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◈ The Seven-Time Hero Goes Live ◈
Chapter 35: Free Chapter (2)
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The Narrative Trick series appeared after he upgraded the Shop.
‘An invisible sword.’
Jun-il liked it quite a bit.
The fact that it was an item he had never seen during his time as a Hero was enough to interest him. He had seen most of the artifacts in the setting Fairy Corporation had created.
‘I should look around some more...’
Even after Ham left, he wanted to browse the Shop a little longer.
‘Huh?’
Thump.
He suddenly collapsed as if he had fainted and began sleeping like the dead.
“Mmph... Mmph...”
He dreamed.
A dream where he ran around swinging an invisible sword.
Everything was cut apart with the slightest graze from that sword.
Why?
Because it was invisible.
“Kraaah, it's the Transparent Dragonsword.”
Muttering that in his sleep, he shifted in bed.
-LMAOOOOOO
-What the hell is a Transparent Dragonsword lol
-What kind of dream is he having...
-The sleep-stream watch squad rewards are insane.
-Jun-il is so cute ㅠㅠ
The very small number of particularly hardcore Constellations watching him sleep were delighted.
-Hehe, let's see his back, his back...
-Turn over a little more hehe.
-His underwear's blue today.
They were somewhat unpleasant, but because they were there, Ram could not interfere even while Jun-il slept deeply.
While he slept deeply under these Constellations' protection, time continued to pass in the world.
[Time Remaining: 00:00:00]
The Main Quest's time limit ended.
A whistle rang out across the entire world.
Pheeeeeep!
[Congratulations!]
[You have cleared the first quest!]
Jun-il had reached Level 10, so he safely cleared the first quest.
But what about everyone else?
[All Awakeners below Level 10 will lose the power of Awakening.]
All of them would lose their powers as Awakeners.
It was fortunate that Ram's specialty was game fantasy. If this had been an apocalypse story, there could have been some vicious development where everyone's heads suddenly exploded.
Instead, the humane measure of merely taking away their Awakened powers was enacted.
[Out of a total of 53,445,138 Awakeners on the server...]
Shrrrrk!
Ding!
[9,620,124 have cleared the quest.]
Out of roughly fifty million people, around nine million remained Awakeners.
Unless they were F-rank like Jun-il, reaching Level 10 was not a particularly difficult quest. E-ranks were production classes, so they leveled up through different means from the start. Everyone else could have done it if they steadily killed goblins.
[Survival Rate: Approximately 18%]
Only 18 percent had cleared it.
There were likely many Awakeners who could not act in the first place, such as children, the elderly, and fearful people.
That was what modern people were like.
Just because they suddenly gained power did not mean they could beat goblins to death. Most people could not even kill a bug, and they balked at butchering the animals they ate.
Those who remained Awakeners were different from ordinary people in one way or another.
They either adapted frighteningly quickly, were cruel, lacked morality, or possessed overflowing courage.
[The Awakeners have completed their minimum preparations.]
Whatever the case, they would become important figures in the new world.
[A Random Item Box will be awarded.]
Poof!
As if to celebrate, boxes appeared above the Awakeners' heads like Christmas presents.
They would probably open them eagerly when they woke up in the morning.
Jun-il was an exception, of course.
It would be a dud anyway.
[Gate Level will increase.]
[Lv.1 -> Lv.2]
[The amount of mana that can pass through will increase.]
Boom!
Level 2 Gates began appearing throughout cities.
Ding.
[Free Chapter]
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This is a Free Chapter with no Main Quest.
To account for the Awakeners' adaptation, interference between dimensions will also be minimized.
Train your bodies and minds in preparation until the next quest arrives.
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From that moment, the world entered a period of great upheaval.
* * *
Jun-il woke with messy hair.
“Yaaaaawn.”
Stretching, he habitually checked the remaining quest time.
“Ah.”
But the time was gone.
“It ended.”
Notifications had piled up in its place.
“...Free Chapter?”
Reading the explanation, it seemed to mean a period without quests.
A time to prepare until the next quest arrived.
‘Hmm... What is this?’
Jun-il found it a little strange.
They were giving them time to rest.
‘Feels like there's something behind it.’
There had to be some ulterior motive.
-Open the box.
-You're awake?
-Why does this guy sleep so much? It's not like he's a beauty.
