Please Do Your Debauchery After You Die - Chapter 110

Chapter 110: Digging for Diamonds

In Minecraft, depending on the plugins applied, the experience varies, but in the wild server Lena World, the means to become stronger were clear.

A full set of diamond equipment and enhancement through enchantments.

In the future server, equipment of higher grade than diamonds will appear, but that’s still a long way off, so let’s exclude that and focus on the current reality.

Yes, in the end, the key is diamonds.

Making money is through diamonds, and becoming stronger is also through diamonds.

There was a reason why diamond CK was a trend in Lena World.

There was a time when everyone crazily mined diamonds.

[Seo-Ah’s Pouch has sponsored 5 candies.]

– If you mine diamonds first on the server, you’ll get a mission for 1,000 candies, let’s go!

“No way~ Chairman! I will risk my life to mine. Loyalty, loyalty!”

As I overwhelmingly charged ahead from the beginning of the server, I could see viewers starting to engage.

Not only my existing fans, but strong team enthusiasts began to attach themselves.

Missions started to pile up quietly.

Without needing to say anything, my diligent manager ‘Mr. Jeyuk Samgyeopsal’ was writing down the mission details.

Okay, so the missions I’ve received so far are…

1. Get 3 kills with a wooden axe to earn 500 candies.

2. Drop a Lena coin on the ground to earn 300 candies.

3. Pour lava on Mayo to earn 500 candies.

4. Be the first on the server to mine diamonds for 1,000 candies.

But why are the mission details like this?

Anyway, the law of villain preservation states that as the number of viewers increases, so do the malicious individuals, and it can’t be wrong.

However, number 3 might be slightly tempting?

“Do you all know that diamonds are distributed from Y-coordinate 16 down to -64, but they come out the best at -54 and below? That’s a pro tip, pro tip.”

– Seo-Ah seems to be a Minecraft pro now.

– I looked around, and there’s a lot of awkward broadcasting, but this one is really easy to watch hehe.

– But the virtual avatar has been moving and holding a pickaxe since earlier, how is that done? Other broadcasts don’t do that.

Thanks to my efforts, I was gathering attention and even creating buzz.

Moreover, today no members of Decrescendo were online, so the fluid crowd on the server was focused on me.

The number of viewers had now surpassed 1,800.

After a dull November, the virtual boom had subsided considerably, but having this many viewers alone was a number not seen in the virtual tab for a long time.

“For those just tuning in, let me show you once again. Here comes Seoa, the first sword of Lena!”

Swish-!

With special effects, my virtual avatar drew a diamond sword from Minecraft.

New viewers gasped in amazement at the novelty.

Heh! It’s a mesmerizing scene that can only be seen in my room for now.

This is the technological prowess of the virtual world~ that’s what I mean.

– Hey Mr. Seo, stop messing around and mine already.

– For real, can’t you see the loss of mining happening right now?

– Let’s not think about going above ground until we mine a full set of diamonds.

“……”

Even now, ‘Mining Enthusiasts’ were appearing in my room.

The suffix ‘-qu’ originally started as a derogatory term for cockroaches but became a somewhat everyday term in Lena World.

If you like meetings, you’re a meeting qu, if you like mining, you’re a mining qu, if you like building, you’re a building qu.

Among them, if I had to choose the most maniacal and fearsome ones, it would definitely be the building qu, who do not tolerate minor architectural mistakes and create a ruckus in the chat room, but mining qu are no less intense in frequency.

“Yes, yes, I will do my best. So let’s calm the tempers, Mining Enthusiasts.”

I diligently swung my stone pickaxe and dug deep into the ground.

I was mining iron earnestly and managed to smelt it into iron ingots to craft two iron pickaxes, but I had to use them sparingly for now.

Diamond blocks are not easy to find, and even when discovered, they cannot be mined without an iron pickaxe.

So I harvested dirt and stone with the stone pickaxe, switching to the iron pickaxe only when I found a diamond block, which was a useful tip to conserve durability.

‘Right now, I’m living so frugally, but if I can just make a diamond pickaxe and enchant it with Unbreaking, that would truly change my life.’

‘Unbreaking’ is the most important enchantment element in Lena World.

