One Man Army Chapter 62-65

Having finished the map, Sanghyuk erased the mapping skill this time as well. And this time, he left the basic skill slot empty. He had a skill in mind, so he planned to add it later.
Having finished creating the map in one week, Sanghyuk went to the largest city in the Heroic Lands, 'Tirune'. As there were no other users in the heroic lands yet, there was no need to move the Golden Mountain merchant guild just yet.
The reason he came to Tirune was for something else.
'Secret dungeon…… before the other users arrive, I need to monopolize all the secret dungeons that I know of.'
Unlike h.e.l.lfire Desert, which had barely any secret dungeons, there were incredibly many secret dungeons in the Heroic Lands.
Although Sanghyuk didn't know the locations to all of those, he had information on a considerable number of them. Using that information as the basis, he would be able to gain incredible profits if he could monopolize as many of them as possible.
'Even if I can't find anything else, I must absolutely discover the Swordking's Tomb and Hurricane Hole.'
These two were the most famous among the secret dungeons in the Heroic Lands.
The Swordking's Tomb would be best if he could monopolize it all by himself, and Hurricane Hole was good for selling entrance tickets.
Between these two, he had very precise information about Hurricane Hole, while he knew a few fragmented information about the Swordking's Tomb.
Sanghyuk thought that it would be better to look for the Swordking's Tomb first since he already knew about Hurricane Hole. As the Path to Death still had no intentions of letting users pa.s.s, he had a lot of time.
The Swordking's Tomb was literally a grave where the Swordking lay. The Swordking was one of the 144 recorded heroes of the Heroic Lands.
To rank them, he would be in the top 50 at least. The reason the Swordking's Tomb was ranked as the best secret dungeon though, was because of the various spiritual pills that could be gotten from it.
Spiritual pills were special items that permanently raised a stat by a small amount when consumed by a user.
Most spiritual pills raised a single point, like +1 health and +1 agility, but the important thing was that it could be stacked until +100.
Although the drop rate of the spiritual pills wasn't that high, the Swordking's Tomb itself was a secret dungeon that could be run for a long time, so he would be able to gain a considerable amount of those pills if he could monopolize this dungeon.
Dungeons that dropped spiritual pills were all cla.s.sified as 'jackpot' dungeons, and among the secret dungeons, only the Swordking's Tomb dropped spiritual pills.
The rest were either from public dungeons or compet.i.tive dungeons that could be entered from the Hole of Mortality.
In other words, only the Swordking's Tomb was a place that could be monopolized.
Spiritual pills, due to their traits, didn't appear on the auctions, and even when they did, they were traded for incredibly expensive prices, so the best thing was to get them himself.
Sanghyuk did have plans to add spiritual pills into the buying list for the Golden Mountain merchant guild once the users flooded into the Heroic Lands, but no matter how good their business skills were, it would be incredibly hard to get any spiritual pills.
If the Swordking's Tomb was a dungeon that was perfect for monopolizing spiritual pills, Hurricane Hole was a secret dungeon that he could profit by revealing the walkthrough to others.
Hurricane Hole was a secret dungeon in the form of numerous holes connected into one. And up to 100 teams could simultaneously hunt in different holes.
Since the maximum clear count for the dungeon was infinite, there would be no problems no matter how many teams entered the dungeon per day.
However, the catch was that the dungeon only lasted 4 months. During those four months, he would be able to sell admission tickets to countless users.
On top of that, the dungeon difficulty wasn't that hard, and the amount of karma that could be gained from it was also above average, so there were no better places for teams of 3-4 people to level up.
Sanghyuk was planning to sell the entrance tickets through the Golden Mountain merchant guild once he found it.
Getting spiritual pills from the Swordking's Tomb and getting gold from Hurricane Hall was his first objective.

According to what he knew, the entrance to the Swordking's Tomb was near Tirune. Although he never went there in his previous life, he did watch a related video.
The video didn't talk about the exact location of the dungeon, but had a crucial hint of opening the dungeon. The problem was that he didn't know where to find the dungeon.
What was fortunate was that he remembered a few pieces of information he had heard.
'The Swordking's Tomb. A secret dungeon monopolized by Rising guild in my previous life. Rising got some fun out of that secret dungeon. According to rumors that came after the secret dungeon disappeared, a guild member found out about the secrets of the Swordking's Tomb after doing a quest that required him to catch thieves.'
Sanghyuk was thinking of tracing the Swordking's Tomb through the information he knew. Actually, though, any other user would not even dare think about doing that.
In a situation where they do not know which NPC gave out a quest to catch a thief, they would have to raise familiarity with all 7,949 NPCs that existed in Tirune to 'familiar' before getting the quest…… realistically, it would be impossible to raise familiarity with nearly 8,000 NPCs to that high.
It would take at least half a year even if he went crazy.
However, there was no need for Sanghyuk to do this near-impossible task. He already had the 'Shadow Duke of Falcon' t.i.tle that raised the familiarity of all NPCs with the exception of a few special ones to familiar level.
So, he just had to walk around Tirune and speak to them and see what quests he got.
He would receive the quests and just give up those unrelated to thieves. Of course, the familiarity he had with the NPCs would go down a little, but that wasn't a problem.
Sanghyuk walked around Tirune and spoke with several NPCs. There were those that gave him quests, while there were those that didn't. He gave up all the unrelated quests and looked for the quest for catching thieves.
Only after he gave up around 200 quests could he find one that was related to what he was looking for.

