Ch. 8 Friend
by AfuhfuihgsChapter 8 – Friend
Before long, the Field Boss knelt and collapsed.
As the Field Boss exploded into particles, a tremendous leveling-up sound rang out, just like with the Orc Chieftain.
On the ground, where there should have been nothing, the Field Boss’s one-handed sword lay.
‘A drop item!’
I hurried over to check the drop.
[Sword of the Corrupted Judge]
Attack Power: 600
Strength +500
HP +2500
Stamina +100
Each normal attack increases Attack Power and Defense by 3% for 5 seconds. Stacks up to 10 times.
“Heok!”
It was a hundred times better than what I was currently equipped with. The one-handed sword that the Field Boss had been wielding dropped…!
“Wow… It’s the legendary Sword of the Corrupted Judge.”
“Ah… Thank you for the heal. Um… D, do you want it? S, shall we auction it?”
It was obviously a great drop, and it was a one-handed sword, which was what I was using. In my dopamine rush at finally getting loot, I had forgotten about Pink Berry.
All drop items from bosses are usually auctioned off among the GuildRaid Group members who cleared it.
In this case, Pink Berry and I would have to decide who could bid more. The problem was that all I had was the gold I got from clearing quests or hunting mobs.
Right now, I only had 2100 gold. The gold earned by a level 20 and the gold earned by a MAX Level player were worlds apart. In other words, I couldn’t afford this sword.
But since I was a true Guild Leader, I had to offer it up for auction.
“Ah, it’s okay. Arangnim can use it.”
“H, heok…! R, really!? E, even though it’s such a good sword…!”
“I don’t need a sword.”
“Ah… Thank you!”
Pink Berry was an angel.
“Instead…”
“…!?”
What was that? Why was she hesitating?
Pink Berry closed her eyes tightly and worked the menu with her right hand, and then a window popped up in front of me.
[Pink Berry Friend Request]
“Will you accept my friend request?”
“Is this really enough?”
I knew that the Field Boss was a level-adjusted Raid, so the items that dropped were pretty good. I knew that the drop rate was so low that it was a very expensive item, but she was passing on it, saying that a friend request was enough.
She was a mysterious user.
“Ah, and…”
As expected, you have to listen to the end in Korean. I tensed up, wondering what kind of terrifying request she would make.
“Would you like to play games with me…?”
“Together?”
“Yes. We can party up and hunt monsters together, or take down Field Bosses like this…”
“I’m only level 23 after taking down the Field Boss, though? Pink Berrynim is MAX Level, isn’t this a waste of time?”
“There’s a level adjustment, so it’s okay.”
In LEORE, there is a system called level adjustment when friends party together. It makes everyone the same level 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 she was even going to use that system and play games with me?
“Why?”
“Ah… Well… You seem to be really enjoying the game…”
“Enjoying it…? Isn’t that why you play games?”
“Yes. But… Arangnim seems to really like it…”
“Eueueum…”
I couldn’t understand Pink Berry’s thoughts at all. She was willing to party with a low-level like me, level-adjust, and play with me.
Was it some kind of Newbie licking? But she seemed a little timid for that.
“Okay.”
“R, really!?”
“Yes. But when is Pink Berrynim’s playtime?”
“Ah, I’m available anytime.”
“Anytime?”
“Yes. I’m actually… trying to quit my job and become a Ryutuber.”
“Aha. 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 Pink Berrynim.”
“F, fortunately…”
A level 60 MAX Level Healer. And her skills were quite good. Well-timed shields. And there was almost no Overheal, so the aggro didn’t bounce.
And in the end, she even saved me from dying from the Parrying after-delay with a Rescue skill. She was a pretty good Healer.
There was no reason to refuse if such a Healer wanted to party with me.
I got a good Healer, and Pink Berrynim got Ryutube material.
==
Lee Hayan, who had the nickname Pink Berry, was bullied by her female coworkers just because she had big breasts.
