𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟖𝟕
“Sigh, I shouldn’t have gone.”
When I think about it, this all happened because I was interested in the main scenario.
If I hadn’t paid attention to the main scenario and just focused on my own tasks, I wouldn’t have had to go through this hardship.
‘More importantly, why didn’t that Aizen guy fight?’
If Aizen had joined the battle against the Apostle, the outcome might have been different.
Thinking about it again made me naturally angry.
Should I contact him right away and argue?
The thought crossed my mind for a moment, but I soon decided against it.
It was because the words of the guild member who shouted to run away at the last moment came to mind.
Besides, no one questioned Aizen about why he wasn’t fighting.
‘It seems like he intentionally didn’t fight.’
If I was really curious, I could contact Aizen and ask him.
But I didn’t want to find out that badly, so I decided to leave it at that and instead recalled the Apostle I had fought earlier.
‘If that cave is related to the main scenario……’
The Apostle would be the gatekeeper protecting the main scenario area.
The problem was that if the first boss I encountered in the main scenario was that strong, I couldn’t even imagine the enemies that would appear later.
How could I become stronger?
I had already learned all 20 skills, so only leveling up remained.
Should I get better equipment then?
My weapons and armor were already top-tier, so if I could just get better accessories, there was a chance I could become stronger than I am now.
The problem was Rare grade. I wanted to get a set of Rare items, but such items were hard to even find, let alone obtain.
“……Should I enhance the Demon King’s weapon first?”
Just in case, I opened the Cash Transaction Window to see if there were any Rare Enhancement Stones, but as expected, there weren’t.
It seemed like someone was buying them up whenever they appeared.
Or maybe they were using them themselves as soon as they got them.
‘Well, it’s not an unreasonable thought.’
Rare Enhancement Stones weren’t just for enhancing to +15.
They also had the effect of increasing the enhancement success rate, so it was highly likely that people would use them on their own equipment as soon as they got them.
Still, Magic-grade Enhancement Stones were easy to obtain, so enhancing the Demon King’s weapon and cloak shouldn’t be too much of a concern.
‘Then let’s get moving.’
I decided to go out to buy Enhancement Stones, but before I could even do that, the door opened.
“Oh? You were here?”
The person who opened the door and came in as if it were their own house was Raz.
It’s been a while, hasn’t it?
It seemed like it had been over a week.
Anyway, looking at Raz, I suddenly noticed the food she was holding in her hands.
“What? You don’t even greet me after seeing me for the first time in a while?”
“Ah, right. What have you been up to?”
“Hidden quest. I’ve been struggling to clear it. Thanks to that, I got some pretty good rewards though. But you’ve been amazing lately, haven’t you? Making a name for yourself here and there.”
Perhaps because it had been a while since we last met, Raz seemed more talkative than usual.
Anyway, I answered her questions one by one and asked her what I was curious about.
“But what’s that in your hand?”
“Can’t you tell? It’s food.”
Who wouldn’t know it’s food? I meant why did she bring food.
Seeing as she was holding it in her hands instead of putting it in her Item Storage, I figured her Item Storage was probably full of food as well.
Also, since she probably wouldn’t understand what I meant, I had to rephrase my question.
“No, I mean why did you buy food?”
“Ah, the broadcast is about to start. I bought it to eat while watching.”
“Broadcast?”
The word “broadcast” reminded me of the live broadcast feature that was recently patched in.
Is someone broadcasting?
I thought it wouldn’t be the Emperor Guild since we ended the battle by running away, so I thought of other guilds.
“Well, even if it’s a broadcast, can you watch it here?”
“Of course. You can watch it inside Twilight if you connect through the homepage. That’s why I bought all this food.”
“……”
If she wanted to eat and watch, why not do it in reality? Why bother doing it in the game?
I looked at Raz with mixed feelings.
“What’s wrong?”
“No, I mean, if you want to eat and watch, you can just do it in reality. Why do you need to do it in the game?”
“I can’t. I’ll get fat.”
At Raz’s resolute words, I unconsciously nodded.
Right, there’s no problem with eating as much as you want here, so I understood her intention.
