The Subjugation Battle (2)

Pinku Berry Lee Ha-yan finished making all the food and doping items needed for tomorrow’s subjugation battle and logged out of Leore.

She stretched her limbs, feeling stiff from lying down continuously to play Leore.

After loosening up her body, Lee Ha-yan didn’t immediately prepare for bed but sat in front of her computer.

She naturally pressed the power button and picked up her phone to check RyuTube until the computer turned on.

The RyuTube channel she started after quitting her job uploaded Leore vlogs, and now it had become an Arang-i vlog since she spent almost all day with Arang-i playing Leore.

Arang-i truly loved and enjoyed Leore, and that was evident in the videos, as she always looked happy while playing.

Her cute face and outstanding skills had an irresistible charm that made people keep watching even without editing.

But with editing, the videos became something you’d watch multiple times, not just once.

‘Even I, who edits them, find them so fun and enjoyable, so how much more fun must it be for the viewers?’

‘Sometimes, when she shows an ahjussi-like side instead of being a young girl, it’s so cute.’

After checking the video she filmed today and the time slots she had checked in advance, she went on Reina’s broadcast to talk about the upcoming subjugation battle. While managing the fan cafe, which had seen an increase in foreign subscribers, her phone rang.

Most calls used the default ringtone, but when the intro of the Leore OST played, Lee Ha-yan immediately answered the phone.

“Arang-a, what’s up?”

She didn’t have many contacts saved on her phone, but she had set the Leore OST as the ringtone for Arang-i, so she could immediately recognize and answer her calls.

[Eung. Unnie, what are you doing?]

“I’m managing the fan cafe right now. Arang-i is so popular that many people are joining at once.”

[Ah, mianhae.]

“Aniya. It’s okay! It’s something I want to do. Is everything alright with Arang-i? The subjugation battle is tomorrow, so you should sleep early. We’ll have to play until late tomorrow.”

[Isn’t that the same for Unnie?]

“Unnie is an adult, so my body is strong!”

Since Leore integrated all servers, the update time and server opening time were no longer based on Korean time.

Because of that, the timing became quite ambiguous for Koreans.

Especially since this subjugation battle was the last end-content of the new season, everyone thought it would be difficult, so they expected the tries to be intense.

From Lee Ha-yan’s perspective, even though Arang-i had good facilities, good equipment, and excellent medical staff, she was worried about her playing Leore all day, for over 16 hours.

Of course, Arang-i’s reality wasn’t enjoyable but a continuous series of discomforts and pains, but because of her incurable disease and her young body being exhausted from fighting the disease for so long, she wanted her to sleep more than 8 hours a day.

[Unnie, is there anything you want?]

“Want?”

[Eung. You always help me, so I want to do something for Unnie too!]

“Keueuk…”

[Unnie?]

What a cute and kind creature.

“Unnie is okay. RyuTube is doing well thanks to Arang-i, and it’s something I enjoy doing. And Arang-i isn’t even taking any of the revenue from RyuTube. That alone is a lot that Unnie has received from Arang-i, right?”

The video of Arang-i and her first meeting, where they caught a field boss together, became popular, and Arang-i’s popularity continued to rise, turning RyuTube into Arang-i’s RyuTube.

Of course, Arang-i had given her permission, and Lee Ha-yan wanted to capture Arang-i’s cute and joyful 모습, so RyuTube grew rapidly.

RyuTube became more focused on Arang-i than Lee Ha-yan herself, and she felt like she was exploiting Arang-i’s popularity, so she tried to give most of the RyuTube revenue to Arang-i, but…

Arang-i naturally said she didn’t need it, saying that Unnie was doing everything from filming to editing, uploading, and managing, so she didn’t know why she should receive it, saying “I don’t need it!” and refused.

And Lee Ha-yan had no choice but to agree with Arang-i, who said, ‘I don’t really need money.’

She knew that the revenue from RyuTube was insignificant to Arang-i’s family, who were among the richest in Korea, if not the world.

After all, it was a family that gave 100 million won as pocket money.

