The Seven-Time Hero Goes Live - Chapter 28

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◈ The Seven-Time Hero Goes Live ◈

Chapter 28: I'm a Porter, But... (1)

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Fairy Corporation’s monitoring room.

Jun-il was on the broadcast, mowing down Goblins to Cool BGM.

-Wow.

-What is that?

-Ooh.

-Isn’t he stronger than Kang Hae-il? This is crazy.

-Is he like the main villain or something? Damn.

-He fights insanely well.

The Constellations kept marveling, and their attention was steadily shifting toward Jun-il.

Even to them, Jun-il’s current strength was on another level.

An A-rank Awakener might have had far greater raw firepower, but there was a certain refinement to Jun-il’s fighting style.

-The damage seems average, but his movements are seriously beyond human.

-A guy looking sexy...

-There’s something moving about Moon Jun-il’s damage output.

-That movement just now was insane lol.

He fought as skillfully as if he had been battling Goblins since birth.

There was no flashiness or wasted motion in his movements, not even a trace of hesitation.

Modern people hesitated even when shooting Goblins from a distance.

Yet Jun-il peeled back green Goblin skin with nothing but a box cutter right in front of them without blinking once.

-The BGM changes too. He really must be a major character.

-He has leadership too.

-Why does a major character have that art style? lol.

-Wow...

-You’re all getting way too invested. He’s obviously just an Extra lol.

-So that’s why everyone keeps going on about L4GS.

The Constellations could not help but take an interest.

Eventually, some of them headed to Jun-il’s channel.

[Current Constellations Watching: 501]

His viewer count had broken past five hundred.

Ram’s eyes nearly popped out of her head.

“D-damn it! What is this!? What the hell is this!? Why is he so strong!?”

She had every reason to be furious.

Under the original plan, Moon Jun-il was supposed to get slapped with an F-rank and simply fade from the Constellations’ awareness in this world.

Then Ram could have quietly dealt with him.

But that was no longer possible.

“F-five hundred people. This is a little...”

They were about to cross some kind of threshold.

“Should we force it and deal with him now? Five hundred should be...”

“Damn it!”

Smack!

Ram struck Sam on the head.

“You lunatic! Five hundred viewers are only nothing when you’re at the top of the charts! Things are really taking off right now! If something weird happens while five hundred people are watching, it’s all over! Everything!”

It was hard enough to deal with someone if even one Constellation took a strong interest in them.

Trying to eliminate someone watched by hundreds was madness.

They would have to brace themselves for exit-bell harassment from all five hundred viewers. Headquarters would summon them to write hundreds of pages of incident reports, and there was no predicting what effect it would have on the Constellations.

Ram might end up in prison instead of Pam.

Ram returned to the fundamental question.

“Hey, Sam.”

“Yes?”

“Why is he so strong? Isn’t this some kind of bug!?”

Grab!

Ram seized Sam by the collar and shook him.

Ram had made the plan, but Sam had handled all the detailed settings.

He could hardly blame her for wondering whether he was a traitor’s plant.

“N-no, it isn’t! I thought something was strange from the subway incident onward, so I checked several times! But there wasn’t any bug or anything like that!”

As far as Sam could verify, nothing was abnormal.

The human Moon Jun-il was an F-rank, a frail modern humanities major studying business administration.

“B-but isn’t it good that Yulian stopped the Goblin Swarm?”

“Are you telling me to take comfort in that?”

“I’m right, though... If that had gotten loose in the city, we’d all be finished.”

“Ha... You’re right.”

Ram nodded with a sigh.

“Right? I knew I was ri-”

Sam thought Ram had finally accepted it for once.

“You deserve a beating for being right!”

Wham!

Ram’s flying high kick struck Sam squarely in the face.

“Urk!”

Sam flew through the air, did a tumble, and hit the floor.

It did not particularly hurt.

“Ha... Haa... You call that something worth saying?”

Breathing heavily, Ram returned to the monitor.

Getting worked up would only make things worse.

‘If I get greedy about getting rid of Yulian, I’ll just ruin things further.’

By lowering his Luck, she had instead been turning Yulian into more and more of a star.

