Chapter 64: how to restore her power

“I’m Kim Shin from Kim Shin TV. Is it okay if you appear on screen?”

Hearing his name, he definitely remembered seeing it while searching for Hunter-related videos on YouTube.

A YouTuber with around 100,000 subscribers who summarized Hunter-related information. It seemed he was currently live streaming, and a thought occurred to him.

‘If Estelle appears here and it later becomes a YouTube video…’

He remembered that each video consistently got over 100,000 views, so this was an opportunity to instantly raise Estelle’s recognition to over 100,000 people.

‘If I get Shin-woo’s help with this too…’

If Shin-woo, whose subscribers had increased to over 300,000 with his help, also uploaded a video, wouldn’t Estelle be able to achieve growth comparable to consuming an elixir?

“Yes. Are you all okay with it?”

The group nodded.

“Are the people next to you also academy students?”

He seemed unsure since they weren’t wearing uniforms.

“Yes. They’re all Beatrice Academy students.”

“Oh! As expected of the best prestigious academy, it seems only handsome and beautiful people attend. Now, everyone, here they are!”

The entire group’s appearance was shown on his broadcasting smartphone. He couldn’t see it, but he imagined the comment section was exploding.

It was the first time he’d shown himself to the public since running away from an interview after the entrance exam. As proof, a sound came from the smartphone.

–[Introduce yourselves] donated 10,000 won. Please introduce yourselves.

“Ah, thank you so much for the 10,000 won donation. Would it be possible for everyone to introduce themselves once? All the profits earned today will be given to you all…”

It seemed that for him, as long as he could gain recognition, it was okay even if he gave away all the profits. The money he would earn in the future would be more important than the money he earned today.

–This will be helpful for Estelle, can you all help out a bit?

He sent a telepathic message to everyone, and perhaps because of the bonds they’d formed over the past two weeks, they all nodded. Estelle also seemed to have noticed his intentions.

“I’m Kim Yu-won, rank 1 in Beatrice Academy’s first year. I handle black lightning like this.”

He showed the Ink Lightning sparking from his hand to draw more attention.

As the Ink Lightning stretched out and transformed into a tiger, dragon, phoenix, and black tortoise, donation messages kept popping up. Thinking it would interfere with the broadcast, Kim Shin spoke.

“This seems to be causing problems with the broadcast, so I’ll temporarily turn off notifications for donations under 10,000 won. That’s more convenient for everyone, right?”

After checking the comments, Kim Shin turned off donation notifications below a certain amount and asked them to continue.

“I’m Liera, co-rank 3 in the first year… I’m good with swords and magic.”

Liera lightly demonstrated magic controlling the four elements and imbuing them into her sword. Perhaps due to her appearance and character, despite donations under 10,000 won not making a sound, the notification sound rang several times.

“I am Cheon Ha-yeon, rank 7 in the first year. I know some martial arts.”

Cheon Ha-yeon threw a punch at a speed invisible to ordinary people.

She didn’t show anything flashy like the others, but it was just as amazing, and perhaps because of her outstanding appearance and character, the sounds didn’t stop.

“I’m Yoo Seung-ah, rank 6 in the first year. I can use celestial arts.”

She summoned a nimbus cloud, sat on it, and slowly moved around.

Her character wasn’t as remarkable as the others, but the appearance of a nimbus cloud was so unexpected that the reaction was still fervent.

And finally, the most important person, Estelle, remained.

“Estelle, co-rank 3 in the first year. I came from another world, and I was called a Saintess there.”

Estelle drew significant attention by revealing she was an otherworlder.

At the same time, as she closed her eyes with her hands clasped in prayer, white wings appeared behind her, making her look like an angel.

Despite wearing modern clothes, it was an incredibly sacred image. And as if to prove the impact of her appearance, her power, visible to his eyes, was noticeably increasing.

Thanks to the self-introductions of the previous four and Kim Shin’s clickbait title, the number of real-time viewers had increased tremendously compared to the beginning, and Estelle’s recognition and power were growing accordingly.

