Chapter 17: What? The Hunting Grounds Are Restricted?

With a cheerful login sound, a character appears.

It’s the manager’s character.

[That nickname lol]
[Jiwon, is this for real? lol]
[Habitual public humiliation lol]

Phew, after shaming the manager once, the chat topic quickly changed.

She brought it upon herself, so I didn’t feel particularly sorry.

Hmph, the manager should get a taste of her own medicine.

[JiwonNyanNyan-nim, why aren’t you chatting?]
[Hey, are you crying?]
[lol]

I checked the viewer list, wondering if the manager’s chat log had gone silent.

Oh dear, she couldn’t handle it and ran away?

The manager had fled.

In other words, it could be called my victory.

“Anyway, the game for today is DunLan, and as you can tell from the nickname, I’ve borrowed the manager’s account.”

Not long after logging into the game, the map started to swarm with other characters’ characters.

They were viewers who had seen me log in and followed me right in.

Ugh, if my computer wasn’t high-spec, it would have crashed in an instant.

I quickly changed maps and continued speaking.

“I won’t be playing for long… today I’m just planning on exploring.”

[Go see Kerning Valley Balrog]
[Let’s go catch Zakum]
[Let’s recreate the Kerning City catastrophe]

It seems everyone had a lot of memories of the old Dungeon Story, as various ideas began to come out.

[Thank you for your 1,000 won donation, ‘Black’-nim!]
[Ah, all the old-timers have come out]

[Let’s kick that b*stard out]
[Student, take down that donation..^^]
[Kids, get out]

Hmm, are they fighting amongst themselves now?

Or is it not? Was the person who made that donation just the one who threw the first punch?

Anyway, it doesn’t matter who hit first.

Only the owner of that donation, who dared to call me an old-timer, would be temporarily banned.

“You’re quite rude. How dare you mention old-timers after seeing old Dun?”

[Kyaa]
[This is it]
[Go and reflect]

Everyone’s reaction was similar.

It’s natural since most of them are probably around my age.

I think anyone would be like that if their memories were treated as relics of a bygone era.

That being said… why are there so many people?

To think they’d stick to me like this even after I changed maps.

I think I made a mistake by starting the broadcast after dinner time.

Since it has come to this, I have no choice but to enter a private map.

“Alright, I’m taking recommendations for what to do.”

[Thank you for your 2,000 won donation, ‘TrueNataDog’-nim!]
[Let’s release the Black Bundle in Kerning City]

“Ahem, that’s not allowed. I’ll be immortalized on the incident board.”

[Thank you for your 2,000 won donation, ‘TrueNataDog’-nim!]
[Then let’s go catch Zakum]

“You want to go catch Zakum?”

Zakum, a monster that once held the position of the final boss in Dungeon Story.

In a word, they wanted to see me fumble and die like a loser.

But do you think I’ll fall for that?

The number of Zakums I caught when I was in elementary school is in the double digits.

With my more nimble fingers, I don’t think I’ll be worse than back then.

“Alright, anyone who wants to join the raid, send me a whisper.”

[She’s bluffing]
[Upvote if you’re looking forward to Naru getting destroyed lol]
[Alright, let’s go~]

As time passed, people began to gather one by one.

[zZoneMage]: Team 1 ready
[tFlawlesslyClearCloud]: Team 2 also ready
[HyejinPrincess]: Team 3 is ready too
[FallenPowerAngel]: Let’s go once Naru-nim gets the party invite

The mercenaries gathered in no time.

Perhaps because it was dinner time, there were many people with high specs.

“Alright, Loser-kuns, deploy!”

The map changed, and a giant stone statue began to appear.

It was the raid boss, Zakum.

“You all know the order to break the arms, right?”

[These people have all done regular raids lol]
[Naru-naru, you just have to be careful]
[My conscience hurts]

To think they all distrust the host like this.

I wonder what their reaction will be later.

We smoothly chipped away at Zakum’s health using the standard method.

It seems my old memories haven’t flown away.

Despite it being a raid I hadn’t done in a long time, I also did more than my share.

“See, I told you I’d carry, right?”

[She’s pretty good]
[Good-at-games streamer, for real]
[Something that takes 1 second to catch on the main server takes 30 minutes here lol]

Right, the atmosphere is starting to change now, isn’t it?

Feeling good about the changed atmosphere, I continued to break Zakum’s arms.

[zZoneMage]: Team 1 broke them all
[HyejinPrincess]: Team 3 crushed them too
[FallenPowerAngel]: Team 2 done

Now, if our team just breaks them all, we can move on to phase 3.

I’ll have to be careful from phase 3 since there are instant-kill mechanics.

My team, team 4, also destroyed all of Zakum’s arms.

Now we’ve moved on to phase 3…

Huh?

The moment we moved on to phase 3, we experienced something completely unexpected.

[Um]
[The pillar of fire was an unfair trick lol]
[Is this for real? lol]

Literally a catastrophe.

An unfair instant-kill trick occurred, and a huge catastrophe happened where only I and one warrior survived!

The situation became complicated.

Because the aggro that was supposed to be split among 16 people had to be taken by 2, and the damage that 16 people were supposed to deal also had to be dealt by the two of us.

The only fortunate thing is that Zakum’s health in phase 3 isn’t that high…

But the situation was still not good.