[Quest] 'Tirune's frantic thieves'
: Storekeeper Cotva is suffering from extreme stress thanks to the thieves that steal items from the store every day. He wants to exterminate the thieves, but it's not as easy as it sounds.
Progress: Catch thieves (0/100), discover thief bases (0/4)

'This is it!'
The moment he read the description of the quest, he was sure that this was the quest he was looking for.
Not only was there a category for catching thieves, there was also the part where he had to look for their bases. Looking for their bases was the key to discovering the secret dungeon.
Sanghyuk immediately set out to catch thieves after getting the quest.
There were a lot of thieves inside and even outside Tirune. As they were cla.s.sified as monster-type NPCs, they could be killed within the city.
He quickly started exterminating them and he soon discovered all their bases as well.
The Swordking's Tomb lay within one of those bases. Of course, Sanghyuk didn't know which. Even if he did, just getting to the entrance didn't mean he could enter.
To open the secret dungeon, he had to have a 'key'. Like knowing how to manipulate secret mechanisms or using certain items to expose the entrance.
In that sense, the quest Sanghyuk was doing was an important clue in acquiring that key.
Since finding thieves and their bases was an easy job for Sanghyuk, he finished all of that in just an hour.

"Ooh, amazing! You exterminated those vermins…… you are more amazing than you look. Since this is the case, can I ask you for one more thing? There will definitely be items that they stole from my store somewhere in their bases. If you get me those, then I will give you more rewards. Oh! Take him with you. He lived here in my store for over a decade, so he should be able to smell the items from my store."
Cotva let the dog he raised follow Sanghyuk and asked him to find the items, and the quest went on to the second chain quest.
'So this was the key.'
Sanghyuk realized that this was the key that he was looking for the moment he looked at the 2nd chain quest.
The thin old dog……. He found it a little funny that this old dog was the key, but as long as it let him find the Swordking's Tomb, then all was good.

*pant pant pant, woof! Woof!*
The old dog did its job. It found the lost items from Cotva's store from the most tattered-looking graveyard out of the 4 bases.
The items were hidden behind a wall. Since the s.p.a.ce that hid the items were very delicately hidden, Sanghyuk thought that he wouldn't have been able to find it even if he decided to look for it without the dog.
'There's no way those thieves made such a s.p.a.ce…… so they used it after coincidentally discovering the s.p.a.ce? Then that means that this is the entrance to the secret dungeon…….'
Sanghyuk first took all the items into his bag. Once he took this to Cotva, then the quest would end, and if the just took them for himself, his familiarity would degrade as the quest failed, but in exchange, he would get the items.
However, this wasn't the time to be pondering about that right now.
'It should be around here somewhere.'
Sanghyuk started looking for something in the hidden s.p.a.ce. After a bit of time, he could eventually discover what he was looking for.
Dozens of wall paintings. They were what Sanghyuk was looking for.
To be exact, they weren't exactly 'paintings' but 'puzzles'.
Only when he solved the puzzle would he be able to enter the Swordking's Tomb.
Actually, the Rising guild also took around a week to solve this puzzle in Sanghyuk's previous life. Eventually, they had to ask for an external puzzles expert and could only open the tomb then.
The puzzle's difficulty was just that high.
Obviously, Sanghyuk couldn't solve this puzzle either. In the video he saw, there was the solution to this puzzle, but the problem was that Sanghyuk didn't remember the exact moves they took.
Actually, it was more correct to say that it was practically impossible to remember everything correctly from a video he saw 10 years ago.
'Good. I'm here now…… and there's only one thing to do.'
Sanghyuk smiled and left the hidden s.p.a.ce.
This wasn't something that he could open. However, he knew a person that might be able to open this.
'Well, not exactly a 'person', I guess.'
Sanghyuk summoned a person without hesitation Well, an NPC, to be exact.
Ilya appeared in front of him. With his t.i.tle 'Ah! My Ilya', he was able to summon Ilya as though summoning a tamed monster.
Of course, she would disappear once the duration ended.
"Have you called."
Ilya kneeled on one knee and spoke with respect.
"Ilya. Your 'Unlock' skill…… can it open a door that's locked in a puzzle form?"
Sanghyuk looked around Ilya's status window a few days ago, and found out that she had gained a new skill after a little bit of the seal was dispelled.
[Darkmoon-specific skill 'Unlock(S)']
This was the skill she had.
"If it is locked in any form, then I can unlock it with my abilities."
Ilya did not let him down.
"Good! Then follow me."
Sanghyuk took Ilya and walked back to the hidden s.p.a.ce.

*Ziiin, clack! Clack!*
Ilya really unlocked the puzzle-type locking mechanism.
'Oho, she's more useful than I thought.'
Sanghyuk was thinking about the usages of Ilya as he watched from behind.
"It has been unlocked."
As soon as Ilya's words ended, the blue-glowing dungeon entrance appeared before him.
'It would be somewhat bad of me to send her back right after opening the entrance…… and since she's here, let's try cooperating.'
Sanghyuk didn't send Ilya back and entered the dungeon with her.

