Friend

Before long, the field boss knelt and collapsed.

The field boss exploded with particles, and just like with the Orc Chieftain, I heard an enormous level-up sound.

On the ground where nothing should have remained, the field boss’s one-handed sword had fallen.

,Drop item!’

I trotted over to check the dropped item.

[Sword of the Corrupted Judge]

Attack Power: 600

Strength +500

Health +2500

Stamina +100

Each time you make a normal attack, your attack power and defense increase by 3% and last for 5 seconds. Stacks up to 10 times.

“Heok!”

This item looks a hundred times better than what I’m currently wearing. The one-handed sword that the field boss was wielding dropped…!

“Wow… it’s the legendary item, Sword of the Corrupted Judge.”

“Ah… thank you for the heal. Ah… um… do you, do you want it? Should we, should we auction it?”

A delicious drop item at first glance, and on top of that, it’s the one-handed sword type that I’m using, and it’s been a while since I’ve tasted the dopamine rush of a lucky find, so I was forgetting.

That Pinku Berry-ssi is here.

Originally, the rule is to auction off all drop items from bosses with all the party members who cleared it.

In this case, Pinku Berry-ssi and I have to decide who can buy it for more money. The problem is that all I have right now is the gold I got from clearing quests or catching mobs.

Right now, I only have a measly 2100 gold in my possession. The gold earned by a level 20 and the gold earned by a max level are worlds apart. In other words, I can’t take this sword.

But since I’m a true party leader, I have to auction it off.

“Ah, it’s okay. Arang-nim can use it.”

“H-heok…! R-really!? This, this is such a good sword…!”

“I don’t need a sword.”

“Ah… thank you!”

Pinku Berry-ssi was an angel.

“Instead…”

“…!?”

What is it? Why is she pausing?

The Pinku Berry user closed her eyes tightly and operated the menu with her right hand, and then a window popped up in front of me.

[Pinku Berry Friend Request]

“Would you accept my friend request?”

“Is this really enough?”

I know that the field boss is a level-adjusted raid, so the items that come out of here are quite good. I know that the drop rate is so low that it’s quite an expensive item, but to reject it and say that a friend request is enough.

She’s a mysterious user.

“Ah, and…”

As expected, you have to listen to the end in Korean. The moment I tensed up wondering what kind of terrifying request she would make.

“Would you like to play games with me…?”

“Together.?”

“Yes. Partying and catching monsters together, or catching field bosses like this…”

“I’m level 23 now after catching the field boss? Pinku Berry-nim is at max level, isn’t this a waste of time?”

“There’s level adjustment, so it’s okay.”

In Leore, there is a system called level adjustment when friends party together. It’s a system where the levels become the same as the lowest level party member, like with field bosses.

It’s a system that’s not really used and there’s no real reason to use it. But you’re going to use that system and play games with me?

“Why?”

“Ah… um… it seems like you’re really enjoying the game…”

“Enjoying it…? Isn’t the point of playing games to enjoy them?”

“Yes. But… it seems like Arang-nim really likes it…”

“Eueueum…”

I can’t understand what the Pinku Berry user is thinking at all. To party with a low level like me and level adjust and play with me.

Is this some kind of newbie licking? But she seems a little timid for that.

“Okay.”

“R-really!?”

“Yes. But when is Pinku Berry-nim’s playtime?”

“Ah, I’m available anytime.”

“Anytime?”

“Yes. Actually… I quit my job and I’m going to try Ryutube.”

“Ah ha. So you approached me on purpose?”

“Ah, no, that’s, well…”

“Hehe. It’s okay. I know how famous I am right now. And it’s not like I dislike Pinku Berry-nim.”

“T-thank goodness…”

Level 60 max level healer. And her skills are quite good. Shielding at the right timing. And there was almost no overhealing, so aggro didn’t bounce.

And she even saved me from almost dying from the parry after-delay with a skill called Rescue. She’s a pretty good healer.

There’s no reason to refuse a healer like that wanting to party with me.

I’m happy to get a good healer, and Pinku Berry-nim is happy to find Ryutube material.

==

Lee Ha-yan, who has the nickname Pinku Berry, was bullied by the same female employees just because she had big boobs.

They spread rumors about things she didn’t do, didn’t talk to her, and made her eat alone, which caused her a lot of stress.

When she was young, she was ostracized for having big boobs, and in middle school, high school, and college, she didn’t do anything, but they kept her away, saying she was seducing men.