[Eueum~ Then I’ll think about it and give Unnie a present! See you tomorrow, Unnie! Good night, bye-bye!]

“Uh, eung! Arang-i, good night too…!”

After the typhoon-like phone call ended, Lee Ha-yan started managing Arang-i’s fan cafe again.

As she naturally came across Arang-i’s fan name, Arang-i’s words from just now, ‘I’ll think about it and give you a present,’ felt scary.

She knew the reason why the fan name was made with limbs.

She knew that fans who liked her as much as her limbs were important to her because she didn’t have limbs herself. But the thought of Arang-i giving a present with that in mind…?

‘Should I have just said anything…? I’m a little uneasy, but it’ll be alright, right…?’

==

On the day of the update, Lee Ha-yan immediately logged into Leore as soon as the server opened and was startled.

The bright blue sky had cracks in the space she had seen during the all-server integration quest.

The quest window that was immediately visible was the subjugation battle entry quest.

The quest wasn’t long. It was very simple.

As soon as she pressed the accept quest button, a huge black liquid flowed out of the cracked sky.

“Eue…”

The black liquid fell on the plain, devoured all the life around it, and became a huge monster.

Its tall height of about 3M was too big to be called human, but its overall appearance was human itself.

It stood on two legs and had two arms and a head. You could think of it as just a big human with black skin, but the horns on its head and the dragon-like tail behind it made it clear that the being was a monster, not a human.

“Why is Leore so obsessed with creatures…”

The last raid was okay, but it started to slowly rise from this Abyss season, reaching its peak during the WFK raid, and now Lee Ha-yan sighed at the monster that seemed to show that they just liked this kind of thing. She went to her guild house, which was the meeting place.

“Unnie!”

Lee Ha-yan smiled broadly and hugged Arang-i, who always greeted her with a hug when she came in.

Arang-i fit perfectly in her arms.

Lee Ha-yan naturally picked up Arang-i.

She greeted the other people around and sat down on a chair.

Before long, everyone participating in this subjugation battle had gathered.

Lee Ha-yan looked at Reina, where all the raid members’ gazes were focused.

Her shining blonde hair, charismatic and sharp yet beautiful face, and the sorceress outfit that suited her proved that the person in front of her was Reina.

‘To think I’d be doing a first clear race with Reina, the raid leader of Mead…’

Even though there was a period when she lost interest in Leore due to problems in her previous guild, Lee Ha-yan, who had been diligently raiding, knew how famous and skilled the Mead raid was and how amazing Reina was.

That’s why she still couldn’t believe this situation and realized once again how amazing Arang-i was in her arms.

Arang-i was the one who created this situation and made it possible to do WFK.

When she first cleared a raid in Leore, she couldn’t forget the feeling of elation that burst out as the fatigue and stress that had accumulated over a long period of tries exploded upon clearing, so she continued to play Leore.

But in her previous guild, the stress during that process was greater than the elation upon clearing, so she lost interest in Leore.

Playing Leore alone wasn’t fun, and raiding in public parties only piled up stress.

Then, thanks to Arang-i, she rediscovered the fun of Leore, and when she first went to the new raid, she didn’t even think about WFK.

But as the tries continued, she watched other WFK race broadcasts during the non-try times and realized.

‘Isn’t our raid the fastest…?’

In the end, the elation she felt when she obtained the WFK title, which she earned by clearing the raid the fastest in the world, was something she had never felt before, and her body still trembled just thinking about it.

Anyway, Lee Ha-yan was a little uneasy.

When raiding the Abyss, she didn’t feel pressured because she was with guild members, but this raid wasn’t entirely with Arang Arang guild members, but half of them were Mead raid members.

She was confident in her skills, but that was when looking at the overall picture, and among all the people gathered here, her skills were the lowest.

The users that any user who liked Leore raids couldn’t not know were here right now.

The all-star users who were always on the home screen of the Leore log site. In other words, the users who were beyond the top and in the top few were here right now.

‘Can I do well…?’