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# Chapter 3
“Minced garlic, green onions, onions, shishito peppers, Cheongyang peppers...”
Yoon Geon was sitting in the pavilion, tapping away on his phone.
After choosing the vegetables he needed to buy, he shopped for seasonings and sauces as well. It was only after the
items in his shopping cart exceeded thirty that he finally finished shopping.
“Let’s order this much in terms of ingredients for now. Next...”
He connected to the internet and searched for equipment for his MeTube stream.
“There’s a lot.”
Yoon Geon chuckled as he searched through broadcasting equipment.
“Lighting? Do I really need things like this?”
After more than two hours of shopping, he stretched.
It felt more exhausting than playing games for half a day.
He took some food for the koi from a storage cabinet inside the pavilion and scattered it into the pond.
The koi rose to the surface and fought over the food.
Yoon Geon went inside the house and headed to the computer room.
He had already prepared everything necessary to broadcast through MeTube.
The professional broadcasting equipment used by streamers had not arrived yet, but there was no major problem with
simply streaming a game.
The broadcast Yoon Geon had chosen as his first step as a streamer was, naturally, the game he was best at.
Legend of Legends, which was currently the most popular game in the entire world.
Among all the servers around the world, Yoon Geon was ranked number one on the Korean server, known to be the most
competitive and filled with top players.
Even now, professional gamers were replaying Yoon Geon’s games, imitating his plays and using them as training material.
“The title... like this?”
— Legend of Legends Grandmaster Geon
Yoon Geon shook his head as he typed the title.
While preparing for streaming, he had watched quite a lot of videos made by streamers for beginners.
There was one thing the streamers commonly emphasized—
— The broadcast title and video thumbnail absolutely have to be provocative and attention-grabbing.
After thinking for a moment, Yoon Geon decided on a title.
— Legend of Legends Grandmaster Tier Live Stomping Fun
Yoon Geon hesitated again.
Most of the users in the Grandmaster tier were people he had encountered in-game.
And many of them were active professional gamers.
Was it really okay to openly title his stream as though he were going to stomp them?
“Ah, whatever. It’s not wrong.”
He launched Legend of Legends and started the broadcast.
Yoon Geon’s eyes shifted to the right.
Naturally, there wasn’t a single viewer.
A game was found, and familiar IDs appeared.
— Hi, Geon. You’re a little late today.
— Wow! I’m on the same team as Geon. Please give us a comfortable bus ride.
— Geon. This humble fool picked mid without thinking. I’ll go support, so please carry us.
These were the reactions he saw every time he played.
— GUN: Can I go mid?
As soon as he typed in the chat, the reactions were enthusiastic.
— Why are you even asking?
— Why haven’t you taken the spot yet?
“I have to stream today, so I might not be able to concentrate. Is that okay?”
— Whoa! Geon, you’re streaming?
— Amazing! Geon really has a stream!
— Even more amazing is that there are two viewers. And I’m one of them lol.
“Huh? Wha, what... what is going on?”
The number of viewers suddenly began exploding.
34 viewers
89 viewers
169 viewers
……
……
1,495 viewers
As the number of viewers increased, the broadcast chat rapidly scrolled upward.
More than half of the people who would be playing with Yoon Geon were people who streamed on MeTube or other platforms.
Once word spread through them that ‘Geon,’ the number one player in the Legend of Legends rankings, had started his own
stream, viewers began pouring in.
— Is this Geon’s stream? The number one Grandmaster ranker who’s practically a fixture in the game?
— Geon started streaming? Does this mean we don’t have to watch replays anymore?
— Ah, finally, I get to watch Geon’s gameplay live.
Along with the rapidly scrolling chat, loud notification sounds assaulted his ears.
— Ding ding ding! ‘Old Guard Inspection Team’ has sent a Super Chat of 100,000 won.
— Ding ding ding! ‘Silver Fixture’ has sent a Super Chat of 10,000 won.
He had no idea what was going on.
The game chat, the broadcast chat, the loud notification sounds...
It was an overwhelming situation, and he had no idea where to look.
Yoon Geon’s eyes began moving constantly in every direction.
— As expected of Geon! Even when Super Chats come in, he doesn’t say a single word. What masculinity!
“Super Chats...”
He knew what Super Chats were thanks to the information he had studied while preparing for his stream.
Super Chats, in other words, donations, were one of the ways streamers earned money.
But the endless stream of notification sounds was completely different from what Yoon Geon had learned beforehand.
— When you first start streaming, don’t become too obsessed with donations. If you keep working hard, the viewers will
eventually recognize your efforts.
— If you let yourself get emotionally affected by every Super Chat, you won’t be able to stream. Super Chats are
something you receive in proportion to your efforts, so if you simply keep moving forward, the rewards will eventually
come.
He had heard that when you first started streaming, your income would remain close to zero for a while.
As the hours of broadcasting increased and you accumulated experience, your income would gradually rise.
But...
— Ding ding ding! ‘Geon’s Biggest Fan’ has sent a Super Chat of 100,000 won.
The notification sounds announcing Super Chats did not stop.
— Geon. You have to pick!
The game chat became filled with messages saying, ‘Geon pick.’
Startled, Yoon Geon instinctively clicked the mouse.
“Ah! Narmi...”
When he looked at what he had selected, he realized that he had chosen a support champion that did not suit the mid lane
he had been assigned.
