting monsters in Edlen mostly occurred in dungeons.

Other than that, because they were tasks for skills or episode progression, the purpose was slightly different too.

This time, wouldn’t he be able to do some hunting truly for the sake of hunting.

“Let’s try obtaining the poison fang first. We will head downwards.”

Han-bit and Avant-garde immediately went downwards following the slope of the canyon.

The longly continuing V-shaped path showed no end in sight.

Tap-!

The two people, going straight down, landed on bumpy ice.

Although monsters could be seen far away, they were at the level of merely one or two.

“It definitely has fewer numbers than the top. What will you do?”

Avant-garde, examining the surroundings, asked.

Compared to the commonly used field atop the canyon, it appeared there was absolutely no advantage.

Han-bit, turning his gaze to the floor, gave a simple answer.

“I will do something similar to mob hunting.”

“…You mean here?”

– ?

– You see the surroundings, right?

– Not even a single one is visible;

– Looking for spiders.

– Admins distribute spiders.

Everyone’s reaction was exactly as expected.

To go through the trouble of coming down all the way here where there are even fewer monsters to do mob hunting.

Using common sense, it didn’t make any sense.

“It will take much longer time in this terrain. How about looking for a cave or cliff side?”

Avant-garde knew the rarity of the materials well.

To begin with, the drop rate was low, and the number of monsters appearing on the field wasn’t large either.

Even so, using the entire wide map was much too low in efficiency.

“No, it’s fine.”

Han-bit, who had realized that problem, had a simple plan.

One piece of information that didn’t appear accurately even looking through communities or other sites.

That was a monster’s nest.

Should it be called a place where newly born guys swarmed together.

‘I think someone might know though.’

Players perceive the system as monsters spawning on the field.

However, not all of them did.

Sssk-

Turning his gaze, Han-bit looked at the continuing path.

A nest existing underground downstream of the canyon.

There are a few more near Ifrit, but this is the only one that occurred naturally.

Han-bit shifted his steps while examining the floor of the canyon.

“We will move.”