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Reincarnator’s Stream
[Translator – SCM]
[Proofreader – ilafy]
Chapter 46
"Woah, he's really something."
Crunch—
Yeryeong ate potato chips as she headed downstream on a boat and watched Su-hyeok’s stream on the kit in her other hand.
"Does he really intend to clear the dungeon by himself?"
Of course, he probably wouldn't be truly alone. Even if they weren't players, there were probably mercenaries willing to tackle the Thunder Cave, and Su-hyeok didn't have the authority to exclude such people.
Considering Su-hyeok's reputation, it shouldn't have been hard for him to form a team of excellent players.
Even if there weren't many players who chose the Conrad Kingdom, there was no way he wouldn't have been able to find 20 people. By making his statement, Su-hyeok had isolated himself.
"He's really just like Su-hyeok, except that he's doing this for a mission."
Crunch—
The stream ended faster than expected. After securing the recommendation letter,
Su-hyeok suddenly made a bombshell announcement. "I'm not interested in the other trial. I think I'll take a break from streaming until then."
- Didn't you say you were too busy to do collaborations??
- [This chat has been blocked due to profanity.]
- What??
Despite the viewers' complaints, Su-hyeok's resolve was firm.
['Lee Su-hyeok' has ended the stream.]
The viewers stayed for a while, expressing their dissatisfaction.
Kim Yeryeong was equally taken aback. She had intended to kill some time while watching the stream during her journey. Who would have thought the stream would end so quickly?
That surprise was short-lived.
"Pf!" She let out a small laugh. "Hahaha! He really is something." Rather than thinking it was funny, she was reminded of her long-time friend.
'It really feels like Su-hyeok is the one streaming.' The Su-hyeok Yeryeong remembered always did things the way he wanted, regardless of what other people thought.
In that sense, streamer Lee Su-hyeok was very similar to the original one. Although he had a successful career as a streamer, he never acted like a clown for more views.
Of course… 'If he really were Su-hyeok, he wouldn't be streaming in the first place.’
If you succeeded as a player, wealth and fame would naturally follow. Moreover, Su-hyeok wasn't the type of person who enjoyed public attention. His being a streamer was as incompatible as oil and water.
'The only problem is that he's too similar.' Of course, he evoked a strong sense of nostalgia through a medium that didn’t even suit the original Su-hyeok.
She kept staring at the blank screen for a while.
Suddenly, Yeryeong thought to herself, 'He's probably going to join the tournament too.'
"I hope he doesn’t win."
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When Su-hyeok turned off the stream and stepped outside, his manager, Un-hyang, was waiting for him.
A normal manager would have scolded him for what he'd just done, but she did the opposite and praised him instead.
"Well done. That's exactly what your namesake would’ve done. Ending it there was a hundred times better than solving trivial quests like a clown."
She was an avid fan of the original Lee Su-hyeok, and that also made Un-hyang the most suitable person to be his manager.
"The viewers seemed displeased." Su-hyeok checked the chat and saw viewers who had remained after the stream ended.
Un-hyang firmly shook her head. "It will be okay."
"Are you sure?"
"If you'd stayed there completing ordinary requests, that would have just diminished the uniqueness of the stream."
Although this approach wasn't suitable for most people, it was the right one for Lee Su-hyeok. He was a streamer, but he needed to look like the real deal to his viewers.
Un-hyang had even sent a whisper to Su-hyeok while he was pondering how to use the remaining stream time.
Her whisper had been the nail in the coffin for his decision. He’d been debating whether to continue streaming or not, and he ended it after that.
His next stream would probably be during the 3rd-floor tournament, and the one after that, during the Thunder Cave raid.
"It was all thanks to your advice," Su-hyeok said.
"What are you going to do now? You ended the stream as soon as I told you to do whatever you wanted."
"I plan to do some hunting for a while. I need to level up a bit."
Thunder Cave was a dungeon that even Su-hyeok had never attempted to clear before. Although he had some information, he still needed to prepare as much as possible.
'I need to test how much lightning I can use with my current stats.' In his previous life, Su-hyeok was obsessed with his Stamina stat and even wielded a holy sword. His other equipment was also heavily focused on it.
Things had changed in his new life—He had Selfish Sacrifice, and most importantly, he had the 'Lightning Heart' he'd gotten on the 2nd floor.
'I'm looking forward to it.' He still had plenty of time until the tournament. 'I wonder how powerful it will be.'
The Lightning Heart was said to have been made so that humans could control lightning. He wondered how effective the item would be.
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To climb higher, a player had to hunt.
Hunting was less efficient than passing a trial, and it involved a risk to one’s life. Even so, exceptional players—and those commonly called rankers—didn’t shy away from it.
That was all in the name of passing the trials.
