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◈ The Seven-Time Hero Goes Live ◈
Chapter 61: Then Die (2)
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About twenty minutes earlier.
When Jun-il ran off saying he needed to use the bathroom.
“Ah, I really need to go! Badly!”
But then he found someone lying facedown along the way.
And they were alive.
“What?”
Jun-il took a closer look and saw they were holding a camera.
More importantly, he knew this person.
‘Huh?’
Who was this again?
Having become exceptionally skilled at reading faces during his days as a Hero, he deduced from her features that she was a reporter.
Right. Do Ju-hye, the reporter who had tried to give him her business card last time.
‘She came here again?’
Just as he was starting to feel glad to see her.
“Porter, get out of the shot. You don’t look good on camera.”
“...”
-LMAOOOO
-LMAOOOOOO
-Fuck lmao
-She won’t recognize him as the Porter~
* * *
Back to the present.
As the heads of the two Orcs that had nearly claimed Gangnam Station as their turf rolled around like cola cans, L4GS quickly found the ideal spot.
‘There she is.’
He remembered where Do Ju-hye had cursed him out earlier.
‘Get a good shot.’
He naturally struck the L4GS pose.
“Wow...!”
Do Ju-hye’s eyes widened as she excitedly pressed the shutter.
“Thank you... Mr. L4GS. For giving me this honor again...”
She had already captured L4GS saving children by chance before. This time, she had photographed him taking down Orcs, even getting a solo shot!
‘It was worth somehow staying an Awakener.’
She had nearly died several times while raising her Thief to Level 10.
Still, it had been worth it.
Otherwise, would she have been able to sneak into a place like this and take these photos?
Thanks to that, she had captured a moment that would be nearly impossible to get even once in a reporter’s lifetime.
Still, she had one concern.
‘How am I supposed to reach Level 30 this time?’
Unlike the previous Level 10 limit, this Main Quest required her to reach Level 30. As a Thief, it seemed extremely difficult to accomplish.
‘Well... I’ll figure something out.’
Thinking this might be the last time she got to take so many photos as an Awakener, she continued pressing the shutter.
Click! Click!
* * *
Before L4GS appeared at Gangnam Station, the general opinion on Gaksalbeop had been like this.
1st) Are people looking for L4GS idiots?
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He’s only good against Goblins, seriously.
Leave L4GS alone! How many times do we have to say it!?
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-Fuck lmao
-Sa Myeong-ho lmao
-For real
-He might not even be an Awakener?
-He’s just dumb
-How can anyone even compare him to Kang Hae-il??
-He’s just a civilian hero who came through early on. Nothing more, nothing less.
L4GS was only good at killing Goblins.
It was insulting to compare him to S-Rank Kang Hae-il.
He did not even seem to have any noteworthy Skills.
There were plenty of comments putting L4GS down like that. Some even cursed out people who rated him highly.
3rd) Leave him alone, L4GS is the “geuns”’ only hope lol
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This Main Quest needs us to reach Level 30 lol. How miserable do you think melee DPS who barely reached Level 10 last time are, when they’re neither tanks nor Mages lol?
At this point, even E-Rank production classes are acting all proud and calling themselves white-collar office workers lol.
L4GS is their only hope.
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-“Geuns” lmao
-I was wondering what “geun” meant. Melee classes lol
-Geuns...
-For real
-Melee classes are the problem...
As they progressed through Main Chapter 1, conflicts between different roles had slowly emerged.
Among them, the most looked-down-on role was low-Rank melee DPS.
Their resentment had turned into blind support for L4GS.
After all, he was practically the only melee DPS who had accomplished anything, and he did not seem to use any high-Rank Skills.
It was actually an accurate analysis, but melee classes already burdened with so much frustration could not help getting angry.
Then, around twenty minutes later.
1st) L4GOAT
The top issue post on Gaksalbeop had been replaced by that post.
Its contents were as simple as its title.
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(Video)
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It was just a short edited clip.
It showed two Orcs being butchered in an instant.
Naturally, the users’ reactions exploded.
Just minutes ago, they had been saying he could only kill Goblins.
Now, the mood in the comments had completely changed.
-Oh, it’s big bro. <(_ _)/
-Damn.
-Fuck, I believed in you!!
-Wow, he’s a Hero...
-Fuck, he’s insanely strong.
-Where are the people calling us “geuns” now?
-Where did the bastards saying Kang Hae-il was stronger go? Lmao
└Kang Hae-il is stronger.
└Then why is he still struggling against one Orc?
-Wow, he’s way too strong.
-Can melee classes become that strong too?
-He isn’t even using any special Skills, so why is he so strong?
Everyone was stunned by his absurd strength.
Who could have imagined that a named monster regarded as a national crisis would be cut down in one strike?
“Damn it.”
Even Ram, who had created this, had not imagined it.
“He took them both down with one stroke?”
