Chapter 36
Chapter 36
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 36
Chapter Title: How Far Can You Help?
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"How far and how can you help me?"
"Bangsel... maybe I should sell some to scrape together cash?"
Bangsel.
To put it fully, it's streamer selfies.
When a viewer donates a set amount, the streamer leaves a selfie on the streamer's board for that viewer.
It could be seen as a thank-you gesture for the donation.
More bluntly, it's a strategy to avoid looking too openly like begging for money,
giving off the nuance of bartering selfies as a product to encourage donations.
- But why the hell are you doing that in Mark, you crazy bastard?
- Please just get a real job and earn money lolololol
- Aigoo, this psycho can't shake off his hostess bar habits.
"No... if I have to work, work... it's just too annoying, right?"
The reason for this strategy is obviously because I hate doing real work.
Streamers say that once you make easy money from streaming, you end up coming back to it.
And sure enough, after running a hostess bar up to manager level once, my brain was rejecting normal thinking.
"Ugh... build up steadily by working diligently... and use that money to go exploring? With my pure effort alone?"
- This lunatic's starting to treat the value of labor like shit.
- The hostess bar poisoned Mungki's brain!!!
- They even blocked in-game currency acquisition via API so it doesn't mess with game economy lol.
- But I heard the 50,000 won donation box has a hidden class?
"Oh, I checked that out, but they said the types are different. What you get is kinda utility-based? Something money-related...? Like chaebol vibes? Or lucky guy stuff... But I just want a combat class."
- Wow! Looking for a combat hidden class on a healing server.
- Total combo.
- Can't deny it.
- While everyone else is setting up homes and building foundations, this mad lowbie's prepping for exploration first.
- At least get familiar with the big corps.
"No, listen. I watched the tutorial earlier, and it said making a big score on an expedition is a surer way to earn money, right?"
- Yeah yeah, that's why we buy lotto tickets with that mindset.
- Still, shouldn't you build some foundation first?
"Of course that's necessary."
While chatting with viewers, even as I built up the basics on the Vacation Server.
'My brain's broken—this is serious. My brain... it's starting to actively instruct me to sell myself out.'
The happiness circuits already hooked on dopamine were labeling foundation-building as 'boring chores.'
But it wasn't even hard.
When you first start Mark, you chop wood, make a workbench, craft gear, of course.
Then use the initial small amount of game currency, Rest-Money, to buy seeds, and that's it.
Buy seeds and farm, craft a fishing rod and fish, make a pickaxe and mine.
Just leisurely enjoy those three processes at a relaxed pace—simple stuff.
- Level the land first lol.
- Gotta build close to others to rub elbows easily, right?
- But this guy's surprisingly bad at approaching first to network.
- Still, he's hitting 500 peak viewers now, so not a total lowbie lol.
- Ttarantara† Compared to initial members, his head's just empty.
- lolololololol
"I've got a spot in mind for the land."
- You actually thought about it?
- Mung-po as reward.
- Mung-po *3*
Fishing and mining don't have much space constraints.
But farming is directly tied to land size,
so they limit plots via land deeds to prevent reckless land grabs.
"Right by the expedition passage—the closest spot possible."
- Man more serious about expeditions than anyone.
- Nu-tam-jin-nam ㄷㄷ
- Hmm, sounds kinda lewd? Reactions incoming.
- ?
- ?
And so I set the land, steadily built up my foundation.
Honestly, at this point, my initial 'sell bangsel' comment was just a light joke.
No matter how dopamine-soaked my brain was, following server rules was basic.
But.
【You have died!】
When I got wiped the first time, it hit me.
"Huh? Dying reduces durability on equipped gear and loses some inventory?"
- Yup.
- But you can recover it.
- Dude, even so, rushing a mob with just a pickaxe was way too much.
- Fr, at least make an iron sword.
- It's not about the iron sword, greed's the issue lololol.
- This guy's the type who won't respawn unless full inventory.
- Only runs when bag's packed.
That expeditions were way too fun.
"This thrill is insane."