You have discovered the ancient Swordking's Tomb hidden in the graveyard.
The secret dungeon 'The Swordking's Tomb' has been opened.
The Swordking's Tomb will be bound to the Dimensional Traveler 'Immortal'.
A total of seven users can be registered for this dungeon.

The Swordking was one of the 144 heroes that protected Treenark in the past. Of course, he wasn't one of their core members, but was capable nonetheless.
Perhaps due to that, his tomb was filled with monsters named 'swordsman ghost', and it had a tricky pattern on top of being a ghost-type monster.

Secret dungeon [The Swordking's Tomb]
– Bound to the Dimensional Traveler 'Immortal'
– Registered Dimensional Travelers [Immortal], [N/A], [N/A], [N/A], [N/A], [N/A], [N/A]
: A tomb within which an old hero slumbers. The martial artists that sought the Swordking's sword had gathered here and became monsters that are now swordsman ghosts. Fundamentally, this tomb was created in a labyrinth structure in order to prevent anyone from disrupting the Swordking's rest and are filled with numerous traps.
– Bonus karma: +20%
– Dungeon clear rewards: Swordking's inheritance. Low probability of spiritual pills.
– Dungeon reactivation time after clearing: 10 minutes.
– Dungeon duration: infinite
– Maximum dungeon clears: 1,000 times.

Sanghyuk checked the information on the dungeon and looked ahead. It was a straight path. Pa.s.sing through this path and getting to the chamber where the Swordking's body lay, he would be able to meet the boss monster of this secret dungeon, the 'Swordking's resentful soul'.
Killing the resentful soul would clear the dungeon, and as the resentful soul wasn't a 'named monster', Sanghyuk would have no problems defeating it.
In fact, the maze-like dungeon structure and the tricky traps, as well as the sudden appearance of the swordsman ghosts were more tricky to deal with.
"The paths are complex, and I sense many traps installed. Should I commence pathfinding and trap removal simultaneously?"
Even though Sanghyuk didn't give the order, Ilya found her job.
"You can do that?"
"Yes. I cannot tell you everything, but not to mention unlocking locked doors, finding paths and dismantling traps are my specialties. To be exact, they are specialties of someone who succeeds the power of the Darkmoon.
Sanghyuk thought of the quickest method to clear the Swordking's Tomb the moment he heard Ilya's answer.
"Good, then you focus on finding the path and erasing the traps. I'll take care of the monsters"
"Understood."
Sanghyuk took Ilya and entered the Swordking's Tomb for a test drive.

The swordsman ghosts were tricky to deal with just as he had heard. However, Sanghyuk had learned all their timings after just dealing with four of them.
This was Sanghyuk's most frightening talent. Sanghyuk learned their unique skill timings with his body and dodged all of their attacks with ease.
With that happening, Sanghyuk's dodge rates exceeded the dodge rate stat on his status window. His dodge rate stat was already so high, but adding his own battle senses into it, Sanghyuk now had an incredibly high dodge rate.
*Fwoos.h.!.+ Clang!*
Sanghyuk moved sideways lightly after dealing with one of them and barely leaving the second one alive, and at that moment, a semi-translucent sword pa.s.sed through his location and hit the wall.
This was a 1.7 second-timed dodge, and while normal users dodged between 1~2 seconds, Sanghyuk enjoyed doing a 0.1 second-timed doge.
Sanghyuk's timing was just that high compared to other users.
Sanghyuk dodged the swordsman ghost's attack through a perfect timed dodge and swung the Ten Millennia Goldbone Whip almost simultaneously.
He dodged at the absolute last moment and counterstruck with the very small gap between actions.
Users called this the gapstrike (gap+counterstrike), and gapstrikes were usually a unique thing to the highest-ranking users.
Actually, even the highest-ranking users couldn't user gapstrikes as they wished. In that sense, Sanghyuk used it freely enough to call him master.
*Riiiiiip! Kehhhhhhhk!*
Another swordsman ghost was ripped apart by the whip. The greatest advantage to gapstriking lay in that it was hard to dodge or defend as it came too fast.
Monsters were especially worse in defending against it than users.
Even after Sanghyuk defeated the swordsman ghost, he looked at Ilya who was removing traps.
"Not yet?"
"Oh, it's almost done. Seeing the complexity of the traps, I presume that this is the end of the tomb."
Thanks to Ilya, Sanghyuk had an easy time breaking through the Swordking's Tomb. He didn't have to wander around lost in the maze, and he didn't have to worry about the traps either.
The swordsman ghosts weren't Sanghyuk's opponents, so the two arrived at the final chamber where the Swordking lay within just twenty minutes after entering.
Normally, the final chamber was a place that a party of 7 would need an entire two hours of suffering to get to.
However, the common sense-destroyer Sanghyuk destroyed common sense this time as well and broke through with his own style. Though, even if it was Sanghyuk, he would have taken at least 4 hours to get here if not for Ilya accompanying him.
Ilya's role was that big.
"It's opening."
Ilya dispelled the last trap and as a result, the final chamber showed itself.
Now, killing the Swordking's resentful soul would clear the dungeon.
"Ilya, you can go back for the time being."
Sanghyuk sent Ilya back for now. Her summon time was calculated by total, so it was best to save some like this.
Having sent Ilya back, Sanghyuk entered the chamber. When he did, a tattered coffin in the middle of the room started giving off ominous smoke.
Once a well-going hero, but a hero has forgotten by all once he died; the Swordking. That became a resent and he now became a ghost, but even after becoming a ghost, he could not become a named monster.
Of course, this wasn't the end. The Swordking appeared later in a different form, and he would be a named monster at that time.
'That Swordking is utterly vicious, but this guy…… is p.i.s.s easy.'
Sanghyuk smirked and looked at the ominous aura that was slowly taking form.
Swordking's ghost……. An ordinary boss monster that was not a named monster could never be Sanghyuk's opponent.

