Chapter 177 : Countless Invitations
Chapter 177: Countless Invitations
“Master craftsman’s invitation seat…?”
Baek Woohyun asked back with a puzzled expression.
From the combination of words, he could tell what kind of content it was, but his reaction showed he was puzzled as to why he had been invited there.
It was true that he had shown overwhelming performance through broadcasts so far. He had also shown insane abilities related to builds.
However, if asked whether he had shown a specialized appearance in one build enough to be called a master craftsman, most people would shake their heads.
Right off the bat, he mainly used two builds—the Superhuman build and the Annihilation build—and during PVP, he even used the build roulette.
“They said they wanted to focus not on the build, but on the no-correction aspect.”
“Aah—”
After hearing Jeong Nayeon’s explanation, Baek Woohyun finally nodded. He was certain there couldn’t be a greater expert in no-correction than him.
He had been using supernatural ability builds without correction for over ten years ‘over there.’ And even while risking his own life on hellish battlefields.
Compared to those who had barely dabbled in virtual reality games for a few days at most, there had to be a tremendous difference in experience from the start.
“He’s famous as a professional builder, and his view counts are good too, so it wouldn’t be bad to appear.”
“Professional builder?”
“Yeah! Even now, he’s a professional builder affiliated with a pro team. His personal broadcasts are just a hobby.”
‘Professional builder.’
For Baek Woohyun, who had been creating and using builds himself, it couldn’t help but be quite an interesting term.
He had also thought about wanting to meet professional builds when using various other builds.
He was curious how those who had delved into supernatural ability builds and learned professional knowledge would evaluate the two builds he had bloomed on the battlefield.
“And this time, the reaction to the viewer participation game is ama~zing! Even excluding the fact that it’s the first attempt, it’s explosive!”
The community reactions that Jeong Nayeon showed while scrolling through were truly as she said.
Of course, she might have picked out only such reactions to show him, but even so, the fact that there were over hundreds of posts hoping for the next viewer participation was very surprising.
In that, the influence of people’s desires to experience what’s called legal hacks was also very strong, but anyway.
“At this level, it seems fine to proceed with a few contents in viewer participation format.”
“Can you explain what kind of content feeling it would be?”
“For now, I’m thinking of a handicap match or a raid match done one versus many.”
A handicap match where you fight by matching levels with appropriate restrictions, and a raid match where you take on the boss role fighting alone against many.
Both were methods frequently used by professional players when doing viewer participation games on personal broadcasts or team broadcasts.
“However… these contents will likely be different from what viewers want.”
“Why?”
“Most people who want to play viewer participation games now want to receive coaching from you through the Puppeteer Art build.”
“But you’re still going to proceed with handicap and raid matches?”
“Yeah!”
“Is that okay?”
To Jeong Nayeon answering brightly, Baek Woohyun asked.
Then she agreed vigorously with another “Yeah!” and showed a wicked smile.
“Rather than giving them the content they want right away, the reaction gets better if you tease them with ‘Should I? Shouldn’t I?’ and make them anxious before giving it.”
“Hmm.”
“Of course, if you do it too much, it’ll backfire, but once should be fine. It’s not like we’re saying we’ll do it and then not doing it.”
“If you say so, Nayeon, then it must be so.”
Baek Woohyun shrugged his shoulders. It was a gesture that showed his intention to completely trust and follow Jeong Nayeon, who was gradually becoming a seasoned personal broadcaster.
At the very least, there hadn’t been anything bad among the content she had proposed so far, so he was willing to accept her suggestions.
She fully deserved that, having not only started the Hack Tour content but also arranged the opportunity to meet Isaac—who at the time was ‘Anonymous Viewer 62.’
“Oh! Since we’re on the topic, I’m proposing this—what do you think about doing content climbing to Challenger Rank 1 on the PVP side?”
“It won’t be difficult.”
Even though Baek Woohyun had just set foot in Master tier yet was discussing Challenger Rank 1, it didn’t feel like excessive confidence.
The moment he declared he would climb to Challenger Rank 1, whether in Duel mode, Struggle mode, or Survival mode—in any mode—everyone would acknowledge it.
Because he was the monster who had an undefeated record throughout all of PVP, never died even once in countless games, and was even a record breaker who had set a winning streak record.
Anyone who had seen the Hack Tour content even once, who knew about Baek Woohyun, would probably all be thinking similarly.
That Challenger Rank 1 would inevitably fall into his grasp at some point, unless he suddenly quit the game.
It was just that the timing of when that would be was left to his judgment.
“Lastly, this is the most important matter.”
When Jeong Nayeon gestured slightly, an email appeared on the screen she brought up. It was an email with DH Empire organization stamped as the sender.
The proposal contained in the polite tone of the email that started with ‘Hello. Mr. Baek Woohyun. This is Park Yun, Director of DH Empire’ was simple.
Battler Kim Hyeonjun, Nikki Lee Yeonwoo, and Hackphysical Baek Woohyun—the three of them should take on the first start of the new content to be launched on DH Empire’s iTube.
That was roughly the summary, and various explanations about what kind of content they would do were also attached.
Even to Baek Woohyun, who had relatively little knowledge, the proposal didn’t seem bad at all. No, it was clearly very good as they were being considerate of him.
The fact that Nikki Lee Yeonwoo, whom he had seen before as a guest, was there was also quite nice.