Once I had some foundation and gear,
I pushed into areas with monsters too tough for my current setup,
and the razor-thin fun of barely taking them down was ridiculously addictive.
- Solo delving in Mark must be fun.
- Why challenge a 15-level raid boss solo with an iron sword?
- While others build foundations steadily, this guy's all-in on one-shot kills.
- So how long you planning to keep this challenge?
- Each retry, you're getting the patterns down, though.
- Dude games like a beast.
But yeah, probably designed so early gear can't beat them.
【You have died!】
"Whoa, desperation pattern?"
The boss had one final death throe.
Well, it was meant for 4 players, and I was raw-dogging it solo.
Basically impossible difficulty.
Anyway, gearing up again for another try,
that's when the accident happened.
Trying to recover my corpse for the old gear,
- Jalsenggyeotseumyonjugeo-nim 1,000,000 won donation—thank you!
[Hi, saw you struggling with the raid ㅠㅠ Sending cheers right away.]
One viewer triggered a 1 million won API instant-death effect.
【You have died!】
My character dropped dead.
And since you can't have two corpse boxes, my fully geared corpse vanished.
"Uh, uh?"
Up to here, it was fine.
Even if the box is gone, the items float on the ground,
so just rush back before they despawn.
But.
- Mungki-yeok-ppadan-mo-ji-jung-nim 1,000,000 won donation—thank you!
[Mungki-nim, you're so cool.]
- ?
- ?
- Getting wiped in Mark like this lololololololol
Heading back to recover gear, second instant-death API donation hits.
These two delays meant my full gear set despawned completely.
5 hours of 2 million won worth of progress—down the drain.
All I could do was.
"...Jalsenggyeotseumyonjugeo-nim, Mungki-yeok-ppadan-mo-ji-jung-nim, thank you so much for the 1 million won each. For reactions... Mung-gokkok, Mung-head-ao double peace... Mung-mineral... stripped down."
- But announcing it with that super sad puppy face is hilarious.
- Took the money, gotta do reactions... but future's bleak now, broke af...
- Sad-faced full-cam tri-split, stripping upper body—true incel vibes.
- 2 mil and Mungki strips his shirt.
- Mungki makes this face when sad.
- Sorry Mungki, I don't even care about your Mark stream tbh.
- Never even played Mark.
- Strip, you bitch, strip! Do the math: 100+100, quick mental math! Quick!
- Uhrot-uhrot oh-gok oh-gok uh-gak uh-gak gulp gulp do-do-do dok ppang ppang time!!!!
- Can human language get this vulgar?
All I could do was diligently react to the donations.
Even stripping and dancing, my brain kept spiraling.
'What now? I'm bankrupt—no options. How the hell do I make money again?'
Textbook answer: rebuild foundation, sell crops, fish, ores.
But.
After solo boss raids, my brain had lost all fun in foundations.
Foundation impotence.
"No more reactions from my little buddy to foundations, ah...."
- Even grubbing donations won't get it up.
- Do it enough times, ends up like this.
- Not the same thrill anymore, can't go back to fresh foundation-building days (S-tier hunk, pre-2mil strip).
"Easiest money... gotta be my bangsel, right?"
- Anonymous donor-nim 1,000 won donation—thank you!
[Why does this guy think of selling his body first instead of working when times are tough?]
- lolololololololol
- lolololololololololol
- No Mung-op today, so no 500k donation ㅠㅠ /Banned viewer.
- Then who gives me my premium box...
- Ttarantara† Viewer namedrops + donation baiting = instant ban, no warning.
- Gasp, someone's dead.
- Deserved lol.
- But right now, all Mungki's got is his body.
- Hypno app face, golden sun bod, breeding uncle mid-legs—ain't got nothing else, punk.
- Oof, feels like someone just punched me outta nowhere.
- Stings.
- Brutal.
"No choice. Peak stream hours now, lotsa people on Vacation Server...."
- So what?
- Bold talk leading to selling body—mungchu.