‘And raising Luck after lowering it costs money too.’

A rollback patch to reverse an intervention cost several times more Coins than the original intervention.

She needed another method.

She needed to think harder.

Even if it seemed roundabout, she had to take the long way.

Indirectly.

Ram thought of a method.

“The Dungeon Real-Name System.”

“What?”

“Hae-il’s about to enter, right? Let’s display everyone’s rank and real name in the Dungeon.”

“H-he’s about to go in now. Immediately? His foot is practically inside the cave already.”

“Then pause things for a second and set it up deeper inside, idiot!”

Thunk!

Ram angrily pressed a button.

[Ad Time]

-Ah, what’s with the lag?

-Huh?

-Is this ad time?

-Damn it...

While the advertisement played, the Story setting’s timeline temporarily stopped.

It was a permitted sort of loophole that could pause things without spending any Coins.

Of course, it only worked once or twice.

“Ah, ah... A-ads!?”

That was why Sam was so shocked.

Constellations were among the least patient beings in all dimensions.

Why would they sit around watching advertisements?

[A Farmer Because They Didn’t Want to Meet Anyone]

[But... There’s Something Wrong with My Plants!?]

[In This Merciless World, Plants Cough Blood!]

Advertisements for Fairy Corporation’s hit works played as Sam hurriedly pressed buttons and began coding.

Tap tap tap tap tap!

[Farmer in a Ruined World]

[Now Streaming!]

Click.

“Done!”

Sam finished the settings just in time for the advertisements to end.

“Ranks will display now, and everyone who entered early will even get a notification! Yulian will have to reveal his rank before entering!”

The ads ended, and the world began moving again.

Kang Hae-il and his companions entered the Dungeon.

They smoothly cleared the Dungeon’s early sections and drew in Constellations.

It was the first Dungeon raid, so countless Constellations were watching them.

But Ram was looking somewhere else entirely.

‘That L4GS bastard... If he doesn’t want his identity exposed, he can’t enter.’

Jun-il had only just reached the Dungeon entrance after taking photos with the Awakeners.

“Oh? He hesitated.”

“Yes. He probably won’t enter. His real name and rank will both be revealed.”

Ram knew Yulian did not want his identity exposed.

Hadn’t he worked hard to hide it from Suyeon too?

And Kang Hae-il even disliked L4GS.

He would want to avoid being found out even more.

Could he endure an S-rank’s hatred with all his personal information exposed?

‘He can’t go in.’

Jun-il really did seem to deliberate at the entrance for a long time.

But then...

“...?”

Jun-il suddenly changed clothes and removed his mask.

“W-what? That bastard is taking off his mask instead?”

“Huh?”

“Didn’t he want to hide his identity!? He took photos with his face covered the whole time!”

Ram looked as though her country had fallen.

“I... I used up an ad for this?”

Ram had placed a fairly large bet on this.

But Jun-il simply changed clothes and entered as casually as if he were walking into a neighborhood bathhouse.

Whoosh.

In an instant, Jun-il was summoned to where the party members were.

Kang Hae-il’s party stared at him with confused expressions.

‘What the hell?’

Ram wore the same expression.

She could not understand why he was entering with his face, name, and rank all exposed.

* * *

In the moment Jun-il shut and opened his eyes, the space had changed completely.

The first thing he saw was the Constellations grinning excitedly.

Why?

[F-rank Moon Jun-il Has Joined the Party.]

That notification had appeared throughout the Dungeon.

-This is crazy lol, F-rank lol.

-This is going to be a mess.

-The last guy is F-rank lol.

-What is he planning?

-He’s insanely strong even if he’s F-rank, so what does it matter?

-It’s fine since he took off the mask.

The Constellations were half worried, half expectant.

Some thought Jun-il’s combat power made it fine regardless of his F-rank...

-There had to be a reason he hid his identity until now, right? What is this all of a sudden?

-I think it would’ve been better if he hadn’t entered...

-But Hae-il is the protagonist. Shouldn’t he avoid getting on his bad side?

Others worried about the various ways things could go wrong.

Either way, Jun-il had already entered.

The party members stared intently at the Jun-il who had suddenly appeared.

