Chapter 6
Chapter 6
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 6
Chapter Title: Line
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“We’re short on physical DPS...”
Layer 6.
Sweep Raid Team Leader Bizarru tore at her proud pink hair.
“Ease up on your face, boss. You’ll get wrinkles.”
“You think I’m crumpling it on purpose?!”
“On your period? Eat something. There’s meat.”
“Get that away! I’m on a diet!”
What a barbaric jerk with zero tact.
Bizarru snapped at her shaman party member with a sigh.
Drowning her sorrows in the tear-stained recruitment post.
Looking for physical DPS who can clear layer 60.
Climbers from layers 4-50 are fine too.
❗+❗+❗+ Will accommodate conditions as much as possible!! +❗+❗+❗
(abridged)
The doors of Sweep Raid Team are always open to talented physical DPS.
Please leave a comment.
※ Even better with proof post!
She held out for a few minutes before hitting refresh.
A flood of comments scrolled in.
“Argh!! This is why newbies suck!!”
Bizarru flew into a rage at the early comments.
Obvious newbies who hadn’t even peeked at layer 3!
Hell, were they even climbers?
Maybe residents born clutching layer 1 keys.
“This gallery’s great and all, but that pisses me off.”
Why doesn’t Gallery Master use real names?
Doesn’t make sense.
Grumbling, Bizarru scrolled down.
To counter the nonsense.
“Hah, at least some have common sense.”
Her anger subsided a bit.
She managed a relatively polite reply.
It was true.
Up to layer 6 now.
Sweep Raid Team had only one physical DPS.
Bizarru herself.
Pseudo-Dragon.
Current top raiders at layer 78.
Where Queen Harpy Idmari belongs.
Bizarru endured the surging rivalry.
“Damn it. Meant to recruit, now I’m just gallery scrolling again.”
Caught up in it absentmindedly, Bizarru startled.
She smacked her lips.
Guess today’s recruitment was a bust too.
Gallery’s like this.
One last refresh anyway.
Unconscious compulsion.
Shouldn’t have done that.
“………………”
Bizarru didn’t look down at her prosthetic leg.
She closed the gallery instead.
Not like it was a today-or-tomorrow thing.
“?”
That was the plan.
Until spotting a popular post in the feed.
‘What. That troll villain again.’
One of the four likable anon nicks half-jokingly hailed in climbing gallery.
The ringleader, Boy Joy.
‘Probably fake post or terror bombing anyway.’
Lately, climbing gallery had a bad trend.
Trash posts get the most upvotes.
Some Earth gallery users said it’s the unwritten rule of gallerying.
Makes no sense.
No site like that exists.
Then what, mods get paid 300 gold a month?
She thought so, but her weary fingers wouldn’t listen.
“Oops.”
Boy Joy’s post caught her eye.
Mistake.
Physical DPS eyes are faster than hands.
Bizarru hit back quick, but her honed dynamic vision caught the full post anyway.
“Huh...?”
Breath stopped at the unbelievable sight.
Rightly so.
Sword Fairy Iris Ruskus’s best friend.
Pseudo-Dragon Raid leader’s close pal.
Her glorious record was broken.
‘S+...? What the hell is S+?!’
Panicking, Bizarru went back to the post.
Her eyes were fine.
Boy Joy’s proof screenshot too.
She still remembered.
The shock of challenging Red Tower layer 1.
Bizarru’s score was B+ then.
Top Sword Fairy was A, surely.
But S?
Not just S, S+?
Normally, Bizarru would fan her flushed face at the pathetic vulgarity.
But today?
Couldn’t.
She dazedly commented.
Of all things to forget.
This Tower Climbing Gallery.
Product of the mysterious hermit master, Gallery Master.
Then the screenshot feature?
‘Obviously another feature from Gallery Master.’
I.e.
The popular post was one of two.
Boy Joy hacked climbing gallery—which even Pseudo-Dragon folks probe—or...
?
“S+ rank 1 is real!”
Logically, the latter made sense.
Boy Joy as a supernova climber surpassing Sword Fairy made more sense than hacking!
Like tossing embers on dry straw.
The gallery heated up perfectly.
‘Physical DPS.’
Bizarru, who’d archived Boy Joy’s proof, eyes gleaming wildly.
“These battle traces scream physical DPS!!”
Look at the floor mark in the proof corner.
Monsters vanish on death.
But battle scars linger.
That’s how she knew. Fellow physical DPS.
Of course, might’ve partied.
Bizarru couldn’t tell that far.
But no ranged DPS in party.
Signs of close-quarters brawl!
I.e.
Bizarru couldn’t let this slip.
This talent, this hope. No matter what!
‘Can’t let this genius get hurt or broken climbing the tower!!’
Aaagh!!
These immature Pseudo-Dragon brats again!!
“Boyyy!! Come to Sweep not Pseudo-Dragon pleeease!!”
Bizarru wailed blood.
“Hm. Can’t delete popular posts. Gotta be careful.”
After deleting the proof post as Boy Joy.
Sitting still in lotus, I sighed.
‘Delete a popular post once and it counts as failing the condition, huh.’
Why certify with timer left?
Save for popular post peak?
Obvious.
Wanted to test deleting a popular post.
Like instinctively sensing no popular post manipulation,
Same here.
I felt crisis the moment I deleted.
‘Gotta post at least one popular post daily till deadline to avoid [Popular Post Addiction] sudden death.’
Good I know now.
Proof post served its worth.
Pity deleting the popular post?
Too amateur.
How many years gallerying?
Didn’t predict gallery reactions?
“Some truths prove via delete-and-dip.”
No need to insist.
Delete at right timing,
Pretend to lurk watching reactions.
‘Keep posting rank 1 proofs from now on.’
Necessary, risks be damned.
Don’t rampage as Gallery Master.
Convenient alt nick essential.
Fill [Popular Post Addiction] conditions too.
‘And snag that skill transfer I didn’t expect even making climbing gallery.’
Eyeing gallery, felt physical DPS demand.
Thus, I’m physical DPS from now.
Easier to win vets’ favor.
‘Unconquered tower is inescapable.’
Eternal raid truth.
I.e.
To escape [Popular Post Addiction] and survive, must earn ‘likability’ from tower seniors.
Tough. I’m asocial.
Business ok, befriending hard.
But I’ll do it.
Got the ability and talent.
Trading popular post addict flatfish life.
‘Definitely get it. Knowledge or skill.’
From raid teams saving Red Tower prisoners.
From tower heroes.
“Sigh.”
What a grand plan.
Dunno how I ended up in this world record Guinness challenge.
But oh well.
Don’t wanna die, so somehow it happens.
Thus, I resolved firmly.
The evaluation to address before raiding.
“[Outsider]...... You’re ‘banished’ from my status window.”
Can’t ban actually.
But feels like kicking it out.
One of my [Deficiencies].
Outsider.
Zero stars.
Total garbage [Deficiency], right?