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Chapter 10: Coward
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The gleaming armor passed down only to the village’s hero.
The Bandit King’s Helmet.
The most expensive greatsword in the shop.
And all kinds of flashy consumables.
A character equipped with all of them stood on my screen.
“Who am I?”
-We bow before Wayo, hero of the village...
-Is this even possible on a first run??
-Holy shit, you’re actually good
-Now that’s some talent
Having conquered not just the bandit camp but the bandit fortress too, I was truly the village’s hero.
That was me, the hero Wayo.
“I will no longer tolerate any doubts.”
-Daaamn lmaooo
-Please just die...
-Fuck, are you actually gonna beat it??
Now the favorite bettors were the ones getting nervous.
They’d put all their points down for a safe 1.1x return, only to face the possibility of the underdog bettors taking everything.
“Coming to your senses, you traitorous favorite bettors??”
-Wayo up!! Wayo up!!
-Oh, fucking hell;;
-Wanna call it a draw??
“Heh heh.”
Nom, nom.
I chuckled as I speared a piece of salmon with my fork and ate it.
For the record, I’d left my character standing in the village while I had a meal.
You had to fill your stomach before saving the world.
-What are you eating??
-What’s on the menu today??
“Salmon salad.”
Roselia had made it personally.
As my manager, Roselia also took care of my diet, making plenty of food for me whenever they came over.
Roselia was really good at baking bread.
Too bad I couldn’t have any with the season coming up.
-??
-You said you were having a meal
-That counts as a meal??
“Yeah, well, I’ll order some malatanghulu after the stream.”
-Daaamn lmaooo
-Okay, malatanghulu is legit
As I said that, I moved my character.
It was about time to set off again.
-Straight to the next map?
-The difficulty really spikes now
-Please die
“What’s that supposed to mean? You should be cheering me on.”
I set off, cackling at the favorite bettors who’d turned so vicious.
Clank, clank.
Just a few hours ago, the Bandit Knight’s armor had seemed like an impossible wall to overcome. Now I was wearing an impressive suit of armor myself.
“Make way for the heroic knight.”
Crash!
I smashed a stand of storage jars along the way, too.
Saving the village had maxed out my relationship with the residents, so they didn’t even care about something this minor.
-?? Why the jars...
-This fucker just can’t break old habits lmao
“It’s a victory parade. A victory parade. I’m not coming back, after all.”
They should be grateful I hadn’t chopped off a village horse’s head, Kim Yusin style.
“Anyway... The next map’s a forest?”
The first map, where bandits were the main enemies, had mostly been open plains. But when I opened the map to check the next area, it was a forest.
-Yep
-Please run into a giant
-You could get wrecked on the next map
“A giant? Bring it on.”
I’d cut it right down to size.
Who did it think it was looking down on?
-Look how cocky this fucker’s gotten
-Why are you swaggering so much??
-Yeah, keep being arrogant like that
“I’ll just go beat the whole game.”
At that point, I’d still thought I could clear out the forest just like the previous area.
I’d headed in ready to flatten the whole place into another plain, but...
“What’s that?”
After arriving in the forest, I stared at the monster standing ahead of me.
Yes, a monster, not a person.
It looked about twice my height and carried an enormous mace over its shoulder.
“Hang on, I was fighting bandits a minute ago.”
My opponents had been ordinary bandits. At worst, they’d been armored bandits or bandit mages.
What the hell was that...?
-Giant has entered the chat lmaooo
-How the hell do you kill that??
-Upvote if you miss the bandits
-It guards the hidden dungeon up ahead
“Oh... A gatekeeper.”
Sure enough, I could see some kind of ruins behind the giant.
That must have been the entrance to the hidden dungeon.
-You don’t have to fight it now
-Run run run run
-The loot’s juicy if you kill it, though
“...Really?”
Killing it meant good loot?
Now that was tempting.
-???
-What do you mean, really, fuck
-Yeah, let’s go die lmaooo
-Honestly, I’d fight it
-Wayo, please run, I bet all my points
“Don’t worry. I’ll be careful.”
-Then why are you taking out Flame Cloth??
