Chapter 16: Someone Who Can’t Help But Hate Kwon Se-ah

The final day of the clan battle.

In a small studio apartment, a woman was live-streaming.

Her room was dangerously filled with un-thrown trash bags, delivery boxes, and a laundry basket overflowing with panties and bras, forming a mountain.

-Can you do it?

-Can this really be cleared?

-If the damage goes in as calculated, it’ll definitely be cleared, right?

“Of course, it can be cleared!! How hard do you think I worked calculating and creating this tactic!!”

The woman, busy clearing the boss battle while checking the chat window, seated in front of her dual monitors, was the streamer ‘Heretic’.

In one corner of her computer desk, an ultra-expensive liquid crystal tablet was placed.

This was her ‘main job’, but she had no intention of working today.

“Huh? Huh? It really looks like it’s going to be cleared, doesn’t it?”

“As expected, it’s falling perfectly in line with Heretic-nim’s calculations.”

“Phew! Since we caught this with exact damage, we’ll be 1st in the clan battle!”

Heretic’s lips curled into a grin at the voices of her clan members coming through Discord.

She immensely enjoyed being acknowledged in this way.

[Valkyrie of Ragnarok Cleared!]

[☆ Clear without any incapacitations]

[☆ Clear in 10 turns or less]

[☆ Clear in 5 turns or less]

-Oh 

-Calculation is Heretic, as expected 

-Wow, she cleared this without even bringing Abundance!

-This must be the highest score achievable with the current character pool 

10,000 followers, average viewership of 500.

Her broadcast, which had a somewhat ambiguous reach, was today being watched by a staggering 2,000 people, witnessing the moment she achieved 1st place in the clan battle.

[Hwamuhwamu]

[Clan Battle Ranking: 1st↑]

“Clan battle ooover…! Everyone worked hard!”

Heretic smiled refreshingly and tilted a glass covered in cold water droplets.

“Heretic-nim, you’re really smart.”

“I had never even thought of a tactic like this.”

“If we all do this for the next clan battle too, 1st place will be easy, won’t it?”

Unlike Kwon Se-ah, Heretic firmly controlled her clan members through Discord.

In the first place, she knew which characters were good to use in this clan battle.

So, she even made announcements about which character’s skill levels should be raised further using the limited Trailblaze Power and who should be raised as a priority.

Given that situation, it was perhaps natural for Heretic’s clan, ‘Hwamuhwamu’, to take 1st place.

[HwamuhwamuChanYangHae-nim has donated ₩10,000]

[Clan battle is, as expected? Heretic! Congrats on Hwamuhwamu’s 1st place]

[ThisIsTheTactic-nim has donated ₩10,000]

[Thanks to the tactic Heretic-nim posted, I got 1st place in score! Thank you!]

“Thank you all~ I’ll continue to show you various strategies, tips, and tactics in preparation for future clan battles, so please don’t forget to follow, subscribe, and favorite!”

Wearing a black short-sleeved shirt, she spoke with a smile, holding a Zero Coke in one hand.

She wasn’t wearing pretty makeup, but the viewers weren’t shocked.

She was a VTuber.

On the broadcast screen, a virtual avatar with purple hair and a light blue butterfly pin, with a rather good figure, was moving restlessly.

This avatar was also a work she had created.

-Tactics are really Heretic’s specialty ㅇㅇ

-I was impressed seeing her use even level 1 4-star characters so resourcefully.

– It was a good idea to do 2 recharges as Heretic said, right? The score came out really well ㅋㅋㅋ

The first clan battle ended very satisfactorily.

All 30 clan members, without a single straggler, perfectly executed their 3 attacks at the right timing.

Thanks to the people who performed beyond their combat power, Hwamuhwamu’s ranking would absolutely not fall.

Heretic had no choice but to be certain of that.

Because everything had proceeded smoothly according to her calculations.

“Huh? What’s with these guys? Why is their score like this?”

“Who is it? What’s wrong?”

“Ah, don’t tell me it’s Middle school girl-chan? Are you saying that because of that weird clan in the gallery?”

Heretic frowned at the voices coming through Discord.

“What’s wrong with that clan?”

“Uh… They’re in 2nd place, aren’t they? But now their clan leader has 3 attacks left, so they’re saying the 1st place isn’t going to change.”

“What kind of… absurd thing are you saying?”

Heretic spoke fiercely and checked the rankings.

[Score Ranking – Clan Competition]

[1st – Hwamuhwamu / 1,051,240 points]

[2nd – Hawawa Middle School Girl-chan / 1,050,050 points]

[3rd – Eunbless / 1,040,450 gradually]

[4th – LilithAndHerChildren / 1,039,080 points]

Heretic’s ‘Hwamuhwamu’ and Kwon Se-ah’s ‘Hawawa Middle School Girl-chan’ were monster clans that had surpassed the ‘1.05 million point wall’, known as an insurmountable barrier.