Kang Hae-il was supposed to appear when Yoo Ji-hoon’s party was falling apart.
Instead, L4GS appeared and sliced them apart in one stroke.
“What kind of fucking bug is this!? Just how strong is he!?”
Yulian’s strength had become impossible to predict.
On the other hand, why was Yoo Ji-hoon’s party, which should have been much stronger, doing this badly?
“And why is Yoo Ji-hoon’s party already falling apart?”
Based on Yoo Ji-hoon’s combat ability, the entire party should not have been overwhelmed by two Orcs.
But today, they were far too weak.
“It seems they were weakened after Kang Hae-il roasted them with fire earlier... because of their ice affinity...”
“Damn it!”
Ram clutched her head.
“Yulian, you bastard!”
Thud!
Knowing that Yulian was responsible for that little fire stunt made Ram’s blood boil.
“B-But what do we do, Ram? Can Yoo Ji-hoon withstand the next crisis?”
“...”
“Should we cancel it?”
Ram did not answer.
“Hae-il has to save him, at least.”
“B-But...”
Yoo Ji-hoon and Kang Hae-il’s story was quite important.
They were rivals and companions who recognized each other.
Yoo Ji-hoon was far too necessary a Supporting Character.
“Proceed. Hae-il will manage somehow.”
Yoo Ji-hoon would face danger, and Kang Hae-il would save him.
That plan had not changed.
* * *
Clack!
Jun-il sheathed his sword and thought.
‘The Orcs’ traits... are completely identical.’
The Necromancer, Dark Mage, demon, Goblins, and everything else he had encountered so far matched Fairy Corporation’s basic settings exactly.
The Orcs were no exception.
That was why Jun-il dealt with the Orcs far more easily than his actual strength would suggest.
Orcs were aggressive and possessed high combat intelligence, but they had one fatal weakness.
They did not focus much on defense.
‘They think properly guarding vital spots is unmanly.’
Even an Orc body built like a sturdy tank had weak points.
‘The neck, ankles, wrists...’
Their weak points might differ somewhat from a human’s.
Since merely cutting Orc skin was difficult, he had to target areas with thinner skin and narrower bones.
This was practically butchery rather than combat.
No matter how sharp Mana Blade was, Orcs also protected themselves with demonic energy. That made targeting their weak points all the more important.
‘Well, it’s far too easy for me.’
He was only the Goblin Slayer here.
In one of his runs, Yulian had even been called the Scourge of Orcs.
‘Now there’s just one left?’
Jun-il walked toward the remaining Orc.
Even at a glance, it was the strongest of the three and had the highest level.
Kang Hae-il was fighting it desperately, but it was not easy.
In terms of firepower, Hae-il was stronger than Jun-il.
‘If I aim right, I can take it down in one hit too.’
Yulian had the know-how.
If he aimed properly, he could finish even Kerak in one blow.
But then.
Beeeeep!
[Warning! Inheritance Overload!]
[Your body level is increasingly unable to withstand the Inheritance!]
[Please raise your level!]
‘Huh?’
That warning suddenly appeared.
He had been wondering why he had been sleeping more and feeling heavier lately.
So this was why.
“Damn it, my level...”
Jun-il muttered about his level without thinking.
“Hmph. Even if its level is high, it’s still just an Orc, isn’t it?”
Yoo Ji-hoon spoke up from beside him.
He had probably mistaken Jun-il for talking about Kerak’s higher level.
“What, you’re alive?”
“...Didn’t you save me?”
“No. Not at all. Why would you think that?”
-You did not respect the Porter.
-That’s harsh lmao.
-Why did you treat the Porter so badly, then?
They stared at each other as though both found the other ridiculous.
“You knew my name, though... You called out, ‘Hey, Yoo Ji-hoon!’”
“I just know it.”
“?”
-Fuck lmao.
-He must be happy L4GS knows his name lol.
-L4GS knows everyone. He just does.
“Am I that famous?”
Even L4GS knew him.
Yoo Ji-hoon smiled with considerable satisfaction.
“What are you talking about?”
Thwack!
L4GS kicked Yoo Ji-hoon’s wound.
“Argh!”
“Quit exaggerating.”
“D-Does this look like exaggeration to you!?”
Yoo Ji-hoon pointed angrily at the place where his arm had been cut off.
“I’m going to die at this rate!”
“You won’t die, you bastard.”
Do you think this is my first time beating someone?
Wham!
“Gyaaaaaah!”
Jun-il grabbed the groaning Yoo Ji-hoon by the collar and whispered menacingly.
“Yoo Ji-hoon.”
“...?”
“You’re nothing. You’re worse than an F-Rank. Got it?”
It was obviously just him venting his frustration.
-Fuck lmaoooo.
-He holds grudges lmao.
-Lmao.
-Hey, he’s L4GS right now. Calm down lol.