-Hey, don’t put that on
-This fucker just has no brain lmaooo
Fwoosh.
As I spoke, I applied the Flame Cloth I’d taken out to my greatsword, and flames shot up.
“Don’t giants burn too?”
-Daaamn lmaoooo
-THE GREAT WAYO
-The swagger’s insane lmao
Honestly, I’d hesitated for a moment, but I wasn’t the same as before either.
How many bandits had I killed by now?
[Hahur!!!]
Right about then, the giant spotted me and ran toward me with an enormous roar.
-Uhhh
-Holy shit, that thing’s huge??
-Time for the favorite bettors to collect lmaooo
-Please let that thing cave your head in
-Run, fuck
As chat erupted, the giant raised its mace high.
[Hureual!!]
BOOM!!
I immediately rolled out of the way and swung my greatsword.
-GIIIIIAAAAH!
-Wow, look at the screen shake
-That thing’s tanky as hell??
“...It really is.”
I’d slipped past the attack and slashed its leg, but the damage I dealt was about the same as my viewer count.
In other words, fuck all.
“I just have to keep hitting it, right?”
I drank a Stamina Boost Potion and took a step back.
Whoosh!!
The giant’s mace swept through empty air, and I dashed in again.
My character lunged forward using a skill and swung the greatsword in a wide upward arc.
Slash!
With a satisfying hit sound, the giant’s health bar dropped.
-Oh
-Clean lmao
-You’re getting good at using skills now
“This much is basic... Uh... Gah!”
BOOM!!
My character suddenly flew into the air, losing a huge chunk of health.
-What was that scream lmaooo
-Lmaooooooo
-Yeah, die
-Holy fuck, look at that health drop
“What the hell?”
I’d clearly gone in after watching it miss, but the giant had quickly thrown out a two-hit combo.
When I checked my health bar, I had barely half left.
Even in armor nearly on par with a knight’s, I’d lost a full half of my health.
Whoosh! Boom!
-Wow lmao
-Wait, you dodged that?
-That was seriously close
After that, chat stirred every time the giant swung its mace.
It was on a completely different level from any enemy I’d faced so far.
Its attacks were strong and fast, but more importantly...
“I’m barely doing any damage.”
Ever since trying it for the first time, I’d kept crafting and farming Flame Cloth to carry around. But its enchantment wasn’t working very well.
“It’s not catching fire either.”
A few hits from a flaming sword would set both the Bandit Knight and the Bandit King ablaze, dealing damage over time.
But the giant was completely fine.
-Well... It’s earth-element lmao
-It’s weak to poison lol
“Why are you only telling me that now??”
-Lmao
-Because you didn’t ask lmao
-I bet on the favorite, you know lmaooo
Damn it... No wonder my attacks weren’t doing much.
I hurriedly searched my bag.
I was pretty sure I’d stocked up on some cloth that applied poison too...
BOOM!!
“Urgh!”
Dodge an attack, get the cloth out.
After frantically juggling both, I managed to find a few pieces of Poison Cloth.
I quickly took one out and applied it to my sword.
Hiss.
The flames went out, and an ominous green glow spread up the blade.
-Now we’re talking lmaooo
-Daaamn lmaooo
-The giant’s dead now lmao
“Shall we start round two?”
-Things are different now, pal
-Poison’s legit lmao
-Is a hero allowed to use poison??
“Poison? What, did you think you were dealing with a saint?”
Besides, my opponent was a giant.
What was wrong with using poison?
-True lmaooo
-Let’s kill it now
-You’re actually doing damage??
Poison really must have been its weakness. Once I applied the poison enchantment, I started dealing meaningful damage.
“You should’ve told me sooner...!”
I muttered as I swung my greatsword into the giant’s leg.
It would’ve been nice if they’d told me in advance.
-True lmaooo
-I told you, I bet on the favorite~
-You’re not seriously gonna kill it, right??
-You’re running low on stamina
Now I was doing decent damage, but another problem had come up.
Just as chat had said, I was running out of stamina.
Two more hits would kill me, or just one if I was unlucky. Constantly rolling to avoid them was draining my stamina fast.
