The Distortion Phenomenon Has Revealed a Method to Restore Damaged Artifacts!
As of today I leave the ranks of mere supporters.
Kim Ha-neul and I become one flesh, one body.
An attack on Kim Ha-neul shall be regarded as an attack on me.
Kim Ha-neul, my love
Kim Ha-neul, my light
I finished every last enhancement commission and ended the stream.
The money I'd made in a single day came to a full forty-two million won.
"Kim Ha-neul is rich!!!"
"Congratulations are in order, Princess."
It was still nowhere near enough to buy a place of my own, but if I just kept hammering out enhancements like this, the pile would grow soon enough.
The next day dawned, and this time a commission of a whole new kind came in.
It's not a weapon, it's armor — is that doable?
"I've never tried it before, so it might be tough right now~"
Thinking about it, I had never once enhanced an artifact that wasn't a weapon.
I was about to refuse when—
If it can't be done, make it possible
"Yes! Proceeding right away!"
Looking at the donation amount, I was going to make this possible no matter what.
I started examining the commissioned artifacts — and something was off.
"Client… are you sure these are right?"
A whole pile of things too embarrassing to even call artifacts had come pouring in.
No effects
Hurry up go go
"Yes sir, starting right now!"
Enhancement finished quickly anyway, and I hadn't put any quantity limit on commissions, so I just went for it.
The artifact has been destroyed.
After blowing who knows how many of them, I finally succeeded at an enhancement — and the ability that got added was strange.
◈ Attack Power+2
◈ Physical Defense+10
My enhancement ability's biggest weakness — destruction — was being plugged with cheap bulk volume.
"I could just enhance these myself and sell them, couldn't I?"
I should think about contracting with some kind of factory later.
Starting with the next enhancement stream, I decided to limit commissions to one item each.
Stuff like this tastes better when I'm the only one selling it!
I wrapped up the remaining commissions and shut the stream down.
I was just about to rest a little when Undtung spoke up.
"Um… I worked hard on the streams and all, so might I be able to receive something called an allowance, suh?"
Where the hell had this guy even learned the word "allowance"?
"What are you talking about. What would you even spend allowance on."
"I have heard that having money is a good thing, suh."
Whether it was from information leaking off the internet or something else, Undtung had fully settled into capitalism.
Well, he had been used as sacrifice material a lot on stream. Undtung's point wasn't wrong.
Damn it, he was right!
"Undtung."
When he started spouting nonsense like this, there was a special way to fix it.
"You wanna get enhanced for the first time in a while?"
"Eek — no, suh!"
I was kindly offering him my blessing, and Undtung recoiled in pure terror.
Just like that, three weeks went by as I ran enhancement streams, stacking experience and money little by little.
I guess that was what happened when you ran the same content for too long. Gallery opinion was starting to sour.
I had been running the tower here and there in between, but I'd gone in purely for enhancement experience, so I never turned the stream on.
If the mood kept trending this way, the stream's popularity would cool off hard — but I didn't particularly care.
"This time the three of us move together."
The reason I was waiting to bring Undtung along was simple.
Today I was going to challenge Hard Mode Floor 40.
Should I post about it on the community first and check the reaction?
Just as expected, the moment I posted, it became the gallery's hot topic.
The reason I'd suddenly jacked up the difficulty of the tower I was entering was simple.
Part of it was needing a lot of S-rank magic stones to enhance Mitsu's Exclusive Weapon, sure.
"But more than anything…"
After the one-month cooldown had passed, the Luck Tracker I'd used was pointing straight at Hard Mode Floor 40.
Last time the Luck Tracker had given me Mitsu. What was I going to get this time?
"Mwahaha, I'm getting excited."
The floor count was a full ten levels higher than when I'd gotten Mitsu, so it felt like something incredible was waiting.
When the announced stream time arrived, I went live, and viewers came flooding in by the swarm.
"Yay~ hey everyone. Today is our long-awaited Hard Mode Challenge run!"
After the standard stream greeting, I asked my familiars for their thoughts before going in.
"I have no particular concerns."
No matter what happens, I shall protect the Princess.
Mitsu speaking so calmly was incredibly reassuring.
Undtung, by contrast, had nothing but negative things to say.
"I don't particularly want to go, suh."
I'm anxious — I don't think we should go!
Ordinarily I would have trusted Undtung and his Strong Luck, but…
His luck only works in his own favor.
There had been the incident where he'd gotten Mitsu's katana blown up, too, so I put more faith in the Luck Tracker.
"You weakling. You think you can protect the Princess with that attitude?"
"But what am I supposed to do if I'm scared, suh."
A lowly creature like you dares talk back to this body?
The moment Mitsu glared at him, Undtung flinched and started trembling all over.
The viewers were getting restless too, screaming for us to enter already.
"Alright, alright, no more fighting — get ready, we're going in!"
Before the mood could turn any uglier, I opened the tower door, and the moment we stepped inside—
A Distortion Phenomenon has occurred inside the tower.
What should have been an ordinary tower interior dumped me onto a remote island instead.
"What is this place…"
Mitsu and Undtung, who had been right beside me, were nowhere to be seen.
I had been dropped alone onto a vast stretch of sandy beach.
"What do I do now?"
My mental state completely collapsed.