[??? : Why are the standards so strict just for me!]
[Looks like I learned something weird again.]
[Growing monster Mollu ㄷㄷ]
[Monster Mollu]
[It’s almost an internet ghost.]
[Mollu is a person too! A person!]
[Ah, haha, you’re right, a person.]
[‘Humanity’]
[Wasn’t it a breast monster?]
[It’s a person~]
[If they’re a person, why can’t we see their face?]
[Whoa]
[For real, haha, if they’re a person, show your face.]
[At least show your hands.]
[Hands, right?]
[Hands]
[Cam]
[I need to see how they use their hands ㅇㅇ]
[How can those plays come about?]
[Hands]
[I’m curious ^^]
[Cam]
Chat messages flood in.
The end point of their excited conversation was one thing.
Hands cam. In other words, they wanted me to show my hands.
“Seriously, they only work well together at times like this.”
Despite having mentioned it several times on the broadcast and posting notices after the tournament, countless requests came in.
The most frequent request was to do a cam broadcast, and if that wasn’t possible, a half-cam that shows the upper body like a Dullahan.
Or asking me to return to my beginner’s days and turn on the hand cam.
Since my first broadcast was with a hand cam, it could be considered my roots.
But that was something I did to dispel the hacking suspicions, and I had no intention of turning it back on again.
Yet…
<Mollu's piggy Yuksu donated 10,000 won!>
– But for real, if you do a hand cam and upload a strategy video on YouTube, it’ll definitely go viral and feel like a pro.
Is that so?
In reality, professional players and gamers recognized as experts sometimes play with a hand cam.
Even though it has been proven that they’re not hacking, viewers get curious about how those hands are moving.
And there might be people who benefit from seeing those hand movements for their gameplay.
I was also quite surprised when I saw it myself.
Seeing how hands move, they twist and turn like a pretzel when you’re not sure what to do.
Additionally, it would be better than just a game video with voiceovers for YouTube, even if Dragon Lord boasts stunning graphics and action.
The more I thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed to turn on the hand cam.
I thought about spreading my pure white palms out.
However, hearing what these guys were saying made me feel like I would lose, so I just flailed around and tapped the keyboard.
[Balak is dismembering a corpse;]
[Shit, look at the blood splatter.]
[Brutal execution ㄷㄷ]
[The piece of meat is crumbling.]
[They implemented even this.]
[The graphics are amazing.]
[(It’s seriously stunning.)]
[Ugh, gross.]
[Why did she suddenly act like this?]
[Her tastes are a bit… strange.]
[The atmosphere suddenly got gory.]
[Please be mindful of the corpses, Teacher.]
Lost in thoughts, I looked at the chat and was startled enough to pull my hands off the keyboard.
“Ah, yes. That… well, it was someone who got cheeky with me. I made an example of them.”
[Moving in Action]
[Injecting fear…]
[They’re already dead, right?]
[Mollu, without pity ㄷㄷ]
[So she really was from the Yakuza.]
[Brother, come back to the organization.]
[Balak paid his respects as a knight.]
[Ah, Balak, he was a good knight.]
While thinking, I was just pressing whatever I could reach, and before I knew it, I had turned into a psychopath.
Is it because the graphics are so real that it feels genuinely gory?
It’s a 19+ game, so it should be fine; I can edit this part out later.
Clearing my throat, I cautiously brought up the main point.
“So, uh, should I turn on the cam?”
[What?]
[Suddenly?]
[Please turn it on, please turn it on, please turn it on, please turn it on, please turn it on.]
[Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.]
[Extreme]
[Yes]
[Rock]
[Mollu announces a hand cam ㄷㄷ mark the coordinates.]
[Is it half-cam or hand-cam?]
[It’s probably a hand cam.]
Pushed by the atmosphere, I didn’t want to, but I felt forced, but maybe because of the notice about excessive cam demands leading to bans, I only nudged the topic and then fell silent.
In the end, I had no choice but to speak first.
“No, it’s just that since it feels like a strategy broadcast, turning on the hand cam wouldn’t be too bad. Ryu-a should learn by watching as well.”
[Can you just follow by watching? Haha.]
[How did Ryu-a just do that?]
[Mollu doesn’t understand human hearts…]
[Seeing Balak stab a corpse seemed psycho, for sure ㅇㅇ]
[They were freaking out watching the dismemberment, lol.]
[Some people really understand better when they see hand movements.]
[There are many strange people.]