- ㅁㅊ
- ㅁㅊ
- ㅁㅊ
- When they finally ban mungchu baiting? So cowardly ㅁㅊ
- I want mungchu tooo~
- ㅁㅊ
"Plan S, Self-Pictures Sale... going with photo sales."
- Plan S, that one?
- S
- E
- X
- Can't complete this one lol.
- Gkb.
- Ttarantara† Complete it and you're all banned.
- Phew lol.
- Survived another day.
So I inevitably became a bangsel-selling youth.
How tragic—lost the joy of foundations, can't feel anything else.
Feels like I got foundation-neutered.
'Feels like becoming a eunuch.'
But this was the only way to bounce back quick.
"...Buy bangsel, buy bangsel, hot fresh... bangsel, buy some... warm and piping hot ones steamin' for ya."
Such a sad tale.
Hoped someone would hear my sob story and help.
Server day one.
Everyone busy scraping by—who's helping who?
- This real no-gang life?
- Worst luck, might be stuck forever till server ends.
- Unemployment's the big issue.
- Heard subs have hiddens too, didn't get one, so no bonus profits on sales now.
"Won't work, nah. Can't go on like this."
- So what now?
- Realizing after 1 hour yelling bangsel sales into the void on day 1 that it makes no sense lol.
- Ttarantara† Your high school homeroom teacher who got you thru graduation feels god-tier now.
Time to revise the plan.
1 hour of hawking bangsel to thin air—nobody's helping.
- Price is fucked lololol.
- 100k per pic? Max anyone's got is like 90k now.
- Show Mung-chi and hmm yeah... mighta bought.
- Aigoo lololololololololololol
- Why y'all Gesaems even here lolololololol
"...No answer but steady foundation-building, no answer."
- Finally thinking straight.
- Intelligence back in normal range.
So I ditched the nonsense and focused on foundations.
Goal: hidden main and sub jobs.
Farm jobless, fish till crops grow—repeat.
Boring process, viewers could dip,
but good chats kept 500+ viewers steady.
How much time passed.
Around when I could actually contribute post-wipe.
"Mungki-nim! Hi!"
"Uh, EV Lady!"
EV approached.
She looked pretty well-off, solid foundation.
Purely innocently.
"Why you working alone? Looks tough. How can I help?"
She offered help.
- No
- Don't
- EV run
- That guy's valuing honest labor right now!!!
- No!!!!!!!
- Don't awaken that instinct again!!!!!!!
- But it's not hostess bar—she approached first?
Thump.
Thump.
Thump.
My heart pounded wildly.
Instinct shoved my mouth to the mic, spitting out.
"...How far and how can you help me?"
said it.
+++++
Same time.
ㄴWhat is this?
ㄴWhat am I even watching?
ㄴDude looks like this and still grinds hard.
ㄴ13:13 < Never press this.
ㄴㄴOoo....
ㄴㄴNo but guy this hot grinding like that?
ㄴㄴJust wanted to stick arm between boobs, right?
MungTube.
Freshly uploaded 『I! Did Hanberde with Mungki!』 video.
Suddenly hit the algorithm, views skyrocketing.
[Title: Why You Gotta Hustle Even If Called Hot These Days]
(Pic of Mungki hustling at Hanberde)
Even a guy like this grinds so persistently lol
ㄴlololololololololololololol
ㄴNah, it's funny cuz pretty face still living like that.
ㄴWhy am I watching chunu tube vids?
ㄴFr, was talking Nayuta.
ㄴㄴWtf's that, weeb?
ㄴDon't know Nayuta? GTFO.
ㄴPulled one at 300 pulls s11b kidding?
ㄴNayuta ain't crown tier, not mandatory?
ㄴSideboob nuts, mandatory af what flower-sucking bs;;;
ㄴSideboob agreed.
Posting as concept or popular threads across communities.
Views: 30,212
Not even 24 hours, tripled average views.
MungTube growing at alarming rate.
One company watching closely.
"This guy... what if he reps our Topbelpia logo?"
The eternal emperor of blatant 19+ webtoons, Immortal Daughter Demon Queen.
"Subs hitting 50k soon—start talks when it does."
"Got it."
Topbelpia.