222. Why Doesn't This Game Have Portals?
222. Why Doesn't This Game Have Portals?
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After yesterday's stream ended, time flew by just explaining the clash with Daji and the reward she had obtained at the end.
The viewers' reaction to it was explosive rather than merely heated, and that fervent response was enough to lift Serin's mood as she spoke, explaining things one by one.
When the listeners react well, the speaker can't help but feel good too.
When Serin finished her explanation and paused for a moment to catch her breath, donation sounds immediately rang out one after another.
—Ding-a-ling!
『1day donated 110,000 won!!』
《Congratulations on your hidden class advancement, Rin!》
『PIA1615719336756 donated 150,000 won!!』
《A new hidden class for the Dancer... Rin, what even is your class!?》
『IceTreeForest donated 70,000 won!!』
《You look so pretty right now!》
"Thank you to 1day, PIA, and IceTreeForest—all three of you—for the donations."
Serin smiled faintly and expressed her thanks for the donations.
With more viewers than usual, she couldn't react to donations as much as she normally did, yet viewers who donated kept appearing just as they were now.
She was grateful for the donations congratulating her on advancing to a hidden class, but Serin also felt sorry.
Because she had to keep the stream going, she couldn't thank every donation individually.
"I keep saying this about donations, but you really don't have to donate like this. Just watching the stream is enough for me. Besides, on a day like today when so many people are watching, I can't even properly thank everyone..."
As she added those words, Serin fiddled with her Crescent-Moon Weight as if apologetic.
She had always had little reaction to donations, but she still tried to put at least some care into thanking people—and now even that was hard to manage.
Just as she was about to continue speaking,
Ding-a-ling-a-ling!!
A massive sound, clearly different from before, rang out.
Then, at the message that filled the screen, Serin blinked blankly.
『Jjongsi donated 1,000,000 won!!』
《First time donating. I always enjoy watching your streams, Rin!》
"Jjongsi donated a huge amount of one million won... You really didn't have to go this far. And thank you for making such a large donation as your very first one. I'll work even harder on my streams from now on."
Serin, who had given her thanks in her Moon Princess state, swept back her light-filled hair and smiled as brightly as if the whole world were about to brighten.
For some reason, she was smiling far more brightly and joyfully than before, as if she didn't care about the amount at all.
[Wow... how much has been donated in total?]
[Even at the lowest estimate, hasn't she gotten over three million?]
[This is the money-collecting power of an imperial dancer...?]
[I heard even big-name female streamers are jealous watching Rin's stream these days lmaooo]
[Is Rin's class for real? Seriously;]
[Right after she says don't donate, a million won drops. What even is that lol]
Checking the chat, Serin also thought anew that a lot of donations had poured in. Thanks to the huge impact of revealing her hidden class, the congratulatory donations hadn't stopped.
She suddenly checked the time: 5:03 p.m.
An hour had passed since the stream started, and the viewer count naturally entered her field of vision.
—Viewer count: 46,112.
Since the stream began, the viewer count had risen by hundreds every minute, and as if mocking Serin's assumption that it would stop climbing once it reached a certain level, the number kept rising endlessly.
At a viewer count several times higher than usual, Serin felt a small fluster even inwardly.
'Was the impact this big?'
She had sensed from the community she checked yesterday that interest was high, but even so, the current viewer count felt like too much.
On top of that, right after she mentioned the hidden class, thousands of viewers had flooded in at once, as if a bomb had gone off.
After thanking the donation notifications, Serin soon moved her lips as if she had made up her mind.
"I think I've said enough about the aftermath of the Cave of Trials and the explanation of the hidden class. If anyone missed it, please check the VOD."
Serin slowly gripped Moonlight in her hand.
Slide.
She was brimming with motivation, wanting to test the new skills she had gained upon advancing to the hidden class.
Moreover, her body, filled with another kind of vitality while using Moon Princess, was like a sort of awakened state. Compared to Final Performance, the degree of awakening was weaker, but the feeling was completely different from usual.
If she had to describe it, her body felt a little lighter and her senses sharper.
"I have a mythic item, and I'll show you the hidden class skills too—shall we head to a hunting ground now?"
[Yessss~~~]
[Show us the new skills already!!]
[Rin inheriting Daji's power, damn]
[Rin beat Daji, so Rin is stronger than Daji lol]
[So Rin absorbed Daji's power, damn]
[Hurry go go go go go]
[lololol the way they keep changing what they say is funny]
[Honestly, she could just do Just Chatting looking like this and it'd be entertaining lol]
[For real lol]
[Rin really is pretty...]
[Isn't the hidden class way too broken? I know there's PvP adjustment, but in hunting grounds the difference is still huge]
[Other Dancers are gonna feel robbed when they see Rin lol]
[If that bothers you, just get good enough to meet Daji and beat her lolol]
Serin, who had been watching the lively chat with the corners of her lips raised, soon began manipulating the hologram.
Even as she opened the world map to find a hunting ground, Serin's heart was pounding. It was essentially like she was giving the first demonstration of a hidden class that no one had ever seen before.
'Moonlit Mirror of All Under Heaven, was it? I want to try that too.'
Suddenly, the image of Daji hurling her Crescent-Moon Weight high into the air and erasing all color came to mind.