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.
She was bullied when she was young for having big breasts, and in middle school, high school, and college, she was ostracized for supposedly seducing men even though she didn’t do anything.
Tired of that reality, Lee Hayan became interested in the virtual world and became addicted to LEORE.
She reached MAX Level and became friends with many people, and even joined a GuildRaid Group for Raids.
She had been relieving the stress from work by playing LEORE, but the GuildRaid Group she cleared Raids with started talking about offline gatherings.
Lee Hayan, who had been Raiding with them for a long time, happily participated in the offline gathering.
The problem was after the offline gathering.
Suddenly, the men became overly interested in her. The Guild Members who usually didn’t talk to her started talking to her, and even after the Raid was over, they would whisper to her and persistently follow her.
Lee Hayan, who just wanted to enjoy the game, politely rejected the approaching Guild Members, but before she knew it, she had become a trashy bitch in the Guild.
LEORE, which she had enjoyed to relieve stress, had become a source of stress.
So she left the Guild and tried to enjoy LEORE alone, but it didn’t feel fun.
Eventually, Lee Hayan, who had accumulated a lot of stress, quit her job and tried to start Ryutube because she was lonely playing games alone.
Then, a trending video related to LEORE caught her eye on Ryutube.
[Orc Chieftain Solo Clear Video]
Lee Hayan clicked on the video as if drawn by the current, and it was a video of a small girl Raiding a Field Boss solo.
People watched the girl’s combat, but Lee Hayan looked at the girl’s face.
She was fighting with a pure face and enjoying it more than anyone else. As soon as she saw that, Lee Hayan felt envious.
So she wanted to play games with that child. She wondered if she could find the lost fun.
Somehow, she met that young girl. A girl with a nickname that seemed to be her real name, Lee Arang.
She had sensed it in the video, but she was a really small child.
LEORE basically allows you to change your appearance, but you can’t change it drastically. You can’t have three eyes, but you can have plastic surgery in real life, and you can only 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 10kg to your weight.
In other words, the appearance of this young girl is not much different from her real appearance.
She was drawn in by the young girl, and when she came to her senses, she was Raiding a Field Boss with her.
Lee Hayan, 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 appropriately, and the Dealer, who usually had to die in one Boss attack, took the Boss’s aggro and proceeded with the Raid.
In the end, they succeeded in clearing the Corrupted Judge together.
Lee Hayan, 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.
‘It would be so much fun to play games with Arang…’
So Lee Hayan suggested to Arang that they play games together.
==
“Pink Berrynim, shall we just drop the formalities?”
“Ah, a, yes.”
“Then I’ll drop the formalities right away. It seems like it’ll take a long time for me to reach MAX Level. Are you sure you’re okay with that?”
I dropped the formalities first to make things easier. Of course, Pink Berry was much older than me 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 formalities.
“Um… Yeah… I think it’ll be more fun 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 Pink Berry Pink Berry?”
“I just like Pink Berry…”
“I see. Then shall we go hunting?”
“…Yeah!”
“First, let’s equip the weapon I got this time.”
[Sword of the Corrupted Judge]
Attack Power: 600
Strength +500
HP +2500
Stamina +100
Kheu. It’s a sword that makes me admire it every time I see it.
If I equip this, won’t everything die if I touch it before I reach MAX Level? That might be a little boring…
Well, I should equip it since I got it by catching the Boss. Why doesn’t this sword have a level restriction?
As soon as I thought that, I realized why there was no level restriction as soon as I equipped the drop item.
[Sword of the Corrupted Judge]
Attack Power: 30 (600)
Strength +25 (500)
HP +20 (2500)
Stamina +20 (100)
Each normal attack increases Attack Power and Defense by 3% 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 was much better than weapons at the same level.
The stat difference wasn’t that big, but the important thing was that it had an ability. At full stack, it increased Attack Power and Defense by a whopping 30%.
“Alright! Let’s go!”
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