Chapter 11. Another Asura King (2)
Chapter 11. Another Asura King (2)
"...Ga-hyeon-ah."
"What?"
2 PM.
Ga-hyeon woke up around noon, ate lunch, and was checking reactions on Elder Book.
"Huh?"
"We hit the jackpot."
Su-han suddenly shoved his smartphone screen in front of the confused Ga-hyeon.
"What is this?"
Ga-hyeon took the phone without thinking and looked at the screen.
His eyes widened, becoming round in an instant.
"What is this...."
"What do you mean 'what'? Our video made it into the 'Popular Shorts'! We hit the jackpot!"
[Popular Short]
[1-Minute Cooking - Living Alone Edition]
[Let's look at the popular franchises by year]
...
[Real VS Fake (1)]
[Views 235,894. Likes 3.2k. Comments 180]
[Comments]
- What is this? Are the same people fighting each other?
- Wow, but they fight really well.
- Is this person a martial artist?
A 'Short' in the middle of the Nutube popular ranking.
Shorts were a place to upload video content under 1 minute.
Ga-hyeon scrolled down and read the continuous comments.
Comments asking if they were martial artists.
Comments asking how there could be two of the same person. Is it graphics? And so on.
"So, you're saying we made it into the popular rankings?"
"Exactly. Actually, I asked Ik-su-nim yesterday to make about 5 short videos, and the first one really hit the mark. It seems like it caught the algorithm between last night and this morning."
"Oh...!"
"Strangely, my gut feeling was fucking good!"
They high-fived immediately.
"And for now, I touched up the Nutube channel banner. I put your face on the profile picture."
"Huh? My face?"
"I put it there temporarily. What else are you going to use your face for? You have to use it at times like this."
"...Since it's come to this, should I give you a good one?"
"That'd be great, right?"
Ga-hyeon found his phone, which was lying around, picked a decent photo, and sent it to Su-han via chat.
"Okay. Anyway, our channel promotion is properly done now."
Su-han took his smartphone from Ga-hyeon and showed him the channel banner and profile picture.
Ga-hyeon's Nutube channel, which wasn't originally for video uploads, had transformed with a cool channel banner and his photo on the profile.
In the video section, the full videos he uploaded in the past were taken down—Su-han must have set them to private—so no videos were up yet, but in the Shorts section, 5 videos were uploaded.
"6,000 subscribers?"
"It's pathetic compared to millions, but it's something. We haven't properly promoted it on our Twinkle yet. It's just from when you posted on Elder Book and shared the link to recruit Ik-su-nim. I think this is decent."
"...I wish it would hit a million if possible."
"...You never know, considering the videos that will be uploaded in the future?"
The videos Ik-su is editing.
He received word this morning that Ik-su had poured everything into finishing the battle video with Mar Svius.
The note Ga-hyeon wrote seemed to help, too.
As soon as Ga-hyeon heard that from Su-han, he worried about Ik-su.
"Ik-su-nim... is he okay?"
"He said he's confident in his stamina. But if this continues, it'll be tough for him. We might have to recruit another editor soon."
"Let's see how the situation goes."
"Anyway, I told Ik-su-nim, but we're going to operate like this. Highlight video collections. Story progression videos. We're going with these two."
There would be demand for story videos, but there would definitely be demand for highlight collections too.
Therefore, Su-han decided to upload highlight collections as well.
"Later on, we'll collect highlights or story compilations and upload several-hour-long compilations. That's how we'll suck up more views."
"That sounds professional...."
"No, everyone knows this. You're just the one who doesn't."
Su-han checked the memo on his smartphone.
"For today's broadcast... we need to ask about establishing a fan cafe. And we need to properly promote the Nutube channel. We can promote it by watching the videos together.
And let's look at the collaboration emails before your evening broadcast."
"Collaboration?"
Su-han nodded.
"I said I'd tell you yesterday, but I forgot. Sorry.
Anyway, we need to increase viewers. I think we need to let people know your name more by broadcasting with other streamers.
Well. It's a side job, but. It's basically your main job now, right? We need to pay attention to it.
And above all.... Honestly, compared to your skills, you're not famous enough right now."
"...That's true."
"You beat the combat AI that Silas released with full effort. You caught a dragon. You did a mid-to-late game boss trial early in the game.
And you won against a pro-gamer 1st-string AI in Weapon Booster. You won against a top-tier AI from another game.
This much should get you some fame. But honestly, we're deep and narrow. Don't you think?"
Elder Book wraiths and some Tusu.
And foreign viewers.
They all gathered, and last time, they reached about 1,500 viewers.
Looking at the actions, it was true that there should be more.
