Chapter 118: I was mistaken for an engineering ace

The giant monster that had filled the screen slowly collapsed.

Simultaneously, bbambabam- a loud sound effect rang out.

-[World] Congratulations!

-[World] You have defeated the 1F Boss, [Giant Orc].

-[World] Last Attacker: Han Ari

-[World] L.A. Rewards: Rare Grade Weapon Selection Box

-[World] This reward can be used after the RP World officially opens.

-[World] MVP: Han Ari

-[World] MVP Rewards: Uncommon Grade Armor Kit

“Waaaaaah!!”

“We cleared it!!”

At the same time, the streamers who participated in the boss raid let out cheers.

“Good work, everyone!”

“Wow~ This is f*cking fun! It’s crazy!”

“A raid this raid-like, how long has it been? Feels like I went back to when I first played WoW.”

“The boss patterns were random so it was tough, but that made it even more thrilling!”

“Atdta, the hand-feel is amazing! Smashing the boss’s noggin with a hammer while gliding, bbak! that was totally insane!”

The excited voices of the streamers continued endlessly.

Everyone, unable to hide their excitement, poured out their individual impressions non-stop.

“No, hyungnims, this is seriously no joke. When it’s released, it’s unconditionally a global god-tier game.”

“Kya~ Glad I became a streamer!”

“Can’t this just be permanently open for operation?”

In the center of that bustling crowd of streamers.

For some reason, Han Ari stood there with an anxious expression.

“E-everyone, you worked hard…!”

A single phrase shouted timidly, her face flushed red.

Soon, the heads of the boisterously chatting streamers turned hwik- towards Han Ari.

“Phew~ Han Ari worked the hardest!”

“Exactly! If it weren’t for you, we would never have beaten the boss until the server closed.”

“Han Ari! The hero of our village!!”

Despite Han Ari practically monopolizing all the rewards, everyone was busy praising her.

There was even fierce competition to recruit Han Ari.

“Han Ari, let’s party together after the official open too.”

“Ahem! You can’t do this already, Woogi hyungnim. This is tampering!”

“Ssssup! Give way a bit this time, kid!”

“Hyungnim, if your physicals are lacking, just go farm!”

Han Ari’s eyes began to spin binggeulbinggeul.

She had only intended to make a good impression on other streamers before the official open.

Furthermore, she only hoped to get a little closer to them.

But, to think.

She never imagined that misunderstandings and misconceptions would overlap like this, placing her at the center of the group.

“Woohyot! Got a legendary weapon!! Going for a quick performance test before the server closes!”

“This game really gives a dopamine rush!”

“If the 1st floor is this much fun, what could possibly be on the 2nd floor and above?”

“Rolling this foreshadowing will be fun too, right?”

While everyone admired their respective rewards and communicated joyfully with their viewers.

A graceful fairy-like lady quietly approached Han Ari.

It was none other than Kamishiro Rei.

She spoke gently, with a serene smile.

“You’re amazing, Han Ari. How did you know the boss’s weak point?”

‘Is this what a herbivore feels like in front of a carnivore?’

Han Ari flinched and made a troubled expression.

“That’s… I just happened to shoot a beam of light roughly, and it accidentally hit the weak spot, I guess…”

At Han Ari’s excuse-that-wasn’t-an-excuse, Rei let out a smirk.

“Ah, is that your concept? Interesting.”

“…Yes?”

As soon as Han Ari tilted her head, a message popped up in the bottom left chat window.

-[Whisper] Kamishiro Rei: Right? You heard a bit about this game’s strategy from Jina Mama?

-[Whisper] Han Ari: Mama?

-[Whisper] Kamishiro Rei: I know everything~ That Jina-nim, one of this game’s core developers, cherishes Han Ari the most as her daughter 🙂

It was natural to feel that Jina favored Han Ari.

Didn’t Jina herself readily give Han Ari the tester invitation she possessed?

Besides that, Jina had done more than just one or two things for Han Ari.

Among the recently released Han Ari emoticons on a certain community, the most frequently used one is ‘Indeed, Mama’s love for the eldest daughter is supreme’. That says it all.

At Rei’s gaze, mixed half with envy and half with jealousy, Han Ari broke out in a cold sweat with a flustered expression.

‘No… I really didn’t hear anything?!’

‘More than that! Even if I heard the strategy, I’m not familiar or meticulous enough with the game to follow it exactly!’

-[Whisper] Kamishiro Rei: Otherwise, it’s unexplainable. How you solved the dungeon puzzle gimmick in one go.