"Why do I hunt? That's a really dumb question." Su-hyeok had even spoken about it in an interview in his past life. "If you fail a trial, you ultimately gain nothing. All the rewards are reset, and even the levels you gained there are lost."
Excellent players didn't neglect hunting because it helped ensure they could keep the rewards they earned in trials.
"The trials make us stronger, but to take advantage of them, you must hunt. Hunting is the driving force behind doing well in trials. The moment you fear for your life enough to stop hunting marks your end as a player."
'Although I said that, I was too concentrated on streams to hunt.’
Crack—!
Su-hyeok kicked a spider, bursting its body.
The ‘Anacre's Dungeon’ was a 3rd-floor dungeon with quite a high level of difficulty. Typically, parties of 10 people tackled it. It was hard to hunt without an area skill due to the sheer number of monsters.
Ssrik, ssrik—
Dadada—
Spiders approached him from all directions, letting out eerie shrieks. Between them, many red eyes glowed in the dark depths of the cave.
"So you've come."
The master of the dungeon, the ‘Anacre’, was leading its offspring to attack him.
Bzz—
['Lightning' permeates the 'Nameless Magic Sword.']
['Selfish Sacrifice lv.4' resists the damage from 'Lightning'.]
Bright-yellow electricity lit up the dark dungeon. Using his Stamina and Magic Power, the lightning Su-hyeok released featured a level of destructiveness beyond his stats.
['Lightning's Heart' resists the damage from 'Lightning'.]
[+20% ‘Lightning’ effect.]
[Status: You've resisted ‘Shock’.]
WHOOM—
The tip of Su-hyeok’s sword emitted a thunderous noise, and a faint smile appeared on his lips. Though it was faint, it was definitely the same thunder from his past life.
Flash—!
WHOOM—!
A yellow slash stretched out from the tip of Su-hyeok’s descending sword, sweeping away and burning the spiders around him.
They weren't his target. After clearing the path, he raised his sword high and charged forward.
"Got you."
Flash—!
Following a streak of lightning, the spider boss’s body fell into two pieces.
Slash—
[You've defeated 'Anacre's Offspring.']
[You've defeated 'Anacre's Offspring'.]
[…]
[You've defeated 'Anacre.']
[Your level has increased.]
[+1 Strength.]
[+1 Concentration.]
[+1 Magic Power.]
Such messages always made him feel good, but something else caught his attention.
Dozens of charred spiders littered the cave, and heat from the lightning lingered on the walls.
The damage output was considerable. It was hard to believe he’d killed dozens of monsters and cut down the dungeon boss in a single strike, but his condition was even more surprising.
"Woah…"
His eyes wide open in surprise, Su-hyeok looked down at his hand and noticed it trembling.
It was a side effect from having used too much of the Lightning skill’s power. Though it was noticeable, considering the damage he’d done, it wasn’t too bad.
His Selfish Sacrifice was at level four. Thanks to the increased resistance from the Lightning's Heart, his resistance to electricity had increased, and he was immune to shocks.
'If I push things, I think I could do way more than this.' Of course, he was already aware of what Selfish Sacrifice did, but he hadn’t expected the Lightning’s Heart to have an effect greater than its stats suggested.
Immunity to electric shocks… Although it was focused on a single attribute, there was nothing more important to him.
'An item created by humans to defeat gods…' He took the Lightning's Heart out of his inventory and fiddled with it. The item was a gem glowing with a brilliant yellow light. As expected, he still couldn't fully grasp the power contained within.
'I wonder if it's true.' He recalled what Felius had said.
"The gods and giants… those great beings don’t dare directly war against each other with their power. This is a weapon made to fight and defeat them."
The explanation was quite grand. Moreover, there was no way such an item would appear on the 2nd floor.
Su-hyeok noticed the description.
# Rank: Unique (Growth)
It meant that the item could be further enhanced in the future.
'That means there's still more left to be unlocked.' The problem was that he had no idea how to further enhance it. He also didn't have a way to gather information.
Where could he get information about an item nobody in the world had ever seen before? He had already spent quite some time searching up the Lightning's Heart on his kit.
"I have no choice but to go in blind."
It seemed like he had gained another task. Although he had wielded the Lightning skill for a while, he had never stopped to think about what it truly was—he’d just assumed that it was a skill of a certain type.
Maybe he’d struggled to wield it because he never properly used it to begin with. Su-hyeok grasped the Lightning's Heart tightly.
There was no need to think that far ahead yet. All he could do was focus on what needed to be done in the present.
'I've always been frustrated about needing to conserve my Stamina while hunting.'
Hunting… He no longer needed to take long breaks to recover Stamina while hunting and could continue without pausing.
'Four more days.'
Su-hyeok grinned at the four days that had been granted to him for the first time in a while.
"Shall I level up a bit?"
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