Chapter 42
Chapter 42
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 42
Chapter Title: Let's Not Give Advice Today
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Yura checked the difficulty with uneasy eyes.
Isn't this a really hard difficulty?
In this situation that felt like cognitive dissonance was about to kick in, Yura pondered whether to restart from the beginning.
Getting the first quest didn't mean she couldn't get others.
However, failing the first quest would cause issues in game progression.
She probably needed to clear this one to unlock subsequent linked quests and continue the game.
For the sake of the stream, she had to progress the game, so she absolutely had to clear it.
'It's the first quest, so I have to clear it no matter what...'
Yura recalled seeing another streamer clear this dragon-slaying quest with their party members.
No matter how often League of Worlds released new content, there were limits.
As a result, some quests were frequently recycled, and the dragon-slaying quest was one of them.
Of course, it wasn't commonly used as the first quest.
The fact that it came up first just meant Yura's luck was terribly bad.
Yura racked her brain, trying to remember.
She recalled that the streamer who caught the dragon with their party was at quite a high level back then.
'Do I even have a chance...?'
Just as she was agonizing over it.
The viewers caught her eye.
Streamers were professionals who had to somehow keep their audience's attention to make a living.
That's why many gaming streamers played with specific concepts or showed superior skills to give viewers vicarious satisfaction.
'Yeah. What does winning even matter.'
The capitalist Yura in her mind opened her eyes.
'Let's just try it.'
This was fresh content drawing attention—she couldn't ignore it.
Besides, Yura had survived on her unique wit and decent gaming skills.
She was confident in her fundamentals, so it was worth a shot.
Maybe she could pull it off somehow?
As she recalled info on the dragonkin, Yura judged that with good luck, she could manage it one way or another.
Even if she failed, she had the excuse that the game difficulty was too high.
Perfect timing—the viewers were even providing the narrative.
Viewers poking at the streamer's nerves.
The streamer reluctantly agreeing.
Miss Clip Angle incoming.
Missing this chance wouldn't befit a gaming streamer.
True to form, Yura naturally accepted the quest.
She ultimately decided to go for it, huh.
[Ugh... Bushes. League of Worlds really has some perverse attention to detail.]
Yura was trekking into the mountains on foot.
In League of Worlds, dragons were monsters that were hard to come by.
Not only were there few of them,
but their habitats were deep valleys or high in the mountains.
Dragons, huh...
I caught one back in the day too. It took three days and nights fighting with the knight order to barely take it down. Back when I was still inexperienced, even that sage nearly died several times before the dragon.
Dragons were disasters in their very existence. Their massive, heavy bodies could crumble the earth with the slightest force.
But their true power didn't come from their bodies—it came from mana.
With a single uttered word of dragon tongue, they wielded the power to reshape heaven and earth. They were living calamities, worthy of being called the strongest race.
[Is this the place? Seems right...]
Passing through the lush bushes, Yura arrived at a cave entrance.
Dragons were hard to encounter, but there was one place guaranteed to find one.
The lair itself.
Maybe because it was Hard mode, it didn't make her search blindly for the dragon. Hard mode kindly told her where it was and told her to go kill it.
Yura made full preparations and slowly advanced.
She buffed herself with magic and kept watch in all directions, including ahead, in preparation for ambushes.
[If only I could recruit party members, this would be easier...]
Hard mode didn't allow forming parties with NPCs. But cooperating with other players should be possible—why wasn't she doing it? Did she not have friends to team up with?
I watched Yura with pitying eyes, and before I knew it, she had run into the dragon.
This dragon was a bit different from the ones I knew. But that didn't mean it wasn't a dragon.
My expression turned complicated.
This was a lesser subspecies, not a proper dragon.
Kraaaah!
It couldn't even speak properly, and its overall size and appearance were crude. The scales looked quite weak, and it didn't seem able to use magic properly. Compared to real dragons, it lacked in every way, but it was still a creature designated as a dragon in the game.
What abilities did the game assign to this dragon?
Real dragons ignored both magic and swords. But that didn't make them invincible.
Countless heroic tales proved it: dragons were generally weak to swords and resistant to magic.
The reason dragons were strong against magic was simple.
From birth, they handled mana—the foundation of magic—for the longest time, in the densest concentrations, and in the greatest amounts. They were blessed with mana.
Thus, dragons innately mastered magic. They were so familiar with mana-based spells that no matter what magic a mage cast, it barely affected them.
Implementing mana theft in a game would be tough...
Curious how this historically accurate game handled it.
Yura fired off a spell.
The dragon didn't dodge the magic, and right after it hit, the next message appeared.
So that's how they balanced it.
Still lackluster compared to real dragons, though.
Isn't that a lindworm, a lesser kind?
I thought it was reasonably balanced.
Of course, for a mage like Yura, it was a disaster regardless.
It ignored so much magic damage that it was like it didn't hit at all.
True to dragonkin, something mages had to avoid at all costs.
[Argh! Damn it! Why 50%!? I get the fire resistance, but magic damage too...!]
It wasn't complete immunity, so it took some damage, but that wasn't much consolation.
Yura's mana wasn't infinite.
And she couldn't keep hitting it solo forever.
Today, Yura was especially unlucky.
Or rather,
she always was.
Yura screamed at her own luck.
[Just 20%! Hell, even 30% would've been fine!]
Yura was the epitome of a novice explorer who charged in banking solely on luck.
She followed the standard novice procedure to a T.
With a short, powerful curse.
Yura was incinerated by the lindworm's breath just like that.
The moment Yura died, the gif-hunting viewers hilariously showered donations.
The viewers typing 'lolololol' in chat while laughing.
But unlike them, Yura couldn't laugh.
[Save...]
She muttered lowly.
[I didn't turn on save...]
Honestly, she wanted to ask if save points were even meaningful at this progress rate, but she didn't bother.
Today, no more advice or chat comments from me.
It's her first exploration battle, after all.
First steps should be taken by herself.
Afterward, unable to let go of the exploration battle, Yura tried challenging it again but gave up and just did some casual chit-chat before ending the stream.
[Alright, Yuba. See you next time.]
She had already burned a lot of stream time on the exploration battle, so even a bit of interaction pushed her to end time.
Guess it's time for me to head to bed too.