Streamer Crazy About Slaughter - Chapter 82
Whirring.
Serin naturally retrieves the Crescent Moon Blade while glancing around.
“…”
The pitch-black darkness still envelops the entire cave, providing only a slight visibility just ahead, making it difficult to ascertain what lies beyond that in the cave’s interior.
Lowering her gaze, Serin confirms the carnage she has created.
Pools of bl**d and countless corpses lie on the floor.
Shfft.
With each small step, she encounters the bl**d puddles.
Various pieces of equipment are strewn about; it seems she has dealt with them all.
Shfft.
Serin could have avoided the monster’s flesh chunks, yet she stepped on them instead, her red lips twitching.
“I guess the first ambush is over.”
For now.
At least, that’s how it felt to her.
Although another ambush might come, it didn’t seem like a place to let her guard down, characteristic of a party hunting ground.
There were too many restraints.
Only the faintest sounds could foreshadow an ambush. In the cave buried in thick darkness, the dwarves, whose presence was almost erased by it, had to be incredibly close for her to feel them at all.
[Change the settings a bit faster than anything else]
[Wow, what the hell lol]
[This is ridiculous, seriously]
[Why step on the corpses?]
[It’s a monster, so what does it matter]
[Even a horror movie wouldn’t show this so explicitly lol]
[Lin is acting very different from her character; why does she seem so much like a man?]
[Hearing her speak so softly while stepping on monster corpses feels surreal lol]
[Older sister, why do you look so pretty wielding the Crescent Moon Blade!!! Ughㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ]
Upon seeing the chat, she realized, “Oh!” and immediately operated the hologram to switch from ‘bl**d mode’ to ‘normal mode.’
Suddenly, the chunks of flesh were processed with a mosaic effect.
An opaque square box enveloped the monster’s corpse, transforming it into something with a mosaic that was no longer repulsive to look at.
`…?`
Then, a blinking notification on the side of her view caught her eye.
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‘Eyes of a Dwarf Enchanted by Evil’ obtained x17.
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*
Was it an automatic looting? A hologram appeared indicating that she had collected items.
“Eyes of a Dwarf Enchanted by Evil…”
It appeared to be the kind of miscellaneous item that could be sold in a shop, but she found it unpleasant that such items were represented by eyes.
Moreover, since there were 17 of them, she wondered if she had just captured 17 dwarfs, prompting her to open her inventory for confirmation.
Among the disorganized and scattered items, a new item stood out as emphasized.
She checked the details.
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Eyes of a Dwarf Enchanted by Evil
– Description: The eyes of a dwarf fully tainted with evil, appearing bl**d-red. Seems to be used as a special ingredient for alchemy.
– Selling price at the Alchemy Workshop: 12,500 won.
– Cannot be sold at general shops.
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*
It was astonishing that a miscellaneous item couldn’t be sold at a general shop, but perhaps it had a high selling price.
“Hey. Viewers, is a 12,500 won price for a miscellaneous item expensive?”
[Isn’t that really expensive?]
[If it’s a dwarf’s miscellaneous item, won’t it be under 10,000 won?]
[Yeah, it’s super expensive. There are even set parties specifically for those items.]
[Wow, but this is really possible to solo.]
[Isn’t it because it’s Lin?]
[If Lin grinds, she’d probably make a fortune, right? Wait, can you really solo the dwarf cave?]
[Why even grind lol? If it’s Lin, just turning on the stream alone would rake in tons of money.]
[True.]
[Not like it’s a grain-harvesting player, why grind lol?]
Shfft.
As she slowly moved while glancing at the chat, she noticed a familiar term.
‘Grain-harvester, is that a thing?’
Grain-harvesting.
In simpler terms, it refers to converting game currency or items into real money. Upon reflection, it was only natural there would be such a thing.
In a dominant game holding overwhelming market share, especially an RPG. Additionally, given that it was a game allowing personal trading, it would indeed be unusual if there were no users doing grain-harvesting.
“Are there only those dwarf-type monsters in the dwarf cave?”
Despite being enveloped in darkness, she couldn’t discern the terrain or where she was heading. She was curious if only dwarfs like the ones she just encountered would appear.
[Dwarves are the only ones, but]
[The monster’s setup is a bundle of variables, so it shouldn’t feel the same even if they’re all dwarves.]
[Yeah, it was easy to take down just now because it’s Lin, but each dwarf has their own quirks that make them tricky to handle.]
[So it’s exhausting to farm here.]
[Dwarves don’t appear unless it’s a fixed party.]
`A bundle of variables.`
How fascinating that kind of setup seemed.
Of course, if she met the same monster with the same patterns and positions each time, it would be boring. Adding some variables could indeed make it interesting.
‘But do grind-type games usually incorporate variables?’
Given the chat discussing fixed parties and miscellaneous item prices, it seemed that grinding was almost compulsory in the game. She wondered if it made sense to incorporate variables into monsters in such a game.
…Ultimately, it didn’t matter to her.
She had no intention of grinding; she just came to defeat monsters to unwind.