Even though it was not a named monster and as such the first kill bonus would not activate, he got a spiritual pill the first time. Although it was a strength pill and not the agility pill that he wanted, strength would help him greatly anyway.
Though, Sanghyuk was planning to eat all the pills regardless of the type, even if they were intelligence or wisdom pills. Pills were always short in supply anyway.
So it was best to eat as much as possible when he could.
As the gap between users who ate spiritual pills and the ones that didn't would widen tremendously as more time went, consuming spiritual pills was a must to be a highest-ranking user.
Usually, raising a single stat by +40 or more was acknowledged as a highest-tier spiritual pill consumption in Sanghyuk's previous life.
Although the limit was +100, it was practically impossible to fill that +100.
The reason Sanghyuk wished to monopolize the Swordking's Tomb was also that he wanted to get at least 150 spiritual pills here. If he gathered as many spiritual pills as possible from the Swordking's Tomb and gathered them through the Golden Mountain merchant guild as well, then he thought that he would be able to consume a tremendous amount of spiritual pills.
Sanghyuk cleared the Swordking's Tomb a few more times after that with Ilya, but unfortunately, no pills dropped.
Now that he truly learned and got used to conquering the Swordking's Tomb, he went to look for Hurricane Hole.
As Hurricane Hole was a place he earned money as a 'carrying bus' a lot in his previous life, he knew about this place too well.
Without much effort, Sanghyuk opened the entrance to Hurricane Hall in half a day. Knowing the answer made it so easy.
Considering how Gold Rush took almost half a month of suffering in his previous life to find this place, the ease of finding the path when knowing the answer could be seen.
Sanghyuk was planning to use the Hurricane Hole as a business item for the Golden Mountain merchant guild, so he didn't even go for a test drive.
Now that he gained the two secret dungeons he had to acquire in the Heroic Lands, Sanghyuk started to look for the rest of the secret dungeons that he knew some information about.
Of course, he cleared the Swordking's Tomb whenever he had the time to get spiritual pills.
After around ten days of working, Sanghyuk was able to find four other secret dungeons of various scale.
'I have to focus on the Swordking's Tomb for now, so let's just leave these be.'
Since all four of the secret dungeons had an unlimited duration, there were no problems in just leaving them be.
He wanted to look for some more secret dungeons, but the information he knew was too fragmented and it was not that easy to find any other secret dungeons.
And what decisively drove him away from finding secret dungeons was that there were a lot of things to prepare for the broadcast that would take place a week from now.

"Yes, I've almost finished editing the video for the first broadcast. I'll send it to you by tomorrow, so you can check it then."
Recently, Sanghyuk had many calls with Lee Mirae. Since there wasn't that much time left until the first broadcast, there were a lot of things for the two to consult.
[Are you really fine with not doing a livestream? Most of the other channels seemed to be preparing something big with a livestream…….]
"I said last time, but if you see the video tomorrow, then you'll see why I'm fine with it."
[Hmm, is that so? Okay, then. Let's talk again after looking at the video tomorrow.]
"Just think about how to make a teaser. Then it's game over. The other channels will never win."
[Aren't you being too confident? Your opponents, well, let's call them that, aren't so easy you know?]
"It's somewhat embarra.s.sing for me to keep repeating this, but again, you'll understand once you check the video tomorrow."
[So, you mean to say that everything is inside this 'video' you'll send me tomorrow?]
"Yes, that is right."
[It seems like we'll have to speak again after I check your video tomorrow.]
"Sure. I'm almost done editing, so you'll be able to receive the video early morning tomorrow at the earliest."
[Yes, I'll be waiting.]
After ending the phone call with Lee Mirae, he logged into DN (Dreamnet) immediately. Not that he logged into EL.
As he purchased one of the paid services of DN, the 'master video editor tool', he could edit the video inside the virtual s.p.a.ce.
The video he was making instead of the livestream.
This was a strong blow to all the other people and would stomp on their livestream.
'Live channel's rise and fall…… it begins with the initial audience capturing. So the first broadcast is very, very important.'
Sanghyuk knew the importance of the first broadcast, so he was putting more effort into it than anything he made until now.