‘Even if many people watched the live broadcast, it probably wouldn’t have exceeded 50,000… But seeing her power recover this much…’

Her power, which had been at the mid-C-rank level, instantly jumped to the high-C-rank level. But what if her recognition jumped to 100,000, 1 million, and then 10 million? Or even more?

He began to think she might become stronger than S-rank.

It would be great if everyone in the world knew about her, but honestly, no matter how popular Hunter YouTube was, it would be difficult to reach that level.

Thanks to Kim Shin, he had achieved his initial goal, and as he answered various questions from donations over 10,000 won, Hunter Association members arrived and began to control the area.

“A medium-sized Gate will appear soon. All citizens, please move a certain distance away.”

They guided even the citizens who hadn’t left yet and approached them.

“A little further…”

“We are Beatrice Academy students. As the first arrivals, we should have priority clearing rights, right?”

They all took out their student IDs and showed them to the association agent.

“Beatrice Academy students… confirmed. But to clear a medium-sized Gate, you need at least five A-rank Hunters… Are you sure you’ll be okay with just students?”

He was asking if other Hunters should go in with them.

“We’re enough on our own.”

In situations like this, putting on a performance was best. He slowly created a chunk of ice in the air using Frost, gradually making it larger, and when it reached the size of a one-ton truck, he shattered it in a single blow using Ink Lightning.

He then demonstrated his skill by shattering all the falling fragments into dust.

The association agent stared in surprise and eventually nodded.

“It seems I was worrying unnecessarily.”

It was a skill he could demonstrate thanks to the significant increase in his internal energy from the divine-grade elixir.

True to his reputation as a ranged fighter, he could easily handle A-rank top-level abilities without engaging in close combat.

Perhaps because he’d shown something flashy, the viewers’ immersion deepened, which naturally led to an increase in Estelle’s power.

Her divine power continued to increase, albeit faintly.

It would be difficult to instill faith in them, but it might be possible to inspire awe, so he planned to aim for that more. After the association staff completely controlled the area, they spoke.

“Then we’ll deploy the force field first.”

“Yes.”

Since no one knew whether the Gate that would soon appear would be a fixed Gate or an emission Gate, they deployed a force field in the expected area at least 10 minutes before the Gate appeared to minimize casualties.

If it was a fixed Gate, only a few monsters would come out, which was fine, but in the case of an emission Gate, it wouldn’t stop summoning monsters until all the monsters inside came out.

About 10 minutes after the force field was set up, monsters began to emerge from the Gate. The first to come out were small-fry goblins, the vanguard.

It seemed to be of good lineage, as it was about 170cm tall, muscular, and carried a spear slightly longer than its own height.

Seeing three or four such goblins emerge simultaneously, they knew it was an emission Gate. Fixed Gates didn’t release monsters all at once like this.

“It’s an emission Gate! Strengthen the force field!”

“Yes!”

The makeshift force field, which could block one or two attacks from an A-rank boss monster, began to thicken and harden. It was now strong enough to withstand some attacks from an S-rank boss monster.

‘It’s unnecessary, though…’

Because they wouldn’t let a single monster escape this force field.

Especially, they had no intention of handing over experience points to other Hunters who arrived late outside the force field, waiting to enter if they failed. Wasn’t this a rare farming opportunity?

–I know everyone wants to fight, but I’ll just add some seasoning.

The amount of experience gained depended on how much one contributed to the monster’s death and how well one understood the monster.

He understood most types of monsters, so he could gain a significant amount of experience even by sharing a single bite.

He grabbed the head of the first goblin that rushed towards him and slammed it to the ground.

CRASH-CRUNCH

[Lv47 Goblin defeated.]

Its skull shattered, and it died. Seeing that, the other goblins began to hesitate.

He began to spread Frost over the entire area where the monsters could emerge, ensuring he would receive a share of the experience from all of them.

The Frost, spreading like a blizzard, covered the area around the Gate, gradually slowing down the monsters emerging from it.

‘This should do it for experience farming preparation…’

“Everyone, let’s begin.”

They began clearing the Gate as spectacularly as possible so that the camera filming from outside could see them clearly.