“Whew...!”
Even now, I’d just rolled sideways to avoid the mace.
But maybe I shouldn’t have rolled to the right.
[Heualla!!]
The giant’s follow-up attacks came down toward my head, one after another.
“...!”
There was no time to roll.
In that case...
Clang!!
I right-clicked to take a defensive stance.
[Urgh!]
Of course, I wasn’t using a shield, so my character was immediately knocked back and staggered. Still, I’d survived that hit.
-Wow lmao
-You blocked that?
-That was sick
-My heart nearly stopped, fuck
-Phew...
“Now I’m really in trouble.”
-Fr
-You’re fucked
-You’ve almost killed it, too
I had 5% stamina left.
I’d drunk all my stamina potions during the fight, so I had none left.
Fortunately, the giant barely had any health left either.
[Heuultang!!]
Even as I considered that, the giant began another attack animation.
Based on its previous patterns, this was the start of a combo.
Could I dodge the whole combo with my current stamina?
Even if I did, I wouldn’t have enough left to counterattack.
So...
-???
-What are you doing??
-Back off!! I said back off
Instead, I charged straight in.
The two-handed greatsword had the highest damage per hit of any weapon in this game.
But its slow attack animations made people avoid using it.
But...
[Graaaaagh!]
What if I pressed the attack button half a beat sooner?
As the giant’s mace fell toward my head, my greatsword swung half a beat ahead of it.
From bottom to top.
The tip of the blade crossed the narrow gap, grazing the giant’s chest.
THUD!!
The giant’s massive body collapsed to the ground.
-Uhhh??
-Did you kill it???
-Wait, that basic attack actually reached it;;
-What the hell lmaooo
-You killed a giant with these stats??
“Whew...”
I caught my breath and looked over the buzzing chat.
Yeah. This was what made streaming worth it.
Thump.
Like David after defeating Goliath, I planted my feet on the giant’s corpse.
“Hold your heads high, my patriotic underdog bettors.”
-Yes...!
-Wayo up!! Wayo up!!
-This fucker’s mechanics are seriously good;
-Daaamn lmaooo
-Haters, coming to your senses? Lmaooo
-We favorite bettors admit defeat...
-This fucker’s straight-up Guts;
Swish!
Savoring the declarations of defeat from those traitorous haters who’d bet on the favorite, I raised my greatsword high.
Now I was Wayo the Giant Slayer.
“Wow, this loot’s pretty good.”
-Fr
-Juicy lmao
-Should we switch to the mace?
I looted all kinds of items, including the enormous mace the giant had carried and a Giant’s Heart.
“Then shall we head in there?”
I pointed to the entrance of the hidden dungeon the giant had been guarding.
I’d killed the gatekeeper. Time to go inside.
-???
-No no no no no
-You seriously can’t handle that place lmao
-Can you??
-If you clear that with your current stats, I’ll seriously give you credit
I’d only just killed the giant.
Looking at the viewers who were already trembling again, I spoke calmly.
“My mentor once told me something...”
My mentor, Han Seonghwa, diligently checked a daily quote app and would memorize a few quotes, then bring them up out of nowhere.
One that had left an impression on me came to mind.
-??
-What did your mentor say?
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
-..!
-Is your mentor Shakespeare?
-Daaamn lmaooo
-So you’re going in?
-Yeah, whatever, I give up
-Show us, go make history
“Because that’s what a hero does.”
I nodded and boldly entered the hidden dungeon.
“Bankai...! Make it stop!!”
-Please stop lmaooo
-You’re gonna die at this rate!!
-My points, fuuuuck~~!
That day, the hero Wayo walked into a grave.
Footnotes:
“Malatanghulu” combines malatang, a spicy Chinese soup, with tanghulu, sugar-coated fruit skewers. The combination also became a viral song and dance.
According to a famous story, Kim Yusin cut off his horse’s head after it carried him back to a lover he had sworn to stop visiting.
Guts is the protagonist of Berserk, known for wielding an enormous sword.
“Bankai” is a power-release command from Bleach. Its Korean pronunciation, manhae, rhymes with geumanhae, meaning “stop it.”
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