[Is this for real? Did you really…… pa.s.s that place?]
"You don't think I'll be scamming on TV, do you? It is real. I just barely pa.s.sed a few days ago."
[Wow, that's amazing! Just what kind of members does the One guild have? How many of you pa.s.sed through together? The bit you pa.s.s through is cut into slides so there is too much information missing. If you show a little bit more, it will be awesome…….]
"Unfortunately, some of my guild members do not want their ident.i.ties to be revealed so I cannot help it."
[Haa… now I'm even more curious.]
"Well, the important part is the introduction of the Heroic Lands that comes after it. That video should be enough for it to be a hit.
[You're right. Even if the other guilds are preparing for a strong blow with a livestream, they can't win against the introduction of the Heroic Lands since it's still shrouded in mystery.]
"Well, I'm planning to put the video on and even accept questions in real time so whatever the others do, people will flock my way."
[That's for sure. Even I would definitely watch. But do you really have to put on a mask? From what I see, your appearance is very decent and your body is very fit, so I think you'll attract quite a lot of attention from the female audience if you just put on a little makeup……]
"Well, it's a bit of a mystery concept and a bit of my hate of revealing my private life. Please understand."
[Okay. We already talked about that so I won't say anything more. But, you must fill the entire 3 hours okay? I had a hard time winning over this golden period.]
"Don't worry about that. The first two hours will be split into part 1 and part 2 and for part one I will talk about the Path to Death still cuts and for part 2 I will introduce the Heroic Lands and receive questions live. For the final hour, I will just clear a dungeon in the Heroic Lands. That should be fine right?"
[Just hearing about it makes me want to watch. That's good. I will also plan as best I can like you said. The broadcasting devices will be set in your room the day before just as you wished. But like I said last time, I think it will be better for you to get an office as soon as possible.]
"Okay, I'll work at home for only a short while and look for an office as soon as possible."
[Yes, then please call me later. Oh! Can't you tell just me about what kind of people there are in the One guild?]
"I'm sorry, but that's not up for me to decide."
[Phew, that's a pit.]
Lee Mirae finished the call with a disappointed voice. She was a pa.s.sionate gamer of EL at the same time she was a producer of LGN, so she was curious about the true ident.i.ty of One guild.
Having finished the call, Sanghyuk started checking the video he edited once again. Although the completeness of the video was one thing he was looking for, he was also looking for any bits that might lead to a leak of his ident.i.ty.
He checked this dozens of times already, but he still didn't let his guard down. It would be a headache if his ident.i.ty was leaked, so he had to be careful here.

LGN was already teasing the release of Live Channels for EL since 2 weeks ago.
When 30 live channels, as well as the large scale guilds that occupied it, were revealed to the public, the public actually became excited about it.
And now, four days prior to the broadcast, LGN indiscreetly created teaser videos and uploaded them to video websites and even physical ads.
Thanks to their offensive marketing, the expectations of live channels only rose and the users of EL were talking about live channels as well.

[Wow, did you see those live channel teasers? They were awesome!]
[I heard Rising guild was going to do a live raid of the Sphinx.]
[I heard Crusader was about to start a large-scale guild war.]
[Rising? Crusader? Do you think they are what's hot? Didn't you guys see One guild? They are going to reveal the new continent. They are playing on a completely different level.]
[For real? Where did you see that?]
[On the last part of the teaser. Although there was no mention of any names, the new continent is obviously going to be the Heroic Lands!]
[Don't speak BS. No matter how great they are, it's impossible to break through the Path to Death right now. They probably found some big secret dungeon or something.]
[He's right, there's no way they got through the Path to Death when their skills are so bloated. It's about time the rumors about their skills died down, but why isn't it going down?]
[BJ Gale's deeds were too big. I also personally think that they're blown out of scale and can't believe that they broke through the Path to Death.]
[There are still people who wors.h.i.+p One guild? They are long since dead Stop your actions.]
[You know s.h.i.+t. Do you know that the highest-ranking users pick One guild whenever they are asked to pick top 10 guilds?]
[They just have an inferiority complex. One guild is just relatively unknown, their power is strong.]
[What power. They're just lead around by the nose by a scammer streamer.]
[Then LGN got also scammed by a streamer? Make some sense please.]
[Yup, LGN got scammed too.]
[Whew, idiots everywhere.]
……
……

The various forums and communities became incredibly bustling with those teasers. People were all talking about live channels, and most of the time, they looked forward to it.
Live Channels were a big hit in Sanghyuk's previous life as well.
It was to the point that the term 'watching users' who only watched and didn't play at all, was coined later.
Sanghyuk checked the video one last time had a look at the tiger mask and the clean clothes he would be wearing for the broadcast. He was planning to switch between different animal masks to hide his ident.i.ty.
The people would be watching gameplay and not his face anyway, so it wouldn't really matter even if he wore a mask.
Though, like what Lee Mirae said, not wearing the mask may bring more popularity, but he didn't want to compromise between popularity and the losses he would make by revealing his face.
'The preparation is over…… and all that is left is to let the bomb explode.'
Sanghyuk put the clothes and the mask to one side and opened the capsule again. He was naturally going to spend the remaining time within EL.

