No Content Worries for a While [Live Best Gallery]

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I let my guard down.

I trudged home, muttering to myself. Who would've thought they'd kidnap the prisoners I had locked up the moment I upgraded? If I'd known, I'd have interrogated them first. And it was unexpected that it worked right away when I hit the button. You know, that restriction – it said you needed to achieve three feats for maximum range expansion. I figured it'd snag there. The only feat I remembered was the one from the Tower opening quest.

But nope, it went through smooth as butter. What the hell? And then...

Surprisingly, I'd only witnessed the Tower opening one, but there were more feats achieved. The explanation said Solo Raid registered from soloing things like the three-headed shark or Kraken-lookalikes. GOAT was like an advanced ranking thing. Absolute No.1... better scores than 2nd to 100th combined. Makes sense – even if awakeners hunt meticulously one by one, they can't beat auto-hunting. Like the fall of craftsmanship... rise of machine industry or whatever. I was musing on that when—

"Unni!"

"Huh? Lily? Weren't you streaming?"

Su-yeon zoomed out to greet me. Tenri was there too. Worried, huh?

"I stepped away for a bit. Seriously, that sudden message scared me o~hohoho!"

"Fair reaction."

I beckoned Tenri, who'd been watching like a third wheel, and shared the rundown. From discovering the surviving Iron-Horned Cobalt that was supposed to be dead, to deciding to upgrade the Tower. Summarizing took a while.

"...Tough bastard."

Tenri fixated on the Iron-Horned Cobalt over the Tower's pun. Her eyes sparkled at its survival – motivated, I guess.

"Lily has about 500, but is Gate Coin easy to farm?"

"No way."

Su-yeon eyed my resource-burning upgrade show. Tenri, stroking her sword, got serious at her head-tilted question.

"I've got around 20k from mine."

"Less than I thought."

Dongtan ain't huge, but Tenri monopolizes the area's gates. Top ranker material, yet only 20k? Rarer than expected? Wait, then how many gates has my barrier pulverized so far? It just catches incoming bugs... no reverse-tracking function?

"No clue..."

"Shouldn't have slept in English class o~hohoho."

"...What does English class have to do with it?"

Kid. No tact. Huh? She's the normal one? In Cyclops village, two eye sockets make you the weirdo. Su-yeon and I majority-voted Tenri's shoulders home.

What about my earlier question? No answer, so I stopped thinking.

"Ahem! Took the chance to snag wild Unni while away!"

"Hey. Got caught."

And soon I was on Su-yeon's stream.

"Whoa, Lily. Popularity spiked quick."

"They're just coming to Lily since Unni's stream is off o~hohoho?"

Of course I knew better. Our connection, magical girl uniqueness, her streamer's sense fitting the culture. Su-yeon hit high tier fast with all that, but not this much. Clearly drawn by the Tower message blasting my transform name huge. Basically a scripted skit... collab sketch.

"What."

"Oh my... Sharp-eyed followers."

Su-yeon and chat did some WWE while I recalled the real chat. Wasn't planning to stream, but seeing this crowd... Easy guess what they'd spam here even if Su-yeon didn't say. Past issues lacked this – no linked streamers back then. No shelter if I went dark. Hard to demand "Geukbing where?!" randomly. But now Su-yeon exists. Openly close, fellow magical girl. Refugee intake from another angle, but... not great as my sole comms proxy.

"So I'll start streaming too."

"As expected, refugee control via Geukping."

"Oops."

"...Su-yeon?"

Thought I misheard. Don't drop chat-only lines on stream.

"Forgot the RO-God o~hohoho."

"No logout in reality."

Well, isekai ejection similar? Anyway.

Bickering with Su-yeon, chat exploded on a different topic. Real name? Wait...

"Ah."

I'd slipped and used her real name in shock. She didn't seem bothered, but a 2-year stream vet messing up like that. I hurriedly fired up my stream for a topic switch.

"Don't exploit it like that!"

Pre-waiting crowd surpassed Su-yeon's refugees. Regulars know relations, but issue-only foreigners and floaters can't find shelters – total newbies. Won't last long anyway.

"Oh my. Hometown folks welcome too o~hohoho."

Reason one: same screen means they recognize Su-yeon now. Reason two: it'll spread to global communities. Viewer spike confirms – even Su-yeon's concurrent viewers jumping like a collab. Bait buried... somewhat. But unforgettable? Damn.

"Got a feature for times like this o~hohoho."

"Oh? Party function."

Su-yeon streamed on obliviously. Party function – not guest invite, but streamer collab system. Platform merges streams, supports categories. Once activated, we filled the sudden Tower upgrade Q&A needs. Hearing? Too stiff. More like casual AMA.

"Not all functions mastered. Needed specific ones."

Didn't deep-dive sub-world. Upgrade barely started – took time, so homebound.

"Yeah. Uh... hold up. Embargo on this."

Not beholden to others, but no intent for social chaos. As chat boos brewed, phone buzzed. Messenger ping.

From Seong-yoon. Watching at this hour? Tower shake-up was no joke. Holidays or not, gov contractor (sub) Seong-yoon wouldn't slack. Surprised they'd dissected my upgrade deets already, but freed me to spill.

"...So I slapped on restrictions limiting their movements."

"Well, couldn't leave easy tools ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠unused."

Chat reactions obvious. Dopamine content? Leaks or money burning. Embargo off, but intel-heavy sapient monster tale fresh, still resource bonfire fuel.

"Ah, coins? Old viewers know. Pre-gate bug complaints? Turns out bugs were..."

Mid-bug truth and auto-hunt spill—

Chain messages/whispers. Event sparked urgency? ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠Or new factors? Old juniors plus new, previously immobile juniors shifting.