Chapter 47
[??? : Why is the standard so strict just for me!]
[Where did you learn that weird thing again?]
[A growing monster Mollru ㄷㄷ]
[It’s almost a “Celebrity Mollru”]
[Almost like an internet ghost]
[Mollru is a person too! A person!]
[Ah, haha, right, it’s a person]
[‘Humanity’]
[Wasn’t it a lactating monster?]
[It’s a human~]
[If you’re a human, why can’t we see your face?]
[Oh ho]
[Seriously, if you’re a person, show your face]
[At least show your hands]
[Hands?]
[Cam]
[We need to see how you use your hands ㅇㅇ]
[How can those plays come out with those hands?]
[Hands]
[I’m curious ^^]
[Cam]
Chat messages flood in.
The destination of their excited chatter was clear.
They wanted me to show my hands.
“Wow, they only unite like this during these times.”
Even after saying multiple times during the stream and putting up notices since the tournament, numerous requests kept coming.
The most common request was for a cam stream, and if that wasn’t possible, a half-cam that shows the upper body of Dullahan.
Or to go back to the basics and use hand cam.
Since my first stream was a hand cam, I suppose that could be called the basics.
However, that was just to clear up suspicions of hacks, and I had no intention of using it again in the future.
And yet…
[Mollru's Pig Soup donated 10,000 won!]
-But seriously, if you upload a guide video with a hand cam to YouTube, it would go viral, and you’d look like a pro.
Is that so?
In fact, pro gamers and those recognized as masters often use hand cams while playing.
Even if it’s proven that I wasn’t hacking, viewers are curious about how those hands move.
And there might be those who find it helpful to see the hand movements for their play.
I was surprised when I watched it myself.
How those hands moved in every direction and ended up tangled like a pretzel.
Plus, it’s better to have something to look at than just a voice-over gaming video for YouTube.
No matter how flashy the graphics in Dragon Road are.
The more I thought about it, the more rational it seemed to turn on the hand cam.
I stretched out my pure white palm in thought.
But hearing these people’s words made me feel like I was losing, so I just flailed and hit the keyboard instead.
[Balak is dismembering a corpse;]
[Shit, look at the blood splatter]
[Splitting the body ㄷㄷ]
[The meat chunk is mashing up]
[Did they implement this too?]
[The graphics are insane]
[(For real, it’s crazy)]
[Ugh, gross]
[Why is she acting like this all of a sudden?]
[What a taste]
[The atmosphere turned gory all of a sudden]
[Please practice corpse manners, teacher]
I stared blankly, then suddenly glanced at the chat and was startled enough to pull my hands off the keyboard.
“Ah, yes. That’s… because it was the one that defied me. I made it an example.”
[Action completed]
[Injecting fear…]
[But it’s already dead?]
[Mollru, who has no blood or tears ㄷㄷ]
[So you really were yakuza, huh?]
[Brother, come back to the organization]
[Balak showed respect as a knight, though]
[Ah, Balak, he was a good knight]
I was just pressing random buttons while lost in thought, and before I knew it, I was acting like a psychopath.
Maybe it’s because the graphics are so realistic; it really gives off a gory vibe.
It’s a 19+ game, so it should be fine. I can edit this part later.
Clearing my throat, I hesitantly brought up the main topic.
“Um, should I turn on the cam…?”
[What?]
[Out of the blue?]
[Please turn it on, please turn it on, please turn it on, please turn it on, please turn it on, please turn it on, please turn it on]
[Going going going going going]
[Extreme]
[Yes]
[Balak’s full cam declaration ㄷㄷ mark your coordinates]
[What is it, half-cam or hand-cam]
[It’ll be hand-cam, of course]
Feeling pushed by the atmosphere, I wanted to do it, but excessive demands for a cam had me recalling notices saying it could lead to a ban, so I just poked the bear and then went quiet.
In the end, I had no choice but to speak first.
“Well, because it feels like a guide stream, I thought using a hand cam wouldn’t be bad. Ryuah needs to watch and learn too.”
[Can you really follow just by watching ㅋㅋ]
[How did Ryuah just do that?]
[Mollru doesn’t understand human emotions…]
[After seeing Balak stabbing a corpse earlier, I think it’s kind of psychotic ㅇㅇ]
[She freaked out watching the dismemberment ㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[There are indeed those who understand better by seeing hand movements]
[Lots of strange people, huh]
[So you’re saying you’re turning on the hand cam?]