Sanghyuk focused on the Swordking's Tomb until the first broadcast for the Live Channel and gathered spiritual pills.
According to his experience, the drop rate for these pills was around 20%.
Actually 20% wasn't that low.
Normally, users would have to divide that by the number of members in their party, so the chances of earning one for themselves would be even lower.
Right now, Sanghyuk had cleared the tomb 121 times, and got 28 pills.
6 for strength, 5 agility, 3 health, and 4 intelligence, 5 wisdom, 4 vitality, and 1 charm.
The first pill he got, which was a strength pill, was a double plus and after that only one agility and one vitality pill had a single plus.
A plus would naturally increase the effects of the pill.
A double plus strength pill would permanently raise strength by +3. Compared to +1 for a pill with no plusses, it was a big difference.
By that same logic, the single plus agility and vitality pills gave +2 each.
The rest of the pills only gave a single stat.
In any case, Sanghyuk consumed all the 28 pills.
There was no need to hold back, neither was there a need to sell them. Although it varied by stat, nothing bad would come out of eating a non-main stat.
Sanghyuk was planning to consume all the pills he was going to get anyway.
'I should probably get read.'
Sanghyuk checked the time and returned to the village before logging out. The first broadcast for the Live Channel was going to begin in 3 hours.

It was the first day, and there were various things to notify, so Lee Mirae was currently at Sanghyuk's house. Broadcasting devices nowadays not only became smaller, but they were much more automated as well, so Lee Mirae could install the entire set by herself.
Actually, she wanted to watch the first broadcast of the Live Channel 'One' that may become a future legend.
'This is going to be a jackpot. I can bet my life on it!
Lee Mirae watched Sanghyuk that was dozing off on the seat with the mask off after preparing everything for the broadcast.
Even though this was his first broadcast, he didn't seem nervous at all.
He even proficiently handled equipment as well. Even though broadcasting equipment became much easier for newcomers to use, the things installed in Sanghyuk's room were professional-grade.
However, Sanghyuk acted as though he had experience in handling those as well. Lee Mirae didn't even have to do anything.
It was as though he had experience in this field before. Right now too, an average person would be trying to shake off their nervousness and not dozing off.
'He's really peculiar……'
Lee Mirae knew that Sanghyuk was 7 years younger than her, but strangely felt like she was talking to a senior or a superior at work when she talked with him.
Like that, Lee Mirae thought about various things while watching Sanghyuk without waking him up. There was nothing to do right now anyway.
After around an hour or so later, Sanghyuk woke up by himself. Having woken up, Sanghyuk naturally proceeded to put on his tiger mask and got ready to stream.
Lee Mirae didn't need to help out here either.
Actually, in Sanghyuk's shoes, this was much more natural. In his previous life, the Live Channel for Team SKY was under Sanghyuk's management. Not to mention getting reading to stream, he would even appear and do commentary.
He did that for more than 5 years, so there was no way he would have anything like nervousness.
"3, 2, 1, live!"
Sanghyuk counted and played the video he had prepared beforehand.
The video started with a few slideshows. Surprisingly, the slideshow was about the Sphinx collapsing. Above the slideshow were the letters……

"One Guild, Their Legend Begins Now."

That was written in clear text and the video stopped. Then, a small screen appeared at the bottom with Sanghyuk in it.
"h.e.l.lo, it's Gale."
With no nervousness at all, he continued with his words naturally.
"I meet you again through LGN's Live Channel this time. And before I start…… I'll introduce myself as well as my channel."
The reason Sanghyuk stopped the video was to wait for enough viewers to gather.
If he played the video when there weren't that many viewers, then the efficiency wouldn't be so good. Like how it required some time for fruits to mature and become delicious, the live broadcast would also be better with more viewers.
Sanghyuk introduced his Live Channel as the 'One channel'. And told the audience that this would be the official channel for One guild, and that the audience could check the users of One guild through the channel.
The audience the comments from the viewers were mostly 'why are you wearing a mask?', 'you have a good voice', 'take off your mask', 'where do I apply for One guild?', 'where is the new continent?' and such things, but Sanghyuk answered what he thought was necessary and ignored the rest.
After around 15 minutes, Sanghyuk judged that there were enough viewers.
Lee Mirae at the front also nodded and signaled that he should start.
"Well, then. You must be curious about a lot of things, and I'll answer your questions after watching this video."
Sanghyuk resumed the video as soon as he finished talking.
The slideshows continued. However, the slides weren't like the rest. The Path to Death, or so the users called it.
The slide showed the entrance to it.
Then, a series of letters appeared on top of it again.

"Start!"

As soon as that word appeared, slides started changing at rapid speed. Those slides were all from inside the Path to Death.
From the 'Red Eyed Orc' that were being ma.s.sacred to the shadow-series monsters. Although the video was technically a slideshow, the video was edited well and felt like a person was breaking through.
After a series of slides, it suddenly turned dark.
But the surprising thing came after. Darkness Knights popped out from everywhere.
This was like the climax part of a zombie apocalypse movie.
The photos (not videos) were so life-like and even the audience twitched a little. However, the real deal had yet to come.
A road was being made. Amazingly, dozens and then hundreds of fallen Darkness Knights were seen and it felt as though a path was being created.
And then the final scene arrived.
The new continent that could be seen amidst the light.
Although it was a few slides, the Heroic Lands were finally revealed to the normal users.

