Chapter 130
Chapter 130
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 130
Chapter Title: Dreams, Hopes, Despair, and Ruin
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When do you think a warrior dies?
When you've smacked a monster that would one-shot a mage of the same level, only to deal a pathetic 1 damage due to the massive disparity, feeling mocked by both the monster and the mage?
No.
During party hunting, you swing a basic attack to finish off a monster on the brink of death, but it crits minimum damage, botching the kill—and the mage witnesses it, snitches to the party leader, and you get kicked?
No.
You run into a deranged mage in the hunting grounds who types: 'Hello, I'm a mage who's been channel-hopping, worn out from hunting for a spot. Regrettably, I must politely ask you to leave this hunting ground. You could hunt together, but due to my class's overwhelming advantage, you'll miss out on a ton of monsters. I recommend accepting the gap and moving to another spot or switching channels—that'll net you more gold, exp, and save time. If you can't wrap your head around it, I'll help you understand until you do.' Then they start shamelessly steal-farming?
No.
It's when the game itself goes down in flames.
The battle between those cracking the game's security and those defending it.
They say the spear always beats the shield.
Everyone knows no game can perfectly block every cheat.
But the biggest reason Meteor Land erupted like this was the devs showing zero will to even try catching cheaters.
Even with hack sales spammed endlessly in the global megaphone chat everyone could see, nothing got blocked.
The client, built assuming RPG play, was so sloppy it couldn't stop even a 20-year-old cheat engine.
No verification for account creation meant anyone could spam infinite throwaway accounts.
All this combined, and Meteor Land met its end.
📰 Meteor Land Gallery [Author: Anonymous] [Current Meteor Land Situation.gif] (A GIF of a Black guy walking into the party leader's room holding a pizza, only to find everything ablaze—his laughing face twists into pure shock.) 💬 Comments — Anonymous [-End-] — ??? "Went to check out the neighbor's place collapsing... came back to find our house in flames too." — Anonymous Thanks for loving Meteor Land all this time. — Anonymous My memories are shattering into pieces! The problem was the rumor that it was a gold mine.
Everyone rushed in to farm that rice bowl.
Some charged in with just a pickaxe, but others brought full excavator rigs and unmanned AI bots.
They even started handing out illegally modded electric pickaxes as a smokescreen tactic.
Dumping crappy free hacks.
The issue? Even those trash free hacks worked in-game.
While banning the flood of new cheaters, they'd suck up as much honey as possible.
Your hard-earned exp and gold from grinding.
Then click once, and they print infinite amounts. People felt robbed and bailed.
We knew it was a sandcastle built on the open sea.
Didn't believe it'd last 10 years, or even 5.
Just hoped for a year of memories—but it all crumbled in one month.
If I'd quit from boredom, fine.
But watching the world collapse against my will? Utter helplessness.
📰 Jeon Jeonseol's Notice [Author: Jeon Jeonseol] [Broadcast off today] 💬 Comments — Anonymous How much did you love Meteor Land lololol — Anonymous May the dear departed game rest in peace. — Anonymous [-End-] — Anonymous Fucking criminals, worse than tumors on society—hope they all drop dead. — Anonymous Hang in there ㅠㅠ The comments on the notice offered some comfort, but it was still too heartbreaking.
Farewell, Meteor Land, the world I loved.
I stared endlessly at the burning gallery and official Discord server, then logged into Meteor Land like I was possessed, wandering the map.
Suddenly, my eyes landed on the pristine White Leather Gloves (+1) tucked away in my inventory.
One success on a 10% scroll, with four upgrade slots left.
Thanks to hack-induced gold inflation, its price had tripled.
Isn't that good?
No, not at all.
With the game dead and no one left, what's the point of 1 billion or 10 billion gold?
Feeling hollow, I sold the gloves and bought nine more Glove Attack Power 10% Scrolls.
Then crafted nine White Leather Gloves and slapped them on one by one.
Success, fail, success, success, fail, success, fail, success, success.
"...?"
Success rate is 10%.
That means roughly one success per ten tries—if you're lucky.
But including the first pair, I'd succeeded on seven out of ten.
Kindergarten math: seven times luckier than average.
Now I had seven White Leather Gloves (+1) in hand.
Seven times the assets before selling the first.
63 times more than when I had just one scroll.
"Wh-what?"
This disastrously good fortune had me converting the gloves back into scrolls again.
60 sheets of 10% Glove Attack Power Scrolls in my possession.
With this, maybe I could do something insane?
Even after posting the day-off notice, the urge to stream hit me.
So I fired up the broadcast.
💬 Live Chat — Viewer ? — Viewer Wasn't today off? — Viewer "Then log off again?" — Viewer No please stream! — Viewer LOLOLOL this bait is hilarious — Viewer This girl's playing hard to get, so cute lol — Viewer Let's get this stream going~ Fired up Meteor Land, and the jovial chat turned ominous.
💬 Live Chat — Viewer Ack... ack... — Viewer Is this the spot where meteors devastated everything? — Viewer ? What happened? — Viewer Don't mention hackers flooding Meteor Land or devs not banning = game doomed "Agh, you morons—too much gold floods the market, item prices skyrocket, and your hunting pennies can't buy shit anymore! How is that not obvious?"
💬 Live Chat — Viewer Max rage — Viewer Who hit the freakout button — Viewer Hackers flooding chat with propaganda, ignore 'em ⭐ Top Comment — Viewer Let's keep our Jeonseol on the flower road ㅠㅠ — Viewer Blaze Road ON — Viewer Can you say 'moron' one more time, teach? — Viewer Cashers GTFO — Viewer Teacher please stop breathing for 24 hours "Anyway, since it's come to this, let's put on a spectacular fireworks show."
I logged into Meteor Land and showed viewers the 60 Glove Attack Power 10% Scrolls in my inventory.
💬 Live Chat — Viewer ?? — Viewer Where'd you get that many scrolls? — Viewer Jeonseol, did you hack in a rage too? — Viewer Hacking's a ban reason, teach — Viewer You didn't cash into a dead game for scrolls, right? "I turned off stream, sold a +1 glove for one 10% scroll, bought nine more and applied 'em—seven succeeded. So I bought 60 more."
💬 Live Chat — Viewer That math checks out? — Viewer 9 tries at 10% success, 7 hits = 0.00029160% odds — Viewer All your lifetime luck dumped here — Viewer Wow, imagine stacking 8 +1s on 10%s with that lololol "Alright, time for a 10% five-stack."
💬 Live Chat — Viewer Why would you even — Viewer 10% five-stack is straight madness—STOP! — Viewer How'd Jeon Jeonseol become a gambling addict? — Viewer And so the world ended — Viewer [-End-] — Viewer Lol it's a usemap anyway — Viewer True fantasy fireworks — Viewer How much gold farming with that? — Viewer People buying gold in this mess? Lolololol — Viewer <"Panic Sell"> — Viewer Not panic anymore—it's delisting lolol For some reason, it felt like it'd work.
Truth is, probability is brutally honest—good results from so few tries are near impossible.
But some thought overrode my head.
The delusion that I'm different from others.
The fantasy that it'll succeed if I roll now.
My dreams, hopes, despair, and ruin began with the glove attack power upgrade.