‘That was the footplate I accidentally stepped on due to fumbling controls activating on its own…’

-[Whisper] Kamishiro Rei: And how you noticed the mimic before it woke up.

‘That too was just a basic magic spell that misfired and hit the chest because I pressed the wrong button…’

-[Whisper] Kamishiro Rei: Gathering all the materials to make the boss room key in advance, I thought that was a bit too much. Of course, I’m grateful you shortened the tedious gathering process.

‘It wasn’t like I planned to gather them. I just kept piling them up in my inventory because it felt like a waste to throw them away.’

-[Whisper] Kamishiro Rei: The finish was perfect too. To think you’d calculate the remaining health and shoot the magic at the exact timing.

‘This is truly a misunderstanding.’

‘The process of casting magic happened to be solving arithmetic problems, and because my arithmetic was slow, I fumbled and the magic activated late.’

“Anyway, please take care of me after the official open too. Please go a little easy on me then.”

“Yes, yeees…”

“…And could you pass a message to Jina Mama? That her one and only fairy is waiting for her day and night.”

After Rei left.

Han Ari stood there blankly, head bowed low, clutching her hair.

“Hwaaaaah… How did it end up like thisss…!”

‘Me, who sucks at games in reality.’

‘In this other world(?), I’m the raid ace?!’

Han Ari was gradually starting to dread the official open.

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Late one night after the Jinro World beta test ended.

In the VR Chat private room, ‘Witch’s Workshop’, Jina and Rosy sat facing each other, examining the play logs of the testers one by one.

“Uheee…”

Rosy’s face, watching the endlessly appearing numbers and data on the screen, was slack with a dazed expression, as if dreaming.

“The world I imagined is before my eyes… No, this is more than that…”

“I get it, so let’s get to work quickly.”

“Heehee… If the beta test is this good, what will it look like when 100, 200 streamers gather after the official open… Kyaaa!!”

“To do that, we need to properly expand the server before the official open, right?”

Towards Rosy, who still couldn’t get her act together, Jina delivered a sharp remark.

“The ping spiked suddenly during the boss battle just now. If we can’t fix this, forget 100 people or anything.”

Rosy’s lips pouted ppyujuk. As expected of a capital ‘T’ (Thinking type), no sensibility.

“I know that too… But still, it’s okay to indulge in sentiment for just one day, right! Honestly, the world came out really well, didn’t it? Besides the server, there’s nothing else that urgently needs fixing!”

“Well, that’s true.”

Jina, her gaze still fixed on the hologram, let out a dry laugh.

Indeed, as Rosy said, the beta test was a success.

“Among the streamers, VTubers certainly enjoy the game deliciously. Especially Jina’s daughters’ performances were amazing, weren’t they?”

“…Just in case, I’m telling you, I didn’t tell anyone the Jinro World strategy.”

“I know. Jina, you were busy all day carving 3D models and writing AI model formulas.”

Just looking at the commit logs in the collaboration project folder, one could feel Jina’s murderous workload, so she couldn’t even joke.

Of course, separate from that.

“Han Ari-nim is really amazing. How can her intuition be so good? The puzzles I prepared so meticulously were solved so anticlimactically, it was a bit anticlimactic.”

Jina unknowingly cleared her throat, keuheum-.

‘Han Ari-nim is also catastrophically bad at games…’

Having watched her broadcasts since Han Ari was Minari, Jina knew better than anyone that she was a hidden game-suck.

It was to the extent that even Cosmo Live’s Cherry or Spring would have to concede a point.

To think that such Han Ari would seize the honor of Last Attacker and MVP simultaneously in the Jinro World beta version.

Of course, whether that luck would continue until the official open remained to be seen.

“More than that, I think it was a really good decision to widen the 1st-floor map. Who knew Winter-nim would explore every nook and cranny to the point of reaching 93% map exploration?”

“And even that is a figure without even entering the World Tree dungeon, right?”

“If she had joined a raid party, her exploration rate would probably have been 99%.”

It felt strange.

It was very grateful that she explored the world meticulously…

“To think she’d find 3 of the Easter eggs I hid…”

“Should I say it’s fortunate she found less than half, or should I say it’s amazing she found nearly half by herself…”

“The problem is that one of them is crucial enough to determine an ending branch.”

“…Hey, surely she won’t dig into it all the way?”

“With Winter’s personality and game sense, it’s sufficiently…”

She didn’t bother adding the rest.

“…We definitely need to prepare for it.”

Jinro Duo, additional workload confirmed.