Monitoring Center at the main headquarters of LGN.
Chief Producer Kim WoonHo was looking at the main status bar with a nervous expression.
"The real-time viewer numbers are increasing rapidly."
30 minutes had pa.s.sed since the 30 Live Channels had just begun their first broadcast. The reaction Kim WoonHo dearly wished for finally arrived.
"Which channels are exploding? Is it Rising? DD? Terriculum?"
"Uh…… the thing, is, sir…… the other channels are just doing pretty well, but there's this one channel that are attracting views at insane rates."
"Is that…… One guild?
"Yes, it is, sir."
"Wow…… Mirae's words were right."
As the viewers.h.i.+p numbers were being updated real time, the number of viewers for the 'One channel', was increasing at an insane rate.
"Did they really reveal the Heroic Lands? Put One channel on the sub monitor."
Kim WoonHo spoke while looking at the monitor to the right of him. The number of viewers was increasing at a rapid rate even now.
At this rate, they would record the highest number of simultaneous viewers in LGN history.
"At this rate……. No, it's already…… a surefire jackpot?"
Channel One was already beyond a 'jackpot' and was now heading for LGN records, and the rest of the channels were doing pretty good as well.
Honestly, Kim WoonHo did believe that his Live Channels project would succeed, but he didn't know that it would do so good just from the first show.
He smiled in joy and watched the channel that was attracting insane amounts of viewers.
Then…… he got absorbed into it.

Sanghyuk created a map for this broadcast and filmed the various areas of the Heroic Lands. Then, he released some of the footage onto the channel and disclosed a few simple facts about them.
They were the information that would be fine even if they were known by other users. The kind of facts that they would naturally learn upon coming to the Heroic Lands……. But the thing was, there were zero users in the Heroic Lands right now other than him, and as such, the information provided by him were all 'great' pieces of information.
The Heroic Lands was a completely different place to the desolate h.e.l.lfire Desert, so it came as a shock to the others. The contents that everyone wished for was waiting for them in the Heroic Lands.
Every time Sanghyuk, no, 'Gale', introduced those elements to the public, the audience exploded in the chat with pa.s.sion.
The chatting server almost went down a few times as well because of the load.
However, LGN had considerably good technology regarding this field, so they could barely handle the crisis, and right now, over 5 million viewers were watching channel 'One'.
Of course, only 2,000 people were allowed to join the main server and speak with Sanghyuk directly, but the users that watched through sub-servers reached over 5 million and was still increasing.
'Are we really going to hit 10 million?'
Lee Mirae, who was monitoring right in front of Sanghyuk, saw the number of viewers.
It had been just an hour since the broadcast started, but it was already reaching over 5 million.
10 million viewers was a dream-like number. The highest number of viewers related to internet video game streaming was around 7.11 million.
But at this rate, breaching that record seemed so easy. The various communities online were in an uproar anyway. This was regardless of in or outside the country.
The posts and comments that appeared there could be summed up in to one sentence.

'Watch LGN Live Channel's channel [One]! You must see it! You absolutely must!'

Everyone was recommending channel 'One'. Thanks to that, the other channels lost their steady influx of people, and some even lost their viewers.
With channel 'One' becoming such a hit, all the viewers flocked there and Sanghyuk ended up 'stealing' the viewers from other channels.
The guild that received the most damage among the 30 Live Channels was channel 'Crusader'.
Originally, they were going to broadcast a guild war today, but information seemed to have leaked from somewhere, as their opponent guild got the information and registered for 'guild protection' for a single day. 'Guild protection' was very costly at 100,000 gold per day, but they boldly registered for it in thoughts of giving Crusader a blow, and as a result, Crusaders were now like lost puppies.
They prepared for a guild war, but was unable to do so, so there was no way their broadcast would go properly.
Thanks to that, the viewers that came to watch Crusader's guild war all went over to channel One. The viewers even left messages that they would go over to channel One, so all the viewers started leaving.
In the end, Crusader recorded a pitiful 329 viewers that day, and was the overwhelming last out of the 30 channels.
Crusader was completely screwed while One soared into the skies.
The difference between the two was like night and day.

'Gale', who finished introducing the Heroic Lands through parts 1 and 2, started clearing the public dungeon that the users would meet first upon coming to the Heroic Lands, namely the 'Red Swamplands', and started clearing it in real time.
The Red Swamplands wasn't that difficult, and the length was just sufficient. This area was split into three mini-dungeons, and Gale chose to go to the third and final mini-dungeon as well as the place where the boss monster of the swamp, Blood Anaconda, would appear.
For Gale, one hour was a long time. He already tried going through the top regions of the Red Swamps prior to the broadcast, and 40 minutes was enough if he took his time.
So, Gale progressed even slower in the broadcast and even explained some things on the way.
There were no hindrances. This place had neither monsters nor traps that were strong enough to threaten Gale.
Though, this was all in Gale's point of view. For the normal users, the top regions of the Red Swamplands was definitely not a place they could easily pa.s.s through.
However, it was as though Gale became Bob Ross as he kept saying 'that easy' to put the audience into shock.
He performed feats like 1-second timed evasion like nothing, and even struck back with gapstrikes one time out of two or three. This…… was literally a freak for the normal users.
However, if they knew that this wasn't Gale's, no, Sanghyuk's 100% full strength, that Sanghyuk could actually perform 0.1-second timed evasion, and use gapstrikes like it's breathing, then they might look at Sanghyuk not like a freak but like a G.o.d.
In any case, Sanghyuk was going easy, but that was more than enough to captivate the viewers.

