68. Everyone, Is This Good?
68. Everyone, Is This Good?
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I pressed the notification.
A golden wave burst out so intensely it filled my vision.
Ding-ding-ding-ding!!
And the congratulatory sound I had just heard rang loudly in my ears once more.
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'Dwarf's Ring' acquired.
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Wondering what kind of item could possibly warrant such a commotion, I went ahead and pulled it straight out of my inventory.
A ring with an unusual light, its entire surface stained red.
The elegantly set ruby gave off a brilliant gleam.
Its name was 'Dwarf's Ring,' yet its appearance was strangely distinctive.
I hadn't checked the detailed options yet, but it clearly didn't seem like an ordinary item.
So I ended up asking.
"Everyone, is this good?"
[???????]
[?????]
[??????????]
[holy shit you actually got that???]
[wow fuck she got the Dwarf's Ring and the in-game effect alone is on another level]
[treasure impact wow]
[is the Dwarf's Ring real??]
[lolololololololololololol]
[no but Rin's only been farming for 30 minutes lolololol]
[wow life is so fucking unfair lmaooo]
[and I'm actually watching someone get that drop lmaooo]
[Rin your lottery jackpot luck is gone gg]
[isn't the admin just biased toward Rin?]
[no fr they must be watching the stream, fuck, how does that even drop]
[I'm so fucking jealous I can't even type anything but fuck, whatever, ban me or not, fuck!!]
The chat was rising so fast it seemed ready to burst from overheating.
Watching it, I could guess the value without even asking.
Probably an item that appeared with an extremely rare probability.
I figured it was the kind of item called a 'treasure.'
So I opened the detailed information to see the Dwarf's Ring's info.
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Dwarf's Ring.
Grade: Treasure.
- Description: One of the Eleven Great Treasures of Another World, appearing with an extremely rare probability. A ruby ring known to aid stamina regeneration simply by being carried in the inventory without being equipped.
If sold to a shop, it can fetch an enormous sum of silver coins. Alternatively, if gifted to a specific NPC, the special quest 'The Truth of Ailante' can be initiated.
- Can only be sold at a 'Major-City Jewelry Shop.'
- Sale price: 50 million silver coins.
- A massive commission is charged when listed on the Auction House.
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As I examined the ring, my mouth fell open without my realizing it.
A windfall I had never even imagined.
And it was a genuine 'Treasure'-grade item at that.
Judging by the description calling it one of the Eleven Great Treasures, there were ten more items like the Dwarf's Ring. It struck me again just how extraordinary it was that ten more items of this value existed.
Even without knowing who the specific NPC was, gifting it would unlock a special quest, and simply selling it to a major-city jewelry shop would yield 50 million silver coins.
If sold through the Auction House, a large commission would be charged, but I still thought it might sell for more than the 50 million silver coins from a major-city jewelry shop.
Even as she thought about it, a laugh escaped Serin despite herself.
"Really. I guess people should live kindly. Look at this. Luck just rolls right in, doesn't it?"
[ju]
[stfu]
[jak]
[what bullshit lmaooo]
[Rin is on another level of shameless today fr lmaooo]
[what does soloing dwarves have to do with living kindly lmaooo]
[I want to solo dwarves too ugh]
[Rin gets in 20 minutes what cash-farming losers rotting in the dwarf cave for a year never even get to see lmaooo]
[ju]
[fr watching this just makes me realize some people are born lucky]
[what the fuck even is life]
[jak]
[I'll live kindly starting today so give me the Dwarf's Ring fuck]
[lolololol]
My words were like pouring oil on a fire, and the chat blazed even hotter.
But I didn't want to say anything to that chat.
Honestly, I hoped it would burn even more.
Maybe because I truly hadn't expected anything, I felt even better.
Results earned through effort feel great too, but honestly, big rewards gained without effort also felt plenty good.
And Serin had experienced both in the world of Black Ark, so she knew exactly how each felt.
Right now, she had experienced the latter.
An unintentional stroke of enormous luck.
And because it felt like I had just obtained something truly worthy of being called a jackpot item, I felt even better.
Actually, I hadn't slept properly compared to usual today, so I'd been tired throughout the stream without fully realizing it. But now I felt a surge of happiness, as if this more than made up for all of it.
"I'll take back what I said to the viewers earlier about not soloing. Actually, doesn't solo play apply a 200% item drop rate? Isn't that actually incredibly huge?"
[na]
[rak]
[lmaooo fuck recruiting for dwarf party]
[rak]
[ugh I'm so jealous I can't even speak]
[lololol I'd go to the dwarf cave right now too if only my build could handle it]
[ju]
[no but how is the dwarf cave even soloable? just watching the stream, the mob patterns are obviously obnoxious as hell]
[na]
[is it real that there are no listings even when you search the Dwarf's Ring on the Auction House lmaooo?]