"Well, of course. Since you got 1st place in Weapon Booster, it must have spread everywhere by now. You can probably expect a lot of viewers today."
At Su-han's positive words, Ga-hyeon nodded.
He did Weapon Booster impulsively yesterday, but 1st place was definitely an extraordinary achievement.
"Alright, alright! First. Let's look at the collaboration emails."
Su-han took out his laptop and opened Ga-hyeon's email inbox. They started reading the emails one by one.
Time is 7 PM.
"We're going with this person?"
"Yes. Above all, we have to focus on Ancient Booklet right now. We need to take care of the main viewers. So, one-off content would be good."
"Besides, with this person, you can properly show off your skills. There are many benefits. This person's connections are also enormous.
Anyway, you should go for a craftsman broadcast, a physical broadcast. Let's properly imprint your image in this collaboration."
"Yeah, yeah."
"Alright. Get in quickly."
Ga-hyeon opened the capsule, went inside, and started streaming in <Life>.
The Tusu started coming in.
- Streamer, I saw the Short lol
- To think I'd see our Sura in the popular rankings!
- Sura is an insider now lol
- Sura! The news that you got 1st in Weapon Booster has spread!
- Everyone is getting interested.
- I hope our Sura gets even more popular lol
- Don't worry, since you hit the popular Short, it'll be soon lol
- Rly? Our Sura is on Nutube popular rankings?
[Viewers: 2,611]
Viewers increased by about 1,100 compared to last time.
It was thanks to the aftermath of 1st place in Weapon Booster and the battle video with the doppelgänger spreading within Twinkle.
- Is this the broadcast of the Weapon Booster 1st place?
- Came here after seeing you beat the Sword King lol
- I saw the doppelgänger? The one where you fight that guy lol
Tusu who flowed in through the chat are visible.
'Tsk. It should have exploded more.'
Meanwhile, outside the capsule, Su-han tapped his laptop with his fingers.
'We'll make it explode properly during the collaboration.'
While Su-han was worrying about that, Sura's greeting began.
"Tw-hi. Hello, everyone."
The chat topic of the Tusu changes to asking how it happened.
"Our Su-han made something happen. Fighting the doppelgänger. I asked our editor to upload it as a Short, and it coincidentally got chosen by the algorithm. It hit the jackpot."
[Su-hansu: I am a bit amazing]
- Rly?
- Our manager hyung made something happen!
"Now then. Let's watch the hot Nutube channel."
Ga-hyeon entered the Nutube channel within <Life>.
- Oh, you decorated it quite well.
- Rly lol, it looks like you put some effort into it. I don't know who did the channel banner, but it has a vibe.
[Su-hansu: I did the channel banner. I know how to handle Photoshop.]
- Rly? Our manager hyung is an all-rounder damn
- lol you put Sura's face on the profile picture lololol
- That's what faces are for, rly lol
- We shouldn't use our faces ㅜ
- Ah
While the Tusu were chatting, Su-han spoke to Ga-hyeon from outside.
[Un-private it. If you look there, there's 'Sura Teaser', right?]
"Ah. This?"
[You just have to un-private that. Ik-su-nim made another one. He said he hoped this would go up first.]
"Okay. Well. I'll un-private it. I'm playing it right now, okay?"
[Okay, play it right now. Adjust the streaming to that.]
Ga-hyeon changed the Nutube video to be broadcast on the stream.
- What is this?
- Oh, what's this.
"This is my first Nutube video. Let's watch it together."
- Finally?
- Wow! I'm so excited lol
Soon, the video is broadcast.
The beginning was the scene where the two people glared at each other with swords crossed in the duel with Mar Svius.
The immense power of Chivalry seemed to show the intensity of the two people even more.
And below that, the letters 'Sura' and small letters 'Sura' underneath were written.
- Wow, you know what's cool, editor-nim
- The composition is so good?
The videos after that contained Sura's life story so far.
The scene where he sliced Goran without Chivalry in the Ancient Booklet tutorial.
The scene where he completely overwhelmed General Sallin.
The scene where he won against the Throne of Madness, Runans Abervich.
His performance in the madness-filled village episode and his appearance facing Darhan.
And the duel with Zarin Savas.
Above all, the scene that counts as one of the best in Sura's channel: the scene where he cuts the breath and opposes Mar Svius against the dragon Gabras Abisius and Mar Svius.
And the appearance of showing overwhelming skills in Weapon Booster and beating Cheon Hae-mun and the Sword King.
And finally, the confrontation with the doppelgänger.
It neatly contained the life story of Sura, who has been broadcasting for about 3 weeks.
- Wow, cool.
- That was good!
- Fits as the first video. Feels like it properly announces the start, right?
"...Wow. That's amazing."