[So that’s why you’re saying to turn on the hand cam?]
[Turn on the hand cam.]
[It’s been a while since I’d see something nice.]
“Please don’t say such dad-like things. It makes me not want to.”
Connecting the cam that I had stuffed into a corner, I adjusted its position.
Just enough to show only my hands.
As I turned on the cam, I tried my best to ignore the reactions that were starting and continued speaking.
“I’ll continue with the strategy. Please follow along well.”
*
“I haven’t seen this area before.”
A fiery lava zone bubbling with bright red lava.
The heat exudes to the air so intensely that if you fall, you wouldn’t even be able to gather your bones.
Mollu was moving across the rocky outcrops that rose between the long-lingering lava river.
As the lava river ended, the knight halted at a fork in the path.
“Which way should we go?”
[Well, I don’t know. Haha.]
[Wasn’t this supposed to be a strategy broadcast?]
[Left or right.]
[Whoa.]
[Coca-Cola is delicious, let’s decide on that.]
[Looks like I’m bad with directions.]
“I’ll just go left, and if nothing comes out, we’ll just reset.”
It’s better to face enemies than deal with such a thick randomness in finding the path; it’s no different than guessing.
I’m definitely not bad with directions, not at all.
There isn’t anyone who navigates perfectly on their first try, right?
However, I realized I had gone the wrong way shortly after passing the fork.
The surroundings shifted dramatically to ominous landscapes that anyone could feel something was off.
“Something feels eerie. What kind of boss is waiting to come out?”
The bosses that appear at certain stages resemble the surrounding environment.
Just like the giant Balak appeared in a spacious temple-like structure, and the fire-breathing lizard showed up in the recently passed lava zone, this time would likely be influenced by surroundings too.
This is a graveyard.
With the skulls and bones of someone scattered around, tombs lined up in rows.
The boss that could possibly come out here would be…
“Well, could it be a Necromancer or a Lich?”
[I’ve never seen this route before ㄷㄷ]
[Someone actually comes this way.]
[Graveyards are quite annoying haha.]
[Actually, it’s good for me.]
[I heard that the patterns are programmed to make it impossible to win.]
[It’s programmed like that ㅇㅇ.]
“Is that so? What’s the boss?”
[About the boss]
[Yes…]
[I’ve shared that with you~]
[The teamwork is solid.]
[Good.]
Even while asking, I actually didn’t expect much.
It felt more like a formal question like “Did you have your meal?” rather than genuinely seeking information.
These guys had only been cooperative when I had turned on the upper body cam during competitions.
At least it was fortunate there weren’t any embarrassing or burdensome compliments about my hands looking pretty or my skin being good.
I think there were comments like that in the early stages of turning on the cam, but they disappeared as I focused solely on the game.
“There’s a path further inside. If I keep going in, I feel like a boss will appear.”
Upon entering the graveyard, skeleton soldiers appeared.
As the story reaches its latter half, the regular mobs got stronger compared to before.
The bones were so tough that I had to attack multiple times to bring them down.
The patterns were not particularly difficult, but they just increased health endlessly.
Clearing obstacles blocking the path and entering the center of the graveyard, a staircase appeared.
A staircase leading downward and a gigantic coffin that seemed to block it.
It was slightly askew, with traces on the floor indicating someone had pushed this coffin and used the hidden staircase.
The enormous coffin stood alone, unlike other tombstones, with nothing written on its tombstone.
How long had I gone down the staircase leading below?
A vast empty chamber appeared.
“The basement?”
[The atmosphere is incredible.]
[Looks like human experiments.]
[It’s about time a mad scientist shows up.]
[It’s a national rule, for real lol.]
The upper graveyard seemed to have been a façade, as below it lay not skeletons but a few corpses lined along the ground.
However, they were nothing that could be considered human.
Their skin, bruised to a bluish-purple, bulged unnaturally, and their eyes were completely filled with whites without pupils.
Their appearance like that of lunatics heightened the expectations of the boss I was about to meet.
“I want to stop playing hide and seek already.”
Maybe it’s because I took the wrong path, but this stage seemed unusually long in travel time.
Feeling loose, both for broadcasting and personally, the awaited meeting took place.
– A new test subject has crawled in of its own accord…
A skeleton adorned in a robe, leaning on a staff, spoke ominously with a blue light illuminating from its eye sockets.
“The atmosphere is incredibly intense.”
Without hesitation, I rushed towards it.