There was not enough time, so he had missed the opportunity to select another champion.
The moment Yoon Geon picked Narmi, the reaction in the game chat exploded.
People said that even a support champion like Narmi would be enough, while others said that he must have decided to make
comedy the concept of his first broadcast.
Narmi grants allies buffs to their movement speed and attack speed, while giving opponents a debuff that reduces their
movement speed.
She can also restore the health of herself and her allies.
At first glance, she seemed like a good champion, but her attack power was extremely weak.
Other than what was commonly called poke damage, basically repeated basic attacks, she had no particularly powerful
means of attacking.
Perhaps an idea had occurred to him, because Yoon Geon chuckled.
“Narmi... might not be bad.”
---
The way to win a fight was very simple.
If I don’t get hit and hit the opponent, I win.
It was the same in competitive games.
If you avoid getting hit while hitting the opponent, you would eventually win.
Swoosh— Tap— Swoosh— Tap—
He dodged the opponent’s skills and struck with basic attacks.
His attacks did not deal huge damage in a single blow with a heavy thud, but Yoon Geon’s attacks continued landing
effectively on his opponent.
Because Narmi was a support champion, her basic attacks were weak.
But as the saying went, constant dripping wears away stone.
He kept attacking, and the opponent’s HP bar gradually dwindled away.
— What the hell— Is he beating Jerod with Narmi?
— He’s not just beating him. He’s playing with him.
— Whoa, is this even possible?
— Dodges the skill, poke, tap. Swoosh, tap, swoosh, tap.
— And finally, boom!
You have slain an enemy.
In the end, he secured a kill on the opposing mid laner.
The opposing mid laner’s scream of despair appeared as text in the game chat.
While his opponent was waiting to respawn, Yoon Geon gathered more gold, returned to base, purchased items, and came
back.
As time passed, the game became even easier.
After completely starving the opposing mid laner of resources, like a dried squid, he roamed to another lane.
With a single use of his ultimate, he gave his allied ranged damage dealer two kills, then returned to the mid lane.
He went back to base, headed to the upper lane, and killed another opponent.
Around ten minutes after the game began, the game chat started flying upward at an incredible speed.
The enemy chat, displayed in red, was filled with all kinds of curses, while the allied chat, displayed in blue, was
completely covered with praise for Yoon Geon.
The opposing mid laner, who had heard enough insults in a few minutes to last a year, disconnected from the game, and
the match descended into chaos.
Victory.
Hearing the victory message, Yoon Geon grinned.
“Narmi is fun.”
Since she was a support champion, he had only used her when playing the support position.
But using her in the mid lane was unexpectedly fun.
Games were, of course, meant to be played for enjoyment.
He had discovered a new kind of enjoyment he had never experienced while playing Legend of Legends before.
“Should I try a different champion next time?”
— Ding ding ding! ‘Narmi Specialist’ has sent a Super Chat of 100,000 won.
“Come to think of it...”
He realized that he had heard quite a lot of Super Chat notifications even while playing the game.
He knew how to check the amount of donations he had received, but since it was not urgent, he decided to put it off for
later.
“One more game.”
Yoon Geon immediately queued for the next game.
---
Zing—
The lesser god responsible for wisdom could not meet the cold gaze of the Chief God and turned his head away, pretending
to be distracted.
“Oh?”
At the Chief God’s irritated voice, the God of Wisdom immediately stood up and bent at the waist.
“I’m sorry.”
“Do you even know what you did wrong?”
“Well...”
When the God of Wisdom failed to answer and fidgeted nervously, the Chief God suddenly shouted.
“You said it would take at least a month for him to earn one million won, didn’t you? You said that, didn’t you?”
“I did.”
“And?”
The God of Wisdom answered in a tiny voice.
“I didn’t know it would turn out like this either.”
“One hour. No, it didn’t even take an hour.”
“I’m sorry.”
Contrary to the God of Wisdom’s assurance that it would take more than a month for him to earn one million won, Yoon
Geon had reached the target amount in less than an hour after starting his stream.
No, he had exceeded it by a huge margin.
His donations surpassed one million won around thirty minutes after he started streaming, and by the time he finished
his three-hour stream, he had received more than ten million won in donations, ten times the original target.
The Chief God glared at the God of Wisdom with an irritated expression.
The intention had been to make Yoon Geon communicate with other people through streaming.
Of course, that intention had been achieved.
Unexpectedly, Yoon Geon was showing quite a bit of interest in streaming.
But regardless of whether the goal was achieved, the process was what mattered.
The Chief God had intended to provide Yoon Geon with various forms of assistance through the quests, making excuses to
help him whenever he struggled to achieve his goals.
“How is all of this your fault! What are you going to do? What if he loses interest in streaming very quickly because of
this?”
“How about making the penalty stronger?”
“You call that a solution? I’ll really...!”
“I’m sorry.”
The Chief God let out a deep sigh before snapping,
“Come up with a countermeasure and report back to me.”
“Yes, understood.”
“If the result is like this again... You know what happens, right?”
“Yes!”
After the God of Wisdom withdrew, the Chief God waved his hand.
The empty space rippled, revealing Yoon Geon standing in the garden and looking at the night sky.
A small smile appeared on the Chief God’s lips as he watched Yoon Geon looking happy while gazing at the stars.
It was the complete opposite of the expression he had worn when he had just been raging at the God of Wisdom.
“Be happy. You deserve it.”