Tired of that reality, Lee Ha-yan became interested in the virtual world and fell into Leore.

She reached max level and became friends with many people and even joined a party for raids.

She had been relieving the stress from work by playing Leore, but the party that cleared the raid together started talking about an offline meeting.

Lee Ha-yan, who had been raiding together for a long time, happily participated in the offline meeting.

The problem was after the offline meeting.

Suddenly, the men became overly interested in her. The party members, who didn’t usually talk to her, started talking to her and persistently followed her, whispering even after the raid was over.

Lee Ha-yan, who just wanted to enjoy the game, politely rejected the approaching party members, but at some point, she became a trashy bitch in the party.

Leore, which she enjoyed to relieve stress, had become a lump of stress.

So she left the party and tried to enjoy Leore alone, but it didn’t feel fun.

In the end, Lee Ha-yan, who had accumulated a lot of stress, quit her job and decided to start Ryutube because playing games alone was lonely.

Then, a trending video related to Leore caught her eye on Ryutube.

[Orc Chieftain Solo Clear Video]

Lee Ha-yan clicked on the video as if flowing with water, and it was a video of a little girl raiding a field boss solo.

People watched the little girl’s battle, but Lee Ha-yan looked at the girl’s face.

She was fighting with a pure face and more joy than anyone else. As soon as she saw that, Lee Ha-yan felt envious.

So she wanted to play games with that kid. She wondered if she could find the lost fun.

Somehow, she met that young girl. A girl with a nickname that seemed like her real name, Lee Arang.

She felt it in the video, but she was really a small child.

Leore basically allows you to change your appearance, but you can’t change it drastically. You can’t have three eyes or anything like that, but you can have plastic surgery from reality, and you can also change your height and build slightly.

No matter how much you reduce your height and build, it’s only about 10cm to your height and about 10kg to your weight.

In other words, the appearance of this young girl is not much different from what she looks like in reality.

She was drawn in by the young girl, and when she came to her senses, she was raiding a field boss together.

Lee Ha-yan, who had been raiding, was startled to see Arang’s skills with her own two eyes.

She knew that she had cleared the Orc Chieftain alone, but seeing it in person, her skills were real.

She used parrying and evasion at the right time and proceeded with the raid with a dealer who usually had to die in one boss attack holding the boss’s aggro.

In the end, they succeeded in clearing the Corrupted Judge together.

Lee Ha-yan, who smiled slightly at the sense of accomplishment she felt after a long time, laughed as she watched the young girl run around in place after clearing.

,It would be so much fun to play games with Arang…’

So Lee Ha-yan suggested to Arang that they play games together.

==

“Pinku Berry-nim, should we just drop the honorifics?”

“Ah, ah, yes.”

“Then I’ll drop the honorifics right away. It seems like it will take a long time for me to reach max level. Is that really okay?”

I dropped the honorifics first to make it easier. Of course, Pinku Berry is much older in terms of age, but that’s not necessary in the game.

If we’re friends, we’re friends. It’s easier to drop the honorifics.

“Um… yeah… it seems like it would be more fun to be with Arang. But that…”

“That?”

“Your nickname… is it really your real name?”

“Yeah. It’s my real name. When I came to my senses, I had it as my real name.”

“I see…”

“Why is Pinku Berry Pinku Berry?”

“I just like pink berries…”

“I see. Then shall we go hunting?”

“…Yeah!”

“First, let’s equip the weapon we got this time.”

[Sword of the Corrupted Judge]

Attack Power: 600

Strength +500

Health +2500

Stamina +100

Keueu. It’s a sword that makes me admire it every time I see it.

If I equip this, won’t everything die with just a touch until I reach max level? Then it might be a little boring…

Well, I should equip it since I got it by catching the boss. Why doesn’t this kind of sword have a level restriction?

As soon as I thought that and equipped the drop item, I knew why there was no level restriction.

[Sword of the Corrupted Judge]

Attack Power: 30 (600)

Strength +25 (500)

Health +20 (2500)

Stamina +20 (100)

Each time you make a normal attack, your attack power and defense increase by 3% and last for 5 seconds. Stacks up to 10 times.

As expected.

As soon as I equipped it, the item’s stats were adjusted to my level. Still, it’s much better than weapons at the same level.

The stat difference isn’t that big, but it’s important that it has abilities. At full stack, attack power and defense increase by a whopping 30 percent.

“Alright! Let’s go!”