[Hey hey hey, is that even possible? How can he dodge at the last second like that? Just how high is his dodge rate?]
[That doesn't happen just with a high dodge rate. Unless he could react in a split second like it's reflex, it would be hard to dodge no matter how high his dodge rate is.]
[Wow, he's using timed evasion like it's a pa.s.sive skill. He ain't human, I say.]
[I also know how to use timed evasion, but doing it so quickly and naturally like that…. Even the highest-ranking users wouldn't be able to do that.]
[This is legendary.]
[He doesn't look all that strong in terms of attack, but his dodge timings and gapstrikes are like cheats. Like that, there's no way monsters can do anything to him. Gapstrikes are OP against monsters.]
[Wow, now I wanna learn.]
[You can't learn that just because you want to. How high is your VRA? Those moves require at least 250 VRA to imitate.]
[Is 250 VRA even possible?]
[I heard that the average for pro gamers is 250.]
[Mine's 180…… Dammit, I'm quite high amongst my friends, but now I feel like I'm tiny.]
……
……

The audience kept chatting away. They could chat on the sub-servers and not on the main server where Gale would see, so they enjoyed their chat without distracting Gale.
Gale's channel One recorded a whopping 8.97 million views and easily replaced the existing record by a large margin. Although they didn't achieve 10 million like Lee Mirae had hoped for, but this was already a great feat.
'You can't get full on the first mouthful' didn't seem to be right here.
Channel One became a super big hit.
However, its legend had just begun.

"Wow, how does this make sense? Just where did the information leak?…… I'm really annoyed now."
Guild master Iwas.h.i.+ma Mutou of Crusader expressed his vexation and looked at the guild management members that stood next to him.
"Just where did it leak from……."
Crusader guild was a guild that Iwas.h.i.+ma Mutou, who was a real-estate agent in real life, had created with his acquaintances.
Iwas.h.i.+ma Mutou was a bone-deep gamer from early childhood, as well as someone who earned a lot of money and used them in games, so there were naturally a lot of capable gamers around him.
Perhaps due to that, his Crusader guild had become one of the top guilds of j.a.pan.
"Only the management, that is, the members standing here know about the target, right? I went my way to pick a guild that had nothing to do with us, but still looked easy to provoke…… just where did it leak?"
"I'm sorry."
When Mutou got angry, the 7 members of the management team could only lower their heads. To them, Mutou was their president of a company as well as being their guild master.
They were actually receiving monthly wages from Mutou while they played.
"Ehem…… I want to trust the people here. No, I believe in you. So, I won't try to find who did it. However! Our guild's Live Channel…… I want to bring it back. Honestly, I'm too embarra.s.sed to just leave it like this."
Channel Crusader recorded the lowest number of viewers in the first broadcast.
116 (at the end of the broadcast).
This was worse than even some 3rd rate internet streaming on Pu TV.
Mutou, who had a bigger pride than anyone, could not accept this.
"I told you guys yesterday to think about how to attract viewers from the next broadcast, right? Everyone, go ahead."
Mutou suppressed his anger to his best, and started discussing about how to revive the channel.
"Why don't we go with a large-scale guild war again? This time, we'll pick a proper opponent and show our might as a PvP-specialized guild."
"That's not a bad way…… but the problem is the target. To attract the disappointed viewers, we need a strong blow."
"These days, Dark Dragon guild of Korea was famous for PvP……. Should we try touching them? They are very hot-headed so they should react if we provoke them."
"Dark Dragon is too dangerous. They have their own live channel, and the guild master, DD is a lunatic and we don't know what he may do."
"Then which one?"
The management members of Crusader voiced out their opinions and burned in pa.s.sion to revive their channel from the next broadcast.
"Uh…… what do you think about…… One guild?"
"One guild? Do you mean the One guild that hit a huge jackpot this time around?"
"Yes. If it's that One guild, then it will definitely become an issue."
"Hmm…… but if they just refuse, then there's practically nothing we can do. This is especially the case since the members of One aren't revealed to the public. So actually, it's practically impossible to pick a fight with them."
"If they refuse, then there's a profit for us as well. Crusader, the guild that even One guild avoids! Isn't that a good thing?"
Certainly, it made sense.
"That doesn't sound bad. We're just trying so…… we have nothing to lose, right?"
Mutou also nodded his head and gave positive feedback.
"And I found out that One guild is a small-elite force so if we push them with numbers, then we will win no problem. No matter how great they are, numbers are important for guild wars."
"He's right. If they don't avoid it, then we will crush them, and if they do, that's good for us. This is definitely a good idea."
Everyone's opinions became one.
"Good! Then our next broadcast will be this one!"
In the end, Mutou came to a decision.
One vs Crusader.
This would definitely become a hot issue and attract viewers to his side, that's what he thought.