“DH Empire’s iTube has three million subscribers, you know? Being the first start of content to be newly launched there is huge. Especially if it’s to the extent of doing it together with Battler and Nikki, that says it all.”
“Indeed.”
It was clearly a very good opportunity.
This was even more so now that Baek Woohyun had confirmed through his conversation with ‘Isaac’ that there was definitely no way to return ‘over there.’
After all, for him who had to settle down and live here, making money here had become quite important in order to continue investigating Reverse Planet.
In short, it meant he should seize opportunities to raise recognition and make money when they came.
So he said decisively.
“…Let’s do all of them.”
“Huh? All of them?”
Jeong Nayeon, who had thought Baek Woohyun would accept at most one or two, asked back with wide eyes.
“Yes. All of them. Ah, of course I don’t mean doing them all at once, but we’ll have to proceed with them one by one step by step.”
“Got it! Then I’ll coordinate the schedule with them separately and let you know again! Ah! It’s almost time to start the broadcast! I’ll go first!”
“Okay.”
Jeong Nayeon, who had gained more than expected, disappeared with a grin. At a glance, she also looked like she was quickly running away in case Baek Woohyun might back out.
Even if she left this place, she could always contact her again and say his thoughts had changed, so that couldn’t be it.
Baek Woohyun, who had been quietly watching her disappear, calmly launched Reverse Planet.
‘This time I should proceed with the Otherworld Management Bureau side.’
The reason Baek Woohyun decided to proceed with the Otherworld Management Bureau story side was simple. It was because he still needed more thought organization on the Avengers side.
He had to confirm what he needed to do after deciding to build a better future, even if only in Reverse Planet’s story.
It was quite a difficult task since he didn’t even know the reason why the traitor called Leader, Jeong Beomu, had betrayed the Avengers and pushed everyone into the pit of destruction.
‘Should I have listened to that bastard’s story back then?’
Baek Woohyun, who momentarily recalled the time when he had instantly torn Jeong Beomu to death, soon shook his head with an expression frozen cold as if frost had settled.
He knew very well that even this was just a thought he could only have now. If he told his past self, he wouldn’t listen even with one ear.
Even if the dead Shin Sua had come back to life and told him, he might have pretended to agree in front of her, but the moment he faced Jeong Beomu, he would have immediately killed him.
Because his anger at losing the comrades and sanctuary he had barely obtained was that deep and terrible.
-Jeong Nayeon: ㄱㄱ
“……”
How much time had passed as he connected to Reverse Planet and pondered how to proceed with the story today?
When things seemed to be settled on the studio side, Jeong Nayeon sent the same starting signal as always, and Baek Woohyun, who had put away his military dagger, stood up from his seat.
Since he had changed clothes after joining the Avengers last time and returned to the Otherworld Management Bureau dormitory before moving to PVP, it wasn’t difficult to get to the person he intended.
“Did you rest well, junior?”
Kim Hana, who had been looking at documents, noticed Baek Woohyun’s appearance and asked with a faint smile.
She, who had investigated the suicide of Jeong Jihun from the Support/Auxiliary Team who had screwed over the Otherworld Management Bureau, then had to subdue a human trafficking organization, and after that even had to eliminate a secretly plotting traitor, had a quite tired face.
Well, Baek Woohyun had gone to rest at the dormitory saying work was over, but she, who must have taken care of the aftermath as a senior special agent, would have suffered quite a bit more, so it was understandable.
“You’ve had a hard time, senior.”
That’s why Baek Woohyun, instead of greeting her with “Did you rest well?”, lightly bowed his head.
Even he could clearly see that asking her now if she had rested would be a stupid question.
“It’s work that naturally has to be done. Anyway, there’s a bit of an aftermath story—do you want to hear it?”
“Yes, please tell me.”
“First, those traitors who died from taking TL-01 at that time, right? Through autopsying those bastards’ corpses, it was proven that they died due to the drug’s effects.”
Kim Hana clicked her tongue, saying that in that process, the existence of TL-01 and its viciousness finally became properly known to the Otherworld Management Bureau.
She wouldn’t have been pleased that they were completely unaware of the existence of a drug that made awakeners one level stronger, even though they would die when the duration ended.
Even more so because even after thorough autopsies, they could only reveal the fact that they died due to drug effects.
“By investigating the agents who were involved with those bastards, we could also confirm additional traitors. There were more than expected… quite a lot.”
Kim Hana’s expression was gloomy as she said that among them were even junior agents she had trusted to some extent.
Although she had been aware that there was quite a bit of darkness, she probably hadn’t known it was rotten to this extent.
“Thanks to that, the Otherworld Management Bureau is now in a situation where we’re even more short-handed. The burden has increased on agents who were working hard.”
“……”
Baek Woohyun didn’t bring up clumsy words of comfort.
Because the only words he could say in the current situation were empty words without any countermeasures, saying everything would be fine from now on.
He couldn’t think of any comfort to give in a situation where they had eliminated traitors for the sake of the Otherworld Management Bureau, but because of that, other agents who had been working hard were suffering instead.
“Really, you’ve had a hard time.”
In the end, Baek Woohyun could only repeat what he had said before. Kim Hana could only return a bitter smile to the emotion felt in his words.
“Anyway, that’s the end of the aftermath story. Even if it’s hard now, if we work harder, it’ll gradually get better, right?”
“That’s correct, senior.”
“In that sense… we happen to have one new mission that came in for us.”