And when I thought about it without prejudice, it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.
‘Come to think of it, I’m curious about the broadcast too.’
It’s probably the first broadcast, isn’t it?
If the Emperor Guild had started broadcasting, it would be a different story, but since they didn’t, it’s probably the first broadcast.
Besides, it’s a good thing the Emperor Guild didn’t start broadcasting.
If they had, the scene of us being defeated by the Apostle would have been known to everyone.
“How can I watch the broadcast?”
“You want to watch it too? I’m telling you in advance, but I can’t give you any of the food I bought.”
“……”
Alright, you’re so stingy, I’ll go buy my own.
* * *
In the end, I went out, bought some food, and returned home. When I asked Raz how to connect to the broadcast, she kindly explained it to me.
Thanks to her, I was able to watch the broadcast inside Twilight, but there was one minor problem.
[You need a ticket to watch this broadcast.]
[Ticket: 5,000 won.]
[Remaining tickets: 1,583.]
“What? A ticket? You have to buy a ticket with money?”
Of course, 5,000 won is nothing compared to the money I’ve earned so far.
It’s practically pocket change.
But I said that because I was focused on the fact that they were making money through broadcasting, and Raz replied casually.
“Yeah, I heard that all the profits from the tickets go to the guild. Of course, they said it costs money to prepare the tickets, so they might not make a lot of profit, but that will probably improve gradually.”
‘So the guild has to prepare the tickets separately, and people who want to watch the broadcast have to buy those tickets.’
It felt like gambling.
If they prepared a lot of tickets but no one watched, they could actually lose money.
“Do you know how many tickets they initially prepared?”
“I think it was 20,000.”
‘Then they didn’t lose money.’
Let’s skip the cost of preparing the tickets, and just look at the sales figures, it’s huge.
They said 20,000 tickets, so roughly 17,500 tickets were sold. At 5,000 won per ticket, they earned over 80 million won.
Even so, 80 million won from a single broadcast?
‘It seems like you can set the ticket price yourself too.’
If done well, the guild that got the broadcasting rights could potentially make a huge profit. With that thought, I paid 5,000 won and bought a ticket.
Since I bought a ticket, I could watch the broadcast, but since it hadn’t started yet, there was nothing on the screen.
Instead, chatting was possible, and there were messages popping up at a frightening speed on the side.
━When is it going to start?!
━I thought the Emperor Guild would find it first, but the Crow Guild found it first.
━There’s a rumor that the Emperor Guild found it too.
━If it’s the Crow Guild, is it that guild in the Ronda Kingdom?
━That’s right. It’s the guild in the Ronda Kingdom.
━But why isn’t the Emperor Guild broadcasting?
━They found it today, so maybe they’ll advertise and start tomorrow?
Anyway, I waited for a while, reading the messages, and then a light appeared on the black screen, indicating that something was starting.
‘Is it a desert?’
The background looked like a desert, and there were stairs leading down to what appeared to be ruins.
After seeing the players, who numbered at least a few hundred, I realized that they had turned on the broadcast only after finding the way using the Exploration Skill.
“It seems like they found the way.”
“The way? Was it difficult to find?”
“According to Aizen, you need at least a B-rank Exploration Skill to find it.”
“B-rank?”
Raz’s surprised voice could be heard, but I was more focused on the screen showing the broadcast.
Interestingly, you could adjust the viewing angle by clicking the icon in the bottom right corner of the screen.
‘That’s amazing.’
To be able to adjust the angle I’m viewing from?
Anyway, after adjusting it to a suitable angle to see the front, I saw the players slowly moving.
━Entering.
‘Come to think of it, is this guild called the Crow Guild?’
Since they’re progressing through the main scenario and even started broadcasting, the Crow Guild must be one of the top 10 guilds in the Ronda Kingdom.
And if this wasn’t the path to the main scenario, I was curious about what would happen to the Crow Guild afterwards.
‘They’ll just be resented by the viewers.’
Anyway, as I was watching the Crow Guild enter, a giant centipede and monsters armed with faded armor popped out and attacked them.
“Wow, those monsters look really strong. Aren’t they going to be wiped out?”