The difficulty felt suitable for a party hunting ground and appeared to be a place where she could swing the Crescent Moon Blade…
Shwoosh!
Swish!
Swish, swish, swish!
Seeing arrows shooting around in this narrow cave felt a bit excessive.
“In the dark… Isn’t ranged attacks a bit too much?”
Muttering that, she quickly grasped the Crescent Moon Blade.
Thwack!
As she kicked off the ground, she twisted her body and deflected the arrows aiming for her heart from the front.
Clank, clank, clank!
She felt the moment of impact as she deflected the arrows.
Caught by that sensation, she hurled the blade in the same direction as the arrows shot.
—Explosive Drill.
Boom!
With a deafening blast as the blade struck, a few dwarves moved into her line of sight, she extended the Crescent Moon Blade once more.
Swoosh!
As the blade quickly pierced through a dwarf’s head, she swiftly twisted her hand holding the blade.
Eek!
The dwarf, impaled on the blade, was pulled along, crashing into the fleeing dwarves.
Thwack!
Crash!
The dwarf’s corpse tangled with two fleeing dwarves, causing them to tumble, and as she retrieved the blade, she kicked off the ground, propelling herself into the air.
“This place… doesn’t seem like a good hunting ground.”
She twisted her body in mid-air, unconsciously letting those words slip out.
Swish! Swish!
As arrows grazed her red-clad chest and legs, she felt a faint sensation and frowned.
Despite the system ensuring no damage would pierce her clothes, it felt unpleasant.
She could understand the variable-laden monsters. However, mixing in ranged monsters seemed off.
—Insulation.
With the Crescent Moon Blade raised high in the air, she swiftly swung it downwards towards the two entangled dwarfs.
Swoosh!
Whir!
The blade split the bodies of the two fallen dwarfs, drawing the blade back to her hand as it traced a crescent arc.
Swish!
Swish!
Without a moment’s rest, she swiftly deflected two arrows, gripping the string connected to the blade tightly with her other hand.
Eek!
As the string pulled taut, she let go of the hand holding it, reinforcing the rapid extension of her right hand with the tension.
Like a light cutting through darkness, the bl**d-soaked Crescent Moon Blade was launched forward.
It traced a stark crimson trajectory.
Thwack!
The sound of a head bursting rang out from the end. She spun her body and employed another technique.
—One Angle.
A dancer’s aerial chaining technique. Typically, it was a technique executed in mid-air to gain propulsion, but using it on the ground revealed a completely different spectacle. While she couldn’t fully exploit the technique’s advantages as she would in mid-air, it was still viable for the momentary rebound.
Spinning her body, she soared towards the empty space, striking with her bl**d-stained legs.
Thump!
Using that rebound, she rotated her body faster and swung the blade. It was a preparatory action to swing again just before the extended blade hit the ground.
The bl**d-red trajectory shimmered again and began to dance in the air at an unusual angle.
Thwack!
Hearing another sound of a head bursting, she sensed that all signs of life around her had vanished.
Softly landing, her leg that had torn through the air made gentle contact with the ground. As she tightened her grip on the connected string.
Whirring!
The blade returned to her hand as if by habit.
“…Huh.”
As she took a breath to relax, feeling like the sequence of actions was connected like one huge score.
Ding-a-ling!
Suddenly, a strange congratulatory sound resonated loudly in her ears.
‘…?’
Curious about the sound, she checked the broadcast, but there were no messages of support.
Perhaps it could be a bug causing sponsorship messages not to show.
“Is there anyone among the viewers… who has given me support?”
[Wow, this is art… There’s a reason why artists fail.]
[Honestly, even those who aren’t Another World users should watch Lin’s streams lol.]
[For real, even those who don’t play Another World should definitely watch.]
[Watching Lin makes you wonder if such movements are really possible.]
[? Why the sponsorship?]
[Wow, I can’t help but admire the elegance in each move.]
[???]
[Are you asking for sponsorship?]
[LOL, but the elegance of those movements really makes me want to support her.]
[For real, if I were rich, I’d sponsor her right away lol.]
[Next viewer?]
[Using techniques as naturally as breathing, all I can do is admire it. What an amazing sight.]
[Maybe it’s because her character is beautiful, but everything looks stunning.]
‘Wasn’t that a sponsorship?’
Thinking the congratulatory sound could be a different one due to various sponsorship amounts, she wondered.
However, looking at the chat reactions, it seemed no support had come through…
—Ding-a-ling!!
『Ryu-el has sponsored 50,000 won!』
《I sponsored because you asked for it.》
—Ding-a-ling!!
『Ras404 has sponsored 50,000 won!』
《^-^ Here’s your sponsorship.》
“No, I didn’t genuinely ask for sponsorship like that. Anyway… Thank you very much, Ryu-el and Ras404 for each sponsoring 50,000 won.”
Stunned, she expressed her gratitude, feeling a bit out of it.
The sponsorship notifications had clearly displayed on the broadcast screen.
‘I couldn’t have misheard that.’
Then, she noticed one of the hologram notifications shining in a golden color, unlike before.