‘Right. I’m F-rank.’

He could already read what they were going to say in their eyes.

“Um... Wouldn’t it be better if you just left? It’s dangerous here.”

Someone advised him to leave.

The others agreed.

“Yes. It’s dangerous here.”

“An F-rank...? Aren’t you production class? This makes no sense. How did you even get here?”

But Jun-il did not back down.

“I’ll be useful.”

“What?”

“My Class will be useful to all of you.”

It sounded like something he had blurted out without thinking.

-??

-You don’t even have a Class lol.

-What?

-He’s a classless loser.

“What Class is it? Farmer?”

A man snickered as he asked.

Jun-il answered.

“I’m a Porter.”

-...?

-A Porter???

-What lol.

-He’s saying Porter? lol.

-What is this bastard trying to do??

Jun-il did not actually have a Class.

He had simply thrown out the most plausible one.

“A Porter? I’ve never heard of a Class like that.”

“Why would a Porter come into a Dungeon like this?”

“What are we supposed to use a Porter for?”

Everyone had something to say.

“A Porter?”

A man who had heard the conversation walked forward from the back.

He brushed back his black hair and stared at Jun-il.

As though trying to see through him.

-Oh, it’s Hae-il.

-Hae-il! ㅠㅠㅠ

-Kang Hae-il! Kang Hae-il! Kang Hae-il!

-He looks even more handsome through F-rank eyes...

-The protagonist is here lol.

‘Kang Hae-il.’

Gulp.

Jun-il swallowed nervously, worried that Kang Hae-il might recognize him.

‘That bastard... I can feel it from his mana. He’s gotten even stronger.’

True to an S-rank born with a diamond spoon, he had grown stronger again already.

Jun-il had not realized how significant the Protagonist Buff was while receiving it, but seeing it from the side was another matter.

“Ah... Yes, Hae-il. He’s an F-rank who says he’s a Porter... Haha. It’s ridiculous, right?”

“Boss, I’ll show him out. You can rest.”

Everyone became flustered at Kang Hae-il’s appearance.

But Kang Hae-il ignored them all and walked toward Jun-il.

Hae-il’s eyes swept over Jun-il several times again.

‘Why is he looking at me like that? Does he have an analysis Skill?’

Jun-il could feel mana moving somehow.

But even he could not tell what it was doing.

What exactly had Ram given this guy?

“Porter, can you do it?”

“...Me?”

“Who else would I mean?”

Jun-il thought, Why is this bastard talking down to me?

‘Is that a protagonist thing?’

Come to think of it, Yulian had also spoken casually to everyone during his days as a Hero.

“Yes. I think I can do it too.”

“Then okay.”

Kang Hae-il’s answer was simple.

The other party members looked stunned.

“...What?!”

“N-no, Hae-il?”

“But he’s F-rank.”

Kang Hae-il instead shot them a look and spoke.

“So what if he’s F-rank? Rank is just a number.”

-Hahahahahaha.

-That whole “rank is just a number” thing lol.

-Kang Hae-il lol.

-A real man’s decision. Damn.

-Nice.

-Is this for real?

And so, somewhat absurdly, Jun-il joined their party.

“...Ranks are letters, though.”

Jun-il muttered that without meaning to.

‘Well... It worked out anyway.’

He was relieved to have joined without any trouble.

-He really had to say that lol.

-They are letters lol.

-They let him into the cool-kid party, and he’s going on about letters.

In any event, Jun-il had ended up beside Kang Hae-il.

There were major advantages to that.

‘First, I can make sure he doesn’t die.’

Thinking back to his first run as a Hero, there had been dozens of times when he had nearly died despite being wrapped head to toe in the Protagonist Buff.

If Jun-il stayed beside him, he could prevent such situations.

But there was another, greater advantage.

-What is this guy trying to do?

-Isn’t he a traitor?

-What is this?

-L4GS’s Class is Porter lol, I’m out.

-So this is L4GS?

-This is L4GS? He’s F-rank?

-The L4GS conspiracy theory is all it is lol.

-But why is he doing the porter thing?

-What a premium-grade Porter. Damn.

The Constellations were rapidly increasing.