Hard Boss Raid
The moment I saw the photos, I burst out laughing. I’d always felt bad, like I was constantly living off Lady Mone’s money, so it was a relief to see I’d actually been useful.
- Da Lemon
- Congrats on stealing the Watercolor Guild’s planet lololol
- Looks like the Doom Guild is about to collapse?
- At this rate, let’s make Watercolor Guild number one
The truth was, this person was Mone, the sub-master of Shining Parade. But I pretended not to know and replied anyway.
“Thank you for the shout-out, Lemon. If you ever want to hand something over for proxy enhancement or the like, hit me up. You know who I am, right? The first player on the entire server to own a +10. Da Lulu.”
- Damn
- Da Lulu
- For real, for real
- But usually if you can boost your own stuff, you can’t boost other people’s, right?
“If you hand me proxy enhancement work, then from that moment on, it’s not you and me separately. We’re one body. I’ll put my heart and soul into enhancing it.”
[User donated 1,000 won!]
[Haruru’s such a menace that if you leave your account with her, she’ll take everything that can make money.]
- Gasp
- As expected, the guild master of the ultra-evil Shining Parade Guild
- She really raised that +10 for today, huh;;;;
- How much would an account from the server’s number-two guild master be worth?
“Be quiet! Do you want to cause a disaster?”
After a bit of conversation, I logged into Unknown Universe. We were currently on the planet of the lush, prosperous Muah Guild, or rather, our farm planet. And on that planet, for the first time in nearly a week, I met Mone.
[MoneMone1123: It’s been a while~ I’ve been busy with work and couldn’t log in. ]
Oh! That wavy chat.
Mone looked especially high-energy today. Probably because she’d become the first person in history to steal the Doom Guild’s planet. The “busy with work” part was really because she’d been waging a guild war on her main account, Lemon.
- Kyaa~
- We missed you, big sis Mone!
- Da Mone
- Hii
My Harusalidan. I thought they’d been quiet, but the second they saw Mone after so long, they couldn’t contain themselves. Honestly, I was the same. Knowing her true identity, I wanted to talk about Lemon even more, but I held myself back for now.
[User donated 1,000 won!]
[At last, the main character of this chat has arrived.]
“Come to think of it, that’s not entirely wrong. Half my stream was made by CatMoney, and the other half by MoMoney...”
- LOL
- Don’t admit it lol
- Haruru’s in shrink mode on
[User MoneMone1123 donated 1,000,000 won!]
[Thank you for not kicking me all this time.]
“Kyyaaah! Everyone, salute in the presence of the largest shareholder of the Shining Parade Guild!”
- ^^7
- ^^7
- Wow, she’s tossing out a million won like it’s ten thousand;;; The host of Unknown Universe is on another level
- Largest shareholder, lol
- Da shareholder
- The ‘invisible hand’ of the Shining Parade Guild
“And as for kicking people out! As long as our guild has a proper reason, we don’t kick anyone just because they haven’t logged in for a while. Even if that weren’t the case, our Mone is practically a retired number, so there is absolutely no kicking her. She has to be our vice master for life.”
- Damn
- If I heard that, I’d leave on my own
- Vice master? Just give her the guild master seat
“Today, I’ll be handling Hard Black Fox with all my heart and soul, so please sit back and enjoy.”
Since it was about time for everyone to gather, I started calling up the party members we’d be going with today, one by one. This time, unlike the old Element days, Mone and Jeong-yong were coming along, but one person was different.
Imda was the one sitting out. Honestly, from Hard Black Fox onward, it was hard for a free-to-play player to keep up quickly, so there was nothing to be done. Still, with Imda’s stubbornness, I believed he’d manage just fine. He’d also seemed to get hooked on farming lately. He could always sell crops and gear himself up that way.
So in Imda’s place, ClearSkyBlue would be joining us as spaceship pilot and wind utility support.
“First, let me introduce the backbone of our Shining Parade Guild, the indispensable cutie and master: me.”