The 1st place competition between the two clans, which had reached a realm that could be called a war of stars, a celestial war, was bound to attract the attention of any Galactic Train player.

“What… There’s still a thousand-point difference. We can’t beat them like this.”

Heretic said with a confident voice.

-Lol fr, you can’t win 

-Heretic retried over 100 times to catch that earlier, how can you win? 

-In the first place, just clearing it gives similar scores, so Hwamuhwamu wins.

-Wow, but what kind of guys are they over there to get 2nd place?

Heretic let out a sigh of relief at the chat that was praising her again.

She was a person with such self-esteem issues that even such blatant flattery made her feel good.

“Everyone~ Listen carefully. Galactic Train is definitely a game where spending money is important, but to get points, you have to clear dungeons, okay? You have to properly understand the performance of skills and play accordingly to get 1st place in the clan battle.”

Heretic disliked Kwon Se-ah.

It was because she knew that the combat power ranking of her own painstakingly raised ‘fully constellated, fully superimposed Seele’ was 2nd, and 1st place was Kwon Se-ah.

To put it bluntly, she was salty.

“Even if you hit 1st place in combat power ranking, if a fool who doesn’t know how to use the character uses it, you can’t get 1st place!”

-Heretic is 2nd though 

-That clan over there doesn’t even have announcements, right? They can’t even control them, right? ㅋㅋ

-In the first place, it’s a clan recruited from the gallery, so they can’t even use Discord; there’s no way they can beat our princess 

Heretic wore a proud expression and crossed her legs.

“Huh? Looks like they cleared it, doesn’t it?”

“So what rank are they? How many points did they get?”

“Uh, uhhh…?”

Heretic, with a “don’t tell me” expression, hurriedly pressed refresh.

Her calculations were perfect.

‘In the first place, they shouldn’t be able to clear it, right? H-how did they clear it?’

[Score Ranking – Clan Competition]

[1st – Hwamuhwamu / 1,051,240 points]

[2nd – Hawawa Middle School Girl-chan / 1,051,230 points]

“Ah, ha… hahaha! 10 points! A 10-point difference! Not even a tie! 10 points!”

Heretic laughed happily and clapped her hands.

-So close, what a shame 

-Tactics are Heretic’s, as expected 

-Well, it seems she managed to clear it somehow, befitting her 1st place combat power, but it looks like she already ate up a lot of points?

“Ha… This is it, everyone. Just clearing it versus getting 3 stars gives bonus points, and the carry-over party is incredibly lucrative, you know?”

If you use the carry-over party well, even a party that normally couldn’t get 3 stars can be made to get 3 stars.

You have to use this strategy ‘appropriately’ and control your clan members to get 1st place.

But Kwon Se-ah’s clan is not like that.

Since they weren’t using Discord, they didn’t even know whose carry-over party was left, and they were just clearing things moderately.

The fact that they got a similar score to the ‘Hwamuhwamu’ clan was purely achieved by their own ‘weight class’, a delightful rebellion of whales who had spent a lot of money.

“Well~ Anyway, that clan over there seems to have worked hard, but they can’t beat me—”

“Huh? Heretic-nim? Their clan leader has 1 attack left, they say?”

“… … Pardon?”

Heretic froze.

“Th-that… F*ck! What kind of nonsense are you talking about?! I still don’t understand how they even have the same score as us!!!”

“Ah, no, please look at the post I sent you on Discord.”

[Clan Leader-bbi!!!! Hit the last one!!!!!]

(Clan Battle UI Photo)

[Stage 44]

[4/4 Phase in Progress!]

(Clan Battle UI Photo)

Bbi-bbi did his best!!

Clan Leader-bbi, hit the last one and make us 1st, ‘please’.

[Wow  Stage 44 is truly another level.]

[Middle school girl punch! Middle school girl punch! Middle school girl punch! Middle school girl punch!]

[Defeat the evil internet broadcasting clan, Middle school girl-chan!!!!]

[Crazy f*cking whales ㅋㅋ How the hell did they even crawl into stage 44???]

[On the Japanese server, 1st place is something like 990,000 points, but why is ours 1.05 million?]

“Wh… What?”

Heretic’s jaw dropped, and she caressed the monitor with her finger.

“Everyone… why, why are they on stage 44? We’re on stage 42, aren’t we?”

It’s inefficient.

“Huh? That’s right, isn’t it? Why is their score lower than ours when they have more stages?”

“Don’t tell me those guys ignored carry-over parties and everything and just brute-forced their way through, failing to get the 3-star bonus points?”

Clan battles are not cleared in such a primitive way.