[jak]
[rankers and pros stake their lives on stamina recovery, that's an item you can't buy even with money lmaooo]
[the Another World admin really does seem to be watching Rin's stream wtf]
[fr there must really be an admin among the 30k viewers]
And as if news that I had gotten the Dwarf's Ring had spread to a famous community, the viewer count was rapidly climbing from 20,000.
Only a few minutes seemed to have passed while I watched the chat, yet the viewer count was already jumping by thousands at a time from its starting point of 20,000.
Confirming that, I sat down on a rock in the nearby cave.
Plop.
Originally it would have been a gruesome sight, with dwarf corpses decorating the surroundings, heads burst or pierced through, but they were mosaicked and only looked incongruous.
'...I'll chat a bit and then end the stream for today.'
Unless a dwarf came looking for me where I was, that is.
Right now, the desire to swing the Crescent-Moon Weight or explore the cave hunting for dwarves had completely vanished.
I hadn't gotten just a decent item but one with 'treasure' written plainly in its description window, so I no longer felt like hunting.
Honestly speaking.
I just purely wanted to show off.
I also wanted to do what's commonly called 'flexing' in front of the viewers who had surged well past 20,000.
'No, how could I hold this in.'
If you get a treasure, you have to show it off.
So, partly to resolve a small question and partly to show off in a sly way, I asked.
"Everyone, since it's my first time getting a treasure item, do people usually sell this Dwarf's Ring to shops?"
[nononono]
[nononono]
[are you crazy? why would you sell that]
[no but you say you're level 65 lmaooo]
[why would you sell that]
[isn't Rin aiming to be a ranker too? then just keep it]
[they say pros and rankers really feel the stamina-refilling option on the Dwarf's Ring]
[people do sell it if they're desperate for money, but if you're not going to play Another World for just a day or two, you should definitely keep it]
[wow but if you sell that, how much is it now?]
[looking at recent trades it just goes over 1 billion silver, but since there are no listings it's probably even more expensive?]
[did Rin really get the Dwarf's Ring?]
[it applies to everything, hunting and arena, so it's seriously broken]
[fr it applying just by carrying it in your inventory is the most broken of the broken]
[Rin's expression is so punchable today]
[lmaooo ugh I really want to flick her forehead]
[came after hearing she got the Dwarf's Ring, is it real??]
Comments saying it was hard to believe appeared here and there, so I took the Dwarf's Ring back out of my inventory and showed it.
"Seems like a lot of people came after hearing the rumor. But I really did get it. The Dwarf's Ring."
The unusual appearance of the ring, its entire surface stained red. And at its end, as if crowning the whole, a beautiful blood-red ruby.
The more I looked at it, the more brilliant it was.
No, honestly, there was definitely a feeling that it looked even better just because it was a 'treasure' item.
Whoosh!!
The moment I heard a sound that could be called a sonic boom, I instinctively wrapped my hand around the ring and pulled it back.
Swoosh!
A blue arrow grazed past the hand holding the ring by a hair's breadth.
Strength surged into the hand gripping the Crescent-Moon Weight as I immediately rose to my feet, my blood running cold.
'...They were definitely aiming for the ring just now.'
My heart sank for a moment at the thought that an already-acquired item might be droppable or losable, but I immediately put the Dwarf's Ring back into my inventory.
Ding!
Ding!
Alarm-like sounds rang out in succession as a hologram appeared.
[Outlaw. 'Buff Archer Please' is approaching you.]
"Your reactions really are disgustingly fast."
A voice soaked in deep irritation came from not far away, but I couldn't properly gauge its location.
I couldn't understand how the opponent had known my location well enough to attack me, or how they'd pinpointed my channel and position among more than a hundred channels and come straight to me.
But it didn't matter even if I didn't understand any of that.
What mattered was that someone had attacked me, and that they had ruined my good mood.
I hurled the weight into a space by rough guess, deploying a skill, while focusing on my surroundings to find the red outline unique to Outlaws.
—Explosive Spike.
The blood-red weight shot out fast and embedded itself in the cave wall, exploding loudly.
Boom!
And at that moment, I heard an extremely faint footstep.
The instant I noticed it, I threw myself toward that spot without a moment's hesitation.
Screeeeech!
The hand gripping the Crescent-Moon Weight's cord was squeezing with literally all its strength, so the cord stretched to its limit and let out a strange, scream-like sound.
And at that moment.
Boom!
With a massive roar, a huge mass of blue light brightly illuminated the cave.
Serin's lips curled upward.
Because she hadn't expected the opponent to reveal themselves so easily.
—Clang!