- What?
- The backbone is Mone though
- Huh?
- Looking at it now, maybe she isn’t even necessary
- Your cutesy act is getting worse by the day
- Surprise cute mode;;
“Be nice in chat.”
- Cute
- Cute
- Haruru, I love you
- Haruru, I love you
- This streamer is scary ㅠㅠ
- Nicely.
“Good. I don’t have any major external changes like gear or spirits, but there has been one internal change. My level. I’ve reached 20.”
- Oh
- Oh
- Don’t you learn a new skill at 20?
“For most other classes, you need a skill book to learn skills from level 50 onward, but Cosmic Blade is alone in being, uh, no, in being a late-blooming class. That means it needs skill books starting at level 20. So right now, all I have are the basic skills that get handed out at level 10...”
- What the hell
- Garbage class
- You were about to say ‘trash class,’ weren’t you?
- And yet it’s secretly top tier lol
- Seriously, Cosmic Blade never gets anything done the easy way...
[User donated 1,000 won!]
[Just reroll into a top-tier class now]
“Hmph. A romance-less RPG is nothing but a corpse. I’m taking Cosmic Blade all the way to the end.”
- Kyaa
- Da Lulu
- It’s too late to change now lol
[User donated 1,000 won!]
[Then what were all those one-cut-splits and cherry-blossom-on-the-wind lines about?]
“They’re just jump attacks and dash attacks... I gave them names.”
- LOLLLLL
- For real?
- That is genuinely embarrassing
- Kyaa lol. Romance, as expected
[User donated 1,000 won!]
[Haha, if you don’t shout the skill name, the damage doesn’t go through lol]
- That part checks out
- Unknown Universe was a top-class god game with voice recognition too
“Anyway, I can get the skill books slowly! Even without skills, my stats have gone up across the board, so you’ll see I’m stronger than before. Look forward to it.”
[User donated 1,000 won!]
[Don’t you not have time because of streaming? How did you even hit 20?]
“Hahaha! This god game supports auto-hunting, so you just leave it on.”
- Kyaa~
- Kyaa~
- King auto-hunt lololol
- Wow, that persistence was insane (auto-hunting)
Unknown Universe’s hunting grounds are divided by level ranges, and anyone outside the range can’t enter, which means high-level players can’t just camp low-level players and control or disrupt hunting grounds through open PvP and the like.
If they really wanted to interfere, they’d have to come to the hunting grounds at a level similar to mine, but then I’d crush them without fail. At this point, I was the strongest in my level bracket.
Still, I’d wondered if the Doom Guild might come sniffing around for revenge, but maybe because losing that planet in guild war thanks to my trolling had hit them hard, they seemed busy patching up their own mess from the inside.
Thanks to that, no one bothered me while I hunted. On the contrary, viewers would occasionally slap a beneficial buff on me and call me Da Lulu. It was the very definition of a royal road power-up. I intended to use this opportunity and keep growing.
“Next up, the heart of our Shining Parade Guild!”
- Is it Mone?
- Da Mone
- The heart is more important than the backbone, damn
- Let’s go~
- Haha, it’s been a while since I heard big sis Mone’s voice
- Her specs had gone way up too
“Mone!”
⊳ Welcome.
“It’s good to hear your voice again after so long. The viewers are reacting pretty intensely too.”
“Thank you. In the meantime, I’ve raised my Rapi to one star and reinforced my S-grade accessories to +4. I also matched my level to 20, so I picked up a few skills as well. Still, I’m nowhere near Haruru-nim.”
- Kyaa
- You must’ve spent quite a bit
- You’re a support, so you didn’t even need to go that far...
“That’s right. You’re a support... and the dealer is me, Haruru, the first and only person in history with +10 accessories. You could take it easy.”
“No. Our goal is the Doom Guild, isn’t it? Then we have to grow even stronger than this. The Doom Guild probably sharpened its blades after losing its planet to the Watercolor Guild this time.”