[Ga-hyeon-ah. Convey this. Tell them Nutube videos will be uploaded at 7 PM every two days.]
Su-han's message appears on one side of Ga-hyeon's vision.
"Ah. And Nutube content will be uploaded every two days at 7 PM."
[Su-hansu: It seems the first video will be a story video.]
[Su-hansu: Highlight videos will also be uploaded in between!]
- Okay
- Confirmed
- Lots of videos to eat. Sweet.
"Ah, and. We're thinking of making a fan cafe...."
Ga-hyeon told them the fan cafe news he heard from Su-han.
- Fan cafe?
- Isn't it good if there is one? Sura doesn't even have a Twinkle community site yet
- Honestly, Elder Book became Sura's fan cafe, but I saw some people who disliked it slightly
- Yeah, it's an Ancient Booklet community, not Sura's fan cafe, so it's natural to see people who are dissatisfied.
'Ah, this. It was good to do it after all.'
Ga-hyeon, who saw the chat, thought it was fortunate.
It was because there were some gamers who were uncomfortable with the bulletin board being occupied by posts about Sura while he was looking at Elder Book posts during the day.
It was fortunate that he brought up the fan cafe story at just the right time.
"Then I'll take it that you agree to making it!"
[Su-hansu: Here is the fan cafe address.]
[Su-hansu: {Address attached}]
Su-han pinned the address as a notice in the chat window.
- Gotta sign up right away.
- Smiling at the thought of talking about Sura
- Wow. You prepared everything in advance? You categorized the bulletin boards well damn
- Oh, did Su-han hyung do it?
[Su-hansu: I made the categories for now. If there's a bulletin board you want, please request it on the request board.]
- Okay
- Okay okay
'The collaboration talk hasn't received a reply yet, so I guess I don't have to talk about it?'
Ga-hyeon thought he had delivered everything he needed to now.
"Then now. Let's go into Ancient Booklet!"
- Woohoo!
- Kyaaaaak!
- Start it right now
After the trial in the illusion ended and he came out, he was inside a huge cave.
Looking back, he could see the scenery visible from the summit of Maias Mountain.
Roughly scattering snow and wind. If he fell, it would probably be hard to even recover his body.
"...It's really wide.... Huh? It's warm?"
He touched his arm inadvertently, and it was surprisingly warm.
When he took off his cold-weather gear and looked inside, he saw a huge cavity.
And inside it, several huge buildings were standing, making it look like a village.
[Hmm. It's a unique space.]
"Ah. Gabras-nim."
Gabras had already passed the trial at some point, flew over to Sura, and sat on his shoulder.
"Isn't it really wide?"
[Did you say they dug out a cliff? It's dug in detail so it wouldn't collapse. I can tell by looking at the traces.]
Gabras looked at the ceiling of the cavity and spoke.
While the two were talking, he heard the sound of someone approaching.
"Sia. Who on earth is that person...."
"They're a good person!"
"Sia. I've told you many times, just because they pay a lot doesn't mean they're all good people...."
"Oh, come on! I told you it's not like that!"
He turned his gaze to where the sound was coming from, and a middle-aged man was standing there.
"Huh?"
[Oh. Looking at it.... A half-breed of a giant and a dwarf...?]
"Ah, that's correct. Haha. My parents' love is a bit unique."
A middle-aged man who looked about 3m tall.
The thick beard on his chin was neatly trimmed, and his impression looked gentle overall.
'So this is why Sia wasn't surprised to see Gabras-nim.'
It was understandable that she would be calm even if she saw a dragon, since she knew a half-breed of a giant and a dwarf.
"Greetings. I am Malitern Dozir. I lead the group called Song of the Sage."
"I am Sura. And this is Gabras Abisius-nim."
[Nice to meet you.]
"...Gabras Abisius-nim? Haha. I have heard of this. The wisdom of the sage passed down from the Median Continent is also known on the Salas Continent."
[Thanks for the compliment.]
Gabras responded by bowing his head slightly.
Malitern's gaze turned to Sura.
"Hmm... did you say your name was Sura?"
"Yes. That is correct. Malitern-nim."
Somehow, his expression wasn't very bright.
"Who... are you?"
"Yes?"
"The content within the trial proceeds under my supervision. So I was able to see the content of the trial as well.
But the majesty of the power Sura-nim showed there was.... It was amazing. Honestly, I was impressed.
However, power comes from good places, but it also comes from evil places.
I will ask. Sura-nim. Are you a good person? Or an evil person?"
- Wow, this is the first time I've seen Malitern say something like that
- Well, Sura is usually strong.
- lol he was sarcastically asking if he was too weak for him lol
Various thoughts began to cross Sura's mind.