-Unbox it for us.
The Constellations' chat scrolled by.
‘What box?’
Looking around, he saw a gift box at the head of his bed that seemed familiar from yesterday.
“It’s the quest reward. Yellow and pink... What terrible taste...”
A bright yellow box with a pink ribbon.
It was so conspicuous that it would have been hard to miss.
Rustle.
Without expecting much, Jun-il casually untied it.
Poof.
Black smoke rose, followed by a message.
[No Prize]
-LMAOOOOOOOO
-LMAOOOO
-LMAOOOOOO
-LMAOOOO
The Constellations laughed their heads off.
‘Fine. At least it's funny.’
He seemed to have gone beyond disappointment and reached the point where it was simply funny.
Maybe that was for the best.
This was probably how things would keep going.
Wouldn't it be better to get used to it now?
Without showing much reaction, Jun-il tossed the box into the trash and headed to the bathroom.
‘The items from my Shop look better anyway.’
The Narrative Trick Hwando.
He did not think anything better than that item could appear right now.
Someone might ask what good a simple invisible sword could be, but...
‘I have a feeling about it.’
Jun-il had experienced Fairy Corporation's setting seven times.
He could tell a weapon's combat power just by its design.
A simple, grimy-black design that radiated killing intent.
It just looked powerful.
‘Why else would I have dreamed about it?’
Sshhhhh...
As he turned on the shower, Jun-il calculated the price.
‘But one Heart is... 1,000 Feeling... Damn. That's too expensive. When am I supposed to buy it?’
Even Jun-il had never encountered story currency before, so he could not get a feel for it.
Still, he wanted it.
‘A sword... I want a sword.’
Old memories passed through the hot steam.
The days when he crossed the boundary between life and death every day.
Those who repeatedly fought battles where lives were on the line, mercenaries and knights, tended to be deeply superstitious or have peculiar habits.
Yulian was no exception.
One of those habits was collecting swords that looked cool.
Whenever he won a battle, he made sure to collect a sword, even if it was a cursed object belonging to the Demonkin, and carried it around for a while.
‘There were a lot of good ones.’
* * *
After showering, Jun-il roughly dried himself and came out.
Without much thought, he picked up his phone.
Bzzzt.
[Automatic Transfer Notice]
A message had arrived.
An automatic transfer notice.
‘550,000 won?’
It was the monthly rent for his current studio apartment.
‘...Ah. Damn it.’
Only now did Jun-il remember.
Most of his money had been invested in an apartment, and he did not have much left.
His gaze naturally turned to the sword in his hand.
‘I need to sell this quickly.’
He had to turn the items from the goblin raid into money.
When would a market for that sort of thing appear?
‘Or can't Constellations give me money?’
He casually shifted his gaze toward the Constellations.
[Current Constellations Watching: 801]
The number was far too high.
He was startled.
‘What?’
He had been happy when the count passed 700 while fighting the Champion Goblin.
Now it had passed 800.
Considering nothing had happened and he had only slept and woken up, it was an oddly high number.
‘Is this sword that good?’
That could not be it.
It was just a cheap curved sword goblins used.
Jun-il studied the chat.
-Is this him?
-L4GS, L4GS.
-Yeah, this is L4GS.
More Constellations were asking whether he was L4GS.
It seemed they had found their way here.
But from where?
-Came after watching the Bukhansan video lol. So this is where he lives lol.
-Ohhh...
-But how do you know this guy is L4GS? He's wearing a mask, so you can't tell.
-He doesn't have the weapon or clothes from the YouTube video either.
What were they talking about?
Jun-il tilted his head.
‘YouTube?’
He did not remember uploading anything to YouTube.
In fact, he did not even know how to do that.
He was halfway to being medieval, so he was not very familiar with these devices.
* * *
A little later, Jun-il sat down at his computer and opened YouTube.
He had been wondering how to pretend he found it by chance.
There was no need.
‘The algorithm just put it right in front of me?’
He had searched for plenty of Awakener-related topics, so the video was sitting right at the top of his recommendations.
[Bukhansan Goblin Massacre Show, Damn]
[18 hours ago]
[1.348 million views]
It had an enormous number of views for how recently it had been uploaded.
Even Jun-il, who was halfway to being medieval, could recognize that.
Why?
#4 Trending Video
Was it not written right there?