That was true enough. Still, I couldn’t stop smiling.
“Serves the Doom Guild right. Let them lose one thing after another.”
- lol exactly
- lol exactly
- Man, this feels good
Then Mone answered the comment I’d made earlier, in response to my shout-out post.
“I saw on the community board that the Watercolor Guild master really seems to like you, Haruru-nim. They might ask you for +10 proxy enhancement later.”
“Oh! Really?”
- Kyaa
- Da Lulu, how far are you going to grow?
- The Watercolor Guild master asking for proxy work, damn
I was talking as if I were a third party, but the Watercolor Guild master was Mone herself. She didn’t seem to be joking; it really looked like she wanted to hand it over. What a windfall. Lemon’s account had never once been revealed on stream, so this was perfect material for a new video.
“We should set a date sometime! Please contact me, Lemon-nim!”
[User donated 1,000 won!]
[Haruru hacking pre-announcement, damn]
- Gasp
- So that’s what she meant by setting a date?
- I started watching Unknown Universe VTubers for this day
“That is not what I meant.”
Mone laughed and then said, “I’ve missed this kind of atmosphere so much. I’ll stay and have fun today.”
“Understood!”
- I missed big sis Mone too
- Haruru’s stream atmosphere is fun for sure
“Next is our tank, who absolutely can’t be left out!”
⊳ The one who carries the team’s health! The human guardian! Ulsan'sPrideJeong-yong!
- Kyaa~
- If anyone asks about the future of Ulsan, make them look up and see Da Jeong-yong
- Jeong-yong hyung is a beast~
- A tank with an S-grade spirit, no less, damn;;
“Yes, hello.”
He greeted me in an even rougher voice than usual. Was he coming down with something? I asked just in case.
“It’s not that... I inhaled a Class 2 carcinogen.”
“What?”
A Class 2 carcinogen?
“Overtime.”
“Ah... hang in there.”
- Gasp
- If it’s overtime, that’s fair...
- You worked hard, Da Jeong-yong
[User donated 1,000 won!]
[Ulsan’s pride, Jeong-yong hyung, fighting for the sake of protecting your family...]
- T_T
- The weight of being the head of the household
“My voice is like this, but I’m still in my late twenties. And I’m single.”
At that bombshell, the chat started buzzing. I was surprised too.
- What?!
- What?!
- You were younger than me?
- No way
- He sounds like he’s in his forties no matter how you slice it
- Huge reversal;;
[User donated 1,000 won!]
[So it’s not Jeong-yong hyung, it’s Jeong-yong little brother.]
- lol exactly
- Da Jeong-yong little brother
“Then, if you’re saving your throat today, you won’t be able to do a battle cry shout.”
- Tsk
- If he got slammed with overtime, nothing can be done
- Jeong-yong hyung’s roar is what makes it hit right...
“No! Haruru-nim. Would you look at my level?”
He too was level 20, just like me. Which meant he’d learned a new skill.
“Today’s shout will be even more incredible than last time.”
“Hmm~.”
- Kyaa~
- Was the next skill Wide Cry?
- At level 20, that should be a core tank skill, right?
“Yes. Wide Cry draws enemy aggro while also giving allies a speed buff. Even with auto-hunting, it must have been a real struggle to level as a tank while working a job. You must have had it rough.”
“Not at all. I’m an elite guild member of the Shining Parade Guild, a Da Lulu shoulder. I’m in a position where I have to set an example above anyone else. It wasn’t hardship, just the obvious thing to do.”
- Haaah
- Da Jeong-yong
- As expected of Ulsan’s pride
The guy was absurdly committed. I should play along so he didn’t feel awkward.
“I respect Lulu.”
“Thank you, Lulu.”
- LOL
- Hearing that voice say Haruru is still weird
“Lastly, today’s core member...”
[Insight (SSS) has been activated.]
[Flight control ability (S)]
“?”
What the heck? Why had this person’s rank gone up?