“I don’t know.”
On the screen, a ‘Large Ore Centipede’ was moving around, sweeping away the Crow Guild members.
And the gray knights were also playing their part in fighting the Crow Guild, so it felt like they might be wiped out.
But it was only because they didn’t know how to deal with the monsters since they were seeing them for the first time.
As proof of that, the Crow Guild, which had been pushed back at first, gradually started to pressure the monsters, and soon they were able to defeat all the monsters that had attacked them.
━I thought they were going to be wiped out from the beginning.
━But is this really the way to the main scenario? Or what’s going to happen?
━They’ll be ruined. I’ll never watch this again.
━They’re good at killing those monsters that look strong.
“Come to think of it, isn’t the Emperor Guild doing the main scenario?”
“They did. They got stuck on the boss monster and couldn’t progress.”
“Oh? Then why didn’t they broadcast?”
“I don’t know. But it would have been troublesome if they did, right? They were almost wiped out by the final boss.”
“Isn’t it because you weren’t there?”
“What are you talking about? I fought.”
Raz looked at me with surprised eyes, as if she couldn’t believe that I fought and lost.
But she didn’t stop eating, so I thought she was quite talented.
“If you fought and lost, the boss must have been really strong?”
“It wasn’t that it was strong, but rather that the matchup was bad.”
To reiterate, it was difficult to deal with opponents that were faster than me.
I learned Soul Shackles and Earth’s Dynamics to deal with such opponents, but if even those two didn’t work, it was virtually impossible to win.
‘It would have been good if I could have used the skills that Daylont Harpe learned.’
If I could move as fast as Daylont Harpe and use Thunder Strike, I could have easily defeated the Apostle.
But it was just a thought, so it was difficult to actually do it.
Anyway, just when the battle was starting to get boring, they finally seemed to have arrived, and at the end of the path, there was a figure sitting down, presumed to be the boss.
[Beluin’s 28th Apostle (Boss)]
’28th?’
The Apostle I fought was the 26th, so this one was two levels lower.
And seeing the Apostle appear, it seemed like the path that the Emperor Guild and the Crow Guild found was indeed the path to the main scenario area.
“It’s an Apostle? Did you lose to that guy too?”
“The one I fought was the 26th, though.”
And unlike the Apostle I fought, this one was holding a huge sword.
Seeing the Apostle holding a greatsword, the Crow Guild prepared for battle, and I watched with interest.
‘Is this guy pushing with Strength instead of Agility?’
As soon as I thought that, about 10 Crow Guild members were knocked down in an instant.
Upon closer inspection, when the Apostle swung the greatsword horizontally, the length of the greatsword increased by at least 6-7 meters.
Moreover, the Apostle seemed to possess considerable strength, as even when the players blocked the greatsword, they were still being blown back.
‘I have a feeling they’re going to lose.’
There wasn’t a single person among the tanks who could stop the Apostle.
The relatively fast players were creating diversions, and the players in the rear were casting magic, but it didn’t seem to be dealing much damage.
Furthermore, the Apostle’s attack power was so great that the tanks blocking in the front were dying in two or three hits.
In reality, there was no one who could hold the Apostle back.
━Wow~ He’s going on a rampage.
━The sword gets incredibly big every time he swings it.
━I think this is a loss.
In the end, the Crow Guild, unable to defeat the Apostle, decided to retreat, and the chat was flooded with criticism.
Thinking that this criticism would have been directed at the Emperor Guild if we had started broadcasting, I couldn’t help but feel relieved.
‘By the way, the Crow Guild Master is running away too.’
Aizen ran away, and now the Crow Guild Master was running away too.
“But why are they running away? They’re being criticized so much.”
I could hear the answer from Raz next to me.
“Huh? Didn’t you know? If the person who received the main scenario dies, the scenario disappears.”
“Ah, the main scenario disappears if you die?”
“That’s why they’re running away like that.”
That explains why that Aizen guy just watched without fighting and then ran away with a Return Scroll.
Fortunately, I realized the reason, but I don’t think I’ll be able to forget the fact that he ran away like that for a while.
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