Yoo Ji-hoon’s eyes shook wildly as he trembled.
“Worse than an F-Rank? Is that something you can say to another person, L4GS!?”
“?”
As though he had heard something he was never meant to hear, Yoo Ji-hoon covered his ears and muttered in panic.
“He called me an F-Rank... L4GS was not a Hero...”
-Life must be hard as an F.
-Seriously, living as an F is brutal.
-How to Live as an F...
Jun-il was clearly the one who had insulted him.
Yet somehow, Jun-il was the one feeling hurt.
‘Damn it...’
In a sour mood, he walked toward Kang Hae-il.
‘Let’s finish off that Orc.’
* * *
Yoo Ji-hoon was badly injured.
He barely managed to move and lie down off to one side.
“Damn L4GS... It hurts even more because he hit my injuries...”
Grumbling, he leaned against a chunk of asphalt and looked across the street.
Kang Hae-il was fighting Kerak.
Massive flames engulfed Kerak, which pushed them away with wind before swinging enormous dual blades.
‘They’re definitely monsters.’
Both Kerak and Kang Hae-il were monsters.
‘But... what about the guy who killed two of them in one strike...?’
A monster above monsters who had killed two Orcs like that.
L4GS.
What was he, exactly?
Yoo Ji-hoon’s gaze settled on L4GS’s back as he walked toward Kang Hae-il.
“Ji-hoon oppa... are you okay?”
Gasp... gasp...
It was Seo-hee, one of his party members.
She could barely use one foot and had dragged herself over with difficulty.
Not only was her foot injured, she looked mentally dazed.
Her entire body was drenched in cold sweat, and her unfocused eyes drifted.
“We stopped all the Orcs, right?”
Even then, she asked whether they had completed their mission.
‘Didn’t she see?’
It seemed she did not even have the presence of mind to realize that L4GS had wiped them all out.
Ji-hoon simply nodded.
“Yeah. There’s one left, but reinforcements arrived... It’ll be fine.”
Kang Hae-il alone was already evenly matched with Kerak. With L4GS joining in, they would surely take it down quickly.
Or so he thought.
“Reinforcements...?”
“L4GS came.”
“Is that person over there?”
Jun-il stood where Seo-hee pointed.
Ji-hoon thought he was heading over to help Kang Hae-il, but he was just standing there and shouting at the top of his lungs.
“Ah, come on! That’s not how you do it!”
He was backseat coaching.
“Why would you turn left there? You don’t know anything, do you?”
‘What the hell is wrong with that guy...?’
Yoo Ji-hoon was dumbfounded.
What was he even doing?
‘Kang Hae-il probably can’t even hear him.’
In truth, Kang Hae-il was probably too focused on fighting to hear L4GS’s advice.
L4GS was never trying to make Kang Hae-il hear it in the first place.
He wanted Kang Hae-il’s Constellations to hear.
“Even if I ran in, I’d do better than you. Tsk tsk...”
-Wow... That bastard, seriously.
-LMAOOOO.
-I’m really grinding my teeth here.
-That is true, though.
-Fuck.
-Can someone shut that bastard up???
-He’s pissing me off.
It was a kind of viewer shakeout.
He wanted Kang Hae-il’s Constellations to get sick of him and leave.
‘Wow. You’re still cheering for Kang Hae-il after this? You’re tough. Really tough.’
Raising his Constellation count was difficult, but shaking viewers off was not as easy as it sounded either.
That was why he needed to pull stunts like this from time to time.
To make them furious enough to leave.
Jun-il’s Constellations, meanwhile, had split cleanly into two groups.
-Interfering now would hurt their relationship.
-Tsk tsk. He’s respecting Kang Hae-il’s duel.
-You just watch here.
-L4Dad is raising Hae-il to be strong.
Some fanatics could spin anything into a flattering interpretation.
Others urged him to hurry up and save Kang Hae-il.
-He’s going to die, you bastard!
-Help him!
-Why is he doing this? Lmao.
-His personality is insane.
-Wow... Legendary lmao.
-The backseat coaching is crazy lmao.
That was how steadily Kang Hae-il was being pushed back by Kerak.
‘You dare come into L4GS’s stream and cheer for Kang Hae-il?’
Jun-il acted petty for no real reason.
“Ah, come to think of it, should I go in after Kang Hae-il dies? Then I’ll be number one, right?”
The Hero took a hard line as he tamed the Constellations.
Sure enough.
Bzzzt!
[Hidden Quest]
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Objective: Defeat the Orc with Hae-il!
Reward: Experience Points gained within 1 hour x3
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Quite a few Constellations must have thought L4GS really would not go help.
A Quest had suddenly appeared.
‘Triple experience?’
It was an incredible reward, exactly what Jun-il needed right now.
Footnotes:
“L4GOAT” recreates the post title’s alteration of L4GS with “GOAT,” meaning “greatest of all time.”
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