This enchantment has the ability to repair the durability of enchanted equipment when you gain experience.

Since you can gain experience from most actions in Minecraft, as long as you apply Unbreaking to your equipment, you can use it almost infinitely without worrying about durability.

It’s truly the most essential element among all enchantments!

So in the early days of Lena World, enchanting all equipment with Unbreaking was regarded as a kind of ‘graduation’ concept.

‘It’s definitely not an easy task. To acquire the Unbreaking enchantment book in Lena World, you must either go to the secret shop NPC in the village to buy the Unbreaking lottery book or fish for it.’

Now that no one is using it, I don’t know, but both methods had a notorious reputation.

The Unbreaking lottery book had a probability of about 2.5%, requiring 50,000 Lenas to attempt once, making the initial market price for the Unbreaking enchantment book soar to 2 million Lenas.

And the method of fishing it was purely based on luck; there was even a time when 10 streamers gathered for an Unbreaking enchantment book fishing competition, which took 12 hours.

Calculate it, 10 people for 12 hours.

But the funny thing is, some people caught the Unbreaking enchantment book after just 30 minutes of fishing.

It was literally a luck-based nightmare game.

‘Thinking back, it’s amusing. What kind of precious item is a mere 2 million Lena item to receive such special treatment, to the point where even big company streamers were crazy about Unbreaking enchantment books in the early days.’

The Unbreaking enchantment book was essentially the end game item that dominated the early days of Lena World.

While the chance of obtaining it was low, the important point was that the demand for it was extremely high.

Just consider the number of items in Minecraft.

Helmets, chestplates, leggings, boots, swords, tridents, wings, axes, bows, shields, pickaxes, fishing rods, hoes, shovels, and so on.

Even if we exclude less important items like shields or axes, if you think about enchanting all the remaining gear with Unbreaking, it can already feel overwhelming.

‘But, as it turned out later, there was a way. The price of Unbreaking eventually dropped to half… and then even lower than that.’

That was still a long way off.

Moreover, I had no intention of exposing that information from the early stages.

If I did, the future and the story I knew would change too drastically.

I must keep good information as secret as possible to monopolize it.

So for now, let’s just mine the diamonds diligently.

– Hey Mr. Seo, stop daydreaming and swing your pickaxe.

– Huh? The speed at which I’m swinging the pickaxe is slowing down, but isn’t that redstone next to me not being mined? That gives a lot of experience.

– I will be generous today; if you mine 10 diamonds, I’ll sponsor 10 candies.

– Whoa, this is an unprecedented mission!

“……”

I finally arrived at Y-coordinate -54, soothing the excited Mining Enthusiasts along the way.

From here, it’s a relatively deep area where diamonds tend to spawn well.

However, one thing to be cautious about is one of the rules of Minecraft!

You must remember that there is lava near diamonds.

How many new players have vanished into lava while mining diamonds, losing their lives?

In fact, it’s not just the newbies who d*e.

The terror of lava strikes at that fleeting moment.

There were many cases where someone d*e after a moment’s distraction or rushing too hastily.

And the clips of such streamers became a topic of discussion, creating a ‘low-grade’ image.

‘Speaking of which, Lucy has also had her share of low-grade moments.’

She likes comprehensive games but is not necessarily good at them.

In fact, Lucy’s gaming sense was slightly lacking, though not to the level of despair.

Especially, she tested my molars every time she played League of Legends before the reset.

Ugh… just imagining it makes my teeth grind.

It was the first time I almost threw a log and fled from Lucy’s broadcast.

– Oh? What’s that? Could it be a diamond?

– Whoa! It came out in 10 minutes. That seems not bad.

– Shout out, first diamond on the server!

“Hmm?”

While I was mining in a trance, the chat room suddenly became lively.

I jumped and looked around.

Wait, where?

Front, back, sides? Was there a diamond I missed?

As I rushed around looking for diamonds in a panic, everyone in the chat started laughing.

I just realized they had all fished me in a group.

“……”

These malicious Mining Enthusiast bastards.

Just wait, the moment diamonds come out, I will take them all down!

Amidst the numerous chats, the darkness underground only grew deeper.