Chapter 8
Chapter 8
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 8
Chapter Title: New Spark
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Seeing something with your eyes and experiencing it yourself are different.
As the saying goes, seeing is believing.
Better to see it once
than hear about it a hundred times.
There was a huge gap between merely watching and doing it yourself.
Having entered the virtual reality world, I looked around.
My field of view opened wide to reveal a vast labyrinth stretching out endlessly.
And slimes clinging to the walls.
This alone felt pretty realistic.
The cool, damp texture unique to stone walls and the cold wind gusting from somewhere amplified the immersion even more.
These tiny details tricked me into thinking it was real.
No matter how I looked at it, it felt genuine, but in the end, it was all an illusion.
My real body was sprawled out in my room, not in some dungeon labyrinth.
"This is really something."
I clenched and unclenched my fingers.
A virtual body that moved at my command.
How the hell did they pull this off?
I had a rough idea of the medium they used, but the underlying principles escaped me.
If my party's mage were here, he'd dissect the structure and arrays, hunting for ways to optimize it...
Too bad I wasn't a mage.
Analyzing a format blending magic and science was beyond a born warrior like me.
Still,
"This time, I'll play the mage."
Yura, the target of my advice verification, was a mage.
So to test it properly,
I'd have to tackle the tower like a mage.
Right after reincarnating, I'd once compared my original knowledge with this world's.
What if the magic systems or knowledge bases differed? That could've been trouble.
Thankfully, they matched up closely enough.
Monster types, traits, spellcasting methods—all similar or identical.
Any differences were minor, like appearances or racial quirks.
And that meant...
Slimes behaved just like the ones I knew.
I wasn't dishing out advice for no reason.
It all checked out.
The game started, and I bolted forward immediately.
Something started oozing down the walls.
A squishy thing crawling like a snail.
That liquid-not-liquid, physiologically repulsive stuff—a slime.
It detected the intruder and lunged!
Whish!
Before the attack connected, I stepped back and tilted my head away.
Slime attacks are slow enough that anyone paying attention can dodge.
Low attack power, low defense—easy prey for blunt weapons or spells.
No wonder they're beginner monsters.
Easy to kill,
and safe for gaining combat XP.
But monsters are monsters, no matter how weak.
Slimes had one deadly trait:
Area attacks.
Slimes mainly do physical strikes.
And being liquid,
they splash like water droplets on impact.
In short,
'Every single attack is an AoE.'
If slimes weren't weak,
and had at least orc-level power,
they might've been harder than dragons.
But a slime's a slime.
No sudden mutants here,
so these hits won't kill.
Thus...
"No need to burn them one by one like Yura—just charge ahead."
Of course, even slimes hurt on hit.
As a jobless noob with zero stats, concentrated fire could kill me.
Only if concentrated, though.
So,
dodge what you can,
tank the rest, and keep running.
Dodging isn't about evading everything.
Ideal? Sure.
Possible? Barely.
Look at the chaos ahead.
On impact, slime liquid splatters everywhere like a water balloon burst.
Splat!
The scattered droplets spray like a mist from a sprinkler.
Impossible to dodge every drop.
Dodge the big stuff, tank the small hits, push forward.
No worrying about fireball cooldowns,
and best of all,
aggroing them like this clumps them for easy wipe.
The 1st floor's a straight corridor.
Just run, and you hit the boss: Slime Queen.
So I ran,
The moment I met the Slime Queen, I prepped a fireball right in front of her.
Note: Jobless means chanting required.
Feels just like a real game.
No spells in my skill window? Chant anyway.
"Fireball."
Instantly.
Roooar!!!
A massive blaze engulfed the corridor.
Jobless and not even level 1, so weak power,
but all slimes clumped together,
sparks jumping around turned it into a wildfire.
Wiped in one go.
The thrill of my advice proving spot-on hit,
A ranking update popped up.
A video suddenly posted to the community.
At first, no reactions.
The short title and post type weren't attention-grabbing.
But a sharp needle pokes through anywhere,
and a few casual checkers spread it like wildfire.
Yura's spark added fuel to the spread.
Community already ablaze from her earlier bait,
now extra dry logs tossed in.
Highly flammable ones.
No reason not to burn.
Community roared for a while.
Yura caught it too,
via the original post.
ID clicked instantly for her.
That armchair viewer who'd only advised her.
No forgetting that nick.
"What video's causing this uproar?"
Yura watched it.
Ignoring her manager's rules revision message,
and...
"......"
After finishing the attached video, Yura's emotions weren't those of a streamer pranked by her advisor.
Her eyes sparkled at the frozen screen.
Like gold coins.
Not certain if the viewer verified it himself,
but
"This is MiTube gold...?"
Capitalist Yura mode: activated.
Meanwhile,
one culprit behind the chaos was...
Um...
Crunch.
"These chips are tasty."
Munching chips, spectating the flames.
Nothing beats watching a fire.
Game over, I uploaded the recording straight to the community.
Plenty... okay, lots didn't trust my advice.
But now they will.
Clear proof, right?
But as someone said,
human madness is unpredictable.
That evening,
the community ignited in a way I never expected.