‘Fourth place?’
It was not easy to reach that ranking without being uploaded by a famous YouTuber.
A channel created just yesterday to upload this one video had reached fourth place.
It was an incredible amount of attention.
BEST) This guy is L4GS holy shit. Same mask, same build, same weapon too.
Most of all, the top comment said he was L4GS.
That was probably why the Constellations had gradually found their way over.
“When did they even record this?”
The video itself had been filmed very well.
The background music also suited it perfectly.
The comments mentioned that as well.
-Wow, the BGM fits perfectly.
-How did they match the BGM so exactly lol?
-It's not edited? The BGM really just matches perfectly?? This is so damn satisfying.
-Goblins ruined my business and I've been losing my mind. This feels so damn satisfying ㅠㅠ
‘Huh?’
Watching the video closely, Jun-il noticed something.
‘The rhythm really does match exactly.’
His movements matched the song's beat perfectly.
It was not the “Cool BGM” track Jun-il had played, though.
He looked at the creator's description.
[I tried adding music once, and strangely enough, it matches any song with a certain BPM exactly;]
That was it.
As long as a song had the same beat, it seemed to match perfectly.
-Maybe he's slaughtering them with earphones in? How does it match so perfectly?
-This is edited, one hundred percent lol. How could it match this well?
-He's wearing AirPods while slaughtering goblins. He might actually do that.
The theory that he had slaughtered goblins while listening to music, surprisingly half true, emerged.
└Do L4GS and Bukhansan Goblin Slayer make goblins look like a joke to you? lol
└Slaughtering goblins with AirPods in lol.
└Very MZ of him.
Still, it had simply become something for people to tease him about in the comments.
Naturally.
Slaughtering a Goblin Swarm while listening to music?
Wasn't that completely insane?
“Ahem. Interesting.”
Jun-il stopped watching YouTube there and headed to the Gaksalbeop community.
He also needed to find out where the main stream would head next.
“Let's sell some things.”
More than anything, he wanted to sell the items he got from the goblin raid.
If he connected with alchemists or blacksmiths in the community, perhaps he could sell them?
[Anyone want to buy things obtained from monsters? No one?]
-Who would buy that lol
-?
-Sell it to a scrap dealer, asshole lol.
-Do you think this is actually a game?
It seemed nobody was interested in things like that yet.
“...Sigh. What am I going to do about money? I might not even be able to pay rent.”
He let out a sigh aloud without realizing it.
-Jun-il is broke lol.
-Guess you can't sell items yet.
-You will be able to soon.
-L4GS has no money...
‘I should look for other information.’
Since things had turned out this way, Jun-il looked through the community's popular posts.
Maybe there would be some kind of job?
But there was almost nothing that looked like it would make money.
He scrolled all the way down to twentieth place without finding anything.
Then one post caught his eye.
20th) Elf hiking live
‘An elf?’
Most people would assume it was clickbait.
But it did not look that way to Jun-il.
Click!
He quickly opened it.
‘An elf might have crossed over.’
It was exactly what the title said.
An elf hiking live.
An elf in the forest.
‘This...’
Jun-il recognized it at a glance.
‘That's a real elf.’
A real elf had appeared.
Then a thought immediately came to him.
‘Elves... They had the ability to purify objects imbued with demonic energy into Mana Crystals.’
In Fairy Corporation's setting, elves could purify objects imbued with demonic energy and turn them into Mana Crystals.
They liked doing purification work, so if he just gave them the items goblins carried, they might exchange them for money.
‘Where is this?’
No map had been posted.
Even when people asked in the comments, there was no answer.
‘What about the Constellations?’
At times like this, the Constellations' information network was powerful.
They had information that transcended space about events happening right now.
-That really is an elf, yeah.
-Are NPCs appearing now? Damn.
-A Green Gate opened in Pocheon.
‘Pocheon...? A Green Gate?’
Jun-il searched the internet further.
Gate, green...
Then an article appeared.
[Pocheon “Ghost” Rumors Near Cemetery, Could It Be a Monster?]
He immediately recognized it because of the name Pocheon.
This was the urban legend related to that elf.
It even showed a fairly precise location.
‘Here it is.’
Footnotes:
“Transparent Dragonsword” riffs on Transparent Dragon, an absurdly overpowered protagonist from a Korean parody web novel.
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