[Show your hand cam]
[Finally get to see something good after a while]
“Please don’t say such uncle-like things. It makes me not want to.”
I connected the cam, which I had tucked away, and adjusted its position.
It showed just my hands.
As I turned on the cam, I tried to ignore the responses that started and continued speaking.
“Let’s continue the guide. Please follow along.”
*
“From here on is an area I’ve never seen before.”
A volcanic area with red lava bubbling up.
If you fall in, you wouldn’t even be able to collect your bones; the heat radiated into the air.
Mollru traversed the rocky outcrops rising between the thick lava river.
As she stepped out from the lava river, the knight halted at a crossroads.
“Which way should we go?”
[Well, I don’t know ㅋㅋ]
[Wasn’t this a guide stream?]
[Left or right?]
[Oh ho]
[Let’s just decide it tastes like Coca-Cola]
[Guess you’re lost]
“I’ll just go left, if nothing happens, I can respawn.”
It’s better to encounter enemies than this.
Finding a way in such randomness is practically a shot in the dark, isn’t it?
I’m not saying I’m bad with directions, absolutely not.
No one navigates perfectly on their first try, right?
However, I realized I had taken the wrong path hardly a few minutes after passing the fork.
The surroundings changed dramatically; it felt like something was off about the scenery.
“It feels a bit eerie. What’s going to pop out as a boss?”
The bosses that appear at every stage resemble their surroundings.
Just like the huge knight Balak appearing in a majestic building, and the fire-breathing lizard appearing in the lava zone I just passed; this time would probably also be affected by the environment.
This place is a graveyard.
Skulls and other bones are strewn about, and graves are lined up.
As for what boss might appear here…
“Is it going to be a necromancer or a lich or something?”
[I’ve never seen this route ㄷㄷ]
[So someone actually comes here]
[Graveyard is tough ㅋㅋ]
[Actually, it’s a good thing]
[I heard this has been programmed to be unbeatable]
[It’s set up like that ㅇㅇ]
“Oh really? What’s the boss then?”
[Well, the boss is…]
[Yes…]
[I’ve told you~]
[Unity is off the charts]
[Good]
I asked, but I honestly didn’t expect much.
This kind of polite question felt more like asking if they had their meals.
They only showed cooperation when I turned on the upper body cam during the tournament.
At least they didn’t throw me awkward compliments about having pretty hands or skin; that’s a relief.
I think there were some comments like that when I first turned on the cam, but as the game progressed, I ignored them, and they disappeared.
“The path goes deeper in. It looks like the boss will show up if I keep going.”
As I entered the graveyard, skeleton soldiers appeared.
As the story progressed, even the minor enemies became considerably stronger.
Their bones were so hard that I had to attack multiple times to take them down.
The pattern wasn’t particularly difficult, but they had an absurd amount of health.
Clearing the obstacles blocking the path and entering the center of the graveyard, a staircase appeared.
It seemed to lead down, and there was a huge coffin blocking it.
It lay slightly askew, and the marks on the floor showed someone had moved it to use the hidden stairs.
This gigantic coffin stood alone without anything inscribed on its gravestone, unlike the others.
How far had I gone down the stairs?
A vast hollow chamber opened up.
“Basement?”
[This atmosphere is insane]
[It looks like human experiments]
[It’s time for a crazy scientist to show up]
[It’s the classic rule for sure ㄹㅇ ㅋㅋ]
The graveyard above seemed to have been a smokescreen; below, there were not skulls but just a few corpses lined up on the ground.
But they were nothing like humans.
Bruised and a faint purple hue stretched across their skin, bulging out in patches, and their eyes were completely filled with white, leaving no hint of pupils.
The appearance like it was a madman only heightened the anticipation for the boss we were about to meet.
“I want to stop playing tag now.”
Maybe it was because I took the wrong path, but this stage took unusually long to traverse.
As both the audience and I felt the drag, the awaited encounter finally unfolded.
-A new specimen has crawled into its lair…
A skeleton dressed like a magician in a robe and leaning on a staff spoke ominously, with blue light glowing from its eyes.
“The atmosphere is incredibly sinister.”
Without hesitation, I charged straight at it.