-Huh 

-Aren’t we on stage 42???

-No, they defeated 10 more bosses, and that side is short 10 points?

“Oh! Oh oh! The ranking changed!”

“Wow… These guys are really crazy! Crazy.”

“Are there really people who just push through with money like this, so ignorantly?”

Along with the voices of astonished people, Heretic pressed refresh, trembling.

[Score Ranking – Clan Competition]

[1st – Hawawa Middle School Girl-chan / 1,052,340 points]

[2nd – Hwamuhwamu / 1,051,240 points]

“A thou…sand… points…?! A thousand points?! No way! This is impossible! This is fraud! Fraud! It’s fraud! Fraud! Everyone! This is fraud!!!”

Heretic shrieked with a voice so pitifully mournful.

“Aaaaargh!!! H-how can this be!! How can idiot fools who don’t even know tactics beat our clan!!!”

“Um, um, please calm down a bit…”

“Aaaaaaaaargh!! This isn’t supposed to happen! This isn’t supposed to happen!! I, who diligently calculated and diligently controlled, should be 1st place!! Th-that’s what’s fair!!!”

“Clan Leader, take a look at this… It seems we couldn’t have won from the start.”

– Diring!

“What do you mean! Why couldn’t we win! The game isn’t even old, and the only thing she has over me is that Seele’s combat power is 1st…”

Heretic stopped speaking, panting with anger.

[Hawawa! Middle school girl-chan! I worked hard with oppa-ya unni-yas and got 1st place in the clan battle!]

(Photo of the party Kwon Se-ah used)

(Photo proudly showing that Hawawa Middle School Girl-chan got 1st place)

There were many systems I didn’t know well, so it was hard, but oppa-yas taught me!

Galactic Train is super fun, so I want to keep playing with unni-yas for a long, long time!

I plan to get 1st place in the next clan battle too, so please look forward to it!

[Kya ㅋㅋ Gallery clan is 1st~~~]

[Middle school girl punch! Middle school girl punch! Middle school girl punch!]

[Hwamuhwamu cuuuut~~~!!!]

[Wow I thought these guys were just clickbait one-tricks, but it seems they take the game seriously]

[Party is legendary, did she raise all of those?]

[Is this that ten million won spender? Seems like even more???]

“What… What on earth did this woman do?”

Heretic trembled and touched the monitor with her finger.

“4-stars… why are they all max level? Why? How?”

Kwon Se-ah’s final party didn’t just have a max-level fully constellated, fully superimposed Seele.

The 4-star Abundance character that clan members recommended as good was also max level, and the 4-star Preservation character she raised thinking she would use and discard in this clan battle was also max level.

“Trailblaze Power… Ah, ah, aaaaaaargh!!! Isn’t this a crazy b*tch, thisss!!!”

Heretic clutched her head with both hands.

But Trailblaze Power is equal for everyone.

“This! This! Why raise this! Why raise this!!! What on earth were you thinking raising this!!!”

4-stars are eventually discarded.

If you’re going to use limited Trailblaze Power, it’s better to raise the specs of the 5-star characters you currently have rather than raising 4-star characters that will be discarded in the next version.

“How much did she spend? How many paid recharges did she do?! To raise all of this, she’d have to do it at least 100 times…! This is a completely crazy b*tch!!!”

Wailing, Heretic finally muttered with a voice full of resentment.

“Crazy b*tch… I’ll win in the Colosseum…”

***

◆MeiLingAbortionPunch◆
-Clan Leader Daishouri~~~~!」

◆MallangChad◆
-Clan Leader-bbi is really disgustingly strong lol Let’s get 1st next time too.」

◆SeeleBoobsSoftBoobs◆
-Hawawaang! Middle school girl-chan will get 1st place next time too~!」

◆LenakosBabyPalaceExplorationTeam◆
-Clan Leader-bbi, are you getting 1st in Colosseum too???」

◆Shuri◆
-Considering Clan Leader-nim’s combat power, I honestly think she’ll get 1st in PVP too.」

Perhaps because they achieved 1st place in the clan battle, the atmosphere in the chat window was even warmer than on the first day.

“What was Colosseum again… PVP, right! Of course, I have to try that too! But there’s something more important~”

Getting 1st place in the clan battle was satisfying in itself, but there was a corresponding reward.

It was written in great detail on the homepage, as if boasting, to the point where the moment I saw it, the thought of having to get 1st place was firmly planted in my head.

“Tomorrow, the settlement will be over, and the reward will come to my mailbox, right?”

My heart was pounding dangerously at the thought of receiving the 1st place clan battle reward, which hadn’t even arrived yet.

Ah, I wish tomorrow would come quickly! So I can brag about it in the gallery and get featured again…!