[Warrior-bro ㅠㅠ]
[How can two people do this? lol]
[Are we going to lose?]

“We’ll win.”

Nevertheless, I will crush that b*stard.

I already talked big, so it would be embarrassing to lose…!

[15:42]

If we endure and hit well for 15 minutes, we can clear it.

Left and right, and down.

I dodged the attacks I could dodge as much as possible and attacked Zakum.

[07:11]

“Ugh, no…!”

[Warrior-bro is dead lol]
[Three wishes]
[You’re alone now]

The only warrior who had survived with me died.

Now I really have to solo it.

[01:00]

[Can she clear it?]
[Oh]
[Let’s go, let’s go~]

Exactly 1 minute left.

My fingers were tingling, and my mind was tired, but the goal was in sight.

“Let’s go!”

[CLEAR!]

With 13 seconds left on the clock, I succeeded in defeating Zakum.

The sight of Zakum collapsing helplessly is impressive.

[Kyaa]
[Wow, she cleared it, for real]
[Legend legend legend]

“How about it, do I look a little different to you now?”

[Thank you for your 10,000 won donation, ‘TriangleSound’-nim!]
[We, the Loser-kun contingent, admit our defeat ㅠㅠㅠㅠ]

“Right, how nice it is to see you admit it like this.”

Having received the recognition of the Loser-kuns, I checked the rewards.

[Zakum’s Helmet]
…
Additional Attack Power +6

[Wow, what’s that, for real]
[That additional option, for real]
[Lottery win lol]

Something amazing dropped.

It doesn’t mean the item itself is amazing, but that the additional option attached to it is incredibly good.

“Did Zakum’s Helmet originally drop with additional attack power?”

[It’s a deviant option]
[Theoretically possible]
[A 1 in 45 million chance, for real]

Uh… so this is something amazing?

Then if I sell this, will it make money?

“Then what’s the market price for this?”

[Around 80~100 man won?]
(TL Note: 800,000 to 1,000,000 won, roughly 600 to 750 USD.)

[You’ll get at least 80 man won.]
[Shin Na Ru, thinking about RMT right away]

It’s that expensive?

There were many items more expensive than this on the main Dungeon Story server… but it’s like that here too?

“Then if I embezzle this, hehehe…”

[Embezzlement is Naru’s specialty, for real lol]
[Shameless b*tch, shameless b*tch…]
[Jiwon’s going to get immortalized on the incident board lol]

“I’m kidding, Naru Expedition, everyone, gather in front of the Zakum altar on channel 3.”

And so, all the expedition members gathered.

Standing in a line, they looked just like birds waiting for food.

“Manager-nim, can I distribute this in gold and sell the helmet separately?”

[kjw0407(Manager): Yes, yes]

Hmm, she must have heard the news of the big hit and came back.

The manager, who hadn’t been seen since the public shaming earlier, popped up right away.

It’s not much when you split it n-ways, but she seems happy to have earned some pocket money.

“…Alright, the distribution is complete up to the last person, based on 800,000 won.”

[When you split it n-ways, it’s 50,000 won lol]
[Jiwon, was it nice to RMT?]
[But the fact that she’s holding 1.2 billion won worth of gold is also hilarious lol]

The distribution is all done… should I go hunting?

The experience bar is at 99.2%, so if I level up once and then turn off the broadcast, the timing should be about right.

I started to move my character.

The place I headed to was ‘The Ruined Dragon’s Nest’, a hunting ground commonly called ‘Mangdeudung’.

A hunting ground where any class can achieve maximum efficiency.

That hunting ground is the Mangdeudung I mentioned earlier.

[Mangdeudung is currently being controlled]
[The ‘Punishment’ guild<—those b*stards are controlling it]
[Ah, those unemployed b*stards]

What’s this all about?

There’s still hunting ground control?

Hunting ground control.

Due to the ‘spot’ culture in Dungeon Story, it refers to the act of preventing others from hunting to avoid having one’s spot taken.

It’s fine to control a spot while continuing to hunt.

However, the reason the act of controlling is criticized.

Is that they prevent others from hunting by displaying a fixed message while being AFK.

Moreover, if someone doesn’t follow that control and hunts.

The same guild members flock over and cyberbully that user.

To sum it up in one word, it’s something that only a**holes would do.

There were such acts in the past…

Right, back then, everyone was at an age where they couldn’t make proper judgments.

But they’re still doing that even after getting so much older?

This won’t do, I can’t forgive this.

It will only get clean if I clean it up once.

“Naru Expedition members, those who have time, please follow me. I think we need to ‘dispose’ of the Punishment guild.”

[Those motherf*ckers are all dead lol]
[Are we killing them, Master?]
[Hyejin-chan also wants to get rid of those commie b*stards]
[How can you resist this lol]

It seems everyone has suffered a lot.

This is why you have to be careful with your actions.

The 16 members of the Naru Expedition, including me, moved towards Mangdeudung.

A character visible as soon as we moved maps.

It’s displaying a fixed message so shamelessly.

“Everyone, that’s the person, right?”

[Yep]
[That’s the b*stard]
[Game over. Educate them all.]

I took a deep breath and then declared.

“Naru Expedition, deploy. Let’s begin the battle of attrition.”

It’s time to educate the a**holes.