Back then, when Daji had even blocked the transformed skill of her Divine Blood state, Serin had thought the skill was so cool she couldn't help but admire it. Besides that, countless other skills Daji hadn't used existed in her skill window.
Ding.
The world map opened, and the display adjusted again according to the hunting ground settings.
Perhaps because her build had improved, even the appropriate hunting grounds marked on the world map had been newly updated.
The appropriate hunting grounds that had been marked all over the world just a few days ago had now dropped out of the appropriate category.
-Domain of the Black Centaurs.
-Dwarves' Failed Creation! Giant Golem.
-Cave of the Demon-Possessed Dwarf.
-Tomb of the Frozen Knight.
The hunting grounds that had originally been "appropriate" had changed to "easy," enough that she could feel she had swapped her items.
From memory, the dwarf's cave and the knight's tomb were doable enough, and as for the other two, she hadn't been there, but it felt like a waste to go find them now.
With better gear, it felt right to go to a higher-level hunting ground.
"Where should I go?"
Serin muttered as if to herself and gestured at the large world map hologram to show another continent.
When she displayed the other continent, only one or two of the visible hunting grounds looked like solo hunting grounds, and most of the marked hunting grounds were listed as party hunting grounds.
When she saw the names of the hunting grounds tinted orange to indicate danger, lying between appropriate and impossible, Serin let out an involuntary laugh.
- Demon-Tainted Crystal Golem.
- Ancient Temple of the Arch Lich.
- Faded Hope, Ashen Forest.
- Giants' Grand Garden.
Even the names of the newly displayed hunting grounds were utterly grim, every last one.
Rather than talking about the hunting grounds one by one, she registered the world map hunting grounds as favorites and displayed them on the stream screen as if to emphasize them.
"Viewers, do you see the hunting grounds I specially highlighted?"
[Yeah]
[I can see them]
[Why are all the hunting ground names like that]
[These are real gear-carried players' hunting grounds now]
[Isn't the stat cut way too high there?]
[No, seeing them flash orange, they don't look like appropriate hunting grounds...?]
[Those are hunting grounds for gear-carried players who have at least two mythic items]
[Can't Rin equip Durandal and Moonlight at the same time?]
[For real, it's not like she's going to weapon swap]
[At Rin's level, even with one mythic item, they'd probably let her into a party]
[Let her in, my ass lolol if Rin opened party recruitment, everyone would scramble to apply]
Seeing from the chat that the highlighted hunting grounds were showing properly, Serin moved her lips as if she wanted to decide quickly.
"Then I'll decide quickly with a vote. If you type the number you want in chat, you'll automatically be entered in the vote, so everyone just type the number of the hunting ground you want to see."
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1. Demon-Tainted Crystal Golem.
2. Ancient Temple of the Arch Lich
3. Faded Hope, Ashen Forest.
4. Giants' Special Garden.
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The four hunting grounds she had just registered as favorites were listed on the vote.
[Vote 3!]
[2222222222]
[Isn't the Giant Garden a minimum five-person hunting ground? Wouldn't it be hard to find people right now]
[I'm curious about fighting the Arch Lich lolol 222]
[11111]
[The Ashen Forest rewards are a lottery]
[222]
[4444]
[But if she's going to use new hidden class skills, shouldn't she go to a weaker hunting ground?]
The chat rose like waves.
After taking votes for a short minute, Serin immediately pressed the vote result.
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1. Demon-Tainted Crystal Golem. 16%
2. Ancient Temple of the Arch Lich. 32%
3. Faded Hope, Ashen Forest. 24%
4. Giants' Special Garden. 28%
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"The vote result is number 2, the Arch Lich. This could be pretty fun, don't you think?"
She spoke as if intrigued, then summoned a mount according to the vote result.
NEIGH!
A horse resembling a unicorn. Arianat was summoned in front of Serin and immediately approached her arm, rubbing its head against her with its distinctive cry.
At the horse's behavior, as if it had missed her, Serin let out a small laugh and moved familiarly to climb onto Arianat.
Ding!
Without delay, she set coordinates on the world map.
Immediately after, Arianat began racing across the ground without hesitation.
Clop. Clop!
The sound of hooves struck the ground fiercely, and just as Arianat, running fast, kicked off the ground hard,
—!
The pure-white wings on Arianat's back spread wide, and it began soaring toward the set coordinates.
Whooosh!
As the fierce wind brushed her face and her silver hair whipped roughly, Serin let out a hollow laugh.
"Why on earth doesn't this game have portals?"
Flying through the sky felt good, but it was obvious the trip alone would take over ten minutes.
'Does it really have to...?' Unlike Serin, who was blankly enjoying the wind while thinking it was eating up time, the chat was in an uproar for a different reason.
[You're not making a party???]
[The moment you enter the domain, you can't send or accept party invites??]
[She's just setting coordinates and charging in raw?]
[What a boss woman, damn]
[Ah lolol if there were portals, there'd be no romance lolol]
[Didn't they say when making Another World they invested a ton in the scenery and didn't want to see people moving by portal?]
[Rin, you're not making a party??? I was waiting to join]
[Wouldn't Arianat get there fast?]
[Come on, she'll probably make a party before arriving]
[Look at the new viewers showing they don't know Rin lol]